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K Tested Rcdpo«. French Toa8t.--Tako breaxi dough aoid roll out about half an inch thick. Cut in small squares and dro(p into boiling lard.* When they are a light brown take out, drain on a sieve and serve hot. An Egg Saver. â€" When a cafce or oooky re<;apc calls for two or more eggs, use an«-ha.!'f the number re- quired. After tnrningf th« egg from tiie shell fill the f-'- il with r&al culd water and add t j the egg. Then beat until fo3.-;y. \'ou wiLl be sur- prised to fi .-I t'l.at your cake or cookies are as 1.5'nt aa if the full number of eggs had been used. pineapple Puddiiii;. â€" Grate one pineAppie, and measure by weight an equal amount of sugar, and half as much butter. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, and add five eiggs, one cupful of thick, sweet cream, and th-e pineapple. Beat the mi.xture thoroughly. Put the pudding in a deep pudding dish, cover it with a crust that ha* been rolled' a bit thicker than for pie, and that has bt'en pricked to let the steam escape, and bake it. Pickled Figs. â€" Wash carefully two pound.s of dried figs, and soak them for an hour in cold water. Make a thick vinegar syrup of one cupful of vinegar and three cuptula of s.ugar. Tie a teaspoontul each of ground cloves, mace, and cinnamon m a thin muslin bag, add it to the syrup, end cook the syrup fifteen minutes. Drain the figs, and add them to the syrup. Let the mixture simmer slowly for thirty minutes. The result is a delicious relish that will keep in an open jar. Strawberry Pudding. â€" Mix three table&poonfui.s of corn flour in a little milk, add to it the yolks of four eggs and three tab!e8p<jonfuls of powdered sugar. Stir it well for nix or seven minutes into nearly a quart of boiling milk. Stir all the time, pour into a pie dish and let jt stand ten minutes. Take some strawberry preserve and put it over the dish on the corn flour pudding. Beat the whites of four eggs with half a teacup of sifted white sugar to a stiff froth and spre.id over the strawberries. Bake for twenty min- utes in a cool oven with the door open and keep in a cool place till wanted. Cooking Cold Mutton or Venison. â€" To tliree tablespoonfuls of melted butter add a little tnustard, salt and red pepper. Stir until it is pip- ing hot. Then add a full table- spoonful of currant jelly. When these ingredients are well mixed. put in the nie^at and baste it with the gravy for a minute, then let it Mjnmer for three or four minutes more. .\ikl a glas.sful of sweet cider, and let the mixture stand over the fire for two or three minutes. This receipt is for mutton already cook- ed. For treating uncooked venison, the meat must be allowed to sim- mer until it is done before the cider is added. A New Way of Serving Turnip.â€" Pare and cut in halves or quarters one or two large yellow autumn tur- nips. Have ready on the fire a good- sized saucepan filled with boiling water, to which you have added two te«»poonfuk of salt. Whe-a the turnips are was'lied. throw them at oBce into the boiling water, and keep them boiling for half an hour; then draw the saucepan to one side of the stove, add a large stalk of celery.â€" -lea\^s and all,â€" and let the turnip and the celery cook slowly togetiher for another h&'( hour. When the turnips are cooked, turn them into a colander and drain and mash them. Have ready a gravy made as follows : Put into a sauce- pan a large handful of celery leaves ; add boiling salted water, and C(.K>k the leaves until they are tender enough to imash with a fork. Add creamed butter and flour, and stir the isauce until" it is smooth. Add the turnip, and keep the mass hot, but do not let it boil. Dressings. Drc*.sing for Fruit Salad.â€" Squeeze one-half Jemon in a bowl, add one tablesiK>onful of Taragon vinegar, one tablespoonful of mar- aschino cherry juice, two table- Bp<.>onfuls t>f olive oil. Stir up quick- ly and serve on fruit salad or fruit cocktail. Dressing for I'ueuniber Salad.â€" Squeeze one-half lemon in a bowl, add a pinch of white pepper, one tabl'Cispoonful of chopped chives ; and one ounce of sweet cream, one cup of whipped cream ; mir up and serve. Roquefort Cheese Dressing.