ey * Corn.--S' 'er husks leaving the thin silky envel- and sugar is for cake. _beans are used, add half a teas - €rom tne white make a hole in both _ yolk unbroken in the shell. * ~ About the . Household Good Corn Recipes. Boiled trip off coarser out- ope next the ear on the stalk. Pull this down and pick off the silk from between the grains, adjust the inner husks in their place, tie together at the top and drop the ears in plenty of 'boiling salted water. Boil half an hour and leave in hot water until ready to serve. Cut stalks off with the husks close to the bottom of the ears and send to table wrapped about with a napkin on a fit dish. Green Corn Fritters.--Grate or shave off with a keen blade the grains from 6 ears of corn. Have ready eggs beaten light, a cup of milk added pearance of it. To prevent this try brushing the crust over with the white of an egg, and you will never be troubled in this way. from the garden. Peach Ice Cream.--Soak two cup- fuls of sliced peaches for about one hour and put through colander. Add to one quart of cream which has been 2| scalded and cooled. Freeze. ah. to these with a tablespoonful of sugar and same quantity of butter warmed | and rubbed into a heaping tablespoon- | ful of prepared flour. Season with | salt and pepper; beat hard and fry as | you would griddle cakes. Chopped Potatoes and Corn.--When cold boiled potatoes and several ears of boiled corn are left in the icebox, chop the one into coarse dice and cut the other from the cob. Heatin a frying pan a good spoonful of clari- fied dripping, sweet and good, and stir into this the potatoes and corn, soning with salt and pepper. Turn and turn until thoroughly heated and serve. This makes a nice breakfast relish. Or heat a cup of milk, stir in a good spoonful of butter, then mix in potatoes and corn; season, simmer five minutes, and serve. Green Corn Pudding.--Six ears of green corn, full grown but tender, 2 cups of milk, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 tablespoonful sugar. Salt and pepper to taste. Cream butte " Beat into the eggs when whipped light, add milk and the grated 'corn (or shaved). Sea- son, beat thoroughly and bake cover- ed in a buttered casserole or pudding dish 40 minutes; then uncover an brown. Serve at once in the same dish. Succotash.--Six ears of corn, 1 cup shelled lima or string beans carefully trimmed into inch lengths, % cup pepper. and add to the beans when they have cooked half an hour in boiling water slightly salted. Boil thirty minutes longer, turn off the water and pour In the milk. (It is safer in warm weather to add a tiny pinch of bread soda). As the milk heats, stir in the floured butter, season, and simmer f canned corn and ed corn while only a poor substitute for the fresh ear may be very appetizing \f chopped fine after the corn has been emptied from the can and allowed to stand for several hours before using. Drain dry and mince, then proceed as with the fresh grains. Corn Soup.--Cook six ears of corn in cold water twenty minutes. Cut off the cob and press through a sieve. Add two cups of scalded milk. Cook two tablespoons of chopped onion in three tablespoons of butter, add three tablespoons flour, one and a half salt, celery salt and cayenne, corn mixture, cook five minutes, strain, add one cup of beaten cream and serve. Garnish with one cup pop- ped corn. Things Worth Knowing. To skin sausages quickly and eas- fly immerse them for a second or two in cold water. Make starch with soapy water, add- ing a pinch of borax. A very hot iron should never be used for flannels or woollens. Soap should be substituted for soda when washing silver and plated goods. New brick floors should be washed with soda water, and when dry rub- bed with parafin. Don't black a stove while it is hot. It takes more blacklead, and a much longer time to polish. . When boiling potatoes do not add salt till they are nearly cooked. This makes them dry and floury. Borax for washing plates and dishes is to be preferred to soda, as it does not crack the skin of the ands. The fact that an article is advertis- ed in a respectable newspaper should prove it worth buying by somebody. Should any foreign matter alight in the eye immediately apply one or two drops of castor oil; it will almost at once allay the irritation. Grass stains will disappear if coal oil is poured on them, then rub with the hands and wash same as you al- ways do. Lard rubbed in well before goods are wet will remove axle grease or machine grease. Jo separate the yolk of an egg eads of the egg. Then hold it up- right, giving it a gentle shake, and the white will run out, leaving the If when sending or taking a hat by train it is secured to the bottom 4 the box by a few strong stitches o thread the most delicate hat will not be crushed, as no matter how the box is turned about the hat will not move, It is always wise to boil a new clothesline before using it, as this not only prevents it from -stretching but makes it last