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It is entitled “Three Meetings of the Saviour,”’and is founded on the text “Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray.” Psalm 55: 17. It 1s quite the custom on Thanksgiving Day to render thanks and praise unto Go for material gifts and material prosperity. We are accustomed to measure the har- vests and to try to count out earthly bless- ings, and then make an effort to put into language some adequate expression of our appreciation of God's goodness. I leave ¢ 1s task to other ministers, while I in heir name and behalf express my grad thanks to God for the greatest of all gifts, namely, His Son, Jesus Christ, and 1t is my hope that I may present Him in such a way in this message that all may see that it is their privilege to come in closest fel- lowship with Him. With this thought in mind use the text, ‘Evening, and at morning, and at noon, will I pray.” The Psalmist determines to pray frequently, at least three times he toll be on his knees; he determines to pray fervently, for he will cry aloud unto fog The text does not run as we would like it to, for we always reverse the order and say at morning, at noon, and at evening, but the Hebrews be- gan the day with the evening and closed it with noon. We always begin it with the morning, and one day we shall reach a morning which shall never end. The Psalmist means that he will pray more than three times. He is simply saying that the will begin and continue and end the day with God. He takes the natural di- © vision of the day and at each point he de- termines to set up an altar. Mr. Spurgeon says he lays a line straight through the day and tracks the sun with his petitions. It used to be said in olden times that we should pray three times at least, at even- ing, because Christ was on the cross, in the morninz because He rose from the dead, and at noon because then He ascend- ed. If our bodies need nourishing three times, why not our souls? We have fre- quent Old Testament illustrations of this habit, notably Daniel. “Now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went into his house, and, his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he did aforetime.” Daniel 6: 10. We have the early members of the church in the New Testament presenting us an ex- ample. and if we study the Acts of the Apostles we find the disciples many times in prayer, but always morning, noon and night. For Jesus to be with us is one thing, and ‘we are all the time in His thought; He has promised never to leave us and never to forsake us, but for us to be with Him in our contemplation is quite another thing, and it is that we may learn this lesson that I speak the words of the text. The result of this fellowship will be - cause for thanksgiving. These three times are suggested because the morning is the time of feasting, the noon is the time of questioning or resting, while the evening 1s the time for the settling of accounts, and T have changed the order of the text for the reason that we are living in the * mew dispensation. : : 1 The morning. “But when the mornin was come.” Sn 21: 4. John’s gospe - might properly have closed with the 20th chapter. The 31st verse of that chapter is most significant and gives the object and aim of the gospel. “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing * ye might have life through His name.” But John adds this 21st chapter because Le gives us another beautiful picture of the Lord, and records the only miracle worked after the resurrection. ay this not be typical and did we but live in touch with our Lord might it not be possible in these days to have filled nets and a multitude about us of the saved. The disciples had returned to their + homes in Galilee after the events men- tioned in the previous chapter. They were probably in the house of Zebedee. They were doubtless talking of the past. They might have called to mind their first meet- ing with the Saviour and dwelt lovingly on the glory of His life. They might have spoken in whispers of the disappointment of His death, and then with shining faces have recalled the account of His resurrec- tion and His personal appearing to them. Doubtless Peter was of the company once again. They are back amid the familiar scenes of their old life; the boats are lying on the beach, the fishermen are mending their nets and these seven, five of whom are named and two unnamed, doubtless stand together. There is a boat pushing out from the shore, and the women are wishing their husbands and Dogs good speed, while the men answer with words of cheer. Fishing is always fascinating, and so I can imagine Peter with flashing eye and twitching nerves and quick beat- ing heart looking about the busy scene un- til he can stand it no longer, and then he says, “I go a-fishing.” Instantly they are all ready to go and they push off from the shore. It is a most beautiful sea in itself, and as their oars flashed in the light of the setting sun as they are away to the old scenes of other days, the vision is fas- cinating. But it really was a perilous po- gition, for though the sea is always treach- eroug, the boat might have been old, and here are these representative leaders of the cause of Christ. What if they had been lost in the night? The same question micht be asked concerning Moses when a child in the ark. What