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LriMKaiBnrt Km.m WSSaKHKai mmsmsav mfcii.t.ny: rrri ifRftlilfc"ISftI1flM8i5iV,l!W,fllW Jm I ...H !., l. II lllillt IJDIH .1,11 Willi I '""i "3 - .'-"--' " IZXTXtotrttm rt,irTiiMiTi"'''1l"TWftriTrr' H3srWH I J , I & r H ' TTHE JFINGER OF GOD. Dr. Talmogo Dlocouraoa on tho Plaguoa of Egypt h Hand or tlio I.onl I to lie Seen In All Urent Cntafttrophlnt to tho Itltliuute End of Working a (Iroat Unotl. In n late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. T. Do Witt Talmago discoursed on tho sub ject of plagues, taking lits text from Exodus vllL 10: "The finger of God" lie said: Pharoah was sulking in his marble -throno room nt Memphis. Plague after plaguo had come, and sometimes tho Egyptian monarch was disposed to do better, but nt tho lifting of each plaguo he was as bad as before. Tho necro mancers of tho palace, however, were -compelled to recognize tho divine move ment, and after one of tho most exas perating plagues of all tho scries they cried out In tho words of my text: "This Is tho finger of God" not the ilrst nor the lost time when bad people said a good thing. Wo nil recognl.o the hand of God nnd know It Is a mighty hand. You have seen n man keep two or three rubber balls flying In the air, catching and pitching them bo that none of them fell to the floor, and do this for several min utes, and you have admired his dexter ity. But have you thought how the hand of God keeps millions and millions of round worlds vastly larger than our world flying for centuries without let ting ono fall? Wondrous power and skill of God's hand! But about that I am not to discourse?" My text leads me to speak of less thau n fifth of tho di vine hand. "This Is tho llngcrof God," Only in two other places does the Bible refer to this division of tho Omnipotent hand. The rocks on Mount Slnnl arc basalt nnd very hard stone. Do you imagine it was :i chisel that cut the ten commandments in that basalt? No, in Exodus wo read that the tables of stone were "written with the finger of God." Christ says that lie ens: out devils with "tho finger of God." Tho only Instance that Christ wrote a word, He wrote not with pen on parchment, but with Ills linger on tho ground. To most of us gesticulation is natural. If a stranger accost you on the street nnd ask you the way to some place it is as natural us to breathe for you to level your forefinger this way or that Not one of a thousand of you would stand with your hands by your side nnd make no motion with your finger. Whatever you may say with your lips is empha sized and reinforced and translated by your finger. Now, God, in the dear old book, says to us Innumerable things by tho way of direction. He plainly tells us tho way to go. But In every exi gency of our life, if wo will ouly look, wo will find n providential gesture und a providential pointing, so that wo may confidentially say: "This Is tho finger of God." For much that concerns us we have no responsibility and wo need not mako J aPPal tuo Lord for direction. Wo '""lanf not responsible for most of our sur roundings. We are not responsible for tho country of our birth, nor for whether wo arc Americans or Norweg ians or Scotchmen or Irishmen or En glishmen. Wo arc not responsible for the age In which we live. Wo are not responsible for our tempurument, be it nervous or phlegmatic, bilious or san- gulnc. Wo ure not responsible for our features, be they homely or beautiful. Wo are not responsible for tho height or smullncss of our stature. Wo arc not responsible for tho fact that wo are mentally dull or brilliant. Do not blame us for being in our manner eold as an Iceberg, or nervous as a cat amid a pack of Fourth of July fire-crackers. If you are determined to blame some body, blame our great grandfathers or great grandmothers, who died beforo tho revolutionary war, and who may havo hud habits depressing and ruinous. Let us take ourselves as we are at this moment and then ask "which way?" Oct all tho direction you can from care ful and constant study of tho Bible and then look up and look out and look around and seo If you can find tho finger of God. It Is a remarkable thing that some times no ono can see that finger