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A SERMON “FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED;
! WHO ARE SONS OF GOD?"
The Rev. Robert A. MacFadden Declares
That the Four Sources of Success Ave
Blood, Will of the Flesh, Will of Man
and God.
~ BROORLYN, N..Y.—The Rev. Robert A
MacFadden, of Danvers, Mass., preached
Sunday in.the .Lafayette Avenue Presby-
terian Church. In the morning his subject
was “Who ‘Are the Sons of God?” "He
said:
My subject is “Who Are the Sons of
God?” and my text John i: 13: ‘Which
were born not of blood, or of the will of
the flesh or of the will of man but of God.”
Here are four sources of success set in
contrast—blood, will of the flesh, will of
man and God. At first sight they are
equal; but a'second sight reveals the war-
fare that ever goes on between heredity
and environment on the one hand and
faith in God on the otker. This contrast
implies, thovgh does not state, that the
one true success is spiritual success, and
for this a secret power is to be furnished.
Power in life means all the way through
to the final, a victory over difficulties, and
difficulties cannot be ultimately overcome
except through this secret power.
« Every: life lived and every.wotk done has
somewhere its sufficient explanation. God
has never yet permitted “aa accident in
His world. Every:deed has its pedigree.
So much producmg energy ingthe cause
means so much energy in the effect. There
no such thing as luck. Every life has
ts pedigree. oung men are so apt to
think chance plays the great part in life,
so they wait for their chance. They sec
pome one do easily the thing he under-
takes, and they leap to the belief that there
is some trick about it. If they only had
the trick they could do it, also. Such
young men need to be informed. The man
who succeeds to-day in business, scholar-
phip or politics succeeds becausc he knows
how, and he knows how because he has
learned how. He who does not know how
is foreordained to failure. There is no
more important question the young man
can ask himself than how he can prepare
for life as not to be a castaway; “not lost
2 the next world, but shipwrecked in
this.
For the ratio between what a man is and
what he can do is a constant ratio. Every
man will have all the power he earns, and
the power that he has will £éll, not because
people like:it or like him, but :begause it is
power, and as such can keep itself erect
without being propped up by a labor union
or held in its place because it is somebody’s
son.
It follows, then, that the most import-
ant thing a boy can do is to get ready. It
is inspiration to know that every ounce of
enerey put into work in the early years is
go much distinct guarantee of usefulness in
the adult years. And next to getting
ready, the father should tell his boy that
he must get ready for rough weather. The
boy must learn to handle the boat of his
own experience if he is not to be driven
upon the shallows or into the breakers. As
he meets and ‘masters the difficulties that
eset him getting out of the harbor of the
igh school or the college, he is equippin
mself for the enemies that will assai
him on the ign seas.
John, then, here points out the possible
ways of getting ready. He asserts that
ermanent success does not depend upon
blood, will of the flesh, or will of man,
ut solely upon God. t me translate
this into the four F's: Family, force, fur-
aishings, faith.
John says first a man’s success does not
depend upon his family. Dr. Lyman Ab-
bott has developed this thought rational
ly: That no Perle are great or good sim-
ply because of their ancestry.- ‘“The great-
pess of America does not depend primari-
ly upon its Pilgrim history.”
or a moment dispute this with him. But
desire to emphasize this from the domes-
tic viewpoint. A man’s spiritual success,
says John, does not depend upon his fam-
ily. Then it makes no difference what the
family, the Bible lays no stress upon here-
dity. He who says this does not know the
Bible. The Bible lays great stress upon
heredity. When it writes the life of a
reat man it begins with his parents. The
oundations of one generation are in all
respects laid in the antecedent generation.
In an important sense ‘the boy begins to
live when his father begins to live. The
child is the parent continued down into a
new generation. This is science, and it is
good science. But this is Scripture, and it
is good Scripture. Scripture emphasized
heredity long before science was born.
nach, the mother of Moses; Elizabeth,
Mary, Lois and Eunice are all magnificent
monuments. The Christian women who
would duplicate these glorious sons must
first duplicate their matchless mothers.