- For a party of four or more, grate one pound of garlic, add aalt and pepper to season. Take two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, three of tomato catsup, three of olive oil. Mix well, and then pour in grated roquefort cheese to taste. Rules for Making Pastry. Make it in a cold place it possi- ble. _ Keep hands, utenule atid in- gfredients aa oooJ as possdible or t le pastry become® heavy. Be careful to add the right quan tity of water, for too little will make it heavy. Keep utemsils and (vaods aa cool as possible, for heat DkaVes the pastry heavy. RuiTidB 8hou'4 be wa»bed 1/bor- ough'ly, aoid nothing should be touched that can give the pastry any other odor. Shortening muet airways be rub- bed in lightly with t)he finger tip<i. Bake pastry in a hot ovt>n ; thie will expmmd tiie air in it a^nd thus ligihten the flour. Handle pastry as little and as lightly as possible. Use rolling-pin light.ly and with even pressure. If baking powder is used, bake the pastrj- as soon as possible, or the carbonic acid gas thrown off by the baking powder when it comes in contact with the moisture will force its way out of the paste and its ac- tion will be lost. Useful Hints. Raisins and cream cheese make a delightful sandwich tor the school basket. Enamelled ware onlv should be u.sed for holding milk, custardeand vegetables . A delicious and economical des- sert is of stewed figs and boiled rice served together. The rough end of the roast can be ground up and it will make very good Hamburg steak. Tfiie water in which fre&h tongue, mutton or chickea has been boiled, may be u.scd for soup or adder to the stock pwt. Do not expect good, light cakes unless the egg® are perfectly fresh and you have good, sweet butter. If eggs crack while cooking in the saucepan, as often happen.s in cold weather, a fpoonful of salt will pre- vent the white from coming out. Disagreeable eye-?marting can be avoided if the onion is peeled from the root end. .-Vfterward, rub the hands with salt and was;h to take away the smell. Parsley leaves re- move the odor from the breath. It is quite possible to fry potatoes whole, and not as "chips." When they are nearly boiled, but not cracking, put them in a stewpan with a piece of butter ar beef drip- ping: shako them about to prevent burning until they are brown and crisp ; drain and serve. If the children are fond of candy and you fear bad results, do not allow them to have it just before a meal, but be liberal with the sweets right after they have eaten a hearty meal. They will not eat so much, nor will it do them harm, if this metlad is followed. „% ^p-^-^-'tfig^' â- ^^ In the Belgian TreufhtH). Trench Diggers (Pioneers) of the Belgian Army, still looking well and tomed to the hard work <jf the trench healthy, and now thoroughly accu.s- es. I3U RULE OF EGYPI WHKRE INDIANS EXCEL. ••Fearful" to Look at and "Terrible to Fight." (Related by a bombardier of the Royal Horse Artillery who has late- ly returned from Flanders.) We were able to do some great work. There is no finer sight in the world than to see a battery of Horse .\rtillery going into action at a gallop. We are thought slow a we take more than 30 seconds in getting to work after the signal to unlimber. On one occasion we were firing continuously for several hours, and used 800 shells. We were "dead on" that time, and must have ac- counted for hundreds. One of our guns was dropping shells near a gap in a hedge which the Germans were trying to rush. It was excit- ing to watch a score of th«r in- fantry time after time make a dash for the gap, but never succeed in reaching it. I saw through glasses a troop of our cavalry wiped out when trying to rush a trench on foot. It was a plucky charge, but ((uite hopeless. Two men only reached the top of the ridge. One was shot down, and the single survivor, after bending over his comrade to see if he were dead, turned and commenced to walk down the slope. He had not gone far before he also fell. It is wonderful how indifferent our men become to fire and the con- stant death around them, it is a â- little terrifying at first, but that does not last. It is when we are out of action, but still under fire, that we feel it most. There is time then to think of things, and we do not have the comfort of hitting back. I saw a good deal of the Indian troops out there. The Pathans and the Sikhs are fearful