The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 16, 1904, Image 2
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUcNT DISCCURSE ENTITLED
"DOES COD CARE?"
*
The Iter. Robert MacDonaltl Declare*
That tlie Gre.ilest Discovery ot the
Twentieth Century Will Be the Discovery
of God.
Bkooklyx, N. Y. ? "Does God Care?"
*as the subject of the sermon Sunday
morning by the Rev. Robert MacDona'd,
pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist
Church. He took his text from I. Peter
w:7: "Casting all your care upon Him, for
He eareth for you." Mr. MacDonald said:
"The greatest discovery of the twentieth
century will be the discovery of God,
ond then it will be seen that God does not
care." Such is the latest assumption of
cience, if a certain learned professor of
one of our largest universities is deemed a
trustworthy interpreter. He wisely drew
the line between Christianity and infidelity
as between believing that God cared
for us and that He did not care, and |
tatcd that the leading scientists were in- j
fideLs.
Lest such statements upset or weaken
the faith of some of us, let us see what the
weight of probability is for the realizing
of these presumptive prophecies. Let it at I
the very start be remembered that any
more definite scientific discovery of Cod j
than we now have is unlikely. And this I
as said, not because we now possess so
much, but that we are possessed of so little.
Science will doubtless discover more
. oboot God. Shame upon our developing
??fol1iflpon/>o if if drtpc nr\t Vvprv Hiscov- I
ory is that. But that is a very different
thir.g feora discovery of God. His handiwork
will be more clearly traced, the
working of His purposes more definitely
realized; but I think we can trust the Infinite
?One to as successfully outwit the
scientific inquisitiveness of the twentieth
century as of any that has soul. I am
confident that 19W years hence the exclamation
of the human mind will be about
s it is now?"Who can by searching out
find God'" One of infinite retreats is not
(going to be taken by surprise. The secret
of His presence will ever elude the discoveries
of man. The itiystery of His person
hall still remain inviolate.
Why do 1 speak as though God were antagonistic
to human discovery? Because,
friends, this learned prophet whose statements
we are considering sees the only
l&ck to the discovery of God to be the
present, incompleteness of human knowledge
and the present paucity of scientific
means, both of which will be remedied, he
is sure, before the present century closes.
. I speak as I do because I do not like to
luve Him whom we honor as Creator and
Father stripped of His mystery and robbed
of His volitional power and referred to as
you would to an impersonal, objective fact
of creatisn. We discover stars and continents
and seas and laws and a good many
other thipgs. but it does seem to me that
Cod Himself will have something to say
boat the discovery of Himself. Moreover,
I have no right to believe that God
will ever be discovered by any man save
by Him whom God has discovered. He
only finds God whom God has found. I
:*m striving to maintain the integrity of
the divine revelation as over against that
of human investigation. We must take
God on IIis own terms, rather than on
ours. Therefore, he only discovers God to
whom God has revealed Himself, to whom
God permits such discover}'. We need not
.fear that any future discover}' of God will
.negative the revelation we now have
through Teaus Christ. Science is mighty,
tout not almighty. Not more mighty than
?God. We welcome it in the realm of well
defined data, in the realm of demonstra^-ion'and
proof. But its advocates need to
Beam that the Eternal transcends its sera*
tiny and the Supernatural bends not to its
demands. Reassure your heart that if you
-are so fortunate is- to be a habitant of the
.realm bounded by the Christian religion
the essence of your faith cannot be
harmed. Faith's form, as also the form of
.levelation, will be scientifically questioned
-and repaired Faith's content examined
and modified perchance, but its essence,
that spiritual thing we call the divine
grace, that precious consciousness of His
rare for you, and that you arc living in the
light of His face is too sacred to ever bend
to scientific formula, and too mystical to
be expressed in the cold accuracy of scientific
terms
There is. for instance, that stubborn
thing called conscience to be dealt with.
That stands out as a very Gibraltar of
protest against the assertion that God does
not care. In til die history of mortals
conscience has been regarded as God's
handwriting <>u the wall, telling man he
ainust do the right and must not do the
VTong. True, it docs not tell him what is
x ght and what is wrong. That is a thing
?: fluctuating standard. Always diiler-e.tcc
of opinion about that, because dependent
upon the man's intelligence that
owns the conscience. And any certain
type of intelligence depends upon the age
and civilisation in which he lives, circumstances,
moral md religious ideals. Thus
it is that the truest standard for the enlightenment
of conscience is Christianity,
t hristian ethics, springing from the Sermon
on the Mount, is universally reeoge
zed man's truest and highest standard
enlightenment.
