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‘. r A; "i tut??? Wi‘fâ€"‘fiél'i r" s T is:‘ Sq: :«7 * :»\:-".f a: .F‘ "-FVT‘J'v‘vefpffl "‘11.. SURE our Fllll 1111111111 "A" Faint Heart Is Often a Confession That Its Owner’s Soul Is Not Yet Engaged. Be strong and of good courage.â€" Joshua x. 25. It was observed by an ancient " that “faint heart ne’er won fair lady.” Not only so, but “faint , heart” never won anything worth' winning. It stands before life’s open doors hes1tant, at the foothills .of great possibilities, in the pres- ence of some supreme achievement afraid. ‘ Many a man is poor chiefly be- cause he has been afraid to trust Ins money in other hands than his own. What uninvested millions lie hidden away in gunnysacks and under. floors! All we need to start a panic is to suddenly increase the number of commercial “faint hearts.” All the longedâ€"for com-- thermal revival waits is a restora- tion of confidence. So great camâ€" paigns remain‘unwaged, great de- bverances unwrought, splendid continents unacquired and unsub- «clued because of our faint hearts. A census of such timid folk would doubtless make a long list. but such a list IS never quite so depressing as when it includes those from, whom we, have the right to ' EXPECT BETTER THINGS. “The worst thing" about some good people is that they are such cow- ards.” There is a species of cow- ardice which goes with respectabil- Jty.and belongs to great decorum. It IS not by any means the cowar- dice of the wicked who flee when no man pursueth ” neither is it the cowardice of the pure craven. It Is the exhibition of those from whom we expect a different spiritâ€" vf a Nicodemus in the council cham- her; of an Erasmus in the reforma-' tion. It is said that certain enraged beasts invariably wait a sign of terror in the eyes of their victim and with the first intimation of ml; 33. LESSO INTERNATIONAL LESSON, ' -- SEPT. -.5. - Lesson X. Paul’s Third Missionary J ourney; ~ Golden Text, Phil. 4: 13. I. Paul’s Journeyings Among the European Churchesâ€"Vs. 1-6. We learn from 2 Cor. 1: 8-10, written > not a great while after Paul left Ephesus he took a trading vessel to Troas on his way to Philippi. II. Paul’s Experience at Troas.-â€"- Vs. 6-12. Paul and his company re- mained a week at Troas, a seaport on the Aegean Sea, a number of miles south of Homer’s Troy. They reached Troas five days after the Passover, which in A. D. 57 was celebrated April 7-14. Paul, on the evening of the Lord’s day, held a preaching service and holy commun- ion in an upper chamber. As Paul was to sail the next morning the service lasted till midnight. A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the latticed window of the third story. The place was crowdedand hot, the hour was late, and the young man was weary, so he was overpowered by sleep and fell down three stories to the ground and was taken up for dead. Paul immediately went down by the outside stairs common in Oriental houses, and fell on him, embracing him, as Elijah in the case of the son. of the widow of Zarephath (l Kings 17: 21), and Elisha, in that «.3 the Shunammite’s son. Doubtless Paul prayed as earnestly as those prophets, “and the close contact, the clasp of warm affection gave new intensity to the prayer of faith.” His prayer was answered, and the young man was restored- . The whole incident was very im- pressive and also comforting. It revealed the love, the faith and the power of Paul and the religion he represented. ~ III. Paul’s Review of His Life at EphesnsEâ€"Vs. 13-27. The change of pronouns to “we in v. 13 shows that Luke had now joined the party, and he continues with them till they reach Jerusa- lem (Acts 21: 17). From Troas to Assos. one day’s sail, there were two routes. The delegation went by vessel the long way around the promontory of Leo- tum, and on account of the pecu- liarity of the winds at that season they must start very curly, “soon after midnight.” Pqu decide to wait a little while U ‘ of the Lord is with those that fear such terror the animal springs to the attack. Thus the forces of evil watch for some sign of weakening on the part of those who are set to defend the right. The mere blanching of a check, some first evidence of faint-heartedness, is