TRAINED TO MURDER
ASSASSIN8 ONCE FORMED A VERY
INFLUENTIAL SECT.
Had Their Origin In the East and
Spread Their Deadly Work Over
Almost All Countries of
the World.
The assassination of King George of
Greece recalls the fact that the word
lteelf Is derived from a regular or
der of men pledged to take life, es
pecially the life of a ruler.
The assassin sect was an offshoot
of the Shlah form of Mohammedan
ism, but its tenets comprised frag
ments of magtanlsm (or sorcery), Ju
daism and Christianity, as well as of
the teachings of the Koran. It was
in Borne respects not unlike the Druses
of Mount Lebanon, with whose out
breaks the name of Lord Dufferin was
honorably connected long before he
became governor general of Canada.
Its founder, who gave it his name,
was Hassan Ben Sabah, chief of the
famous mountain fortress of Alamoot
In Persia, about 1090. He .gathered
about him a body of fearless young
men, pledged to obey him and highly
trained In various methods of mur
der. These were dispatched, generally
singly, to end wars by killing kings
or generals, or to destroy rivals or
personal enemies.
In order to give them courage for
their villainous work, they were taught
to make use of haschlsh, the drug
called chang In India, derived from
the leaves of the common hemp plant,
which is terribly intoxicating. In Ara
bic they were called haschlschln from
this fact.
These men followed their instruc
tions In every country, as Is shown by
the fact that all the European nations
have the word in their languages, as
easslnen In German, assassin In
French, aesino in Spanish, assasslno
in Portuguese and Italian, etc. But
they nourished especially to the east,
where they also used the terror of
their name for blackmailing purposes.
The Knight Templars In the time of
Richard Coeur de Lion, fought them
openly, the leaders of the crusades
having suffered seriously from their
designs, and also spread the knowl
edge of them and of their leader,
known to them as the "Old Man of the
Mountains," throughout Christendom.
Not even Persia had more horrible
assassinations than had France at the
time of the revolution, and there was
awful rightfulness In the words In
which the Jyrant Robespierre ad
dressed the national convention, when
he was refused permission to make a
defense against the fate to which he
had consigned so many, and which
now threatened him: "President of As
sassins," said the deposed ruffian, "for
the last time I ask liberty to speak,"
for by assassins nowadays we mean
Dot members of the sect of that name,
but a murderer who spills life blood
for any other than a purely personal
reason.
' True Hero.
Many stories have been told of the
heroism of the Albanians, whose
country Is at the present moment be
ing devastated by the war in the Bal
kans. ' An Incident showing how in
born is the courage of that daring
people has Just been related by a
British war correspondent, Captain
Trapmann. , .
He was cycling alone an Albanian
road one day, when he came across a
bright little girl of about sis and a
boy of five. The girl was asking for
' bread. He got off and spoke to her,
and she Immediately understood he
was a foreigner, and It appeared to
her that he could not be anything but
a Turk. At once both children look
ed terrified, and then to his surprise
and admiration the little fellow caught
him by the legs and shouted to his
sister, "Run!"
Am ta nrawilnau In Chumk.
The discovery has been made by a
western art professor that drowsiness
In church is due not so much to the
sermon as to a clashing color scheme
In church decoration. "How can a
person listen to an addross when the
decorations of the church are Inharm
onious T When the curtains are pink,
the cushions red and the decorations
are yellow, and blue the emotions of
the audience are affected and they be
come drowsy." Tet a pale pastel hue
In the pulpit doubtless has a somno
lent effect on the congregation.
tlim UU Auj.u
Master (who is trying to make a
good Impression on his strait-faced
aunt from whom he has expectations)
"Mary, have you seen a letter any
where about marked 'Private'?" Mary
"You mean the one from the man
what can't get 'is money out of you,
sir? I put It be'ind the mirror, sir."
Punch.
Electiie Current and Nerves.
Along human nerves the electric
current travels at from 83 to 60 yards
a second.
BILLIONS OF HORSE POWER
Enormous Amount of Electric Energy
Developed In the Central Sta
tions of America.
