Seasonable Recipes. Cherries.--Canned with a thin syrup with the stones, or preserv- in a thick syrup if pitted, are two ways of putting' up cherries. 'Canned cherries are ~undoubtédly 'best if steam cooked, but a good deal depends upon the cherry, which is best if put up shortly after: it leaves the tree. It is quite com- monly believed that the flavor of the seed gives a richness to the pre- served cherry that it needs, and various ways are used to secure this flavor, even when the cherry is pit- ted ne way is to wash and re- move the stems of the cherries, then 'put them in an earthenware baking dish in the oven till hot. This is - the method used to get the flavor of the seeds when they are to be re- moved and the cherries used 'for making pies or tarts. When pre- pared this way for the later ser- vice no water is needed other than the juice, some of which is pressed out in seeding them. Syrups.--There are three grades of syrup properly, but many varia- tions from these--the light, the medium, the heavy. The light eyr- up is for canning, and when the steam method is used, it may be thinner than when the fruit is sim- ply cooked in the cans. For the eavier fruits four cups of water to two cups of sugar, cooked to syrup stage and cooled before it is pour- ed over the uncooked fruit packed in the cans, is one which will keep erfectly if the cans are well ster- ri People "who usé one syrup for all fruits generally use a small- er number of cups of water than sugar, four cups of water to six of Bugar sometimes, and have the wa- ter boiling. The less sugar there is In summer preserves the better they will be relished. A heavy syrup has four parts of sugar to one of water. Jars should be thoroughly steril- ized by boiling for at least fifteen minutes before the fruit is packed in them, even if it is to be cooked in the jars. The sterilization must jbe unquestionably thorough "4 fruit lis to keep for any length of time. eat is the sterilizer, and it must applied in sufficient amounts and at the beginning of the process of canning." It. will usually require less heat to sterilize fruit uit than it ; five minutes of boiling, and jars need much more than this. A washboiler with a false bottom, a towel, or even paper over that, then the glasses filled with cold wa- ter, set in and surrounded with cold water to their --_ brought slowly to a boil, and for fif- teen minutes, these are the require- ments. But boiler, glasses, eto., should be as clean as possible ts start with, and it is anything but desirable to put a dish cloth on the false bottom of the boiler, as some women have been known to do. It may contain germs that it would take an hour of boiling to kill. A circumstance like this may be the explanation of spoiled pre- serves, The length of time to cook de- pends upon the kind and ripeness of the fruit. If a fruit stews up quickly. about the same time as it requires to cook in the open pan should be given to it when in the jars. Gooseberries require but five minutes, while cherries not stoned might well be given twenty minutes. Jelly Bases.--Before the apple comes rhubarb juice may be used with strawberries, peache:. and other fruits for jellies. The spring rhubarb makes the best jellies, but it may be used well into the sum- mer if one learns how to cook it. The thing to'keep in mind is that the juice is rather mucilaginous, so that when it appears thick it may not be sufficiently cooked so that it will jelly. A few drops of lemon 'juice will help it to jelly. Currant and Rasphersy Jelly. -- There is considerable difference of opinion as to what-is the best way to extract the juice from the cur- rant. A good jelly may be made by covering them, in the cluster, with cold water and cooking. Or a few of the currants are pressed and broken in the bottom of the kettle and the others put in whole. Ice Cream Recipes. Orange Mousse.--Take one and one half cupfuls of the juice of sweet oranges and one fourth of a eupful of lemon juice. Mix with two cupfuls of sugar. Whip one pint of heavy cream until it is firm. Add the fruit juice and the sugar, and one cupful of English walnut meats that have been chopped fine, Fill a mould and pack it-in ice and salt. Leave it for four hours. Chocolate Ice Cream with {in- namou Sauce. -- Those who have never combined the flavors of cin- namon and chocolate have a treat in store. Make a syrup of one pint of. granulated sugar and one half cupful of water. When all the su- gar is dissolved, boil the syrup gently for perhaps a rear then add, one-fourth teaspoonful-of cin- ; és wiped. over with & 'elekit cloth namon extract. Barve the cold with chocolate ice cream. et ae together an ai Maly half-cupful of sugar and on cupfal of cold yaaek until it neers ly strings from the spoon. Beat fs eggs thoroughly, add the boil- ing sugar slowly, beating all the while (about twenty minutes). Mix one-half pint of cream," and one stiff, Mix all the ingredients to- gether, and one teaspoonful! of van- dered fine, Put the mixture in a mould, and pack it in ice and salt for six hours or lon Sugared Ice Cream.