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A pathetic tragedy, in which a farmer had to choose between saving the lives of his two little sensor that of his wife, was occurred at Pent, near Le Puy, _ France. , The agonized father had to choose im- mediately, and he swam for the boys. Ha: brought the two boys to the bank in safety‘ and then returned for his wife, but she had been carried into a deep pool lower? down the river and drowned. Her body was vecovéred half an hour later. M. Kuhue. with his sons aged l and 8, were waiting on the bank of the Allier for his wife, who had gone to a village on the opposite side of.tlte river. When the wife, on returning, saw her' husband and children wailing for her, she starled wading across the river, instead of mak, ing, a detour of 500 yards and crossing by a bridge. .. " N "'2 u '-"""er" The river was only three feet deep at the spot, but the current was strong, and suddenly M. Kuhue was hc)prified to we his wife swept ott. her feet and cap. _ ' "r, Luann”: :MA,‘ DEC "Lo wuu “Hut. 7.. Ve"' ried down the stream. He jumped into the river to her rescue, but the two little children tollowed, their' mther's exam- ple, and they also were swept down stream. _ _ . , Fate Places a Man in a Terrible Dilemma. The waste of children lessens as the world grows wiser. Dr. George M. Mangold of the University of Pennyl- vania preaches the physiological ad- vantages of contributing to a growing population by means of Towering, the death rate rather than by increasing the rate of birth. Mental anguish, phy- sical and economic cost, would thus be reduced to a minimum. The marvel- ous reduction in the former rate of in- fant mortality in certain quarters has fallen from 250 out of every 1,000 to 144 out of every 1,000 in the last 200 years, and indicates what social reform may accomplish and what a saving of lives may follow. The differences be- tw ten rural and urban death rates sug- gests the character of the environment needed for the increased healthiulness of cities. The contrasting conditions disclosed in large cities and the grati- tying results of sanitary measures, milk inspection, and advancing intelligence pave the way for a growing hopeful- ness. Society can insist upon preven- tive reforms. It can reduce the waste of infant lives and conserve our poten- tial pOpulation. Let us ascertain whe-i ther our population is sufficiently few cund by giving every new born babe a fair ' opportunity for life. Certain‘ classes are-chargeable with a low birth rate, but for the masses the most im- portant problem is a diminishing in- tent mortality. When the best of soci- ely's efforts in this direction have been realized, then arsolid basis for subse- quent reasoning concerning the pro- bable future of our race will have been established. - There is general approval of the bill in the British press, and many powerful associations devoted to art and the pro- motion of beauty and culture are de- lighted with it. In France, it has been printed out, advertising has long been under strict control, and vandalism in the shape of hideous, ugly, "loud," crude posters has been effectually repressed. In Switzerland, Italy and elsewhere there are crusades in progress against ugliness and horror in advertising in the favorite spots of tourists and nature lovers. In this country the regulation w? street signs is assuming consider- able importance, and the countryside will have its turn before long. NOTES AND COMMENTS' thc need of Ialion in th, felt. The British bill tMrifies existing law be some extent, especially in the provis- ion against placing advertisements on private grounds without the owners' permission, but much in it is novel. It vests new powers in municipal and other local authorities, who will hence- forth have the right to forbid any ad- vertising displays that, in their judg- ment, deface scenery, offend the aesthe- t'c sense and affect injuriously the amenities of public parks or pleasure grounds. Some municipaliiicsrh'ave full power of advertisement regulation, but s ensve ed leg With but few v0 the British house 1 ihe olher day a dr; gulation of adverth tion of the disiigt scenery and landsc: of this measure in termination of a ti ‘and, according to , troduces a new pr jurisprudence. Th the seeing eye, like entitled to pmtecik That certain noises nuisances and regu in June interest of public health and peace has long been a recognized truth. The eye, however, has been neglected hy lawmakers and courts, and pleas for the protection of natural scenery on the one hand and of the natural jg, se of beauty c legal support. .11 but few votes in the negative 3rilish house of