Twelve billion horsepower. That la
the combined electrical power output
of the 7,500 central stations in the
United States. Can yoa conceive what
these figures actually mean? asks the
Electrical News.
One literal soul to whom the ques
tion was recently put objected that
"there aren't that many horses in the
world."
There are not The objection was
perfectly sound. But the fact remains
that the power output of this country's
central stations is Just about equal to
the energy of those twelve billion hy
pothetical equlnes.
And that is not one-half o the total
electrical power produced in the
United States. The twelve billion to
tal Includes only public service com
panies and does not include the great
steam railroad and - manufacturing
companies which produce and use
their own power. The total power thus
produced is easily double the output
of the central stations.
It is a little difficult for the mind to
grasp what such vast amounts of pow
er really mean. Take It this way. The
largest standard locomotive which pull
the fastest passenger trains are rated
at about 6,000 horsepower. It would
take nearly 6,000,000 of these big lo
comotives to equal the energy pro
duced by American electrical power
stations. Take the biggest transatlan
tic liner, nearly a thousand feet long
with its engines rated at 70,000 horse
power. To equal the electrical power
output of the United States would
take 342,867 of these liners, with a
combined length that would reach
more than twice around the globe.
The figures of the census of 1910 on
the electrical Industry are astounding,
and yet these statistics are admittedly
Incomplete.
"The growth of electrical Industries
has been so rapid," recently declared
Dr. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler, "that
no method has yet been devised by
the government census takers to clas
sify Its ramifications In the census of
manufactures. No matter to what ex
tent the steam railroads electrify,
they are still classified under steam
railroads. The thousands of poles used
to string wires are classified under
the lumber Industry. The great cop
per companies, producing practically
exclusively for electrical industries,
are classified under the copper Indus
tries." Dr. Wheeler estimates that the to
tal business in electrical machinery in
the United States was in the neigh
borhood of $300,000,000 for 1912. This
estimate seems conservative when we
realize that the last census reported
the total business for 1309 at 8243,000,
000. Living With People.
"I could live with anybody," said a
bright young woman the other day.
"If the other party to the agreement
would leave me alone. Brother Jack
and I get on capitally, when we run
the house alone. He minds his own
affairs and I mind mine. He Isn't al
ways rushing Into my room to see if
I remembered to sew shields in my
waists, and if I remembered to put
on my heavy flannels this morning
because it Is colder, or to ask if I
realise It Is half-past eight and I am
due at school at nine o'clock. And I
am not nagging him to wear rubbers
every time there 1b a sprinkle nor in
sisting on knowing what girl he took
home from church Sunday night nor
fussing at him because he talks ten
minutes over the 'phone. We just
take it for granted that the other
thinks, and let it go at that If a
person has human intelligence enough
to think, surely he or she can take
care of little things without being
eternally nagged. Living together is
very simple if you Just mind your own
business. It is when someone minds
it for you that you want to live on a
desert island."
Child's Constancy.
If only we realized it, if only we
cultivated It more, we could see with
clear-eyed vision that all of a child's
original nature breathes constancy.
It Is an essential strength of the un
dented child's nature to be constant
Not until our own false examples have
attacked the natural purity of the
child does It become inconstant un
reliable. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Altruistic.
Mrs. Flttterby "So you are on the
visiting committee of your social
workers' society. I should think you'd
find It dreadfully irksome making all
those slum calls. Mrs. Hunter-Fadde
"I'm willing to make the sacrifice
for a good cause. Every visiting day
I send my maid around with my
cards." Judge.
Considerate Wife.
"I shall use the money you gave me
to spend on my birthday, John," said
the wife, tenderly, "in the purchase of
something that will constantly remind
me of your generosity. I shall have
the portraits of my first three hus
bands beautifully framed and hung In
our sitting-room."
ROLLED STEAK GOOD
WITH BROWNED POTATOE8 IT IS
FIT FOR EPICURES.
Dainty Dressing That Should Go With
the Meat Spiced Beef Relish
Creamed and Baked Hash
Both Fine. ,
Rolled Steak, Browned Potatoes.
