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America j __In_boxas£g_cents ; ; Just to Explain the Universe of God Rationally Is y to Justify It Morally Tmpotent pieces of the game ; he - plays v , - ... Ux>on the checker board of nights ; and days ; Hither and thither, moves," and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. - "Rubaiyat/' Omar Khayyam. If we would convince ourselves of the basic soundness of the universe universe and the essential goodness of life we cannot do better than take up some philosophy of pessimism, and, accepting it at its face value, set ourselves soberly to the task of seeing just how"bad it really is. I personally believe that the cosmic order, especially on its,human side, is so beneficent that there can be formulated no interpretation of its phenomena which does not take on some semblance of the divine reality which it is purposed to describe. Take, for example, the verse from Omar's "Rubaiyat/' which I have selected for my text. Here do-we have the crowning expression of the ment, and/the/hàppiest firemariof them all' is he . who is picked to stake his life on the slim chance of rescue. A mine explodes, and the miners above ground fight for the privilege of entering the shaft to save their comrades. A soldier is needed to carry a dangerous venture venture into the lines of the enemy, and every man in the regiment steps in answer to the call fôr vol unteers. Here is life .at its very best.. But if such is the case in our relations with men, why is not the same thing true, only, on an infinitely infinitely grander, scale, in our relations with - Gpd ?--Rey. John Haynes Holmes. _ THE ENGINEER'S BEAR. How Lala Managed to Have Chicken Chicken For Dinner. Lala , was the name of a little black honey-bear with a white V- shaped mark on his chest, and he belonged • to the engineer of- the steamer on which". Mr. A. Hugh ^ : Fisher, the author of "Through In- cynical philosophy' of life which is dia and Burmah/'. was a passen- 1 ger. They kept chickens on board in a coop, and one night Lala pulled a chicken out of it. The wheelman declared that Lala deliberately put a piece of bread in the chicken's trough outside the bars; and waited waited till the bird put its head out. The wheelman was not the sbrt of person to make up such a story, but the engineer could hardly believe believe him, and asked to be called the next time that the wheelman saw the . bear laying plans for a chicken dinner. Whether the .engineer .engineer was in bed or not, Lala used, to sleep not-far from him on a mat by the engine-room door. One night the wheelman called the engineer engineer up, and he actually saw the' bear drop a. piece of bread in the trough. He stood ready to cuff Lala if he touched a fowl, but the bear was too quick for him, and thé Very moment â hen put' her head through the bars, the bear whipped her clean through. The engineer never gave Lala meat, but some one fed him once or twice on "bully beef," and that seemed to make him restive. Hé never really bit anybody, but the .engineer 'felt.it -was safest to get rid of the beast. He got off one day at the village-near the defile, took the bear/ a. mile and a-half away into the jungle, and - "lost" him. Soon after; the villagers petitioned petitioned the engineer to take the bear on board again. It seemed that Lala haunted the village apd stole chickens. persistently. So there was -nothing for it but to take him on k board the steamer again. Then the engineer gave him to the Rangoon Zoo.' V ;. .. . ,/ ;/ .• It was months afterward that he went to see Lala. (He took with him a retriever, which had been the bear's chum and playfellow. When he asked about Lala, they said he had got very wild, and would not take his food. I give the rest of the story in the engineer's own words\* ' 'They,were, just going to give.him "rations; so I said, /Give me the food, and I'll go into the cage myself.' myself.' I took the retriever in with me, and I'll never forget thé way that bear looked at me as long as I live. The poor; thing just stood up and put his forepaws on my chest, and looked into my eyes as much as to say, -Is this what you've done to me V No/' I'll never, keep a wiïd anirfial again." * --., Watching the Operation. During the progress of the morning morning bath of a few months' - old infant infant a neighbor's little girl ■ came into the room carrying a doll and stood watching, the operation for some time. The little girl's doll was much the worse for