Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m !> f /wgrn^ ORTUXATELY, ncarl evei7bodj ia the Unite States wili eat turke M ., jBfejreSjjffi next Thursday, f o W* ' SN&wK Thursday ;$ Tbanksgn l*D? an<* wor^ ' turkey .tad Thauksgh :,rc' *u -^nierica.a most synonyms. To tell a good turkey. L>. E. Thomas \rho is one of the poultry experts o Philadelphia, says: k "Examine the end of the breast bon f ?the end that is near the tail. If thi la a piece of soft, movable gristle th k bird is young. If it is solid, iiard bon & the bird is old. * "Examine the neck, and open an look Into the eyes. Staleness show Itself first in a darkening of the ueel The eyes should be bright and ful dull, sunken, faded, they indicate tha the bird has been killed too lonj i Select a plump turkey, because sue a turkey is juicier, tenderer, sweeter. jA- , THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES. * ""Those are the throe qualities nece.' . eary in a turkey?that it be fat, thi L It be young, that it be fresh?:ind thei ^ Is no reason why any oae should b fooled. For It is just as easy to te a good turkey a* ;o tell a good app] ^ or a srood Deaeh.'' tA turkey is liard to rais?. Thj farmer is a lucky man who. hntchin out 100, is able to bring thlrty-thrc SELECTING T P ' >i* > ? I f&r n treat birds to get sielky.J&ey are ~rea birds to roain away and lost. The, lire great birds to be slaiu by o:he preatures of the countryside. There is in Trevose a farmer vrh , had last year a Hue flock of fort turkeys. Tlie?e birds, like all of thoi kind, would start out on their rorm<] & \ r? : ~ j ' ' "His Day." i In the early morning. and all day loi | they would move in a great circl through this cornfield, that pota patch?by a regular path that they hi marked out?and, late in the aftf noon, they would get back home. B gjj sometimes they would be delayed < [ " ~ ~ " ^fhi/Week feast, would hold them too long, and night would fall upon them still far from home. Immediately, then, their journey would cease; right where they were they would prepare to roost. But ' tbe farmer's wire wouia always, 011 , sucu occasion, look them up, knowing , well where they were to he found, . y and under her urging they would come ^ home reluctantly. y But one night when they did not J r return she thought she would let them stay out. What harm could hajpen ^ l3 to them? Surely they would be all ] right in the morning. And she left 1 them alone, and the next day only , four of the flock returned. The rest 5 were found lying dead about the fence . j where they had roosted, and in the J neck of each dead body, just below 1 e the ear, there was a little round hole, j s the work of a weasel. For weasels e kill turkeys in this way to suck their , e blood. Thus it will be seen that in . many ways turkeys are hard to raise, j They are fed upon cracked corn, , s wheat screenings and mush. If it is . cold they will eat a good deal and get fat. But if it is warm, they wander lt over tlie fields gobbling up grassiiopr pers. and such fare does not fatten jj them. Only when they eat grain do turkeys take on flesh, and they will not eat grain until the weather gets cold, until there is snow on the ground, '' so that they can find nothing else to j* eat. 0 Therefore the Christmas and New '? Year's turkeys are fatter and better always than the Thanksgiving ones. HATCH IN FOUR WEEKS, (t Turkeys hatch out in four weeks? g one week more than the time required >e for chickens. In May they are born, e The Thanksgiving turkey of the first HE THANftSGP BY A. E3. F" FROST. t quality is, therefore, from six to seven j Y months old. At that use it is pretty r j well matured. The big turkeys?the j thirty-pound gobblers, the twenty-tiveo ! pound hens?that are to be -outui upon 7 i the market are old birds. Prepared if properly, however (parboiled first, then Is! roasted slowly, with assiduous bast| ing), they make excellent eating. j The turkey belong? to Thanksgiving ! because ou the original Thanksgiving Day. at Plymouth in 11521. turkey was i the feature of the repast. The records j of Edwin Winslow describe that old! time feast as follows: ! nni'A?nrtl? eiinf frtii" fair!. V/UL VIV? VUIVI J?CUl IVUi Ul< .1 I V ?? 