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What is Currys

As the use of curry has often been
mentioned in the various recipes which
have found their way into this depart
ment from time to time, several young
housewives have decided that they will
find out, if possible, just what curry
is, and have written, collectively, re-
questing description of its growth
and preparation.
Curry is vegetable; rather, curry
is vegetables. 1t is anise, coriander,
,umin, mustard, poppy seeds, allspice,
almonds, assafetida, gheo, cardamon
seeds, Chill berries, cinnamon, cloves,
cocoanut milk, oil, curds, fentgreek
seeds, an Indian nut that [ cannot
spell, garlic, onion, ginger, lime juice,
vinegar, mace, mangoes, nutmeg, pep
per, saffron, salt, tamarinds and
tumeric. Rather long list, but it is
claimed that all these ingredients
really find their way into a certain
mixture, which is our we'll known
curry. Allthese are pounded together
and dried in an oven, or in the sun.
When bottled, it is the powder which
comes to us as Indian curry. Now, is
it not worth admIring the wit and skill
that have brought together such
number of ingredients, and out OF
them have evolved an article so en-
tirely differen from each, and in
which there is not one elementary
trace?
In India curry is produced at first
hand. Different provinces vary the
ingredients and the proportions. If
brought together, the ladies of Madras
and the ladies of Calcutta would proba-
bly, compare recipes, each of course
with her own preferences, rs do the
ladies of Philadelphia and Baltimore
on the stewing of terrapln, and the
ladies from New Orleans and Charles.
ton over the boiling of rice. In one
province coriander seeds predominant,
in another tumeric encroaches. Doubt
less thero are family recipes for curry
among the Brahmins as precious us the
recipes of Aunt Glegg and Aunt Pull
let.-Home Queen.
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to rest for q while at his house in the
neighborhood. Washington at first
declined, as his business with the Gov
ernor at Williamsburg was urgent, but
finally consented to stop for dinner.
Having arrived at the hospitable man
sion, he was introduced to the family.
and number of guests, among them
a charming and beautiful widow who
lived near by. There was a mutual
attraction, and instead of departing
Immediately after dinner Washington
remained through the afternoon, and
finally consented to pass the night.
In the morning he proceeded upon his
way, and having transacted his busi-
ness at Williamsburg, returned to Mr..
Chamberlayn's and spent several
days.
The beautiful widow was Martha
cambridge Custis, the daughter of
John cambridge, whose husband, Dan
iel. Parke Custis, died year or 30
previous, leaving her two children
and large fortune in lands aud
money. She was born in New Kent
County in 1892, was married at seven
teen, and when Washington first met
her was twenty-six years old, and in
the richest bloom OF womanhood. She
had fine residence at Williamsburg
-"the six chimney house" it was
called-and plantation near the city,
with 500, 900 of bonds and mortgages
in her strong box. 1t is said that the
day after she accepted Washington
she planted a yew tree in the garden
behind "the six chimney house."
symbol of devotion and consistency.
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The Dignity Of Labor.

That the dignity of labor is becom-
ing the more universally recognized
is emphasized by the fact that some
of the crowned heads OF Europe are
persistent toilers.
Queen Amelia, of Portugal, in ad.
dition to her royal duties, supervises
military establishment in her own
palace, and there is no department OF
her kingdom in which she takes q
deeper interest than the one which her
taste in this direction has created.
Frequently the Queen devotes her en-.
tire mornings to the pastime OF assist.
ing her chief milliner.
Emperor William, in spite of his &c.
centricities, is one of the most accom-.
pllshsd of European sovereigns. He
san play on almost any musical instru-
ment and has a voice of remarkable
aexibillty. His particular fad, how
ever, is printing, and only a short
time before ascending the throne he
displayed his cleverness in this line by
setting the type for one of his own
musical compositions.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is one OF
the most industrious literary toilers
in Europe. Aside from writing several
books, he has recently made com.
plete TRANSLATION of Schiller's works.
He is also quite an expert woodsman
and takes special delight in telling
trees.
King Humbert, of Italy, is royal
,obbler. In the art of mending shoes
ne has no superior among his subjects.
He is also a painter, and though not
master in this line, he has very
great fondness for the brush.
Notwithstanding her advanced years
Queen Victoria is still fond of en-
ployment and frequently attends to
some of her most important CORE.
,pondence in person. His Royal
Highness, the Duke OF York, who
served for number of years on ship
board, is still a sailor at heart. and
frequently spends his leisure moments
in making rope.
Other royal examples might be
cited, but these are sufficient to show
that manual labor is not beneath the
dignity of even those who consider
themselves, and are generally con-
sidered by their subjects, among the
most exalted, and that no one who is
truly noble can look with dlsdain
upon honest toil.-Atlanta Constitu-
hon
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THE HOLY eHosr A PROTECTION.

