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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
GESuINE GEORGIA BISCUITS,

The Southern biscuit is u rather thin
cake baked like New England soda bis
cult, but much thinner, and made usual
ly of buttermilk and soda, rather than
sweet milk. This gives a crisp, faky
cake. Mix through a quart of flour, an
even half teaspoonful of soda, sift it
through several times, add teaspoonful
of butter aud one of lard, rubbing them
through the flour repeatedly. Stir a
Scant pint of buttermilk through the flour
and beat the mass together very rapidly.
Roll it out on Toured board and dredge,
then roll out half an inch thick and cut
with a small cutter. Bake in very
quick oven fifteen or twenty minutes.
This is a biscuit that appears on the table
Of many Georgia families day after day as
a regular breakfast dish. tits especially
delicious made by practised hands.-Nsw
York Tribune.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Fear naturally quickens the fight o
guilt.
knowledge is more than equivalent tx
force.
What cannot be required is not to b.
regretted.
Though matrimony may have some
pains, celibacy has few pleasures.
Marriage is feast where the grace i:
sometimes better than the dinner.
The happiness of love is in action; its
test is what one is willing to do fol
others.
If we will stand boggling at imaginary
evils, let us never blame horse fol
starting at shadow.
The heart is like the tree that give;
balm for the wounds of man only wher
the iron has pierced it.
By indulging this fretful temper yor
ALLEVIATE those on whose affection much
of your comfort depends.
Success soon pals. The joyous time
is when the breeze first strikes your sails,
and the waters rustic under your bows.
All of us who are worth anything
spend our manhood in unlearning the
follies or cxpiating the mistakes of oul
youth.
There is a great many duties, and we
have to balance their claims as best we
can. 1t will not do always to choose
our fayorites.
would rather have trusted the refine
ment of our language, as to sound, to
the judgment of the women than to half
witted poets.
Civility, intended to make us easy, i
employed in laying chains and fetter!
upon us, in debarring us of our wishes
and in crossing our most reasonable de-
sires.
The independence of character
founded upon an honest conviction, vii
not be disturbed at the envious spirit Of
contempt by which some people betra!
their own conceit.
Of all the passions, jealousy is tha
which cxacts the hardest SERVICE ant
pays the bitterest wages. Its service i
to watch the success of our enemy; it
wages to be sure of if.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS,

If ribbons need renewing, wash them
in cool soap suds, cover with clean
cloth and iron when damp.
A disk or wafer of sealing wax placed
in the bottom of glass bowl will give
crushed ice pretty, delusive glow.
The bread of the hour is called cres-
seny. 1t sell at fifty cents pound, and
is served with the soup and cheese
courses.
A small piece of paper or linen moist
ened with turpentine, and put into the
wardrobe or drawers for single day Or
two or three times year, is q preventive
against moths.
To set delicate colors in embroidered
handkerchicfs, soak them ten minutes
previous to washing in a pail of tepid
water, in which desscrtspoonful of tur,
pentine has been we'll stirred.
Hard-boiled eggs served in hot
gravy or vinegar is recent gastronomic
introduction of some of the fashionable
clubs in London. The dish is said to
have had its origin in India.
The yellow room has had its day, the
blue room is passe and the crimson
and gold apartment too emphatic to be
aesthetic. Now it is white for brides,
debutantes and young mothers.
An excellent way of cooking eggs is
to break them in boiling milk without
beating; cook slowly, stirring now and
then. When done soft pour into dish
and add little pepper, salt and butter.
When you boil cabbage tie bit OF
dry bread in bag and put it in the ket-
tie. French cooks say that all the un-
pleasant odor which makes house smell
like an old drain will be absorbed by the
bread.
Do not scrape the inside of frying
pans, as after this operation any prepara.
ton fried is liable to catch or burn to
the pan. If the pan is black inside, rut
it with hard crust of bread and wash
in hot water mixed with little soda.
Unsightly fire places may be converted
into spicy, woody, SYLVAN hooks by
rustic arrangement of balsam, palm, bit
ter-sweet and mistletoe branches. Tht
greens are piled up on the hearthstont
unless they can be interlaced about tht
fender and apron.
Many people iron towels and put then
away before they are dry. This is al
error, and sometimes leads to results no
|, expected. In this damp condition thert
!: is mold which forms on them callet
oidium, one variety of which causes nu
merous skin diseases.
It is quite essential to have your table
linen Numbered with the manufacturer
fnish otherwise known as the damasl
finish. Only the French laundrcss under
stands the trick. From her hand OLE
napery is given such beautiful finisl
that you can't tell it from the new loom
When your table-cloths are worn ou
beyond mending, cut square pieces from
the best parts of them and hem neatly
They will make nice napkins for holding
the children's lunches, or for the littl
cnes to use at the table, for if they ar
stained or lost your set will not b
broken.
To remove mildew and iron rust
s Spread the garment stained on the gras
In tho hottest sun and squeeze over th
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DR. rALMAGE's APPEAL FOR AID.

