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POSTMASTER-GENERAL BIS|
SELL ON HIS DEPARTMENT.
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Operation of a Great System?No Advantage
Derived From the Oeean
Mail Subsidies?A Deficit of Near.
ly Eight Million Dollars?World's
Fair; PostofTlce.
/ Tfcs flrst annuai report of Postmaster-General
Bissell, shows in the briefest space consistent
with a proper understanding of the
subjects treated, the operations of the department
during the last fiscal year.
i TL* financial statement shews that tho de
I ncieacv for tha year ended June SO, 1993,
F was do,177,171.74, instead of $1,552,423.17,
as estimated . <ind that, instead of a surplus
.?* of $872,245.71 for the current fiscal year, as
estimated, there will be an estimated deficiency
of $7,830,473.07. The Post'
master-General estimates the gross revenue
for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1895, at
$84.427.748.1-i. and the jjross estimated expenditures
at $90,399.485.33. leaving an estimated
deficiency of $5.971,7S6.89.which, howevar.
will be decreased $1,250,000 from funds
taken from the unpaid money order accounts.
Although there are ninety-three additional
pos:oCces now entitled to the free delivery
service, the arwence of appropriation for extension
renders impossible the establishment
of the system in even one of tbese towns.
auw i osimasier-u-enerai auopis rne rwuuimendations
previously made public adverse
to tho extension of the experimental free delivery
system. The estimated free delivery
deficiency amounts to $68,0S0.
' Claims for carriers' overtime, amounting
to nearly a million dollars, were on file in the
,department when Mr. Bissell assumed his
duties. Under his order of April 4, however,
postmasters have been held so strictly accountable
for tho time of their carriers that
the making of overtime has practically
ceassc*.
I The Postmaster-General suggests that
n^atul nntnc Kn ihnlia'naH nn/3 tViaf thu rohAQ
|/V>7VHi W Ilk/VIIOUVVIf UU>( WUUb kUU k l?L w
* charged foE;all domestic money orders should
/ be reduced 3ad the lorra of order simplified,
^ Great improvement is noticeable in the
Btar. railroad, and steamboat transportation
service, the length of routes being 453,332.83
miles. The amount disbursed for the transt
jportation of the mails was $43,597,997.55,
and the number of miles traveled 381,499,085.75.
The length of routes was
i Increased last year by 6,241.90 miles.
k The fast mail service between the
North and South has been recently
much enlarged, and the mail time between
She East and California has been materially
bortened. The Postmaster-General is in
iavor of the utilization of local electric car
lines lor mail transportation, and sav3 that
his desire is that wherever the general service
can be advanced use should be made of
rapid transit city and suburban car lines. He
pays particular attention to the railway
mail service, and tbw requirements ot
this year will, he estimates, call for an increase
of employes Irom 6643 men to 7000
men. Ha urges such legislation as will provide
a reasonable sum to be paid to the
Widows and miuor children of railway mall
clerks killed while on duty, and estimates
that $ZO,COO annually will be sufficient for
this purpose. He also recommends the formation
of an auxiliary corps of clerks.
Begar.ling ocean mail subsidy, the Post
master-General says tbat ne is unable to ascertain
that any positive advantages have accrued,
trom either a mail or commercial
point oi view, by reason of the contracts
thus far put in operation under the act of
March 3, 1891, and that therefore no
new contracts have been entered into.
The increased c03t of the conveyanf*
of ocean mails under this net forthe
years 189J, 181*4, 1395, and 18% (the last two
years estimated) will bo $4.250.404.52. He
says that the gains in the expedition of the
mails hav3 not been material, and the advantages
derived from the Government's control
of the ships are incommensurate with the
cost of SHTViCP.
The department carried last 802,000,000
pounds of second-class matter, an increase
of fourteen per c?!ht. Concerning.this the
Postmaster-General remarks that he is afraid
that this indicates not so much a healthy
growth in the jHiricdical literature ol t'-ia
country 03 tie ?-<:c?ss of ecterpnslng publishers
in securing the entry ! many publications
into this favored class that are not
really entitKd to the privilege.
The amount of free mail maiter delivered
last year weighed 87,000,000 pounds, the
total number of pieces aifgegating 467.356,
883. which, omitting newspapers and periodicals
mailed free in their respective counties
o. publication, and making no allowance
for oases where excess over single rates
might occur, wouldhave required, if charged
the 8'itre r.? private matter, $7,173,364 worth
of postage, this beingabout the amount ot
the average annual deficient. Mr. Bissell
says that the tlaancial depression greatly
diminished the volume of postal receipts.
The Posfmnqfpr-Oenprftl notes the imorove
ment in clerical service resulting from the
act at March 2, 18d9, which classified and
fixed the salaries ot clerks in the first and
second-clats offices, and urges an amend
ment by Congress by increasing the maxi
murr. salaries of certain classes in the clerical
service.
The Postmaster-General comments on the
necessity ol a new building for the depart-.
ment. the transactions of which are at present
conducted in seven different buildings,
for which the Government pas's annually
nearly -3o0,000 rental, only one being owned
Ly the Government.
The Postmaster-General makes special
mention of the needs of the ten larger Posto(flees
of the country, to wit, New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia. Boston, 8t. Louis,
Cincinnati, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Baltimore
:ind Pittahnru. which vield one-third of
the total postal revenue.
, Tan Postmaster-General expresses himself
as highly gratified at the most satisfactory
results shown from the model branch Postoffice.
which proved such a great attraction
and convenience to visitors at the World's
Fair. The.gro?s receipts during the six
mont hs of its continuance were $64,883.02. or
eqna! to the postal business of a city of 80.000
inli:vbitants. The total numbor of pleats
of mail matter handled was 15.178.313.
BIG FINANCIAL SUCCESS.
The Total Net Assets of the World's
Fair are $1,862,482.18.
The report of William K. Akormau, audi
tor of the World's Columbian Expositioa,
was officially sent to the Board of Directors.
That tbo Exposition was a financial success
is proven by the figures of the report. It
shows. by making an approximate estimate
Df the liabilities and receipts up to November
12, thnt the net assets over and above all
liabilities amount to $1,862,432.18. The
rerage daily receipts were ?S9,501, while
the daily expenses were $22,405.
The total expenditure* were $25,540,537.
The sate receipts were $10,626,330, and $8,699,581
were received from concession*.
Adding to this the capital stock ot $5,604.171,
and the City of Chicago's $5,000.000 m
bonds, the total receipts are given as $23,
10l.il*>.
The balance, as shown by the auditor, Is
?2,610,630, but from this amount are de'
ducted such obligations as are in sight, but
not included as any port of the expenditure
up to October 31.
