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• Tested Recipes.
Eroneli Toast.—'Poke bread dung 1
-and roll out about half an ane 1
thick, Out in email squares and
.idrotp into boiling lard. When they
are a light brown take out, :drain
on a sieve ;and serve hot.
An ldgg "Saver.—When a or
cooky recipe ealla for two or more
eggs, me one half the number re.
awed, Afters turning the egg from
the shell fill the shell with resit cold
Water' and 'add to the egg, Them
beat until foamy, You will be sur -
liaised to find that your cake or.
•cookies are as light as if the full
amebae of eggs had been used.
Pineapple Pudding. ,Grate one
pineapple, and measure -by weight
an equal ;amount -of sugar, and half
-es much butter, Boat the butter
and sugar to a crease, and acid five
eggs, one cupful of thicko sweet
•cream, and the pineapple. Beat
the mixture thoroughly. Put the
pudding in a deep pudding dish,
'cover it with a crust that has been
rolled a bit thicker than for pie, and
that has been Pricked to let the
steam escape, and bake it,
Pickled rigs. — Wash carefully
two pounds' of dried figs, and soak
them for hour. in cold water.
Make a thm k vinegar syrup of one
u tris
of vi eget and three et £
-cupfulg
P
•of sugar. Tres, ;teaspoonful each of
ground oloves, mace, and cinnamon
in a thin muslin bag, add it to the
syrup, and cook the syrup fifteen
minutes. Drain the figs, and add
-them to the syrup. Let the mixture
simmer slowly for thirty minutes.
`The result is a delicious relish that
will keep in an open jar.
Strawberry Pudding.—Mix three
tablespoonfuls of corn flour in a
little milk, add to it the yolks of
four eggs and three tablespoonfuls
of powdered sugar. Stir it well for
six or seven minutes into nearly a
quart of -boiling milk. Stir all the
time, pour into a pie dish and let.
'it stand ten minutes, Take some
strawberry preserve and put it over
the (lith on the corn flour pudding.
Beat the whites of four eggs with
half a teacup of sifted white sugar
to a stiff froth and spread over the
• strawberries, Bake for twenty min-
utes in a cool oven with the door
-open and keep in •a cool place till
wanted.
Cooking Coll Mutton or Venison.
—To three tablespoonfuls of melted
batter add a little mustard, salt
- and red pepper. Stir until it is pip-
ing hot. Then add a full table-
spoonful el currant jelly. When
these ingredients are well mixed,
put in the meat and baste it with
the gravy for a minute, then let it
simmer for three or four minutes
mere. Add a glasoful of sweet eider,
and let the mixture stand over the
fire for two or three minutes. This
receipt is for mutton already cook-
ed. For treating uncooked venison,
the meat must be allowed to sim-
mer until it is done before the eider
is added,
A. New Way of Serving Turnip.—•
Pare and cut in halves or quarters
one or two large yellow autumn tur-
nips. Have ready ont?1 e fire a good-
sized saucepan filled with boiling
water; to which you have added -two
teaspoonfuls of ;alt, When) the
turnips are washed. throw them at
once into the boiling water, and
keep them boiling for half an hoar;
then draw the saucepan to. one side
of the stove, add a large stalk of
celery,—heaves and a11,—and let the
turnip and' the celery cook 'slowly
R tether for another half hour.
When the turnips are cooked, turn
them into a colander and drain and
mash them. Have ready a -gravy
made as follows ; Pub into a sauce
• pan a large handful of celery
leaves; add boiling salted water,
and enok the leaves until they are
tender enough to smash with a fork.
Add creamed butter and flour, and
stir the sauce until it is smooth.
Add the turnip, and keep the mass
hot, but do not let it boil,'
Dressings.
Dressing for Fruit Salad.—
Squeeze one -.hall lemon ina bowl,
add one tablespoonful of Taragon.
vinegar, one tablespoonful of mar-
eacliino cherry juice., two table-
spoonfuls cd olive oil. Stir up quick-
ly and serve on fruit salad or fruit
cocktail,
iDressing for Cucumber Stand.—
Squeeze one-,hala demon in a bowl,
add e pinch of white pepper, one
tablespoonful of chopped ohivos;
and one ounee of sweet cream, one
cup of Whipped cream; mir up and
serve,
Roquefort Cheese Dressing.-ror
a party of four or snore, grate one
pound of garlic, add 'salt and pepper
to season. Take two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar, three of tomato. oatsup
three of olive oil. Mix well, and
then pour in grated rogttelort
cheese to taste.