‘As believers in the Bible we have an in-
terest in heredity. It is the Gospel expec-
tation that the children grow up bearing
the physical features of their parents, so
in time they will come to embrace and ex-
emplify the parents’ faith. That’s what
Timothy did, in whom the great apostle
rejoiced so much. Heredity is mighty, but
fet us not think it is almighty. eredity
ives us tendency, but it gives us noth-
1 else. The children of good parents
take in goodness more easily than the chil-
dren of bad parents. The children of edu-
cated parents acquire ideas more easily
than those of ignorant parents. The fath-
er, who for five and twenty years has been
saying: “Two times two are four, I guess
T’ll make it five,” gives to his baby child
the tendency to make the same multipli-
cation, but the child must make the choice
before it becomes to him a sin. How
wish that that great sermon of Henry
{Ward Beeecher on ‘Heredity Influence”
could be printed as a supplement to our
courses in ethics. That sermon makes
men tremble at what they may bequeath
to their children. But after all, the grace
of God is stronger’ than the sin of man.
What a man is he chgeses to be. Weak-
ness, tendency are handed down, but the
choice is made by the individual himself.
Your spiritual success, young man, does
not depend upon your ancestry, your her-
edity, your father’s habits, or your family.
John says no man is safe simply because
of his family.
But it does not depend upon your per-
sonal force, which is a free translation for
the New Testament word “flesh.” It
stands for the animal man, not necessarily
the bad animal man. It means a strong,
Faorons force in the man himself. Now,
John says this strong, vigorous force will
never give a man his spiritual supremacy.
Let me illustrate, rather than debate, the
proposition. Noah must have had a strong
and vigorous will, but it did not insure
him against drunkenness. Samson had a
mighty will, but it was no match for the
dark eyes of Delilah. David, what a glor-
ious career in overcoming obstacles! What
vigor! What power! But in the presence
of his guilty love he was weak and
Sn, The Rev. Arthur Dimmerdale,
in that greatest American novel, “The
Scarlet Letter,” had a mighty will, but he
was lost in the presence of Hester Prynne.
That great Irishman, greater than any
other, who ruled with a rod of iron; who
took the miserably misunderstood prob-
Jem of home rule and lifted it into a cen-
tral place in the world’s thought; who
thrashed the London Times; who wrought
miracles in the House of Commons, and
who lifted William E. Gladstone into the
office of Prime Minister for the fourth
time; that man, at the zenith of his pow-
er, was discovered to have invaded another
man’s home and was living in a hidden and
illicit way. ‘The people of Great Britain
tore him from his throne, trampled his
name in the dust, and within three months
he was laid away in his grave with a brok-
en heart. As the traveler to-day walks by
o one would.
live, yet not I, but
an. unmarked grave in the Mt. Joy Ceme-
tery of Dublin, he says: ‘No, Mr. Par-
nell, a mighty will does not make every
great man safe.”- What shall fathers tell
their boys? That a weak will is the better
for them? Nay, verily. Great force is to
the boy what momentum is to the rifle
ball. A boy without will cannot live. He
needs every ounce he can acquire, but this
alone will mot make him morally safe or
spiritually strong. The hope of a man is
not in his family, not in his force, nor yet
is it in his furnishings, which I use as the
equivalent for the will of man. John says
neither the individual nor the world will
be saved by its furnishings. Whea Jonah
went to Nineveh, one of the reasons for
his going was that.120,000 people needed
education—*“they could not tell their right
hand from their left.” That same cry goes
up to-day. Only educate and train; that
is sufficient. Your section is not so white-
washed with this system of ethical culture
as some others I know. But we never can
emphasize too often or too positively the
axial tenet of Christ's creed that what a
man ‘needs primarily is not accession of
brain, but a fresh heart; not illumination,
but reconstruction, the establishment in
him by grace of something that is not in
him by nature. Illumination of the brain.
is never clarification of the heart. There
was a man in our American life who was
born of the best family, with a personal
force that commanded men and captivated
women, whose furnishings could scarcely
be surpassed, and yet there has not walked
across the pages of American history a
blacker hearted villian than Aaron Burr.