but .yourself. A year beforo Abraham Lin coln signed tho proclamation of eman cipation tho White house was thronged with committees and associations, min isters and laymen, advjslng tho presi dent to mako that proclamation. But he waited and waited, amid scoff and nnathoraa, because ho did not himself seo tho finger of God. Aftor awhile ' and Just at tho right tlmo ho saw tho divino pointing nnd signed the procla mation. Tho distinguished confeder ates, Mason and Slldell, were taken off un English vessel by tho United States government "Don't glvo them up," shouted ull tho northern states. "Let us havo war with England rathor than surrender them," was tho almost unan imous cry of tho north. But William II. Seward saw tho finger of God lead ing In just tho opposite direction, nnd tho confederates were glvon up, and we avoided a war with England, which at that tlmo would havo been the demoli tion of tho United States government In other words, tho finger of God as It .directs vou mav be Invisible to every body else. Follow tho divino pointing, as you seo It, although tho world may j, call you a fool. There has never been a ' "a man or ti woman who amounted to I'' anything that has not sometimes been called a fool Nearly all the mistakes f that you and I havo made havo come from our following tho pointing of some other finger, instead of ' tho finger of God. But, now, sup pose ull forms of disaster close in upon a man. Suppose his business col lapses. Supposo ho buys goods und can not sell them. Supposo by a new in vention others can furnish the same .goods at less price Supposo a eold isprlng or a lato uutumn or tho coming of an epidemic corners a man, and his notes come due ami he canuot meet them, nnd his rent must bo paid nnd there is nothing with which to pay it, , ,and tho wuges of tho employes are duo Jf nd there hi nothing with which to In - : ' . : - '" - .-,..,, ! t--- -T- -x.,-,-1-:,. ...r.. ,;,ki&ajas wSiij. . , r -.' ... . . . .-'"' . I.. c.sWnCiKw meet that obligation, nnd tho bank will not discount, nnd tho business friends to whom ho goes for accommodation nro in tho same predicament, nnd he bears up and struggles on, until, nfter awhile, crash goes the whole concern. Ho stands wondering and saying: "I do not sec tho meaning of all this, I havo done tho best I could. God knows I would pay my debts if I could, but hero I nm hedged in nnd stopped." What should that man do In that case? Goto tho Scriptures nnd read the promise about all things working together for good nnd kindred passages? That Is well. But ho needs to do something bcsldo reading tho Scriptures. Ho needs to look for tho finger of God that Is pointing toward bettor treasures, that Is pointing toward eternal release, that Is urging htm to higher realms. A most Interesting, as well as n most useful study Is to watch the pointing of the finger of God. In tho seven teenth century South Carolina was yielding resin nnd turpentine and tar as her chief productions. But Thomas Smith noticed that tho ground nenr his house was very much like tho places In Madagascar where he had raised rice, and somo of the Madagascar rice was sown there nnd It grew so rapidly that South Carolina was led to make rico her chief production. Can you not seo tho finger of God in that Incident? Rev. John Fletcher, of England, many will know, was one of the most useful min isters of tho gospel who ever preached. Before conversion ho joined tho nrmy and had bought his ticket on tho ship for South America. Tho morning he was to sail some ono spilled on htm a kettle of water and ho was so scalded he could not go. Ho was very much dis appointed, but tho ship ho was going to' Ball on went out und was never heard of again. Who can doubt Unit God was arranging tho life of John Fletcher? Was It merely accidental that Klchard Bodda, a Cornish miner, who was on his knees praying, remained unhurt though stones fell beforo him nnd be hind lilm and on cither side of him nnd nnothor fell on tho top of these so as to, make a roof over him? Why did not Columbus sink when in enrly manhood he was afloat six miles from tho beach with nothing to sustain him till ho could swim to land but a boat's oar? I wonder If his preserva tion