In the best men there is a tendency to do Z
certain things they ought not, but the more
they are filled with the Holy Spirit, the more;
doing what otherwise they would. When
was boy used to 60 to the Polytechnic in
London, where my favorite diversion was
diving.bell, which had seats around
the rim, and which at a given time was
filed with people and lowered into Q
tank. We used to 60 down deeper, deeper
into that diying-bell, though it had no bot
tom and the water was quite within reach,
because the bell was so full Of air that,
though the water lusted against the air. the
air lusted against the water because air
was being pumped in all the time from the
top, and the water could not do what 1t
otherwise would do. If you are full Of the
Holy Ghost the flesh life is underneath you,
and though it would surge up, 1t is kept
out.-Rev. F. B. Meyer. 81
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The Fauntleroy family had a fine
plantation at MAYORS Hold, on the
Rappahannock, about fifteen miles
from Wakefield, the birthplace Of
Washington. In 1852, when he was
twenty years old, the latter addressed
q letter to MI. Fauntleroy, which has
been preserved, asking permission to
make proposal of marriage to his
daughter, Sin the hope," he says, "of
Is revocation of a former cruel SEN
tence, and see if I cannot find an al.
ieration in my favor"
This letter was written Immediately
sitter the return from tie voyage he
made to Barbados with his brother
Lawrence, who was in feeble health at
the time, and died soon after. So the
"cruel sentence" must have been pro-
nounced before they sailed in Septem.
her, l751. The fathers reply has not
been preserved, but evidently was un-
favorable.
This was the most serious love affair
Washington ever had, except the later
one which ended in his marriage.
The young woman who Tilted him,
afterward became the wife of Thomas
Adams of williamsburg. 1t is ira
dition of the town that she married
for money instead of love, and re-
jected Washington because be had less
wealth than her other suitor. 1t is
said, too, that after he had become
famous and visited the town of Will
iamsburg as the guest of the people,
she watched from q window the tri.
umphal pageant as he passed on horse
back through the streets and tainted.
The home of the Fauntleroys was a
magnificent mansion, which stood
within beautiful park overlooking
the river, and remained until a few
years since, when it was pulled down.
To Betsy Fauntleroy was addressed
the other original poem, which reads:
| Oh ye Gods why should my Poor Resistless
Heart
Stand to oppose thy might and Power
| At last surrender to Cupid's fsathered Dart
And now lays bleeding every Hour
| For her that's Ptyless Of my grief and woes
| And will not on me Pity take
| Tie sleep amongst my most inveterate Foes
And with giadness never wish to wake
| In deludiug sleepings let my eyelids close
That in I'm onraptured dream l may
! In soft lulling sleep and gentle repose
Possess those joys denied by day.
With the volume in which this poem
appears was another, found at the
same time and also purchased by the
! Government. 1t bears the title,
"Forms of Writing" and contains
models of deeds, bonds, contracts. re-
ceipts. recipes, bills of sale, manifes-
toes, and other commercial and legal
papers, together with two poems. "On
Christmas Day." and "I'rue Happi-
ness" These follow form OF a
Subpoena for Evidences to Prove q
WILL" and Immediately after them ap.
pears q recipe "'Ho Keep Ink from
Freezing or Moulding"
The latter part of tho volume con-
tains the famous "Rules OF Ciyility, "
by which Washington governed his
conduct.
Four years after his affair with
Betsy Fauntleroy, Washington be-
came enamored OF Miss Mary Phillipse,
the daughter Of prominent and
wealthy Englishman, Frederick P.
Phillipse, who lived in o superb man.
sion on the bank of the Hudson, near
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wASH1NGToN's BIRTHDAY

