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Great risk always attends the use of raw or uiocooked pork for food, and undoubtedly many isolat, ed cases of triehinosis are treated as _other sicknesses and are not traced hack to the gating of raw of poorly cooked tporilt?, 't, In applying the rule given above, the eighttet1-aninute-peF-vouud al- lowance; should be followed in sum- mir as well as in winter if the meat is taken from a, refrigerator and cooking begun before it has had time to reach the ordinary house temperature. For high altitudes where the temperature of boiling water is considerably less than at see level the time of cooking must be_letlgehened. _ How long should a, ten-pound ham be boiled if placed in cold wa- ter and if one hour is required to bring the water to a boil? Teh times eighteen; less 30 equals 150 minutes, or 2% hours, after bailing begins. Ten ti/ries eighteen equals 180 tnipuees, or three hours. Cook the meat fifteen minutes (summer) to eighteen minutes (win- ter) for each pound of weight d put into boiling water, keeping the water boiling throughout the cook- ing process. If the meat, is put into gold waterededuct half the, time re- quired to bring the water to a boil. - Examples: Aosv hong"sifoihi'iT, hen-mound ham be boiled if placed 'a1_boilipg water? The following rule for cooking pork by boiling is based on careful experiments carried out some years ago by a Danish investigator: If they develop a rash/pVis,ist, ant cough or a sore throat send for the doctor. See that your children wash their hands. Before they eat, and keep them may from children with colds. Measles. i Diphtheria. Scarlet fever. Whooping cough. All lively in spring. Keep your house ventilated. Keep garlbage pail and yard glean. . Here too often we find impaired hearing due to changes in the inter- .nal parts of the ear; more or less on a par with grey hair or bald- ness. If that be the case there is not much to be.done by way of re- medy. The great preventive is to be careful of bodily health through- out early years, to avoid evil hab- its of living, to strive for "a sound mind in a. sound body," to be tem- perate, moderate and regular in all things, to lead a thoroughly vireu- ous life. But when old peoplv, bf gin to get deaf this is often due to an aseumvlarion of dried and hardened wax in the ear. All you have to do, then, is to pour into the organ each night a little glyce- tine, warmed gently. That dis- solves the wax, which you can wipe; away by degrees. There is no oo-; easion at all to syringe; although that process is not so harmful, so likely to injure, as in the child. Then it the glycerine gives no re- lief, or if there be reason to sus- pect some injury to the drum of the ear, you must use the glycerine with the borax. But not seldom it is not so much the skin itself tharig at fault as the constitution and general habits of the patient, so that the blood is tainted and impure, and tries to throw off the poisonous impurities by way of the skin. Much eczema depends on gout, and much is asso- ciated with rheumatism and Sero- fula.--A Physician. MA as the skin. People hinder that function by being dirty, by not washing regularly every week with soap and water. Or they do not change their under linen once a week, but continue to wear woollen garments soaked in perspiration for weeks or months. Or they (rarely) wash too much; irritate the skin by too frequent baths, by the use of unwholesome soaps, the. There may be an excess of zeal even for cleanliness, and as Talley- rand remarked "Sururut, point de zele.” Like every other malady the real disorder usually springs from some interference with the function Of the organ attacked; and no organ is so much injured in this way, by n.ot giving it fair play for its func- Of all skin complaints, eczema is by far the most prevalent; and also one of the most troublesome. That is to say, the genuine eczema un- dpubtedly is so; but a great deal of what is called-by that name is not genuine at all. I have seen- innu- merable cases of scalbies, the com- mon itch, due to a, parasitic insect, so styled; and a, learned doctor- specialist on skin maladies, long since dead, had a mania for calling everything on the skin eczema. . II ll How Long to Cook Pork. Deafness in the Aged. In the Spring. HEALTH Eczema. ll ll 11. The Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves - The Israelites had been so pressed by the Philistines that they had hidden themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits, or cisterns (1 Sam. 13. 6). The Philistines knew this, and when This shall he the sign unto us-- See Gen, 24. 12-26; Judg. 6. 36-40; Isa. 37. 