The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, December 11, 1890, Image 4
REY. DR. TALI1GE;
The Eminent Brooklyn Di vine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "Among the Brdonlm."
Test: "Forasmvch as thou knoivest how
weave to encamp in the wilderness.''?Num.
5., 31.
Night after night we have slept in tent in
Palestine. There are large villages of Bedouins
without a house, and for three thou.sand
years the people of those places have lived in
black tents, inado out of dyed skins, and
when the winds and storms wore out and tore
loose those coverings others of the same kind
took their places.
Noah lived in a tent: Abraham in a tent.
Jacoo pitcned ms tons on tuo mountain.
Isaac pitched his tent in the valley*-- Lot
pitched his tent toward Sodom. In a tent
the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the genera!, to,
the ground, first having given him sour milk,
called "leben" as a soporific to make him
sleep soundly, that being the effect of such
nutrition, gg modern traveler^jfc testify. .
The Syrian array in a ten^^Re ancient !
battle shout was "To youn^mts, O Israel!"
Paul was a tent maker. .indeed. Isaiah,magnificently
poetic, indicates that all the human
^ race live under abAue tent when he says God
"stretcheth noi'fthe heavens as a curtain and
spreadeth Vnem cut as a tent to dwcil in,''and
Hezejyrah compares death to the striking of a
testfTsaying, "Mj-age is removed from me
as asheDherd'steut.'
In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear
something I never heard before and hope
never to hear again. It is the voice ot a
hyena amid the rocks near by. When you.
may have seen this monster putting hisi
month between the iron bars of a menagerie
he is a captive, and he gives a humiliato 1(
and suppressed cr.v. But yonder in the midnight
on a throne"of rocks* he has nothiug to
fear, and he utters himself in a loud, resounding,
terriffic, almost supernatural
round, splitting up tho darkn ess into s. J
deeper midnight* It begins with a howl and'
ends with a sound something like a horse's
whining. In the hyena's voice are defiance
and strength and bloodthirstiness and crunch
of broken bones and death.
I am glad to say that for the most partPalestine
is clear of beasts of prey. The
leopards, which Jeremiah says cannot
change their spots, have all disappeared, and
the lions that once were common nil through
this land, aivl used by all the prophets for
illustrations of cruelty and wrath, have retueated
before the discharges of gunpowder,
of which they have an indescribable fear. But
for the most Dart Palestine is what it cried
nally was. With the one exception of a
wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jerusalem
and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and
from Nazareth to Tiberias and from Tiberias
to Damascus, that cue nerve of civilization,
the telegraphic wire (for we found
ourselves only a few minutes off from Brooklyn
and New York while standing by Lake
Galilee), with that one exception Palestine
is just as it. always was.
Nothing surprised me so much a 3 the persister
e of everything. A sheep or horse
falls aead, and though the sky may one minute
before be clear of all wings in five minutes
after th6 skies are black with eagles
cawing, screaming, plunging, fighting for
room, contending for largest morsels of the
extinct quadruped. Ah, uow I understand
the force of Christ's illustration when He
said: "Wheresoever the carcass is there will
the eagles be gathered together." The longevity
of those eagles is wonderful. They
live fifty and sixty and sometimes a hundred
years. "Ah, that explains what David meant
when he said: "Thy youth is rcne we 1 like the
eagle's." 1 saw a shepherd with the folds of
his coat far bent outward, and I wondered
what was contained in that amplitude of apparel,
audi said to the dragoman: "What
has that shepherd got under his coat)'" And
the dragoman said: "It isa very younglamb
he is carrying; it is too young aud too weak
and too cold to keep up with the flock." At
that moment I saw the lamb put its head out
from the shepherd's bosom and I said: "There
it is now. Isaiah's description of the tenderness
of God?he shall gather the lambs with
his arm and carry them in his besom."
Passing by a village home, in the Holy
Land, about noon I saw a great crowd in
and around a private house, and I said to the
dragoman: ".favia, wnat is going on merer"
Be said: "Somebody has recently died there,
and their neighbors go in for several days
after to sit down and weep with the bereaved."
There it is, I said, the old scriptural
custom, "And many of the Jews came
to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning
their brother." Early in the morning
passing by a cemetery in the Holy Land.
I saw among the graves about fifty women;
dressed in black,and they were crying: "Ob,'
my child!" "Ob, my husband!" "Oh, my
father."' "Ob, my mother!" Our dragoman:
told us that every morning, very early for'
three mornings alter a burial, the women go,
to the sepulcher, and after that every week
very early for a year. As I saw this group
just after daybreak I said: "There it is again,
the same old custom referred to in Luke, the
evangelist, where ho says, 'Certain women
which were early in the sepulcher.'"