common-s passed [her day a drastic bill for the re- on of advertising and the preven- of the disfigurernent of natural W and landscape. The adoption is measure marks the successful nation of a fltteen-year campaign according to legal authorities, in.. ces a new principle into English lrudence. This principle is that eelng eye, like the hearing ear, is ad to protection against assaults. certain noises and odors may be noes and regulated or suppressed of general and uniform legis- the premises has been acutely WIFE OR SONS. on the othep'have lack Dr, Acland Oronhyatekha, son of the late Supreme Chief Ranger of the I.O.F., died suddenly at "The Pines," near' Des- eronto on Sunday morning. One man was killed and several per- sons were injured Saturday by the breaking of the cable on the incline rail- way at Prospect Point, N.Y. A Thomas Mooney", of Winnipeg, who stabbed a man in l street brawl, was sentenced to ten years in the peniten- tzary. _ Three men were killed in the Sydney mines of the Nova Scotia Steel Com, pany on Saturday, by the mistake of a chain runner. _ The Government, will probably locate the New Ontario experimental farm at McDougall‘s Chute, beyond the end nf inc sleel of the Temlskaming Railroad. London's customs collections for last month totalled 872,572.06, an advapce of 88,767,37 over June, 1906. Mr. D. B. Hanna, General Manager of the Canadian Northern, says the (trope of the west have a hopeful ap- pearance. Many bricklayers in Winnipeg l quit work, refusing to accept the C promise olTed by thge pnntreictors. The Dominion Coal Company broke all records on Saturday by shipping 20,000 tons of coai to the St. Lawrence alone. George Penim was fatally stabbed by another Italian named Peter Pepi, at Vancouver, B. C. The‘jury for a second time disagreed in the trial of Thos. F. Collins for mur- der at Hope Bay, N. B. C. P. h. gross) earnings for the fiscal year just ended were 872,M)fs,000, an in- crease of $10,000,000. In five hours 112,000 bushels of grain were loaded oh the steamer Manchester Shipper at Monlreal. The Provincial Board of Health will attempt to improve (hd sanitary condi- lions in cheese factories. I The annual report oi., the inspector- of asylums advises the mental examina- hon of new arrivals in% Canada. Customs receipts at Mantrea} for June showed an increase bf $413,440 over June, 1906. , Thirly designs were submitted for the proposed $3,000,000 departmental build- ing at Ottawa. Joseph Ryde, market gardener, drop ped dead at Kingston on Friday. Wm/Julian had an arm terribly man- gled on the Government dredge at Port Signley on Friday. The increased éubsidy of $400,000 will be paid by the Dominion Government to tht Provinces from July L Gardner Hunter, a Haileybury bar- tender, has been arrested on a charge of _rntuaslauirhter. _ The western crop is a big one, but it is two weeks late. For the half-year the succession duties paid amounted to $542,417. The trade between Canada. and Ja- pan in 1906 totalled 82,k77,686. Traders Bank counterfeit $5 notes are i, circulation. Crystal City, Man., voted down local option on Wednesday. Canadian Pacifio Mileage has increas- ed on June 30 to 9,154. We are what we arriy'id'riFioecause of deep convictions that our fathers held, because of aspirations and ideals which Telegraphi", Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries ot Recent Events. The tide in human affairs, the move- ments that mark human progress or re- cession, these are of far greater impor- tance than names and dates, buildings and administrations. And back of these tides are mighty forces, great, all com- pelling motives. These forces we call lradition, religion, patriotism. The true historian looks for the forces. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALF OVER THE GLOBE. There is a great difference between the relation which religion must hold to national life and the relation which reli- gious and ecclesiastical organizations hold. The very separation between church and state makeskthe more neoes- sary the deeper permeation of our whole national life with the spirit of MORALITY AND RELIGION. You cannot escape from religion in history and in human affairs. It makes no difference whatever whether the name ot the deity be in the constitution of a nation or not, the fact of the reli- gious impulse and motive remains. You might take the mention of religious names from all history, but you could never tell the story of the life of a people if you refuse to recognize this mighty spirit. Np man can be religious who neglects the ivorld in which he lives or the na- tion of which he is a part. Piety is not for the closet or the church, not for. the s0parate places alone, but for every re- lation of human life. You, cannot put your religion in a compartment by itself; it is a spirit, an almosphere, and a _ry'inciple Which must pervade all. “Blessed is (W "eople that know the joyful sound; {my shall walk, 0 Lord, 111 the light of thy countenance."