Have the bone removed from two
pounds of round steak. Make a dress
ing of two cups of bread crumbs dry
a quarter of a pound of salt pork,
chopped very fine; a dash of pepper,
and a little sago, or parsley and onion
juice, spread this over the steak, roll
up carefully and tie in at least three
places to keep the roll in shape. Put
into the roasting pan with a cup of
hot water and a tablespoonful of lard
or bacon fat Bake In moderately hot
oven; basting often; and put the po
tatoes into the pan with the roll to
brown, turning them when brown on
one side. Make a gravy with the
brown glaze In the pan, after drain
ing off the fat and adding a cup of
cold water. Stir over the fire and the
glaze will loosen and give you a nice
brown liquid for for your gravy.
Spiced Beef Relish. Take two
pounds of raw beef and chop very
fine; add half a teaspoonful of salt; a
quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper;
half a teaspoonful of sage, and two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Roll
two crackers very fine, add to the mix
ture and bind together with two beat
en eggs. Shape into roll and bake,
basting often with, melted butter and
water. Slice cold. Serve with horse
radish mayonnaise.
Creamed Hash. Cut beef, veal or
mutton In slices, then chop fine and
brovn in a little fat pork or bacon
drippings. Drain from the fat and in
to same pan put two tablespoonfuls of
flour to two of the fat and rub
smooth. Then add a cup of rich milk,
or cream, if you can spare it Salt
and pepper to taste aad stir until it
bolls up. Then add the meat and cook
long enough to heat thoroughly and
pour over toasted slices of bread.
Baked Hash. Take one and one
quarter pounds of shoulder or neck of
mutton, lean as you can get It Cov
er with boiling water and cook ten
der. Remove the bones and gristle
and chop meat very fine. Add three
boiled and creamed potatoes, a table-
spoonful of salt; pepper to taste; a
tablespoonful of parsley minced very
line, and a few dropB of onion juice.
Mix all together and turn Into a bak
ing dish. Pour over mixture a table
spoon milk, add fine bread crumbs
mixed with melted butter and bake
a nice brown, about twenty minutes.
Serve from the same dish.
Pure Vinegar.
When paring apples, peaches or
apricots for canning or table use,
wash thoroughly, cover parings with
water, cook slightly or set in warm
place twq days. Strain, sweeten with
sugar, put Into jugs, bottles, crocks,
tie with cloth cover. Fill one, then
the next. Keep in warm place and
you will have pure vinegar with very
little expense, writes a contributor
to Lob Angeles Express. I rinse fruit
cans, jelly and jam glasses, syrup cans
and all sweets for the vinegar Jug. In
this was I never buy vinegar unless
putting up lots of pickles.
Scour Kettles With Pieces of Lemon.
Never throw away pieces of lemon
after they have been squeezed with
the lemon squeezer, for they come in
bandy for removing stains from the
bands and elsewhere. Dipped into
salt they will scour copper kettles
nicely and remove stains from brass
work. Lemon like this . will take
stains, dirt and odor from pans and
kettles as nothing else will. The
odors of fish and onions can thus be
easily removed.
Fresh Pork 8tew.
Two quarts water, two pounds pork,
two quarts potatoes sliced, one onion,
one small carrot, slice of turnip, all
cut fine, salt and pepper to taste.
When cooked thicken with one table
spoon of flour in cup of cold water;
let boll. Serve with croutons.
Hard Gingerbread.
One cup of butter, two cups of su
gar, one-half oup of milk, one-half tea
spoon of soda, two teaspoons of gin
ger, flour enough to roll thin. Cut in
squares and bake quickly.
Pineapple Sherbet
One) can grated pineapple, two cups
sugar, two quarts water, juice of two
lemons, two tablespoons gelatin; heat
pineapple, sugar and water to boiling,
pour onto gelatin which has been
softened in one-half cup cold water;
add lemon juice, cool and freeze.
Klllarney Cocktail.
Take all the pulp from grapefruit
and chill. When ready to serve,
place In glasses, dust with powdered
sugar and garnish with green creme
da-menthe cherries.
JELLIED TONGUE FOR SUPPER
Should Stand Twelve Hours Before
Using, but Is Well Worth the
Time Consumed.
