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reputa o men rev frank de witt talmage tells us of the truly great xkatcred according to act of tho fat- jiauieut of canada ia the year oat thousand jsiuo hundred and three by wm ually of toronto t ia department of agriculture ottawa a despatch from chicago says rev frank do witt talmage preach ed from tlic following text matthew xi 11 there hath not risen a greater than john the baptist great men great events and great cpoclis grow bigger and more colossal ua the years pass away from them once wrote the biogra pher of hobert burns like the mountain shadows they increuso in size and their reputations lengthen in importance as the sun of their day sets and the long night of their jest separates us from them liko the mythological heroes and heroines of old their leaders brows becomo luminous with erowns of gold no cathedral impresses us so much as the venerable pie that is covered with moss and creeping ivy man is seldom called great and truly great until he has been deatt- at least twenty years- but standing today under the lengthening shadows of many groat reputations these imminent questions naturally arise in many minds what is true greatness what nro the elements which distinguish the truly noble from the merely selfishly famous john pino baptists glory the purpose of tlds sermon is to show why john the baptist was greater than all other men before christs jordanic baptism john the baptist great although he vns so poor that his home was among the rocks and sands of the wilderness lying between the capital and the dead sea so poor that his only gar ments were the coarse skin of the wild beast through the holes of which stretched his long limbs and hairy chest so poor that his only food was the grasshoppers or locusts and the honey which had been hid den by the bees among the caverns and the hills from the worlds standpoint this is a strange portrait of a great man but low wonderful is its setting the fabled portrait was of a gold lace with a silver frame but the portrait of john the baptist is a silver face with a gold frame like v ruby glowing red it is set in a circle of most precious diamonds like a mirror of burnished brass pure and spotless it reflects the light of a rising sun it was john the baptists glory that he was the harbinger of a greater than himself as the direct forerunner of the son of cod he came at the supreme crisis of tile worlds history his name was thus linked with the most mom entous of all events and derives a luster from the connection there seems to be a natural law that great jnen should always be identified with great events training fob greatness there must e a training for great ness the occasion does not create greatness it only develops underpro duces it it cannpt create or make greafeniks out of common cloy we do not assert that history con pay a handels messiah upon a dinner plate or blow a bugle blast with a penny whistle or catch thunderbolts with a straw hat or shoot masto dons with pins or strangle volcanoes with spider webs the old poets said that when worlds are used for shuttlecocks and the universe is a playground and all infinity is ablaze with the conflagration then the very gods themselves must take part in the sport it ncods stronger arum than yours or mine to pitch islands for quoits to bowl down mountains for tenpins to swing hemispheres as an athlete hurls the hammer or jajth stamp of foot to make the submerged continent atlantis which once stretched between the old world and the new with n dying gurgle sink and disappear but great needs bring great men from obscur ity into prominence the occasion furnishes the opportunity great men nre produced only by great emergencies this premise be ing grautcd what greater event is there in all history than that of the coming of the promised messiah how much it meant to the world and lo us what life of eternal joy have we except that which revolves about the personality of him who was once baptized by john the bap tist in the river jordan what hope- have wo of over meeting our to veil ones our parents ami our friends who have gono beyond except through the divino being of whom john the baptist was the direct fore runner oh my friends ns john the baptists name was great by be ing linked to the name of jesus christ at his first coming will you not make your name great by doing your s part toward preparing the world for christs second coming a fonrciiunnflt of good john the baptist was a direct fore runner he was more than that he was ready to sink and submerge and entirely cover up his individual ity with the personality of jesus christ ho was ready to let christ bo all in nil ho wanted to be merely a foot light to make the di vine fnco shine forth the more clear ly he was willing to decrease so that the glory of his saviour might increase do we like john tho baptist inl our individualities in christs or clo we like sonic of tho ancient forerunners of tho east pre ceding tho kings chariots wish to bo dressed so gorgeously and to make so much noise that icoplo will oo watching us anil admiring our strides instead of turning their eyes