30, etc. It will be remem- bgied that Jesus once reproved the Jews because they were always looking for a sign, when, as a mat- ter of fact, their eyes were not open to the things that were hap- pening all about them. - --ee my """'"u" fourth chapter of Genesis in the instructions of Abraham to his ser- vant and in the meditation of the servant himself. There is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few-lt was a well-established belief of the children of Israel that wherever the proper faith was shown the desired result would follow. Jona- than believed that the Philistines ought to be smitten, and that God would help him to smite them: That he and his armor-bearer were two against a multitude did not spell defeat to him. 8-10. The Israelites believed in signs and wonders. They would consider certain things as desirable or possible, and then look for such things to come to'passs. A splendid example is found in the lwentr) 'e___xT, ,1, 7 I F ’V . - 6. The garrison of these uncir, cumcised---Thisis a term of re- proach used by the Israelites only of the Philistines. See Judg. 14. 3; 15. 18; 1 Sam. 17. 26, 36; 31.. 4; 2 Sam. 1. 20, etc. The people knew not that Jima- than was gone-lt seemed impor- tant for the narrator to state this fact so that the people themselves would not be held responsible for anything that Jonathan had done. 4. The name of the one was Bo, zez, and the name of the other Se, neh-Bozez means “the shining” It was a crag toward the south which caught the full rays of the sun, and hence, whenever the sun shone, it was shining. Seneh means "thorns." Wearing an ephod-Verse, 3 is seemingly thrown into the narra- tive here. It is important for two reasons: flrst, because it gives us these facts about the grandson of Eli, who was a, priest, and, there- fore, helps us to fix the time of the occurrence; and, second, because it paves the way for the events that are to follow. Because of Jonathan's violation of an oath which his father took (1 Sam. 14. 25-30), even although Jonathan was an innocent offender, it was neces- sary to cast lots. This was always done only in the presence of a priest who wore an ephod. (See verses 18-24ff.) Also compare 1 Sam. 2. 28; 23. 6, 9. As to the nature of the ephod, see Exod. 28. 6, 7. 1chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli-1chabod is referred to in 1 Sam. 4. 21. When the wife of Phinehas, the son of Eli, gave birth to a son, it was I just at the time when the ark of the Lord had been taken by the Philis- tines. She called the name of her boy, therefore; Ichabod, which means "no glory," or, as it is ex- plained, "the glory is departed from Israel" (1 Sam. 4. 19-22). As ‘lchabod was the son of Phinehas, l who was one of the sons of Eli, he was, therefore, the grandson of Eli, and was not so much younger than Samuel. This means that about fifty years had passed from the time when the ark of the Lord was taken by the Philistines to the time when Jonathan scaled the) heights of Michmash. The fact that‘ a grandson of Eli should now be a priest, even although his father, Phinehas, was a wicked man, and really brought about the death of) his father, Eli, shows the 1h/j,:ej,-) tary character of the priesthood among the Israelites, Even one who was untrue to the tradition and office of the priesthood could not break the line of priestly des- tent. 3. Ahijah, the son of Ahitulr--- Ahijah is the same Ahimelech. See 1 Sam, 21. 1; 22. 9-ll, The ending of Ahijah, "iah," means "God"; and the ending of Ahimelech, "me, lech," means "king." The He- brew names frequently had a dif- ferent beginning, but the name itself was the same. 2. Saul abode in the tittermost part of Gibeah under the pomegra- nate-tree-Saul was a full hour's march from the place where Jona- than was. For other instances of places made prominent by trees, see Judg. 4. 5; 1 Sam. 22. 6. He told not his father-The re- lationship between father and son is such among the Oriental people that it was a, very unusual thing for Jonathan to have done what he did without telling his father. Lesson XII. Jonathan and His Armorbearer. 1 Sam. 14, 1-46. Golden Text, Rom. 13, 12. .Verse l. The young man that bare his armor-The. armor of the Israelite warriors was patterned on that of their enemies. It was heap: and cumbersome. The warmer needed a. servant to carry his arms. IE SUNDAY (ltll8illllim INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 21. “Good heavens, I hope they re- membered the sword.” Perhaps the story which Mr. Bir, rell is most fond of telling against himself is that concerning the days when he was Mr. Asquith's col- league in the representation of Fife. One day a, Scottish M.P, cornered Mr. Birrell in the lobby with this question, “How is it, Mr. Birrell, that you are returned for West Fife by many thousands, whereas in the eastern division of the same county "What appeared," said Mr. Bir- rell, "was a, wholly garbled version of what never book place." T That Terrible Sword. Mr. Birrell’s fondness for reliev- ing , serious situation by th humor- ous comment is further, illustrated by his remark when frightened offi- cials came to tell him that the Crown jewels had been stolen from Dublin Castle. Remembering that a visit from King Edward was ex- pected in Ireland, and that he would have to undergo the awful ordeal of walking backwards be- fore his Majesty, holding the big sword of State, Mr. Birrell