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' •'*^''"'>v7l â- ^ '^* .^ â-  Hints (or the Home ^ Tested Revipc^. Lfuiun Snaps.â€" One cup of butwr and two of sugar beaten to a foamy • cream. Add to this two eggs and • the grated rind of one large lemon » with it!) juice. A scant tea»p'K>nful of suda dis.solved in two table«poon- ful* of iweet milk. K^€ad very stiff 'with flour, roll out very thin, cut ♦out in shapes with tin cutter and ^Lake in quick oven. Rice lake, Yokohama.â€" Tliorough- *Iy wa'h and drain four ounces of ,rice. Place in an enamelled sauce- pan with a pint o< milk, a ftaltsjKron- ful of salt, half a teaapoonful of ,vanilla, and let boil for 45 minutes, lightly mixing at bottom with a 'wooden .spoon on-ce in a while. Re- • mo\e to a table, add two table- /pooivfuls of sugar, two tablespoon- fiils of cream or milk, a whole egg, the yolk of another and stir thor- •oughly. Line a pie plate with some puff pa&te. Pour rice into the plate, 'neatly smooth surface and iet in .oven for 25 minutes. , lluini'-niade Sausiige.â€" Take of v\)ung lean pork one and one-third • pounds of tenderloin, the rest- any 1 lean cut, four pounds, and fat, two pounds; put it through a sausage grinder twice, perhaps 'tJ\ree times, t until of the desired fineness. Use for each pound of meat one tea- ( spoonful of powdered dried leaf I â-  Mage, one teasp(K>nful of salt, one- . third teaspoonfiil of pepper and I oni'-third of a nutmeg : nutmeg may ; be omitted if preferred. A quantity i • of sausage may be made at a time , and preserved for regular use if one has a cold sjtorerooni. It should be " plac'd in jars and covered an in-^lil • thiik with melted lard, winch will , preserve it. Va*<ar takes. â€" These little bites are oornmeal hoe-cakes, served hot • and eaten with strained honey. J brown sugar, or molasses. But the hoe has notJiing to do with them; ' a batter is made with cornmeal and , Cold water, seasoned only with salt. The batter nuist be so thin that it ' literally pours from a tablespoon, . one of which is put at a time on a hot iron griddle for the cake. The usual griddle holds three, or four • cakes, and a« soon as these ci'ok » they are thinly coated with butter aaci served on hot plates. The su- gar, honev or molasses is put on the table. Lemon I'lidiliiig.â€" Put two ounces of butter in a saoicepan and when melteil stir in s'owly «.>ne table- * spoonful of flour and one table- , Kp«H.>nful of cornnieai. When the in- grediente form a thick paste, add ijuickly one pint of milk and stir â-  until the mixture has boiled and . thiikentHl. Remove from the sto\e and add three rounding tablespoou- *ful.si.f sugar, the grated rind of one large lemon and one ta'hlesp<.H>nfu.l ' of vanilla. Fold in the yolks of two eggs which have been beaten pre- * viously and one tabIe.<p<)onfiil of , finely clKippe<l candied lem..n peel. , \M utic pinch of salt to the whites of the eggs and whisk to a stiff • froth. When the pudding is cold , a<l(i the whites of the eggs and the juice >>f the lemon. Cover with a ' thick p\iff paste, brown in a n;edi\im oven and serve with cream. Scoh'h Biin.-Takc 1'^ breakfast- fuls of flour. \ lb. butter, 1 tea » spoonful of baking jKiwder, .\ii\ .these with sufficient wator to form ,a ihiugh. rvill out. grease the in.sid^ of a large cake tin, and line neatly Vith the paste, reserving a piece t>r the top of the bun. Filling: 1 )h. «>f flour, '._; lb. sugar. 2 lbs. stoned raisins), S lbs. currants, 'i Mb. i-andie<l orange peel. ,'^ tea- •si^<Kinful black pepper, one tea- « spoonful carln^nate of soda. .'^ lb. . ahuonds. blanched and choppe^L ) .' ^ oz. each of ginger and cinnamon! ©no teasiH>onful creanj of tartar and » a snial! breakfastcupful of milk, or enough to barely moisten all. Mix ^ tliorouglily and put in the paste- lined tin and cover with paste. Prick all over with a fork, brush t over with eK,g. and bake about 2';: llOUIS. I seful Hints. To help out a meatless nu-al use " cieani soups or dishes which include cheese, beans or eggs. Hag ru^s made «.