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VIB.
If Bpaln wants more money we ad-
bcr t hold op Weyler.
Bob Fitzslmrnou says be can "look
M as anybody." Perhaps so, but
aa "don't look it."
Uo1d Is getting so cheap In Klondike
ti at the miners are talking about de-
netizing yellow dogn.
If it be true that 1,183 persons died of
Bake bites in India last year Kentucky
. ight to be ashamed of herself.
Often the force of the fact that there
plenty of room at the top depends oa
t a way a persua 1m brought up.
ow must Lord SalL-bury feel to see
Ac Turk indefinitely saddled upon
rhessaJy when he promised to bridle
furkey?
A Denver contemporary prints a list
f deaths under the heading "Morality
It "port." That's not a misnomer, how
Ker; the good die young.
Train robbery may have a certain ro
uantic attraction for thieves, but the
jrook who steals chickens makes more
tooney than the modern train robber
Joes.
One of the most shadowy of shadows
at colored photography. Every year it
f'i aaid to have been accomplished, but
Dboriy ever sees one of the finished
Jeturea.
The State of Pennsylvania is about to
bring suit against William Penn for un-
id taxes In the city of Philadelphia,
hat's the use of being in such a
harry?
Annie Whitewing, a Pawnee squaw,
has sued for a divorce. Then that song
writer must have been misinformed
when he announced that "White wings
they never grow weary."
A woman has just died in England
who, having been disappointed In love
In her youth, Incarcerated herself in a
bed-room for nearly half a century,
passing away her time In doing "fan
cy work."
A recent writer on the Baconian the
ory says the disapiiearance of Shak
apeare's manuscripts proves nothing.
Only two or three signatures and a
four-line receipt of Moliere are in exist
ence, and he was born after Shak
apeare's death.
Mrs." Browning was a great poet, but
yet a woman. The merciless biograph
er have rummaged In a parish church
and discovered that she was born
March 6, 1S06, several years earlier
than heretofore supposed. Mrs. Brown
ing was six years older than her hus
band. The "New English Dictionary," 5n
course of publication in parte in Lon
don, will be a ponderous evidence of
the immensity of the English language.
In the latest section the 3,771 words ex
tend only from "Foisty" to "Frankish,"
or more than double the number found
In the corresponding portion of the Cen
tury Dictionary.
It apears that the freight rates on
the great lakes are not the cheapest in
the world. Attention Is called to the
tact that two Mexican dollars will pay
tor the transportation of a ton of flour
from the Pacific coast to Hong Kong.
distance of between seven and eight
housand miles. The two Mexican dol
lars can be bought for about 90 cents.
Accordingly the Pacific freight rate is
about one-eighth of a mill, or one
?lghtleth of a cent per ton per mile.
Some one baa been looking over au
American book published in 1872 enti
tled, "The Home: Where It Should Be
and What Should Be Put Into It," and
make the discovery that the household
equipment costing f 1,000 at that time
can be bought now for 400. The $3
Itches clock of that period has drop
ped to 85 cents, furniture and carpets
est leaa than half as much, window
hades leas by two-thirds, and a dozen
Mid silver tablespoons can be obtained
toe a large discount on $.'0. Their cost
now la about 1 an on nee.
That the peace idea Is taking firm
root In continental Earope to-day Is
Indicated by press utterances which
from time to time find their way to this
Me of the Atlantic. Speaking of "dec
entire politics," as represented by the
Interchange of royal visits and social
amenities between leading rulers,
which are baring such prominent place
to continental history just now, the
principal Journal of Vienna says: "The
acknowledged and universally recog
nised object of the triple alliance is
the maintenance and confirmation of
peace, while the dual alliance has the
name end In view, and there only re
mains between the two alliances a no
Me emulation which shall confirm
peace." And It rery pertinently re
marks In conclusion that "It Is strange
In tlws-e elf .'!: t'"tt not. the
slights t reference is made in any guar
ler to the disarmament and reduction
f the armies or the diminution of mil
itary burdens."