On the morning Of the day on which the
foregoing sermon was to have been delivered
nv Dr.. Talmaee, his church, the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, was completely destroyed by
fire. DR.. Talmage has issued the following
appeal for aid to all his friends throughout
Christendom:
To the People,:
By sudden calamity we are without a
church. The building associated with so
much that is dear to us is in ashes. In be-
half of my stricken congregation I mako ap-
peal for help, as our church has never con-
fined its work to this locality. Our church
has never been sufficient either in size or
appointments fc- the people who come. We
want to build something worthy Of our city
and worthy of the cause Of God. We want
100000, which, added to the insurance, will
build what is needed. make appeal to all
our friends throughout Christendom, to all
denominations, to all creedS and those Of no
creed at all, to come to our assistance.
Il ask all readers of my sermons in the world
over to contribute as far as their means will
allow. What we do as Church depends
upon the immediate response made to this
call. Twas on the eve of my departure for
brief visit to the Holy Land, that might be
better prepared for my work here, but that
visit must be postponed. I cannot leave until
something is done to decide our future. May
the God who has our destiny as individuals
and churches in His hand appear for our de-
hverance.
Response to this appeal to the people may
be sent to me. Brooklyn, NY" and I will,
with my own hands acknowledge the receipt
thereof. T. De WITT TALMAGE.
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How Stars are Photographed.

The method Of photographing stars IS
interesting, the Chicago Herald says.
When the photographer places in the
focus of the telescope highly sensitive
Photographic plate the vibrations OF the
rays of lii ght throw themselves assiduously
on the plate and steadily apply to the
task of shaking asunder the molecules OF
silver salts in the gelatine film. Just as
the waves of ocean by necessarily beating
against shore will gradually wear away
the mightiest cliff or the toughest rock,
so the innumerable millions of waves OF
light persistently impinging upon single
point of the plate will at length effect the
necessary decomposition, and so engraTe
the image of the star. 1t would be OBJ
vious that this process will be the more
complete the longer the exposure Is per-
mitted, and thus we sec one OF the
reasons why photography forms such an
admirable method of depicting the stars
We can give exposures of many minutes
or of one, two, three Or four hours, and
NIL the time the effect is being gradually
accumulated. Hence it is that star
which is altogether too feeble to produce
an impression upon the most acute eye,
fortified by telescope OF the utmost
power, may yet be competent, when a
sufficient exposure has been allowed, to
leave its record on the plate. Thus it Is
that photographs of the heavens disclose
to us the existence of stars which could
never have been detected except for this
cumulative method of observation that
photography is competent to give. No
telescope is required, as the photoghaphlc
apparatus takes the exact impression.
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spots lemon juice, sprinkling it thickly
with salt. This will draw out the heavy
iron-rust stains if the sun is hot enough.
Renew the process if it is not successful
the first time.
Every mother knows how difficult it is
to clean the baby's finger-nails. By
folding some tissue paper into q sharp
point, and when using it calling the at
tention of the baby to something else,
this simple task can be easily performed.
The paper is so soft that it does not hurt
the tender flesh, yet it is sufficiently
firm to remove every particle of dirt.
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No More PENNSYLVANIA Dutch.