all the signal the enemy needs. But to say that men and causes are defeated by faint-heartcdness is like ascribing death to “heart fail- ure.” The question still remains as to what induced the faintness- “Conscience,” perhaps which “makes cowards of us all.” There is no moral weakener like a sense of personal dcmerit. Few of us can carry comfortably and jauntily a guilty soul. That state of mind which needs no accuser acts like an inward paralysis upon THE SOUL’S BEST POWERS. Faint-hoartedness indicates also want of conviction. Some one says that a bank never succeeds until its president takes it to bed with him. But this is only another way of saying that a "man must believe tremendously in the work to which he sets himself. “He starved his business,” explained a mutual friend by way of accounting for a certain commercial “failure. “He never put himself into it.” Nor can a man put himself into his task until he believes in his task. But the fundamental cure of cowardice must be had from God. To be convinced of His immense opulence of resource, to know that He has a greater stake in us than we have in ourselves, to believe that He never send-s His children on fools’ errands is one part of a sure cure for timidity. “The secret Him.” And those who in the best sense fear the Lord are not afraid of anybody else. _ George Clarke Peck, D. D. -â€"-. longer at Troas and take the short- er land route, tWenty miles across the promontory, and join the com- pany at Assos. It is probable that he wanted to remain longer on ac- count of Eutychus, and to complete his address which was interrupted by the accident. On the fourth day they reached Miletus beyond Ephesus. The vesâ€" sel was detained here for an un- certain length of time, and Paul sent for the Ephesian elders to come to Miletus and meet him, for it would not be safe for him not to be ready to embark at short no- tice. . Luke was probably present at the meeting, so that he was able to re- port what Paul said. Those present knew that he was speaking the truth. What he had done and taught was an example for them to follow, and on inspira- tion to faithfulness. IV. Farewell Counsels. to the Ephesiansâ€"Vs. 28-35. 1 V. 28. Take heed . . . unto yourselves. See that you are fit instruments for the work God has given you to do, and set an example that aids your work. Take heed to your intellec- tual life, to your spiritual life, and to your bodily life that your body may be the most perfect instrument of the spirit. Vuâ€"*â€"â€"qfâ€"_ WONDERFUL ROCK GARDEN. Inglshn'm Has a Reproduction of the Matterhorn. The largest rock garden in Eng- Friar Park, Henley. It is a faith- ful reproduction of the Matterhorn Seven thousand tons of limestone was brought from Yorkshire to land is that of Sir Frank Crisp, at on a scale of about three acres- make it. The snow capped peak is repre- sented by quartz. Below it are thousands upon thousands of alpine flowers growing in pockets between the rocks and filling every chink in the trails that asgcnd the moun- tain. There must be two hundred different species in bloom at once. At the base of the mountain, says Country Life in America, is a minia- ture Swiss chalet, where one may sit and enjoy the scene, comparing all the main features with a little bronze model of the Matterhorn which Sir Frank had made for the entertainment of his guests. A brook courses down the mountain side and just before it reaches the chalet it forms a pretty cascade and then spreads out at your feet into a miniature lake pygmy, primroses, other alpine flowers. decorated with gentians and as It’s a toss-up between tth bragâ€" ging man and the nagging woman. mem'fifl'?! 