--Make cara- mel sugar by placing granulated sugar in an aluminum pan over @ slow fire. When the sugar is liquid and a golden brown, remove from the fire and cool. Roll or pound the sugar to a powder. When serv- ing plain vanilla ice cream, powder with the prepared sugar the inside of the' cooled glass in which the individual service is to be placed; fill the glass with ice cream, an powder with the sugar. If desired, blanched almonds may be added to the sugar just before removing from the fire Frozen Cherry Custard.--Scald one pint of milk in a double boiler. Beat the yolks of six eggs, add one cupful of sugar, and continue beat- ing. until smooth. Stir the eggs and sugar slowly into the hot milk, and continue cooking until the mix- ture thickens sufficiently to coat the spoon. emove at once from the fire. Add one pint of cream and one tablespoonful of vanilla, and contigpe stirring until partly cool. Wheh cold, begin to freeze, and sin the mixture is half frozen add one cupful of candied cherries cut into small pieces, and finish freezing. Household Hints. Cherries or strawberries com- bined with bits of pineapple is a new combination for tarts. Turpentine has the same whiten- ing, cleansing effect that kerosene has on a boilerful of clothes. Whitening dissolved in warm wa- ter will easily clean white enamel furniture and help to keep it a good color. A biscuit top over Siesherrion peaches, apples or strawberries, the whole steamed and served with hard sauce makes a delicious pud- ding. The best foods to choose for cook- ing in the fireless cooker are those which take a oe while to pre- ups, pod roasts, beans, peatner wrung out of warm, soapy water, and when dry rubbed over with white of egg. Tapestry-covered chairs can be cleanéd by means of a mixture dry bran and calcined magnesia. It should be rubbed in and left some time before being brushed away. Save all the Jemon hulls, drop them into the vessel in which you boil your tea towels, and it will whiten them wonderfully, and there will be a clean freshness about them that is very desirable. Sew the skirt binding on the hem of your skirt before you press it. Pressing the goods flattens it, and it becomes difficult to tell the braid on a thin fabric without stitching through. If half a bottle of olives has been used and you wish to keep the rest, add a pinch of salt to the brine, pour a teaspoonful of olive oil into the liquid and replace the cork. To dampen sheer muslin waists of infants' dresses in a hurry, dip a cloth in water, wring thoroughly, and roll tightly. In 15 or 20 min- uptes it will be ready to iron. To clean willow furniture or straw matting scrub each piece well with a coarse brush and water that is strongly saturated with salt, then dry with a soft cloth. The salt not only. cleans but prevents the straw from turning yeliew. Wise is the woman who prepares simple syrups of fresh fruits in their season and stores them away for future use; for she realizes that with these same syrups as a basis a great variety of healthful summer drinks can be easily and quickly' prepared. Fats, our most highly concentrat- ed foods, come in cheese, cream, butter, meats, corn, beans and oils. The most valuable pure fats are olive oil and nut oils; starved nerves, thin blood, and wasted flesh thrive upon them, thev are purifying and healing, and in sum- mer salads afford an ideal wav of obtaining them. a Bélieve In Yourself. If you consider yourself a worm of the dust you must expect people to trample on you. If you make a doormat of yourself people are.sure to wipe their feet on you. More men fail through ignorance of their strength than through knowledge of their weakness. You may su when others do not believe in you, hut never when you do not believe in yourself. The curiosity of him who wishes to see ser for himself how the dark: side of life looks is like that of the man who took a torch into a powder mill to see whether it srould really blow up or not.