Jellied Tongue. This Is also a nice
luncheon or cold supper dish. Boll a
tongue tender, so the skin will pull
off readily; cut it in thin slices and
arrange In a mold lined with the slices
of lemon In the bottom. Cover with
jelly made of one box of gelatin dis
solved In a cup of cold water. Add a
quart of boiling water, less one cup,
the juice of four lemons and two cups
of sugar; stir until dissolved; strain
into the mold, and set away to hard
en. This should stand 12 hours before
using.
Scotch Roll. Remove the tough
skin from about five pounds of flank
of beef. With a sharp knife cut the
meat from the thick part and lay it on
the thin, mix together two table
spoonfuls of salt, half a teaspoonful
pepper, one-eighth of teaspoonful of
cloves and a teaspoonful of summer
savory. Sprinkle this over the meat
and then sprinkle on three tablespoon
fuls of vinegar. Roll up and tie with
twine and put away in a cold place
for 12 hours. Then place in a stew
pan, cover with boiling water and sim
mer gently for three and a half hours.
Mix four heaping tablespoons flour
with half a cup of cold water and
stir Into the gravy. Season to taste
with salt and pepper and let simmer
for an hour longer. Serve hot or
cold.
CHINA GIVEN ESPECIAL CARE
Simple Reason Why the Modern Ar
' tide Does Not Last as Long as
In the Olden Days.
An idea is prevalent that modern
china is not as durable as the china
of our grandmothers' day. This con
clusion is drawn by a comparison of
the fine old pieces whose color and
gold is still perfect, with the compar
ative short life of modern sets. But
In arriving at the conclusion, we ought
also to consider the difference In the
care given by our grandmothers and
that of the modern housewife. No
careless servant was ever entrusted
with that precious old china; no
strong cleansers were allowed to tar
nish its gold; and every slender han
dle was looked upon with especial
reverence. "Washing the china" was
a sort of household rite, very differ
ent from the ordinary washing of
dishes. One dear, stately old grand
mother of the old school with many
servants at her command, never al
lowed her finest china to leave the
dining-room. After it had been used,
she cheerfully tied on a big apron,
had water, cloth and the towels
brought in, and it was indeed a priv
ilege to watch her graceful, white
hands at their task of "washing the
cups" as she invariably expressed it
Alice Margaret Ashton, In Today's
Magazine.
Cherry Moss.
Soak one tablespoonful of granu
lated gelatin in three tablespoonfuls
of cold water five minutes. Add one
fourth cupful of boiling water, and as
soon as gelatin is dissolved add 1
cupfuls of dark red canned cherries
(stoned and cut in halveB) and one
half cupful of juice drained from the
canned cherries. When mixture be
gins to thicken add the whites of two
eggs, beaten until stiff, and a few
grains of salt Turn into a mold first
dipped In cold water, and chill thor
oughly. Remove from mold to serving
dish and surround with whipped
cream sweetened and flavored with va
nilla. Sprinkle with Jordan almonds,
blanched, cut in shreds lengthwise,
and bakd in a slow oven.
Cooking Vegetables.
When cooking vegetables remem
ber that all vegetables which grow
above ground should be put into boil
ing water, and all which grow under
ground in cold water with the ex
ception of new potatoes.
Pressed Veal.
Boil one 15-cent veal shank with one
onion, one clove, one-half bay leaf and
plenty of salt and pepper until the
meat drops to pieces and a little liquid
is left Take out all the gristle and
bone and mince. Put into a bread tin
lined with oiled paper, with one sliced
cold hard-boiled egg and a little
chopped parsley on the bottom, and
press the meat down firmly. Pour
over it Just enough liquid to cover.
Let It stand two hours, turn out and
slice.
Luncheon Bread.
There is no better way of using
sour milk than in making a spoon
bread after this recipe: Break an egg
into two cupfuls of sour milk and then
sift into the mixture a generous cupful
of white corn meal, half a teaspoonful
of salt and half a teaspoonful of soda;
beat this mixture thoroughly. Grease
a pan or dish holding about a quart
and put it on the stove till it Is very
hot; then pour the batter Into it and
bake till a delicate brown In a hot
oven. This will take about a quar
ter of an hour. Serve immediately.
