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Queen Victoria's Birthday. Qneen Victoria celebrated her eev-enty-fifth birthJay a few days ago. UJie queen is now in excellent health, and it is possible that she will live for t,ome years to come. She has been on the throne fifty-Eeven years, and her reign embraces many of the most mem orable events in English history. Victoria will not rank in history among the greatest rulers of the world, but fche will be remembered as a good wife and mother, a model of rirtue and a queen who felt a deep interest in the welfare of her subjects. She has had nine children, of whom seven are villi living. Since he has been on the throne her people have given her in the cival list expenditures $110,275,000, and 848,070, TO.j for the support of her residences and stables. Her direct ex penditures are $1,800, 000 a year. The hum allowed by the government for the 'support of the other members of the royal family is $1,300,000 a year. The queen has saved and in vented some thirty or forty million dollars, and in the event of a revolu tion ht r children would inherit enough to give them a new start in the world. There is not much more to be said about this serene and fortunate old lady. She holds to the religious :uith and the political creed of her fathers, and is opposed to liberal views. She hates scandal as much as she hated Mr. Gladstone, loves big dinners and good wiue,' and still believes that her husband was the best man that ever iived. Two or three attempts have Veen made to assassinate her, but her people love her, and her successor will be lucky indeed if he enjoys her pop ularity. This last anniversary was a notable one. It is a rare thing for a Hivt-reigij to celebrate a seventy-fifth birthday after fifty-seven years on the Mirone. J'Jjc. Radishes. Radishes possess valuable medicinal properties. They are demulcent, stim uliiting and diuretic, and should be eaten freely when fresh and crisp. They are usually eaten. with salt only, out if sliced thin are very nice with a French dressing. In this country the radishes themselves are rarely cooked, though the tops of young radishes are often boiled. The radish is a native of Asia, where it has been cultivated from the most ancient times. Nearly an inch of the green top should be left on the radishes when they are prepared for the table, and this little portion of the top should be eaten, as the peculiar properties they possess help to digest the radish itself. West chester A'eivs. I.ikr the (.entle Dew from Heavrn Comes blissful peace to a turbulent, unrulj livt r brought into subjection and disciplined with that grand regulator, Hosletter's Stom ach Hitter-, a boon of priceless worth, not only to the 1I iou-, but also to the ma arious, tht; rhouiiiatic, tho nervous, the feeble, the euiiMiputed, and those whor-e kidneys an I b!ahier ar innc ive The liver is always hietly involved in material complaints, for which the bitters is a remedy. As a ruin man works the hardest trying to avoid woi k. Dr. Ki nier'a Swamp-Root cures a l Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet anl Consultation free. Laboratory Bini;hamton, N. Y. What mammon has joined together let the divorce courts put asunder. To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood Is impure or sluggish.to per manently cure habitual constipation, to awak en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, wuhout irritating or weakening them, to dis Iel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of figs. Time saved is not a blessing if the time is put to ignoble u-es. Teething- Children. Nothing on earth will take children through the tryinprordca! of teething so pleasantly, and ro very s-urely and safely, as Dr. King's Royal lirrrn. tuer. They all like to take it, and it act? like maio in meeting the troubles of that c ritical p riod. Thousands have tried it and it has never been known to fail. Good Times Ahead. No doubt about it, we are rapidly leaving hard times" in the rear, and those who are working for good times and expecting them are already enjoying a fair degree of prosperity. Jr. however, things are not moving satisfactor ily, write to 13. r . Johnson & Co., Richmond, a., and they will give you a business oppor tunity that will prove a surprise and delight. We will give $100 reward for any ease of ca tarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure, laken internally. F. J. Cheney & Co.. Props., Toledo, O. Shiloh's Cure Is ol.l on a guarantee. It cures incip'ent Con sumption; it is t he Rest Cough Cure: 25c. 50c, $1 Verdict for Hood's i w is in me army 4 years, was wounded and contneted sciatica and rheumatism. llav suffered ever since and lost the use of my leit lg and side. I must any that of all th medicines I have ever tried Hood's Sar eaparilla is