--Dr. Marden. cupful ot milk, and whip the mass| illa and.ten dry. maccaroons, pow- ; place the piece to be ironed on it|, % a $s a i a4 , 9 pes "i ao.) + * S| ai ey are) $ 3 ne ie saat iene ae 8! A Thre Times Derhy Winner. This picture of Lord ebery, who is with the Hon. T. Agar- rtes, was taken on~ Downs, England, last week. Lord Rosebery appropriately enopgh is entitled to call himself Baron Ep- som of Epsom. He has the Derby three times--with Ladas in 1894, Sir Visto in 1895, Cicero in 1905. Lord Rosebery has been w gan vering nicely from his indisposition. TO DISPLAY EGYPTIAN FINDS. Recent Discoveries Will H ed in London. © The London Society os ies will soon hold at House an interesting exhi the papyrean and other fF discovered by the Egypt | tion Fund at Antinoe, chus, and other sites of ange lization on the upper reachigs o ae hundreds of miles outh of That human nature has got ita ed much is shown by an der for an inquest on'a slave w off the roof of a house + ety to secure a good Pictur- Beane ition of zments plora- rhyn with a local pawnbroker, and a curious indictment by a wife of a pes -grained husband who refused to give her the household keys and bolted the door when she had gone out to church. The preparations common in mod- ern villages on the occasion of the visit of a member of Parliament have an interesting Prototype in a letter ordering certain civic officials to have everything ready for the visit of a Roman Senator, including the bun which he was to throw to the sacred crocodiles. These vivid historical snapshots seem to bring e dead past of Graeco-Roman Egypt very near. Mr. Waylayem (suggestively): "Can't you ee a Boos, opel man b anyth the |. THE CHRISTIAN'S CHRIST =: Exceedingly Interesting to Read What Prominent Men of History Thought of Jesus the greatest question a than ever has flung at him, and 'to pult it aside with either carelessness Oy irrever- ence is the token of-a shal] i mind. I wonder if in this. day of com- mercialism's supremacy Jin the realm of action and the inordinate preponderance of physical science in the realm of thought wp are giv- ing due thought to the spifitual ele- ment in our interpretatign of life. If we are not, certainly An honest and serious effort to formfa just ap- preciation of Jesus Chris} and the place which He has acquired in both civics and philantHropy, as well as in commerce andgethics, is well worth while. It is no easy thing to frm a just appreciation of Jesus. None of us| ever saw Him in the flesh. "What: think ye of i ae is us have ev visi f | even visited the land here effulgent reflection of a sublimity He was born or mingled people and customs. We pendent on others for Hisjlife story, and what we think of the life which He lived, of His teachings about God and life and duty, of His claims and His deeds--oyr opinion of all such things must pe formed at second-hand. Historic Reality of Jesus. Both Josephus, the J@wish his- torian, and the Jewish Balmud re- cognize Jesus' historic rdality, and the latter accounts for His mira- cles by the exercise of magic learn-! ed in Egypt, while Tacitub, the Lat-} in historian, and Pliny the Young- | er incidentally testify tofHis death | under Pontius Pilate, an@ His wor- | ship by the Christians a God. Gel- sus, in the second century, the first heathen philosopher [to write against Christianity, mhkes some eighty quotations fromjthe New Testament or allusions, to ia narrated in it, and so confirms existence of the four gospels at that early date. The historical features of the life of Jesus. in other words, | are authentic, and as reliable as the. data connected with any other historical character, whatever be your views on New Testament in- spiration. Here and there among the great thinkers of history. have been those who have called Jesus a fanatic or an imposter." But most of the great men of the race have given Him a place of unequaled ~ supremacy. j aon SF j Spinoza, the greatest Jewish philo- sopher of history, declared 'Christ was the temple "of God, because in Him God has most fully revealed Himself." Diderot one day aston- ished the group of infidel French philosophers to which he belonged by declaring, "I defy you all to prepare a tale so simple and at the same time so sublime and so touch- ing as the tale of the passion and death of Jesus Christ.'? And let us not forget it was Rousseau who said: "If the' hfe and death of So- crates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God." Napoleon said, "Every- thing in Him astonishes me... . Between Him and whatever else in. the world there is no possible term of comparison," and Goethe: | 'I consider the gospels to be thor- ; oughly genuine, for in them is the which emanated from the person of Christ ; and this is as divine as ever the divine appeared on earth." Re- nan declared, "Whatever may be the surprises of the future, Jesus will never be surpassed." Miracles of Grace. But the great test of Jesus is that which each man can make in tho laboratory of his own life. Receive Him at His claims and try Him out in your own experience. His abil- ity to transform a blatant