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It is said that stains on blankets and other woolen goods can be remov- ed by using a mixture of equal parts of glycerine and yolk of an egg. Spread it on the stain, leave it for half an hour, and then wash. Serving Rhubarb. Baked Ithubarb.-Wash and wipe dry the rhubarb. Cut into inch lengths without peeling. Arrange a layer of the rhubarb in the bottom of a buttered earthen baking dish, Cov- ering with sugar, repeat this process until a sufficient quantity has been used. Cover lightly; do not add water. Bake for one hour and serve cold. Useful Hints. After the dust is wiped off a mirror a little camphor on a cloth will brighten it. The castors on large and heavy piéces of furniture should have a drop or two of oil applied to them once or twice a year to keep them running smoothly, When making milk puddings use half milk and half water for mixing them. This is more economical, and the pudding will taste almost as well as if made with all milk. Often a good table cover gets torn at the corners through having been carefully pegged out on a windy day. This spoils the appearance, even if the rent can be darned. If the tear is a very bad one the only thing to do is to round off each of the four Rhubarb Putrs.-Cream together one cup of sugar and two tablespoons of butter, add two well beaten eggs, one-fourth of a cup of milk, one tea- spoon of baking powder and flour enough to make a stiff batter; then stir in one cup of finely chopped rhubarb; half fill well buttered molds with the mixture and steam for half an hour. Serve with any preferred pudding sauce. Rhubarb Pie.-0ne cup of finely chopped rhubarb, one-half cup of sugar, one heaping teaspoon of flour, the yolk of one egg, a small lump of butter, and a drop or two of lemon juice. Bake with one crust, and cover with a meringue made of the white of an egg, beaten stiffly, and to which has been added one large tablespoon of granulated sugar. Brown in a warm oven, and serve hot. It is better to clean meat by wip- ing it with a wet cloth than to let wa- ter run over it. Every housekeeper should possess a wooden spoon for stirring all fruits or soups containing any acid. To sharpen scissors take a bottle and cut with the scissors as if you had to cut the neck off the bottle. This is effective. To keep out moths whole cloves sprinkled among furs and woollens will be found as effective as the ill- smelling moth preparations. Rhubarb Dirmplimrs.--Wash and eat the rhubarb into inch pieces and stew with a little more than half its weight in sugar, adding a very little water. Make a batter by using a scant cup of sweet mik, a pint of flour into which has been sifted two teaspoons of baking powder, and a little salt. Drop this batter by spoon- fuls into the boiling rhubarb, and cook for ten minutes. The result is a delicious pudding, which should be served hot, with or without cream. To place ferns upon the window sill means their death, as the plants cannot stand a cold draught. To clean a mineer after using grind stale crusts of bread through it. The bread collects all the fat, grease and skin from the small teeth. Rhubarb Snowba1ls.-Boil half a cup of rice until soft; wring small pudding cloths out of hot water, and spread the cooked rice about half an inch thick over the centre of the cloths. Spread about half a cup of chopped rhubarb on each, sweeten well, tie up the cloths closely, and steam for 20 minutes. Then turn out of the cloths carefully and serve with rich cream. Rhubarb Fritters. -- Peel young rhubarb and cut into three-inch lengths. Make a batter of two well beaten eggs, one pint of milk, a lit- tle salt, and six large tablespoons of flour, beating until smooth. Dip each piece of rhubarb in the batter and fry to a golden brown. Serve very hot, piled high on a napkin lined plate, and well powdered with sugar. Rhubarb Saufrle.---Put the thu-, barb, cut fine, into a double boiler with plenty of sugar to sweeten, and steam until tender; then press through a sieve. To three cups of this sauce add the well-beaten yolks of three eggs, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, and bake in a well buttered dish until it begins to crack open on top. Serve hot. Rhubarb Custard.-Make a custard by using the-yolks of two eggs, a pint of sweet milk, and two table- spoons of sugar. Line a deep pud- ding dish with pastry, and cover the bottom with a layer of chopped rhu- barb which has been rolled in sugar. Pour this over the custard and bake. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs, spread over the baked custard, and set in the oven to brown. . New German Army 011 way to France A despatch from London says: A new German army of about 500,000 men, some of them first-class troops, is moving west, according to the cor- respondent of the Daily Mail at Aix la Chapelle. Dutch correspondents About the Household I "The Zouaves continued on past the second line of trenches toward Tout- ‘vent ravine. All at once the patrols, ‘L which were ahead of the main body of itroops, were seen to sway and fall, /iii'i'l'ii'gh' no shot had been fired. The Germans had placed a low barbed- wire entanglement in the high grain (field to stop them) Our men soon severed the barbed wire and succeeded gin capturing three German 77-eannon, iwhich had been effectively hidden be- lneathe bomb-proofs a few yards far'- l ther on. To remove shabby leather chairs take one pint of linseed oil, boil it, and let it stand till nearly cold. Then stir into it half a pint of vinegar. When the two are perfectly amalga- mated bottle, and it is ready for use. Shake the bottle well before using the mixture. Pour a little on a soft cloth, rub it well into the" leather, turning the flannel as it gets dirty, then rub with a soft duster till the polish is restored. This polish soft- ens the leather and prevents it from cracking. _ Paint Brush Help.--When white- washing or painting a ceiling, the liquid is apt to run down your hand or arm and is Very annoying. To eliminate this trouble, use a large paint brush and a large rubber ball. Cut the ball in half, make a hole in the centre of one-half and push the handle through with the cup side to- ward the brush. If care is taken not to splash this will catch the liquid, which can be emptied from time to time into the can. corners to match, hemming them very "The 'elean sweep' ordered had been rapid and complete. TWO hundred and fifty prisoners were the sole surviv- ors of the two battalions. The rein- forcements which the Germans endea- vored to bring up were mown down by our 75s. Two thousand of our ad- versaries were placed out of action. neatly. Double Boiler Substitute-To cook oatmeal and other breakfast foods without a double boiler, take a two- quart lard or other tin pail which has a tight fitting cover. Into this put the breakfast food mixed up with boiling water. Then cover the pail and place it in a common iron kettle, in which there is about two quarts ot boiling water. Cover the kettle and let it boil 15 minutes. Less time is required than a regular double boiler, for the iron kettle sets in the stove. If the kette is needed for potatoes the pail of oatmeal may be placed in first and the potatoes put around "When the command to charge was given, the whole line, as one man, rushed across. Slight opposition was encountered. Only one uqiek-firer was used by the Germans, which occasion- ed small losses. The attack was be- gun at 10.15 o'eloek, and half an hour later the first prisoners were brought to the officers' headquarters. "The whole position was captured and quickly fortified to withstand counter-attacks and communicating trenches with the main position were prepared. Our aviators reported that fresh reinforcements had been rushed up from Royal in auto-busses. Dur- ing the night the fresh troops attack- ed, but were repulsed each time. it. "We attacked with four battalions, composed of Zouaves, Tirailleurs, Mo- roccans and Bretons, who, without haversacks, carried three days' ra- tions, 250 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and a sack filled with earth to serve as a temporary shelter in the captured trench. "Throughout the day there was a heavy bombardment of the entire German position, which was cvontin- ued during the night by aerial torpe- does and musketry. Our fire was very effective, the two battalions which held the position suffering heavy loss- es, many of the men being buried alive beneath their bomb-proof eel.. lars. "At dawn the enemy again attacked desperately our two wings, but by rain or hand grenades his fire was effectively stopped. "We counted on the ground where the counter-attacks took place ap- proximately two thousand dead. The total estimate of the enemy's losses is three thousand dead, not counting the wounded. We lost two hundred and fifty men killed and 1,500 wounded. We captured 20 quiek-firers and also a great quantity of trench materials." MEN BURIED ALIVE EJNDEB SHELTEBS The Terrible Effect on the Enemy of The French Artillery Fire. A despatch from Paris says: The French official "eye-witness" in an article on the fighting in the vicinity east of Tracy-le-Mont gives the de- tails of the capture by the French forces several days ago of the Quen- nevieres farm. also report the arrival of large num- bers of troop trains in Belgium. Along most of the French front the fighting is of a character similar to that which has been in progress for many months. HIE SUNNY Slliull1EMll I. The Cry to God (Verses 1-4). Verse 1. I have called upon thee --This is a frequent introduction to apsalm of complaint and desire for deliverance. 2. As incense before thee . . . as the evening sacrifice-These are ex- pressions from the priestly ritual. Incense was hurnt every morning and evening (see Exod. 30. 7, 8), and sacrifice was made both in the morning and evening (Exod. 29. 39). The psalmise's prayer was to be continual, not an impulse to sporadic bursts of supplieabion, And it was to be a tribute of honor and praise. As the road over which the king was to pass, a0cor- ding to Oriental custom, was scent- ed with sweet perfume, so the God of heaven was to be adored in the presence of pleasant_ odors. The psalmist knew what worship meant. He wanted his,prayer and the lifting up of his hands to have all the authority and force of an appointed religious service. . Lesson _ XII.