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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-2-18, Page 7---- dishwater will brighten the glass and silver, ]tread and butter spread with •hopped dates ¢Hakes ex•ellont Hints 'or the Horse school sasdwiehea. To pad the edges of doilies before embroidering them, work them in a coarse chain -stitch. To slice bacon properly, slice down to the rind; do not attempt to slice through the rind; Paint the handles of the garden tools a bright red; they -will 'be hard to lose and easily found, If you spill ink on the carpet, pet - salt ori it immediately ; it will help remove the spot. To do away with the sound of a watoli in a sick soom, place the watch under a tumbler. Suet may be kepb fresh by ebop- ping roughly and; sprinkling it with a little granulated, sugar, Wrap -cheese in a cloth rnoistened with vinegar if you would. keep it moist and free from. mold, Button loope will' be mush strongera if the loops re crocheted over ith a fine crochet hook, When milk boils over, sprinkle salt on the stove at once;. this will counteract the unpleasant odor. A small piece of camphor in the water in which out -flowers 'are put will make them last much longer, Condensedmilk is cheaper and as good as fresh milk for the making ,of 'cocoa, puddings and ice oreaxn. Carrots cut in circles, boiled till tender, then salted, served piping hot and sprinkled with chopped parsley are delicious. When you paste labels on glass jars that are used for spices or cer- eals, put the label on the inside; it will stay more securely. A ,good sauce for lamb is :made of currant jelly, broken up and mixed with finely chopped mint leaves and a few shavings of orange rind. Cold rice left over from a meal can be made into an appetizing dish, with tomato sauce, minced onion, butter and seasoning. Bake half an hour. Lemon juice is invaluable in re- moving :stains resulting from pot•' to parings or fruit picking. First dip the fingers into salt, and then apply the lemon. Winter Breakfast Footle. Hot breads for breakfast are a - most a necessity in winter, At least they are'hig'hly desirable. The morning appetite in cold weather ,demands isometbing.substantied, and it gladly takes this substantial dish in the form of a Muffin, a roll or 'some other' tempting bit of bread. Hero are some recipes; not uew, but, nevertheless, good, Better, perhaps, because they have been tried and found satisfying and re- liable. Plain Muffins. One egg, well beaten; a tablespoonful of butter and a tablespoonful of sugar, with a teas ofol of salt, all beaten un- til n -til very light. One cup of milk, three of sifted flour and three table- spoonfuls of baking powder. One- lialf graham and one-half rye .teal. may be used instead of wheat flour 'or two sups of cornmeal and one of flour, Drop on well -greased patty pans and bake twenty minutes in a rather quick oven or bake on a . griddle en muffin rings, Twin Mountain Muffins. - One- quarter cupful of 'butter, one-quar- ter cupful of ,sugar, one egg, well beaten; three-quarter cupful milk, two cupfuls flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream the butter, acrd gradually the sugar, then the eggs. Sift the flour, mid baking powder thoroughly and add to the first_anixture alternately with the milk. Bake in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. Soar Creast Biscatts. Four cup- fuls flour, one teaspoonful soda and one teaspoonful salt sifted together, one pint sour cream. Roll out on a floured board, having the dough one inch thick. Out with biscuit -cutter and put the biscuits in a greased pan just touching each -other. Bake from twelve to fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Cornmeal Bolls. --1% cupfuls of white flour, three-quarter cupful. of •cornmeal, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, ono -half teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar, two table- spoonfuls of butter, one egg, three- quarter cupful of milk, All mea- surements level. Mix and sift dry ingredients into a bowl, chop but- ter in with knife, beat egg, add milk and add all to dry ingredients to make a soft dough that can be han- dled; add more milk if necessary; turn onbo a floured board, toss lightly and roll out one-half inch with rolling pin, cut with round cut- ter, put a .piece of butter size of a pea in centre of each round; fold round in centre so opposite edges meet, put onto a buttered baking sheet; rub the top with milk and bake in a quick oven tweIvc to fif- teen to en minutes. Coffee Buns. - Sift together two quarts of flour, a pinch of salt and a teacupful of Ane granulated su- gar. `Make a hole in the middle of this, pour in one pint of home-made yeast, and mix thoroughly; then stir in one-half teacupful of melted butter. Mix to a stiff hatter with lukewarm sweet milk; knead into a smooth dough and let it stand in a