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ill the Lewliest Places. “By faith Abraham when he was l tyr’s crown, but the hero’s joy and the went. out not lnal-ytr’s glory are in the heart of every one who boldly reaches up to and lives cut the highest he will not do that without sacrifice and pain on his side nor without enriching called to go out . . . . knowing whither he went."â€"liebrevvs, xi., 8. You cannot tell much about a man’s faith by his willingness to deal in fu- tures without. any foundation ill fact. And yet no man is ready to face the future unless his heart is nervcd by a high and worthy faith. This alone can give strength to look down the coming days and to take up their tasks. None of us can know what these new days hold for us; fear readily conjures up pictures of disaster. But because of certain sublime confidches we hold we banish our fears, shake off our sloth. and gladly step out into the unknown and untrodden country of tomorrow. Faith is the force of all the’ ages. It accounts for the past; it enters and de- termines the future. Because certain men in days gone by believed certain things~rnfén~scly; because they were thrilled by great visions, by glorious ideals, history was wrought out in the forge of their convictions, under the hammer of their wills. No great things 'are done except by the power of faith under glowing hopes and compelling convictions. It is her faith in her boy’s future that makes the mother willing to suffer, keeps her pa- tient, that buoys up the father in the strife and VVEARINESS OF LIFE. No man or woman is doing anything that makes the world richer for more ibread and butter; some punpose and _ vision is behind the worthy work. It is because somehow we believe, .no matter how we may phrasé the belief, that destiny is behind this strange weaving we call life that we are content to seem to be the shuttles jerked hither and thither.- We hear the ills of to- day because‘we dimly see-the glorious goal of the good of all. we. do a, full day’s work only as we- see somehow, an eternal 'wage. . i It may belong to few of us to be her- ‘ztlded as heroes, and the judgment or nlzistory may confer on none the mar- W:â€" Italians living in France, and the chroni- cles of the times are full of accounts of lynching which , spired. ONE IN TEN A POISONER. Tales of Paris, France, in the Sixteenth Century. Apropos of Sardou’s new; play at the Theatre St. Martin, "L’Affaire des Poi- sons." 'Paris boulevard historians are writing much nowadays about the vogue Which. poisoning enjoyed in France dur- ing the sixteenth century. To poison ‘onc’s neighbor then was all thcfadsllion. L’Estoilc, writing of this in his jour- nal, estimated that in 1572 no fewer than 30,000 persons were mixing noxious compounds in Paris alone. As the pepu- lation of the city, at that time only num- bered about 300,000, one out of every ten Parisia‘ns was a poisonvcr. Contempor- ‘ancous writers tell weird tales of the .‘ methods employed. ' It appears that a perfumed glove or the prick of a jewelled ring could be as deadly as a blunderbus. Only the com- mon herd put poison in food. Some dil- letantes of the craft put their “cruel .venoms on a horse’s saddle,” so one writer says, and the' cavalier was doomed. - Kings, princesses, prelat-cs and other high pcrsonagcs, whose taking off would cause somebody‘s advancement were re ,garded as legitimate prey. But was spread by them to the lowest classes. Thus, according to the author of the “Memories dc l’Eetat de France ' panic ’ for mankind on the other. When all the work of the ages ap- pears, when the weaving of the cell- turies is turn-ed with its finished side towards us, we may see that the man or the woman who has washed and cook-ed and landed the little ones. doing these things for love, has shot the. mest glowing colors into the great .fabric. It is not the thing you do so lllllCIl as the spirit in which you do it that that which fashions the ideal of the one we love, the ideal we serve and for The prophet which we joyfully suffer. we cannot for- w-hos-c burning words get lives by the faith in a vision broad and sweeping; but not less is the faita 0' the .humble loilcr who lives each day by the vision of his home and fire- Nor is this all. contact with the invisible. is life if it hold' nothing but things; how hungry grows the heart-fed only on cold facts. For ca‘ch'day as it comes we need