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Maple Sugar 'Dishes.
Maple Syrup Custards—Mix thou
°uglily four Woll•beaten eggs, at pinch
of sail, three cupfuls of sweet mills
end one cupful of maple syrup, Pour
it ntai buttered individual moulds and
Set Ibem in hot water, Bake the mix-
tore slowly ulbtil it is firm, Chill
them, turn the erustard out of the
moulds and serve it.
Hot Maple Nougat. --Boil together
two cupfuls of maple syrup and one
teaspootifui of butter until they reach
the softball stage -288 degrees. Add
one-half cupful of chopped pecan nuts
and stir the whole well, Use it as a
Pace for ice clean„ When the hot
syrup comes in contact with the cold
cream, it forms a delicious caramel.
Magic Parfait.—Sweeten cream with
maple syrup and whip it until it is
very thick, Pour the cream into a
mould that has been sprinkled with
nut meats chopped fine. Cover the
top of the mould with wrapping paper,
and press the lid down securely and tie
it with a stout cord. Bury the mould
in crushed ice and salt and leave it
for four hours,
Maple Whip.—Mix and bring to the
• boiling point one-half cupful of white
sugar, the yolks of two eggs, one cup-
ful of maple sugar and two cupfuls of
cold water. Add a pinch of salt and
two tabiespconfuls of cornstarch dis-,
solved in a little cold water. Cook
the whole until it is thick and remove
1t from the fire. When it is cold, add
the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs.
Satire it with cream and sugar.
Maple Nut Fudge.—Boil two cupfuls
of maple sugar and •one cupful of milk
until a bit from the mass will form a
soft ball in cold water. Add one
tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoon-
ful of vanilla extract, and one-half
pound of Englisch walnuts chol ped
very fine, Remove the mixture from
the fire and beat it until it is thick;
then add the beaten white of one egg
and beat the whole until it is very stilt:
Pour it Into buttered tins. When it
is cold mark it into squares.
Maple Delight—Beat the yolks of
four eggs until they are light. Add
gradually three-quarters of a cupful
of maple syrup, then one pint of thick,
sweet cream. Cook the whole in a
double boiler until it is thick enough
to eat with a spoon. Remove it from
the fire and beat it with an egg whlp
uatil it is light. When it is cold, whip
in the well -beaten whites of four eggs
to which have been added one-half cup-
/ ful of grated maple sugar. Pack it in
ce and salt and leave it for four hours,
Maple Mousse.—To one cupful of
maple syrup add the well -beaten yolks
of four eggs. Cook the liquid in a
double boiler, strung it constantly, for
fifteen minutes. Remove it from the
Are and beat it until it Is quite cold.
Stir in two tablespoonfuls of finely
chopped candied ginger, then add one
plat of cream, whipped. Pour the b
mass into a mould, cover it with pap-
er, and put the lid of the mould in
a
fi
butter, and garnish with egg. Thicken
the gravy in which the spinach wee
cooked in the caserole, and serve as
a gravy.
This recipe for gingerbread is said
to be very good: Stir together ono
large cupful of molasses, half a cute
ful of butter and lard, dripping, or
any good commercial shortening, one
egg, half a cupful -of milk, one level
teaspoonful of baking -soda, half a
teaspoonful of salt, one t808p0onful
of ginger, halt a teaspoonful of eiu-
'semon, and three cupfuls of flour.
This is a good way` to use the left-
overs of fried or cold boiled harm.
Run one cup of cold hang through the
grinder and add to it one cup of ere
sauce made by melting one tablospo
ful of butter and stirring into it o
tablespoonful of flour until thick. A
to the ham and oream sauce the
hard-boiled eggs, which have be
am
on- Ernest Schiller, the German "pirate"
the who single-handed captured the Brit-
dd ish steamship "Matapo," has been
ee, brought bo New York, the authorities
enfearing his being rescued. Schiller
now admits his name is Clarence Hud-
son, his father being English, his
mother German; he being born in
Petrograd. With four other men he
plotted to board an English steamer
or and capture treasure on board„ but
Pak• having taken too much intoxicating
th liquor, he boarded the Matapo and
up held up the captain and crew when the
en weasel was well out at sea. He was
so disgusted with the meagre loot on
board that when off the Delaware
coast he ordered the captain to put
him ashore; where upon landing he
was disarmed and arrested. Schiller's
or Hudson's only fear is that he be
turned over to the British authorities
who he is convinced would hang him
from a yard arm for piracy on the
high seas.
e.