-- Psalms, 89:15. . When the man of the painfully pious appearance tells us that he is so mPCh absorbed in religion, that he has no time to think of politics or of national affairs common sense usually alloys our re- sentment by reminding us that he is‘so small a fraction of a cipher that religion is none the richer for a monopoly of him and political affairs none the poorer for losing him. _ . They Only, Build Wisely Who Build From the Base Up. RELIGION AND NATURAL LIFE CANADA. in Winnipeg have to accept the com- President Cabrera of Guatemala has seized 160 of his enemies and had many of them cgndcmned to death. . Asbestos horseshoes are being con- sidered as a new invention in the Island of Hawaii, to protect horses' feet from hot volcano ashes. Prof. Mix Sclmller, of the University ot Berlin is dead. a martyr to his eager- ness it) \mcer research. Several suits have been entered in France by heirs of Catholics to recover properly bequeathed to the Church for thy purpose ot saying Masses for the dead. Town officials in Greenwich, _Conn., have forbidden enamored couples to sit on the stone fences, and constables are detailed to see that the order is obeyed. A monsler dam, which will form a reservoir capable of holding 170,000,000,- 000 gallons of water, is‘to be built in the Catskill by New York City's Water Sup- ply Board. The walls of a four-storey ofrlee build. ing at. Cincinnati collapsed on forty laborers, but all escaped without serious injury. Col. John Cossins, of Virginia, has re- fused to have his hair out since the civil war, following a vow that he would es.. chew haircuts until the South was inde, pendent; ' Flve persons were seriously injured in New York by a; car' crashing into a gro- cery window. Merrit Treadwell, of Binghampton, a letter carrier, committed suicide by fas- tening an anchor to his waist and jumping into the? Susquehana River. Fifteen weddings in churches and at homes marked the annual "wedding day" celebrated at Kenosha, Wis,, the last Wednesday in June. Dr. I. J. Bales of Belleville, Ill., fasted thirty days to test the theory that total abstinence from food for a period is beneficial to health. Two Italians were killed and five in- jured at Danbury, Comm, by an explo- sion of dynamite caused by a blow from a steam shovel. C \Gas engines for the production of steel are found lo be cheaper than coal by the United siaksfiree] Corporation. Two women severely beat a' man who had insulted them in a New York street car, and then had bi_m qufested. Thirty-seven are dead in the United States and over two thousand maimed as a result of the Fourth of July celebra- tions; - An epidemic is killing thousands of sheep in Wyoming. _ Ossian Guthrie, & noted geqlogist and engineer of Chicago, is to be Married for the fiftl1 time, aged 81. Tlie U. S Government closed its fiscal year Saturday with a surplus of $87,- 000,000. I In thly -rush on Brooklyn bridge on Sunday a pickpocket stole $6,350 from Peter Worth, a bookmaker. Peter' Curran, the Socialist candidate. was elected to the British Commons from the Jarrow division of Durham. Kier- Hardie, leader' of the Socialist party in the British Commons, leaves this week on a visit to Canada. The lease of the Ontario Government property and walerupower rights at Uealy Falls to the N0rthumber1and- Durham Power' Company has been signed by the company. British naval and military authoriites have refused to allow the enlistment of a young mulatto. - _ _ fooiaides are too dear to eat in East Lancashire; and many chipped potato restaurants are closed. The most we can do for our country is to make men who hold principle and ideals above all else, who so love honor and hale the lie, so look to the things that are higher and turn from those that are lower, so catch the vision of infinilc values in individuals, in society, and in their own lives, that no baits or brbes of the pit’s devising can turn them from the path of duty and light, and so this spirit filling all, all move together to the fulfillment of the purposes oi the most high for this people., No groater folly could heiog our minds today than to think that we can attain national prosperity and permanency APART FROM SPIRITUAL IDEALS. He does not love his land who desires nothing better' or greater for her than that she shall be rich in bushels or wheat. and billions of gold. Greater than our need