¢ | --Soak overnighti of split peas, then tie | cloth, leaving room for swell. Boil for two n the peas, and mash sr and salt and a little | tlets.--Line some patty uff pastry and bake. these cases with les, nicely sweetened with lemon rind. Beat e cream and sweeten to a lump in the centre tlet ydust over the cream 'sugar colored with cochin-' ke carmel syrup put a cup- te sugar in a saucepan aspoonful of water to om the fire, add half a boiling water, place the the stove again, and cook tents till there is a thick ble Soup.--Take a _ pint fill it with vegetables of cut nice and small, Boil 1 wo quarts of water with 'salt; when done blend two onfuls of flour with a piece he size of an egg and one pints of milk. Boil all gently. stirring at inter- just before serving, add one or two eggs mixed le more milk. mshire Pie.--Procure two neck of mutton, and eut into neat pieces. Flavor ly with salt and pepper ; layer of them in rather a then put a layer of ap- | onions sliced, with a good ng of brown sugar, Put ayers of meat and apples 'dish is full. Do not add - or gravy.: Cover with st, and bake slowly after is cooked. tew.--Cut away the skin from three pounds of the beef. Put it into a stew- bh one quart of broth or d let it boil up; season and pepper. . When ) simmering for two hours: If the peel of a lemon fine- dd to the gravy. Take up and place it where arm. Thicken and col- vy, flavor with hot sauce uice, and pour over the ie aap en > Chop.--This is an easily fsh for an invalid, and this | rt | )|parsley and thyme and two bay] {leaves and two cloves of garlic fine- jly minced. Let all cook slowly. |Cover and let smother for a half jhour. : cemeet remove the seeds, and slice | fine. Add three green peppers Stir well. Add one cup of hot water, let cook until tender, sea- is delicious, f ~ Smoked Tongue.--Use smoked tongue. Soak it over might or for about four hours, changing the water to freshen it several times. Boil it for four hours slowly until it is tender, then skin the tongue and lay it back in the kettle, and take one-half of a pound of butter to one cupful of the water it was boiled in and pour this over the tongue and let it simmer slowly to keep it hot until it is served for din- ner, and this also seasons it. Serve with. creamed potatoes and green peas. VALUABLE HINTS. Iron pillowslips lengthwise in- stead of crosswise if you wish to iron wrinkles out instead of in. Remove grease stains on silks by. rubbing gently with a piece of flan- nel saturated with benzine collas. Add a little lemon juice to rice when boiling, for it makes the rice white and keeps the grains well separated. When washing new black stock- ings add a handful of salt and a tablespoonful of vinegar to every two gallons of water. The walls of outhouses and scul- leries should be limewashed every spring. Lime destroys all insect life and purifies everything. Bruised' cloves placed among woollen clothes, impart a delicious fragrance, and at the same time keep away the merciless moth. To turn a hem on table linen, | take out the needle of your sewing | machine, and run the linen through the narrowest hemmer. To clean mother of pearl, wash it with whiting and cold water. Avoid | soap, which discolors it and de- stroys the brilliancy of the shell. The fungus in your cellar will probably disappear if you stand boxes of lime in it. The lime ab- fungus. A shabby black bedstead or a bi- cycle can be greatly renovated by lrubbing it well over with a cloth dipped lightly in paraffin. Polish with a rag. When buying a sirloin of beef | avoid the end piece, for it has a larger portion of bone on the up- per side, and the meat is inferior to the centre cut. If you haye a garden, do not throw away soap suds, as they make valuable manure for bushes and kes a good dinner for a Take all the lean m a tender loin chop, place ; board, and chop thoroughly ce this'in a jar with a nful of breadcrumbs, sea- pepper and salt, and two fuls of water. Tie a but- r over the top of the jar. it into a pan of boiling e water reaching half way Boil the water slowly minutes. le Marrow Preserve. -- fruit is perfectly ripe d get aside in a dry place "weeks, so that the sap it. Peel the marrow and the seeds. To every six "pulp, cut in squares an , allow six pounds of sugar be and two lemons ough. Let these ingredi- d for twenty-four hours" into a preserving-pan unces of bruised ginger achm of chillies tied in- of muslin. Take out the hour's -- boiling. st slowly till all is clear quently. m Ketchup.