--A Prayer for the Tempted (Temperance Lesson). Psa. 141. G.T.--Psa. 141.9. Canada uses up a lot of cream. Once upon a, time cream was used 'chiefly in the manufacture of but- ter, although some of it went to add richness and smoothness to the refreshing mug of coffee, or to blend with the delectable flavor of the invigorating cup of tea, to the second or fourth renewal. 3. Set a watch-However much one might determine to bridle (or muzzle, Psa. 39. 1) the mouth, there was still danger of shining with the tongue. Only as God is the keeper, and sets a, sentry to guard the lips, is the mouth of a man safe. A great deal of the increase of consumption is in, the form of cream. There is more butter eat- en to-day than was once the case, and more butter per capita is eat- en than the average individual ate a few years back. One reason for this is that butter is now made bet- ber, handled better, shipped bet- her and placed upon the table a more txyobhsonre article of food than was once common. There is no greater incentive than this. Even advertising, while it may create a demand, needs this assist- ance to. be able to create a demand for more. Wide adoption of new styles of breakfast foods has done a lot to stimulate the demands for cream, for wherever they go, cream is apt to go with or after them. City grooeris and milk dealers under- stand this well, and they push the sale ”of breakfast foods aoeording- ly. Demands for cream are active, and permanent. Now that the pub- lic is learning to use it, they will unwillingly learn all over again to do without it. Farmers eyyy- where are recognizing the stability that they feel there is in the de- mand for hrst-elass dairy prodnets by making deliberate preparations and laying plans to extend their operations in the dairy line." ' . J. A. Ruddick, Commissioner of Dairying and Cold Storage at Ot- tawa, states that the consumption of milk and its products per capita is about 816.6 lbs. per annum. But these flgrures are far from being stable. They may and probably were true at the time, which was only a, short while ago. But this ratio is increasing. Canada's con- sumption of milk is increasing, at; the rate of about three million dollars per year. MILLLUL "I, AD yuxu “11¢“ ‘4“ v. ___-e-__" is Wanted. To ensure the Produc- tion of this kind of cream there are several rules that should be carefully observed, Cleanliness is one of these, and this begins with the cow. Many cities txo-day are providing for the inspection of all cows whose milk is sent to them for sale, and some of them are un- dertaking to do the same in the case of cows whose cream is ship- ped. "CAL/n that is fresh," and that is uniform, is the kind of cream Ihat To ship cream to the city by the route of the old deep setting can is scarcely practical. The cream sep- arator, which accomplishes separa- tion as soon as the milk is taken from the cow, is the best, and, in INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 20. Care of the Cream, Labor saving machinery is being used more and more on the farm. Taking Off the Cream 4. Incline not my heart __ So afraid is the psalmist of becoming affected with the disease of an- another's iniquity that it seems as though he thought God might; un- consciously incline him to evil ,deeds.‘ Bis prayer, however, is a, positive declaration that he will not let the sin of another eontarni- nate him. IL Chastening by the Righteous (Verses 5-7). 5, Let the righteous smite me-- The Psalmist would rather be in the presence of the righteous, though they smite and chastise him, than in the presence of the wicked, though they pet and caiole him. There is the further thought that honest criticism of a just and purt man is a blessing to be covet- ed, a, kindness and as oil upon the head. (See Psa. 23. 5; 133. 20.,, Even in their wiekedaess--The psalmist unconsciously turns from the thought of the righteous smit- ing him to the buffeting of the wicked. This idea was so dominant in his mind that he does not speak specifically of the "unrighteous" in their wickedness, but simply as- sumes that whoever in wickedness could do anything would be essen- tially wicked.' He does not mean that the righteous could be wicked; the,pronouri" "their" does not refer to "the righteous" mentioned in the first part of the verse; it refers to the "wicked" whom he supp6s- es, in contradistinction to the righteous, would attempt to make him cease praying. 