Bae © About the Household | thing gritty, it should be remembered, ruins the enamel of bathtubs. Save the water in which the fresh Dainty Dishes. Haddie Broiled--Wash a ick haddie and cover it with cold t P h sid } green peas ha we tA 5 e down for half) Toe makes an excellent foundation 'for; | an hour. ° Drain and cover again with f cold : d cover with | 20UP stock or gravies.. It is of such a very hot Bi not boiling water, and delicate flavor that some people let stand for half an Hour. Drain and . »Rub it well with a cut lemon, dot with butter and broil for twenty | Place hot on dish, dot with butter again' and pour over it one cupful of hot cream. Serve at once _ with baked potatoes. Bread and Potato Fritters.--Light |? 'and savory fritters may made with breadcrumbs and grated raw) tatoes. Grate two thiek slices of read to fine crumbs, mix with one, tablespoon finely minced onion, salt) and pepper to taste, and add one cup. boiling milk. While mixture is cool-| ° ing pare and grate six large potatoes | -- ge: them into bread crumb mix -| re. Add two -beaten e Dro by spoonfuls soe fivtie pan in which, blems of the busy woman, and it con- there is plenty of boiling fat and dry. cerns especially the housewife who hinakincnkoth aides. Serve hot, | does hér own cooking. Here, for ex- Potato Chowder.--Parboil and slice{®™Ple, is how one woman saves time. six fine potatoes; fry half a pound of. en she makes pie crust she makes sweet salt pork (chopped), and when it begins to crisp ead. 'a minced onion | ™ent, as pie crust rolled in a damp and cook to a light brown. Pack in | DaPkin and put in the refrigerator layers in a soup kettle, sprinkling | keep perfectly for several days. each layer with pepper and m | Then she plans in the menus for the 'parsley. Add the hot fat; cover 'with next few days to use that crust. A a pint of boiling water and simmer 30, dessert or a fruit tart for the first minutes. n into a collander and, Mbt, a meat pie for dinner the sec- drain the liquor back into the kettle. ; ond night, turnovers for luncheon the Have ready a pint of hot milk into| fllowing day and if any crust re- which has been stirred a tablespoon- mains it can be used in desserts, meat ful of butter, rolled in flour; add to patties or cheese straws. By usin the liquor, cook one minute, return; 'the pastry in such a variety of ways the potatoes to the kettle and serve. : /, A pbb sandwich eet in the, ( fact that after the sandwich is made \it is pressed closely together "and A way to make old carpets -- and 'then dipped in a thin batter made in, ¥°4? like linoleum: e any old the proportion to one beaten egg to a. i piece of carpet and tack it, wrong half cup of milk. If the filling of the; side up, to the floor where it is to re- sandwich is a savory mixture of egg, 'main. Now mix a thick paste of flour fish, cheese, meat or fowl, a pinch | and water, cook it thoroughly and ap- each of pepper and salt should be add- | bad evenly to the wrong side of the ed to the batter. If, however, the °a™pet. This paste acts asa_ filling sandwich has a sweet filling, the bat-| and makes a good surface on which to ter should Je slightly sweetened and; #PPly one finishing coat of paint. Let flavored with a teaspoonful of sherry. the paste dry thoroughly, then apply Cook the moistened sandwich on a hot, | | one thick coat of paint. A light lead well-greased griddle, browning first; Will not show the dirt. on one side and then on the other. A --_ shallow iron frying pan will answer the same purpose, and olive oil will BELLS IN GAME OF WAR. be found an excellent substitute for butter. Fowl With Sour Cream Gravy.-- Cut chicken or fowl as for fricassee and cook slowly till tender. Do not add salt until nearly done, When perfectly tender remove to platter on which is spread buttered toast or wisp baking powder biscuits, split, and make sour cream gravy as fol- lows: One and one-half cups chicken broth, three-fourths cup sour cream and one and one-half tablespoons each of butter and flour. Rub butter and flour together, add to broth and let boil. Thin with sour cream, reheat ind season to taste with salt and pep- per as needed. Do not let this boil, as itis liable to separate. If fried chicken is desired, dredge meat with flour and fry in butter, chicken fat, or lard until brown. Delicious. Irish Stew.