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breathing.' was gboawing somewhere i ng case. ! afrald of the mouse, but too much In earnest to let use stop her So she thrust : tly under the pillow and wih what. bad the light been «tq op and had you been in the ou would bave seen at once arge black stocking filled with 2 et of things which buiged it ho funoiest way. 'his in ber hand she climbed wut of bed and glided deross «ad Boor lke a wee ghost torgotien and stayed out The bedroom opeped with < anto a sitting room, at J which was a mantel (he Christmas eves that + ember her stocking ud heen bung Polly waked her father to o there. too, but be of nis stocking was large presents he it was only chil ma who hung ap Santa Claus, not ire aimself. Polly felt i= mantel and leaned the stocking against its side. 3 rned and ran back and elimb- ed into her bed The mouse was still To tell the truth, it was far more timid [= Polly and had heard her first ol UL 1 POLLY'S FATHER FINDS THE STOCKING. noiseless footfall and was crouched In the bureau drawer, fearing the worst in a few moments Polly was asleep, and the ray of. the street lamp fell across her quiet little band. Polly slept of Christmas morning fater than any other child in the great city, and when her father, who had risen before she bad awakened, passed Christinas mantel he saw the big hiack stocking where sbe had left it. As he had helped to hang up the other stockings the night before this one seemed so strange to him that be look- ed into its contents. The very first ularly, They, strengthen----mal e this grand medicing a peri box, or. es. for $1.00, at all tarrfiguone Com- ¥ He sesth that his day is coming. ery child of God must expect to hated by the world &nd to tribulation and persecution (Jobn xv, ; xvi, 83; II Tim. fii, 12), and 14 hould be accepted as a gift from God and a special privilege (Phil 4, 29; I Pet. 1v, 12, 18). : Nehemiah's reply to the first temp- tation, in verse 8, is worthy of jmita- tion by all earnest Christian workers: who are asked to tarn aside from that to which God has called them: "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?" It is always a wrong kind of coming down to leave any work directly for God, which He has in- trusted to us, to confer with woridlings meetings which do not profit. coming down from any form of pride or self is always right and profitable, for our highest place is lying low at our Redeemer's feet, and the Lord alone must be exalted, and with Him alone must we be occupied Four times they tried In a similar way to entice Him, but he was enabled to resist them every time (verse 4). An old lady, who endeavored to find something good In every one and ev- erything was once asked if she ever saw anything good in the devil. She thoughtfully replied, "Well, he i8 very persistent." These énemies of Nehe- miah were evidently in his employ. As to Nehemiah, he was unmov- Lord, knowing that his isbor was nok 10 vain tn the Lord (1 Qor: xv, 68). The fifth temptation was 18 the form of an open letter by 'Sanballat's serv- ant, in which was written 4 report that Nehemiah and the Jews thought to rebel and make Nehemiah king, and therefore they had built the wall and appointed prophets to preach that he was king in Jerusalem. 'Because these things would be reported to the king at Babylon he was invited to mee these friends (7) and take counsel to- gether about the matter, for of course it would grieve them to see such a good man as Nehemiah in any trou- ble. The He factory, under the super-: intendence of. the father of llex. hasi FATAL CATARRH Trail. Have you ever had Ca~- tarrh? Have you been subject to coughs and colds lately? Are you all run down? Do you take a cold easily? Catarrhozone the greatest protection against these complaints ever known. You just breathe it, that's all, and it cures. The Inhaler is suitable to carry in the vest pocket or purse, and can be used while at fwork, in'the church, the- atre, any place, any time. Carry a Catarrhozone-In- use it now, and At is quite pleas- * you won't have colds or catarrh. . e fame of French cookery 1a warld: ~Vwide; it amounts almost to genius. jam] | Baxon, the German ls Frugal Yet|later halt of Ha Lives Wall, and the tallan 1s] Qotherize I | a Thrifty Man--8kill Shown In . i Cookery. ' (pan The ity or attribute of 'thrité or ue iy among the ve {among vidui J i no 4 The French Housewife usually does {her shopping personally, and )direct from the market or the bar- jfows, which, piled . high with fruit, flowers, vegetables, ste., form a fragrant and familiar feature i streets. Purchasing 'homely fashion the shrewd 1 