I am as far as possible from saying that
knowledge makes a man worse; my only
‘dontcntion iis that.it has not in itself the
power of making men better. Ideas, edu-
cation alone, can neither reconstruct the
life nor recreate the heart.
This is a thoughtful age; men are
brainy; all about us there 1s a passion for
new ideas; but our most urgent necessity
is not of idea but of power. hat we
need most of all is not schooling but bap-
tism, and that is to come through faith.
What is this faith that is to give us the
supreme victory and insure our safety? It
is at this distinct point that we begin to
learn the real meaning and purpose of
faith. Every little while I am told by one
and another that he would like to have
faith in this particular matter in regard to
the Bible, or in regard to Christ in the fu-
ture life as though if his mind could only
be brought intellectually to consent to it,
the consummation would be reached and a
great result achieved. Being prepared to
agsent to this or that particular statement
in regard to.Christ, for example, is a very.
distinct thing from faith. Faith is per-,
sonal attitude, personal relationship. Faith
is such a personal yielding of ourselves to
another as brings us inte living contact
with that other and so makes us recipient
of what it lies in that other to confer. The
child becomes like his father by faith in
his father, because his faith is that inward
surrender that makes him susceptible to
every impression that goes forth from his
father. child’s faith toward his mother
is not faith that what his mother says 18
true; it is faith in his mother, the hiding of
himself in the one life that enwraps them
both, so that he lives in the sweep of her
inspiration and grows up toward manhood
by the appropriation of personal vigor, wis-
| dom and sweetness hourly made over him.
And that is cast in the same mold as Gos-
pel faith, which is as a cord by which the
living Christ vholds the believer to Him-
self. Faith is not a condition wherein we
hold to something or somebody, as that in
which we are hetd by something or some-
body. It is not holding a doctrine, but be-
ing held by a person. “I know whom
have believed.” The iron filings stick to
the magnet, not because they try so hard
to stick, but because they are mastered
by the magnet. :
Faith, then, has for its very essence a
personal self-commitment, one ounce of
which is worth a whole ton of mtellectual
affirmation. It is this sense of being held
by God that makes a man safe and secure.
I do not know how the grace of God can
take a man like Saul of Tarsus and make
him Paul the Apostle; but no man will
question his knowledge when he says: I
ie liveth in me.
That is exactly what John B. Gough cried
as he went like a flaming torch blazing the
way for a multitude of hopeless drunk-
ards. The hope, and the only hope, for
us all is in the grace of God. If I were to
strike a tuning fork on this desk and hold
it to my ear not one in this room coul
hear the sound thereof, but I could hear
it and tune my violin. Strike it again and
instead of holding it to =y ear, set it up-
on this desk. Ingtantly the sound would
be heard everywhere. But what do you
hear? Not the tuning fork, for the foning
fork makes no louder sound the secon
time than it did the first. What do you
hear? i :
which has no musie in itself, but just as
soon as it comes in contact with a musical
instrument it itself becomes musical and
delights every one that has’ music 1 his
soul. _ oe
The individual life may be insignificant
alone by itself; it may come from a .good
family or a bad; it may have great force
or little; it may have choice furnishings or
not; but the safety and security of all will
depend upon the personal self surrender
to the Son of God, who alone has the pow-
er to make them Sons of God, which are
born not of a family or of force or.of fur-
nishings, but of faith.
—_—
Power of an Ideal.
A’ beautiful statue once stood in the
market place of an Italian city. It was the
statue of a Greek slave girl. It represented
the slave as tidy, well dressed and hand-
some. ¢ A ragged. unkempt, forlorn street
child,” coming across the statue in her
play, stopped and gazed at it in admira-
tion. She was entranced and captivated
by it. She gazed long and admiringly.
Moved by a sudden impulse, she went
home and washed her face and combed her
hair. Another day she stopped again be-
fore the same statue and admired it, and
received mew inspiration. Next day her
tattered clothes were washed and mended.
