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STE TF PR eae ey * pays: Rev. a from the aie text:— |g - THEGREATEST FAMILIES? Are Proud. of Their One Man Who Descent From, Some Tree Se SS i t-t-h-t-t-t-t- ttt ee yy The Home: ee ee $-F-E-E-E-E EEE Was a Nobody. (Entered according to Act of the Par . linment of C the year One Thousand Nine by Win aay Pp artment, A despatch from ag a Cal., rank t Talmage Hundred of Toronto, at T Agriculture, Ottawa.) Proverbs xxix., 23, A man’s pride shall bring him low The word “pride” in this. age may sometimes be used in a good sense. In Bible times it always had a de- based meaning. Searching through concordance I pl ~~ aistting mathood practically way man, a not pufled ceeded ot because we are smarter he Kas withheld from men who wer ust as smart and just as diligent and brave and as conscienticus as ever we have been. ALL WERE GENTLEMEN. It is too often forgotten that are sins in th ar- m the guilt of others aloof "trom the repentant th scorn and holds You ‘et 1 in a sense have both suc-| mash like pot SELECTED RECIPES. Chestnut. Croquettes.—Remove t! shells from any desired amount of chestnuts. Pour vied them boiling i Cook i atoes, and scason Wi butter, pepper, salt, and one be beaten egg. Shape into regular si croquettes, putting er seedless a sins (that have been s in boil- ing water to swell Ales in the mid- dle of each croquette. Roll in beat- en egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve at once. This is fine with quail or any bir To Provent ‘om Molding— Make 4 strong brine of one part wa- ter, half a cup of common salt, and teaspoonful of four. Stir well, when dissolved, wring a soft cloth out of this be Lt at put over tho ‘cs t. crations al] through the found - ng = Bg hearts as a fatal neer, ut out or some of us will t oe forever lost. PRIDE OF LINEAGE. First, consider the silliest of all kinds of pride, that of aristocratie lineage. The spoiled infant in its canopied bed, screaming for at- tention of its nurse, | cratic home. me, not beca accomplished I am of any earthly use to i Aad but because my father or grandfather or great-grandfather has oecomplished something to make his name famous or because my great-grandmother had in her veins the blood of the Euro- pean aristocracy. Listen to babblings of one .who would continu- our eyes a single prarch of his ancestral treo which happen ear a few fragrant blossoms while on that same genea- logical tri are hundreds of other branches which have borne necthing but habla ng fruit, and hi branches hav een arled and. twisted for eanrg tines end for cen- turies Have you ever stopped to consider how many different ancestors you have had? My.parents were two in 1 had one father and o But, stepping back another generation, I find I had four grand- arents and eight great-grandparents and_ thirty-two grandparents. And back they go, doubling with each gencration. hundred years back I find my a tors were not counted by the’ tens, but by the thou- sands. Now, my friends, what right has a man with family pride to fol- | ranch of a genealogical him ino in an earl’s hundreds of Jands ve treated as 1 have had, both which Theodore Roosevelt gave boys who had boasted . The Presi- are only two classes of boys in’ this world, my son. lig boys and small boys alike are either good boys or bad boys. It docs not make much difference from what rene you spring, if you the wofld will will punish you and despise you CIRCUMSTANCES MAKE MEN Circumstances make men just the same men make circumstances. When I was lately thinking upon this theme my .cye involuntarily wandered road to a big white livery {ia kept and he for years has wanted But he is the oldest f of children His father wasa farmer in the east. t broke Jali- her was confined three years in invalid's bed. Then that oldest son had to spring into the breach, He is reach. The of his children was for years dependent up- on that oldest boy and his work. The horses of the farm were’ merely changed during the drought into’ the if you and the same as he did? We are to-day? Men make circumstances. Not al- od in a railroad train I read a paper article in reference to one the notorious pugilists of the T article . So-and-so will to anything again in roped arena. Why? Because he has been twice whipped. A man-is like} a dog: when he has been beaten enough to find that some one ‘else {s his: master his nerve is forever gone.” *‘How true in life is that!” I said to self. Then J pictured t noble dog of Jack London's in his ‘‘Call of the Wild.'’" He was lovable, brave dog, b no ho sent nortti than he youth, become failures middle aged men. Why Because they are battered and pounded by struggle after struggle and defeat after defeat. They are Halted @& their progress | through life by pines to reome until at iast their courage ena nerve . poe her sick. e Would we be where ow 4 not ont wide a "mast beinous sin e sight of a just God? During ne darkest Paty of the French revo- lution of 1830 q great mob of insur- mts end rioters were blockading the Parisian streets. ‘‘It is useless appeal to their reason, They have no reason,’’ said General Lafayette, the commander of the national guard, which ultimately placed Louis Phil- ippe upon the French throne. “Shoot them down like dogs.’’ ‘‘Let me, general, try to scatter them,’’ said a staff officer to his commander. The cried, ‘‘All gentlemen will please to retire, for I am ordered to shoot down the rabble.'’ At once the mob scattered. ‘Not,’ wrote the his- torian, ‘‘from fear, but because not one of those fierce rioters wanted the belonged to the scum or the off scour- ings of the nation.’’ Because arro- gant pride considers herself different from the repulsive hags of sin does that make her different? I tell thee nay vilest and the most de forms of sin are not more ght than the Christ said it. Who is this Pharisee of old modern- ized into the Paige of the church life of to-day t me describe him as you have ation seen him. Sunday morning is The supercilious creature crawls out of bed. He must It is part of his reli- gion to £0 to church. Every ~— is he pillars of He. dislikes the word “pit because for a long time he ha ght he is the whole san i, thot Lipo and pulpit thrown in as well as pew He "hos hard work to get up morning because oll the week, Shylock, he ae been Seemnding his pound of fies! He gave a hundred doNars to he church inst week, but he did not miss it mu He took it off th wages of his employces. During the week, by business tricks and financial thumb-screws, he got at least four different pieces of real es- tate $5,000 less than they were worth. He liod about the deal, but oll bee he only lied according Le usiness custom. night he diachareed a young, girl Se. use she was what He ered ‘her over- and worked al! the physical life out of her. PHILLIPS BROOKS’ ADVICE. How do you know that your own this church is the best church and the only true church? Have vou ever studied the ways and e means other ministers are using in our sis- ter churches? It would be a good thing for you to Worstip in sowe other church for a litle while before you are so quick to condemn their ways of doing things. “‘Other sheep poi 1 which are not of this fold,” One of the best truths from the pen of that and noble Chris t beloved New England- Phillips Brooks, t to come over to once a year to find how the big world is, people there are in it i right and how small the E piscopalian church seems looked at from this side Atlantic." You surmise i ant. le me instend of there beirg only one church filled _ gloriously good people any different Protestant aheaa filled with just as good people as-Vhillips Brooks had in his own parish. Hiow do you know that your way of bringing; up your children is the only right way? Have you developed your family so marvelously that t are brighter than all other children, inore infellectual, more people of France to consider that he | ed cheese Black Butter. “Black butter, brown butter, or burnt butter—as it is var- iously called—is made by putting butter in a pan and slowly heating until it turns a deep brown color. That process should be slow, and the butter should not be allowed to cook to such an extent that it is black, or even nearly so, or it will be too bitter to ure. While cooking, it should be shaken often or stirred fre- quently, as the froth which covers the surface may give rise to the thought that it is still At a To convert it into n sauce, e but- ter slowly until of the Bsr enter and ped in quickly an equal quan- tity of vinegar, and boil WP once. The sauce is then ready for u Stuffed Potatoes.—Remove ae po- remove the inside; mash with butter, cream, salt, and pepper; replace in the empty shells, piling high. Brush it over the tops sia butter, and brown in the oven. Creamed oe Potatoes —Dell- ashed potatoes are oil small po- cious creamed boiling, let them get very cold, then peel them, and chop very fine in a chopping bowl. For a pint of chop melt a heaping table butter in a saucepan, over a slow fire, until a hot di Potatoes Au Gratin.—One table spoonful butter, one-half cupful of d chee salt, one-fourth per, one pint of cold boiled potatoes, White sauce with the butter, flour, milk, and seasoning. Dice potatoes. In a baking dish put alter- nate layers of potatoes, cheese, and sauce, making the last layer sauce. Put one teaspoonful of butter in a saucepan; when melted, add one-half cup of bread crumbs and stir until the butter is absorbed. Sprinkle this over the a quick ‘oven Creaming Raw Potatocs.