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CAKE. half cup powdered sugar, put in
Chocolate Sponge Cake. - Cook tin kettle and peek in salt and ioe.
to e syrup one and one-half cupfuls, They must not be frozen, but must
of sugar and five tablespoonfuls of bo icy gold. At serving time plunge
boiling water, Separate six eggs, mold in hot water, turn the water
boat whites ten -minutes, then beat 100 on a high compote dish.; gar
Yolks very light, add and beat to- nigh outside with fresh flowers;
Bother five minutes, Add ayrup a head fruit in center and send at
little ab the timed bet all once to the tab e,
an a ten d
ifninutes. Add slowly two cupfuls .
of pastry hour, pinch of salt, tea- FAVORITE DISHES..
spoonful of vanilla, and two Ma- , Canned Peaches-Peaohea canned
spoonfuls of baking powder. Bake 'without cooking wheh openedare
forty-five minutes ilii moderate oven, like fresh peaches, especially if sere
Do not look in oven for twenty min- ed with cream. . Allow one pint of.
ates. Icing: Melt over teakettle water and one cupful of sugar for
two squares of bitter chocolate, add each can and boil this mixture five
cupful of sugar and. add boiling minutes. Pare the peaches and pack
water, one tablespoonful at a time in cans whole; leaving the pits in
instil dissolved, but do not add more gives more of a peach flavor. In
than three tablespoonfuls. Spread each filled can put one tablespoon
on cake while icing is warm. ful of pure alcohol, then pour the
OrangeCake.-Cream half a cup hot syrup over all till the cans are
butter -with one cup sugar, add brimful, and seal. These will keep
yolks of two eggs, half cup milk, perfectly two years or more.
and half cup of orange juice, and a Pineapple Help. -Pare and cut
little of the grated rind, 2 small out eyes • of ripe pineapples, strip
teaspoons baking powder sifted all pulp froth core with silver fork.
with two scant cups flour, then the To a pint •of this add a pound of
stiffly beaten whites of the two granulated sugar. Stir constantly
eggs. Bake in layers and spread until sugar is dissolved. Put into
'with orange icing made as follows : fruit jars: This will keep a long
Boil one cup sugar with one -guar- .time.
ter clip water until it threads, then Brown Sugar Pie. -Two-thirds
add gradually to stiffly beaten white cup brown sugar, one tablespoon
of ono egg and whip, slowly adding butter, two tablespoons milk, cook
'one-quarter cup orange juice, one until waxy looking; then take
teaspoonful of lemon juice and a yolks' of two eggs, one heaping
little o r
f the gated orange rind.
g tablespoondour, oneand: ono -half
Beat until thick and cream. cups milk ; mix all together, smooth,
Ice Cream Cake. -One cup but- add to the above ingrediets, cook
ter, two cups sugar,Tone cup milk, until thick; add vanilla; have a
three and one-half cups flour, two baked crust; use the whites beaten
teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites stiff for top; return to the oven for
of eight eggs, one-quarter teaspoon- a minute or two.
dul salt. Mix dry ingredients, -
cream, butter, and sugar, add milk. TESTED RECIPES.
then hour, and beat. Add whipped Eggless Fruit Cake. -Two cupfuls
,whites and beat again. Flavor with :sugar. two cupfuls buttermilk, ono
almond extract. Bake in three pound seedless raisins shopped fine,
jelly tins in hot oven and when four cupfuls flour, one-half cupful
told put together with boiled icing butter, one tablespoonful soda dis-
flavored with almond extract. a little hot water ; spices
Devil's Food Cake. -Butter, one - ate
totsin a cupful of rich preserves
heaping teaspoon; sugar, one cup; p
of pears or strawberry jam adds to
beat to a, good cream, then add the gond fruittaste so well liked
yolks of two eggs. Cut up one- by many, Bake in a slow oven.
fourth bar of chocolate, pub in .,5ea, r'oain Candy. -Cook three
sauoepan, add one-half cup of cold cupfuls brown sugar and one table.
water, let coma to bail, then pour spoonful of vinegar until the syrup
over above. Next add one and one- forms a hard ball when dropped in
(half cups of flour ,scant, with one cold water; pour it slowly over•the
teaspoon baking powder. Lastly stiffly beaten whites of two eggs,
add one-half teaspoon scant baking beating -continually until the candy
soda to half cup boiling water, is stiff enough to holdits shape.