But on what higher authority rests this
'8 nse of "oughtneso" as to the doing of
r :;ht and wrong? God demands it, we
.K>y. The Creator has a right to impose
terms upon His creation. We recognize
o ;r obligation to Him. Yes, but because
the moral sense rests upon an intuition of
<jod's perfect, morality. We could not feel
any obligation to God unless we felt Him
worthy of that obligation. We believe
Bim to embody the ideal and perfect moral
it v. Km sense of obligation to us. then,
is the sanction of our sense of obligation to
Him. It is precious to read that "we love
H im because He first loved us." It is as
true that we are under obligation to Him
because He is under obligation to us. Wc
never speak of it that way. We seldom, if
ever, think of it that way. The more exprpssive
side of the divine nature occupies
ovr thought God is so pleased to do for
as. His blessings are so much more truly
+V.A mnnifAuloliim nf Wia )nvp tlian nf nnv
other characteristic. But the divine rationality
expresses itself iu justice and
morality as truly as in love. We are conscious
ever of our demerit, insignificance,
dependence, sec all divine favor to be an
emanation of His love. The Creator must
m ike provision for His created. The ne?e;;sity
of Hi* own nature demands it. The
divine Father, as well as the human father,
tnu?t support His child. Conscience in us
is i vidence of God's care. And it is eviele
e that can never be explained away.
So iong is humanity endures conscience
will advocate right and denounce wrong,
and just so long must man believe iu God s
ca t. Does God care? Our very constitution
thunders Yes. No valid discovery of
<?od in the future can be expected to overthrow
the overwhelming weigh', of this evidence.
Ven'y, God hath not left Himself
without a witness. We need not feu- any
future discovery, however supposedly scientific,
to offset this constitutional evidence.
Whatever the evidence that God does not
care we will match and outweigh it by this
uc.irer, dearer, stronger evidbnee that He
does c *e We have a Roland for their
t)liver.
'Alien there are man's religious instincts
to be accounted for. These are not. acquired.
Neither civilization nor Chri tianity
begot them. Wc are not arguing
within a circle in referring to these. All I
races, wince, yellow, red, brown, black, ig- j
jaorant or enlightened, superstitious or i
?anc, cruet or kind, instinctively fee! that
C5ol cares Moid you, it is not that He is
propitious unto thein. Oftener that He is
not. But the very fact of inventing all
conceivable means to placate Him, some of
them barbarous and revolting, indicates
so strongly that it almost proves (Hod's interest
in mortals. It is an evidence so
universal that it cannot easily be explained
away. Every fundamental need in
humanity has its satisfaction existing
somewhere. Hunger presupposes food.
Thirst indicates the existence of water lor
its quenching. Nakedness instinctively
leads to the necessary coverings for its
protection, even though beasts are slain,
cotton, flax and wool grown to accommodate
it. So with all the hungers of rational
being, social, intellectual, moral, religious.
They all are evidence of reality somewhere
answering to them. None of these
is more fundamental and imperative than
the religious, that which demands (Hod's
care. A most pathetic manifesting of this
longing is idol worship. The heathen.
God's ignorant children, like ours, demand
object lessons that can .>e apprehended by
the senses. To make God in their image
is the nearest they can get to the sublime
consciousness that they are made in His.
Better, it seems to us. no God than a
wooden one. A spirit of negation and indi
Terence would save them so much useless
sacrifice and cruel practices and barbarous
acts of superstition by way of supp
>-ed atonement. But whether better or
worse atheism is not a constituent characteristic
cf man. Strange, is it not, lhat it
is never innate, but always an acqu.red accomplishment.
always the sad result of
culture else of sin. By nature, and that
means by right, God is always the rightful
occupant of the throne. But as our selfimportance
grows, as we become consciously
great in thought and achievement
we become al.o great in arrogance, as is
all science falsely so called, and the King
is asked to vacate the throne, and God is
1- ? A? + 11 n ivorcp nilf.
not even uuncu uiu *#i w?v .
heartlessly banished. Oil, no. denial is not
better than affirmation of God. however
superstitiously that affirmation express itself.
It is evidence of God's rare much
needed to offset a threatened evidence that
He has not interest in the human rare.
