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NEVER RUN INTO DEBT. Avoid It As You Would Pestilence or Famine. (Entered according t A despatch from Chicago says :-- Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage peached from the following text :--Romans 3dii, 8, "Owe no man anything." One day a famous scholastic clergyman was talking to a noted practical preacher. "How is it," said he, "that you can collect such great audiences to hear you preach ? I have one of the best private libraries in the world. 1 spend at least ten hours a day in my study with tny books, and yet the people prefer to hear you preach instead of me. They want to hear your sermons, although you do not work a third as hard upon them as I do. Half of your days are spent in calling and in wandering about the streets and in the stores." "Ah," answered the practical minister to his scnoieuitk; friend, '*the difference between us is that you read books, while I study the stuff out of which books are made. You breathe the atmosphere of musty tcmes ; I, by close asso-, study the hear nd i You 1 vith i mpti i-ith thi I go with them to their stores; the whenl begin to discuss their tria and temptations, they natural want to come and hear me preach. OFFSPRING OF PRIDE. Debt is generally the offspring are very small. Nearly every me >ugh money for : he i i his best ill c ary of $10 a week' who saves at least one-tenth of his income. Debt is not only the offspring oi pride, but is often the parent of e large family of criminal children, The study of genealogical tables among the most interesting studies. Certain families nearly ways have good children ; you can trace them down from generation to generation. Other families nearly always have bad children ; there is apparently something in their blood that is diseased and contaminated. As the waters falling down, the cascades near Duluth show the discolor forests of cedar and tamarack away, so the blood of some children is tainted with criminal tendencies, inherited even before they are born. They are born with a propensity for j faj"si lying, for stealing, for inebriety, | f0j, which they are seldom able to eradicate. Hut, though those children may not be able to overcome their evil tendencies in their own strength, they can overcome them by the help of a supernatural power, which is offered to all who are tempted. WILLFULLY RUNNING INTO DEBT. Willful debt is that kind of debt into which many allow themselves to in many cases, when a man will deliberately enter a store and run up a heavy bill, which he has no intention of paying, he is just as much a robber as the sneak thief who rushes into the bakery and steals a loaf of bread, and he should have little mercy shown him. The debtor not only steals the groceryman's goods, but he steals his time and his ser- Many a man who for years has deliberately run up all the debts he can is to-day walking around our streets claiming that in the sight of the law he is honest. After deliberately swindling all the men he could he puts the little money he had left in his wife's name. Then he enters the | bankruptcy court and asks the judg( .Viier'a He intend: es. While the young inancially ground to ] >pcr and nether l nd of debt what natural thing for hii; ; that young collecto some of his employer n, as he foolishly thii ; the gambler's wheel heart a bad young to free him from all these financial obligations. Now, I care not what the bankruptcy court may say in such cases, no honest man, in the sight of God or man, can ever be morally freed from a financial debt until that debt is paid. It is a man's business to pay what he owes, no matter how the bill was contract-, i ed. One of the first signs of Zac-P^ln/^hrough | thaeus, rcal conversion was when he turned to the Saviour and said, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have aken anything from any man by I restore to him In other words he said, "If I have cheated any man out of his just dues, I am ready not only ?o restore to him the full amount of money taken, but I will restore to him double and treble and quadruple that which I have talon." And no man, in the sight of God, can be a Christian until he first signifies his intention to repay to the utmost of his ability all the money borrowed by him and i full obligations to ever financial creditors. Y'o God and at the same t willingness to cheat blessing of God, and whatever permits the adversary to do mi some w^y be overruled for glory, the highest good of His pie and the hastening of His 18. And many that believed and confessed and showed While salvation is wholly of grace through faith, where faith is real there will be good works manifest as an evidence before men of the faith that is really in the heart before God (Eph. ii, 8-10; Tit. iii, 5, 8). The faith that is not manifest in works cannot be a living faith. Not any amount of works on our part, however good or great, can save us, but being saved by His work alone (Rom. iv, 5). He having been received by us, have come to live in us, must work out the salvation which he has wrought in us (Phil, ii, 13; Heb. xiii, 20, 21). Hearers who are not doers are only self-de-(Matt. vii, 26, 27; Jas. i, which used them before all ited the price of 50,000 pieces of 22). 