to be able to draw on the deep springs of the water of life, the springs fathers drank and found strength to lay the foundations from which our sit GREAT OR SMALL. of our day. Faith is not the blind confidence that. somehow, Providence will send us da’;ly . It is the Ifaculty by which the heart eats of the bread of heaven, by wh‘ich'rit comes into fellowship will the great and immortal of all ages, by which it walks with Jesus of NElZfll‘Jfll and every spirit like his and learns to and law and sec Ibrcad .I really take it very read life as love as leading to eternal good. " EAIIEIWR TEEEIIIIIRE The Largest Faith May Be manifest: conceives, for he who has laid the brick or fed the furâ€" nace It is faith that draws on life’s invisible sources of power and refreshing; it is faith that finds inner make Faith determines this spirit, for faith is side. flow empty HENRv F.‘ COPE. such _. .__.x.____._- g A \VAY THEY HAVE IN SOCIETY. kind This visit, Mrs. Skinncrâ€" . I have not seen you such an age-â€" (The wretch has. come to dinner!) Your Come here, and kiss the infant, (tearsâ€" daughters, . girlsâ€" . . What heads for paintersf easclsi toot-what accusations in- lovcs of (And give it, p’r’apls, the measles!) Your charming boys, I see, are home FrOm Reverend Mr. Bussel’s.._ ’Twas very kind to bring them bothâ€" (What boots for my new Brussels!) What! little Clara left at home? Well, now, I call that shabby! I should have loved to iii/53.1101; soâ€"‘ (A flabby, dabby, babby!) s, And Mr. s., I hope he’s well‘â€"« But though he lives so handy Isle never once drops in to supâ€" (Thc better for ollr brandy!) About. Matilda’sf marriage ; Come, take a scabâ€"I long to hear You’ve come, .of..;gou,rsc, to spend the it. _ wmmlflm - i The Home I "semitones-unmet“ SOME DAINTY DISHES. Potato Salmon Cakesâ€"A good way to use your “left over” mashed potatoes: Mix them thoroughly with a can of sal- mon and just enough corn meal to make them stick together in flat cakes and fry in hot lard. . Baked flourâ€"Have a slice of ham cut 1;: two inches thick. Place in skillet. Cover wrlh cold water and let boil for ten minutes. Remove from water, sprin- k.e flour over tap, and bake in the oven for half an hour. v Escallop of Cornâ€"Empty one can of com info a baking dish; add one egg, two-thirds of a Clip of milk, salt, and pepper to taste. Place cracker crumbs and bits of butter over the top; put in moderate oven and cook until cracker crullllés are slightly browned. Substitute for Fruit Cake.â€"'I‘wo-tllirds cub butter; one cup blackberry jam; one- half cup sweet milk; three eggs; two cups flour; two teaspoonfuls baking powder; one teaspoonful each of cloves, cinna- mon and allspice; one-quarter cup of chopped citron; one cup of walnuts. Bake in layers. Spare Ribs en Casse.-â€"Two pounds spare ribs; boil till tender and bl‘QW‘ll in pan; one large cabbage; boil till tender in salt water; remove cenlrc of cabbage, fill with spare ribs, recovering with cab- bage. Bake one-half hour, basting with cream and melted butter, seasOned with pepper and salt. Turkish Preservesâ€"One quart grape ltAISER BUYS MILLINERY GERMAN EMPEROR INVESTS 1N HATS FOR “’IFE. â€"â€" Would Take Nothan \Vith Plumesâ€"Empress Says His Taste is Good. Osprey The Kaiser proved again that he is the most versatile of monarchs by person- ally selecting on the last day of his recent visit ill London, England, a num- bel of hats for the Kaiserin. There are very few men indeed in this world who can chooSe successfully at lady’s hat. It is the Colman Empress’s proud boast that her husband’s artistic taste in millincry is as good as her own. leaving his task of choosing to the very last moment, in order, no doubt, to secure the latest possible fashions, the Emperor requested that a selection of hats should be sent. to the German Em- baSSy by the firm of Paquin. A number of specially designed halls, made in London, were atonce sent, and the Emperor chose several of the smart- est “picture” models, to take back to Berlin. OSPBEYS BANNED. His Majesty would not look at any but which had osprey plumes, thereby prov- ing his hulnan‘ty and his love for the beautiful birdstllat are butchered at the very time of all others, when they should be protected, namely, in the nest- ing season. But of ostrich feathers he evidently approves. For some of the hats were absolutely laden with the richest examples of that becoming plumage. , The