Notice the two possible results to which
these religious instincts lead. They are
the receptacle into which Christianity fits.
Without them the Gospel of .Tesus has no
appeal. They cry out for God. Christianity
introduces God to them. They
want an assurance of God's care. Christianity
assures them God cares for men to
the uttermost, even enough to die for
them. Creation thus prepares for revelation,
and welcomes its beneficent approach."
There is another result that shows the
helpfulness of the religious instinct univer- j
sal among men. It is the sorrow that possesses
us when we are told it is all a delusion.
The moment you convince man there
is no God, or, if there is, that He is indifferent
to man's welfare, that moment the
face loses its complacency, the heart its assurance,
the spirit its buoyancy, the mind
its sense of satisfaction. "Doubt, disappointment,
despair set in. Little to live
for, nothing to die for is the cry that will
not be comforted. A stolid indifference
results that crushes out the heart's music,
else wild despair that dethrones reason
and inflicts self injury. Let me make a
prophecy more dismal in its outlook than
that one we are considering of a future
discovery that God does not care, a prophecy
that if ever that dark day dawns
poor humanity in despait will in an hour
fall back from all hopefulness, aspiration,
joyousness, and by one despairing plunge
reverse the life satisfactions of a thousaud
years.
Greatest of all these is the presence and
worth of Christianity to be accounted for.
Christianity is a very unyielding fact. It
has become too deeply rooted in the earth
to be waived aside and crowded out by any
discovery, however authentic, that would
invalidate its claims. It has been confronted
for centuries with conflicting beliefs
and scientific evidence against its integrity.
The more it is opposed the more
fearlessly it asserts itself, comforting the
heart, lighting the dark mind, inspiring
and reinforcing the spirit. A fact so helpful
to humanity in every- conceivable necessity
when sinning and needing forgiveness,
when weak- and needing'sirength,
even when suffering martyrdom at the
stake, in the amphitheatre of wild beastin
heathen lands, midst persecutions too
numerous to be mentioned, but not too
many to be valiantly borne, must be con- ;
fronted with stronger, surer proof than is i
at present conceivable that it relinquish
its ho'd upon men's esteem. Yield rt must
if it were even proven God did not care;
for Christianity was rooted in God's esteem
before it found a place in man's.
God not only cared, but so cared that He
loved, else Christianity, that superb blossom
and fruitage of Christ's life and teaching
and death, had never existed. Christianity
not only embodies God's care, it
enshrines Gcd's heart. And the surest
thing about it all is that we who have
yielded to God's word, caught the blessings
of the revelation through Jesus, have
all the evidence necessary for the reality
of God and His care. What value is proof
against God's interest in us, however
scientific, to the man who lias seen the
Lord, whose sins are forgiven, upon whom
God is each day lifting up the light of His
face? When once the spiritual life has entered
the human heart, all cold, external
evidence is ignored, and wisely. Tiien,
again, the peace of mind that results from
belief that God cares for us euough to ^
share His eternal home with us by and by I
is evidence that will die bard, if it ever |
die at all, before any external evidence I
that this world is all, and that our brief, !
storm-toased existence is forever hushed in j
death's long sleep. A man said to roc dur- |
ing the weelc, "It pays to be religious, even
though it be discovered at the last that I
there is no eternal life." The idea was |
that present satisfactions are worth the
having, whatever the future may reveal.
When the divine spark that we call the
spiritual life once electrifies the heart,
stimulating new loves, imparting new
ideals, revealiftg God's love and Christ's
mastership, all of which produce blessings
of satisfaction and joy unspeakable, all
external evidence to the contrary weighs
little with that man's belief. And that is
exactly what Christianity does. It imparts
life. As Harnack puts it, '"It is
eternal life in the midst of time, under the
very eye, and in the very strength of
God." As Jesus puts it. "I am come that
ye might have life." Lire is a difficult
* ? o"on fr* nvnVA
tmng 10 argus ugaiusk, auu v.
the fallacy of when men possess it and are
reaping manifold blessings from its presence
each day.
This is whv we affirmed that God must
be discovered through internal revelation,
rather than through external investigation.
