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V. V. & THE PRI CE WAS TO O GREAT Tlio Rich Man's Difficulty Before Jesus Is Here Discuesed. Jesus said unto him, go soil what- ever thou hast and give to the poor ; and oonie, take up the cross and follow rae. â€" Mark x. 21. Here, we have a drama that al- moso merges into a tragedy. It is full of power ; it quivers with in- tense.>t intererst. Two young men face etch other. The distinguishing quality in one is the bearing of a cultured, well- bred gontleman. The distinguished quality of th.e other is the strength and dignity and beauty of the soul that shiaca in every feature of his face. In the face of the one is a gr«at expectancy ; in that of the other is the strong reserve power that invites th« ci/ of human neod. Th« one is a pupil, the other 'ia th« Master. Jesus t6ok his hand and, lifting him up to that level where man looks into the eyes of man, said: "Put eway, sell those things that are be- tween you and your fellow man and take th» same pathway I am taking; then yo« will truly realize the vision that has come to your Boul." These wordtf created conviction, for they voior^l the message of his own soul. Ba felt that was the door through which he must pass tk^vl that on tho other side would be NEW JOY AND POWER. But the price was too great. In fi silence as of the grave he turned •adiy toward home. This is no condemnation of riches. There is no moral quality in mere money. Our saying that money is the root of all evil is only partly true. It is true in so far as money awakens the worst form.s of selfish- ness in us; it touches bprings and sources of soul noison as nothing else dors. If there is anything else that will touch a deeper depth and awaken a worso foim of selfishncsg, then that is the root of all evil. Jesus enunciated a great principle and did not tie up mankind to a narrow rule. Life must have a vision, an ideal. A vision is an outlino of possibility. "To live," to "truly live," is to bring every energy, every activity, every thought to bear upon the filling in of that outline. It is to see a "gleam" and follow it. To sec that vision is to see the purpose of God. To set out to realize it is to feel the presence of Ood in the' life. This gives true bigness to the soul and to the life. The man who ia too big to consider small things is also too small to consider big things. We must have telescopic men and men with telescopic minds. Too many arc microscopic men â€" intense upon little things without seeing their interrelationship or their relationship to a center. In religion the order must never be inverted â€" it is vi.eion, t'lat we may see how the parts relate to the whole ; outlook, that we may helpfully and truly get inlook. WEALTH NEEDS VISION, and this Jesus gave this young man. Vision finally changed him. Tradition says the young man fol- lowed Jesus later. This is easy to believe, for no t«'uc soul can ever get away from its vision or from tho love that awakened it. Both were here. Every beggar he met, every struggling workman he employed, every ill-clad, ill-fed child ho saw, every tired-looking mother and every form of sorrow or suffering would daily awaken his vision anew. It would be with him as he rested on his own luxurious couch, as he sat at his own richly laden table, as he put on hi* own comfortable garments, as he balanced his weekly accounts â€" the vision would pour in its light and suggestions on these. And so this vision, this love of Jesus, would follow and ajrpeal and plead until the heart and life became shot through with the Christ spirit, sel- fishness was driven out, his soul set free to follow the gleam, and the truo joy of ennobled manhood be- came the young man's possession. REV. DR. JOHN. R. MACKAY. OILING THE WAVES. Valuable Aid in Weartng Ship in a Gale. When the captain of a wave-beat en ship pours oil upon the waters he docs not empty a bart«l of keros ene over the side. He utitches up three or four cotton bags., which he fills first A'ith oakum and then with oil, usually equal parts of fish oil and Kerosene. The bags lire then tied tightly at the tops ond pricked all over with a sail needle to permit the oil to exude, and are hung from the boat davits and weal her chains to drip their mollifying contents on the raging billows. The bags niuBt not be allowed to get empty, but must be refilled every two hours. For kIx bags ten gaUons of oil «rc used in thirty hours. Some- times, if it is very cold, the oil con- geals and will not run out through the holes fust enough, and the mouth of the bag is then loosened to let it escape in that way. Its effect is magical on a rough sea. A huge comber will arise threatening- ly to bury the laboring vessel under tons of water, but will strike a patch of oil no larger than a com- mon dining taJjle and subside in an instant into a smooth, round swell, which the ship rides like a, cork. The use of oil is also a valuable aid in wearing ship in a gale and high seas. A few gallons of paint oil over the leo quarter enables the vessel to perform the manoeuvre in j perfect safety without taking a drop of water on board. When a boat â- hips so much water that it is impos- tiblo to get the oil bags slung into position without running tho risk of being swept overboard, an or- dinary bed sheet saturated with paint oil, tied to a rope and allowed to lloat, will soon calm tho seas â- ufficieritly to pcrniil men to move about the decks safely. Paint oil is agreed to he the bcKt to use, rape- seed oil and porpoise oil rank next, but keroKcne is not satisfactory unless mixed with some other oil. clothing. When the time came to call for the bill the "Count d'Abbe- ville" said : "I have not a sou. I have just come out of Fresnes pri- son on ticket^of-leave. Take me to the pwlice-staiton." The landlord, the waiters, and the chauffeur roared at Monsieur le Comte's good joke, and, to keep up the fun, all went with him to the police-station. There the joke was found to have even more point in it than they thought; but a different one from that which they had expected. The "Count d' Abbeville" had been very humorous at their expense in a lit- eral sense. Ho proved to be one Jules Duval, several times convict- ed, and he was pertectly correct in saying that he had not a penny, and had just come out of F'resnes pri- son. He has now gone back to jail. In Republican France anyone seems oble to swindle anybody by calling himself a count. JAII-iniU) I'LVYLl) COINT. Bis Joke (;ot Hliu Expensive Din- ner, Al.-io .Vnothcr Term. The French correspondent of the London Telegraph relates the fol- lowing amusing story of a jail-bird's joke. A man in nigs and list shoes â- topped a motor taxi near the Arc de Triomplic and said: "My name is the Count d' Abbeville. 1 have just wagered fifty louis that just as ( am now, I will get dinner in a smart restaurant. There will be five louis for you if you help me to win the bet." The chauffeur entered into the fun of the thing, and drove the "count" to an cxi>ensive restaur- ant at Montmartre. There he gave the landlord the tip, and the "count" was served with the ut- most rf'rfercnce, not a waiter ap- peftriny to notice the state of his SCIENCE OF WORN BOOTS. Character Heading By Boots And Shoes. Palmistry, phrenology, grapho- logy, and all tho other methods of judging character seem destined lienceforth to take second place to cothurnology â€" the science of tho boots. According to Dr. Garre, of Raslo, worn shoes give far more reliable indications than the lines of the hand, the features of the face, or the style of handwriting. If heel and sole of the shoe are equally worn after two months' wear, the wearer is an energetic business man, a trusty employee, or an excellent wife or mother. If the sole is worn on the outer edge the wearer has a marked ten- dency for adventures, or a bold, obstinate spirit. If tho wearing is on the inside edge it is a sign of irresoluti<in and weakness in a man, modesty in a woman. Dr. Garre has put his views to practical tijst, und on one occasion, having <lws''ly observed a stranger entering his house, noticed that his shoes were worn on the outer edge, tho tip of the sole being roughened, while tho rest was still new. He was convinced that the man before him was o scoundrel, and on the very same day the individual was arrested for theft. WHERE THE MIRACLE CAME IN Dr. Walter C. Smith, the popular Scotch poet-preacher on one oc- casion tried to explain to an old lady the meaning of the scriptural expression, "Take up thy be<I and walk," by saying that tho bed was simply a mat or rug easily taken up and carried away. "No, no," replied the lady. "I canna believe that. There would be no miracle in walking away wi' a bit o' mat or rug on your back." L^i^ Home APPETIZING MEAT DISHES. Creamed Chicken with Mush- rooms. â€" Boil