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Bweet Dumplings -- Ingdedients: Twelve ounces of flour, two ounces of e, two ounces of pugaty fant baking powder, half pound of prunes, juice of half a lemon, pinch 'of salt, milk as re Sift the «flour and salt and rub the 'sho _into it thoroughly. Mix to a stiff dough with milk and roll out po "quarter-inch thickness. Cut ..these "into squares that will take half a dozen | 'nicely steamed prunes. Place the fruit in the center of the square, put "over them a teaspoonful of sugar and 'a few drops of lemon juice. Wet the edges of the pastry and fold them up, dumpling shape, pressing them well together. Put into a lightly greased tin and bake in a moderate over for thirty minutes, Then brush: them generously with a couple of spoonfuls of milk, in which a heaped spoonful of sugar has been dissolved. Put them back in the oven and bake for another ten minutes to make them a sticky brown. Fruit Custard--Ingredients: One pint of milk, two eggs, one ounce of sugar, pinch of salt, one . cupful of stewed prunes (stoned). Rub the prunes through a course sieve, beat the eggs very thoroughly and mix all the ingredients together. Divide the mixture among well-greased cups or mouldings and put these in a baking tin of water. Bake in a gefitle oven until the custard set. The prunes may be flavored with cinnamon, if liked. Fruit Delicious--Ingredients: Four ounces of sago, one dessertspoonful of lemon juice, three ounces of sugar, one breakfast cupful of steamed prunes. Soak the sago, then boil in a pint and a half of water until it is clear. Stir in the sugar, lemon juice and the prunes, which have been stoned and pounded to a puree, Cook them all to- gether for two or three minutes, then set aside to cool. Pour into a glass dish and serve with custard. Orange juice or powdered cinnamon may be substituted for the lemon juice. Fig Roly-Poly--Ingredients: One breakfast cupful of figs, cut small; twelve ounces flour, one ounce of but- ter, two ounces of sugar, one teaspoon- ful baking powder, one egg, one tea- spoonfu' of grated lemon peel, pinch of salt, milk to mix. Rub the short- ening into the flour and salt, add the egg and enough milk to make a dough that will roll out. Roll to one-quarter inch thickness and spread with figs, sugar and lemon peel. Shape into a roly-poly, wrap in greased paper and put into a steamer for two and a quar- ter hours. Serve with custard or sweet sauce. Orange Sauce.--Ingredients: Three tablespoonfuls of orange juice, one tablespoonful of lemon juice one des- sertspoonful of cornstarch, one heap- ed tablespoonful of sugar (or to taste), one-half pint of boiling water, Mix the cornstarch to a paste with a little cold water, add to the boiling water and boil for two minutes, stir- ring well. Add the sugar and juices and boil for another two minutes. Dried Fig Jam--Ingredieats: 6 lbs. of dried figs, steamed, ther: weighed; 4 lbs. of sugar, rind and juice of 4 Temons. Steam the figs till they "swell nicely, then cut into quarters. Weigh the fruit after steaming, not be" fore. Add the sugar, lemon juice; and the lemon rind finely grated. Sim- mer the fruit and lemon together with just a little water to prevent burn- ing, and when quite tender, add the sugar. Cook gently until a little of the jam put on a cold plate sets quick- ly. This jam needs constant stirring, as it thickens a good deal. Date Jam--Ingredients: 6 lbs. of stoned dates, 3 lbs, of sugar, 1% pints of cold water, rind and juice of a large lemon. Simmer the dates in "the water for about ten minutes, then put " in the sugar, lemon juice, and finely- grated lemon rind. Bring to the boil, and cook steadily until quite smooth. When it sets if tested in the usual way, it is ready to come off. Spice can be used for flavoring instead of lemon, if preferred, or the amount of lemon increased to taste. Senn .. Caring For Lamps. Much kerosene trouble lies in the lamp or wick rather than in th oil. If ie flame is uneven the fault is usu- ally in the #rimming; or the burner may he coated with carbon scales which crumble down upon the wick, _and by their pressure cut off the flow § of kerosene. Such a burner should thoroughly cleaned and boiled, then and brushed clean of lint. ay {ed for a s flame. Blow across the that is inefficient, blow against the hand held near the top. It may save a cracked chimney. The chimney of a lamp should never become hot at the bottom part, below the flame. ¢ yhot burner and is 8 danger signal. 'Usually one can remov: a chimney from a lighted lamp by grasping it at ing; then there is little space for gas to accumulate during the day. - It this is neglected do not fail, before lighting the lamp in the evening, to re- move the burner and agitate the wick enough to drive the accumulated gas out before lighting. This may save an explosion, For a similar reason lamps should be set away, during the day, in a moderately cool place. Where good 160-test water-white oil is used many of these precautions are unnecessary. They are recommend- ed because of the variation in oil and ite impurities. Some grades of oil, occasionally sold much more highly charged with dang- erous gases than others, Useful Hints. It is better not to serve the same meat twice a week. Three forks instead of one will beat eggs more quickly. : Cold boiled potatoes make Lyonnaise potatoes. Good pie crust cannot be