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A FINE RUSSIAN REGIMENT Recipes for Dainty Dishes. i Syrup Scones. â€" One pound of self- raising flour, add four ounces of but- ter or dripping, two ounces of sugar, an ounce of sultanaa, one-half pint of milk and a tablespoonful of golden syrup. Mix all together thoroughly, cut into shapes and bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes. These are called Bcones. Saucer Potatoes. â€" Take cold boiled potatoes, mash them with milk and a little dripping and pepper and salt lind a little minced parsley. Fill fiaucers with this mixture, allowing one for each person; sprinkle the top of each with brown bread crumbs and a little grated cheese. Bake in quick oven till browned. Potato Fritters. â€" Boil half a dozen potatoes, beat them and mix with three well-beaten eggs, a gill of milk, a little oiled butter. Mix well to- gether and drop into boiling dripping. Fry a light brown, dish up and sprinkle with sugar. Serve hot. Vanilla Cake.â€" Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, add half a pound of sugar, the yolks of three eggs beaten up with a little milk, and a few drops of vanilla essence. Sift in half a pound of self-raising flour, beat the white of the eggs to a stiff froth, and add them to the mix- ture, stirring all together for five minutes. Bake in a hot oven. Raisin Bread.â€" Half cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 7 cups white flour, Vb cup sugar, 1 yeast cake, 1 cup boiling water, 1 cup chop- ped seeded raisins. Scald milk and add water. Dissolve yeast in half of this lukewarm mixture. To the re- maining milk and water add four cups of flour and make a batter. Beat thoroughly, then add the yeast. Let stand until light. Cream butter and sugar and add eggs one at a time. Now add egg and sugar mixture to the .'iponge, together with raisins and remaining flour. Place in a buttered bowl and let rise until light. Form Into loaves, place in buttered pan, let rise again and bake 40 minutes. Stale Bread Fritters.- Cut the bread in slices, about a third of an inch thicks fry in fat, from which a faint bluish smoke is rising, and when each piece if fried on one side, turn it over and spread the browned side with marmalade or jam. When cooked, lift out and sprinkle with caster sugar mixed with a little cinnamon. Irish Potato Cakes. â€" Take one pound of flour, a teaspoonful of bak- ing pow<ier and three ounces of drip- ping with a pinch of salt. Work these together, then add one pound of cook- ed mealy potatoes and mix to a stiff paste with a little lukewarm milk or water. Flour a board and roll out, cutting into neat squares one inch thick. Place on a greased tin and bake for 10 or 15 minutes. Split open, butter and serve hot. Fish and Rice Croquettes.- Put a quarter of a pound of rice into a saucepan with an ounce of butter and a pint of milk, simmer slowly for an hour and a half, by which time the rice will have absorbed all the milk, and do not stir it while it cooks. When cooked, add a seasoning of salt and Btir in the yolk of an egg. Turn on a plate to cool. Have ready some cold cooked fish, mixed with a little thick white sauce (previously season- ed). Take portions of the rice, roll into balls, make a hole in the centre, fill with the fish mixture, close up the hole and brush over with the white of the egg. Roll the balLs in fine bread-crumbs and fry in hot fat. Drain and serve with sauce. Fritters. â€" Hard boil two eggs for half an hour, then shell and mash to a fine paste. Mix with an equal quantity of boiled chopped ham and pounded to a paste, add a high sea- soning of salt and pepper and the beaten yolk of a raw egg. Cut stale bread in thin slices, put together in sandwiches with a thick filling of the paste, then trim off crusts and cut in pieces two by four inches in size. Beat together two raw eggs and mix with a quarter of a cupful of milk, a pinch of salt and sufficient sifted flour to make a thin batter. Dip each piece in this, then drop in a deep smoking hot fat and fry golden brown. Drain for a moment on soft paper and serve spread on a dish; do not heap on one another. white soap, holding the ribbon straight. Use wash pillows whenever pos- sible for living rooms and dens. They are more hygienic and more sanitary. A most effective way to clean ' linoleum is to wash first with a I little water and then polish by ap- plying milk. To remove ink spots from colored goods, dip the stain in pure melted tallow. Wash out the tallow and ink goes with it. A teaspoonful of boracic acid add- ed to a cup of boiling water and allow- ed to cool is excellent for inflamed, weak eyes. It is said that a rag soaked in a cayenne pepper solution and stuffed in a rat hole will set them all scam- pering oft' the place. Stains on flannel may be removed Mrith yolk of an egg and glycerine in equal quantities. Leave it on for half an hour, then wash out. If cream