It la a common maxim that history
rapeaU itself; It la quite aa true but leaa
ajaimtood, that lift repeats itaetf from
pswratloa to generation. Tb mean
C9M that has bona forpottan, tba Ha
Cat waa too small to be remembered,
C kKpartty, the hatrad, ta skeptktam
(til wt think are bidden deeply In our
( Ea faXw, rW
.; .
frit la our ..id..
ever we now, we reap. This make
life a problem of tremendous Import-
a nee. But the fact that w tilt we sow
others may reap, complicates our re
sponsibilities, and makes us Dot only
the arbiter of our own te,tlnls, but
the prophets, for weal or tor woe, a?
those who come after us.
Our country has hitherto had to bear
the reproach of having few relics or
monuments of past greatness. But the
sense of obligation to do justice to our
heroic ancestors or predecessors on
American soil is awakening. Washing
ton can show a number of historic mon
uments. Boston has always shown a
little more veneration for the past than
other cities. Marquette, La Salle and
some others of our early colonial times
have of late years come to lx memorial
ized in Chicago. In the line of this
awakening ut the hisrnrfo feeling tl
Early Settlers' Association of Dubuque,
Iowa, together with the Iowa Institute
of Science and Arts, have lieli a meet
ing to arrange for a monument to the
pioneer Julien Dubuque. Designs hare
been Hi-ked for a medieval castle built
of the various geologic formations of
that locality.
London's latest fad living without
bread may be expected to run the us
ual course. Medical authorities will
not be wanting to testify to the barm
fulness of eating bread, especially
fresh bread, which is the kind mot-t
people prefer. But in the end the peo
ple will go back to the tdaff.of life and
find their chief sustenance In the
cereals, just as they have done for ages.
There Is no denying the injury that is
wrought upon delicate stomachs by hot
bread and fresh light bread. That may
be avoided, though, by eating toast,
gems, cracked grains, stale and uuleav
ened breads, and the like. The other
theory that bread introduces deleter
ious mineral substances into the sys
tem is not by any means proven. In
fact the biochemists, after years of pa
tient investigation, have become con
vinced that all or nearly all forms of
disease are due to deficiency of certain
earthly substances, including those
complained of by this new school of
dietarians. They have prepared spe
cial mixtures of the early salts as cura
tive agents, which they recommend as
the means of securing long life. Since
the beginning of history there have
been people hunting the philosopher's
stone and the fountain of eternal youth.
The one is as elusive as the other.
Those who live to very advanced yearn
usually eat and drink what pleases the
palate, keep a clear conscience and fol
low no dietary fads whatever.
If love were the offspring of merit,
then patriotism would find no difficulty
in showing why a country is worth lov
ing. But the Russian loves a land that
has no freedom; the Spaniard, like the
Irishman, loves a country that has no
prosperity; the Chinaman loves a land
that 1ms no inspiration; the Eskimo
loves a land that has for others no nat
ural beauty. Men of each of these na
tionalities love their home land appar
ently for no other reason thau because
it is tbeir own. So long as being born
in a country makes its patriots, there
will Ik? no better reason to give. If
patriots would make their country -If
the people would all help to make their
country better worth loving, the word
patriotism would not sometimes mean
so little. It is poor'' worth the
name if it implies no more than
the habit of association that at
taches the savage to his hunting
ground or brings back the ex
iled cat to its wonted garret. True
patriotism Is something more than
blind instinct. Neither Is it a partisan
ship or a worship. It has been said
there is no such thing as a Turkish
patriot The Turk is first and last a
Mohammedan. Nor Is patriotism a
mere sentiment. It is a principle of
duty; and.it becomes rore beneficent
as it grows more enlightened. That
will be when patriots cease to cry, "Our
country, right or wrong!" and insist
that its public life and Its politics shall
have nothing in them of which they
need feel ashamed.
A Piece of Chalk.
David Allan, a Scottish painter oi
some repute, who was born at Alloa In
1744, rxid died at Edinburgh in 1795,
learned u'rawlng by chance, as it were.
While a mere hid he happened to burn
Ms foot, and was thus made a prisoner
for a time. To amuse himself he used
to draw on the floor with a piece of
chalk, and by cooatant practice became
so clever at sketching, that when he
went back to school he drew a picture
of the teacher punching a boy. This
rigorous effort pleased the lads but
angered the master, who rewarded his
skill by expelling him from the school.
