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.. .. b............ii imnm m miu m eam a p m m e ime e e ala em u m m m anu uln- ... ' ...... - | i , , .. . ........ . sem * ... ag meno m VOLUME V. LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1892. NO. 24. COLIUMBUS' CAREER, zar T. D*Wsl rt l ýe ws it from a Ra lioous t. the oars !sv abesor's L Teseres sof.e Valuable Leeme, Pueselpsi Ameeg Wahs Is Imsed ness oe P'rpose. The following discourse, delivered in the Brooklyn tabernacle, was Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage's contribution to the religious observances in connection with the Columblan celebration Ills text was: ", It aup thine eyes westward.-De-t I, M. So God said to Moses in Bible times and so He said to Christoforo Colombo; the son of a wool-comber, of Genoa, more than four hundred years ago. The nations had been looking chiefly toward the east. The sculpture of the world, the architecture of the world, the laws of the world, the philosophy of the world, the civilization of the world, the religion of the world came from the east. But while Columbus, as his name was called after it was Leatinized, stood studying maps and examining globes and reading cosmo graphy, God said tohim: "Liftup thine eyes toward the west." The fact was it must have seemed to Columbus a very lop-sided world. Like a cart with one wheel, like a scissors with one blade, like a sack on one side of a camel, needing a sack on the other side to balance it. Here was a bride of the world with no bridegroom. When God makes a half of anything He does not stop there. He makes the other balf. We are all obliged I to leave things only half done. - God never stops half way, because as the time and the power to go a way. I do not wonder that Celambas was not satisfied with half a world, and so he went to find the other ahsl The pieces of carved wood that were Boated to the shores of Europe by a westerly gale, and two dead human faces, unlike anything he had seen before, likewise gloated from the west, were to him the voie of God, saying: "Lift up thine eyes toward the west." But the world then, as now, had plenty of Can'tebe dones. , That is what keeps individuals back and enterprises back ald the church back. and nations bac'--ignominous and disheartening can't-be-doses Old navigators said to young Columbus. "It can't be done." The republie of Genoa said: "It can't be done." Alphonso V. said: "It can't be done." A committee on maritime affairs, to whom the sub ject was submitted, declared: "It can't be done." Venetians said: "It can't be done." Bit the father of Columbus' wife died, leaving his wife a large num ber of sea charts and maps, and as if to condemn the slur that different ages put upon mothers-in-law, the mothes --law of Columbus gave him the navi gator's materials, out of which he ciphered America. After awhile the story of this poor but ambitious Colum bus reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and she pays eighty dollars to buy him a decent suit of clothes, so that he may be fit to ap pear before royalty. The interview in the palace was successful Money enough was borrowed to fit out the ex pedition. There they are, the three ships, in the gulf of Cadiz, Spain. If you ask me which have been the most "omous leats of the world, I would say, first, Noah's ship, that wharfed on Mount Ararat; second, the boat of bul rushes, in which Moses osated the Nile; third, the Mayflower, that pat out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim Fathers; and now these three vessels that ne this, the Friday mornin, Au gust 3, 1499, are rocking on the ples, I am glad it is Friday, so t the prows of those three ships shall first all run dowi the superstition that things begalnoa' rv age started on Friday must nossarlly prove dismatrous. Show me :ay Mon day or Tuesday or Wedmesday or Thursday or sateray that over aeoom plished a much as this eapdltlon that started on Friday. With the idea thmt there will be perils connecteil with the expedition, the sacrament of the Lord's supper is administered. Do not upt that' this voyage was began uaAf a iglosa auspices. There is the 'Ot Maria, only ninety feet long, wlth S.e masts and eight anchors The sI walking the deck is Ufty-sevet el his hair white: fogr at thirty-*ve hi 'wi gray, and his face is roand, his 8i aquilline, and his stature a little talM' than the average. I know from his 8d* eided step and the set of his jaw thAt he is a determined