The necessary approach, to be successful,
must come from Him to us, instead of
from us to Him. God must grapple with
and subdue man before man can reason- !
ably expect to grapple with and conquer j
God. Man's attitude is, Let me under- j
stand and I will reverence; let me know i
and I will love. God's attitude is, You I
must reverence that you may understand; i
you mu3t love that you may know. Man's i
attitude is as yet in prospect, onlv the
dim hope of the scientific few. God's attitude
is daily being verified and proven to
the world's sin sick, sorrow filled multitudes.
All valid external discovery of the
future will, I think, be along the line of '
and in harmony with revelation. Even j
now there are scientific evid? nces in this
direction. Immortality is being scientifi- I
cally proven, not the fallacy of it. Much \
verification of Christianity's content and
assertions may be expected from scientific
research. God's universe is one. His creation
unified and harmonious throughout,
all true discovery must confirm this, that
consistency result. Apostolic testimony is
good enough and preferable to all prophetic
scientific negation. We believe
Peter knew whereof he spoke when he
said "Cod cares." So much does He care
that you can well afford to cast all your
care upou Ilim, for He careth for you.
Ifllllll IMIIBMI ? IB |
WIT and HUMOR
of THE DAY
??a?a????
Source of Joy.
Sprinkle, sprinkle, little cart,
What a source of joy thou art!
How I lovt to see thj suray,
Making puddles all the aay!
?Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Borrowing.
"Did be borrow any money from
you?"
"Borrow! How can I tell unless he
returns it?"
Victim of Habit.
Patience?"I beat she bas been engaged
eleven times!"
Patrice?"I bate to see a girl get in
a rut like that."?Yonkers Statesman.
One of Them.
"Is he a war expert?"
"Well, bo's one of tbe IS 000,000 people
who know just how the war in tbe
Far East should be conducted."?Chicago
Post.
Icrnorance.
Husband ? "Does Jack know Miss
Peppertree?"
Wife (calmly)?"I believe not, for be
bas asked her to marry bim."?Town
and Country.
Natural Deduction.
She?"Why do you think Miss Budds
isn't intellectual when you haven't
even met her?"
He ? "Appearances are agains\ her.
She's too pretty.."?Chicago News.
A Little in It.
"I've been thinking of starting In
business for myself. I wonder if
there's any money in poultry?"
"Oh. yes. My wife found a dime in
a chicken's gizzard once."?Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Bound to Catch On.
Inventor?"I should like to get yoa
Interested in my improved fly paper."
Capitalist?"What makes you tjfink
It will be successful?"
Inventor?"Because each sheet is got
up to imitate a bald head."?Loudon
Answers.
An Inducement.
Lady of the House?"But the book is
perfectly worthless."
Agent?"Certainly, ma'am. You see,
it looks nice on the parlor table, yet
your husband can't possib'y sell it for
beer."?New York Journal.
A Problem in Golf.
Redd?"I see it stated tbat a man
turns 112,WO spadefuls of earth in digging
an acre."
Greene ? "Well, how much ea-,th
would he turn playing golf in going
over the same territory?" ? Youkcrs
Statesman.
Arrived.
Mrs. Cobwigger?"So your liusband
thinks his position in society is now
secure?"
Mrs. Newrich?"Yes. He is so sure
about i. that be has stopped hiriug a
dress-suit and is having one made to
order."?Judge.
Always Out oi Season.
"Who is this man who is telling us
that he has found a way of exterminating
mosquitoes?"
"He's the same man who last July
was exulting over the fact that he had
found a cheap substitute for coal."?
Washington Star.
Proficiency,
He was a cornet soloist, indeed, but
by no means witless.
"Musical proficiency." said he, "is a
matter of give and take."
"Eh*? Give and take what?" '
"Pains," he said, illustrating his nolion
hv riinnincr a few scales.?P'.ick.
Something Wrong.
"What's the matterV" demanded the
slightly fuddled man. a* he got aboard
the ear, "ain't this the car 1 want?"
"What?" snapped the conductor.
"How do I know?"
"O, you must a* knowd it or you
wouldn't 'a* stoppcu ..a' let me ketch
yer."?Philadelphia Tress.
Counterfeiter.
Finally, they broke in upou the mys- J
terious man.
"You matte counterfeit money!" tliey ,
exclaimed. giving voice at once to their
worst suspicions.
"No, counterfeit wealth." replied the
man, and showed tlicm, in proof of his
assertion, that Lis only implement was
a ticker.?Puck.
Same Thing.
"Say. give me a synonym for 'expert,*
will you?" said the court reporter, nib- J
bling his pen.
"What arc you writing about?" asked
the other.