'lhc Home ecu-s..qu VEGETABLE DISHES. In boiling beets great care must be taken not to let the vegetable “bleed” out its'juices until it has a palid and uninviting appearance. Wash the beets, rubbing them careâ€" fully with the palm of the hand to dislodge dirt, but not so hard as to bruise the tender skin. Drop into fresh, cold water as you clean them. Put into a sauce pan of salt ed boiling water and cook briskly for an hour. Drain, scrape, slice and serve in a deep dish with melt- ed butter poured over them. They are best when a tablespoonful of hot vinegar is added to the melted but- ter. Creamed Beetsâ€"Select the smal- ler boots and cook with two inches of the stem on to prevent bleeding. Have ready a cupful of cream, heated, with a pinch of soda. Rub the skin off, top and tail the beets, and slice them thin into the cream, setting the saucepan centaining it in a pan of boiling water. When all are in stir in a tablospoonful of butter rubbed into one of flour. pepper, salt and a teaspoonful, each of sugar and onion juice. Sim- mer two minutes to cook the flour, and dish. tewed Carrotsâ€"Wash, scrape oil the skin, cut into dice and leave in cold water for half an hour. Put in the inner compartment of a douâ€" ble boiler with no water upon them except that which clings to them af~ ter washing. Cover closely and cook tender. An hour should be long enough for this. Turn into a deep dish, pepper and salt, and cover with a good whitesauce. Mashed Carrotsâ€"Scrape and slice, and boil in two water-s. Drain, rub through a colander, and mash with a potato beetle. Beat light with a tablespoonful of melted hut- ter, add salt and pepper and serve hot ' Cauliflower au Gratinâ€"Cut a large cauliflower into eight pieces and boil tender in salted water. Drain, lay in a deep‘ pudding dish, stems down and pour over it a plain white sauce into which two hard boiled eggs have been chop- ped. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and bake to a light brown. Stewed Celeryâ€"A bunch of in- different celery may be utilized for this dish.‘ Cut into half inch bits and put in ice cold water for an hour. Stew tender in slightly salt- ed water. Drain and transfer to another saucepan containing a cupâ€" ful of. heated milk, thicken it wn. a tablespoonful of butter, rubbed in a tea-spoonful of flour. and'stir to a boil. Mix the celery well with this, seasonwith pepper and salt, heat all together for one minute, and serve. Corn Puddingâ€"Mix together two cupfuls of finely chopped corn, two beaten eggs, a half a pint of milk. a- pinch of soda, a tablespoonful of melted butter, and a ta-blespoonful of sugar. Grease a shallow baking tin, turn the mixture into this, sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs, cover and bake for half an hour, then uncover and brown. Boiled Onionsâ€"Peel: and. lay, for an hour in cold water. Boil in two waters until tender. , Drain, sprinkle with pepper and salt; put into a deep vegetable dish and pour over them a. great spoonful of melt- ed butter. Pea Croquettes.â€"Heat a can of peas and while hot run through the vegetable press. Bea-t to a smooth paste with a tablespoonful of butâ€" ter and tw0 of flour. Pepper and salt to taste, drop in a dish of on- ion juice; lastly, beat in a well whipped egg. Stir in a vessel set within another of boiling water un- til hot all through and set away unâ€" til cold. Mold into croqucttes, dip linto beaten egg, and cracker crumbs; leave on ice for half an hour before frying in - deep fat. Drain and serve hot. Steamed Peasâ€"A most delicious way of cooking canned peas is to put them in a basin without any water and place in a steamer- It will require half an hour to cook them by this method. When tend- er season we‘l with butter, salt. pepper and hot milk. Serve as hot as possible. If dried pease are used they should be soaked over night in cold water. In the morning put them on and par-boil. Drain and put into fresh water. Cook until tender. Stewed Tomatoesâ€"Put a quart of tomatoes over the fire in an en- ameled saucepanâ€"never in tin. Stew fast twenty minutes. Season with a lump of butter rolled in flour, a tablespoonful of sugar, salt 13nd pepper to taste. Stew five min- ‘utcs longer and serve. Some cooks an flour. substitute ‘fine dry crumbs folrlt‘owels ready to or ironing: Unless some thickening is used the tomatOes will be watery and thin. . Boston Baked Beansâ€"Soak a quart of beans in cold water all night. In the morning soak them for two hours in warm water. Drain and put into a pot with enough water to cover them and bring them slowly to a boil. When they are tender turn them into a deep bake dish, first pouring off the surplus water. Cut gashes into a half pound piece of par-boiled salt pork, and place this in the centre of the dish. To a pint of the water in