keeper of Tasos Sava a r od v whic BEnglis] {man's system of booking and entails. Rp Ee barbarians, He fn To a certain extent, economy on|Kurd, or an Monge), 8 ithe part of the French householder is Ey -- age {3 ih compulsory as well as instinctive. [different races; e Salaries and earnings, particularly |tinent, to the thoseof the official and professional | constitutes" 'the . classes, are less than in England,|peace at the present Tm is on the whole higher, 20d commodities 'are dearer all round. | With go af $14 per ton, as in Paris, SAVAGE a good bright fire is something of a " luxury. "This trait of Rrifiers char- Its Expression, | ore Oiten acterizes the French in almost every Embarrasses the White department of life. As one of their] Returned missionaries; own writers has snid, they are not|and those whe travel apt at spending. Here, he says, they| way regions of the 2 must go to school to the Anglo-Saxon. |stautly bringing La In the matter of hospitality snd |strange ways uch of entertaining they are more careful | have with their guests, 4 than we are, and the furniching and | > With tha Apingi tribe of AT fitting up of a house, for instance, is! below the Eguafor the dove in France once and for -all.| hospitality is to includ Another French writer has .said that| presents of food handed: English middle-class folks will spend | visitor a fat:flave, "He ba more upon their homes in twelve tender," the donor says, # pie e mouths than French folks of the same | no one can fail to a standing throughout the entire course |gift, so much befter tham of their married lives. ete., that have been thrown Tn.dress, as in cookery, the French- | him for your 'evening: mm woman achieves marvellous results! the other hand, the with the strictest regard for econ-|considers the finest tribute omy. A French lady must not only par is to have his wife sham) never be shabby, she must never be|head of the passing' tra out of fashion. Her guiding prin. amole, thé root of a plant ciple has been well expressed uy |Mexico and some part Bulwer-Lytton: "No well-dressed { west that is a very goed woma.. ever looks ugly." As to the|for soap. The Ragan means by which these proverbially|nea in the Pacifié have! good results are obtained the reader novel way of showing must be referred to that authority on|ship for the stranger. home life in France--Miss Betham- [Bes peace and satistaction wi Edwards. "The economical have re-|80 when a boat approaches course to the maison de patrons, or|people of whom they pprov: patternship." sight they eprinkle Tater Of German life in town and coun-|heads and dance wildly try there is a good deal of miscon-|in the shallow water around ception in this country, most of which Is based on ignorance. The popular|rather not become frie idea that the subjects of the Kaiser| Terra del Fuegian, for the p fubsist solely on sausage and sauer-|thelr nationality know of n kraut is a libel, just as the English|way of expressing liking an dea of the German haustrau as a|ing honor than by' ha As these savag a mistaken one. wt +d of the more of the, | mel is not what it ia in thi . | Most offensive They plow and harrow. gide by side|ed, though, if a with the men, dig potatoes and per-|Tank takes a sir form a good d of the laborious f Visitor » work of the farm. But in Berlin and other large cities of the Fatherland | TREMENDOUS VALUE matters are wey different. © The PRICE BRO {modern "Berlinerin" will dress eas y 5 ] {smartly as any Parisienne, and yet|Have Four Million Acres of withal makes a most capable house- |wite and a devoted mother. The Italian peasant, , is of necessity but he is by temperament sober an . droga in his mode of life. Macaroni | lumber merc € ' end olive oll seem to be his staple| Province of Quebec aver articles of diet. Beans with oil and | years ago, give some in! salt are held by the peasantry % be{form: 'ion with regard a dish fit for the gods, estnut | mundous properties, 'trees flourish on the Apennines, and|OWns or controls over !the nuts form & nutritive food--even | (or 6.000 square miles). of being ground into flour and made in- | Pulpwood lands, exes! to a kind of bread--ior the poorer|and estimated to con peasants of the country. 000,000 feet of merch The dwellers in the Italisn towns |&nd 20,000,000 cords of pu are also, for the /part, frugal|three companies compr and abstemious in their habits;| Bros. show the fol they eat and drink sparingly and are | during the years good cooks. They are, too, addicted $283,528; 1909, $398,766; to such harmless pleasures as cafe or| These arg net earnil . 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