Each time she looked at the statue she
frund something in its beauties until she
was a transformed child.—Treasury of Re-
ligious Thought.
Yvanted: “A Positive Gospel.
It is the preacher of positive faith and
conviction who most deeply impresses a
congregation and who has the greatest
staying power among a people. Nebulosity
of belief and statement does not commend
him to the public. A firm grip of truth
mak=3 him stong and vigorous in preach-
ing and influential in and persuasive in
spirit and activity. The more clear cut he
is in his views of Bible doctrine and prac-
tice, the more ready are choice and in-
telligent souls to accept him as their re-
ligious guide, and the greater their com-
bined influence in the community in which
it is centered. A larger enthusiasm is
quickened among its adherents, and a
growing increase in the number of recruits
is sure to follow his faithful and zealous
ministry.—The Presbyterian.
The First Result of Effort.
Every real and searching effort of self-
improvement is of itself a lesson of pro-
found humility. For we cannot move a
step without learning and feeling the way-
wardness, the weakness, the wvacillation
of our movements or without desiring to
be set upon the Rock that is higher than
ourselves.—William Ewart Gladstone.
Exalt Our Lives.
We reduce life to the pettiness of our
daily living; we should exalt our living to
the grandeur of life.—Phillips Brooks.
The help of God is the only hope of
man.
You hear this hard wood desk, |
AWAY THE JATS HAVE
\
SHOWN IN THE MATTER OF MAK-
‘ING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.
Why American Manufacturers Are
Not Likely %o Profit by the Russo-
Japanese War—American Artificial
* Limbs Still the Best in the World.
“Will the Russo-Japanese war cause
any increase in the demand for Amer-
ican artificial limbs?’ was asked of
a New York maker of such appliances.
“Not a bit,” was the reply, “or not
in Japan, anyway. Whatever artificial
limbs the Japanese may require they
will buy of their own makers:
“We have sold some artificial limbs
in Japan,” the New York manufactur-
er continued; “I guess about fifty alto-
gether. The first one we ever sold
there was supplied to a Japanese no-
bleman, who was also of high rank as
a state official, and who lost a leg by
the explosion of a bomb thrown at
him by an assassin at the time of the
Chino-Japanese war.
“This leg gave its wearer great sat-
isfaction, and subsequently we sold to
him duplicates of it; the first and last
we have sold to various purchasers in
Japan, as I said, about fifty artificial
limbs altogether, but now the demand
for them has wholly ceased, for the
Japanese are now making their own.
“We print a catalogue, which is real-
ly a book of several hundred pages,
and which contains, besides a cata-
logue of our productions, a treatise on
artificial limbs and their uses and in-
formation concerning them. It is il-
lustrated with cuts of artificial limbs
and of various other appliances which
we produce. We send these catalogues
all over the world.
“Some time age we received from
Japan a reprint of our catalogue, done
in Japanese, put out there by a Jap-
anese manufacturer of artificial limbs.
He sent a number of copies of ‘this
book and offered to send us more if we
desired them.”
This Japanese reprint of the Ameri-
can catalogue is, like the original, a
book of some hundreds of pages, and
it is bound in boards. It is printed on
thin Japanese paper, and in Japanese
characters. ’
In this Japanese reprint many of the
drawings of the original are also repro-
duced, the work on these, however, not
being so well done as it might be. But
the book contains, bound into it, a
number of leaves of plate paper, on
which are printed half tone portraits.
these including pictures of some Jap-
anese wearers of artificial limbs, and
including also a portrait of the found-
er of the American concern whose cat-
alogue is thus reprinted.
“In fact,” said the New York manu-
facturer, ‘they gave us in the book the
very fullest credit in every way, but at
the same time they wrote us that they
considered the making of artificial
limbs a humane enterprise, and that
if they required further information
concerning the making of them it
might be that they would write to us
for it. And if they do, I dare say that
we shall send it to them.