much longer. New pegs should be soaked in cold water for a few hours, as this keeps them yom splitting. : Very often when making a pie the | 3,000,000 soldiers. BRITAIN AND THE WAR. She Will Stand By Her Allies to the Last. A year has passed since Britain entered the great war, and it is in order to sum up what she has accom- plished. Because of the lack of spectacular results; many are disposed to censure and criticize Britain's part in the They say that the commensurate with her possibilities or with what her allies had a right to expect. The wonder with me is that she has done so much as she has. She has accomplished marvels. France, Russia and Italy, cradled in conscription, forget that England is not a military nation. She could not at a moment's notice fling organized legions of millions into the fray, like her military neighbors. In the outset she promised France six divisions only, or 120,000 men. She has more than quadrupled that number since. But her conversion into a battling organization could not be done in a few months. She has now raised the most colossal army in all history, compared with which Na- poleon's legions were but corporal's guards. Lord Kitchener has recruit- ed and placed in training, without conscription, since the war broke out, They are all, ex- cepting the 600,000 at the front, hard 'at work in the transformation pro- cess, from citizen to soldier, at' the training camps, polishing the native fighting qualities into perfect military efficiency. England allows no man to go to the front, to be exposed to slaughter, who has not had at least nine months of gruelling drill. After this. drill the Engli i eff idlenc > is equal to ; oO Ge vi inl soldiers. ' It is solely in point'of equipment that Britain's hosts are lacking, but this has been remedied, and the great drive will soon take place. When the war began Englnad had less than half a million rifles, while Germany had over 20 million, or four to each sol- dier. It takes time to manufacture rifles by the millions, and her army now in training have had to carry wooden dummy rifles, weighted to equal the real thing. Germany had in the start a full equipment of 17-inch guns, with abundance of ammunition for them, while England had neither the guns to match them nor the explosives for them. She has had to make both. In short, so far, England has been get- ting a good ready, if the expression will be allowed. the navy, but without very deep thought. They demand that Admiral Jellicoe smash up the Kaiser's high canal armada, reduce his ports to ashes, and hang Von Tirpitz to the yard arm. All this is mere rot and the ravings of Chauvinistic enthusi- asts. If we take a careful inventory of what the British navy has done in driving the German flag rom the oceans, and in converting Hamburg and Bremen into something as useless as if they were in ruins, annihilatiing Germany's two and a half billion dol- Jar annual trade, and paralyzing her imports of about the same amount, so that her supplies are constantly growing perilously short, we can get some notion of what the navy has ac- complished. Germany is not as yet effectually starved, but if her food regulations and restrictions mean anything they indicate a distressing scarcity, to say the least. When a nation has to regu- late the alimentation of her civil population, and order the copper in coking utensils to be turned over to the military, it surely indicates that the end is nigh at hand. Not a pig can be slaughtered, or a loaf of bread baked, or a potato sold, or a bushel of wheat milied, without the consent of the military in Ger- many to-day, shows that the British navy is on the job all right, and great results may soon be expected. These are not spectacular nor pyrotechnical pictures to be cast upon the screens. They would not likely earn a peerage for Jellicoe or his admirals, but they are nevertheless sapping German vi- tality just the same, and they show the fron grip of Britain's navy. What would the position of France and her beloved Paris be in to-day were the British navy not holding the seas? When the Dardanelles are forced, as they will be soon, Russia will experi- ence the great aid of the British navy, as France has already benefitted by it. She will then be able to export her surplus production and secure the necessary arms and ammunition, of which she is so sorely in need. And juice from the fruit soaks through the when Kitchener is ready to send his > A undercrust and spoils the whole ap- nglish soldier has no Some complain of the inactivity of, last, a This grand old p applying a maternal strength moral splendor that for countless ages after this conflict is stilled will be shining undimmed amid the first glories of history. CHAS. M. BICE. © Denver, Colo. a. A "MAD" FOX. Some Animals Are Either Demented or Inherently Vicious. It is a theory of criminologists that certain human beings are without the brain power or self-con- trol of the normal man, and that