ian. That Is Capt Cristopher Colnmbus. Near by, but Senoatugbo not to ran into eaeh oth r, are the smaller ships, the Painte and the Nina, about large enough ad safe enourh to cross the Hdson ria or the Thames la good weatha. There. are two doetos in this set of ships, and s few Isadmos, sdventurars who are rady tO risktheis neaos i n wild expeditio. There are enough pro sians der a year- "Capt Chrlstopher Columbus, where are you sMalng for?" "I do not know." "Now leag baefore ywu P4~let :there?" "I ca not say." "All dm're that are gLag," tis ased, ad those who wish to mamsin gotetho n, the eaeboes of the three ships are king wethed and the ratlnes he gin to rattl sd the sai to uahtfrL Thw wladisdedeat, and it does aet 1siaor to get C ot tosea. In a few -oe-n the advtwears wshthey hd n . sarted Theshle bsen t. rl ,s aidh, s it . see ad g has* mi etrih han SiW' *hret heatsib country, if there s any. After awhile there comes a calm day, and the at tempt is made to fathom the ocean, and they can not touch bottom though the line sand lead run down two hundred fathoms More delightful sensations for those who are not good sailors! A fathom is six feet, and two hundred fathoms one thousand two hundred feet, and below that it may be many hundred feet deeper. To add interest to the voyage on the twen tieth day out, a violent storm sweeps the sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries what it can do with the Santa Maria the Pinta and the Nina. Some of you know something of what a sea can do with the Umbria, the Majestic, the Teutonic and the City of Paris, and you must imagine what the ocean could do with those three small ships of olden time. You may judge what the ocean was then by what it is now; it has never changed its habits It can smile like the morning, but often it is the archangel of wrath, and its most rol licking fun is a shipwreek The mu tinous crew would have killed Colum bus had it not been for the general opinion on shipboard that he was the only one that could take them back home in safety. The promise of a silk waisteoat and forty dol lars in money to the man who should first discover land appeased them somewhat, but the indignation and blasphemy and threats of assassi nation most have been awfuL Yet God sustained the great sailor commanding the Santa Maria Every evening on shipboard they had prayers and sung and a vesper hymn. But after all the patience of those on board the ships had been exhausted and the great cap tain or admiral had been cursed by every anathema that human lips could frame, one night a sailor saw a light moving along the shore, and then mov ing up and down, and then disappear ing. On Friday morning at S o'clock, just long enough after Thursday to make it sure that it was Friday sand to give an other blow at the world's idea of un lucky days-on Friday morning. Octo ber 15, 1499, a gun from the Pinta sig naled "Land ahead." Then the ship lay to, and the boats were lowered, and Capt. Christopher Columbus first stepped upon the shore, amid the song of birds and the air a surge of redo lence, and took possession in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. So the voyage that began with the Sacrament ended with Gloria in Exoelsis Dec. From that day onward, you say there can be nothing for Co lumbus but honors, rewards, rhapso dies, palaces and world-wide ap plause. No, no! On his way back to Spain the ship was so wrenched by the tempest and so threat ened with destruction that he wrote a brief account of his discovery and put it in a cask,and threw it overboard, that the world might not lose the ad vantage of his adventure.'. Honors awaited him on the beach, but he un dertook a second voyage, and with it came all malignant and persecution and denunciation and poverty. He was called a land-grabber, a liar, a cheat, a fraud, a deceiver of nations. Specula tors robbed him of hisgood name, cour tiers depreciated his discoveries, and there eame to him ruined health and imprisonment and chains, of which he said while he rattled them off his wrists: "I will wear them as a me mento of the gratitude of princes." Amid keen appreciation of the world's abuse and craelty, and with body writhing in the tortures of gout, he groaned out his last words: "In manus tuas Domine commendo spiritum meam: "Into Thy hands, O'Lord,I com mend my spirit." Of course he had regal obeequies. That is the way the world tried to stone for its mean treatment of great bene factors. Many a man has had a