“For their example in reprinting
our catalogue is one not likely to be
followed, and the Japanese trade is
lost to us, anyway. American arti-
ficial limbs are the best that are made
in the world anywhere.: In lightness,
in the ingenuity of their construction
and in adaptability totheir uses they
excel all others, just-as;.in their respec-
tive ways, do so many other Ameri-
can inventions in the construction of
which ingenuity and skill are involved. ’
' “But now, with artificial limbs made
in their own country, the Japanese will
buy no other. For they are an intense-
ly: patriotic people, and however. good
| ours may be, and whether their own
may be good or bad, the Japanese re-
quiring an artificial limb will buy one
only of Japanese make.
“But‘this does not apply everywhere.
There dare other patriotic peoples, who
patronize their own, as, for example,
the Germans. And.in other countries
they may, so to speak, dissect our
limbs, take them apart to discover and
reproduce thelr excellences, but they
are ‘not likely to go to the extent of
the Japanese. And, after all, ours re-
main the best, and we will sell them
all over the world.
“In many far countries, when any-
body has need for an artificial limb,
he sends for it to where he can get
the best, and so he is likely to send to
the United States; or, if he was of
European birth or descent, and so with
natarai inclinations in that direction,
it might be that he would send to
France. So we get orders from every-
where, only yesterday, for example, we
received an order for an artificial leg
from an interior city of British India.
And, with these sales added to the
business done in our own country, we
have all the business we can conven-
iently do, and so, when we take into
account all the circumstances, we are
not disturbed by the reproduction of
our catalogue in Japan.”
“You spoke of the Japanese noble-
man subsequently ordering additional
limbs—duplicates. Do people that
have occasion to wear an artificial limb
commonly own more than one?”
“Some men have a dozen, and it
would not be remarkable for a man to
have two or three or half a dozen legs.
The stump of the natural leg is liable
to change more or less with time, re-
quiring a corresponding readjustment
of the artificial leg to insure perfect
camfort in the wearing of it. So a
man would be likely to have two arti-
ficial legs, the second one to be worn
when the first was undergoing refitting
Or repairs.
“And some men have a number of
legs, as they would have a number of
suits of clothes and wear them as they
wouid the clothes at different times.
And an artificial leg is liable to mis-
hap, just as a natural leg is; it may
be run over, just as, perhaps, the or-
iginal was, and a man keeps a dupll
cate $6as to be provided against such
a mishap.or against any other.
“Men do about artificial limbs just as
they do about any other artificial aids.
One man wearing spectacles, for in-
stance, may have but a single pair, and
he may wear them a long time, until
they wear out, regardless of any
change in his eyes; while another man
may provide himself at the outset with
one or more duplicate pairs for emer-
gencies, and he gets new spectacles
whénever his eyes "seem to require
them; and so he accumulates specta-
cles; and it is just so with artificial
limbs. .
“But“with all these demands coming
to. u$ from one source and another and
due #0-one and. another cause, we do
not lgok for any increased demand due
to the Russc-Japanese war.”—New
York Sun.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The Chinese have twice sacked Mos-
sow, cnce in 1237, and again in 1293.
Brine springs flow under the town
of Norwich, England. They have been
there for centuries, and were used fcr
the production of salt long before the
"Christian era.
There are very few paupers in Japan,
because old age is revered there. No
parents or children come to want there
unless all their natural protectors are
dead ‘or disabled.
Norway’s coast line—seventeen hun-
dred miles in a straight line—becomes
twelve thousand miles if followed
round the fjords. In these fjords are
over 150,000 islands.
A. B. Saunders of Sunset, Me., raised
the prize carrot of Hancock county, if
not of the state. Its length over all
was 46 inches, circumference 14 inches,
weight three pounds seven ounces.
John Monroe of Rock Point, Vit., shot
a bird recently that is undoubtedly a
species of cormorant or sea crow, a
bird rarely seen in inland waters, gen-
erally béing found in the larger lakes.
The bird was nearly black. It meas-
ured five feet and six inches from tip
to tip, and 37 inches from head to tail,
and weighed 10 pounds.
