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ed £ §2 Fel 24f 1 thick. Spread with soft butter, dust with one teaspoon flgur, four table- " spoons sugar, one teaspoon cinnamon and sprinkle over one-third cup each of chopped, seeded raisins and clean- ed currants. Roll up, eut into one half inch slices, put one inch apart on ~ greased pans and bake in hot oven. Swiss Steak/--Three poundk boty tom round steak, flour, two teaspoons salt, one-fourth teaspoon pepper, small piece of suet, one-fourth teaspoon ~ mustard. Wipe steak carefully, dust " on salt and pepper, rub in as much _ Hour as it will hold--at least one cup --using edge of saucer to help grind flour in. Fry suet, add mustard, and brown steak in it on both sides. Al- most cover with boiling water, boil rapidly five minutes, reduce heat and gimmer three hours. This is good fireless cooker recipe. Before serv: "ing add, if liked, one-half teaspoon celery salt and one tablespoon Wor- ce:tershire sauce to gravey, which should be rich and brown, apd not need more flour to thicken. Chopped mushrooms are also good to add. Crown Roast of Lamb.--Mutton or lamb may be used for this handsome roast. Have butcher prepare it, and _ be. sure that he sends home all trim- © mings. aa they constitute half the "weight paid for and make up well into stew. Cover ends of bones securely with stripes of salt pork.. Rub flesh with salt, or salt when partly cooked. Set in hot oven ten or fifteen minutes, then reduce heat, and, if necessary to ~ keep drippings from burning, add hot "water. Baste often and cook from forty-five to sixty minutes. Press cup in center of circle of meat to in} sure its shape. Before serving fill center with peas or blanched chest- nuts, cooked tender in st§ck and glaz- ed, or with Saratoga or French-fried potatoes. When Milk Turns. H the housewife will paste these _vecipes in her cookbook, it will not 'be a catastrophe when she finds the "milk or cream has soured. She may seven find that the family likes the 'new things better than what she had planned. Cake.--Cream one cup of sugar and one cup of shortening together. Sift together one and one-half cups of flour and a teaspoonful of soda, cloves, _ ¢innamon and nutmeg and add it to the: sugar, alternately with a cup of sour milk. Chop a couple of raisins, sprinkle them. with half a cup of flour and add to mixture. Frost with a soft chocolate, icing. 3 Cherry Pudding.--Beat one egg with third of a cup of sugar. Add ap of sour milk in which a fourth of 3 0 of soda has been dis- onfu t, then add a cup-of sugar, a, thick sour cream, half a cup of 'and nutmeg. Bake be- pint of lard weighs one pound. Oil of turpentine will remove tar 'Stewed rhubarb is an excellent spring, food. > Oatmeal makes a very good thick- ening for soups. when scrambled chould be sti constantly. A wooden box is better for keeping bread than a tin one. There is no finer polish for tinware than wood ashes. : 4 A sweet red pepper should always "hang in the canary's cage. Never buy spices in large quanti- ties; they lose their flavors. Beeswax and salt will make rusty flatirons as smooth as glass, Coarse sandpaper is better than sandsoap to scour kettles with. Fruit grows more important at breakfast as the spring advances. To remove shoe blacking that has been spilled on clothing use vinegar. Toothbrushes should be dipped in boiling water occasionally to disin- fect them. The good housekeeper goes over her food supplieq every day, to avoid waste. In using canned vegetables for cream soups, the liquor should be dis- carded. Worn table napkins are useful for drying the lettuce, when preparing it for the salad. Thick blotting paper under doilies will prevent hot dizhes from marking the table. Blotting paper saturated with tur- pentine may be placed in drawers to keep away moths. The best cereals are whole natural grains, steamed in a double boiler for 24 hours, ---- LURED GERMANS OVER A MINE. Canadian Troops Trick the Enemy at the Front. How the Canadians have once more done the Huns is told by officers re- turning on leave to London. The Can- adians have long been top-dog in their conflict with the Germans and it is said that in the trenches opposite the men from North America there are twice as many sentries as elsewhere along the line, for the Canadians are forever thinking of some new thrill for their enémies. o Not long ago, so the story goes, the Canadians discovered that the Ger- mans had, in some way wholly unex- pected, tapped a Canadian trench telephone wire. A