toward tho royal master whom wc nro proclaiming aro wo wishing that all tyea shall o turned upon us instead of upon jews aro wo trying to preach so that men may say ttiux in a fino sermon 7 or arc wc tryfcig to preach so that as when j v inoatbe i cs harangued fejj auditors cried let us go and fight philip our hearers may say come let us enlist under the ban- ner of jesus a famous personality but let us inquire a little more closely how john the baptist sub merged his life in christ jesus was an unknown man at tho time john the hermit and recluse was making the very palace walls at jersalem shake up to thirty years of ago jesus was an unknown dwell er in a country village the whole extent of christs earthly ministry extended over only a short period of three or four years vo read of jesus when he was born then he disappears ve read of him twelve years later whon as a boy he talks with the doctors in the temple then he again disappears for eighteen long years up to thirty years of age christ was politically and sociologi cally an unknown factor in eastern life in the meantime who was this john the baptist this second young man of about the same ago as jesus was the most famous per sonality in the east he had lived as a hermit but the voice ho lifted reached not only echoed throughout the villages but also throughout tho great capital itself the rich and the poor the old and the young the government officials and the peasant alike left their homes to silt at his feet great crowds swarmed about this strnngo teacher wherever he went they pressed into his caves as though they wero temples as a result john built up a great school of devotees and baptized his follow ers by hundreds and thousands many of them were ready to bow down and worship him as a temporal ns well as a spiritual king yet when jesus appeared this illustrious man was lepdyi and gladly ready to sur render all for christ like john the baptist aro wo willing to lay our fame our wealth and our entire life work at jesus feet fearless for right great was john the baptist at tho risk of his life he was ready to denounce and attack the intrenched christ after we arc dead john the baptist great befor his sacrifice john the baptist great after he was martyred a thought illustrated perhaps i can illustrate the bible thought in a simple way a great wall or fortress has to be built the work must be pushed one group of workmen ascend the scaffolding and lay on one layer of stone and then go to their rest another group lay another layer of stone upon the pre ceding layer and then go to their rest and so tho work upon the wall grows higher and higher each group of workmen standing upon a loftier scaffolding than that of the preceding laborers well the great wall of progress has been builded in this way each generation repre sents a batch of workmen each lay er of stone the completed work of the preceding generation the col lege boy of today knows more of geography more of chemistry more of astronomy more of all the scienc es than tho ablest man living three centuries ago why because he has absorbed the compact knowledge of the last 300 years which the great scholars of those three cen turies have laid at his feet but as tho wall of mental and spiritual progress went on growing higher and higher century after cen tury suddenly about 1000 years ago spiritually it took a miraculous lift christs sacrifice was laid upon the top of it tho calvary stones were the layers of the year 30 a d those stones will lift all succeeding generations higher in knowledge and hi possibilities higher than all sin and higher than all future condemna tions i once heard a worldly man say the best man that ever lived never went to heaven on his own merits if we ever reach the city of tho redeemed it must be through what christ has done for us and not through what we have done for our selves this statement contains tho kernel the essence the heart of all the gospel john the baptist in his own life great yes yet notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he for w home i recipes for the kitchea hygiene sad other notes for tho housekecpffr tested cookery lots of work ahead surveying of the empire takes time to accomplish there are many parts of the em pire of which there arc no suitable maps lleutcnantgenernl sir v g nicholson informed the war commis sion they have not even finished and tho practically invulnerable sins j the ordinance survey of the united of that day he was not one of kingdom on which they have been those men who always stop and ask does it pay before they attempt to do what they ought to do he preached on the duties of men and waged war against wickedness in high places ho declared against evils as mighty in his day as the liquor traffic is in ours and never condoned crime though the criminal was a king he was ready to look tho hideous monster sin squarely in the face and then hit at that sin though his arm might seem to bo as helpless and weak as the hand of a young girl striking at tho wild beast leaping upon her in the roman arc- he called a spado a spade a lie a lie an adultery an adultery blasphemy blasphemy and