German Empress has a fair and very pretty complexion and exquisite silver-white hair. The hats bought for her by her husband were evidently most carefully selected to enhance the beauty of her coloring. llis Majesty is appar- ently favorably impressed by the large hats that-are being worn, for each one that he bought is of gigantic size, though by no means mushroom in shape. On the contrary, the brim-s are diver- sified exceedingly in form. One is turned back completely from the face to show the hair, another is rolled upwards all the. way around with an accentuah‘ng rim of gold; another tilts up at one side, and sweeps with a most artistic line downâ€" wards to the other. r SOME OF CIIOSEN ONES. Satin was chosen as the material of one model, a huge hat, very beautifully, made, with a trimming of black plum- age and a little relief of gold deftly ill- troduced. This the emperor approved and set aside for purchase. - Another that specially pleased him was a white satin model, with a swathery of rich brown fur around the crown, and white ostrich feathels branching away from the. centre of the front, above the sweep- ingr brim. He bought that, too. Then a hat, of a very rich purple shade, attracted his notice, and was put aside for Berlin, and a fourth purchase was a perfectly beautiful hat ill soft tones of brown and “old” blue, with two very long and very full ostrich plumes bend- ing backwards over the crown from a large and handsome cameo, set in blue and gold filigree; that also supported the brim in a halo from above the coiffure. __â€"_.& J! g...â€" VAGRANCY IN El ‘GLAND. oranges; one-half pound pecan nut meat; one-half pound English walnut meats; one-quarter pound dates; one-quarter pound figs. Bring to a boil, then add one quart sugar, thenboil fifteen minutes, stirring constantly, , Oatmeal Dropsâ€"One cup sugar, two- thirds of a cup of butter and lard mixed. two eggs, a good half cup of sour milk, a teaspoon soda. dissolved in the milk, one teaspoon cinnamon, pinch of salt, one cup raisins, one cup nut meats (either walnuts, hickory, or English wal- nuts are good), two cups of flour and three cups oatmeal. Drop by spoonfuls on greased pans leaving a little space all around to spread. Cream Walnut Cakeâ€"One cup of su- gar, one cup whole wheat breadcrumbs, one-half cup farina breakfast food, one cup English walnut meats (chapped), one tcaspoonful baking powder,-yolks and whites of six eggs, beaten stiff. Bake in shallow pan about twenty minutes in moderate oven. When cold cut in small squares and serve with whipped cream to which has been added one teaspoonful of vanilla and three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Southern Potato Salad.-â€"Cut up as many cold boiled potatoes- as desired, with a generous amount of Onions cut up fine, and one or two stalks of celery cut up fine; mix all together into a large bowl. Cut up one pound of bacon in cubes and fry nice and brown; while that is frying mix one teaspoon of salt, one of mustard, and one heaping tablespoon of sugar, mix with a. half a cup of warm water alld add to bacon and fat; then add one cup of cider vinegar and mix with bacon, fat and all. Then pour over pota- toes, onionssand celery. “ - Has; Greatly Increased During the Last Few Years. In spite of the great commercial pros- perity and the comparative cheapness of thef;_llccessilies of life beggars and vag- ran’ls have increased enormously during the last few years. The latest records of convictions bring us down only to the year before last, but they show that to he the worst yearon record; In the criminal statisticslatcly published we find the following very startling figures bearing on this question. Persons convicted for begging and sleeping out :'â€""- ‘ ‘ - - pound of bread ill warm water, squeeze It. dry, put a piece of butter the size of an egg in a slew pan, and when hot mix in a small-onion finely chopped; then put in the bread with a tablespoon- fu' of parsley chopped, pepper and Salt to taste. Stir it until it leaves the sides, then put in two eggs. Put into baking dish and bake forten minutes. This is nice served with baked fried meats. Spindled Oystersâ€"For six persons take two dozen large oysters, two ounces of bacon,.and six small slices of toast. juice; one pound seeded raisins; three ' Left Over Supper Dishâ€"Soak half a _ As soon as it becomes a little colored Six slender steel skewers will be