Rules Per Malting Pastry.
Make it in a cokl place if possi-
ble, Keep hands, utensils and in-
gredients as Cool 0 po°.bible or the
pastry becomes heavy,. @
Tie careful to add the right mum -I hear that you •have a 'college
City • of water, fo.t' too little will graduate In .a cook. Isn't that very
e snake it heavy, Itcep utensils and
hands sac cool as possible, for heat
makes the pastry heavy,
Heads slmuld be washed thor-
mighty, and nothing should be
touched that can give the pastry
any other odor, '
Shortening aluat always be ru'b-
bed in lightly with the finger tips,
13alse ,pastry In a but oven; this
will expand the air in it and thee,
lighten the flour'.
atedic.pastry as little and as
lightly as possible, ' Use rolling -pin
lightly And with even pressure,
If baking powder isusod;•bako the
pasta as soon as possible, or the
earbonie acid gas thrown off by the
baking powder when it oomea in
contact with the moisture will force
its way out of the paste and ith ac-
tion will be lost.
Useful Dints.
Raisins and create cheese snake a
delightlul'aendwioll for the school
basket,
Enamelled ware only should be
tiled for; holding milk, eustaids and,
vegetables ; ,
A delicious and economical des-
sert is of stewed figs and boiled rice
served together.
The rough end of the roast clan be
ground up and it will make very
good Hamburg steak.
The water in which fresh tongue,
mutton or chicken has been boiled,
may be used for soup or ;adder to
the stock pot.
Do not expect good, light cakes
unless time eggs are perfectly fresh
and you •have good, sweet butter. -
If eggs crack while cooking in the Lesson IV. Gideon and the Threesaucepan, as often happens in cold
weather, a spoonful of salt will pre- • Hundred. Judg. 7. Golden Text,
vent the white from coming out. Zecat• 4r.6.
Disagreeable eye -smarting can be
avoided if the onion is peeled from Verse 1. Then Jerubbaal, who is
the root end. Afterward, rub the GidconO--See chapter 6, verse 32.
hands with eal•t• and wash to take Gideon was called Jerubbaal, which
away the smell. Parsley leaves re- means, "Let Baal contend."
move the odor from the br'eat'h, • The spring of •Iiarod.—That is,
It is quite possible to fry potatoes the spring, or place of trembling or
whole, and not as. "chips. When fear, In versa 3 Jehovah says to
they are nearly boiled, but not Gideon, "Proclaim -in the ears of
oraeking, put them in a stewpan the people, saying, Whosoever is
with a piece of butter or beef drip- fearful and trembling, let him re
ping: shake them .about to prevent turn mid depart from Mount Gil -
burning until they are brown and
crisp ; drain and serve,'
if the children are fond of candy
and you fear bad results. do not
allow them to. have it just before a
meal, but be liberal withthe sweets
right after they have eaten a hearty
meal, They will not eat so much,
nor will it do them harm, if this
method is followed.
WHJiUE INDIANS I'',S('EL.
"Fearful" to Loolct and "Terrible
to Fight."
'In the Belgian Trenches.
Trench Diggers (Pioneers) of the Belgian Army, sdi,ll looking well and healthy, and now thoroughly aeons•
toured to the hard work of the trenches: ., --
THE SUNDAY SCHO I1 STUDY
INTERNATIOTIAL LESSON,
JANUARY 24.
(Rel'ated by ai, bombardier of the
Royal Horse Artillery who has late-
ly returned from Flanders.)
We were able to do soma great
work. There is no finer sight in
the world than to see a battery of
Horse Artillery going into action
ata gallop. We are thought Slays
if we take more than 30 seconds in
getting to ;work after the signal to
unlimber.