Hundreds of pounds of honey have
been discovered in the great equestrian
statute of Gen. Robert E. Lge, at Rich-
mond, Va. Both the horse and rider
are hollow, and it appears that ever
since last summer bees have been go-
ing in and out at the parted lips and
nostrils of General Lee and his steed.
The bees are almcst numberless, and
they have been making honey con-
stantly. There is no way of getting
inside the statvne without damaging
it, and the bees will be left alone in
their iron home.
A species of acacia which grows
very abundantly in Nubia and the Sou-
dan is called the ‘‘whistling tree” by
the natives. Its shoots are frequently
distorted in shape by the agency of
larvae of insedts and swollen into a
globular bladder from one to two in-
ches in diameter. After the insect has
emerged from a circular hole in the
side ‘of the swelling, the opening,
played upon by the wind, becomes a
musical instrument suggestive of a
sweet:toned flute. The whistling tree
is also found in the West Indies.
DrixForel, a well known American
neurolbgist, who has devoted much
time to the study of the nervous sys-
tems and the sensaticns of ants and
bess, concludes that the vision of in-
sects is in “mosaic,” that is, as if it
were made up of bits separated by
dark lines, the lines corresponding to
the edges of the facets of the insect’s
eye. The image is usually not sharp,
though when the number.of facets is
considerable (twelve thousand . to
seventeen thousand), the definition is
geod. It is his conclusion that insects
have more than instinct—they have a
soul, so to. say; ‘and at any rate, a
mind capable of forming judgments,
of choosing. Bees have, for example,
an astonishing memory for localities.
Instinct and automatism are far from
constituting all their mental life.
‘Love and Royalty.
The: nronosals of royal personages
are generally far more commonplace
than those of ordinary neonle, though
there is often more love behind them
than one wonld suspect from an ar-
rangement which is really a matter of
statecraft. The proposal of the Czar
is a case in point. While he was still
Czarvitch, he met and fell in love
with Princess’ Alix of Hesse, who was
staying at York cottage. His propos-
al was made in correct form. “My fath-
er, the Czar,” said he “desires me to
offer vou my hand and heart.” “My
grandmother, the Queen, has com-
manded me to accept the offer of your
hand,” said the princess, but, she add-
ed, ‘and vour heart I take of my own
accord.”
It wis a love match, and in spite of
the trials and troubles that have he-
fallen them, it is a thoroughly happy
marriage.—Chicago News.
In Exchange for Oné Apple Tree.
What a gift it was to this country
when old England gave us the apple
tree, brought over as it was by the
governor of the Massachusetts Bay
colony in 1629. From that one tree we
have become the greatest apple grow:
ing nation in the world. Our yearly
production exceeds 100,000,000 barrels,
and Colonel Matthews, he who keeps
an account of all that Maine produces,
says that our own state sent over to
the old world last year 500,000 barrcls
—a liberal return for the tree brought
here in 1629 by Governor Winthrop.—
Bangor Commercial.
To Keen Ferns Fresh.
There is a new way to care for ferns
that has been found very successful.
Once a week they must have a Turk-
ish bath. Put them in a bathroom,
shut the windows and doors to exclude
every particle of air.
bathtub with scalding water and allow
the plants to steam for three or four
hours.
The room should be gradually
cooled off before the plants are re-
moved to a cooler atmosphere. This
process does away entirely with the
laborious work of washing and spray-
ing the leaves, and is much more sat-
isfactory.—Pictorial Review,
Serving Melons,
As soon as muskmelons are deliv-
ered wipe with damp cloth or wash to
be sure melons are perfectly clean.
Then place in refrigerator.
For Breakfast—Cut the small ones
in two; very large ones should be
quartered, and put chopped ice in cen-
tre of each. Salt should be on hand,
and some tastes require sugar.
For Luncheon—Prepare as above,
but serve each piece on a bed of grape
leaves or nasturtium leaves; if the lat-
ter are used place one flower on side
of each place. The yellow blossom on
the green nest is very attractive. And
always select perfect leaves, have
them washed. dried and chilled.