hypocrisy hypocrisy wherever they were found he denounced and excoriated the sins of tho jewish church when herod the governor fell in lovo with his own brothers wife and murdered phillip that ho might marry her john instantly hurled tho divine condemnation against the ruler he raised such a storm of popular in dignation that herod flung him into at work for the last iis years 1 wonder added the witness how much tfiey have spent on that tiic survey of the united kingdom which is proceeding as briskly now as it was over a century ago is costing the country 230000 a year during the past decade the work has involved a total expenditure of 2- 300000- the staff comprises 847 officers and men of the royal en gineers and 2254 civil assistants and labourers the uninitiated might be excused for supposing that such an army of workers would be equal to preparing a reliable map of these islands in something under a century but in quiry in official quarters justifies the assumption that they or rather their successors will be still engaged iin the undertaking another century home the explanation is that the larger scale maps show such details as the number of steps to a house the po sition of liro plugs and the arrange ment of trees in fields and allot ments obviously these maps can be rendered inaccurate and out-of- broiled sirloin steak have the steak cut one ami onehalf inches thick and cut off the flank end as it will not be good broiled but can be used profitably in other ways grease the broiler with some of the fat then put in the steal and turn as often as you count ten slowly until both sides are seared then hold each side to the firo longer at a time four minutes will give a rare steak and longer time must be atlowed to make it well done bo not take out the bone before broil ing but after the steak is laid on a hot platter run a sharp knife along next to the bone so that the meat can be cut across for the bone to serve spread with seasoned but ter to onequarter cup of butter creamed add onehalf level teaspoon of salt a speck of pepper one table spoon of finely chopped parsley and one tablespoon of lemon juice creamed oysters scald two cups of cream in a double boiler with a slice cut from a large onion mix a rounding tablespoon of flour with little cold milk and add to the hot cream and cook until it thickens cook a pint of oysters in their own liquor until they begin to curl skim them out and drain add to the cream and season with salt and pepper to the taste serve in t ini tial coses or in bread croust aides split pea soup pick over and wash one cup of dried split peas soak over night in cold water drain and put on to cook in cold water and let them cook until entirely broken up add boiling water as needed hub through a strainer and put over the fire again add stock milk or boiling water to make of tho right consistency rub two lovel tablespoons each of flour and butter together and turn into the boiling soup cook until smooth and season with one level teaspoon of salt onehalf as much sugar and a few dashes of pepper indian sweet apple pudding pare and slice two sweet apples thin scald two cups of milk two round sit at your work whenever pos sible do as much mending on the sewing machine as possible use the sweeper when ilead tired stop ami rest you will accomplish more in tho end some uses of borax in sufdden hoarseness or loss of voice from colds relief may be ob tained by dissolving and partially swallowing a lump of borax the size of a pea borax may be dusted on a scald or wet burnod surface it is nice for cleaning the teeth and to sweeten the breath a little added to hard water renders it much nicer for bathing purposes equal parts of powdered orrisroot borax pro- pa rod chalk aod one sixth as much soap make a fine dentifrice there is no better remedy for dandruff than a wash of an ounce each of borax and camphor to one and one half pints of cold water scurf may be removed from the babys head by rubbing on a little borax and then washing with soap and water use one tablespoonful of borax to one gallon of water for washing woollen fabrics it makes a better lather when dissolved in hot water for washing silk handkerchiefs and j gloves borax may be used instead of soap it is also nice for cleaning hairbrushes when meat is ready to hang up wash it in water as hot as you can bear it on your hands then carefully cover the flesh side witji powdered borax and you will not be troubled with bugs or worms he s s lesson the sunduy school international nov 1 cooking vegetables onions should be boiled in hard water salted because they lose much of their flavor and aroma if boiled in pure soft water stringbeans usually need to boil for fortylive minutes the addition of a small bit of salt pork will generally mini mize any rank flavor and will im- text of the lesson ii sam xv 112 golden text ex xx 12 after the everlusting unconditional covenant made with david concerning his son who would bo israels mes siah and the kingdom of righteous ness as recorded in our last lesson in this book chapter vii wo read of duvhls great prosperity and righteous reign viii 15 then comes tho record of his