But hero wo found ourselves at Jacob's
well, the most famous well in history, most
distinguished for two things, because it belonged
to the old patriarch after whom it
was named, and for the wonderful things
which Christ said, seated t n this well curb,
to the Samaritan woman. "VV'e dismount
frftm our horses in a drizzling rain, and our
dragoman, climbing up to the well over
the slippery stones, stumbles and frightens
us all by nearly falling into it. I measured
the well at the top and found it six feet
from edv? to eriva. So so a ora-os and xkoaIo
and thorny growths overhang it. In ooe
place the roof is broken through. Large stones
embank the wall on all sides.
Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them in, and from the time they left his
hand to the instant they clicked on the bottom
you could hear it was deep, though not
as deep as once, for every day travelers aro
applying the same test, and though in the
time"of Maundrell, the traveler,the well was
a hundred and sixty-five feet deep, now it is
only seventy-five. So great is the curiosity
of the world to know about that well that
during the dry season a Captain Auderson
descended into this well, at one place the
sides so close liehatLto.out.his hands over his
head in order to get through, and then he
fainted away and lay at the bottom of the
well as though dead, until hours after recovery
he came to the surface.
It is not like other wells digged down to a
fountain that fills it, but a reservoir to catch
the falling rains, and to that Christ refers
when speaking to the Samaritan woman about
a spiritual supply He said He woulcUf asked,
have given her "living water," that is, water
fiom a flowing spring in distinction from the
water of the well, which was rain water. But
why did Jacob make a reservoir there when
there is plenty of water all around and
abundance of springs and fountains and seemingly
no need of that reservoir? Why did
Jacob go to the vast expense of boring and
digging a well perhaps two hundred feet deep
as first completed, when, by going a little
way off, he could have water from other
fountains at little or no expense? Ab, Jacob
was wise. He wanted his own well. Quarrels
and wars miuht arise with other tribes and
the supply of water might be cut off, so the
shovels aud pickaxes and borimi instriimanto
were ordered, and the well of nearly four
thousand years ago was sunk through the
solid rock.
"When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having
his own weil lie taught us not to be unneces
sarily dependent on others. Independence
of business character, independence oi moral |
character, independence of teligious character.
Have your own well of grace, your
own well of courage, your own well of divine
supply. If you are an invalid you have a
right to be dependent on others. But if God
has given you good health, common sense
and two eyes and two ears and two hands
and two feet, He equipped you for independence
of all the universe except Himself. It
He had meant you to be dependent on others
you would have been built with a cord
around your* waist to tie fast to somebody
e:se. JN'o; you are built with common sense
to fashion your own ooinions, with eyes to
find your own way, with ears to select your
own music, with hands to fight your "own
battle?. There is only one being in the universe
who?e advice you need and that is God.
Have your own well and the Lord will 511 it.
Dig it if need be through two hundred feet
of solid rock. Dig it with your pen. or dig
it with your yard stick, or dig it with your
shovel, or dig it with vour Bible.
In my small way I never accomplished
anything for God or theehurch.or the world,
or my family, or myself, except in contradiction
to human advice and in obedience to
divine counsel. God knows everything, and
what is the use of going for advice to human
leincs who know sa little that no one but the
all seeing God can realize now little it is? I
suppose that when Jacob bagaa to dig this
well on which we are sitting this noontide
people gathered around and said, "What a
useless expense you are going to, when roll-,
ing down from yonder Mount Gerizim and
down from yonde: Mount Ebal and out
yonder in the va'lcv is plenty of water!"
"Ob,' replied Jacob, "that is all true, but
suppose my neighbors should get angered
against me and cut off ray supply of mountain
beverage, what would 1 do, and what
would my fapiilv do, and what would my
flocks and herds do'' Forward, ye brigade of
pickaxes and crowbars, and go down into the
depths of these rocks and make me independent
of all except Him who fills the bottles of
the clouds! Imust have my own well!"
Youug man, drop cigars and cigarettes
and wine cups and the Sunday excursions,
and build your own house, and have your
own wardrobe, and be your own capitalist!