such persons, under favoring circum- stances, become habitual criminals. It is possible that similar cases occur among animals; at least there are times when we can account for the extraordinary behavior of animals only on the theo that they are either demented or inherently vi+ cious, Thirty years ago, when I was @ boy, writes a friend of The Youth's Companion, the neighborhood was stirred by the doings of a "mad" fox He ranged in the Briesacher woods, and never was heard of anywhere else. I never saw the mad fox my- self, but often heard his high, queru- lous bark in the middle of the night. A much-used path led through the Briesacher woods and on to the vil- lage. The mad fox took to following people as they traversed this path, trotting along behind them, stopping when they stopped, from the time they entered the forest until they emerged on the farther side. As time passed, the animal grew bolder, and pattered along within a few yards of a pedestrian's heels on dark nights, or perhaps took up a position in the path, which he would hold until the traveller approached very closely, when he would spring a few paces to one side, snarling. ; Some people said the fox had ra- bies, but the more sensible ones point- ed out that a rabid animal never lived more than a week or so, while thi scamp had been keeping up his pranks for several months. Louis Briesacher, ais recovered | distinguished uis brought the handle of his revol- own "full force on the fox's 'and it fell stunned. Louis de- that he finished his antagonist then and there, and left it lying dead in the path. "The next day Louis showed us his the bites and scratches in proof of his His trousers were badly torn, and some of the teeth wounds in the flesh were as deep and ragged as if Bri-ia@ wolf had made. them. However, yer heard or seen again. y * m mm |THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPTEMBER 12. Coa Lesson XI.--Elijah's Flight and Re- turn, I Kings 19. Golden Text: Psa. 46. 10. I. Elijah in the Cave on Mount Horeb (Verses. 8-12). Verse 8. In the strength of that food--Compare Moses on Sinai (Exod. 84. 28) and Jesus in the wilderness (Matt. 4. 2). No man can "live by bread alone" if he is concerned about the Lord's business. Unto Horeb the mount of God-- This mountain, above all others, was by the manifestations thereon of God's power and glory. . nto a cave--The Hebrew has "the cave." Evidently a particular cave was meant; perhaps the "cleft of the rock" in which God placed Moses (Exod. 33, 22). familiar address is used to indicate that Elijah had an opportunity to pour out his whole heart. Sometimes the mere repeating of one's woes, as the shedding of tears, brings the de- sired relief. 11. Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah--Nearness to God would open the prophet's eyes. Jehovah did not conddle with Elijah; he simply showed him some things. 12. A still small voice--Literally, "g sound of gentle stillness." A great peace had come upon Elijah. In the calm he could hear God. Il. Elijah's Discouragement (Verses 18-18). 18. He wrapped his face in his mantle--The upper garment, a sort of cloak or cape, sometimes made of un- tanned sheepskin (compare Matt. 3. The 'revelation is too intense for What doest thou here, Elijah--The | *t "For whereas I was free as to all, I might gain the more."--I. Corinth- -ians ix., 19." : . Wonderful are the innumerable and ought to be. Through a peculiar fac- ulty of its own to facilitate and adapt words and actions to time, place and the circumstance of them, the tacti- cian usually produces excellent and .| pleasing results. The achievements \l of St. Paul compare in his line with Caesar, Napoleon and other military lights famous in history for expert tactical work. Paul strove in all things to please all men, not seeking profitable things to himself but to the many, that all might be saved. His discernment in sizing up situations and acting on them with little appa- rent notice ended as intended by him. Nothing more should remain for the warrior and statesman to be desired in the artful and evolutionary manip- ulations of tact than to carry out all that was planned from the beginning. Degrees of tact differ as grades dif- fer in every department of life. Tac- ticians to the manner born rate higher than those who acquire the knowledge of it by study and labor. The former are better fitted, more opportune and quick by nature to perceive and act promptly in the adjustment of mat- ters submitted to them. A word or gesture with men in joy or sorrow ef- fectively given and accepted signifies Special Order of Tact. Again, kindliness of feeling is un- pretentious tact pure and simple. Gifted in some, tact, of course, will im- prove with study. Study as you may, labored tact is apt to be inaccurate, wanting in finesse and less courteous in its bearings. Traits characteristic of tact are chiefly based on patience and for- bearance. Without them we are liable to err. Children and foolish people exhibit a want of tact. Not wishing to attribute tact too much to genius or natural talent, we may add a seemly aid to this commendable and high class culture by caution and the care we use in the practice of it in all we say and do, and do quickly. Diplomacy is a special order of tact that ranks above other comparisons simply by the quality of its own en- I made myself the servant of all, that} in Our Affairs Require Tact Makes the Indolent Active, the Slovenly Neat and Clean in Person ~ and Appearance. 