P rate Who Single -Handed Captured
British Ship.
chopped fine, and one-half a cup of
breadorumbs. Put in a buttered dish
and bake until brown,
This is a good white cake recipe :
Whites of four eggs, one-half cup but-
ter, one Cup sugar, two cups pastry
cake flour, two round teaspoons
ing powder, one-half cup water wi
juice of one-half lemon in one c
water. Cream butter and sugar, th
add water and flour alternately (hav-
ing sifted the baking powder in flour) ;
lastly fold in the whites and flavor as
desired. Bake in a slew oven and ice
with white icing.
Useful Hints.
It is wrong to cook the vegetables
in an iron kettle.
Practice alone gives the confidence
and experience necessary to turn out
good pastry.
To clean lamp burners wash them
in wood ashes and water and they will
come out clean and bright.
Wipe the kitchen oilcloth with skim-
med milk. This treatment is almost
as beneficial to the cloth as a coat of
varnish.
To clean bamboo furniture use a
brush dipped in warm water and salt.
The salt prevents the bamboo from
turning color.
To make an excellent dressing for
linoleum take equal parts of linseed
o11 and cider vinegar and mix them
bhoroughly together.
If you rub a little butter under the
spout of the cream pitcher it will pre-
vent a drop of cream running down
the side of the pitoher.
Coffee and tea stains, if rubbed with
butter and afterwards washed in hot.
soap -suds, will come out, leaving the
table linen quite fresh and white.
Rub cornstarch on a grease spot and
it will absorb the grease. Rub off in
two hours. If not all gone repeat un -
till the spot is cleared of grease.
Salt should never remain in any-
thing rubber—for instance, .bot water
tittles or syringes. Rinse them out
thoroughly or the rubber will soon rot.
As you pack each article for mov-
ng make a note of where you put 1t,
nd when you want to reach a certain
article you can do It without any dif-
eulty.
When about to clean paint in a hitch
en. ar other rooms where there is
stove heat a boiler of water and allotv
1t to boil without a cover for a lon
time.
place, making sure that It is very tight.
Pack the whole in ice and add salt and
leave It for four hours,
Maple Butterscotch Ple,—Beat to-
gether one cupful of sweet milk, one
- egg, one heaping tablespoonful 0f flour
and a pinch of salt. Melt three-quart-
ers of a cupful of butter with one cup.
ful of grated maple sugar. Combine
lila two mixtures and cook, the whore'
in a double boiler until it is thick.'
When it is cool, pour it into a baked
pastry shell and cover it with a mer-
ingue made of the stiffly beaten white
et one egg to which has; been added
ono tablespoonful of maple syrup,'
• Brown it 1n the oven and servo it cold.'
Maple Tapioca.—Soak four heaping
tablespoonfuls of tapioca for four
hours in suffioit.nt cold water to cover;
1t well, Drain off all the water that
remains, add one quart 01 sweet milk
and a pinch of salt, and cook the
Whole until the tapioca is clear. Then.