made from inferior lard. Hard sauce flavored with both va- nilla and lemon is excellent. Veal, if roasted, should be basted very often to prevent its being dry. After using all the ham from the ham bone, boil the bopes with cab- bage. , Never use the same utensils indis- eriminately on a coal range and a gas cooker. Before baking apples take out the core and fill the cavity with figs or stoned dates. An up-to-date laundress finds that a mangle will do flat pieces better than they can be done by hand. An excellent covering for the kit- chen floor is made of a composition of cork and rubber, finished with wax. Use a teaspoonful of baking powder to a cupful of flour for raising pur- poses. A tiny bit of dry mustard .shaken over boiled codfish is an agreeable change. Sliced hard-boiled eggs should be used around it as a garnish, Linoleum will wear longer and look much nicer if gone over with a coat of floor varnish or linseed-oil once or twice a year. After washing and dry black cotton stockings smooth them out well with the hands, for the frequent use of a hot iron makes them fade and become brown. Paper in which butter, margarine or lard has bén wrapped should be kept and used as a lining for cake-ting, as a covering for a pudding which is to be steamed, and for wrapping up suet roly-polies before putting them into the cloth to be boiled. These papers are all ready without any more greas- ing, so there is a saving of both time and labor. : tne rates good FRONTIERS OF THE FUTURE. Governments May Revert to Ancient Practice of Border Barriers, , It is often said that if the Belgians or French could have . foreseen the power of modern artillery, they would have trenched the whole of their frontiers, in. which case the Germans would * probably never have got through at all. In times to come it is almost cer- tain that this sort of thing will be universal. There will be, say, a hun- dred-yard-wide strip of dead ground along a land frontier, and on (each side a belt of subterranean fortress, perhaps half a mile wide, : In doing this governments will be only reverting to ancient practice. When the Romans conquered England, Hadrian built a great wall to keep off the attacks of the Picts and Scots, running it all the way from the Tyne' to the Solway. ..There are the remains of a similar on, known as the Antonine » between the Forth and the ¥a's Dyke, which runs north and imilar purpose, and meant er a; st "the i If is does it indicates a)dou e bottom, HH Jol auld be filled in the morn- {eX for the best, ares goth along the whole border of |wi ales, is a great earthwork construct-.|p Lesson V. Jesus The Sav - World--John 3. 121. Text Johbn3 18 - " Vetse 5. Verily, verily--This peated A en el new world where the Spirit That the water is more than a symbol never occurred to anyone in the age of the New Testament. 6. Flesh--See the note on John 1. 14 (January 7). Paul enlarges on this antithesis more than once, as 1 Cor. 8. 1... ' 7. Ye--Emphatic--you Jews who, think the kingdom of God is yours by mere physical descent from Abraham, That even such required spiritual cleansing was the essence of John's megsage. Anew--That the word does mean again here, and not from above (as in verse 81), is sufficiently proved by Nicodemus's astonis answer in verse 4. A further proof is Peter's clear allusion to the doctrine (1 Pet, 1. 23) where he a compound verb which is unambiguous, a compound of the verb used here. 8. The Wind bloweth--As in the 0ld Testament, word Spirit re- tains its original meaning, which opens the way for a parable. (The margin The Spirit breatheth is less probable.) We may imagine a gust of wind sweep- ing up the silent street and givin the Lord his illastration, with whic! compare Eccl, 11. 5: there may well be a direct allusion, for the second part of that verse is very apposite. So is --The comparison would be more ex- actly put, "So is it with everyone who." The stirring of the Divine life is a mystery, and, like all God's ac- tions, it has infinite variety, The say- ing should be pondered by doctrinaires and bigots who think all men's spirit- ual experience must be cast in.one mold. + 9, The bewilderment is natural to one brought up in a ritual religion, in which the way of salvation was rigid and external. Such religious tend to produce "physical" men, who "receive not the things of the Spirit of God" (1 Cor 2, 14)--men in whom the spirit- ual faculty is dormant and there is no- thing higher than the intellectual, and not very much of that! 10, Israel--How great the destitu- tion of God's people, when théir very teachers could not understand the A C of spiritual knowledge! 11. We--The Lord links with him- self the prophets who spake in the name of God, just as in John 9. 4 ("We must work") he links with his humanity all other servants of God. It is not likely that he means "I and my Father," for there is no context to suggest it, and it would be a mere riddle. . We know--The word is that denotes the possession of knowledge (as in 1 John 5. 18-20 three times, not! the fourth), as distinguished from) reigns. | that which describes the getting (as John 17. 8). Ye receive not--As in verse 32--a recurrent note in this Gospel. It starts from "the Jews'" historical rejection of their Messiah, a fact that had been ever with the writer for sixty years. 12. - Earthly: things--The necessity of a new birth. Compare Heb. 6. 