hard.usage, being minus an arm and a leg. Finally Finally she said to the mother of the child, "How long have you had your baby f ' The child was informed, and, looking from her doll to the baby, she.said, - "My, but you have kept ifunice 1" ; . : expounded in this strangely attractive attractive poem of the great Persian. This world, we are told, is a vast chess hoard on which the "Master of the Show" is Playing His' Game of Destiny. Men and-women are the pieces with which the movements of the game are marked and its progress indicated. indicated. Most of us are pawns, some knights and bishops, here and there a castle or . a queen. But; high or low, great or small, it makes no difference. difference. , We are simply moved helplessly as the necessities of the game/ may dictate at the moment, and sooner or later are swept off the board and "back in the closet laid." _ ' . • ; / Now, it would seem as though there could be no more" hopeless hopeless picture of human existence than this. And yet is it so hopeless, after all % See what Omar, is, actually telling us. This universe, he says, is presided over by a supreme Intelligence, which acts with deliberate, foresight and" determined purpose'. -The life of this universe, .hé adds, is to be interpreted* as a game which this great Intelligence is playing personally personally for stakes that are at least important important enough to be worth the striving for. And then he concludes the whole by declaring that; you and I are the pieces which-this Intelligence Intelligence is using for the winning of His game. .. Now, what is there so terrible in such an interpretation:; of life as this 1 We may like . the figure of the chess game or we may not. That is a non-essential detail. * What is vital is the idea that there is a God in this universe who is trying to work out some mighty plrin, and that He is using you and me. as the means for the ... Achieving of His Purposes. Take Omar at his word--crude, inadequate, inadequate, vulgar as it may be--and what nobler fate can we ask than to be used as pieces in a game which God finds it worth while to- play 1 How better can we be spent than' by being swept from the board and laid back in the' closet at the very moment when such a sacrifice means perhaps the- winning of the game 1 What greater, honor than to be used by God as Her thinks best/ A child screams for help in a flaming tene- Selected Recipes. / Soft Cooked Eggs.--Heat a quart of water to boiling, move from the source of heat, lower in four eggs gently, cover and let stand from six to eight minutes, according to softness desired - . / _ Ginger Ice Cream.--One pint of cream, yolks three eggs, one-third jar (small size) preserved : ginger. Scald the cream and pour it gradually gradually over the beaten yolks. Re^ turn to double boiler and cook until until thick. Chop the ginger fine ; Add it. and a third of the„Syrup to. the custard. Freeze the mixture, usr ing, three parts ."icé and "one part salt. .• -f - ' ■ ; . Ginger Cookies. -- One-half cup molasses, one-half cup brown sugar, one tablespoon ginger; one-half cup drippings, one-half té asp bon soda, salt; flour- to make a stiff dough. Mix in the,order given, rubbing, the soda with the salt. Maké into small balls. Flatten with a tin-cup, sprinkle/ with a small- amount of cinnamon and sugar and - bake in a moderate , oven. '; /. </ /> / /Stiifféd '. C afobagri.--Cut/ oût thé stalk end Of^a head of cabbage, leaving leaving a hollow shell. Grind two- pounds uncooked round steak with a slice of bacon and an onion. Add one cup' bread crumbs, soaked and wrung dry, one beaten egg, salt, paprika and mace. Shape into balls,, arrange Tn thé cabbage and steam until cabbage is tender/ Serve with tomato" sauce. Cornmeal Muffins. --Three-Quarters --Three-Quarters cup cornmeal, three-quarters cup flour, three, teaspoons baking powder, one: tablespoonful sugar, one-half teaspoon salt, one egg, three-quarters cup. milk, one tablespoon tablespoon butter. Mix arid; sift the dry ingredients ; beat the egg until very light" and. add the milk to it; Then mix with the dry ingredients./ Melt the butter and add it last, stirring into the mixture. Bake Jn buttered muffin pans from twenty-five to thirty thirty minutes. This quantity makes six muffins. Tomato Soup.