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: HOUSEHOLV Favorite Recipes. Date Cake. One cup sugar, one large teaspoon butter. Cream sug- ar and butter, then sift two cups flour, one teaspoon baking soda, one teaspoon cloves, and one tea- poon cinnamon together three times, and add to sugar and but- ter with one cup sour milk. Then add twenty walnuts and one-ball pound dates chopped fine to the above mixture and beat for about one minute and bake in loaf pan in slow oven for about forty minutes. This cake is better when it is three days old. Beef Loaf. Take two pounds chopped beef, add a small piece of ret and small onions chopped, one tablespoon flour, and one pint to- matoes. Mix all together well and form into loaf, leaving out juice of tomatoes to pour over top. Sea- Bon with pepper and salt and add a touch of red pepper. Bake or team. It is delicious. Nut LoaC One and one-half cups flour, one-half cup brown sugar, One of the Questions of the Near Future in Ireland. Compulsory tillage will be one of the questions in the near future in Ireland. In most foreign countries those who are entrusted with the care of the land are compelled to till a certain portion of it. But, in three cups flour, three teaspoons ' Ireland, although there have been baking powder, one-half teaspoon several land acts, no such condi- soda, three-quarters teaspoon salt, and bones they are generally so cooked to pieces and so hidden among the bones that it is impos- sible to get them out in present- able shape. Very small bags can be filled with seasoning mixture of herbs pars- ley, thyme, bay and other kitchen savories and used to season oroth, soup and other meat and vegetable dishes. Wide mouthed bags with long tapes, which can be tied about the outer edge of bowls or saucepans, are useful for straining custards, jellies made with gelatine, sauces and other liquids which must he strained to make them smooth. These bags should be made of coarse, wide meshed cheesecloth. Cheesecloth bags in the laundry can be used for holding doilies, imall pieces of neckwear and other small articles which are easily lost when they are hung separately on the line. " FARMERS MfST TILL LAND. one-half cup chopped walnut meats. Bake in medium oven three-quar- tion of proprietorship has yet been introduced. The result is that in every locality large farmers, graz- ters of an hour and let stand, after j ierVand storekeepers have pur- mixing, one-half hour before bak- 1 chased large tracis of land and are ing. keeping them as grazing farms and, MPIIIFS RICHEST FASKKTiBE mm SCHOOL ussoi. WHEAT GROUN WITHOUT RAIN IX S501TH AFRICA. Expert Tells How the Insect I'est Is Dealt With ia Novel Manner. And tho desert shall rejoice and bk*-s<,'m aa the rose. . . . In the wilderness shall water break out. and streams. in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pi and the thirstv lauds springs of water. Isaiah, chapter 35. TBE NEW PEACE PALACE AT THE HAGUE. This building at The Hague, under construction since 1907, will be opened this year. All future international peace conferences will be held there. Isaiah's many propiheeies oon- j cerning the fertility of the desert places of the earth are navtng some measure of fulfillment Africa, according to Dr. Macdon- ald, of the Union Department of INTERNATIONAL LESSON', JUNE 1. Lesson IX. Joseph iv-is Ili Brethren. Gea., Chan. 44. Guides Text, James 5, ! i. Agriculture, who is best known as ri- - Joseph's brethren upon leaving Egypt the second time have their money again returned to them, Jos- eph's cup being at the same time placed in Benjamin's sack. Thus does Joseph plan a final test of the sincerity of his brothers. This test constitutes the subject of our pre- sent lesson passage. Verse 4. Were gone out of the city Taking Benjamin with them. Rewarded evil for good At- in. South ' tempted to steal when you had re- ceived the most liberal of treat- ment. 5. Whereby he indeed divineth were manv methods of di- THE KAISER IS T8EMBIIN6 OLD PROPHESIES MAKE THE EMPEROR UNEASY. Soothsayers Say 1913 Will See Germany** Doiufall, and Rise of France. It has long been known that the It was uttered by Herman the Monk, and deals almost exclusively with the Hohenzoilern family in these words : "He shall have a oros- perous life and enjov more tha'n he , do n ^ d t 8 * :d ULift? Oil Uil u.c .J. c-^ .. -v UMssvsl -*-** %> *-> - , ne*r of the dry-farming movement. . "E feT^Eft.