add the yolks of four eggs beaten with
one cupful of grated iiaple sugar Cook
it until it is thick. Add one teaspoon-
ful of vanilla and pour the mixture
Into a baking pan. Cover it with a
Meringue made frown the whites of the
eggs and two tablespoonfuls of Rhapie
auger, Brown it and serve it cold
'with plain cream,
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Miscellaneous Recipes,
A savory dumpling may be made
as follows: Take a quarter of a
pound of suet and half a pound of
flour, a teaspoonful of salt and
enough cold water to mix, into which 5
Stir three finely shaved onions, Mold
With the hands into a ball and tie
up in a floured cloth, room being at- p
lowed for its swelling, and boil three
hours, When done, turn out, out 111,
pikes and cover with a tt,,gown sauce, s
Made from plain drawn;btitter, to
which a cup of gravy and a dish of s
table sauce has been added,
One way to cook beef tongue so 118
to make 1t palatable, cover a tongue'
with cold water and add a sliced onion
nnd two cloves. Simmer until Len-'
der, drain and take oft the skin, Pour D
aottpeel of strained tomato juice and s
Iwo capfuls of meat stock into a ccs-
eerolo, and put the tongue in, Cover,
apd cook slowly in the oven for fibout t
Milt an hoer, Serve with spinach, 11
wliielt has boon boiled, 0Itopllod, sea- th
sorted with wait and pepper and melted se
SEX CONFLICT FOR WORK.
Prominent Frenchman Sees Trouble
Following War,
Eugene Drieux, famous French play-
wright and feminist, seeing in the con-
flict between men and women in the
labor market the most serious post.
bellum danger confronting Europe,
suggests the following remedies.
1—Man must give up his drunken
habits, but he must be so uplifted as
to have no such excuse that the saloon
is the poor maws parlor.
2—Man must respect woman and
not treat her as a silly, shrinking, i
necessarily subjugated being.
3—The abominable system of mar-
riage doweries must end. Marriage
must not coma as a relapse into re-
spectability after mis-spent youth, but
it must come during youth's best days,
so that the couple may lead together
a complete life with its early strug-
gles, anxieties and joyous successes,
4—Mothers must teach their sons to
respect women.
5—No honorable woman must have
a peaceful moment as long as she
knows that some other woman is forc-
ed to sell herself through physical
or moral poverty,
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SOLDIER'S WILL IN VERSE.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON.
APRIL 80.
Lesson V.—Pester Delivered From Pri-
son,—Acts 12. 1.10. Golden
Text : Psalm 34, 7.
The story told here is one of II,
miracle narratives which ore canno
expect to see Into very far. We cee
not explain it, and our gueses will no
be profitable. Our curiosity might b
relieved it we knew the meaner o
this Providence, but we plight lose the
lesson of it by the way.
1. Herod—Agrippa I, grandson o
Herod "the Great" and father of Agrip
pa II (Acts 25, 13). Through his ill
fated grandmother Mariemne he had
Maceabee blood, See him olharae
terised In Josephua, Antig, xix. 7.
2. James—The mulls/it martyr of
the Twelve, His early death made
it natural that he should be disting
gulshed by his brother's name. It is
easy to believe that the "Son of
Thunder" brought Jewish hatred upon
himself quickly. With the sword—By
beheading; so Heb, 11, 37, It was
to be Paul's death, as it had been John
the Baptist's, The martyrdom ful-
11118 the Lord's prediction (Matt. 20.
23), and James suffers at the anniver-
sary of the crucifixion, or a little ear-
lier,
4. Four quaternions—Who took al-
ternate watches; in the night perhaps
they took three hours each. After the
Passover'—Similarly the Jews wanted
to wait for their revenge on Jesus:
Mark 14.2. Bring hint forth—nor a
public execution.
6. That in spite of title incessant
prayer the church was utterly stag-
gered when their request was granted
is very characteristic of human nature,
6. Two chains—ldandcuifed by each
hand to a soldier's hand. The guards
form the other half of the quaternion.
7. An angel—As in the shorter
story of Acts 6. 19. His chains fell—
As in the Philippian gaol, Acts 16. 26.
8, Garment—The outer garment, or
cloak, which had been acting as a
blanket. The girding implies that
Peter is Lo attire himself as for an
ordinary walk, without untidiness due
to ]taste.
10. Guard—The verb makes the
English Revised Version ward more
probable: the cell was an inside one,
11. Peter bad thought himself
dreaming. Now he is fully conseioue,
and somehow he is by himself out in
the deserted city at night. However
t happened, it was the angel of -the
Lord encamping round his servant for
deliverance. Peter's work was not
yet done: he was to be girded for a
ross one day (John 21, 18), but now
he must wait for his crown.
