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PaOOFS OF in ilBTALlTY We Entei the Future Very Much as We Have Left the Present Life. Who hath aholishcd death and hath brought life and immortality to light. -11. Tim. i. 10. The two grcat<.'st fact* that con- troni ir.an are lifa and death. In nature they appear as an alternate series. The life and beauty of ipring are tiutcecdcd by tho f.-iding and death uf winter. Ihit this white eepulchre only proves a fostering cradle in which worn-out nature is resuscitated into all the charm and â-¼igor of new life, and in thi» alter- oate scries the process goes on fur- ever. Nature, then, does rot die, lufc is invc»t«d with immortality. Man's death, contrariwise, i« shrouded in mystery. No mortal man can follow the spirit's track- less path. Are there, then, any means by which we can get light <)n this great question of immortality 7 Are there reasonable grounds for the trust that we shall survive death 1 Philosophy is not against it, for the greatest philosophers have be- lieved in it. Science brings affirma- tive testimony to it. THK MODERN LAW of the conservation of force shows DO loss or destruction of force or matter. Energy changes, but docs not die. Evolution points to a con- stant unfolding and progress to higher forms of being. The over- mastering desire for immortality is •no of the strongest grounds for the future lifo. Just as the lens of the eye points to a world to be seen, or the wing of a bird indicates an aerial medium for flight, so con- clusively docs the desire for con- tinued existence prophesy its rea- lity. Nature is not a lie. She dee not taunt us with false prom- iM?s. The vitality of the spirit in advanced years is another argu- ment. "The soul does not age with the body," wrote Emerson. A normal man or woman grows in wiEdom, spiritually, sympathy, ten- derness, charm, .and moral beauty, so that it is true of such "at even- ing time thoro shall be light." Such lovely personalities only seem to die. The husks and i-hell falls from them, but we feel Xhat their spirits cannot but live on beyond the grave, beyond the worlds, (strong corroborations as are these they are not decisive. Wo crave for absolute assurance upon a mat- ter of such vital moment. And it can come only from one source â€" revelation. Should not God speak to those to whom He has given this irrepressible longing and settle it with a word of certainty? And so the Scripture assures us that lie has done. "Jesus Christ hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light." He de- clared the Rreat truth that "all live unto God." OUR EYES SEE DEATH, but God knows only life and sees death but to be a phase of life. Death is, then, but a stage of de- velopment. We will progress in knowledge, in holiness, in happi ness or in the evil courses and ten- dencies of our earthly lives, and, in view of this fact, how important becomes the state in which we en- ter lifeâ€" prepared or unprepared, sensual or spiritual, the servants of God or of the evil one. I^astly, in the light of this great truth of iramortality, what gran- deur attaches to life ! How incal- culably it is increased in value when we see it under the aspect of eternity! What care one shouKl have to his acts when they are seeds reaching out into undying ages. How different become our aims and plans when they are not to bo Iroken by death but to be carried forward on larger scale hereafer ! Junius B. Remen.=nyder. a mirror In which we may view our- selves. Are we true to Christ amid trials and temptations t Is our Christian fellowship broad 1 Are we practically helpful to others? Are we bold to confess Christ, and able, in the strength of the Holy Spirit, to bring men to Christ? All this is involved in the picture of the church whose members were the first to bo called Christiana. I< t »«IB ' l ' H ttt ««««M>f 'M'* Th^ Home THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Al'RIL 23. LeHROii IV. What is a CbrlBtinat I. The Tribulations of Christians â€"V. 19. What befell the disciples after Stephen's martyrdom? The disciples were scattered abroad. The Greek verb is based upon the thought of seed-sowing, an<f indeed every disciple was a seed of truth. May all Christians be such when they go abroad, traveling either for business <jr pleasure. II. The Broad Syrapatliy of Chris- tians. â€"V. 20. Why does this verse begin with "but" (R. V.) rather than and i To show the contrast between the c-xilcd disciples who preached to the Jews alone, and the men of (Jyprus and Cyrone (the chief city of I.,ibya, the modern Tripoli, in North Africa, about half- way between Carthage and Alex- andria). These men preached also to the Greeks. What were the reasons for this broader spirit in them'l They spoke Greek thenibclves, and so could converge freely with the Greek.'), end intimate knowledge always tcndH to break down prejudice. The hope of this was in the mind of Dr. Zamenhof, the inventor of the in- ternational language, Enperanto, who lived in the many-Iaiiguagcd city of Warsaw. Moreover, they had been brought up outside of Palestine, the stronghold of Jcw- isli prejudices. Hesides, they had probably come under the influence of the liberal-minded Paul. II. The Converting Power of Christians. â€" V. 21. What was the result of this preaching in Anti- och '( A great number believed, end turned unto the I..nrd. The rea- sons for this were many : 1. The Christians who established the Antioch church had been atrengtliened by persecutions, which they had met with unflinch- ing bravery and lidelity. 58. The very vices of Antioch showed tite need of a purifying goRpcl, and df)ubtlei;8 many were disgusted with them and eager to turn Ircnn them. The strongest ('hriftians often grow up amid cor- ruption. "It takes live fish to swim up stream." Witness the heroic typo of Christians develop- ed amid the barbarities of the I''i- ii Inlands, of Madagascar, and of Uganda. a. The people of Antioch were •nerffe-tic, vigorous, in the habit of doing thiugs. The aggressive char- acter of Christianity appealrd to them, ami when they accepted the new rdigion, they carried into it the same activity th.it had brought success in the worldly entrrpriKes of Antioch. In his college religious work, Professor Druininond always •ought lo win for Christ strong, atlilctic, popular young men, the lc;ii<Ier8, no matter how wild they were : and his sagacity always J •' '"d itieif. >. . .: ill. chief reiuoii for the growth of the Antioch church is given in the text. The hand of the J.ord was with them. "The hand" ii the symbol of power and of work, willing Christians are God's hands. Through them God can easily ac- complish what would be impossible to their unaided efforts. Here were a little group of refugees, poor, despised, pursued. Hero was one ot the world's proudest, mightiest, richest, wickedest cities. And the handful of refugees so moved upon the city that three centuries later its greatest son, Chryostom the golden-mouthed preacher, said that half its population were Christian. IV. The Christian's Source of Strength.â€" Vs. 22-24. What did the Jerusalem Christians do when they hoard of the Gentile Christians at Antioch 1 They sent forth Barna- bas, that Lc might (1) learn the ex- act state of affairs, since rumors, untrustworthy even in these days of the telegraph, were doubly doubtful then ; (2) encourage the new disciples ; (3) warn them against error, and (4) prevent dis- cord between the Jewish and Qoj tile converts, of which the sequel showed the real danger (Acts 15: 1-25). They might have sent a let ter, but face-to-face methods are al- ways best. V. The Christian's Open Allegi- ance.â€" Vs. 25, 20. Why did Bar nabas need help? Because of his success. Every true worker builds up a task greater than he is alone, aud benefits the world by creating work for others. Why did he seek Saul? Because of his acquaintance with him. Be- cause of Haul's wonderful experi- ence. Be'^ause Saul was precisely adapted to the need of Antioch. Because he was different from Bar- nabas, more logical probably, a bette/r teacher, and the church in Antioch was ready for instruction. He would Bupplerncnt Barnabas, and not duplicate him. A large part of any worker's success con- kists in the wise choice of assist- ants and co-workers. Ho found Saul in Tarsus, which seems to have been his headquarters since his etcapc from the Jerusalem plot (Acts 9 : 30), and the splendid pair labored together in Antioch for a whole year . . . and taught much people. What is the most important fact noted in regard to this Antioch church? That the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. A name, what a man or a body of men is called, is always significant. VI. The Christian's Practical IlelpfulnCBH.