In twenty-five or thirty years, if not
before, the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect
will be to all intents and purposes dead
language. There have been very great
changes during the last ten or fifteen
years and the rapidity with which they
arc taking place is being accelerated
every year. This is noticeable in the
churches, in the newspapers, in the
language of business, in intercourse with
the people and in the increased facility
with which one who does not understand
the dialect can make himself understood
wherever he goes. When the Presby-
terian Church was founded in Reading
about half century ago, it was done
chiefly because there were few people
who wanted to have English preaching
and the only way to have it was to found
q new church. Now there are only three
or four out of forty churches where the
services are conducted in the German
language.
A score of years ago there was serious
split in the Trinity Lutheran Church, the
largest in the city, because some of the
members wanted one service each week
in English. Now and for long time
past all the services in that church have
been in English. In the country all the
young people who come up for ''confr'
nation" have been taught the catechisn
in English, and where they have moi
already been granted it they are clamor
ing for English services in the churches,
and all the old style preachers who have
been accustomed to delivering German
sermons all of their lives find that they
must begin to yield little to the new
demands or sacrifice their usefulness ano
popularity. Every parent who is ambi
tious for his children desires that the!
shall learn to speak English, every young
man and woman feels chat to do so Is
much desired accomplishment, and ther'
are few of the younger generation wht
arc not able to understand and carry OF
conversation in the language of the coun
try, though IN their homes and in thei
ordinary business they may use tn
Pennsylvania Dutch.
In Reading the language of the street
of the store and of all public places j
English, and Pennsylvania Dutch is sci
dom heard except in some of the quite
wards. 1t is still, of course, dcsirabl
that clerk or 4 conductor of a great re
tail store should be able to talk Pennsyl
vania Dutch, but it is no longer abso
lutely necessary, and it is becoming les
so every year. Out in the boroughs ant
larger villages more and more English
being constantly heard, the Englis
newspaper is everywhere seen, and i
every possible direction the old languag
is losing its hold and English is bein
substituted. d.-Ne,0 York Sun.
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lItn TOWARDS GOD.

Whoever would become rich towards God
must also give away bountifully. This l.
one of the Christian parado1es. He that
h ards for SELF loses; he that loses for
ChristS sake is sure to save. God loyeth
cheerful giver. This law Of giving and
getting back must not be limited to the
urse or check-book. l often wish that
were tie po sessor Of the wealth of Leno1
or a Dodge, a Slater or Cooper, provided
that I rad also the big hearted benevolence
that those princely men were enriched with.
But rich soul does not require large
bank account; it gives as the sun gives, out
of its own stores Of golded radiance. Rich
souls are not assessed in the tax collectors
office. -
If you want to be rich in heavenly wealth,
practice giving and give without stint. Out
of vout heart give your prayers. Inc
influence and Inheritance ct mothers
prayers outweigh the millions OF Wander.
bilt. The richest people in my church and
the best dividend payers to. the Lord are
those who pray the most fervently and shed
out the purest example. Learn t. o, how to
contribute your personal labor. Some .peo-
ple fooliShly try to compound with God by
raying their money, instead Of giving their
own presence in a prayer-meetlng, ana tneT
personal work in mission schools, temper
nnce reform, or other lives Of godly actlvi-
ty. This is self-robbery. Give yourseif,
and Christ will, in turn, give YOU Hlmselt.
Then will you be one Of Gods mi llionaires.
Oh, for q holy coveteusness! Determine,
NV friend, to grow ricb, exceeding rich in
faith. rich in good works, rich in reverence
of ioy and in the love of Jesus. Then, nc
matter ON what street you live, or in what
style your heart will be filed with all :,
pleasant and precious riches. You will be
heir to magnificent pos sessions up yonder.
Heaven will he neither poor-house nor hos.
pital.-Dr. Cuyler in "Ch'istian at Work.'
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NATHANIEL. 7. HOWARD, retired

