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IN this discourse Dr. Talmage set
forth the goodness and wisdom of
God in the construction ot the human
fm and ex tola manic and encourage
prayer; text, Psaluis xciv., 9, "He that
planted the ear, shall he not bearT
Architecture i one of the moat fascinat
ing arts, and the study of Egyptian, Gre
cian. Etruscan, Roman, Byxantine, Moor
tah, Renaissance ityles of building has
been to many a man a sublime life work.
Lincoln and York cathedrals, St Paul's
and St. Peter's and arch of Titns and
Theban temple and Alhambra and Par
thenon are the monuments to the genius
f those who built them. But more won
derful than any arch they ever lifted or
any transept window they ever illumined
or any Corinthian column they ever
crowned or any Gothic cloiater they eTer
-elaborated is the human ear.
Among the most skillful and aiduon
physiologist of onr time have been those
who have given their time to the examina
tion of the ear and the study of its arches,
its walls, its floor, its canals, its aque---
ducts, its galleries, its intricacies, its con
volutions, its divine machinery, and yet
it will take another thousand years before
tbe world comes to any adequate appre
ciation of what God did when he planned
and executed the infinite and overmaster
ing architecture of the human ear. The
most of it is invisible, and the microscope
breaks down in the attempt at explora
tion. The cartilage which we call the ear
is only the storm door of the (treat temple
clear down out of sight, next door to the
Immortal soul.
Such scientists as Helmboltz and Confe
and Pe Blnrnville and Rank and Buck
have attempted to walk the Appian way
- of tlte human ear, but the mysterious
pathway has never been fully trodden but
,by two feet the foot of sound and the
"foot of God. Three ears on each side of
the head tbe external ear, the middle
ear, the internal ear but all connected by
most wonderful telegraphy.
i A Rock of f-trennth.
1 The external ear in all ages adorned by
precious stones or precious metals. The
telft'e of Jerusalem partly built by the
eoii.l'Ution of earrings, and Homer in
the "Iliad" speaks of Hera, "the three
bright drops, her glittering gem suspend- !
.' ed fuuu the ear," am! many of-the adorn- j
ments of modern times were only copies j
of her ear jewels found in Pomiieiian mu
seum and Ktruncan vnsc. Bnt while the
outer car may be adorned by human art,
the middle and the internal ear arc adorn
ed ami garnished only hy the hand of the
Lord Almighty. The stroke of a key of
yoniii-r organ wt the air vibrating, and
the external ear catches the nndnlating
sound and passes it ou through the bone,
left! the middle ear to the internal ear,
and the 3,000 fibers of the human brain
take up the vibration and roll the sound
on into the sonl. The hidden machinery
ef the ear by physiologists called by the
names of things familiar to ns, like the
hammer, something to strike; like the an
vil, something to be smitten; like the
stirrup of the saddle with w hich we mount
the steed; like the drum, beaten in the
march; like the barpstrings, to lie swept
with music. Coiled like a "snail shell,"
by which one of the innermost passages
of the enr is actually called; like a stair
way, the sound to ascend; like a bent tube
ef a heating apparatus, taking that which
enters round and round; like a labyrinth
with wonderful passages into which the
thought enters only to lie lost in bewil
derment. A muscle contracting when the
noise is too loud, just a the pupil of the
eye contracts when the light is too glar
ing. The external enr is defended by wax
which with its bitterness discourages in-
ectile Invasion. The internal ear imbed
ded in by what is far the hardest bone of
the hnman system, a very rock of strength
and defiance.
The ear mo strange a contrivance that
by the estimate of one scientist it can
eaten tne sound or oMW vitirauons In a
second. The outer ear taking in all kind
of soond, whether the crash of an ava
louche or the hnm-of a bee. The sound
passing to the inner door of the outside
ear bait until another mechanism, divine
mechanism, passes it on by the bonelets
of the middle ear, and. coming to the
inner door of that second ear, the sonnd
has no power to come farther until anoth
er divine moehnuixm passes it on through
Into the inner ear, and then the sound
comes to the rail track of the brain
bru inn let and rolls on and on nntil it
eon.es to sensation, and there the curtain
drops, and a hundred gates shut, and the
voice of God seems to say to all human
Inspection, "Thii far and no farther
Vcatlbnl of the foul.