--One can tomatoes, one pint water, twelve peppercorns, bit of bay leaf, four cloves, one slice onion, two tablespoons sugar; one teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon teaspoon soda, two tablespoons butter, two tablespoons - flour, one-eighth teaspoon pepper. Cook the. first seven ingredients thirty ; minutes, strain, add the soda and salt. Melt butter, add the flour arid seasoning, seasoning, then the strained tomato/ cook ten minutes and serve Tiot. //. Salmon Timbales. -- One pound canned salmon, one-half cup soft bread crumbs, one tablespoon melted melted butter, one tablespoon leinon juice, four eggs, paprika. Remove thé bones and skin And break the salmon into small pieces. Mix together together all the ingredients and pack closely in small buttered timbale tins or cups. Set them in a pan or hot water and bake until firm. Turn out and serve with -a sauce./ ( Nougat Icc Cream.--Three ^ eups ! milk, .one cup sugar,, yolks five eggs, ' one teaspoon salt, one and one-half cups heavy cream, whites five eggs, one-third cup each pistachio, filbert, English, walnuts arid aimorid meats, one tablespoon walnuts/ one teaspoon teaspoon almond extract* Make a custard custard of first four -ingredients, strain and cool. Add - heavy cream, beaten beaten until stiff ; whites of eggs, ,beat 7 until étiff ; nut riaéats, finely Until **Fruit-»-tiv*»'/ Completely " Cured Her CoKNWAnnGXNTRIt/QNT», •' ' -c Novbmbxr *7lJbu *-I was a 'toàrtÿr to Hay - Fever for ' probably -fifteen years- and I suffered terribly at times. I consulted many physicians arid took their treatment-- and I tried every remedy I heard of as good for Hay Fever. But nothing did me any good. /Then I tried "Frnit-a- tives" -and. this remedy cured me completely. I am now well, and I wish to say to every sufferer from Hay. Fever--"Try Fruit-a-tives". This fruit medicine cured me when every other treatment failed and I believe it is a perfect curé for this dreadful disease". MRS. HENRY KEMP. . 50c. a box, 6 for $2.56--trial size, 25c. : At dealers or from .Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. the mixture. Bake in a'hot oven for twenty minutes. Macaroon Ice Cream.--Scald one pint milk, reserving enough to make a smooth paste with one-fourth cup flour ; mix with the het milk and cool in the double boiler half an hour ; add beaten yolks of three eggs ; cook five minutes longer, stir ring constantly ; then add one cup sugar, a few grains of salt and strain; When cool mix with a pint of thin cream ; add one cup crushed macaroons and freeze. that As left* by the . benzine// - Wash with cWld water. ^ - // ;AU -the left-over vegetables, such as string beans, peas, beets, carrots, carrots, etc., will make a delicious luncheon salad.: They should be chilled and laid on salad leaves with French dressing. . Thé remnants of a chicken can be converted into delicious shortcake. shortcake. Make the biscuit crust the samp as for old-fashioned shortcake* shortcake* Spread the chicken between and pour gra*~7 on the whole./ ' • Borax makes an excellent wash for the -hair ; a teaspoonful to a basin of water being a good proportion/ proportion/ A solution of it is also good as a mouth wash. The dry powder may be used as a dentifrice. If you desire to remove the skin of peppers drop them into boiling water and simmer for five minutes, or scouring them slightly and placing placing on the broiler over .hot coals a few minutes, will ; lo6sen. the akin. : / Tomato saridwiches are made/with slices/of tomato ; between buttered bread / spread -mayonnaise over the tomato, and be sure tb e sandwiches are" not made until just before serving serving or the bread will become soggy. To clean white veils, lay them in luke warm soap suds ; made with white soap. Let them soak aivhour or two, then squeeze them/ softly arid.'pti't them.thro ugh- clean .'suds in. the ; same way. Rinse in warm war ter; then in cold, 'arid pass through water stiffened with a - little gum arabic or rice water. /• Iri buyin g "combs,arid brusbes, the woman with due regard for her hair will choose combs'with smooth teeth and bristles not too stiff. White celluloid is onè of the best materials, materials, for the simple reason that it shows the/dirt at once and is easy to clean. ,;>5l ROYAL 1 DECLINE SUBSTITUTES. E.W.GI LLETT CO. LTD. TORONTO. WINNIPEG. MONTREAL* > CHINESE FOOTBALL; A Very Than In Assoeia- en ...--. . .. . . . chopped ; flavoring and then 'freeze; Corn Cake.