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Allow one level teaspoonful of salt to flavor a quart of soup, sauce or water in which vegetables are to be | being ry | Bub Paul was more probably using his; nothing less than that of the one true God. : 24. ° As a Jew, he naturally drops into Old Testament language (Exod. 20. 11; 'Isa. 42 5), ubt the assertion i could be matched almost verbally from temple walls. Made with hands--That God's true temple must be "made without hamis" was a declaration of Jesus (see Mark 14. 58) which is guaranteed as a true re- port in this respect by the echoes in the Acts and Epistles. 26. Neither is he served--Compare Psa. 50. Off. Needed--An acceptance of Epicurean doctrine to match the ap- proval of a Stoic poet (see verse 28). In one of his finest passages, Lucre- tius declares that Deity is "mighty in its own resources, needing us not at all." * 26. Of one--Greek as well as He- brew story recognized the common parentage of mankind. Seasons-- The ages of their rise and fall, and their entrance on the lands they were to make their own. 27. Providence in history was to be the great prompter in 'the search after Gogh It was the clearness with which Israel's instinct grasped this lesson that qualified him to be God's mis- sionary to the world. rok 28. A recent discovery tells us there are two quotations here: "A grave have they made for thee, O Zeus, highest and greatest, even the Cre- tans, always liars [ete., as Titus 1. 12]. But thou are nob dead, for to eternity thou livest and standest; for in thee we live and move and have our ." The verse in Titus is attrib- uted to Epimenides, who now appears to have referred to the Cretan legend of the burial of Zeus in Crete.' Cer- tain--Namely, Epimenides for the ear- : concentrate, like the English, on mere sorrow for the : & wholly new attitude of the point. 81. Appointed a day--"To fix a day" Announcing a legal inquiry; but Paul was doubtless thinking rather of the "day of Jehovah," so prominent in the| prophets. Judge the inhabited earth in righteousness (margin)--Quoted, from Psa, 9. 8. In a man--So liter- ally: in is a regular Greek idiom for the judge before whom a case is tried. own "mystical in"--whether in re- demption or in judgment, "God is in| Christ."" Ordained--The word Paul | uses in Rom. 1. 4 (rendered declared) | 8.2 Paul had no chanee to develop his argument, of which he had only delivered the opening; tiorf of dead men" was a sheer ab- | surdity, and it was useless to wasbe more time listening to this Oriental fanatic. © Those who were too polite to scoff promised to renew the bore- dom on a more convenient day--pr¢ sumably Feb, 801 ' : 83. Thus--Luke's restraint here is wonderful, only surprassed by the yet more tragic verse of Luke 4. 30. What Paul thought when he could get no further hearing we shall read in the lesson for July 30. 84. Dionysius--So there were some "wise after the flesh" (1 Cor. 1. 26) who accepted the heavenly wisdom! Damaris--Read the glorious stanzas in Myers' Saint Paul. The vory pre- gence of a woman in this meeting, in a town where respectable women were shut up and debarred all public life, suggests her previous character: "Then I preached Christ; and when she heard the svory.-- 0, is such triumph possible to men? Hardly, my King, had I beheld thy glory, . Hardly "nad 1 known thine excel- lence till then." nce geen Fortunes in Ships. Romantic stories are related at Cardiff, Wales, of the huge fortunes amassed by shipowners and coal-own~ ers during the war, One shipowning firm is reported to have made profits amounting to $15,000,000. Many other firms have also made vast sums. In- stances are also told of young clerks who, earning about $16 a week at the beginning of the war, saw their op- portunity and invested in the purchase of old steamers. Asa result of their enterprise they have become compar- atively wealthy men. "This is an odd way girls have of getting into society." "How is it odd ?" "Why, to get in they first have to come out." A man advertises for "competent persons to undertake the sale of a new medi¢ine." and adds that "it will be profitable to the undertaker." "HOW T0 OPERATE THE CASOLINE ENGINE Told by C. W. Jakes, of the [No. 8.1 The operating troubles of the gaso- line @ are not so numerous as the starting troubles for if the latter date | are eliminated, then there is not much danger from the former. However, ~ there are a few that are of common dei] Ca "tet , se il p the sparker but there and they will be dealt with Sometimes while running, the 1 miss fire, that is, the trip 0 > explosion. ~~ This indicates i - battery, loose connec- tions, or a dirty spark plug. 2 shine that is being used daily. the k plug should be removed once a 'month, the feposit of carbon on the Cd wih Eat ho he ch with sand- Ontario Agricultural College. cooling. This scale prevents the water from cooling the cylinder and should be scraped off occassionally. When to Regulate the Feed. Sometimes after the engine has made a few explosions it will seem to smother and then stop. This is due usually to an overdose of gasoline, quantities of dense black smoke from the exhaust indicating the presence of too much fuel. A normal mixture of gasoline and air is indicated by a thin blue, and almost invisible smoke from the exhaust. White, dense smoke in- dicates that the cylinder is getting too much oil. : Sharp, hard explosions ac- companied by frequent explosions in the inlet pipe indicate that the en- gine is not getting enough gasoline, |. Occasionally the « engine seems to all right when working without a was 'the ordinary Latin term for an-| "a resurrec- Proc .