A prominent newspaper of not only national but international fame, in speaking of the Boer and Philippine wars, and of the recent revelations of cruelty, thus speaks of the dominant principle in a war of conquest:—
The fact is that fighting under the impulse of patriotism, in a just cause or against an adversary of equal or greater strength, often develops in men the noblest sentiments, including magnanimity and fairness. But fighting inferiors, on a mere basis of aggression, has a very different effect on human beings.
The man who spends his time killing other human beings on a salary as a mere business proposition, is very much like a dog that kills sheep, or a weasel in a dove-cote. He is very apt to enjoy killing for its own sake.
We must not denounce the British in too wholesale fashion, when our own record needs investigation.
Human beings have recently escaped from a state of savagery in which murder was the principal amusement. Our improved morality is largely veneer, and we fall back to the savage state very easily when our savage occupation of killing is restored to us.
How true that last sentence is demonstrated to be in the recent and shocking revelations which have come to the world in the slaughter of Chinese and Filipinos. Men seem to have killed for the love of killing, and to have butchered young and old, innocent and guilty, without compunction of conscience, as tho the slaughtered were so many beasts.
The only thing that has lifted men from savagery to civilization is Christianity. It may be denied, but it is true. The very gentleness of some of the men who have thrown all their powers against Christ and the Bible, has been wrought in them by generations of Christianity, perverted tho it was. That was when Christianity was on the upward path from the Reformation of the sixteenth century through Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists. Despite the hereditary unsloughed errors the trend was upward toward more liberty of thought, toward an open and free-scattered Bible, toward loyalty to God’s Word, toward freedom of conscience.
But now we see a reaction in two lines, which often cross and intertwine. One trend is to the worship of the golden calf of material prosperity, to which everything else is prostituted. The other trend is back to the ritualism, the formalism, the superstition of the Dark Ages. In both of these war is glorified,—in the one for the winning of new empires of material wealth and power, to secure and protect which armies are necessary; in the other, to enforce and promote by State aid a formal religion, from which the power and life of God have departed. Both are evil; but the tyranny of overweening wealth is preferable to the tyranny of a religion which lords it over men’s consciences. When the two are fully united, as they are sooner or later bound to be, woe worth the day. Already the Protestant churches are justifying and glorifying war, and fostering it in their own folds by semi-military organizations. The inquisition of the Dark Ages is defended in our great reviews without a protest. How long will it be before it will be advocated.
There is but one thing which will save the church and make it the salt of the earth, and that is the everlasting Gospel in its power and purity in the hearts of its individual members. The only true reform is the re-forming from the mind by the creative power of Jesus Christ. The savagery of to-day may be gently veneered, but it is none the less cruel and far more deceptive than it was in barbarous ages. Read God’s word-photographs of the heathenism in the beginning of the Christian era, and of the formal religion of the last days, and note their likeness. You will find them in Rom. 1: 28-32, and 2 Tim. 3: 1-5.
BEER VERSUS NECESSARIES.
By G.
In the Union Signal of May 1, Joshua L. Baily gives some interesting facts concerning National Soldiers' Homes, one paragraph of which is as follows:—
At each branch of the National Home there is a store for the sale of a variety of small articles of utility and comfort. There is also at each branch, with one exception, that of Marion, Indiana, a beer hall or canteen, for the exclusive sale of beer. From the report presented to Congress for the year ending June, 1901, it appears that the total sales in the stores amounted to $140,580.94, while the sales in the beer halls or canteens reached $280,312.89, or twice as much as the store sales—that is, for every dollar spent at the stores for articles of utility and comfort, there was $2 spent at the canteen. The gain or profit on the store sales was $23,950.23, while the profit on the beer was $145,661.47; of this profit $87,626.95 was expended on theatrical and other entertainments for the inmates of the Home.
The government is supposed to supply what the men eat and wear, medical treatment, etc. But there are always articles that people think they need aside from these, and which they can buy at the stores. These and the beer they buy with their own money, as most of them have pensions. It is from this pension money that the stores and canteens make their profits. It is further stated by Mr. Baily that during the year ending June 30, 1901, the number cared for at the different national homes was 31,247. Of these 29,150 received pensions amounting to $2,997,623, and only one dollar in every nine went toward the support of the soldiers' families at home. The rest was expended as before indicated.
G.
A FEARFUL CALAMITY.
By S.