1. Heavenly--The mysteries of his on | Person and eternal Sonship. y 18, There were many who under- took to tell of secrets of heaven. But the enly one qualified to speak had told them far less advanced truth and they would not believe. The Son of man-- The title depends mainly on Dan. 7. 18--he speaks as the future judge (see John 5, 27). Who is in heaven-- Probably but not certainly genuine. The words remind us that heaven is wherever God's will is perfectly done: he came therefore "trailing clouds of glory" that never left him. 14. Lifted up--In this Gospel the verb always has a note of "exaltation" about it. It is the verb which Paul before it. It was not so easy in those days as in ours to see that the su reme splendor of Jesus was not in the dazzling glory of the Resurrection, but in the night of Calvary: his glory was in his shame! The serpent-- Num. 21. 9. The "fiery serpent brass" was an image of the instrument of God's punishment: its use was a concession to the universally prevalent idea that a cure may be found in some- thing Delon ng to the cause of the mischief. the bolism it is significant that the Son of man thus "exalted," for that is his title as Judge. In both cases, Hherefore; God's udgment becomes mercy w! men receive it in faith on God's terms. 15, Eternal life, im this G , i8 not future, but present (see John 3). "The ve souncies there is no end at all | our own men by combating In this war it has been realized t is as important sease 88 it is to kill the enemy troops. That ogists, 'is what the great bacteriol y chemists, and hygiene experts are do- ing in the Millbank laboratories. Their business is to kill microbes, to supply our soldiers. with protection against the diabolical contrivances of the enemy, to secure the best possible sanitation at the Front and in camps at home, and ensure that the sol- diers shall have pure water to drink and wholesome food to eat. re By their efforts the health of the Army has been preserved in a way that is little short of marvellous, and it is no exaggeration to say that hun- dreds of the Jives of our gallant lads have beén saved, says London An- syers. ~ A few facts will make this point clear, In the Boer War only 6,425 men. were killed in battle and died of wounds; no fewer than 11,327 died of disease. There were 42,741 cases of typhoid, and about one-fifth of these died. In the present war typhoid fever scarcely exists, * How Is It Done? Take another British case. Of the 97,864 men who took part in the Crimean War, 4,613 died of cholera alone; in the present war, among the millions of our troops, not a tenth part of that number have died of dis- ease. In almost every previous war,: disease killed far more than all the instruments of battle. In the present campaign, if we exclude the Dardan- elles expedition, the death-rate from disease has not been much more than at home, These really wonderful re- sults are due principally to the scien-| tists working in our home labora-! tories. To the layman visiting these mys- terious places there is really little sign of the immense and vital part they are playing in the great con- flict. Here is a little glass tube measur- ing about four inches long and half an inch in diameter. It contains a small quantity of cloudy, jelly-like sub- stance, which does not seem capable' of doing much to win the war. Yet i to save the lives of t Lainie have picked out some more important causes of the cost of motoring which can be over-| is car at his|1 come by each individual, The motorist who has h door 'practically all of the time and who jumps in and uses, it to run one hundred yards down the street or on quarter or half-mile trips to execute little household errands or deliver mes- | sages must realize that such driving can produce nothing but waste and high average cost of depreciation. With gasolene soaring as it has late- ly it behooves every driver to cut out short trips. It is said that the big- gest expense in running a train is the | starting and stopping. The same is true of an automobile, and the larger the car the more expensive it is to start and stop it. : ' It is on the long journeys that the motor car scores. It scores over the bicycle and all other forms of locomo- tion in speed and in avoidance of fati- gue over long distances. Again, economy can be effected by | an amendment of driving methods. Tire economy is secured by moderate driving, by careful starting and stop- ping and by close scrutiny of the road. Drivers who are in the habit of speed- ing up between street intersections and slowing down abruptly at the street crossings are abusing their tires. y ) A maximum of twenty-five miles an hour, when such speed is permissible, is judicious driving. Perfect control of every adverse circumstance without injury to pasengers, tires or mechan- patient, as they may be carrying the germs although quite well themselves. If anyone who may afterwards come in contact with a soldier is found, he is brought to the laboratory, put into a room filled with an antiseptic va- por, and kept there for twenty min- utes. After a few treatments of this kind the germs are all destroyed, and the carrier is no longer a danger to those with whom he mingles, Not only is the spread of this dis- ease, which has a special affinity for soldiers, prevented by the measures 'ation given by one of the Army bac- covers the whole of | teriologists may be interesting. Take forehead downwar 'tains the descendants of germs which fluid." uses in Phil. 2.