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Continued.
"Don't you hope she'll ask for her
figure?" whispered Mrs. Venham
Honlton; but Mrs. Pontifex was so
fortunate as to be able to remember
nothing, and the Chela appealed to
the company generally, who, from a
mean dread of being compromised as
witnesses, avoided his eye with sin
&UiUi u uaii i m i L j .
At last an elaborately disheveled
fady, with a sad smile and .a low
trainante voice, said: "When I was
iquite a child I had a possession I
dearly, dearly loved?a poor old doll
,with no legs and arms and no features?just
an ordinary ninepin it
was, but it was almost the only thing
I cared for in the world! Do you
know, I have so often wished I could
see its poor old round head and long
neck once more!"
There was a touch of pathos about
this that touched all with any tendency
to sentiment. The Chela himself
was charmed by the simplicity
and poetry of the request, which he
readily undertook to gratify.
For some minutes he stood with
folded arms, absorbed and silent,
with his eyes bent on one of the open
windows. At length he came out of
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XIAO ic?ciJu tv iiu a oiat u it juu
look inside the chair upon which you
are sitting, there wilL your long lost
ninepin be," he said.
The lady started up with a cry of
rapture. "How can I thank you!"
and then she gave a pretty little
moan of dismay. "But?inside the
chair! Oh, Mrs. Staniland, may I?
may I have it cut open? I'm a foolish
wretch, I know; but I should like
to see my poor old plaything once
more!"
"Oh, my dear,"" said Mrs. Staniland,
"how can you wait to ask? Cut
it open by all means."
It was a large armchair, very luxuriously
padded, and when the cretonne
covering was removed it re,'
vealed a richly brocaded stuff, imitated
from an old pattern; this was
Blit up with as little damage as possible,
and a white lining appeared
underneath, which was also cut open;
the condition of each covering proving
conclusively that it could not
hava been tampered with, for the
stitches were strong and the material
still unfrayed.
The excitement reached a climax;
the floor was gradually strewn with
horsehair, and fleck from the disemboweled
chair, which began to present
a limp and emaciated appearance;
but nowhere in its recesses was
the interesting ninepin.
,4I am very sorry," the Chela confessed,
with his first approach to concision,
"but hier among so many indifferent
or opposing individuals, I
gannot goncentrate my will power
upon a gommon ninepin. If I gontin
ue till morning light I shall do nodIng;
nevare, nevare. And the broder
out on the balgony is gone away!"
This statement was received in
chilling silence, broken by a few dry
coughs; Mrs. Honiton, who had just
refurnished her drawing-room, deeded
that it was not expedient to
have the Chela at her own house, and
Mrs. Staniland already regretted that
she had allowed hers to be the scene
of such a fiasco.
"Perhaps," suggested Babcock,
"your Mahatma might do something
for you if you ask him?"
The Chela seemed struck by an
idea. "Now, listen," he said half
aioua. "My Aianatma is far away .n
Thibet; don't you think that if I write
to him and get a ledder back hier in
this room, these people will beleaf?"
"Not a doubt of it," said Babcock.
"Capital notion! How will it come?"
"It will fludder from the ceiling
down," said the Chela.
"I want you all to have still patience,"
he said, addressing the assembly.
"I am going to write to my
Mahatma in Thibet, and you shall
see the answer when it arrives, and
hear also what he has to say."
Babcock conducted him to a small
writing cabinet, where the Chela hastily
scribbled a few lines. "I shall
next place it on a magnetic gurrent,
and it will instantly to Thibet transported
be," he explained, as he
stepped out upon the balcony and
stood there, holding out his mystic
billet in the warm starlit stillness.
In spite of themfeelves, the majority
were impressed by the sight of the
tall, strangely attired figure standing
silent there, and there was a murmur
of approbation when he re-entered,
saying quietly, "It is gone, and now,
until the ledder arrive, berliaps-some
laty will a iiddle song sign."
Some one sang "Good-by," and
after the applause had subsided, the
Chela said excitedly: "The ledder will
be soon hier, in anoder minute."
"Sharp work to and from Thibet |
in ten minutes," said Babcock.
"There is no time and no space for
the true adept," answered Nebelsen; j
but the anxiously awaited letter un- j
accountably declined to deliver itself.
"If somebody would again upon
me Diano oiay, me c-neia suggesieu
at last, feeling himself very much in
the situation of the priests whom
Baal so ungratefully left in the sacerdotal
lurch.
But at last, when the general attention
was despairingly directed to
the performer who was just sitting
down at the piano, a sudden exclamation
from Babcock startled the
room, and all eyes perceived a pink,
cocked hat note slowly sailing down |
from the ceiling and drifting toward
the Chela's feet.
