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Good Corn Recipes. Boiled Corn. â€" Strip off coarser out- er husks leaving the thin silky envel- ope next the ear on the stelk. Pull this down and pick oflf the silk from juice from the fruit soaks through the undercrust and spoils the whole ap- pearance of it. To prevent this try brushing the crust over with the white of an egg, and you will never be between the grains, adjust the inner troubled in this way. husks in their place, tie together at ' When your vegetables become wilt- the top and drop the ears in plenty of i ed and stale before you have an op- boiling salted water. Boil half an ' portunity to use them place them for hour and leave in hot water until »« hour or so in a gallon of water to ready to serve. Cut sUlks off with which a teaspoonful of soda has been the hu.sk.s close to the bottom of the ' added. They will then be just as ears and send to table wTapped about <Tisp and fresh as when gathered with a napkin on a fit dish. U?^ the garden. Green Corn Fritters. â€" Grate or lrV». shave off with a keen blade the grains f^ ' Seasonable Dishes, from C ears of corn. Have ready 2 . '^Peach .Ice Cream. â€" Soak two cup- eggs beaten light, a cup of milk addedJ fuls -of sliced peaches for about one to these with a tablcspoonful of sugar hour and put through colander. Add and same quantity of butter wanned , lo We quart of cream which has been and rubbed into a heaping tables{)oon- ; «caMcd ijnd cooled. Freeze, ful of prepared flour. Season with CaiiUflower. â€" Cut stalks close to salt and pepper; beat hard and fry as ffower, remove green leaves and soak you would griddle cakes. in cold salted water one hour. Cook Chopped Potatoes and Corn. â€" When in cheesecloth bag thirty to forty cold boiled potatoes and several ears minutes. Remove from bag and serve of boiled corn are left in the icebox, with Hollandaise or white sauce or chop the one into coarse dice and cut scalloped with white- sauce and the other from the cob. Heat in a crumbs. frying pan a good spoonful of clari- 1 Consomme Renaissance. â€" Press fied dripping, sweet and good, and stir half a cup of cooked and drained into this the potatoes and corn, sea- spinach through a sieve, add a table- soning with salt and pepper. Turn spoonful of melted butter, one table- and turn until thoroughly heated and spoonful of cream, two beaten eggs, Eer\-e. This makes a nice breakfast one-fourth teaspoonful of salt and relish. Or heat a cup of milk, stir in one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper; mix It good spoonful of butter, then mix thoroughly and turn into a small but- In potatoes and corn; season, simmer i tered mold. Let cook in the oven on five minutes, and serve. | several folds of paper surrounded Green Corn Pudding. â€" Six ears of with boiling water until firm. When green corn, full grown but tender, 2 . cold cut in cubes. Cut a pared carrot cups of milk, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful . and turnip in half-inch cubes. Cook butter, 1 tablespoonful sugar. Salt separately until tender. Drain. Serve and pepper to taste. Cream butter ! the cubes of spinach-custard, turnip and sugar is for cake. Beat into the and carrot in one quart of consomme, eggs when whipped light, add milk Southern Peach Pie. â€" Line a pie and the grated corn (or shaved). Sea- plate with crust as for lemon pie and son, beat thoroughly and bake cover- ' fill with sliced peaches. Sprinkle su- ed in a buttered casserole or pudding gar and cinnamon over the top, bake dish 40 minutes; then uncover and j and ;5erve with whipped cream. To brown. Serve at once in the same i make the crust chop four tablespoons dish. of lard into one and a half cups of Succotash.^Six ears of corn, 1 cup flour; when thoroughly mixed add shelled lima or string beans carefully . one-half teaspoon salt and cold water trimmed into inch lengths, H cup ' enough to form dough. Chill, roll in milk, 2 teaspoonf uls of butter cut up | rectangular piece, place four table- into 1 teaspoon of flour. Salt and ; spoons of butter which previously has pepper. Cut the corn from the cob , been shaped, flattened and chilled on and add to the beans when they have ' middle on one side of paste, fold over cooked half an hour in boiling water I other side, press edges together and slightly salted. Boil thirty minutes fold one end under and one end over longer, turn off the water and pour butter making six layers. Roll again in the milk. (It is safer in warm i into rectangle, fold in same way and weather to add a tiny pinch of bread so continue three times. If butter soda). As the milk heats, stir in begins to soften, roll paste in cheese BRITISH PRISONERS ON THEIR WAY TO WORK the floured butter, season, and simmer ten minutes. If canned corn and beans are used, add half a teaspoon- ful of white sugar. Canned Com Fritters. â€" Canned corn while only a poor substitute for the fresh ear may be very appetizing if chopped fine after the corn has been emptied from the can and allowed to stand for several hours before using. Drain dry and mince, then proceed as with the fresh grains. Com