4" ing so that we might, after* a social manner, rejoice together. They four in one day killed as much turkey fowl as, with a little help besides, served I! the company nearly a week At which j time, among other recreations, we exj orcised our arms, many Indians coming among us, among I ho r^st their greatest king, Massasoyt, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted." ORIGIN OF THE NAME. The name turkey is believed to come _ from the cluck of the bird?'"turk. ig turk, turk." Dr. Samuel Johnson, in ,e. his dictionary, thought the name came to from the country, aud made bin diiflniid tion "Turkey?A large domestic fowl >r- brought from Turkey." The French ut alfio have a singular error about this an bird, which Wiey call "poule d' Inde," r.e or "dinde," a fowl from the Indies, \ (vhile ilio Germans with the same In? lccuracy erdl it ''kalekuter," or bird from Calcutta. As a matter of fact the turkey is iudigenous to America, and Europe knew nothing of it until the Jesuits transported it from Mexico to France. : I'liey raised it on oue of their farms near Bourges, and on this account there are certain French provinces | where to this day in honor of its spon- ; sors the turkey is called a "Jesuit." The English do not know precisely j when Ihe turkey came amongst them, riiey approximate its arrival in the following antique couplet: Turkeys, carps, hops, pickerel and beer Curac into England all in one year. COOKING THE BIRD. An old English magazine, the Perfect Gentlewoman's Delight, gives a quaint recipe for cooking turkey. 'Take and clean your birde on the back," it says, "and bruise all his bones; then season with salt and pepper, grosse beaten, and put into him ;ood store of butter; he must have five [lours' baking." But the best way to cook a turkey is to roast it, stuffing it with trufllos. The truflle is a subterranean edible fungus, black and war ted outside, and pale and reined within. Hogs are trained to root the' truffle up. It is at its best in Perigord, and Perigord truffles are the jnes that the American cooks use, for there are no native truffles of any sort in this country. A statistician estimates that on Thanksgiving Day 7.000.000 turkey9 will be eaten in the United States. These birds will weigh 63,000,000 pounds, and tliey will cost .yj.uuu.uuu. ^ipiilp* Roa^t Turkey ?ar 5&.uce Cranbarry jelly Sweet poTaJbes Brownedwhite'poV^oos Liw^Bea.05 jC&uliflower )X Baked ma.ca.roni , Cbee^ \ J Lcttuce 5a.la.cl & n&yoooa^ . , Crackers Plum puddioo Salted pGa-nui^ . *uit Coffee M'nt W^r5 ZING TURKEY >-v " rf:" '*>? A J-; * . S::.; X iv !: - xV '< ' ; !V ? > ^ .:>< *? *** ggipil f Ml ?From Harper's Weekly. Wiion gran'ma bastes the turkey We children watch to see The way she pours the basting on, As slick as slick can be. We hear the turkey "fizzle," An' know it's getting browned; But when she puts the basting on, Why then we jus' stan' 'round. I like the Christmas stocking, The frosted New Year's cake; ] like the birthday presents My auuties buy or make; But jus' the bestest time of all Thanksgiving brings to me? When gran'nia bastes the turkey. An' we all stan' 'round to see. A SnU'wh Suggestion. The Gobbler?"Iu this age of tbc horseless carriage, let me suggest a turUeyluss Thanksgiving."?Lif^. THE NEWEST AMERICAN B DUCHESS This fine and interesting photograph p of Miss May Goelet, the new Duehess of Roxburghe, shows the greatest heir- ^ ess in the world wearing most of her jewels and those of her mother. Miss Goelet is here in fancy dress i Cleopatra, in which character she attended Mrs. Adair's famous ball in London last spring. It was the most splendid fancy dress ball ever given, and especially so in the matter of jewels. The Countess of Warwick was there as Queen Semiramis, Lady Randolph Churchill as a Byzantine Empress, and the Princess Hatzfeldt as Queen Esther with stockingless feet and jewels on her toes. But among all these society leaders none wore such valuable jewels as Miss Goelet. Her headdress was a mass of pearls, diamonds and rubies blazing with colored light. Ropes of pearls hung down on each side of her face. Her neck was encircled with many necklaces, and her arms were laden with bracelets. The Oriental headdress was admirably suited to her dark type of beauty. The value of her jewels was not less than $300,000. but that is a trifle, for she is the possessor of $30,000,000 worth of New lork real estate. Miss Goelet has beeu brought up in the British aristocracy. . Her aunt, t Lady Herbert, is married to the broth- o er of the Earl of Pembroke, head of I one of the mo t ancient families in s England. Her marriage to the Duke C of Roxburghe. the only eligible Duke in the United Kingdom, will place her f ; ' -V* :>%W:.y: . *: , J*' J* _ .., ^ | ^ .^:>\*?j>><::^-:y--y - -wW,10f"""" / < ^ <- . '' ;/' : ; <-/ ' .. \/ r'&V ' ,.?;. v. ...:.ji .... < - ? -v - _ DAUGHTER OF THE LATE OGDE? CHOSEN BY THE DUKE OF RO: at the very top of British society, and s her vast fortune will make her a bril- r Iiant hostess at Floors Castle, a great I place, which has been neglected as r much as Blenheim was. s I HOT OR COLD. t t Device Which Answers For Two Purposes. 