warm place overnight. In the morn- ing knead again, roll out lightly and eut with a biscuit cutter. Put in a greased baking pan, allowing about one-half inch between. Brush the tops with snilk and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake in a mod- erate oven for about 30 minutes, Southern Corn Bread. -Sift two cupfuls of cornmeal twice with an even teaspoonful of soda and as much salt. Beat two eggs very light. Mix one teaspoonful of su- gar in three cupfuls of buttermilk or loppered milk, add the eggs and a tablespoonful of melted butter, lasbly the prepared flour. Have ready three well -greased deep jelly cake tins (warmed), divide the bat- ter 'between them and bake in a quick oven,• Some Flourless Recipes. In these days when flour is rapid- ly increasing in price; housewives should try and see what they' can amen-la/WI in the bakery line with- out the ,aid of that usually all-im- portant item -flour. The recipe for `Potato Biscuit" should grave good, 'Take two cups flour, three tablespoons shortening, three tea- spoons salt, two cups sashed iota .toes, about two cups .milk. Mix as ordinary biscuit and roll thin, Bake in quick oven. Another one for "Bran Bread"is given, .and to any housewife whose ineome has not risen with the price of foodstuffs, either of these recipee should be of value in helping to feed a hungry brood, Bran Bread. -One cup molasses, two teaspoons baking soda (dissolved in hob water and added to anolassee); stir well until batter foams, then add one pint of sweet or sour milk one quart of bran, two cups of wheat flour, ono, teaspoon malt, Mix, well and bake one hour in slaw oven. This makes two good-sized loaves of fine health bread. . Useful (lints. Salad vegetables are as important 5n the winter as in the summer dietary,, An ext:elle;,t stew is made of soup meat en& maep.roni, flavored with tomatoes. A sew drops of antmenia in the DISEASE :MEATS TRE GUN. Eighty Per Cent. of Deaths in W'ai' Due to Disease. Notwithstanding modern medical science, eighty of the deaths in the present war are due to disease, as against twenty due to gun fire. These are the figures compiled by Dr. F. N. Sandwitth, writing in the Hospital, London. This same pro- portion obtained during 'the Russo- Turkish war of 1877-78. During the American Civil War there were three deaths to disease to every one from wounds; that is to say, a mor- tality dos to disease of sixty-six and two-thirds per cent. During he French expedition i n Madagascar in 1895, according to the writer, ouly twenty-nine deaths occurred in action as against seven thousand who died by disease. In the Boer War the losses from dis- ease were enormous, notwithstand- ing the improvements in military hygiene then in force. The Japanese, however, during the war with Russia were able by exercising the most scrupulous care to rev erre the ratio, In the case of their troops only one man died of disease to every four who died of. mounds, RAND 0M SAYINGS. The girl who is as pretty as a pic- ture generally has negative quali- ties. The only ,way to get along with some people is carefully to conceal your opinion of them, Fewer young men would sow their wild oats if they should first stop to look for a needle in a haystack. The man .who enjoys single bless- edness is doubly blessed. The only time we notice an impe- diment in the speech o:f some peo- ple is when an occasion arises to praise others. Speech is brittle, Any man can make a ibreak, but mighty few can mend it. Some Wren are ambitious to do good; others to make good. Many a man has been carried un- der by the sheer weight of his own dignity. It is hard for a woman to hold her husband's love when site can't even hold her tongue. Life is made up of surprises. Have you ever noticed that the things that don't seem possible happen so often ? 14 No Human Eye Perfeet. Measurements of human eyes de- monstrate that there is probably no such ,thing in the world as an abso- lutely ;perfect eye, That would be a miracle, which nature with all her infinite ingenuity has never performed. No !human face among ithe world's 10,000,000,000 may be held perfect, either artistically or. physiologically. To, 'the owner of the face this Is relatively an unim- portant ntatber, but to the owner of the pair of eyes an error of one ,three -hundredth of an inch in .:the curvature of dimension of the. eye:. balls mit+ make their all-important functiony abnormal, resulting til eye -strain with its attendant physi- cal ills, A Fascinating Sluing Costume. Navy blue gabardine, trimmed with striped muslin cuffs and Dollar; hat, blue velvet with white silk band. . ,vial 1%1 THE TOLL GiT L i p 11 The fall rains had undermined a section of the track and played mis- chief with a quarter of a mile of embankment, What was mare seri- ous, the hill stream, which had risen t like the i Ganges flood t me had ge , weakened two piers