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reY.d: (a THE BROOKIiYN DIVINE’S SUN* DAY SERMON. Sutyect: "On Lake Galilee.” teat Text: “He entered into a ehip. and fn the tea; and the whole multitude by the tea on the land."—Mark It., 1. * - It is Monday moraine in our Palestine ex periences, and tiie sky is a blue Galilee a bore, as in the boat ws sail the blue Galilee be neath. It is thirteen miles Ions and six milei wide, but the atmosphere is so clear it seems as if I could cast a stone from beach to beach. The lake looks as though it bad been lei down on silrer pulleys from the heavens and were a section of the sea of glass that St. John describes as a part of the celestial land* scape. Lake Galilee is a depression of six hundred feet in which the river Jordan widens and tarries a little, for the river Jor dan comes in at its north side and departs from its south side; so this lake has its cradle and its grave. Its white satin cradle is among the snows of Mount Hermon where the Jordan starts, and its sepulchre is the Dead Sea into which the Jordan empties. Lake Como of Italy, Lake Geneva of Switzerland, Lake Lomond of Scotland, Lake Winnipesaukeeof America are larger, but Lake Galilee is the greatest diamond that ever dropped from the finger of the clouds, and whether encamped on its banks as we were yesterday and worship ing at its crystal altars or wading into its waves, which make an ordinary bath solemn as a baptism, or now putting out upon its sparkling surface in a boat, It is something to talk about and pray about and sing about until the lips with which we now describe it can neither talk nor pray nor sing. As sometimes a beautiful child in a neigh borhood has a half dozen pet names, and soma of the neighbors call her by one name and others by another, so this pet lake of the planet has a profusion of names. Ask the Arab as he goes by what this sheet of water is, and he will call itTabariyeh. Ask Moses of the Old Testament, and he calls it Sea of Chinnereth. Ask Matthew, and he calls it Sea of Galilee. Ask Luke, and he calls it Sea of Gennesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea of Tiberias. Ask Josephus and Eusebius, and they have other names ready. But to me It appears a child of the sky, a star of the bills, a rhapsody of the mountains, the bap tismal bowl of the world’s temple, the smile of the great God. Many kinds of fish are found in these waters, every kind of tree upon its bank, from those that grow in the torrid cone to those in the frigid, from the plain to the cedar. Of the two hundred and thirty war ships Josephus manoevred on these waters—for Josephus was a warrior as well as a historian —there remains not one piece of a hulk, or one patch of a canvas, or one splinter of an oar. But to return to America we never will until we have had a sail upon this inland pea. Not from a wharf, but from a beach covered with black and white pebbles, we go on board a boat of about ten or twelve tons, to be propel l«sd partly by sail and partly by oar. The mast leans so far forward that it seems about to fall, but we find it was pur posely so built, and the rope through a pulley manages to hoist and let down the sail. It is a rough boat, and as far as possible removed from a Venetian gondola or a sportsman’s yacht. With a common saw and hammer and ax many of you could make a better one. Poug barefooted Arabs, instead of sitting down to their oars, stand, as they always do in rowing, and pull away from shore. I in sist on helping, for there is nothing more ex hilarating to me than rowing, but I soon have enough of the clumsy oars and the awk ward attempt at wielding them while in standing posture. We put our overcoats and shawls on a smaL deck in the stern of the boat, the very kind of a deck where Christ lay on a fisher man’s coat when of old a tempest pounced upon the fishing smack of the affrighted dis ciples. Ospreys and ^ild ducks and king fishers fly overhead or dip their wings into the lake, mistaking it for a fragment of fallen sky. Can it be that those Bible stories about sudden storms on this lake are true? Is it possible that a sea of such seeming placidity of temper could ever rise and rage at tiie heavens* It d^es not seem as if this happy family of elements could have ever had a falling oat, and the water sigUjfrft* the clouds and tne clouds strike at the waters Poll away, oarsmen! On cur right bank are the hot sulphur baths, so hot they are scalding, and the waters must cool off a long while before hand or foot can endure their temperature. Volcanoes have been boiling these waters for centuries. Four springs roll their resources into two great swimming reservoirs. King Herod here tried to bathe off the results of his excesses, and Pliny and Josephus describe the spurtings out of these -volcanic heats and Joshua and Moses knew about them, a'SS this moment long lines of pilgrims from all parts of the earth are waiting for their turn to step into the steaming restoratives. Let the boat, as far as possible and not run aground, hug the western shore of the