In thU vestibule of the palace of the
soul how many kings of thought, of med
Icine, of physiology, have done penance of
lifelong study and got no farther than the
vevtiholel Mysterious borne of reverbera-
- tion and echo. Grand Central depot of
sound, Headquarters to which there come
quick dispatch, part of the way by car
rilsges, part of the way by air, part of
the way by baae, part of the way by nerve
the slaweat dtapateh planting into the
ear at the speed of 1,000 feet a second
Km II iaatrnaaeat of mnaic oa which la
toyed all Use anafe 70a aver heard, from
the grandeur of an Aognat thunderstorm
to the sefteat hreathtaa of a late. Small
htraast of aiMlc, oaly a quarter of an
inch ef nrfaca and tto thinnest af one-
two handrad aad Iftteth part af aa Inch
ad that tfchmaaa divided lata three lay
era. Is that aa maarraJ staff, linea,
paw haw aad teat. A brtdft toadia
fraa taw aaJMda nataral world U th in
. ahte aatrllMl world; wa aeevac th ahwt-
jeat at tfcJa ad th hddfa. hat tto fag
ml aa amMUd avatarr hldlaa tkt abat
aea 4tor ad th hrtda. Whi-
aaeiaa rmn tto aawl. Tto
raa hi aJaa ailaaTT af tto ear. Tto
sounds, and all that variety made, not for
the regalement of beast or bird, but for
the human ear.
About fifteen sears ago. in Venice. lay
down iu death one whom many considered j
the greatest musical composer of the cen- I
tury. Struggling on up from 6 years of j
age, when he was left fatherless, W agner
rose through the obloquy of the world,
and ofttimes all nations seemingly against
him, until he gained the favor of a king
and won the enthusiasm of the opera
houses of Europe and America. Strug
gling ail the way on to 70 years of age to
conquer the world's ear. In that same
attempt to master the human ear and gain
supremacy over this gate of the immortal
oul, great battles were fought by Mozart,
Gluck and Weber, and by Beethoven and
Meyerbeer, by Hoaslnl and by all the roll
of German and Italian and French com
poser, some of them in the battle leaving
their blood on the keynote and th musi
cal scores. Great battle fought for the
ear fought with baton, with organ pipe,
with trumpet, with eornet-a-piston, with
all Ivory and braxen and silver and golden
weapons of the orchestra; royal theater
and cathedral and academy of mnsic the
fortresses for the contest for the ear. Eng
land and Egypt fought for the supremacy
of the Sues canal, and the Spartans and
the Persian fought for the defile at Ther
mopylae, bnt the musician of all ages
have fought for the mastery of the audi
tory canal and the defile of the immortal
sonl and the Thermopylae of struggling
cadence.
Rapture of Mule.
For the conquest of the ear Haydn
struggled on up from the garret where he
had neither fire nor food, on and on until
under the too great nervous strain of
hearing his own oratorio of the "Crea
tion" performed he was carried out to
die, but leaving as his legacy to the world
118 symphonies, 163 pieces for the bari
tone, 15 masses, 5 oratorios, 42 German
and Italian songs, 39 canons, 365 English
and Scotch aongs with accompaniment
and 1.530 pages of libretti. All that to
capture the gate of the body that swings
in from the tympanum to the "snail shell"'
lying on the beach of the ocean of the im
mortal soul.
To conquer the ear Handel struggled on
from the time when his father would not
let him go to school lest he leam the ga
mut and become a musician, and from the
time when he was allowed in the organ
loft just to play after the audience had
left to the time when he left to all na
tions his unparalleled oratorio of "Es
ther," "Deborah," "Samson," "Jeph
thah," "Judas Maeeabaeus," "Israel in
Egypt" and the "Messiah," the soul of the
great German composer still weeping iu
the dead march of our great obsequies and
triumphing in the rapture of every East
er morn.
To conquer the ear and take this gate of
the immortal soul Schabert composed his
great "r-erenade," writing the staves of
ihe music nn the bill of fare in a restau
rant, ami went on until he could leave as
a legacy to the world over a thousand
magnificent compositions in music. To
conquer the ear and take this gate of the
sonl's castle Mozart struggled on through
poverty until he came to a pauper's grave,
and one chilly, wet afternoon the body of
him who gave to the world the "Requiem"
and the "G Minor Symphony'' was
crunched in on the top of two other pau
pers into a grave which to this day is
epitaplilese.