Soup. â€" Cook six ears of corn In cold water twenty minutes. Cut off the cob and press through a sieve. Add two cups of scalded milk. Cook two tablespoons of chopped cloth and place on ice until hard enough to roll easily. Be careful not to wet the cheese cloth. + BRITAIN AND THE WAR. She Will Stand By Her Allies to the Last. A year has passed since Britain entered the great war, and it is in order to sum up what she has accom- plished. Because of the lack of spectacular results, many are disposed to censure and criticize Britain's part In the great struggle. They say that the Thia picture la a reproducUon of a photograpb t*kcn at a prison ounp In Germany. It shows Britisli pri- soners of war on their way. under Kiuird, to work on the roads. The men appear to bo healthy and as happy aa could be expected under the circumstances. ashes, and hang Von Tirpitz to the yard arm. All this is mere rot and the ravings of Chauvinistic enthusi- asts. If we take a careful inventory of what the British navy has done in driving the German flag from the oceans, and in converting Hamburg and Bremen into something as useless as if they were in ruins, annihilatiing Germany's two and a half billion dol- lar annual trade, and paralyzing her imports of about the same amount, so that her supplies are constantly growing perilously short, we can get some notion of what the navy has ac- complished. Germany is not as yet effectually , „ . , , starved, but if her food regulations ' ''^®'" ^'""^^ *"« beginning of the war and restrictions mean anything they ' °"® **"^ *'^'"<* ^^°^ ^'"^^ ^° *'™® °^ indicate a distressing scarcity, to say ' *''* famous plan of the first Earl of the least. When a nation has to regu- Dundonald for the destruction of any late the alimentation of her civil """y against which England might population, and order the copper in i he fighting. coking utensils to be turned over to ! Lord Dundonald invented it when the military, it surely indicates that he was Admiral Lord Cochrane and the end is nigh at hand. j he guaranteed with its aid to over- Not a pig can be slaughtered, or a come any enemy against whom he was USE OF GAS IN WAR 100 YEAR OLD IDEA REJECTED AS UNCIVILIZED AND TOO CRUEL. Earl of Dundonald Suggested Plan For Defence of British Soil. loaf of bread baked, or a potato sold, or a bushel of wheat milled, without the consent of the military in Ger- many to-day, shows that the British sent. It is now a full hundred years ago since this famous invention was put in a pigeon-hole, and during all that time it has remained one of the rejected in the first place as being outside civilized warfare. Twice onion in three tabtespoons of butter, j mighty British Empire has not add three tablespoons flour, one and i thrown into the scales a weight either a half salt, celery salt and cayenne, I commensurate with her possibilities •om mixture, cook five minutes, o*" w''h what her allies had a right to strain, add one cup of beaten cream and serve. Garnish with one cup pop- ped corn. Things Worth Knowing. To skin sausages quickly and eas- ily immerse them for a second or two 31 cold water. Make starch with soapy water, add- ing a pinch of borax. A very hot iron should never be used for flannels or woollens. Soap should be substituted for soda when washing silver and plated goods. New brick floors should be washed with soda water, and when dry rub- bed with parafln. Don't black a stove while it is hot. It takes more blacklcad, and a much longer time to polish. When boiling potatoes do not add lalt till they are nearly cooked. This makes them dry and floury. Borax for washing plates and dishes is to be preferred to soda, as it does not crack the skin of the hands. The fact that an article is advertis- ed in a respectable newspaper should prove it Xrortfc^ buying by somebody. Should any foreign matter alight in the eye immediately apply one or two drops of castor oil; it will almost at once allay the irritation. Grass stains will disappear if coal oil is poured on them, then rub with the hands and wash same as you al- ways do. Lard rubbed in well before goods arc wet will remove axlo grease or machine grease. To separate the yolk of an egg from the white muko n hole in both ends of the egg. Then hold it up- right, giving it a gentle shake, and the white will run out, leaving the yolk unbroken in the shell. If when sending or taking a hat by train it is secured to the bottom of the "box by n few strong stitches of ' expect. The wonder with me is that she has done so much as she has. She has accomplished marvels. France, Russia and Italy, cradled in conscription, forget that England is not a military nation. She could not at a moment's notice fling organized legions of millions into the fray, like her military neighbors. In the outset she promised France six divisions only, or 120,000 men. She has more than quadrupled that number since. But her conversion into a battling organization could not be done in a few months. She has now raised the most colossal army in all history, compared with which Na- poleon's legions were but corporal's guards. Lord Kitchener has recruit- ed and