then add to above contents, The Then, if liked, work in a cup of
eeoret in malting this cake is to chopped nuts and half a teaspoonful
Have the batter thin. Take the of vanilla. Drop in small pieoes
whites of the two eggs for boiled on waxed paper:
icing. Muskmelon Frappe. -Remove the
Lightning Cake. -One scant cup tops of small nutmeg melons so as
sugar, one full cup flour, one tea- to form a cover. Take out all the
spoonful baking powder; stir these seeds and membrane and scoop out
together in the mixing dish. One- as much of the soft pulp as can
third of a cupful of soft butter, easily be removed. Cut this latter
break into the cup on top of the into small pieces. Place the seeds
butter two eggs, fill the cup with and membrane in ,a sieve to drain
milk; stir this for an instant, the juice, thenadd the latter to
enough to break the eggs, and pour one quart of whipped cream, sweet -
the contents of the cup into the ened; turn this into an ice cream
flour, sugar, and baking powder. freezer and turn until stiff. When
Add one teaspoonful vanilla and ready to serve take the shells,
Air all together for a moment. which should have been chilled on
Then bake in two layers or one lar- ice, place the frappe cream in al
.ger sheet for from twenty minutes terriate layers with the melon pulp:
to hall an hour. This is easily Fastena narrriw ribbon looped bow
made and a light cake. It makes en',tea-lids with long pins; set the
e good dessert by cutting into melons on lace paper doilies and
equates and covering each piece serve with cake. An excellent
with a generous portion of maple company dessert,
-or whits sugar boiled- frosting. Deviled Crackers. - Deviled
IOED DISHES.
Violet Sherbet: -Boil together
for five minutes a pound of sugar
and a pint of water; add the juice
of two lemons. When icy cold add
one pint of grape juice and free.
When frozen stir, in a meringue
made from the White of one egg and
a tablespoon of powdered sugar
and repack. Let this stand one or
two h -ours to ripen. Serve in punch
.or wine glasses, garnished with
fresh violets, or they may be gar-
nished with candied violets.
Mint Punch. -Remove the leaves
from twelve large stalks of mint;
chop fine; put them in a mortar
with four or five tablespoons of
eugar and grind to a paste; or you
may rub them in a bowl with a
spoon. Boil together for five nin-
nies a pound of sugar aid a quart
Of water; add the•juiee of three bo -
mons and the mint; when the,mix-
titre is. icy cold, freeze. Serve in
unoh glasses.
deed Fruit Salad, -Boil together
a puund of sugar and quart of
water five minutes ; add grated rind
Of on orange and two lemons when
cold, strain. Add the juice of three
lemons and the orange; strain
pg ain. When cold, freeze, turning
slowly ab List, rapidly at the hast,
Put this in a border mold, cover the
/oin'v in a border of muslin dipped'
sit melted paraffin ; peek in salt and.
ilae two hours. Out three oranges
i half, take out th
n t e pulp, add half
pound white grapes out in halves,
one banana • out. ei tiny blocks, a
rated pineapple, and a half bottle
Ideraseloino cherries. bust with
crackers are very nice to serve with
salads. Cover the top of the crack-
ers with finely grated cheese, using
a mixture of plain and Parmesan.
Put in the centre of each cracker
a teaspoon of tomato Catsup and a
dusting of salt and pepper, Place
in a baking dish in a hot oven un-
til the cheese is melted and the
crackers are crisp. They should be
served hot.
Homemade Corn Beef. -Make a
brine of three quarts of water, one
cup of coarse salt, one-half cup
brown sugar, and saltpetre size of
a hazlenut. Boil all together and
let cool Select the piece of meat
you prefer, put it into a crock, and
turn the bring over. Let stand
about six days with a weight on to
keep tinder the brine, when it is
ready for uee. Cover with cold
water and took over a slow fire.
You will think it the best you ever
ate.
THE PRESERVE CLOSET.
Much of the success of the can-
ning of fruits depends upon the ar•
rangemont of the preserve closet.
Tho position is ',serious matter,
If possible the closet should face a
north or west wall, ,never a south
or east window, for low tempera-
ture maintained without special re•
frigeration is essential.