God' Handiwork.
For the ear everything mellifluous, from
the birth hour when our earth was wrap
ped in swaddling clothe of light and ser
enaded by other world, from the time
when Jubal thrummed the first harp and
pressed a key of the 6rt organ down to
the music of this Sabbath day. Yea, for
the ear the coming overtures of heaven,
for whatever other part of the body may
be left in the dust, the ear, we know, is
to come to celestial life; otherwise, why
the "harper harping with their harps?"
For the ear carol of lark and whistle of
quail and chirp of cricket and dash of
cascade and roar of tide oceanic and dox
ology of worhlpful assembly and min
strelsy, cherubic, seraphic and archan
gelic. For the ear all Pandean pipe, all
flute, all clarinet, all hautboys, ail bas
soons, all bells and all organs Luzerne
and Wetminter abbey and Freiburg and
Berlin and all the organ pipes set across
Christendom, the great Giant' Causeway
for the monarch of music to pass over.
For the ear all chimes, all tickings of
chronometers, all anthem, all dirges, all
glees, alt choruses, all lullabies, all or
chestration. Oh, the ear, the God honored
ear, cnxned with divine ciilpfure and
poised with divine gracefulness and op-
bolstered with curtain of divine embrold
ery and corridored by divine carpentry
and pillared with divine architecture and
chiseled in bone of divine masonry and
conquered by procession of divine mar
shaling. The ear! A perpetual point of
interrogation, asking How? A perpetual
point of apostrophe appealing to God.
None but God could plan it. None but
God could build it. None but (Sod could
work it. None b::t God could keep it.
None but God could understand it. None
but God could explain it. Oh, the won
ders of the human ear!
By Galilee's Wotc.
How surpassingly sacred the human
ear! You had better be careful how you
let the sonnd of blasphemy or unclean
nes step into that holy of holiea. The
Bible sys that in the ancient temple the
priest wa set apart by the putting of the
blood of a ram on the tip of the ear, the
right ear of the priest. But, my friends,
we need all of ns to have the sscred touch
f ordination on the hanging lobe of both
ear, and on the arche of the ear, on the
eustachian tube of the ear, on th mastoid
cell of the ear, on the tympanic cavity
of the ear, and on everything fro at the
ontskle riui of the outside ear clear la to
the point where sound step off the audi
tory serve and rolls ou down into the un
fathomable depth of the Immortal aoul.
The Bibta peaks of "dull car," and of
"ancircaaiclaed ears," aad of "itching
ears," and of "rebel liana ear," aad of
"pea ear," aad of those who tor all
tto organ of hearing and yet wha aati
t to deaf, for It crie to them, "Ha that
hath tar to hear, let him bear."
Aad to bow what God tfaiahe af tto
ear wa art informed of tto fact that la tto
milleaalaJ June which ahall reaeate a
tto earth tto ear af tto daaf wW to -stopped,
all tto vaacalar grawtto fa, an
awfanaattaa af tto IwtMladt argaa carad,
l-e-'rtlis a!iK:tai'i
. L'i.4 tj l;.uk it.
II U- ready fur ti nt
bIh.1i i.ll llie in'i-dcni
earth vie!! la;, the
aecouipammeui, miuons 01 earin aij em-
! ..1h tit ttiit.tli.iG. liii'ir ,.-. t
geilier with tin- deep bass of the sea aad
the alto of the woods, and the tenor of
winds, and the baritone of the thunder,
"Halleluiah!" sur(?iiig 'P un-eiiug the
"Halleluiah!" descending.
Where to Look tor God.
Oh, yes, my friends, we have been lsk
ing for God too far away instead of look
ing for him close by and in our own or
ganism! We go up into the observatory
and look through the telescope and see
God in Jupiter and God in Saturn aud
God in Mars, but we could se? more of
him through the microscope of au aurist.
No king is satisfied with only one resi
dence, and in Frauce it bus been rt. Cloud
and Versailles and the Tuilleries. and in
Great Britain it baa been Windsor aud
Balmoral and Osborne. A ruler does not
always prefer the larger. The Kiug of
earth and heaven may have larger castles
and greater palaces, but I do pot think
there is any one more furiously wrought
than the human ear. The heaven of heav
en cannot contain him, aud jet he says
he finds room to dwell in a coutrite heart,
and, 1 think, in a Christian ear.