great sin and repentance the sin of aiunon and his death at the hands of his brother absalom after which absalom fled to tho king of geshur and remained there three years but through tho pleading of the wise woman of te- koa employed by joab he camo back to jersalem and dwelt whole years without reconciliation to his father after which through joabs intercession the king became recon ciled to him saw him and kissed him xiv 28 33 absalom signi fies father of peace but his con duct suggests one who is of his fa ther the devil john viii 44 the kings kiss to absalom was the lov ing kiss of a heartbroken father wel coming his erring son but tho kiss of absalom if he did kiss his fa ther was like the kiss of judas when he betrayed his master this is tho third time in fourteen years that we have had this portion of this chapter assigned as a lesson in stead of tho much more helpful and suggestive portion following but we nre asked today to study verse 23 which is some improvement the story of absalom is one of de ceit and lying and treachery and re bellion even against his own father prove them when done drain thor oughly season with salt popper ami perhapstneretvas no one more wick ed his unscrupulous selfseeking butter turnips carrots cabbage and onions should bo boiled in great deal of water then taken up immediately and drained when sufi ciently done overcooking destroys the taste and too little water will allow them to turn dark in color new potatoes are best baked a very little sugar added to tomatoes squash peas corn beets and tur nips will improve them summer quash should be steamed and not prison and afterward at the behest date with utmost facility neccsritnt- of his stepdaughter who was dancing a lesurvey and a recount of the ing before him at a drunken feast doorsteps and the trees ho beheaded john and gave to her j the plans of a survey of ireland tho bloody trophy upon a charger at present being made indicate every oh my brother dnro we with tiny holding in the country there johns courage nttark intrenched sin are ns many as 1800 of these small wherever it may bo found like enclosures on one of the plans no ohn tho baptist are we great enough and brave enough no matter wlnt the direct cost may be to up hold the great principles of gospel truth in the store the home the factory the city hall aye through the snored aisles of tho church it self dnro we do this even though the earthly powers that be should unsheatiio tho glittering sword of death and wavo it over our heads and the bends of our loved ones great in death but though john the baptist was great in life he was also great rn death liko tho pioneer who enters the american forests and cuts away tho trees and pulls up the stumps and builds the homo and plants the corn in order that his children may reap the harvests after the father is gone so john tho baptist not for himself but for those who should come after him lived his life and nt lost inid it down a martyr johns death was ns bencficjent in its re sults as that mothers death might bo which would bring together the warring factions of her family and reunite them beside the altar of her casket if yon follow the teachings of the bible very carefully you will find there was a war a rivalry a jeal- between the followers of jesus christ and the followers of john there was no war between john and christ no sooner did jesus appear than john bent the knee and render ed unto him full and complete obedi ence but this obedience was not true in reference to tho johanninn luhool in tho fourth chapter of john we find that in order to still this rivalry christ with his followers left the southern regions of judaea and travelled north and went through snmnria but no sooner was john the baptist dead than his disciples took the headless trunk of his body and buried it and went and told jesus ah yes by johns death all these factions were healed tho johanninn school bo- came in toto tho school of the kozarenc is it not a blessed thought that if we live for christ this aldo of tho grave wo may still continue to livo in influence for such la bou ulcus work it is stated officially has been met with on tho ordnance survey of great britain i rhs form another great obstacle it takes from four to six months to make a hill drawing from the field sketches almost microscopical though the attention paid to great britain is the ordnance survey practically ig nores the rest of the empire there arc 11200000 square miles of au 1 1 alia islands which have net yet been sur veyed and an accurate map of the former country is unobtainable the less populous districts of canada and tho whole of south africa north of cnpo colony are in a strictly geo graphical sense unknown to this day what detailed maps exist have been prepared from sketches made by travellers and explorers ing tablespoons of corn meal awl one rounding tablespoonful of hour with onehalf cup of molasses a level teaspoon of ginger and pinch of salt one egg beaten and two table spoons of melted butter mix apple milk and other ingredients and turn into a buttered pudding dish add two cups of cold milk but do not stir it in then bake in