On one occasion we were firing
continuously for. several hours, and
used 800 shells. We were "dead
on" that time, and must have ac-
counted for hundreds. One of our
guns was dropping shells near a
gap in a hedge which the Germans
were trying to rush. It was exeit-
ing to watch a score of their in-
fantry time after time make a dash
for the gap, but never succeed in
reaching it.
I saw through glasses a troop of
our cavalry wiped out when trying
to rush a treneh on foot. It was a
plu ky charge, but quite hopeless.
Two men only reached the top of
the ridge. One was shot down, and
the single •survit•or, after bending
over his comrade to see if he were
dead, turned and commenced to
walk down the slope. He had nob
gone. far' before he also fell.
It is wonderful how indifferent
our men become to fire and the seen-
stant.death around them. It,is a
little terrifying at first, but that
does not last. It is when we are
cub of action, trot still under fire,.
that we feel it most. There is time
then to think of things, and we do
not have the comfort of hitting
aback:
I saw a good deal of the Indian
troops out there. The Pethens
and the Sikhs are fearful ,fellows to
look at, and they are terrible fight-
ers. They are 'll'mvfully proud of
themselves, and particularly of
their ,arms, which they keep as
clean as new pins. It is funny to
see them squatting in 'the maid dust-
ing specks of dirt off their rifles.
'They are great at close fighting,
where they have the advantage over
our own men, who sometimes get
too close for bayonet work and have
to use their fists. But the Ghurkas
just puss. the German +bayonets
aside, and then leap in with their
knives.
Their night work is terribly de-
moralizing to the enemy. When
they 'charge they sweep everything
e
b fOr@ them.
as
"Why do you feed tramps wh
3 y d p o
come along? They never do any
work for you." ''No," said the
wife, "but it is quite a, malefaction
to she .a man eat a meal without
finding fault with the cooking,"
expensive 1" "Not very. She works
Inc her ,board and clothes." "Why,
how does she 001110 to do that l"
"Slue is my wife."
same formation in battle. (See 1 BELGIAN SOLDIERS' SURPRISE
Sam, 11. 11; 2 Sam, 18. 2,) — I and a
17; And ho said unto them, Look Captured Gen. Von Buelow
on 'me, and do likewise,—Gideon Sachet hull of Money.was ready to stand ap mach as and
more than any one of his men. " There is no prouder soldier in
18, When I blow •the trumpet Belgium 'to -day than Jeep' Jacques
then blow ye . . : ard ray, For Je- Rousseau, who, at the moment of
hovel and for Gideon,—From time writing, is being tended in a hos-
immemorial soldiers have gone into pitwl at Ostend. Jean is only
the fight with a battle -cry. There twenty years of age, but on his left
are men living to -day who can tell +breast he wears the Military Cross
of the awful terror which struck in- and two ribbons, one of the latter
to their .hearts as the enemy came representing :the Belgian Legion of
upon them with terrific yelling and. Honor, King Albert having promis-
er3 ing. ed to present him with' the medal on
20; And the three companies blew the first occasion possible,
the trumpets, -The Midianites had The deed whieh won the young
no idea of a night attack, and when Belgian soldier this proud (Retina -
the were awakened and heard the tion was no less tfian the capture,
noise of battle and saw the flaring ,single-handed, of General Yon Bue-
lights, they undoubtedly thought low, son of the famous German ex -
that a. greet host was upon them, Chancellor•, and the story of the epi -
and they fled precipitously, sock will, no doubt, inspire many a
23, And the men of Israel were youthful Belgian in years to come.
Rousseau was with a company of
150 men at Zelk .on August 12th,
when they were attacked by over-
whelming numbers of Germans, and
"it was while I ryas in ambush," he
says, "that I saw about 900 yards
distant. an officer studying a map.
"Crawling quietly towards hum,
I managed to get within 100 yards,
took careful aim, and fired. Th:
officer fell, and when I went up t
him I found, to my surprise, from
the satchel, writing -ease, papers,
etc., that it was General Von 'inf-
low. As lie was only wounded in
the leg I took him prisoner to Diest,
riding with him on his horse. In Inc
satchel were 105,000 francs, which
was handed over to the Red Cross
Society. But I retained his case
and silver helmet as mementoes,"
Rousseau is suffering from a kick
by a horse. and is anxious to get
back to the fighting line again, His
great ambition is to marry an Eng-
lish girl if he can. "I love English
as much as my awn countrymen,"
he says, "but there are many years
yet to serve my country."
earl," Practically every proper gathered together.—When the en -
noun in Hebrew, 'whether it be the emy was • put to flight, Gideon
name of a person .or of a place, is brought up all the forces lie could
indicative of something particular muster out of the different tribes.
about the person or the place. The Now he could use men, as the enemy
spring of Harod has been undoubt was in the open, and,the more deci-
edly located by modern exploration. sive would be Ms victory.