—Cat y w Potatoes into dice. ~ ‘ ‘esa na cover, and let simmer until pot add tea spoontal Shake wel) and se Potato Pyramid.—Choose small, round potatoes of even size, are drop in cold water let stand an_ hour. then drop into deep fat, boiling hot, and fry to a rich golden brown. Skim out, drain on blotting paper laid over o hot — then pile pyramid fashion on a kin laid over a hot dish. Stick sokee of parsicy, crisped in the hot fat and well drained, in the top and around the base Serve as hot as possible. Baked Onions.—Peel large mild on- jons—Spanish ones are st—cut a vrshaped piece out of the hearts, and set them in a pan. Fill the cut out butter, Well seasoned pepper—mustard also edge wel them delicately, as pared, and Drain and dry, until with liquor in the p. ing up cut each onion h taking up cut each onion downward and puta dab of the cut, before sending to 7 u Rgtter ip table e. IINTS TO NOUSEWIVES, To remove the odor of fish or on- ions from a {frying pan, put a little emg al into the pan and heat it over the fire. Clean the sink with herosenc, ap- plying the oi on a cloth, and you will jind that dirt and grease are re- moved as if by magic. spiritunl? Perhaps instead of your children being blamed for doing wrong you ought to be blamed. Your way of - discipline may he wrong. Broaden your life. Study the ways of other Christian parents and you may be able to improve your own 4 % Ifow do you know that your own interpretation of the Scripture is Yerhaps if you weuld only ftute t patti ch. Pieces of bread through it. Don't) waste old Velveteen. it and then use ag for ee sive or gla a cellent substi- aia ecther as a plate cleaner. To clean eresnee trays, rub with a cloth on wh jew drops of oil have been aniiel, und then polish . clean piece of flannel. cleaning enamel baths, take one taublespoonful of dry salt: mois- tened with spirits of turpentine. Rub well in the bath, which must be ujt> dry Then rub over with a ;c ian cloth. is very difficult to dry the inside | of a mincing machine to prevent The best way to clean using is to grind some stale, This will be found to collect all grease, fat! and skin from the small knives. Then assware tifully clean by Sean through 1 then in a thoughtful feeding and watering should be regu- ebb bttei-t- tt a2 Bees 3 . tt bbttb4 for quality is not tar away. is BP. Ware! 4 4 solids in milk—not itg w _ is é ‘ | Pua hom me £5 that constitute the value in wmilk for : i zt on 4 ; ‘ ag Foe a home for the dairy. It INTERNATIONAL LESSON, wed yond e arm need not be costly, but it can be OCT. 30 with pe : light, warm, dry,..comfortable, well ate a allowed. to ’ ventilated, sanitary, free from odors} Text of the Lessen, IJ. Kings vi." the - well te Have a floor that 8-23. G 4 bot olden Text, mii ds shaking | £E-0-5-$-5-0-6-5-5-552-pgeseeet [Come to the ; and is made Ps. xxxiv., 7 E In w 3 ee ee ee ree es ee Bk apn aeons make . be ° tog, sudden 4 FOR THE C milk, not to ‘warm good till. for a large t of the at; as re se YOUNG DAIRYMAN, |Wa has no more health giving Bible would be ‘‘The Loi ie rh God; the t the short lile of many industry that counts i ema qualities about it for being at the ice|/God of Isracl. who ae doeth won- atticlee of fine glagsware is due to |‘U7® bY the thousands of volumes, joint. Corn fodder is never|drous things, ‘esy devout ‘of the tempera- and has a thousand men petsing improved by a six month's ex, heart should cry; ‘‘Blessed Rg His ture of the waters in which they are 3 best life’s work into tho scienti-| to storm. Clover Ly much |glorious name forever, and the w - If the glass |“° investigation of. it, and twice as!petter in June than in A whole earth be filled with ile glory. sto; oved m «|@ny more posing as great —— produced on the farm are seldom ad- and Amen!” (Ps. Ixxii., 18, bottle, tie’n twine string once around ech one finding out eW,lulterated with cheap stuff of no|19). From beginning to end the n bottis be and of value daily, it is pretty hard alue to increase the profits. Do |name is wonderful, and He is evew saw backward ard, tell = a column how to reach |not let any man tel) you re there |doing wondrous things in love and few minutes the glass will | Success, - give an insight into|is no value in farm raised o ard |grace for and thro the sinful sons get Vv hot, and the stopper modern thovgit as it now relates it-|corn ground t ‘aaptiies, for milk mak-/of men. Flisha, the man of God, is be ed Before |#elf