fellows to look at. and they are terrible fight- ers. They are awfully proud of themselves, and particularly tvf their arms, which they keep as clean as new pins. It is funny to see them squatting in the mud dust- ing specks of dirt off their rifles. They are great at close fighting, where they have the ativantage over our own men, who soraeiinies get too close for bayonet work and have to use their fists. But the Ghurkas just push the German bayoneits aside, and then leap in with their knives. Their night work is terribly de- moralizing to the enemy. When they charge they sweep everything before theon. "Why do you feed tremps who come along t They never do any work for you." "No," said the wife, "but it i« quite a satisfaction to see a man eat a meal without findinjg fault with the cooking." "I heAr thart you have a college graduate for a cook. Isn't that very expensive?" "No* very. She works for her board and clothes." "Why, hoiw does she oo<nie to do thatt" "She is roy wife." THESyiAYSCmiSiyOY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN LAKY 24. Lesson IV. (iideon and the Three Hundred. Judg. 7. dlolden Text, Zech. 4. 6. Verse 1. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon. â€" See chapter 6. verse 32. Gideon was called Jerubbaal, which means, "Let Baal contend." The spring of Harijd. â€" That is, the spring, or place of trembling or fear. In verse 3 Jehovah says to Gideon, "Proclaim in the ears of the people, saying. Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let hian re- turn and depart from Mount Gil- ead." Practically every proper noun in Hebrew, whether it be the name of a person or of a place, is indicative of something particular about the pers«m or the place. The spring lyi Harod has been undoubt- edly located by modem exploration. There were three sptrings. or wells, lying in the valley of JozreeJ. One lay by Jezreel itself, and one out upin the open plain. The third was overshadowed by the precipi- tous banks of Gilboa. The first two were controlled by the Midianites. The third, the well of Harod. now called ' vin Jalud. was commanded by the Israelites. 2. .\nd Jehovah said unto Gideon, the people that are with thee are too many. â€" Jehovah is made to speak again. If so large a body of men should have defeated the enemy, they might have breasted theniselvea and said, "We were strong enough on our own ac- count." Gideon saw this and ap- preciated its importance. But, as a true military leader, he saw what was of more significance : that be- cause of the nature of the battle- field so large a number of men would be in their own way and ex- ceedingly difficult for him to dis- pose projyeriy. 3. Fearful and trembling. â€" Doubt- less many of the thirty-two thousand were fearful and trembling. At any rate, we read that "there returned of the people twenty and two thou- sand ; and there remained ten thou- sand." 4. Bring them down unto Uic wa- ter.â€" .\ further weeding out was necessary, and therefore a test was put to the ten thousand. The well of Harod was over against the Midianites. From their battlefield they could see what the Israelites were doing. In fact, the ten thou- sand were in dangier of being pounced upon at the well, as prac- tically the whole position of Gideon was exposed. It was necessary, tlierefore, for Gideon to be sure of his men. He could only use those who would appreciate their danger. Strength and bravery were not the only qualities which Gideon needied in his men at this time. It was not a question of mass-movement, of simply pouring men into the ranks of the enemy; it was, primarily, a question of indi\-idual initiative, <if acting upon the monient with judg- ment and clear-edghtedness. Hence a small army, even a very small army of men, of men who could be left to their own judgmeait was a better fighting force for Gideon than a la.rge army, the individual members of which were not able to do their own thinking, but needed to rely upon Gideon to think for them. The men who stood the test which Gideon put to them were tliinkers as well as fighters. Each on© had in him not oiily deep- seated and indomitable bravery and courage, but also the power to think clearly in an emergency and to act prom;ptly. 5. So he brought down the people unto the water.