fine ride to his grave who during this life had walked all the way. A big funeral, and instead of bread they gave him a stone-that is, a tombstone. But death that brings quiet to the body of others did not bring quiet to his. First baried in the church of Santa Maria Seven yesrs. afterward removed to Se vila Twenty-three years afterward removed to San Domingta Finally re to Cubs. Four post-mortem rmays from sepaulcher to sepulacher. I wrah Is bones might be moved just ean more, and now that they have eaSggo near to Ameries as Cuba, they migh during the great Columblan yebi btrasported to our own shores, wh1w they belong, ad th·t in the "t ceantury after his decease the Amerleaps continent might build a mauaolem worthy of him who picked this jewel of a hmisphere out of the easnd set It in the crown of the world's geography. But the bright noonday sn of that old sailor's prosperity went down in thickest night, and thqpgh here and there a monument has been lifted in his memory, and here and there a city ealled after him, the contineat that he was the means of founding was named after another nameu, and so itting com memoration of his work bas hIeenpro posed until nearly four hundred yeams after his body turned to dust. May the impo deama etttoa now being made his he r an the Atlanto eoet, ead to bemade next yeasrin ls hoor midosntment, be b4athat enegh st d faw-renadrt emangh ad ChrisQld eaeough ad megIrent amogh to stone for the nrglet a cf mn tries. May the ged Ld agtew that meat Ilstrious aslor of al time to lock ovee the ssethiystla.t battsmeats k emeughtue b m au of the gr wmdameesarnd his same and miare Wst 'shiA for the usph main by umaen asd seig andmi teary wed.la& tweears agi ead ceu ass ais sesemthtag bass f the· ,eY a a mdesma ni as e ea aehed d a l a1) the l.is& 4* * es*." of the earth." and be felt himself celled by God to carry Christianity to the '"ends of the earth." Then the ad ministration of the Last Supper before they left the gulf of Cadiz, and the evening prayers during the voyage, and the devout ascription as soon as they saw the new world, and the dox ologies with which they landed confirm me in saying that the discov ery of America was a re ligious discovery. Atheism has no right here; infidelity has no right here; vagabondism has no right here. And as God is not apt to fail in say of Bls undertakings (at any rate, I have never heard of His having any thing to do with a failure), America is going to be gospelised, and from the Golden Gate of California to the Nar rows of New York harbol, and from the top of North America to the foot of South America, from Behring straits to Cape Horn, this is going to be Im manuel's Land. All the forms of ir religion and abomination that have cursed other parts of the world will land here-yes, they have already landed-and they will wrangle for the possession of this hemisphere, and they will make great headway 'and feel themselves almost established. But God will not forget the prophesies which enconraged Columbus about the "ends of the earth seeing the salvation of God," nor the Christean anthem which Columbus led on the morning of the 19th of October, 1492, on the coast of San Salvador. Like that fock of land birds which met the Santa Maria and the Pints and the Nina far out at sea, indicating to the commanders of that Seet that they were approaching some country, so a whole Sookof prom laes and hopes, golden-winged and songful, this morning alight around as, assuring us that we are approaching the glorious period of American evan gelisation. A Divine influence will yet sweep the continent that will make in iquity drop like slack lime, and make the most blatant infidelity declare it was only joking when it said the Bible said it was not true, and the worst atheism announce that it always did believe in the God of nations. Let others call for requiem and dead march, I call for George Frederick Handel's hallelujah chorus. There has been much talk of late about com munication with other worlds. Mars has come so near we can see its canals, and it has been hoped that by signals after a while we may communicate with other stars. Ah, that will not be possible un til our world has been reformed and evangelised. It would not do for our world in its long and ruined state to have communication with other worlds. It would spoil their morals But wait until this world is fully redeemed, as it will be, and then perhaps interstellar correspondence may be opened. Till then, this