But the love of drawing bad now grown
so strong within him, he was sent to
Glasgow, there to make a regular
study of art. Afterwards he went to
Rome, where his training as a painter
waa finished. He was known jsipu
larly at the Scottish Hogarth.
Tbe Queen's Fond n ens for Dogs.
So fond of dogs Is Queen Victoria
that the Ladles' Kennel Association
has sent her an address, voicing the
gratitude and appreciation of the asso
ciation for tbe Interest taken by her
j Majesty l'i the welfare of the engine
race. The address is engraven: tni white
satin and signed on In-half of the asso
ciation by its president, the Duchess
of Teck. It waa Inclosed in a casket
of solid silver, richly worked in re
pousse design, showing the royal armt,
tbe rose, shamrock and thistle, and the
date, "18OT."
Conversing with a man who always
agrees with you Is about aa monoton
ous aa talking to an echo.
Mnrrliigf l an elfalve that r
tor t.'.. "'4 torem.
TH K IUBLK ORCHARD
OR. TALM AGE'S SfcRMON ON THE
FRUITS OF PARADISE.
The Firt Orchard He, rlbcd in It
Beauty and Perfection - The Uuon of
It Creation Before FUta and Birds
Solomon' Orc hard and Garden.
Our Weekly Sermon.
Dr. Talruage hud tbe divine hand in all
the dominion of the natural world, and
this senium presents religion in it most
radiant nttractiveness. The text is Gen
esis i., 11, "The fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind."
It is Wednesday morning la Paradiae.
The birds did not wing their ois'iihig pice
nor the fish take their first swim until the
following Friday. The solar arid lunar
lights did not break through the thick,
chaotic f-aj of the world's manufacture
until Thursday. Before that trwre was
light, but it was electric lieht or phos
phorescent light, not the Ijgbl f win or
moon. But the botanical and pomolog!
cal productions came on Ve,ities!:y
f.rst the (lowers and then the fruit. The
vil of fog lifted, and there taud the or
i hards. Watch the sudden maturity of
the fruit. Iu our time pear tree mini
have two years before they lear fruit, and
peach tree-s three year?, and aj)i!e trees
five years, hut here instiui'J.v n complete
orchard aprinc into life, all the branches
tearing fruit. The inwectiie forcc-t, which
have been rioitiK riieir worst to destroy the
fruits for t;,tK years, had not yet U-gun
their invasion. The curculki hud aot
yet tttnns the plum, nor the caterpillar
hurt the apple, nor hid the phylloxera
plague, which has devastated the vine
yards of America ami France, assailed
the grapes, nor the borer perforated the
wood, n-'ir the aphides mined the cherry,
nor the grub punctured the nectarine, nor
the blight struck the pear. There stood
the first orchard, with a jierfection of
rind, and an exfiiisiteinis of color, and a
luscionsneMt of taste, and an Htlhieuce of
production which it may take thousands
of years more of study of the sciuce of
fruits to reproduce.
The Fruit Diet.
Why Ktm the orchard created two days
Iwfore the fkh and birda and three days
before the cattle? Among other things,
to impress the world with a lesion it is
too stupid to learn that fruit diet is
healthier than meat diet, and that the
former must precede the latter. Yon have
thanked !od for bread a thousand times.
Have you thanked him for the frnit
which he made the first course of food
in the menu of the world's tablethe
acids of thoe fruits to keep the world's
table from Iwing insipid, and their sweets
to keep it from beiitff too sour?
What an expensive thing is sin. It
costs a thousand times more than it is
worth. As some of all kinds of quadru
peds and all kinds of winpd cnnlurea
pa!".! before our progenitor that he
might announce a name, from eagle to hat
and from lion to mole, so I mtpjwso there
were in paradise specimits of every kind
of fruit tree. And in that enormous or
chard there was not ouly enough for the
original family of two, but enough fruit
fell ripe to the ground and was never pick
ed up to (supply whole towns and villages,
it they had existed. But the infatuate.!
couple turned away from all these odier
trees and faced this tree, and fruit of
that they will have though it eort them all
paradUe.