We have been looking for God iu the In
finite let ua look for him in the infinitesi
mal. God walking the corridor of the
ear, God sitting in the gallery of the hu
man ear, God speaking along the auditory
nerve of the ear. God dwelling in the ear
to hear that which comes from the out
side, and so near the brain and the soul
he can hear all that transpires there. The
Lord of hosts encamping under the cur
tain of membrane. 1'alace of the Al
mighty In the human ear. The rider on
the white horse of the Apocalypse thrust
ing his foot into 4he hsjp of bone which
the physiologist has len pleased to cull
the stir-up of the ear.
Are you ready now for the question of
my text? Have you the endurance to
bear its overwhelming sugRestiveness?
Will you take hold of some pillar and bal
ance yourself under the semi-omnipoteut
stroke? "He that planted the ear, shall
he not hear?" Shall the God ho gives
ns the apparatus with which e hear the
sounds of the world himself not lie able
to catch up song aud groan and blas
phemy and worship? Does he give us a
faculty which he has not himself? Urs,
Wild and Gruls'r aud Toynbe iuveuled
the acoonmeter aud other instruments by
which to measure and examine the ear.
and do these instruments know more than
the doctors who made them? "He that
planted the ear, shall he not bear?" Ju
piter of Crede was always represented in
statuary and painting as without ears,
suggesting the Idea that he did not want
to be bothered with the affairs of the
world. But our God has ears. "His ears
are open to their cry." The Bible inti
mates that two workmen on Saturday
night do not get their wages. Their com
plaint instantly strikes the ear of God,
"The cry of thus that reaped bath en
tered the ears of the Iord of Sabaoth."
Did God hear that poor girl last night as
she threw herself on the prison bunk in
the city dungeon and cried in the mid
night, "God have mercy?" Do yon really
think God could bear her? Yes, Just as
easily aa when fifteen years ago she was
sick with scarlet fever, nd her mother
heard her when it midnight she asked for
drink of water. "lie that planted the
ear, shall ne not hearf
God's Wonderful Power,
When a soul prays, God does not sit bolt
upright until the prajer travels immen
sity and climlsf to his ear. 1 he Bible says
he liends clear over. In more thau one
place Isaiah said he bowed down his ear.
In more than oue place the psalmist said
he inclined his ear, by which I come to
believe that God puts bis ear so closely
down to your lips that be can hear your
faintest whisper. It is not God away off
up yonder; it is God away down here,
close up, so close up that when you pray
to him it is not more a whisper than a
kis. Ah, yes, be hear the captive'
sigh and the plash of the orphan' tear,
and the dying syllables of the shipwreck
ed sailor driven on the skerries, and the
infant's "Now I lay me down to sleep" as
distinctly ss he bears the fortissimo of
brazen bands in the Dusseldorf festival,
as easily as he hears the salvo of artillery
when the thirteen squares of English
troop open all their batteries at once ut
Waterloo, He that planted the ear can
bear.
Just as sometime a entrancing strain
of music will linger In )vur ear for day
after you have heard It, and just a a
sharp cry of pain 1 once heard while pass
ing through Bellevue hospital clung to
my ear for weeks, and just as a horrid
blasphemy in the street sometimes haunt
one' ear for days, so God not only hear,
but holds the songs, the prayers, the
groans, the worship, the blasphemy. How
we have all wondered at the phonograph,
which holds not only the words you utter,
but the very tones of your voice, so that
100 years from now, that instrument
turned, the very words you now utter and
the very tone of your voice will be repro
duced. Amazing phonograph! But more
wonderful Is God's power to hold, to re
tain. Ah, what delightful encouragement
for our prayers! What an awTul fright
for our hard apeeche! What assurance
of warm hearted sympathy for all our
grief! He thit planted the ear, shall be
not hear?"
Better take that organ away from all
sin. Better put it nnder the best sound.
Better take it away from all gossip, from
all slander, from all innuendo, from all
bad influence of evil association. Better
nut it to chool, to church, to philhar
monic. Better put that er under the
blessed touch of Christian bymnology.