At a little before eight o'clock on the morning of May 8, there occurred on the island of Martinique, West Indies, what is probably the most terrible holocaust that has ever visited the world. Greater cataclysms have occurred, but we have no record of such a burning alive of human beings as took place there on that morning, when probably not less than 30,000 human beings were burned to death in less than one minute. The city of St. Pierre, with 25,000 inhabitants, nestled at the foot of Mount Pelee, a smoking volcano. There had been rumbling sounds from the mountain for several days, and more smoke and steam issuing from the crater than usual, and there was much apprehension on the part of the inhabitants; but on the morning of May 8 the whole top and side of the mountain was blown out by an indescribable explosion of fire, steam, mud, lava, and red-hot rocks and ashes. A perfect cloud of actual fire swept down with the force of a whirlwind upon St. Pierre and adjacent villages. Every building was on fire in an instant, and the inhabitants were literally roasted where they stood or fell. So quick was the terrible work done that many of the bodies were actually burst open by the sudden great heat. The fiery tempest that destroyed the villages set on fire the shipping in the harbor, and only one vessel out of the eighteen there was able to escape. Many of her crew were burned to death on the deck of the vessel, or jumped into the water to escape the fiery rain, and were drowned. The French cruiser Suchet, which was in the harbor of Fort de France, fifteen miles distant, hurried at once to the vicinity, but could not go close to the shore on account of the great heat and the incandescent ashes that continued to fall. Two days later her crew made a landing, as did the crews of other vessels. Every building was burned, and the streets were deeply covered with lava and ashes, and the bodies of the dead were everywhere. The roads leading out of the city were literally choked with dead bodies. The clothes of all these victims had been burned from them by the fiery rain. Immediately on landing, the soldiers and sailors began the work of burning the bodies that were not wholly consumed.
At the same time that this disaster was taking place, the volcano on the island of St. Vincent, in the same group, belched forth clouds of steam and fire, lava and rocks. Great streams of lava ran down the mountainsides overwhelming the inhabitants. The latest estimates place the loss of life in this island at 500. The streams have been dried up or choked with lava both on this island and on Martinique, and the suffering is terrible among those who escaped from the rain of fire.
Both these volcanoes continue active, and it is feared that fresh eruptions may take place at any time. Those who witnessed the disaster on Martinique describe it as a glimpse of hell or of the destruction of the world. Vessels passing 200 miles at sea tell of having their decks covered with a rain of volcanic ashes. Almost simultaneously with this eruption, slumbering volcanoes in various parts of the world are becoming active. There is believed to be some connection between this catastrophe and that which occurred on April 18 in Guatemala, in which 6,000 persons are reported to have lost their lives. This holocaust on Martinique far surpasses that which destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii, and will go down in history as one of the most terrible catastrophes that has ever visited this earth.
S.
China, the Jewish Sabbath, and Coal Strike
THE rebels in China are not lacking in field guns, although the protocol signed by China and the powers forbids the importation of arms; for the rebels are said to have bombarded the city of Nan Ning Fu with modern field guns. There is a suspicion in some quarters that some nation that is a party to the protocol has supplied the rebels with these arms at the same time that it has forbidden China to import them, all for the purpose of making an excuse of maintaining troops in that country or invading the country to preserve order, and then sharing in its partition.
THERE is considerable agitation among the Jews of New York over the Sabbath question. At the recent conference of Jewish rabbis in New Orleans, considerable time was spent in discussing the proposition of abandoning the Sabbath and keeping Sunday. To this the orthodox Jews of New York are strongly opposed, and circulars are being distributed among the congregations urging them to be true to their traditions and to aid in founding schools to keep the faith alive.
THE great coal strike which has been threatening for some time in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania began on May 12 in the Scranton end of this mining district. Whether a general strike of all miners of this region will be declared is yet uncertain. It seems probable that the miners will go out, tho many fear that the company contemplates some move for which the miners are not prepared, as no efforts have been put forth by the mine-owners to prevent the strike.
THE claim of the San Francisco company, known as the Salvador Commercial Company, against the government of Salvador, which had been submitted to arbitration, has been decided in favor of the company. The arbitrators were Sir Henry Strong, of Canada, Don Jose Rosa Pacas, of Salvador, and Don M. Dickinson, of the United States. The damages awarded the company amount to $583,118. The arbitrator of Salvador protests against the majority decision.