connection had been made which led to the German trenches. Thus. the Germans were able to hear-ull of the orders passing on the telephone in that vicinity, There was a good deal of consterna- tion when the testing of the line showed that it had been tapped and the first impulse was to cut the Ger- man wire. A Canadian colonel, how- ever, had a better notion. He took the matter up with headquarters.and laid a deep plot to profit by the cir- cumstance. ; At a certain point, the Canadians had finished a mine under the: Ger- man trenches. Its explosion was de- ferred. Then the Canadians arranged | a fake set of orders. With the Ger- mans listening in orders were issued for an attack. The Germans did nob know, of course, that their trick bad been discovered. The orders were 2 that the attack should be made on the very point under which there was a Canadian mine. The Germans didn't know about the mine, either. Profiting by the information obtaine: over the telephone wire, the Germans in turn, planned a surprise for their aggressors. They literally packed men in the trenches where the suppos- reached, the Georgia to the sea and Grant moved through the wilderness upon Rich- mond. ' ! "It is only a qui the Kaiser's wo! chine, set for world conquest, down the war lord of France, will He find a way to circumvent of darkness in Germany. Be the time limit long or short, the end is sure. Prussian militariat must be crushed and will be crushed as the Southern: confederacy was crushed, as the vault- ing ambition of Napoleon was crush= ed, else the century that is sinks back into the feudal ages that were, gov-1 ernment but an armed camp, the earth a universal battlefield." The "Might-Have-Beens." "But what may Germany do to be saved? Except the Kaiser, there is. none to speak for her. Will the Kaiser speak--can he speak? Or must the end come to Germany as it came to Napoleon, to .the South, in bloody, all-embracing conflagration? "Let us give even the devil his due. There are those who believe that the Kaiser did not want to go to war. Their theory is that the sword was thrust into his unwilling grasp by the war party--that is, the Prussian General Staff--using the bellicose Crown Prince as a monkey wrenc to open his hand. Certain it is!that August 1, 1916, the first anniversary of the war, the Kaiser issued from army headquarters a manifesto in which he said: " 'Before God and history my con- science is clear. I did not will 'this war. One year has elapsed since I was obliged to call the German people to arms.' The Hour is Striking. "Germany has but one friend in the world, and' the German leaders, both in Germany and 'in America, have done their utmost to alienate this friend. Except for the pro-Ger- man propaganda, 'making quasi war upon our industries whilst threaten- ing civil war, if we went to war with the Kaiser, public opinion in the United States would have been divid- ed ~~ "At no time have the American peo- ple been hostile to the German people. At all times have we recognized their virtues as citizens and neighbors. We have resented with proper emphasis and spirit an organized intrusion fin- anced and directed from Berlin, which has subsidized American newspapers printed in the German language and let loose among us a horde of secret service agents who defy our laws, dis- Suspiche public order and flour our dighity as a nation and a people. "Concurrent with these offences a campaign of frightfulness has been pursued at sea in contravention alike of humanity and treaty obligations, a campaign undiscriminating, unre- lenting and barbarous; beneath whose cruel sway our citizens, helpless and unarmed, have been slaughtered. Now we demand--nay, we command--and woe be the consequence to that Ger- many--to those Germans that heed not; that hesitate to heed; that fancy, -as-the foolish Mexicans fancy, that the Gringoes will not fight. ues Termany's Only @hance. - "Yet the solution were so easy if the Kaiser--even- the Kaiser--could only see the'opportunity. It is such an opportunity as Napoleon was of- fered by Metternich, as Jefferson Davis was offered by Abraham Lin- coln. America is not the enemy of Germany, America is the friend of England... The true. American hates no land and no people, loving none, except his own, ' The Kaiser could ask the interven- tion of the United States and make proposals so reasonable 'that the nited States could compel a parley the annihilation of the of time when |: ous fighting = ma-| come to its Appomattox. As God ¥ [smote slavery in America, and struck |' e powers | "The medieval spirit must die. The |. and in the end bring the war toa close | Lo Sir Max Aitken, M.P., who is the author of the best record of warfare since Napier's "Peninsula War"--his book, "Canada in Flan- ders," heing the official story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Sir Max Aifken is himself a Canadian by birth, as he is the son of the Rev. William Aitken, who was Scotch min- ister at New Brunswick. Sir Max Aitken has sat as Unionist member for Ashton-under-Lyne since 19010, and on the outbreak of the war he was accepted as. the official "record- er" to the Canadian Force. {use and understand Greek in a ves, but dealing with strangers. The apostles had no idea what they were saying: "gift of tongues" did not help them. 12. Zeus and Hermes (margin)-- of which Jupiter and Mercury are Latin equivalents--must be understood as the nearest Greek equivalents of the local Lycaonfan deities. Phrygia, not far away, these two gods were fabled to have: come down to earth unrecognized, and to have been hospitably entertained by an old couple, Philemon and Baucis, who re ceived a blessing when they depart- ed. The people of Lystra were deter- mined not to be caught napping this time! = Ramsay well remarks, "Tru to the Oriental character, the Lycaonr ians regarded the active and energe- They patois among tion, the earth and the heavens meet- ing in dire combustion as they met for Napoleon after Waterloo, for the Con- federacy after Appomattox." ree Bsr eit WAITRESSES IN BERLIN. ----, High Priced Cafes Are -Forced to Employ Women. The Berliner Tageblatt discourses half mournfully,half jocularly, at the changes which the war is effecting in the capital, and especially in the cafes and eating houses. The first signi- ficant change was the bread card in- stead of bread ad lib. Then the table ation of hours, the "verbot" about schnaps after 9 p.n., the fleshless days, the fatless days, the shrinkage of beer, the shrinkage of potatoes, the diminution of the sugar supply, 'and, finally, the 'disappearance of the 'waiter, ia Instead of "klops" and "braten" the 'waiter is now handing bombs in the trenches; instead of offering pro- found remarks on various comestibles he-is discussing machine guns at the front. And in his place is the wait- ress. Waitresses have been long known in Berlin, but they were mainly con- fined to establishments which sported a red or a blue light over their door, establishments which were not visited by ladies. In more reputable places the waitress did not make her ap- ance, for the simple reason that the average Berliner never knew how. to conduc himself towards a respectable girl. : But-war has at last compelled her appearance at decent establishments, and according to the Tageblatt, she has. come to stay. After all, he says, is not the waitress a purely Germanic institution? Was it not one of tft inor duties of Wotan's daughters, e Valkyries, to offer the drinking horns to the heroes of Valhalla? They are therefore in place when they serve Berliners with the national beverage. But it is not a jovial crowd, they servi and the tables seldom dissolve ih laughter. ! No Kick Coming. : Mabel--S8o you asked papa for my hand? \Did he give you'any encour- agement ? 2 Sale _Arthur--Well, no; but he gave me a. drink and a cigar, so I had no kick ng x d'hote was suppressed, then the limit- be, tic pr as the inferior, and the more silent and statuesque figure as the leader." = That Paul was here taken for Hermes, and in Acts 21. 88 for a brigand captain, sufficiently shows that tradition has made an ab- surd inference from 2 Cor. 10. 10 when it describes him as "short, bald- headed and bowlegged." Chief speak- er--Hermes was the inventor of speech: god of eloquence. 18. The famous Cambridge manu- script reads Zeus Propolis, that is, Zeus the defender of the city; and this reading is very possibly right. Garlands--Used in Asia Minor as to- day in India. Gates--Of the temple, near which the apostles happened to 14. Apostles--Note this wider use of the word, without restriction to the twelve. Rent--A - well-known and universal sign of grief and horror. 15.' Like nature (margin): so read. Vain things--Pointing to the sacri- fice which would produce no effect. is the great description of the priests of Baal at their wordlip in 1 Kings 18. 25-299. That passage also vividly a living God. Who made, eta.--Paul lapses naturally into 'the familiar language of the Decalogue (Exod. 20. 