before Aline in the fruit} the aed ~ghould be poured in to oterfgwing ap and iractions for the Eero | Kinds of fruit will be given e.) hod 0 or or 'in Very Small Quantities. -- Cook the required amount of water, sugar and prepar- d fruit in a small le until the it is tender, then fill into the hot sterilized j i and seal. Method of Canning.--Boil sugar and water as a syrup for ten min: ot, e al- of jars with warm wa- } bring to boiling point. For twenty minutes will be : , but large or hard fruit et boil longer. Have a flat pan with a few inches of hot water at hand; also some. more hot syrup; mow lift out one jar ait a time and enough Syrup to overflow, then ad- the rubbers and clean covers. "which must be in hot water ; screw on folded towel to cool. Canning . Strawherries.--Propor- tions ; 'Eight 'cupfuls of hulled stoawbenrries ; one'and one-half cup- - fuls of sugar ; one-half cupful of wa- ter. Method : Seleot firm, red ber- ries--a small variety is best--and it and hours, then boil | minutes. Add the fire. and leave it alone; turn it ab least. three times during ithe . pro- cess. Don't & it on a cold dish. © Raw wicker #hould be scrubbed with & stiff brish and white soap suds. Rinse and' quickly ; then brash all over wilh a sweet oil and turpentine, equa tloth, 'o make delicious iced coffee, use one quart of strong: coffee; 4 Na a quart of milk a 'this to the coffee, and then | pour in a pint of cream. - Place in the peftigerator 'and serve with: Jispped cream. = An stbone. n abundance of i. always indicates a young bind, while the presence of long hains denotes age. Every indh of old - tablecloth should be saved. When the table- cloth is past mending, it can be cut into tray cloths, bread cloths, kit- chen tablecloths, and it will make very good kitehen towels for wiping glassware. Teme i AN ARCTIC VISITOR. Capt. Ejnar Mikkelsen's Adventure With a Bear. Established in winter quarters in Greenland, Capt. Einar Mikkelsen | i. and his companion had an adven- ture with a bear, which Captain hued" goscribes in "Liost in the rétie."' e was chopping wood | on the floor of the house when a In a moment we have: what and bolted the door, and Iversen puts PLEASED AT THE PROGRESS oF HOME RULE. This Fo interesting photograph shows the British Chancellor of the Exchequer on the way to the Mmons. On the left of THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTER TIONAL LESSON, 5 Verso 9. And Be spake also this parable--A form of introduction used frequently by Luke, and char- acteristic of his style. In this chap- ter, as in others in the Gospel: of Luke, certain parables' have been brought together 'which® have no 'close connection in thought and were spoken at different times and in different- places. This parable has no evident connection with the one which precedes it (verses 1- 8) or with the narrative which follows (verses 15-30). Whe 'trusted in themselves that they. Wers "fighteous--Had 'they trusted in God rather than in them- selves, this trust would have led m a recognition of the shal- lowness «of their own formal piety. t all othéis at mought-- The word is a strong one, meaning mttetly despised,'" or "treated as ofi no account. n I ably so er. He asks God or nothing, and merely uses the form of thanka- giving. He addresses his words to God, but is all the time thinking about, himself. He: congratulates 1 thank thee, that Tam not as the rest of men--He puts everybody | else in a class below himself. Con- trast with these the words of St. Patil in 1 Cor. 15.9, 10. 12. The Pharisee thinks himself superior to other men, not only in what he abstains from, but in what hedoes. I fast twice in the week--The Mo- saic Taw enjoined but one fast in the year, the Day of Atonement. During the exile it became custom- ary to observe four yearly fasts in memory of national calamities, the one in the fourth month, commemo- rated the capture of Jerusalem; that of the fifth month, the destrue- tion of the city and temple; of the seventh month, the murder of Ge- daliah (2 Kings 95. 25; Jer. 41. 1); that of the tenth, the 'beginning of the siege (Jer. 52. 4). Ocgasionally special fasts were ordered" in, sea- ns of drought and other. public calamities, and these fasts were al- ways held on Mondays and Thurs- days, Thursday being the day on which Moses was supposed to have ceded the mount and Monday the day of hig return. So it came about; that some of the. roa mi ie. year round. £28 fre Githoo of all thet biget Dithes were required on some { things, but not on everything (see v 8 unately unable to observe js | his back against it to further bar|giq 11 | the entrance nst our unwel- Jewish teligion. 