These obligations, which are for salaries,
premiums, recoina^e of souvenir coids, ofHco
expenses, etc., make a total of $743,147.82.
This amount being deducted from the 42.610.630.
leaves the total net assets $1.SS2.48J.
A FUGITIVE KING.
I/O Bengula Fleeing Toward the Zambesi?The
War Over.
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A uespilkUU uuui xvnu, uuuiu auiutt,
Bays that the Matabele regiments have beet
oompletoly broken up. King Lo Bengula
has tied northward in the direction of the
Zambesi River. The despatch concludes by
declaring that the war between the Matabeles
and the British South Africa Company
is over.
Lo Bengula's regiments have dispersed,
and have sent their wives and cattle to the
hills. Only part ol the Bulawayo regiment
remained with the King, whose wagon is
, dragged by men, as they have no bullocks.
Major Forbes is starting with 200 men in pur-fait.
The Matabele are entirely broken up.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN" DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON
Subject: "A Hunting Scene.'1
Text - " In the morning he shall devour the
prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis xliz., 27.
A few nights ago 803 men encamped along
the Long Island railroad so as to be ready
for the next morning, which was the first
"open day" for deer hunting. Between sunrise
and 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that
day fifteen deer were shot. On the 29th of
October out woods and forests resound with
the shock of firearms and are tracked of
pointers and setters because the quail are
then a lawful prize for the sportsman.
On a certain day in all England you can
hear the crack of the sportsman's gun.
because grouse hunting has begun, and
every man that can afford tne time ana ammunition
and can draw a bead starts for the
fields. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard
to the art of hunting. In the far east people,
elephant mounted, chase the tiger. The
American Indian darts his arrow at the buffalo
until the frightened herd fall over the
rocks. European nobles are often found in
the fox chase and at the stag hunt. Francis
I was called the father of hunting. . Moses
declares of Nimrod, "He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord." Therefore, In all
ages of the world, the imagery of my text
ought to bo suggestive, whether it means a
wolf after a fox or a man after a lion.
Old Jacob, dyine, is telling the fortunes
of his children. He prophesies the devouring
propensities of Benjamin and his descendants.
With his dim old eyes he looks
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UU auu Oiroa bUW uuufcuto gvuif)
fields, ranging them all day, and at nightfall
coming home, the game slung over the
shoulder, and reaching the door of the tont
the hunters beginto distribute the game, and
one takes a coney, and another a rabbit, and
another a roe. "In the morning he shall devour
the prey, and at night he shall divide
the spoil. Or it may be a reference to the
habits of wild beasts that slay their prey and
then drag it back to the cave or lair and divide
it among the young.
I take my text, in the first place, as descriptive
of thosa p??ople who in the morning
of their life give themselves up to hunt
ing ine wona, out snerwuiu, uy tua (lawvi
God, in the evening of their life divide
among themselves the spoils of Christian
sharacter. There are aged Christian men and
women in this house, who. if they , gave testimony.
wonld toll you that in the morning of
fheJr life they were after the world aa intense
as a hound after a hare, or as a falcon
swoops upon a gazelle. They wanted the
world's plaudits and the world's gains.
Ihey felt that if they could get tills world
they would have everything. Some of them
started out for the pleasures of the world.
xney tnougnt mac tne man woo jsugueu
loudest was happiest. They tried repartee
and conundrum and burlesque and madrigal.
Thev thought they would like to be Tom
Hoods or Charles Lambs or Edgar A. Poes.
They mingled wine and muslo and the speotecular.
They w?*re worshipers of the harlequin,
and the Merry Andrew, and the buffoon,
and the jester. Life was to them foam
and bubble aud cachinnation and roystering
and grimaoe. They were so full of glee they
sould hardly repress their mirth even on solemn
occasions, and they came near bursting
out hilariously even at the burial because . .
there was something so dolorous In the tone
or countenance of the undertaker.
After awhile misfortune struok them hard
on the back. They found there was something
they could not laugh at. Under their
late hours their health gave way or there was
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H UHitlU ill LUC 1HJU-HT. VI DYDIJ
their soul was exfoliated. They found out
that life was more than a joke. From the
heart of God there blazed into their soul an
earnestuess they had never felt before. They
awoke to their sinfulness and their immorality,
and here they sit at sixty or seventy I
years of age as appreciative of all innocent
mirth as they ever were, but they ore bent
on a style of satisfaction which in early life
they never hunted?the evening of their days
brighter than the morning. In the morning
they devoured the prey, "but at night they
divided the spoils.
Then there are others who started out for
financial success. They see how limber the
rim of a man's hat is when he bows down I
before some one transpicuous.. They felt- <
they would use to see now me wona iookou
from the window of a $4000 turnout. They i
thought they would like to hare the morn- i
in.sc sunlight tangled in the headgear of a
dashing span. They wanted the bridges in
the park to resound" under the rataplan of
their swift hoofs. They wanted a gilded
baldric, and so they Started on the dollar
bunt. They chased it up one street and
chased it down another. They followed it
when it burrowed in the cellar. They treed
it In the roof.
Wherever a dollar was expected to be,
they were. They chased it across the ocean.
They chased it across the land. They stopped
not for the night. Hearing that dollar, even
in the darkness, thrilled them as an Adirondack
sportsman is thrilled at midnight by a
loon's laugh. They chased that dollar to the
money vault. They chased it to the Gov- i
eminent treasury. They routed it from
under the counter. All the hounds were out
?all the pointers and the setters. They i
leaped the hedges for that dollar, and they
cried: "Hark away! A dollar! A dollar!'
And when at last tney came upon it and had
actually captured it their excitement was
like that of a falconer who has successfully
flung his first hawk.
In tho morning of their life, ob, bow they
devour-*"* the prey! But there came a better
time to tneir sou;. Tney found oat that
an immortal nature cannot live on bank
stock. They took up a Northern Panifio
bond, and there was a hole in it through
which they could look into the uncertainty ?
of all earthly treasures. They saw some
Jttalstan, living at rne rate or a inuuiu,
leaping from a San Francisco wharf because
he could not continue to live at the same j
ratio. They saw the wizen and paralytic
banters who had changed their souls into
molten gold stamped with the Jmaate of the
earthy, earthy. They saw some great souls
by avarice turned into homunculi, and they
said to themselves, "I will saat after higher
treasure."
From that time they did not care whether
they waited or rode if Christ walked with
them: nor whether they lived in a mansion
or in a hut il they dwelt under the shadow
of the Almighty; nor whether thev were
robed in French broadcloth or in homespun
if they had the robe of the Saviour's rightoftmntwa
. ni\r if fhov ronrfl snnriAllnd with
morocco or calfskin if they were shod with
the prepuratiou of the Gospel. Now you see
peace on their countenance. Now that man
says. 'What a fool I was to tjo enchanted
with this world. Why, I have more satisfaction
In live minutes in the servioe of God
than I had in all the first years of iny life
while I was guingetting. I like this evening
of my day a great deal better than I did tho
morning. In the morning I greedily devoured
the prey, but now it is evening, and
I am gloriously dividing the spoil."