placed in training, without conscription, since the war broke out, 8,000,000 soldiers. They are all, ex- cepting the 600,000 at the front, hard at work in the transformation pro- cess, from citizen to soldier, at the training camps, polishing the native fighting qualities into perfect military efficiency. England allpws no man to go to the front, to be exposed to slaughter, who has not had at least nine months of gruelling drill. After this drill the English soldier has no superior in the world, and each, in efficiency, is equal to two German soldiers. - It is solely in point of ei^liipment that Britain's hosts are lacking, but this has been remedied, and the great drive will soon take place. When the war began Englnad had less than half a million rifles, while Germany had over 20 million, or four to each sol- dier. It takes time to manufacture rifles by the millions, and her army noy in training have had to carry wooden dummy rifles, weighted to equal the real thing. Germany had in the start a full equipment of 17-Inch guns, with abundance of ammunition for them, while KIngland had neither the guns navy is on the job all right, and great secret documents of the State. It was results may soon be expected. "These are not spectacular nor pyrotechnical pictures to be cast upon the screens. : Government committees are said to They would not likely earn a peerage hove examined the plan during the for Jellicoe or his admirals, but they j first half of the nineteenth century, are nevertheless sapping German vi- | only to put it back into its pigeon- tality just the same, and they show i hole again as being too cruel, the iron grip of Britain's navy. What 1 At the beginning of this war Lord would the position of France and her Dundonald's famous plan was talked beloved Pans bo in to-day were the of again. Nothing, however, was British navy not holding the seas T heard as to what it was until recent- When the Dardanelles are forced, as ly, ^hen Prof. V. B. Lewes in a lec- they will be soon Russia will expen- t^^e to the Society of Arts gave cnce the great aid of the British navy, I as France has already benefitted by I A Description Of It, it. She will then be able to export which shows that it was nothing her surplus production and secure the ! more or less than the German plan of Dundon- neccssary arms and ammunition, of which she is so sorely in need. And when Kitchener is ready to send his enthusiastic legions to the continent, he will have no fear that his trans- ports will be in danger of molestation, as Canada has had no misgivings in sending her loyal sons across the water to fight for liberty and inde- pendence. It took England nearly ten years to bring Napoleon to St. Hel using asphyxiating gases aid's prescription was: "Fires fed with tar and pitch to give dense columns of smoke which would act as a screen for the attack; sulphur burned on the fires to gener- ate sulphur dioxide gas, which would produce asphyxiating fumes and aid the attack." The professor added that the idea was revived in the early stages of the present war, but the Government re- ena, and she will stick to it until the Kaiser is thrust into an equally safe f;;;d"to"consid'er 7t? place, where he can do no more harm. Do you say, Calais? Napoleon was there, too, and destroyed 10,000 Bri- Talking after the lecture Prof. Lewes said that the details of the tish ships; but England got him at P'"" had never been made public with o„^ «„ .»,« ^iii „„f ♦v- _„" |the exception of a reference to them in the memoirs of a Cabinet Minister last, and so she will get the great Kaiser, as sure as the sun rises on the eventful morn. This grand old proud democracy is just now unfolding and applying a maternal strength and moral splendor that for countless ages 9fter this conflict is stilled will be the successful use of poisonous vap- ors by no means a simple problem. ^ A "MAD" FOX. Some Animals Are Either Demented or Inherently Vicious. It is a theory of criminologists that certain human beings are born without the brain power or self-con- trol of the normal man, and that such persons, under favoring circum- stances, become habitual criminals. It is possible that similar cases occur among animals; at least there are times when we can account for the extraordinary behavior of animals only on the theory that they are either demented or inherently vi- cious. Thirty years ago, when I was a boy, wTites a friend of The Youth's Companion, the neighborhood was stirred by the doings of a "mad" fox. He ranged in the Briesacher woods, and never was heard of anywhere else. I never saw the mad fox my- self, but often heard his high, queru- lous bark in the middle of the night. A much-used path led through the Briesacher woods and on to the vil- lage. The mad fox took to following people as they traversed this path, trotting along behind them, stopping when they stopped, from the time they entered the forest until they emerged on the farther side. As time passed, the animal grew bolder, and pattered along within a few yards of a pedestrian's heels on dark ijights, or perhaps took up a position in the path, which he would