-9, with a "super--"| of | tains 500,000,000 dead microbes; the i8| of destroying the typhoid germs which phoid and paratyphoid fevers | end; in this very nature of the.de-| the contents of this little tube can s save the lives of mote men than the Qescribed, Duy 2 Tey seruil fs. ping produc of Germany greaiest nition iy from over ity ver souk. to Jess ] » ; an y per cent. in all cases, an: i bveria > as low as nine per cent. when they can ' be treated within the first couple of | jection of a trifle of it under the skin of a soldier renders him practically Combating the effects of gas poison- proof against these deadly diseases. |; and tear shells is another function Value of Inoculation. | well accomplished at Millbank, There { | they have devised a mask which will This and other vaccines are so com- ¢nable our soldiers to defy all the in- paratively new that the short explan-| ventiveness of the' Germans, The mask e face from the , and to it.is =at- tacle whieh the typhoid vaccine as - an example. tached a. box- lous protective e I "This tube," said the scientist, "con- contains _ marve| were collected eighteen years ago. A culture was made from these, and every few weeks since then a tiny por-|. tion has been transplapted into new Ho tubes, which are placed. in incubators, |: The old tubes are thrown away, for the microbes in them lose their vigor; in a short time. 'In a few days .the new cultures are sufficiently numer- ous for use. _ | medicine is equally good. fc "They are then heated to a temper-| plaints. = He ature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit, for masures, and unless he feels the ef - seventy minutes, in order to kill the fect of second dose of the medi- microbes. A little lysol is added. Then cine, s faith in it and gives the contents of the tube are diluted 80 up . He prefers purgatives: as to get the proper strength in- and em , but even in them the In- jection. The first dose injected con-. dian is wont to discriminate, and he INDIANS AND MEDICINE. the Women Give Castor Oil to Their Children. , ' The Indian, says the Rev, J. Hines in his book, "The Red Indians of the N Plains," medicine." fo Very often mothers would send to the Mission for castor oil for their infants and then come the next day second dose contains, 1,000,000,000. . "What will these do to save the life of the soldier? ey will produce in his blood mysterious substances call- ed antibodies. These ha je power "not operated, and that the child ed wa- done nothing but cry ever since 'million. the medicine. Then my wife oul ASP Les he may swallow in contaminated wa- ter or Some nine or ten been sent out, and thus we have pre-' he erved the soldiers from their The 2 young brothers or sisters; Th, 'has the idea that any kind of {flue or all com- | ces: believes in drastic}: thinks castor oll is especially "good ! f and complain that the medicine had |ts | tions will make ninety miles an hour but the suitability of the car for ordi purpases is another question. In fact, it might be absolutely worth- less for touring or normal city driv- ing, and still it would m ninety miles an hour, It is no real trick to conditions. For instance, if the driv-: ing surroundings are just right a car might roll off twenty miles to the gal- lon ofg asolene on one occasion, and that same car would have less than a' twelve mile average for downtown work or for average country roads. My advice to the buying public is this:--8See what the car will do in all conditions before you buy. Make the de- monstrater take you over rough roads, climb hills, drive through "crow: traffic, speed it up on a level highw and then compare its performance under those conditions with that of competitive cars. Finally, buy the one which shows up the bést. That{, is the way to tell the efficiency of a car. THE ARGENTINE SYSTEM. Military Training in the South American Republic. The Argentine system m: able-bodied man a soldier from age of 18 to 4b years. The training of boys begins in the public schools at 12. At 16 they begin a course in marksmanship, and at-18 all men must register for ser- vice. At 20 the War Department se- lects by lot those who have reached' that age for active service, for one year in the army or two years in the navy. After this serviee the sol- dier remains a regular, but retires to civil life.: He must practice shoot- ing, having a minimum of practice each year, and he is also liable to be. called upon to attend manoeuvres. At 30 he pa into the National Guard, where he ceases to be under | orders of or at the expense of the Government. He belongs then to the 'State, and cannot be recalled to active gervice until all the men be- tween -20 and 80 have been called. 'only'. tions from this + plan are for. and physical | de- fects, or economic necessities, such as the support of widowed 'mgthers Samet fy or. who, are exempted, however, must, a small exemption tax. Ae The system is being 'severely at- tacked in Arg on .Accoun the alleged favoritism in making the conscription. It is charged in- y can be u service. - ~~ Salving the Wastage. Heaton Park Hospital at Manches- ter, England, is now dev to treat- ing disabled and 'convalescent sol- diers, One of the novel methods of 7 , debility to get a big gasolene mileage in certain = ¥ ~~