--One -and a -quarter cups cornmeal, two cups sour milk; one teaspoon soda, one- teaspoon salt, two eggs, two tablespoons butter*- butter*- Sift dry ingredients'. Add milk and beaten eggs gradually. Heat frying pan, grease sides and bottoms of pan with butter, turn in Ji3 .. of y ganger oKL ce tkaf. fegar oH breedw=q6ot eft stfmtdâtêl* / /:/ .y-. Buy St* L*'5Vtence EetyKprannlated iabage end be cf the ffnort pore cane SugsT, Ttittonéhedby hand from factory to yottt kitchen. ./- FUU . _j8rir OVAftANTtED. CL Lwwe Bèflwük UaKd. / eu* Useful Home Hints. Common mignonette grown in - a pot is very disagreeable to flies. Cotton crepe.'is^now beirig used for covers" fot' iummèr : pillowc. -/ / If - sandwiches ar'è served with afternoon afternoon téa; they must be small- and dainty, and minus crust. Plain custard, cold and poured over three cupfuls of sliced oranges makes a delicious summer pudding. Grapes and apples are among the most nutritious /fruits and should be freely eaten, even by the most delicate. delicate. / " Pyrethrum powder, burned in a room stupefies flies until they eari be swept upi and put where flies ought to be. - / ; In the summer delightful informal entertaining may, be done with thé help of paper tablecloths, dishes and napkins. ./ :r /. Before starting to can fruit, see that the tops of your fruit jars fit, arid, that you have a good supply of rubbers on band. / A ; bit of fine mosquito'" netting placed under the'hole in a stocking, and used as a foundation for the darn, is a great help. In washing cotton crêpes and ere poris, have grease stains removed with naphtha or gasoline before putting the crepe into water. •Tongue for sandwich filling should be mixed fine and rubbed to à paste with mashed boiled eggs, seasoned with vineg'àr 1 and butter. , : A baby's ' bottle ought never be washed with soap, but the moment it is empty it should be washed in cold water, then filled with a weak .solution; of boric acid. k When iced tea: is desired for; luncheon' or dinner it should be prepared prepared in thVmorning. When, ready to serve, pour it on the sugar, ice and lemon already in the ^glasses. Nothing • is more helpful -in dusting dusting polished floors than the absorbent absorbent broom bag, which can be purchased purchased for a few cents or may be made at home from a piece of cot to,n flannel. : • ■ - _ ; ■ ■ ■ If threads draw hard and break easily when preparing a piece of fancy/work, a little white soap rubbed rubbed on the wrqiig side of the linen will be of advantage. It does not harm .the linen. : , :../ / ' -0 ; / y A delicious ; iSandwich filling is made from one part chopped almond almond s- "arid • two parts of • shredded or ;. grate'd/Cele rÿ, with a dash, of salt. / Moistèn- . the - mixture with mayonnaise/•//'§/ ;. '. /// : /......... When niakiri^fapple pie the flavor is ■ much; impre^ed and- the apples will keep in piood colb.r if a few drops of. lemorij juice, are ' squeezed over'tbe âippièç^ ust' before thescfust is put Pn., ; / ^ . / Remove- greaae stains by saturating saturating thé spots ^with alcohol rather than benzine, f»s. the "alcohol will I not leave the ring around the spots Different Gaine This Country., :. " Z" ' ' c " Our football--whether iton or Rugby--is played according to rule. Not ,so the football of China-. There, the contest is curiously curiously primitive, and free and easy. * 'The 'first game I saw," says a European in a letter to the London Telegraph, "I mistook for a serious riot. To begin with, each side was fifty strong, and. as it was.in northern northern China, most of the players were six feet tall, and heavy iri. proportion. proportion. They had no .goals, side-lines or halves. The game was not fin- "d until one side defeated the other, and sometimes.lasted several days. The idea of the game is to carry a small, basket, which serves as a ball, into the opponents' territory. territory. Thergame is fought out in the streets, and every player has a whistle with which to call assistance assistance when he is too hard pressed. Stealth; as well as force, is permitted. permitted. F know of one man who got the ball across the enemy's line by climbing 'over the roofs of houses. As you may imagine; a hundred gigantic gigantic men; yelling and fighting all over the public streets are pretty certain to ca-use excitement." FORESTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA. Progressive Policy Inaugurated by The Federal Government. The report recently is sued by the Chief Conservator of Forests in South Africa for the year ending on December 31st, 1911, is one of considerable considerable interest; by way of comparison comparison xvith ivhât is b eing.. done alorig . forestry lilies in this country. For such - a. yôürig : Union- tiie progress progress made is- remarkable, and .considérable .considérable credit is due to the.