There were three springs, or wells, It is interesting to note that in
lying-in the valley of Jezreel. One the- later border wars between Is-
lay by Jezreel itself,. and one out rael and their neighbors there is no
upon the open plain. The • third further mention of the Midianites.
was overshadowed by the precipi- Gideon with one fell swoop effec-
tous banks of Gilboa. The first two tively put an end to those peace dis-
were controlled by ithe Midianites, turbers from across the Jordan.
The third, the well of Herod, now Gideon himself did not want war,
called ''lin Jalucl, was commanded but he realized that the militarism
by the Israelites, • of his country's neighbors could be
destroyed only by the force of arms.
9. And Jehovah said unto Gideon,
Oa people that are with thee are•
ten many.—Jehovah is made to
speak again. If so large a body of
men should have defeated the.
enemy, they might have breasted
themselves and said, "We were
strong enough on our own ac-
count." Gideon saw this and ap-
preciated its importance. But, -as
a true military leader, he saw what
was of more significance: that bo -
cause of the nature of the battle -
BUSINESS SIDLE OF AR3IY..
Trained Men of Fra- nce Engaged in
the Work.
What might be called the civilian
administration of the French army
is probably the most gigantic busi-
nese proposition the world has ever
field so large a number of men seen. It is as. trough all the rail-
field
be in their own way and ex- ways of the United States with their
could 1 n their
own
him to lx- 1,608,809 employes, all the steel and
g y iron industries with their 260,762
employes and all the quarries, coal
mines and metal mines with their
1,005,981 workers, were all under
the direction of one office.
The French War Office, through
its civilian administration, must as-
semble, transport and distribute
food for nearly 4,000,000 men. It
must supply the men with. transpor-
tation from one part of the fighting
line to another, the front to the in-
terior and from the interior to the
front -in their periods of recupera-
tion. It must provide clothing,
medical attendance, dentists and
every variety of service necessary to
sand were in danger of being keep a man in health.
pounced upon at the well, its prat- Besides all this, it must look out
tically the whole position of Gideon
was exposed. It was necessary,
therefore, for Gideon to be sure of
his men. He could only use those
who would appreciate their danger.
Strength and bravery were not the
only qualities Which Gideon needed
in his men at this time, It was not
a question of mass -movement, of
simply pouring men into the ranks
of the enemy; tt was, primarily, a
question of individual initiative, of
aoting'upon ;the moment with judg-
ment and clear-sightedness. Hence
a small army, even a very small
army of men, of men who could be
left to their own judgment was a
better force g fink in. f r for Gideon
„ t o
than 'a large army, the individual
members of which were not able to
do their own thinking, but needed
to rely upon Gideon to think for
them. The men who stood the test
which Gideon pttt to them were
thinkers, as well as fighters. Each.
one had in him not only deep-
seated and indomitable bravery and
;mirage, but also the power to
think clearly in an emergency and
to acct promptly. He was the son of a. worthy menu -
5. So he brought down the people faoturer and had just returned from
unto the water.—The sa rtier who abroad. His father, a brusque,
hewed down upon his knees to drink matter-of-fact man, surveyed his
neoessari.l3' could see only what was offspring, who was togged out in the
ander him ; he could• not see what latest London fashion, with distinct
was in front of Mita "Young man," he
6. The number of :them that lap- blurted out,' "you look like an
ped . . was three hundred.—Only idigb.''