Better consecrate It for time and eternity
to him who planted the ear. Rousseau,
the infidel, fell aaleep amid hi ckeptical
maoukcripta lying all around the room,
and in hi dream he CDterea Heaven aad
heard th aong of the worshipers, and it
wa so sweet be ssked an angel what It
meant The angel id, "ThU is the para
dise of God, od the song you bear la the
anthem of the redeemed." Under another
roll of the celestial inuaic Bouaaeau wak
ened aad got up in the midnight and, a
well a to could, wrote down the (train
of th tan? that be had heard la tto
wonderful tune called "The Roogs of tto
Redeemed. God grant that It mar
to to yaw and to me aa Infidel dream, bat
glorious reality. When we com ta tto
tfbt of death ami w lie dowa ta our teat
alee, may our eara really be wakeaed bf
tto raatld of tto he veal y tamp, aad
tto aong and tto anthem aad tto carat
aad tto aoxaioaiea that atoll ollaih tto
musical ladder af that bvair gaaiat.
Copyright,
la Haawvg U actfcorltM tat tef
MMTwlat ta Hi ia,
cinti mil t int a
perfect a God Li
all tli ears 1
It .cut ikt it j lion y ir,
instruments of il 1
EDaOri WAS NOT SCARED
t'ncoiled l!iiti If fr.iiti I ndcr His Desk
and Hi Visitor Ouuilid
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iLUie liuuv pnper 111 OJit -f tne v.csu-rti
I'eUiiM.t'iVrfiiui "il tonus, always hint a
lu.bii of sit'.iiig in sin 11 a tv;iy bs to a!
low a lurjre majority of himself to nl
jhiw under his d-sk, says the Cleveland
L.M-ler.
He was one of the irost fearless meo.
ton, that ever grasped a len. and peo
ple win) knew him jicuvrally contented
themselves with merely "considering
the source" when it pletisisl him to
write uncomplimentary iiaragxapbs
concerning them.
But oue day a new driller came to
tow ri mul celebrated his advent by get
tius drunk, w hich was common enough,
but distasteful to Col. Plum. So the
latter wrote a haif-toluuni article. In
which he held Bill Ma gee. the newcom
er, up to public woru.
Magee, by the way, had lx-eu preced
ed by bis reputation as hu all-around
bully, and people who read Col. Hum's
remarks alxnit blm begun gathering in
the vklulty of the ofllce of the Dally
Force Pump as hood as the paper con
taluiug the article had been read, for
It wai generally understood that there
would be some excitement as soon as
Magee got sober enough to understand
the situation.
Along late in the afternoon the driller
was wen approach Ins the newspaper
otlii e, and the crowd Immediately be
gan to "cloee in."
Col. Hum was Ihih.v at hi dek. in a
little room that opened upon the street.
1 He fat almost upon his shoulder blades
and appeared to be w holly unprepared
for a call of the kind be was about to
receive.
Magee didn't stop to knock, but walk
ed right Into the sanctum. Holding out
the paper containing the reference to
himself, he fiercely asked:
"Are you the editor nf thin "licet?"
Col. Hum picked hi teeth with his
penholder and nodded Iu the atlirma
tive, "Hid you w rite this here article alwut
me? My name's Magee."
The colonel slowly uncoiled himself
and roue up as If h; had been a me
chanical contrivance of some kind,
made to Ih lengthened out after the
manner of a telewope. When he had
attained his full height the top of his
bead van six feet three Inches al-ove
the floor.
He w eighed ZV) pounds, being largely
made up of fiorie and muscle.
After be had taken a careful (survey
of his caller be replied:
"Yes, I wrote the article and I expect
to have another In the paix-r about you
to-morrow."
"Well." Mid Magee. "I'd like to have
you put me down for a year's suWrtp
tloii." He then paid the price and walked
out; but In npite of the fart that be w as
a pretty decent sort of a citizen when
sot.r he never really succeeded In win
ning the mtec1 of the people of that
town.
Her Theory Offensive.
A irl w ho has theories ha made up
her mind that of one of them, at leant,
be will never again cpnak in public.
At somebody's tn, not long ago, k!ic
met an elderly but still youthful-appearing
man, who Is a power In society.
The conversation turned on hair, and
the lack of hair.
"You can tell a man's character from
the way baldnetw begins with him,"
aunounwd the young woman who has
theories.
"A scholarly, tttudlowt, upright man
always grows bald at the crow n of his
head first."
"And aupiiohe he grown bald at the
temples flrat?" asked the elderly gen
tleman, wboae hair U rejilly almost a
bang.
"Oh," said tin- young woman, posl
tiveJy, "he's a very different sort, then.