hold until the traveller approached very closely, when he would spring a few paces to one side, snarling. Some people said the fox had ra- bies, but the more sensible ones point- ed out that a rabid animal never lived more than a week or so, while this scamp had been keeping up his pranks for several months. Louis Briesacher, whose father owned the woods, had more occasion than anyone else to pass through them, and, according to Louis, the mad fox took an especial dislike to him. It followed him so closely, and with such evidence of vi- cious intent, that Louis carried a club every time he went to town. At last he bought a revolver, with the deter- mination of making an end of his an- noying escort. Louis told the story of the encoun- ter afterward. He was returning home from town about eleven o'clock. No sooner was he in the woods than the fox came after him. Louis paid little attention until it got so close that it actually snapped at his heels. He then turned and fired a shot at it, but the night was dark, and he miss thread the most delicate hat will not be crushed, as no matter how the box { to match them nor the explosives' for is turned about the hnt will not move. them. She has had to make both. In It is always wise to boil n new I short, so far, England has been get- clothesline before using it, as this ' ting a good ready, if the expression not only prevents it from stretching but mdkes it last much longer. New jKigs should lie soaked in cold water for a few hours, as this keeps them from splitting. Very often when moking a ^ie the published soon after the war began. "The inhalation of a very small pro- portion of this gas," says the profes- sor, causes coughing and spitting of , _„ , ,...:x wu, .oMu.ct .s sui.ea win „«, blood; and four volumes in ten thous- j *''.• J^^ fox retreated but in five sh n ng und^mmed ar^thT first ' «"'« "' «'>• '•«"d«^ '* unbreathable. """"^es was back again, snapping Sries of hâ„¢y "If the sufferer escapes from the I'!'* ^""'•''"K ""o^? ^'"Ti^ **'"" *^"- zone within a reasonable period the ' ^""'"K a^ best he could at a mark effects of this gas pass off, but the ^ ** 7""^ "*'^*'", ^*'"' """^ '^^^^^ he German method is more inhuman, as I "**•â- <' "i**/*" ^^^? .^^«"' ^ouis dis- they employ chlorine gas, which, if it I ^'^^''«^^ *^hie remammg five shots from Denver, Colo. CHAS. M. BICE. -+â€" Narrow Margin. A circus man tells this one: "We '^o^* ""^ "^"l the men, leaves them in were doing Pottstown, Pa. The price '""** fiiRhtful agony and of admission was 25 centsâ€" children I Injures the Lungs for Life. under 10 years of ago 10 cents. Among 1 "Dundonald merely proposed to use , ..._ _ „ the first to arrive were a lad of sulphur fumes to make the enemy ! sprang straight at Louis, and" fasten about 18 and his little sister. He laid | bolt; the Germans use their gases to ed its teeth in his trouser's leg. The down 35 cents ond asked for two asphyxiate." I young man kicked fiercely; but, kick- front seats. 'How old is the little | The professor does not advocate ' ed loose from one hold, the enraged girl?' a.sked the ticket seller. 'Well,' i retaliation with gas, as the v/hole es- ' animal came right back, and bit his his revolver. All the shots missed; the fox simply jumped from side to side with the flash of the revolver. When the last spurt of flame died away, the determined little beast said the boy, 'this is her 10th birth day to-day. But she was not born until 5 o'clock in the afternoon!" legs severely. Finally it caught his left arm, and held on like a bulldog. Louis brought the handle of his revol- will bo allowed Some complain of the inactivity of the navy, but without very deep thought. They demand that Admiral Jellicoe smash up the Kaiser's high I " Rood soldier showin' a clane pair o' canal armada, reduce his ports to heelsl" A Smart Answer. Larry O'Shell, in many respects a good soldier, had a very limited idea of the virtue of tidiness. Appearing to dip them in are a simple and one morning on parade with his boots ficacious remedy, in a fearful state the sergeant's eagle I According to Prof. Lewes these gas eye soon spotted him. "Private O'Sheil ' attacks do not worry the British fall out!" he roared. "Phwat d'ye \ troop^ so much now, as they are pre- mane by comin' here wid yur boots in j parec\ /or them. The respirators and a mess loiko thot?" "Arrah, now, helmets have proved perfectly satis- sargint, be aisy!" retorted the im per- j factory, and there are many pro- turable Larry. "Shure ye niver saw blems connected with the density of sense of the gas attack is surprise. The chief gases the Germans are us- ing are chlorine, bromine, nitrogen, totroxide and sulphur dioxide. All I vcr down with full force on the fox's these can be neutralized quite sim- 1 head, and it fell stunned. Louis de- ply â€" respirators and a bucket of | elared that he finished his antagonist washing soda solution in the trenches , then and there, and left it lying dead ef- in the path. the gases in relation with the air as well as wind currents which make The next day Louis showed us his bites and scratches in proof of his story. His