1 The blow hot, blow cold paradox of f the "First Reader" finds its parallel . In the ventilated food cover illustrated herewith. This is designed to keep 1 butter, cream, milk, meat, jellies, etc., , in cool and nerfect condition through- , out the warmest weather, or, on the contrary, is equally valuable for keepffl T KEEPS FOOD HOT OR CCIiD. ing foods warm until served. In the first case the cover is filled with iced water, and in the second it is filled with hot water. Where a refrigerator is available, and even in refrigerators, the food cover can be used to assist in tooninff iollioa nnrt nastrv cold and v Arm. Where meals have to be kept e waiting for irregular diners, as in a * boarding-house, etc., the heat-retain- * ing features of the cover are also val- c uable. r "Furthunt North." The most northerly railroad in the world was opened recently. For its whole length it lies within the Arctic regions. The greater part of it is in Swedish territory, and only a small part cuts through the narrowest portion of Norway until it reaches the Norwegian port of Narvik. The chief object of the line, which now connects the northern Baltic with the Atlantic, Is to open up the rich mineral resources of North Sweden and to carry them cheaply to Narvik. The new railway, e which will be known as the Ototen d line, is about 140 miles long, and cost r about $7,500,000.?Golden Penny. t c Advice to Street Railway*. e Deal fairly with the public. Give e every man the worth of his money in * nA??irinA onrl In nnlItonocc n ml thA nnh- F DUi. TitC CUIU *?? ^vih.Ui.vmw, %?v ?ruw lie will support the corporation iu its c efforts to please. But attempt to defy r the public, show a mean and niggard 1 spirit, and the public will meet the 2 corporation half way in aggressiveness. * ?Baltimore Herald. e s It is estimated that a half a million 1 New Yorkers are awale and busy, 2 legitimately or otherwise, all night. 1 One-third of the college graduates t now are women. c CORN GROWERS' TROPHY. [andsome Prize Offered For the Bcs Results in Increasing Crop. "Let every farmer in the seven grea orn States give a few winter evening nd 480,000,000 bushels will be adde< 3 the aunual crop of the cora belt." I: corn growers' trophy. hese words Professor P. G. Holder f the Ames Agricultural College, c own, summarizes the campaign ir tituted by himself and the Iowa Cor irowers' Association. Tf ici imf* itinvanfiu/l npron^A thflf* Prf essor Holden wants; it is better r< . - & ;?r ~4s?'# ? , ' v. ;. / . f ? , ... ^ # r Pi v * '<*4P /' - / y T Am s' GOELET. WHO HAS BEEN tBURGHE FOIl HIS DUCHESS. mlts from the present acreage. It lot by any artificial culture lie woul >ring about these apparently gigant esults. He promises and demoi itrates that will be realized if tt armer does the simple thing of pu ing a hundred live kernels in ever hirty hills. His plan requires only the sortin >y hand of seed corn into lots of un orm size and the tiling of the plat< n corn planters in such a way as I Irop the required number of grair n each hill. The Iowa Corn Growers' Associatic las been formed by farmers who b< ieve in Professor Holden's theory. V /. Whiting, of Whiting. Iowa, in charg >f the Agricultural Division of tt owa Commission lor the Louisian 'urchase Exposition, has personal! >resented to Ames College and tt 3orn Growers' Association a troph ralued at $450, which will be awarde innually for seventy-five years for tt test results in corn growing accordln o Professor Hoklen's theory. Tt rophy is entirely unique, represents m ear of corn eighteen inches lonj he husks of silver unit ear of gol< itanding on an ebony case. Upon tt >ase are four scrolls in silver, dec< ated by tiny golden ears of corn, u] in which will be inscriptions of tL lames of the winners of the obje< :or which the cup was given. NEW ELECTRIC ENGINE. The most powerful locomotive in tt vorld has just been built by the Gei ral Electric Company, at Schenectad or the Baltimore and Ohio Kailroa or use in its tunnel underneath tb ity of Baltimore. This locomotiv narks a very distinctive advance i 3 5 Illy lectric locomotive design, it win nnr lie all the freight traffic of the Bait nore and Ohio Itailroad which passe hrough Baltimore and will operat iver the same section as the presec lectric locomotive design. It will har ral Electric Company and which hav teen in successful operation for th last eight years. The picture show ine-half of the locomotive. The con >lete outfit consists of another sectio ike the one shown, but the two part ire designed to be worked coupled t( jether lo a great extent, and the buile >rs regard the double equipment as Angina OAllinlnto Ule'C iue rj a equipped with eight motors. haviD t capacity of 225 uorse power eacl linking a total capacity of 1800 hors >ower. It will be capable of puJlin he heaviest trains which can