A DESPATCH from Java states that famine, flood, and pestilence are destroying life so rapidly in the province of Demak that in some districts there are not enough survivors to bury the dead. After large numbers of the inhabitants had been reduced to a low physical ebb by lack of food, heavy rains fell and submerged the lowlands, inducing a rapid spread of malaria among the inhabitants. It is also officially reported that cholera is developing in various places.
SECRETARY HAY and Ambassador Aspiroz of Mexico have agreed on the terms of a protocol submitting to arbitration, under the terms of the Hague convention, the claims of the Roman Catholic bishops of California against the Mexican republic. This is known as the Pius claim, is of thirty years’ standing, and amounts to $1,400,000. The United States Government has taken up the claim of the church, and has been pressing for a settlement.
A MERCHANT’S trust has been formed in Chicago with a capital of $25,000,000. The plan contemplates a general organization for the purpose of giving the retailers the advantage of large capital and the consumers that of discounts. The promoters of this combine hope to secure for its members advantages now obtained only by large concerns. By this organization they hope to be able to get much of the business that now goes to the mail-order houses.
LOCK and safe experts of Washington have come to the conclusion that even the best tempered steel, no matter how thick, is not proof against a new chemical compound which professional safe-crackers have learned to use. This compound is called thermite, and when mixed with magnesium powder, will destroy the hardness of the metal, rob it of its temper, enabling a burglar with ordinary tools to cut into it as if it were lead.
RECENT despatches from China state that there are still in the three Manchurian provinces of China 116,000 Russian troops. The report does not take into account what are known as railway guards, who number 8,000 all told; while in Siberia it is reported that Russia has 130,000 men ready at short notice to act in China or against Japan. Russia is said to be planning to reinforce her Pacific squadron with eleven warships.
THE condition of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is reported to be very encouraging, tho her life had been almost despaired of for many days.
OHIO has enacted a law which is intended to reach trusts formed in other States and operating in Ohio. It requires all such corporations to file annual statements of their financial condition, and to pay an annual fee equal to one-tenth of one per cent on the proportion of the authorized capital stock of the corporations represented by property owned and used, and business transacted within the State.
THE State of Missouri has taken action against the large packing companies which have formed a virtual trust for the purpose of raising the price of meats and controlling the meat market of the whole country. Attorney-General Knox has asked for and received copies of the testimony of the retail butchers taken in the investigation, with an evident view to assisting in the prosecution of the trust.
FOR some time there have been rumors afloat that Judge Taft of the Philippine Civil Commission was going on a mission to Rome to consult with the pope in reference to matters in the Philippines. It is now authoritatively stated that this is the case. The principal matter to be considered in this conference with the pope is the sale of the property held by the friars in the Philippines.
THE bill for the admission of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona into the sisterhood of States of the Union was passed by the House on May 9. In the case of Oklahoma, Congress reserves to itself the right at any time to unite to it any portion or all of Indian Territory, and New Mexico is given the right to designate the name by which she shall be called.
PRESIDENT-ELECT TOMAS E. PALMA, of Cuba, arrived at Havana on May 11, and was given an enthusiastic reception by the populace. The flags of Cuba and the United States waved side by side from the fortress and shipping, while a black-and-white pennant flew from the wreck of the Maine in the harbor. He will be inaugurated president on May 20.
JUDGE EARL of New York, sitting as referee in the case of the constitutionality of the New York franchise-tax law, has declared the law constitutional in every point. If this decision is upheld by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court and by the Court of Appeals, the amount of franchise property in that State to be taxed will be $266,000,000.
ON May 8 a new million-dollar watch company was organized at South Bend, Indiana, for the purpose of competing with the Elgin and Waltham watch companies, which have recently been forcing up the price of watches, through an agreement which makes them virtually a trust. The new watch company will be known as the Studebaker Company.
FOR some time a Brazilian aeronaut, Senhor Auguste Sevros, has been experimenting with a new airship in Paris, which has given promise of greater success in navigating the air than has been achieved by Santos-Dumont; but while maneuvering in the air at Paris, on May 12, the airship exploded, and the inventor and his assistant were killed.
LORD SALISBURY’S recent speech at Albert Hall, in which reference was made to the relations existing between England and Egypt, shows conclusively that the British Government has no intention of ever giving up its hold on that country. It is a virtual declaration that England will retain her sovereignty over this portion of Africa.