three hundred out of to thousand Just at that moment, and .before
realizes' the necessity of keeping the youth had time to snake a fitting
themselves in instant readiness reply, a. friend walked in,
either to repel an attack or to make 'Why, 1hello, Billy got•batir, have
onslaught upon the enemy, These you?" lie exclaimed, 'vBy George,
wore the men Gideon wanted. how much you resemble your fe-
10, And he divided the three lam- thee•"
died men into three companies.--- "So he's been telling tae," said
Other Israelite generals used this Billy quietly,
path properly,
3, Fearful and trembling.—Doebt-
less many of the thirty-two thousand
were fearful and trembling. At any
rate, we read that "there returned
of the people twenty and two thou-
sand; and there remained ten thou-
sand,"
4. Bringthem don unto the wa-
ter,—A w
further weeding out was
necessary, and therefore a test was
put to the ten thousand. The well
of Herod was over against the
Midianites. From their battlefield
they could see what the Israelites
were doing. In feet, the ten thou -
for the families of the men at the
front, supplying their wives with
the equivalent of 28 cents a day,
and in case of children with the
equivalent of 10 •cents a day.
The smooth working of these im-
mense business transactions is only
possible because the work is distri-
buted among the trained railway
managers, steamship directors,
great corporation officials and busi-
necs men of capacity, who, al-
though they are wearing uniforms,
have been trained and prepared by
civil life for this sort of work in
war time, Some thousands of the
most competent business men of
France have been organized into
this supply side of the war•.
Many political leaders, senators,
deputies, ex-presidentsof the
Chamber and men prominent in
scientific and intellectual life have
been called upon to help in this
gigantic worst.
Scored on Father.
GUNS DON'T PRODUCE RAIN.
English Scientists Ridicule and Dis-
prove the Theory.
English scientists have again
been compelled to assure the public
that neither the smell of powder nor
the concussion of the gunfire has
the slightest connection with rain-
fall, From several sources it had
been assea;t-ed that the heavy and
persistent rains recently experi-
enced in southern England and
northern France were attributed
to atmospherie disturbances pro
duped by artillery fire at the seat
of war.
"Like the supposed influence of
the moon upon weather, the popu-
lar belief that powder brings rain
is baseless," writes a scientist in
the Tinges. "About four years ago
the First Lord of the Admiralty
was gravely asked in the House of
commons whether lie would in-
struct the fleet to carry .out its
heavy gun practice at some other
period of the year than in the mid-
dle of harvest time, 'when the re-
sultant heavy rains may ealt1e seri-
ous loss to the farming community.'
The idea is absolutely without foun-
dation. Experiments made in
lmerica'and on the Continent ehow
that in dry weather no amount. of
concussion has the slightest effect
in the production of ram.
"At time present time there is one
fact which should at once dispose of
the cherished theory. There is no
reason for thinking. that gun -firing
at the front is more violent than ft
was in the earlier stages of the war.
The rain should, therefore, have
commenced :'hortly after the out-
break pf the war, As matter of
fact, nothing of the ]rind took
place. In August and September
the rainfall was mach below the
average,
"At Shoeburyness, where big
guns are being tested almost daily,
year in and year out; the average
annual rainfall is smaller than In
any other part of the United I€ing-
dom,'e
Perhaps some brides blush be-
cause of the kind of husbands they
have run .to :comet,.
"Why is a Horse the kindest of
animals?" "It gladly gives ,the bit
out of his mouth, and listens to
every woe (whoa)."
JII311 HIE • OF EGYPT
S9'IOWS A. S'i'EAI)1IoY J1" C'111'leiSM
1N (1 PILOSPJTIUITT.
Tarkey Committed Suicide t'hcvt
She I`ook Up the Kaiser's
Canso.
`Tile diplomatic ficotion, as it may,
be called, under which Egypt nom-
inally remained a part of the Otto-
man Empire, whereas in fact she
was a British protectorate, has at
last been discarded. The flag of
Turkey has been healed down for
all time, and in name, as well as in
Seat, Egypt is part el the Bri'ish
Empire, with her .own Sultan and a
High G •mmissionei', appointed by
the Bi.,.'ah Crown, at the head ,oa
its local government.' When Turkey
took up the Kaiser's eatee she was
warned that she - was committing
suicide, She alas now •been kicked
cub of Africa; in .the end she will
be kicked out of Europe, and in
Asia she will be forced 'back to the
mountains• whence her people
emerged many centuries ago, says
a writer in The Montreal •Standard.