a slow oven three hours cocoanut pudding put three rounding tablespoons of tapioca in j cold water to soak over night scald four cups of milk and add the drain ed tapoica cook five minutes then add the yolks of four eggs throe rounding tablespoons of sugar anil three tablespoons of prepared cocoa- nut cook ten minutes and turn into a dish to cool beat the whites of four eggs and four level table spoons of powdered sugar together to make a meringue and spread over the top sprinkle lightly with cocoanut and brown slightly in the oven pea soup with tomato i teat two cups of canned tomatoes and press through a strainer to take out the seeds add a few drops of onion juice and odd a pea soup majje from above rule boiled cauliflower should be tied in a net to prevent boiling to pieces put a piece of bread the size of an egg into a cheesecloth bog arid drop into a pot of boiling greens to ab sorb the odor shed said too much saving steps the woman who does all her own work should make her head save her heels by a little foresight and skilful managing she may do inf by wnnt to go to the au endless variety of ways the fof now maud said edgar with a complacent smile i am ready to try that little experiment i am sure i j can bring you under hypnotic influ ence if you will agree not to resist just put your mind in a passive condition try to think of nothing at all fix your eye on tho light now and dont forget to keep your mind a blank i will count sixty seconds by my watch the girl followed his directions lit erally in twenty secontfs her eyes blinked in forty they closed ah i knew i would succeed ex claimed edgar highly elated now maud 1 command you to toll me the secrets of your heart whom do you love tell me i command you a momentary expression of resist ance crossed to girls face then she spoke in a monotone i love edgar fopham and yes yes cried edgar trembling with delight go on tell me all tho secrets of your heart i love edgar fophanl continued the girl in the same tone anil 1 would love him more if ho were not of saving notes from manywtfbite tattooing is now done with a needle driven by electricity the number of murders per million inhabitants is in england 113 in germany 545 in prance 31 a3 in austria 1542 in italy 7013 and in spain 4470 the intense love of the filipino for music is notably shown in their funerals their home entertainments and in their theatres the filipino voice is small and thin but it makes up tho deficiency in shrillness lowing aie some means steps and labor first of all plan ahead have re gular times for all work and thus be mistress of your work and keep at the head of it when cooking green beans cook enough for two or more meals serve once with n plain dressing of butter salt and pepper then re heat and serve some more with a cream sauce and again serve cold with mayonnaise or french dressing make enough piccrust for two bakings at once anil set the unused xewnvnlitl j in coll j mtii wanted the last will be better than the first lot the boys or hired man was a bushel or more of potatoes out doors at one time cook the breakfast cereal the day before cook enough for two or more meals in a double boiler nml reheat any number of times this should bo cooked on ironing or bak ing day to save fuel those who object to having tho same cereal two mornings in succession can still al ternate as the cooked cereal will keep several days in a cold piaee thero are many fruits and vege tables which need little or no pre paration for tho table use those generously in season serve simply not untidily get a good foodchopper and use it keep a supply of bread crumbs ready for use keep kitchen utonsils in convenient places dont spend time irloning sheets underclothes towels or stockings they aro more sanitary unlroncd for every day wear make the lit tle girls dresses and bloomers of some dark material flannel in win ter and chnmbroy or domlm in sum mer and do away with the drawers and skirts clean thoroughly as you go and then keep clean insist upon the feet being cleaned outside on some thing provided for thte purpose dont allow tho dog to track up your porches chain liim have a palec for everything in iho house and see that each member of the family puts the article he uses in its proper place mak every trip up and down stairs count make no tamxesary to prevent collision a russian inventor has devised an apparatus which is intended to pre vent collisions at sea the appara tus js operated by the use of contact devices which ho colls feelers the feelers move in advance of tho ship and at such a depth as not to be materially interfered with by the waves they aro so disposed and connected as to indicate an obstruc tion stationary or floating beneath the surface whether in the direct coarse of the ship or on one or the other side 4 v- it is easier for a woman to conceal her love than it is to hide her indif ference- theatre twice a week and he lakes me only once in three months i want diamond rings and ho gives me rings with imitation stones in them i want a drive in tho park once or twice a week and i never get it when i go out with him and get hungry he never thinks of oysters