lake that we may see the city of Tiberias, once a great capital, of the architecture of which a few mosaics and fallen pillars and pedestals, and here and there a broken and shattered frieze remain, mightily suggestive of the time when Herod Antipas had a palace here and reigned with an opujenoe ana pomp and cruelty and abomination that paralyzes the fingers of the historian when he comes to write it and the fingers of the painter when he attempts to transfer it to canvas. I sup pose he was one of the worst men that ever lived. And what a contrast of character comes at every moment to the thoughtful traveler in Palestine, whether he walks the Deach of tnis lake or sails as we now do these waters! Side by side are the two great characters of this lake region, Jesus and Herod An- tipas. And did any age produce any such antipodes any such antitheses, any such opposites? Kindness and cruelty, holiness and filth, generosity and meanness, self- sacrifice and selfishness, the supernal and the Infernal, midnoon and midnight. The father bf this Herod Antipas was a genius at assas sination. He could manufacture more rea- of this life than He sends for Hyrcanus to come from Babylon to Jeru salem to be made high priest, aud slays him. He has his brother-in-law while in bathing with him drowned by the king’s attendants. He slays his wife and his wife’s mother and two of bis sons and his uncle, and filled a Volume of atrocities, the last chapter of which was the massacre of all the babies at Bethlehem. W ith such a father as Herod the Great you are not surprised that this Herod Antipas, whose palace stool on the banks of this lake we now sail, was a combination of wolf, rep tile and hyena; while the Christ who walked yonder banks and sailed these waters was so good that almost every rood of this scenery is associated with some wise word or some kindly deed, aud all literature and all art and all earth and all heaven are put to the utmost effort in trying to express how grand and glorious and lovely He was and is and is to be. The Christly and Herodic characters as different as the two lakes we visit,and not far apart Galilee and the Dead Sea; the one flower banked and the other bituminous and blasted; the one hovered over by tne mercy oi Christ, the other blasted by the wrath of God; the one full of finny tribes sporting in the clear depths, the other forever lifeless; the waters of the one sweet and pleasant to the taste, the other bitter and sharp and disgusting. Awful Dead Seal Glorious Gennesaret. We will not attempt to cross the eastern side of this lake, as I had thought to do, for those regions are inhabited by a thieving and murderous race; and one most go thorough ly armed, aud as I never shot any one and have no ambition to be shot, I said: “Let us stay by the western shore.” But we look ‘ over to the hills of Gadara,on the other side, down which two thousand swine after being possessed by the devil ran into the lake, ana bringing down on Christ for permitting it the wrath of all the stock raisers of that oountrv because of this ruining of the pork yosmess. You see that Satan is a spirit of TMd taste. Why did henot say: “Let me go into those birds, whole flocks of which fly over Galilee”’ No; that would have been too high. “Why not let me go into the sheep which wander over these hills?” No: that aroold have been too gentle. “Rather let me go into these swine. I want to be with the denizens of the mire. I want to associate with the inhabitants of the filth. Great is mod! I prefer bristles to vrings. I would rather root than fly. Hike snout better than wing.” Infidelity scoffs at the idea that those swine should have run into the lake. But it was quite natural that undo* the heat and burn ing of that demoniac possession they would start for the water to get cooled off. Would that all the swine thus possessed had plunged to the same drowning, for this day the Seecendants of some of those porcine creatures retain the demons, and as the devils were cast out of man into them they • now afflict tha human race with the devils of scrofula, that comes from eating the un clean meat! The healthiest people on earth are the Israelites, because they follow the bill of fare which God in the book of Leviticus gave to the human race, and our aplendid French Dr. Fasteur and our glorious German Dr. Koch may go on with their good work of killing parasites in the human system; but until the world corrects Its diet, end goes back to the divine regula tion at the beginning, the human race will jontinne to be possessed of the devils of microbe and parasite. Bat I did not mean t* cross over to the eastern side of Lake SalfJee ewna in discussion. roll awap, pe Arab o&mbmb! And we some along tne snore near by wmen stana treat precipices of brown and red and gray limestone crowned by basalt, in the sides of which are vast caverns, sometimes the hiding place of bandits, and sometimes the home of aonest shepherds, and sometimes the dwell ing place of pigeons and vultures and eagles. During one of Herod’s wars his enemies hid in these mountain caverns and the sides were too steep for Herod’s army to descend, and the attempt to climb in the face of armed men would have called down extermination. 