5 a durance and that of persons exercis- g it. Too observant of the phases of life admire tact as seen in our Logis 9 the kitchen and drawing acumen of the mah ©! is greatly due to tact, which must be circumspect all it assumes. To bring people to our way of think- ing in disposing of our affairs requires tact. There's nothing repellent about tact. The tactical will draw, mesmer- ize, magnetize and, if permitted, we name it as something captivating, fas- cinating, charming. Disorder is out of line with tact, because there is no unity about it. Thrift, peace, con- tentment of mind and good health may be laid to orderly tact, the door of the correct tactician. Go where you may, the tactical should be the supreme, reigning, silent, conciliating factor in conducting all our affairs, to the ex- tent that it tends to Promote and Make Life Happy. Method about one's madness surely is tact with a vengeance. Tact will pre- vent a clash at arms or argument. It averts exhibitions of temper, anger and ill will. It jeopardizes nothing, for it has nothing to lose in its varied exertions. Blarney of speech, though of Celtic origin, make and character is tact of the first order. Tact, then, is apparent to and ap- proved by all because of the nicety with which it deals in that which it undertakes. It lightens the burdens of life and anticipates emergencies at all times. There is no real selfishness about tact. With confusion there is no tact, or even the semblance of it. Our homes, shops, persons and the carriage and care of them should never be without tact. Tact is tho ecenomy of life. What the compass is to the ship tact should be to the man who sees danger ahead rising from the unexpected. Circumstance and the occasion oftentimes give evidence of opportune tact. Tact is speedy in repressing self and addresses itself at the same time to the wants of oth- ers as well as his own. There are con- venience and conventionality about tact finally that reduce turbulency to quietude. It turns war into peace. It makes us happy because it touches the right spot in the heart of every man and woman who falls under its influ- ence or comes in contact with it. -- Rev. George T. Donlin. whose father: owned the woods, had M _anyone Louis, the mad fox took an 'espet dislike to him. It followed him so closely, and with such evidence of vi- cious intent, that Louis carried a club every time he went to town. At last he bought a revolver, with the deter- mination of making an end of his an- noying escort. Louis told the story of the encoun- ter afterward. He was retu home from town about eleven o'clock. No sooner was he in the woods than the fox came after him. Louis paid little attention until it got so close that it actually snapped at his heels. He then turned and fired a shot at it, but the night was dark, and he miss- ed. The fox retreated, but in five minutes was back again, snapping and snarling more,yiciously than ever. Aiming as best he could at a mark that was never still, and could be heard rather than seen, Louis dis- charged the remaining five shots from his revolver. All the shots missed; the fox simply jumped from side' to side with the flash of the revolver. When the last spurt of flame died away, the determined little beast sprang straight at Lo and fasten- ed its teeth in his trouser'&\leg. The young man kicked fiercely; hut, kick- ed loose from one hold, he nraged animal came right back, and bit his legs severely. Finally it caught his Again same familiar address. this time there is something of re- proach in the voice. "Why are you here when there is so much to do? What has become of your insight and your power?" 14, I have been very jealous--Eli- jah naturally would try to justify himself. And of course he would re- fer to the great things he had accom- plished and the seeming futility of his efforts. 15. Go, return on thy way--He is not to escape the difficulty; he is not to have new fields in which to work. The thing he was set to do he must finish. . To the wilderness of Damascus-- The district lying between Bashan and Damascus. And when thou comest, thou shalt anoint--So far as the Scripture re- cord goes, Elijah did not follow this command (see 2 Kings 8, 7-18; 9. 1-6). 18. Seven thousand in Israel--An indefinite number. Compare 1 Kings 18. 48; Prov. 24. 16; Matt. 18, 21, 22. Although this indefinite number was undoubtedly small, it was God's holy remnant, and hence all-powerful. Hath not kissed him--A part of the worship offered to felse gods helous Hos. 18. 