The shelves of a model closet for
preserves are o net deeper than six
Mr eight inohoo--just wide enough
Mrro ne al`s,
o row h
J When two Or
throe rows ate.plaeed on the shelf
it neresaitates constant moving. No
0. '• '•- to he told that preserves
should 'bo Moved as' dittlo u post
aibie after the covers have been
tightened Mr thelast time. A.11
•shelves should be adjustable ire
stead of fixed. In this way one may
eeoeomize space and utilize all
there is witbout crowding.
DOMESTIC HINTS.
When a pie -dish or anything used
in the oven becomes burned or dis-
colored, rub with a piege 4f waste
emery -cloth or with powdered hath.
brick,
Rancid buttor oa•n be restored to
freshness if broken up into small
pieces and put into a, bowl of new
milk, Let it remain there for abou
an hour, then drain it,' wash in cold
'aalbed •water, and form into pats
again.
.To remove fingermarks from
paint, rub them with. a soft damp
cloth dipped in prepared chalk,
Never use soda in cleaning, paint;
it injures the color and dries it,
making it liable to crack and peel
off.
Small children need no meat
whatever, Their dietary should
consist of milk, ceimeals, fruit, am
vegetables. Eggs 'are good for
children, but should not be fried
for them, but simply boiled or
poached, or eaten in the form of
custards.
To remove iron -mould or rust,
the best way is to stretch the spots
over a bowl and moisten with salts
of lemon until the spots disappear.
Then the soiled part should be
thoroughly rinsed in warm water
to remove the acid. '
Articles -of food that are damp or
juicy should never be left in paper.
Paper ismerely a oonmpound of
rags, glue; .lime, and. similar sub-
-stances, with acids and chemicals
intermixed, and, when damp, isms_
fit to touch things- that are to be
Oaten. -
Irons require to be kept very
clean, but in ease of their becom-
ing rusty through long disuse, the
followingwill, be found a good way
of cleaning them t Make the iron.
fairly hot; and then rub it over
with a little beeswax tied up ina
piece of rag or cloth.. When the
rust has been removed by this ap-
plication, wipe the iron over with
a clean cloth.
Roles in walla, caused by nails
which have been taken out, are ex-
ceedingly unsightly, and it is not
always possible to. conceal them by
means of pictures or ornaments.
They may, however, be rendered
hardly noticeable by filling them
with fine sawdust mixed into a thick
pasts, with glue. Apply this while
it is wet, and when dry it may, if
]liked, be painted. over with the
same color as that used in the
room. .
There is nothing to equal milk,
especially stale milk, e,s a' remedy
for an.ink stained carpet. It must,
however, bo applied the moment the
ink has been spilt, before it is left
to dry in, as is often done. Blot-
ting-; --pet or an old rag should be
used t• soak up the milk and ink,
a little more of the former being
added until the nark has disap-
peared. Finally, the spot must' be
gone over with a cloth wrung out in
hot water to remove the mark of
the milk.
To Stiffen Starch, -Dissolve five
cents' worth of gum arabic in eight
ounces of water. Bottle up. When
wanted for use, add one table-
spoonful to the pan of starch while
hot. Tlme clothes will remain stiff
in damp weather. This is especi-
ally nice for shirb waists and col-
ored clothes, but will do equally
well for white clothes.
A Frying Help. -When frying
veal, either steaks or chops, first
dip the meat in a little sweet milk.
Then place it in t frying pan con-
taining hot butter or a mixture of
hot butter and lard. Fry over a
good firs and see the results. The
milk causes the meat to brown
beautifully and imparts to it a de-
licious flavor and unusual tender-
ness. Veil fried in this way browns
quickly and the juice of the meat
is retained, which is not the case
when frying is continued for a long
time.
COURTSHIP IN SARDINIA.
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IlY'l.'ETRNATIONATa LESSON,
OCTOIBElt 22.
Lesson IV. -'.chs foundation of the
a000nd temple laid. Ezra 3, 1. to
4. 5 Golden Text, l'sa, 100,E 4.
Verses 1 -3. -Building the great
altar of burnt -offerings,
1. The seventh month was come-
Of course several months had
t elapsed .since the start from Baby
len, for a long streteh of desert
eight hundred miles wide lay be-
tween. Of that nothing as said,
The important thing is the work to
be done. And no more favorable
month could be chosen than Tisri
(our October), which was the month
of the great feasts of Trumpets and
Tabernacles, and Atonement.
The people . . , as one man -It
was a popular movement, in which
the multitude was in full co -opera -
1 tion with priests and aristocracy.