and] - the retain- ing walls of the railway bridge. Doucy, One of the company's civil engineers, had been sent up post- haste from Delhi to repair the dam- age. He was to get the day labor- ers from the village three or four miles down the valley. They had helped in building the road, ,and could therefore be relied upon. Doucy found the job bigger than he had expected. The wrecked em- bankment did not present unusual difficulties, but the repairing of the stone work was a mores serious mat- ter. Under the pressure of the seething flood, the big :scows that held the workmen were eo„ntinually slipping their cables, and either taking a few toms of water aboard at a gulp or sinking altogether. Then the donkey engine had to fish out as many of the stone blocks as its grappling hacks could seize and yank up the scow. The men cling- ing to the network of Life :ropes'be- low the bridge had to be rescued and induced to attempt the danger- ous work again; all of which used up valuable tinge. As the camp was large, it was necessary to send a bullock cart to the village every other day for rice, mealie flour, and other food sup- plies. During the second week one of the carts did not return. The next day a foreman who had gone to investigate found it in the road with a broken -necked bullock be- tween its shafts. Some twenty or thirty yards from the rim of the bank that ran along the roadside lay all that was .left of the driver. The spoor of a large tiger led off into the jungle, but Doucy and his trackers failed to run the 'beast down, Several days later the traanely was repeated. Another dead bul- lock lay in the red dust almost ab the sante point where the first had been killed. At the tail of the cast was the driver's empty gun ; the body of !the driver was found under a tangle of flowering creepers. Doucy ordered a goat and its kid to be tethered on the bank, and that nighb and the night after he took up the watch on a little plet- fonee built in the brandies of an adjacent tree, But the tiger did not appear. As he had to keep himself fib for phis work, the engi- neer let One of his assistants take his place in the tree on the follow- ing 'nights, Meanwhile the cant was sent. out with a bodyguard of foto' picked melt besides the driver, arid thus escorted, it made.several trips without mishap. The Goalies began to snap their fingers when the toll -gatherer, as -they had dubbed the tiger, was men- tioned, He was a ,coward, they de- clared. He could overpower a driver asleep on his .cart, but his heart failed him when it came to fading several aimed men, They would burn his whiskers en the camp coals yet if he did not look out. Suddenly., however, a mad bullock cart came spinning into camp with the ashen -faced driver crouching among its rice bags. All the others had beeni killed and - eaten, he de- clared.; clared•; only 'his own extraordinary courage had saved his life. The at- tack had coma like a bait from the blue, and no vigilance could have forestalled it. Presently three of the escort, dust and covered with sweat, came running into camp; the fourth had been killed. The sur- vivors all agreed that everyone had been brave and that the toll -gath- erer was invulnerable. Everyone now realized that this was an unusually determined man- eater. The coolies refused to drive the supply cart•, and were almost ready to break camp :in a body. Doucy saw that he' must himself get rid of the toll -gatherer if he wished to retain his 'workmen, He .made his. arrangements with some ingenuity. Out of some brown cloth and a framework of bamboo he put together a figure that when stuffed with grass was a fair imitation of a man. He wound a dirty turban round its head, add- ed clippings from the tail of his horse for hair, and 'roped' the thing to the seat of the cart. The fol- lowing dray he got into the body of the cart with his rifle and drove to the village. Nothing happened on that rip or the next, bub Doucy did not give up.• On the third trip he kept as close a watch as ever, and was par- ticularly careful an his. way back from the village, It was a very hob afternoon. The groaning and squealing of the unoiled wooden wheels were the only sounds to break the heavy silence. The red dust eddied up round the cart in clouds. Doucy occasionally lifted his head warily to scan the sur- roundings, but ell he could see was. a red shimmer of heat waves melt- ing inter a brassy glare of sunlight, The decoy sat vacillating on its seat with its turbaned head bowed for- ward in the exact manner of it sleepy driver. The dummy had been greased with -cocoanut oil and well man -handled to make it "smell right" ; it seemed, lifelike enough to deceive a• hungry tiger. Dailey lay face down in his neat between. the baggs, with very little except •his khaki -covered back in view, As they amared the end of the ridge he heard a peculiar' sound like a ,passing gust of air; it was followed by an ahnoab noiseless lint very jarring shook, .He threw up his head in time•bo see the decoy, torn loose faun its fastenings, in the clutch of a, huge tiger. The pair instantly rolled from the cart, and the bullock Wheeled and clashed straight at the batik, In" its des - Aerate terror it actually scaled the lower past •of the slope; but per- ceiving that it weld not eseapo an that direction, it wheeled again sharply, The quick turn tipped over the badly balanced .cart; it came down like !ibex on Douey and the provision bags, All this happened in hall a dozen seconds. 