had anything to do with America. Had tho storm that diverted tho May flower from the mouth o! tho Hudson for which it was sailing, nnd sent It nshoro nt Capo Cod, no Divino supor visal? Does anarchy rulo this world, or God? St Felix escaped martyrdom by crawling through a hole In tho wall across which tho spiders immediately afterward wovo a web. His persecutors saw tho holo in tho wall, but the spi ders' web put them off tho track. A boy was lost by his drunken father, and could not for years find his way homo. Nearly grown he went into a Fulton street prayer meeting nnd asked for prayers that ho might find his parents. His mother was in the room and recog nized her long lost son. Do you say these things "only happened so." Tell that to those who do not believe in God and have no faith in tho Bible. Nations also wonld do well to watch for tho finger of God. What docs tho cholera scare in America mean? Some say that the plague will sweep our land next summer. I do not bolleve n word of it There will bo no cholera here next summer. Four or five summers ago there were those who said it would surely be hero tho following summer because it was on tho way. But it did not conic. The .sanitary precautions established hero will mako ucxt sum mer unusually healthful. Cholera never starts from where It stopped tho season before, but always starts In the filth of Asia, and if it starts next sum mer, It will start thero again It will not start from Now York quarantine. But It Is evident to mo that the finger of God is in this cholera scare, and that He is pointing this nation to something higher und better. It has been demonstrated as never before that wo aro in tho hands of God. He al lowed the plaguo to como to our very gates and then halted it Out of that solemnity wo ought to pass up to some thing bettor than anything that has ever yet characterized us as a nation. Wo ought to quit our national sins, our Sabbath breaking, and our drunken ness, and our Impurities, nnd our cor ruptions of nil sorts ns u people. T rejoice that thero aro many encour aging signs for our nation, and one Is that this presidential campaign has less malignity and abuse than any presi dential campaign blncc wo havo been a nation. Turn over to tho pictorials, nnd tho columns nf the political sheets of tho presidential excitements all tho way back and see what contumely Washington and Jefferson and Madi son and Monroe and Jackson went through. Now see tho almost entire absence of ull that Tho political orators I notico this year are apt to be gin by eulogizing the honesty nnd good Intentions of the opposing candidate, nndsay that ho is better than his party. Instead of vitriol, camomile flowers. That wo seem to havo escaped the degradation of tho usual quadrennial billingsgate is an encouraging fact Perhaps this betterment may have somewhat, resulted from tlio sadness hovering over tho homo of one of the candidates, a sadness in which tlio whole nation sympathizes, l'crhap.i we havo been so ubsorbed in paying honors to Christopher Columbus that wo havo forgotten to anathematize tho prominent men of the present No man in this country is fully honored until ho is dead. But, notico thut this finger of God al most always and in almost everything points forward nnd not backward. All tho way through the Bible, the lamb and pigeon on tho altar, the pillar of fire poised above tho wilderness, peace offering, sin offering, trespass offering, fingers of Joseph and Isaac and Joshua and David and Isaiah and Mlcah and Ezoklel, all together mado the ono finger of God pointing to tho human, tho divine, tho graclmis, tho glorious, the omnipotent, the gentle, tho pardon ing nnd suffering nnd atoning Christ And now tho samo finger of Ood Is pointing the world upward to tho tamo Redeemer and forward to the tlmo of his untvers.il domination. My heavers, got out of tho habit of looking back nnd looking down nnd look up nnd took forward. It Is useful oneo in nwhllo to look back, but you had bet ter, for the most part of your time, stop reminiscence and bjgln untlelpatlon. Wo have, nono of us, hardly b.