>f cotton was.h well, are inexpensive and arc often j>ist the thing for the kit^'hen. ' The bone should be left in a jVHst; it will help to keep the juice â-  in and will add flavor ami sweet- ' ne.*.*. If the ahiii'iiium cooking utensil*; turn black t ,« boiling tomato par- ings in the 1 and they will brighten. It i* 1»» si iHit to ser\x> the same dish twict a week unless it be a vegetable, !V.s everyone likes variety. Vhen niakin;; pastrv ^e the roll ing pin well. Mlssuiv all ingre- dients accurately , never guess at (guautities. ()ne secret of a warm house is liavinj,': all the living room windows (acing tlw; 5«'uth and th? north win- «lo«s ilouble sasheo. When baking fish pla .• o\ the top >f it s.>me thin slices of salt pork. This bastes the &s(h and niake.s the flavnr bctltr. Wlu'ii nailing down a (.arpet after <he floor has been .â- â™¦i^rubbed be sure tlin.; tlw th»«»r is i.°|uit« dry. or the | nai's will rust and injure the ccr , K«et : Alum i> very u'»efnl in the homo, I and there is nothing better for mending broken disbe/i or a lamp when it ia loose in the SHK-ket tliian ahun melted and used while hot. lb make niiabby oilcloth look new, give it a thin coat of varnish, let it dry, then give it a second coat, which will be found better than one heavy coat. l>oughnut« to be perfect should be cut out before putting the fat on to he«t. To make them puffy, keep the kettle covered in which they are frying. Save all odd bits of cheese, and when they are dry grate them and put the grated cheese in a glass jar to use for various cooked disheh of vegetables and macaroni. After you have used all the ham that will cut nicely from the b<'ne. and after chipping the remaining n>e.at for frizzled ham, boil the bone with cabbage. Tin is a gi-eat saving of the ex- pen.se of equipp ng a kitchen, if one wishes the outlay to be as small a.s possible. But it should be the thickly coated kind. Dresses that have been laid away in drawers for some time often be- come very creased. Hang them in front of the fire for a while and the creases will disappear. There is probably more < .\irava- gance in the average home in the way of wasted light than any other one item in the whole category of household CKpenses. for so few peo- ple remember to turn out the light- not in use. When cutting cured liams that you do not wish to use up at once, they can be kept fres-li and sweet for a long time by sptciding fresh lard over the newly cut surface. .â- \lways bf^gin cutting at the end of the ham, having a saw for the bone, and there will be no waste wliai- ever New fiaiinel should always be shrunk before it is made into gar- ments, Wat^h it entirely by itself 111 hot wat<?r. as warm as the hand can bear. The soap should be rub- bed to a lather in the water, or else the flannel may become hard. Use two warm waters. Then rinse in a third in which only a little soap has been dis.«olved. also a little in- digo blue. Wring and shake the flannel well, and while it is drying shake, stretch and turn it several times. BKST FE!) ARMV IN DLSTORY. The British Vrmy I* Well Supplied Wilb Food. Dr. F. M. Sand«ith. chai'man of the County of London Branch of the British Red Cross Society, deliver ing the first of a seiies of three Clki^dwick lectures on War and Disease at the Lecture Hall of the Royal Society of .\rts. London, late- ly, contrasted witii former tinies, the present excellent condition of health in the British .\rmv. which had been brought alH>ut, he said, by the splendid body of men in the Royal .\rray Medical Corps Just as the i.<«ues in the pheseut war were greater than ever before, so at least our knowledge was based to-day on sounder principles, and the armies facii>g each other were better cquippetl. better instructed, and better fitted to endure the hard- ships of a long and bitter struggle than ever before. Taking the aver- age of recent wars fought on land, out of I'very 100 deaths 20 had been due to wounds and 80 to disease. It wa.-i hard to believe that we would ever learn the lesson entirely that courage and goodwill were unable by themselves to carry us through when we were pitte<l against armies trained and equipped as tlie enemy was. We had learned a good deial atul profited by .