"Why, I have only five hundred dollerrs income
a year!" says some one. Then speud
four hundred dollars of it in living, and ten
per cent, of it, or fifty dollars, in benevolence,
and the other fttty in beginning to
dig your own well. Or if you have a thousand
dollars a year spend eight hundred
dollars of it in living, ten per cent., or one
hundred dollars, in benevolence, and the remaining
one hundred in beginning to digy.mr
own well. The largest bird that ever flew
thiviio-P th? air was hatched out of OUO etrg.
and the greatest estate was brooded out of
one dollar.
I suppose when Jacob began to dig this
well, on whose curb we are now seated this
December noon,it was a dry season then as
now, and some one coraes up and says:
"Now Jacob, suppose you get the well fiity
feet deep or two hundred feet deep and there
should be no water to fill it, would you sot
feel silly?" Peopld passing along the road
and looking down from Mount Gerizim or
Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say:
"fhat is Jacob's well, a great hole in tbo.
rook, illustrating the man's folly." Jacob
replied: "There never has bean a well in
Palestine or any other country that once
thoroughly dug was not sooner or later filled
from the clouds, and this will be no exception."
For months after Jacob had completed the
well people went by, and out of respect for
the deluded old man put their hand over
their mouth to hide a snicker, and the well
remained as dry as the bottom of a kettlo
that had been liauging over the fire for three
hours. But one day the sun was drawing
water, and the wind got round to the east
aud it began to drizzle, and then great drops
splashed all over the well curb, and the
heavens opened their reservoir and the rainy
season poured its floods for six weeks, and
there came maidens to the well with empty
p-.ils and carried them away full, and the
camels thrust their mouths into the troughs
and were satisfied, and too water was in the
well three feet deep, and fifty feet deop, and' |
two hundred feet deep, and all the Bedouins i
of the neighborhood and all the passersby
realized that Jacob was wise in having his
own well. My hearer, it is your part to dig
vaiip r\vcy\ mi 1 if ic firv-ve nnrh tn fill it.
You do your uart und Ho will do His part.
Much "is said about "good luck," but people
who are industrious and self denying almost
always have good luck. You can afford
to be laughed at because of your application
and economy, for when you get your
well dug and filled it will be your turn to
laugh.
But look up from this famous well aud
sec two mountains and tho plain between
them, on which was gathered the largest
religious audience that ever assembled on
earth, about five hundred tbousaud people.
Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred tent
liigb, on one side, and on tho other Mount
Ebal, tho formi r called tho Mount of Blessiug
and the latter called tho Mount of
Cursing. At Joshua's command six tribes
stood on Mount Gorizini and read the
blessings for keeping tho law, and six
tribes stood on Mount Ebal reading the
curses for breaking the law, while the five
hundred thousand people on the plain cried
Amen with an emphasis that must have
made the earth tremble. "I do not believe
that," says some one, "/or those mountain'
tops are two miles apart, and how could a
voice bo heard from top to top?" My answer
is that while the tops are two miles apart,
the bases of the mountains are only half a
mile apart, and tho tribes stood on the sides,
of the mountains, and the air is so clear and>.
the acoustic qualities of this great natural,
amphitheatre so perfect that voices can be
distinctly heard from mountain to mount-,
ain, as has been demonstrated by travelersfifty
times in the last fifty years.
Can you imagine anything more tanning
mi'l sublime and overwhelming than what'
transpired on those two mountain sides, and'
in the plain between, when the responsive'
service wont on and thousands of voices on
Mount Gerizim cried, "Blessed shalt thou be
in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in tho
fields, blessed shall be thy basket and thy
store," and then from Mount Ebal, thousands
of voices responded, crying: ''Cursed be ho
that reinoveth his neighbor's landmark!
Cursed be he that maketu tho blind to wauder
out of the way," and then there rolled up
from all the spaces between the mouutains
that one word with which the devout of earth
close their prayers and the glorified of heaven
finish their doxologies, "Amen! Amen!"?
that scene only to bo surpassed by the
times which are coming, when the churches
and the academies of music and the auditoriums
of earth, no longer large enough to
hold the worshipers of God; the parks, the
mouutain sides, the great natural amphitheatres
of the valleys, shall be filled with the
outpouring populations of the earth and
mountain shall reply to mountain, as Mount
Gerizim to Mount Ebal, and all the peoplo
between shall ascribe riches and honor and
glory and dominion and victory to God the !
Lamb, and there shall arise an amen like the
booming of the heavens mingling with the
thunder of the seas.