10. Two men. wont Ths temple sbood on Mount Moriah, so it would be necessary to go up into the tem- ple to pray. An incident such as the o eo referred to might easily red at one of the usual prayer. - The one a Pharisee--The Phati- a religious party among ra Whose leading characteris- 3 was ulous observ- Matt. 28. 98). Here the Pharisee boasts of doing more than he -was required. 13, The 'publican, standing afar 'off from the Pharisee would not lift up so much as his eyes unto |; heaven. Contrast his humble man- ner with that of 'the over-confident, familiar attitude of the Pharisee. Smote his breast--Continued to | ite in his earnestness. A sinner--Better, "the sinner.' His load of guilt seems so er that he singles himself out as the chief i sinpers. (Compare 1 Tim. §14 ustified--Counted as righte: r than the ' other--While. Soe alive. is men- 3 uke, whose Gospel, Gent; refers b "of es, Samaritans, sinners, all of whom i garde bs R parts mi 3 the picture is Mr. Montague, M.P., Financial Secretary of the Trea- When dry, wipe off with thick, x. sury; anithe ight, Mr. Percy Illingworth, the chief Liberal whip. I? 9. A chief publican--This is evi: dently an official title and shows that the office held by Zacchaeus was higher than that of the ordin- | the ary tax collector. As Jericho was an impontant<centre of trade, iu 'would be likely that a commission- er of taxes should dwell there. And he was rich--His riches may have been gained through extor- tion. 3. The crowd--As usual, a large number of people followed Jesus Some of these may have been Gali: laean pilgrims going to Jerusalem for the passover festival. 4. Zacchaeus had, no doubt, heard of Jesus, and was willing to brave the criticism of the crowd in order to see him, His desire may have been, first of all, prompted by curiosity, but he seems to have had an honest heart, and in this in- stan a8 in many others, our Lord's friendly intercourse with publicans and sinners was justified by its results. iSycomore tree--A tree with fruit like the fig, and leaves like the mulberry, called the fig-mulberry. 6. I must abide at thy house -- This is the only reported occasion on which Jesus offered himself as a guest, though he frequently accept- ed invitations. 7. He is gone in to lodge with a man that is a sinner--They may not have known anything about Zac- chaeus's personal character, merely judging him to be 'a sinfier because of his occupation. Christ's friendly actions so outraged their senwe of propriety that they all murmured. 8. Overwhelmed by Christ's con- descension im 'coming to his house, Zacchaeus resolves to lead a less { selfish life and to make restitution where he has wrongfully acquired wealth, The half of my goods I give to e poor--The present tense is used. chaeus does not promise for the future, 'but makes his gift then and there. I restore fourfold--Fourfold re- stitution was imposed by the law when a deliberate act of robbery had been committed. 9. To-day is salvation come to this house--Not Zacchaeus alone, but his whole household is included in the blessing of Jesus. The trans- formation of his owm life would make possible a new family with higher. ideals and nobler conduct. A son of Abraham--Though a publican, Zacchaeus was of the house of Israel and entitled to its privileges. It was to such lost | sheep that Jesus considered his spe- cial mission. a Maxims for Husbands, Don't - argue. Don't be boss. Don't try to show your importance. Don't forget who you are and Who your wife is. Don't be deceitful. n't he selfish, Don't for, ot! that or is 6 the Fe me te ou. Don uit worth while i is the-man who can smile when every- | thing goes dead w: Don't at home al rong, n't stay all the time. Don't ha Don't ¥y in deat oo A was Ro "closely ! tion to Such, an extent, hich was universally fs Shronic., irritation was: sely bound up with 'bacteria that there arose the question whether radi~ um stimulated an animal cell. Dr. Barlow sald experiments of his had demonstrated that bacteria actually pulled radium out of a solution and at- tracted it to themselves, If radiu therefore, were circulating in the bl while 'bacteria were present. the latter would attract and locally epost the radium, forming a focus of that sub- stance, producin stimulation of the cells in the neighborhood. He sald ra- dium was Dresent at times in normal human tissues, and it was found In greater quantities in cancerous tissues. Disposing bladder would be relatively com- man, whereas it was rare British Museum Has a Lift. In our "tubes," our hotels and our pri- vate houses the word "Nft" is u to denote the Carrying agency that trans- fers us from floor to floor or from sub- yay = he SD, a y ow, for the first time in its British Museu! the most re thing about it 18 the direction in bronsze letters, "BEle- vator." Some