THE Pennsylvania railroad will soon have in operation between Chicago and New York a new fast train which will cover the distance of 902 miles in exactly 17 hours. The average speed will be 57 miles an hour, exclusive of stops, tho for much of the distance it will be considerably greater than that.
REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM T. SAMPSON died at his home in Washington, D. C., at five o’clock on the afternoon of May 6, after a lingering illness of many months, and was buried in the national cemetery in Washington on May 9. Officials of the navy and the nation followed the admiral to the grave.
GERMAN cast-iron works and foundries are preparing to form a giant combination which will embrace all the leading plants of the empire, for the purpose of eliminating competition and defending the industry against the invasion of American products in that line.
ON May 10 a heavy fall of snow was reported from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio. In some places the ground was covered to a depth of six inches. In some localities much damage was done to crops and fruit, the fruit trees being just in bloom.
A SWEDISH artillery officer is said to have invented an aerial torpedo which promises to become one of the most destructive agents in any war in which Sweden engages. The government is guarding the details of its construction with great care.
FRANCIS BRET HARTE, the story writer whose name was closely associated with the early days of California, died at his home near Aldershot, England, on May 5.
ADVICES from Washington state that there is little likelihood of Congress doing anything more in the way of canal legislation at this session.
A CABLE from Christiania, Norway, states that 30,000 emigrants are booked to sail for the United States during the present year.
THE well-known Catholic archbishop, Michael A. Corrigan, died at New York on May 5, at the age of 62.
Wesley and Modern Methodism
Two things would doubtless surprise John Wesley if he could arise and look on present scenes. He would be surprised at the marvelous growth of Methodism in a hundred years, and, we fear, also equally surprised at the wide departure from the early piety, plainness, and apostolic fervor of his own times.
BAD DIETETIC HABITS.
By David Paulson
THE prophet Isaiah, looking down the ages, saw tables loaded with articles which he could not recognize as food. Perhaps he saw the scavengers of earth, sea, and sky; the blistering condiments; the foul-smelling vinegar; the scorching pepper; beverages containing drugs as surely as if they had been purchased at a drug-store; food substances combined with such fiendish ingenuity that they must undermine and disorganize both digestion and physical strength; and in the following graphic words he describes what he saw: “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.” Isa. 28:8.
If vinegar is taken into the stomach, it not only irritates the delicate lining of the stomach, but also materially hinders digestion. This may be demonstrated by putting a little saliva with some starch in a test-tube; in a few minutes the starch will be changed into sugar just the same as if it were in the stomach; but if vinegar is added, the starch will not be changed at all. Thus it is evident that vinegar is fulfilling a higher purpose in furnishing a suitable medium for its characteristic eels to swim in than when it is mingled with food for human consumption. Spices and highly seasoned foods blister the inside of the stomach, and physiologically create a thirst which water can not satisfy. Thus the kitchen often becomes a vestibule to the saloon. The Scriptures admonish us to “eat for strength, and not for drunkenness.”
The ordinary method of cooking grains for a few minutes simply makes chicken feed of them. Such food has a tendency to sour and ferment while passing through the digestive organs, producing poison which specifically poisons and demoralizes the nervous system as effectually as anything that is sold for this very purpose. Who can estimate how many there are in the graveyards to-day because of a persistent attempt to subsist largely on paste and dough, which, because of their indigestibility, really pave the way for many serious and obstinate diseases?
Practically a diet which will not ferment will exclude sweets, for cane-sugar has a tendency to set up fermentation. Such a diet will include foods that are well cooked. It is impossible to boil starch a sufficient length of time to make it fit for human consumption; thus it is necessary that all grains and other foods containing starch be subjected to oven heat, which is more than a hundred degrees hotter than boiling heat. Bread should be sliced and placed in the oven at a slow heat until it is thoroughly rebaked, and wafers, crackers, etc., should be subjected to the same process. Ordinary rice may be placed in the oven and left until it is slightly brown; and if it is then soaked over night in water, it can be cooked as readily as before. Potatoes should be thoroughly baked, or, if this is not desirable, after being cooked they may be mashed and spread out on a bread-tin or made into balls, and baked until a nice brown crust forms. Mush made from oatmeal and other grains may be made quite thick, cooled a short time, and then spread out in a layer about an inch thick in a bread-tin, and baked in the oven until a crust forms on the top and bottom. Bread crumbs should be sprinkled over the bottom of the bread-tin to prevent the mush sticking to it.