the best. It has done me the most good. I do not say that it will raise a fjood's Sarsa- - parilla fellow from the dead ; tut it will come the n a rttt t r A tin , . I. 9 T.V 1 any medicine I have ver used." T. II. Sacsdebs, Osceola, Neb. Hood's Pills cure Indigestion, biliousness. Buyers of MacMnery, Attention I lteul direct y with manufacturers ai d write u- for prices ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, Grist MIllls, Cane Mills, Cotton Gins and Presses, And anything wanted in the machinery line KilUFlELU-MRON WORKMaSi.c LIVER PUIS gTonic Pellets. MMOHS IB kl 1 "KEY. DR. TALMAUJS. THE BBOOKT.YV DIVINE'S SUX DAY SEK3IOX. Subject: "Heavy Wei-Ms" (Dellv eredat San I rancisco). t xt- Tat thv burden upon the Lord, and He shall 'sustain thee."-Psalms lv.. 22. tn- i horn takine his own medicine. If anybody ha ion him heavy we.ifhts, Da vid hid them, and yet out of his own experi ence headvfcM you aii . 1 me as to the best wavof irertin? rii i,u,s" " Zrlhl of hur l-n bearing. Donnar the past few dav tidings o.w from across the sea of A man full of the Holy C.host whs he his name the sy nonvm for all thr.t i- t,-oo . 1 and kind and gra eious and I f-n-'.nt. ord comes to us of a source cWe..piii'.-ofThtm'1reds and thou snnds or reo;.!e. an l thcro is a burden of sorrow borrow on th sa and sorrow on the lan'l Com in.' into the house of prayer there may r.o s'-"i of sidns or sorrow, tut whf-r'f i tji- man wo has not a con flict? Yhre is the soul that has not a strug gle'' n I there is not a day of all the year when mv txt is not gloriously appropriate, and there is n"vir an nu l;n?e assembled on the p!anr when the text is not gloriously appropriate '-Cast thv burden upon the Lord, an 1 H" shall staic the." In the far East we'Is of water are so in frequent that when a man owns a well he has a prop?tv or vry ereat va!u, anl somtini'-s battles tnv? Ifeu fought for the possesion or on" w -il of water, but there is one well that evervnrm owns, a deep wll, a perennial w -1'. a wll o'te ir-. If a man h;is not a hnr len on th;s shoulder, lie has a bur den on the other shoulder. The dav I I"ft home to look after myself and for myself, iu th wasron my father sat driving, anl he 'said that day something wMfh "has been with me all my life : De Wilt, it is ahvavs safe to trust GoJ. I havemanv a time eome to a crisis of diffl eulty. You may know that, bavin? been si"k for fi"teen year', it was no easy thins: for me to supi'rrt a family, but a'ways Go I came to the res-iv. I rem-rtber the time," he said, ''when I didn't know what to do, and I -aw a man on horstack riding up the farm lane, an 1 h r.nnouneed to me that I bad I l.e.-n non inat'-d for the most lucrative office iu all th- L'i't of the people of the eoun'v, an 1 to that o.li.v; I was elected, and Go I in that wav met all my wants, and I tell you it is always sa'e to trust Him." 0. mv fr 1-. wl'at w want is a rraeti eal r"lirion ! The reiic-ion people have is so hi.'h U! you enniiot rea"h it. I ha 1 a frien I who entere 1 f he lifrt of an pvansrelisr. gav- up a iiieraHv l usine'ss in Chicago, and he an i his wi'e finally came to severe want. He told me that in the mornin? at prayers he sat 1 : ( Lor'. Thou knowest we have a migntv him " ; . . . , . i 1 Til nil 1.1 PD ! not a mouthful of fool in the house! Help me; help us! And he started out on the street, an 1 a gentleman met him and said ; "I have been thinkin? of you for a goo! while. You know I am a flour merchant. If you w.u't be offended, I should like to send you a'arre!of flour." He cast his bur den on the Lord, and the Lord sustained him. Now, that is the kind of religion we want. In the strait of Magellan, I have benn told, there is a phtee where, whichever way a ship captain puts his ship, he finds thi wind aejaint him, an l there are men who all their livfs have been running in tha teeth of th wind, and which way to turn they do not know. Some of them may be in this assemblage, and I address them face to face, not per fun 'tori ly, but as one brother talks to another brother, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." There are a great many men who have business burdens. When we see a man wor ried and perplexed and annoyed in business life, we are apt to say, "He ought not to have attempted to carry so much." Ah. that man may not be to blame at all! When a man plants a business ho does not know what will be its outgrowths, what will be its roots, what will be its branches. There is many a man with keen foresight and larg j business faculty who has been flung into ta , dust byuuforesaim circumstances springing upon him from ambush. When to buy, when to sell, when to trust and to what amount to credit, what will ba tho effect or this new invention of machmery, what will b the effect of that loss of crop, and a thousan 1 other questions perplex business men until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles ar i Elowedinthe cheek, anl tho stocks go up y mountains and go down by valleys, an i they are at their wits' ends and stagger lika drunken men. There never has been a time when there have been such rivalries in business as now. It is hardware against hardware, books against books, chandlery against chandlery, imported articles against imported article.