until tender one six pound chicken. Take out bones and pick the meat into small pieces. Then season with salt, pepper, and a dash or two of cayenne. Add the juice of one lemon, one fair sized onion, grated, one can of mushrooms cut in halves, one quart of cream heated, one-half cup of b'htter and half cup flour rubbed together. Mix all together nicely and put in a buttered baking dish with cracker crumbs over tho top. Bake half hour. Barbecued Chicken. â€" Take a fat, tender spring chicken of roasting size. Clean and wash well and salt inside and out. Sprinkle over with flour quite heavily. Place in a kettle with heart and liver and two cupfuls of boiling water. Let it boil well, as you would for a pot roast, and baste often. When about half done, or so that it scarcely resists the fork, add onn-half cupful of vinegar, boil until done, and take out. Chop the liver and heart and servo in the gravy. Chicken is de- licious oooked this way and Berv..d cold. The rich gravy can be used as a dressing for lettuce. Recipe for Suet Pudding. â€" One cupful suet, one cupfu! rnisins, one-half cupful citron, one-half cupful currants, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, and soda, one-half teaspoonful of nutmeg and salt, one cupful sour milk, one cupful New Orleana molasses, three and one-half cupfuls flour. Add one-half tumberful of good brandy. Steam in cans. Keep in airtight box. They will keep and may be used when needed. Steam three- hours. Meat Loaf. â€" A good substitute for veal loaf is the beef loaf. Take two pounds of round beefsteak and one-half pound of salt pork; put through meat grinder;. Salt and pepper and a little nutmeg, one egg, and enough dry bread crumbs to mold into a good solid loaf. If taken out of tin while warm, a fine thick gravy can be made. It should bakei in a moderate oven neairly an hour. This is much more economical than veal. CLEANING AND CLEANSING, Furniture Polish. â€" To one-half gallon of raw linseed oil add two and one-half ounces of balsam of fir. To remainder of container add enough pure apple vinegar to make up tho gallon and shake well be- fore applying. But a little polish shuld be rubbed on well and dried as much as possible. This is an ex- cellent furniture polish. To Remove Paint.â€" To remove paint from any kind of cloth use common paint remover, which can be had at any drug store, pour it on the cloth, and let stand a few minutes and rub with dry cloth. Cleaning Silver. â€" Moisten liber- ally an old silk handkerchief or ther «oft, worn silk with kerosene. Rub it over silver and you will be delighted with the almost immedi- ate result, dark stains, of how long standing, quickly disappearing be- neath the friction, and tho silver will remain bright a long time. If you desire an extra "shino" use another silk cloth and dry rub with polish. To Remove Paint from Windows. â€" Moisten the edge of a silver coin and rub tho spot of paint. The paint will disappear like magic. Mattress Pads.â€" One of tho simplest tfnd nicest things for the pad on top of the mattress is tho silence cloth which comes for din- ing tables. Get the desired length and hind the ends with bias strips of white material. These launder nicely and are delightfully com- fortable. LUMPLINGS. German Potato Dumplings, â€" Cook eight half potatoes, grate, add a tablespoonful of salt, one egg, three-fourths of a pound of flour. Knead as you would bread dought. Roll out, form into balls. Put in a kettle ot boiling water and cook twenty minutes. These are delicious with roast pork. Cherry Dumplings. â€" Two cupfuls of flour, one tabloKpoontul of lard, one cupful of sweet milk, two tro- spoonfuls of baking powder, one- half saltspoonful of salt, one cup- ful of cherries, one-half cupful of sugar. Sift salt, baking powder and flour together; ruh in the lard and wet with the milk. Roll out about one-fourth ot an inch thick and cut into three inch squares. Heap as mamy cherries as the dumplings will hold in the center of each; sprinkle thickly with sugar and press together. Put in a ket- tle of boiling water. SEASONABLE SALADS.' Cabbnffc Salad.