My friends, this world is a poor thin? to
hunt. It is healthful to go out in the woods
and hunt. It rekindles the luster of the eye.
It strikes the brown of the autumnal leaf into
the cheek. It gives to the rheumatic limbs
the strength to leap like a roe. Christopher
North's pet gun. tho muckle-mou'd Meg, going
off in the summer in the forest had its
echo in the wintertime in the eloquenoethat
rang through the university halls of EJInburgh.
It is healthy to go hunting in the
fields, but I tell vou that it is belittling and
bedwarflng and belaming for a man to hunt
this world. The hammer comes down on tho
guncap, and the barrel explodes and kills
you instead of that whioh you are pursuing.
When you turn out to hunt the world, the
world turns out to hunt you, and as many a
sportsman aimin? his gun at a panther's
h?art, has gone down under the striped
daws, so while you have been attempting
to devour this world the world has been devouring
you. So it wa3 with Lord Byron. '
So it was with Coleridge. So it was with
Catherine of Russia. Henry II. went out
hunting *or this world, and its lances struck
through his heart. Francis I. aimed at the
world, but the assassin's dagger put an end
to his ambition and his life at one stroke.
jjiary yueeu ui owis wrote uu mo wuiuuw
of her castle:
From the top of all my trnst
Mlehao hath laid me in th? dust.
The Queen Dowager of Navarre was offered
for nor weaaing aay a costly and beautiful
pair of gloves, and she put them on,but tnoy
were poisoned gloves, and they took her life.
Better a bare hand of cold privation than a
warm and poisoned glove of ruinous success.
I "Oh," says some young maninthe audience,
"I believe what you are preaching. I am
going to do that very thing. In the morning
of my lite I am going to devour the prey,
and in the evening I shall divide the spoils
of Christian character. I only want a little
while to sow my wild oats, and then I will
be good."
Young man, did you ever take the census
of all the old people? How many old people
are there in your house? One, two or none? !
How many In a vast assemblage like this? 1
Only here and there a gray head, like the J
patches of snow here and there In the fields ,
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on a late Apni aay. xuo mci ia wtu iub .
tides of the years are so strong that men go ,
down under them before they get to be sixty, j
before they cet to be fifty, before thoy get to j
be forty, before they get to be thirty ; and if ,
you, my young brother, resolve now that you ,
will spend the morning of your days in de- j
vourlng tho prey the probability is that you ,
will never divide the spoils In the evening ^
hour. He who postpones until old age the
religion or Jesus unrist postpones it iorever.
TX7Ka?.a fha rr\t*r\ txrhft thipfv VflftW affO.
fT UOJLD aiO VUW UIWU TT f ..... ?3_,
resolved to become Christians in old age,
putting it off s certain number of years?
They never got to be old. The railroad collision,
or the steamboat explosion, or the 1
slip on the ice, or the falling ladder, or the |
sudden cold put an end to their opportunities.
They have never had an opportunity
since, and never will have au opportunity
again. They locked the door of heaven 1
against their soul, and they threw away the
keys. They chased the world, and they died
in the chase. The wounded tiger turned on
them. They failed to take the game they
{mrsued. Mounted on a swift courser, they
eaped the hedge, but the oourser fell on
them and crushed them. Proposing to barter
their soul for the world, they lost both
and got neither.
While this is an encouragement to old Deoole
who are still unpardoned, it is no en
couragement to the young who are patting
off the day of grace. This doctrine that the
old may be repentant is to be taken cautiously.
It is medicine that kills or cures.
The same medicine given to different patients,
in one case it saves life and in the other it
destroys it. This possibility of repentance
at the close of life may cure tho old man
while it kills the young. Be cautious in taking
it
Again, my subject is descriptive of those
who come to a sudden and radical change.
You have noticed how short a time it is
from morning to night?only seven or eight
hours.' You know that the day has a very
brief life. Its heart beats twenty-four times,
and then it is dead. How quick this transition
in the character of these Benjamites!
"In the morning they shall devour the prey,
and at night they shall divide the spoils." Is
it possible that there shall be buch a transformation
in any of our characters? Yes. a
man may be at 7 o'clock in the morning an
all devouring worldling, and at 7 o'clock at
* ' - ? ..m /4]oiwiKnf{t/n
ni?Dt ae may u? a jjou^oiui uuiituuwTv
Christian.
Conversion is instantaneous. A man posses
into the kingdom of God quicker than down
the sky runs zigzag lightning. A man may
be anxious about his soul for a great many
years; that does not make him a Christian.
A man may pray a great while ;that does not
make him a Christian. A man may resolve
on the reformation of his character and have
that resolution going on a great while; that
does not make him a Christian. But the
very instant when he flings his soul on the
mercy of Jesus Christ, that instant is lustration,
emancipation, resurrection. Up to
that point he is going In the wrong direction
; after that point he is going in the right
direction. Before that moment he is a child
of sin; after that moment he is a child of
God. Before that moment devouring the
prey; after that moment dividing the spoil.
Five minutes is as good as Ave years.
My hearer, you know very well that the
best things you have done you have ddne in
a flash. You made up your mind in an instant
to buy, or to sell, or to invest, or to
stop, or to start If you had missed that one
chance, you woafd have missed it forever.
Now, just as precipitate and quick and spontaneous
will be the ransom of your soul.
Some morning yon were making a calculation.
You got on thetrack of some financial
or social game. With your pen or pencil you
were pursuing it. That very morning you
were devouring the prey, but that very night
you were In a different mood. You found
that all heaven was offered you. You wondered
how you could get it for yourself and
for your family. You wondered what resources
it would give you now and hereafter.
You are dividing peace and comforts and satisfaction
and Christian reward in your soul.
You are dividing the spoil.
One Sabbath night at the close of the service
I said to some persons, ''"When did you
first become serious about your soul?" And
they told me, "To-night.' And I said to
others, "When did you give your heart to
Qod?" And they said, "To-night." And I
said to still others, "When did youresolveto
serve the Lord all the days of your life?"
And they said, "To-night." I saw by the
Kayety of their apparel that when the grace
of God struck them they were devouring the
prey, but I saw also in the flood of joyful
tears, and in the kindling raptures on their
brow, and in their exhllarant and transport
ing utterances, tnat tney were amaing cue
spoil. ?