see in this a polite con- cession to our Joreign visitors; others a by' the hile ats of the muse- um hat the word been admitted to the ranks of the King's English. Roman Bath in the Strand. The news that the old Roman bath in the Strand, near Somerset House, is going to change hands will have little' concern for most persons, as very few, Londoners know anything about it. Yet until quite recently it was possible to plunge every morning in an ice cold spring bath built in A time of Vespa- sian. Visitors to London will find it quite worth while looking up. Until 1893 it had a gravel bottom and the sides were of Roman brick, but when the famous Bssex marble bath, which adjoined and was fed by the same spring, was closed the marble was taken out and used to line the old Ro- man bath. A flight of marble steps was also transferred from the Essex bath. Dickens was at one time a visitor to bath, as Jeaqqrs 95 "David Coppers field" will rféca here was," he wrote, "an old Roman bath in those days' at the bottom of one of the streets out of the Strand-it may be there atilley I have had many a plunge. The nein which supplies the bath is believed to be that which formerly' supplied also the Holy Well which gave its name to Holywell street. Britain's Drink Bill Is Soaring. The United Kingdom spent last year more than £5,000,000 (32 ,000,000) on drink than in' 1912, an increase of 40, cents per. head of the population, and we consumed in round figures 1,800,000 more gallons of spirits, 1,000,000 more barrels of beer and 180,000 more gallons of wine, This does not, however, mean that as a nation we are growing less temperate, says the Daily all, It simply means that we have been enjoying a period of sustained prosperity. Heavy drinking and good trade go together, and a wave of sobriety is often only another way of saying a wave of commercial .depres- sion. It sounds, and it is, appalling rough that we should be spending on drink sum equal to four-fifths of the iit Fo national revenue; that a working class family should be estimated to waste nearly one-sixth of {ts Income on liquor and that the annual expenditure, if we omit the total abstainers and the children under 15, should work out at all but £7 ($35) a head. But it is an im- provement on what has gone before, Macaulay reckons that in 1688 the English people consumed 90 gallons of alcohol a head; they now- only drink a little more than 28. In 1760 there was one public house to every six homes and every 47 persons; there is now but one public house to every 70 homes and 330 perso Drunkenness, too, besides having vir tually dled out as a social accomplish- ment, has steadily diminished among all classes. It is still a terrible and per- vasive evil, with an aftermath of dis- ease, vice, crime and wretchedness that is beyond ccmputation, but so far as one can see its worst days are over. : "Port Wise" Made in London. An is not port wine that is so labelled. A Standard representative was Inform. ed that:a large e quantity © of 8 wine is made des ignated "port," a neither it nor any its ingredients has ever been near eto: gal, The technical description of port ine, as given by an expert, is as fol« lo lhe words port or port wine when used by themselves denote a fortified wine of a particular type and having particular Ohavacteristion as to sweet- ness, color and bouquet, made from fresh grapes grown in Portugal and shipped from Oporto." This description does not apply to large quantity of the so-called ports wines sold in London. As a matter of fact the cheap "ports" are nearly all made in London. The manufacturers make. the wine gu uite openly and 'their factories are subject to the inspection of excise officials, ake it from dried currants or raisins and use in the manufacture a certain amount of real port wine they avoid the payment of import dutles, "Query Combs" Worn in London. The "query comb" is the latest halr ornament for women, and is being sold in large numbers in the West End. Its high top is formed into the shape of a question mark incrusted with Parisian Britliants. High, glittering combs are to be fash. ionable this season. For those who do not like A Tne ornaments plain Span- ish combs with semicircular tops are be- ing sold. nee eae The annual coal production of Nova Scotia exceeded 7,000,000 ii = the ae time last year. gy brilliant for use on gps, sulle 2a mdtor- cycles are being used in France. | In Japan a waberproof leather suitable for many purposes is being made from the hides of sea lions. > - Australia plans to. spend $25 000, 3 000 within three years for extend. ing its telephone and but as they mA ' For ground without 'the whieh of duits, a steel taped le has be invented. Twenty-two different can be con: \