â€" Three-fourths cupful of sugar, one egg, one tea- spoonful ground mustard, one tea- spoonful butter molted, half cupful of vinegar. Let come to a boil and pour over one small head of cab- bage cut fino. Ham Salad. â€" Cut up small bits of boiled ham, placed in salad hovil with the hearts and inside leaves of a head of lettuce. Make dress- ing as follows : Mix in a saucepan one pint of sour cream, as free from milk as possible, half pint good vinegar, pepper, salt, and a small piece of butter, sugar and a amall tablespoonful mustard mix- pd smooth ; boil, add the well beat- en yolks of two eggs, stirring care- fully until it thickens to the con- sistency of starch; then set in a cool place or on ice, and whe'U cold pour over salad and mix well. Salad Dressing. â€" Beat two eggs, add three large tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one teaspoonful of must- ard moistened in a little of the vinegar, add to eggs, and then add salt and white pepper to taste and one teaspoonful of sugar. Add two tablespoonfuls of cream and beat in quickly. Add lump butter size of an egg. Put in rice boiler and stir slowly until the mixture is a little thicker than thick cream. VARIOUS USEFUL HELPS. Removing Paint Specks. â€" Moisten baking soda with water to paste and apply to the paint spot. When dry rub off both paste and speck. To Protect the Hat.â€" Buy a piece of oil silk large enough to cover the whole hat and ext«nd under the brim. Cut the goods circular and run a casing around the edge, so that when it is put on the hat, the drawstring may be pulled up lightly. Fasten the bag securely in- side the crown of the hat, and then when you are caught in a summer shower, it can be quickly taken out and adjusted to the hat and you can go on your way in peace of mind. Uses for Newspapers. â€" To keep burglars out spread newspapers on the floor. Thieves will not step on a newspaper because it crackle may awaken some one. A well known criminal lawyer is authority for this statement. To fill cracks in wooden floors put one-half pounds newspaper in three quarts water and soak three days. Then add one tablespoonful powdered alum and one quart wheat flour. Stir and boil till like cake dough. Cool and fill cracks. It will harden like cement. To fill rat holes use above recipe, but add, when cool, a liberal allowance of red pepper. To clean carpets wet a newspaper with ammonia and water, squeeze, tear into bits, throw on the floor, and sweep from one wall to the opposite one. Repeat, beginning where you left off. Use them to cover top of shelves, bottom of drawers for cleaning (dampening them), hardwood floors, other kinds of floor, also top of range after each meal, outside of kettles and pans. ENGLAND'S DEBT TO CONVICT, Fine Roads and Fortifications Built by Convict Labor. The news published the other day that a well-made road has just been completed by convict labor through Parkhurst Forest, in the Isle of Wright, to the site marked out for the new colony of habitual criminals, serves to call attention to a seldom-noticed phase of Eng- land's penal system. Not all prisoners are employed at comparatively useless tasks, such as oakum-picking and stone-break- ing, for example, nor have they been in the past. But for convict labor the nation would npt to-day own the fine docks it possesses at Chatham and Portsmouth, to say nothing of the fortifications on the Verne and on Blue Bell Hill. At other places rtound the coasts convicts have constructed fine breakwaters, deepened harbors, nad widened estuaries. The wonderful system of defensive galleries at Gibraltar, too, was constructed by them ; and at Malta they have ex- cavated vast subterranean granaries in the living rock, capable of hold- ing food supplies for the garrison for ten year- ahead. Perhaps, however, the most stupendous convict enterprise ever undertaken is that now in progress at Dartmoor, where the wilderness is slowly, yet surely, being trans- formed into sometuing very like a garden. No paid labor would ever have accomplished this almost miracle, for the simple reason that it could never have paid for it to have undertaken it. The water-logged soil has first to be trenched and drained rood by rood, and almost yard by yard. Then it is treated with white lime, at the rate of no fewer than five tlona to the acre. Afterwards spade culture precedes the advent of the plough and of ordinary manures. And all the tools and other ap- pliances used are manufactured by the convicts ; the i ecessary draught animals are reared by them. Even the warder-overseers drive round in prison-made traps drawn by prison-bred ponies. SENSE OF ART. Homeboyoâ€" "I've read some- where that the Chinese will not al- low their