will not whip add the white of an egg. Let both become thoroughly chilled before whipping. Keep cold until ready to serve. An excellent way to prepare a new iron kettle for use is to fill with cold water and one cupful of rye meal. Keep at boiling point several hours. Keep a supply of old plates and saucers on which cold meats, scraps, etc., can be put away. Avoid leaving anything on the dish it has been serv- ed on. Embroidered garments should al- ways be ironed on the wrong side upon several thicknesses of flannel. This makes the pattern stand out quite boldly. One pint of tar and two quarts of water in an earthen vessel will keep red ants away. Keep this in your pantry or cellar and you will never see one. Next time you make a mayon- naise, or other salad dressing, try peanut oil instead of olive oil. It is just as good to the taste and half the price of olive oil. Household Hints. A cupful of anything means a half- pint. Sugar needs a dry, cool place; so does jam. Cake tins should be scalded out once a week. The good housewife utilizes every scrap of food. To soften fruit can rubbers, add a little ammonia to the water. Green pepper shelLs, stuffed with corn and baked, make a dainty lunch- eon dish. To keep eggsâ€" To a pint of salt add one pint of fresh lime and four gallons of water. A piece of sandpaper is of the greatest help in removing stains and food from cooking utensils. To remove a rusty appearance of black suede shoes, use a mixture of olive oil and ink in equal parts. Clothes that have been sprinkled will not mildew for days, even in Bummer, if kept away from the fire. If curtains are allowed to dry thor- oughly before being starched, it will b« found that they will last clean longer. To clean ribbon, sponge with alco- hol and rub over the spot with clcyan AMERICA'S ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY. With courage and unusual firmness, America has sent to Germany her last word. The note contains the final summing up of the position of America's 100,- 000,000 people to the Imperial Gov- ernment of the Kaiser, and admits of no more quibbling from the over-seas power. It now rests with Germany to say whether she desires the con- tinuance of friendly relations be- tween the two governments. The note from Germany, to which this is the reply, was studiously flip- pant and irrelevant. With cutting logic and designedly severe in its bluntness. Secretary Lansing and President Wilson have framed a dip- lomatic note and hammered in the facts so unrelentlessly, that even the autocratic Kaiser will not fail to un- derstand. It is final, and it may be assumed that friendship between the two na- tions concerned has ceased. The logic of it is manifest, but we know that Germany flings logic to the winds with a facility that is astonishing, and it is to be presumed that con- sideration of policy and expediency, and not those of international law and humanity, will govern her con- duct as it has ever since the war be- gan. Germany now has only one course to pursue if she expects to maintain the friendship of the United States, that is, she must abstain from injur- ing neutrals. Another holocaust like the Lusitania, or of lesser import even, will drive America to arms against the autocrat and war lord of the Hohenzollerns. Prea. Wilson has assured the Kaiser that America will contend for the principles of intdr- nationnl law and right espoused, "at any cost," and the American people will stand squarely behind him, and quickly prepare for the most critical result whatever that may be. The note is void of the customary diplo- matic frills, and there is no longer any possibility of an evasive or ar- gumentative reply. Our case is stated, and there is no- thing left to argue about. It ia now up to the German government to lis- ten to the voice of reason or take the consequences. She can maintain peaceful relations with the U.S. only by refraining from murdering Ameri- can citizens. She can break those re- lations by returning to the savagery and cold-bloodedness of her under- seas assaults, We shall see in the sequel what her action will be, and whether her diplo- macy is sound enough to steer clear of further complications in arraying the world in hostile attitude against her. CHAS. M. BICE. Denver, July 25, 1915. + Additional clasps may be added to the Victoria Cross for subsequent acts of bravery. According to Chinese history, the custom of small foct among the fe- males of China originated several cen- turies back, when a large body of wo- men rose against the government and tried to overthrow it. To prevent the recurrence of such an event the use of wooden shoes so small as to disable them from making any effective use of their feet was enforced on all fe- male infants. The picture .shows men of Uie Fono i^orl jski Iteginient of Mohcow In a Kliallow, liiKstlly O(>n.