6. Their judges are thrown down --This verse is very obscure. Per- haps the reference is to the leaders of Absalom's revolt, who are sup- posed to have thrown down the rocks by the people whom they Commercially, the cream that is the thickest at which it can be completely and exhaustively sepa- rated from the milk wilt pay the best. It costs less to haul a, dollar's worth of it to the station, and less to pay the freight upon it to the city. Besides this, there is so much the more of the skim milk left at home. For this there is a great deal depending upon the care of the man behind the cream separator. If properly cared for, there is "really very little that is likely to get out of order for a long time in the cream separator. Every part is usually well made. The adjust- ments are accurate, and the ma- chinery is well protected. Most of the bearings are floatsing in oil, and if only plenty of oil is supplied, and care is taken to see that only the best of suitable oil is used, there will be no trouble onfhat score. Turning the Machine. Upon every cream separator there are some directions as to the turnln'g. Some demand so many re- volutions of the handle per min- ute, while others require more, or less. In every case the number in- dicated will get the best results, provided the proper temperature is observed in the milk that is be- ing skimmed. Without taking care of this, however, results PC? apt haxrt, the only way. By this means milk is cleaned once over again, and the cream will be, ifthen cool- ed down to a, proper temperature, in a, condition to keep well and safely for a, long time. By the cream separator, too, cream may be shipped that is of a uniform thickness and richness. This is the basis upon which cream is paid for, and to produce a cream that will be up to a rcgular stand- ard is the only sure way to get your full pay. . Cream sityyurtytors are sold, at leashmanj? of them, guaranteed to rtfn in almost any position that ap- proaches the perpendicular or the upright. But as a matter of plain, common sense, the cream separator should be placed upon a solid foundation, one that is perfectly level, and likely to remain so per- manently. With the machine in this position theme is likely to be less wear, and a, more completely accurate adjustment is possible. to be uncertain, and it will be im- possible to get the machine down to uniform work. When starting the machine, it ts always a good plan to have some water handy, and when the proper speed has been attained pour it into the machine before commenc- ing to turn in the milk. After all of the milk has been Enally run through, another dose of hot wa- ter will do some good, helping to get the last of the cream owt. Care of the Separator. The statement that draught horses will be a, scarce commodity in the British Isles when the war is over is no rash statement, but is based on stem facts, as the fol- lowing extract from "The Farm and fguyclrbreeder," a, prominent British agricultural publication, goes to show. Where Canada, stands as a. future source of supply is the question of the times for us to answer, and our answer should take a, very mater- ial form. Let the season of 1915 see a. record established, not in the breeding of mares, but in the breeding of good draught memes. Let Canada, stand ready to supply the deficit of the Motherland-at a profit, Following is the extract: "Week by week the draught horse appears to be getting dearer. Since the war began prices have advanced 7. Our bones are seateered---flee Psa. 53. 5. Similar expressions in the Psalter are used of the enemy, or of those who put themselves out of harmony with God. So here "our bones" evidently has refer- ence to the Wicked. Their punish- ment comes so swift and sure that they themselves cry out, '/Our bones are scattered," ete. They are of no more consequence than the elods which a, plower leaves be- hind him in the furrow. III. The Eyes Fixed on Jehovah (Verses 8-10). 8-1.0. Verses five to seven-are not as clear as verses one to four and eight to ten. "The stream [in verses five to seven] has . been foaming among rocks in a, gorge, but [in verses eight-to ten] it has emerged into_sunl.ight and flows smoothly.” - , __ misled. These latter, after having been deceived b the fake leaders, heard David's words as "sweet morsels.” King of Belgium Wrote To Frontenac Woman Most of us crm m Traditions. Worship Dogma, and are Content to Liva in [immunity to (Mon, "Ye have not passed this way here- tofore."-Joshua, iii., 4. Nothing is more impressive in the story of the Exodus than the trouble which the leaders of the host encoun- tered in persuading their followers to continue their march to the land which had been promised them by God. Whenever the journey became perilous Moses was reminded of the security of Egypt and besought to re- turn thereto. Whenever a chance en- campment like that at Mount Sinai proved attractive Moses was urged to press on no farther, but to accept this halting place as the new abode. And even when the promised land was in sight across the Jordan there were those who were afraid to ad- vance because they had "not passed this way heretofore." we feel at ease only when following a road which we have "passed" over many times before or which has been beaten smooth by the feet of the multitudes that have preceded us. In thee do I take refuge-The honest soul takes refuge in the Al- mighty; it is confident that harm will remain far off. A despatch from Kingston says: Mrs. Stover, of Violet, Frontenac county, who is past eighty-three years of age, has received a letter from King Albert of Belgium, thanking her in the name of the Belgian people for her donation of fifteen pairs of socks which she knitted herself. The case was brought to the King's