- Vs. 27-30; 12: 25. What opportunity to show the fruit of their Christianity camo to the Antioch chur('h ( A great dearth throughout all the world ... in the days of Cl.auditis, the Roman emperor who reigned .\. 1). 41-54. Tlie famine probably occurred in Jude.i A. D. "14 40. Joseplius tells us that the Syrian queen Helena of Adiabene, a Jewii.h proselyte wl>o was then in Jerusalem, im- ported corn and fi,'.?K from Egypt and Cyprus, which she distributed among the people to save them from (it.arvatiin, VII. Are Yuu a Christian? This account of the Antioch church t« MR. MACBLINK ON BOOKS. Gems in All, Though Ofton- With a Good Uoul o( Setting. "It is some satisfaction to me to think," said Mr. BacBlink, "t!mt if ever I should bo cast away on a lone desert island 1 could get along very comfortably if I had any 'books at all. "I say any books, with the em- phasis on the any advisably, be- cause I have never yet seen any book that did not have a.t least something in it worth reading for the pleasure conveyed by it or for the knowledge it contained. The dullest of us have happy thoughts that please ourselves, and some- times we have fancies bright enough to please others; and we may do able out of our experience to put into a bushel of chafi a grain of information that will be of real value. "I have never yet talked w-â€" anybody from whom I did not learn something; and I have never yet read a book, however dull or ap- parently hopeless, from which I did not gain some pleasure or profit. "Lately I have read a long story that was all talk and ruiBes, no- thing to it, but having started I travelled on, and in the middle of it I came ujion live lines that con- tained a wise suggestion for our guidance, something really worth knowing, and I felt that I had been far more than repaid. "This is not a method o| reading that you can, as you might say, apply backward. For instance, I remember reading once two lines ol poetry that impressed me great- ly, and I thought to myself that the man who could write poetiy like that must be a nobl'» p.'^et; and 60 I bought his complete works, in two volumes, but with some few exceptions I found his poems pretty dry reading. "So it may be that in many books we shall find but a very small gem and a good deal of setting ; and I would not counsel reading poor books for the sake of what we may find in them ; we shall do better than that if we can get good books, but I do say that if 1 were cast away on some lone desert island I cculd get along very comfortably if I had any books at all ; for I have never yet seen any book that did not contain something." earthen and tin ware. Dip a rag into vinegar aud soonr the vessel with it. Depend on regular brushing of the hair rather than on tonics. Ten minutes stiff brushing twice a day will do wonders for thinning hair. Unpainted wire netting not only makes a good rest for ttatirons l>4<l44^*M<'>e4'«>t-V*-Ml4>f4l j when several thicknesses are used, but is most effectual to clean them 't- STEEPLEJACK'S BIGGEST JOB. Decorating the Nelson Monument With Forty Tuns of Laurel. "The biggest job I have under- taken," declares one English steeplejack, "has been the decorat- ing and repairing of the Nelson column in Trafalgar Square, Lon- don. Nearly forty tons of laurel were used and the greater portion of this had to be carried aloft and fixed to the column at varying heights up to the top. " I thought out many plans," he said in the Wide World Magazine, "but eventually decided to lash ladders to the structure by means of rupc-j passed 'round and 'round it. It was a ticklish, trying job, but it was accomplished without hitch or mishap of any kind. "Two sets of ladders were used, placed opposite to one another. This was necessary, as the column measured forty feet in circura- ferencoâ€" too far to pass a rope aronnd with ease, 'fhe most diffi- cult |>art of the asocnt to negotiate was the cornice at the top of tho column. This is the heaviest projec- tion for throwback work in Eng- land and I had to climb up and over it with my back to the ground, for all the world like a fly on a oejl- ing. "I am not ashamed to confess that I broathcd more freely when I had rounded the obstruction and was ablf cautiously to slide myself onto the platform which supports tho statiio. From below this ap- pears flat, but it is really bevelled with a sharp slope outward. "I found it, too, covered with an ini'h thick layer of greasy soot, so that to walk about on it was ex- ceedingly risky. However, once I got the lifeline secured to the sta- tue all was plain sailing. "I di?covered a crack in the hero's arm, which I repaired. When I tell |)0oplc this thoy not infre- quently ask on tho spur of the mo- ment, 'Wliich arm?' Of course the figure has only one." SOME DAINTY DISHES. Milk Toast. â€" Toast some squares of bread, trim off the crust, prick ail over with a fork, and season with butter and salt. Boil some rich new milk, and pour over tho toast sufficient to make it thorougb- I ly moist. Serve very hot. Treacle Pies.