be sei >ot over the road. MONTANA MINES OPENED il Truca in Copper War Givo3 Work to 20,000 Men. t a d of Fair Trial Law Expected t*v I] Unravel Cooper Mine Tangle? Amalgamated Company to Resume Work. Butte, Mont.?In accordance with a sfr.'ii-omotiK moilo hv WIlHnm S/>:iUr?n President of the Anaconda Mining Company and the representative of the 'Amalgamated Mining Company in Montana to the Butte Miners' Union, that if Governor J. Iv. Toole would summon the Legislature in special session with a view of the enactment of a "fair trial" bill, which provides for the ^removal of any case from any Judge where bias and prejudice is shown, the Amalgamated would at once resume operations in Montana, the order was given for all the mines to open upon the receipt of news from Helena that the Governor had ordered au extra session to convene December 1. The Governor bas issued the call at Helena, following the presentation of petitions to him from practically every organization of labor and business men in the State of Montana, asking that an extra session be called, that legislaI tion remedial to the present state of affairs be enacted. " The resumption of the Amalgamated properties means the return to work of 'r approximately 20,000 men and the l" averting of an unusual crisis in Monn tana, as the Amalgamated Company operates in at least six different counties. >. In Butte alone it restores a pay roll of >. about $25,000 a day. The Legislature is called especially to - pass laws to relieve the industrial condition in Montana, caused by the shutting down of Amalgamated Company's properties. rne aim 01 uie session is iu i>u?s a law whereby mining cases may be taken from one Court to another when the Judge in the initial Court is shown to be prejudiced. Other legislation of like character has also been promised. A so-called fair trial bill, of the character now proposed, was passed by the last Legislature, but was decided, by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional on technical grounds. Recently at Butte Judge William Clancy, of the District Court, gave a decision, in which he said that he might appoint a receiver at any time for the Boston and Montana Company, one of the largest constituent com| panies of the Amalgamated. The dei cision was made on the application of John MacGinnis, a prominent noiuer of stock in the properties controlled by F. Augustus I-Ieinze, of the Montana Ore Purchasing Company, which lias been at war with the Amalgamated for years. Upon this announcement by Judge Clancy. President William Scallon, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and general manager of the Amalgamated, issued orders to shut down all the Amalgamated properties in Montana and elsewhere, declaring that the company, uuable to secure judicial fairness in the Courts, could not continue in business. The works of the Amalgamated Company will at once resume .in various parts of the State. This includes the j greater mines in Butte, tlie smeirers of the Washoe Company, in Anaconda, the largest in the world; the smelters of the Boston and Montana Company, in Great Falls, also vast in their capacity; the coal mines at Storrs. Belt, Oakdale and in Wyoming; the great quarry ~ in Northern Montana, and the immense is lumber industries in Western anil U Northwestern Montana. Q* MAY COELET WEDS. ._ _ ie Greatest American Holrew Added to Peer* t- ago as Duchess of Rosburghe. 7 New York City.?Miss May Goelet was married to the Duke of Iloxburghe ig iu St. Thomas' Church, New York {. City, at Fifty-third street and Fifth >s avenue. Bishop Doane, of Albany, p?r[0 formed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires, rector of the church. Robert Goel^t, the broth-j er of the bride, gave her away. 111 The wedding, though a quiet and e- simple affair, was the most brilliant 7. international marriage since Consuelo ;e Vanderbilt became the Duchess of j le Marlborough. ij, The value of the splendid wedding gifts was estimated at $1,500,000. The , ' Roxburgh^ family jewels, which' in- j elude one of the finest collection of em- j y eralds in Europe, were given by the j 1(1 bridegroom. The Duchess of Rox- j ie burghe's gifts include a head ornament g of diamonds, a beautiful emerald ring ie and an old French fan. set with jew" rt?l.n? *?!