--For this it nt to gather the mush- ly in the morning before son them. Break all into ce in a large pan, and arter of a pound of salt to e and a half pounds of Let them stand for then drain off all the two ounces of salt, a few pepper and a quarter of peppercorns. This p should be allowed to every liquid. Then strain, and en cold, adding a few yrandy. Use new corks hem very carefully. R BREAD RECIPES. > Gingetrbread.--Rub to a -half,cupful of butter and of sugar. Add one-half olasses, one-half cupful h one-quarter teaspoon- one beaten egg and flour . with two teaspoonfuls powder. Divide the portions, pat into a sheet, floured baking tin, run r over it, and bake. d.--One-half cup of d with lard. One-half gar. Cream sugar one-half cup of mo- rounded teaspoonful 'wo rounded teaspoon- Two eggs, well bea- ly, one amd one-half cup- one heaping teaspoon- dissolved in one-half sour milk. Bake in shal- EAT DISHES. sle.--One large ehick- 6 pieces at the joints "with salt and pepper ablespoonful of butter in hen hot add chicken. Let, on all-sides. Have: » onion sliced. Add , Be table- plants. This must not touch the | leaves of any plants. | 7 ' » | by being soaked overnight or for |several hours before being peeled. | Change the water once or twice 'How the Plant sorbs the damp, which is life to the | | Old potatoes are greatly improved | to Great Britain, In the 'Feport of a field meeting of the Cotteswold Naturalists Club there is an interesting story of a son to taste, and serve hot. This plant which was introduced into England a hundred years ago. This plant has just completed the 100th anniversary of its. introduc- tion into England, for it was one of the legacies left by the unsuccess- ful attempt made by the British nection with the unfortunate Wal- cheren expedition, says the Chelt tenham Examiner. 'A land force of 40,000 British | ported by a naval Strachan, landed on the island of Walcheren at the mouth of the Schelde, and bombarded and cap- tured Flushing; they failed to take Antwerp, and were finally driven from Zeeland with great loss. The broken down feverstricken British troops ultimately disembarked at Ramsgate. The straw and litter upon which they had slept were afterward thrown into a disused chalkpit be- longing to a Mr. Thompson, other refuse was mixed with it, and in due time it was employed to ma- nure the neighboring fields. Wher- ever the material was used a plen- tiful erop of the plant followed, so much so that in Kent it became known as '"'Thompson's weed," or "Thompson's curse." From Ramsgate the plant spread over the Ishe of Thanet, and at the present day its headquarters may be said to be the edges of the cliffs and the roadsides about Mar- gate and Broadstairs, where it forms a conspicuous feature of the vegetation. When once it had taken hold of the soil it became a ter- rible pest; its roots were many feet. in length and soon choked the drainpipes: of the fields. Consider- ling the immense number of seeds of alien plants which are annually turned out from the straw and other materials now being used for packing the articles of commerce which reach Great Britain and Ire- land from all the countries of the world the surprise is that so few of them make any permanent impres- native vegetation. But Gardaria draba was one of the few plants which had come to stay, and -. has reached the Cotteswolds. It is gra- | dually spreading all over the coun- try. Ke SEEING POWER OF INSECTS. Can See at Same Time Through all Lenses of Eye. Tt has been calculated tha a dra- gon fly cannot see separately two | objects which are placed less than one degree apart. In other words, to such an insect two silver coins (during the time. - When marking house linen ,first write the initials or name careful- Lag eat ily over the lines with the marking ink; the pencil mark prevents the | jink from spreading. | The extract of mint is obtained | by placing the mint leaves, care- | fully washed, in stew pan of cold | water and allowing them to boil a jfew minutes. Strain and cool. | ithe form of oat cake or biscuits, not too much liquid at meals, and con- |stant cleanliness are the best aids |in preserving the teeth, To wash white silk--After wash- ing carefully.in the usual way, add one tablespoonful of wood alcohol to the rinsing water. It will pre- vent white silk from becoming yel- low. For cleaning boots a strip of car- pet glued to a piece of wood will re- move mud from shoes very quickly and without the slightest injury to the leather, and is much better than the usual brush. A very good substitute for glue can be made by rubbing a piece of cold boiled potato on paper until it is of the right consistency, when it will be found to be equal to strong glue or cement. Te keep cookery books clean have a piece of glass cut the size of your cookery book (when open). Place this on the open book when you are cooking from it, and