-giui yet If wo lovo tho Lord nnd trust him and you may nil love him nnd trust him from this moment on we no more un derstand tho good things ahead of us than a child nt school studying his A B C can understand what that has to do with his reading John Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture," or Dante's "Dlvlna Cominedla." "O, but," Bays someone, "I nm got ttng old nnd I have a touch of rheu matism in that foot, and I believe some thing Is tho matter with my heart, and I cannot stnnd as much as I used to." Well, I congratulatoyou, for that shows you arc getting nearer tho tlmo when you nro going to eternal Immortal youth nnd be strong enough to hurl off tho battlements of Heaven any bandit, who, by unheard of burglary, might break Into tho Golden City. "But," says someone, "I feel so lonely. The most of my friends aro gone, and the bereavements of life havo multiplied until this world.that was once so bright to me. has lost Its charm." I congratu late you, for, when you go, there will bo fewer hero to hold you back nnd moro thero to pull you In. Look ahead! The finger of God Is pointing forward We sit hero In church, and by hymn and prayer and sermon nnd Christian association we try to get Into n frame of mind that will bo ncceptablo to God and pleasant to ourselves. But what a stupid thing It all Is compared with what It will bo when wo have gone beyond psalm book and sermon nnd Bible, nnd we stand, our lust Imper fection gone, in tho presouco of that charm of the universe tho blessed Christ nnd have him look In our face and say: "I havo been watching you nnd sympathizing with you and help ing you all these years, and now you are here. Go where you pleaso nnd never know a sorrow and never shed n tear. There is your mother now she Is coming to greet you and thero is your father, ond there nro your chil dren. Sit down under this tree of life and on tho banks of this river talk it all over." My friends, I do not know how wo are going to stand it I mean tho full Inrush of that splendor. Last summor I saw Moscow, in somo respects the most splendid city under tho sun. The emperor afterward usked mo if I had seen it, for Moscow is the pride of Rus sia. I told him yes and that I had seen Moscow burn. I will tell you what I meant After examining 000 brans can nons which were picked out of tho snow after Napoleon retreated from Moscow, each cannon deep cut with the letter "N," 1 ascended a' tower of somo 230 feet, just before sunset, nnd on each platform thero wero bells, largo and small, and I climbed up nmong the bells, und then as I reached tho top, all the bells underneath mo began to ring and they were joined by the bells of 1,400 towers and domes and turrets. Some of the bells sent out a fulut tiuklo of sound, a sweet tintinnabulation that seemed to bubblo in tho nir, und others thundered forth boom after boom, boom after boom, until it seemed to shako tho earth and fill the heavens sound so weird, so hwcet, so awful, so grand, so charming, so tremendous, so soft, so rippling, so reverberating and they seemed to wreathe, and whirl, and rise, and sink, and burst, and roll, and mount und die. The mingling of so many colors with so many sounds was an entrance nlmost too much for li.unun nerves or human eyes or human cars. I expect to seo nothing to equal It until you nnd I seo Heaven. But that will surpass It and make the memory of what I saw that July evening in Moscow nlmost tame and Insipid. All Heaven aglow and ull Heaven u-rlng, not in tho sunset bui In the sunrise. Voices of our own kin dred mingling with tho doxologlcs of empires. Organs of eternal worship responding to tho trumpets that have wakened tho dead Nations In white. Centuries in coronutton. An thems like tho voice of many waters. Circlo of martyrs. Clrclo of apostles. Circle of prophets. Thrones of cherubim. Thrones of seraphim. Throno of arch ungel. Throno of Christ Throno of God, Thrones! Thrones! Thrones! Tho finger of God points that way. Stop not until you reach that place. Through tho atoning Christ, all I speak of and moro may bo yours nnd mine. Do you not hear tho chime of tho bells of that metropolis of tho universe? Do you not boo tho shimmering of the towers? Good morning. MR. BABSON'S FISH STORY. Opening- Up the l.nut Winter's Hole In tlio Ice. Mr. James Babson was a fanlous fish