2). As an act of religfous homage, see also Psa. 2. 12. PUMPING IT OUT . --From XN \ 9 ok." Lag =i <% 4) W. The New York World, Addison's Disease. This disease got its name from the physician who first recognized it, an Englishman named Addison. It is sometimes called "bronzed skin dis- ease," because one of its conspicuous symptoms is a darkening of the skin, which ranges from yellow to a very dark brown in different cases. Be- sides this curious coloring of the skin, the principal symptoms are a progres- 'sive loss of appetite, with ansmia, great languor and debility, a very feeble action of the heart, and an ir- ritable stomach, The disorder is caus- ed by a diseased condition, often tu- berculous, of the suprarenal glands, which lie directly over the kidneys. Males are more subject to Addison's disease than females, and since it is often caused by tuberculosis of the glands, a great number of the cases are of the tuberculous age, that is to say, between twenty and forty. At the same time it may be caused by "Sher degenerative processes, and therefore cases occur at all ages. Apart from the darkening of the skin and the mucous membranes, the first thing that the patient notices is the extraordinary weakness. That is so great that the patient must aband- on all work that involves muscular effort. The action of the heart is so feeble that he becomes exhausted by the smallest exertion, and may even go into a condition of collapse "with any effort, however slight, such as coughing, vomiting or an attempt to hurry. There are often paroxysms of nausea and vomiting without apparent cause, and there is also great tender- ness to pressure over the abdomen. Although a sufferer from Addison's disease tends to grow gradually worse, there are in most cases periods of improvement of longer or shorter duration. The administration of adrenal extract, obtained from the ment some of the "less severe cases may go on to recovery. In the way of general treatment, the most important thing is for the patient to stop all work and stay in bed. Patients who are compelled to | work, and who fight against the in- | creasing weakness, fail rapidly. Tonic 'treatment is called for, with a light but nutritious diet, and very often remedies must be given to quiet the irritable stomach. Feeding with the gland extract must of course be car- ried owt under the supervision of the physician in charge.--Youth's Com- panion. A Real Poison Ivy Cure. A physician gives the following cure Ry a clean quart jar short. one pound of with absorbent cotton or gauze fre- quently, especially at night. The solu- tion has proved an antidote for the poison ivy. Health Notes. A teaspoonful of flour of sulphur dissolved in hot milk and slowly sip- ped, is said to -be helpful in case of sore throat. . Taking cold can sometimes be pre- vented by the breathing deeply when chilly. The body will soon become much warmer, because deep breath- ing sets the blood to circulating more rapidly. If you are a sufferer from rheuma- tism, nervous dyspepsia or neuralgia, eat plenty of celery, either stewed or raw. If stewed very little water should be used, so as not to waste the valu- able salts contained in this vegetable. Jie WAR BREAD CAUSES ILLS. Germany's Rye Flour and Potato Mix- ture Not Palatable. "The German "war bread," of pota- toes and rye flour, so highly recom- mended by German authorities as a substitute for wheat bread, is proving unpalatable and causing much stom- ach and other digestive trouble, says an editorial in the New York Medical Journal. The German people are being urged by military and civil authorities to eat as much of the war bread as possible, and forego wheat bread because the war bread can be made from products of which Germany has an abundance, without drawing upon the small wheat supply. Notwithstanding the patriotic and economic grounds on which tho people are supposed to enjoy this : bread, the editorial says that it is so ' distasteful to many that they do not 'chew it enough. "To this are prob- ' ably due a great many of the symp- toms," it says. "Flatulence is fre- quent. This is thought to be due to the swallowing of large, tough lumps | } Indeed, under this treat- | of bread which are hardly affected by the pancreatic secretion. Thor- ough mastication of the bread will prevent these troubles." ----__----_-- Reading the Signs at the Front. A member of the Liverpool Scottish while home on leaye, was asked whe- ther the soldiers knew,long before- hand when they were géing to be call- ed upon to deliver an assault. "Well, they don't exactly tell us but we al- ways know," he explained, "You see, if a number of Army chaplains sud- denly turn up we can always guess that something good and hard is go- ing to be asked of us shortly. And if they serve us with pudding for din- ner before we go into the trenches, why then we know for certain. for poison ivy: Place in the bottom of