A you pass through the orchard on
these autumnal days and lsk up through
the arms of the trees laden with fruit you
hear ihumphig on the ground that which
is fully ripe, and throwing your arms
around the trunk you give a shake that
sends down a shower of gold and fire on
all ;de of you. Pile up in Imskets and
barrels and bins and on shelves and tables
the divine supply. But these orchards
have bi-en under 'hp assault of at leart
sixty ceiiturie-s the storm, the droughts,
the winters, the insert ivora. What must
the lirt orchard have l'eti? And yet
it Is the explon-Vs evidence that on the
site of that orchard there is not an apri
cot, or an apple, or an olive nothiiig but
desert and desolation. Id other words,
that first orchard is a lost orchard. How
did the proprietor and the proprietress of
all that intercolumrjialion of fruitage let
the rich splendor slip their possession? It
was, as now, nnt of the orchards are lot
tiatnely.by wanting more. Access they
had to till the fig trees, apneoU, walnuts,
almonds, apple bushels on bushels artd
were forbidden the use of only one tree in
the orchard. Not satistied with all but
one, they reached for that and lost the
whole orchard.
The Kdenlc Story Repeated.
This Mory of lidew is rejected by some
as au improbability, if not an impossibili
ty, but nothing on earth is easier for me
to believe than the truth of this Edetde
Mory, for I have seen the saDie thing in
this year of our Ird, 1WT. I could call
them by name, if it were polite ami right
eous (i do so, the men who have sacrificed
a paradise on earth and a paradise in
heaven for uif sin. Their house went.
Their library went. Their good name
went. Tbeir field of nsefniueas went.
Their health went. Their immortal sou!
went, My friends, there is just one sin
tha will turn you mit of paradise if you
do nt Cjiiit it You know what it is, and'
(Jod knows, and yon had better drop the
hand and arm lifted toward that lx-odhig
bough before you pluck your own ruin.
When A'laia stood on tiptoe and took in
his riglt band that one round peach or
apricot or apple, satan resetted up are!
pulled down tbe round, beautiful world
of our present residence. Overworked
artist, overwrought merchant, ambitious
politician, avaricious speculator, better
take that warning; from Adam's orchard
and stop before you put out for that one
thing more.
But I turn from Adam's orchard to Hol
onwm's orchard. With his own hand he
writes, "I made me gardens and or
chards." Not depending on the natural
fall of rain, he irrigwted .those orchard.
I ii t. scttedtirt that watered those
gardens 1 have mvn, and the reservoirs
are icrfect a when thousand of year
ago the maaon'i trowel smoothed the mor
tar over their gray surfaces. No orchard
of olden or modern time, probably, ever
bad Its thirst so well slaked. Holomou
used to ride out to that orchard before
breakfast. It gave him ao appetite and
something to think about all tbe day. Af
ter Solomon had taken hi morning ride
m thewe luxuriant orchards be would sit
down and write those wonderful things in
the Bible, drawing his iUuetratioos from
the frnfta he had that very avxviag pluck
ed or ridden aader, and wishing to pralae
a sealing Qartot a saye, "Aa the apate
fiw mnywif tht tree of the wood, M 1
my beloved." And wishing to de-ribe
.f. of the chsrrh f'tf her f jrd, he
rites, "fimifoct me with apples, for I
am sick of love," and desiring to make ref
erence t'j tb white hair f the i-tgeu-risn,
and just l-f-e having noticed that
the hloowms of the almond tree were
white, he says of the aged man, "'Ihe al
m.md tree .hall flourish." The walnu'a
and the pomegranate and the mandrakes
and the tigs make Solomon's writings a
divinely arranged fruit esket.
Heligion a 1-usnry.
Wbat mean Solomon's orchard and Sol
omon's gardens, for they seem to miugle,
the two into one. flowers underfoot and
pomegranates overhead ? To me they sug
gest that religion is a luxury. All along
the world has looked upon religion chiefly
as dire nece ssity a lifetoat from the
shipwreck, a ladder from the conflagra
tion, a soft landing place after we have
tieen shoved off the precipii-e of this
planet. As a conwfjueiwe so many have
-aid, "We will await preparation for the
future until the crash of the shipwreck,
until the cotii:igratiMi is in full blaze,
until we reach the brink ut the precipice."