â€" The soldier who bowed down ufK>n his knees to drink necessarily could see only what was under him ; he could not see what was in front of him. 6. The number of them that lap- ped . . . was three hundred.- Only three hundred out of ten thousand realized the neces.sity cvf keeping themselves in instant readiness either to repel an attack or to make onslaught upon the enemy. These were the men Gideon wanted. 16. And he divided the three hun- dred men in*o three c*>mpanie«. â€" Other laraelite gcnieraTs used this same formation in battle. (See 1 Sam. 11. 11 ; 2 S.%m. 18. 2.) 17. And he said unto them. Look on me, and do likewise. â€" Gideon was ready to stand as much as and more than any one of his men. 18. When I bJow the trumpet . . . then blow ye . . . and say. For .Je- hovah and for Gideon. â€" From time immemorial soldiers have gone into the fight with a battle-cry. There are men living to-day who can tell of the awful terror which struck in- to their hearts as the enemy came upon them with terrific yelling and crying. 20. And the three companies blew the trumpets. â€" The Midianites had no idiea of a night attack, and when the were awakened and heard the noise of battle and saw the flaring lights, they undoubtedly thought that a great host was upon them, and they fled precipitously. 23. And the men of Israel were gathered together. â€" When the en- emy was put to flight, Gideon brought up all the forces he could muster out of the different tribes. Now he could use men, as the enemy was in the open, and the more deci- sive would be his victory. It is interesting to note that in the, later border wars between I»- raerp,nd their neighbors there is no further mention of the Midianites. Gideon with one fell swoop effec- tively put an end to those peace dis- turbers from across the Jordan. Gideon himself did not want war, but he realized that the militarism of his country's neigiibors could be destroved onlv bv the force of arras. SHOWS A STEADILY INCREASE INO PROSPERITY. Turkey Committed Suicide Wlfcjl' Slie Took Lp tiw; Kai.ser*s Cau.se. The diplomatic fiction, aa It may be called, under which Egj-^pt nom- inally remained a part of the Otto- man Empire, whei^as an fact she was a British protectorate, haa at last been discarded. The flag of Turkey has been hauled down for all time, and in name, as well as in fact, Egypt is part of the British Empire, '.viih her own Sultan and a High Commissioner, appointed by the British Crown, it the head of its local government. When Turkey took up the Kaiser's cause she was warned that she was conmiitting 1 suicide. She has now been kicked BELtilAN SOLDIERS' SlRPRISEj^ut ^f .^rica ; in tiie end she will be kicked out of Europe, and in Captured Gen. Von Butiow and a Sachel Full of Money. I There is no prouder so'dier in I Belgium to-day than Jean Jacques I Rousseau, who, at the moment of writing, is being tended in a hos- pital at (Jistend. Jean is only BCSINESS SIDE OF ARMY. Trained Men of France Engaged in the Work. What might be called the civilian administration of the French army is probably the most gigantic busi- ness proposition the world has ever seen. It is as though all the rail- ways of the United States with their 1.668,809 employe^, aU the steel and iron industries with their 260,762 emiployes and all the quarries, coal mines and metal mines with their 1,005,281 workers, were all under the direction of one oflice. The French War Office, through its civilian administration, must as- senlble, transpnjrt and distribute food for nearly 4,000,000 men. It must supply the men with transpor- tation from one part of the fighting line to another, the front to the in- terior and from the interior to the front in their periods of recupera- tion. It must provide clothing, medical attendance, dentists and every variety of service necessary to keep a man in health. Besides all this, it must look out for the families of the men at the front, supplying their wives with the equivalent of 26 cents a day, and in case of children with the eq\iivalent of 10 cents a day. The smooth working of these im- mense business transactions is onlj' pwssible because the work is distri- buted among the trained railway managers, steamship directors, great corporation officials and busi- ness men of capacity, who, al- though