In the reaction which followed, all
gathered eagerly around him. while,
with flushed face and triumphant
smile, lie picked up the mysterious
missive. "T tolt you." he said, proudly.
"the Mahatma has vindicated the
cause by sending 10 you tins greeting,"
and he reverently unfolded the
corked hat and !>egan to read the contents
to himself.
Many who had remained skeptical
and uumoved thrpugh all the preced
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ing marvels began to waver now, and
on all sides there was a consuming
anxiety to hear what the Mahatma
had to say. It was not gratified.
Nebelsen, after studying the note
with a confused and angry face,
crushed it in his hand and thrust it
into his sash.
"But mayn't we look?" cried Mrs.
Honiton. "I should so love to see
what an occult note looks like! "
"J am not able to communicate the
gontents," said the Chela.
"Too tremendous for our weak
minds to grasp?" inquired Bal^pock.
"Quite right," was the answer; "to
read it aloud would not be of advantage,
and after this I do not think I
shall succeed in obtaining any more
results this evening."
The announcement brought back
the former frost in increased severity;
eyebrows were significantly lifted,
and smiles of private incredulity
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good word to say for a faith which
was not even able to entertain them
for a single evening.
Mrs. Staniland began to send people
downstairs, where a light supper
had been provided. "You never touch
supper, I know, Herr Nebelsen," she
said, as she passed him.
"To-night, yes," he replied.
"Oh, then, perhaps you will take
some one down by and by," she said,
with a marked contrast to the distinction
she had shown him earlier in
the evening, and left him standing,
humbled, but patient, in the emptying
room, where he aroused Sybil's
compassion.
"I mustn't?till I've seen everybody
else go," she said to Babcock,
who was hoping to secure her as his
companion. "Nobody has asked that
pretty Miss Chatterton; come with me
ai\d be introduced." When she had
got rid of him thus, and only a few
scattered couples were left, she went
up to Nebelsen. "Will you be very
good and take me down for some supper?"
she said. "Not now, it's crowded,
and it will be pleasanter out on
the balcony."
She stepped outside, and .he followed
with reverential submission.
When they were both seated, Sybil
macie some oramary remarK; uul uc
was so long silent that she began to
feel uncomfortable.
At last he spoke. "I haf seddled
in my mind to renounce my Mahatma,"
he said, glancing at her to see
how she took this tremendous piece
of information.
"Have you?" said Syybil, feeling,
in spite of her sympathy, a very
strong inclination to laugh. "Why?"
"Because," said Nebelsen, vehemently,
'he is so imbolite, he does
not know how to behafe. In Thibet
they are?well, not schendlemen, and
a long time I haf borne it batiently.
But to-night it is too much. I drusted
all to him?and he leaf me quide
alone! Other Chelas of less standing
are assisted to make manifestations,
but for me there is noding done. So
from to-night I will no longer a Chela
be?I chuck up."
"I'm so glad," said Sybil. "I think,
it's so sensible of you."
"You do? And you are glad that
I renounce? Ah, you do not know
how happy you make me when you
say that!"
"And don't you believe in theosophy
any more?"
"I beleaf the same as ever?yes.
That to-night I obtained only a few
phenomena makes noding?it is not
ungommon that the will-bower and
magnetic currents will not work;
there will be agsidents and breakdowns?shust
as on a railway line.
And, you saw, there did arrive the
ledder from my Mahatma."
"But you wouldn't show It to us,
you know."
"That is where my Mahatma was
so inconsiderate. He writes me a
ledder, but he take care that I should
be unable to show it, or read it. I
will tell you, so that you will see
how insulting he can make himself.
When I open the note I see in Greek
characters, and forgif me that I repeat
such worts to you at all, but I see
written there: 'Do not a damfool
be!' "
Sybil was obliged to caress her lips
somewhat assiduously with the feathery
head of her fan before she could
express her indignation with becoming
gravity.
"After that, you know, there must
be and end com. And so to-night I
shall wride him a formal resignation.
He has never taken any pains when I
gonsult him. Sometimes he never answers
one wort; sometimes the answer
when it comes is?well, it is not
moch. I will tell you one instance.
There is a young frient of mine, a
bainter?but you know him, he made
that bad picture of you in the gallerie?he
is named Campion."
"Well?" said Sybil, suddenly serious.
"Well for seferal weeks he is very
unlucky?altogether, as you say, off
his golors. He lose his name, his
frients, and his money and his work;
he is ill, he worries, and he cannot
tell why; and all the time he never
guessed till I tolt him that it was all
caused by one leedle ogly idol."
"And when you told him," said
Sybil, "did he believe it?"