to the dairy, writes Mr. John ling, and that the purc mcen- | still before us as a sample of what w & het rince out Gould. ln in dairying is largely |trates are always the cheapest. Re- ght and ought: to be, for particle = mee ~~ +“ or anything |Unlearning what you thought yo ber that no experiment has ever|while there is hut one perfect pat- t is colored, as hot water w y. The only thing left {proved that grain, to ex ven ad the a Chriat Jesus, there are sometimes drive the ¢ploring matter |to the dairyman that was orthudox | to eight pounds a day, a cow, who may be followed as far as _ i a Sis —— ‘ ee me Pe years ago is bo ever paid fr the dairy, except with they follow “God, but the very blessed milk. ‘eat be kent beau: mo ood of the cow, and that Was /now and then a phenominal cow. All| Way is to see no one but Jesus only. to run with pa j the appearance of, the gives it such an air of refinement as sparkling glass bow! polished go and the glassware can be ke no matter what the hong chee stances of the family may OME LAUGHABLE RAGES AND BERLIN. King Edward, When in Egypt Found Much Amusement in An Eccentric Race. It is not long since ten of the lead- ers of socicty in Paris organized lative speeds of their respective pets. The Baroness de Berckheim's repre- Sentative was a tortoise; the P: cess de Lucinge entercd a lion cub; cularly adipose goose; Yturbe, a South American at Mile. Sarloveze, an Egyptian and so on. ey; ee race aroused exciting even than was anticipa The lion, stimulated dainty stick wielded by potatoes and brown in |» oted Cairo Ai spectively ont , tain Lewis, Colanat Bas Major Campbell. cor ej a hot favorite; b man anticipations, “hile holding good lead he caught sight of w key spoiled cat’s chance jumping on its back, and the — won with ridiculous worse third. "race —" ling in its developments. competitors raced kets placed across the course in front of her. consternation! Surprise! Fr ‘rom w sented pretty prizes ate winners, while from the Here doves soared up into the there a cat bolted as if pursued by a a a dogs, while nd hares scuttled AWAY INTO THE CROWD. In many a country nany there js held ch attracts tora Tach by its guide the vagrant animals, ults are often hignty divert them from the direct pat Not long a nship of “S. 000 spectators was approximately “Fo yds., and the winner was ouna in a who prove! the swiftest sixty-seven co_npetitors, the journey pee its chief chainp c | south: {miles, in a shade over 763 it, using stilts “6 feet long and weighing ile 5 short time ago town local over 16 Ib.; wh , the mayor of a omall French organized @ race among the drunkards—and won it himself, ot com “a the are of the sick for consul-. Lio coun- tor one ot in disciples went something | so much Wipe Wit gq” clear cith FASHIONABLE SPORT OF PAR- Is iJ wonderful race to determine the re- the Countess de Beauregard, a ae ‘only the mar M © who is in hearty e wildest enthusiasm, and proved cod | y his fair mis-/ and | ~, hu- P. and promptly aks for it; the — Ylhear of a dairyman failing who is up pig—a_ bad second~and the “dog—a y witnessed at Mhow was both novel and start- e fair to a line of bas- on |duco it? a given signal each raised the basket sprang up tiny recruit-boys, who pre- to the fortun- other baskets emerged a regular menagerie. sky, partridges, geese district in Ger- an annual ox-race usands of specta- s ridden bareback Without whip, spur, the oxen and doing their Loy to nt Nogent-sur-Marne the os wooden-leg running was decided in the pre- The dis- M. of and covered in 30 seconds. Bordeaux ous attention and investigation was in its infancy, if it tad any rea = The n who found out all about daleyiog years ago, rds al) recent investigation, is not a -~ adviser. man in his Bhai dheraad objected to warm barns, because they made cows tender and jacking t hardi- ness; h said that ell bred cows could not stand the strain of dairying and were highly susceptible to disease; that succulent foods in winter were against —— and cows kept in the stable fiiteer. weeks would die for want of exercise. ?7)}He “knew” that all milk was alike, pound for pound, for cheese and but- ter making; that machine made but- ter would not keep: that the separa- tor was not as good as an open t pan, and thet dairy schools simply taught a lot of nonsense; in fact, apa =~, DO MOVE.” In thi of dairy enlightenment and aon pl hg I would advise to attempt dairying . born sympathy with Hive vw and likes o care for cows a determination to stay wit tthe caliaeie from start to finish; who ows nd knows what kind of a cow 8 he wantn for his particular purpose enough about his bake pe pose of its promoter. The dairy is “ino exception. 