bel prize, which carried a reward of
money. But she Is not eligible to the
Academy. She laughingly expresses
the noble but at preseut unpopular
CMAS. P, ft ASA E. SOULE, Pnb.
idea that the wife's highest ambition
TOLEDO.
.OREGON
is to be of use to her husband,
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
Most heroes outlive their greatness.
It's easy to win a smile from
woman If she bag pretty teeth.
lie who laughs last laughs best, be
cause he knows what tickles hlni.
Once In about ten thousand times
girl really does get angry when
young man steals a kiss.
Rhode Island hns a commission for
the protection of the lobster. Newport
society must be saved at any cost
Mr. Rockefeller is suld to be hungry
for kindiy words. He ought to get a
cabinet position and then resign it
John D. Rockefeller Is no longer the
richest man In the world. He Is Just
the fellow who bug the most money.
A Pennsylvania Judge has decided
that a woman Is boss of the kitchen
Why did he omit the rest of the
bouse ?
New York has a bigamist who got
married seven times In seven days,
Evidently he didn't go much on honey
moons.
Lutner iiurbnnk Is now talking
about getting up some cobless corn,
but the really great ueslderatum Is the
cornless toe.
By building a Midway clear across
the Isthmus the Canal Commission
may lure enough men to Panama to
dig that little ditch.
A Hamburg physician has discover
ed a cure for bay fever. Write him If
your bay has fever and he will toll
you how to cure it
The discarded lover at the Wilkes
barre wedding who hugged the bride
so hard he broke three of her ribs has
the manners of a bear.
When putrlotlc duty and a big in
crease of salary meet In the ring pa
triotic uuty lias to hunt grass.' This
will occur nine times out of ten.
After burying Ambassador Torter's
John Paul Jones, the American people
will refuse to recognize any others
brought In second under the line.
When a girl begins to persuade a
young man that he ought to economize
she usually means that he should stop
spending money for cigars and save up
10 Duy ner a diamond ring.
After looking at the counterfeit pre
sentment of the mnn who Is accused
of marrying fifty women, we wonder
more than ever whnt It Is that brings
some women to Hymen's altar.
Judging from the number ot honor
ary degrees that are being scattered
over a smiling land at present, there is
some reason Tor describing the popu
latlon as 80,000,000, mostly LL. D.'s.
Some appear to be shocked at the
thought that the members of the Uni
ted States Senate, the most august de
liberative body In the world, are hot
above or Independent of the criminal
taw.
Statistics show thnt 400,000,000 "Ha
vana" cigars were manufactured in
the United States Inst year. Some
thing good and cheap must be pro
Tided for campaign smoking and elec
tion bets.
Since his return home, the King of
Spain's subjects call him "Alfonso the
Brave," because he didn't faint when
that bomb was thrown at him In
Pari. If be could only get thrown
from bis horse now or be tipped out
of his automobile Alfy'g standing as
a hero would be all that even be could
desire.
Tolerance Is a flower that is slowly
spreading in the desert of man's preju
dices and bigotries. Two recent signs
of its flourishing are the conferring of
an honorary degree on a Baptist by
an American Roman Catholic univer
sity, and the news that many who
went to the rescue of the Catholic uni
versity in Washington in Its financial
troubles were Protestants.
Dr. Tlerre Curie, who, with Madame
Curio, was the discovered of radium,
has been elected rather tardily a mem
ber of the French Academy of Sci
ence. Two years ago the Academy of
Stockholm awarded him the Nobel
prize, and-thus gave him recognition
while be was neglected at home. lie
bad twice applied in vain for a pro
fessor's chair, but the Academy has at
last atoned for its lack of encourage
ment for this distinguished man of
science. It should be remembered
that Madame Curio, who worked with
ber husband and whose labor was as
Important as bis, could share the No
A venerable American institution.
tne camp meeting, is on the wane. It
is still far from dead, but those who
know It best perceive most clearly that
its sunset hour has come. As the old
preachers of today recount in the past
tense the experiences of the circuit
rider, that pioneering apostle of
Christianity to new communities, so
uie preachers of to-morrow will tell
on occasions of reminiscence of the
former glories of the hilarious camp
meeting, when people "got religion"
and were not afraid to make a noise
about it. Fewer and fewer of the
strongest preachers attend the camp
meetings. The more cultivated church
members become the less taste they
appear to have for this sort of "old-
ume religion." Plainly, the
meeting is on the decline.