If you have been in this building when the
lights are struok at night, you know that
with one touch of electricity they ore all
blazed. Oh, I would to God that the darkness
of your soul might be broken up, and
that by one quick, overwhelming, instantaneous
flash of illumination you might be
brought into the light and the liberty of the
sons of God!
You see that religion is a different thing
from what some of you people suppose. You
thought it was a decadence. You thought
religion was maceration. You . thought it
was highway robbery; that it struck one
down and left him half dead; that it plucked
out the eyes; that it plucked out the plumes
of the soul; that it broke the wing and
crushed the beak as it came clawinj? with its
black talons through tho air. No, that is not
religion.
What Is religion? It Is dividing the spoil.
It is taking a defenseless soul and panoplying
it for eternal conquest. It is the distribution
of prizes by the king's hand, every medal
Stamped with a coronation. It is an exhilaration,
expansion. It is imparadisation. It
is enthronement. Religion makes a man
master of earth, of death and hell. It goes
forth to gather the medals of victory won by
Prince Emanuel, and the diadems of heaven,
and the glory of realms terrestrial and celestial,
and then, after ranging all worlds, for
everything that is resplendent, it divides the
spoils.
What was it that James Turner, the famous
English evangelist, was doing when in
his dying moments he Bald : "Christ is all:
Christ is all?" Why, he was entering into
lijcht. He was rounding the Gape of Good
Hope. He was dividing the spoil. What
was the agod Christian Quakeress doing
when at eighty years of age she arose in the
meeting one day and said: '-The time of my
departure is come. My grave clothes are
falling off?" She was dividing the spoil. j
She longed with wings to fly away <
And mix witn that eternal day. ,
WTiat is Daniel now doing, the lion tami?r, i
and Elijah, wno was drawn by the flaming j
coursers, and Paul, the rattfinsc of wcose |
chains made kings quake, and all the otlier |
victims of flood ana lire and wreck and nuil- ,
lotine?where are they? Dividing the apod. ,
Ten thousand times tea thousand, (
In sparkling raiment bright, ,
The armies or the ransomed nalnM
Throng up the steeps of ll^at.
Tls finished, all U finished,
Their tight with death nml sin. 1
Lift high your golden gated <
And let the victors in.
Oh, what a grand thing it is to be a Chris- j
tian! We begin now to divide the spoil, but t
the distribution will not bo completed to all j
eternity. There Is a poverty struck soul, c
there is a business despoiled' soui. mere is a f
sin struck soul, there is .1 bereaved soul? j'
why do you not come and get the spoils of N
Christian character, the comfort, the joy, the
peace, the salvation that I am senttoofTei
you in my Master's name? j
Though your knees knock together in y
weakness, though your hand tremble in j
fear, though your eyes rain tears of uncon- [
frollable weepinir?come and j?et the spoil.
Rest for all tne weary. Fardon for all the v
guilty. Rescue for all the bestormed. Life
forall the dead. I verily believe that there
are some who have come in here downcast
because tho world ts against them, and boaause
they feel God is against them, who
will go away saying: ?
1 came to Jesus as iwiw,
Weary and worn and sad. <
I found In Him a resting place, <
And Ho has made mo glad.
Though you came in children ofthe world, j
Vou may go away heirs of heaven. Though j
this very autumnal morning you were de- ?
touring the prey, now, all worlds witnesst
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Ui?, J Uti ixiuy uiviun mo
tneap i'outcs.
Th? Indians in sorao parts of Oregon nrb
offering ponies for sale at from $2.50 to $7 a
piece. The high water prevented the iisuftl
run of salmon in the big rivers and this has
meant a great loss to the Indians, many being
practically ruined tharebv.
RELIGIOUS JIEADING.
THE NEW A.ND LIVING WKf.
rn.^?4-,v * ?.?? ef Vila ncAmiat) hv tlflfl
? um^tcu iAJ UlObl. UOl UU) ^tvuitov ~ J
jverwhelming sense of our unworthiness.and
inclined to hide away in shame, instead of
Irawing near to Chriat with boldness, that we
may lay hold on the horns of the altar, his
svords of encouragement come like the whispers
of ministering spirits sent from heaven
to the heirs of salvation, and tell us that a
new and living way has been opened,through
the blood of Jesus, even to the golden gates
Df glory, and the throne that is prepared for
us, with a crown upon it and a harp reclining
by its side. Giving to the winds our fears we
may draw nigh and present our petitions at
the mercy seat; Jesus our great High Priest
will take it, sprinkle it with his own'blood,
the blood he shed on Calvary, and lay it be
tore the eternal throne! That petition 'will
not be slighted or scorned, or buried beneath
a host of others and forgotten. He who
Bents it will plead his own merits as the
ground of its acceptance, and he never pleads
in vain.
0 did we feel when we come to the foot
stool of sovereign grace, to offer up our desires
to God, how very undeserving we are
of the biasings we ask but how willing God
is to give them for Christ's sake, there would
be confident joy in prayer, such as now we
feel not. We may close our petitions by
saying for Christ's sake, but do we place all
our expectations of an answer on the ground
that there is a mediator between God and
man. the man Christ Jesus?that he has merits.
though we have n.:ne?that he hath righteousness
which imputed unto us becomes our
only, yet our all sufficient commendation to
divine" regard??Do we recognize the covenant
between the father and son, by which
Christ becomes our surety, and makes us
certain of obtaining all the mercy and grace
we need: even freedom, peace, sanctiflcation
and life eternal. God is faitniul ana just to
forgive; faithful to his promises, and just to
his son whose death has purchased our salvation,
and made us joint Ijeirs with hlmsell
to crowns immortal, and glory that fadetb
not away. We come as beggers, feeling that
God will help us because we are beggers?
needy and perishing. 80 we are; but we are
sinners too, deserving to starve and die. II
we are fed and clothed, and brought into the
banqueting house, and made to sit down witb
the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty,
this infinite grace will be extended, for the
sake of Him, to whom his people were given
in an everlasting covenent, and who no*
liveth to make intercession for us, a Priest, ?
High Priest, a Great High Priest, Jesus the
Sou of God, who hath passed into the
heavens.
TWO THOUGHTS ON PBAYEE.
Tho first is. Christians ought to pray foi
Christ's sake.
The French, particularly his army, ta<?
great attachment to Bonaparte. Said he, ,4A?
Areola, when I was advancing, Col. Meuren,
aid-de-camp, threw himself before me,
covered me with his body, and received the
wound which was destined for me. He fell
at my feet, and his blood spouted up in my
face. He gave his life to preserve mine."
What, then, should not the Christian
soldier be willing to do for Christ, the captain
of his salvation, leading him cn to no
dubious victory?
"Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer though they die;
They see the triumph from afar,
By faith thoy bring it nigh."