"Expert testimony."
"Oil, the word 'conflicting' amounts
to the same thing." - Philadelphia
Press.
An attempt lias been made at Durango,
Mexico, to make soap from oil
extracted from castor beans, but the
experiment was a failure.
Only 6330 deaths from cholera in the
Turkish Empire were reported for the
year ended February 22 last, but experts
oelleve the real number was
three times as large.
If the ocean were dried up, all the
water passing away as vapor, the
amount of salt remaining would be
enough to cover 5,000.000 souare miles
with a layer one mile thick.
Two Englishmen are said to have
invented a kind of wheel w lich makes
it possible to transport troops in the
African deserts on automobiles at the
rate of three or four miles an hour.
After an exhaustive iuspoction of
electric railways throughout Europe
and the United States, a committee ap|
pointed by the Swedish Government
J recommended that the State railways j
abandon sreain ior eiecincuy as u ujvtive
power.
Radium constantly generates beat,
and Wieu Las now shown that it may
constantly generate electricity. It
gives oft both positive and negative
electrons, and the former?several hundred
times as large as-the latter?may
be held back by a sieve of glass or any
other of a variety of substances.
In an Insurance office where it wa.?
formerly necessary for a fore of clerks
to copy names on reference cards to
be filed in various places, one clerk
now writes the name ou a single card
with metallic ink. clamps it in a bolder
with a number of blank cirds. and
flashes an X-ray through the pack.
The Mexican Railroad has erected a
monument, with suitable inscription. '
marking the point where the globe is
crossed by the Tropic of Cancer. The !
monument is of wood twelve feet high j
and twenty-four feet long. On the top
there are two arms pointing out the
two zones. It is situated 01. a desert
ground a few miles south of Catorec.
The heat lost by radiation from bare
pipes containing steam at 100 pounds
pressure has been estimated by Professor
S. P. Thompson to be about two
tons of coal a year for each ten square
feet of pipe surface. Another experiment
has found that eighty-eight per j
cent, of the .'oss is prevented b.v the !
best mica covering, but that asbestos
covering is much inferior to mica, and I
cements are less effective still.
BEES IN BEDROOM.
Nebraska Man Finds the Little Workers
Good Company.
Just inside his bedroom window,
where their humming soothes him to
slumber at night and rouses tim to the
wakeful duties of the day. J. H. Sears
has placed his hive of bees. He has
had them there for eighteen months^
and finds them plcasaut and cornpunionable.
This location fo:- a bee hive is considered
one of the most ur.ic.ne in the
anual3 of the apiarist, yet from the
storehouse in has there established
he has taken away more than fortyfive
pounds of honey, netting about
$7.r>0.
While visiting in the country in the
summer of 1902. a daughter of Mr.
Sears found a swarm of bees in a
hedge. They seemed io belong to no
one, and when she returned home she
informed her father. The latter used
to raise bees <.n the farm, and at once
saw the possibilities of the "find" his
daughter had made. At tte same
time, he did not take into consideration
the fact that he had no adequate place
to keep them when Le had brought
them home. When ne had obtained
the swarm, captured in a cracker box,
he discovered that his back yard was
far too small to accommodate his pets.
The only possible place for them was
in the bedroom where he slept.
Mr. Sears leaves his window slightly
open to allow the bees entrance and
egress at will. An up-to-date hive is
placed for their occupancy, with nil
the comforts of the out-of-door apartments,
with the addition of hard coal
heat in the winter.
The bees have already begun to sally
forth into the country in search of
I the early blos?oms, and at almost any
hour the sill of one of the windows of
the house at 1329 M street may be J
4-1 -11 ? -J ?.t*K /IuhL- I
seen paniaiiy cuvereu nau iuc ucun
yellow insects, crawling in or out of
the room where is their hive.?Lincoln
(Xeb.) Mar.
A Loan Sleep.
An agricultural laborer in Russia is
reported to have slept for seven
months. He "dropped off" while at
work in the fields, was carried borne
and remained slumbering for the period
mentioned, watched from time to
time by physicians. Curiously enough,
he lost so little flesh that no attempt
was made to feed him. When he awoke
he was as weak as an infant, but
after a fortnight's nursing he was
strong enough to return to his work.
Low Wages For Clerks.