For Desert—A delicious dessert is
made by cutting melons in two, chill-
ing and filling each half with ice
cream. Serve on leaves. Ices could
be used instead of ice cream, if pre-
ferred.
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To Rid Pussy of Fleas.
Pussy, also, has trials of her own in
hot weather, and the fleas that trouble
her are far more ravenuous than dog
fleas. If left unchecked, they soon
reduce a sleek, healthy cat to a veri-
table skeleton. To get rid of her tor-
mentors give her a good bath with
warm water and sulphur soap, work in
rapidly and with consideration for the
sensitive ears, eves and nose. While
the hair is still wet comb with a fine
tooth comb, rinse in tepid water, dry
with soft cloths and give her after her
bath a saucer of warm milk. When
the hair is quite dry blow in along the
backbone very fine insect powder and
rub behind the ears with sulphur oint-
ment. The next day the powder can
be all brushed out and the backbone
rubbed with the ointment. A bath of
wood alcohol is also said to be a sure
remedy for fleas, though pussy objects
so strenuously that it requires two to
administer it. This, too, should be fol-
lowed with a saucer of warm milk, as
alcohol reduces the temperature and
might give a chill.
How to Keen Cool
With the advent of extreme hot
weather the problem in every house
is how to keep as cool and comfortable
as possible. Heat is always trying,
energy and spirits flag, children grow
cross, while older people develop bad
cases of “nerves.”
With care and thought the house
can be. kept comparatively cool by
throwing open every blind and window
after sunset when the air is cooler,
leaving as many as possible open all
night, then closing them as the air
grows hot and stifling in the morning.
If this, is systematically attended to
the burden of midsummer heat can be
perceptibly lessened. The cellar, par-
ticularly should be subiected to this
daily treatment, but when left open at
night should have strong, coarse wire
gratings in the windows. The cook-
ing should. be done as much as possi-
ble in the cool of the day. An oil or
gas stove is far more convenient on
this account, as the heat can be turned
off when not in use. Where the laun-
dry work is done at home and fire has
to be kept all day for the ironing, it is
the part of prudence to take advantage
of the strong fire to roast enough meat
to last several days, bake cookies, or
pies, or make some dish en casserole.
Recipes.
Cream Biscuit—Put ten quarts of
flour into a bowl; add four level tea-
spoonfuls of baking powder and two
level teasnoonfuls of salt; sift twice;
stir in one pint of cream and one cup
of milk; mix well and drop by the
spoonful on floured pans; bake in a
quick oven 20 minutes.
Lemon Butter—For tarts, one pound
of powdered sugar, whites of six eggs,
the yolks of ten eggs; grated rind of
two lemons, the juice of three; beat
the sugar and whites of eggs a little,
put it in a double boiler; when hot
pour it over the beaten yclks, return
all to the fire, 3dd lemon Juice and
rind; stir over a slow fire 20 minutes.
Potato Pudding—Boil one medium
sized notato until tender in boiling
salted water; then rub it through a
strainer; add to this four tablespoon-
fuls of nowdered sugar, three table-
spoonfuls of butter, three eggs well
beaten and the grated rind and juice
of one lemon; beat well; nour into a
buttered dish and bake in a moderate
oven half an hour.
Sugared Beets—Cut off the beef
tops; scrub the beets with a vegetabla
brush; put them irto boiling water
and cock until very tender: nour off
the water, scrape off the skins, cut the
small beets in slices one-fourth inch
thick; to five small beets add three
level teaspoonfuls of butter, one and
one-half tablespoonfuls of sugar and
one-half teaspoonful of salt; bring to
boil; serve hot.
Then fill the
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
He that is down need fear no fall.—=
Bunyan.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
—Shakespeare.
Pity is best taught by fellcwship im
woe.—Coleridge.
A beautiful face is a silent ccm-
mendation.—Bacon.
Jest not with the two-edged sword of
God’s Word.—Fuller.