The second thought is, Christians should
pray for the sake of the church.
During the journeyof thelsraelites through
the wilderness, Amaiek came out to light witt
them Moses committedlhe army to the command
of Joshua, and himself, Aaron anc
Hur went up to the top of the hill to pray.
When, through weariness, the hands of Moset
hung down. Amaiek prevailed; but when
raised, Israel prevailed; so Aaron and Hut
stayed up his hands till the discomfiture 0/
Amaiek.
The application of this Is as easy as it i.'
besutifuL Israel and Amaiek represent tli?
church and her enemies. Hoses represent;
the minister of the gospel. Aaron and Hflr,
his official and lay members. If, thorefore,
the preacher lift his hands in prayer to GocJ
and bis church sustain them tnen, they wifi
prevail over all opposition; live, flourish, and
Increase, both in grace and numbers. But If,
through weariness and discouragement, the
pjreacher's hands droop, and are not supported
by his chvrrcb, !the enemy wiU prevuiL
"Restraining prayer. we eease to fight:
Trayor makes the Christian's armor bright.
And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees."
"Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lore
Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of th*
Spirit, that ye strive together with me. in you)
prayers to God forme."?[Zion's Herald,
ONE THINO IS NEEDFtJL.
So spake Divine Wisdom. And is there bu
one thing needful? Most people think thej
need a great many things. But Christ says
one thing is needful. What, then, is that on<
thing? Is It riches? A man may De ncn today
and poor, tomorrow. Is it fine clotheai'Th*
gayest little girl is not half so finely clail as
the butterfly, which sports its brief day ir
sunshine, and is gdne. Is it a groat name'/?
A sculptor engraved his name on a marbh'
statue, that it might be s*>en by generations
to come. His work remains, but his name h
rubbed off, and no one knows who chiseled
out the beautiful statue. But one thing yov
may have and it will secure to you riches tha)
will endure forevor; it will clothe you ir
white raiment; it will write your name witb
indellible ink^in the Book of Life.
"But how shall I get the one thinp needful?"
You must do as Mary did: sit at the feet
of Jesus. He bids you welcome. He knows alJ
your difficulties, doubts, and fears. You may
be afraid to speak to your minister, or eveD
to your father and mother, about your religious
feelings; but you need not fear to go to
Jcsns, and tell Him all. He will not say you
am too young. There were some who forbade
the little children to come unto Him; but he
said,"forbid them not." He is the Saviour of
all?of children as well as of grown persons.
He was once hlmsnlf a child, and -knows
how vou feel. He died for von. All voursins
h<j can take away. He can give you all needful
grace. If you have Him for your Friend,
you will have the one thing needful; for He
Is all. Every good thing is comprehended in
His favor and blessing.
?OST I>* SIOHT OF HOME.
A few months ago, during one of the severe
storms that visited Colorado, a young
man perished iu sight of home. In his bewilderment
ha pusasd and repassed his own
cottage, to lie down and die almost in range
with the '-light in the window," which hi."
young wife bad placed there to guide him
home. Ail alone, she watched the lone night
:hrough, listening in vain for the footsteps
:bat would come no more; for, long before the
morning dawned,the icy baud of death bud for3ver
stilled the warm, loving heart. The sad
ieath was made still sadder by the fact that he
was lost iu sight of home, lost wheu he had all
nost reached tho haven of safety and rest.
Urttir mnnv wrn mlorurc frr\m flia 17 m fh ?-** * a
louse are lost in Sight of home, in the full
flare or the Gospel light! They have the
jpen Bible, overflowing with its calls and
'romisea, the faithful warnings from the sa:red
desk, the manifestations of God's Providence,
all tending to direct their steps heavsnward;
and yet they turn away, waiting for
he more convenient season, and are lost at
ast in sight of the many mansions.?[Forvard.
Tlio religion that fanr-ies it loves God, and
et does nothing to help its brother and
ivinces no love for its brother, is not piety,
t may bo a dogma with a worm in Its heart,
f you love God you will love your fellownen.
If you love God you will setsk to adanro
His kingdom.?Itav. W. K. Chaplin.
Victims of the Big Storm.
Now that the casualties of the Louisiana
storm have bean footed up it is found that
fr,? i^ru.. .f th*? drfima wprrt
. olored people. The Acadian/*. whom Loiifffellow
immortalized in "Evangeliup," outnumbered
all other races, but there was a
ar.^c admixture ot Austriana, Creoles, Islin^ues,
Italians, Maulllameu. Chinese and
Spaniards in tho list of the dead.
Advised to Hold Their Wheat.
A circular to the farmers of the Northwest
has been issued from Pierre. S. D., advising
them to hold back their wheat that they may
reap the advaut3ge of anticipated high
prioes owing to the reduoed crop in this
t-ountry and abroad.
SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
DECEMBER 17.
Lesson Text: "The Glorified Saviour,"
Rev. I., 9-20?Golden
Text: Phil. 11., 0?Commentary.
S. "I, John, who also am your brother and
companion in tribulation and In the kingdom
and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle
that is called Patmoe, for the word of Ood
. and for the testimony of Jesua Christ." De
vuuwy grataim ior me privilege 01 two lessons
la this most wonderful book of *11 the
66. fall not to notice its name In verse 1,
"The Bevelatlon of Jesus Christ," And remember
that a revelation is no longer a
mystery, but a mystery unfolded. Consider
also in verse 3 the special blessing upon all
who read or hear the tfords of this book.
Observe that Joha was In banishment for
Jesus's sake because of the word of God,and
If you believe all that word to-day and are
faithful in testimony you will' find yourself
exiled by many. You will, however, have
blessed company; only be patient and wait
for the kingdom.
10. "I was in the Spirit of the Lord's day
and heard behind me a great voice as of a
trumpet." In the Spirit, led by the Spirit,
taught by the Spirit, filled with the Spirit,
are some of theprivileges of every child of
God, and only by the Spirit can we know
God or His word. Compare Acts vill., 29;
xtil.. 2, 4; rvi., 6, 7; Ez. xi., 1,24. The
Lord's day may refer to the first day of the
' week, or it may mean that John was by the
Spirit carried forward and caused to behold
the events of the day of the Lord so often
mentioned in the Old Testament.
1L "Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the
first and the last, and what Thou seest write
in a book and send It unto the seven churches
which are in Asia." The voice, then, was
the voice of the Lord Himself, who thus came
to His dear servant exiled for His sake. He
is A and Z and all between ; there Is nothing
that letters can spell which He will not be to
His people. > As to "first and last" compare
verse 17 and see Isa. xli.,4; xliv., 6; xlviii,
12 ; Rev. 22, IS, and let Him be first and last
with you in all things. Learn also from the
vorae that what we see and hear of God is to
be passed on to others (Ezek. ill 10,11: Bev.
x.. 10,11).