you will be delighted with the result. Bars of yellow soap should be di- vided into square pieces for use, as soon as bought, by means of a piece of string, attached to two pieces of firewood for handles. This avoids the waste caused by a knife. Renovate curtain rings and hooks, when they are discolored by boiling for a few minutes in a quar- Afterwards rinse in pint of water, rub clean with a cold water and duster. To clean your lace collars put some paper under the lace. Sprinkle boric acid thickly over, wrap up carefully, and lay aside for a few days. Then shake or brush out the powder and the soiled marks should have disappeared. ' Beeswax polish is splendid for linoleum. Scrape two otnces of beeswax and one ounce of yellow soap into a gallipot, and cover with turpenune. Stand the pot at the side of the fire till the contents are dissolved. Stir with a stick. When ironing starched clothes, if the iron is dipped quickly into cold water each time' when taken from the stove the starch will never stick, and the clothes iron smooth and so quickly you hardly realize youre started before you're done. " Gamphorated oil is an invaluable household remedy, and is easily made 'at home. Place one ounce of camphor and one pint of olive oil in -a jar, which stand in a saucé- pan of boiling water till the cam- phor is dissolved, then bottle for nse, as ~The only daughter of « 'million- | Brown bread, oatmeal baked in| ter of a pint of vinegar to half a| lying on a table three inches apart rand viewed from a. distance exceed- | ling fourteen and one-third feet would appear as a single object. Bees and flies, according to the | best authorities, are still more lim- ited in their ability to see the de- tails of objects presented to their eyes. silver coins above described separ- lately at a distance not exceeding about seven feet. It has been remarked as a con- sequence of this that we can see the details on the antennae of a fly at a distance of two feet or more better than the fly itself can, though they are but the fraction of an inch from its eyes. In another respect, however, in- sects have apparently an advantage over us in seeing. It is believed that they can see with equal dis- tinctness at the same time through all the lenses or facets of their eyes, and that they are able to ad- just the different lenses simultane- ously for distinct vision at various distances. Certainly when the remearkable immunity with which a fly buzzes about among the variety of ob- stacles, never getting into collis- ion, is considered, it becomes evi- dent that its eyes must possess some remarkable facility of ad- justment for vision at rapidly vary- ing distances. t we THE POWER OF FEAR. Iiow Fear or Sudden Shock Turns Hair White. Authentic instances of the hair turning white in a few hours or a night through fear or sudden shock could be multiplied indefinitely, says Orison Swett Marden in "Suce- cess Magazine."? It is well known that when Ludwig of Bavaria learn- ed of the innocence of his wife whom he had caused to he put to death on suspicion of her unfaith- fulness, his hair became as white as snow within a couple of days. When Charles the First attempt- ed to escape from Carlsbrooke Castle, his hair turned white in a single night. The hair of Marie Antoinette was suddenly changed by her great distresses.. On a por- trait of herself, which she gave to a friend, she wrote, "Whitened by affliction." This power of fear to modify the currents. of the blood and all the secretions, to whiten the hair, to paralyze the nervous system, and even to produce death, is well known. Whatever makes us hap- py, whatever excites enjoyable emotions, relaxes the capillaries and gives freedom to the circula- tion; whatever depresses and dis- tresses us, disturbs us, worries us; in fact, all phases of fear contract these blood vessels and impede the free circulation of the blood. We see this illustrated in the pale face caused by fear or terror. plat ee aiken aire is always popular and beauti- fal, sy 'A gray day is a pay day that ails to materialize, -- po a aed i. Was Introduced in- against the French in 1809 in con-. troops under, Lord Chatham, sup- | force under | sion upon the constituents of the | ae Se 'Used in Glass-making, in Warfare, as Positive Blectricity. | The sands of the sea are singu- have an important place in war- fare, as a bank of sand twenty | 'inches thick is proof against mod- ies of sand show that it has sand, is negative. the sand grains. Normally the pressure of the foot, the space be- away. If the pressure of the foot is continued the sand becomes wet- quickly bringing water from the surrounding sand. In quicksands the moving charac- ter is