women to be photograph- ed." Globetrottr-" Shows their sense of art, my boy. I've been there, and seen some of 'em !" If we all bad our own way other people would quickly get out of it. WRECKERS OF THE SLUMS FEMALE SnVLOCKS IN LIVER- POOL, ENGLAND. Infattlous Business Plied by Woman â€"Charge 1,000 Per Cent. Intercat. Almost every week in Liverpool, England, some woman oomes up at the Police Court charged either with being an unregistered money- lender or with carrying on busi- ness away from her registered ad- dress, in nearly every case the woman is heavily fined, and the fines are always paid without delay. These women are extraordinarily active in Liverpool, and in the c pinion of one who knows them and their system thoroughly, they are in some part at least respon- sible for the city's black record for domestic tragedies. WRECKERS OF SLUMS. "They are the wreckers of the slums," a London Daily News rep- resentative was told. "How many homes they have wrecked and how much misery they have caused pro- bably no one can estimate. And, despite the activity of the police, they seem to have established them- selves firmly, so firmly that in some districts they exercise absolute tyranny." Their system is very simple. They do not bother themselves or their clients with County Courts and the paraphernalia of the law. Some poor woman, possibly unknown to her husband, goes to one of them for a shilling or two to meet some claim. She gets it â€" at an interest of 2d. or 3d. on the shilling per week. Perhaps she does not pay for a week or two. The debt mounts up at compound interest. She can then only pay off a portion at a time. The rest stays to germinate, and at last perhaps she may have paid ten or fifteen times the amount borrowed, and still be heavily in debts. The husband must not be told, and so the money-lender main- tains her grip. At last she is un- able to pay an instalment. FEMALE 8HYL0CK. Then the money-lender shows no mercy to her victim. The women are all burly. Fragile women do not go into the trade. In the Police Court a short time ago a woman was dealt with who had almost torn to pieces one of her victims who could not pay. She gripped her by the hair, pulled her down in the gutter, and scratched her with a hatpin. This is the usual method of securing payment. "Very often," the interviewer was told, "the moneylender has a general shop, at which her client is forced to purchase, paying exor- bitant prices for inferior stuff â€" a shilling, say, for groceries that could be got for 3d. or 4d. at an ordinary shop. And the more in- terest paid often works out at more than a thousand per cent, per an- num. A curious point about these women was elucidated a short time ago. For long it had been suspect- ed that there was someone behir. all these women financing them â€" a, money-lending Moriarity. Recent- ly the police got this man, and he was fined $500. What is wanted is power to imprison the women for long periods without the option of a fine." A LAND OF OLD TINS. Discarded Cans are Appreciated in Uayti. An interesting sight into social and commercial conditions in Hay- ti, the black republic, is contained in a report from the British Con- 8ul-General, issued by the Foreign Office. Old tins are in great demand throughout the island. Condensed milk, preserve, butter, and lard tins form practically the bulk of th< cooking and table utensils used throughout tbe island. Cooking is done in ft-'irjeund butter and lard tins. Condensed milk tins become drinking mugs by the simple addi- tion of a band which serves as a handle. Old petroleum tins are used for storing and carrying water, and even a cook in a well-to-do family prefers old tins for cooking purpos- es to ordinary saucepans or other kitchen utensils. CURE FOP. POISON IVY. In the summer season it is not uncommon for persons going into the woods to be poisoned by contact with dogwood, ivy or the poison oak. The severe itching and smart- ing which is thus produced may be relieved by first washing the parts with a solution of saleratus, two teaspoonfuls to the pint of water, and then applying cloths with ex- tract of hamamelis. Take a dose of Epsom salts internally or a dou- ble Rochelle powder. "The cure is immediate. IN SUBURBS.' "How do you lik ycflPnew neigh- bors?" "I haven't called on them. I didn't like the look of their furni- ture as it was being carried in." RAID OF MALAY J JUNK'S 1 i:iGHT