smitten and sickened world of ours must be quarantined from com mg too near the unfallen worlds But, thank God, the prophecies which cheered Columbus in his great under taking cheer us. America for God! Yea, the ronnd world for God! There can be no doubt about it! And, now, while I am thinking of this illustrious ship captain of Genoa, let me bespeak higher appreciation for the ship eaptains now in service, many of them this moment on the sea, the lives of tens of thousands of passen gers in their keeping. What an awful responsibility is their! They go out through the Narrows, or start from Queenstown or Southampton or Glas gow, not knowing what cyclone or collisions or midnight perils are waiting for them. It requires bravery to face an army of men, but far more bravery to face anarmy of At lantic surges led on by hurricanes A more stupendous scene is not to be wit nessed than that of a ship captain walking the bridge of a steamer in the midst of a cyclone. Remember those heroes in your prayers, and when worn out in the service, and they have to command inferior craft or return to the land and go out to service, do them full honor for what they once were. Let the ship companies award them pensions worthy of what they endured until they start on their list voyage from this world te the next. Aye, that voyage we must all take, landsmen as well as sesfarers. Let us be sure that we have the right pilot, and the right chart, and the right captain, and that we start in the right direction. It will be to each of us who love the oImrd a voyagers more wonderful for discovery than that which Columbus took, for, after all we have heard about that other world, we know not where it is or how it looks, and it will be as new as San Sal vador was to the glorious captain of the Santa Maria. "Eye bath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered in to the heart of man." May the light from that golden beach flash on the darkness, and we be able to atep ashore amid groves and orchards and aromas such as this world's atmosphere never ripened or breathed. Aye, fellow-mariners, over the erogh seas of this life, through the fogs and mists of earth, see you not already the outlie of the better country? Lad ahead! Land ahead! Nearsrand near or we come to heaveanly wharfage Throw out the planks and step ashuore lato the arms of your kindred, who have betae waiting and wastebhing fdo the hour of your dlembmrktlem. Through the rich graee of Christ, our Lord. may we all have each blrstl ar rival. -Isv, Henry K. Cstrott, the etatsti nia epa that ther aroe em humad and hset distinct Christina demaiema tima in the CUited Sttm Of these imtlS manrlm at Smptbis at sa wtw4n a .e.psts m what ha. beasn~ sdames who drew laot fe It out i s into fragmnnts to start meats wIth? twer Upait a ·ardttni-mj ha the LIFE ON A NILE OAHAWEA I &C chrmh n Wayg to . s Par t 3a" 0IfoOe as Not t as M arry. Given a goodb boat and erw andl pleasant companions, I know*othina more enjoyable in the way of travel than life for some months on boarsed a dahabeah on the Nile. The Nile is ase dom rough enough to cause discomfort even to the most timid, and at the worst the dahabeah can be moored against the bank while the storm lasts. Another great advantage of ailing on the Nile is the steadiness of the wind. From the beginning of winter to the end of spring-that is, while the Nile is navigable--the north wind blows stead ily up stream with suafient force to drive sailing boats against the current at a fair pace; while, on the other hand, the current is strong enough to carry a boat without sails down against the wind except when it blows a gale. A pleasure dahabeah under full sail is a beautiful sight. It has one great sail, of lateen pattern, attached to a yard of enormous length. Small sails are added as occasion may require. Over the cabins and saloon is a railed high poop, with easy chairs and lounges, and gay with plants and lowers To the east stretches the Arabian, to the west the Lybian desert, each flanked by a range of bare hills, which in a few places touch the river, but lie for the most part two or three miles back on either side. Ages before the pyramids the Nile filled the whole of the valley to the depth of some two hundred feet, and the yellow hills, now so bare, were clothed with a luxuriant vegetation, of which the evidence still remains in petrified forests and fos silised plants. It was plainly a period of heavy rainfall and impetuous tor