thought to be due to the im- prisonment between the grains of gases from organic matter. LA AIR SICKNESS. A Journey Through the Air from a Medical Point of View. Seasickness is a terror to Many people and the chances are that airsickness will be worse. | Most persons, again, have experienced the unpleanant feeling in a lift when it commences its descent or |in a swing when, like the pendulum, it swings back. Not a few 'people refuse to stand close to the edge of a cliff or to trust themselves to look down into a vast chasm of space immediately beneath their |feet owing to vague feelings of gid- 'diness, fears of falling arising out of a sense of a jeopardized equilli- brium, says the London Lancet. | And yet these same people con- verse glibly about the nearness of the day when aero traffic will be an accomplished fact and point in sup- port of their view to the enorm- jously rapid advances which motor traffic in the streets has made. When the question is carefully con- sidered in detail it will be conced- ed that there is hardly anything that is conparable between the air motor and the land motor from the point of view of attaining practical success. The problem in the case of the former is complicated by the first requirement, the conquest of that great foree which, do what we will, pulls us back again to earth the moment we dare to rise from its surface. No special motor appli- A fly could only see the two | ance is required to keep afloat on ithe sea or to keep a stable posi- /tion on land, but we can only gain | support in the air by means of mov- ing machinery analogous .to the lwings of a bird or by utilizing a | buoy or a substance which is much | lighter than air and which therefore tends to float upon it. The ma- chinery in the former case must obviously be wellnigh perfect and incapable of breaking down, while the difficulty in the latter case is the enormous bulk of floating gas that must be used. In short the advances yet to be made in order to bring aviation within the practical affairs of daily life must still be very far reaching. Then, assuming the great consum- mation has been reached, will the human organization be able to stand avia..on? This is by no means certain, having regard to the con- stant changes of atmospheric pres- sure, with their marked effects up- on the respiratory and circulatory processes which a journey through the air must entail. i DANGER PLACES IN A SPORM, Peril of a Crowd -- Lightning and Hedges or tron Fences. What is the thunderstorm ? place of all safest place in a As a rule the safest is inside a building which is provided with a perfect lightning conductor. The conduc- tor, however, must have no defects. If it be broken or have a faulty earth connection it is then a source of grave danger. In an ordinary dwelling house, unguarded as it usually is against lightning, a safe place is the middle of the largest room, where one is away from the wadJs, or a still safer precaution is to lie on an iron bed drawn out from contact with the wall. The most dangerous places in the house; we are further told, are wear the bell wires, or an open window, or the fireplace. Outside the house the places of danger are proximity to walls and buildings and iron fences. Another danger is a crowd. The vapor which rises from a crowd tends to lead a flash toward the crowd. In the open country one of the most dangerous places is the bank of a river. _ Av- enues of trees, lakes and hedges are likewise dangerous, If any one doubts the danger of a hawthorn hedge Jet him take his stand at a safe distance during a respectable storm and watch the effect. The lightning will dart along the hedge like sheets of fire. If the observer gets wet to the skin, so much the better for his safety. Saacipecegensie lees nseinindan JOYS I HAVE. Perhaps I miss a lot of joys That richer folks may know, Perhaps I miss some - splendid times-- I often miss a show-- And other pleasures pass me hy, The dance is not for me; I can't afford expensive fun, My joy must all come free, And so I get ib when I take Phe youngsters on my knee, larly useful. They are of primary) importance in glass making. They | one rifle shots. The electrical pro-|--- perti positive electricity, although a rod_ of silicia, the chief constituent of | The singular drying effect which occurs when a stretch of wet sand lis pressed by the feot is due entire--- ly to an alteration in the piling of grains are close together, but ab-| normal piling is brought about by tween the edges of the grains be- ing enlarged and the water drained | ter than ever, the partial vacuum: be | MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN LOS? | IN PANICS. ieee oc sls: Causes a