The first temple was the work of a
king ; this undertaking was the
humbler work of returned exiles.
They assembled apparently almost
on the ruins of the old temple.
2. Jeshua-He was the son of one
of the exiles (1 (hron. 6. 15), and
was now high -priest. Sings the
work about to be accomplished was
a ,sacrificial work, he and his breth-
ren, the leading men of families.
The order is reversed in other
places. In such a ceremonious act
as the building of the altar, these
chief men represent the whole peo-
ple. The, altar, a huge, square
structure of rough stone, was the
all-important symbol of
Jewish.
worship. For fifty years, sacrifices
had been at a- stand -still. Now they
were to bo resumed in full force be-
fore anything was done toward the
refounding of the temple. "The
worship itself is felt to be more im-
portant than the house in which it
is to be celebrated."
Written in the law of Moses -The
law concerning the offerings for the
first day of the seventh month is
found in Num. 29. 1-6. Burnt -of-
ferings had a peculiar sacredness to
the Jews, since they symbolized the
self -.dedication of the worshiper.
Moses is several times in the Chron-
icles spoken of as the man of God.
3. Set the altar upon its base -
Perhaps this may mean that they
cleared away the accumulated rub-
bish and set the new altar upon
the foundations of the old. The
marginal reading, in its place (that
is, the place it was permanently to
occupy), is, however, the probable
meaning. They did this in haste on
account of fear of the peoples of the
border countries. The erection of
the altar, which was a rallying -point
for the whole people, would tend to
inspire confidence in themselves.
4. The feast of tabernacles -The
most gladsome of the Jewish festi-
vals, when for seven days, begin-
ning with the fifteenth of the sev-
enth month, the people celebrated
the goodness of God in the final
harvest, and the best of the vintage.
It commemorated the wanderings in
the desert, and from this time was
to signalize the deliverance from
exile. See Lev. 23. 34-44; Num,
29. 12-38. All this was arevival
of ancient c -u. Moms, and in careful
conformity to the revealed- will of
God (as it is written).
By number -The passage in Num-
bers 29 gives a detailed list of the
required sacrifices for this feast.
Every day would have its own num-
erical requirement.
5. Afterward the continual burnt -
offering -Implying that, after the
feast of the tabernaeles, the full
sacrificial system, including these
daily morning and evening sacrifices
prescribed by Exod. 29, 38-42, which
had been interrupted since. the de-
struction of Jerusalem, was resum-
ed. The new moons, although re-
ceiving no special attention in the
Levitical code, was a popular day
.ef religious practice. These burnt-
offerings were also made upon the
occasion of the set feasts (Lev. 23.
2-37 and 2 Chron. 8. 13), and upon
the presentation of the freewill -of-
fering on any of the great feast
days by an individual, Jew or Gen-
tile, That all this should be done
before the foundation •of the temple
was laid (6) would seem a thing in-
credible to Jews of a later day, who
inevitably associated sacrifices with
a temple building.
7. The masons -As the stone for
the, altar was taken from the hill
upon which the city stood, the ma-
sons probably included. those, who
quarried the stone, as well as those
who felled the trees, These were
given money -apparently all that
had been received from the free
will -offerings, since the timber for
the temple was otherwise paid for.
Oil -It was used in the hot east-
ern countries for external applica-
tion, and was looked upon as a ne-
cessity of life. Here it is classed
with food and drink, a recompense
similar to that given by Solomon
to the workmen from Tyre and Si-
don, It will bo seen that the jews
had frethe at{ been lx
th dill -
gent and deeply devoted. First,
resin their arrival in the sprin;
they had patiently tilled the soil; s
Wooing is a slightly more com-
plicated matted in Sardinia than it
is here, says the Gentlewoman. The
marriage customs are very curious,
If a father has a marriageable
daughter the would-be suitor ap-
plies to him for permission to see
her as she goes to church, or in. the
event of her not wishing to bo seen
he communicates with her bymeans
of•a species of` telephone which has
.teen in use since time immemorial.