The Clerks' Union, of Melbourne,
Australia, has asked the Secretary of
State to have legislation introduced
fixing the hours of employment and
establishing a minimum wage for
clerks. The spokesman of the union
said that Australia was the worst
country in the world for retail clerks,
that wages did not exceed from $4 to
a week and many of the girl clerks
worked for as "ttie as $1.25 a week.
/
'SCKH
Mouasellne Sauce.
Put yolks of three eggs in a bowl;
add the juice of one lemon; add a
little salt and pepper; place the bowl
in a pan of hot water; stir constantly
until it thickens; add one tablespoonful
of butter, melted a little at a time; remore
from the fire and add three
tablespoonfuls of cream, whipped.
Scallop of Mutton.
Take the scraps of cold mutton and
cut in small pieces; put a layer of the
meat in a baking dish, then a layer
of stewed tomato, then a layer of
bread crumbs; sprinkle with salt, pepper
and butter; then put over another
layer of meat, tomatoes; salt and
pepper to season; spread over the top
buttered crumbs.
Lrmon P adding.
Put In a double boiler the grated
rind and juice of two lemons, one cupful
of water, one cupful of sugar, and
the yolks of four eggs; stir until scalding
hot; then add one-third of a box.
of gelatine that has been soaking in
one-third cupful of cold water; stir
until gelatine has dissolved; remove
from the fire, let cool; when cold add
one cupful of cream, whipped stiff;
turn into a mold and stand on ice.
Lobater Stew.
Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter
In a small pan; then add two tablespoonfuls
of four; stir this until
smooth; take the pan off the fire; add
gradually one cup of water in which
the lobster was boiled and half a cupful
of milk; put over the fire and stir
until boiling; then ,add the lobster
meat, cut in large pieces; when thoroughly
heated remove from the fire
and add one teaspoonful of lemon juice;
serve hot
Carried Bice.
Wash in several waters one cupful
of rice; put it into two quarts of boiling
water; add one teaspoonful of salt;
when the rice is nearly tender pour
it into a strainer; put over the fire one
cupful of stock; add to it two teaspoonfuls
of curry powder rubbed
smooth in a little cold water; then add
the rice to this and cook until tender;
serve in the centre of a platter; pour
the broth over it, also the juice of. half
a lemon; then sprinkle over chopped
parsley.
Buttermilk Bread.
For three good sized loaves use one
quart of sour buttermilk, one generous
tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful
cf butter, one teaspoonful of
soda and two and three-quarter quarts
of flour. Heat the buttermilk to the boiling
point, stirring it often to prevent
curdling. Put the sugar in a large
bowl and porr the hot milk on it. Now
gradually sift into this mixture a
quart of flour, stirring all the while.
Beat well; then cover and 1 t it stand
In a rm room over night. In the
morning dissolve the soda in three tablespoonfuls
of water, and add it to
the batter, together with tM> salt and
butter, melted. Beat thoroughly;
then gradually beat in the remainder
of the flour, reserving, however, half
a cup'nl for kneading. Sprinkle the
board with flour, a.d, turning the
dough upon it, knead for fifteen or
twenty minu.es. Divide into three
parts, and shape into loaves. Place in
buttered pars, and put into the oven
immediately, lialie for one hour in a
hot oven.
aeaa?ass>a?^aias*fc3
til nts for, the
Housekeeper.
Try serving whipped cream with chocolate
layer cake as a desert.
Very aour apples used in a sauce or
In pies take on a spicy flavor if a few
chopped dates are added.
A stick of cinnamon scalded ih the
milk to be used in chocolate or cocoa
improves the flavor for some persons.
One yeast cake Ij equal to one teacupful
of yeast, a measurement often
used in the older, much prized cook
hrtnlra
A cucumber sliced into tomato soup
while boiling will add a delicious flavor.
It should he 'skimmed out just
before serving.
Two or three minced pimolis are
added by one cook to her creamed potatoes
just before they are served, and
the result is sightly as well as toothsome.
A tablespoonful of powdered sugar,
stirred into a bottle of cream will put
off the souring process for at least
twenty-four hours, provided the cream
is kept near the ice.
When you happen to have a few ta-blespoonfuls
of jam or jelly left over,
try what a delicious addition it makes I
to baked apples, dropping a teaspoonful
into the core of each apple before
they go in the oven.
Eggs Benedict, as they are called
at the hotels, comprise halves of
toasted English muffins, on each of
which is placed a thin slice of broiled
ham and on that a poached egg. Over
the whole is turned Hol'anduise s?uce.