ex- claimed : b - "Yes, I do," said the farmer, "and so do a good many other pea ple.", the prompt reply. "But I believe in the resurrection of the dead." Mr. Birrell fully appreciates the humor of an incident, however; even when the joke is against him- self, and in connection with his iam- ous Education bill he is rather fond of telling the story of an East Ang- lian farmer who said to Mr. Birrell on one occasion that if all the mo- ney spent on education within the last 20 years had been spent on artificial manure this would indeed be a happy country. "Ther/laid Mi. Birr.ell, "you prefer muck to mind?" Some of his witty sayings will live long after he is dead. It was he who on one memorable occasion re- ferred to the House of Lords as "re- presenting nobody but themselves, and they enjoyed the full confidence of their constituents," while in the same vein he declared that "a pen- sion of five shillings a week was not much inducement to longevity.” What Be Believed In. And then there was his witty re- tort, when things were going badly with his Education bill in 1907, to a church dignitary, who, meeting him one day, observed: "I am afraid your bill is dead, Mr., Bir- rell.” Men of all parties have a, sincere affection for him. When Birrell is "up" in the House, lobby, smoking- rooms, and dining-rooms are at once emptied, for members are sure to hear a speech witty, informing, and eloquent. Chief Secretary for Ireland Is a Genuine Book Lover. "Recreations: Pedestrianism, golf, book-hunting." Thus "Who's Who," in its biographical notes on Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrcir, Chief Secchary of Ireland since 1907, who, it; is announced, will resign at an early date. To which ‘might be added the genial pastime of, in- creasing not a little the gaiety of his fellows, for, Mr. Birrell, being a, confirmed optimist, as he has more than once confessed, loves to look at things through rose-colored spectacles, and to seize the oppor- tunity to enliven even the most seri- ons situations with light-hearted w1_t§icisms and epigrams. RT. HON. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Come up to us, and we will show you a thing--This, pf course, was said mockingly. The Philistines thought they could easily overcome not only Jonathan and his armor- bearer, but the whole Israelite army. - they saw Jonathan and his armor- bearer coming up the hill, it doubt- less looked to them as though they had come out of a hole in a, rock. The boldness with which they came led them to think that other Israel- ites also were near, and so they jumped to the conclusion that the whole Israelite army was coming out of the places in which they had hidden themselves. ' Wes, it Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, may be, my lord," was play! i We can forgive a man who hates a quarrel if he quarrels hardly or even unfairly; he. is so unused to the game that he cannot be expect- ed to play it kindly when it is forc- ed upon him; he is embittered by his natural anger that he should be forced to quarrel at all. But the quarrelsome ‘man who quarrels with a, purpose is as base as the piardsharper. He prohes by the weaknesses of others on a pretence of sharing them. In fact, he is a man that even the most, quarrel- some would never quarrel with twice, any more than a, gambler will knowingly play twice with a eardshar-per; for in quarreling, as: in gambling, there is one law that should never be broken just be- cause both are rather lawless pur- suits, and that is the law of fair A despatch from Geneva, says: Thirty thousand civilian inhabi- tants'of French territory occupied by the Germans are being expelled through Switzerland in lots of 500. The first thousand passed through Geneva on Tuesday. They were chiefly from Lille and Maubeuge, and consisted of very old people and children under ten years. Some of the French children said that they had often gone near the fighting line to get food. The ex- iles were sent across the French frontier by the Swiss authorities. Expelling Civilians From Occupied France. A despaireh from Geneva. says: large quantities of copper from Italy destined for Germany were seized by the Swiss authorities at Chiasso on Wednesday. The meth- od employed for some time, accord- ing to Swiss officials, has been to send contraband from Genoa in sealed cars labeled Amsterdam. These ears have passed through Switzerland, and on crossing the German frontier have been taken in charge by the Germans, who re- moved the freight and returned the cars to Italy. The newspapers have published articles exposing this traffic. Copper From Italy Life and Death Hinges on Muni- tions of War. A despatch from London says: Speaking of the compensation to be made to persons whose factories the Government might commandeer under the amendment to the de- fence of the realm act, introduced in the House of Commons on Tues- day by Chancellor of the Exche- quer Lloyd-George, the Chancellor on >Wednesday promised that every- thing pos'sible would be done to re- due' inconvenience