«caie of our worst blunders in the past, and we might congratulate those who were re- sponsible on the excellent clothing and general equipment of the regu- lar army, for the very goinl finxi which was supplied to ttiem. and the training they had receivtnl. Ours was sai<l to be the army best sup- pi itnl with food since the world be- gan I AClIViTlESOFWOllEJI $ London now has an official police- woman. } Illinois pays out $112,000 a year, in mothers' pensions. | There are over 1.000 women on the British Medical Register. Women are being employed t<i take moving pictures of war scenes in France. i Cher 8,000 of Xew York's 15.000 ! working women received less t-ian ! *«6.50 a week last year. Mi.-s Heie."! Harrison ia manager of the exten>ive dairy farm ow:ied by James J. Hill, the millionaire railroad magnate. ', The Countess Lonvay. a daughter I of I.,eopold of Belgium, and once a ; future Empress of .\ustria. is now i a Red Cros* nur>e. Mme. Bakhemeteff. wife of the Russian ambassador to the United | States, has one of the finest coUec- i tion of jewels in the world. Dr. Mary Crawford, who ha.sbeen; plwto of Prin*o Leopold, the vouth- assigned to the operating-nxmi in : ful heir to the thione of tiie Bei- the .Vmerican hospital in Paris. is|g'-ans. the ooily wonian physician in the! ♦ hospital'. â-  I HOLKS IN TREKS. Fire Commissioner .\dams«.in of N'ew York has appointed Mrs. Olive Value of the W uodpetker in killing F. Shepherd as a fire inspector in i the bureau cf fire protection at a' salary of 81.200 a year Twenty-four per cent, of nearly Heir to King of Belgiiiin. ! .\ new and hitherto unpublished | Insevts. When veil walk along a country ; road at the edge of a piece of wo»ds. 6.000 women and children • mplo^eil and come to a wild a!)ple tree or a ; in stores, laundries, factories and decaying stump from which top and i telephone exchanges in Xew Or- branches have fallen, you will often leans ret.-eive an average wage of see a round hc'e in it halfway up less than .?4 per week. " " 'its length, or uv.der a big limb. .\ny , Mlss Annie Mors-aiV a daughter .voungster will tell you at once that of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, will It is a w.xdpeckor s ne.'^t It is ^ be awardod the grand medal of the woodpecker work. n6 doubt, but Ls i National Institute of Social Scienc- it now. or was it ever, the hoaie of | es. being equivalent to the grand a pair *>f woodpeckers ; ; crosK of the French Legion of Hon-' Its size will give you a fair hint or. ! of whether it was made by ilie big, ilrs. Lorillard Spencer and Miss ' logcock. by a flicker or a redhead, i Katberine Buffin of Xew York, who <"• by one of the sma"er kinds, like' recentiv i-eturned from the Philip- the dowuy or the hairy wo.xipe<ker- : pines, are the first white women who He is a little checkered fel'ow with ; ever penetrated the mountain fa*t- , a bro.id white stripe down, his back nesses in which the savage Moros ; and a red cap. and ho is a constant make their homes. Both women visitor to our orchards. He has' spent a wiiole vear aoiiong the tribes, been called an inspector of .apple and came back unharmed. j trees. ' for he cleans the fruit trees + of borers and othiT injurious insect pests. ', But a woodpecker's hole is n^A. • necessarily a nest Tiit woodpecker digs holes for other purposes. Sotr**- fimes he has to cut so deeply t^> get at a big grub t-liat the hole rsiNb VERY UE.VIH.Y SUEI.J.S. (iermans Prepare Explosive That CaiiM's InleiVH' SiilTertnK. Sir William Ramsay, noted 6<'ien tist and frequent contributor to the ' Ii-»oks like a hous* entry. The downy , N'ew York .\merican, writes to the 'also carves out shallow holes near, London Times: j hi« real nest a* shelters in which to I "I encl.i*e a tran^'lation of part | spend stormy days and cold nights.! of an artioJe which appears in the for he is with us in winter as well I current number of Comptes Rendus' as in ^ummer. Then, to\>. wivod- ^ of the French Academy of Science. ' peckers make a new nertmg hole It is by M. Victor Henri, a French | eaoli s«'-a»ou. so yiHi may have found ; chemist, of the best reputation. M. ^ a nest that was deserted long ago. ] I'rbain. whom he quotes, is one of. Other creatures often occupy the most distinguished and reliable these abandoned homes. S*.