19. Many of them gether and burn men, and they c them and found What, an illustrati therefore, which believ* cious!" (I Pet. ii, 7*) had the Lord Jesus b that things which v much value now seei of ■ He is pre-So precious e before of i worthless ttcd llstoi iftei: flames lest they might injure others. Their affect it now on things above, not oi on the earth (Col. iii, 2). i (Paul, they could testify "-re ... ],i'.s things were gain to us those s of his j counted loss for Christ" (Phil, not lovel 7). This bonfire cost perhaj signify a j 000 and was a glori. e andie™, things : IFOR™ HOME g Recipes for the Kitchen. $ • Hygiene and Other Notes £ 9 for the Housekeeper. *j 9 I ••©•«»«is@»aefSe(»»©<3©e©e DRESSING LITTLE GIRLS. The love of dainty and becoming clothing is a mark of refinement, and is inherent in most little girls. This trait in children should not be condemned, but guided in the proper direction. Our clothing has much to do with the opinion people form of us, and while extravagance is not commendable, carelessness in this matter leads to even worse results. Dresses for school wear need t be expensive, for fine materials d trimmings are not in good ste, and a healthy school girl >uld soon ruin them. She will need two or three woolen dresses and half a dozen white or light colored aprons to keep her neat and clean. These aprons should be made by different patterns so she will not tire of them, and trimmed with lace or embroidery. Let them be as nice as you like, for they will last a long time and can be washed when they need it. In making the dresses the prudent mother plans to length-them so they will not be • fellow A. PERTINENT QUESTION, in closing I would like to ask arers a pertinent question -- t the chief reason why you i willing to publicly Christ over the adversary, like the victory on Moun over the priests of Baal, will come when all that i Christ shall perish and the people who resist Him and their leaders ,he lake of fire Many a good garment cast aside because this been neglected, and it small for the wearer. Plain tirts are tucked or deeply hem-Gored skirts are often ruffled, II that is necessary when you to lengthen them is to piece ph f-or!1.110"1 out at the bot It ■utile do- le^ind of triimr :le with full upp. I'la sleeves may-bottom or pieced ag covered iiile tho hile and then r mly I ha ir fellot livi debt, in. i after travagances. Henry Ward Beccher once made the declaration that a man Could feed himself and wife and a family of growing children upon $1.50 per week. For making this , Mr. Beecher was sharply ] and the attendant mid yet end utches of merciless ! your fell, sk that young em-1 from the ho has just felt the heavy not try •:-- law placed upon his1 you honest debts? re awful realization that on financially unjust men keeping you away e of Christ? Will undo that wrong? Will land of aigned by thousands of critics. Many newspaper editorials affirmed that the Plymouth pi ting tho reduction of the la- I slaugll, " day. j aebt, a. When borers iat Mr. is this Bee expect that Paul, who tells us to "owe ppers, the theatre tickets I anything, ' the same Patil i t the races I us to "prees toward the m son cell? No, j the prize of the high calling vas led as a lamb to the i in Christ Jesus?" by the evil worryings of j It mav only take a mulating debt. | dust, in tho eye to .1 man needlessly and will-'1 and shut out the ligh fully nuns into debt, he opens the • ti ' sluice gates of falsehood. He pro-1 « God : fes igality, in many i i permit them to vith the smiling, s ecept: he ha His 1 pa all speck of id the sight >f the noon-ly take one bill refuse to pay to our neigh-hut out all the glories oi Paul does not ask of us an lity, but he doe .uld i tentioi. __ next week. The debtor says: "i i now trying to sell sonie land, e deal is almost elosed; then I 1 send you a check." The debtor > sell. i fal i be financially just THE S. ^LESSON, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 8. neighborhood and go to r youthful associates will be refined people will have r.c do with them." So the y. who v. as making a hum and was cn the highroad t home on the boulevard. I his family away from the neighb hood of the store. He hires a to do the work formerly done by his wife, while he himself is visiting the wholesale departments. The income, small before, becomes less and less ; the expenses of the family sustenance are doubled and quadrupled; a haunted, worried, anxious look comes over the young man's face, Instead of there being a balance in the bank, now there is a def.cit ; instead oi the wholesale stores allowing the young man all the creelit he wishes, now they begin to push him, and one day debt, the offspring of f debt , 17. i by Jes clerk child of per offspring of HELPLES ride, t the 3 getting along, but instead of debt now coming v the obsequiousness of a visitor strides into that young man's s. and home with the mien and heavy step of a tyrant and a n ter. THE TRYANNY OF DEBT. This tyranny of debt, which s offspring of false