"At first?no; but in the end?yes,
as moch almost as I. And this will
show you what my Mahatma is like?
I write to ask him what is the best
thing for Mr. Campion to do, and he
reblies that the only way is to send
(he idol back to the giver! and that
is shust the one thing which Mr. Campion
will not do."
"Why?" asked Sybil, shocked that
Ronald could put any faith in such
an extravagant explanation, and hoping
lo find he was less credulous than
Ncbeisen seemed to believe.
"tJPCilllSe II?rf JHl.vn It miuiu uc vunardly
and selfish, and 1 confess he is
quite right, and the Mahatma has
inadp a grand moral mistake to gif
advice at all. Is'o matter, now, once
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red paint, and its sequel.
"And he is afraid now?"
"When I see him last he was derrily
afrait, and I cannot help thinking
that unless something is soon done
that idol will do a moch worse act.
Till now he plays the Poltergeist, but
that cannot always continue."
Sybil gave a little shiver. "I wish
you hadn't told me all this," she
! said. "And now let us go in."
CHAPTER Xn.
For Old Soke's Sake.
As Sybil thought over Nebelsen's
revelations she found it difficult
wholly to resist the impression they
made upon her. They had aroused
the superstititon, which, in spite of :
education, is more or less latent in so
many of us.
She had only to insist upon taking
the idol back, and when he saw that
nothine alarmine haDnened to her,
he would be cured of his morbid
fancies. Perhaps Nebelsen's Mahatma,
whoever he might be, was right
in this at least.
Impulsive Sybil no sooner conceived
this resolve than she was im- j
patient to carry it out. She must j
save Ronald, and if?well, if there
was anything dreadful about the idol,
as to which she could not reason
away all her terrors?it was only just
that she should bear the brunt of its
inexplicable malice.
The following day was Sunday, and
as the afternoon drew on, Miss Sybil,
who was accustomed to restrict her
devotions to the morning service, astonished
her aunt by announcing that
she was going to church again that .
evening. \
Mrs. Staniland, as Sybil had antici- j
pated, did not propose to accompany J
her, but sent one of the housemaids, ,
who attended in the worst of tempers,
having made other plans for
spending me evening. ^
Romanoff Road looked more Area- ,
dian than ever in the warm Sabbath
stillness, and under a Bky which was
just beginning to melt from throbbing
blue to a luminous green. There
was ^io one to be seen except a pair
of lovers parting at a corner, and the ;
lamp lighter beginning his rounds at
the end of a turning. .
And now Sybil was at the studio
door, and it seemed to her that some ]
one was within. Ronald often sat .
and smoked there, she know, in the
1
evenings. '
She had Louisa as chaperon, or
rather duenna, but she began to wish
she had not come, and to hesitate. *
Suppose Ronald^'s man or a model *
were to come to the door, what
should she say?
Her hand was already on the bell, *
when from within a peal of laughter
rang out on the silence, and she
shrunk back, terrified.
For it was laughter that conveyed
an insult, full of course triumph and
cynical/mockery, and yet?it was like J
Ronald's laughter, as it might become
after some sad deterioration.
She turned to the maid with a
white face and startled eyes. "I?I
don't think I will go in just now after t
all, Louisa. Mr. Campion seems en- ^
gaged." ^
"Just as you think best, miss, I'm t
sure," said Louisa, primly; and they
went back to Sussex place.
On his return to his lodgings,
which were in a quiet street in Paddington,
Nebelsen set about the business
of repudiating his Mahatma. It ?
took *him some hours to compose a
document which should strike a poig- 0
nant remorse in his guru's unsympathetic
bosom, but he finished it at
last. "I will not send it by Babu
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"because he will want to talk and to ?
argue, and induce me to retract. I
will dispatch it to the Mahatma my- ?
self by occult means. He will get it
quite as soon."
And then his pupilage was over;
the vision of transcendent knowledge
and power faded; he could no longer
flatter himself with the secret con- c
sciousness of superiority to the rest 1
of mankind; he had deliberately reduced
himself to their level. 8
To be Continued. 13
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One Little Screw.
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Advertising is a subtle science, so j p
subtle, in fact, that by most of the
people it is regarded as more or less j.
of a game of cbance. This is a mis- ^
take. There is nothing in the world a
more certain than advertising if it is j.
properly done. You can make a fail- j
ure in anything?any line of business r
?if you do not go about it with a t
full understanding of its details and ^
careful attention to them. Leave one
single, little, insignificant screw out ^
of a locomotive, and sooner or later
there is going to be a smash-up. t
Whenever advertising doesn't pay jj
there is a loose screw or a lost one
some place. Two many advertisers
do not look beneath the surface.?