3o Herod had great cages of wood, iron- bound, made and filled them with soldiers and let them down from the top of the precipices until they gave signal that they were level with the caverns, and then from these cages they stepped out to the mouth of the cavern*, ana having set enough grass and wood on fire to fill the caverns with smoke and stran gulation. the hidden people would come forth to die; and if not coming forth volun tarily Herod’s men would pull them out with long iron hooks, and Josephus says that one father, rather than submit to the attacking army flung his wife and seven children down the precipice and then leaped after them to his own death. Now. yo Arab oarsmen/row on with swift er stroke, for we want before noon to land at Capernaum, the three years’ home of Jesus. But before arrival there we are to nave a new experience. The lake that had been a smooth surf ace begins to break up in to roughness. The air, which all the morn ing made our sail almost useless, suddenly takes hold of our boat with a grip astonish ing. and our poor craft begins to roll and pitch and tumble, and in five minutes we pass from a calm to violence. The contour of this lake among the hills is an invitation to hurricanes. I used to wonder why it was that on so limited a sheet of water a be- stormed boat in Christ’s time did not out back to shore when a hurricane was coming. 1 wonder no more. On that lake an atmospheric fury gives no warning, and the change we saw in five minutes made me feel that the boat in which Christ sailed may have been skilfully man aged when the tempest struck it and the wild. Importunate erv went np, “Lord save us or we perish l” I had all along that morning been reading from the New Testament the story of occurrences on and around that lake. But our Bible was closed now, and it was as much as we could do to hold fast and wish for the land. If the wind and the waves had continued to increase in violence the follow ing fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the first five, and we had been still at their mercy, our bones would have been bleaching in the bottom of Lake Gennesaret instead of onr being here to tell the story. But the same power that rescued the fish ermen of old to-day safely landed our party. What a Christ for rough weather l All the sailor boys ought to fly to Him as did those Galilean mariners. All you in the forecastle md all you who run up and down the slip pery ratlines, take to sea with you Him who ■vith a quiet word sent the winds back Through the mountain gorges. Some of you Jack Tars to whom these words will come need to “tack ship” and change your course if you are going to get across this sea of life safely and gain the heavenly harbor. Belay there! Ready about! Helm’s a-lee! Main sail haul! Star of peace! beam o’er the billow. Bleaa the soul that sighs for thee; Bleaa the sailor’s lonely pillow. Far, far at sea. Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having in their arms carried us ashore to the only place where our Lord ever had a pastorate; and we stepped amid the ruins of the church where He preached again and again and again—the synagogue whose rich sculptor— * g lay there, not as when othera^ see it in _Jingtime coverea' with wesis ana ioatn- sorne with reptiles, but in that December weather completely uncovered to our agi tated and intense gaze? On one stone of that synagogue is the sculpturing of a pot of manna, an artistic commemoration of the time when the Israelites were fed by manna in the wilderness, and to which sculpturing no doubt Clirist pointed upward while He was preaching that sermon on this very spot in which He said: “Not as our fathersdid eat manna and are dead; he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” Wonderful Ca pernaum ! Scene of more miracles than any place in all the earth! Blind eyes kindling with the morning. Withered arms made to pulsate. Lepers blooming into health. The dead girl reanimated. These Arab tents which on this December day I find in Palestine disappear, and I see Capernaum as it was when Jesus was pastor of the church here. Look at that wealthy home, the architecture, the marble front, the upholstery, the slaves in uniform at the doorway. It is the residence of a courtier of Herod, probably Chuza by name, his wife Joanna, a Christian disciple. But something is the matter. The slaves are in great ex citement, and the courtier living there runs down the front steps and takes a horse and pats him at full run across the country. The boy of that nobleman is dying of typhoid fever. All the doctors nave tailed to give relief. But about five miles up the country, at Cana, there is a divine doctor, Jesus by name, and the agonized father has gone tor Him, and with what earnestness those can understand who have had a dying child in the house. This courtier cries to Christ, “Come down ere my child die!” While the father is