rents, carving outvst gores and pour ing their waters into the Nile. The Nile is a busy river, full of life and movement, dahabebsha bent on pleasure or on trade, passing up and down its stream with scarcely any In termission, while its banks are fall of interest to the lover of the picturesque; crowds of women, with graceful forms and, not seldom, very comely faces, fill ing heavy earthen jars with water, and Ccarrying them home on their heads; men, with skins of bronze, toiling in re lays of three hours each at the shadufs under a burning sun, and singing the while to relieve the monotony of their daily labor; boatmen floating with the stream or sailing against it, and they also singing a weird, wailing chant, like the echo of a hopelesecry wafted across the centuries from hard bondage under Egyptian taskmasters, such as the Israelites endured before the exodus; looks of pelicans standing on the sand or maneuvering in the air like soldiers on the march; kingfshers, 'now hovering over the water, now darting beneath itssurface in quest of a pasing fish. And then there is the mysterious Nile itself, mysterious still, though its sources have been disclosed and its long meanderings tracked, from the uplands of central Africa to the margin of the Midland sea. The voyager now, it is true, seldom sees a crooodile, unless he goes beyond the second cataraet; still lees has he a chance of witaessingany of those fieree eneounters between crocodiles and hippopotami, which are sculptured on the walls of the temple of Edfu. In those ene-ie 'vs, when the shores of the Nile dow_ to Caire were lined with reed sand papyrus, the river abounded with crocodiles and hippopotami, both of which afforded excellent-albeit sometimes perilous-sprt to the dwell ers on the banks. Firearms and steam ere have now driven those fiere mon sters of the deep beyond the second cataract. But, apart from its inhabitants, the Nile itself has a mystic interest of its own. I do not wonder that in the my thology of ancient Blgypt it was en dowed with life, and receivedsome sort of divine honors. Its periodial inna dataies, while their causes wore un known, placed it outside the category of ordinary rivers, and invested it with an atmosphere of mystery. Andin the youth of our race, when woods and glades and rivers were believe& to own appropriate denizeas, it is easy to una derstand how the Nile same to be re garded as endowed with more than natural life. It is so full of sab-ar rents sad ddies that the smphiblose natives, who swim like sh, will not venture to cross it exept astride on logs of wood. In the stillness of night these edies gurgle and murmur pasut your dahabesh like spirits from "the vasty deep" engaged in confdential talk. And who csn adequately describe those splendid dawns and gorgeous sun sets which are among the commonpiaee of Nile senery? I have oftean seen the whole sky, from the zealnith to the hori zon, become e molten,l mntlinng sema of eolor sad ire, every ripple sad wrve transfed intounsullied, shndow less crhusn sad purple sad soarlet anad epaleseent hbues, hading od into eolars for which our language supplies no words and previous experience noides Tbhis splendor of inrdescribable inter mingling colors appears at snest on the westers hortson, and fellowed by a seoft sheen, as of moonlight, reected ea the hills oan the stern ak h thes In ashort, life s the dabhbesh is oe perpetual pieas. Y atop where yo please, sad either enjoy the del. fer niate at nreiamlnea bolardor maeldrag emuraems i old temples r tombs, a takng prt i a vreitalPble gel inth dset-au a plems Ia the desert, an A 3esed aiset. Brother (at *sa dent a~ters- -r) e i , Wea . ..u tr mea reae kicssess LEADS THEM TO SLAUGQTER. A san Uset to 3.6e* Loa50me. vsde res.s a aP raoDkmt s. "Come, Phil." A handsome eighteea-hundre&-pound specimen of the bovine species which has been moping lazily along there way pricks up his ears in quick re sponse to the eall and trots upto his master with a promtaem tht weald be commendable even In a pet r . The call came from Head Driver Nar phy, or one of bis assistants, and Philp 1 knows well enough what it meas. "G'long over to F." shouts the driver, and at the same time he points up the alley in the direction of sectie "P." The motion of the driver's hand is superfluous, however, for Philp knows as well as anybody where "F" is, and he gallops off ui the narrow driveway more like an educated canine fha the. huge, lazy steer that he is. There is an