I never knew a man who grew lxild
above bis forehead first who wasn't an
utter scoundrel at heart."
"But " Itogan her listener.
"Oh, he may conceal tils real nature,"
she went on, "but hc' a villain Just the
same. Iou't you agree wltb me?"
Tne elderly genthman rose. His
Toiee trembled a little.
"Young lady," be saM, "I wear a
toupe."
Smoothing flown (be Old Man.
"I have come," said the young man,
"to ask for your daughter's hand."
The proud banker gazed over bin
glasses at the fellow and demanded:
"Well, have you any meanx of sup
porting her?"
"Alas! I am or. But near my atory,"
"Go no."
"When I sjioke to Claudia alioul com
ing to tt-e you she told me It was use
less that her mother was the man of
the house, and that I bad better go to
her. But I said 'No.' Your father may
permit your mother to think be la the
man of the house, Just to humor her,
but I have wen enough of him In know
that when a matter of Importance
come up hi strong will must always
aswrt Itself, III strength of character
may not be brought out by little things,
till "
"My boy," Interrupted the old gentle
man, patting blm on the shoulder, "I
bare known all along that you were not
oue of those ordinary person who are
Incapable of understanding what Is go
ing on In the world around them. Take
hat, and may yon alway to happy."
Little Bohtry "Mamma! the boy I
gota' ta nave a circtt. May I act?"
Mamma "Oh, I atippoac aa. What art
ywu going ta oaf. Little Bobby
"Nothin' much. The la geta' to bare
a pyramid af sixteen boy a, aa' all I baa
la da 4a ta etaad aa tap."
tlaa a goo i taaliiiioa baa baa abat
by a a ag)a "a-Hl."
LAW 3 OF ROYAL SUCCESSION.
Various Krktenis that Prevail In
I 1 r;e.
Three byett-m t.uv-ion to the
tii roue pri-v::ii ta Kuropeuif Salic, tii
liifi'aif and the llu-i-Jau syrtriu. The
Kj;c Jaw il bars ail fcinalv from the
succe.iiin. It prevailed in monarchical
Fra;i e; it prvv:ii. to-Uy In Prussia.
Sweden. Norway, lt::ly. Hentijark. I'd
C'li.n. Saxoi.y and the Balkan ttatt.
If In monarchies under this law the
iu;ie line gin out, the sovereign, with
the i-o:iM'tit of bis parliament, ailopta
some foreign prince- as hltj heir.
The Salic law prevailed la Spain until
12!. wln-n It w a Illegally rti-flJd by
Ferdinand VI 1. av.iinM the emphatic
proteet of his brother Carlo, the next
male heir to the throne-. This la th
origin of thetitronj: Oarllst party which
will baa Its pretender to the Spanish
throne- a party which has cawed
mucin Ironble in the pasrt and Is Mkery
to cause Btlll more In the future.
The Copncit1 (ywilm. whU'h now pre
vall In Sapln. arwl which has It must
powerful exponent in Groat Britain,
exclude fennale helix wit limit re-gwrd
of priority of b'rth when 4here are male
heirs who wfand In the same rWatlon
ship to the sovereign Thus the little
King Alfihonr of Spain taken prece
dence of his older M1cr. and thus the
Prince of Wales. Miough younger than
bis nlftcr. the ex -Kmprrew Frederick. i.s
the recognized hlr to the British
throne.
The RiiKsjj-n ,rs'cm ircvalls In Rus
sia. Holland. Greece. Bavaria and Wur
tcmbcig. It provides that ail male
heirs, no metier how remote, Khali take
precedence over all female heirs, and
tluit th) female nhnil come to the throne
until the whole male line l extinct.
To be in the linian line of wuccop
sion one mutl belong to the Greek
Church. fMher countries allow a wider
religion altitude. Knziivh prince and
priwH-e-cs of the Mood may ally thcrn
sclvets by marriage with Greeks, Jews.
Mohanitiied:in. Confucian. and eren
pagans, without forfeltlns any right to
succession.
But ever :nee the expiiMon of ttie
Rtmarf the line ium been drawn at Ro
man Catholics. No adherent of this
faith can Jw heir to the British throne.