--Free two pounds neck of lean mutton or veal from fat, divide into' meat cubes of uniform size, about one inch long, and put on to cook with enough water to cover. Let stew until tender. About an hour should be enough if meat was reason-' ably tender to begin with. Have ready in another pot two carrots, cut into small dice, and two fair-sized onions, sliced thin. They should be cooked ten minutes to take off crude flavor. Drain and add to meat, with pepper and salt to taste. Cover and simmer one-half hour. Then add two good-sized potatoes, cut into cubes and parboiled, and two stalks of cel- ery, also diced. Simmer steadily another half-hour, covered. Put one tablespoon butter into frying pan and when hot stir in one tablespoon of, flour. Cook, but do not let darken, and add to stew a little before serv-_ ing. Take up meat with split spoon, lay it neatly in centre of heated plat- ter and lay vegetables about it. | pepper and a bit of butter, A quick way to clean currants when making cakes is to put the fruit 'into a colander with a sprinkling of flour, and rub round a few times with your hand. It is surprising how quickly the stalks are separated and come through the small holes. Get some bitter apple from the 'chemist, crush it, and sprinkle it |amongst the clothes. You will find it the finest thing on record for keep- i ns moths away from everything and ne can use garmen nts at a minute's | notice, as there is no smell left by bit- it ple. Time saving is one of the chief pro- 'she avoids the impression of same- ness yet manages to lighten her work ' materia That of Vienna Cathedral, Cast From Turkish Cannon, The great bell of the Cathedral of , St. Stephen, Vienna, cast. from cap- Turkish cannons 'more than tt centuries ago,-is to return to war iy 'an. Austrian "skoda," a 42-centimeter mortar, big calibre shells, or shrapnel. The church has given this treasure to be melted up as part of the war metal collection. Here is another of the reversions to former times that the war has dis- closed; to the days when he who com- manded the bell commanded the town, when the conqueror melted down bells for amunition or the conquered saw his cannon cast into bells. Bells have had a great part in war, they have summoned soldiers to arms, and they have rung over triumph and defeat. The old bells of Chester Cathedral rang the victory of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson, "after every peal a single booming note of grief." An- other old English bell, cracked under the strain of Waterloo rejoicing, was recast and re-inscribed, "I rang the downfall of Bonaparte and broke." Some of the famous French bells were melted down for gun metal in the revolution. Many of the bells of Belgium, renowned as a land of bells and where the finest products of the art in its prime, have already met the fate of the tocsin of St. Stephen. Old "Roland," the bell of Ghent, that sounded only victory, and the 600- year-old "Horrida," of Antwerp, pro- claimed neither their city's danger nor fall. The Great Growler, "die grosse Brummerin," of St. Stephen, weighs only 17 tons, not much when it is re- membered that if Russia, too, was to melt up her bells she could find in Moscow one that weighs 180 tons and another 128 tons. Old St. Stephen's Household Hints. bell in times past could have made a d small battery of artillery. To-day it wie en -- * . hier -- bo furnish only a third of the 'ma- rial of a 42-centimeter mortar, and ed : the shell used in this monster gun is five feet long and weighs three- quarters of a ton, it would not even- go far as ammunition. "These shells," it is said, "kill everyone within 150 | yards and many further off;" rifle bar- 'rels melt as if struck by lightning; men par disappear in such explosions "are reported as missing, as there is rp fof their death." The old bell comes down to woeful business from the tower where it has so long pealed Yoel French chalk sprinkle over stale bread is an excellent clean- ; er for wall paper. Should fresh paint be upset on the floor, pour vinegar over it and wipe up at once with a soft cloth. Silk, if burned, gives off a disagree- ' able smell, similar to that of burned feathers, whereas cotton or artificial ! silk are practically odorless. jee Do not throw away one bit of the celery. Wash the undesirable parts and boil them with the soup bones. It, °M!Y Peace. will give the soup a delicious flavor. | . a Cucumbers are cooled under run-} Makes Artificial Cotton. ning water if-they have not been oni = returned Chinese, desirous of pro- ice or if stood stem down in iced moting home industry, says' the Far water for a little while they become East has established an artificial cot- suitable for d. n factory in the French Concessi ion | afraid to use poison for rats, 2% Hankow. It is said he uses rice soak a rag with kerosene, put a piece straw prepared with some chemical of camphor gum in it and stuff the solution, which instantly turns it into | rat hole. Mr. Rat wfil call at that en- fine white cotton fibre. By making it. trance no more. undergo further chemical action it Do not use scouring powders or can be turned into paper. soaps on your bathtub; a cloth dipped are interested in this trade can apply, . in kerosene oil or turpentine. will re- and for a fee of $5 he guarantees to move all soil, when the. tub can be' teach them the art-of manufacturing polished with a little = Any- | artificial cotton within nine aye. ve been boiled. It| it served in bouillon cups with salt,|" { double the quantity needed at the mo-; Those who survivors was' taken ust arringto n, Toronto, sCork. who war, a to Mr. Jo! Price, an- ee 'survivor of the who, although not in the picture, was i an interested spectator at time it was taken, - "(THE SUNDAY LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, - OCTOBER 17. Lesson III. -- Elisha Heals Naaman the Syrian, 2 Kings 5. .Golden Text: Exodus 15. 