needed. . Keep Fruit in Cake J altâ€"Put an orangd or lemon in the jar with your newly,- made sweet cakes or cookies and you; will find it will give them a delicate and delicious flavor. Dried orange or lemon peel will do the same. - Care for Jelly Glassesâ€"As soon as jelly glasses are emptied wash carefully. and refit covers. Take off covers, pack glasses in paper boxes wide enough for two tiers of glasses. Put covers in same box and set on high pantry shelf. When. needed, gItlSSCS and covers are clean. and ready for use. Safety Shelvesâ€"Ire keep kettle covers and galvanized pie plates from dropping from shelves and tables ill pantry get three laths and two slats about one inch and a half thick and eighteen inches long. Nail one lath at the end of slats on either end, forming the bottom; the two remaining laths about four inches apart. Nail it anywhere it would be con- . venient. It will give ample space for covers, etc., and save wear. COOK’S CONVENIENT TABLE. Four even teaspoonfuls make one even tablespoonful. Twelve tablespoonfuls dry material one cupful. . Two cupfuls make one pint. One dozen eggs should weigh one and onehalf pounds. One teaSpoonful of salt to two quarts of flour. . One teaspoonful of salt to one quart of soup. One quart of water to each pound on meat and bone for soup stock. .Four pepper corns, four cloves, one, teaspoonful mixed herbs to each quart of water for soup stock. One tcaspoonful of flavoring extract to one plain loaf cake. Oneâ€" quarter pound salt pork to a pint of beans for “Boston baked beans.” One cupful of butter (solid) makes onev half p‘ound. One cup of granulated sugar one-half pound. - GOOD CAKE FILLING. Lemonâ€"Two small lemon rinds- grated and juice, one cupful sugar, oneâ€"half cup-| fill of water; heat almost to boiling, IIICXII add one egg. well beaten, and let it boil., Add two tablespoons cornstarch withi one-quarter cupful of water. Mock Bananasâ€"~Applc sauce cooked in usual way, sweetened and flavored with banana flavoring. Add the white on beaten egg. This makes a delicious fill- ing. Caralllelâ€"Onc cup of sugar and one( cup of sour cream boiled slowly till itf thickens. Whip till almost cold, then' spread on cake. Almond Custardâ€"Whip one pint of: thick sour cream stiff; add the well beaten yolk of ,one egg, one cupful of powdered sugar, vanilla to taste, one- half pound shelled almonds blanched and chopped, and, lastly, the well beaten white of one egg. Mock Creamâ€"Wet one-quarter cup of flour with a little milk; let boil until thick, stirring carefully. When cool fla- vor with vanilla. ADVICE T0 VICTIMS TELLS READERS [IOVV T0 CURE RHEUMATISM AT HOME. Directions to Mix a Simple, Harmless [reparation and the Dose to Take â€"- OVCI‘CODICS Kidney Trouble. There is so much Rheumatism everywhere that the following ad- Vlce by an eminent authority, ‘whowritcs for readers of a large East- ern daily paper, will be highly appreci- ated by those who suffer: Get from any good pharmacy one- half ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion, one ounce Con'lpound Kargon, three ounces of Compound Syrup Sarsapa- rilla. Shake these well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses» afler each meal and at bedtime; also drink plenty if good water. It is claimed that there are few vic- *â€":5 w ‘-«’i INâ€"A .râ€"<‘\«"‘..." :1‘1'1 v-- .. i ' “if, in», 153’s,le «. «fir-mas“!- ' an»; a ~ "ii-EH ". y ,4». x.- .. wee-4:. . .I . A . - dayâ€" r Cut two dovcn “"1I‘” f l ' F'll tl - . 2 Nine 11.." e. . . ~ -. . . ~ - . . ~ ~ ' :' ‘ “5'0 “Con' ‘ ‘0 . 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Role lb r all 1399----~-'-‘-'-’1'4§126 1905 - - - ~ - - - - - 27,496 do “Oh wow] mem' Lay the ‘51“:ow en and cleanse the eliminal’ve tissuec necessary to ,1 uvcnomn Of sufficient GOOi vieâ€"£0 .V' - ll 11 C a < . . across a baking pan and cook under gas * J “ Next. tlilnegyoufllhlke your dinnersâ€" of the Kidneys so that they can filter C strength to affect the royal health. "The habit of stealing children foir this pur- pose was attributed especially to the «a» e 3 3 g (Now, David, mind, I'm not at home In future to the {'Slx'inllcrs.) . I )r aim" we .» .f-x.‘ _. Rapid changes of temperatur on the toughest constitution. -.