camp
Ever since Adam tried to shirk re
sponsibility for an undiscriminating
appetite for apples by laying the onus
of the wrong on Eve's shoulders man
lias been tempting the laughter of the
gods by attempting the impossible In
the same way. He is always trvinz to
suddle blame on "the other fellow." it
is a proclivity of the whole race to
"save their face" by layintr the hlnnm
of their failures on somebody else or
something else. It does not much mat
ter what it may be. They will lay it
on anything from a garden worm up to
the Almighty, and do It with an nir of
insisting that others must believe thera
and even that they believe it them
selves. It crops out in all sorts of
plnces and ways. If you have a friend
who Is given to strong drink you can
never persunde him that he is In nnr
danger, that he cannot "quit any time
he .wants to," and especially that it is
his own fault when he finds himself
mistaken In the other two particu
lars. He will glibly lay the blame on
tno dram seller, though he knows as
well as he knows anything that there
would not be any dram sellers if there
weie no dram buyers. Or he will sad
dle the blame on somebody who tempt
ed him with diabolical knowledge of
the best moment to do so or on some
body who angered him his wife, very
likely. If he be one who comes to grief
in all his business ventures he can al
ways furnish a scapegoat other than
himself. More than likely he will lay
blame on some friend who refused to
lend him a few dollars Just when good
fortune needed only the bribe of those
dollars to determine her to Jump into
ins embrace. He will never admit
that the refusal was because the friend
did not have the dollars, still less that
nis own deeds had lnariv
the friend that these dollars if loaned
would follow the others into the Umbo
of ghost dollars. Men in mnsses are
like Individuals. When those intrust
ed with public affairs botch them hope-
iessiy or, intrusted with public money,
graft it Into their own pleasures or
gains the voters always insist thnt all
the blame should be laid on these
weak vessels. They will never admit
thnt the primary fault was their own
In not knowing or caring enough about
what kind of men they trusted. From
the dawn of their schoolboy days,
when they were forever trying to get
some other boy punished for their mis
deeds, they dlsplny industry and ingen
uity in laying blame on somebody else
that, if expended in doing what they
know In their hearts Is duty, would
have brought a fair measure of suc
cess. W lien cornered beyond their In
genuity to escape they may plead
guilty If they think they can thereby
escape the penitentiary or hanging, but
rarely or never otherwise. And yet
every one of us ought to know that In
the last analysis no mother's son of us
cnn really escape the law universal of
cause and effect In very truth we do
know it, as men and women. n lnwi.
ness men, as voters and every other
wise, and yet we are forever wasting
breath in trying to wriggle away from
the law. If we could simply translate
mat Knowledge into habitual action
better conditions would come of them
selves. As a whole this may be be
yond our mortal reach, but precisely in
proportion as we approximate it will
we promote betterment for all.
A Youthful Auhhs'b.
"And what did my little darling do
in school to-day?" a Chicago mother
asked of her young sou a "second
grader." "We had nature study, and it was
my turn to bring a specimen," said
Evan.
"That was nice. What did you do?"
"I brought a cockroach In a bottle
and I told tencher we had lots more
and If she wanted I could bring one
every day."
Mall of the World.
The aggregate annual letter and
newspaper mall of the world amounts
to 82,500,000,000 pieces, of which
8,600,000,000 go through the Unitort
States malls. We have 75,000 Dost-
oflices and 500,000 miles of postal
routes, with a yearly travel over them
amounting to 500,000,000 miles.
THE CHURCH AND LABOR.
"y Rev. James MacLagan.
The high priest then asked Jesus of
Ills disciples,, und of His doctrine.
John 18: 10.
The visible head of the Hebrew
church asks the Head of the new faith
about His followers and His teach
ings. The Inquiry is still a live one;
never more so thnn at the present day.
Millions of hard-working men and
women in this and other lands would
find a new hope, a new Joy and a new
life if they could get a satisfactory
reply to It The feeling that the
church of Christ is not in sympathy
with the workers of the world would
oe rorever removed. The church
founded by the Carpenter of Nazareth
siiouiu become pre-eminently the
church of the world's workers. A vital
question for the church member of to
day is, "How do Christ's followers in
terpret His teaching to others?"
Can there be the least doubt In the
mind of any, that were the teachings
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REV. JAME8 MACLAOAN.
of Christ faithfully followed by all
professing belief in Him, no argument
would be needed to prove that the
church Is not opposed to labor? Let us
examine ourselves and, renouncing sin
in our own lives, seek to win those for
whom Christ died. We read that when
Jesus was here among men "the com
mon people heard Him gladly." May
the time speedily come again when all
the plain, ordinary, common people,
the world's backbone, will hear Him
glndly! Many of them now do so in
the church of the living Christ In
view of the great responsibility rest
ing on Christ's followers let us draw
four leading thoughts from the text
First Notice the questioner and his
spirit The attitude of the Inquirer is
vitally important. Supposed self-inter
ests mny blind the mental vision. The
high priest sought some damaging ad
mission from Jesus. Are we ever
guilty of prejudging others? The aw
ful day fast approaches when instead
of it being .Tesus before the high priest
it will be Annas and Calaphas, Herod
and Pilate, you and I, before Jesus.