26. 1. The Little Maiden of Israel (Verses 1-4). Verse 1. But he was a leper--His leprosy, as yet, ey 4 was not of a malignant kind. ad he been a Jew he would not Seve been permitted to mingle with his fellows, much less command an army (see Lev., nee? | the 18 and 14) eg "ghie would be a Spey : the captain of 'the host, who in a be glad to present her to his a. "The prophet that is in Samaria-- Elisha's name had gone abroad so that it was not necessary to mention his name. 4. One went in--Doubtless one of the close friends of Naaman, who in rendering a service to his master Naa- man would doubtless serve the king. II. The Letter of the Syrian King (Verses 5-7). 5. Go now--The king would let no time be lost in putting "the prophet' to the test. I will send a letter--The relations of the two kings evidently were friendly. Ten talents of silver--The accom- panying gift, which, according to Oriental custom, is always indispens- ' oe bi nga for alarm exists. able on such occasions. The silver was worth about $18,750 in our mo- ney. Gold had a value of ten times that of silver. The "piece" or "she- kle' was worth about ten dollars. The six thousand pieces amounted to about $60,000, making the total gold and silver gift about $80,000. The ten changes of raiment were also very costly. See Gen. 45, 22; 2 Chron. 24. ~ 7. He rent his clothes--The king of Israel seemed to have less faith than the king of Syria. But he may well have trembled, as leprosy was an in- curable disease, and hence the request of the Syrian king seemed to be noth- ing more or less than an attempt to provoke war. III. The Message of Elisha (Verses 8-10, 14). 8. He sent to the king--The news of 9. Stood-at the door of the house of Elisha -- This indeed was a kingly suite which came to the unpretentious | g house of the humble prophet. 10. Seven times--The usual sacred number. 14, According to the saying of the man of God--To wash in the Jordan seemed to be an inconsequential mat- ter. Naaman was looking for "some great thing." He was willing to obey, however, even to the seventh time. For, doubtless, no sign of healing ap- peared until he had done all that he had been commanded to do. A leather cannon was use at Edin- burgh in 1778 and found to answer. Madge--So you feel better since you gave up dancing and devoted yourself to Red Cross work? Marjorie--In- deed I do, dear. I've had my name in the papers nine times. "And they said unto him, Where is Sarah, thy wife? and he said, Be- hold she igs in the tent."--Gen. xviii., 9. These words relate to a touching incident in ancient rural home life-- e patriarch Abraham is host, en- tertaining three strangers, while his wife, Sarah, is within the tent pre- paring everything for the comfort of her husband and his guests. The sim- ple and cordial hospitality, the ease and quiet that seem to have pervaded the patriarchal home are redolent of a bygone civilization. In all the gain of the modern world, in_its material culture, science, money, power, pleas- ure, liberty, we have lost something --the flavor of true home life. - The conception of home is rather shelter for creature comforts. But the true home is more than mere walls bare or richly decorated. It is an in- fluence, an atmosphere, a spirit, a breath of -love, a vibration of tender- ness, A Wave of Sympathy, a series of heart beats, an oasis in ' the wilderness, not only for ie body but also for the soul. The true home should cater ae the 'soul. It should be an intellectual and j cultural centre. Emerson has' said 'that a grammar and a piano ushered | Sara civilization into the hut of the West- ' ern pioneer. bi eae English. anthology of poetry © a Browning, perhaps; a Bible, oF vague to-day. To many it is but a' The Conception of Home It Is An Influence Not Only for the Body But Also for the - Soul. . pure fiction, a picture or two, a Bee- thoven or some scene from a favorite opera, a few flowers and some me- mentos of friends or places create an environment that is restful and in- spiring. The home is the school for life. It; is a microcosm. There are found all; the evils of the world in their native, nascent state--selfishness, pettiness, envy, greed, avarice. These must be | overcome in the home or they will grow and rise up and conquer man in the world. The home is the citadel of human- ity from which to attack all the inimi- cal forces of society. The home is The Bulwark of the State. Whatever is done to purify and strengthen its influence on the physi- cal, intellectual and moral being of man is a service to the nation. Let men make the laws of the land, All its armies and navies; those.who' make the home are the true arbiters of the world's destinies. partook of realized his great mission the world and the potent