coward , into a brave Christian leader, to | change a narrow-minded fanatic into a brother of humanity,-to make a ministering saint of a woman of the streets, is not confined to the days of His flesh. of grace are being wrought. in every land on earth to-day. You can try Christ out for your- jself. Give up your sinful life, take | His as your loving Saviour and Lord, and try to relive His life € | among men. You will find Him sufficient for all your needs and as ! good as His word. You will soon be saying, as did even the brilliant Unitarian, William Ellery Chan- ning: "The more I know of Jesus the less I can spare Him, and the place which He fills in my heart, the quickening office which His charac- ter performs, is to me no mean proof of His reality and His super- human greatness. The grand mira- cle is ee perfect divine character of Chri -- Rev. Joseph A. Vance. - { is the only time of which we have These miracles 1t. THESIADAY SCHOOL LESSON -- " Lesson Ii. Blind Bartimaeus. Mark 10. 46-52, -- Text Isa. 35. 5: Vafas 46,. Jericho--At ithe time of Christ," a walled city, through which ran a Roman Inilitary road, and the city in which Herod re- sided. It was situated about eigh- teen miles from Jerusalem and se- ven miles from the Jordan River. He went out from Jericho--This any record that Jesus tarried in Jericho, though he must have pass- ed through it many times in going from Galilee to Jerusalem. On this, Hhis last journey, the stages are more definitely marked and the cities through which he passed men- tion Preceding lessons tell of his entering Jericho, of his dining at the house of Zacchaeus, a chief publican, of his passing through e city, meeting the rich young man, giving the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, and re- -plying.to the inconsiderate demand of James and John for the first places in his kingdom, with his teaching of greatness through ser- vice. Now, on his way: out of the city, he sees a despised blind beg- gar by the wayside, and discontin- ues his discourse to teach by exam- ple a lesson of brotherliness and helpfulness. ' A great multitude -- Better, considerable crowd."' The son of Timaeus@Bartimaeus-- It would seem from the mention of the father's name first that he was known to the Christians for whom Mark wro Sitting by the way side--A blind beggar would expect to receive alms from the pilgrims going to Jerusa- lem for the passover. a Jesus the Nazarene -- Bartimaeus, he may have inquired the cause. He had no doubt heard of Jesus be- fore as the prophet of Nazareth, bring his request to Jesus. expected, as the' prophets 1 had fore- ebuiked him--They did Bey. ae A bees Jesus troubled by 3 'shouts of a blind' beggar. He cried out the moré a great deal--Not being able to see Jesus, or to tell where he was in the crowd, the blind man felt that his opportunity was passing, and his cry or one of desperation. 49. Jesus stood still--He could not let the piteous appeal pass un- heeded. .60. Casting away his garment-- His outer rdbe, which was long and loose and would intpede his motions in running or rapid walking. This act shows how earnest and eager Bartimaeus was 51. What wilt thou that I should do unto thee 7--That is, "What you wish me to do for' you?' three evangelists record friendly question of Jesus. Rabboni--An Aramaic word for Master or Lord, apparently a more dignified title than rabbi. It was used by Mary Magdalene when she recognized her risen Lord (John 20. 16). 52. Hath made thee whole--Or, "saved thee.' And straightway 'he received his sight, and followed him in the way-- Jesus had said, "Go thy way." He had not suggested Bartimaeus's fol- lowing him, but Bartimeaus no doubt wanted to remain near the Master, and he joined the oe sig of pilgrims who were going Jerusalem, and Luke adds, "lore fying God.' ----------$k___. OUR MINDS AND HEALTH. All this Power of Suggestion of Great Help in Curing Sick. The power of suggestion in help- ing sick men to recover their health has played its part in folk-medicine at least since the beginning of his- tory, according to Dr. Abram Lip- sky. Even the Assyrians practised 'Scientific psychotherapy has un- doubtedly taken this hint of rein- forcing verbal suggestion with a tri- vial action from popular practice. The device is perhaps best known in popular medicine as applied to the cure of warts. You strike the wart downwards three times with' the knot of a reed as you make your auto- -suggestion, or you rub it seven times with the third finger] 0° of the left hand in the direction in which the sun moves; or you wet your forefinger with saliva and stroke the wart in'the direction of a passing funeral; or you. touch each wart with a pebble, place the ebbles in a bag