pride, makef conquests over those who have- largo incomes as well as those with small. Only the other day there was buried in one of Chicago's cemeteries a man who for ten years had a salary of over $9,000 per year. Yet that man was always in debt. While he had an income of $2,500 he was trying to live on the scale of those who had a $4 000 income. When hi was appointed a general superintendent of a large; corporation, at $650 per month salary, he immediately moved his family into a new neighborhood and tried to associate with Chi-' cago's millionaires. That man, when he died, did not own the home he lived in. He did not even own the bed on which he died. Every particle of real estate held in his name was plastered over with mortgages. Last fall he even allowed his life insurance policy to lapse because he could not afford to pay the few hundred dollars necessary to keep it up, though he !iad a salary of $9,000 per year. So we find to-day that many a man who lives in a fine mansion is in the merciless clutch of debt. The financial curse of this age is that multitudes of people, on account of false pride and pernicious extravagance, are eking out a miserable existence. These people may move in the best society, so called, yet they are far poorer than the humble clerk with a paltry sal- often the AND INNOCENT . the heart ! 13. 14- We adjure ■a res there 1 whom Paul preacheth. corruption ■ Thus the unbelievers though pro-shall have I fessedly priests of God, used that ch burneth | beautiful name as if it was a charm which is I or carried with it some magic spell re, O man, j that anyone could use, like people destroying j who now say concerning J. - Hin ■orthy and 1 ving God. I s people trei ack flags and i u,';t_ shipping. pit if He will do any-e is to be known rioie-heartedly re-relied upon, for He is I and faithful, the is not to be treated a patent, medicine-- it will d/j you good; is indeed the only s and the Judge of is to be honestly re- the | and his enemy alike. j decoyed upo .ckers couj*» argoes. The is into debt ho is sucking s butcher and bak-indlord t answered He c gets it suffer s He c long i sfied. What is the natural and inevitable result? There have been thousands of small retail merchants driven into bankruptcy because their customers, supposed to be honorable men, would not pay their bills. There have been hundreds and thousands of poor widows •phans and aged and helpless of tail ho have lost all merely because the cashiers have become defaulters and cared not whom they dragged down with them in their moral and spiritual destruction. It is a contemptible act for a man steal from a millionaire. It is infinitely meaner for a woman to steal from her poor dressmaker, her her washerwoman, or for a rob his groceryman or ice-his coachman or the garden-sells to him his flowers. It is because those who are rob-perhaps lose their-all and be driven 3 starve and die. A WELL DRESSED VILLAIN. Willful debt is often a well dressed llain who pretends to be an hon->t man. In olden times if a man could not pay his debts he was looked upon in the same sense as a thief and sent to jail. Under the old Roman law, after spending a certain time in jail, if he was still unable to pay his creditors, he was slavery and had to pass his life as a serf. Some one might say that such a condition is very hard and unjust, and so it is. But, s I know, and Paul These Jews had called the name of the Lord Jesus over a man possessed with an evil spirit, resisting friend and opposing Paul somewhat as the s not magicians in Ehypt withstood Moses, as he but God. permitted the evil spirit to s to rebuke them and by the man lesires possessed by the spirit to atural overcome them and cause them to flee from the house naked and wounded. It could hardly be possible that they would ever again attempt to play tricks with that holy name. What shall be said of those who now used that sacred name in every thoughtless and evil way ? And because no judgment falls upon them they wax worse and worse (Eccl. viii, 11). 17. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. In verses 8 to 10 we read that Paul continued at Ephesus over two years, not without much opposition, but also with marked results to the glory of God. In verses 11 and 12 we read of special miracles to confirm and emphasize the gospel message, and now through the devil's own children the name of Jesus is magnified. In his letter to the Philippians Paul said, "Some indeed preach Christ even if envy and strife and some also of good will. The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel." Yet Paul said that as long as Christ was preached, whether in pretence or in truth!, he would rejoice (Phil, i, 15-18) The "all things" of Rom. viii, 28, must include the opposition of the devil as well as the manifest ( liev. , 2C; , 15). ind multi ghtily grew the word of God and prevailed. In chapter xii, 24, it "the word of God grew plied." The work of God the Spirit of God using the word of God. As we have seen in forn studies, the preachers used t Scriptures, and all the Scripture and preached from them the things concerning the Lord Jesus s kingdom of