influence there-' on of his pure and inspiriting home. They sensed the secret of that domes-' tic love and peace and power. And | therefore they asked, "Where is Sarah, thy wife?" And he, under- standing their query, replied, "She is the tent," meaning. thereby, "She is' build its enterprises on land and d sea,' of my home and my;no less guilty of sharp (By J. R. Moorehead, in the Banker- Farmer.) There are at least twice as man people living in our smaller cities, | towns and villages as live in our fifty | great cities. The home market of our | smaller cities and towns is just twice! as great as the city markets. Yet we hear much that would lead one to be- | lieve that all of the people in' this! country to be fed by the producers on the farm are to be found in the great centres where the high cost of living seems now, more than ever, the one considered. Yet, the home market of | the farmer is his largest and best, market, right at his door where he, can bring his produce every working | day in the year and sell it te the con- | sumer direct, without the intervention | of any middleman whatsoever, and secure therefor every cent without ; any profit of commission to any mid-; dleman whatsoever. In these nine states, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsyl- tion, notwithstanding the fact that the population of the whole country in- creased inthe decade covered, 21 per cent. Out of the 78 county seats in these nine states, 217, or nearly 23. per cent. of them, have lost popula- | tion, though the county seat is in! many ways the centre of most of the activities of the county unit along the! line of politics, courts, collection of taxes and in other directions. And, strange to say, this tendency of the decline of the towns is greatest in the richest and most thickly settled part of the states. What does this mean to you and to me, and to all of the forty million people living in these towns? It means this, a continued loss of busi- ness; it means depreciation in pro- perty values in these towns; it means the better the town the higher the value there is to the land because of its proximity to the town; it means less deposits in your banks; it means that you will have less money to lend to the farmer and to the business man; it means the Pamctede are not going tos in fhe towns ; pa sit that farm caleea ic toon alors some attraction; it means economic ruin to many of our best interests; it means increased problems for the country nd states in matters of handling our social and political problems in our: great cities; it means concentration | of business of every kind in the great centres; it means the downfall of the small business man and the small banker; it means socialism. hat are we as bankers and busi-' ness men, going to do about it? What. does your home town most need? First of all, it needs team work, co-: operation, first amongst bankers and business men, and second, by all about us. There are too many bank- ers and business men in these towns who are disloyal to each other--a lack of confidence exists. Competition and business rivalry have tended to make enemies of us, rather than friends and co-workers. The local drygoods man cannot supply the wants of the '-banker's wife and family because his stock is not fine enough, hence they --_ by mail or visit the department re. Let me remind such. a one roa "a town that is good enough to live in is good enough to spend your money in." If you cannot spend your money where you make it you are sucking the life blood our of our town and you ought to move. The lumberman and the hardware mer- chant and their families are just as often guilty of the same practice, and then they wonder why the town does not improve, and their business pros- per. What ing ent, let me ask, | for example, is there for the local dry ; goods store to carry in stock | fine enough for 'the banker's, goods the lumberman's, and the hardware mer- ' chant's family? None whatever. This | being often the case, how can the banker expect the merchant, whose note he oe to meet his obligations if there {s taken away from him the only means whereby he may be able to meet them--his profits on goods sold to his neighbors. im The whole question is summed up iin and stated in the following from = who was at one time the editor of ountry néwspaper in this state, wile he said: "If you spend your money where you get it, you will be able to get it where you spend it." The second great movement that should be inaugurated by the bankers The three messengers of God who and business men is that of bridging: Abraham's homens the gulf which exists between the! town people and the farmer. It might be to the advantage of perhaps one ' person in ten thousand in this coun- try to have this gulf made wider, but no more. There are many of our ' farmers, and some living in towns, j who have been educated to believe , that the home merchant is a thief and , 8 robber, and that_the local banker is practices than , {the loan shark of our cities. 