and loss. Con- tinuing; he said: "It is, however, a matter of life and death with this country that we increase enormous- ly our supplies of munitions of war, in spite of the possible loss to individuals. The national needs are so overwhelming that I hope those who are inconvenienced in the matter of contracts will put up with it." LLOYD-GEORGE; STATEME The note continues: "Even ad- mitting that certain regiments suf- fered less than those mentioned above, all regiments have been vio- lently engaged repeatedly on one or the other of the two fronts, sometimes on both, and it is im- possible to arrive at a smaller fig- ure for the total German losses, including the sick, than 3,000,000." "Analysis of the German losses during five months, in ten regi- ments taken from army corps on both the eastern and western Ger- man fronts, shows a total of 36, 281 officers and soldiers; that is, an average per regiment of 725 month- ly, says the note. Applying this percentage of losses to the entire German army, including the land- wehr, landsturm, new formations and marines, the deduction is made that the total German losses during the seven months of the war must exheed 3,000,000. Like Lord Rosebery, Mr. Birrell is a genuine book-lover. Literature is his chief delight, and nothing pleases him more than to escape for a few hours from political and offi- cial duties and take a quiet stroll among the bookshops in the hope of picking up some literary trea, sure. Calculation as to German Casual. ties is Surprising. An official note issued by the French Press Bureau declares that the German losses since the begin, ning of hostilities in killed, wound, ed, sick and prisoners, reaches the enormous total of 3,000,000 men. This calculation is based on the known casualties in ten German regiments. "I assured him," said Mr. Bir- rell, when telling the story, "that I had a great advantage over Mr. Asquith, for my father, grand- father, and great-grandfather had all been born in the county of Fife, and that most of them were buried in the well-known parish church in the district.” a really clever man like Mr. As- quith can only be returned by some hundreds l” FOE' S LO SS 3,000,000. Quarrols. Seized by the Swiss. NT. A despatch from Paris says: The destruction of a Zeppelin airship in the vicinity of Tirlemont on March 4, says the Matin's Havre corres- pondent, was the work of two Branch and two English aeroplanes. Acroplancs Brought Down Zeppelin "Captain McGarrick, of the steamship Castlereagh, which land- ed at Belfast, reports that his ship passed on Thursday morning a, "It is probable that all others aboard the Bayano were lost. The statement gives the names of Lieut.-Commander Guy and three other officers and four of the crew who were rescued and landed by the auxiliary patrol vessel Tarn. Eighteen more of the crew, of whom two are now in a hospital at Ayr, were landed by the steamship Balmerino. "On the 11th of March wreckage of the Bayano and bodies were dis- covered, and circumstances point to her having been sunk by an enemy torpedo.” A despatch from London says: The Admiralty announces the loss of the auxiliary cruiser Bayano while the vessel was engaged in patrol duty. In its statement of the disaster the Admiralty says: Steamer Searching) for Survivors of the Auxiliat Warship Driven Off by Enemy Submarine VICTIM OF l fiiMkllilill A large réuhd boEtle will serve very well as a rolling pin and is mqre ‘hygiepic than t e wooden pin. A piece of flannel dampened with spirits of camphor will remove stains from mirrors or window glass. ' _ - Alcohol and whiting makes a good silver polish, excellept also for. polishing plate glass mlrrors. A oledi, flour sack spread on‘thé table and well floured is an excel- lent substitute for a bread board. Black lead -mixed with vinegar will be found to give speeially good polish to the kitchen stove. A few shreds of candied orange peel will give a delicious flavor to a brqad pudding. A feldrops (if lemon juice apd- ed to eggs when they are» being scrambled improves the dish. All lard to fry fritters or dough- nuts must be sizzling hot before putting in the batter. Nickel may be kept blighi by tje, ing ruhbed with wool saturated with ammonia. One cake of compressed yeast is equal to a cupful of liquid yeast, "brake through the camp of the Philistines" and draw water from (this well. And yet when these he- l roes brought to the King the water which they had purchased at so great a price he "would not drink it, but poured it out unto the Lord y' What could have been more ungratefuLthan such an act as this 'l How could David have more point- edly shown his contempt, for the three who hazarded their lives for his sake 2 What must, have [been the sensations of the three when they saw the precious water spilled out upon the ground? Poured It Out Unto the Lord. Such is our first impression as we) peruse this story. But if we study) it a little eloser shall we not finii/ that David’s act, so far from being an insult to these three servants of his pleasure, was in reality the greatest tribute which he could pay them? Could he take this gift which had been won at the peril of the lives of three good men Could he use, for the gratifKation of his own selfish and whimsical desires, what his fellows had well-nigh per- ished to obtain? Nay, to drink this water would be to drink not water merely, but the blood of men. From the heart of love, not from the well of Bethlehem, came this precious Xxiii., 16, 17. 