1)ouey had hardly realized his position when he beard amom- ing bellow from the 'bullock, and knew that the tiger had grappled it, Pinned on his back between the provision bags, Doucy felt the tolls gatherer give the dead bullock a tug that made the solid cart quiver; but the harness held• The tiger was puzzled, and the fast time he snarled. The sound was powerful and murderous, Then the tiger started to circle the eat to see what the matter was. When he had gene halfway round, his footfalls ceased, and Dewy heard his heart pumping and thudding in the ghast- ly silence. Then he became aware that one of the tiny chinks between the bags no longer owed thread of sunlight. ,showed a r ea.c 11 Something had blocked it, He knew what it was before he heard the deep raucous intake of air with which the tiger drank the odor of human flesh. Doucy struggled to reach the rifle lying under !tis feet, The toll -gath- erer tore at the obstructions. With a dry and horrible sound his claws ripped one of the bags. As the great paw gutted it of its contents, Doucy felt the bag loosen; then it collapsed like a deflated bal- loon, and the cart settled a little on that side. It relieved his cramped position just enough to enable him to grasp his rifie. He instantly thrust the muzzle under the edge of the cart. He had not a second to waste and, with the butt of his rifle pressed to his side, fired where he knew the beast must be. The answering roar of the tiger showed that he bad been hit; but he was not crippled, for he threw himself upon the cart with great fury and tried to tear away the side with his teeth. Fail- ing in that, the pushed his paw un- der the edge of the cart, and his unsheathed claws, sweeping fierce- ly through the low opening, nar- rowly aniseed Douey's face. Daley aimed again instantly and fired. The toll -gatherer gave an- other roar that ended in a deep, gurgling cough that told of a wound through the lungs. Doucy heard a heavy trashing sound and the II rattling of gravel against the side of the cart. Then everything was as still as death except for the pounding of his own heart. Bathed with sweat and hall stifled by the close, hot air under the cart, he waited a long time. There was no sound outside except the buzzing of hundreds of flies about the bul- lock, At last Doucy began to push away the dirt under the edge of the cart with the butt of his rifle, and when he had scooped a shallow trench he cautiously stuck out his head, Directly in front of him and a little below him, with ears laid back and body gathered in a tense crouch like a cat at a rat tole, was the -toll - gatherer, Hisnsouth was open, and Douey saw that his fangs, which at one time must have been unusually large, were broken anddeoayed like those of most man-eaters, He aimed his rifle at the knot of frowning muscles between the fierce eyes, and was about to pull the trigger, when the tiger leaped. .But the effort was too much foe the wounded beast. Just as Dotuey shifted his aim and fired he saw the great body crumple in anicl air. It fell only a few feet beyond where it had bean cremating, as limp as a rag. The tall -gatherer had mads has last leap. Doucy Growled out from under the cart and cut off the stiff black bris- tles from the fixed, snarling lips. The coolies would burn them on the camp •coals that night with impres- sive ceremony. Doucy- was a thor- oughly practical man, but he knew that native superstitions had to be considered. Probably the men would spoil a half day of work by dragging the tiger into camp the next morn- ing and holding a triumph over the body. itt any rate, the road was open again; the toll -gatherer would collect no more tolls. --Fisher Ames in Youth's Companion. True Heroism. He had been courting the girl for a long time. It happened on Sun- day night, after church, They were sitting very quietly on the sofa, and she looked with ineffable tenderness into his noble blue eyes. "Tom," she murmured, "didn't you tell me once you would be willing to do any act of heroism for my sake?" "Yes, Mary, and I would gladly re- iterate that statement .now," he replied. "No Raman of old, how- ever brave, was ever fired with a loftier ambition, a braver resolu- tion than L" "Well, Tom, I want you to do something real heroic for tae." "Speak, darling, what is it?" "Ask me to be your wife, We've been tooling long enough. s1' A street car inspector was watch• ing the 'work of the. green Irish con- ductor. ;'Here, Foley, how is this?" he said, "You have ten passengers and only nine faros are rung up." "Is that so?" said Fo- ley. Then turning to the passen- ger's he shouted ; "There's wan too many av yez on this car, Get out cif here, wan av yez l" TUE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY I ti'TJiRNATIONA.Jc L.Li'SSON, IJIIIRCARY 21. Lesson YLl), The Death of Eli and Ills Sons. 1 Salt. 4. 