'Thous-. WHY THE BANKER AND FARMER SHOULD BUILD UP THE HOME TOWN : TEAM WORK IS NEEDED AMONGST THE BUSINESS MEN farming population living about these | vania, 6,956 towns have lost popula- ; a depreciation in farm land value, for ; these and the farming communities; |Strong Plea for a ihobeaent to be Inaugurated by Bankers and. . Business. Men for the Bridging of the Gulf Between the Town People and the Farmer. ands of them do not even give the | home merchants a chance to supply | their wants. " (No wonder the home |merchant does not carry the stock in size and quality to meet the demands 'of some of our communities. How can he? and why should. he?) They send the money away when they have the cash, and the home mer- 'chant is only of use and benefit when the crops fail and when the price is so low that they hold for a higher, and in the meantime the merchant be- comes the banker, in that he lends his goods without interest and often bor- i rows the money from you in order to | perform this service. Our farmer friends, our neighbors--best friends --have become estranged from us, 'and the imaginary line between the | country and the town is a barrier to the prosperity and the co-operation, and to the good of all. In solving this problem we will not have to w {upon all of our farmer friends and our neighbors, most of them are loyal . o us and to their own town, but it is | our duty to co-operate to stifle every movement working to augment this ! effort to take the trade of the farmer away from his home town. We should ; enlist every influence to join with us. | There is a great quartet of interest iin this country, which, if they could be brought together, and in the end they will when conditions become ripe, i would work wonders for the good of all. I refer to the bankers and the ' business men of the towns, the farm | press and the country paper. The movement inaugurated by the bankers, looking to co-operation with other interests in the upbuilding and ge oa of efficiency of the farm, s the great movement of the day. It will not succeed at the expénse of the millions of people and particularly merchants and bankers located in the towns and smaller cities. They are vitally interested and should become a part and parcel of a great joint movement that will increase the pro- ductive ability of our farmers. You cannot hope to accomplish this in- crease by in any way crippling that great body of our people who are the nearest to, and the only ones to whom the farmers as a class go to, and de- pend upon for assistance and co-oper- r nied pane To this cause the merchants i business men of the towns pledge ; their earnest support. There are imore than a million of them. They {ask in return reciprocity on the pari of our neighbors and*farmers in order that peace, happiness and prosperity may be the portion of all alike. Our fourth great aim should be, ir ' order to preserve ourselves, our com- 'munities and those about us, to be. come community builders. Community i builders to the extent of blotting out the corporate limits, extending the in- fluence of the commercial club and thy business organizations to cover thi country surrounding. It has been my privilege the most of my life to live in a community which to a large extent has accomplished this thing. We have found out by co-operation on the part of the bankers and the business men that the farming community about us was in hearty sympathy with every effort to meet conditions in and out of town, and where I have lived, and what we as merchants and bankers have dane is being repeated through- | they are inviting co-operation; are seeking light; they are spending: money; they are doing ovens en that is possible in their power promote the feeling of Irendship. and co-operation with all classes. 7) WOOD AND WATER. Wood Cell Is Composed of Crystals Like Grains of Sugar or Salt. wood contains more or less wa- ter; even the driest wood known con- tains two or three pounds of water to every hundred pounds of weight. Ab- \solutely dry wood is unknown, for the heat needed to obtain it would dis- solve the wood and convert it into gas An eminent Swiss au- thority on the characteristics of wood believes that a sufficiently powerful microscope, could it be made, would show that the ultimate wood cell is composed of crystals like grains of sugar or salt,'and that thin films of water hold the crystals apart, yet bind them into a mass. A goed mi- croscope. shows the wood cell and re- veals its spiral bandages and its open- ings and cavities, but no instrument yet made reveals the ultimate crys- tals that, as many believe, do exist, and that would explain why water cannot be expelled from wood without destroying the wood itself. One-third of the sufferers from gout in hospitals are painters. A man isn't known, so well by the company he keeps as by the line of talk he hands the next door neigh- bors. sapleensat. tostiss Sit Itis the - 'nation, w 'a con- © mining rather tans reece oe, ~