11). But almost the same words can be quoted from the great monument of the Persian Kings on the Behis- tun Rock: many "heathens" had a complete doctrine of God as Creator. To this' germinal knowledge Paul makes his appeal--a true missionary, instinctively starting from the truth that these people did know. 16. In the generations gone by-- Had he been able to complete his ar- lines of Acts 17. 80. Nations--The : favor of the Empire. One The classic picture of this "futility" illustrates the contrasted thought of, : especially notable work this 'He showed wherein the Empire differed from' the Republic of e United States, with ever ing in Ne cipal points was that in Germany th individual . any : i for strength. The individ- I.ual "belongs to the State" as much as. ithe feudal vassal who knelt before i his lord and swore that he was hence- forth his man "of life and limb and earthly honor." : 'The callous indifference to human rights or human life shown in the whole war is a complete answer. The a rape of Belglum, the ruin and devast- ation wrought in Poland and Serbia, the cynical sneers at civilization's { horror for the 'Armenian atrocities, furnish an answer. Louvain and Rheims are answers. Verdun has been presenting the obverse side of the medallion, where another answer is written--that of the State's appre- | tation of its own vassals, Wave after wave of humanity breaking upon an almost impregnable ' défense shows the value of an indi- { vidual in the eyes of the master. In i the columns of a recent issue of . this ' newspaper a description of 'one as- | gault as seen by an onlooker was pub- lished. The Germans were moving forward in mass formation, when: "The. French guns opened, . and mangled humanity was piled in wind- rows. * * * In a short time another ward; as they started to pass over the piled-up heaps of their comrades the French cannon again blazed, and the pile of dead and wounded looked like a solid wall, The sight that fol- Jowed I think no man ever saw be- fore. High explosive shells began blowing into pieces the masses of dead and dying. "It seemed fiendish. I wondered that the French were so insatiate when, horror of horrors! 1 discover- ed that the high-explosive shells were from German guns, blasting the walls of dead and dying that another line of ' German troops might pass through!" { | these individuals belonged to the State? : There is a classic story of one who, reading of the happiness of a future | state, jumped-into the crater of Ve- suvius that he might the sooner en- joy it. After the story of Verdun i even the hyphenated American might | be excused for hesitating to jump into the crater of pro-Germanism in order to bring about in this country | a government where the citizen ™ longs to the State." ---- DESPERATE DIET. gument, it would have been on the How Wives May Cure Grumbling | Husbands: ; t | Why should they "pot do it, when marginal Gentiles is better, for the. There is naturally much talk in word normally excludes the Jews, and war-time of rations and food supply, Paul certainily did not regard his own'and the possibility or probability of people as having been left to the light! starving out one or other ofthe belli- of nature. °~ They were. for him a gerents. But it is amazing what peo- missionary nation, trained,to ° take] ple will eat at a pinch. God's truth to the world. ' A recent Arctic explorer seriously 17. Note the instinct by = which advised the wearing of skin clothing Paul goes straight to the one cen-| in preference to woollen, simply and tral fact of religion which be re-! solely because, if the worst came to alized from "natural theology', the the worst, one's outfit could be stewed fact that God is good. He does not, or a meal, or at any rate given to the suggest that the Lystrans might dogs! i EN have learnt more from the bounties) Well, when a man finds enjoyment of nature. - What they had actually and a sort of inward satisfaction in a inferred was the divinity of the sky|stew made of his vest, his shoelaces, ("Zeus",, which gave the rain and the and his sledge-gear, he must be pretty plants that produced fruit. Hearts "peckish," and when he gets back to --Used as in 1 Sam. 26. 86, where civilization he will make a model hus- and gladness. The last word, at cold mutton on washing-days. is personified in Milton's| -- Bishop of Yukon thinks nothing " 'oa Aa ET food TA there is the same combination with band, never likely to turn up his nose line in solid formation was sent fop--ssieer-------- :