Riet--Joke Caused _ -- 'Two Drownings. i tre fires many more lives have been lost in the mad rush for safety than' were ever destroyed by smoke and fire. It is certain that never a year passes without scores of lives: being thrown away in foolish--often causeless--panics. ¢ As extraordinary a case of the sort as is on record took place five years ago next September on the) railway between Rome and Naples. A locomotive pulling a passenger train broke down and the passen-. gers, aware that another train was_ behind, took it into their heads that there was imminent danger of the carriages in which they were travel- ing being telescoped. With one accord they made a frantic rush to leave their train. Those nearest the doors were too crowded to open them, others climbed over them and smashed the windows. panic was over three people. were found to be dead and 25 badly in- jured, BOTH DROWNED. A sad drowning accident which | took place near 'Tilsit, in Ger- many, a year or two ago, was the' result of a false alarm. A silly girl thought it would be a joke to pre- tend she' was drowning, so, swim~- ming out some distance, she began splashing and shouting for help. No fewer than three men plunged in from the opposite bank to go to her rescue. But the current was strong, and one, who had not even removed his boots, began to sink. A second went to his help, but the other, who was really drowning, pulled him down, and both the poor fellows were drowned. A most mysterious business was the terrible affray at Breze, near Saumur, in France. It was one day in July, 1902, that a fair was held in the village, and among other attractions was a company of strolling gipsy players with their canvas theatre. The play was just over, and the people were leaving, when there resounded a terrible scream, and like lightning a rumor flashed round that one of the players had assault- ed and stabbed a villager. With one accord the audience stormed the stage, and a frightful battle began. Pistols and knives were used, and when the police arrived five men were dead and a large number dreadfully injured. Now comes the curious part of the business. At the inquiry it was definitely proved that none of the players had so much as touched one of the villagers. TARRED MELON. A tobacconist of Kherson, in Russia, opening his shop, saw a great black bomb on the counter. With a yell of terror, he fled into the street and ran for his life. Thinking him a criminal escap- ing from justice, a policeman call- ed on him to stop, and as he paid no attention, fired. He missed the fugitive, but hit another passerby, who fell bleeding. The wounded man was a Jew, and presently his compatriots gathered and a fearful riot ensued. Many lives were lost. , After it was all over, the tobac- conist crept back to his shop. There was the bomb still on the counter. a tarred watermelon ! -- CATS IN HISTORY. Represented Goddess of Among the Romans, Liberty A cat, rejoicing in the name of Bobby, has acquired a sort of ce- lebrity in Paris. He is a sort of gigantic species, and is to be seen sitting on his master's shoulder when he takes his walks abroad, says the London Glebe. Bobby even accompanies his master when he takes a turn on his bicycle, and seems to enjoy himself just as much as when he is walking in the streets. If the master goes into a cafe Bobby is also there. He then walks about on the tables or on the seats just. to stretch his limbs. Then he once more takes his accustomed perch, and visits the cinematograph or some other place whither his master is disposed: Unfortunate- ly Bobby's fame will not be endur- ing; he is only the cat of the con- cierge of Menilmontant. Had he belonged to Montaigne "his fame would be "aere perennius." The goddess of Liberty among the Romans was represented with a cat at her feet, for the cat has a great objection to restraint, The cats was held in veneration by the Kgyptians, under the name of Ac- lurus, a deity represented by a hu- man body with a feline head. Di- odorus tells us that the accidental killing of a eat was punishable by death, Diana excited the fury of the giants by assuming @ cat's form. The cat was lawful game for cruelty long before Shakespeare's time, and in "Much Ado About Nothing'? we read, 'Hang me. in bottle. like a cat."' The sight of a cat made Henry III. of France swoon. Then we have Whitting- ton's:cat, Dr. Johnston's "Hodge,"' the corporal's cat in '"'Euguene Aram," and no ore ever thinks of a cat unless his mind reverts to Montaignegor of Montaigne un- less he associates the essayist with eats. a Never do until to-morrow the ; mean thfngs you contemplate doing | to-day. eee a ae eh eae Pe cs Pia | woman. When the | Only it