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i t to a froth with half a Toll of sugar, add gradually a table- spoonful of flour, one pint of but- termilk and a tablespoonful of but- ter. Work all the ingredients to- gether. Line a flat pledish with pastry, 'pour in the filling after ad- ding any spice preferred and bake in a steady oven. Cheap Pork Pie,--Take one and 8 half pounds of lean fresh pork and cut in small pieces. Place a tigi in the bottom of a pie-dish, ty sprinkle with powdered all- gh and then put a layer of sliced apples. Continue this till the dish is full. Cover with paste and bake ~ for two or two and a half hours. A ~ little stock seasoned lightly should 2 be added before the paste is put Belgian .Boup.--Weigh, atter peeling, two pounds of turnips and out, them into dice,' Simmer for twenty 'minutes in one pint of water with two ounces of butter a dessertspoonful' of brown sugar, pépper and sal aah "A cuplul{' of flour blended with uart of milk should also be add . Let all come to the boil while stirring, end serve with dice of fried bread. Gingerbread | Wafers.--Take ' one foun of flour, and work into 1t If a pound 'of butter and half a " pound of caster sugar, also three quarters of an - ounce of ground ginger. Whisk up two. eggs to 8 abiff froth, and mix into the flour eo as to form & light paste. Roll out very thin, cut with a fancy cut- ter, and bake in a sharp oven till risp. Great care" must be taken [® r the wafers will" go Fass | Apple Monld.-- sol and core two pounds of apples $d Sook ill 'soft with sugar tos a aster of a pint EL preg: ter. to" cover, a water. latine in-eold ead the juice of a lemon and then issolve it by heat ttle of the on-peel 'mj stewed with the ) When the ape are Kin ER "boil up Ww ring; - an " n ; a Turn Nie at ghosts eget) ITO Bakes a goad sarory Sih. Pool a ub a lengt wise She set "Lay the two upful of ing = lor five minutes : ur, it over the marrow, 8 hich oi been well drained, and is quite pooked. Scatter browned: bread "grumbs over, and serve. bled i .y meat. dish. I boiled, - 30 minutes; ower in cold water, break ywerets and cook in salted ater. for Aig minutes. ; white; if iit boils its color. When At serving time arrange it in a salad bowl, sprinkle with pped J and a tablespoon- ul RE onion juice and pour French | dressing over all. Cauliflower, White Sauce.--Care- wash your cauliflower and boil ges | until tender in water with salt and one-half tablespoonful butter. When done lay in a rather deep "dish. Pour over it a white sauce made as follows: Rub ene-eighth pound of butter with one level tablespoonful of flour, a dash . salt and pepper and about one-half cupful of warm water. Set on stove and cook until well mixed, but don't let it boil. Remove and add juice of one-half lemon, a lit- tle chopped parsley and a little grated nutmeg. USES FOR SODA. Uses for common washing soda: One heaping tablespoonful of soda to a pint of water (boiling) will clean the ugliest burned pan, by letting it soak a few hours. In boiling clothes a few table- spoonfuls of soda in the water wil eradicate stains from clothes and lend a snowy whiteness. I have used it on thedinest quality of white goods with entire satisfaction. Tt will not injure the material. | To clean a coffee or tea pob made of granite or lined with porcelain, fill up the utensil with cold water, set on stove to boil, and add a lump of soda as large as a hazelnut to the water. It cleanses perfectly. In fact, sweetness is insured after its usage in every instance. To clean silver : Put a level table- spoonful in dish pan, add a quart of cold water, put.on fire to boil = jand wipe immediately after the water boils up. Result: Perfectly. shined silverware without any Ey, £5 B---- | MATHEMATICS IN QOOKINGS . Little problems in mathematics often confront 'the 'beginners in cooking : If one 'vegetable will res ire thirty minutes for cooki W 'many migtulen twill one small roast require, eto. 'is embags rassing to feel that the. 'potatoes are growing cold and soggy while you coax the fire and try to hasten the cooking of a belated "pudding or "The: following "ble may be 'helpful ; Boiled. potatoes, 30 minutes; baked potatoes. 45 minutes ; sweet potatoes, boiled. 43 minutes; sweet potatoes, baked, 1 hour; squash, boiled, 25 minutes; squash, baked, 1 hour; green peas, boiled: 45 minutes ; shelled bea:s, baked, 5 hours ; string beans, boiled 30 minutes; } freon cory, 38 milulen asparagus; 20 minutes; spinach, 1 hour ; tomatoes. fresh, 1 hour; to- matoes, canned, 30 minutes ; cal bage, 1 hour; caulifiower, 1 Aiud onions, 1 hour; beets, 1 hour; tur: nips, 1 hour; 'parsnips 45 i 'oar- rots, 1 hour; rice, boi 30, min- utes ; rice, steamed ASt{ } read, 1 hour; Jake, fruity 4 b jours: cake, laver, 15 minutes; muffins; ia | 20 minutes; pies, 30 minutes, pud- " ton, 15 minutes for each pou! 20 minutes to 1 hour' beef, inutes for each pound, m! b, 15 minutes for each pound of | write. (put silver i in pan in the cold watee)| man *{ been left standing and shelled beans, | REL Huss; iis Sao¥n i Ie i i Hohe an ogee of