>metimes scientific men. M. Henri's article, it Ls a mouse or a flying squirre.L â- says : ' but nKire often s<.>nie little bird. il. Urbain. who has had an op- 1 Whatever it mav be. it finds only an portunity of examining a number of empty tenement, since woodpeckers German shells which failed to ex- ' are content to lay their egg> on the plode. infonns ine that explosive fine, clean chips that are left at tlie | shells of 77 calibre, and shrapnel bi^ttom of iheir burri.>ws. ; shells contain mostly a large quan- 1 By the way in which the hole is j tity of violet brown powder, smell- ; furnished. \ou may gues.w who the ing strongly of white phosphorus. | new occupant is. .\ mouse fil's the 97 per cent, of which coiLsists of cavity with grass: a flying squirrel, various kitids of phosphorus, the with its cast-off fur and other soft! red variety predominating in the stuff. If the hole is crammed with explosive shells. j twigs and bits of spider's web, a Tlie balls are roughened so as to\ wren has lived there: if with fine i retain a certain quantity of the ad- straw, a few feathers, and so forth, ' hcring phosphorus, consequeiitl.v , probably a bluebird was. the tenant : fragments of the German shells audi if it ct-nsist< mostly of feathers, slirapne! carry into the wound more j wiKil, and cottony stuff, the occu- ! or less phos-piiorus. pant.* are no doubt chickadees ur This should be especially called nuthatches. I to the notice of stirgeon.s, for phos- ^ phorus produces uiortifii.'ation of the, tissues. In contact even with] shrapnel balls. luicTobes. especially ' anaerobic ones, which produce te taiuis and gangrene, find a nie<liuiii ' faviirable to their ilevel..>pnient and the wviund iiiav bec<'nie «rave. AERIAL TRAIL BREAKING One of the Most Impressive Sigl-ts in Nature. It is impossible for one wto !ias seen only the common muts swans floating about in tlie artificial laiies of city park.s to imagine the grandeur of a flock of the great whistlers In their wild state. In "Wild Lite and the Camera," .Mr. A. R. Dugmore says the sight In one of the most impressive In. nature. As the huge birds rise into the air it seems as if an aerla! regatta were being sailed overhead, the swaas, each with a wing spread of six or seven feet, moving like vachts under full sail. Once the swans are fairly under way their speed is amazing, nearly a hundred miles an hour, and that. too. with no apparent effort, for the slow- wing motion is very deceiving. The ^''-durance ia as surprising as their -.â- ifid, for they are said to travel a -iiousand miles without alighting. The flocks are usually led by an old and experienced swan, and it is said that as one becomes tired of leading, or it might be called aerial trail break- ing, his place Is taken by another whose strength is equal to the usk. and so they continue until they reach their destination. tl:e southera feeding grounds of the winter, or the uorthem breeding places of the summer. Oc- cjisionally they stop to rest in the re- gion of the Great Lakes. Not many years ago. while on their way north, a large number stopped above Niagara Falls, and more than a hundred were, by some extraordinary mischance, carried over the falls and killed in the surging waters. Whether the swaas prepare in any special way for their southward journ- ey is not known; but before starting north they indulge in the carious hab- it kcown as "ballasting,' that is to say. ihey eat great <iua!::itit,s of sand, for what purpose no one kno^â- â€¢s. la tl.