if one of the waves of the Nile should submerge the little ark or the crocodile should crunch it? But such questions are idle and useless. Moses is not safer to-day than then, and so these early disciples were safe. because their hope was centred upon One whose eyes are ever upen His own by night. - They toiled and took nothing. very ald de- vice was used to charm the fish, but every time the net was drawn up they knew by the tug of it that they had failed. As the light is breaking they are about 100 yards from the shore. They hear a voice saying, “Lads. have ye any meat?’ and they an- swer ‘‘No.” “Cast the net on the right side,” says the stranger, and 153 fish was the result of obedience. The disciples shout, “It is the Lord.” and Peter, jump- ing into the waves swims ashore, and in obedience to the command of the Master, “Come and dine.” they all sit with Him about the fire and ate. May I suggest sev- eral daily lessons for the morning hour? First, Jesus stood upon the shore and they knew not that it was Jesus. He is al- ways nearer than we think, and He has been waiting every morning since that day to begin the day with His own discivles. You must begin every day with Him, therefore, if you would have a day of peace. “I have a Friend so precious, So very dear to me, Ee loves me with such tender love, e loves so faithfully, > I could not live apart from Him, I love to feel Him nigh; And so we dwell together, My Lord and 1.” There is such a thing as being too busy to see Jesus. “Be still, and know that [ am God,” is the message for many of us, while that line in the 23d Psalm, “He makes me to lie down in green pastures, He leadeth me beside the still waters,” must never be forgotten. We must be quiet first, active afterward. ble to be irritable. r Second, He is the secret of power always. Contrast verses 3 and 6. The first one says ‘that night they caught nothing.” The second one says, ‘‘now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.” They had the same nets and the same fishermen and the same sea and the same difficulties to contend with. Jesus made the difference by adding His own power. How many times we have toiled. How often we have grown weary. How many days we have failed all because the effort was in our own strength. Never be- gin a day until you strike step with Him and clasp His hand in yours; then nothing can overthrow you. Third, as soon as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals. This is the 9th verse. There is only one other place where this expression is used. and that is in the 18th verse of the 18th chapter of John, the place of Peter’s denial. The first thing that Peter saw was doubtless this fire of coals after his vision of the Saviour. How the story of his denial must have flashed across his mind. It is better for us not to begin a day until we have asked Christ to show us where we failed yesterday. He will do it, not with a fire of coals always, but with the touch of His finger. For a Christian to fail at the same place two days in succession is an awful sin. Fourth, Just as He made a feast for those disciples in the early morning so He makes a feast for us every morning of our lives. He spreads the table with His own purity. How that will help us in the pres- ence of all that is impure. He displays His own gentleness. How . that will strengthen us in the time when we are lia: He sets before us His own love. How that will enable us to love the things that we might naturally hate. and in our presence He makes display of His own power. How that will encour- age us in the hour of temptation. I like the close of the 21st chapter of John, the 25th verse. “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I sup- pose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.” Doubtless many miracles were wrought beside the miracle of the changing of water into wine and other parables sweeter than the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep He spoke and we never heard of them. There is many a morning when we shall talk of these things with Him. f you turn to Genesis, the first chapter, you will notice that the first six days of creation have both an evening and a morn- ing, while the seventh day has a morning but no evening. It is typical of that day which shall be ushered in by the resur- rection morning when we shall have eter- nity with Christ and go out from His pres- ence no more forever, and we shall talk of these things. Noon. “Jesus, therefore, being wearied with His journey sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour.” John 4: It is high noon. The husbandman rests from his labors; the cattle seek the shadow of the rocks; the birds have stopped their song. Even Jesus Himself is weary. He has left Jerusalem because He has been surrounded by the wrong kind of a crowd, and under the impulse of the Spirit He must needs go through Samaria. The disciples are away and He sits alone upon the well curb. Beyond all question the story of the giving of Jacob's well is in His mind, and as He looks out toward Ebal and Gerizim He has the vision of the crowds listening to the blessing and cursing of the servant of God, when sud- denly as He looks there comes a woman on the scene bearing upon her head a water pitcher. The people of the East know good water. and for this reason she has often dipped her water pitcher, not in the running streams, but comes to Jacob’s well, where the water is most refreshing. Tt is not night, as when Nicodemus came, but the sun has reached the meridian. I always have thought that this was a beau- tiful picture of our meeting with the Sa- viour for the purpose of solving .our diffi- culties. ‘Who of us has not had them? From 8 to 12 o'clock in the morning, when we have said, “Why have I met this temptation and had that trial. and been face to face with this problem?’ “A little talk with Jesus, : How it smooths the rugged road; How it seems to help me onward, When I faint beneath my load; When my heart is erushed with sorrow, And my eyes with tears are dim, There is naught can yield me comfort, Like a little talk with Him.” Will you note the following points: Jesus said, “Give Me to drink.” He always speaks first. Genesis 3: 9, “And the Lord God called upon Adam, and said ugto him. Where art thou?” gives us a picture of God, and all through the Old Testa- ment and New His word is spoken first io the sinner and to the wandering one. Whatever may be your own desire for blessing His is greater than yours. We always think of Him giving to us. Indeed, His was a life of giving, but is it not won- derful that we may give to Him? The voman eave the annointment and Jesus said, “Wherever the gospel is preached this shall be told as a memorial.” Paul writes to Titus, “Adorn the doctrine of the gospel to-day.” and he sends his mes- sage to the Corinthians, “We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ.” by which he means that we will remind God of Christ. First, never let a noon pass that vou do not make Him an offer. Best of all, offer Him yourself. Second, “If thou krewest the gift of God—thou wouldest have asked.” Tt is because we do not know the Saviour that we have failed to ask of Him; according to the measure of our knowledge we will have asked, and He is pledged to give us living water in contrast to what the world of- fers. Do-not let a noon hour pass that vou do not tell Him every annoyance of the morning. Nothing is too trifling for Him. and He will give to you just that blessing which will ever stay the weakness of your life. “I tell Him all my sorrows, I tell Him all my joys, i I tell Him all that pleases me, T tell Him what annoys; He tells me what I ought to do, He tells me what to try; And so we walk together, My Lord and 1.” Then take a deep drink of living water and it will be in you a well of living water springing up. Third, difficulties are often due to incon- sistencies.. ‘The path of the just is as a shining light that = shineth mere and more.” This is a picture of the way we should walk. “He that doeth the will of (God shall know.” This is Christ’s chal- lenge to those who are in difficulty. And as 5 sat thus on the well curb He said to the woman, “Go call thy husband.” as much as to say ‘How about your own life,” and He puts this sharp, cutting question to her, which opens up the secret of all her past life and brings her face to face with her sin, for she has no husband. She was a sinner of the deepest dye. Just remem- ber when youn stop at the noon hour to meet with Jesus that sin must be uncov- ered. “He that covereth his sin shall not prosper.” It must be confessed. “Who- soever confesses his sin God will receive him,” and it must be forsaken, for ‘“who- soever forsaketh his transgression shail find mercy.” Then there is victory, and the story of this woman running back to her city to tell all the city of the marvel- ous works of Jesus will be a picture of your own life and mine. JIL. Evening. “Then the same day at even- ing—came Jesus and stood in the midst of them.” John 20: 19. What a wonderful day that was, for this evening mentioned is the evening of the day which began with the resurrection of Jesus. This is the first meeting of the disciples after they had heard the story, and the door is shut for fear of the Jews. It is not neces- sary that I should describe the empty tomb nor the shining face of Mary as she again to speak of Christ's special meeting with Peter, to meet him in spite of his de- nial, but only that ye should see this won- derful “Saviour like the Jesus of olden times, and that only while He eats and drinks with them, yet He can pass through the door while the door is yet shut. Note first that it was at the evening, This is the time for the syering of ac- counts. No man ought to close his eyes in sleep until he has gone over every hour of the day, made note of every inconsist- ency, and presented it all to the great High Priest, who waits to make interces- sion for us. Note second that the door was shut. Alas, there are many things that have closed the door of our hearts, and the difference between the heart’s door and the door of this room is this, that Jesus came into that room of His own will. He will not come into our lives against our wills. There are certain things that close the door of the heart. First, in- consistency. Let no man think that he can be an inconsistent Christian and walk in tellowship with Christ. Yo Second, selfishness. Let no one imagine that he can put self on the throne and have Christ rule in His being. Third, an unforgiving spirit. “Tender hearted, forgiving one another even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you,” is the spirit that should control us. Throw open the door this evening hour