On and on we ride, until now we have
come to Shiloli, a dead city on a hill surrouuded
by rocks, sheep, goats, olive gardens
and vineyards. Here good Eli foil backward
and broke his neck, and lay dead at the news
from his bad boys, Phineas and Hophni; and
life is not worth living after one's children
have turned out badly, and more fortunate
was Eli, instantly expiring under such tidings,
than those parents who, their children
recreant and profligate, live on with broken
hearts to see them going down into deeper
.and deeper plunge. There are fathers and
^mothers hero to-day to whom death would be
happy release because of their recreant sons.
And if there be recreant sous here present,
aud your parents be far away, why not bow
your head in repentance, ana at the closa of
this service troto the teleeranh office and nut
"it on the wing of the lightning that you have
turned from your evil ways? Before another
twenty-four hours have passed take your feet
off tho sad hearts of the old homestead.
Home to thy Gcd, 0 prodigal!
Many, many letters do I get in purport saying:
My sou is in your cities; wo have not
heard from him for some time; we fear somatiling
is wrong; hunt him up and say a good
word to him :his mother is almost crazy about
him; he is a child of many prayers. But how
can I hunt him up unless he bo in this audi
ence? Where are you, my boy? On the ma in
floor, or on this platform, or in these boxe-\
or in these great galleries? Where are you?
Lift your right hand. I have a message from
home. Your father is anxious about you:
your mother is praying for you. Your Go
is calling for you. Or will you wait until E
falls back lifeless.and the heart against whic.
you lay in infancy ceases to beat? What n
story to tell iu eternity that you killed her?
Mr God! Avert that carastronhe!
But I turn from this Shiloh of Eli's sudden
decease under Lad news from his boys
and find close by what is called the ''Meadow
of the Feast." W hile this ancient city was
in the height of its prosperity on this "Meadow
of the Feast" there was an annual ball,
where the maidens of the city amid clapping
cymbals and a blare of trumpets dancea in
glee, upon which thousands of spectators
gazed. But no dance since the world stood ever
i. .-,,,,1, ? , n~4V.n 4V.. .
i'i? 'AC u (/ in AUCU oli au^c n aj a.^ cue \jnxs cue
Bible describes. One night while by the
light of the lamps and torches these gayieties
went on. two hundred Benjamites, who had
been hidden behind the rocks and among the
trees, dashed upon the scene. Ttiey came
not to injure or destroy, but wishing to set
up household of their own, the women of
their own land having been slain in battle,
bv preconcerted arrangement each one of the
two hundred Benjamites seized the one
whom he chose for the queen of his home
and carried her away to large estate and
beautiful residence, for these two hundred
Benjamites had inherited the wealth of a
nation.
As to-day near Shiloh we look at the
"Meadow of the Feast," where the maidens
danced that night, and at the mountain
gorge up which the Benjamites carried their
brides, wo bethink ourselves of the better
laud and the better times in which we live,
when such scenes are an impossibility, and
amid orderly groups and with prayer and
benediction, and breath ot orange blossoms,
nud the roll of the wedding march, marriage
is solemnized and with oath recorded in
heaven, two immortals start arm in arm on
n journey to last until death do them part.
Upon every such marriage altar may there
come the blessing of Him "who setteth the
solitary in families!" Side by side on the
path of life I Side by side in their graves I
Side by side in heaven! I
But we must this afternoon, our last day
before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent on
the most famous battlefield of ail time?the
plain of Esdraelon. What must have been tha
feelings of the Prince of Peace as He crossed
it ou the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth?
Not a flower blooms there but Has in its veins
the inherited blood of flowers that drank the
blood of fallen armies. Hardly a foot of
ground that has not at some time been gullied
with war chariots or trampled with the
hoofs of cavalry.
It is u plain reaching from the Mediterranean
to the Jordan. Upon it look down
the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and Carmel.
Through its rages at certain seasons
the river Kishon, which swept down the
armies of Sisera, the battle occurring in November
when there is almost always a shower
of meteors, so that the "stars in their courses"
were said to have fought against Sisera.
Through this plain drove Jehu, and the iron
chariots of the Canaanites, scythed at the
hubs of the wheels, hewing down their awful
swathes of death, thousands iu a minute.
The Syrian armies, the Turkish armies, the
Egyptian armies again and again trampled
it. " There thev career across it. David and
Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Coeur do
Lion and Baldwin and Saladin?a plain not
only famous for the past, but famous because
the Bible says the great necisivo battle of the
world will be fought there?the battle of Armageddon.