Second Notice the Questioned One
during His trial. What supreme dig
nity of perfect self-command! And
He was undergoing tills for the bet
terment or tne worm: lie who re
vealed the Fatherhood of God, and
the brotherhood of man, bad all but
reached that central moment In time
to which all prophecy had looked for
ward and to which all history now
looks back. Should we fall to wor
ship Him who 1s the "fairest among
thousands, altogether lovely" r
Third Notice those inquired about.
Look at their social station. Need any
question arise as to the class of peo
ple from which they were mainly
drawn? And two of them, mentioned
by name In this chapter, mny be taken
as representative of the church mem
ber of to-day Judas who betrayed
Him, from within the circle of the
twelve, never possessed Christ's spirit,
nor should he, or any of his modern
kin, be spoken of as a product of the
church of Jesus Christ The other,
Simon Peter, fitly shows us the sin
ning, suffering, repenting and forgiven
class, who are saved by grace, and,
knowing their own weakness, have a
true and hearty welcome for all who
unite with them on the same condi-
tlons, nnd thus become the real church.
Fourth Notice the doctrine as be
ing Christ's only. Not what others
may misinterpret It to oe. His doc
trine not man's doctrine. Possessing a
perfect knowledge of the world's need,
"tempted like as we are, yet without
sin," He says, "Come unto me, all
ye thnt labor and are heavy laden, and
KMC
i win give you rest Take my yoke
upon you, and learn of me; for I am
nieen and lowly in heart: and ye shall
flll.l
icoi uiuo your souls. - l or my
joite is easy, and my burden Is light"
SPIRITUAL SELI--MEASUREMENT
Hey. C. B. r. Hallock. D. D.. Riirit.r v
"And in the man's hand a measuring
reeu. Jizeklel. 40: 5.
In this chapter we have an account
or i.zekiel'8 vision of a temple and a
city. The vision seems to have been
intended to encourage the captive
jews in Babylon that they should re
turn to their own laud, and there build
a new temple which God would own
and where He would meet them and
bless them. It seems also intended to
direct them to look further than this
and to expect the coming of the Mes
siah, who should set up a spiritual
temple, even the Gospel church, .the
glory of which should continue to the
end of time. The dimensions of this
temple and the several parts of it are
taken by a man with a line of flax
and a measuring reed, or rod. The
size of this visionary temple is so
great as to plainly Intimate that what
Ezekiel saw is not to be taken literal
ly, nut 13 to be understood lu u Bpllt
ual sense.
But it is not our purpose to descrlbo
the vision or to try to interpret It. In
stead, we wish to apply the. thought of
the mnn with the measuring rod In a
spiritual way. We wish to have it sug
gest to us the duty of spiritual self
measurement God sends to us the
man with the measuring reed. The
Bible intimates very plainly that our
thoughts nnd words nnd actions are
continually subject to Divine testing,
and most of us have a consciousness
that we are weighed In the balance
and found wanting. But we often
times forget our duty of coming up to
the Divine standard. We are guilty
of discounting our duty, of trying to
pass off fifteen ounces to the pound.
or thirty-five inches to the yard, in
character weight or character meas
urement, among our fellow men. for
getting that God sees us all the while
and measures us by an absolutely re
liable and unvarying standard.
If God mensures us then we ought
to measure ourselves. Wo mio-h- tn
lenrn so far as we can what Is his
standard nnd then measure ourselves
by It It would save us many hours
of remorse and self-reproach if we
wouId"remember the measuring man
and keep our lives up to his ideal. It
would save us from many hours of re
morse and self-reproach if we would
exercise ourselves more constantly in
me auty or measuring ourselves.
All around nre men working In the
sand. With many It Is not a summer
only, but a whole lifetime written In
nothing more substantial than the
snirtlng sand. What kind of work nir-
I doing? How substantial is it? How
much of it is going to remain? God
wants us to do abiding work, work
that will stand the test of time, of tide,
of fire work thnt shall remain.
Christ said to Ills disciples: "I have
chosen you, nnd ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, nnd
thnt your fruit shall remain." What
is my work like? Let me welcome
again the man with the measuring
reed. Let me get about the duty of
spiritual seir-testlng. It will not harm
mo, but will only make me more care
ful, make me build better, if I stop
to find out what sort of work I have
been doing. Am I building narrow or
Inrge? Am I building of wood, hay
and stubble, that the fire cnn so easily
destroy, or am I building of stone? Is
nny of my work of the kind that shall
remain?
Let us have frequent interviews
with the man with the measuring reed,
nnd be willing to have our creed, our
character, our thoughts, our words,
our works constantly brought to the
tost of God's standard.