absent, aud at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, the people watching the dying boy see a change in the countenance, and Joanna, the mother, on one side of his couch, says: “Why, this darling is getting well; the fever has broken. See the prespira- tion on his forehead. Did any of you give him any new kind of medicine?” “No,” is the answer. The boy turns on his pillow, his delirium gone, and asks for something to eat and says: “Where’s father?” Oh, he has gone up to Cana to get a young doctor of about thirty-one years of age. out no doctor is needed now in this house at Capernaum. The people look at the sun dial to see what time it is, and see it is just past noon and 1 o’clock. Then they start out and meet the returning father and as soon as they come within speaking distance they shout at the top of their voices: “Your boy is getting well.” “Is it possible?” says the father, “When did the change for the better taka place?” “One o’clock” is the answer. “Why,” says the courtier, “that is just the hour that Jesus said to me ‘Thy son liveth/ One o’clock. As they gather at the evening meal what gladness on all the countenances in that home at Capernaum 1 The mother, Joanna, has not haa sleep for many nights, and she now falls off into delightful slumber. The father. Chuza, the Herodian courtier, worn out with anxiety as well as by the rapid journey to and from Cana, is soon in restful unconsciousness. Joanna was a Christian before, but I warrant she was more of Christian afterward. Did the father Chuza accept the Christ who had cured his boy? Is there in all the earth a parent so ungrate ful for the convalescence or restoration of an imperiled child as not to go into a room and kneel down and make surrender to the almighty love that came to the rescue? The mightiest agency in the universe is prayer, and it turns even the Almighty. It decide* the destinies of individuals, families and nations. During our sad civil war a gentleman was a guest at the White House in Washington, and he gives this incident. He says: “I had been spending three weeks in the White House with Mr. Lincoln as his guest. One night—it was just after the bat tle of Bull Run—I was restless and could not sleep. I was repeating the part which I was to take in a public performance. The hour was past midnight. Indeed, it was coming near to the dawn when I heard low tones proceeding from a private room where the President slept. The door was partly open. I Instinctively walked in, and there I saw a sight which 1 shall never forget. It was the President kneeling before an open Bible. “The light was turned low in the room. His back was turned toward me. For a mo ment I was silent as I stood lookin~ in amazement and wonder. Then he cried out in tones so pitiful and sorrowful: ‘Oh,Thou God that heard Solomon in the night when he prayed for wisdom, hear me! I cannot lead this people, I cannot guide the affairs of this nation without Thy help. I am poor and weak and sinful. Ob, God, who didst hear ' wisdom, hear me i see we don’t need evidenoe that Solomon when he cridd for and save the nation !* ” You to go back to Bible tim.es for prayer is heard and answered. Bat some one may say that Christ at Ca pernaum healed that courtier’s child, vet would not have done it for one in humble life. Why, in that very Capernaum He did the same thing for a dying slave belonging to the man who had made a present to the town of the church of which Jesus was pas tor, the synagogue among whose ruins I to day leap from fragment to fragment. This was the core of a Roman soldier’s slave, whose only acknowledged rights were the wishes of his owner. And none are now so enslaved or so humble or so sick or so sinful but the all-sympathetic Christ is ready to help them, ready to cure them, ready to emancipate them. Hear it! Pardon for all. Mercy for all. Help for all. Comfort for all. Heaven for all. Oh, this lake Galilee! What a refreshment for Christ it must have been after sympathizing with the sick, and raising the dead, and preaching to the multi tudes all day long to come down on these banks in the night time, and feel the cool air of the sea on His hot face, and look up to the stars, the lighted lamps around the heavenly palaces from which He had descended! All heaven and earth were still: from the high post Of stars to the hilled lake and mountain coast. All heaven and earth were still—though not la sleep. But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. A FAD IN SERVING BREAD. “Bread shou’.d not be sliced” is the dictum of some of our housekeepers who lake kindly to new fashions. One. little woman, who is au fait on all such matters, uses a silver bread-plate, on which is placed half a loaf. T) e guest who abhors crust is allowed to a/acc»«.uucDOy am wt gsarw waans^ • v.wisui^ auwv* But,” says some one, “why was it tha^’t®*!!’ out a handful of “soft” from the Christ, coming to save the world, should spend so much of His time on and around so solitary a place as Lake Galilee? There is only one city of any size on its beach, and both the eastern shores are a sontuae, oroxen only oy tne sounas coming from the mud hovels of the degradea. W hy did not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty, at Athens the learned, at Cairo the historic, at Thebes the hundred gated, at Rome the triumphant? If Christ was going to save the world, why not go where the world’s people dwell? Would a man wishing to revolutionize for good the American con tinent, pass his time amid the fishing huts on the shores of Newfoundland?'’ My friends, Galilee was the hub of the wheel of civilization and art, and the center of a population that staggers realization. On the shore of the lake we sail to-day stood nine great cities—Scythopolla, Tarich, Hippos, Gamala, Chorazin, Capernaum; Bethsaida, Magdala, Tiberias—and many villages, the smallest of which had 15,000 in habitants, according to Josephus, and reach ing from the beach back into the country in all directions. Palaces, temples, coliseumns, gymnasiums, amphitheatres, towers, gardens terraced on the hillsides, fountains bewilder ing with sunlight, baths upon whose mosaic floors kings trod; while this lake,from where the Jordan enters It to where the Jordan leaves it, was beautiful with all styles of shallop or dreadful with all kinds of war gal ley. Four thousand ships, history says, were at one time upon these waters. Battles were fought there, which shocked all nations with their consequences. Here mini In her Issl ;Ung Mool with pare and sparkling foam, throes Jndws fought with Home. Upon those sea fights looked Vespasian and Titus and Trajan and whole empires. From oue of these naval encounters so many of the dead floated to the beach they could not soon enough be entombed, and a plague was threatened. Twelve hundred soldiers escaping from thess vessels of war were one day massacred in the amphitneatre at Tioe- rias. For three hundred years that almost continuous city encircling Lake Galilee was the metropolis of our planet. It was to the very heart of the world that Jesus came to soothe its sorrows, and pardon its sias, and heal its sick, and emancipate its enslaved and reanimate its dead. And let the church and the world take the suggestion. While the solitary places are not to be neglected, we must strike for the great cities, if this world Is ever to be taken foi ' ‘ Evangelize all the earth except for Christ. _ the cities and in one year the cities woi corrupt the earth. But bring the cities and all the world will come. Bring London and England will come. Bring Berlin and Ger many will come. Bring Paris and France will come. Bring St. Petersburg and Russia wm come. .Bring Vienna ana Austria win come. Bring Cairo and Egypt will come. Bring the near three million people in this cluster of cities on the Atlantic coast and all America will soon see the salvation of God. Ministers of religion! let us intensify our evangelism. Editors and publishers t purify your printing presses! Asylums of mercy! enlarge your plans of endeavor! And instead of this absurd and belittling which happens to have the most men and women and children, not realizing that the more useless and bad people a city has the worse it is off, and a city which has ten thou sand good people is more to be admired than a city' with one hundred thousand bad peo ple, let us take a moral census, and see how many good men and good women are lead ing forth, how large a 'hildre: generation of good children who will consecrate themselves and consecrate the round world to holiness and to God. Oh, thou blessed Christ, who didst come to the mighty cities encircling . Lake Galilee! come in mercy to all our great cities of to-day. Thou who didst put Thy hand on the whits mane of the foaming billows of Gennesaret and make them lie down at Thy feet, hush all the raging passions of the world! Oh, Thou blessed Christ, who ou the night when th« disciples were trying to cross this lake and “the wind was contrary,” after nine hours of rowing had made only three miles, didst come stepping on water that at the touch ol Thy foot hardened into crystal, meet all our shipping, whether on placid or stormy seas, ana say to all Thy people now, by whatever style of tempest tossed or driven, as Thou didst to the drenched disciples in the cyclone: ’‘Be of good cheer. It is I. Be not afraid f’ Thank God that I Dive seen this lake of Christly memories, and I can say with Robert MoCheyne, the ascended ministsr of Scotland, who, seated on the banks of this lake, wrote in his last sick days, and just be fore he crossed the Jordan, not the Jordan that empties into Galilee, but the Jordan that empties into the “sea of glass mingled with fire,” these sweet words, fit to be played by human fingers, on strung strings of earthly lute, or by angelic fingers on seraphic harps: It Is not that the wild gazelle Come* down to drink thy tide. Bat Re that was pierced to aavs from hell Oft wandered by thy elde. Graceful aroand thee the mountains meet, Thott calm, reposing sea; But ah! far more, the beautiful feet Of Jesus walked ojer thee. O Saviour! gone to God’s rinht hand, Yet the