“+-"' .t, v: e are hard The conductor passing from the heated inside of a trolley car to the icy temperature of the _platform-â€"â€"the canvasser spending an hour or so in a heated building and then walking against a biting windâ€"~know the difficulty of avoiding cold. SCoft’J‘ Emqut'on strengthens the body so that it can better withstand the danger of cold from changes of temperature. it will help you to avoid taking cold. éLL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00. li‘ééfiéééfiééé'fl'éfiéfi##éééififlfiflfi'fi _( mammalssea-assesses:. @ @ # Q ‘5’. 0% @ g as Q- Q' £9 % 93¢ IE3 '0' 'i) g '39 Taking these in four-year periods it will be seen that vagrnncy increased 50 per- cent. in the last as compared with the preceding period. These are the convictions only. If they included the entire vagrant com- munit for alarm. But they represent only a small fraction of the men who live in idleness. Nearly ten thousand vagrants are relieved in public institutions every day in the year‘ throughout England and Wales. Perhaps a majority of them are ; in search of work, or would do work if " they ‘could get. it. But the number of cllronieflbeggars mllst be many times the twenty-seven thousand convicted in 1005. Alld the fact which makes the problem of dealing with them so urgent is that during the last few years of un- precedented prosperity they have doubled in numbersâ€"Pall Mall Gazette. _b!<._._.. _ OUT OF BUSINESS. There is no stormy weather That has not. its shiny bit; We haven’t seen a shooter Since the cold wave hit. Mkâ€" SAFE COURSE. Mother (to future son-in-law) : “I may tell you that, though my daughter is well educated, she cannot cook." Future Son-in-law : “That doesn’t matter much, so long as she doesn’t try." _.. _ ".1..." ..._ Nothing jolts a prospective matrimon- _ in! alliance like a small salary. the figures would give no cause or ill a quick oven for five minutes. Do not take from skewer but lay each one on a slice of toast, pour over the drip from pan, and serve at once. Baked Beansâ€"“fish well one quart of navy beans. and put in a kettle with .one pound of ’salt pork and plenty of cold water. When they start to boil add one-half teaspoonful of baking soda, one- l:-all' teaspoonful of dry mustard and the same amount. of salt.- Let boil until when you. blow on- tllem the skins will peel up. Try thelllby taking a few out on a spoon. Then put .tllem in an cal-then dish and lllix ill one and one-half tlilblespoonfuls of molasses (brown or white sugar can be used instead), cut the pork in pieces. and spread molasses or sugar on top of each piece. Cover the dish and bake six hours in slow oven. Add boiling water occasionally to keep lllOlSI-. Remove cover one-half hour be- fore ready to serve and allow to brown. TI IINGS \VOIl'I‘I I KNO\VING. Sandpaper Slnootlls Cakes.â€"To rc- move the burned edges of layer or loaf cake, use fine sandpaper as soon as the cake is “set,” but before it gets cold. A piece of paraffin paper, cut the shape of, cake, will prevent. the cake sticking to the plate on which it is to be set away. Keep Skewers in Place.~After pin- ning them all in place, stick the points in a bit of cork. The flat corks from jars are good for this purpose. This enables one to turn a roast over with no danger of bursting open and losing its shape. ' and strain from the blood and system the poisons, acids and waste matter, which cause not only Rheumatism, but numerous other diseases. Every man or woman here ‘WIIO feels that their kid- nrys are not healthy and activr. or who suffers from any urinary trouble what- ever, should not hesitate to make up this mixture, as it is certain to do much good, and may save you from much misery and suffering after white. â€" ,‘l ~-â€"-a_ IIOI’EFUL. Fatherâ€"Ar-r-r! I saw you kissing my daughter, did 1? Young Cooleyâ€"l trust there is no doubt, sir. The light. was rather dim, and I should feel vastly humiliated if it should turn out that I had been kiss- ing the cook. “*___ For six years a bitter feud had existed between the Browns and llobillsons, next-door neighbors. The trouble had originated through the dcpl'cdations of Brown’s cal, and had grown so fixed an affair that neither party ever dreamt of “ill-aking up.” One day. however, ll‘own sent his servant next door with a peace- nlaking note for Mr. Robinson, which rcadzâ€"“klr. Brown sends his compli- ments to Mr. Robinson, and begs to say that his old cat died this naming.” Robinson’s written reply was bitter:â€" “Mr. Robinson is sorry to hear of Mr. Brown’s trouble, but he had not heard that Mrs. Brown was ill." '