KEEP THE MIND ALERT
LACK OF MENTAL OCCUPATION
ALWAY3 A MENACE.
No One Should Leave His Mind the
Sport and Prey of Evil Influ
ences Through Lack of
Occupation.
In a somewhat unsavory divorce
case a famous expert testified that the
woman was suffering from a "mental
vacuum." When, on leaving the stand,
he was asked what he meant, he said:
"A mental vacuum le a space created
in a person's mind by lack of some oc
cupation or condition of environment
which would naturally fill It"
That there can be such a thing as,
at least, a partial "mental vacuum,"
will hardly be denied. But many will
doubt whether, as was argued in this
case, a vacuum can be created in the
mind of one person by the action of
another. Those who are familiar with
their New Testament will recall the
story of the soul from which the evil
spirits had been driven out Here It
Is: "When the unclean spirit is gone
out of a man, he walketh through dry
places, seeking rest; and finding none,
he salth, I will return unto my house
whence I came out And when he
cotnet he findeth it swept and gar
nished. Then goeth he, and taketh to
him seven other spirits more wretched
than himself; and they enter In, and
dwell there; and the last state of that
man Is worse than the first."
Here was a "soul vacuum." created
by the expulsion of evil. And evil re
turned with greatly reinforced
strength. It Is precisely eo with a
"mental vacuum." It can be filled, and
must be filled If ruin Is to be avoided.
No one need leave his mind the sport
and prey of evil Influences. But the
only way to exclude those influences
Is to keep th'e mind filled with noble
thoughts and eound learning. It is
the emptiness that invites and prac
tically Insures Invasion. And the emp
tiness is the result, not of the activity
of another, but of one's own neglect
Men are very largely what they are
because of what they think. This was
recognized by the apostle, and his
words are truo, whrther applied to the
Intellectual or the spiritual life. If
character Is molded by thought the
thought must be lofty If the character
Is to be lofty. So we have this- advice
from the apostle: "Whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are hon
est, whatsoever thlng3 are juet, what
soever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things
are of good report; If there be any vir
tue, and If there bo any praise, think
on these things."
Wo doubt whether there can be such
a thing as an absolute "mental vac
uum," that Is, a wholly tenantless
mind, so empty as to be widely open to
evil. It muet be filled, and with things
that are true, lovely and of good re
port Otherwise It will become the
slave of other Influences. It Is not
enough to "cease to do evil" men
must "learn to do well." Virtue con
sists, not In the absence of evil, but
In the presence of good. That is the
teaching both of Christianity and of
the non-Christian philosophers. Indi
anapolis News.
Firm Stand.
"Have you decided what appoint
ment you will ask for?" "No," replied
the applicant for appointment, "but I
took a firm stand and let the adminis
tration know that on its action de
pends my decielon on the advieabllity
of granting more than a single presi
dential term." Washington Star.
Won't Stand for That
Mrs. Fitzwell (socially Inclined)
"My dear, I have picked out a hus
band for you." Her Daughter "Very
well; but I tell you emphatically that
when It comes to buying the wedding
dress I'll select the material myself."
Holland's Busiest Man.
On a sign over a barber's shop at
Stlerom, Holland: "Barent Wonters
lends donkeys on hire like his father,
kills pigs, smokes hams, and occupies
himself with all kinds of swinish de
tail work; rIbo shaves and cuts hair,
except on Sundays."
Contradictory.
Queer things, these alleged wise
saws. "Know thyself," for instance.
On the other hand, "familiarity breeds
contempt" How do you dope that
out?
Complimenting Dad.
"I hear that you undertook to chas
Use that precocious youngster of
yours." "Yes, and I got t little re
spect out of blm, too." "How do you
know?" "Ho told me that If 1 would
go to .the gym and train a little he
thought he could make a bard hitter
out of me."
Where the Rhine Is Busy.
The traffic on the Rhine between
Strasburg and the Holland frontier
amounts to the enormous total of for
ty million tons annually,