erman. Ho returned from ovory fish ing excursion with u longer string of fish und a longer story of his exploits than nny other man in Skowhcguu; and if thero wero any doubts nbout his stories, thero wero tho fish to prove his rkill if nothis truthfulness. Once when tho river frozo over James started off after frost-fish. Ho took an abundant lunch, tho necessary lines, hooks and bait; but, "upon arriving at his favorite ilshlng ground, ho found ho had forgot ten the chisel with which to cut holes in the ice. "I declared to man," said Mr. Babson, as he told the story in the grocery store that evening, "I was put to it to know what I was goln' to do. It wus too far from homo to como back, an I didn't lack nothln' but jest that pesky chlsol. I cat my lunch an' went further up tho stream; but 'twa'n't no use; I sorter drifted back to where I know thero was fish; and then, after I'd wasted most of the day, I jest happened to think about tho holes I'd cut iu that very spot last year. I remember jest where they were, an' so I wont right round an' found every pesky ono of 'em! Yes, sir, frozo over, of course, but I je hammered at 'em with my boot-heel, nnd 'twa'n't long 'fore I had 'em open jest as good us thoy wore lust winter. Kinder spoueu my a ays usuitr, tuougn faUIn rmiml ki inner fin tint ililnlrtn n not thlukin' of It" Lcwlston Journal, A POLITICAL TA-RA-RA. I. If yw wilt llMrn iloso enough You'll hear n ilcmocrtlc Mull: YoVIl bear thrni trill!), ono urn! nit, Juu what thoy mean to ilo this full. They've salil tho mmo thing oft In-fore They howl until their throats nro sore: lltit we. tlon't serin to four u tli I nc. AM whllo tlipy yell wo ntmpty alug: ChorusTa-rn-nt, lloum-do-ay' do. It. They ny that Orocr's auro to win: They my they're IkjuiuI to put him In: Tticy hay tho white houo Is, In truth, Tho only placo for ltuhy ltutli. Hut when we've rm-wil election ilny Mlis Kuth ulll Mop nt llurzanl liny, And lill she chow h her toothing ring Iter big imps will hour us nlngi Chorus Ts-ru-ra, lloom-dc-nyt tile. lit. Wo Vnotlml 'em out tour yrnrs ago, Ami now they hen'tnny how: To win thin fight wo'ru nil In lino. And wo nro feeling prulijtltir. So, wlill they whoops hU howl, nnd roar, We'll llx tho thing for four yrnrs more, And In tlio thlckrnt tho Iruy We'll ring ttirn-ni, llonm-dc-nyl etc Chorus To-ra-ru, Hootiwlo nvl etc Chicago Tribune. A MARKED DIFFERENCE. TVI.at tlio HUtory or tlio. Two l'artlr R renin. Hon. John Sherman, in a recent contribution to n contemporary, shows how utterly tho democratic party has outgrown its nnelcnt principles and policies and at the same tlmo has fallen into tho clutch of Its worst elements, while, on tho other hand, thu repub lican party has mado steady progress In tho development of n genuino civili zation. Wo quote n single extract from this striking and offoetlvo papor: Tl-IE QUE AT .DEMOCRATIC TRIUMVIRATE! PLUTOCRAT. -Now York Press. Autocrat. "The history of tho two rival parties slnco Lincoln's first election offers a startling contrast bctwocn survivals ot the worst and tho best traditions. Equality of rights und sympathy for tho mass of tho common people wero tho leading principles of Jefferson. A latter day democracy stands in the south for unequal rights and minority conspiracies, und throughout the union for a tariff policy by which American labor will bo degraded to the European level. Jackson's great strength lny in hie intense devotion to the principle of uatlonality and in his abhorrence of sectionalism. A latter-day democracy, by tho revival of the constitutional quibbling of Calhounlsm, und by its persistent hostility to national policies, has repudiated his principles. What has been best in tho tendencies of its history has fallen into Innocuous des uetude. What has been worst In the theories and practice of Its slave-own ing and sectional loaders is tenaciously preserved. "Republicanism, on the other hand, holds fast to everything that is en nobling and elevating in its his tory. It is the party of na tional honor which has removed tho foul reproach of slnvery nnd re deemed the plighted faith of the gov ernment In financial legislation and administration. It Is the party of equal rights, an unsullied