â€" Line some small , saucers with pastry, put in some treacle and cover wtn a thxk layer of very line breadcrumbs, with a little ginger mixed in them. Orna^- mcnt tho top with bars of pastry and bake in a sharp oven. Potatoes Fried Whole. â€" Peel and ' parboil potatoes in salted water, I take from the fire and drain dry. ; Brush each over with beaten egg, I roll in breadcrumbs, drop into boiling fat, and fry a golden color. Drain on paper by the fire aud serve alone, or with chops. Scrambled Eggs and Ham. â€" Beat up three eggs and half a teacupful of finely chopped fr'ed or boiled ham. Put a dessertspoonful of butter into a saucepan, and when hot pour into the mixture; stir carefully until the consistency of custard. Pour on to hot butter- ed toast or into scallop shells, and serve at once. Portable Lemonade. â€" Take half en ounce of citric acid, four ounces of finely crushed or caster sugar, and ten drops of essence of lemon. Mix all thoroughly and pass twice through a clean wire sieve. Two teaspoonfuls «f this powder will make a splendid glass of lemonade at a small cost. Black butter to serve with fish, must be prepared as follows : Put ounce of butter in a saucepan, and leave it on the stove till the butter becomes a dark color, but not burnt. Add a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a little tarragon vinegar, some ketchup, salt, and cayenne pepper. Serve at once in a small sauceboat or jng. Water Melon Jam. â€" To every pound and a half of melon add one pound of sugar, the juice of one lemon and its grated rind. Add one-third of a pint of water to every three pounds of lemon, remove the seeds, and pare thickly so as to re- move all hard parts. Cut the melon up finely, put all ingredients in a pan together, and when it comes to the boil cook fast for an hour, stirr- ing all the time. This is a delicious jam and one that keeps well. Mutton in a Brown Pot.â€" Line a greased brown cooking-jar (that has a cover) with a wall of cooked rice. Free some cooked mutton from fat and gristle and chop it finely. Season to taste. Add a little onion juice, and moisten all thoroughly with gravy. Cover with a layer of rioo, place the lid on the pot, and hake in a moderate oven for half an hour. Then take the lid off the pot and return to the oven until nicely browned. Send to table "n the pot. .*_ LIKE STATUES. The old lady with the pale blue umbrella had been staud'.ng at the stationery counter for ten minutes. "I want to be waited on," she snapped impatiently. "Certainly, madam," hastened the tall floorwalker. "Do you wish B stationery clerk?" "Stationary clerk! Gracious!! They all seem stationary. They don't want to mo\o." USEFUL HINTS. A stiff paint brush is much better for cleauiug down stairs than a whisk broom. When cooking fish allow ten minutes to the pound and when thick ten minutes over. Hang away in their proper places before you sleep garments you have worn in the evening. A great many blemishes may be removed with a rubber on a lead pencil. A little borax boiled in the coffee pot twice a week, fifteen minutes, sweetens and purifies it. Combs soon warp and break if washed in water. A good stiff nail brush cleans them well. Potato water is excellent for cleaning mud stains from nearly any kind of cloth or garmetit. Where the colors are not "fast," use a cupful of salt to each gaHon of water when washing garments. A ham is greatly inaprovcd if after being boiled it is wrapped in buttered paper and baked for an hour. Table linen in order to bring out the bright gloss that mokes it at- tractive should be dampened con- siderably. Before mixing canned tomatoes with any dish try putting in a pinch of soda. Will prevent many a failure. Embroideries and colored gar- ment should be ironed on the