<4tructo<i trench nt the front, aH-altliiK orders to advance. Tills reKinient Is regarded Bs the hcsX In tlic Kusslan army, and Is one of tlie two HumsIuji rci^nipiits accorded tlie privU- e(o of marching wlUi rl(l^ at the "ctiiirKe." I THE ARCTIC MAIL The mail service to the hindcrland of Alberta, although it still leaves much to be desired in the way of regularity, has improved a great deal in ten years. A decade ago there was only one mail a year â€" that con- veyed by the Hudson Bay winter pac- ket. Passing travelers (in the sea- son of open navigation) who were thoughtful enough to take the trouble might bring in infrequent let- ter mails, but magazines never ran the gauntlet of picture-hungry trad- ers and roustabouts. They were ap- propriated en route; and newspapers accumulated wherever these volunteer mail carriers happened to drop them. On my journey to the north in 1001, writes a Youth's Companion contribu- tor, I found, piled in the corner of a log-walled house, at the western end of Lesser Slave Lake, a collection of newspapers. Knowing what a treat they would be to the isolated settlers, I packed the whole bundle into a gunny sack and threw it on top of my wagonload. At Peace River Cros- sing, I arranged for my passage down the river three hundred miles to Fort Vermilion. The craft was a huge raft, then loading in shallow water about fifty feet from the shore. The next day we pushed off and be- gan our long drift down stream, and two or throe days later I thought of the mail, which was no where to be seen. An anxious search followed, and at last, from under a pile of hay at one end of the raft, we pulled a soggy, dripping mass â€" my precious mail sack. The spot had been dry enough when the sack had been thrown there and inadvertently cov- ered with hay, but the subsequent loading had completely submerged that end of the raft. I was advised to tic a rock to the sack, sink it, and keep "mum." What I did do was to put the sack where it would drain, and on reaching my journey's end to open every paper out to single sheets and dry them. They were very wrinkly, to be sure, and the operation used all the floor space in my friend's house for some days, but the six-months-old news was so eagerly devoured by the setlcrs that wo felt well repaid. Some two weeks after wo left the Crossing, a Hudson Bay clerk arrived from Scotland with his bride, also bound for Fort Vermilion. The sea- son was late. Daily the freeze-up was expected, but Tom Carr hurriedly built his little raft and started down the river. Besides himself and his wife, their camp outfit and food, their only load was a late packet of letters, brought direct from Edmonton, ami a gramophone for the factor. Shore ice had formed, and daily pushed its edge farther into the current. Ice pans, varying in size from tea platea to huge disks fifty feet across, drifted with the stream. Hourly they grew in size, jostling eaoJi other, crushing viciously against the advancing shore ice as they fought their way down the curent. Then came a day when the ice pans jammed and froze into a solid mass. As soon as it was safe to do so, Tom and his wife made their way to shore, where he made a cache of the mail packet and the gramophone. Above the cache he placed a tripod of poles to identify the spot when, later in the winter, he should pass that way. "The seventy-five-mile tramp back to the Crossing was very trying, and Mrs. Carr's "store" shoes were in shreds when they trailed wearily into the settlement. Then, late in Febru- ary, with his wife in a cariole and ac- companied by the annual Hudson Bay packet dog-trains. Tom once more set his face northward. Arrived at the cache, what was his dismay to find that, after freezing, the rive? had thawed, risen several feet, flooded over his cache, and frozen solid again. But for the tripod of poles it would have been impossible to find it. He carefully chopped the ice from round the letter packet and lifted out the whole in a solid block. He re- moved the gramophone in like man- ner, loaded everything on the dog sleighs, and carried everything on to the fort. Of the twenty-three letters that came to me, six had been through the ice ordeal. They were written with a blue ink that ran. And how it did run! A smear of blue was the ad- dress on the soaked-apart envelope; several blue smears, like the oceans on a map, with a few disjointed words between, formed the body of the let- ter from home. On inquiring at the fort I was told that the block of ice containing the letters had been placed by the fire, and as fast as they thawed, the let- ters were one by one peeled off the lump. The gramophone, except for a spreading of the dovetailed corners of the box, was not injured in the least. >f ; English and Italian Crops. Grain crops in England and Italy promise greater yields this year than the last harvest. Forecasts cabled by the International Institute of Agricul- ture at Rome, place the Italian wheat crop at 189,000,000 bushels, some 20,- j 000,000 bushels more than last year. I The prospective wheat crop of Eng- land and Wales is placed at 63,000,000 bushels, or 3,000,000 more than last year; the barley crop 44,000,000, a decrease of 7,000,000 bushels, and the oats crop at 80,000,000 bushels, an in- crease of 10,000,000 bushels. Professional Pride. A quaint story is told to exemplify the pride that svcry man should take in the work by which ho makes a liv- ing. Two street sweepers, seated on a curbstone, were discussing a com- rade, who had died the day before. 