GRAY THE FAVORITE ]
Delaware Democrats Endorse Him For I
President Over His Protest I
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DEUfiATES INSTRUCTED FOI KIN
The Action Taken After One of the
Stormiest Conventions Ever Held /
In the State?No Attention Paid to ;
Judge Cray's Letter Asking That
No Instructions Be Given.
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Dover, Del., Special.?Contrary ttTthe^ "
expressed wish of Judge George Gray,
the Delaware Democratic State convention
by a unanimous vote Instructed
Its delegates to the St. Louis national
convention to present the name of
Judge Gray to the convention as the
choice of the Delaware Democracy for
President and to work for his nomination.
This action was taken after one*?^
of the most stormy conventions ever
held in the State. The leader of the
opposition to the Gray resolution was
former United States Senator Richard
R. Kenney who was opposed to the
word "Instruct." He onerea a resolution
that the delegates be "requested"
to place Judge Gray's name before the
national convention.
The fight between the Gray and the
aatl-Gray faction became so bitter _
that the former paid no attention tto
Judge Gray's letter In which he aq^ed
that the delegates be not instructed.
They fought to defeat Kenney, and
would not listen to anything that his
supporters offered. Judge Gray's letter
was written to David T. Marvel, of
Wilmington. In It Judge Gray expressed
his great anxiety for harmony In
the Democratic party for harmony in
the Democratic party this year and held
that the national convention should be
left free to select as candidate for President
the strongest and most available
man. He, therefore, requested that the
delegates selected to represet^O^l^M.
ware Democrats at St. Louis fx not
bound by instructions, but be left free
. to act as the best Interest of the Democratic
party seemed to require.
Judge Gray knew nothinarof the action
of the convention untn informed
by reporters tonight In reply to a
question as to whether the action of
the convention would change his attitude
he added: "I have not changed
my .attitude at all. I am not a candidate
for President. The instructions were
against my expressed wishes."
Colorado Commends Bryan.
Pueblo, Special.?The Democrats of
Colorado named an uninstructed delegation
to the national convention at St.
Louis. The adherents of Wm. R. Hearst
captured the caucus held by the second 1
district delegates, but when they at- j
tempted in the convention to pass a I
resolution instructing for Hearst it was I
defeated by a vote of 379 to 108. The I
platform endorses the Kansas City I
platform of 1900, declares for law and^ I
order, but condemns Governor Pea body
for deporting men from their homes.
Strong resolution commending Wm. J.
Bryan was adopted.
Hearst Carries Hawaii;
Honolulu, By Cable.?The territorial
Democratic convention, after a long
discussion, has instructed the Hawaiian
delegation to the national convention
at St. Louis to vote for Congressman
W. R. Hearst for President The veto
was nearly unanimous.
American Jockey Wins.
Vienna, By Cable?The America!
Jockey, G. Stern, won the Austrian ?
derby on Conamore, owned by Count
Louis Trauttmansdorff.
Atlanta Plumbers' Strike.
Atlanta, Special?The union journeymen
plumbers of Atlanta went on 1 i
strike Tuesday. They ask for an in- y
crease of pay from $3.50 to $4 per day, V
and a decrease of hours from nine to
eight. Unless the strike is declared off
within a short time, it will affect work
on the new union passenger station and
ether large buildings now in course of
construction.
Cotton Mills 8old.
Barnesville, Ga., Special.?The bif
cotton mill of the Barnesville Manufacturing
Company was sold at public
sale here by J. W. Oabanias, trustee tor
the bondholders. It was bid in by Capt.
Henry Blum, of Savannah, for the
bondholders at $50,000. The capital
stock amounts to $150,000. The bondholders
get the mill with their first,
mortgage bonds, aggregating $75,000,
while the stockholders and other creditors
get nothing. The mill coet $215,000,
but has not been operated since
1901. The bondholders will probably
organize a new company for disposing
of the property.
Mayo War Ended.
Mexico City, Special.?President D?az
has issued a formal decree announcing
the end of the Maya war in the Yucatan
peninsula, after four years' duration.
The war cost many lives, as the
climate is unhealthy for troops from
the table lands. Many of the Mayas
are now peacefully at work on planta^""^
tions, and have settled down to a civilized
course of life. The President's
decree annuls the decrees of war and
re-establishes civil authority In the territory
of Quintana Poo.