No doubt religion is incspressihly inior
tant for tw last exigency. But what do
the apples and the figs and the melons and
the pomegranates and the eitron and the
olives of Solomon's orchard mean? Lux
ury. They mean that our religion is the
luscious, the aromatic, the pungent, the
;irboriscent, the etMoresi-ent. tbe fojiaged,
the iimbfigci us. Worldly kUbsl Io
X. when be beard that Milan was cap
tured. Talva diii! of joy whea the ltom
an senate honored him. Diagora died of
joy hcx-aUKf his three mis were crowned
at the Olympian games. Sophocles died
of joy over his literary successes. And
religious joy has biin too much for many
a Christian and his soul has cd away
on the w ing of hosannas.
The Hepljr of Wellimcton.
You think religiou is a good thiug for a
funeral. Oh, yes! But Solomon's orchard
means more. Keligion is a good thing
now when you are in health ami prosjHT
ity and the apiH4te is good for citrons
and apples and apricots and pomegran
ates. Come in without wasting any time
in talking about them and take the lux
uries of icligioti. Happy yourself, then
you can make others happy. Make just
one rs-rson hajpy every day and in twen
ty years you will have made 7,:Ksl people
happy. I like what Wellington suid after
the battle of Waterloo and w ben he was
in pursuit of the French w itJi his advance
guard and Col. Harvey said to him, "Gen
eral, you had better not go any farther,
for you may le hot at by some straggler
from the bushes." And Wellington re
plied: "Ict them fire away. The battle
is won and my life is of no value now."
My friends, we ought never to !e reck
less, but if, through the pardoning and
rescuing grace of Christ, you have gained
the victory over sin and death and hell,
you need fear nothing on the earth or
under the earth. Iai all the sharpshoot
er of perdition blaze away. Yon may
ride on m joy triumphant. Religion for
the funeral. Oh, yes! But religion trr
the wedding breakfast. Keligion for the
brightest spring morning and autumn's
Hiirst gorgeous sunset. Iteligion for the
day w hen the si k are up just a much
as w hen stocks are down. Ibdigion w hen
respiration is cin-y as well as for the last
gasp; when the temperature is .norma as
well as w lieu it readies It niy be a
bold thing to say, but I risk it, that if all
l o,!f-, without respect to belief or char
acter, at death passed into everlasting
happiness, religion for this world is such
a luxury that no man or woman could af
ford to do without it. Why was ll that
in the parable of the prodigal son the
finger ring was ordered put Uoii the re
turned wanderer's hand before the slus-s
were ordered for his tired feet? Are not
shi,es more important for our comfort
than finger rings? Oil, yes! But it was
to impress the work! w ith the fact that
religion is a luxury as well as a necessity.
Show the radiant tnuh, that the table of
Cod's love and pardon is now laid with all
the fruits which the orchards of Cod's
love and pardon and helpfulness can sup
ply, aiil all will come in and sit down.
Oh, fcteh on the citrous and the apples
and the walnuts and the jssnegra nates
of Solomon's orchard.
The Orchard of lllate.
But having introduced you to Adam's
orchard and carried you awhile through
Solomon's orchard, I want to take a walk
with you through I'ilate's orchard of
three trees on ft hill seventy feet high, ten
minutes' walk from the gate of Jerusalem.
After 1 had rend that our great-grandfather
and great-grandmother had Itecn
driven out of the first orchard, I made up
my mind that the Iord would not be de
feated in that way. I suid to myself that
when they had been poisoned by the fruit
of that one tree, somewhere, somehow,
there would be provided an antidote for
the poison. I said: "Where is the other
tree that will undo the work of that tree?