THE CKYARD G
hints on Planting Time.
The true for safe planting is a mat-
«. ter that worries the amateer garden-
s er, It is better to be sure than Sony.
• Early planting is all very good in ecr-
u Iain situations, well drained, with
e eastern exposure and protection from
f the north and west winds. If this
aggregation of circumsances is not
possible, it is best to delay until' na-
g tura gives a reliable signal One of
- the best indications of the safe time
' to put things into the ground is the
blossoming of the trees.
The earliest planting is of the peas,
the smooth seeded varieties. The
wrinkled varieties must be put in
when the ground is waren, but the
others resirt cold and, even wet
ground. When the leaves appear on
the maples it is safe to put the smooth
peas in. The flowering of the peach
is the signal for the other varieties,
which are of a more delicate flavor,
but lack the earliness which makes the,
smooth kinds so "tasty" before any'
other crop is ready.
About the same time it is safe in•
this latitude to put out onion sets.
These are -tiny bulbs which have been
grown the preceding year. They give
a good crop of scullions for early eat-
ing and the ground used for them
can be later sown with beets or some
other crop. A pint, planted to the
extent of half a dozen feet for a row,'
at intervals of three or four days
will give a succession. One long
row can be planted to mature in the
ground; onions can be dug np from
Scottish Officer's Testament Is Ad-
mitted to Probate,
The will was proved recently of
a Second Lieut. Norman McGregor Lowe,
D.C.M., of the London Scottish, who
g was killed in Prance on January 10.
Th -
A. clothes pin bag made of bed -ticking
or something stout, in the form of
pocket with a slit on the front aid
is much easier to get at than a com
mon bag.
Pudding cloths should not be tensile
with soap, but placed in a pan of cold
water with a little soda and aliowe
to boll for ten minutes, 'Rinse In cold
water.
Tea kettles would last longer if afte
use they were turned upside down to
drain dry. It is rte little drop of
water left at the bottom which starts
the rust that ends in a leak.
3
BRITIONS USE MORE TOBACCO.
5,597,486 Pounds More Than In 1914
Are Consumed.
In spite of the heavy increase of the
duty on tobacco the consumption last
year exceeded that of 1914 by 5.597,-
485 pounds, This is the chief fea-
ture of the national tobacco bill. The
bill has been compiled by 11. P. Mon-
chieff of Newcastle -on -Tyne.
The total consumption in 1915 was
116,580.700 pounds, against 110,983,215
pounds in 1914, the increase being 5,.•
97,485, -
Mr. Monsorleff points out that these
figures do not include the tobacco sup
fled "duty free" to the trenches and
wounded men in the military hospitals.
The consumption per family (In
pite of the huge decrease of men
through military and naval demands)
howecl an increase in 1915 of 6 pet'
cent,
THE RUSSIAN LEADER.
As a commander of men the Grand
alta Nicholas is pre-eminent in Rue•
la, Pie is a stern disciplinarian and
as inferred 111e dislike of some Wilc-
ora who ]lave fait lila displeastu'e, 1)111
11e soldiers lovo hint because they
now that loiter his austere exterior
ere are a generous heart and a peen
flee of hullnote
wum, sated September 21 last
Made on a half sheet of notepaper,.
a reads:
"In the event of my death, which 1
• hope will be an honorable one on the
field of battle, I appoint my brother
Charles Edward Berkeley Lowe to be
d executor.
Bury me by the bracken bush
d Beneath the blooming briar.
And let never living mortal leen
That a kindly Scot lies -there
r
(Signed) Norman McGregor Lowe,
Second. Lieut. London Scottish,
Long live the I{ing.
A pieture from the Balkans, This
old Turk •is n favorite of the French
soldiers around Ssloniki. This is the
cast time he has faced the camera
and he does so with some anxiety.—
(Daily Mirror photo.)
GAMBLING AGAIN IN PARIS,
Resorts Are Raided and Many Foreign-
ers Placed Under Arrest.