wrong side. To relieve neuralgia light a piece of brown paper, blow out tho flame, and inhale the smoke through the nostrils. When giving babies a bath it mothers would place a towel in the bottom of the bath it would pre- vent baby from sliv.ping. When boiling salt meat or pork allow twenty minutes to each pound. Salt meat shoxild always lie put on in cold water. To cool an oven while baking never leave the door open, but cool it hv the drafts, or removing one of the plates over the oven. Vinocar will remove the dis- agreeable odor of paraffin from on. Potatoe* should not be eaten by those who are dispo.sed to get stout, and those who suiter from liver trouble should give them up en- tirely. Do not turn irritable when the cakes or biscuits burn. Wa't until they turn cold, then gently grate away the burnt part with an or- dinary cheese grater. To clean a fishy frying pan, fall with cold water and place on the fire to boil. When boiling put a red hot cinder in, then wash m the usual way. If when making children s dress- es a double piece is placed under elbows and under arms a lot ol trouble will be saved when the dress begins to wear. llemove grease stains by saturat- ing the spots with alcohol rather than benzine. Alcohol does not leave a ring around the spot after- ward. Wash with cold water. Keep patent mustard leaves where you can get them quick y in the night. Many a case of pneumonia has started from "mother's" making a musUrd plaster in a cold kitchen. Kevcr use a sharp instrument under the nails. Remove all pa,rti- cles with a flattened oraoge sUck, or ivory nail cleaner, to avoid scratching furrows on the under surface. . , When making coioe aad a pmcn of salt to it before pouring on the water. . . -i j A spoonful of kerosene m botled starch keeps it from sticking, but do not use enough to make it emell. When ironing a starched gar- ment and part of it becomes dry do not dampen with water, but with a cloth wet wkh a Ifttle cold starch. This will keep all parts of the garment of equal stiffness. If one wishes a little stiffness in the veil which is being washed add a tiny bit of sugar to the rinsing w.ater. Then stretch tlie flimv sub- stance in a doorwRV where it will have a free current of air as it dries. After washinjr lace curtains lay a curtain on the floor in some empty room, spread the curtains on the blanket. Ftr<^tchbs: them carefully, o.nfl they will keep their place with- out any fastenings utttil dried. WHERE TIPS ARE INEVITABLE What is Expected of You on Ocean Liners. Every passenger who travels on an ocean liner, even in the third class, is expected to tip the stewards, and the expectation is seldom disappointed. F'ew people save old travelers, however, know how much they ought to give. In the first and second class on Atlantic liners $2.50 to the table steward, and tho some to your state-room steward is the proper fee. If you give more, you will not benefit the man materially ; for, as a rule, all tips are pooled, and shared round among the stewards. Tho bnth-room steward should have 60 cents, the smoking-room steward 60 cents or $1.25, according to the demand made on his services. If the stewards have provided an orchestra for the passengers, as they often do, a collection >s usual- ly made at tho end of ttie voyage. It is not usual to give less than $1.25. Do hot tip any of the sailors aboard. Most of them dislike it; they would tell you they are not flunkeys. But they would always appreciate a good cigar, if you want to make some acknowledg- ment of the many little things they do for tho comfort and amusement of the passengers. On a longer voyage â€" say, to In- dia or Australiaâ€" the tips mention- ed should be doubled ; but more should not be given, however, long the voyage may be, unless some very exceptional demands have been made upon the stewards. NUGGETS. Vanity bears flowers, but no fruit. Wisdom follows experience. If il would only catch up ! Try to get rich in a year and you will go broke in six months. Youth and folly think that $20 and twenty years will last forever. ♦ GOOD TIME. In an Irish daily paper there re- cently appeared this advertise- ment: "Wantedâ€" A gentleman to undertake the sale of a patent me- dicine ; the advertiser guarantees it will bo profitable to the under- taker." Boarderâ€" "What's for breakfast? Hope it's not ham and eggs again." Servantâ€" "No, sir, not ham and