-r far-away Arctic Ocea- .s their breeding place, and it is believed that they mate for life. As with so many of the wiiter birds, the swans protect their eggs with a covering of down scratched from their owu breasts, so that when the birds leave the nest, the two to six large, yellowish eggs are hidden from the eyes of possible thieves, and protected against sudden changes ct temperature. It is many years before the swans are clothed la the feathers of immacu- late whtteneco that make them such conspicuous objects of beauty. Not. indeed, until the fifth year does all traces of gray disappear. The first feathers are entirely gray: gradually they lighten, becoming mottled with white, the neck and bead remaining gray until after the body Is completely white. INtiENlOl S iREAIMENi. rilK tH KENS VOK E. Teacher (ia^e Uis Frauk Opinion COM NDRIMS. Why are tall people the laziest ? Because they are always the long- est in bed. Why is an industrious tailor never at home I-Because he is al- w.iys cutting out. My first is a prepasition, my see ond a composition, my thiril an ac- quisition-Fortune. Why is an officer encanipeil lik,' a person very attentive to the s<>lu- tion of this conundrum I â€" Because he is intent. Where you place your child is mv first ; what you make your child is my second, and a Court ornament is my whole- Lap-pet. Why is a lady who is presented with tickets for ten balls like a law ' yer or a physician !â€" Because she is ! paid for at -ten-dances. j My first is to be seen in the sky, my second conquers kings and â-  queens, and my whole is what I would offer to a friend in distressâ€" ffol-ace. What kind of hunting is ' at in which neither horses nor ounds are useil iu the ',>urs«it of game which is ti»u»l!y of the feminine gender 'â€"Fortune-hunting. Mrs. .iusaii Buckles, wtio died re- cently n^M' luUnburg. 111., at the »%ge of ',n. li.id never attesuled a motion-picture kIumv, « vircus or .<v ;hejrtre and had never ridden on a tr.iin or street car. Cnriiii: IMncsiive rriiuble- hv the Ise uf ihe .Magnet. \ .Vuioug the latest of the mechani- ' • ca! appliances to be liarnes.»ed to I the wv^rk of human healing is the : eWtro magnet, wliicli the physician is likely to find of great value in the treatment of certain bowel affec- jtionsthat have hithertt> been fouiul , verv intractable. Dr. Payr, acci^r- as to Its Quality It} her youth. Queen Klizabelh of ! ding to a St. Petersburg lueilica Roumania spent much time on the training cf her vtiice. and, eiu'our aged by flatterers, came to believe herself to be a singer of unusuiU journal, is the originator of the ' idea. The [latient is required to take first a quantity of water in which t,alent. .\t length she decideil to much iron i^ suspended in fine par h»\ e her voice tried by â- some great i ticle,s. riie latter is thus carried to teacher. So she went one day. j every part of the digestive tr.vt- and dressed very .>«mply. and without , can be acted upon by the magnet the usual retinue of servants, to see j at the will of the operting physi- ^ Professor Dumanois of Bucharest. ! cian. In a case of stricture of the â-  and urgcti him to give his frank : intestines, for instance, the iron; opinion on the quaility of her voice, j g^adu.^lIy settles at or near the and her future pi\>spects He test p«">int of obstruction. The same is ed her voice with great care, first ^ true where there are adhesions, with the simple scales, then with a I which have alwa.xs gi\en serious song, and lastly wirh an ojx-ratic ' perple.xity to the surgeon, aria. I The moment the magnet -s up- j When the trial was over, the pro-jplietl. the iron is. oftx>urse. attract-! fessor s.%id. "I cannot say that you ed with considerable force, and r have a wonderful voice. You sing i pushing against the interior wail of | fairly well, and with not a little the intestine, has a tendency to dis- , tend it. The operator is abl» to di- rect the "push " in tJie proper direc- tion. The effect being :o ciilate the stricture or release the adhesion. Dr. Payr points on. 'that, by means of this »imple mechanism, the intestines may '" e.xercised at will, thus greatl} strengthening tihem and conducing to health and long life in the patient. He has found in his v>t\»ctice that the whols digestive .system is to be very maler ially benefited by a judicious appH- catioq of ih.is treatment and feds quite pi^sitive that in the eloctro- uiagnel he has hit upon a most effl cient aid in the treatment vl th* whole long list ^.