and let the light of the Son of God come in, and He will say to you “Peace,” and in the very saying of it there is rest. Fourth, He showed them His hands and His side. That gives a hint as to His atonement and what He means, for our Saviour saves us not only from the pen- alty of sin but from the power of sin, from the penalty when He died upon the cross, from the power as He sits to-day on God’s right elt with bared side and. outstretch- ing hands. Let the evening hour be the time when you meet Him. Mr. Meyer gives an illustration of the mother who goes about the room at night gathering up the playthings of her children, putting away their books and clothing and saying, “I always straighten up the room at Tighe after’ they are asleep, and this is what Jesus does for us, He straightens up the affairs of the day if we will but let Him. Fifth, “As the Father has sent Me even so send I you.” This is what Jesus said to the disciples. We must realize that we have a divine commission to work, and we must also realize that we have a divine promise of strength. I like the illustration used by the Rev. F. B. Meyer of the old artist who toiled away during the day upor his model and finished it at night as he supposed, but there were the marks of imperfection, because his hand had lost its cunning, but when he has gone from his work his son, a real artist, takes away the marks of old age and makes the model as it should be, and the old artist comes in the morning to look at it and say. “Why, I can work as well as ever I did,” and this is but a picture of what Christ will do if we will but yield ourselves to Him. Sixth, “And He breathed upon them.” He will come as near to us as that, and as the breath of God made Adam a living soul and His breathing upon the disciples sent them forth to conquer, so His breath- ing upon us will change our lives if we will but breathe in of what He breathes out, and we shall have power in propor- tion as we do it. For all that will come to us as the result of a three-fold expe- rience I am most devoutly thankful. + Spear Points. Purpose is what gives life a meaning. Circumstances may change, but God never does. ; ; The breadth of Christianity depends om its depth. : God puts consolation only where He has first put pain. e . Early athletics will not suffice for the heavenly race. Gh In this life there is but one sure happi- ness—to live for others. : Expeot God to help you when you have prayed for His assistance. . True greatness is ability fo serve coupled with a’'meek and quiet spirit. When the Lord 1s in our hearts His hand will be seen in our works. Never take your eye off the cross, as all the lines of salvation centre there. Poverty of' possessions heed not be dis- creditable; poverty of life always is. thousand times better are the men who do than the weaklings who only know. The loving judgments of friends are harder to bear than the harsh ones of foes. A od’s providences are but His touches of the strings of the great ‘instru. ment of the world. When you step up on one promise you will always find a higher and a better one before you. The self-centred life comes to nought; the Christ-centred life ever continues in enlargement. There are some lessons which can only be learned in the garden, and beneath the shadow of the cross.—The Ram’s Horn. Sitting Still. To the best comes the time when their very good is evil spoken of. It takes good- ness to understand ‘goodness. The pure in heart see God, and only such can recognize the life of God when manifested in the saints. - Few trials are more keen than the misrepresentation of goodness. An evil motive imputed to a saintly deed is as the sting of a serpent. The clouds of defama- tion lower at some time over every saintly heart. The life of the saint is hidden and cannot be understood by the worldling. “Sitting still” is the only possibility. Time xerts a remedial influence, and such rem- edy that it cannot exert the One to whom the saints are dead will. He will bring out our geodness as the light and our right eousness as the noonday.—Episcopal Re- corder. Work NMakes Men. Work is given to men not only, nor so ‘much, perhaps, because the world needs it. Men wake work, but work makes men. An office is not a place for making money, ’t is a place for making men. A workshop is not a place for making machinery, for | fitting engines and turning cylinders; it is a place for making souls; for fitting in the virtues to one’s life; for turning out hon- est, modest, whole-natured men. X¥or Providence cares less for winning causes than that men, whether losing or winning, should be great and true; cares nothing that reforms should drag their cause from vear to year bewilderingly, but that men and nations, in carrying them out, should find there, education, discipline, unselfish- ness and growth in grace.