which the beans were boiled add a gill of molasses and a saltspoonful of French mustard. Mix well and pour this over the beans and pork. Cov- er the dish and bake in a smady oven for six hours. MEA'râ€"n-szEs. Delicious Vealâ€"Take a steak from the round bone, cut off all the fat, and cut out the bone. Cut in- -to pieces the desired size, then dip first in crumbs, then egg, then in crumbs again. Fry in an iron spid- er till a light brown, cover and turn a low flame for a few minutes, then pour in enough milk to cover the meat, place in the oven for one hour. The milk will all be absorb- ed by the meat and the meat will be so tender only a fork will be needed to cut it bread crumbs before any meat. , Beefsteak Puddingâ€"Line a dish with thin suet crust, cut some steak into slices, mix a little pepper and salt together, and dip slices into it. Then place around the dish in layers till nearly full. Fill the mid- dle with oysters or mushrooms, tie cloth over it tightly, and boil for three hours, but do not let the water in pan reach to top of dish, which should be a. deep bowl. Baked Steak.-â€"Butter the drip-. ping pan; lay steak, out about one- half inch thick, in pan, out an on- ion over top season with salt, pepâ€" broadening pcr, and butter; bake in' a quicklever I was. oven for about fifteen minutes. Then commend them to all Always season l holders readyto make, with thread, thimble and needles ready thread- ed In her bedroom a bag to COP! respond with the cretonne draping: of the room; in another a bag with. all articles for crochet or knitting. The one point she emphasizes is to have everything ready, for we all: know. how many idle minutes are spent because “nothing is ready to sew.” If you say tlat the mak~ ing of all these bags is quite an item, then get pretty baskets at the- store, also thimbles at the same- price. In this way all you church' and common sewing is done and you hardly know it. “arr-“*â€" A WEAK STOMAGH BRINGS MISERY; .â€"â€"-â€" Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Restore: Descendant Sufferers to Health. Nothing is so distressing as a: weak stomachâ€"the victims of this- trouble suffer from indigestion biliousness, dizziness and frequen . headaches. No food agrees w1_t L themâ€"meal time is a time of mm ery; not a time of pleasure. Re' lief from this suffering can be fouling through the use of Dr. Williams I‘ink Pillsâ€"they never fail to make- the weak stomach strong; to bans ish the distressing headaches; b11-- iousness and dizziness. Mrs. C. S.- Steeves, of Hillsboro, N. B., is one: of the many who have been cured. through the use of these pills. She says :â€"â€"“I suffered very much from. stomach trouble and would often leave the table without tasting, food. I got no relief worth speak-l ing of till Ibegan the use of Dr.. ,Williams’ Pink Pills. They gra-l dually restored my health and‘ .' strength and now I am as well as- I would earnestly rel those who» make sauce bystraining the liquor suffer as I die .” from a can of tomatoes, thicken liâ€" It' is the bloodâ€"bad bleedâ€"that quor‘with a little flour, season with is the cause of nineâ€"tenths of the salt, cayenne pepper, and a tea- ailments from which both men and spoonful of'sugar; bring to a boil and pour over steak when ready to serve. A club, round, or sirâ€" loin steak may be prepared in this way. . _ Smothered Chicken. â€"- Prepare chicken as for frying, roll each piece separately in flour, and place into hot iron skillet into which has been placed two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Salt and pour over all one-half cupful of rich sweet cream. Cover tightly and place in a moderately hot oven, bake until tender, remove the cover from the chicken, and let it brown for a few moments. This is an excellent way ‘1'o cook chicken, both young and old. ' â€"â€"--..n â€"â€" THE SEWING ROOM. To Mend Woolen Clothes. â€" To I mend woolen clothing, use rave]- ings of same goods, and if neatly done the mend' will be almost in- visible. Girls’ Bloomers.-â€"~Instead of making little girls’ bloomers of the same material as the “dress, try making them of black percaline- It is strong and firm.,holds the skirts cut nicely, wears much better than black sateen, and saves such a lot of washing. ‘ Traveler’s Needlecase.