same Saviour still. Graved on Thy heart Is this lovely strand And every fragrant hill. BLOWN FROM A GUN. Punishment of an Governor. The Crime and Afghan The Jellalabad correspondent of a Lahore (India) journal reports that Mirza Abdul Samad Khan, Governor of Chaplior in the Jellalabad province, was executed by being blown from a gun, for murdering Mirza Abdul Shakur Khan, civil munsiff of Jellala bad. The execution took place outside the Sherpore gate ou October 7, in the presence of all the garrison of Cabul. The murder was committed about September 15, after evening prayer in the mosque in the village of Khusbgumbat, the victim being stabbed in the stomach by a servant of the culprit. The following day the latter ar rested many of the villagei s on the charge of having committed the murder, but the other inhabitants of the place reported the real facts of the case by letter to the Ameer, who had Samad Khan arrested, tried, and executed within a few days. The motive for the crime is said to have been that Shakur Khan had recently written to the Ameer reporting that Samad Khan had mis appropriated a large sum of public money. •FOR THE HOU8ZW1 RECIPE FOR STARCH POLISH. One ounce of white wax, ounces of paraffin,one ounce of S] accti, one-hal f ounce stearine. all together in a tin vessel, pour iu tin plate to cool. To every quarts starch used add about an inch sqi To make blueing take one ounce Chi nese blue and one fourth-ounce of ox alic acid,, aud four quarts of soft wa ter.—[Farm, Field'and Stockman. very heart of the loaf, while the Egg-^ J Hsh lover of well-doue-and-a-day-old breaks off whatever he wishes.— [Ladies’ Home Companion. FURNITURE POLISH. Probably the best furniture polish is raw or crude petroleum. This can be obtained at city oil or paint stores. It is the coal oil, just as it runs from the well, aud is considerably more ex pensive than ordinary kerosene. A quart bottle of crude petroleum will not cost over a quarter of a dollar, however, and will polish a housefull of furniture. First clean the furni ture thoroughly with kerosene. This will remove all the dust. Then polish it with the crude oil, applying it with a flannel rag and rubbing it in with a ehamois leather. Rub in the oil so that the furniture will not stain a clean white cotton cloth applied to it. —[New York Tribune. TO CORRECT STOMACHIC ACIDITY The common use of soda to correct acidity in the stomach is an error. A counter acid is safer and a little lemon or lime juice, properly used, wiH rem edy the trouble as often as anything. In some cases a very little sugar occa- sonally, alternated with cold water, is found effective. Sometimes hot Pa-visiting” to find Oculist would be out of business it none could see an object until it was pointed out. If a man would set a good example Tie .would be -too busy to interfere with the duties of others. A man might be happy if Ids ignor ance was removed, but bis brilliancy would be of a fossil type that would not materially add to the progressive character of society. If book knowledge will elevate the character, one fails to make it appear when he employs such ability to ridi cule those who are not familiar with technical words. The man is already a slave who is finding fault with others for not taking (letter care of him, for tho man who has strength enough to grumble about the situation could improve it at will. A confusion of understanding is necessary to a growth or an education, but it is no less the duty of every per son to employ simple words, for by such means society is enlarged and a more united relation becomes possible. It is a delusion that wickedness prospers, for none but the person him self can determine real wickedness, and anyone who coverts the apparent prosperity of others who are freely denounced wicked, stands self-con victed. The disposition in man to rule is no doubt the cause of extravagant words of expression. It shows the dis honesty of literal methods, for if the object was to benefit others, men would not seek to monopolize their social advantage by parading words which are purposely formed to de ceive the industrious laborer.— [Sturdy Oak. How to Become an Electrician. The electrical industry now offers such inducements to the steady, hard and faithful worker that a large num ber of young men are entering its ranks, and the question is frequently asked: “How can I become an electri nothing is so good as external warmth applied over the stomach. Lemon juice before meals will be very advantag- oua, as a preventive to heartburn. Acids, as a rule decrease the acid secretion of the body and in creases the alkaline. 'When acid is given for the relief of dyspepsia, it should be taken before eating.— [Chatter. cian?” In response to tbis query an water is the best thing. Sometime^ journal ]ayg 8tre83 on ttr advantages of a mechanical training it conjunction with electrical studies. 