Itis a long string with a wooden
knob at each end. The father's
permission having {moil given, the
lady drops one knobout of the win-
dow and, the shutters being closed,
places the other knob to the ear,
while down below her would-be lov-
er pours his protestations into the
knob she has thrown into the street,
Sometimes this curious form of
courtship continues for Wear three
years, the man never seeing the face
of his innam r a
0 At ,
Lad -" U should veld I buy an e$g-
beaterl" tiV y sl Peddler ---"Well, the
lady next door thought you might
return hers. if you did I"
thou, while waiting,, they . proceed.
ed with the ereciiign oi'the great
altar; then, with the coming of the
harvest, they generously cedebrat-
ed the bounty of Jehovah with the
freewill -offerings of the feast days,
and gale the best of the first year's
produce of their fields for the pur-
ohrmso of fine timber for the tem.
ple,
From Lebanon to the sea, unto
Joppa-The cedar -trees from the
mountain of Lebanon had a world-
wide fame- ,ger. '22. 23). The mon
of Tyre and Sidon, having carried
the huge trunks from the hill coun-
try to the nearest coast, loaded
them upon great rafts, and then
floated them to Joppa, the nearest
seaport to Jerusalem, a distance of
thirty miles.
The grant ... of Cyrns - This
must be understood generally, inns
anueh as Cyrus had no jurisdiction
over the Phoenicians, The trans-
action was simply carried out ac-
cording to his wish and under his
favor.
8. Coming unto the house -Where
the old temple had stood, and where
the new was to stand. Here as-
sembled, in the second month
<April) of the year B. C. 536, the
people, under the direction of their
leaders, both lay and ecclesiasti-
cal, began the work on the second
temple by appointing the Levites
to bear the chief responsibility. Ze-
rubbabel, as the head' of the royal
house, and the one to whom the
commission had been given, is given
the place of honor in the account.
The�,evites were comparatively few
in number (seventy-four had re-
turned from the captivity), but they
had great influence. In the book
of Numbers the limits of age aro
fixed for them at twenty-five and
fifty. Bot under David the lower
limit fell to twenty, now, with
their numbers so impoverished, it
became even more needful to keep
the standard as, low as possible.
9. •Jeshua-Not to be confounded
with Jeshua the high priest. This
one was a Levitt, and the verse is
best understood as a designation or
catalogue of the Levites., Of these
there appear to be three families;
that of Joshua,that of. Kadmiel (time
sons of Judah, or Hodaviah, being
a special branch of the family), and
that of the sons of Henadad (see
Neh. 3. 18).;
10. They set the priests -The sub-
ject must be the leaders, not the
builders. Their apparel was their
White priestly garments.
11. Sang one to another - This
seems to be an allusion to the com-
mon practice of antiphonal singing.
The refrain, he is good, is a litur-
gical response, frequently used at
sacred feasts, not a quotation from
a written psalm.
12. Seen the first house - The
destruction of the temple of Solo-
mon took place B. 0. 587, and the
foundation of the new house of Je-
hovah was laid about fifty years
later.
1. The adversaries -See Introduc-
tion above.
2. Esarhadclon-Reigned over As-
syria B. C.' 681-668.
3. We ourselves together - The
undertaking was to be the work of
the united Jewish people. While it
seems like a narrow exclusiveness,
not to say intolerance, it was a de-
fensive measure on the part of a
homogeneous community who fear-
ed treachery from those who could
not be in total sympathy.
5. Hired counsellors -This was
one effective means of opposition by
which the Samaritans weakened the
hands of the builders and put a
stop to their work. In addition to
open attacks, Syrian officials were
paid to make false reports at the
Persian court.
Darius -Reigned B. C. 521-485.
-'I
DEW PONDS IN GREAT BRITAIN
Among the most singular archaeo-
logical remains found in Great
Britatin are the ancient dew ponds,
the construction of which is ascrib-
ed to the nedlithic age. The pur-
pose of those ponds was to furnish
drinking water for cattle. An ex-
posed position where springs were
absent was selected and a broad,
hollowed surface was formed and
covered over With 'straw or some
other non -conducting material,
Above was spread a thick layer of
play strewn with atones. During
the night the cold surface of the
clay caused an abundance of mois-
ture to condense from lower layers
of the air. Some of these ancient
dew ponds aro still working.
3
A SENSITIVE SPIRIT.
Mrs. Moriarty owns a goat, for
which she has a warm affection. All
the neighbors -regard Nanny as
quite as much a member of the
Moriarty family as is Michael of
Kathleen.