God. They do no least discount any portion of the worel of God; but, like the Lord Jesus in all His teachi they honored it all. It safe to say that those who in day make light of any portion the word of God are not causing to grow or multiply or prevail, and they are certainly not for the time being following the Lord Jesus. When I hear the word of God dishonored or any portion of it made light of, I cannot help thinking of the devil, for the first recorded utterance of that old serpent is, "Yea, hath God said?" (Gen. iii, 1). He began * ^od and the Gwrapv ii, 17; ""■ name of our Lor*? of God resist him. <i'u<tyi\.Ti ilbe jyo.rd of God . loveroreTITr and by" makingC 4). "jLet us in t and by the Spir: WOMAN AT FORTY. The object of a woman's career rould be to be beautiful till she is 0 ; after that she should become a power, is the way a Frenchman sees "ie question. Another Frenchman lid that after 40 a woman should ther tako the veil or be abolished. Miss Achurch, an actress, lecturing he subject, inclined to the for-view. She said : "The woman who has passed the confines of youth come to be regarded as of much greater importance than she was twenty years ago. This change can period of Fielding to that i the t • of I .ubled always disappeared after he ling day. After Thackeray cam. long inning of the woman o 30." The woman of 40 ought to be th, happiest of women. She has pe culiar privileges possessed by other woman. She is like her younger sisters at tho crossing of the borderland of youth, for is already on the other side. Her future is more clearly defined, for at 40 has she not chosen and settled down in her career ? A professional woman is at her best at 40. She can act better, t better, write better, not onlj> because her powers are more ma-red, but also because she will not i interrupted by love affairs. The age of 40 should be looked forward s an inheritance rather than be dreaded by every woman. replacing the old gath- e lengthened by cuffs with deeper ones. JNew dresses may be made of remnants, or if the mother has the knack of making clothes over tho best parts of some she has cast aside may be used. A package of Diamond dye is a great help in making dresses over, for it will freshen the goods and make it bright and pretty. These dyes are easy to use, and the colors produced by them are permanent. School dresses should be quite plain, for an apron will not -fit well if the dress is trimmed with ruffles. Tight-fitting waists or those made with a yoke of any shape desired with the lower portion gathered and joined to it, are pretty. The trimming may consist of braid put on around the edge of the yoke, collar and sleeves. CULINARY CLIPPINGS. A WOMAN OF TACT. A woman of tact is one who feels that the story to hurt your feelings is essentially bad form, and inconsiderate of the feelings of others. A woman of tact is one who snakes her good morning a pleasant greeting, her visit a bright spot in the day and her good-by a hope that she may come again. A woman of tact is one who does not gauge people by their clothes, or their riches, but who condemns bad r man of tact is one who i under all circumstances and in every condition in which she may be plac- She i the v who c elcome guest ' smile so bright and a handshake so cordial that in trying to make the welcome seem real, it becomes so. A woman of tact is one whose love for humanity is second only in her life's devotion, and whose watchword is unselfishness and action. By making self last it finally becomes natural to have it so. USES OF GASOLENE. A woolen cloth dampened with gasolene will make the dirt disappear as if by magic when used for cleaning porcelain sinks, bath tubs or marble wash bowls. Gasolene is also a sovereign remedy for bugs. It can be literally poured on the mattress, springs and lied without injuring the most delicate carpet, and every bug will dis- IThe daintiest neckwear, which it is impossible to wash, if left over night in an air-tight vessel of gasolene will look fresh and new when carefully You can make rice waffles the sar s plain waffles, adding two-thir ip cold boiled rice, one and a hi ips milk, two tablespoonfuis sugE ad one egg. Dressing for Boiled Beets.--Thr. fourths cup vinegar, one-fourth ci tablespoonful each flour, bi '_^U>r,-- salL - and pfiEpetl melt buttc " 1 flour, pour over the vinegar; k until thickened and pour ovi ihe sliced beets. Salad Dressing.--Two eggs, we eaten; little white pepper and fui , dash of cayenne; one heaping tei spoonful of dry mustard, tablespooi ful sugar, little salt, one-half cup of inegar; boil all together until thick; •move from stove, add butter size if an egg; when cool thin with milk This is as smooth as velvet. Chop head of cabbage fine; with the above dressing. To make a Holland salad cut into small cubes an equal quantity of pickled beets, potatoes, dill pickles, and raw tomatoes. Rub yolks of four hard boiled eggs into bowl, mix carefully and gradually to a cream with oil and vinegar. Season with salt, pepper and a tablespoonful of ■ssence of anchovies. Add to vege-ables and toss lightly until mixed, garnishing with lettuce and sliced To make cheese souffle,..melt two al- tablespoonfuis of butter, then add one-fourth cup of flour, one-fourth teaspoonful each of salt, r<oda and paprika, one-half cup of milk, and one-fourth pound of cheese, grated, or one cupful; when the cheese is melted add the yolks of three eggs beaten light; when cool add the •hites of the eggs beaten stiff; bake GRAINS OF GOLD, ginality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.