SERAI Q.ETTES
Rights of the Tress As a free peo
ple we must ever give to the press th
privilege of uncovering the crooked
ness of men In official position. It is
a bulkwark of safety and has often
proved its worth and power in the past
history of our country and placed
many a man in the penitentiary,
where he rightfully belonged. Rev.
G. A. Knerr, Evangelist, Pottsvllle.
Pa.
Christless Commerce In the profes
sional world avarice means the worth
of art, the peddler the worth of poetry,
the trader the worth of talent and
money measures the mnn and senti
ment Is scourged from the land. Love'
and patriotism and honesty have their
worth fixed in Wall street when
Christless commerce brings In the do
minion of the dollar. Rev. M. E. Har
lan, Disciple, Brooklyn HL Y.
J
Keroaene.
Don't light the fire with It.
Use Jt on any creaking hinges.
it will often put life into
balky
castors.
For winter heating neither It nor
gag is healthful unless ample fresh
air is let In.
A few drops on the dusting cloth
brightens furniture and prevents the
dust from flying.
A few drops added to boiled starch,
makes ironing easier.
Rubbed jn the throat it will relieve
soreness.
Any metal wheels, set from dust and
disuse, may he loosend up by a few
drops.
Use it sparingly; according to an
old saying, a drop will travel a
mile."
To clean a clothes wringer quickly
rub the rollers with a cloth saturated,
with it
It is said that to apply a cloth Id
which there is a liberal amount of
kerosene to sinks, basins and bathtubs
wbt"h have beomo ?reTv nnd rii.
colored will remove the discoloratlons..
Buttermilk Bread.
Two pounds of flour, brown or
-vhite, one teaspoonful of baking pow
der, one-eighth ounce of bicarbonate
of soda, a pinch of salt, a dessert
spoonful of white sugar, if liked. Put
the flour into a basin, and mix all the
other Ingredients on a board, taking
care to leave no lumps; add to tha
flour, and mix in a firm dough with
sour buttermilk, knead It a little, maka
It into loaves, and bake it at once.
Sour does not mean rancid buttermilk.
If it is sweet double the baking pow
der and leave out the soda; but It
will not be so good.
CalfVFoot Fritters,
Procure a set of calf's feet; simmer
very gently until the. meat will slip,
from the bones, keeping the liquor
well skimmed. Place the meat on a
board, flatten it with a knife dipped
into boiling water, sprinkle over It a
seasoning of pepper, salt, chopped
ham, fried mushrooms, parsley and
a very finely chopped shallot. Thea
roll up and press until cold. Cut Into
neat slices, dredge with flour, dip Into
a frying batter and cook In boiling fat
until a nice golden brown. Drain,
thoroughly and serve.
Flan Salad.
This Is pronounced by many epi
cures quite equal to that made from
chicken. Cold boiled or steamed fish
of any description may be used for
this, and after removing bones and
breaking the meat fine, pour over it a
little vinegar, pepper and salt Let
the fish stand at least an hour before
adding an equal amount of celery. Ar
range in your salad bowl, upon a bed
of lettuce leaves and pour over th
whole a liberal allowance of mayon
naise dressing.
Ginger Cakea.
Mix and sift together six cups flour,
two tablespoons ginger, one tablespoon
cinnamon and one tablespoon soda.
Heat one-half cup lard or butter, one
cup New Orleans molasses and one
cup brown sugar until boiling. Tak
from the fire, add one cup of sour
cream and pour gradually Into tha
flour mixture, beating until smooth.
Pat and roll out, cut Into small cakea
and bake In a moderate oven.
Potato Cakea.
To thoroughly mashed potatoes, add
salt butter, a little
dent milk to moisten slightly. Before
perfectly cold add a beaten egg mix
ing well. Shape into flat round 'cake
and put away to cool. When ready
to
fry, roll in flour and fry in hot
butter. Turn carefnliv with
made and brown the othBr ,ihq o
hot at once.
Fiah with Lemon Butter.
Cream two tablesnoonfuls r h,,t-.
add a teaspoonful of lemon Juice and
half a teaspoonful of finely minced
parsley. Set on ice half an hour be
fore using. Dish the fish. i
of lemon around the edge of the dish,
encircle each slice with parsley, and
on each slice of lemon put a bit of
savory butter. Serve very cold
French Muatard.
Rub four tablespoonfuls nf a
tart to a paste with n tablespoonful
of salad oil. Add enough vinegar
make a thin paste and sen nnn wifk
teaspoonful each of paprika, sugar
Potatoea One Size.
Potatoes when cooking ghoul(1 .
all of one sl.e, or they cook unequal!
... vu.,8 mining potatoes.
proper aort for the purpose nius b
secured, as some will not boll well
but turn claylike instead of mealy