** evolutimized agricul- , as watching the flight of birds, e.x- ' * ** ^ only ever dared to hope : for wonderful things are about to be accomplish- experimental ed and the Prince himself will not ' be able to divine the astonishing growth of thtjpw power." Ancient 0*le S Foretold It. This ancienloVacle paints, how- ere, a sinister picture in regard to the thirteenth generation. The pre- - n . v , ^terview, Dr. Ma,- , , tisfo ! - gans of animals slain for sacrifice, ^ ^ method of hfdrc ^ QC y t here alluded to. This latter method consisted * Paring water into a - othef , and f ^ ., farn "f Crowing into the vessel pieces of beside the Mater- , precious stones . During the P ro ss movements of the water of land and the reel, of t J-J a de^rt. But we hav to appear therein provinces and in ~^r-~o o e> . _--, Xto U a a lvtlg uc^u nuowu taw we Emneror reoresents aim- thcu,an<ls of acres of dry 1, Hock Mnyonnalse Salad Dressing, as a consequence, are employing pres ent year has been regarded by , L, m ver^ considered valueless, are now be- teuspoons salt, one-half ; only one herd, where twenty or | astrologers and mystics of various whi ^ ir u M;<H ^ w . ^ Fmtvr ; in* ploughed up and planted and baned ad that. la each of tl , were carefuHv nudi and ; t . Rnodes.a - . tablespoon mustard, three table- . thirty farm laborers could be pro- . kinds as one in which events of su- spoons sugar, two teaspoons flour, , fitably employed. This is nothing j preme importance to the world are four egg yolks or two whole eggs, | more or less than perpetuating: to take pkce. The Throne, under five tablespoons butter, three-quar- | grazierdom in its worst form, and j the heading "The Astral Year, ters cup thin cream, one-quarter i those who live by the land, ae welli 1913," prints an interesting article cup vinegar. Mix dry ingredients , as those who have no direct inter- 1 on this superstition. It says that thoroughly, add eggs, well beaten, est in it, are going to set steadily j March 21. the Vernal Equinox, ac- Heat i ream and butter and add to j to work to alter this state of things cording to the Astral soothsayers, egg mixture slowly. Cook over hot directly Home Rule is given to Ire- water (double boiler preferred) un- , land. James Haverly, of Galway, a til thick, stirring constantly. Add ! prominent agitator on this topic, which, it is said, gives the Emper- or spasms of anxiety. Tandem sceptra gerit Qui stemniaUa uliimua erit. "At length the sceptre is in the hand of him who will be the of the royal line." axe yielding excellent crops. Grow Rainless Wheat. "America has grown wheat on suggest the unknown and the future. Similar means of di- rination are still practiced in ^._ : and elsewhere. S. How then should we steal ! Their reasoning in itself is convin- cing. Their faith in their ability to fc lisa Krvu an S-inoh rainfall. Australia, boa demonstrate their innocence leads ' them to a rash unconscious ' j grown wheat on a 5-inch rainfall, borated by another German predic- enough, corro-^ut we South Afrhave grown saw "the birth of a Xew World." Some remarkable predictions have '; ^hieVthe been made in regard to thus year j as gy, ^ _ from March 1 to the same period | of AIsace ^ orralBe . ^eat. tion. known as that of Mayence, in J hat *8 1914. Mme. de Tnebes, ^he vinegar slowly. Strain and let cool, j says : Parker House Rolls. Scald- one) "At the present tin* we have to pint of sweet milk and water to- ', import such classes of agricultural ! French soothsayer, declared sc gether, add quarter cup of butter produce as hay. straw, oat* and time ago by her" reading of the stars and lard mixed to scalded milk, meat, while our land is allowed to that this was the year when France When cool enough add one yeast ; grow furzo and moss for want of- would rise supre'me. 'France," cake dissolved iu one-quarter cup ' being acquainted with the plow. s h e sa jd, "is marked out for a glor- of water, two tablespoons sugar, | There is also another very impor- ' beaten white of one egg, flour i tant thing to be considered in con That, is to say i ' they were most anxious to protect. 9. Let him die Their willingness of 1570 was foretold, Lwhtenburg. which in the dry | ^ ^ ^ u on their ^ te . the cession to Germany of we Transvaal we have - strongest evidence in But there is f?rown a wheat without a angle ? i drop of ra^fsmng upon i, from Boadmen _ SIaTeB . seed time until harvest. This is the 10 . He with wh om it * found enough to mix soft sponge. Let nection with this subject of compul- ious role. Once more the tri-co!or will float over victory on victory. .From March 21. 