All the known gambling houses in
Paris were closed at the outset of the
war, but the prolongation of hostilities
has proven too much for the patience
of sporting people, and an occasional
clandestine resort is now found. One
was raided the other evening in the
Rue Chained= where 19 women and
time to time for use, the row thus is
thinned out to allow room for the re
mainder to attain full size.
As soon as the ground can be work-
ed
into a fa'rly fine condition o couple
of rows of spinach can be seeded in,,
This
will give room later for another
e
When the cherry blossoms open is a'
good time to put in onion seed for the
main crop. These can be thinned out.'
generously for table use, permitting'
the residue to mature fully.
This, too, is a rafe time for putting
out lettuce plants, which can be
bought for about 15 cents a dozen, or
started in a cold frame or in boxes
indoors,
Radishes can rafely be planted in
the open at this time.
You will have to wa't till the pear
trees blossom before putting out the
early carrots, turnips and parsnins.
Parsley and sage can be planted for
the herb garden (which every amateur
should have, as it takes up only a
few square feet of ground in a car-
ner) at this time. The parsley is
very slow to germinate and should be
soaked over night to give the seeds
a star`, before they are put into their
place in shallow drills. This is a safe
date also to put out, cabbage plants if
any have be40 grown in the cold
frame. Cabbage plants of the early
varieties can be bought for a few
cents a dozen at the nurserymen's.
Late tonic':oes can be planted out
in the open in a temporary seed bed
at this date. But it will be too early
to set out plants. These can be
bought a lit'le later for about 30 to,
50 cents a dozen. A half dozen early
and half a dozen late tomatoes will
be an abundance for a family of three.
Larger families can be provided fort
in proportion.
Apple blossom time is early enough
for several vegetables. Bills of early
cucumbers can be planted then.
Squash, mn-kmelons and pumpkins
also wait till this date or a little later.
Beets can be planted directly where
they are to mature at this time, or
can be planted in the temporary -seed
bed and transplanted when they have
attained three or four leaves.
blossom tme. It is better to wait on'
Early corn can be put in in apple
corn for the sake of safety, as thel
seed may rot in the ground if there is
a wet spell.
Wax and string beans can be plant
ed in the rows shortly after the apple
trees are in bloom.
HE JUMPED INTO
A VAT OF WAX
A FAMOUS FRENCH DOCTOR'S
DISCOVERY,
Wound Treatment by the Use of Boil.
ing 011 and His
Experiment,
The use of boiling oil as a treat -
tenant for open wounds and ulcer's is
not modern. Ambrose Pare, the mas-
ter of Feeney surgery, employed this
method of treating the wounds of
i soldiers about 400 years ago, writes
a Pails correspondent to the New
York Stun, BuL Buell a treatment has
Just come to the forefront of medical
discussion to the Academy or Medicine
by Dr. Barthe de Saudfort, who has
been experimenting along this line foe
,the last thirteen years.
Ambrose Pare fouud that by pour-
ing )tot oil in an open wound he was
able to sterilize the wound and cause
the quicker formation of Natures pro•
tective covering—the scrab. One day,
according to his memories, as he was
treating the wounded bottled up la
Metz by Charles Quint, bo was un-
able to obtain any more oil. Pare
was thus forced 10 seek some other
method of stopping the time. of blood.
He hit upon the idea of the ligature
of arteries, and this made him fam-
ous. I3is name has come down to us
as the father of modern surgery.
Use of Paraffin Wax.
WHAT A GENERAL
HST D DERST 1< D
•
NECESSARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
OF A COMMANDER.
A Successful General Must be the
Most Versatile Man in the
World.
When the man in the street talks
of a general commanding an army he
generally sends him up as a 'good
soldier," and fancies he has said all
that need be said about the distin-
guished officer.