interesting coincidence lan connection with big Phil's history. His name, unbridged, is Philip D. Armnour. This also the name of the prprietor of the packing-house at whieh the cloven footed Philip is an important fultion ary. Driver Murphy, however, blunts the point of the coincidence by his ex planation that the steer was honored with the name of his noted owner in order to give the animal a due appre I elatlon of his extraordinary' prowess and responsibility. While Philip has risen from obscurity to pre-eminence, and has beoqme the king of his kine, he has also djenerat ed morally from an innosent sad guile less country ox into an areh-hypoerite. The gruesome offices of a hbagman fade Intoinslgnficance when compared with those of Philip. His daily labor is to entice the in nocent aettle from their pehs by his peculiar magnetism, and lead them n a wild dash to their death. As the I drivers swing open the gatof a pen and rush a drove frightened, 'trmbling steers out into the driveway, Phil gal- i lops boldly up, and, swinging In ahead of the herd, assures his bewildered country brothers that he is master of the situation; that he has comeas their deliverer, and that if they wi follow him they will be browsing in clover fields and drinking :rom spring-fed brooks before the sun mets. The ummnsuspecting cattle instinctively fall in line as soon as their eyes fall on the handsome and intrepid Philip. The herd troops away down the alleys, fol lowing closely every turn of their leader as he dodges in and out among wagons and sheds and heads straight for the broad "shoot" which leads up to the capacious slaughter-pem. When Phil approaches the "shoots" he has urged his followers into a mad stem pede. Quick as a flash the leader whirls to one side at the foot of the approach, and the herd, earried on by its own impetus, charges smadly up the ascent and into the waiting-room of death. Philip has sent anather hundred of his kin to their doom. The big gates close behind his victims lad they are led into the slaughter-mill ode by one, almost as fast as one can count them, to come out flayed, drawn and quar tered for the butcher's block. Philp knows no pity, no remorse. His conscience is seered and callous. As he avoids the alaughter-pen by an adroit turn and sends his followers na to their death he drops his head between his knees, and seems to chuckle with ghoul ish delight as he listens to the clatter of his victims' bhoos as they clamber pell-mell up the fatal boot." To stay the batche's knife from his own neck Philip has betrayed one hun dred thousand fellow-ereatures whieh looked to him for guidance. Perhapsit was through deference to the ceasm mate villainy of such a beast as Philip that old Beelsebub took to wearing cloven hoots--Chicago Times WHO OWNED THE PEW. Pat Osly Wasted His $lhss a a Pire "If you had come and asked ae for them, you might have had all you wanted, and welcome." This, i storeey tellers are to be ruasted, is what farm ers always say when they Aind beioys robbing their orchards. Aad it is true, beyond qtiesthm, that peoplat general like to have their rights as proprietors respected, even lathe most tri ag b. ter. So it was with an Irishma of whom a reporter for the CkLhago Pst tells a little story. There was a speeal celebratio atof some kind in the church whre be owned a pew. The buile g wias erowded, sad jrust as the msrvebegaa this proprietor made his way down the aisle to the door of his pew, which was only two seats from the ifpa In it were two or three lades, strangers to him. There was still abundanee of room near the head of the seath buit he stop ped at the door, laid one bhnd upoa the back of the pew next in hfront, ad with san impressive wave of the other aid, in a voie lod emough to be eard evdr half the chureh: "Come out of that now!" The ladies, sarpriid s d greatly co~uwes, obeyed with nall haste, bat no sooner was the last oeas tin the alsle than the man wave his had graeiosly. "Now in wid yes agsln,"hereammrked, laoder than before, "au'man ymlves ter homa. o onlya wanted ye t~ Ikow who owned the pew." so paos. sa ..d rzr g tUat tawwsIs resamed ther seat and the petletwet on witthtemerteev He (humbly, after being Oee~ o konow Iai atss Welm l - pa m n- -ei to~ser mS -saio - IImg ml .