<>( in 1>(S sister ig I elS. KOUert <xueiei ? q111> ..... ? I is a tiara of diamonds. j ' Filial KIoU in Spain. ie Disorders of a serious nature broke J 3" out at Snntander, Spaiu. Armfd riot- J 5" ers attacked the shops, built barricades , ie in the streets, and set tire to the Pas- | sionist Church. During the riots ono man and a child were killed and several persons were injured. At Cabol- \ la. in the Province of Toledo, th* May- j or of the town was assassinated. Bryan AgTees So S7SOO Allowance. ,e William J. Bryan, with his counsel. I j. appeared in the Probate Court at New Haven. Conn., for a heading on the ! amount of Mrs. Bennett'. allowance. a pending the adjustment of the Bennett , e estate. Judge Stoddard's suggestion j e for $7501) a year was agreed to by , a Bryan as executor, and that amount I was ordered by the court. American Securities in Europe. A trust company has been organized !n Switzerland with a capital of $1,000.i)00 to handle American railroad securities (Coy Murderer Get* Fifteen Yean?. Charles Jones, a twelv^-year-oid col' oreri boy. who confessed to the murder ijj of Miss Caroline Link on August HO, \ pleaded guiity of murder in the second J degree at Baltimore, M<1., and was seiu ? fenced to lifteen years in the Maryland Penitentiary, i l* lYTljaourl'* Old War Claim. 3 State Auditor Allen has completed e the war claim of Missouri against the it United States for $475,186. Tho claim i. is for money paid for interest on union e military bonds amounting to $6,400,000, e a sr,0,000 For General Gomez. " The Cuban Senate na.s approver, u j resolution providing for a sift of $50.n 000 to General Maximo Gomez, to be 3 paid out of the surplus in the treasury. > as a well merited testimonial of gratiI tude and respect to the man who was a Genoral-in-Chlef of the liberating e ?rniy. 8 Typewriter Commits Suicide. ? ? .... _< ?f Ikii'Iiio mmlo sev J' 1R .'i IU OL iiuj^ui m . ie eral mistakes In transcribing a latter g on tier typewriter. Siiss Charlotte M. it Thomas, of New York City, a pretty, young stenographer, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. ' ' . |? ; ' ;:'?m ' -I . THE KELMIOUS LIFE READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.* :.yj Poom: Divine Pretence ? True Content* ment is Not to Be Foaad by Thoae Who Seek It by a Lowering of Their Moral Standards. Lord of earth! Thy forming hand Well this beauteous frame hath planned;) Woods that wave-and hills that tower, Ocean rolling in HiB power; Yet, amid this scene so fair, Should I cease Thy smile to share, What were all its joys to me? Whom have I on on earth but Thee? Lord of heaven! beyond our sight Shines a world of purer light; ' ' ' There ,in love's unclouded reign Parted hands shall meet again. Oh, that world is passing fair! Yet, if Thou wert absent tnere; What were all its joys to me? Whom have 1 in heaven but Thee? ?R. Grant. v \ Happiness. If we judge men by their actions and 4.U ~ Z.L1.L zl i.1. _ wic oujeci.-j wmcu uiey pursue, meir ciiicl desire seems to oe that they may attain happiness. A man is called blessed who can invent a new ioy, or show his fellow men the way to further pleasures. The chief question asked, in a change of position or occupation, often is: "Will I like the new place better than the old?" Men will toil hard, early and l&te, and* do it willingly if you can only show them' a recompense of happiness at the end of it all. But this world is, alter all, a sad one. Ic is full of disappointment, sick, sorrowing, baffled and defeated men. The cynic is everywhere in evidence. Bright hopes are blasted. Riches take unto themselves wings and fly away. Position, talent, and hopeful worldly influence are no protection against the oiague of black care. We have then, says the Chicago Ad-ance, the anomaly of man fitted tor happiness, and desiring it above all things, , yet having it flee from him. Some philosophers have declared that the whole world is an illusion, and that there is no 6uch'thing as realitv. It is impossible, we are told, for a man to attain the thing#. which he desires, and that it is useless) for him to fret himself about them. Thej Greeks Expressed this idea in the fable! of Tantalus in Tartarus. He wag immersed in water up to his chin and a tree loaded with luscious fruits hung it* branches ju3t over his head. He wasi thirsty and hungry, but when he attempted to drink, the water fled from' ' him, and when he tried to pick the fruit* just above his head, it vanished away. But why should happiness flee from al mart when he so ardently desires it? The trouble is that men for the most part seek it through relaxation, and the lowering of the standards. It is the old history ot Adam and Eve over again. There waa a settling down ot moral integrity on their part for the grasping of what they con- ^ eidered a greater happiness. Men, ask to-day: "'Why should we obey this or that law of God, man. or of our moral nature, when it bars the way to our enjoyment?" This is part of the revoltt aealnat what men call "Puritanism." The Chinaman smokes his opium pipe regardless of the consequences, because it, for the time being, brings to hitn dreams o? surprising bliss. Men