the Figaro's subscribers wrote to that paper the other day. o| from a little seaside town on the d| Normandy coast: "The lemon | Vice i8 not well done here and we t | get our letters very irregularly. nd winter this little town has on § 300 postal ser-: In inhabitants, so it has only the piste 10 one postman-over 40 years of a who gets £12 a year. He must prer 2 rg that Late will not e obli to p im a pension. For that price Bi § under these con- ditions we have a modest factor who does nap know how to read. He explained a few days ago that know- ing the names of the people who live in his quarter he mana to decipher their names, but for the others it was 'plus difficile.' One of our friends asked him "Have you any letters for me?" '""He replied : 'I don't think so, for a little while ago I called at your brother's and if f had had any for you would have given them to him." The story recalls that told by the late Emmanuel Arene of the Corsi- can postman who could not read or As it was impossible for him to take the letters to those for whom they were intended he solv- ed the difficulty by meeting his fel- low citizens on the village market place. At the same hour every day he stood there with his letters spread out and every one took the Missives =~ addressed to them. There was only one man in the village who received letters every day, mostly from the surrounding communes ; that was the local doc- tor. The first day after his appoint- ment the postman noticed with a suspicious eye that the doctor claimed half of the letters in his box. "What sort of a man can this be?' he asked himself. The next day the same thing happened and it took the postman all his time to refrain from asking for an ex- planation. On the third day all the letters were for the doctor. Quietly he col- lected them. One, two,three, four -- As he was about to take the last one the postman, losing patience, asked him angrily: "Aren't you go- ing to leave any for the others?' 1t took some pains to calm him, but after that he decided to learn to read. I remember seeing a rural post- !'delivering" his letters froma 'little table in the centre of a village in Aix en Provence about three years ago, but it was not because he could not read. The surround- ing .country had been ravaged by an earthquake, hardly "one house it was useless for the postman to try to find the people whose homes had been destroyed. They were sleeping in carts, by the wayside and in the fields and every day between certain hours they used to come into the yillage, and the postman, sitting under a tree in the market place surrounded by crumbling walls and heaps of lath and plaster-and broken furni- ture. would select. from the pack- age in front of him the letters de- Siued for the people w who had no ad- ress ot FAMILY OF NATATORES. One spring evening an amateur nature-student, note-book in hand, penetrated the wilds of a cow pas- ture and paused to take advantage of the practical, although crude, knowledge of a gray-beard country- man who sat contentedly on a log. "There is a strange bird-note this evening," she began, with sweet condescension." 'I | wonder--per- haps you can tell me what the bird The old man removed his pipe for an instaut. "I heerd a robin, mim," he ad- mitted. puffing away at his pipe be- fore the last word was out of his mouth, 7 AMIR SRG "Oh, no!" The student of orni- thology shack her head, prettily im- I| full, Lenten 1--The prophet Eseklel [3 watchman, Ezek. 3. Golden 3 Text, Back. 3. 17, rs I. And he acid unto me ; is 8 peaking. This s portion of the Soong. y, having todo with the seakony inspiration, be- gins with verse 8 of chapter 2, and xtends through verse 3 of the les- son. 'For the source; distinctness, nature, and compulsion of the the pro- phet's call to his sacred office the completeness of his surrender to it, see the introduction above. Son of man--'"Child of man' would be a preferable translation. The phrase is of frequent occur- rence in the book, being used over ninety times. It calls attention to the contrast between the lowliness of mankind and the majesty of God. Eat this roll--This is a forcible way of expressing how thoroughly the prophet must appropriate and assimilate the message given him: He must make it his own before he attempts to speak it to the house of Israel. The roll had appeared before the prophet in a stretched out hand, and he saw it to be the roll of a book. Ordinarily rolls would be written only on one side, but the contents of this one were being written without and within (compare Rev. 5. 1). Com- pare Jeremiah's call (Jer. 1. 7-9). 3. As honey--The roll was filled with lamentations and mourning and woe (Ezek. 2. 10). But since it was from God the prophet found the bitterness turned into sweet- ness. That is a common experi- ence in life among those consecrat- ed to the will of the Lord. Bunyan represents the Valley of Humilia- tion as a sweet thing. 4-11.--Strength for his mission to his fellow countrymen. He is warned of the obstinacy of his peo- ple, -but promised a resoluteness in purpose more steady than their persistency in disobedience. 