Thrilling bugle, throbbing drlm-beat,
banners waving in the air,
Porap and pageant and rejoicing, JOY Of
people everywhere,
In the waning OF the winter, lift OF chorus.
fash Of wing,
And the keeping OF birthday, in the fore-
cast OF the spring,
All our heart new knit together as the can
mons thunders pour
Jubilant salutings over river, fortress, hill,
and shore,
While our thought goes back to kindle at the
cradle where there lies
Just simple newborn baby, dear in moth.
ers loving eyes.
--Harper's Bazaar.
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amounted to more than 5000, 0O0
acres.
Bishop Meade, in his "Old Churches
and Families of Virginia" says that
Washington was an ardent admirer Of
Miss Mary Gary and at one time asked
Colonel Cary's permission to pay his
addresses to her, but was refused, The
young lady afterward married Mr.. Ed
ward Amber, who was n great swell
among the colonial aristocraoys being
a graduate of Cambridge and the
owner of large estate near james
town. He died in 17GS, at the ago of
thirty y.fve, and his widow, who sur
vived until 1871, was frequent guest
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THE BLESSED LIFE PROVIDED.

If we live in the Spirit we shall be led by
Him every day and every moment. Whet II
you were to open your heart today to be-
filled with the Holy Spirit2 Would He not
be able to keep you every moment In the
sweet rest of God And would not His
mighty arm give you complete victory over
sin and temptation OF every kind, and make
you able to live in perpetual fellowship with
the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christi
Most certainly. this is the blessed life God
HIS provided for us.-Andrew Murray.
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REVEALS BOW HELPED OR H1NDERED.

Speaking on this subject, Rev. Theodore
L. Cuyler, D. D.. says: Every genuine re-
yiyal has divine side and human side.
The Holy Spirit works. and Christians work
and the results are the most deep, wide
spread and enduring when Christians CO.
operate with the Holy Spirit. The power
that produces true revival comes from
heaven it is not manufactured down here
by any method or machinery. The Spirit OF
God ia Indispensable. There must be hum
ger for such blessings as the Holy Spirit can
bestow. .-.,. ,.s Z.
There is often strong temptation to pas
tors and churches to shirk their own respon-
sibility, neglect their own duty, and TO
send OF after somebody to come ana 90
their work for them. The pastor thinks that
perhaps new voice may wake up the sleep
ing souls in his parish, and his officers sugI
gest that some novelty may draw the peo-
pie out, and. accordingly, some itinerant or
evangelist Is sent for.
But there are not Moodys and Sankey's and
Chapmans and. Whjttles enough to supply
this whole nation. And II there were, has
not every pastor the responsibility laid on
him to preach pray and toll for the saiyanon
of souls = and shall he not have the JOY anu
delight Of doing it2 The idea has become
quite too current that the business OF pas
tor Is to prepare sermons, visit his hock,
SoboOiO bhO 0WAAeJ SSAAANAS 49, ~.
bury the dead but II souls are to be con-
verted, then somebody must be sent for
whose profession it Is to convert people IL
this wretched notion were to prevail gener-
ally, no young man Of brains and godlys
heart would ever enter the ministry. Every
thing that tends to diminish our sense Of
personal responsibility and our depend
ence upon God is an efrectual hindIance
to revival.
Another serious bindrance is what may be
called almanac piety. A week Of prayer
is appointed for the early part OF the
year and when that week is made
season for earnest praying and is fol-
lowed up with earnest working, 1t mas
often produced glorious results. But In too
many churches the praying which begings In
that week ends with that week. Then 1t be-
comes solemn farce. .t
The minister who blunts the ''sword Of the
Spirit" and fails to preach blood heat gos-
pei every Sunday is hindering revival.
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at Mount Vernon after Washington's