1913,'to March 20, rise, then mix in hard loaf as for j sory tillage. The chief topic foritau, the true Astral year, France bread. When light put on knead- discussion for Irishmen at present is 1 will have entered into a new era, ing board, roll out to about one- j to change our system of exporting | and will enjoy great hours of fever- half inch thick, cut with biscuit cut- store cattle and substituting a dead j ish enthusiasm and joy no more ter. Spread each biscuit with melt- meat trade. Does anyone ever con-' disappointments, no more pessim- ed butter, fold over half, and place - :J u : *~ " tl- in pan close together, twice their thickness. five minutes before baking. sider where we are going to get Let rise to our fodder from to fatten our cattle Heat oven j unless we compel those who have [land T to cultivate it 1 Dumpliugs. Two eggs well beat- "If we must import our fodder, it en, add one-half pint of milk, one ; would not pay to fatten our cattle, tablespoonful melted butter, two j and all our talk about bringing oupfub flour, two teaspoonfuls bak- , about a change in our cattle trade ing powder, and a pinch of salt. ; is useless unless we first take up These should be about as stiff as : tho question of compulsory ullage, biscuits and sometimes iequ ; re ' An Irish farmer with ten or twenty more than two cupfuls of flour. Do , acres should be made to till one not roll them, but pat them down acre out of four. Farmers with! and cut them the same as small < from twenty to fifty acres shoujdjghe knows it. She fears it." She j baking powder biscuits. Steam till one acre in five and so on, in wen t on to say that after tho war \ twenty to thirty minutes, having proportion to the size of the farm, the water boiling hard. These are ' delicious served with stewed chick- en and plenty gravy. ism, and anaemia. Mars, the war god, will act upon us. together with the moon; 1913 that is the end of the tunnel, from which we can see the new sun-bathed landscape, the year of the resurrection of French energy." Mme. de Thebes predicted disas- ter to Germany. "Germany," she said, "has terror of the year 1913. PAMPERED POUltMKN. Snow Pudding. White part One : Warm Food and Tea Are Provided pint of water, oue-half cup of sugar, three tablespoons of cornstarch, a oi s&lt* om?-txftlt tfcfcspoon 01 Stir cornstarch and sugar! little cold water then add should Glasgow Bobbios. She Must Stake Her All. "The war will be fatal to neither Hohenzo'J.eru nor ~- , . , J.U. .ne wiMi witvm iu is I<JU^*A these. ! Durum wheat Apulia, whoch we ^j fce ^ bon^^-The steward that of the famous sorceress originally introduced from _ tho dn ; ^^ ^ than thev offer asking guilty be surrendered, not to suffer the pen- alty of death, but to remain in ser- fix- It is that of the famous sorceress originally accept 'es's than thev off whom William I. consulted in the belt of Italy. Our success has been on - v ( hat the one f j un<i i . . * T*? ...i___ T_ +,-v V.A .^ftt-i*^. vc*d t&rm ** little village of Fienberg. It was due to the use of she who foretold correctly the 'moisture-saving fallows.' term The -- ---- -------- -------- , events of his life and ended by pro- great problem of A . ncan v . v -. l . <le ; j ost?p h's house. In phesying the eud of the German agricuuture is not the problem of in(f thes(J terms the stewaT d Empire in 1913. A HINT -ABOUT SUGAR. Should Be Used By All in Need of AD ^ fencing, " cattle disease is now Nourishment. The lat Sir Henry Thompson, one of the greatest authorities on diet. wrote: "It is scarcely suffi- ciently known that sugar is a very valuable food -where much muscular exercise is taken and much bodily fertility. is the .problem of ^the j obviouslv un<ler instructions from coren-ahon of moosture. \\e BSOre now eolved tliat problem. anJ , made possbJe tho immediate set- tlement of our dry or arid lands. "Again, by systematic dipping " labor performed adults who are Especially be n well under control. Poison for Locust*. 'But. perhaps the most drama- tic success in the campaign against insect pests ia to be seen in the con- quest of the locust by mean-s arsenical sprays. The flight ol 11. Hasted Made haste. Took down From the backs the pack-animals to the ground. :>. And he searched The stew- of of aud telegraphed to the idJ* 1 - ters ^ 'k* t'nion IVpartmemt of ' Agriculture at Pretoria, and when the young locusts emerge, the vt?V ringed by poisoned gross, over ard who had overtaken them and challenged their honesty. The eldest lleuben. The youngest Benjamin. 