Current Advertising.
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Irving and His Cats.
A new story is told illustrating Sir E
Henry Irving's kindness of heart. An f
old lady came to him asking employ- j _
ment. i
He telephoned to his business man- t
ager inquiring if there was any em- j _
ployment at the theatre that could be I ?
found for her. "Absolutely nothing I
?nothing at all." ^
Irving suggested that she might
look after the cats. The manager j.
telephoned back that there were al- g
ready three women looking after the
cats. B
"Well," said Irving, "you must v
find her something. Let her look after
the three women that are looking _
after the cats."?Human Life. c
n
Stand-pipes of concrete, over 100 j
ieei mgn auu miy teui m uiauieiui,
liave become actualities.
About C000 pieces of crockery are 0
broken on each trip of a first-class ?
ocean liner,
E
more, I shall be able myself to help
Mr. Campion!"
"Herr Nebelsen," said Sybil earnestly,
"I don't think you ought to encourage
him in these morbid fancies
?I beg your pardon, but how can I
speak of them as anything else? You
can't seriously believe yourself that
an idol can have any Sort of power!"
"Exactly the same as Mr. Campion
say at first. But let me tell you how
he was convinced," and he gave her J
3
fflgpKgg^ i
The diamond, so long the hardest
known substance, now has two rivals,
the silicide and the deoride of titanium?products
of Heri Moissan's
electric furnace?being claimed to be
as hard.
An incandescent lamp in its green
shade will, when turned upward toward
the ceiling, spread a soft and
pleasantly diffused light, plenty
strong enough for a room where no
one is reading. When the lamp is
so used no shadows are cast.
Science so far has failed to furnish
any explanation of the mystery of
seedless fruits. They are not the outcome
of the work of man. . Man perpetuates
them; he does no more. The
seedless orange was found in a state
of seedlessness.
A Belgian engineer has been commissioned
by the committee for the
international exhibition at Brussels
in 1910 to erect a tower at Ixelles,
which will be much higher than the
Eiffel tower. The cost is estimated
at $240,000.
A movement has been started in
the scientific world favoring the
adoption of the word Kelvin to designate
the commercial unit of electrical
energy at present known as the
kilowatt-hour, as a recognition of the
<-? ? lato T.orH Kelvin to
DCI V1LCO \JM. tuv ^
electrical science.
One of the most curious phenomena
of geography is found on the
southern coast of the Island of Sephalonia,
in Greece. It is a stream of
salt water which for an unknown
period has left the almost tideless
sea and flowed inland with a volume
sufficient to furnish waterpower to
two mills.
Milking by machinery, introduced
last year on a large diary farm near
Notingham, Eng., has proved highly
successful. The machine is a Scotch
invention and is operated by a gas
engine. The entire plant is worked
by a man and a boy, who milk seventy
cows within one and a half hours.
The proprietor says the saving in
;ost of labor will pay for the machine
in less than two years, to say
aothing of the gain in cleanliness
compared with handwork.
Rabies is a far more common disease
than is generally admitted; so
:hat Dr. E. C. Shroeder, of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, urges conitant
observation of dogs and their
nuzzling in public places. Recent
progress has greatly lessened its ef!ects,
for, since Negri's discovery in
L903 of the distinguishing micro-organisms
in the nerve cells, the disjase
is early recognizable, and the
Pasteur treatment is effective in curng
it. The mortality of sixty and
;ighty per cent, in untreated bites on
lands and head has been reduced to
).75 and 1.25 per cent.
THE DECEITFUL FARMER.
lis Outrageous Traffic in Watered
Stock.
We might well cease our railing
it Rockefeller; the farmer is the real
nonopolist. We might as well quit
lammering Harriman and cussing
Carnegie until we can squeeze the
vater out of the farm produce. For
he farmer is caught with the goods,
tnd science tells us the exact proporion
of the water in his "truck." ,
For example, beef is 76.5 per cent,
vater, mutton 75, lamb 63.9, and
fork 60.9. Such a watering of stock
s enough to make a traction monopilist
look like a drougth in the desert.
Milk is 77 to 88 per cent, water,
,nd cream 32.2 to 48, and this is even
tefore it has come in contact with the
lump. Potatoes, our old reliable
puds, are 76.7 per cent, water, yams
9.6, carrots, 85.7, cabbage 89.6, turlips
90, spinach 90.6, muchrooms
13.7, and cucumbers 96. What comort
Is there for a vegetarian in such
igures as these?
And even the stalwart onion, the
ioliath of the grocery, is 89.1 per
ent. water! Only a smell more than
.0 per cent, of real onion!