NATHANIEL. J. HOWARD, q retired
capitalist of San Francisco, was an
original "Forty-niner." He says: Il
was in Frisco when there were 43,OOt
men and not single family. Judge
Terry, who was shot down while at
taoking Justice Field, made lot OF
trouble in those days, and 1 was a
member of the vigilance committee
that kept him seven weeks in its rooms
while awaiting the result of the shot
wounds Terry gave Hopkins. Had
Hopkins died-and he was mighty
close to death-Terry would have beer
lynched, He richly deserved it,"
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RELIGIOUS READING.
WHAT is HE WORTH


You say the man is worth million
And think you've answered me;
care not if he own billion,
IT'S the man I want to see!
And now I'll ask question or two
This man-w at is he worth?
Is it ca n that cam, from the Lord knows
who,
And broad, square m;lcs of earth?
Dare you assert, in broad daylight,
That this is the worth OF man?
It takes indeed sordd wignt
With favor this to scan.
Tho treasures of the brain and heart,
The mi i'd and body's health,
And what turns men to tn better part
These constitute true wealth.
If your friend has only what you said,
He is worth Just nothing at all;
Let his acres of earth cover him, dead,
And buy him o funeral pail!
Detroit Free Press.
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wrought for him, and as the newly arrived
soul tells Of the grace that pardoned and the
mercy that saved him, all tho inhabitants
shout the praise Of the King, crying: praise
Him Praise Him.
Quaint John Bunyan caught glimpse Of
that consummation when he said: "Just as
the gates were opened to let in the man, 1
looked in after them, and behold the city
shone like the sun; the streets were also
paved with gold and in them walked many
men with crowns on their heads, and golden
harps to sing praises withai. And after that
they shut up the gates, which when had
seen wished myself among them"
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TEMPERANCE.
THE REASON WHY.

There was an old woman, and what do yox
Think wv
She had bread to eat, and milk to drink.
Clothes and home, and best of diet.
Yet she was sad, and couldn't be quiet.
She was sad in her heart over very bad laws.
And she worked night and day in the Tenn.
perance cause.
IF they. wouldn't make whisky and sell it,n
said she, ~
mot beggar or drunkard abroad would
see."
Mrs. j. McNair Wright.
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WHEN New Mexico comes into the
Union we shall have State the ma
iority of whose inhabitants speak
Spanish. The predominant language
IN the courts, schools and newspapers
is Spanish, This is q queer country .
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IRONING BOARD AND NAPKIN HOLDER.

| IRONING BOARD AND NAPKIN HOLDEh.
Is your ironing board fixed so it is a
pleasure to iron on, and no trouble to
keep clean? The following is a good
plan: Take a long, wide board "a narrow
one is a nuisance), tapering at the left
| hand end; cover it within foot of each
end, thickly and smoothly on both sides,
with a woolen blanket; do not make a
seam on the fiat side, but with carpet
tacks fasten the blanket on the narrow
edge. Next cover tightly with q sheet
doubled, keeping both sides of your
board perfectly smooth. Now you are
ready for the outside. Take stout
muslin, and make cover the same as
you would for a bolster case, open at
both end, make it to slip on tight. This
is easily removed and laundried, and your
board is always neat and clean.
Iron calicoes on one side, white clothes
on the other side. You will find this a
great improvement on the old plan of
ironing all on one side, and having the
colored lint coming off on the starched
white clothes.
A convenience is basket to gather up
the small articles that are so useful on the
table, but yet require so many steps be-
tween pantry and table. Take small,
long basket (grape basket), stain with
walnut staining, line with red silesia OF
turkey red calico, tie ribbon bows at the
sides of the handle and it is completed.
All the salts, napkins, doylics, etc., put
in this, can be removed at once, and are
ready the next time they are wanted, and
the dainty touches are delight instead
of WEAKNESS to the fesh.-American
| Cultirator.
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POWER OF EXAMPLE.