To me the plain was the more absorbing
because of the desperate battles here and in
regions round in which tho holy cross?the
very two pieces of wood on which Jesus was
supposed to have been crucified?was carried
as a standard at the head of the Christian
host, and that night closing my eyes in my
tent on the plain of Esdraelon?for there
a 10 some things we can see better with eyi-s
shut than open?the scenes of that ancient
war come before me. Tho twelfth century
was closing and Saladin at the head of eighty
thousand mounted troops was crying- "Hoi
for Jerusaleni!" "Ho! for all Palestine !*' and
before the n everything went down, but not
without unparalleled resistance. In one
place one hundred and thirty Christians
were surrounded by many thousands of furious
Mohammedans. For one whole day the
one hundred and thirty held out against
these thousands. Ten^'son's "six hundred,"
when "some one had blundered," were
eclipsed by these one hundred and thirty
fighting for the holy cross. They took hold
lof tho iauces trhica had pierced them with
death wounds, and pulling them out of their
own breasts and sides hurled them back again
attae enemy.
On went the fight until all but one Christian
had fallen aiid he, mounted on the last
horse, Trielded his battle ax right and left till
his hors3 fell nnder the plunge of the javelins,
and the rider, making tne sign of the
cross toward the sky, gavo up his life on the
point of a score of spears. But soon after the
last battle came. History portrays it, poetry
chants it, painting colors it, and all ages aamire
that last struggle to keop in possession
the wooden cross on which Jesus was said to
have expired. It was a battle in which mingled
the fury of devils and the grandeur of
nngels. Thousands of dead Christians on
this side. Thousands of dead Mohammedans
on tho otkgr side. The battle was hottest
close around the wooden cross upheld by
'the bishop of Ptolemais, himself wounded
land dying. And when the bishop of Ptol- >
emais dropped dead, the bishop of Lydda
seized the cross and again lifted it. carrying
it onward into a wilder and fiercer fight, and
sword against javelin, and battle ax upon
helmet, and piercing spear against splintering
shield. Horses and men tumbled into
.heterogeneous death. Now the wooded
'cross on which the armies of Christians had
|kept their eye begins to waver, begins to
(descend. It falls! and the wailing of tho
Christian host at its disappearance drowns
the huzza of the victorious Moslems.
But that standard of the cross only seemed
to fall. It rides the sky to-day in triumph.
Fivo hundred million souls, the mightiest
,army of tho ages. a?e following it, and where
that goes they will go, across the earth and
up the mighty steeps of the heavens. In tho
twelfth century it seemed to go down, but in
tJie nineteenth century It is tho mightiest
symbol of glory and triumph, and means
moro than any other standard, whether inscribed
with eagle, or lion, or bear, or star,
or crescent. That which Saladin trampled
011 the plain of Bsdraelon I lift to day for
your marshaling. The cross! The cross!
The foot of it planted in the earth it saves,
!the top of it pointing to the heavens to which
'it will tako you, and the outspread beams of
lit like outstretched arms of invitation to all
sinfmno TTnaol nf. ifc fnnf. Tjlff. VHllP fiTft
to its victim. Swear eternal allegiance "to
Its power. And as that mighty symbol of
pain and triumph is kept before us, we will
realize how insignificant are the little crosses
we are called to bear, and will more cheerfully
carry them.
Mast Jesns bear the cross alone,
And the world go free? V
No, there's a cross for every one, \
And there's a cro.-s for me.
As I fall asleep to-night on my pillow in the
tent on the plain of Esuraelon reaching from
the Mediterranean to the Jordau, the waters
of the river Kishon soothing me as by a lullaby,
I hear the gathering of the hosts for the
last battle of all the earth. And bv their
representatives America is hero and Europe
(is nero and Asia is here and Africa is here,
and all heaven is here and all hell is here,
and Apollvon on the black horse leads the
armies of darkness, and Jesus on the white
horse leads the armies of light, and I hear
the roll of the druoi3 and the ciear call of the
clarions and the thunder of the cannonades.
And then I hear the wild rush as of million
of troops in retreat, and then the shout of
victory as from fourteen hundred million
throats, and then a song as though all the
armies of earth and heaven were joining it,
clapping cymbals, beating the time?"The
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord and of His Christ, and Ho
shall reign for ever and ever."
Saoli is Fame!
Tlierv are still a few of the settlers
at Florida, Monroe county, Mo., who
were there when Mark Twain was a boy
going to a small country school at that
place. Florida is a weo backwoods
settlement with nothing to recommend
it but the humorist it turned out and
the great cattish that are caught there
in Salt River. Some of the old-timers
remember the lank, g od-for-nothing
Sam Clemens, who used to fish day in
and day out the summer through, and
spend the winter telling stories at the
grocery. There is one old fellow there
at least, however, to whom the fame oi
America's greatest humorist has never
come. A stranger was stopping at
Florida recently and the old man was
pointed out to him as one of the pioneers.