--T. W. Higginson. Avoid popularity; it has many nares and no real benefit.--Penn. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.--Bushnell. A life of pleasure even makes the strongest mind frivolous at last. -- Bulwer. Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers. -- De Finod. Most people judge others by the company they keep, or by their for--Rochfoucauld. i not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.--Cicero. Nothing can bring you peace but ourself; nothing caii bring you ieace but the triumph of principles. -Emerson. The individual chin place in the over delicately colored; ered; TO MEND FAMILY MANNERS. belie We ha ) toil from too much candor. We speak with great plainness in the circle of our own kindred; we comment too freely on foibles; we express the contrary opinion too readily and with too little courtesy. A slight infusion of formality never harms social intercourse, either in the family or elsewhere. Beyond this too common mistake of an overbluntness and brusque freedom in the manners of a household, In some of our homes, there is a greater fault, even a lack of demonstration. There is the deepest, sincerest love in the home --the brothers and sisters would cheerfully die for one another if so great a sacrifice were demanded -- but the love is locked behind a barrier of reserve. Caresses are infrequent, words of affection are seldom spoken. It may be urged with truth and some show of reason that in the very homes where this absence of demonstration is most marked, here is complete mutual understanding and no possibility of doubt or misgiving, and, so far as it goes, this is well. But often young hearts long unspeakably for some gentle sign of love's presence, the lingering touch of a tender hand on the head, the good-night kiss, the word of praise, the recognition of affection. Older hearts, too, are sometimes empty, and many of us, younger and older, are kept on short rations all our lives, when our right is to be BREAKING IT GENTLY, ter the ship which had come i New Zealand was tied up at wharf, Larry OTlrien was told off by his shipmates to call upon McCarthy and break the news of the death of her husband, which had occurred on shipboard the pre* ceding summer. 'Good morning, Mrs. McCarthy!" d he. "Is Denny in?" 'Denny?" said the surprised worn. "My Denny? No, he's not Is the ship here?" Sure, it is. And Denny's not got home yet? That's quare -- un-something has happened him." that would happen him?" Mrs. McCarthy asked, anxiously. There's plenty of things can hap-i a man," said Larry, delicately, e might have got hurted", or ' he might have took sick with the fever. But there's one comfort, as Father McGinnis said once, and that is that time heals iv'ry grief." "What do you mean, Mr. O'Brien?" "I mane that if anything happened to Denny, you wouldn't feel as bad about it a few months after it happened as you would right at tho ""I suppose 'not," said Mrs. McCarthy. "I mind whin I lost me first husband I thought I'd never get over ould if you'd kne NKEHF.il INVENTIONS. Have nind? Ii head--if you only know how to get it out. Here's your chance. Here are thirteen things the world needs, for either one of which it will pay you a fortune: A wall-papering machine. A quick-acting monkey-wrench. joint without nuts and bolts. Ilbl.il A quick fire-hose c screw threads. Combination iro: step-ladder. ing-board and The world eats 2,640,000 lbs of "Although I hate work," mused Idle Tim, "der is one job 1 wouldn't mind takin'." "What job is that?" queried Dusty Dan. "Why, colorin' eerschaum pipes." Mamma (to Flossie, who has been inching with^ a little friend) -- "I ipc you were very polite, Flossie, t the table, and said 'Yes, please,' and 'No, thank you.' " Flossie --■ Well, I didn't say 'No, thank you.' " .re you afraid to go downstairs and look for that man who is ransacking the house?" asked Mr. Meek-ton's wife. "Certainly not. I am perfectly willing to go and look for him. But, Henrietta, I'm afraid you have been making a mistake with me all these years. You ought to have developed my conversational powers more. After I find the burglar I won't know what to say to him. You'll ha\*e to stand the head of the stairs and do the talking." noted humorist had often petitioned the council of the town where 3 resided to fill up a mud-hole near s house, but without result. One ght he heard a spluttering noise ad sundry ejaculations unfit for publication, and, going to his door, he found a respected member of the Town Council floundering about in. ie mud-hole. "Good evening, sir; 1 m glad to see you stirring in this tatter at last," and so saying ha closed the door and left the poor cillor to extricate himj.?1! aa best he could.