12. "And I turned to see the voice that
spoke with me. And being turned I saw
seven golden candlesticks." If. John had not
heeded the voice and turned ttvsee, he had
missed this great sight. It was only when
the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see
that God called unto him out of the midst of
the bush (Ex. ill., 4). I doubt not that we
would see and hear more of God if we were
more ready to heed His slightest call and see
His hand in every event The seven candlesticks
are explained in verse 20.
13. "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks
one like unto the Sou of Man, clothed
with a garment down to the foot and girt
about the paps with a golden girdle." The
phrase "In the midst" is very suggestive of
Him who is always in the midst when we
meet in name (Math, xvlii., 20) and who was
in the midst on Calvary for ns. He is our
High Priest, as indicated by the garment, and
is still the girded one on our benalf, for He
ereroareth for us and maketh intercession
for us.
14. "His head and his hairs were white
like wool,' at> white as snow,. and his eyes
were as a fla'meof Are." His head is suggestive
of the Internal purity of all Bis
thoughts, or perhaps that He Is the Ancient
of Days (Dan. vii., 9), whoee goings forth
have been from of old from everlasting (Mic.
v., 2). As to His eyes, see also chapters ii.,
18; xlx., 12, and remember that all things
are naked and open to the eyes of Him with
whom we have to do (Heb. lv., 13).
15. "And His feet like unto fine brass, as
If they burned in a furnace, and His voice as
the sound of many waters." Compare as to
His feet Dan. x., 6; Bev 1.. 7 ; tney may suggest
His judging righteously, and also His
righteous goings. As to His voice like many
waters, oompare Ezek, L, 24; xiiii., 2, and
Bev. xvil., 15; the idea seems to be set forth
1 in these verses as the voice of a host of peo!
pie.
. 16. "And He had In His right hand seven
stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp
two edged sword, and His couhtenance was
as the sun shineth in His strength." The
stars are explained in vfise 20, but whether
jastor or teacher or humbie believer we ace
in His hand from which no power can pluok
us (John x., 27.28). He also holds us as
lights in His hand to shine for Him (Phil. iL,
15, 16). Not only is His word a sharp sword,
but He will make cur mouths a sharp sword
(Heb. iv., 12;Iso. xlix.,2). His countenance
reminds us o; the transfiguration, and suggests
the coining glory (Math, xvil., 2; xlli.,
43).
17. "And when I saw Him I fell at His
feet as dead, and He laid His right hand upon
me, saying unto me: Fear not; I am the
first and the last" Over sixty years before
Tnhn had latrnad unon His bosom and had
also seen Him transfigured, bat this Is too
much lor him. It reminds us of Isu. vl., 5;
Dan. x., 8; Job xllin 6. But although Ha
has been over sixty years glorified He is the
very same Jesus, and so graciously laying
His loving hands upon His servant He utters
the old familiar "Fear not." See Gen. rvM
1; Isa., xli., 10,13; Joel it, 26 ; Dan. x., 12,
10; Luke v., 10; Mark v., S^jnta.
18. "Iran He-thinf livethand vraadfefcd. and
behold I am alive forevsrmoro, amen, and
have the keys of hell and of death." With
more light than Job had wo oan say, "My
Redeemer iiveth" (Job xlx., 25). He is my
Ufa fClaL 1L.20 : Col. lit.. 4: Phil. i.t 21). A
lire that no power-can touoh and not even
the destroyer destroy. Not even death and
hades can claim a body or a spirit without
His permission, and the time is coming when
death must surrender every -body and hadea
every spirit at His command (chapter xx.,
13).
19. "Write the things which thou hast
aeen, and the things which are, and the
things which shall be hereafter." Here is the
threefold division of the book, if I understand
it: Chapter i., the things whioh thou
hast seen; chapters ii., ill., the things whioh
are; chapters iv,, to xxli., the things which
shall be hereaftor. Notice chapter iv., 1, the
last clause. Nothing is received merely for
ourselves. All is to bo written or spoken for
the benefit of others.
20. "The seven stars are the angels of the
seven churches, and the seven candiesticKs
which thousawest are seven churches." This
confirms His words in Math, v., 14, ''Yeare
the light of the world," and takes us back to
the candlesticks of the tabernacle and temple,
but especially to the peculiar self supplying
or constantly supplied candlestick of
Zech. lv., with its two olive trees, suggestive
of Christ, our Priest and King, and its wonderful
central thought, ''Not by might nor
by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of
Hosts." Both individually and collectively
we shall shine for Christ only as we rejoice
in Him as our Priest and acknowledge Him
as our King, believing that He is ever in our
midst.?Lesson Helper.
Injgcnluus foutto Smuggling,
Two carloads of potatoes, COO bushels In
each, were recently seized by customs officer*
at Boston. They cam? over the
Boston and Main*, and. it is alleged, were
smuggled from Grand Falls. N. B. Om
load was consigned to a Boston firm and another
to a firm in Worcester. Tne potatoes
ware sent by James McClosky, who keep3 a
' line store" on the Canadian border, onebalf
of his place being in the United States
And the other on the Canadian side.
Part of the potatoes in question wore
grown in Maine and were taken across the
border to tho Canadian Pacific Railroad to
be shipped into tho Status. They are examined
by tho inspector on the line and a
pas* is given by him to the shipper, which
Is presented to another inspector at Vanceboro.
the port o:! entry into the United
States.
It is alleged that when the goociS are in
foreign terrVrv, and about to bo placed o^
ihe cars ai^-rand Falls, many bushels of
potatoes of foreign product are mixed with
???'1 ?o ? ????nit1* tU air n ytx oanf fhrrttiorh
liiuillf auu ao u iwuii. kuwj u?v pvu?
on the past} pi van the shipper, free of duty,
us Maine potatoes. This mode of smuggling
lias been going on lorsomo time, and the
officers have kept a sharp lookout for
evidence as tt the mixing at Grand Falls.
Stock Killed by Bears.
The settlers and ranchmen in the vicinity
of Owen, Wyo., complain that stunk is killed
in great numbers by bear?. Hunters are not
after these animals, as three is no bounty for
killing them.
Severe on l'oacuers.
Poachers who aro caught witnin ninety
miles of theKomaudorski Islands, oil the Siberian
coast, may expect sixteen months in
the Siberian min?s.
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TEMPERANCE.
JOHX BABLKYCOBX.
Oh. Barleycorn. John Barleycorn,
You make a fellow pose
Most picturesque while you adorn
With sunset tints his nose,
But while he mourns for his last dime
You keep in spirits all the time!