ballot and honest elections. It is the party of nu tlonal policies of comprehensive scopo and enlightened soli Interest, by which industry is dlvwrslfled, labor systemat ically protected and the prosperity of All classes and sections promoted Be twoen its present policies and the tra ditions of its glorious past thero is un broken continuity of patriotic action." , Frank Leslie's Weekly. THE PARTY OF FRAUD. Bonis of tha llloU Upon the Democratic Kecord. The democratic party is a cool hand atplendlng for the public confidence, In a circular addressed to tlio peopla and issued last week, the national com mittee Informs the public that "with a body of hired professionals drilled and experienced in political Intimida tion nnd political debauchery, our op ponents aro preparing a final assault upon tha freedom und honesty of tho ballot." It asks for monoj to "detect, to .prosecute nnd to punish crimes against the purity of the ballot where soever In the United States they aro perpetrated and by whomsoever com mitted or directed.' This Is cool. Tho knave who snatches a tray of diamonds and runs with it down the street crying: "Stop thief," Is not more impudent. Why, the history of the democratic party U I plastered over with tho most gigantb I frauds against the ballot Ono of it watchwords in tho present csmpalgi Is: "Down with tho forco bill and negro domination." This means that tho frauds against the ballot in the great majority of democratic states ought not to pe interfered with by law. A federal law might secure to the negro voter tho same chance to vote and to havo his voto counted ns tho white voter has. It is a confession that tho present democratic domina tion is secured und maintained by robbing the negro of his rights. Tho same democratic commit tee last week rejoiced over tlio nows ot the election in Florida. There wero democratic gains in that stuto. Of course thero were. But it was bo cause no republican ticket was in the field, and do republican ticket was nominated because republican voters and republican votes are systematic ally overborne by fraud. The Florida democracy have made tho frocdorn nnd honesty of the ballot n bitter sarcasm and republican government a mockery. And what of Alabama? What of thu frauds dona In the name of tho democratic party In that state? , Wo do not need to quote from republican sources. Wo have only to refer to tho testimony of democrats. At the recent I convention of Jefferson democrats In Augusta, the nail was raailo to ring with denunciations of the frauds com mitted by the democratic poll officers in the August election. Talk about "tho purity and honesty of the ballot!" IiOok about you In every democratic state 1 What nbout the fifty or sixty election officers In Hudson county, N. J., servlng.out sen- tenccft'for gross crime ngnlust the bal lot? They are all democrats. What nbout tho frauds perpetrated in this state last full try which the control of tho sonata was stolen? Tho thieves were all democrats; and It is not long since tho mugwump press was ringing with denunciations of tho crime the same press thnt Is now shouting nbont republican fraud and corruption. It is a precious party the party of the shotgun, tho tissue-ballot, the "Mis sissippi plan," the South Carolina scheme, tho Florida suppression, the Hudson county crime, the senate steal nt Albany, tho Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Now York gerrymanders nice party, this, to appeal to public confidence us tho protector of the bulloU honest elections und fair ap portionment! Tho public will not credit tho profuse DEMOCRAT. professions of tho democratic address of devotion to the honesty nnd purity of the ballot They will call to mind the series of frauds which tho party Is responsible for, and will ask why tho change in the election laws for this city was enacted last winter If not to open the door to fraud and rascality such as used to disgrace the city when Tweed was boss. Tlio democratic party a protection against fraud? It is a fraud itself. N. Y. Independent COMMENT OF THE PRESS. CSTTho feeling Is growing that Har rison ond Reld will carry every north ern state. As long as thero is a solid south, there is excuse for a solid