As a matter of dry fact, he has said
nothing at all about the general. What
the man in the street means by a
"good soIlier" means very little t
four men were found around gamble the general, for to be a good soldier,
ing tables, all of them foreigners. i.e., to lead armed men, is about the last
In certain quarters of 14loutmarte thing necessary to a modern com-
and in the Latin quarter it is alsol'mander.
possible to overlap the regulations of He has to be, of course, an expert
martial law regarding the sale o in minter y methods in strategy which
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wines and liquors after the hour o
10.30. Another result of the ion
tension upon people habituated t
pleasures• al a more or less disorderl
character Is the growth of pretty ga
bling--now tr:king larger proportion
—in the cafes of Montmarte and th
Latin quarter. Poker is the fagorit
game, but in many places baccarat i
also played,
BELLS.
Bells have been employed its asso-
ciation with religious worship sine
the early days of Pigypt. Cymbal
and baud bells and 'small orotals sere
ed for the festival of Isis. Aaron an
other Jewish high priests wore bell
of gold upon their raiment. In cam
and garrison the Greeks employe
bells. The Romaus announced th
donor of bathing by their melody. Cop
per and tin, the old composition, is
still regarded as the best bell metal
Steel hos been tried but does no
make a successful bell. Glass bells
are mellow and beatnitful in tone, but
the material is too fragile. Tho one
motel which is impossible ie that
which everybody imagines makes the
best boll—silver•,
means the art of handling forces ab a
distance from the enemy, and tactics,
which means the art of handling that
force when in actual touch with the
enemy, and lie must know military
, routine from A to Z. But that is only
the cap of his knowledge.
For instance, he must know quite a
lot about the comparative values of
food, not only because he must keep
his army well fed, but because he has
to carry with him the minimum quan-
tity to keep his moving army hi a
state fo efficiency. He has to know
e how many horses can pull how many
s wagons of this food, and how many
miles they can pull then. He has
d oven to compute how much forage
those horses will require, and what,
will be their daily rate of progress.
d • Carrying Ammunition.
e Inn the sante way he is a cartage ex-
•
pert, who knows that it is not how
much ammunition his army can fire
Off, but how much ammunition ib can
carry that counts in the actual battle,
and he must know which will be the
easiest ammunition to carry, and the
i specinl circumstances of its carrriage.
Thus, if he is to assault fortifications,
he will not carry shrapnel, which is
of great use against advancing infan-
try, but avails little against concrete
bastions, and if the is to face only at-
tacking army divisions, he will nob
trouble himself much with high ex- e
plosive shell, which is used mainly
against fortifications.
He must also know about the en_ d
durance limit of every regiment he e
employs, recognizing which regiment 2
can stand the hard grind of heavy
marching, which will 'remain stubborn r
under the most terrible bombnrdnlent,
and which can be used with electric
dash at the decisive moment of a
charge,
Ho must know how to handle leis ar-
tillery like 0 muster, not only as a
death -dealing, defensive -shattering hl-
strummnt, but also it it rti'cct as a
coeur. cf destroying iii, nerve of the I
men opposing him. A terrific and
well -handled bombardment ab the right
moment may do more to win the fight
for him than a whole day's shelling.
All this is knowledge bearing imme-
diately on battles. He must possess
an immense amount of varied knowl-
edge that will enable him to take his
army at the pitch of its efficiency into
batle.
Must be Jack -of -All -Trades.
To this end he has to know some-
thing about surveying, engineering,
bridge -building, road -making, rail-
road -laying, telegraphy, fortifications,
mining, bhe manufacture and applica-
tion of high-power explosives, trench -
turning, sanitation, camp, town and
barrack planning, plumbing, cooking
camp range making, store -keeping, j
ballooning, aeroplaning, rough medi-, a
cine, first aid, rough surgery, veterin-; o
ary, farriery, smith -work, lathe -turn -j e
ing, small -arm making, field gun re-;
pairing, and a host of other crafts and
industries. He has experts to help
him, naturally, but he must know
something of these things if he is to
guide and take advantage of experbs.
And when he has fought his battles
and defeated his foe he must be an ex-
pert in both military and international
law, and he must be a good discipli-
narian and a good diplomat, boo, for
he has to see that he and his country
are not over -reached by the diplo-
matic skill of their adversary.
And, above all, he has to be a hu-
man individual, and not a highly -skill-
ed machipe, so as to overcome the hu-
man element in bhe composition of his
enemy, no less than to be humane in
victory. -
His Alibi.