>f gastr.i it*Mati;ii«l maladi««. THE 1 AND OF HONEST MEN. No I.Kck-i on Rams or Hotel BcJ- rouiiis. A 'and of almost Utopian simpli- city is described by a writer in the Field who a year ago started on foot from Innsbruck and went by way of Laudeck to the Stelvio Pass, and back across the Tirol t.> Welsch- nofen One of tJie joys of a w;j!k :ig trip in Tirol, he says, lies in the friendship of tht'se e.xcceding'y .â- â€¢im- ple. honorable, and religious pea sauts. They le.ive their agricultural im- plements l.ving all night m the field, covered with a heavy cloth, for the dew is as dishonest among these holy mountains as elsewhere. They have no locks on tiieir barns. They lift a cross with a cry for prayers and tiie remembrance of God at every quarter of a mile. These cross- es m:irk the spot where some poor soul has died during the wild storms of winter. How tlreadfii! those tem- pests are can be judged from the fact that we found sl.\ such homely woo<leu monuments, not oue more than ten years ^Jd. within 'laif a mile. .\t l.ougarone- which is over the Italian border- we discovered that our chamber, the best in tlie inn. had it.s lock screwed on tops-y- turvy. ao that it could not be ta*- teneil. Out in the hallway I bellow- eil for Maria. She came, all sur prise. But the honorable Herr cannot have another bedroom with a better lock, tor that's the only lock in the hotel; the only one in the village. The laudlonl bouglit it because tlie forei^ers insisted, hut he had never seen a lock before. If the honorable Herr will wait un til tomorrow, perhaps -ah. but everyone in town knows the honor- able travellers are here ; e\eryx>ne knows that they go a long trip and must need much money. »«.> no one could be wicked enough to attempt t<> deprive the honorable Herr .^nd hi.s honorable Fran of a thing lliey need s,. much."' feeling. 1 mi^ht undertake to train you to sing in operetta: but to speak quite frankly, you haven't the looks for it.'' Up to this time the tejiciier had not known that the rank of the as- pirant was any higher than t!h«t of scores of other young ladies, equally ambitious, who const*ntly came to him. But his surprise was great when the lady handed him the visit- ing card of the ciueen, and he found that he had before bam no less a jiersonage than royalty itself. The queen t}ianked him heartily for the frank way in whidi he had judged her m\isical ability, and went home with h»r aiubiiiou in that <.rt\tion decidedly ilitninlvhecl. .Soldier a tiold Mine. Three SO- f ran? pj'd pieces have been e.\tracte<l from tJte skin of Pri- vate Bolse.v in a Paris hospital. .\ piece of shrapnel pierced the p«.<cket of another soldier, who had coins, and who vvas marching aheivd of Boisst-y. The shrapnel and the coins Uxlged in the leg of Boissey. who didn't have a cent on him l-efore he was wi>uiuled Where did Noah stri'Ke the first nail of the -Ark .'-On the he;td .\ British soldier in Belgium w-as one morning wending his way to •.amji with a fine rooster in his firms, when he ws« stopped by his (.\vloiiel u know if he had baen stealing' .hiokens. "Xo, Colonel, was the 'eply. ''I saw the old fel- low »iti..ig on the wall, and 1 or- dered him to crow for Kngland. and he wouldn't so I just took him pris»'ner." THE SDNDAYSCHOll STUDY INTERNATIONAI. LESjJOX. FEBBl ABV 14. Le»s!»a VII. .Samuel Called to B« » Prophet. I Sam. 1. 24-2S: t. (ioldeo Tevt. I. Sam. t. 9. Verse 1 . The child Samuel minis- tered unto Jehoviii before Eli. â€" Samuel, in ai pr*,b ability, wa* » Xazirite (see 1 Sam. 1. 11). He min- istered unto the pr.cst in the sense •)f aidiiig him iu t'ne divine services (see Num. 3. 6: h. £ii. His work was distinctly religious. .Vfter wards we read that be was lire seer whom Saul and his servant consulted in * private difficulty (see 1 Sam. 9. l«ff). He was aloo a priest is«-e I Sam. 9. 13). a judge (See 1 .Sam 12i, and a prophet (see 1 Sam. 15). Between Moses and the founding of the king- dom there was none like him. The Jewish historian Josephu* sayij that Samuel was twelve years old at the time c.f our lessuu. The word cf Jeheivah was precious in those days.