Fried food is hermetically sealed by the grease which covers it, so that neither saliva nor gastric juice can act upon it; consequently no digestive activities can begin until the food reaches the small intestines. Meanwhile, various fermentations are produced, manifesting themselves in the symptom called “heartburn.”
It is not a good plan to filter through the human body the waste products and the poisons that are found in flesh-meats. A man who partakes of a meal largely composed of half-cooked starch, and as a consequence has a sour stomach, knows that it was the food which produced the bad condition; but the man who eats beefsteak three times a day has no acid fermentation in his stomach, and he attributes the other serious maladies that are settling down upon him to a “dispensation of providence” or “hard luck,” and goes right on sealing his death-warrant. Careful experiments have demonstrated that when a vegetarian lives upon flesh food for a few days, the secretion of his kidneys becomes several times more poisonous than before. Thus it is evident that an individual who partakes of flesh food must always have a larger amount of poison in his blood on the way to be eliminated.
Tea and coffee contain substances that are in reality violent poisons. A beverage that can compel a nerve to say that it is rested when it is tired, that can chase away the necessity for sleep when it still exists, that can produce trembling nerves at an age when they ought to be steady and firm; in other words, that can cause an apparent felicity which does not exist, can not but be harmful. Dr. Haig has said, “All stimulation is wrong, for thus we merely enjoy to-day by mortgaging to-morrow; and just as we rise a few inches above our normal level to-day, we shall fall to-morrow the same amount below it.”
Overeating and eating between meals overtax the digestive organs, and are, of course, injurious. It is an error to crowd food into the stomach while some of the previous meal is still there. We should eat at regular intervals and at fixed times, and the meal-hours should be placed far enough apart to afford the stomach opportunity for rest. Let us remember that food may remain in the stomach five hours under perfectly natural conditions.
There is no food in water; but it is needed in abundant quantities on the inside of the body to cleanse the tissues, for the same reason that it is necessary to bathe the outside of the body. This is no indication, however, that water is to be taken during the meal-hour, any more than it is necessary to bathe at meal-time. Water, if taken with the food, dilutes the digestive juices, and thus interferes with digestion.
The food should be well masticated. Bouchard has said, “We must eat slowly and without mental worry.” We should cast off care and all taxing thought during the meal-hour, for gloominess and a worried state of mind may materially hinder digestion.
DAVID PAULSON, M. D.
DEAL JUSTLY WITH THE CHILDREN.
There is oftentimes a great difference between the children in one family. One is quite plain, while the others are fine looking; or one is dull, while the others are bright. It is so easy to put the pretty child and the bright child in the foreground, and keep the plain child and the dull child back. Parents have shown such partiality in this respect, oftentimes, that the lives of the neglected ones have been made most miserable. “For some reason or other she has never seemed to be any favorite with her father,” said a friend in speaking of a child not long since; “he makes so much more of his other children than he does of her.”
Children are quick to see partiality shown by parents, and when the recipients of it are particularly bright or pretty, the child who has not received these gifts thinks them the all-important ones, and grows to be morbid and curious. The pretty child is not always noted for sweet traits of character, by any means. Because she is made so much of, she becomes conceited and selfish.
There is a pathetic poem which speaks of a father calling his “pet.” The footfalls that fell on his ear were from the child not in such great favor, and as he called, the little one responded, in a sad tone of voice, “It isn't ‘pet,’ papa. It's only me.”
Some mothers get in a way, perhaps unconsciously, of allowing the sweet-tempered child to give up her rights because the brother or sister is imperious and exacting, and if denied what is wished for will make so much trouble. We heard a mother say, “Let sister have it, dear. You know what a time I shall have with her if you don't, and you are always so unselfish that you won't mind.”
We were once in a family where there were two sisters. One was noted for her beauty and her talents, and the other for her plainness and sweet spirit. We noticed that the first choice of anything was always offered to the pretty one. The other sister always wished to have it so, altho she was the elder. She was perfectly unselfish and almost adored (if the word can be used in this connection) her younger sister. The whole household revolved around her, and she grew to think that she was entitled to the precedence and preference, and accepted11it as her due. We often wondered what the outcome would be in the years to come. We heard nothing for ten years from that family, as our lives were widely separated. Then we were told that the pretty sister was married, had three little children and a good husband, but somehow family cares were not to her taste and wearied her. The elder sister had not married, and was devoting her life to her younger sister and her family, lifting the cares from her selfish, pretty sister's shoulders. But she loved those children as if they were her own, and her influence over them, no doubt, was much better than their mother's, who preferred social pleasures to home duties. No thought of appreciation of her sister's sacrifices ever seemed to come to her mind.