' Where was Mark Twain born?" he
asked the old fellow, after chatting
with him awhile.
"Mark Twain?" he queried, in astonishment,
"who's he?"
"Why, the humorist," explained the
gentlemen, amused at the density oi
the old fellow's ignorance.
"Youmerist, eh ? Never heerd o' him
an' I guess ef he'd ever lived nigh here
I'd a knowd it."
?TT.? C 1 m
ms name was oamuei Siemens;
don't you remember him ?"
The old fellow scratched his head
thoughtfully, and in a moment his memory
helped him out.
"Sam Clemens," he said: "Oh, yes,
I remember Sam. He left here young
though, an' everybody said that he was
the good-fer-nothinest boy they evei
seed. Sam was a long-spindle-shanked
feller, an' I never seed hiua do a lick a
work in all his days. But, ez I said,
he left here young, an' I never heerd
what become o' him. Penitenter?
inos' prob'ly."
There has been inaugurated in Paris,
France, a novel development of the
automatic fountain invention. It is for
the supply of hot water. Automatic
fountains are becoming one of the
features of out-of-door Paris.
A flock of "blackbirds three miles long
aud half a mile wide passed over Arlington,
da., a day or two ago.
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30USIJH0ID MATTERS.
0hr TO COOK MEAT.
The Vest methods of cooking meat are
not practiced in ordinary kitchens because
the reasons for certain procedures
are not understood. For instance, a piece
of meat is put over the lire and boiled
rapidly till it is considered done, when
it should have been subjected to only
very moderate heat, and the water, instead
of boiling madly, should have
merely finimcred, because the first process
mates it tough and stringy, while
the second leaves it tender and palatable.
Joints of fresh meat require from twenty
to twenty-fire minutes per pound. Salted
meat shouid have nearly twice as long
cooking or it will not be tender. Judgement
must be used regarding the size and :
shape. A large, flat piece of beef, hav- I
ing more surface exposed to the heat, I
- ' -1 - - 1 c I
will take less time to cook man a leg ui
mutton of the same size.
There is a belief among housekeepers
that, in boiling, meat loses much of its
value. On the contrary, careful experi- j
ment shows that a sirloin of beef, weigh- |
ing twelve pounds, lost in roasting fortyfour
ounces, while twelve pounds of beef
lost only twenty-five ounces in boiling.
The loss sustained in boiling, being capable
of use as soup, can hardly be called
a loss. It is therefore proved without
urgumen'w that boiling is the more economical.
But it can not be denied that the
flavor of roast meat is far superior. To
be perfect it should be roasted before an
open fire with frequent basting and turning,
but such cooking borders on the
impossible and we have a good resource
in careful baking. The oven should be
very hot and the beef put in without
water in the pan. In tenor fifteen minutes
the heat will have slightly crusted
the beef, which should then be basted
with cleav drippings every ten minutes.
The object of thus quickly searing the
l>eef is to prevent the escape of the juices.
If nine minutes to the pouud be allowed,
the result will be a very good imitation
of juicy, rare, real roasted beef.
Broiling is one of the simplest and
| most wholesome methods of cooking
meat, but It requires care. The want of
constant watchfulness ruins steak, fish,
or whatever is on the broiler.
Frying is a method worthy of more respect
than public opinion grants it. It
is the abuse of the practice which has
brought it into disgrace. Throwing a
lump of cold fat upon a cold frying pan
and putting the meat on that, the careless
cook leaves it to work out its own
destruction, which it surely does, for as
, the meat and fat heat together the former
is thoroughly soaked by the latter and
becomes sodden, unsavory and unwholesome.
Frying as it should be is actua'ly
boiling in fat, and it is impossible to fry
properly without a large quantity of fat,
be it lard or drippings, and it should be
very hot before anything is put into it.
To test the temperature a bit of bread
should be thrown in. If it crisps instantly
the heat is right, but if the bread
scorches, the fat i3 too hot and the pan
must be lifted to a cooler place. If the
bread does not brown the fat is not hot
enough. There is no extravagance in
using a large quantity of fat, for it can
be poured into a bowl and used again and
again. Clarify it, when necessary, by
boiling it up in water, then let it cool,
when the sediment will fall to to the
bottom of the water aud the fat rise on
top. If in boiling and roasting meats
every scrap of dripping that runs out is
saved, the accumulation will, in most
families, afford abundant supply in frying
in the manner described.