at Mount Vernon after Washington's
marriage, as his diary shows.
About this time Washington wrote
another tender letter in which he al
ludes again to Miss Gary, This was
addressed to Dear Sally" "whose'other
name is unknown, and it reads:
This comes to Fredericksburg fair in hopes
of meeting with speedy Passage TO you II
your not there which hope you'll get shortly
altho am almost discouraged from writing
to you rs this is my fourth to you since re-
ceiv'd any from yourself hope you'll not
make the Old Proverb good out Of sight out
Of Mind as its one Of the greatest Pleasures I
can vet foresee Of having in Fairfax in often
hearing from you hope you'll not deny it to
me.
Pass the time OF much more agreeabler
than what imagined should as there's a
very agreeable Young Lady lives in the same
house where reside (Col. George Fairfax's 8
Wife's Sister, that IN great Measure cheats
my sorrow and dejectedness tho not 80 as to
draw my thoughts altogether from your
Parts could wish to be with you down there
with all my heart but as 1t Is thing almost
Imprac:aksble shall rest myself where am
with hopes of shortly having some Minutes
OF your transactions In your parts which will
be very welcomely received by Your
The "Lowland Beauty" to whom
Washington 30 tenderly refers in his
letter to my Dear Robin" is sup
posed to have been Miss Lucy Grymes
of Westmorelsnd County, who in 1853
married Henry Lee, Esq.,, of Strat-
ford Hall, and became the mother OF
the famous Light Horse Harry
the Custer OF the Revolution. Very
little is known of Miss Grymes or of
Washington's attention to her. Other
writors assume that the Lowland
Beauty was Miss Betsy, daughter of
William Faun tleroy Of Fredericks.
burg, who also refused Washington's
attentions.
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The marriage took place at the resi-
dence of the bride on January II,
six months after the first
the ceremony was fol-
lowed by a reception. Washington
was attending q session of the House
of Burgesses at Williamsburg, then
the capital of Virginia, and at It's close,
removed with his wife and her two lit
tie children to Mount Vernon.
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NOT AN IDLE PROMISE,

''Lo, I am with you always, even unto the
end of the world" is not an Idle. not an un-
fulfilled promise. He is not with US merely
as thought, but as a life. He gathers us
up into his own being. He floods us with
it. There is inspiration here. certainly for
any duty, for any endurance. The faith,
Christ with me, can make the poorest and
the hardest life luminous, joyous, glorious.
-Wayland Hoyt.
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.Bonar.
PRAYER ALL POTENT.

and tbou tbu shalt I ind Him IF If in nth thv piIerin-
age through this wilderness world thou art
afiicted with spiritual thirst come thou in
thy devotions to the spiritual rock, tina. is,
Christ. and strike it with the rod of prayer
and streams of divine grace shall flow forth
to quench thy thirst and supply thy need.
Dost thou wish to offer a pleasing sacrifice
to God. Offer prayer. Wouldst thou hold
constant intercourse with God? Take de-
light in prayer. for this is spiritual conver-
sation between God and the devout soul.
Wouldst thou taste and see that the Lord is
good2 Then constrain the Lord by prayer
to take up His abode in thy heart. rt.-Gerhard.
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American Flour In England.

The Mark Lane Express, OF London, In its
crop review, estimates the shortage of the
Indian wheat crop at upward OF million
quarters, and says: 'The increased pressure
of American -four il the British market Is
causing some anxiety to the millers who fiat
tered themselves at this time in 1896 that
American competition had been coilareL"
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There was pretty scena 1t tho White
House when Mrs. Cleveland receivei the in
FAINT class Of St. MARKS Church, forty-four
little ones, all under eight years OF age She
welcomed them in her most charming man
ner, told them they wele the smallest visitors
she ever had, aud then brought down Ruth
and Esther Cleveland to make their acquaint-
anCo.
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Murder tor Educational Purposa..

Two young w1men Of Moscow, Russia, re-
sently strangeh an old female miser and
took hor money, as they explained in court,
"in order to provide themselves with funds
for travelling abroad to complete their scien-
tillc education"
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A candle that won't shine in one room

A candle that won't shine in one room Is
very unlikely to shine in another. II you
do not shine at home, if your father and
mother. your sister and brother, if the
very cat and dog in the house are not the
better and happier for your being Chris
tian, it is question whether you really are
one.-7J. Hudson Taylor.
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Corn Makes a Low Price Record.