About Size. of Ontario.
Excluding the provinces rearm -
gamed in the Soudan, Egypt has an
area of 400,000 square milea, just
about equal to the area of.the Pro
Vince of Ontario; but only fourteen
thousand square miles of Egyptian
territory are settled. Ana yet on
that comparatively small area there
is a population of twelve millions.
The settled population of Egypt is
only one half the extent of New
Brunswick, but its popu'latiun is
about one-third greater than the
population of all Canada. •
British Mile.
For- almost the third of a century
Egypt has practically enjoyed Brit-
ish rule, the fruits of which are now
being enjuyed by the people of the
Ancient Land, Taxation has been
reduced. law and order maintained,
justice administered, industries fos-
tered, great public works eon-
strueted, and a general tilrlife of the
people brought about. Since the
blighting effects of Turkish oppres-
sion and corruption have been re-
moved, the people of Egypt have
enjoyed in peace the fruits of their
labor, The ,greater part of those
fruits are agricultural, fur fully
two-t.h:rdc of the .-opulati•,n are On
the land--t!re felin lison, ter .:mall i
cultivators, A cleverly devised
scheme of financial assistance line
enabled thewcultivator's to im-
prove then c nsliti ot. Tm y resolve
advances front the Ag ricultnra1
Bank up to the equivalent .d about
51,500, the loan being invited to
fifty per cent. of the selling value of
the land.. To this policy is•due to a
large extent the development in re-
cent years of the ruuntry's com-
merce and industry. and a steadily
increasing prosperity.
Blessing's From British.
The cultivated area can never be I
extended beyond the region capable
of being watered by the Nile, but
this region has been enlarged by ir-
rigation systems that are wonders
of engineering skill and workman•
ship--blessinfis conferred upon
Egypt by het British governors,
There are 1.500 miles of state•
owned railways, and 800 of light
agricultural railways awned by
companies. The products of the
temperate zone and of the sub-
tropics flourish in Egypt, for she
produces cotton and sugar as well
as wd.eat and other cereals.
Apart from the commercial ad-
vantages accruing from the pusses-
sion (and now the ownership as
well) of Egynt, the holding of the
country is of great importance to
Britain, because it controls -the
Suez Canal, an essential pert of
Britain's shortest route to .India.
Egypt's .principal city, Cairo, has a
population of 600,000, being, there-
fore, somewhat larger than Mont-
real, while the second city, Alexan-
drin, has a population of almost
four hundred thousand.
ITIS FIELD GLASSES.
Hit by n Bullet While in Officer's
Rands.,
A British soldier writes to Coun-
try Life, London: "I have just re-
turned from another turn in • the
trenches. 1 am going to send you
half a pair of fieldglasses which
have done mea great service. I
was standing up in a trench ---a lit-
tle over-confident—watching the re-
sult of our shooting through the
glasses, When `biff :' and I received
a terrible bang in the eye. 01 course
it' knocked me• down, and I wonder-
ed for a minute or •two why on earth
I was still alive. I distinctly heard
one of the men say: 'Pore devil,
'et got it in the 'cad.' A bullet had
bit the lens of the glasses and been
delIectecl by time prism, passing out
at the gide, as you will see. 1 found
half the glasses one side of the
trench and .half the other; the right
hall is still quite serviceable, so
behold your son with a beautifnl
black eye: I roily wish I could send
you the bullet, too, but it went the
way of all bullets. I -am back with
the +battery now --rather glad to
gest rid of a rather nerve-•tryin•g job,
tlmoegh lb was a great experience
and well worth the black eye."
NIS OF THE MIIIDI.FWEST
I1ET1VEvx ONTARIO AN-D•BIU•
TISK t1gl.UlLlii.
Italia Exam Provinces Whcrs Mea
(MOND Boys and Olds Ars
A school for the deaf i$ to be
aliened -in Regina easily fn tale ilea
Year.
'Seethe Reserve Indians smite do-
nation of potatoes ,10 the poor of
Calgary.
At 13u'ttleford, ;Sask., whitefish
'sold on the "streets at three for a
quarter,
At Kinosuta, Man,,, Mrs, M. Da'
meek died at the age. of 100 years
and nine m11ilths,
The new Government experim n•t-
al farm in Manitoba will he Iuse,,e4
at Morden.