-Forest the.-Forest Department for * the efficiency already attained iri administration arid fir e-proteetiori. ' " The area of the Forest Reserves in the Union of South Africa in December, 1911, - was 1,799,550 acres. Besides this, there, were also 42,587 acres reserved for growing growing railway ties, on which railway funds alone were expended, making making a total reserved, area of 1,842,- 137 acres. This area is divided into seven conservancies, -- roughly speaking, a conservancy to each, province in the Union. JEach conservancy, conservancy, consisting usually of several several reserves, is admiriistered by a District Forest Officer and a technically technically trained Assistant Forester. Under them are chiefs - of reserves, forest guards, rangers, etc. The more important positions are all filled by technical foresters, usually usually highly trained men who have completed their course in the Oxford Oxford School of Forestry and in Germany. Germany. This organization very closely resembles that of the .Canadian .Canadian Government forest reserves. Under their supervision, forest surveys are being made for the demarcation demarcation of new reserves, and existing existing reserves are being" protected from fire by; burning or cutting fire-belts around the reserves and by planting up . their p erimeters with trees of the less' inflammable species. As. a result of these precautions, precautions, there were burned during, the season of 1911 only seven hundred hundred acres, or 0.04 per cent, of the total- area. On the reserves themselves improvement improvement cuttings are being carried carried on under the direction of forest, officials, for the removal of defective defective timber and Weed trees, and these operations not only have much improved the speeies*compos- ition of the forests, butJiave proved financially justifiable as well. Replanting. is also being extensively extensively carried on in the various reserves, reserves, the total area replanted at the end of 1911 being 48,136 acres. Several species of exotics are being introduced with considerable success. success. Nurseries are .maintained, and.,the-seed.*and transplants of for- ést trees are sold to the public at cost. About six thousand dollars worth of seed .was sold by the Department Department during the year, together with 2,806,402 seedlings, valued at over $42,500.00. Miller's Worm Powders prove their value. They do not cause any violént disturbances in the stomach* any pain or griping, but do their work quietly and painlessly, so that the destruction of the worms is imperceptible. imperceptible. Yet they are thorough, and from the first dose there is improvement improvement in the : condition of the sufferer and an entire cessation of manifestations of internal trouble. ROYAL family is shy. Prince of Wales Nervous at Meeting Meeting French President. 1 Members of the Royal family are nearly all afflicted with shyness. There have been times when the Princess Royal could hardly bear to be looked at, and the opening of even a local bazaar was too much , for her. Her. nickname in those days was "Her Royal Shyness." King George, however,. was never never in the least shy. The Prince of Wales is given to alternating fits of extreme shyness and extreme confidence. He was frightfully nervous nervous about meeting the French ,President. He said to an Oxford friend: 'T shall probably begin to talk German to him in my anxiety." Even the intoxication of love may result in a severe headache the next**, morning. . ce-< f You mean to say,' Pat, that you feed ydur pigs one day and starve* them the next ; whatever for ?" "Sure, sorr, and ain't it that I like bacon • with a sthreak of fat and a sthreak of lean equally V' The Reason. Muggins--I wonder : why Dolly Dashaway is so popular? Buggins--She's one of those girls a fellow feels he can propose vto without any serious danger of being being ; ' » 2 6 *- ■ 1 , men ask for so many bags of " cement "-- Others, more carèful, say they want ' ' Portland Cement "-- man who does the insists upon getting getting "Canada" Portland 't . : ,nd he looks to see that every Write the Cantde Cement Information Bureau, Montreal. Montreal. for a free copy of "What the Farmer Can Do With Concrete.'* FLahet CEMENT There is a Canada Cement dealer in your neighborhood. 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