A man’s best friends are his 10 fin-
gers.—Robert Collyer.
The men who make history have not
time to write it.—Metternich.
When the heart is won, the under-
standing is easily convinced.—C. Sim-
mons.
Let us learn upon earth those things
which can prepare us for heaven.—
Jerome.
He who can ccnceal his joys is great-
er than he who can hide his griefs.—
Lavater.
The highest manhood resides in dis-
position, not in mere intellect. —H. W.
Beecher.
The motto of chivalry is also the
motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love
only one.—Balzac.
No man can be provident of his time
who is not prudent in the choice of his
company.—Jeremy Taylor.
If we had no failings ourselves we
should not take so much pleasure in
finding out those of others.—Roche-
foucauld.
A solemn and religious regard to
spiritual and eternal things is an in-
dispensable element of all true greats
ness.—Daniel Webster.
IN THE PRESS BOX.
Where Professional Scorers and Re-
porters Keep Track of Our
National Game.
At the grounds where the profes-
sional clubs play baseball, you may
have noticed a small boxlike struec-
ture perched on the roof of the grand
stand. Its position directly back of
home plate and on a line with the
pitcher is the best possible for a view
of the game, and if you are lucky
enough to be invited up by some of
those who have a right there, you
will be surprised to find how much
better you can watch what is going
on than from a seat nearer the
ground.
This little house with the wire net-
ting over the front to guard against
foul flies is called the press or scor-
ers’ box. The young men who sit
there have need of every facility for
observing the game, because after-
ward they must present an absolutely
accurate record of it. If the contesting
nines belong to an important league
and play in a large city there will be
an official scorer for each club, besides
reporters from each of 'he daily news-
papers. The scorers have to record
every move of the game and, when it
is over, present to the managers of
their clubs a complete set of figures,
from which everybody who under-
stands the sport can’tell exactly what
each player has’ done—how well or
how poorly he has played.
Watch a scorer at work. * Before
him is an open book with the names
of one club written down, the, left-hand
side of one page and those .of the op:
posing team inscribed on the page op-
posite. After each name is a line o
checker board squares, curiously
marked off, and at’ the end Sf these on
the right of each :page. are Several
perpendicular columns headed. A B,
R,1B, SB, SH,P O, A.and E for
the summary. These stand ‘for, re-
spectively times at bat, runs, the times
a player has reached first base, stolen
bases, sacrifice hits, put-out, assists
and errors. The symbols used by pro-
fessional scorers are comparatively
few and easy to remember, and any
one familiar with the game ought to
be able to use them after half an
hour’s study followed by ‘a little prac-
tice.—From Allan P. Ames’s “How to
Keep a Baseball Score” in St. Nich-
olas. F
Makaroff’s Culture.
Admiral Makaroff was something
more than the typical cultured Rus-
sian, says the Westminster Gazette:
One might talk with him almost with-
out suspecting that he was a foreign-
er, so easy was his command of Eng-
lish. His longest stay of late years in
England was during the building of the
ice-breaker Yermak, which he de-
signed and which he saw constructed
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, giving personal
suerintendence to every detail. Ad-
miral Makaroff was an enthusiast in
regard to that vessel. He believed
that she was the forerunner of a type
by means of which the secrets of the
Frozen North will ultimately be given
to the world, and he talked with light
dancing in his eves of what the iee-
breaker might ultimately be expected
to achieve.
The Spice of Life.
A white Russian priest must be mar-
ried, but he cannot marry a sccond
time. If his wife died he must enter
a monastery. Hence, says a writer
in the World's Work, the Russians tell
many stories of the extraordinary
means to which the priests resort in
guarding the health of their wives. If
the priest's consodt sneezes, a mild
panic ensues in the household.
No Fear,
Borroughs—I'm afraid I've got heart
trouble.
Lenders—Oh, you needn't be afraid
that you’ll ever die suddenly.
Borroughs—Think not?
Lenders—No, you'll pay the debt of
nature slowly, just as you pay all your
other debts.—Philadelphia Public Led-
ger.