proved to be no bomb, but a ~~ 'They Will Come in Tine, _|the name of only one woman as a) '|jockey, Mrs. Thornton, who in the | tremendous crowd," writes a respondent of the English blue sleeves and blue cap. It. is said that $1,000,000 changed hands over the race. Mrs. Thornton was | beaten. ck et ely ee "On the Continent a-couple of years ago a girl took out a license jas a jockey, but as yet in England none of the sex feminine has done so. It only requires some trainer to apprentice one or two girls and "put them up' for the profession to be open to them. And why not? | "Nine-tenths of the beys who go into racing stables know nothing about horses or riding. Hight- | tenths of them never learn to use their hands properly, six-tenths of| them never become horsemen and end their days as stable lads rid- ing exercise work. "Girls have far better heads than boys, they think more and are more observant. They would be able to give a trainer a few. more helpful accounts of how a horse has gone in a trial or a race and they would ride a lighter weigat. Gen- erally speaking, they would be gift- ed with so much better hands that strength would not be so much re- | quired, for strong jockeys are often | only necessary because boys with had hands have been riding in pri- vate the horse they are to steer in a race in public. "Tt may be in our time, but I am confident girl jockeys will come and that they would be far more use to trainers than many of the apprentices they put up, who have as much as ever they can do to 'stick on,' let alone get the most out of a horse. Woman's position on. the turf is by no means station- ary, great as have been the strides it has taken in recent years." "S BETTER FUEL AND LIGHT. Gas Cheap, but Bad, and Coal Makes Too Much Smoke. Forty million tons of coal are burned in the stoves and grates of English houses, and fourteen mil- lion tons more go to the making of gas used in lighting and for cook- ing by the people of the country. Professor Armstrong, the eminent chemist, told the British Associa- tion that there is something alto- gether wrong and wasteful about the system. Burning coal in the ordinary way as a fuel causes a nuisance indoor and out. Coke supplied by the gas companies is no better. Though he prefers gas as an illuminant. He has to use electric light, because the gas now furnished covers any brass exposed with verdigris, rots picture wire, and even spoils the furniture. The ideal fuel, the professor thinks, is coke, prepared at a low tempera- ture. "Soft coke," thus made, or "eoalite"? takes fire as readily and burns as long as coal, gives a bet- ter and hotter fire, and is practi- cally smokeless. There were others at the meeting who agreed with Professor Armstrong. J. HE. Stead, a great chemist and metallurgist, called the use of coal in the ordin- ary fire 'a. barbarous act," and others considered that Professor Armstrong had the solution for the smoke nuisance, but considered that it was a question of cost. res Sa ENGLISH ROYALTY. Some Curious Facts About Present and Past Monarchs. The king. has officially no sur- name. The sovereign pays no rates taxes. King George has never been ini- tiated as a Freemason. or a royal princess in marriage. Royal warrant. holders. have to pay no tax for the use of the royal arms, The queen never accompanies her husband to the establishment of a bachelor. The king pays, from his privy purse, for both his special trains and his theatre tickets. Finger-glasses axe never placed on the dinner table when members of the royal family are present. The king's motor cars carry no number, and his chauffeurs are not amenable for exceeding the speed limit. King George was the twelfth hol- der of the title of Duke of York and the eighteenth holder of the English title of Prince of, Wales since its creation in 1310. At the time of his accession, King Edward resigned his member- ship of all the clubs to which he belonged, but retained his right of vetoing any election to the Mar!- borough Club. a og OLD FAMILY COACTIES. Semetimes are Bought Up by Une dertakers. ° What beeomes of old family coaches! Well, they are bought up by undertakers, repainted and used as mousning coaches. However, some great noblemen have piously retained theirs. Among others, and Lord Lonsdale, may be men- tioned. To this list the name of that fine old sporting baronet, Sir Walter Gilbey, may be added. These cumbrous vehicles are rarely seen out of the coach houses now-a-days except on the occasion of a very grand event, such as a "The Racing Calendar contains | ee ee "She appeared in @ leo-} - Tt is said that in the case of thea- |pard colored silk racing jacket with jas the: 'an oblong one with six No one proposes for the hand of } Lord Derby, the Duke of Portland |. 