seem to care little for the consequences in their pleasures^ and nence come their wanderings in bleak wildernesses. Jesus Christ showed that if a man would v i>; truly happy he must attain to thift happiness through a mastery of the situation. There is no joy like that of the victor. It is the man who hasgone down into the tumult and uproar of life and fought and conquered in 3ome good cause who tastes of the nectar of supreme joy. The master words with Christ were:' "Fight, watch and pray;" here is the entrance to the real Utopia for which men. peek. The man who has no mastery over his appetites, passioas and temper can never Know what genuine joy .is. The conditions of happiness which produce no illusions and brighten more and mure uuiu jjui'ieut u<xy aic nut uiuu;iui> ur name. There must be some supreme ob-. J'ect of love and hope upon which the| leart is fixed. There must be a harmony' with the will of God. There must be endurance in the cause of Jesus ChristThere must be an inner pcace which no outer tumult can disturb. Did Not Care For His Sonl. William A. Sunday, the well - knowi* evangelist and ex-baseball player, who was recently ordained as a minister by the Presbyterians in Chicago, and who waa largely instrumental this sprint; in mak."ir Marengo, 111., a nci-saloon town, tells ? this striking nersonal experience: "I will never forget a scene I witnessed as long as I" live. I left the tent where we were holding meetings down in Paris, JII., one night, and among the number who left last was a young man that I was es-. ' I *-3ciallv attracted to by his fine looks. I walked down the street with him, and* . put to him the invariable question, 'Art? ! you a Christian?' He said, 'No, sir, I am not.' Then I used every Scripture and i every argument to get him to promise mo to give his heart to God, but could not succeed. When about to separate I said ! to him, 'Are your father and mother alive?' 'Both alive,' said he. 'Is your lauier a onrisuanr uon i Know; ne use* been' a steward in the church for several | years.' 'Is your mother a Christian?' I "jJon't know: has bsen superintendent of a Sunday school of the same church for t some time.' 'Have you a sister?'. 'Yes. | sir.' 'Is she a Christian?' 'Don't know; | she has the primary department in the Sunday school.' 'Do your father and mother ever ask the blessing at the table?' 'No. sir.' 'Did your father, mother I or sister ever ask you to be a Christian?* | 'Mr. Sunday, as long as I can - remember ! my father or mother or sister never said a word to me about ray soul.' He said, | 'Do you believe they think I am lost?' I | could not answer such arguments. It is six years ago this oomins October since I heard this. I can hear his worrls ringing in my ears, 'Do you believe they think I am lost?' " God's Prominot Sure. (InJ Li ever better than we think. We are not so ready to realize that God i3 surs I to make good His promises, as He is ready to remember His every assurance and to give good rifts according to His children's needs. One of God's loved and loving children, expressing gratitude for the coming of a longed-for blessing, said: "God told me long ago that some day this should come to me, and I could not doubt His word. When it came I was not surprised, only in a way as the coming of the in evitable surprises us. Sometimes, you know, we are surprised to see the sun rise or the tide coriie in." Oli, that all of us were as ready to be in sure of God's word as of the rising of the sun or the coming .in of the tide!?Sunday School Times. rtec?rapen*? of Have you ever thought that ao:ue daf you will never have anything to try you or anybody to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in that happy realm to learn or to show the soirit of patience, forbearance and long suffering. If you are ever to learn these things you must learn them now, and oh, when you shall see those glorious jewels shining in some on? else's crown which were formed out ol tears of sorrow and drops of blood, what would you not give to be able to live your life over again and win the recompense which can only come from trial and su?? feting??.Matthew Simpson. PnfT For Our rowiler. Nnv.il cx:wrts aro loud in their nraise of the smokeless nowder which is being man- , i!fa"turf?d at f.he tornedo stations. Newport. P.. T. Th'?y say recent experiment* it mi th* shins of the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Asiatic sauadrona prove it to be the bc*t of ?tn kind ever used by these varships, ar.d to have na equal in any foreign navy. Training School For Chan (Team. A new feature of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association id an automo | bile school for the training of export j chauffeurj. t V . >.