Fruits are 85 to 90 per cent, water,
,nd early spring strawberries are
learly all water, and sour water at
hat! Even the great American hen
ias seemingly been corrupted by our
nnH#>rn methods, and eegs are 85.7
ler cent, water.
And is this water capitalized? It
t? Look at your grocery bills and
iehold! At the sight of them we are
lmost ready to sing a new "Marselaise,"
to cry, "Conspuez le farmer!
L bas his watered stock!" But we
efrain. Secretary Wilson tells us
hat the farmer's boy insists on comng
to the city. Let the deluded vicim
come. Let him hasten to his unioing.
Let us send our boy out to
un the farm, and the next generaion
shall see our revenge!?Milwau:ee
Journal.
The Heal Reason.
That midsummer days are the longst
in the year is because heat ex
tanas; .
?that criminals weigh less than
noral men, is because they're lighter
ingered;
?that a man swears at a dull razor,
s because the pesky thing lost its
emper first;
?that roses are referred to as
blushing," is because they are properly
ashamed of the prices they j
iring;
?that a wave is called a swell, is
lecause it arrives at the shore in
;reat style and goes away broke;
?that the army of unemployed is
lot decreasing is because its members
mnt too many afternoons off a week;
* i- ~ rl o \r a orn />1n ha
LI! cl L HI C |)I CDCat-uu.T w vtuww I
.re considered so exclusive, is bsause
the members necessarily all
aove in the upper circles.?Warwick
ames Price, in The Bohemian.
Owing to instructions .in the will
f W. W. Wilson, auctioneer, Southnd-on-Sea
(Eng.), his favorite pony
ollowed him to the grave and wa3
hot at Billerlcav.
*%, Household /" |
\ Matters. J 1
*
Putting Salt in Lamps.
Putting a tablespoonful of salt into
l kerosene lamp after filling it will
prevent the lamp from exploding, but
will not mar the lighting quality of
the oil.?New York World.
To Clean Ironware.
Take two tablespoonfuls of concentrated
lye to three quarts of water.
It will make-pancake griddles like
new and the cakes ^ill not stick. Set
the griddles or any vessel to be
cleaned where they will keep hot, but
not boil, for three or four hours.?
New York World.
Durable Bubbles.
To make bubbles that can be blown
big and will last take a piece of pure
white soap about the size of a walnut
and cut it up in a cupful of warm
water. Then add a teaspoonful of
glycerine. Stir well and blow from a
small pipe. Strawberry juice will
make pink bubbles, and orange juice
will makeyellowones.?Housekeeper.
To Clean Windows.
Wet a soft cloth in kerosene, then
polish with clean cloth.
Finger marks may be removed
from windows by putting a few drops
of ammonia on a moist cloth.
Mortar and paint may be removed
from windows with best sharp vinegar.
Flower pot stains are removed
from window sills by rubbing them
with fine wood ashes and rinsing with
clean water.?Boston Post.
I
| xne uuiiuie oihi-ii.
I Many of the imported lingerie
blouses this season have part of the
embroidery done in outline stitch.
For instance, a running vine wiU be
worked in outline stitcb, -while a bit
of solid embroidery, eyelet work or
soutache braiding is introduced to
give a pleasing combination.
This present fashion for outlining
and braiding is a boon to the woman
whose eyes will not permit the execution
of the closer and finer needlework.?Indianapolis
News.
To Make Inexpensive Ties. i
Take an old four-in-hand tie and
rip it apart carefully to get the pat- j
tern. I make them of pieces of light
print, white waist goods, gingham, 1
. chambray or silk and some of them I
could not be distinguished from $1 '
ties. I use a single thickness of (
white cotton to line the cotton ones, '
but use flannelette for the silk ones. (
They are easily laundered (do not (
starch them) and will outwear a doz- |
en twenty-flve-cent ties, besides they
look fresher and are so inexpensive
one can have a large variety to choose
from. Try it, especially if you have <
boys in your family.?Boston Post. 1
I
Tea Cozies.
The "Old Maid" tea cozies are the j
quaintest little affairs seen in an art i
shop in a big city. They 'are built <
upon the wire frames which resemble '
lamp shade frames, and are bought '
for hat rests. I
Upon one of these is mounted the ]
quaintest little terra cotta head, witb
*hair drawn plainly back into a snug :
knot, and with features kindly, but *
unmistakably of the spinster type. 1
The wire frame, which simulates a j
hoop skirt, is first padded, then plied .
with layers of beruffled organdie. It ]
Is a clever novelty, and has figured i
with popularity as the consolation <
prize at bridge parties.?Indianapolis (
News.
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Jellied Chicken.