they are wearing uniforms, have been trained and prepared by civil life for this .sort of work in war time. S<.ime thousands of the most competent business men of France have been organized into this supply side of the war. Many political leaders, senators, deputies, ex-presidents of the Chamber and men prominent in scientific and intellectual life have been called upon t(-> help in this gigantic work. Scored on Father. He was the son of a worthy manu- facturer and had just returned from abroad. Bis father, a brusque, matter-of-fact man, surveyed his offspring, who was togged out in the latest London fashion, with distinct disapproval. "Youug man," he blurted out, "you look like aa idiot." Just at that moment, and before the youth had time to make a fitting reply, a friend walked in. "Why, hello, Billv got back, have youf he exclaimed. "By George, how much you resemble >our fa- ther." "So he's been telling me," said Billy quietly. .\sia she will t>e forced back to the mountains whence her peojtle emerged many centuries ago, says a writer in The Montreal Standard. About Size of Ontario. Excluding the provinces recoji- quered in the Soudan. Egj'pt has an twenty years of age, but on his left ' area of 400,000 square miles, just breast he wears the Military Cross about equal to the area of the Pro- and two ribbons, one of the latter representing the Belgian Legion of Honor, King .Vlbert having promis- ed to present him with the medal on the first occasion p«>ssible. The deed which won the young Belgian soldier this proud distinc- \"ince of Ontario : but only fourteen thousand square mileS of Egyptian territory are settled. And yet on that comiparatively small area there is a population of twelve millions. The settled population of Egypt il only one half the extent of New tion wa« no less than the capture, j Brunswick, but its popu'lation im single-handed, of General Von Bue- j about one-third greater than the low, son of the famous German ex- j population of all Canada. Chancellor, and the story of the epi- j British Rule. sode will, no doubt, inspire many a j Yor almost the third ol" a century youthful Belgian in years to come. , Egypt has practically enjoyed Brit- Rous.seau was with a company of | jgjj ^ule, the fruits of which are now 150 men at Zelk on August 12th, being enjoyed bv tiie people of the when they were attat-ked by over- 1 Ancient Land. " Taxation has been whelming numbers of Germans, and reduced, law and order maintained, "it was while I was in ambush," he; j,,g,j^.g administered, industries fos- says, -that I saw about 900 yards tppg^^ great public works con- distJint an officer studying a nxap. ; „tructed, and a general uplift of the "Crawling quietly towards him, people brought about. Since the I managed to get within 400 yards, blighting effects of Turkish oppres- took careful aim. and fired. The . ^-^^^ ^^^ corruption have been re- officer fell, and when 1 went up to „„,._.^.j ^^e people of Egvpt have him I found, to my surprise, from enjoved in peace the fruits of their the satchel, writing-case, papers, i jj^V. The greater part of thoea etc., that it was General Von Bue- 1 fruits ^re agricultural, for fully low. As he was only wounded in i two-thirds of the -xpulation are on the leg I took him prisoner to Diest. j (he land -the fellaheen, or small riding with him on his horse. In his : cultivators. A cleverlv devised satchel were 160,000 francs, which ^.jj^.^^ ^{ financial assistance has was handed over t . the Red Cross I gn^ijipj ^i,,.g„ <ni!uvators to im- Society. But 1 retained his ease I pr^j^,^ (jj^;,. ,.^^j,j„:„n They receive and silver helmet as mementoes.' ! advance.s from the AgricultuTal Rousseau is suffering from a kick | g^^j^ ^p ^^ jj,e equivalent vyf about .by a horse, and is anxious to Ketjj, 500^ ^•^^^ i^.^j, being limited to back to the fighting line again. His ^ fl^r^v per cent, of the selling value of great ambition is to marry an Eng- , ,j^g i^nd. To this policv is due to a lish girl ii he can. "1 love English , ^.^^^^^ extent the development in re- as much as mv own countrjmen, 1 ^eni vears of the country's com- be says, "bat there are many years jmecce and Indu.^trv. and a steadily yet to serve my country. _:* GLNS DONT PRODI (E RAIN. mcreasing prosperity. Blessings From British. The cultivated are."