-. A thousan 1 stores in combat with another thousand stores. Never such advantage ol light, never such variety of assortmcn, never so much splendor o: show window, never so much adroitness ot salesmen, never so much aeuteness of advertising, and ami I all these severities of rival rv in business how many men break do.vu! Oh, the burden on the shoulder ! Oh, the burden on the heart I You hear that it is avarice whicli drives these men of business through the street, and that is the commonly accepted ilea. I do not believe a word of it. The vast multi tude of these business men are toiling on for ethers. To educate their children, to pu: wing of protection over their households, to have something left so when they pass out o! this life their wives and children will no: nave to go to the poorhouse that is the way 1 translate this energy in the street and store the vast majority of that energy. Grip, Gouge A Co. do not do all the business. tome of us remember when the Central America was coming home from California it was wrecked. President Arthur's father-in-law was the hero;,, captain of that ship and went down with most of the passengers, home of them got off into lifeboats, but the was a young nmn returning from California who had a bag of gold in his hand, an 1 as the last boat shoved off from the ship that was to go down that young man shouted to a comrade in the boat Here. John, catca this gold Thf re are $3000. Take it home to my old mother ; it will make her comfort- do no? ir nnsf ,,ayS-" G"P- GouS & Co. do not do all the business oi the world. Ah, my frum 1, do you say that God does not care anything about your worldly bus neSS I tell you God Knows more about it IwT ywU I'0' H',knows ail vour perplexi ties ; He knows what mortgage is about to foreclose , He knOTS whnt UQto CMino pa ; Ho knows what unsalable goods you have on your shelves ; knows all your trials, from the day you took hold of the nrst yardstick down to that sale of the las: yard of ribbon and the Go I who helped iavid to be king. an,l who helped Daniel to be prime minister, and who helped Have .ocb to be a soldier will help you to dis charge all your duties. He is going to s::: you through. Wheu loss comes, and you llnd your property gom. just take this boo'; and put it oown by your ledger and read ol i w k P?5seP6ins that will come to you xoTfn Ur Lr i Jesus Christ. And when rn,'n,'D"SS rr betrays you, and your sult?n . V f? nu'amst ynu' Jt take the in sulting letter, put it down on the table, put fhen ?iW,iSi,Le tho insltia letter, an i M?ekethl,f tht frienl"iP of Him' who sticketh closer than a brother." A voung accountant in New York Citv cot noneS03 H &w he wa counTI' R 1 yH he couM no1 his ae- dav n XT1 r'sht' an1 he toiled at them It smpVVKbt.Untl1 he was nearly fenzied. been mi. J' thS ' 0ksthat something had 'MrproptiateJ, and he knew before uod be i was honest. The last day came. H-j counts come out right he would go into dis grace and go into banishment from the busi ness establishment. He went over there very ,;ri Vi . A lnnot mate tnese tnings comf morn nM 'P' m to-day-help me this lw brTo,' 1 he young man arose, and hard h,7u Ds he did so opened a boo'i rnnfifj-011 th.8 deSk' ni there """i3 a nff a lmf of figures which explaine 1 wiV ' In other words, he cast his LinB!Aarn,the LorJ and the Lord su- Oh V loun" mtln' do 5ou hear tba''J k,.' .1? Gotl nas a sympathy with anv DOd that is in any kin I of toil ! He knows now heavy is the hoi of bricks that tha workman carries up the ladder on the wa". He hears the pickax of the miner down in ineeoal shart. He knows how strong tl i mPft rikes the saildr at rassthead. ll- it v fac,ory cirl among tha spindles an 1 knows how her arms ache. He sees these w ing woman in the fourth story and know now rew peu?e she sets for making a gnr Uient, and louder than all the din and roar innwct i. t . . .. ... i mere was anycoay in the placs 7TA t knelt dowu at th0 desk anil aid J L,Ord. Thou L-nnn...o T t,.. . . I . of the city comes the voice of a sympathetic God. 