In view of Uiee various metfwwlis of
keeping up the effete European dynas
ties, the sturdy ctt!7jis of a republic
w here the sovereign people choone their
own ruler mnt thank heaven that his
lot Is cutd in a goviTtimerit w hoe head
ship not lepe.ndcnt on the ncclderrt
of royal birth, or the Inheritance of a
remote strain of royal Mood, which per
haps Has crept through scouniire-i ever
since the flood.
RoynWy to-day ! a foaJleh and medie
val Institution, in anomaly in progres
sive and enlightened land. Mlnnenp
o".: Tribune.
Courting Two Hundred Year Ago.
Among tlie nmiiHiug reitnlnlsceneefi of
those days Is the cotirtxhip of the Rev.
Stephen Mix, of WhcthersUcld. He
made a journey to Northairrpton In 1603
In search of a wife.. He arrived at the
fle-v. Soloman Studdnrd'H, informed Mm
of the objet of his visit, and that the
pressure of borne duties required the
inmost diHjwiU'h.
Mr. Stoddard Uk blm Into the room
where his daughter were and intro
duced him to Mary, KrtUier, Christiana,
Sarah, Krfiekah, and Hannah, and then
retired. Mr. Mix. addressing Mary, the
eldest, daughter, Katd he had lately set
tled at Wlnrthcrxneld and wan dlroun
of Autlnltig a wife, find concluded by
offering her Ms heart and liand. She
bhJKhiugly replied that so Important a
proportion required Mine for considera
tion.
He replied that he was plea"d that
she asked for tmruible time for reflec
tion, and, iu order to nfford her the
needed opportunity Jo think of his pro
kh&I, he would ntcip Into die next Toom
ami smoke a plje with her father, and
he could rcior4 to him. Having
smoked liltt pipe and wnt n mewwige to
MIhh Mary that he was ready for her
anmver, khe came In and oskod for fur
ther time for console Uon.
He replied that she could reflect wtlll
longer on the subject, and send her an
swer by bn bar to Whethrnekl. In a
fw days lie received her reply, which
la probably the mowt laconic eplsde
ever peniwMl. Here Is the model letter.
which wan soon followed by a wedding:
"Northampton, KS03. Hot, Stephen
Mix: Yea. Mary Stoddard."
New IsUnd Off Borneo' Coaat.
A sensation has Ik-cu created In the
Straits settlements and the far East
by the sudden appearance of a new Isl
and off the coast of Borneo between
Neuitakof and T.umlildlan.
The Island Is forty five feet high, a
third of a mile long and a quarter of a
mile wide. For the most part, the Isl
and is merely an upheaval of the bot
tom of the sea, but at It highest point
there Is a distinct mud crater, with the
cone-shaped top and side fallen In. The
side of the cone were evidently forced
tip through a crevice In solid rock.
The British North Borneo Herald
says the cone, which I thirty yard In
diameter, I surrounded by another and
larger root, which show that with
more pressure from beneath a much
larger crater would have been formed.
The rising of the Island wis not ac
companied by any volcanic disturbance.
The crater 1 seamed with crevice and
crack, which emit gases. By applying
a torch to a small crack In the crater,
the gai Ignite and born tadlly.
A Relative Term,
Tbe exprealon "atrong enough ta kill
a borae" loae Ita aignlflranc wbaa It
come to llva wlraa. Aa electric car
reat that la atrang aaaogi ta kill a
nana may not Incaarralaaea waakar
aierpt temporarily.
Ta 1
wba 1
inaa aat wark wftk
win
pllah vary
4't r-
Time of Cooklna.
This k the formula for time of cook
ing given the cooklngclasscs to team:
Kggn (soft), coffw, clams, oy stars,
three to five intuitu.
Green torn, small nab snd thin aca
Df lish, five to ten minute.
Rice, sweetbreads, pea, tornatoe.
asparagus, hard boiled eggs, flfteea to
twenty minutes.
Potatoes, macaroni, squash,
spinach, cabbage, twenty U
minutes.
Young beeta. carrot, turnip.
celery,
tbb-tr
parsnips, cauliflower, thirty t
tef-
five minute.
String bean, abelled beans, oyaaar
plant, forty five nslnute to on hour.
Wiuler vegetable, oatmeal, horalay,
wheat, chicken and lamb, on K two
hour.
Fowl, turkey, veal, two to tre
hour.
Corned beef, snaked tongue, Uaf
la mode, three to four hour.
11am, four to Ave hours.