Take a large chicken, and after i
carefully cleaning and washing it, cut \
it up as though going to stew it. 1
Then place the pieces on a meat J
board, and pound them with a potato
beater until all the flesh is mashed
and the bones thoroughly ^rushed.
Place them in a double boiler and ^
pour over them one quart of filtered ^
eold water. Stir in one level tea- e
spoonful of salt, fill the lower part of t
the double boiler with cold water, and v
i ;n nr.il I e
I set 1U Wliere tuc na nil! wvn. .
From time to time open the upper ; 1
part of the double boiler where the *
chicken is, and stir it round. Add
no more water to the chicken, but
fill tfie lower part from time to time
as the water boils away, always
adding boiling water after the water j
has begun to boil the first time. Let t
the chicken cook at least six hours, 1
then take it off and strain through a 1J
fine sieve into a bowl. Set away to s
cool. When cold skim off the grease, ?
which will rise to the top. Underneath
you will find a clear hard jelly,
This may be served ' cold, a table- E
spoonful at a time, chopped fine; or
it may be warmed into a soup-, a little
at a time, for invalids.?American
Home Monthly. I o
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Recipes. I a
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Bread Pie.?A good way to use old j)
bread. Crumb the bread and soak in o
milk; sweeten to suit taste; flavor h
with nutmeg, lemon or chocolate; dot v
with scraps of butter; bake without
top crust and ice the top after baking.
Hot Biscuits.?Put a little sr.lt and
five teaspoons cream tartar and two P
teaspoons soda (leveled off with a n
knife) into one quart of flour and c
sift. Chop in one-half cup lard and t]
add sweet milk to make the right a
j consistency to roll cut, rather soft, a
It will take about one pint. .tsaKe in v
a quick oven.
Cottage Pic.?Chop cold meat very
fine, boil and mash some potatoes, to
| every cup of meat add one-half tea- sc
j spoon salt, a little pepper, one teaspoon
of finely chopped cooked onion
and one-half cup of gravy or stock.
Put the meat, seasoning and gravy in g
a baking dish, cover with the mashed n
potatoes and bake In hot oven until jj
golden brown. p
Baked Hani.?Soak a ham in cold ''
water over night; trim it neatly and
cover all over with a thick crust or <
flour and water; bake slowly eight ]
hours; remove the cri:?t and skin;
cover the top with fine cracker ^
crumbs; place in the over, until the 0
crumbs are brown. When cold cut in jr
thiD slices. tc
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL.
Since service is the highest lot,
And all are in one Body bound.
In all the world the place is not
Which mar not with this bliss bi
crowned.
The little child in trustful glee,
With love and kindness brimming o'er,
Many a cup of ministry
May for the weary veteran pour.
The lonely glory of a throne ?
May yet this lowly joy preserve;
Love may make that a stepping-stone,
And raise "I reign" into I serve."
This, by the ministries of prayer.
The loneliest life with blessings crowds,
Can consecrate each petty care,
Make angels' ladders out of clouds.
Birds, being glfid. their Maker bless;
Bv simple shining, sun and star:
And we. whose law is love, serve less
By what we do than what we are.
?The Changed Cross.
Christian Fellowship.
The most arresting feature of the
early church is to be found In the intimate
fellowship which united its
memDers. ine inauguration 01 mis
fellowship followed immediately upon
the Day of Pentecost. The converts
of that day "continued steadfastly in
the apostles' teaching and in fellowship,
in the breaking of bread and
the prayers." Further, we are told
that "the multitude of them that ba?
lieved were of one heart and soul;
and not one of them said that aught
of the things which he possessed was
his own, but they had all things common."
.
The New Testament bears witness
throughout to the establishment and
maintenance of such fellowship wherever
a Christian church was founded.
The whole basis of St. Paul's ethical
teaching consist in his conception
that the church is the body of Christ,
and that its members stand in the
most intimatq and vital relations not
only to Him but to one another. The
very sins which endangered the wellbeing
of the church here and there
?whether sins of sensuality, of faction
or of strife?consisted in an
abuse of this fellowship, and are
therefore a witness to the close personal
intercourse of all the members
of the church.
In later times it was this distinctive
mark which at once exerted an
irresistible attraction upon those who
were won to the church and created
the greatest suspicion and hostility
in the minds of its enemies. It was
not as professors of a creed that the
Christians were hated and persecuted,
but as members of a community,
sharers of a common life, the mystery
Df which aroused fears that either
in cull/ ui muncuu/ it >Ydo a uaugci
to the State.?Christian Advocate.
Keep on Believing.
G. Campbell Morgan says: "The
levil is only too glad to take hold of
anything whereby he may unsettle
one." "Satan, himself, is transformed
into an angel of light" (Cor.