The Brandon, Man., cityeouncil
has decided to buy additional fire
fighting apparatus.
In an attempt to start a fire with
coal ail, three people were serious-
ly burned at Winnipeg,
Water is scarce at Dauphin
Plains, Man,, and many farmers
are digging wells with poor success,
Three Indians, one a squaw, got
drunk on cider at Portage la
Prairie. They paid 833 in the po-
lice court.
At Beausejour, Man.. two little
children were 'burned to death
while their patents were away at
church.
•Joseph Plot, a Belgian farmer at
Battleford, gave a dressed hog to
be raffled for the benefit of the Bel-
gian relief fun. Over 811 Was real-
ized.
I Out of 1,200 men who offered ler
service in the 21th Battalion at
Winnipeg, only 15 were rejected by
due tors,
At. Overstone, Man., buys have
shot 450 rabbits. They will send
them to the Patirotic Society at
Winnipeg when they have a thous-
and.
Six Moose Jaw stores were rob-
bed in one night, otna11 amounts be-
imig taken in each case. The pollee
believed one man slid all the jobs.
There has been considerable rail-
way= work completed in the west
during the past cocas, in spite of
the d lir' stun, much of it in the
way of double tracking
Pignres given out in D arbor 2a
showed that Southern Alberta, up
t, that time, had given 5191,315 'to
the :patriotic fund.
At Foremost, :Siberia, a hue nam-
ed William Jenson took up a
calibre rifle t:, show• another boy
h,rw it worked. He didn't know it
was i,aded. As a result. the boy s
brother, Arthur, is dead,
William Henry Allman of Calgary
had e penchant for collecting over-
coats. He tools two from a charch,
and was gil emi a year in jail. He
was about to be married, but the
nuptials have been postp_,necl.
Mrs. C'hidwic'k, of Winnipeg, teas
cleaning clotlhing with gasoline
when there was an explosion aid
she wac badly burned. , It was ire-
lieved that friction in connection
wftli'the iron she was using causal
the blaze.
In an attempt t, frighten some
school ;girls, Walter McLeod, a 1.3 -
year -old boy of Edmonton, shat
Tillie Miller, a t3 -year-old girl. H.
claimed he did not knew the gun
was loaded. The girl was taken to
a hospital and may. recover.
DIED wITII SWEETHEART.
Convent Sehool Carl Followed as
Tied Cross Sister.
"By the side of a ycamtg Fr:'llell
cavalry officer who had been bit in
a fight on the Aisne 15.0 found the
body of a pretty girl, Nays Ser-
geant Payne, rho is at Relate],
wounded. "Both were dead. Their
story was as sad as anything I have
heard of in a 'mac full of tragedies.
When the young man pineal
regiment the girl left a mays tit
^hoof and attached he. self to the
Red Cross, -
"Hea.ing that her swce11 'art heel
not returned from 0 charge 1-i whieh
his regiment was engaged aIle had
gone out with tame ambulance men
to look for him. Gang in advance,
She had four i hints and while at-
tending t„ his wounds, was hit by 0
stray bullet, whi.eh penetrated' lies -
right lung and Milled her, They
were buried side by side,"
Taff GILTS FOlt. P11E 1).1.T.
Those who btingsuns+lmine into the
lives of others cannot keep it frons
themselves.—J. M. Barrie,
Surely it is no very extravagant
opinion that it is Netter to give than
to receive. -11. L. Steveneen.
5 e
e wealth '.1 salt
Be charitable befer neat m n
thee covetous and 1,1sr not taw glory
of the mite;—Sir Thomas Thrown..
We can only meet a nation that'
tramples under foot its obligations
with its own weapons, beat it down
to its knees, and crush it. -Lard
Strathclyde.
Prejudices are mat difficult to
nra,dicnte from the heart whose soil
has Heyer been loosened or fertilized
by education, They grow there ..
firm as w•eesie among attan1es.'--Cl1an.•-
lotto Bronte.
I should neves have made any sue-
cess in life if I hail not bestowed •
upon the greatest. Dickens.