north. Iowa Stato Register. VB'lt the democrats wero united they could carry Now York, perhaps, but they were never, In a presidential canvass, farther from this condition than they are now. St Louis Globe Democrat tJTMr, Blaine's complimentary rot erenco to Prcsidont Harrison in the North American Review removes any doubt as to his personal desire that tho president be reelected. Indianapolis Journal. t3!TIf the people want an "Industrial revolution," they can easily huve it by electing n democrntlo prcsidont and a democratic senate. British free trade would como with a whoop. The re joicing in England over the election of Orovor Cleveland would be greater than in the United States In any section out side of tho cotton belt Chicago Inter Ocean. laTTho democracy aro scattered in the woods. They seem to be practically unit on free trade; that Is about tho only point of close contact, although somo of them deny it Ail this dodg ing and evasion and incongruity of tho democratic-populist party, which folds a Weaver, a Loucks, a Henry George to Its bosom, complicates tho contest. Minneapolis Journal. CXTUrcat Britain Is tho richest coun try in ready cash in tho world; It boasts itself as tho banker of ull crcutlon. But It has only 5180,000,000 in its sav ingH banks, while tho Uulted Stntos has 81.023,070,704, or nine dollars for one. It is tho wage earners who mako the savings bunks their treasury. The ratio of the difference in deposits marks tho vnluo of tho difference be tween freo trade and protection to tho masses of the people Troy Times. tVThe shriek that has gono up from tha bourbon press anent Mr. Blaine's visit to Ophlr farm is a plain indication that the fear of tha man from Maine has not vanished frpra the democracy with the lapse of years. Mr. Blaine may not speak in the pending canvass, but his counsel and Bagacity in nation al affairs aro worth thousands ot re publican votes In New York state votes that he has tho peculiar capacity of bringing out Hence theso bourbon yells aforesaid. St Louis Star-Sayings. UTAmong tho recent accessions to tho republican ranks is John W. Ben nott of North Dakota. Mr. Bennett has been ono of tho most conspicuous democratic leaders in his stato. For several years he was a member of the democratic state central committee and lie was chairman of tho last demo cratic Btate convention. He could not countenance dcmocf-utlo methods la tlio present campaign tlio alliance with the free trade, freo silver, free :. Albany wildcat currenoj alliance. Albany Journal. FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS. To Tost Butter. Heat a small qun ttty well. If It bubbles and browns quickly tho butter is genuine. If tho nulntnnoo molts to a clear, oily material it Is a caso of oleomargarine. For ehocolato tarts take a quarter of a pound of sugar, ono ouneo and half of grated chocolate and tho yolks of six eggs. Stir for i quarter of an hour, thon add threo ounces of corn starch and thoiwhltes of tho eggs beat en to n snow, Fumigating a Nick Room. Sprinkle a spoonful of ground eoffu upon a flro shovel on which two or threo llvo coals have been placed, nnd Immediately the sick room will bo filled with a pleasant odor, which cannot Iw anything but re freshing to tho Jnvnlld Ladles' Home Journal. Nut Kisses. Whites ot six eggs beaten stiff, ono pound powdered sugar, two tnblespoonfuls Hour, and ono pound nut kornols. Hickory nuts nro very nice, but Brazil or other nuts may be used, according to taste. Drop on nice ly buttered tins nnd bako in n moder ately warmed oven. Ohio Fanner. Lemon Cheese. Tako ono cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfttls of buttor, two eggs, tho juice of two lemons. lUat tho sugar, butter, lemon Julco and, tho yolks of tho eggs togather; ndd tho whites of tho eggs beaten to a stiff froth and oook until thick, stirring con tinually. rlill adelphla Tress. Giblets. Clean tho giblets of a tur key or chlo ken, cut tho glrzard into quarters ami separato tho lobes of tho liver. Stew them in water to cover, with an onion, sal t and pepper. When tender, thicken tho liquor with flour and butter cooked together; ndd tomato or walnut ketchup to taste, and servo on toast Boston Budget Roasted Chicken. A