-rn. I ussr " - *M Tan4~il HOME HINTS AND HEL.P. -The intease itching of the guame with which teething infants saer so greatly may be allayd d j gi)ing finely racked lee every few minutes. A anucerful may thus be given without danger and the little one soothed and I quieted because of the great relief. -Detroit Free Press. C -It is a good plan to keep la the pantry one of those cold chests for desserts and other dishes that should be served directly from the lce. A good sine is about twenty-eight incaes b high, twenty-one Inches wide y twenty-eight inches long. This t requires only six pound of ice a day, I and the tempprature can be reduced to a freeaing-point if desired. -Gingersnap: One cupfutl of sugar, one cupful of treacle, one cupful of bat- 0 ter (lard will answer, mixed lard ad suet from the frying-kettle is better), one teaspoonful of ginger, one tea- I spoonful of sods, dissolved in two tea- i spoonfuls of hot water. Make a stiff 1 dough with flour, and knead thorough ly. Roll as thin as possible, cut In t small rounds, and bake in a moderate a oven.-Household Monthly. a -Eggs poached with tomatoes make a very nlie variety. In a Sat-bottomed c granite kettle have about a pint of t cooked tomatoes; break five or six eggs 1 into a plate and slip in carefally upon the hot tomatoes; looseen the whites at I the edges as they stifen. When the whites become coagulated prick the m yolks so they will Sow out, cook a few minutes longer and place the mixture on thin slices of toasted bread, slightly moistened.-Ohio Famer. -Bananas and Cream: Allow six ripe bananas, peel and sdies in a dish. I have ready half a caupfl of grauhted sugar, sprinkle a little over each layer, squesse the juice from two oranges, I and put a little overs eae layer; when all are prepared, putin the ce box for an hour or mor more. Before ready to serve, whip one pint of thick, sweet cream with egg-beater until stlt, add a little powdered sugar. Pour the bananas carefully inhto a handsome dish for the table, have the whipped rerm ion n a other dish. Serve the aennman sweet meat dishes, heaped with cream.-N. Y. Observer. -Venetian Almond Cake: One ad one-half pounds of S one and one- I fourth pounds of wddrede d sugar, pintof egg-yolk, Sfavor lug. Whisk the ggi and sugar toe very light batter, add the Savoring sift the flour, lightly work it Into the batch, turn it on a tin lined with paper, spread the -mixture as inoh thilk sprinkle the top t ihs~ yth chopped almonds and crysta with juet a slight dusting of red sugar and; bake in a moderate oven. When cold, re move the paper, cut the aeke into squares, then aout them aoss from corner to corner, making triangles.- Good Houseakeeping. -Chocolate Pastils Take a little chocolate, which pet in a pan over the are to melt; stir it'with a spoo; when it Is melted take half a pand of loaf sugar, pounded In a mortar and sifted, which dissolve n a little clear water. When that is don put in the cheeoate; if the paste is too thick add a little water, enough to bring it to that de gree of liquidity that it may be takes up on a knife; then take half a sheetof paper and cover it with little, round, fist drops, whtch are alled pistle, of the sin of a sixpence; let them dry naturally in a oupbsard, and when dr. take them of from the paper, and pu them in boxes. -Boston fIerald SINGLE 3EDS. Why t Is Wen far lassees e leesp a s If these were mare numerous than they se, a gre·at seng people would be better of. When one is tired, sihk, ereas, restlem, out-eaorts,- hoe or she ought to sleep alone and not communi cate by proximity the maladies that edct him. The brute mrestmes when siek go away by.theselves till they die or get over their treables, sad this instinet a great many huma beinn have; thse that hare iCt are bet iI n dalged I#t a to the slightest de of leet, however. Left to m re ther an compose thlr In teral diseenlo reover their lost equilibrim, snd get baek their bbit ald rate of "vibrtieJ;" whes, ift eoiually dstrtbed, sad "crased" end sainterrupted, they are a long time in getting backto othe normal. Where two childta in a family must share the same rom, ia i gret many eames they would be better oR to have t·wo sIgle beds rather tham me wide double bad. We an share a great many things with those we love, but solitude elngs to as f~ame birth to deth. We come aIt the world ae, we must goeat ct it sloneL incertain tmportant sense, sad to getand keep our bearlng" we must aIetiesm h left alone its gedt thmt we shldd be. He who has ls bl to himelf amy be essentially atoner a portm tmhe twet-fear har, may bhave bnemf to himkatlf, ad ajuest hbs iternal mqhanluu to hls Owp satisheation. Pr a great may wio ad ill, alitde