—Henry Drum- mond. The Way to the Cross. None of us can tell for what God is edu- cating us. We fret and murmur at the narrow sound and daily task of ordinary life, not realizing that it is only thus that we can be prepared for the high and holy office which awaits us. We must descend before we can ascend. We must take the way of the cross submissively and patient- ly if we would tread the way of light. We must endure the polishing if we would be shafts in the quiver of Emmanual. God’s will comes to thee and me in daily circum- stances, in little things usually as in great; meet them bravely; be at your best al- ways, though the occasion be one of the very least; dignify the smallest summons bv the greatness of your response. —I, B. Meyer. A World Beautiful. Don’t crowd your world with hate, an- ger, envy, regrets, fears, disorder, discord and inharmony. Fvery second brighten vour world with love and joy and peace and hope. Every minute expand your world by unfolding yourself. Xvery hour open your eyes wider to the grand and beautiful sights in your world; open your ears to the delightful and inspiring strains of divine music which comes of love, broth- erhood, tenderness, kindness, gentleness, cheerfulness and contentment. Ther from hour to hour, day by day, vear by Fone your world ‘will become more beauti- ful. told of her meeting with Him, nor yet WOMEN GOLD BEATERS. A FIELD OF WORK ABOUT WHICH LITTLE IS KNOWN, Facts in Regard to the Industry — Great Judgment and Skill Required by the Workmen—Successful Opposition of the Men- Beaters to Women Employment. The recent strike among the gold beaters, the issues at stake being the increase of wages and discharge of women employed in the business, must have caused a good many people to inquire what a woman gold beater is. Gold beating is one of the smallest of American industries, as it is, in some respects, one of the most pecu- liar. The conditions under which it exists enable the workmen to dicate terms to their employers, the latter frankly admitting that they have to either give in or go out of business. There are only about 500 gold beaters in this country; the work is expert, and not every one can learn it. The English and German workmen are too well paid to think of emigrating; and of course the contract labor law stands in the way of sending for them from this side. The recent strike was really on ac- count of the women. The increase of wages would have been granted tha men «for the asking, but employers were reluctant to discharge for no cause women who served faithfully for low wages, did their work better than the men could do it, and were, in many cases, widows and orphans of the strikers’ fellow-workmen. They held out for seven weeks, hoping that the men would soften, but the hope was not realized. The women had to go. It is pleasant to know that one firm, the largest in New York, kept the discharged women’s names on the pay-roll, and will continue to send them their wages until employment can be found for them. Small as the gold-beating industry is, and little notice as its troubles at- tracted, the results of them might have been very far-reaching. Manu- facturers, it is said, actually consid- ered whether it would not be as well for them to go out of the business as far as the beating itself. was con- cerned. If they had done so the price of gold picture frames wculd have ad- vanced . at least 25 percent on ac- count of that tariff on gold leaf. Art- ists would have felt this very serious ly, since their frame-maker’s bills are: heavy enough as it is. Decorators, painters, sign makers, bookbinders, cabinet makers—a dozen trades wouid have been affected. All on account of about ‘100 women—or rather on ac- count. of .the ungallantry of about 500. men towards. those women. .Gold beating is one of the few han- cicrafts left. In Germany some ma- chinery has been introduced, but the’ work accomplished is inferior. The knack of striking exactly the proper blow has not yet been transmitted to a steam hammer. The gold, ‘22 carats fine, is melted and run through heavy rollers, com- ing out a ribbon about an inch wide and of the thickness of blotting pa- per. The ribbon is clipped into inch squares and placed between the leaves of a parchment bcok three inches square. This beok is called the cutch, and contains two hundred leaves. When it has been placed in a heavy parchment envelope it is giv- en to a brawny workman with arm and shoulder muscles like a gladiat- or. He stands before a pounding block of solid granite, and, with an iron hammer weighing 15 pounds, beats the cutch until the gold within is three inches square instead of one inch. The blow struck is not the crushing blow of a butcher’s ax; it must rebound lightly. The effort is xpended in the upward swing of the arm and not in the stroke. Women, of course. have no part in this work. The gold is next cut in quarters and placed in another book called the shoda, which contains some 850 leaves. This book consists of a pe- culiar substance made from the en- trails of oxen.- It is as fine and smooth and flexible as the lining eof an eggshell. It is very costly. the price of a single book being $50. A book will stand 150 beatings, after which it is sold to manufacturers of imitation gold-leaf. The shoda is beaten with a lighter hammer and a more expert stroke. The idea is to make the leaf a little thicker on the edges than in the mid- le. This is in order that when he leaf is finally trimmed and sold the manu- facturer and not the buyer will get the part. The man who beats the shoda was really the cause of the strike. Up to this time all the work is in the hands of men. The transferring of the leaf from the shoda to the next book and the final beating has always been the work of women. A light touch and a deft hand are required to do this with- out breaking the leaf, which has now eer beaten to the thinness