OP A CHINESE JUNK'S CBEW LOSE THEIB UVUS. Dung np the Steward and Forced Him to Disclose Locatioa of Valuables. A rousing pirate story comes from the vicinity of Singapore. A large Chinese junk left Singapore lor Hainan, but found the winds anfavorable and next night dropped anchor between Pulo Tokon^ and the mainland of Johore, not far from the Sultan's Asian Monte Carlo. The crew of fourteen and ftur passengers were aroused at midnight by the barking of the junk's dog, but the alarm waa speedily silenced by A MALAY KNIFE. Two prahua had come alongside and in them were ten men. soma Chinese and others Malays. They proceeded to strike righ't and left among the sailors, laying several low. Then they seized the chinchow and proceeded to hang him up in buccaneer style to force him to disclose the location of the most valuable cargo. This he did, and tbe pirates having secured a.i the booty they could make wa.y with ^ departed as silently as they had ' oome. The booty was not immense. ' It consisted of $4 in money, gold ' leaf valued at $80, raw chandu valued at $90 and aLx boxes of i>er- sonal effects. When the survivors came to count losses they found five dead on tho junk, two were missing, their bodies having been thrown overboard, and four were wounded, one of whom died later. His deposition was taken at the General Hospital aft Singapore. Seven of the occupants ol the junk were PRACTICALLY UNHURT, and these started to bring their ves- sel back to Singapore, the chinchow conxing on ahead in a sampan. When he arrived a police party put out in the Wunch Lady Eve- lyn and met the Junk off Tanjong Katong. She was towed into port and the injured men were convey- ed to tho General Hospital, and the five bodies landed for burial. The survivors turned over to the police four weapons found on board af- ter the pirates left. These may help in identifying the criminals, who escaped unscathed. The weapons are two long Chinese knives with narrow blades and bone handles, an axe with a short iron handle and the heavy murderous fighting blado with which the greatest execution was wrough* MUSIC OF THE TELEGRAPH. Jhi B »ar8 Think It Is the Buzzing of Bees. EwTyone has put his car to a tele- graph pole to hear the wires hum, and most pa-^le have assumed that • the wind was entirely responsible fur the sound. So it is, in many cases, but often the note is Hp.arol,. _ where not the slightest movemeri* of the air is preceptible. A reccmt J0 French investigator tells us that the sound in this case is due to the ex- pansion and contraction of the wires from variations of temperaturoi As the wires are not perfectly uni- form, they rub against the insula- tors, making a slight noise, which is amplified by the post acting as a sounding-board. Another investi- gator is sure that the sounds are due to electric waves, but he fails to explain how ordinary telegraph wires should be able to serve as wave detectors and in what way the electric waves are transformed into sound waves. Tho other tlieory seems more probaole. Some curious stories are told of this telegraph wire music. In Siberia the bears think that it is the buzzing of bees, and would tear down the poles to look for honey if the constructors did not pile great stones about them to prevent this. In France, on the south side of the forest of Fontainebloau, the tele- graph sounds are regarded as presaging rain. This is because the south wind in this region brings rain, and the forest shuts off the north wind. In some districts the noise is popularly supposed to be due to the passage of messages, but it is hardly necessary to say that there is no evidence to support this \iew. . * . SOUTH POLAR MINERALS. One of the results ot the recent exploration ot the Antarctic Con- tinent is the discovery that that) bne and distant land, with its bur- '^.en of snow and ice, is able to fur- nish minerals of value to the civi- lized world. Among the minerals is a very good variety of coal. Pro- fessor David, one of Lieutenant Shackleton's companions, who I limbed Mount Erebus, expresses the opinion that there are many minerals on the Antarctic Contin- ent that could be profitably worked from Australia. "Did you take me for a fool when you married tne?" cried an angry husband, in the thick of a domestio quarrel, to which the wife meekly responded :--"No, Samuel,^! did not : but. tliO'i you alwa.v.s salo 1 was nj j. --c-i <-l clu C'jt-:r."