Ob, Barleycorn, John Barleycorn,
You promise joy and bliss,
But your delights are in a horn
And mostly go amiss;
* Of all deceivers you stand first,
The blackest, blandest and the worst!
Oh, Barleycorn, John Barleycorn,
The matter I've revolved,
And I declare, this blessed morn,
Our partnership dissolved;
You are a fraud?I've proved it so,
And that is all I want to know.
?M. M. Folsom, in Atlanta Journal.
Tiuimu AJiLI OAI lLUt
A young man sat one day at a hotel table
with a gentleman and a lady friend, for
whom he felt the greatest respect. The
waiter said to the gentleman: "Will you
have some pudding with -wine sauce?"
"Yes," was the answer. The young man's
craving for strong drink was aroused at the
mention of the wine sauce, and he was also
about to reply affirmatively to the waiter's
question, whun his lady friend quickly said:
"Pudding, irithout wine sauce, if you
please." "Without (wtne sauce," came the
young man's reply. Afterward, in the par*
lor, he said to her; "I. want to thank you
for doing me a great- favor." She looked
astonished. "You do.' not know what it
meant to me when you said at the dinner
table, 'Pudding without wine sauce, if you
please.'" He then told her his struggle
against strong drink and how near he nad
come to falling, saved only by her timely ex
umpio.?now iorn xivaugtu nuu ouuuam
Outlook.
WATEB IX8TEAD OF WHI8KT. /
The Pittsburg Dispatch quotes an eminent
physician, Dr. R. H. Dalton. as recommending,
on the ground of health, the methodical
use of "cold water" as a beverage, and
as saying that It will prove the means of
augmenting the ohance of longevity; that It
is ot a soundly physiological origin, and Is
well supported by experience. Dr. Dalton
says that solid and dry as the human body
appears, water constitutes more than one
fourth its bulk, and all the functions of life
are really carried on in a water bath, and although
the sense of thirst may be trusted to
call for a draught of water when required,
the fluid can be imbibed advantageously for
many reasons besides merely satisfying .
thtrst. He maintains that the habit of drinking
water In moderate quantities between
meals contributes to health, and Indicates
the fact that those who visit health resorts
for the purpose of imbibing the wazers of
mineral springs, might profit by staying'at
home and drinking more water and less
whisky. If Dr. Dalton is right, there Is certainly
no need of rosorttng to alcoholio
beverages of any kind.?National Temperance
Advocate.
igkobasct a1td tjulchiho.
No boy expects to become a drunkard
when he begins to drink. In fancied security
youth ofgeneration after generation have
embarked in the current of tlppllrfg only to
v. *ka mnija a# an/)
UO UXttWU iUlU bUC id^lUO %Jl a|/pvUio OUU uiially
plunged over the awful abyss of drankenness.'
To prevent this and thus save the
childhood ot to-day and the- Nation of tov
morrow for an Ixit9illgt>ni/'iobrf0ty, is the
first object sought by what are called the
temperance education laws already enacted
by the National Congress for schools under
Federal control and by thirty-six out of fortyfour
States that constitute the United States.
In these schools are the overwhelming majorities
of the future, the law-making power
of to-morrow.
Every year's experience and observation
strengthens the faith in the prophecy that
ten years from the day when physiological
nmrwnMiiw to m thnranirhiv taiiffht in all the
schools as geography and arithmetic the alcohol
question will be settled sad settled
aright in this Bepablic by popular intelligence
with corresponding habits. Hard, Indeed,
must bo the neart of the minor woman
who could deliberately withhold the utmost
Earning soienoe 'has ^gainst strong drink
afid other narcotics fromtthe Children under
his or her care. w '
7BOK *188 KILLABD8 AHXUAL ADDRESS.
Everything is not in the Temperance Reform,
but the Temperance Reform should be
in everything.
The temperance cause started out well
nigh alone, but mighty forces have joined us
in the long march. Science has oome up
with its glittering contingent, political economy
displays its legions, the woman question
brings an Amazonian army upon the field,
and the stout ranks of labor stretch away as
far as the eye can reach.
The church that within the next generation
opens widest doors of ecclesiastical freedom
to women will be the church of Gospel
triumph and heavenly benediction.
The great world brain is becoming satu?
?I*V. tt la KuunnAhlA and
I 11UCU YT JfcJU IUO tuoa kuub ?? M * ?,?
kind to let strong drink alone.
The high caste Hindoos have received the
once, but they have learned that the Salvation
Army is teetotal, and for this reason
they think more highly of Its members than
of any other religious soct that comes to
them from the West.
Only as the outcome of onr Christian profession
tends toward the greatest uplift and
truest happiness of man, woman and child,
does it deserve the credence of the world;
we must not forget that under its aegis to-day
are sheltered the liquor traffic, the opium
trade and the protection of impurity by law.
Therefore the enlightened Christian wilL
have a part of his working creed in these enlightened
days, this prayer:
"Ob. freedom, deepen thou a grave,
Where every king und every slave
Shall drop In crown and chain,
Till only man remain."
Whoever Jaugbe at a total abstainer shows
himself lacking in a clear mind as well as a
good heart, for to take such a precaution on
one's .aooount as a . matter of prudence is
surely conformable to reason, and to take it
in order to moke it easier for others to do
the same is conformable to t|ke Ooiden Rule
and the highest dictates of brotherhood.
. The world owes no man a living, but it
does owe him the Work by which he may
live in a helpful and bouorablefashion.
We shall reap what we have sown, and we
must sow the principles of brotherhood if
we would reap the socialism of the Oospel.
If we have any justice it behooves us to
look into the cause, and not deal forever
and a day with the effects of tho liquor
traffic, and with these alone. '
TSXTEBANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
" * ..... xl_
Aiaaarao Antoinene Bierung, iuo cciw:
brated vocalist, Is a rigid teetotaler.
Out of 4030 criminals convicted in Canada
during the last year, it is reported that but
132 were total abstainers.
Most ot the Canadian provinces, Swedon,
Natal in South Africa, and Finland, hava
scientific temperance instruction laws.
Scientific temperance text-books have been
translated into the Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian,
Japanese and Chinese languages.
The applications to the Boston Associated
Charities last year show that twenty-two per
cent, of the causes of Ulnes* were intemperwice.
A Congregational Temperance Association
has been formed in Ireland, with the Rev.
Newman Hall, a nephew of Dr. Newman Hall,
as secretary.
The Army Temperance Association, of India,
had in August a roll ot 23,861 members,
all of whom, except the honorary members,
are total abstainers.
Tim Ttritiah Wnmmi's Tnmnemnne Associa
iion will make an effort during the next few
weeks to obtain a largely signed petition from
women of the Direct Veto.