â€"â€"The case is made of a strip of ribbon, three inches by eighteen, turning up at one end two inches, which should be stiffened by cardboard. Line with flannel the ribbon which is left and into it run needles thread- ed with black and white cotton and darning cotton, as well as with silk, the color of the gowns taken in the trunk or suitcase. Roll up around the cardboard and fasten with ha.. and socket fasteners. Veranda Work.-A pleasant occu« pation for the veranda is the de- coration of bedroom towels. Boiling does not harm them as it might a finer piece of work accidentally left in the dust, and it is industry that calls for little skill. Scalloping the hems in buttonhole stitch will add a daintiness to a plain towel, and the design can be quite easily marked by using the end of a spool of ~cotton and a pencil. Monograms or a simple conventional figure may be embroidered above the hems. The buttonholing alone, however, is pretty. System in Sewingâ€"The sewing for a family is accomplieshed by sys- tem, as is every other department of home economics. Making dress- es is not of much importance when compared to the necessary stitches to be taken every day. A friend of ours works it in this way and it is fine: She has a sewing bag in every room of her small home, sup- plied with necessary articles. In the kitchen a muslin bag with a draw string so it can be launder- iwomen suffer. The blood is the. ' lifeâ€"giving fluid of the body. When- the blood is bad it is bound to poi= son some part of the human sys~ tem and thus it is that rheumatism, kidney trouble, indigestion, head- aches and backaches and a host of? other troubles make their appears ance. Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills! cure all these troublesâ€"and they- cure them thoroughlyâ€"simply be- cause they fill the veins with rich. red blood. The genuine Pills hear- ing the full name “Dr. Williams. Pink Pills for Pale, People” are. sold by all dealers in medicine or; by mail at 50 cents a b -x or six; boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wilâ€"l liams’ Medicine 00., Brockvillep Ont. "â€""“â€">I<_-‘" . CHINESE EATINGâ€"STALLS. The eating-stall is quite an insti-t tution in China, says a writer in.! the Wide World Magazine, and the; average Chinaman thinks nothing: of stopping and having a feed at a.- street restaurant. The proprietor carries the whole of his stock in, trade on his shoulders. The stall? itself consists of two cylindrical boxes attached to a yoke or poled One of these boxes usually contains a fire, on which John cooks weird dainties into. the composition of which it is unwise to enquire, for the Chinaman. has a scientific appeâ€" titeâ€"that is to say, he will eat any- thing that in any way forms food. Squeamishness is a sensation un- known to him. The keepers of these street stalls sell good fruit, excel- lent pastcries and simply delicious sweets at a price so 'low that it would astonish even the proprietor of an Italian restaurant. at. VILLAGE RULED BY WOMEN. The village of Froissy, near Paris, furnishes arguments for th ' Suffragist cause in that nearly al the important posts are filled b women. Passengers alighting al the railway station are met by d woman, who is stationmaster. whilst her husband is only a guard. A barber’s shop bears the noticq that “Mlle. Jeanne” will “hence. forth shave her customers only on Tuesdays and Fridays, as she hag undertaken other work.” At thq post-office the local telegraph mess senger and postman, Mme. Lessobj re, is met. She walks on an averagq twenty miles a day. The munici< pal drummer is a woman in he)‘ ninetieth year. ' '1‘ Professorâ€"~“I must beg you to give me your undivided attention. It is absolutely impossible that you can form a true idea of this hide- ous animal, unless you keep your ed easily and in it towels and dish eyes fixed on me.” . "V. ,u \ V“ / I N. ’wVW Wyn" . . . .. .- '4, v. . ‘~’\"u‘ \. J .‘c ,3, 4‘ A ,. _\ ,. . ., _. :4..\1»._,v..-_ , V /. - NA. , ‘ f‘J"."'1">J"»" R - : "It‘s". v .V‘V _ ’1--. [xi-.1 q , ,. .,-_ - ~"v‘ J} \ u‘.’ .. Q _ Vt«c»w'vu’vwvc._r\,s¢vx;¢¢ . r .. y- x . («M’zy/"~/‘\-"‘._f‘.a'v'v‘v"~‘ «an,» A \. r~ ‘3 4.x. .fl...‘ :. s- '. vvv s53, . 6‘3" V..~