attention by friends of the aged lady. The snares and gins which one sets for another are always sure to cause one's own undoing. The Psalms N? full of such expressions, showing' that the writers had dis- cerned a never-failing law of hu- man life. It is doubtful if there is any more serious obstacle to progress than the innate reluctance to tread unfamiliar paths which is here illustrated. Creatures of habit by the very con- stitution of our physical organism, there are who welcome new ideas and find the fact that they have "not passed this way heretofore" the best of reasons for passing this way now. Such men are the explorers, discover- ers, inventors, reformers of their time. Most of us regard age as sure evidence of sanctity, familiarity as sound criterion of truth and preee- dent as identical with righteousness. That our fathers believed a certain doctrine is sufficient reason for our believing it! That a certain thing has been done from time immemorial is proof positive that it must con- tinue to be done! That a certain path has been the road for genera- tions of hurrying feet is evidence that this is "the path which we must New Paths to Newer Worlds Horses High ?ntyyl and Scarce in Britain Adventurous Souls very rapidly, and a, horse of weighty characteristics is easily disposed of at a, high price. Buyers are much less discriminating than they were because they find they cannot obtain a sufficiency of horses. The very best are excep- tionally dear, and-at the markets in the West and Midlands of Eng- land particularly-buyers have been keenly competing for sudh horses as farmers are able to sell. One really wonders where these horset oome from. Trade has been so brisk, no doubts, that it suggests, some little sacrifice on the part of the breeders, and tempts them to market stock which otherwise they would hold up. It is doubtful if we have reached the limit of mar- ket values, but it is fairly safe to say that horses were never dealer in the recollection of living breed- ers. - Hands Out Long Statement, Compli- cating the Already Critical Situation. BRYAN ATTACKS . WILSUN’S NOTE o,,," A despatch from Washington saysx While the President's note to Ger- many was being handed to the news- paper correspondents at the State De. partment, Wm. J. Bryan was passing out at his home a statement attack ing the communication sent by Mr, Wilson on behalf of this Government Serbian Aeroplanes In the statement Mr. Bryan de, scribes the President of the United States as an exponent of the old sys~ tem in dealing with disputes between Governments, the. system that hat war as itreornetystone. _Not,0n1y it this assertion, but in others, Mt Bryan showed that hedearrthe POB. sibility of war between Germany-and the United States as the resu1t,of Mr, Wilson's note. travel too!" Such is the natural conservatism of the mind, with its re- sult of ever-recurring periods of stagnation and bondage, from which humanity is saved, sorely against its will, only by the patient valor of some Moses or Joshua! That the new is necessarily the true by no means follows from this sad experience of the race. But it does follow therefrom that progress in the nature of things must be by ways we "have not passed hereto- fore." To shun these ways is to stand stock still or else to move in a vicious circle which leads nowhere. It is to abode on low levels and to keep within narrow borders. If we are to get ahead it must be by breaking through the wilderness of the unknown which rings us round. And that we must so get ahead if we are to escape decay and Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, issued a statement which was interpreted by Washington to mean that the Federa.. tion of Labor, while doing everything possible to maintain péaee,pvil1 stand firmly behind the President in his in. sistence that American lives shall not be unnecessarily and unwarrantably jeopardized on the high seas. Death Is a Law of Life. Space is endless, time eternal, God infinite! The universe knows no horizons, the mind no bounds, the de- sires of man's heart no satisfactions! The very fact that there is a wilder- ness of the unknown proves that there are new lands yet to be discov- ered and explored and new paths, therefore, to be blazed. All of which means that we must have ears that are open to new proclamations of truth, eyes that rest gladly on new relations of the spirit, feet that seek swiftly new paths to 1oftier heights. Not age, nor weariness, nor long service, nor great achievement can absolve us from the task, imposed anew each day, of leaving behind fa- maliar spots and pressing on by ways "not passed heretofore" to the Promised Land of God. The cry of Ulysses to his shipmates must be ever ours:-- A despatch from Nish, Serbia, says: Three Austrian aeroplane: dropped bombs on Kragojevatz, kill- ing or wounding twelve persons. Ser- bian aeroplanes pursued the hostile machines, bringing one down. Another aeroplane with two German officers. was -taken at Gripalanka. "'Tis not too late to seek a newer world, To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield." Bring Down Austrian --John Haynes Holmes.