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THANKSGIVING SERMON
ON. CHAPMAN UTTERS A MESSAGE
« APPROPRIATE TO THE DAY,
A Timely Discourse Entitled “Three Meet-
ings of the Saviaur”’—Render Thanks
to God For the Greatest of Gifts, His
Son, Jesus Christ.
NEW York Crry.—The Rev. De. J. Wil-
bur Chapman, who has recently resigned
the pastorate of the Fourth Presvyterian
Church in this city in order to devote him-
self to evangelistic work, has prepared the
folowing Thanksgiving sermon for the
press. 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.
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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
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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.
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