Where is the other orchard that will re
pair the damage received in the first or
chard?" And I read m until I found the
orchard and it center tree as mighty for
cure aa this one had been for ruin, and aa
the one tree in Adam's orchard had ifa
branches laden with the red fruit of car
nage, and the pale fruit of suffering, and
tbe spotted fruit of decay, grid the bitter
fruit of disappointment, I found in Pi
late's orchard a tree which, though strip
ped of all Its leaves and stmck through
by an iron bolt as long aa your arm, nev
erthele bore the richi-st fruit that waa
ever gathered. Like the trees of the first
orchard, this was pkr.iited, blossomed and
bore fruit all in one day. Paul was Im
pulsive and vehement of nature, and he
laid hold of that tree with both arms and
shook It till the ground all round looked
like an orchard the morning after an au
tumnal equinox, and, careful lest he step
on some of the fruit, gathered np a has
ketful ut it for the (Jalatians, crying out,
"The fruit of the spirit is love, Joy, peace,
long suffering, gentleness, gssii;is, faith,
meekness, temperance," The oth,jr two
trees of Pilate's orchard were losdrVi, the
one with the hard fruits of obduracy and
the other with the tender fruit of repent
fan e, but the cen ler tree-bow will I ever
for -ret the day I sat on tbe exact place
where it was planted! -the center tree of
that orchard yields the antidote for the
poisoned nations.
ttt. John' Orchard.
Now, In this discourse of tbe pomology
of the Bible, or Cod amid the orchards,
having shown you Adam's orchard and
Solomon's orchard and Pilate's orchard,
I now tske yon Into fit. John's orchard,
and I will stop there, for, baring seen
that, you will want to see nothing more.
Ht. John himself, baring seen that or
chard, discharged a whole volley of Come!
Come! Come sad then pronounced tbe
benediction: "The grace of oar Lord Jeavs
Christ be with yoa all.
rte tianished errdl rW the book,
and the Itdde is done. The (tear Jd Uk
ofrird with A 'turn's ovrhsrd ate! !.
with Kt. Join's orchard. Ht. John went
Into this orchard tlirotmh a etiaie g1e,
the black basalt of the isle of Pat mo, to
which he had U-en eil-d. That orchard
which he nut w a.i sod is in heaven.
One person will err in sjs-aking of bear
en as all material and another person de-serilH-s
heaven a all figurative and w?lr
itual, and ltb are wrong. Heaven i
both material and spiritual, aa we ara
both material and spiritual. While mack
of the Bible account of heaven i to b
taken figurathely and spiritually, it ia
plain to me that heaven has also a ma
terial existence. Christ said: "I go t
prepare a place for you." Is not placa
material? Cod, who has done ail ihe
world building, the statistics of stars so
Vast as to be a bewilderment to U-l-eipes.
could have somewhere in his astronomy
pi leil up a tremendous world to make the
Bible heaven true both as 8 material
splendor end a spiritual domain. I do
Hot ldieve Cod put all the flowers, and
all the precious stones, and all the bright
metals, and all the music, and all the
fountain, and all the orchards in this lit
tle world of ours. How much was literal
and how much was figurative I cannot
say. Bat St. John saw two rows of trees
on each side of a rivr, and it differed
from other orchards in the fact that the
trees borv twelve manner of fruit. 'Ihe
learnwd translators of our rom!ini Bible
iwy it means twelve diffweut kfnds J
fniits in one year. Albert Barnes anys it
means twelve rrii of the same kind of
fruits in one yettr. Not able to decide
which is the more accurate translation. I
adopt boih. If it mean twelve different
kinds of fruit, it de lares variety in heav
enly joy, and they are both true.
Variety Oh, yes! Not an eternity
with nothing but music; that oratorio
would le t'xt protracted. Not fin eternity
of procession on white horse; that would
be t'o long in the stirrups. Not an eter
nity of watching the river; that would
be too much of the picturesque. Not an
eternity of plucking fruits from the tree
of life; lhat would be too much of the
heavenly orchard. But all manner of va
rieties, and I will tell you of at least
twelve of those varieties: Joy of divine
worship, joy over the victories of the
Lamb w ho was slain, joy ov-r the repent
ant sinners, joy of recounting our own
rescue, joy of embracing old friends, joy
at recognition of patriarchs, apostles,
evangelists und martyrs; joy of ringing
harmonies, joy of reknitting broken
friendships, joy nt the explanation of
Providential mysteries, joy at walking the
boulevards of gold, joy at looking at walls
green with emerald, and blue with sap
phire, and crimson w ith juspur. and aflash
with nmetbyst, enten-d through swinging
gates, their jsists, their hinges, ami their
panels of richest pearl; joy that there is
to be no pulcodeuee. no reaction, no ter
minus to the felicity. All that makes
twelve different joys, twelve manner of
fruits. So much for variety. But ff yon
lake the other interpretation and say it
liii'aris twelve crops a year, I am with you
still, for that m-uns abundance. That
will ls the first place we ever got into
where there is enough of everything,
enough of health, enough of ligh;, enough
of supernal nsnodntion, enough of love,
enough of know ledge, enough of joy. The
orchards of this lower world put out oil
their energies for n few days in autumn,
and then, having yielded one crop, their
banners of foliage are dropped out of the
air and all their beauty is adjourned until
the blossoming of the next May time. But
twelve crops in the heavenly orchard dur
ing that which on earth we call a year
mean abundance perpetually.
