The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-25

in connection with the illness and
death of President Mckinley: 1.-The
Church does not publicly offer mass for
the repose of the souls Of those who
die outside her fold. Since the doctrine
on which the mass is founded is repu-
dated by some of these, it would be
straining charity to do so. While this
is the official attitude of the Church,
however, there is no rtile to prevent
any priest celebrating mass of his
own volition for such purpose; nor is
there any reason to prevent individual
Catholics praying for the souls Of
those who have not died in the faith,
inasmuch as our Holy Church con-
siders all who have received Christian
baptism as belonging to her in a GER
tain sense. They may be of the soul
of the Church, though outside the
body"
From a German housewife comes
the suggestion of a chocolate soup.
This is a particularly delicious soup
to serve at autumn and winter lunch
cons. Break two squares of a cake of
unsweetend chocolate into a porcelain
or granite saucepan, with two cupfuls
of water. Let it stand on the back
of the stove till thoroughly melted,
when II may be set forward till
brought to the boiling point. Prepare
thickening by moistening to smooth
paste two teaspoonfuls OF flour with
half a cupful of cold water, adding,
when smooth, half an after-dinner cof-
fee cupful of sugar. When the choc-
olate boiis, stir in this mixture and
let all cook slowly for five minutes be-
fore adding quart of hot milk, into
which have been thrown, while heat
ing. couple of sticks of cinnamon
Put cupful of whipped cream in the
bottom of the tureen and pour the
chocolate soup over through a strain
er. Serve at once, sending around
bread sticks or hot toasted waters.
During the summer and autumn
many of the villages and towns around
the Essex coast are entirely without
able-bodied men, save, of course, for
the presence of such indispensable
personages as the clergyman, doctor
and one or two shopkeepers, says an
English paper. A typical example is
the village of Tollesbury. Although
IolieSbury boasts a population of con.
slderably over thousand inha bitants,
the nearest railway station, Kelvedon
and Maldon, are nearly ten miles away,
and from May until toward the end of
men and children. This is owing to the
fact that all the men, and most of the
boys over 16 years of age, earn their
living as yacht hands, and when the
summer commences they start every
year for a cruise of several months
duration, rarely seeing their homes
again till late in the autumn By the
end of this month the mud flats which
lie between Tollesbury and the deer,
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ure yachts which lie up here for the
winter, when the hands are paid off
and the men return to the village.
During the winter the staple industries
of the place are fishing in smacks, oys.
ter dredging and dredging for starfish,
which latter are of considerable value
for manuring purposes. Men of Tolles-
bury were among the crew that Sir
Thomas Upton took across the Allan
tic to sail Shamrock l, and several of
them will take part in the forthcom-
ing contest.
When the sea is running in from
the east, says a writer in Longman's,
1 can see the waves hurrying up to
put in each his contribution toward the
modelling work in hand. There are a
few million touches still required to
finish the chin of the demon face form
ed by the corner of yonder red cliff,
puckered and wrinkled already by a
hundred years of ave-sculpturing.
The sea know that to-day there is a
chance of getting in on the work, for
the wind is driving it hard and the
waves are climbing high up the face
of the precipice. Each in turn dashes
upward and aims a vigorous blow at
the spot which must be followed out
or rounded off. You can see the wave
lets bobbing up here and there, far
out at sea, in order to take the bear
ings of the spot to be attacked, which
taken, they shape their course, col
lecting material until they have formed
great rolling power: this travels land
ward at speed, gathering pace and
weight as ii comes; now it is full
blown roller, breaking and curling over
the rocks which have been torn from
the cliffs in years gone by and now lie
strewn in Its path, and ii dashes at
last with roar against the perpendic-
ular of the precipice in order to per-
form it's share of the fnolding work to
be done; it's twenty millionth part in
the removal of a few grains of red sand
from the great block which, when a
century or so more of similar waves
shall have contributed their share of
the work. will complete the resem-
blance to the chin of a demon face.
The sea does its work very gradually,
tide by tide and century by century,
but 1t is an untiring worker, and keeps
its object in view; time is a matter
of no consequence, everything is to
be achieved by patience and diligence,
and the mills of God grind very slow
ly, very surely.
Not less than 100000 of the good
citizens of this broad land live by
crimes which they do not commit. says
an exchange. Although among the
law-abiding and often most respected
citizens of their several communities.
they are supported entirely by offenses
against the law and against right,
Their living depends on the energies of
100000 other persons who commit the
offenses. Were these 100000 suddenly
to become upright citizens and cease
to break the laws, not only the 100000
but four times as many more who de-
pend upon them, would be thrown out
of their livelihood, and must DEPEND
upon charity for support until some
other occupation should be found for
them. If 1t be true that there is hon.
esty among thieves this time cannot be
as far distant as might be supposed,
for by the national census il appears
that the country is rapidly approach
Ing time when all the inhabitants
shall be malefactors and, therefore.
according to the proverb being honest
among themselves, will no longer re-