when 1 enough cried the young man awake t command you and ho fled without waiting io see the re sult of his command as tho front door slammed the young girl opened her oycn smiled and said i hope i did not spring too much on him nt once perhaps i should have let tho drive and oysters go till another time f getting on a lady on entering the kitchen ear ly one morning saw a plate and knife and fork the former of which had evidently contained rabbit vie the lady strongly suspected a certain po liceman of having supped off it and tho following conversation took place between her end tho rook mistress jane whats hecomo of the cold rabbit pie that was left jane oh i didnt think it was wanted mum so i gave it to tho dog mistress sarcastically does the dog use a knife and fork then jnno unabashed not very well yet mum but i nm teaching him tol sold by the shock a farmer went on n visit to a friend after dinner tho husbnnd- man requested to bo shown round the town after visiting several places they finally reached tho electric lighting works what dyo call this place dan queried tho farmer this is called the electric plant was tho reply plant what do they grow they grow currents how do they sell cm by tho bushel they dont sell cm by tho bushel they sell cm by tho shock shads should bo pretty mire of anything they feel in their bonca even at the cost of his fathers life is suggestive of tho devil who would if possible dethrone god and who will yet seek to do so ere the ago closes make a careful and pray erful study of the following passages and be over on your guard against all such manifestations isa xiv 13 14 dan vii 25 viii 2425 xi 2g it thess ii 3 4 rev xiii 57 xvii 14 xix 19 20- there arc many forcsh ado wings on a small scale politicians who will not tako up a matter without first con sidering how it may affect their own political prospect those who for their own ends by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple those who under pretense of worshipping god have only in view their own promotion and pos sibly tho overthrow of some just person how desperately wicked must have been the heart of absa lom who with profession of devo tion to god on his lips and his fa thers blessing sounding in his ears goes forth to carry out his devilish designs against his father yet thero is an ever increasing multitude who are disobedient to parents nnd in open rebellion against god ii tim iii 35 but as truly ns david returned nnd sat on his throne in pence xix 34 so shall our lord jesus return and reign on davids throne and tho work of righteous ness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness nnd assur ance forever isa ix g 7 xxxii 17 there ore many ahithophels foolish brethren the name signi fies who stand high before men in relation to the king but who while outwardly professing al legiance are really on tho side of the enemy let us turn from the dark picture of self and sin to the faithful few who snid to david in ythis dark hour beliold thy ser vants nre ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint and to lttal who said as the lord ii vet h and as my lord the king livcth surely in what place my lord the king shall be whether in death or life even there also will thy ser vant be verses 15 21 to mere natural sight it looked dark for david but god had promis ed that the kingdom would be estab lished forever and there were come who jiad faith in god and were also ready to die with david rather than live with absalom the time was and in china only two years ago when to livo meant to deny christ but many confessed him and died for him see in rev xiii 3517 a de scription of coming days and see in rev xiv 911 xv 21 the future of those who deny christ in order to live and the future of such as die for his soke may we have the spirit of ittaf and of ruth and of elisha ruth i 15 17 ii kings ii 2 4 0 9 and may our determined stand be that of paul in phil i 20 jii 810 note davids submission and recognition of god in this great trial behold hero nm i let ilim do to me as seemeth good unto him verses 25 20 over the same brook kidron verse 23 john xvili 1 went the son of david on the night of the agony in gethsemnne and tho betrayal by judas iscariot ami the faithful followers were very few from the same olivet verse 30 tho rejected christ returned to his home in heaven and to the same olivet will he come again to overthrow his enemies and establish tho prom ised kingdom with jerusalem as n center acts i 11 12 5ccch xiv 4 therefore let us obey isa ixii 5 7 davids going barefoot is suggestive of his acknowledgement that this was nil of god and god must man age it for it is lis affair he knows how to jterforui his every purpose and it becomes us to put off our shoes in his presence ns lie said to moses and to joshua ex ii 5 v 15 vc have come to a place of great rest when with true humility and absolute confidence in god wo can go day by day with unshod feet acknowledging that tho wholiife and nil its service passive or active aro of god he appointed and prepared for us and wc have only to walk with lltm in it tho author and finisher of ml wb8alb0ffjbi8ha8m peculiar