11:14), and often presents himself
In such a way that a man or woman
must be filled with the Holy Ghost
to detect him. The Apostle Paul
says: "We are not ignorant of his
ievices." (2 Cor. 2:11.)
Jesus says: "Watch ye, and pray
lest ye enter into temptation." (Mark
L4:38.)
The devil may say; "Look at
pour failures." The Apostle Paul
says: "Forgetting those things
vhich are behind, 1 press toward the
mark, for the prize of the high calling
of God, in Christ Jesus" (Phil.
J:IS, 14), "looking unto Jesus, the
Author and Finisher of our faith."
(Heb. 12:2.) By faith ye stand;
:he faith of the Son of God, so now
:ontinue in the faith.
"He will perfect that which con:erneth
you" and me. Keep believ
ng. The words of a child of God,
vho was about to pass out of time
nto eternity, were these: "My sins
vere many, bub they are all covered
>y the blood, and there is plenty of
jlood." What more do we need??
?\ L. Wismer, in Gospel Herald.
Core of Onr Faith.
We, I conceive, are justified in
lolding clearly and boldly, as the
rery core of our faith, that God loves
iternally and unalterably every creaure
He has made; and that our sin,
vhile it draws a thick veil over our
yes and make it impossible to give
is the joy of communion with Him,
et never changes Him, never blackns
that sun of love in the heavens.?
^ranees Power Cobbe.
Strength to Bear Sorrow.
Sorrow, grief, agony are realities.
Lnd no vote of the company that
Viqv nittrVil- n/it trv nviat lo cninc tr?
ighten their pressure or soothe their
lang. What the good God offers is
trength to Dear sorrow. In place
if hapipness, which is gone, very
ikely forever, He offers blessedness
?He offers tne certainty of His innite
help and present stay.?Edward
Jverett Hale.
Reason.
Christianity demands the exercise
f reason in separating the non-esenual
from the essential, the secondry
from the primary. Educationists
re agreed that to acquire this abil:y
is the chief end of education, and |
nly thus can one rise> to true manood.?The
Rev. W. A. Hunter, Dener.,
One Guiding Stream.
When the love of God has taken
ossession of the soul, and the whole
lan is consecrated to His service, life
>ses its fragmentary character, and
ue guiding stream seems to run
irough it. Then all varying and
pparently disjointed circumstances
nd duties find a fixed and appointed
lace.?Marie Hare.
Make Jesus the Centre.
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The radii of your life will be safe
) long as Jesus is its centre.
Sale of 5,000,000 Barrels of Oil.
The sale of 5,000,000 barrels o!
rude oil at fifty ceuts a barrel to the
outhern Pacific Company is anotinced
at Austin, Texas. The deverles
are to be made covering a
eriod of three years. The oil will
e stored by the Southern Pacific and
sod for fuel for its locomotives on its
nes in Texas and Louisiana.
I't'uniH.s 111 i>urnm.
Consul-General Win. H. Michael, of
alcutta. reports that the cultivation
F peanuts in Burma is fast becomig
recognized as a source of wealth
> the province.
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INTERNATIONAL . ESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 19.
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Subject: Samuel Warns Saul and the
People, i Samuel 12?Golden
Text, 1 Sam. 12:24?Commit
Verses 23, 24?O .nentary.
TIME.?10S9 B. C. PLACE.?
Gilgal.
EXPOSITION.?I. Obey the voice
of the LORD, 18-15. Samuel had
spent a little time in dwelling upon
his own fidelity (vs. 2-5)', but had
quickly passed to a recital of the mercies
of Jehovah (vs. 6-12). God had
given them a king only because they
flad demanded one (vs. 12, 13, 17,
19). It was not God's first and best
choice for them. Now Samuel calls
:hem to look upon the king whom
they had chosen and whom God had
given. The king they were called
upon to gaze upon was a fine speci?
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poor a substitute for God, and how
bitter was the disappointment and
defeat. Israel was to experience la
him. go will it always be with those "J
who desire an arm of flesh instead of .
uOd to lean upon (Jer. 17:5, 8). But
3od is long-sufTering, and eveh yet
'.here was mercy and help for them. I
in these verses we have the whole
secret of having the Lord for us or
igainst us. To have the Lord with
as, and consequently to have it well
with us, all that is necessary is (1)
'fear the Lord," i. e., hold Him In
chat reverent regard that leads to a
prompt and constant obedience to Hia
will as expressed in His word (Prov.
3:13; 16:6; cf. 1 Jno. 5:3). (2)
'Serve Hiin." (3) "Hearken unt?
His voice." (4) "Rebel not against
His commandment." (5) "Be fol}
towers of the Lord your God" (cf.