is s balm-what we eaml selte--dfr Iset. the acusmea adei real al s pr eat with us-N. Y. Adveeas sr*Mn mbus t a t 'IeI Vab kja.i 4 Lam& imin PERSNALt, ANtD rUTtA --Ruth Kimball, who was as s8t#S Uve bare in the aLery at te idunk aertic convention, and whose reprt were brilliant sad serata, i th Only woman that was ver admitted to the pres galery in the seate. -The ongfagemet ring given by the Comte Leonine to Mie de RcthUeh is composed of a sperbly large diand had ruby plaed in a slanting paosition on the srface of the circlet of gold and two smaller diamonds are ed,. beside them. -Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson, of Mu. cogee, I. T., has completed the traus lation of the New Testament from the original Greek into the Greeklaguae. The university of Ohio has uenfrr upon her the degroeof DoctorfofPhlo ophy in recognition of her set arly attainments -Senator Quay has purhased what is know,6 s the Matthew Stanley fare, four iles north of Coatusille, The senator passed his boyhood days on this farm, being a nephew od Mat thew Stanley, after whom be weM named. The farm contamins 1 nse, and the price paid was iise. "-Queen ChrisMaa of Spain, upon re ceiving the sanouncement that the thousandth baby had booen namedfter her hsband, set the parets a boys wardrobe, silver baby sericm asd handsome nest egg, with the message: "To the thousandth Alfonso frem A woman whom to Alfousos have ~d happy." -Most of Bjorastjerne Bjornn's nodls are written at his farm in Nor way. He prefers doing liteary wk there rather than In his handsome home q Paris. His study is an eer moa room, simply tfurnish, and e werks as rapidly that be will blck out the plot of an entire novel in two or three days -Thacikeray had a free pass over the Peninsular & Oriantal Stemmship CO's lines. Carlyle gelally observed penny ferryboats in Seotlanmd al allowed a blind fddler to crss for nothing to smus the par e. Thacersy never liked aCeys =ebor that. and Carlyle aid that for s part he couldn't understand why. k -The fmous Althorplibrary of LaM Spencer is to be presented, with a eol lection of about 1c,We0 worth of modern books, to the city of ManYas er, EPtad by Mrs. Rylads, the widow of the millionaire member of parliament, Peter Rylands. Mrs Ry lands has bought a site on whriease will build a suitable library for the books. Her design is to prpetuate the memory of her husband in the maaar he most desired. --One of Mr. Whittler's last pbile nets was Joining the Brothrboeod of Christian Unity. olng this he wrote the following letter to e founder a the uolety* "Theodore 7 Seward, New York. Dear Frled:-Fer years I have been 'dedroou of a move ment for uniting all Christia with 1o other creed or pledge than a saple recogaitlmn of Christ as our lepd. I have read thy published artielepa the ubjeet with hearty sPproval sa loy pathy. am truly thy frML i, Jn G Whittier." HUMODoU. -What He Does.-"Tlat f~llow ne er does anything, does he?' "Se does time ooesaionary."-Ysakee U d -Johason--"WLst ar yen s arrin Xour money for-anet wlMter's smine ments?"- Theaps·a-"N last win ter's."-N. Y. Herald. -"Prks--"T'hera goes Des lsre len't he a pretty clase mouthed fellew?" Sterws-"Jupiter, yes, he deesea even til the truth often."--nterOesn. -'-You haven't heard anything auta you have heard both sides," says a writer. This may be pretty e, but 'the big drum refuites t-TI- e. he--"You ay you think M.a Pllak erly was born lucky. Why, bhs been jilted by four gtrls" Her Hiessead "Tlhat's lucky!"-Smith, Gray. & Ca's Monthly. -Johany--'P'm real sicek ad a wa't let me go to scho~1." Walie (with marke)t eavy)-"War did you Lnd out wet ditums to uhave?'-Chi cage hews leoat. -"How di h ey Ihk yeou iS Sirin gllervne'r asked e e·car of another. , "Very mub, adesi, it appesad. It was all I could do to indue the lead lord to let a leave."-We.sagton 8ta. -Dumn-rown '-"I alacud lke t. feel that when Idle I leave the wOrld better than I fendd.t" Jeehsagi-"My dear feolow, I am quite smur the world wSll bebetter when yo are en.'-. Judy. -Hold Bis Own Time. Tk eols m as agatme wa, me, Ad ma mksstue I eLo ost woen mw a e sonap ise. -A Literary Rereiutiens - "The meter in the poem is lovly," eatplaISed the poet. ",Nodobt," rlbtt ohil. tar, "ht Itt i't meter, it's netthat we are after in pea now."-d ut -Just brry yourself * biqiuir, ad tuasinsblo- shabe to measth.Hr aw d Sbatanin p my ea t wh6.a ls is trhatb teadm eth wr, dear Iu t snirser tiibya "S5sdW 6 ' I II r-a We~L~ ibit