of things is the need of the strong hand of the nation to hold them and the wise heart to administer them. The foundations of a nation are. laid in human lives; what, they will be in form and whether they shall endure de- pends on the :haraclei: oi the men and women of the nation. They only build wisely who build from the base up', be- ginning with character, settling the foundations th% in religious motives and moral ideals. In the final clearing house of history nations have no our rency other than character. The ideals of liberty, the conception of human rights, the conviction as to the freedom of the conscience, these all constitute essentially religious princi- ples. They are born of the recognition of man'as other man clay, as a being of spiritual heritages and possibilities. Men lived and died for these only as they conceived of their high duly to humanity and of the infinite justice that is over all. T they cherished, because of the-atmos- Phere oi spiritual beliefs in which they lived, and because they counted these things of such value to them that their lives weighed as nothing in the balance. Ideals have ever dominated the world and determined the"real conditions that should be. UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. HENRY F. COPE 9. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy wOrlc-NOle, that. the positive command to work is as binding as the prohibition to work on the Sabbath day. Son . . . daughter, . . . manservanl . . . maidservant . . . stranger-Personal responsibility for keeping, the Jaws of God is far-reaching. 8. Remember the sabbath day lo keep it holy-The word "sabbath" is denived from a root meaning "lo desist, to cease." It is worthy of note that in a time when religion consisted ehiefjy in the observance of ritual and ceremony this superior ethical code places empha- 515 on only one exlernal and formal my ligious duty, narrowly so called, namely, that of Sabbath observance. 7. The name- of Jehovah thy God-- Among ancient Oriental peoples the name of a person was regarded as of much greater significance and impor- tance than incur day, standing, as it did, in a peculiar sense for the person himself. Hence to blot out a name meant. practically the annihilation of the person and all memory of him. To use, therefore, unnecessarily or carelessly the name of God was the height of ir- reverence. Later a too literal interpre- tation of this commandment led to a substitution of the word' "adonai" (lord) for "Yahweh" in reading the Scriptures, which habit, in turn, resulted in a cor- ruption or combination of the two, from which has come our English word Neho.. vah.” 5. Upon the. third and upon the fourth generMion---Th? inexorable law' of heredity is valid for good as well as for evil. lis subtle workings whereby it appears sometimes to skip one or more generations has" in our' time especially become a manor of most careful scien.. tific sludy and investigaiion. 6. Unto thousandsior, "a thousand generations.” [ _ _ ft. Graven image-Or, “molten.” As the first commandment asserts the unity of God and is a protest against poly- theism, so the second emphasizes his spirituality, and is a protest against idolatry and materialism. The. construc- tion of the Hebrew text of this command- ment has been much disputed, though the natural sense seems to be: . "Thou shalt not make unto thee graven image: (and) to no visible shape in heaven, etc., shalt thou bow down, etc." The water under the etrNh-Accorang, to the Hebrew conception the earth, which was flat, was supported upon the waters of the "great deep" (comp. Gen. 1). 2 I am Jehovah thy God-lt was im- portant that the people should under- stand, that the law given by the hand of Moses is of higher origin, containing the commandment of Jehovah himself to his people. Bondage-Hebrew, "bondmen." 3. Thou shalt-The pronoun is in the second person singular. The law ad- dresses itself to each individual member of We nation. i. 13). 'Witnessing the apostasy of the people on descending from ihe moun- i1,,ixredAi:cir'vk/,o\ev'cffiis, these fipst tables (Exod. 2. 19), which later are replaced by others, also written by the hand of Jehovah himself (Exod. 34.1). These second tables are deposited in the Ark " sate keeping, and in token of their great importance (Deut. 10. 5). Thus the sublime biblical account of the giving of the Mosaic law. And God spake all these words-Amid thunder and lightning from Sinai and with the sound of a trumpet Jehovah proclaims the words of the law in arti- culate tones in the ears of the terrified people (Exod. 20. 18; Deut. It. 12). Later the words thus uttered by the voice of Jehovah are graven by his own finger 01 tables of stone (Exod. 31. 