1-18. Gold- en Text, James 1, 22. Verse 1. Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, -Tie Phil- istines wore last mentioned in Judges, chapters 13 and 16. It was evident that Israel wa.c not able to throw off the yoke of the Philis- tines, This servitude lastrd for furby years (Juelg. 13. 1). It termi- nated about the twentieth year of Samuel's judgeship (1 Barn, 7, 13, 14). Eben-ezer, "stone of help," and Gilgal, "heap -of -stones,' had a, epe- this father, but he was again buried tial significance (Josh. 4. 20). Eben- in /tie paper, and Jim knew that he ezer is at the head of the Yale of would get no ,active help from his o e•defeated the S rek where Israel father against bis mother's a g t 1 m e s ex - i Philistines (see next Lesson, 1 Sam, pressed wishes. Jim could not help a secret feeling, that has father vvas not playing the game, rising in hie heart, He felt instinctively bis fa- ther would despise him as a coward if he did net go, and yet would lend no aid to obtain fur him his great- est wish, He turned again to his mother, "It isn't fair to keep me here; all my friends are going, and I half prwitohmisedhim,T" um McPherson I'd join "You had nu right to de any such thing, and a half promise is not binding. Tom's case is quite dif- ferent; he has two brothers and three sisters." "Tom's brothers -are married, and he helps his mother and his sisters to keep the home, However, .his mother and sisters are willing to do slaslinirsi�enrir�, "I have already told you, Tann, that I don't wantsou to enlist.' Of course, I know I(ite'hener wants more men, but there are many other men •who can be much more easily spared than you." "Mother, what rot you talk! I beg year pardon; hat I don't kno*, what you mean by being easily spared. I have no wife, no f.anaily, no dependents of any kind. ' "You seem to forget, Jim, that you are all we have -aur only son." Dr. Blaek looked up from his , morning paper. "Five young offi.- eel's whose deaths are repurted to- day are only sons." Mrs. Bleck frowned, but other- wise took no notice of her husband's remark. Jim looked hopefully at 7. 12). Aphek means fortress. It was one of the strongholds of Samaria in northern Sharon, where the Philis- tines assembled twice, once before they invaded Israel and once be- fore they crossed the plain of Es- draelon. It was not far from the Mizpah of Benjamin, and was un- doubtedly the Aphek of Joel'. 12. 18. 3. People means the army. The elders bad a council on the evening of the defeat and resolved to send the ark of the covenant of the Lord in battle. 'Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to -day before the Philistines. -- This was the cry of the former time (see Josh, 7. 7). 4. The people. -Here, again, the arms- is meant. As we read m the book of Judges repeatedly, in those without his aid in order to let him days there was no king in Israel. go." And so whatever action was taken Mrs. Black rose, "You know my seemed to be the concerted action wishes, Jim, I do not think we need of the army. discuss the matter further." Shiloh was not many hours die- Jim said nothing more, but de- tent from Aphek, as the ark was parted to his office. On the way he brought the next day. met Tom McPherson as usual; and Who aitteth above the cherubim. greeted him cheerfully. "I'm going The cherubim were conceived as to enlist with yon, Let's go at bearing the Lord upon their wings once." Toni luukec} delighted but (see 2 Sam. 6. 2; 2 Icings 19. 15; surprised. "So your mother came round. Good for you. Quick -march for the Recruiting Office." Jim vouchsafed no information, and they set off at once to join Lord Kitchener's Army. When Jim returned at lunch- time tIncn he found hi. mother ina most conciliator m S didnot ,y mood. She n t want permanently to estrange her sun, but she was anxious, now she had gained her point, to do ail she could to please him. She therefore suggested that, as the Egyptians with all manner oflit was a beautiful Saturday after plagues in the wilderness. -Not I noon, they should take a run in the only dal, the Israelites never forget' automobile to see some cousins the deliverance of their fore- whom she knew her son liked. Jim, fathers from Egypt, but this inti- on his side also, was anxious to dent had be olease his thetwo n ac c me so fixed as a tra- s another, and tw i set p clition that the neighbors of Israel off in the little ear. knew thereof. The Philistines, there -1 They had a glorious run, and 6. In the camp of the Hebrews,- !This is the name by which the Is- raelites were known to their neigh- bors (Exod. 1. 