For every pound of balibut Jd sal
mon, fifteen minute; bluefish bjkI bst.
ten minutes; cod. haddock and small
hsh, lx minute. Woman' Ivwaia
Companion.
G nger furidlna-
Cook two ounces of butter and three
ounces of flour together for six iulm
11 tea (taking care the flour d-s not ac
quire any colon, then stir In by de
grees half a pint of hot milk, and ruu
tiime stirring until the mixture Is ihWk
and perfectly smooth; sweeten slightly
and put aside until cool. Then add for
ounces of preserved ginger cut Into
small pieces, two tablespooufulit of the
syrup lor more if not sufficiently sweet),
the yolks of two well tiealcn eggs, and
lastly, the whites whisked to a slif
froth. Pour at once Into a pudding dth
lined with pastry and bakp In a qutok
oven for from twenty-five to thirty Bla
utes. Chocolate Cornstsrch Pudding.
Scald one and otie-hnlf cupful of
milk. Scrape or grate two square of
chocolate, and melt over hot water;
mix with a little of the milk, then stir
nil together. Dissolve four .vei tabb
spoonfuls of cornstarch lu enough eold
milk or water to blend It, pouf th
hot milk, and stir until thick aad
smooth; rover and cook slowly for tea
mlnnte. Beat together two eggs, threw
tablespoonful of sugar and a pinch af
salt: add to the hot pudding, and Ur
for two minutes; take from tue Ore, aM
one teaspooiiful of vanilla, and poar
Into wetted molds. Serve cold wlwJ
cream.
Buttered K and Kidneys.
Cut three sheep's kidney Into
lice, then Into strips. Dust with aK
and pepper and saute lu a little butter
or fresh beef dripping. When browaad
set aside where they will keep hot. In
a shallow saucepan break six eggs, boa
Just enough to mix, add three tabbs
spoonfuls of butter cut Into Mta, oise
quarler of a teaspootiful of white pep
per, one tablespoonful of finely chopped
parsley and four tableapoonfula
cream. Stir over tbe Are until nearly
net, add the fried kidneys, turn out an
a hot platter and garnish with teaat
points.
limited Sardine.
Broiled sardines make an admlrabka
I-nten dish for luncheon or soppor.
Drain the oil from large sardines, pU
them on a broiler and put over a clear,
hot fire long enough to heat tbe dhah
thoroughly, but not dry them. Have
ready finger piece of hot, nellcately
browned toast and place a sardine on
aeh piece. Have some of the oil hut
and brush each piece over with U.
Place a naif tenspoonf ul of sauce tar
tar! on each sardine and garnish tha
platter wltb small bunches of parsley.'
Imperial Cuke.
Rub to a cream one pound of sugar
and three-quarter of a pound of but ur.
add ten well-beaten eggs, a pound af
flour, a pound of almond blanched and
cut fine; one-half pound of tond
raisins, one-half pound of citron sliced
fine, rind and Juice of a lemon and oaa
grated nutmeg. Mix all well togethur
and bake slowly.
Soft Ginacr lake.
Take a teacup and put Into It four
tablesKon fills of hot water, three of
melted butter, and fill up (he cup with
molasses. Put Into the stirring bowl
one teaspooiiful of ginger and one af
soda, and to this add the mixture In tka
cup. Stir In enough flour to make a
stiff cake dough. Pour Into qure tlaa
and bake carefully.
I Hint.
To wash a gls which haa held
phmge It flml into cold water hefura
putting It Into warm. The aame rata
hold good for egg cop or ipoon from
w hich egg have been eaten.
All bread crumb which may b hi
tbtt bread jar can be utilized ta goad
advantage If dried, rolled fu aad
pliK-ed In a jar or ran ready to use lu
esca I loping meata. Bab. oratara, yja
tabkHj ar aa Ihlrhanlug.
Silrer that haa tsata laid away asd
thii bacoma badry tarajaad caa aa
cleaned qutekaat rf Mm I rat appllcattaa
of tha wh slang ta motateaed wMa awaat
ofl bafata afypthratkiu. Afterward fey
whiting eaa be aaad aa aaaal.
At aaaay dtaaaafa thai wratar, load
aarvad at taa aad af taw
af iba aaaal Una
Mak aaflaa, aat la oaai
baaa fraaaar aackad ha
naaaaM baa aa
eoffaa baa baaa
aaaal, haataaa
It hi ana aaant
ai a a aaaal
in