Poultry should be put into the pot
breast downward, with warm, not hot,
water enough to cover it, and be brought
very gradually to the boiling point, and
then allowed to simmer steadily till a
trial of their joints shows that they are
done. No rule can be given for the time
required, for young fowls will take less
j time than old ones.?American Agriculturiit,
TOTATO RECIPES.
Potato Croquettes?Add the yolks of
two eggs, a pinch of nutmeg, and one of
cayenne to warm mashed potatoes;
mould into tiny little cones or cylinders,
dip into beaten egg and cracker dust,
and drop into boiling fat. When done,
remove with a wire spoon, and drain a
moment on tissue-paper.
Crust, Potato?Fill a baking dish with
mashed potato ready for the table, glaze
with beaten egg, and brown the top with
a salamander or red-hot shovel. Garnish
with sprigs of parsley.
Potato Salad?Slice freshly boiled
potatoes (still warm) into a bowl; add a
whits onion cut into rings, a table;
spoo lful of capers, pepper, salt, and
j chopped parsley; pour over it a French
dressing, or mask with mayonnaise.
Potato Snup?Slice six or eight potaj
toes into three pints of mixed milk and
; water; add a carrot, two or three stalks
j of celery, aud a leek minced together, a
j few whole peppers, and some salt. Boil
: nn hour, strain into tureen, and serve
! with hot crou tons (stale bread cut into
dice and fried crisp).
Potatoes a9 a Garnish?These arc cut
! | into tiny bulls, by means of a scoop com;
| ing for the purpose, and boiled iu saltwater;
with chopped parsley and melted
, butter poured over them, they form an
excellent garnish for tish. "When used
to garnish roast beef or veal, they aro
, boiled to a delicate brown in fat or lard.
; The remnants of the potato which result
from the cutting of these balls are boiled
separately, mashed and reserved for croquettes.
i Potatoes when properly warmed over
t are as appetizing as freshly prepared
ones, and frequently allow one to econ1
omize time as well as material. Among
1 the following recipes will be found a few
desirable dishes for breakfast or lunck'
eon:
Potato Omelet?Cut cold boiled potaj
toes into dice or small lumps. Rub
smoothly together, 'without scorching, a
tablespoon each of butter and flour; thin
, slightly with stock or water; when boil|
ing, add the diced potatoes, and heat
. thoroughly. Melt a tablespoonful of
butter in a spider, pour iuto it the pota,
toes, brown underneath, add chopped
parsley, and fold like an omelet. Serve
I quickly. This makes an excellent ac'
companiment lor hash. If minced meat
has been left from a previous meal, warm
it, and fold within the omelet instead of
parsley.
Creamed Potatoes?Slice cold boiled
potatoes into a sauce made by thinning a
tablespoonful of butter and one of flour
(thickened and smoothed over the fire)
with hot milk. Heat through, and
sprinkle with minced parsley.?Harper'&
liazar,
A total of 372 new Granges have been
wgunized this year.
V
A JSIiip for a Whale's Partner.
A letter from Adelaide, Australia,
says that while Cnpf. Hepworth, of tho
steamship Port Adelaide, was taking
his sights, he noticed a large sperm
whale alongside, so close that his spouting
wet the deck. The creature had
evidently lost his "school," and mistaken
tho ship for one of his own
species. He remained with it for four
days and nights, and traveled 890 nautical
or 1,025 miles without a rest, and,
as far as one could gather, without
food. Ho was never more than seventy
yards away, and for the most part close
against the ship, under her quarter,
where the draught made swimming
easier for him. The length of the animal
was about forty-seven feet. The
first day ho was very lively, diving frequently
beneath the ship's bottom, on
one occasion scratching himself severely.
After that he kept close alongside libs
a tired Newfoundland dog.
"iSAB" says there are no women
cranks. As soon as they become cranks
tiiev cease to be womeu.
A Planning t*cnse
Of health and strength renewed and of ease
nrul comfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs,
as it acts in harmony with nature to effectually
cleanso the system when costive or bilious.
For sale in 50c. and jl bottles by all leading
druggists.
Where rumor is afloat gossip finds smooth
sailing.