13. Kent their "clothes But said nothinc Their silence and their actions were more eloquent than words. Returned to the city From whence thev had just come, and fore him on the with disappoi humiliation. "The days of tha Ein- l say the days of his life." i M eubstan- Mme. de Thebes does not stand rant. found in the cur- aro ncarlv ** -" ' * ; ever, not for their dishonesty and but for their folly in '.d escape detec- . . t . . . -_ * . ca rvfs-tr^ - *jc*viit i , vf if\.i \, nm & \j wcsi^w policeman s lot xn Glasgow , his prediction8 on correct a strolog- they are so good for the health, certainly not be an unhappy ( ical rpa<1 j ng3) nas declared that be- Tnose who lead an open-air life Empire s Ru-hesl t armor?. OUt 111 A . . fc k >. %. -i -v. rw . . - ....-..- , 14VJS)* *Xl . .1 " . I 1 V ' V . - _ _ _ _ the rest of the water. Cook. When uue - * e ls - ln tact, almost pamp- fore tne year nas far a j % - a i K . e j a ! should mako a point of eating plen- doue add the well beaten whites of ere - tor Glasgow has just .begun 8ensation ' wi n be created in the ! ty of currant* Whetlier raw or ! o{ three eggs and put into molds to . to provide her policemen with warm , worW because of some astounding j cooked is immaterial, but, as Sir i in cool. Yellow part-Cook together food and tea while they are on' reverses guffere<i bv one pmt of milk, one-half cup of * ^^ by means of elect nc , Another famous \ sugar, and the yolks of three eggs, heaters, or 'hot plates. These! er M ,, e Cowadon> VJ Beat together until it boils. When heaters are place* m a number of | p ara ji, w h o foretold wn extra- . i^<-u vi uui->9iru. x.-L i u W .^, dustnos m su.r done, remove from the stove and telephone and signalling boxes atj ordjnarv precision the dreadful fire sense dictates tho use of the best i tea But ^^e are _. . . p | \ v \- i> >_ M i j v lint* iv\ t i \ *\ , < f i rraii^tr.i _ " . . _ __ * . .* add a few drops of vanilla. \V hen Wanted pour this custard over the white part. This will servo six per- sons. Cheesecloth in the Kitchen. Small cheesecloth bags are fre- at the junction of several beats, for policemen. ''The 'hot plate' meets with the approval of tho constables, for by the former supper system men had to walk considerable distances to obtain hot food anil drinks. Now at the C harite Bazaar and the Mar- j and most palatable forms of sugar, . Unique earthquake, has clothed a which is undoubtedly the currant. similar quently the means of saving much policemen will be able to make time in the 'kitchen and may be \ their tea for themselves. Twenty kept on hand in different sizes for minutes is allowed for supper, different uses. "Each box is fitted up with a Made five or six inches square, ; telephone in direct communication with stout tapes run in the tops, with the nearest police office. A they are useful for holding toma- ' red light can also be made to glow toes when they are p'.unged for a ! over the bon when switched on moment into boiling water to loosen from the Superintendent's signal- the skin. Scalded fingers nd to- matoes bruised from contact with fork or spoon while they are in the water are thus avoided. In a smaller size cheesecloth bags can be used to cover the heads of asparagus while they are cooking. Protected in this way the heads are not easily crushed or brokeu. Large cheesecloth bags can be kept on band for jelly making in the summer. Jelly bags can be used more than once if they are boiled in water to which soda or borax fa added until they are clean. They can be bleached almost white again If they are boiled with washing oda, but if they are clean the color of the jelly which they strained will in no wise tessen their usefulness. Soup vegetables can be put in cheesecloth bags and when the soup Is done the vegetables can be lifted from it and chopped to serve in the stock as vegetable soup. If they are cooked loose with the s<r"M meat I t [, Such a man as I A man of my , rank and power, and initiated in tew people seem to bo aware &u he wi>dom o{ t lading act tha,t the richest fanners ^ mvs u,- a l and sacerikual ritss. . ftsfiM are- the os- , The implioat i on ; s t hat it was utter part to attempt to such a one as he. we sav 'The facts in the case seem to allow no in com- ; ~ roum j L>r excuse to its future as a dairying j - j he ul ^ u i ty \,f t hy servants -The whoro nulci cows can re- inuiu:tv wh ; J h tno 'speaker had in ered ted ling office. This red light moans that telephone communication is required with the first constable who sees the signal. The hot plate on which the food is electrically j enough, interpret the verse of this warmed cannot be left in circuit pythoness as meaning that the ex- Which is ready to come But which cannot enter. It would like to settle here; I see the spreading eaglea; The arms