The lowest price on recor1 for May corr
in st. Louis. Mo-. was touched whom it sold
to 2ls@21I cents. 1t is thought the bot
tom has been reached.
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WOman's Face on Money.

The only woman's face that has evel
adorned United States paper money j.
that of Martha Washington.
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Prettv Sccne at Tine lYn.ra nousr.

No life is complete which does not some
times sit trusttully waitingto be fed by God.
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RELIGIOUS READING.

Thou who dost all things give,
Be not thyself forgot!
No longer may thy children live -,
AS if their God were not /!
But every day and hour,
Since thou dost bless US thus,
In still increasing light and power
Reveal thyself to US.
w. H. Furness.
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Washington as a Lover.

.ONG the auto
graphic papers
of George Wash.
i n g t q, pur.
chased Of his
descendants by
the Government
of the United
States, and pre-
ooruo1 In tho
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A PRAYER FOR UNsELF1sHNEss.

We thank. thee, o Christ that we are ac-
cepted in thee, and that there Is no barrier
to our free access into our Fathers pres
ence. We call upon our souls and all that
is within US to bless and praise and magnify
thee. May our earthly life be inspired with
the spirit of heaven. May we go to and fro
about our business as those who have
seen the face ofGod and have come down
to earth with the light OF the other world
upon their faces. Prosper us, oh blessed
God, in all that We put our hands unto.
May our hearts be filled with thy love, our
lips with gentle, helpful words and our
hands with kind. unselfish deeds. May
those who see US take knowledge OF us that
we have been with Jesus. May the fragrance
of his presence be shed abroad in every act.
May the Holy Spirit keep us in this frame
amid all the changes and chances OF this
mortal life, and may We come at last into
the heavenly lone, through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen. -5,;G
'Tis what 1 know of Thee, my Lord and
God,
That fills my soul with peace, my lips with
song; .
Thou art my health, my JOY, my staff, my
rod,
Leaning on Thee. in weakness lam strong.
More of Thyself, o, show me hour by hour,
More Of Thy glory, o, my God and Lords
More Of Thyself,in all Thy grace and power
More Of Thy love and truth, Incarnate
Word
-Bonar.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-07-06

v de la actual, ell cual sc manifesto por actos
D alabrss que mas que nadie I'M jurian al pue-
bio cubano caya representation asumen aqu1.
mo ven esos desgraciados que todos sus
trabajos, que todo su empefo, que toda su IN.
sana labor no tiende otra cosa que abrlr 81
camino q la satisfaction de las ambiciones yam
KEGS, que quieren Cuba nose6lo por las venta'
las materiales que de ella a 6ndrfan, slno por-
que desapareciendo Eepala ds America, desapa-
recerfa eli campe6n natural, ell defensor legftimo
Y sincere de los pueblos hispanos del Continen'
te, que quedarfan merced de este coloso, cuyo
apetito comenza estimularse. mo saben
ellos que Cuba no puede ser otra cosa slno es'
palola 8 yankee?
A la vista tienen la historic de las islas dc
Sandwich, 81 es que han olyidado la mas lastl-
mosa de Texas y Mexico.
En- vano la pobre ex reina Liloakalam
ren-osentanao Ia masa de sus s1bditos, la IN
mensa mayors de, pats, llama a la puerta de Ia
Casa Blanca para aboger nor Ia independene,,a
de su patria. La puerta permanece cerraaa
porque mas peso que la justicia, que el princi'
pio democratico de que este pueblo blasona y
que ell derecho de un pueblo desgraciado, 10
tiene en- Washington los intereses mezquinos
de un puiiado de aventureros americanos que
por un golpe de mano auxiliados por la mari
ma de esta republica, Sc armaron con el Poder
en- Hawai-, y 10 tienen los intereses de los rehna-
dores dc azucar en- California y las ventajas de
una buena carbonera possession estrategica en-
Ell Occeano Pacf6co.