Eph. 5:1). If on the other hand we
'will not hearken to the voice of
fehovah," the hand of Jehovah shall
)e against us. There can be no greater
calamity than to have the hand of
fehovah against us. Samuel pointed
'.hem to the whole history of Israel
is a connrmauuii ul ms wurus vcl. v.
9). For a comment upon vs. 14, 16;.
:urn to Lev. 26:1-39; Deu. 28:1-68;
isa. 1:16-20. '
II. Samuel Prays and God Answers,
10-10. Samuel sees the need **
chat the people be brought to a deep
realization of their sin. A sign Is , . ,
needed and he has faith in God that
tie will give it. He acted under God's
lirection, hence the outcome. He x
ialls upon the people to stand atil!
ind see the "great thing the Lord will
Jo." The Lord is always ready to do
great and wonderful things for those
who call upon Him with an intelligent
faith (Jer. 33:3). In Palestine ,. ~t
rains were almost unknown at the
Lime of wheat harvest (?f. Pro v.
26:1). But God gave thunder and
;ain in answer to Samuel's prayer (cf.
Jh. 7:9, 10; Josh. 10:12; Jas. 5:16
18). There are some who are too
wise to believe such stories as this*
out their wisdom is a wisdom born of
ignorance and prejudice. No one who
candidly studies the evidence, both
. in the Bible ?nd outside of it,' can
doubt that Go<i does give rain, as well
as do many other wonderful things,,
m direct answer to prayer. To doubt
it is not scientific; for it ignores unquestionable
facts. The Lord did precisely
as Samuel had counted upon
His doing, and as he had said that He
would do. The result was that "thepeople
greatly feared the Lord and
Samuel." Nothing makes God mora
real to men than a direct answer to
prayer, and no man is more feared
than the man whom the world knows.
| has the ear of God. But fche. world
soon forgets (Ps. 106:12,13). The
sign was effective, the people saw
themselves ae great sinners deserving
to die. That is the way in which we
all need to see ourselves. That is the
way in which we shall see ourselves
when we are brought, as Israel was,
face to face with God. They did not
feel fit to pray for themselves, but
felt the need of Samuel's prayers.
III. Fear Not, the Lord Will Not .
Forsake His People, 20-25. God's
oft-repeated message to His people is,
'"Fear not." Here He says it to His
people even when they have greatly
sinned. But they had just made conr
fession of their sin. There was pardon
for them still. The devil delights
to use our past sin to discourage
us. God says, "Though you have
sinned greatly in the pact, fear not
and turn not aside from following the
Lord" (cf. Josh. 23:<; Ps. 40:4).
Though we may have sfnned grievously
in the past, still it is entirely
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all our heart in the future. How true ,,
it is of the things of this world, after
which thelieartsof mengoastray from
the Lord, that they "cannot profit nor
deliver." If our salvation depended
upon anything in us we should never
be saved; but because it depends entirely
upon Him, it is always sure. It
was the Lord's good pleasure to make
Israel " a people unto Himself" (cf.
Deu. 7:7, 8; Matt. 11:26; Ro. 9:1318;
Jno. 15:16). It is the Lord's
good pleasure to-day to make all who
receive Jesus as their Saviour and
their Lord, a people unto Himself (cf.
1 Pet. 2:9, 10, R. V.). For Samuel
to cease to pray for God's people
would be for Samuel to "sin against
the Lord." There are many professed
Christians in our day who are
sinnine: aeainst the Lord in this very
way (cf. Ro. 1:9; Col. 1:9; 1 Thess.
3:10; 5:17). But Samuel would not
only pray, he would also teach. Note
well what he would teach, "the good
and the right way." The way of
obedience to God is not only the right
way, it is also the good way.
Cow With a Tin Hat.
An Elwood (Ind.) man watered his
cow in a washboiler, and as the animal
pushed her head down to reach
the water her horns became wedged
in the boiler and ?he could not release
herself, and, in consequence,
she made a wild plunge down the
street. She first dashed into a street
car, but the motorman saw her in
time and no injury followed, save
smashing the headlight! Then the
animal plunged into a group of school
children, but they escaped without
hurt, and she was headed off and
thrown as she was making a dash
into a store, 1 ne Doner war cur. away
and the cow resumed her normal condition.
Samoan Volcano Activc.
The volcano Mu, of th? Samoan
group, has been again in violent
eruption, and has destroyed a large
tract of valuable farm land. The information
came to San Francisco,
Cal., by steamship. The natives living
in Matatauta have been advised
to flee for their lives. According to
the last advices the flow was rapidly
nparin? Rnlonnlfl and thr> inhabitants
were preuarine to leave. H
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