arc shining ; I see this nation moving Ami war declared. England is forced Into the war you behold, The fleet is well arincil. The sea will be troubled. Ships will be sunk. England to Provoke War. The French papers, curiously U rains of Courage is one of the world's great wxrds. It bais mouldod the past with its deed, and it carries the future iu its dream. Edwin Markham. If our plans are not for time, but for eternity, our knowledge, and therefore our love of CJini to each other will progress forever. Charles Kingsley. It is curious to note the old sea- margins of human thought! F.ach ng , .. Joseph and their father gar caiw ami lucerne. With the Vear3 before, and which had rcs'-d rise of fruit fanning and dairying [ h e? .vib- upon their consciences all we may look for tho coming of the^j ^, ' v ^. irs smallholder." "^-' Wil'* u - ' !?- " - ' _ , .-.~-tn.-'y-7*|*l . 1 vitude joemcd* mote preferable to LONDON TO BK WELL LIGHTED ' thom than tlie , . neces * llv ot rui> 'S their aged father without Benjar World's Metropolis Will Save 30 in - for wh< se satVt - v t! had be ' IVr Cent on (he Bill. IT. Get you up in peace uuto London, England, is soon to rank votir lather Jv>s.~t>h ]>ress<> horn* as one of the best lighted cities in bis advantage, and in order to bring - the world. An English exchange them to full realization of their says: Some streets will be lighted' position, insists that ho wi','. retain by gas and ethers by electricity. . v nly Benjamin. The electric lights which have been l u the siuveeuins; \orses there . i . i even if the policeman omits to turn j p^cted war will be provoked by | subsiding century rvvcak aonto now iu use during the experimental follows Judah's speech -jf in, cnes- themsolves. Lv.>ng- off the switch. The- total number ! England. But England is hardly mystery ; we build wcwf* ifclMton of signalling boxes to be employed i a nation armed, nor is it within | "^ to V " J ~ il " "''"" in the Glasgow area is sixty-nine. ' ''Another luxury for the Qlas- c gow police is an electric lantern i 7he "soil of France" The words the rcalina of possibility that- it isi--< going to try and improve itself on j There are words and looks aini work in L'heapside are each of 3,000 sion. as n-m.-vrkable fvr its ji.ithos, candle-power, while iu Caunon ! heauty. and persuaj street tne high jresstije gaS lamps! fork's frankness. >a nave each 2,wO caiulle jK>wcr. instead of the hot old bull's-cve." In the United Kingdom, where there are no fewer than OR!, 000 wo- men dressmakers, there are more women workers in proportion to population than in any other coun- try iu the world. Next to Yorkshire, Lincolnshire is the largest county in England ; whilst Lancashire can claim a lug- ger population tfian any other county. "aiglcs deployees" may be a double allusion to aeroplanes, but it sug- gests rather the German eaj?'**- The same prophetess declared that "the Turks will be chased out li'.t'e observance*, thoughi'iilnces, , When the whole scheme is cora- watchful little attentions, which sj'-oak of love, which mako it mani- fest, and there is scarce a family that might not be riclier in he<rt~ plete and the lamps on tho side- walks have given way to centrally- hung lamps, the inhabitants of Lon- don may congratulate themselves The remaining -.en'.-? as Ken<?r.>Mty. .o chap- of Europe and Constantinople will i Befcher Stowe. wealth for more of thorn. Harriet j on the/ fact that theirs is one of the h\-"n ter ar? part of the assigned '.csson. Probably tne hardest thing f >r & to do- when she is b?ing kissed young mrvn is to make him b become Christian." best lighted cities in the world, and u' e ve\hat it is "her first experience^ The cvnuivon idea is, the more . the cost will represent a saving of It is said that the Kaiser is not i labor the lesa genius; in other I nearly 30 per cent, on the lighting by any means disjn-sed to septic- isin in regard to astrological pre- dictions. A German paper nd,mits that the Emperor i< superstitious, nd refers to a prediction which dates from tho thirteenth century. the gre^te-r the labor the worse- the art. The truth is exact- ly tlte opposite. Ge:ti\t alone is capable of that idoal of perftvti.^n which causes tho in ten** toil of tho true artist.- F. B. Money-Coutt. bill. Last year 572, SCO births ami -,, 98S deaths were registered in Eng The difference between an art, a land and Wales; but, although ths profession and a trade is that a natural increase of population wai man ia nearly always able to make therefore 415.S13. the birth riue wa a living at a trad*. | the lowest ever yet .