6There is nothing new in this article. There is only the education of restatement about it. Reiteration sometimes convitceti; once in a generation convicts. INVENTOR OF LIGHT CURE DR. FINSEN DIED AT COPEN- 24 HAGEN _SePr. Man Whose Discovery Benefitted So Many Was a Victim of Disease. The death of Dr. Finscn was a re- lief even as his life was ° sur, For Finsen, though he could aie health to hundreds, was himself the Victim of a ontabMea tion of diseases. His heart, _ liver, his digestive or- were so disordered that n he took his doctor's degree at hagen University in 1890 sam of a m siry fs a pase usl- esa and educational before sid and as men succ elsewhere, 80 they will in the d. ‘ t fewer men, We think, utterly fail in dairy- ing than in what is known as he industrials. The best business men often fail, but how often does one to date in his practices? In starting out there must be three distinct propositions before the would-be successful dairyman: can I produce the most good imilk? How can I produce it the cheapest and what cow must I milk to pra- On these three points hiang all the law and the profits. Dairy prices are ust now e man With a cow reine 3,500 ‘pounds of milk a year is right in saying that there is a loss in it, all the time, The other man going through the same motions, and feeding little, if any, more, but mak- ing a cow that gives from 5,000 to 8,000 pounds, is still MAKING A PROFIT. dairyman m about foods and their elements; not that he need be a chemist, but he wants to be a close student of analy- apn know how, by to assemble a fairly— at least balanced—one to five, or one . ration; he must know know ed with white clay. about the values for cow food of the diferent grains and their differences and not scout the results of rape ly made. experiments. A man wi! trust his soul to the dedaetions, of a book—read theology, but te as- kance at the meer ts ina on airy economics. “this means in- formation along chon growing lines What will my farm grow? Wiil it readily produce the aavac, red and alfalfa? Wf not, why not? What cow ts it that gives 5,000 to b Failure in large milk production re- sults from three mnain causes: x breeding, crossing breeds to get com- bined excellence and getting a scrub resu}t, and trying to milk the gener- —a hand-lens cancanboutiog the rays from an arc-lamp, the red and ultra- oa the face patches where the bacter- ja had colonized and eaten up e skin The Finsen-light cure is now a common-Pplace all continents, though to the gaa age - is still a wondrous thing. It b al- most instant fame to one geno. doctor. the Nobel Prize for Medicine. $18,765 of which he devoted to the institute he had unded It brought him other honors which he was too ill to enjoy. QUEEN INTRODUCED IT. Queen herself introduced the ught fervent blessings on eee head from paticnts and from the ents of children threatened with the “lifelong torture and disfigurement of the “wolf.” Her Majesty visited the institution of her young countryman at Copenhagen and seen the progress of its won Nortel cures. When the Queen, then Princess - Wales, paid a private visit te London Hospital in 1899, she pee of the “The physicians were somewhat sceptical,’’ writes on the visit, ‘‘but the Queen that she had personally an oughly investigated the cure “ the inventor's clinic, ond w of its complete efficacy. that she would at once order a naturally o This generous accepted, and started on May 2, One lamp costs $50, 000 put the generosity of private donors has sup- plemented that of the Queen, and the London Hospital ad aba equip with a number of lam —— i AND LOBELIA WENT. vi t reat ment was 900 ¢| hands and at the mercy a) way ooo & pe Spee. foun-jlar, and milking the same, and the|Jesus (Mark ts , 8; Heb. xli., 1, 2) mother’s care | pik should he at once—well, that /to cease fro man, and behold the hp gp water, ead i = = Fasten oe eke, ihe dairy Jn-/needs a special chapter. Read dairy [Lord (Isa. if, 22; 1, I). cloth with the spirits of wine, rub pa ‘were not taken into account. | hooks and papers, and above all, be- opening verses of our chapter e gl well with this and ‘polish Lack "was el thought of then, and onion in oe business. Make i &itell of the new house by Jordan with a clean dry leather Nothin owledge that success could be | success. 