Francis Murphy, the temperance agitator,
is arousing the old-time interest in his work
at Decatur, HI., ami other towns in tho
neighborhood, tie is assisted by his wife
and son.
Richard Cobden said '"Every day's experience
tends more and more to jeonflrm me
in my opinion that tho temperanor" oause lies
at the foundation of all social and political
reform."
Cardinal Manning sal a "rreveniion onntomperance
is not only better than euro, but
prevention is a duty, and cure is a lame,
halting attempt to undo an evil which we
have willfully permitted.
The half measures used to control the
drink traffic in India havinsy proved a failure,
a call for the organization of a Prohibition
League has been Issued by a number of mis?
slonaries and doctors.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
HOA8T TUBSXT. 3)
Select fat hen weighing from ten to;
thirteen pounds. Si&ge, draw and
; li :il _ J ? T?
VTIJJC WCU WiUI tft uttiup U1UI/14* AS VUW-I
ting to remove the crop, cui the skin I
on the back of the neck, taka oat the
crop and cat the neck off aft near the j
breast bone as possible. In this cati-1
ty pat two tablespoonfuls of cieasing.!
Sew np the skin on the back of the* : Ij
neck and fold it over that the treartj
may look plump and onbrokea. Putthe
remainder of the dressing in th*.
body, sew up the vent, and tra:s thai
turkey. Lard the breast and legs, or
put the surplus fat taken from the inside
of the turkey over them. HW
the oven verv hot at firBt. Dut in ib* t
turkey, and when it has cooked tax
fifteen minnteg, jput one oup of boil- . ;M
ing water in the pan. Boast ten minutes
to the pound, basting every fifteen
minutes. Do not add any mote
water unless absolutely necessary, as
the turkey should be basted with its
own dripping.?New York World,
CHBIOTMA8 FLTTM PUDDING.
Pick and seed very carefully one
pound and a quarter of the best layer ':S;
i raisins, which put in a large bowl with , ?#
I one pound of currants, well washed, .
| dried and picked; one pound of kidney
suet, chopped not too fine; two ounqea
each of candied lemon, orange and
citron peel, six ounces of the be; titanr*
half a pound of fine bread crumba,
half a pound of brown sugar, the grated
I rind of a lemon, a saltspoon of salt
and a grated nutmeg. Moisten the
whole with eight eggs, the yolks and
whites beaten separately, and enough .
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mux to i or in a very bvui uabi/er. niwu v v;
all these ingredients are thoroughly
mixed, an operation which will take
the time and patience of several persons,
pour into a cloth, which should
be well battered and floured. The
best pudding cloths are those made
out of thin unbleached muslin; they . N
should always be scalded with boiling
water and wrung as dry as possible 1 |8
before using. It is always well to lay WM
the cloth, after it has been prepared,
in a large bowl, and pouring the padding
batter into the oloth and holding
the corners tightly together tie firmly
with a piece of strong, white oord. If
desired this padding may be boiled in
a plain or ornamental pudding moald;
well butter the interior, pour the mixture
into it, cover with a sheet of good'
white note paper, tie the mould in a
cloth, plunge it in a kettle of V, '
water and let it boil quite fast for foaj
hours and a half. Of course, some el*
lowancte must be made for the pudding
to swell. If boiled in a cloth htfe oa
the range a large pot, three-quarters
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1U11 Ut UIIUUJ willilg nant, luau ? - , pat
your padding, move it aboat in
the -water for a second or two; thia '
may easily be done by keeping the ,
corners of the cloth free of the boiling
water for the time required, then cover
the pot closely and allow your pudding
to boil steadily for four or five
hours, being careful not to allow it to
Stop DOUing even ior a moment, ouv
will your labor have been in vain. II
is well to keep your teakettle boiling, .
that yon may have water to add to the
pot in which the padding is boiling,
and under no consideration must it bit ' %
allowed to boil dry. When you an
ready to serve the pudding, remove if
carefully into a large colander, untie
the cloth and turn the pudding out oo
a hot dish. It should be perfect is
shape and rich and dark in color.
Sprinkle with a little powdered sugar, V%$jj
stick a sprig of holly'in the ccnter and '''M
send to the table with either a hard a*
a soft saace.?St. Loais Bepublic.
HOME-MADE CANDT.
Here are some home-made candy re
ceipts wnicn nave au Deen triea win
satisfactory results. Most of them
| were "given away" by a celfebrate^
French confectioner.
Almond Taffy?Boil together half *
pint of water and a pound of brown
sugar for ten minutes. Blanch and V,
slice through the middle one and on*
half ounces of almonds. Stir them is
the syrup with two ounces of butter.
Let the mixture boil hard for ten
minutes. Pour on a well-buttered _ ?
dish to the thickness of half au inch.
Chocolate Caramels?Four cupful*
of granulated sugar, one-half cupful
of butter, one-half cupful of cream, *
one-third of a cake of chocolate
(grated); must all be put in a shallow
| pa p. and cooked from twenty to tnirtj
I minutes. When nearly done add twc
tablepoonfuls of vinegar. Stir m
I little as possible while cooking; try ,x
from time to time, pour out into battered
pans, and when partly cool cut into
small squares. These shouldbe . ...\
| fine.
I Everton Tafiy?Put a pound ol
brown sugar in a buttered pan, to- , . '. !%
gether with three tablespoonfuls of
water. Let it boil until it becomes ?
smooth, thick syrup. Add half a pound
| of butter, stirring well. Let this boil
I half an hour. Add lemon flavoring.
1 ? - - - - .? ,
Butterscotch?use tnree teacuprois
J of New Orleans molasses, two cupfule
of granulated sugar, three-quarters of
a cupful of butter and a very little
water. Cook quickly?about twenty
minutes. Try a little in cold water to
see when it becomes crisp. Just before
taking up add one-third of a teaspoon- '
ful of baking soda well mashed and
smooth. Pour into buttered tins and
cut as soon as it bccomes peifectiy
cool.?Picayune.
Ml
The Fabian Policy.
The policy of wearing out the enemy
in war by delays, misleading movements,
feints of attacks, etc., while
Viaft'A in r>u]lpf] t,h?
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"Fabian policy," fro u the following
circumstance :*Fabius Maximus was a
Rornai^ general in the second Punio
war. Having beenappointed just after
tho Roman army had suffered severe
defeat at Lake Thrasymene, he perceived
that his disheartened troops
and band of raw recruits could not
oppose successfully it trained army
flushed with victory and led by their
great commander Hannibal. He therefore
avoided pitched battle, moved his
camp from highland to highland, and
tired out tho enemy with marches and
countermarches. This he continued
until thwarted in his calculations by
the impatience of the Roman senate.?
Chicago Herald.
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