eggs this morning." Boarder â€" "Thank goodness I W'nat ik itl" 6«rvantr-"Ham." HAGGARD ON DRUNKARDS GREAT ENGLISH AIJTBOIS STATES HIS VIEWS. ' ' i t 'Comes Into Contact with Many oS Them, in a Professional Way, of Course. Rider Haggard is at present tak- ing a deep personal interest in tha cure of drunkenness. He is cliai'r- man of one bench of magistrat*ei and senior member of anothe/j 'and, in the course of his career, thas dealt with some thousands *ul drunk and disorderlies. Me has Re- cently given his view on intemper- 'ance in a Britis.h , gove'rameut i*e- port. Some of his suggestions &f» ^uite radical. For instance, among other things, he says : "1 submit that the best way to promote sobriety is to make it e;c- cecdingly unccmfortafcle for the in- dividual who gets drunk. I am quit© certain that if public intoxi- cation ceased to be treated as- a kind of troublesome and malodur- cus joke, and if its repetition wejre punished with sentences of confine- tnant increasing in length in pro- portion to the frequency of the of- fenee, instead of being condoned by a five-shilling ($1.25) OR EVEN SMALLER FINE, • we should hear and see a great deal less of it than we do at present.." The famous author ef King Solo- mon's Mines, She and other books, then goes on to recommend the fol- lowing drastic invsasures for era^ dicating this vice : "First offense, dismissal, with a caution ; second offense, the ordini ary iae ; third atfense, committal without the option of a fine. Com- mittal should not be t« an ordinar/ prison," be says in his report^,- '"but to a special department, where inebriates could be suitably' treated with a view to their refer-, mation." His views on the drunk that goes in for making a row are| very strong. "If the drunkennesa. should be complicated with vio- _ lence," he says, "or with the use" â- of that filthy language in which * drunks are wont to foam out their â-  own shame in public, or if the in- , t'jxioatcd person should be in charge of a vehicle or of children, the.i I think the magistrates should cotcmit upon the second, if not up- «n the first offense; and to th» common jail." With habitual drunkards he would resort to incarceration whe- ther ^heir own consent or that ot their family were obtained or not, In England, HABITUAL DRUNKARDS cannot be put away without their own consent for any length of time,' but Rider Haggard woukl alter all this, and treat an habitual justJ as if he were a lunatic. If the gov- ernment caj-ries Rider Haggard's recommendations into effect there i> a sad time coming for tlie man who loves the flowing 'bowl not widely, but too well. As the drink lqu«:tion in England is one of the bigge t sociological issues, Rider ftlaggard is much to the front with his rei'ommendations. He has al- so taken a prominent part in tho land agitation and is considered a great expert on the subject. MARVELLOUS FEAT. Surgeon Extracted Tumor Fronr Woman's Brain. Considerable interest has been aroused in the surgical world by an operation performed at tlie Kaiser- in Augusta Hospital, Berlin, Ger- many, by the surgeon-in-chief, Prof. Fedor Graase. The operation wai the extirpation of a tumor which had grown from the hypophysis oi the brain. This gland is situated in th< very midst ef the skull. The tumor, which was larger than a hen's egg, was reached by forming a vcrj large skin bone flap on the right forehead, and temporal region. Notwithstanding the depth of th« tumor, which was buried more than 3 inches deep in the substance ol the brain, the whole of it was suc- cessfully extirpated by lifting tha anterior part of the brain, and the patient, a woman of about 35, ia doing well. This i.s described as one of tho most e.\traordinary operations of its kind that have occurred in th« history of surgery. UF TO THE GROUND. "The soil," remarked the poli- tical economist, "is what supports us all." "Y'es," rejoined the lawyer, "1 must admit that real estate is at the bottom of three-fourths of all litigation." i "And," added the dooti.r, "a great deal of sickness is due to the effluvia from the ground." SYMPTOMS. When you see a girl pasting a scrapbook full of cooking recipes out o! the newspaperfi, you know pretty well that some young man is in a position to be congratulat- ed ; and yet, when you think ol the recipes, you feel rather sonj ' fur him, too. 1 »J I 1 Mi ..^Wtftl^ " OW jB py ^^^tttOT'