The Heavenly Orchards,
While there is enough of the pomp of
the city about heaven for those who like
tbe city lest, I thank Cd there is enough
In the Bible about country scenery in
heaven to please (hone of us who were
born In the country and never girt over it.
Now you may have str't't of gold in heav
en. Cive me the orchards with twelve
manner of fruits and yielding their fruit
every month, and tbe leaves of the trees
are for "the healing of the nations, and
there rhull Ik' no more curse, but the
throne of (Jod and of the Lamb shall be
in it, and his servants shall serve him,
and they shall see his face, and his name
shall be in their foreheads, and there shall
be no night there, and they need uo can
dle, neither light of the sun. for the Lord
Cod giveth them light, and they shall
reign forever and ever." But just think
of a place so brilliant that the noonday
sun shall be removitl from the mantle of
the sky because it is too feeble a taper.
Yet mrt of all am I impressed with the
fact that I am not yet fit for that place,
nor you either. By the reconstructing
and sanctifying grace of Christ we need
to be made all over, and let us lie getting
our pssKrts ready if we want to get into
that country. An earthly pnsjort is a
personal matter, telling our height, our
girth, the color of our hair, our feature,
our complexion and our age. I cannot
get into a foreign port on your passport,
nor can you get in cm mine. Each one of
us for himself need a divine signature,
written by the wounded hand of the Son
of Cod, to get Into the heavenly orchard,
under the laden branches ut which In
Cod's good time we may meet the Adam
of the first orchard, and the Holotnot) of
the second orchard, and the 8l John of
the last orchard, to nit down under the
tree of which the church in tbe book of
Canticle apeak when it ays: "As the
apple tree among the tree of the wood,
my hi my beloved among the son. I t
down tinder his shadow with great de
light, and hi fruit was sw?et to my
taste."
Copyright, UW7.
Hhort aermons.
The Sanctity of Law. We need a
revolution in the kingdom of Cot I and
in human society regarding the sanc
tity of law. We have had too little
preocblng and too little practice of Si
nai In these last days. Jesus Chrfxt
never repealed the ten comnmndriM'nts.
The Wermon on the Mount was one
pre? red line of emphnsls nnd"rnefi!li
the t;tt!v, of stone.-Ttcv. Coitlnndt
Myers, Bapllsl, Brooklyn, N, Y.
Money for Missions. Seventy busi
ness nen of New York subscribed fl,.
400,000 to build the Metropolitan Opera
House, When and where bare serenty
men pubscrlbed such an amount to lift
the world out of the guilt of sin to tta
light of tbeOoapelt There seems to be
no trouble to rata $12,000 for a prist
tight, but what a time la made la raav
laff such aa amount for mlaatona. Km.
C. JL Jenklna, Baptist, New
wick, N. J.
K.TlrlBl'..S.
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Toast 9 Oa r'torca.
One of the foremost disadvantages of
the gasoline or oil stove (that has be
come a necessity in tbe modern bouse
in warm weather! Is that bread cannot
be toasted uihui It evenly or nicely and
besides the toast la very apt to bs
rooked by it. The toaster for these
stoves here shown smooths away these
TOASTMi Full GAS.
dlflicultles as if by magic, nn will toast
four slices to perfection at one time,
In two minutes, no that the invalid or
the breakfast table can have an plenti
ful a supply of nicely browned toast in
summer as in winter.