'Bill certainly was a good sweeper," said one. â- '"Yes," conceded the other, thought- fully. Butâ€" don't you think hp was a littlo weak around the lamp-posts?" At the close of the seventeenth cen- tury a tax was placed on widowers. LOVE AND HATE England to Germany. You poison the springs that should ever flow To aid the bright flowers of peace to grow; You teach little children in school to pray That curses may blight, and that wrath may slay; You plant in the soil of their young hearts seeds Of baneful, destructive and deadly weeds; You rob theni of vision of higher view; You wither their power to be pure and true; You turn them away from love's garden gate. And chill their warm blood with your hiss of hate. But back o'er your land all your curse clouds roll To darken and shrivel your nation's soul. You savagely boasted your brutal might, And scornfully sneered when men spoke of right; Refused to be true to the pledge you signed, And jeered at the nations a bond could bind; Defying humanity's moral laws, â- * You murdered the helpless without a cause; You secretly tried an infamous plan To sow deadly strife between man and man; Your four plots miscarried, perfidy failed. The nations awoke and the right prevailed. Now, facing in terror avenging fate. You shriek in your fury the curse of hate. We heed not your curses. We know God hears The cry of the nation whose bitter tears Flow out from the heart that in angruish bleeds Because of your merciless, ruthless deeds. Brave Belgium's blessing of prayer and praise The curse of your venomous hate outweighs. We sprang to her aid with our souls aflame To save from dishonor old England's name. Peace lovers are we, but true Britons fight When freedom is threatened by despot might. We hate not your nation. We fight that we May aid in the struggle to make men free. For all that you did in your brilliant past We thank you, but mourn that, misled at last. You sullied the fame of your noble state, And shadowed your soul with the curse of hate. Base, selfish ambition has made you blind. Has narrowed your vision and warped your mind. We hope you will learn, when the strife is o'er. That all war is evil, and fight no more; That hate is a monster, whose fatal breath Bears ever a message of gloom and death; That love is the highest power man can know To start the divine in his life to grow. â€" James L. Hughes. Correct. "Carl," said the teacher, "can you tell me what an inebriate is?" "Yes, ma'am," replied Carl. "It is an animal that does not have a backbone." Honest "My boy, 'you're a clever lad to catch such a big fish by yourself." "Oh, I don't mind telling you, sir, that I got the worm to help me." Wearing collars which squeeze the neck tightly is said to be conducive to baldness. Bananas arc fit to eat as soon as they have lost all their green color, and remain fit, no matter how black they may be, so long as the skin is unbroken. Trade in War Time. Soon after the war broke out, says the London Telegraph, a friend called on an English merchant, who did a large Continental busmess. "This war must have hit you hard," he ven- tured. "Very hard," said the merchant. "I've over $10,000 owing me in Ger- many, and it's touch-and-go whether I ever get a penny of it. Still, we've I got to put up with something for the country." "I'm glad you take it so cheerfully," said the friend. "Well, of course there's profit and loss in war time. I owe $18,000 in Germany." It is a criminal offence in Britain to make use of profane oaths. The following penalties may be imposed: In the case of a day laborer, common sdldier, or seaman. Is.; any other person under the degree of gentle- man, 2s.; any person above the degree of gentleman, 5s. Unselfish. Doctor â€" Is your wife strong-minded enough to see that you positively re- frain from sweets? Patient â€" Sure, doctor! She's got spunk enough to make me pass up the candy and pastry and all that as long as she's allowed to eat it her- self." A near arg^ument is one in which nobody gets angary. ICE CREAM BRICKS Ice cream frozen in boxes â€" enough in each box to serve five or sixâ€" is a method of shipping that * the City Dairy has developed until dLscrimlnfft- ing dealers everywhere have them on sale. A pail of chopped ice and a little salt will enable you to serve Ice Cream at that picnic. Look for the Sign. TORONTO. NVe want an Agent in every town.