18; Dent. Verse 1. About a month and a halt has passed since the events of our last lesson occurred. Israel under the leader- ship of Moses and Aaron has proceeded on its journey toward Sinai, making several stops by the way. The stages of the Journey are indicated in Num. 33. 12-15. and ln'lh t?o"rkrrwuyppytts, respectively. The version of Exod. ttj. 2-17, is Emai- ly regarded as the older and m "e classic, while that of Dent. 5. yr,?; admittedly of later origin. To the dif.'.h ferences between the two versions in detail we shall have occasion lo refer m the explanation of the separate com- mandments. The theory of a more Sirnple original version from which both existing versions are derived is further supported by the theory that the fourth commandment as we now have it in, Exod. 20. 8-11, clearly presupposes on: the part of the author oi this passage an; acquaintance with at least the thought of the creation story, as found in Gen. 1. 1-2. 3. (Read in this connection the Inu'oductory Note to the Lesson Word' Studies for next Sunday.) The Law of the Ten Wores.-The Ten Commandments oi the Mosaic law are referred to under the various titles of "testirnony," "eovenanb" (Exod. 25. 21; Dent. 9. J; Psa. 119), and "the Deca- logue." This last title means literally "the law ot the ten words," which is the name used in Exod. M. 8; Deut. k. 13, and other passages. The name "Ten Caomandmenls" is a less accurate though more common rendering oi the original Hebrew used. The commonly accepted view among Old Testament scholars leaves undisturbed the tradition of the Mosaic authorship of "an essentially spiritually and ethical code of ten pre- cepis." It is, however, considered proo- able that this code existed originally m a much briefer form,to which from time to time various-reflections and promises were added for the purpose of strength- ening the appeal of the code to the mind and will of the people. In support of this theory it is pointed out particularly that the Pentateuch iself contains two versions of this code in which are found not a few and not altogether unimpor- tant variations, especially in the ren- sons for oWence attached to the four?) AW 3 f my. - _,-s.,.s-seT..,e,.-,'r, mnnmnletvnln Based on the text of the Revised Ver, sion. - THE SUNDAY SUHDGL Lesson II. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES Duties INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY M. _ The Ten Commandments- s Toward God. Golden Text: Dent. 6. 5. For a good, reliable paste, boil a po- tato; do not peel it at all; boil not too 'much, but until done. Break off end and use by rubbing over whatever you want to stick, such as labels on fruit jars. When your window sash raltles at might make use of a flat brass picture ‘hwk, s!raightening it arout 1wo-thirds. Partly bend shut the shorter end Li 'hook and attach a string by it to a tack in window casing, so that suspended hook always is ready for use. This con- tyivance adjusts ilself to vibrations bet, ier than a wcdge will do. Perfume Prevents Moths. - Take cloves, Caraway seed, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, and tonka beans, one ounce of well. Then add as much orris root as will equal the other ingredients; put together; grind the whale to powder, and put in little bags among your 'clothes and furs. 0001 House td Stunmer.--in the early morning open wide every door and Small Veal and Ham Pies.,-iut one and a half pounds of veal very finely, also one quarter of a pound of bacon; add a little nutmeg, pepper and gall. Boil two eggs till hard and chop coarse- ly. Mix with the meat and add suffici- 'ent gravy to moisten all. Dredge the 'mixture into flour, and ii you have it add a grated lemon rind. Make some nice short crust, using very little water in the mixing, roll it out and line small patty pans. Fill these with the veal mixture, wet the edges of the pastry, ‘ccver each pie and make a little hole in the top. Put into a good hot oven and bake for half an hour. These will te very useful and, tasty for your pie- mics. Swiss Rice Pudding.--N%sh two oun- ces of rice and then boil gently in one pint of milk until quite tender, add half an ounce of butter. Simmer for a few minutes after the butter is put in and put at the side of the fire to cool. Stir in a beaten egg, grease a pie-dish, put in a thin layer of apricot jam, then a layer of rice and so on till the dish is Tull. Put a little butter on the top and bake in a moderate oven. It you have any scraps of pastry, garnish the edges of the dish with it. Hung buttermilk, which is so delici- cus with stewed fruit, etc., is made as follows: _ Fill a jelly bag or cloth (which is quite tee from holes) with but- 'termilk, which will be all the better, for having hung for a day or two, let this hang all night, when the water will have strained out. Turn the curd that remains into the bowl and mix by de- grees as much sweet cream, beat all Well to remove any lumps. When quite smooth sweeten to taste and lla- vor as desired. Whisk all for five ft? six minutes and serve in a glass dish. This is a country recipe from a place where cream is plentiful. A Novelty in Mutton Chops.