trousers were badly torn, and some of the teeth wounds in the flesh were as deep and ragged as if a wolf had made them. However, when we went to the scene of the bat- tle, the mad fox was gone. He had recovered and made off, but was ne ver heard or seen again. KING OF ITALY POPULAR HERO SOLDIERS TELL OF HIS KIND- NESS AND COURAGE. Wept When He Heard of the Death of Lieutenant Who Excelled Him in Aim. Before the war the King of Italy's only claim to popularity consisted in his domestic virtues. Everybody ad- mitted that he was a modest husband and father, a very good man and es- sentially a constitutional sovereign. But his subjects thought his inclina- tions Were peaceful and that he pre- ferred numismatics to soldiering. When the war came the King imme- diately assumed supreme command of the land and sea forces, and rushed to the front. Now everybody is con- vinced that the King is as much a sol- dier as his father and g^randfather. The war has entirely changed the mistaken opinion about the King. Soldiers write to their families des- cribing what the King is doing, what he says to them, and how he exposes his life just as they do. The letters have firmly established the King's popularity. The King at the front spends his time among the soldiers and often shares his meals with them. His Human Side. "I was going to one of the advanced posts up a steep hill," writes a soldier to his family, "carrying the General's raincoat over my arm. The General had ordered me to bring his coat up in case it looked like rain, and as soon as I saw the clouds gathering I obey- ed his orders. I had two miles to go, and had hardly covered half the dis- tance when it began to pour. Of course I ran, as I had no coat myself, and besides I knew the general was waiting for me. Half way up the hill a grey automobile came rushing down. I halted and saluted, as 1 saw two officers inside. One of them put out his hand and waved to me. Then the automobile stopped suddenly and one of the officers jumped out and ran to- ward me. " 'You are soaked to the skin,' he said, 'and you are carrying a rain- coat on your arm instead of wearing it. Why on earth don't you put it on?' 'It is not my coat, your Majes- ty,' I stammered, recognizing the King. 'It belongs to General X. and I am taking it up to him.' 'Put it on, put it on yourself,' the King said, 'and tell the general I ordered you. Of course you were right, as discipline is discipline, but then there are excep- tions, and this is one.' "The King helped me on with the coat, gave me a couple of cigars, pat- ter me on the shoulder, and shook hands with me. Before he started he \^aited to make sure that I would not take the coat off. When I explained to the general why I wore his coat, he said he expected me to wear it with- out saying anything to him, and add- ed, 'Remember, my boy, that there is no other King in the world who would have stopped his automobile and gone to the trouble of preventing a soldier from getting wet.' I could not help shouting, 'Long live the King!' as I saluted the general." Artillery Specialist. The King is an artillery specialist, and often personally dii^cts the fire of a battery or a section. He spent an entire day with a sub-lieutenant in command of a section of mountain artillery in a dominating position. Both the officer and the gunners ad- mired the way in which the King regulated the fire and his unerring aim, but his repeated efforts to de- molish a farm house in the distance from behind which the Austrians were firing, proved useless. "Try your- self," the King said to the lieutenant. "If you succeed you will have accom- plished something wonderful." The lieutenant tried and succeeded. The admiration of the King was unbound- ed. He shook hands with the officer, congratulated him warmly, made the gunners cheer him, and finally he said he was going, since the lieutenant was a much better gunner than he was. A couple of hours later the King was recounting to a general the lieutenant's admirable flrfhg. The general's face clouded, tears came to his eyes, and he informed the King that a few minutes after he had left the section an Austrian shell explod- ed over the guns, killing the officer and three gunners. The King hid his face in his hands and wept. .* __.., Reading the Signs at the Front. . A member of the Liverpool Scottish while home on leave, was asked whe- ther the soldiers knew long before- hand when they were going to be call- ed upon to deliver an assault. "Well, they don't exactly tell us but we al- ways know," he explained. "You see, if a number of Army chavlains sud- denly turn up we can always guess that something good and hard is go- ing to be asked of us shortly. And if they serve us with pudding for din- ner before we go into the trenche.i, why then we know for certiiin. Part of the Treatment. Mrs. Weighbiggâ€" "Doctor, your anti-fat remedies are doing me a good deal of good. I'm losing flesh right enough. But it seems to me your charges are ruinou.sly high." Doctor (calmly)â€" "That's part of the treat- ment." A WnHflowera are society girls have been nipped in the bud. who ^^•.i'>'l^iaii><: >^^-*jJ