â€" â- Precious*" meana "rare. â-  \o frequent visi-^n â€" That is. no widely spread or promulgated de- claration of God. i. His eyes had begun to wax dim.â€" Practically the same state- ment is made of Isaac in Gen. i7. I. 3 The teaip'e of Jehovah where the ark of God was. â€"Temple means tabernacle (.liee 1 Sara. 1. 9: Psa. o. T). 4. Here am I -This if a usual greeting when a summons is obeyed. It is used in responding to a call of the Deity a* well as to a call of man. It mean--. Here I am to submit myself :u your command'' (see Gen" *;. 1. T. 11: i'. 1. IS). There are many otlier such refer- ences 'u the Old Testament. 5-9. The persistence with whidk Samuel was called and. ako with' which he ran to Eli. thinking it waaf F^li who called liim. showed to th»' ageii prophet that Jehovah had ai message for the boy. One who hmi spent his life in serving God as Elii had would not mistake long the na- tu.-e of tiie call which came to Sam- uel. 10. Came and stood. â€" .\ personal presence is indicated, and ncH Af mere voice. See the incident ofi .\braham and Jehovah vGen. 19. ITj 20. 21. .33) and Gideon (Judg 6. U)., 11 Both the ears <.f every >>ne« that heareth it shall tingle.â€" Thi« e.\pre.s.sion occurs «.'nly three times in tlw Old Testament â€" liere and in 2 Kings i\ li and Jer. 19. 3. Jere- miah (7. l-Z. 14: 2B. 6. 9') compares the destruction of Jerusalem to Shi- k>h. So als«> does the writer of Psa. :s. 60-tJ4. li. All that I have sp.vken.â€" T5ii9 has referenL'e to 1 Sam i. i7-36. From the beginning even unt«> the end.-- That is. the destruction, will be thoroug'i and complete. 13. He restrained them u«.'t.- Eli did remonstrate v»ith his !!«.>ns for their iniquity (see 1 Sam. i. ii-io). He, however, did not remove them l'r«im office, and. as they did ik t re-! pent, K!i. in effect, became respon-' sibic for their wickedness. 19. Samuel grew.â€" (S<'» 1 Sam. 3. i\, *> This shows that he was young. It Ls interestirHT to make\ comparisons with this statement a^ to how Samuel grew before Jeho- vah, the statement made in Luk«i (i. hi) as to how Jesu>< grew. Let n^.ne of his words fall.â€" Onai rea.si'n why ."*atmiel grew when Je-i hovah was with him was because hei shapevl hi* life s. c'osely t«> the wUll of Jehovah 'ZO. From Dan even to Beer- shebaâ€" This phrase ai. pears first iih Judg. 20. I ; again in i Ram 17. U ; i4. 2. 15; 1 Kings 4. 2o. l)a:» was in tjjo extronie north and Beer- cheba was i-i the extrei^e south of the bordr'rs of Israel, and th.e state- ment Ls equivalent to our statement from Halifa.\ to V.incouver."" or â- from the I>akes to the Pacific." Not only distance, however, was in-l dicated by the phrase; .t had refer-) ence. als i, to the pe<^ple. From^' Dan to Rcer-xlicba meant â- allt Israel." Dr.ring the separation of the king<.i«>m the phrase was "froinj Geba to Reer-slicba (see 2 King«k' 23, ><). * Cook's Folly Legend. Oue of the most popular legends In the country is that lold iu connec- tion with Cook's KoUy. the residence, near Bristol. Kngland of the late Sir Herbert .\shman. The old tower which stands in tiie midst of the building was long years ago built by' a Mr. Cook for the preservation of his sou, whose death ly violence be- fore he reached bis rwâ- e7|ty-f^r^t birth-, day Had been f(>re;oUl by a gipsy. Tile boy spent many years In safety, .sh'it up in the tower: but on the morning of his iwenty-lirst birthday, when the anxious father' entered to release him. he v.-,is found dead from the bite of at; adder, v.bich bad been concealed in some faggots passed through a window on the previous evening for the lad's lire. Sauiniy was not proue to over-e.v- ertion iu the classroom; therefore his mother was both surpriseil and delighted when he came home one noon with the announcement; "I got 100 this morning. " â-  Tiiat's lovely, Sammy'" e.xclavmed hi^ proud mother, and she kissed him: tenderly. â- 'What was it inl" ' 7ifty in reatling and fifUy in 'rith-,' metic."' N •s. ;o . 2i o6( ' 2; .0 ft J & »: 5 I e I â- Â« • I .>» 1 I