'Cast thy burden upon the LorJ, and lie snail sustain tnee. " ' Then there are a great many who have a weight of persecution and abuse upon them. Sometimes society gets a grudge against a man. All his motives are misinterpreted, and all his good deeds are deprecated. With more virtue than some of the honored and applauded, he runs only against raillery and sharp criticism. When a man begins tc go down, he has not only the force of natural gravitation, but a hundred hands to help him in the precipitation. Men are perse cuted for their virtues and their successes. Germanicu3 said he had just as many bitter antagon!sts as he had adornments. The character sometimes is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear to iook at it. It was thnir integrity that put Joseph in the pit, and Daniel in the den, and Shadrach in the Are, an 1 sent John tho Evangelist to desolate Patmos, and Calvin to the castle ot persecution, and John Huss to the stake, and Korah after Moses, an 1 Saul after Da vid, and Herod after Christ. B3 sure, if you have anything to do for church or state, and you attempt it with all your soul, the light ning will strike you. The world always has had a cross be tween two thieves for the one who comes to save it. High and holy enterprise has al ways been folio we x by abuse. Tha most sublime tragedy of self-sacrifice has come to burlesque. The graceful gait of virtue is always followed by scoff anl grimace anl travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has coins to ridiculous parody, an 1 as long as there are virtue an 1 righteons ness in the world there will be something for iniquity to grin at. All along the line of the ages and in all lands the cry has been "Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, B:ir abbas was a robber." And what makes the persecutions of life worse is that they come from people whom you have helped, from those to whom you loaned money or have started in business or whom you rescued in some great crisis. I think it has been the history of all our lives the most acrimonious assault has come from those whom we have benefited, whom we have helped, and that makes it all the harder to bear. A man is in danger of be coming cynical. A clergyman of the TJniversalist church went into a neighborhood for the establish ment of a a church ot his denomination, and he was anxious to flnl some one of that de nomination, anl he was pointed to a certain house and went there. He said to the man of the house : "I unlerstrvil you are a Uni versalis!. I want vou to help rae in the en terprise." "Well." sail the man, I am a Universal ist, but I have a peculiar kini of Universalism." "What is that?" asked the minister. "Well,"' repliel the oth-r, "I have been out in t e world, and I have been cheated and slandered aud outraged and abused until I believe in universal damna tion r The great danger is that men will become cynical and given to believe, as David was tempted to say, that all men are liars. Oh. my friends, do not let that be the effect upon j-our souls' If you cannot endure a little persecution, how do you think our fathers en lured persecution? Motley, in his "Dutch Republic," tells us of Egmont, the marts-r, who. con lemned to be beheaded, unfastened his collar on the way to the scaf fold, and when they asked him why he did that he said : "So they will not be detained In their work. I want to be ready." Oil, how little we have to endure compare! with those who have gone before us ! Now, if j'ou have come across ill treat ment, let me tell you you are in excellent company Christ and Luther and Galilei and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah Qutncy and thousands of men and women, the best spirits of earth and heaven. Budge not one inch, though all hell wreak upon you its vengeance, and you be made a target for devil3 to shoot at. Do you not think Christ knew all about persecution? Was He not hissed at? Was He not struck on the cheek? Was He not p irsuel all the days of His life? Did they not expectorate upon Him? Or, to put it in Bible language, "They spit upon Him." And can not He understand what persecution is? "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." Then there are others who carry great bur dens of physical ailments. When sudden sickness has come, and fierce choleras and malignant fevers take the castles of life by storm, we appeal to God, but in these chronic ailments which wear out the strength day after day, and week after week, and year after year, how little resorting to God for solace ! Then people depend upon their tonics, and their plasters, and their cordials rather than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, how few people there are completely well ! Some of you, by dint of perseverance and care have kept living to this time, but how you have had to war against physical ailments!1 Antediluvians, without medical college and infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by, hundreds, but he who has gone through the gauntlet of diseasa in our time an! has come to seventy years of age is a hero worthy of a palm. The world seems to be a great hospital, and you run against rheumatisms and con sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias aud scores of old diseases baptize! by new no menclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sick ness is ! It takes t he color out of the sky, anl the sparkle out of the wave, an 1 the sweet ness out of the fruit, and luster out of the night. When the limbs ache, when the res piration is painful, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy obstruc tions, how hard it is to be patient and cheer ful and assiduous ! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Does your head ache? His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His were crushed ot the spikes. Is your side painful? His was straok by the spear. Do yon feel like giving way under the burden? His weakness gave way under a cross. While you are in every pos sible way to try to restore your physical vigor, you are to remember that more sooth ing than any anodyne, more vitalizing than any stimulant and more strengthening than any tonic is the prescription of the text, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain the?.'" We hear a great deal of talk now about faith cure, and some people say it cannot, be done and it is a failure. I do not know but that the chief advance of the church is to be in that direction. Marvelous things come to me day by day which make me think that if the age of miracles is past it i3 be cause the faith of miracles is past. A prominent merchant of New York said to a member of my family, "My mother wants her case mentioned to Mr. Talmage." This was the case. He said : "My mother had a drea iful abscess, from whicn she had suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had been exhausted upon ner, and worse and worse she grew until wa called in a few Christian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We commended her case to GoJ, and the abscess began immeliately to be cured. She is entirely well now and without knife and without any surgery." So that case has come to me, and there are a score ot other cases coming to our ears from all parts of the earth. Oh, ye wno are sick, go to Christ! Oh, ye who are worn out with agonies of body, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee !" Another burden some have to carry is the burden of bereavement. Ah, these are the troubles that wear us out ! If we lose our property, by additional industry perhaps we may bring back the estranged fortune. If we lose our good name, perhaps by re formation of morals we may achieve again reputation for integrity, but who will bring back the dear departed ! Alas, me, for these empty cradles and thesfc trunks of childish toys that will never be used again ! Alas me, for the empty chair and the silence iu the halls that will never echo again to those familiar footsteps ! Alas ! for the cry of widowhood and orphanaee ! "What bitter Marahs in the wilderness, what cities of the dead, what long. blacK shadow from the wing ot death, what eyes sunken wit a crier, what hands tremulous with be reavement, what instruments of music shut now because there are no fingers to play on them' Is there no relief for such souls? Aye, let that soul ride into the harbor of my text. The soul that on J3TM hath leaned for repose I win not, I will not desert to toes, That soul, tlnunh aU hell shall endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake. Now, the grave is brighter than the an cient tomb where the lights were perpetually kept burning. The sacred feet of Him who was "the resurrection and the life" are on the broken grave hillock, while the voices of angels ring down the sky at the coronation Of another soul come home to glory. Then there are many who carry tha bur den of sin. Ah. we all "carry It until in the appointed way that burden is lifted. We need no Bible to prove that the whole race is ruined. Wlint a spectacle it would be if W3 could tear off the mask of human defilement or teat a drum that would bring up he whole army of the world's tMgre!onfrj the deception, the fraud, and the Ptae,aad the murder, and the crime of all ce!" Aye. if I could sound the trumpet of resur rection in the souls of the best men Jn this audience, and all the dead sins of the past should come up. we could not endure the sight. Sm, grim and dire, has put its clutch upon the immortal soul, and that clutch i will never relax unless it be under the heel of Him who came to destroy the works Oi tne deQh" to have a mountain of sin on the soul ! Isihere no way to have the burden moved I Oh, yes. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord. The sinless one came to take the conse quences of our sin ! And I know He is In earnest. How d I know it? By the stream ing temples and tae streaming hands as He says, "Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Why will prodigals live on swines' huski when the robe, and the ring and the Father's welcome are ready? Why go wan dering over the great Sahara desert of your sin when you are invited to the gardens of God, thfitrees of life and the fountains of living water? Why be houseless and home less forever when you may become the sons and daughters ot the Lord God Almighty i RUBBER MILK. Gathering the Valuable Gum from the Trees. I proposed to accompany the rub-; ber gatherer on his rounds, and in a few minutes we were out of sight and sound of camp, in a wild that was literally trackless, writes Edward W. Perry in Outing, in an article on how elastic gum is gathered in Mosquitea. Soon, we came to a rubber tree, its smooth gray trunk rising slender and branchless forty feet. The youth threw his burden to the ground, and looked about until he found a thicket of cariso, with stalks two inches in diameter and perhaps forty feet long. The walls of this bamboo are scarcely more than an eighth of an inch in thickness, and the joints, fully grown, are some two feet long. They grow in thick clusters, fre quently so dense that no animal can pass between the stalks. Arching they often droop until the tops sweep the ground, and the beautifully deli cate foliage is so abundant as to form an apparently solid bank of green. With a blow of his machete the hulero cut down one of these and clipped off three or four of the joints, each forming a long tube closed at one end. With these we returned to Jie rubber tree. He then made a small loop of one end of the rope we brought with us, and of the other end a large loop passing round both the tree and his own body. He put both feet through the smaller loop so that his bare soles grasped the smooth, gray bark, the rope about his ankles serving as ful crums to give his feet tight hold. Then he threw the upper loop well up the tree trunk, leaned back, and brought his feet up till they grasped the trunk eighteen inches or so from the ground. With a quick motion, he brought his body near the trunk, and at the same time threw up the loop again. At the instant of its highest rise his shoulders settled back, and caught it in place. Then his feet were hitched upward again a foot or more. Here he leaned back in the upper loop, bracing with his bare feet against the smooth tree, and with the machete cut through the bark two gashes which converged about sixteen inches below the level at which they started. Cut after cut was made in this way until he reached the branches. Then, as the hulero descended, he wetted his finger in the milk, and drew a line straight down from the lower part of one pair of V-shaped cuts to another to guide the flowing milk by the shortest way. In the lower pair of cuts he placed a piece of leaf to act as a spout "to carry the milk out from the tree to the open end of the joint of cariso standing beneath. yThe first joint was soon full, and another took its place. A plug of leaves stopped the full one, and we went on in search of another tree, which we soon found, and repeated the operation of bleeding. When a number of trees had been tapped in this way, the operator carried all the cariso joints filled with the milk to a convenient spot, where he dug a small pit in the ground. After looking about a bit he found a vine of a kind wanted, and cut from it several tender branches. These li6 crushed between two stones, then washed the bruised pulp in a panful of water, making a greenish infusion with winch he sprinkled thoroughly the walls and bottom of the pit. Into this the rubber milk was poured. In an instant that which touched the earth wet by the infu sion, coagulated. Then the contents of the pan were poured into the milk and mixed thoroughly with it, almost instantly changing it to a white, spongy mass. This was lifted out and carried to the nearest brook, where it was washed and kneaded to express the juice of the vine, which, the hulero explained, would soon harden the rubber so much that it would be little better than tuno gum, with which wicked huleros are wont to adulterate their rubber. This mode of gathering rubber de stroys the trees in two seasons, for each cutting kills that side of the tree on which the incisions are made. The government has enacted laws for the protection of the trees, but laws are ignored in these wilds. In a very few years all the trees large enough to bleed will be destroyed, and fifteen or twenty years will pass before the young crop now growing will be large enough to furnish milk at a profit. let these trees might be bled year after year without serious injury, by using an instrument that could not cut completely through the bark, and by leaving in the wound the rubber which dries there, and which will, if allowed to remain, protect the tree from decay. According to the statement of J. A. Karweise, a civil engineer just re turned from the United States of Co lombia, the interoceanic canal of the future is not to be the Panama Canal nor the Nicaragua Canal, but a canal in the northwestern corner of South America, where, it is alleged, the tides of the Atlantic and Pacific ap proach within eighteen miles of each other. This proposed waterway is to be at sea level. The canal works would be eight and five-eighths miles long, including 11,300 feet of tunnel. The total cost, with approaches formed by dredging, would be but $48,000,000. On the Pacific side San Miguel Bay would be the harbor ; on the Atlantic side the Gulf of Garien would eery that purpose. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. CfXJy CARPETS IN THE PLAY ROOMS. It is a very serious blunder on the eide of false economy to send an old and heavy carpet to finish its days in the room devoted to the children's use. In their play over it they must absorb from it something of those germs of disease that are sure to linger in it after years of service, even though it has been most carefully cleaned. By the way, there is now a carpet soap for sale for the express pxxrpose of doing this cleaning more thoroughly than has been considered possible hitherto. Detroit Free Press. SEWING ON BUTTONS. Buttons should be sewed on loosely, the knot of the double thread on the right side of the garment under the button. A pin with a small button and a darner with a large button should be inserted between the cloth and button when sewing to make the stitches loose, and then, when with drawn, the thread should be wound around, the stitches, making a shank for the play of the button-hole. But tons on children's under waist shonld be especially strong. A bit of cotton folded double where the button is to be sewed will prevent tearing out of the waist itself. Such waists should never be passed through the wringer when washed, but should always be wrung by hand. A wringer will break the buttons faster than any amount of wear. HOW TO COOK RICE. Among the hygienic foods there are few articles of diet that are at once as wholesome and cheap as rice, yet an appetizing and properly cooked dish is rarer than a tender lobster. Even the girls in the training school for nurses find it the most difficult of all invalid foods to prepare Improperly boiled, instead of sustaining strength it reduces it, for, if cooked to a paste, it is almost as indissoluble as gln-3, and if the grains are sharp or hard, the digestive organs are irritated and diarrhoea! troubles are apt to result. This highly nutritious and delicate food must be cooked slowly and kept on tho fire until every grain is thor oughly softened, but not cooked so that the shape of the grain is de stroyed. This sort of boiled rice is acceptable to the sick, and there is nothing in the list of cereals for even people of bodily health more nu tritious. It is food for children and women, because of its digestibleness, that is, the light tax it is to the stomach. ;New York Advertiser. A FOOD EXPERIMENT. Sixty-four per cent, of his income is what the average workingman pays for his food. In a food experiment undertaken by Miss Katharine Davis last summer it was satisfactorily proved that a workingman with an in come of $500 could feed himsalf, wife and three young children with nour ishing food for forty per cent, of his income, or at an average cost of fifty five cents per-day. The following are some, of the bills of fare used by Miss Davis: Breakfast Milk toa3t, Boston baked beans, coffee with milk and sugar. Dinner Brown fricassee of beef, scalloped potatoes, boiled onions ; dessert, hominy with sugar, syrup. Supper Fried bacon, bread and but ter. The second bill of fare consisted of corn-meal griddle-cakes, sugar syrup and fried potatoes for break fast ; potato soup, baked liver and boiled rice with cheese and bread for dinner ; scalloped beef with hominy, biscuit and stewed prunes for sup per. Boiled eggs and breal constituted another breakfast. The dinner that day was of picked-up codfish with milk gravy, mashed potatoes, bread and oatmeal pudding with hot sauce. Sup per Fried corn-meal mush and fried pork with milk gravy. Another day the family were fed on baked pota toes, minced beef with gravy and bread and coffee with milk and sugar for breakfast ; liver and bacon and fried potatoes with bread for dinner, and a supper of pea soup, bread and sugar syrup. New York Post. RECIPES. Breakfast Gems Two cups graham flour, two teaspoonfuls baking pow der, one egg, one teaspoonf ul sugar ; add cold water enough to make a stiif batter ; bake in hot gem irons. Escalloped Potatoes Eight or ten large potatoes ; pare, wash and chop fine ; put them in a pudding pan and cover with sweet cream or milk and seasoning; put in a small lump of but