-Take all the superfluous {at from some mutton chops, season with pepper and salt and wrap up in buttered paper. Fold the paper neally together and fry till the chops are browned. Serve in the papers with a garnish of iried parsley. This is an excellent way of cooking chops and will often induce an invalid who d%ikes them to make a good meal. For a Dough Cake.-Get from your baker half a quartern of dough, set it in a basin, work into it four ounces of currents, four ounces of sugar, at little spice, one ounce of chopped candied peel. Break an' egg into a basin, add to it two ounces of butter and knead all well together. Grease a tin, turn the mixture into it and set to rise near the Tire. Then bake for forty minutes in e steady oven. New turnips and bac , make l delic- ious dish. _ Fry some baoo I ant irydife, and then fry some small turnipS 1n the same fat. Sprinkle in some flour and moisten with good brown stoc f, Put the saucepan at the side of the "e and simmer very gently until the turnii h? are quite done. Scatter chopped pars ' over and serve very hot. Dandelion salad is most wholesome and should be more eaten than it is in si,his country. Cut some dandelions as law as possible so as to get white stalks. WW? thoroughly and mix with an Gala?” quantity of watercress. Dress ‘wjm‘xgil and vinegar like any other sa- Coffee Soda Water.---) some very Sirong cf1rtt: letting it stand till per- fectly clear and pduring it off carefully. Add sumpierk condensed miilrto sweet- en it and at the last moment add a dash of soda water. Half a pound, of cof- fee will be neces ry for one pint and l half of boilingiggler. Ice the whole ii possible. ', _ 11. For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, . . . and rested the seventh, day-The reason for obedience given in the version of this command- ment in Deuteronomy is, "that. thy man- servant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. And thou shalt remem- ber that thou wast tr servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jetyr vah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day." Later the apostle Paul argued strongly for Christian liberty and observance of divine law as a measure of Christian expediency. The latter view also was energetically main- tained by Luther, and was favored in the federal school of reformed theology as most in harmony with uiulical teach- mg. lad Simple chocolate filling for cakes can be made as follows: Grate some choco- late and place it in a saucepan which has lust been rinsed out with cold Water and left wet. Stir the chocolate while it heals or- it will burn. Spread this even on the cake while it is hot. T Novel Cheese sandwiches-Cut some 'slices, half an inch thick, off a nice rich cheese, and place them between slices of bread and butter like sandwiches. Put, these on a tin in the oven and when l; bread is toasted, serve on a nap- m. it HQME. 3K 'taaetaaaaaaat THINGS WORTH KNO\VING SOME DAINTY DISHES When a succession of hot flannels are needed, instead of scalding your hands with boiling water, wring 5a flannel in cool water; put it on on old plate. Put it in a hot oven for a few minutes. Carry the plate to the sick room and re- turn it to the oven with another flannel. Try the heat of the flannel with the back of the hand. Neuralgiu Cupe.---I suffered a long time with attacks of neuralgia about the eye. There seemed to be no relief except to wear it out, which usually required from five to six hours, until accidentally I discovered that by rubbing vigorously with the hand or a rough towel relief was almost“ immediate, restoring rhut seemed to be arrested circulation. For rHeunmlism strinkle common salt in the bottom of one's shoes. Put in fresh salt. every morning. amounted to $67,969,328, and the ex en. ditures of revenue amount to $51,;E42; 161, leaving a difference on the right side of the Government books of $16,- 427,167. The expenditure non capital ac- ccunt during the period was $14234,- 025, leaving $2,192,542 for the reduction 'ot the Dominion debt. To cure a cold snuff baking pbwder and use,it, as a gargle. - - -. A despatch from Otiawo says: The re- turns of revenue and expenditure for the fiscal period of nine months, which closed March inst, have been practi- cally all received by the Finance Depart- ment, and it is now possible to deter- Tine the amount of the surplus for the last fiscal period. It is almost sixteen and a half millions. The. revenue Wheat .......... 