15, 16. 19; 2, 6, 11, 113; 3. 18; 0. 3). 7. Thereh th a not been such a thing heretofore. - The Hebrew word for yesterday "heretofore" is land the third day, meaning the day Ibefore, This was a common expres- sion among the Israelites (see Gen. 31. 2, 5; Exod, 4. 10). 8. These are the gods that smote fore, were exceedingly disturbed when they saw that this same God was come into thecamp of Israel. By "in the wilderness" re meant the shores of the Red Sea (Exod. 13. 20; 1.3. 3, 11, 12). 9. Be strong and quit yourselves like men. -Saint Paul uses similar words in I Cor, 16. 13, "Quit you like men, be strong." This hea- then people was able to rally its forces by an appeal to the manhood of the army. 11. And the two sons of Eli. --The man of God (1 Sam. 2. 34) had pro- phesied that both of Eli's sons should die in one day. 19. And there ran a man. -Run- ners among the Israelites were well - were nearing their destination, when in trying to avoid a milk cart, which was swaying from sid•o to side of the road, Jini ran into a stone wail and the ear overturned. Help was not long in coining; but it was found that while Mrs. Black was only suffering from bruises a'hd shock, Jim was dead; in fact, had been killed instantaneously. His mother was brought home, but for weeks she remained in the same state, never voluntarily speak- ing, and never ht• any chance smil- ing. One day Tom McPherson call- ed, having come up from camp, and though she usually would see no visitors, she had a desire to see her son's great friend. They talked for known persons. As there was no some time of the dead lad, broken - other means of quick communica_ • ly and with long pauses, Then Tont tion, men who were partieularly fleet of foot were developed for messenger service. Well-known cases of runners were Cushi and \himaaz (2 Sam. is, 19-31), and Asahel. (2 Sam, 2. 18). There were also running footmen who accont- said :- "It was good of you to 1:'t him enlist ; it made all true difference to him. He was so depressed for days before, but that day be was once more lois happy, irreeponcible Self." Mrs. Black looked quickly at him panted the chariots. These run- and drew a lung breath. She saw the nem became professionals, as is in- words were uttered in gooel faith, 1Rings lend she intolerable d Gated in 2 Sam. 15. 1; 1 flat if an intolerau.-.. hur- l. 8, His clothes rent, and with earth mon his head. ---Indicative of hitter grief. These who saw hint running HMS would know that his message vas unfavorable (see 2 Sam. 1. 2; Josh. 7. 6), 13.. By the wayside watching. - This was doubtless a street leading o the watch tower (2 Sam, 13, 2; 3 Kings 11. 6. -19), 111 When he made mention of the rk of God, -Eli as priest of God teas particularly responsible for the rk of the envenant of the Lord. He had allowed "the people" to go to the very extreme measures of eking the, ark inter the battle in or- er to win the victory-. When the a •k was taken, therefore, he knew hat there was no other help. The bock of this disaster was too great for him to stand. Fell from off his seat, --This seat, r throne, had no back. The fact that Eli fell backward, however, in- ic.ates how great mac the exe3te- ent which resulted from: the word f the messenger, a. a. a t d s 0 m 0 • The biggest dock is in Cardiff, \Vales. Occasionally the preacher's aim is inacourate and his sermon hits YOU,. den had been lifted from, her mind. Soon afterwards Tom. took 'hue de- parture, mad Mrs. Black thanked hint heartily for his visit. When Dr. Blaek came in to die- ner that evening he found quite a different wife awaiting lrirn. "James, he had enlister," sae said; "and out of gratitude for my dear son's courage I've sent off :t cheque for £100 to the Relief Fund, and I'll begin to work for the -Su•l- dirrs' and Sailors' Asi ,'iatian.'' When later Ile, Black lo;.ked at the subscription list of that date the only contribution of !lied was from "A Saldier'c Bother," -Glas- gow NTews, Chimney Smoke. Smoke is composed of gases and of little particles of ,fuel which are carried up the ehinmc•y by suction. Knowing this, the eltimela end of smoke is readily explained, Thr fuel partieles fall to the ground of their own weight when they get be. gond the drawing power. of the. ohinmey and out of the current of the heated alt' ,formed in .the olrim- ney flue. There is a lot of rnrboni•e arid gas in smoke whiclit mixes ,with the air and eventtutlly tbecemes Noe for plants. Some other• gases which are net entirely consumed when they tome from the chimney, are blamed by ,the air still More natil they, ten; beeoine <'arbetn arid gas.