of the thinnest tissue-paper. Some of the meh say they wanted to take the work away from the women because they knew they could do it. and they thought they ought to be allowed more chance to sit down and rest from their severe labor. Others admit that they simply wanted to earn more money. One is interested to observe that the men are rather awkward in the ac- complishment of their new task. All seemad to work slowly. The last book is called the mould, and has 1000 leaves. In the gold tis- sue is heaten to one-fourth that deli- cate thickness, and then the men are thrcugh with it. In time they may come to think they can handle it fur- ther, but at present they resign it in its last stage to women. The girls sit at little enclosed desks in an almost airless room. The small- est draught otf wind must I= axcluded, so light is the substance handled. As it is, quantities fly about, and settle in the girls’ hair and clothing. The walls and corners glisten with it. In front of each girl is a fine leather cushion, and at her side are piled the moulds. She turns the leaves and with the aid of two slender wooden tools, one a pincers and the other a kind of stilet- to, lifts the shimmering gold, drops it on the leather cushion, and breathes on it gently to flatten it. This must all be done lightly and quickly to a- void breaking. With two strokes of a wooden stamp called a wagon, some- thing like a cooky-cutter, the gold is cut into a three and three-eighths in- ches square. The trimmings are swept back into a box, and the geld is again lifted and dropped between the leaves of a tissue-paper book, where it be- comes the gold leaf of commerce. Twenty of them are sold together in a package. The retail price is $7.50. An expert workwoman can make from 60 to 80 books a day. The work is delicate, not tiring, and but for the closeness of the room would be a de- cidedly pleasant cccupation.—New York Post. ORIENT’S FOREMOST MAN. Some of the Wonderful Achievements of Baron Shibusawa of Japan. In the East as well as in the West there are opportunities for a strong man to make his own way. In proof of this, the life story of Baron Shibusa- wa, the Japanese financier, who was recently so well received here, is told throughout the Orient as an illustra- tion of what a plain citizen may be- come. . Starting without advantages of birth or backing, he attached himself as a vouth to the great Tokugawa family. He reorganized the unsettled finances of the clan, and out of gratitude its chief made him a government officer. His ability was quickly shown in the minor office he obtained and he rose rapidly. First ne was tax comp- troller, then assistant vice-minister, next junior vice-minister and, finally vice-minister of finance. Then, when the highest places witli- in the gift of the emperor were with- in his reach, he suddenly gave up state- craft and returned to private life. As a plain citizen he planned, he labored, he organized. In a few months he was acknowl- edged as the leader of an industrial revolution which was to make a new Japan. Largely through Lis influence the empire set aside dreams of mili- tary glery and chose the sober tri- umphs of peace, He extended her railways, her ship- ping and her industries. A Japanese ad- mirer has counted and tabulated tha orzauizations and companies, of which after thirty-five years’ work, Shibusa- wa is either the head or the guiding spirit. They number more than one hundred and fifty and include every kind of business, every form of 1n- terest, civil and national, in the devel- opment of the country and every form of charity and philanthropy. GUAINT AND CURIOUS, It is thought that crickets and some allied insects hear through their fore- legs. On the cuter side of the tibia is a small space where the covering of the insect is reduced to a membrane com- municating with which from the in- side of the leg is the end of a nerve. The most of the Filipino people do not wear shoes, and the consequence is their feet have soles on them that pro- tect them from injury. IT is not an un- usual thing to find natives with the skin on the bottom of their feet one- eighth of an inch thick. Nature makes provision in cases of that kind, and they can walk all day long and they are never troubled with corns. A church capable of seating 3000 per- sons was built between daybreak and midnight on a recent Saturday in a suburb of Chicago. The contract for erecting the church was signed on Fri- day at midnight, and the building was dedicated on Sunday morning. No floor was laid, the ground being simply covered with shavings; but modern conveniences, such as furnaces and electric lights were not omitted. As three Bavarian officers were ex- perimenting with a balloon at a height of G00O feet they noticed a tiny black speck which seemed to accompany them. They thought at first is was one of the cards, which they carry for throwing out repcrts, and that the drepping of the ballcon drew it along, hut on lcoging at the barometer they found the halloon was rising and not dropping. Suddenly a loud chirping showed that it was a lark, which, flying at this extraordinary height, had been frightened by the balloon. Says The Westminster Gazette: A Beckenham charwoman is under re- mand on the very singular charge of having personated the sweetheart of a local servant girl. The servant was persuaded tuat a charming young man named Wilson lived at Belfast and was to come into property. She sent Wilson presents and regarded him as a lover, although never seeing him. It has been found that this particular Wiison does not live at Belfast; the charwoman is believed to have been the only person involved, and it is charged that she received the ser- vant's money and presents. When a Man’s Too Strong. Too much self-reliance often brings on a man’s friends more care and trouble than weak dependence. A man who is too strong breaks and his friends must care for the pieces. while he who is weak takes few chances, prudentiy looks ahead into every nock and up every lane.