* can never be extended beyond the region capable of being watered by the Nile, but this region has been enlarged by ir- , rigation systems that are wonders English scientists have again 1 of engineering skill and workman- been compelled to .-wisure the public 1 ship-'bles.>=ings conferred upon that neither the smell of powder nor j Kgvpt bv her British governors, the concussion of the gunfire has' there are 1.500 miles of state the slightest dmnectioQ with rain- â-  y^„ed raiiwavs. and 800 of linhf Engli^tii SeientiMts Kidieule and Dis- prove the Theory. fall. From several sources it had been assert^il that the heavy and persistent rains recently agricultural railways owned by companies. The products of the ^•^P^'"'; i temperate zone and of the sub- enoed in southern England and ; ^^ .^.^ ^^^^^^-^.^ â- ^^ p j^^ ^, northern I- ranee were attributed . .^,^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ J ^^ ^,,^1, to atmospheric disturbances pro- , "^ , ^ , ^. 1 1 V ^ .11 ^ . .1 „, as wheat and otner cerea s. duced^by artillery hro at the .seal^ .^^^^.^ ^^^ ^^^ commercial ad "Like the suppo.sed influence of j ^.an'^^^ i'^'""''^S J"-^â„¢ »*»- P'^"***"- the moon upon weather, the popu- 1 ^'O" ^^"^ °"^ the .wnership as lar belief that powder brings rain ' ^»^"> ^-f Lgvpt, the holding of the is baae'eas," writes a s^kiitist in I c^wn^.O" '* «t «r-'at mportanoe to the Times. "About four ve.ars .igo I Britain, because it control* tthe the First Lord of tilie .\dmir3ltv > Suez Canal, an esse.ntial part ol was grave.lv asked in the House of Bntain's shortest rr-ute to Ind^a. CoiniKons v^hcther he would in- ' ligypt's principal city. Cairo, has a ptipulation of 660,000. oeing. tnere- fore, somewhat l.irger than Mont- real, while the second city, Aiexan- .ilmost struct the fleet to carry out its heavy gun practice at some other period of the year than in the mid- dle of harvest time, 'when the re-|dria. h-is a population sultant heavy rains may caus-e seri-lfour hundred thous.ind. oils lu.ss to the farming community.' ! The idea is absolutely without foun- i dalion. E.xperiiuents made in .\merica and on the Contiii'^nt show lli( that in dry weather no amount of concussion has the slightest effect 1 . ill the production of rain. I " "Xt the present time there is onel '-^ , , .u . - n fact which should at once disr,:.<e of, '"•"^;^' ^''"i' *"'-^"^" ^""' '» *'^« the cherished Hhrorv. There i-^ no ! '•V;*'^''^- .^ =*!" f',",'^, '^ send v-ni reason for thinking' that gun-firing! '^^^'f » I'-"*"" "* fi^ldglasses which at the front is more violent than it j '^*''-' ^'^'"f. ""^ * .^'"*'*' service. I was in the earlier stages of the wa.r, | "'"* standing up in a trench- -a In - The rain should, therefore, have j ^'^ ^'^â- '''•-eonfident~watching the ri- connnenced .-hortlv after the out- ' ""It of our shooting thro.igh the break of the war.' As a matter ofis1»s^<^s- ^vhen 'biff:' and I received fact, nothing of the kiyid took i a terrible bang in the eye. Of course place. In August and September j it knocked me d.)wn, and I wond?r- the rainfall was much below the ed for a minute or two why on earth HIS FIELD tiLASSES. by a IJnllet While in Oil'icer's Hands. British soldier writes to Coun- Life, London: "I have just re- average. "At Shi'cburyness, where big guns are being tested almost daily, year in .and year out, the avera.ge annual rainfall is smaller than in .nny other part of the United King- dom. " Perhaps some brides blush be- cause of the kind of husbands they have run to cover. "Why is a horse the kindest of anhnals?" "It gladly gives the bit out of his moutih, and listens to every* woe (whoa)." 1 wa^ still alive. I distinctly he&jd one of the men say: 'Pore devil, 'e's got it in the 'ead.' .\ bullet .lad hit the lens of the. glasses and been detlected by the prism, passing out at th? side, as you will see. I found half the glasses one side cf the trench and hali the other; the right half is still quite .«ervic«aible, SO beh^.>ld your son with a beautiful black eye. I only wieh I could send you the bullet, too, but it went the way of all bullets. I am back with the battery now â€" rather glad to geit rid of a rather nerve-trying job, though it was a great experience and we'll worth the black eye."