'Many readers of the story from which our text is taken have ever felt that David was woefully ungracious to "the three mighty men" who snatched for him a drink of water from the Well. of Bethlehem at peril of their lives. Here was Beth- lehem in the hands of the Phil- 'rstines. Here did these men, when they heard that David was longing for "water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the-gate," "But he would not drink thereof; for he said, . . . shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeop- ardy of their lives? Therefore, Dar vid would not drink it, but poured it out unto the Lord."---) Samuel xxiii., 16. 17. There is nothing better to use uri- DAVID’S GREATEST TRIBUTE Poured the Water Out Which Men f H323“ arded Then: Lives to Get .r' Hints to Housewives. The statement that it fell chucng, a storm is denied. Nine members of the crew of 41 aboard the aircraft are reported» ‘to have been found dead, while 29 were so badly in- jured they died the next day. Wigtonshire is the south-western, most county in Scotland. It lies on the North Channel, which leads into the Irish Sea from the Atlan- tic. The Belfast correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the Bayano was torpedoed Thursday morning at 9 o'clock off Corsewedl Point, Wigtonshire, Scotland, and that nearly 200 lives were lost, as the cruiser sank almost immediately. The vessel had a, crew of about 216 men on board. Commander. Carr and 13 other officers are named among the miss- ing, and it is presumed they were lost. quantity of wreckage and dead bodies Boating in lifebelts. He attempted to search the spot in the hope of saving any who might still be alive, but was prevented by the appearance of an enemy submarine, which chased him for about 20 min- utes." Delicious raising bread is made by saving part of a white bread dough, made with milk. Mix into it a beaten egg, one cup chupyed raisins and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Form into a loaf, let rise Dried lima, beans, soaked over night and boiled till tender, then seasoned with butter and salt, are one of the best vegetables. and bake Pack ribbons, collars and sue-- little articles bei/Ween the leaves (i a, magazine, if you would keep them smooth when travelling. Save henzine or gasoline after you have used it for cleaning, Sim- ply put it in a jar and let it settle, then pour off the top. Nothing is better than snow for cleaning a dusty carpet; but nuur- ally the room in which it is used must be cold, Place screw eyes' in the tops of mops and other cleaning utensils, then they can be hung neatly on hooks. Always scald out your flour bill before putting in a fresh supply; it will save the new fhotur from be- coming musty. / Service of God, in the last analy- sis and from the highest point of view, is not a privilege but a duty. -Rev. John Haynes Holmes. der carpets than old newspapers, as moths do not like printer's ink, a, chance for lazy indifference“ to all the higher and nobler things of life. The very world we inhabit is the free offering of the creative. love of Almighty God, yet we use it as a plavground, a battlefield or a pig trough. What do we possess, from the commonest material oh- ject to the rarest spiritual faculty, which has not been bought at some inoalculalble price? And what, therefore, do we possess which can rightly be used for ourselves and not for God? Toprlre all that pd have and all that Ive are, and offe 1 this, after the example of David, as' a glad saeritiee "unto the Lord" is only what, we owe unto those who have again and again gone "in jeopardy of their lives" to give us what we have and make us what we are. Thus did David consecrate what came to him through the work of men's hands and at the peril of men's lives. Why do we not do the same? The wealth which we accu- mulate is bought by the sweat and tears of myriads of troilers, yet we use it for the vanities and luxuries of idle fancy. Our knowledge is the gift of hundreds of faithful scholars, who gave and dared-all to find the truth, yet me take it as a medium of selfish culture and not of efficient service. Our political freedom is the boon transmitted by men who bled on battlefields, rot- ted in prison cells or died on gib- bets, yet [WE,' snatch it with ignoble greed as an opportunity for plug der, power and pelt. ' Our Religious Liberty. is living water snatched from well- springs of the spirit, beleaguered bv Philistines of every age and place, by an unbroken line of mar- tyred prophets, yet we accept it as drink it, buepoured it @5530 1:116 Lord I” fluid. Therefore would not' '