—New York News. Furniture Soap. An excellent funiture cream is made thus: finely shred one ounce of ordin- ary beeswax, half an ounce of white wax, and half an ounce of Castile soap. Mix gradually with half a pint of turpentine and half a pint of boil- ing rainwater. Washing Fine Glass-Ware. Wooden bowls make the best re- ceptacles for washing fine glass-ware that requires careful handling. If two bowls are employed, the results are apt to be more satisfactory. Use one for washing and the other for rins- ing purposes. The Toy Basket. The “toy basket” is one of the simp- lest and most efficacious means of keeping the house in order and teach- ing young children to clear up after their play. Any large, round basket will serve as a general receptacle, and may be searched for special toys a dozen times a day and then returned to its corner till the next one is wanted. “Things? in the Eye. If a foreign body of any nature should enter the eye, the sufferer’s first impulse—viz.,, to rub and press the lid—should be avoided, as such a manipulation has a tendency to rub the foreign body into the eyeball it- self, which is a thing to be avoided. A handkerchief may be gently laid upon the lid for a moment, according to Woman's Life, to steady and quiet the eye. The tears may wash the speck out and bring speedy relief; if not, the eyelashes of the upper lid may be grasped firmly and pulled down over the under lid and held there for a mo- ment, and then allowed to resume their position. The lid and lashes of the under lid thus rubbing against the upper lid may scrape away the speck, If it still remains, a cool friend with a steady hand can turn the upper lid over and the speck will be usually found on the under surface of the up- per lid, about midway between the inner and other angle of the eye, whence it can be removed with a clean handkerchief. If it is not found no time should be lost in consulting a physician. Arrangement of Rook Shelves. Books have many appreciative trib- utes from the master minds of all ages. One phase of their usefulness that appeals in a very practical mae- rer to home makers is the help they give in furnishing the house. When this fact becomes more generally rec- ognized and better understood there will be a freer and more generous dis- tribution of books through all the ditf- erent rooms. A room filled with books of reference, sets of standard authors and collections of miscellaneous writ- ing is too exclusively a literary work- shop for the ordinary household. 1t is better adapted for the use of the professional worker, who must iso- late himself among surroundings and with appliances that will carry him forward in his cereer. The charm of the modern living-rcom is its informal concentration of the family interests. Books, magazines and papers may form a large share of the atiractive quali- ties of this room. A corner for writ- ing may be established with a table or desk well lighted for evening use. Shelves for the books may be built against the walls or hung frcm the pic- ture moulding. Small stands for hold- ing magazines, and comfortable chairs drawn near the windows, will add to the pleasures afforded by reading, while the books themselves form a specific part in beautifying the room. The Delineator. RECIPES - ¢ ° 9 0 Nutmeg Sauce.—Put in a frying pan two tablespoonfuls of flour; add grad- ually one cupful of milk; stir until boiling, then add a pinch of salt and a grating of nutmeg. Apple Tapioca.—Peel and core six apples. Arrange them in the bottom of a buttered baking dish. Fill the hollows left by ve- moving the cores with sugar mixed with cinnamon and a little butter. Cov- er the apples thickly with tapioca and bake slowly until the apples are ten- der. Chopped Pickles.—Chop six quarts of green tomatoes; add one and a quarter cups of salt and let stand 24 hours; drain; to three quarts of vinegar add two teaspoon- fuls of pepper, three teaspoonfuls each of mustard, cinnamon, allspice and cloves, half a cup of white mustard seed, four green peppers, sliced, three cnions, chopped; put over the fire; when at the boiling point add toma- toes, peppers and onion and cook 13 minutes longer. cup Crumb Griddlecakes.—One of well-browned bread crumbs, two tablespoons of flour, one teaspcon of baking powder, a pinch cf calt, a pinch of sugar, milk to make it thin so it will pour from a spoon, one eg brcken into the batter and beaten well for a minute. Bake im- mediately on a hot griddle. If a large family is to be served add the crumbs to a partofthe liquidat atime, cause if the batter is allawed to stand, the crumbs beccme too moist and the result is not as good. be- a
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