4. Speak with my words--It is characteristic of Ezekiel, and of Jeremiah, to represent themselves as receiving, not merely the "word" of God, but his very "words."' 6. People of a strange speech-- This refers to the inarticulateness with which foreigners seem to a stranger to speak. They are "deep of lip' (margin). Their utterance also sounds "heavy" (margin). Compare Isaiah 33. 19 for the first and Exod. 4. 10 for the other ox- pression. Ezekiel was to be spared the difficulty of mastering a fore- ign tongue. But there were greater difficulties to be met. If he could once make himself clear to the heathen they would be found to be susceptible to the truth, and would hearken to him (6). 7. They will not hearken unto me --This, then, was Ezekiel's task, to try to persuade people who had been guilty of a life-long refusal to be persuaded by God himself. Out- wardly, they have a hard forehead ; not a muscle in their faces twitches before the condemning truth. In- wardly, they are stiff of heart; there is no yielding of will or feel- ing. 9. Fear them not--It is not the business of a prophet to 'measure out his message according to the disposition; to receive or reject it, of those who hear. If they are re- bellious, still let him speak, for in the long run his truth is bound to prevail. What inspired Ezekiel with unshrinking courage was the fact that the words were God's words, not his. Compare Jer. 6. 3 and Isa. 50. 7, for the figure of the flint. Whether the people hear or forbear (1), the purpose of God's servant is to remain as un- yielding as the hardest rock. 12-15.--FEzekiel's special mission to the captives at Tel-abib. His work was in behalf of the entire Hebrew nation, but his immediate interest was that part of the na- tion in captivity. And his interest was purely a religious one. Few hints are given us of the life of the people in captivity. In fact, al- most formly, Ezekiel seems to be looking beyond his companions to the larger Israel scattered throughout the world. 12. The spirit lifted me--This in- dicates that the prophet is still un- der the influence of the trance de- scribed in' 'chapter 1. He has been accorded a vision of his, relation to , that. the glory se presence he i Pte ot BITE al by ptivity. as be thought of Ee on n nation, now made clea o 3 majesty of an ir and the superhuman phe him. No wonder he remain- ed in unbroken silence for an en- tire week. 16-21.--Ezekiel's further mission. 17. 1 have made these a watch- man--This is only a more exact de- finition of his prophetic function. Like the sentinel who is set upon and the~tower to observe; and to give warning in case of danger, so the prophet was too take account of the present. crisis in Israel, and warn' the people of certain disas- ter, while he should point them to the way of life. 18. His blood--It is the function of the watchman to give fair warn- ing to the wicked of the danger of death. If he fail, then, though the wicked die in his sins, the watch- man must answer for it. "He that fails to save life kills; and blood will be required of him, of every man's hand the blood of his bro- ther." 20. When a righteous man doth turn--His case makes even more perilous the watchman's position of responsibility. If the righteous sin, he must be warned. Otherwise, he may fall over the stumblingblock which God, for purposes of moral test, puts in his path (not that he may fall, of course, but may have opportunities of moral growth). Moreover, it is important for the watchman to keep on warning the righteous man who does not sin, because until the end of his days, he will be beset with peril (21). 22-27.--From here on to the end of chapter 7 follow certain symbo- lical prophecies of the overthrow of the city and nation. These vers: es form a sort of preface, relating to the command given Ezekiel to abandon for a time his sacred work and keep within his own house. 25. They shall lay bands upon thee--His ministry among the ex- iles will be without fruit because of the opposition of sin-hardened hearts. No doubt Ezekiel had al- ready experienced the truth of this, although nothing is recorded of his ministry in these early days at Tel- Abib. But it was as he had ex- pected, they refused to believe his testimony concerning the inevit- able downfall of the city. 26. Thou shalt be dumb--This was a restraint put upon him by Jeho- vah, and one that was to be lifted by Jehovah only at such times as he should choose. Eventually there will be some who will hear (27), and to him that forbeareth, he will at any rate have delivered his soul (21). --_--% GOT EVIDENCE UPSTAIRS. Not an Easy Matter, as it Happene ed to. he a Nilghai. An Indian Judge when first ap- pointed to his position, says the Bombay Gazette, was not well ac- quainted with Hindustani. He was trying a case in which a Hindu was charged with stealing a nilghai. The Judge did not like to betray his ignorance of what a nilghai was, 80 he said, "Produce the stolen property.' The court was held in an upper room, so the usher gasped, "Please, your Lordship, it's