ter ; bake and serve hot. Tomato Soup One quart can toma toes, two tablespoonfuls flour, one tablespoonful butter, one teaspoonf ul salt, one tablespoonful sugar ; put on the tomatoes, with one pint water, and let come to a boil ; mix in the other ingredients with pepper and let boil fifteen minutes. Hominy Croquettes Mix two cups of cold boiled hominy with one table spoonful of hot milk, the beaten yolk of two eggs, one teaspoonful of sugar ; mix well, that there may be no lumps of hominy left, and stand away to cool. Make into round croquettas, roll ia egg and bread crumbs and fry it in smoking hot fat. Mock Cherry Pie One cup cran berries, three-quarter cup raisins, one cup sugar, one-half cup boiling water. Seed and chop tho raisins and chop the cranberries. Bake with two crusts. If boiling water is poured on raisins the stones will come out readily. If pie juice boils over in the oven a small piece of bread keeis the burnt smell from other articles baking at the same time. Rhubarb Jam This is most excel lent and healthful for children. Wash and dry the rhubarb au l cut into inch pieces. Put over the fire with a pouud of sugar, and the rind of a lemon cut thin and minced, to every pound and a quarter of the rhubarb ; simmer untd the sugar is dissolved, then remove to a quicker fire and boil for one hour. Put in self-sealing jars. Unless an asbestos mat be used it will require almost constant stirring to keep from burning. These little mats cost twenty-five cents and are made of asbestos strongly rimmed with tin. They may be placed on tha hottest fire under saucepans containing anything likely to stick and burn, aud will effectually prevent its doing so. A SIDE from the fact that the JT. cheap baking powders contain alum, which causes indigestion and other serious ailments, their use is extravagant. It takes three pounds of the best of them to go as far as one pound of the Royal Baking Powder, be cause they are deficient in leavening gas. There is both health and econ omy in the use of the Royal Baking Powder 4 ROYAL BAKING POWDER A Look Into the Future. He was poor as far as having earth ly possessions was concerned, though he had some salary, and the girl was worse off because she had no salary. Yet he loved her. - Love is a roaring lion going about seeking whom he may devour. The girl loved him also, but it was tempered by judgement and the cost of house rent, clothes, social demands and that 6ort. As previously mentioned, he loved her, and in time it came to pass that he proposed to her. "But. dear George." she urged in 7 j " the negative, "you only have $1,200 a year." This argument rather surprised him., 1 for he had an idea that $1,200 a year was not to be sneezed at. "Well," he exclaimed, "we can live on that, can't we?" She took both his hands in hers and looked straight into his large, inno cent eyes. "Live on it? Of course we can, you dear boy," she murmured, "but we would look too ridiculous for anything going around without any clothes on, wouldn't we. dear?" and poor George went down all in a heap. Detroit Free Press. The Change of Name. It is said that the practice of the wife's assuming the husband's name at marriage originated from a Roman custom, and became the common cus tom after the Roman occupation. Thus Julia and Octavia, married to Pompey and Cicero, were called by the Romans Julia of Pompey and Oc tavia of Cicero, and in later times married women in most European countries signed their names in the same manner, Vut omitting the "of." Against this view may be mentioned that during the sixteenth, and even the beginning of the seventeenth cen tury, the usage seems doubtful, since we see Catherine Perr so signing her self after she has been twice married, and we always hear of Lady Jane Grey (not Dudley) and Arabella Stu art (not Seymour). 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The tramp who was asking f r hii dinner was an open-faced kind of a chap, who might have done better than tram pi ing if he had started right, and the lady of the house noticed this when La preferred his request. "I presume," she said, in response to his call, "that you are willing to work for your dinner?" "Yes, lady," he replied, doubtfully. "Well, there's a cord of wood out there in the shed. Suppose you saw it up?" He took off his hat. ' "Excuse me, lady," he said, "bnt I'm hungry enough to enjoy a much less expensive dinner than that." And the manner of the man won him a ' 'less expensive" dinner. Detroit i'rea Press. The Marked Success of Scott's Emulsion in consump tion, scrofula and other forms of hereditary disease is due to its powerful food properties. Scott's Emulsion rapidly creates healthy flesh proper weight. Hereditary taints develop only when the system becomes weakened. 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