"How can l b,st train up my boy In the
way he should go% "By going that way
yourself" replied the minister. This recalls
the story told by DR.. Thompson, author Of
1.-THE Land and the Book" He had climbed
nearly to the top of tie mountain, lifting his
TO It carefully over the projecting rocks,
when family from below he heard a silvery
voice call out, "Take the safe path, father,
I am coming after you" The boy was
planting his feet in the footsteps Of his
lather. If the father was on the safe road,
the son would be; on the other hand, II the
father had stepped on a crumbling preci-
pice, and gone down to a destructive gulf
below, the son would have followed him to
the same place Of ruin.
When fathers take the storm-swept road
of intemperance, the boys are apt to follow
in the same blood stained footsteps If the
mother be worldly, fond Of glittering style.
loving the enchanting hall Of the intoxicat-
ing dance, her daughters will follow and be
willing imitators. When men climb the
towering Alps they tie themselves together,
and if the leader stumbles and fal S they are
oil liable 10 60 to the bottom. So families
ara tied tHrathar.
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SUGGESTIONS ABOUT OIL LAMPS.

The oil reservoir should be of metal,
rather than of china or glass. Wicks
should be soft, not too tightly plated.
Wicks should be dried at the fire before
being put into the lamps, and should be
only just long enough to reach the bot
tom of the oil reservoir. They should be
so wide that they quite fill the wick-hold-
er without having to be squeezed into it,
and should be soaked with oil before be-
ing lit. The reservoir should be quite
filled with oil every time before using the
lamp. The lamp should be thoroughly
clean, all oil should be carefully wiped
off, and all charred wick and dirt re-
moved before lighting. When the lamp
is lit the wick should be at first turned
down, and then slowly raised. Lamps
which have no extinguishing apparatus
should be put out as follows: The wick
should be turned down until there is only
a small Pickering flame, and sharp putt
of breath should then be sent across the
top of the chimney, but not down it.
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sANp-HEAps FOR POOR CHILDREN.

The Massachusetts, Emergency and Hy-
giene Association provided ssyen sand.heap
Fairgrounds in Boston for poor children
last SUNNI r. at cost Of 81 for each OF the
four hundred little ones entertaine f0r
eight weeks. Ii Berlin the government
provides heaps Of clean sea-sand in the parks
and squares, in which the German children
play, under the general care Of the police.
In Boston the ladies started the movement,
the school-committee gave the use of the
school-y yards, the public contributed the
money, and poor but reliable motherll'
women were emp'o, ed four days i in
the week to matronize the little folks.
II was pretty sight to see these poor chill
dren, doomed to spend the summer in town,
playing with shovels and pals in the sand,
whose ia cination was unending. Others
were playing horse with worst reins, or
to, sing hean-bags skipping rope, and play.
ing ball. If different set had come every
day, it is calculated that the matrons would
have entertained almost 130,0 900 children.
Now and then basket Of flowers would be
ntributei, so that each child went home
with a nosega This season it is hoped the
contributions will be sufflc emily generous to
establish twenty sand-gardens, and extend
the benefits. Worcester Spy
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Nine. Maukiewiz, Vienna lady, has
invented q new gobelin tapestry which Is
partly painting and partly needlework.
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nEAsuNs FUR BECOMING A TOTAL ABSTAINRR.
About tan vears 900 mr. mora saye Canon

nEAsuNs FUR BECOMING A TOTAL ABSTAINRR.
About ten years ago or more, says Canon
Farrar, first became total abstainer, be-
cause i was easily convinced that the use Of
alcohol was not necessity, and great deal
turns upon that. I saw, for instance, that
whole nations had not only lived without it,
but had fiourished without it. believe that
Che human race had existed and had
flourished considerable time before it was
discovered. I saw the remarkable fact that
there were some twenty thousand persons in
England, and that though many Of them had
maize themselves mere tunnels for drink;
though they had been accustomed to drink
from their childhood; though most Of them
had been brought to prison, either directly
or indirectly, through drink, yet the very
day that they entered the gates of a prison,
all drink was entirely taken from them, and
vet there was not single instance on record
in which any one Of them had suffered in con-
sequence. On the contrary, men who have
entered prisons sickly and blghted have been
made compulsorily sober by act Of Parlis-
nent, and after a few months, left prison hale
and strong and hearty; and women who had
been put into prison perfectly horrible and
hideous in their loathsomeness and degrada-
tion, after short period of deprivation from
the source of their ruin, left prison with the
bloom of health and almost Of beauty.
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VALPARAISO is to have dry dock in'
solyine an outlay of "a, 600, 600.