One fine morning Mrs. Riordan
cams running across the street with
her shawl over her head, and said,
"Mrs. Moriarty, what is the mat -
tor wid Nanny.? Is she siek l I
seen her Perlin agin the corner of
the house, and she was Makin' 1111"
"The saints bless you, Mary
Ann," replied Mrs Moriarty.,
"Nanny ain't siok 1 She climbed
up on the sinter -table last night and
ate the mistletoe, and it made her
intimintal, that's all 1"
IN.11 III,ON WILL.
Does Not Always Succeed --Whoa)
It Hes Failed.
They tell us an iron will is a very
fine thing, A great General rules
his forces by his will. A Parlia-
mentary leader drives recalcitrant
members into the right lobby by
his will, if he, has it, Napoleon,
the a
y say, controlled all France by
his will. I have long had doubts,
writes John F. Banoinian to the
Saturday Iteview,
Napoleon never had to get an ob-
stlnato donkey out of the way of an
express train, for there wore no ex-
press trains, but had the task con-
fronted hint I doubt whether the
iron will that conquered France/
would have moved the donkey, Nay,
I do nob doubt; I am certain it
would not. And since men are a
great deal more stupid and more
than donkeys I am sure it was not
by an iron will alone that Napoleon
ruled the French.
The iron will only served to rule
himself to keep him hard and inces-
santly at the working out of his
great idea, the idea of convincing
men that he was the ablest among
then, that by following him they
did best for themselves, A political
boss does the same; there is no
iron will involved : merely he shows
his followers that they all gain by
going with him,
And the same rule holds true in
the case of band conductors, A
military conductor can get his way
because the men under him are
punished unless they obey him; an
opera or concert conductor may get
his way because he can throw out of
employment the men who do not
obey him,
But the true born conductor, eith-
er military or civil, gets his way and
fine results when his bandsmen
know that by paying close attention
to him and putting their backs into
their work they help to secure per-
formances of. which they may all
justly feel proud.
When Nikisch first came here
many years ago we were told how
on the Continent he was wont to
magnetize his men and make them
insensibly yield; they would have
been dismissed if they had not; but
the magnetism did not in the least
work in England. The men sim-
ply paid no attention to it; there
might as well hare been no mag-
netism at all; 'twas'in. vain Nikisch
essayed to fix them with the glitter-
ing eye of which we had read so
much, too much; the inhuman ras-
cals refused to he fixed; the per-
formances were poor and some one
must have lost a fair sum of money
over the concerts.
See what happened when Nikisch
returned not as master but as ser-
vant of the orchestra. The Symp-
hony Orchestra engaged him; the
glittering eye' nonsense and the Tion
will nonsense were dropped, and ab
once artistic results were got. One
might disapprove of .many things he
did, and especially of his affected
readings but he gained the effects
he wanted, and gained teem in a
legitimate manner, through the
faith the men had in him.
g SELF -TRIPPED MOOSE.
Right hind Leg Caught in a Cedar
Root.
Many wild animals meet with ac-
cidents and are unable to help
themselves. In a recent book,
"With Gun and Guide," the author
tells of an incident in his own ex-
perience in which, to his certain
knowledge, a young bull moose was
kept a prisoner for four days and
a half, without food or water. The
poor beast had suffered the mis-
fortune of having hie right hind leg
caught in somne manner behind a
cedar root. The spot was about
three feet from the shore of a lake.
With his other feet free, he was
trying all this time to free himself,
and was constantly digging for him-
self a moody grave. The water
gashed in as fast • as he dug, and
the result was an ens -eloping cum -
pound of sticky mud.
I had heard nim plainly on Fri-
day and Saturday nights, because
the wind was from his quarter. Sue -
day night sit changed, and ou that
night and the following night we
heard no sounds,
On Tuesday morning a guide and
I passed right by him without see-
ing him, although, as I have al-
ready said, he was but throe feet
from the water.
On the return trip, however, the
guide, who had left me more than a
mild above; again heard the noise,
and soon found out the cause,
Going back to the ramp, he enlist-
ed the aid of one of our party, an
expert photographer, and to-
gether they puddled up to the im-
prisoned moose. With an ax the
cedar root was cut, and the animal's
leg was freed.
The next thing was to get the
boast out. They used a sapling as
is lever,. having placed it under his
belly, with a log for a fulcrum.