A nmnwbo hr.s pr-;ol:ced medicine for 40
years ought to know salt from sugar; read
what La says;
Tor.MDO, 0.. Jan. 10,188?.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.? Gentlemen:?I
have bet i! in the general prac tice of medicine
for moot 40 years, and would say 1 hat in all
my practice and experience have never seen a
preparation that 1 coula prescribe with as
much conrtder.ce of Mtcccus us 1 can Hail's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed
it a great many times and its cffeo_ is
wonderful, and would ray in conclusion that
1 have yet to Hud a ease of Catarrh that it
w-'Uld not cure, if they woutd take it according
to directions.
Yours trulv,
L. Ij. uoiisccn. M. D.,
Olllce, :?1 > Summit St.
We will give $i00 for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured witu Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Taken infernally.
F. J. CnEXKV & lo, Props., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Dmgifists, T5c.
No man is as cood at home as his picture
looks in a neighbor's album.
Guaranteed nvo year eight per cent. First
Mortgages on Kansas City property, interest
payable every six months; principal and interest
collected when due and remitted without
expense to lender. For sale by J. H. Bauerlein
& COn Kansas City, Mo. Write tor particulars
Ladies iu?waiting?Old maids.
Money invested in choioe one hundred dollar
building lots in suburbsof Kansas City will
pay troin live hundred to one thousand per
ceut. the next few years under our plan.
cash and $6 per month without interest controls
a desirable lot. Particulars on application.
J. tL Bauerlein & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
If one cannot go to sleep, why not wail
patiently for sleep to come to him.
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brown's Iron
Bitters. It is pleasant to taxe, cures Malaria,
Indigestion.Biliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes the Blood rich and pure.
The seamy side?The inside of a coat,
FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great
Nkrve Restorer. No fits after first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle
free. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Teacher?My little gir1, what must yon dt
to be forgivn? L ttle Girl?S n, sir.
That
Tickiing
In y >ur throat arises from catarrh, and as catarrh
Is a constitutional disease the ordinary cough medl
clncs all fall to hit the spot. What you need Is a
constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaporllla,
wh'nh, by building up tho general health, and ex
--'..ngthe scrofulous taint which Is the cause o,
catarrh and consumption has restored to perfect
health many pefflbus on whom these d sease seemed
to h ve a tlrm hold. Many unsolicited testimonials
1 rove b yond question that catarrh Is cur.d by
HgocFs
Sarsaparilla
Fold by alt druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOl) & CO., Lowell, Jfass.
100 Doses One Dollar
WANTICIf?Farmers and Hardeners to locate ii
Orange Park, Clay Count;-, Florida, to grov
Strawberries ami other Fruits for tho Orange Pari
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It is a certain cure, and affords immediate
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When a railroad cuts rates, it doesn't cut
v th intenl to kl.l.
If you have ever used Dobbins's Electric
iiiriug the Zl yean it has been so d, you know
that it is the best, and pure it family soap
made. If you haven't tried it, ask your grocer
lor it now. Don't take imitation. There arclots
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The truth never spoogiz-s for coming.
Lee Wa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harmless
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Sent prepaid on receipt of $1 per bottle.
Adder & Co.,5?i VVyanuotle at.,Kansas Cit j\Mo
Laid down to bo broken?Eggs.
Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches
in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Aikansas,
bought.and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Lumbermen ar.d mariners keep a log book.
Oklahoma Guide Book and Map sent any where
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Catch words?Slop thief.
mast nersons are broken down from overwork
or household cares. Brown's Iron Bitters
rebuilds toe system, aids digestion, removes
excess of bile, an i cures malaria. A
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Astronomers nsuahy play star cncagcmonts.
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Try BEECHAM'S PILLS.
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A Poverty-stricken Millionaire!
This seems a paradox, but It is ex- \
plained by one of New York's richest
men. "I don't count my wealth in
dollars," he said. "What are all my
possessions to me, since I am a victim
of consumption ? My doctor tells me
that I have but a few months to live,
for the disease is incurable. I am poorer
than that beggar yonder." "But,"
interupted the friend to whom he spoke, ' ^
. "consumption can be cured. If taken
in time, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery will eradicate every vestige
of the disease from your system." "I'll
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and to-day tiiere is not a nesimier, - i
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The "Discovery" strikes at the teat of
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of the blood?is nothing more nor ^ '
less than lung-scrofula?and it mutt
and does yield to this wonderful remedy.
"Golden Medical Discovery" Is not
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Hip-joint Disease, Salt-rheum,
Tetter, Eczema, Boils, Carbuncles, Ery.
sipelas and kindred ailments.
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iffi'S A jj jSj It in pleasant to tho tnate and
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