1,965,774 1,730,586 Oats ............ 764,170 639,875 Barley .......... 60,905 53,565 Flax ...'......... 86,483 70,005 Speltz ........... 874 768' The increase in wheat is 13.07 per cent.; in oats, 19.42 per' cent.; in barley, 15.87 per cent.; in flax, 15.78 pee cent.; and in Speltz, 13.41 per cent. The number of acres sown in Mani- toba is as follows:--Wheat, 2,789,553; oats, 1,215,596; barley, 649,570; flax, 25,915. Balance on the Right Side of Canada's Books Si6,000,000. A despatch from Ottawa says: C. C. Castles, warehouse commissioner at Winnipeg, reports to the Department ol Trade and Commerce that the acreage of grain crops in Saskatchewan for the present season compared with the past is as follows F- Increase in Acreage of Every Cereal Sown-Comparative Figures. ' g with a brush a solution of gum ara- ‘.,'c to the shells, and afterward pack- ‘ing' them in dry charcoal dust. Ui es of Ptjtt1toes.-Take a potato; glam it or scrape it and apply to in- 'flamed sore eyes. Will reduce the in- flantn in. Take a potato; cut off the ind and it. will make a fine polisher in- ‘stead of a lath for cleaning silverware, upper, and 11 kitchen’utensils. Grate a potato and ap “V to aching corms on [we]: and it will we , elief. Take several balances: pure and slice and cover with water; kt slaiiit-trn hour, remove? pola- (oes; let stand again a few 1 Mm1tes; 1hen strain and you will 11vl?ir"diii'ii, siarch for laundry work in bottom of the pan. Uses of Chareoal.--All sorts of glass vessels and other utensils may be puri- fied from long retained smells of everx ‘kind in the easiest and most perfec manner by rinsing them out with char- COal powder. Rubbing the teeth and washing out the mouth with fine char- coal powder will Palm teeth while and Ihe breath perfect y sweet. Putrid wa-s 'ter is deprived of its bad smell by char- Jx-pal. Eggs may be preserved by apply- Prevent moths.--6et a large drygoods 'box. Make cover' of top by putting on hinges, and line with heavy carpet (I' lar paper. Tack paper so that there will be no chance for moths to get in, lining in; also. Pack away winter clothing with plenty of moth balls and news- papers. Set box on bricks or pieces of 'wood to raise it from Mor. It will not gel musty if left in basement or atLic, 1md you will have no trouble with fnolhs or dust. In winter it can be used '10 pack away the summer clothing. Care of Wall Paper.--We know dis- coloring, mold, and often horrid look- mg rents are made by the, accumula» liort of water between paper and cell- ir1g, caused by leaks of unsound roofs or disordered bathrooms. When you gee a dam?) spot appear on your ceiling, Immediaie y make a few openings in it 'with a pin point, fastening the pin cn a stick or long broom handle, so as to ‘10 off the water. The paper will dry out leaving no trace of disaster. A good recelpe tor paste, to use for pasting cuttings, that can be kept with- but souring, is the following: Wheat flcur, eight ounces; alum, powdered, one-fourth ounce; glycisrine, one and one-half ounces; oil of wiptergreen, one dram; water, one and one-hen pints. Mix the water, flour, and alum to a smooth paste, and hot till it thickens. Be careful not to burn or cook too much. Take it from the fire; add the oil and glyeerine and mix thoroughly. This will keep for years, sticks fast. every lime, and will not sour or discolor the paper. When first made it is too thick to use; but take out a little of the thick paste and thin it with water. After the paste has stood in the jar a couple of months some clear water will gather on top oi the paste. Do not throw this away, Let it stay on the paste. window for two hours. T hen siege the 'doors, leaving each window open not more than six inches. Leave this opal-- ing in every window all over the 1191159., high and low, east and west, an)! any tloin the shades close to tits edge 9% the opening. By keepiniothe sun on. trnd providing a cipettlati n of air a hcuse.may be kept cool. When lace curtains are too long for your windows, cut the tops off. Then take the two pieces and join with in- sertion to match, if possible. Then line with cambric of desired color. A large bow may also be placed of the color In the centre or corner of the scart It desired. This makes a pretty, as well as inexpensive, dresser scarf. CROPS IN SASKATCHEWAN. THE YEAR'S SURPLUS. SIMPLE REMEDIES 1907. 1906.