things jyrk ija- ble to happen lesson some captains of vessels make their dishonesty pay them weu captains of merchant vessels hava a larger field than anyone oho for the exercise of roguery urn many of them do not fail to work the field to the fullest extent tho ways in which a skipper con build up a competency are numerous first of all there is ihe imquitoui system of coimitifrinns if the owners onlcr uie stores to be of a certain price aim quality the sup pliers find it advisable to concilato the captain or there will bo com plaints to compensate for this outlay the supplier probably has to send in a part of the stores of qual ity inferior to that agreed or the exact quantity is not always given and this is winked at by the master he has to sign for the goods or re port on the quality and there is no complaint from him some skippers go farther fifty pounds worth of stores are some times sent in and the master signs a voucher for half ns much again the firm pays and half or more than half the supplies goes into tho skippers pocket it is surprising too to notice how quickly certain articles in the way of cutlery anil linen will wear out or be lost or damaged tablecloths knives and forks and the like find their way to tlie home of the cap tain the wives and families of some captains have an abundant sup ply of provisions at the end of a voyage which moans that the skip per has pinchcel the food supply at sea rogues advantage in those cases where shipowners allow a sum of money to the master for provisions the dishonest com mander will grind quality and quan tity to the lowest point thus add ing to the banking account standing in his wifes name the men may grumble but the skipper has the ear of the owner and the common sailor has no chance the mates have occasionally to bo kept quiet which deprives the chief of a small portion of his hardearned pilferings but that is only a small drawback not only the provisions but also the ship itself and the cargo suffer at the hands of these men ropes oiid taekle will be sold at a foreign port to the common dajiger but the captain pockets the proceeds and accounts for the deficiency under tho head of dirty weather or some thing of that nature again repairs at foreign ports run up the expenses from time to time bold buccaneers some of the depredations of skip pers in connection with the cargo aro enough to take your breath away if you arc not in the swim for inst ance i t seems i ncredible that a captain could appropriate ten ingots of copper yet this was ac tually done the information was given by one of tho men who helped to carry them ashore at an ameri can port this was one of the cases where the mates have to bo tipped they had 2 each for alio helping and the copper fetched 23 one skipper found it necessary to throw overboard no fewer than fifty bags of good russian wheat during a storm a sudden modera tion of the gale saved the greater part of the cargo from the same fate that was a loss but it is not uncommon to throw over some of the cargo to lighten the vessel and there are losses as well ns gains in all businesses but the strange part of the affair was that those bags of wheat were thrown over several days after the gale and about 1500 miles from the suppos ed sipot in fact when the vessel was a long way out on another voyage how wns that seems to pay tho bags had been removed nnd hidden in tho anticipation of being able to dispose of them at tho end of the next trip but to the dismay of the skipper the vessel wns sent with ballast to a port where thero was no chance of selling the ill- gotten goods if the bogs were per mitted to remain in their place of concealment too long they might bo discovered so they were thrown over the filth at night an advance on account to pay to men who desire to go ashore at a port of call gives the dishonest master another opportunity of mak ing a little by charging interest it may bo that the men arc entitled to nn allowance and thus no interest can be charged but if the port bo a foreign one the captain does not fail to change the money for them and charge a high rate of exchange if i could get a masters birth once said a mate who had held a captains certificate but had been unable to obtain the coveted posi tion i would make enough in fivo years to turn up seafaring arid re tire he meant it and ss j2 was in b ho knew whnt he was talking about further in support of his assertion lie mentioned a captain who in a dozen years had acquired property to the value of four thou sand pounds this was more than his pay amounted to in tho whole period to soy nothing of the fact that he had kept a family in good style all tho time 1 what mamma swtd an amusing story is told of a mis erly old gentiomnn who visited his relatives uninvited one morning his little niece of fivo summers came up to him unexpected ly with the indignant question uncle are you a cannibal the gentleman was startled and said no of course not my cur child but whnt on earth makes yoii nsk the little girl replied oh i nought you must be be cause mnmmn was saying this morn- ircjlu8r just as you camo id that you flhvujs hied on your relations