1 recommends a firm superstructure ol electrical knowledge upon a foundation of mechanical ability as a combination most likely to insure success. To the young man who determines to enter the promising field of electrical engi neering it says: First study the gen eral principles involved in applied electricity and the theory on which RECIPES. One tablespoonful of liquid makes , fhoy ar0 founded and^ic^ nVairy amoi^ our cities as U, nntt.hnlf .oil nrp — If soot be dropped upon the cajrpetJ on ^ 8U ^j cct which throw upon it an equal quantity of j stu 16 W pr ° * 18 salt and sweep all up together. There A HUSKING MATCH. Two Iowa Experts Struggle for the State Championship. An exciting corn basking match, in which a large part of Iowa was interested, took place at Avoca, a few days ago. For two years Al. Johnson and Webb McConnell have claimed the husking championship and it was decided to settle the dispute. A field of corn was selected averaging forty bushels to the acre and each man worked ten hours. A great crowd was present and admirers cheered their favorites. So evenly were the contest ants matched that when time was called each had husked and cribbed 140 bushels of corn. The contest was for the champion ship and 1100 a side. Johnson was awarded the contest because his corn was bettor cleaned of husks. rwo or tne oiaest American fire Insurance companies have retire 1 from business because of the competition of English companies. will be scarcely a trace of soot left. For croup use kerosene oil. Wet a piece of flannel and apply. It gives almost-instant relief. Remove when the skin becomes very red, or it will blister. Cream Cookies—Two cupfuls of sugar; two cupfuls of sour cream; two eggs. Beat thoroughly; sift with two cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of soda. Season with nutmeg or cinnamon, and add enough flour to roll out. A soft dough for sugar cookies is always best, if you wish them soft and spongy. Too much flour makes them hard. Lemon Sauce—Mix a tablespooufui of cornstarch with three tablespoonfuls of cold water, stir into a veacupful of boiling water, boil till clear and thick; add grated yellow rind and the juice of one lemon, with a cupful of granu lated sugar. Simmer two minutes. Beat one egg, add two tablespopnsfuls cold water, pour the boiling mixture into this, stirring rapidly, return to fire; remove soon as it begins to sim mer. Ox-Tail Soup—Wash an wipe an ox tail, cut in pieces two inches long. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter into a frying pan. let heat, throw in the ox tails and stir until brown, then skim them into the soup kettle, cover with half a gallon of soup stock or cold water, add one onion, five cloves, one carrot, one turnip with salt and pepper to taste; simmer about two hours. Take out the vegetables, sea son with salt and pepper and the juice of half a lemon. Tomato Confections—Scald and skin small tomatoes. To eight pounds of fruit allow three pounds of br<J$/n sugar. Cook without water until the' sugar has penetrated them, and they look clear. Spread ou plates in the sun, adding a little of the syrup while they are drying. Pack in layers in small jars or boxes sprinkling pow dered sugar between the layers. Put down in this way they will keep in definitely, and are said to almost equal figs, which they greatly re semble. Full and Free Content. Dutiful Daughter—“Pa, may I mar ry Mr. Clinks?” Pa—“What Clinks? That young ten-a-week clerk who has—” Daughter—“No, pa. I mean Mr. Clinks, the only son of Banker Clinks.” Pa—“Mercy, yes l Marry him at once. Don’t let him esta ie."—’[New York Weekly. may be studied with profit. It is highly im- tant that the student should be grounded iu this general theory, for, though it may not give him an insight into any particular system, he will have obtained a firm grasp of the principles that will enable him to size up the details of any system that may present itself. Then put a few years of thorough mechanical training in the workshop, both at engine work and electrical machinery. These two requisites being au accomplished fact, intelligence, sound common sense, a modicum of modesty, and plenty of hard work will do the rest.—[Chicago News. Indication of Lunacy. Deputy Coroner Jenkins tells mJ that there is a pathological significance in a person’s handwriting. In the early stages of insanity, for instance, the handwriting of the insane indicates the invasion of the disease. The progress of the malady is marked by changes in the handwriting. It is the reverse of that of childhood. In the first stage there is a diminution of the handwriting, a running of the words 1 together, and either not finishing the final letter or terminating it in an ir regular outline or dropping it enthely. The letters are shaky and irregular and there is a plentiful besprinkling of capitals. Later tho letters are coarse and written in uneven lines. Finally there are scattered pothooks like those of a child just learning to write. The question has suggested itself whether in the case of the insane the tendency, especially after writing £-r a while, to slope the lines down- i .rd and to use capitals profusely is I ot due to mental fatigue. 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