Old-Fashioned Pound Cake.
Wash one pound of butter, then cream
it thoroughly. Add gradually one pound
of line sugar, beating it until very
smooth; add alternately one pound of
alfted pastry flour and ten good-sized
eggs well lM'Hten aud lient hard for
fully twenty minutes, as the success
and fine grain of the cake depend
wholly on the thoroughness of the beat
ing. Now beat in two tablespoonf ul
of brandy, one-quarter of a teaspoon
ful of nutmeg and two teaspoonfuls of
vanilla; add blanched and sliced al
ttonds, or uliced citron If desired, pour
the batter Into a pan lined with paper
and bake Iu a moderate oven.
Blackberry Jam.
Take ten quarts of blackberries, waah
and remove all pieces of leaves. Put
into kettles and heat, mashing them to
extract the juice. Force through a mod
erately fine tdeve to extract as many
mills fts posMble. Measure Juice and
pulp together, after mixing; thoroughly
together, and to each pint of material
add half a Kiuiid of granulated or soft,
white sugar. Boil until it bubbles thick
ly, then put Into Jars or glaswes and
cover tightly.
Tomato Catsup.
Two quart of skimmed tomatoes,
with weeds removed, otic large onion,
Mx bud peppers or two red poppers
chopKil fine, one teacup of granulated
sugar, two teuKpoonftilS of salt. Boil
half an hour. Just before taking from
the tire mlil jtie quart of vinegar, ne
tea.spomiful iiich of ground dove, all
spice, elmmmon. ginger, nutmeg and
celery Heed, tingrouud. Scald all well
together not boil), liottio tight; haka
before using.
Cheese htraw.
Cheese straws are delicious at a pic
nic. To make cheese straws, roll out
wraps of puff taste until very thin,
sprinkle with grated cheese, the sharp
er the Ixttcr; dust with a very little
cayenne or paprika. Itepent three
times, then roll out one quarter of an
Inch thick, rut In'o strips one-half of an
inch wide and four h.c! long. Lay on
an nngreascd j t n and imke a very pnla
brow n In a moderate oven.
A l'rcttjr Luncheon Halud.
On individual Hulad dislieH arrange a
little nest of the inner leaves of lettuce,
and on these or this, narrow strli of
the white of a hard-boiled egg placed
ray wise of a circle, like petals of a
big daisy. Hub the yolk of tbe esg
through a colander, and heap the yel
low granules In the center of the daisy,
crowning It with a Mxmf ul of mayom
nalse dressing.
Prune Merinauc.
One-half pound of prunes boiled soft
and put though a sieve. lo not use the
watar the prunes were boiled In. One
cupful of granulated sugar. The whites
of six eggs beaten light aud add to tb
prunes. Bake one-half : our In a mod-"
erate oven. Herve with whipped cream
and season with vaullla or wine. Serve
cold.
(Selecting a Lamp.
In selecting a lamp 1 Is well to cboos
one with a shallow reservoir, for If the
oil is at too great a distance from the
burner it tends to make tbe flame drop
lower as the oil dlmlnlrhe. Reservoirs
of metal and stout glass are advised.
About the Hons.
When melting glue for use It Is a good
plan to add a little finely powdered
chalk to It. This will greatly augment
Its strength.
Linoleum Is found to last better aud
to preserve letter color If sponged with
a weak solution of beeswax in spirits
of iurpef I"-
If milk iKtils over onto the stove a
very unpleasant smell la the result
This may be? cured by sprinkling a lit
tle common salt on the store.
When flower vases nre stained they
-iiouhl 1' .whb5; 1 with vl'ngftr mixed
with very hot wafer, or ammonia may
be used instead of the vinegar.
A frying pan, howeret soiled, may be
rendered beautifully bright If It be
cleaned with ammonia. Make a strong
solution of ammonia and water and let
the pan soak In It for several minutes.
Tea, coffee and (rait talna, whea
freshly made, ran ba remored by
stretching tbe atalaad article tightly
and pouring boiling watar through tb
marks until they disappear. This plaa
Is only succaasfal If trt4 laiajadlately.