| August 1, 1914 :-- | First half of 1916 .. CA HE ac br x novice may prove more than an ounce t use, and must be in alert ser- vice. Some drivers learn safe mani- pulation of a car much more easily than others do, But the principal thing to avoid when learning to drive is to keep from learning bad habits. The right way is always the easiest. . '. More accidents are avoided through skilful steering than by any other means of control at the command of the operator, and a driver who is clever at the steering wheel has, erefore, a great advantage. As long as the car is in motion the operator must be steering. This is bhe one control that must be constantly han. dled. The operations of steering consist of wabtchfulness in the direc- tion in which the motor vehicle is p , and constant, ski handling of the steering mechanism. Modern motor vehicles are equip- ped with what is termed "a balanced steering gear." Such a steering gear operates freely, and as a general rule one hand is all that is necessary to control it. The properly trained driv- er should use his left hand as much consider for safety's e is to sionally pull up on the hand when stopping, instead of always ing the foot brake. For this keeps the motorist familiar with the location of this control, so that when neces- sity for its use arises it is instine- tively found. Remember anothér thing. The left Iful | foot has but one duty; it must rest on the clutch pedal. If. the driver finds this uncomfortable, some sorb of a heel rest can be arranged, so that the foot can rest on the pedal at all times with perfect comfort. ~ De- clutching is one-half the operation of stopping, and a fraction of a in stopping is often important. THE COST OF WAR 1S MOUNTING UP NO ANALOGY IN HISTORY OF PAST TIMES Another Year of It Will Make the Tetal Expenses Reach $100,000,000,000. One hundred billion dollars will be the cost of the war if it lasts another year, according to Mr. Jean Finot, who makes an interesting compara- tive dtudy of this subject in an article in the Paris Revue. "If this war lasts three years," he says, " the losses will reach a total un- heard of in the past. They will a- mount to one hundred or one hundred and twenty billion dollars. The losses occasioned by the present conflict have no analogy in the history of past times. " According to the calculations of economists and staticians armed conflicts from Napoleon I. to our day, all added together, have not caused one-half the sums absorbed by the present war, The Napoleanic wars, properly so called, which are consid- ered the most sanguinary in the his- tory of past times, cost only about $15,000,000,000. They lasted twenty years. "The Crimean War cost the coun- tries taking part in it about eleven or twelve billions. The civil war in America did not cost more than $7,- 000,000,000 or $7,600,000,000. The war between Prussia and Austria in 1886 necessitated an cxpense of only about $500,000,000. " According to the estimates of Mr. Matheu-Bodet, Minister of Finance in 1874, the war of 1870 cost France the total sum of $2,499,000,000. In this figure are included the losses to the State, to the departments, the com- munes and individuals, The cost of caring for German troops after the conclusion of peace and before the complete evacuation, amounting to $18,600,000, is also included. '" An English statistician puts the direct expenses of all belligerents from Napoleon I. to the war of 1914 $36,000,000,000 to $40,000,000,000. " Congidering only the allied armies in the present war, it may be noted that the number of combatants on our side now amounts to about 14,000,000. If we admit an average daily expense of $4 a day for each soldier, including ammunition, we will have a total ex- pense of $1,680,000,000 a month, or about $20,000,000,000 a year. Constant Increase For France alone' the budget a- mounts to $6,198,200,000 yearly, ac- cording to Mr. Almond, who recently {made a report to the French Senate showing the following credits since of 1914.$1,317,886,850 : 4,4883,319,702 + 3,006,506,870 : Total 'singe' war began$8,8¢ 718,422 ' Trp kaplinfi a il the Last five months Year 19156 a | constant. increase in °| Yoar 1916 $3,088,400,000 $4,488,819,702 First cuar- > ter 1016 1,082,400,000 1,686,500,870 Civil and other Government expenses are about 19 per cent. and the rest, something under 1 per cent., goes to buy food for the destitute refugee population. Added to the above are the sums paid to allied nations--Belgium, Ser- bia and others--which raise the ex- penses to $18,000,000 a day, $560,000, 000 a month, or $6,700,000,000 a year. England's Expenses At the same time England's ex- penses have risen from $17,000,000 a day to $22,000,000, and are soon ex- pected to reach $25,000,000 daily, or $9,126,000,000 a year. A British es- timate of the exclusively war expenses of the allies gives the following up to June 80, 1917 :-- Great Britain $15,250,000,000 14,175,000,000 Montenegro .... Portugal 50, $61,726,000,000 Cost to Teutons On the other side, Germany's ex- penses, which to date are about $10,~ 000,000,000, it is estimated will be a¥ least $18,000,000,000 by the same time; Austria's about $10,000,000, 000; Turkey's $600,000,000 and Bul- garia's $520,000,000, or $34,120,000 for the Teutonic allies. Then, there is Japan, who issued an internal loan of $26,000,000 at the be- ginning of the war, and whose ex- penses in the capture of Kiao-chott and the German Pacific archipelagos and their occupation were about $100, 000,000. San Marino, too, has spent several hundred thousand ' dollars erecting anti-aircraft defences a- gainst Austrian aeroplanes. The Al- lies will thus have spent about $562, 000,000,000, and the Teutons $34,000, 000,000 at the end of three years' war, These sums give a total of about $86,000,000,000, somewhat less than the estimate of Mr. Finot, but agree- ing with the calculation that the cost of the present war is more than double all the wars of the nineteenth cen- tury, from those of Napoleon I, plus all the wdrs of the first dozen years of the present century. -- rm Germans Eat Whale Meat. Whale meat has proved so popular among the inhabitants of the Solingen district in Prussia that the district au- 000,000 !thorities have taken over the: greater part of the trade in this smoked food product, which may be sold on "meat- less" days, and are disposing of it in large quantities, reports the German press, The retail price is about 70 cents a pound. 3 ; The Intelligent Cat Two gardeners were swearing ven gence on cats, A ; 3 re »" eenhouse to defy me." er oh