Parents should be on the alert to quell the tendency that one child in the family has to demand more of the others than is just and right. The child who has not the gifts of beauty and mental attainments which the others have, should be particularly noticed in love's sweet ways in consequence. Never should one child be allowed to domineer over another. Mothers will find the highest work of life, and that which will pay best in the end, right in their own homes.
To teach children to cultivate the spirit of Christ in the home will be a power for good in their lives and the lives of those associated with them in later years. The fruits of the Spirit are “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, and meekness.”
It is in vain for parents to point out the way to live in sweet accord to their children, unless they walk in that way themselves. Deal justly with the little ones. Teach them that a sweet, unselfish, loving spirit is far more to be desired than a pretty face or brilliant intellectual attainments without it.—Christian Work.
A SHADOW OF THE HEAVENLY.
By M. D.
PLEASANT the path before the newly wed,
When hearts are one;
New springs of gladness opening ’neath their tread,
New life begun.
New home, with sacred possibilities,
New tasks employ,
New scenes to wake the heart’s deep harmonies,
New love and joy.
The arm strong to protect, the heart’s sweet trust,
The pain that gives
Joy of self-sacrifice to each, as each
For other lives.
O blessed gift, in this to know a type
Of things divine:
He saith, the Holy One, “I have betrothed
Thee, thou art Mine.”
Old things are passed away, lo, all is new;
The heart’s surcease
Of self, the yielded will, the quiet trust,
Hath perfect peace.
“My dove, My undefiled,”—His word, whose grace
Doth work alone,
O vile, once slave of sin, to make thee meet—
Meet for His throne.
To watch, to guard, to keep, with changeless love;
Reck not thy shame;
“Thy Maker thine Husband is,” ever thy shield
His glorious name.
THE first movement ever made in the British Parliament to obtain some law for the protection of animals from cruelty was by a distinguished English statesman, who was met by such a storm of ridicule that he abandoned the attempt. Some time later there came into the House of Commons, from Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, Dick Martin, who was noted widely for two things: (1) that he was very fond of animals, and (2) that he was equally fond of fighting everybody who he thought insulted him. He had an established reputation as a fighting man. One day he brought into the House of Commons a bill for the protection of animals from cruelty. Some one immediately gave a cock crow. Martin at once stepped out on to the floor of the House of Commons, and said he would be very much obliged for the name of the gentleman who had seen fit to insult him. He waited, but the gentleman did not give his name, and then went back to his seat amid the cheers of the House of Commons, and his bill became a law of Great Britain and the first law in the world for the prevention of cruelty to animals.—Our Dumb Animals.
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WATCHING FOR FAULTS.
“When I was a boy,” said an old man, “I was often very idle, and used to play during the lessons with other boys as idle as myself. One day we were fairly caught by the master. ‘Boys,’ he said, ‘you must not be idle; you must attend closely to your books. The first one of you who sees another boy idle will please come and tell me.’”
“Ah! I thought to myself, there is Joe Simmons, whom I don't like: I'll watch him, and if I see him look off his book, I'll tell the teacher.
“It was not long until I saw Joe look off his book, and I went at once to tell the master.
“‘Indeed,’ said he, ‘how did you know he was idle?’
“‘I saw him,’ said I.
“‘You did? And were your eyes on your book when you saw him?’
“‘I was caught, and the other boys laughed, and I never watched for idle boys again.’”
If we watch over our conduct and try to keep it right, and always do our duty, we shall not have time to watch for faults or idleness in others. This will keep us out of mischief, and make us helpful to others.—Our Young Folks.
MILK ADULTERATION IN ATHENS.
A FRENCH newspaper describes an ingenious method of adulteration practised in Athens. The residents have a penchant for goat's milk, and herds of these animals are led along the street by milk-sellers wearing long blouses with capacious sleeves. Their cry of “Gala! gala!” brings the housewife to the door, and she prudently demands that the goats shall be milked in her presence. This is done, but the milkman has in one hand the end of a thin tube, which runs up his sleeves and connects with an India rubber receptacle full of water, which is carried under his ample blouse. At each pressure of the fingers on the udder, there is a corresponding compression of the water sack, and milk and water flow side by side into the milk pail.
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