With ono man pulling at his ant-
lers, the other hoisting him , by
means of the lever, and the moeae
doing all he could to help them, he
was at last liberated,
Both men say that, with MS eves,
and by turning round and looking
ab them at every step he took, until
he waded across the thoroughfare,
he thanked theist as eloquently as
Soy lemma being could have done,
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The exodus of the rural popula-
tion to' congested centres has creat-
ed many problems which remain un-
solved; According to figures of the
Washington census bureaus during
the ten years •which followed the
census of 1900, the population of the
United States increased 21 per
cent., but the number of farms did
not keep pace with the increase
population. From 5,737,372 in 1900
the number grew to 6,340;367, an
increase of 602,985 or 10.5 percent.
For the whole United Staten this is
the lowest rate of increase which
has been noted since the number of
farms was first recorded in 1850.
Measured by the number of farms,
agriculture exhibits a diminished
rate of increase, and in large areas
of the country is practically station
arThe small growth in the number
of farms has not been compensated
by any growth in the size of farms,
the average number of acres in
farms having decreased from 148 in
1900 to 138 in 1910. The increase in
the total acreage devoted to agri-
culture was only 35,137,000 acres,
or 4,2 per cent. The actual area in
farms was 838,592,000 acres in 1900,
and 873,729,000 acres in 1910.
Many reasons have been advanced
for this position. Mr, Rudyard Kipl-
ingthe other day hinted that the
people of the United States had by
their own haste and waste dis-
sipated their own resources. That
might account for the working of
thesoil
in the United Statesfor
f i
the immediate dollar and the conse-
quent trek ofthe border states '
to the virgin soil of Canada.
Mr. James J. Hill resents Mr.
Kipling'.s insinuation, and says that
the only thing that will guide the
people back to the land is empty
stomachs,
"The solution of the production
of enough food to feed the too num-
erous people engaged in industrial
occupations," he says, "is in a
system of experime,utal farms.
There are just three preliminary
steps the most expert farmer in the
world could take. If he is given
160 acres to cultivate, he ean send
a sample of his soil to the labora-
tory of the state agricultural col-
lege to be analyzed; he can try out
his seeds in a cheap device, proving
their fertility before planting, and
he can properly prepare bis seed-
bed. But the farmers don't, and
the only way to teach them is by
actually making them do it them-
selves, going onto their farms and
guaranteeing them an increased
crop if they will do things the way
they are told to. A man who has
once actually done it never needs
to be shown again. It is astonish-
ing how great the variation is in
the yield per acre. Twenty bushels
of wheat to an acre at ninety cents
a bushel gives a profit of $10 an
an acre, allowing 82.50 for rent and
$5.50 for labor, seed and fertilizing.
On an eighty -.acre farm that would
mean $800 profit. Twelve bushels
of wheat to an acre on a farm
double the size would net a profit
of only $400,
"In 1860, practically 50 per cent.
of the United States population was
on the soli. At present, there is
about 30 per cent. • The United
States can no longer consume their
own industrial output. There are
3,000,000 less frogs in the• United
States than there were ten year
ago, and 9,000,000 less cattle, and
exports of grain are steadily
diminishing,"
A modern philosopher once said
that brains were as cheap as butter,
indicating that t o many careers
were ooncentrated in professional.
spheres. It may be that one day
empty stomachs will give the
manual labor of the ,farm a higher
status, inducing more young men
to follow the profession of farming
rather than those callings which re-
quire aping hat and a frock coat
as imperative assets, -Monetary
Times.
AN ARTIFICIAL SPONGE.
An artificial sponge, the outeome
of Lerman ingenuity, is now to bo
had. The process of making it con-
sists principally in the action of zinc
chloride on pure cellulose. This re-
sults in a pasty, viceous mass, which
is mixed with ooarsoly grained rock -
salt. Planed in a press mould armed
with pins the mass is pierced through
and through until it appears trav-
ersed by a multitude of tiny canals,
like the pores of a natural sponge.
The excess of salts is subsequently
removed by prolonged washing .in a
weak alcoholic solution. The arti-
ficial sponge swells up with water
but hardens on drying, just like its
prototype ; it is said to be eminent-
ly adapted for filtering water for
sanitary or industrial' uses and, it
can be employed for all the pur-
poses that are usually assigued to
the genuine article,
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Travelling at express speed, a lo -
conn
motive gives about 1,055 puffs per
toile.
In Switzerland . `
t ci land every citizen,
whether he be a householder or nnt,
is entitled ,to a vote on atte'e(ug
the ere of '20,