'August of 1904 rode her husband's} , horse Vinagrillo at York before a) ie cor- | "The art of telling time i \ earliest historical records, th 1 the methods employed in dividing up the day into equal pe : ods have varied greatly during the -- past eras, and only in modern times have watches and clocks a3 _ we know them become customary. -- Many of these are most elaborate, but practically all possess @ circu- lar dial or face. However, only as late as the sixteenth century many watches were oval shape, and splendid time after it had been paired 90 years later. THE EARLIEST TIMEPIECE. Probably the earliest form of timepiece, says Harper's Weekly, was the "gnomon," or index rod, of a sundial. At first this was mere-~ ly an upright stick placed in a sunny spot, and measuring the passage of the day by its shadow cast upon the bare earth, because the dial was a later invention. The sand glass, still frequently used as an indicator for the boil- ing of eggs, dates back 2,000 years, and was always reliable in marking | a fixed space of time, such as the hour. It has not been very many years since the hour glass had i particular place on the pulpits our churches as an ever-present reminder to the preacher not to overtax the attention of his audi- ence. The finger glasses were filled with powder eggshells thor- oughly dried, for this material was not so susceptible to atmospheric moisture. MEASURED TIME BY MOTOR. A still earlier instrument was the elepsydra, which measured time by the efflux of water through ating orifice. There were two types these: In the first the water trick- led from a small opening in one ves- sel and slowly filled a receptacle which was graduated to indicate periods of time aud generally a "floater"? pointed out the height of the water on the side of thecvessel. In the second variety of this clepsy-- dra the graduated vessel, having a small orifice in the bottom, rested upon a surface of water and gradu- ally filled and sank at the expira- tion of the fixed interval. a eee Sa A WITTY PASHA. _---- Tells a Humorous Story to Uphold: -- His Decision. Bribery is common in the East. One of the notable contributory causes is the rigid suppression of a free press by the powers in author- ity, for there as elsewhere the fear of publicity is the beginning of of- ficial wisdom. But. it must not be supposed that the universal offi- cial corruption is unknown in the Fast; it is, on the contrary, a ten- der subject there, as @ humorous story within a stery, told by the late Rey. H. H. Jessup, D. D,; in his recent book, "Fifty-Tnree Years in Syria,' bears witness. One day in 1873 Doctor Van Dyck, manager of the press in con- nection with the work of propagan- da of the Syrian Protestant Col- lege at Beriut, was sent for by Ka- nul Pasha, the governor, to come to the serai, as he was about to shut up the press for a violation of | the press laws. Doctor Van Dyck proceeded to the serai and asked the pasha what he meant. The pasha, holding up a little tract, said, "Was this printed at your press?' Ves,"? "Then it must be confiscated, as it contains an attack on the Turk- ish government.' "Wherein,'? asked Doctor Van Dyck, "does it attack the govern- ment?' The pasha pointed out several -- passages which criticized the brib- ery and corruption everywhere pre- valent, perjury and = lying among witnesses and public officials, and the fact that "truth had fallen in the streets and equity could not enter," "Are not these statements true ?"' said Doctor Van Dyck. 'Your ex- cellency ought to put a copy into the hands of every government offi- cial in.your pashalic. Is it not so?' 'Wave you never heard the story of the Cadi el Ah-war?" asked the pasha.- i "And what is that!" queried the doctor, "Well," began the pasha, "once there was a famous one-eyed cadi (judge). One day a man eame to court and addressed him as_ fo]- lows: * Good morning, O one-eyed. ca- di! May your day be blessed, O one-eyed cadi. T have heard of the noble character and justice of the one-eyed cadi, and 1 would ask the distinguished and revered one. eyed cadi to do me justice, and-- ""'Stop!' interrupted the cadi. 'Supposing [ cam "one eyedy. do ft want to be éverlastingly reminded of it -- Got on fof py sight?! > 'And so,' concluded the pasha, "We know that these reflections on our country and cour courts are true, but we don't want to be pub- licly reminded of it!" . : + eaeomapieeasa RURAL GENTUS, Silas--"Gosh, Hiram Spruceby has sueceeded\ in making his goose lay golden eggs at last."' ' "Do tell! How did he do Oyrus--' Deo 'Bilag--""Why,, a ibe? se |royal visit. Ss < he fed them en go