spring chicken roasted Is more delicious if cut open up tho back, rolled in sifted broad crumbs nnd plnccd lnsldo down in ft dripping pan containing a plcntlfulnllowancoof hot butter, than when roasted whole. Baste often, bo careful nnd do not scorch, nnd servo with brown grnvyln about N. Y. Observer. Old-Fashlonod Jumbles. Stir to gether till light of oolor a pound of sugar and halt the weight of butter, then ndd eight egg s beaten to a froth, rosu water to tho taste, and flour to make them sufficiently stiff to roll out Roll them out In powdered sugar untl' bout half un Inch thick. Cuttn.to trips about halt an Inch wide and four inches long. Join tlio onds togather o as to form rings. Lay them on flat tints that havo been buttered; bake in n quick oven. Ladles' Homo Journal Broiled Chicken. Singe, split down tho back, break tho Joints and cut out tho breastbone. Wipo with a damp, then with a dry cloth, rub ull over with butter, ollvo oil or cottolcno, sprinkle with salt and white pepper, and place In a double gridiron. Place tho Inside of tho bird to the flro first, have the latter clear, but not too hot, and broil twenty minutes, turning several1 times. Servo on a hot platter garnished with fresh watercress. If not pcrfcolly ten dor, put thu chicken into hot water whon ready to broil, bring to a boll, re move tho scum and simmer gently for ton minutes. When quite cold, brush tho pieces nnd proceed to broil ns above. N. Y. Observer. THE STRAWBERRY. IU Ksrly HUtory suit the Wldo Zone la Which It U Found. The wild strawberry is very wldoly diffused ovor tlio surface of tho earth, bolng found in tho chill regions of th north, as well as in tlio sunuy climes o tho south. It is not a tropical plant, however, and, except on mountain sides, is not found south of latltudo thlrty-otght degrees north. On the Eu ropean continent it grows extensively from tho Lapland and tho Shetland Isles to Italy and Greece. It Is also found throughout western Asia, bat is unknown in China and Jbpan. It has grown abundantly on the bleak hills ot Iceland for centuries. It Is found in America from Labrador and British Co lumbia to tho pine woods of tho south ern slates and on tho high lands of Mexico and the Andes, Tho hardy plant, with its tiny scarlet berry, may be said to girdle tho earth on the lino of tho Polar circle, and several hundred miles southward, except thut It is not found in the basin of the river A moor, in Siberia. Though history and story aro alike sllont as to the cultivation of the Htrawberry in early times, wo know thut tho fruit was woll kuown in'En gland in the fifteenth century. Shakos pcara has threo ajluslons (to strawber ries. In "Henry V." tho Bishop of Ely, In illustration of tho good qualities which tho young king possessed; in splto ot his wllJ habits and objectionable companions, says: Tho strawberry grows undornoath tho nettle, And wholoiotno berrlcu thrlvu and ripen bonV Neighbored by fruit of basor quality. Tho reference horo Is, obviously, to tho wild berry. But in tho play ot "Richard III." strawberries ar.o spoken ot as growing in tho Bishop of Ely's garden nt Holborn, and this seems to show that tho berry was cultivated with considerable care as early as tho latter part of tho fifteenth century; though Haydn's dictionary of Dates uv L sorts that tho common strawberry was brought to England from Flanders in 1530. It Is enrious to note that ono hundred years aftor the crafty Rlehard begged some of the bishop's strawber ries, weeflnd a description of a garden at Holborn, the property of the rich Barber-surgoon Gerard, wherein four kinds of strawberrlos a great variety for the time were successfully culti vated. The third Sbakspearean allu sion to this fruit Is In reference to tha ill-fated hnndkerchlef ot Desdcmona, which was "spotted with strawberries." Horticultural Times, Mutter or the Situation. First Boy (at a summer resort) Hor long aro you going to stay horo? Second Boy Till I got tired. First Hoy What's you going to do with It? Second Boy I heard papa say m didn't cure how long mama stuyed here. I When I got tired, I'll tell mamma wot' papa said, an' then she'll go right bask. I Uood flows. mmmmmam ti&&Atlk i i I I i' i i alia rn i m