downstairs.' "Then bring it up instantly sternly ordered the Judge. The official departed and a min- ute later a loud bumping was heard mingled with loud and earnest ex- hortations. Nearer came the noise, the door was pushed open and the panting official appeared dragging in the blue bull. The Judge was dumfounded, but only for an instant. "Ah! That will do,"" said he. "It is always best when possible | for the Judge personally to inspect the stolen property. Remove the stolen property, usher." -- THE SIZE OF BRICKS. If bricks were made larger it would save a great deal of time and labor in building, said a contractor, but the standard has been set and any change would be attended Ly considerable inconvenience. In England when: bricks - were first made and up te sixty or seventy years ago there was a tax on bricks and in order to evade it the bricks were made. of larger and larger sizes. These were used for cellars - | and other concealed places. To stop this ote an ast was pased R rei orge fixin| {J = of bricks. Early. Er Queen | oo or reign the tax was taken off aud blicks may now be I made on oy 8 size whatever. "Bu A ait the day. Some' people, Alverson, gio boss in the. ly ri fore br 'bu after and early cup of tea; others. think better in the evening ¢ or last thing at night.: Our power to think appears cy depend on the quantity of circulating in_ the brain, and dy device that will increase 'ne fo Ww blood to the head will usually en- able us hi think better. . Rousseau, the great French 3 writ- er, would think bareheaded in the sunshine ; while Bossuet, the French 1 , would work in acold room, with his head wrap- ped in furs.. Schiller, the Corian dramatist and the friend of Goethe would immerse his feet in ice-cold water. Everybody knows from experience that the brain is not at its best after a heavy meal. The explana- tion of 'this is simply that all the available blood in the body is drawn For the same reason we can usual ly think best after a period of fast ing, and it is known that clerks de better work before lunch than afte wards. Upton Sinclair, the author of the 'The Jungle," says that he never felt more capable of intellects ual effort than when he was under- going the fasting cure, and he ia convinced that great poetry will be written when ts fast for the sake of their work. The late Professor Mayor, of Cambridge, when engaged on his latest book would occasionally go without food for a day or more at a time, and for several years be- fore his death his food cost him no more than twopence a day. Prolonged periods of sloepless- ness produce a sensitiveness and irritation of the nerves, or, as the doctors zall it, a state of hyperaes- thesia, which | is orable to thought. Some le can think only when walking, and others only in the noise of streets and crowds, or with the buzz of conversation all around. But most people require silence and solitude. Opivm and morphia, in moderate doses, cause mental excitement of a peculiarly pleasurable character, which is always followed by a period of intense depression. The opium or morphia habit, once acquired, is almost impossible to break. Both tea and coffee stimulate. the nervous system and the circulation. The heart beats more quickly, and this causes the blood to circulate more rapidly though the brain. Wa drink tea because we know from our own experience that, whatever the doctor may say, we do feel more lively and energetic afterwards. But when tea-drinking develops in- to a habit, as it often does, it brings indigestion, loss of appetite, and nervousness in its train. The use of strong coffee at night is well known to students who are compelled to cram for examina- tions; for, although the coffee does not increase their intellectual cap- acity, it makes their brain ~ cells more sensitive for the time being. L RUBBER ROADS. At the International Rubber Ew hibition at Islington, England, a large area of the hall was paved with rubber, with the expectation that it would serve to show the value of rub- ber as a material for covering the sur faces of roads. At first sight it seems chimerical to propose the use of rubber for such a purpose, but rubber blocks on roadways ex- posed to heavy traffic have already been tried, and the amount of wear upon them after years of use is said to be almost inappreciable. It is argued that owing to -its great durability, combined with absence of dust and noiselessness, rubber pav- ing will in the end be cheap as compared with wood or asphalt. It is suggested that an experimental block be laid in a busy London street. A wide use of rubber paving would demand a great increase in the supply of raw material. CL . BOYS STOLE CRUTCHES, The mystery of an artificial leg and a pair-of crutches which were found on the bank of one of the Eftgue ponds, London, England, the hoch solved. Police drs o pon bug with th no success. owever, | pon a they came wu WA bushes' The ne hel i i some. vg some' boy He the leg and prim vg i fom {lo te FE he frequently fav-. ¥ from the brain and the extremities to help in the work of digestion. ~~