1 successful business 18} which the sons of the prophets start- 8 ived at only by thoughtfu}, ‘studi- made by the persistent will and pur-|ed to build because w a way for them one cannot a the incident of the search for Elijah, use they = not in full fellow- ship. There is many a holy life to- day that is ed great a trial even for other believers in the same household and God does not compel holiness, so Elisha let them go and even went with them to help them, for love is always kind even to those who can- not see as we do. Our lesson proper concerns the de- liverance wrought God through Elisha for the king of Isracl, and also Elisha’s own ews om +) the a of Syria, reminding ot Ps. i., 1-4; xxxiii., 10, tt. * phe child ‘of God may well take real com- fort from such words as th “No Weapon that Gee | against thee shall prosper."’ ‘The at War against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught’’ (Isa liv., 17; xhi., 12), The king of Syria thought to entrap the king of Israel, but the latter being warned by Elisha, the man in fellowship with God, saved himself from the hands of the king of Syria more than once, so that the king of Syria thought that there camp tress, forged ahead at the start, but Whe knows he was then thirty years old—there | must surely oe a traitor in his ca growls so demoralized his rivals that 2°85 to test cows and breed them 10 |was no hope of his practicing bis|Who in some way “Communicated his for a time they —all linc, and not become a breed mixer; | profession Plans to i hing of Israel. When except the tor who plodded Who recognizes that the cow i It was about 1893 chat he start-/ene of his servants assured him steadily on until; way, he fell ;mother, and needs other's care;|led the world from Copenha with|that it was not but that soundly asleep on urse. At this |Who can and who will provitle a cloean|the announcement’ that in certain | there was a prophet in Isracl who stage the monkey fook the lead; but |and sanitary barn for his stock, and |eruptive diseases like smalipox if all|could tell the king of Israel his the finding a bantam preseing him hard, it so; who has made a study of | but the red rays of light were ex-|most secret words, then de- he paused to wring the bird's neck—|the different foods need y a cow, {cluded from the uatient’s room there |termined to lay hands on the Pe and en ere we: ine.’ The|and can proportion rations with | would be no mepernceon and no su hearing that he was at turkey overtook thé beetle ‘and sig-|some degree of practical accuracy, | Sequent disfigurem than, he sent thither a great My ot nalized the — Dy gobbling him/and will ee his farm a ration CURE OF. ‘LUP PUS. horses and chariots, which came by up; and .the onkey , ——: advan- | growing pla io Will select some] Other experiments convinced him | night and com the city about, tage s Unity ahead |one of the hee divisions of market |that the blue and actinic rays,|that they might capture the man of demand for ilk: factory, butter- a ee — and ultra-violet, |God, but how vain are the thoughts | or city supply, and become rays to have any phy®\ and purposes of men who khow not” three; and lastly iicalead ee hig animal life. Ex-| God. The humble man of God is . perfectly quiet and unmoved, for ho another host af horses and char- iots which ordinary eyes cann is His. heart could truly sing, ‘‘I will t. fear should en- et yal which convinced him that the bacteri-|camp - me” ;. rays io action of ight was limited “Behold, God is my salvation; I will blue, violet, and ultra-violet trust and not be afraid’ (Isa. xii, nl The next step was to pro-| 2). uce a powerful electric light in Not so his servant who cried, which the actinic rays were concen-| ‘‘Alas, my master; how shall we ra do?”’ As Gehazi mena leper, octor commenced his photo-|it was probably some one his therapeutic — in 1895 on alplace, yet even Gehazi might _— case of lupus. h very poor tools} have been afraid, for ‘he, too, if child of God. was also out of eed ship. Elisha did with his servant, but with and comforted tha n Rom. viii, 26, 31, 34, we God for us, Christ for us, the Spirit for us, and we have the beautiful assuring words, “If God be for who can be against us?’’ " are slow to believe that all things are just as God says, we do well to pray that God would enlighten the eyes of our understanding that we may know what is the hope of our calling and the riches of the glory of His inheritance in us; that He would open our understandings that we ke understand aie Ser iptures (Eph. 1, 18; Luke xxiv, God can as casily. blind as oper eyes, so, at Elisha’s request, He blinded these Syrians, and Elisha brought. them to Samaria, to the king of Israel, whom they were really seeking, for they only wanted Elisha because he kept them from the king of Isracl. Again at the request of Elisha the Lord opened their eyes they found themselves in the of the king of Israel, who, instead of smiting them, as his own heart “ee. at the word of Elisha, fed them anc Wwe incod| Sent them home, thus conquering y thee so that, fora time at least, the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. vy acted according to Rom. xii, n whether famine or deliverance, it is God working in ali and through all for His people and against His enemies ; eee | wy wrth ither has ‘Christ any use | that he is not vyourself of self and ivessel to be filled Spirit? pty with the Holy oO an, will you yield up your pride for Christ? Will you be as a little child at his feet? Will you ‘Master, I am nothing, but thou art all in all?’’ May ne t the bane of sinful reg shall re and = Byars be cast out of ne hearts. “‘ bi biel shall Gree him low, but h shall uphold the humble in spirit.” oa ee es Eminent Barrister (just arrived inent Barrister—‘‘Well, the notorious burglar I got off to-day vse be com- ing round to thank me for od suc- cessful speech for his Quon, | the Eitsten range, | twice Many of the bert housekeepers have forsworn the use of stove polish on excepting once or in a season, and grease the incuarel of the kitchen instead. Once the stove is washed = in greaty water, and on the da ween is merely wiped with a peas doth To dissulved in the water wu whiten linen a little pipeciey wash- a. linen thoroughly. specially useful in towns where door bleaching is generally an r | possibility; CARE OF GLASSWARE. Th is nothing that conduces more to a dainty table than shining lass, and the commonest kind of glassware can be made to look beau- tiful by careful handling and proper any article there will be more care need- ed keep them bright and shinning. COLLECTING OLD Doors. Near Ponterfact, England, whe has «a museum ‘They are from . old castles, hie- toric interest. Quite lately £1,000 in Paris {ur a door through which, during the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette. Charlotte Corday, Danton, and Robesplerre passed t the guillotine. One of his doors is said to have shut off Charles II. from is Roundhead pursuers, ane it bears rks of a battering-ra A tion of ancient ‘eathercocks is also one of this is gent emun’s possessions. A FAMILY DAY. In the church at Sucsany, Austria, Herr and u Debos, senior, cele- brated their golden wedding; their son he bid priest for the lives a ho or abbeys that Have < ie. collec- al-dual-purpose cow to get hoth Mlk and becf and getting neither profit- ably, a condition now existing about .|which the great apostle of dual pur- pose now belaboring the breeders of this class of stock for having al- lowed the milking qualities to es- pe. Select a breed, and breed along the lines of one family of that breed. T welgh, cull out, sell and kill. time. See t this yourself, do not trust it to the hired man. His interest in the mat- ter docs not reach beyo the next pay day. Sec what you can do with the milk and how you can be related to the best market. If you sell mil by the 100 pounds you will want a milking dairy. If it is cream, or cer- tified milk, you want oa breed of a diferent type. If it is private butter making or sending reamery, your plans will need some change; but in med event do not get entang- led wit A SKIM MILK DAIRY. The era of general testing of milk 9 llet your bear a oo, shaved He—"Four times a week on an av- erage.’ “How long does it take?” “About half an hour.” “Half an hour four times a week! That's two hours ao week, four and one-third days in a year, and nearly a onth and o half in ten years. Think of it, Billiger. If you should grow yeu would save time enough in i yea *‘Look here, how often rs you dress your hair?" “Every day, different “That! 's different is it, eh? It takes you half an hour every blessed day of your life to look after your friz- es, if that’s what you call em. Think of it. Half an hour a three hours and a half a week, saarly ia days in a yea nth in four years, sortpealghtt years, years in a century! better go and look after the how often are” you of course; but that’s you'd baby.” —eenn eas NOT A FAVORITE BREED Lovers of good, plain dogs, which have beer allowed to grow naturally, story of the Eng- lish pedler who went to a dealer in dogs thus described what he nts-o kind-of-dog about— *igh tiny so long. Hit’s a “kind gry’ound, an’ yet it gry ound, because ‘is tyle is ge, nor any o’ these ‘ere gry’ounds, an’ ‘is ase is shorter, " 'e ain’t round bye body. But still "e's a kind’ ound. Do you keep such 5O of dogs? No,” * replied the dog man. drowns ‘em.”’ “We Xects make alcohol. "“he converse of this proposition is also true. Money that talks does littic else, Money that. whispers re-echoes where least expected. Money that acts might save many a brokv; heart fram oa suicide’s grave.