and lose them-- the finder getting the warts; or you tie as many knots-~in a hair as you have warts and throw the hair away; or you steal a piece of bacon, 47. When he heard that it was though blind, knew that an unusual number of people were passing, and and the hope of receiving help for himself, as he had heard of others having 'received it, arouses him to put forth the greatest effort to - Son of David--A_ popular name for the Messiah, whom the people The Inquisitive "Crow. ed hy Moskioz was he man wha lov- chemistry. Ad 1 that other pene nee 'about, he branched out and started e3 = ments of his own, After a year oF labor he' finally perfected a- liquid : which he called 'Elixir of Energy." He was'so. » with 'his 8 lazy servants that every mori ROE would march them. into his labora- tory. and give each a tablespoonful of the elixir. Then they would be seized with an irrésistible. impulse to labor at their daily tasks. After taking this, they would immediate- ly a to work and-never stop all There was a crow that sat outside the laboratory window several mornings, and saw Mr. Moskioz ladling out this elixir. "T wonder what that is?' it thought. Finally, one morning Mr. Mos- kioz left the window open. The crow stuck his head in and drank and immediately felt the desire to work. He looked around the la- boratory, but could see nothing to do. So he flew on, into the kitchen. There he brushed up against a pep- per pot, knocking, it over into the ate The cook' after scolding, picked it out andichased the crow. e inquisitive crow was very frightened and flew back into, the laboratory. There he saw a bow] which looked empty, and hid in it. But it was filled with an invisible 'Elixir of Laziness." The -- breathed in some of the elixir, an then tried to get out of the bowl. He struggled but was overcome. When the-cook came into the labor- atory, he found the poor old crow and killed him. All this was due to the crow's inquisitiveness. The Wrong Button. 'Dear me,"' said little Janet, "J buttoned just one button wrong, and now that makes all the rest go wrong," and she tugged and fret- ted as if the button was at fault for her trouble. "Patience, pa- tience, my dear," said mamma, coming to the rescue. "The next time look out for the first. wrong button, then you will keep all the rest right.'"' And added mamma, © "Took out for the n " ruck baby Alice. That v 'first wrong deed. "Then she deni ¢ having done it. That was another." Then she was unhappy and cross al] day because she had told a lie. What a long list of buttons fasten- ed wrong just because one. was wrong. --_--_--_--kr_____. Suspicious Mamma--Ethel, what detained you at the door just+ now when Mr. Spooner -went away Ethel (smoothing her rumpled hair) --Nothing to speak of, mamma. rub the wart. and slip the bacon under the bark of an ash tree, thus do | Causing the warts to disappear from your hand and appear on the bark; er you get another, by hook or crook, to count your warts, when they will pass over to him "Let it not be supposed that the foregoing remedies are merely pre- scriptions, but not cures. Innum- erable experiments have been made with them by persons who sincerely believed in their efficacy, and the evidence of their success is as abun- dant as that of the success of more academic methods--and those enu- merated do not begin' to exhaust the list--shows that the particular differences between them are of 'no consequence, but that any device based on the faith of the patient: 4 may be employed to utilize the con-- trol which the mind; under certain circumstances, may exercise over the so-called vegetative Processes of the human system. "That the most powerl® 2, sugges tion may fail of its object is, of course, perfectly well known. case is reported of a German pea- sant, unpleasantly endowed with two many warts, who on his head in & newly-made grave. Toa superstitious yokel this was an ex- tremely powerful suggestion, but the warts remain "The strange, the mysterious and the weird have great suggestive po- tency, and hence drugs culled at unearthly hours, come "unusual conjunction of th ets, on St. vine s Eve or St. Ag- nes' Eve, shave unusual curative properties."' Dr. Lipsky says that the practice of medicine even to-day is. an art based largely upon the empirical tales learned from the experience the common people. Scientific icine, he says, has in the past adopted into its pharmacopoeia @ great many of the "simples" cher- ished by the common' people, but has discarded their innnumerable hints as to the value of psychothera. ° py, and is now beginning to turn" to this neglected wi make use of spiritual "simples,"" and to | learn what curative powers reside in the soul:--Popular Science. 23