Dr, Barthe de Standfort thirteen
years ago took up the old method
and has improved upon it. Instead
of using oil, which burns the wound,
eh used paraffin, which does not burn.
Ile discovered this method by plung-
ing into paraffin heated to 100 degrees
Centigrade. To his surprise he found
that his finger was not burned, and
that the &icia was rendered insensible
to pain. This naturally gave flim the
idea of using heated paraffin for the
treatment of wounds and ulcers.
In his address before the Academy
of Medicine Dr. Barthel de Saudfort
called his new branch of science
"Keritheraple," from the Greek kers,
meaning wax. His entire method is
based on the ability of tissues to stand
a heat of from 50 degrees to 10') de.
grees, and particularly on the con
-
traotibility of paraffin in cooling.
This wax, when put on a wound in
a liquid state, soldifies around the
wound and preserves its heat much
longer than any substance which has
hat water as a ease. Dr. Bente de
Sandfort has added resins to his wax,
particularly amber, which gives a
greater consistence to the paraffin.
Swam in Boiling Wax. .
For ten years Dr. Barthe de Saud -
fort used his discovery for treatment
of diseased arteries, rheumatism, vari-
cose veins and similar maladies, and
with considerable success. Then he
had the idea that if he could treat
certain parts of the body the could
treat as well the entire body. So to
test his theory he himself termed into
vat of heated wax and escaped with-
ut danger. He thus describes that
xperience,
"On November 5, 1909," he said,
'I visited the old refinery at Paulin,
and to the great astonishment of the
manager, who accompanied me. I
undressed and prepared to jump into
the vat. The temperature in the re-
finery was about seven degrees Centi-
grade. In the vat, which contained
about 300 liters of paraffin, the tem-
perature was 51 degrees. I was not
burned at all, but when I touched the
metal bottom I found it exta'emely
hot, and so had to keep swimming all
the time, I remained in the vat about
five minutes. My pulse had increased
appreciably, but otherwise I did not
feel the slightest inconvenience. When
I climbed out the coat of paraffin
which covered me all over protected
me from the cold, and even when I
had scraped it off I could not feel the
temperature."
An agent, approaching a house, met
a little boy at the garden gate and
asked:
"Is your mother hone?"
"Yes, sir," said the boy, politely.
The agent walked across the long
awn and, after rapping several times
without receiving an answer return-
ed to the youth, saying:
"I thought you said your mother
was at home."
"Yes, sir, she is," replied the boy.
"But I have rapped several times
without receiving an atlswer?"
'That may be ,sir," said the boy,
`I don't live there."
THE CIGAR TRICK.
The fact that the Italian soldier .is
an inveterate -cigar smoker has 1101 e8.
caped the netieo of the Austrians. One
1116111 (says a Rome correspondent) an
Austrian after caw a row of red
lights behind ttte wire entanglements.
and ordered hie men 10 fire. While
they were going so the Italians storm-
ed the trench. The lighted cigars had
been left on lite entanglements fitly
yards behind to deceivethe ene11111
Had a.lictier Chance,
"I assure you, madame, my 011005-
tot•s came over with the first settlers;"
"Very likely. We had no iminigee-
ion laws then."
When it Came to That.
A cockney angler thinking his,
highland boatman was not treating.
ren with tine respect due itis station,
xpostulated thus
"Look here, my good man, you
elft seem to grasp Who I am. Do.
ou know that my family has been?
ntitled to beat arms for the last
00 years?"
"Hootl That's naothing," was the
eply, "My ancestors have been titl-
d to hare legs for the last 2,000
'ears."
1)enr Friends,
Evangeline _-llnw do you like my
icier hat ?
Caroline -I think it is rimming,
had one just iike it lust year.
THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY,
He sees enough who does his dark-
ness see.—Lord Herbert,
The mould of a man's fortune is in
his own hands, -Bacon.
Watch the tongue; out of it are the
issues of life.—Carlyle.
Everything that lives, lives not alone
nor for itself,--Blalte.
Man without religion is the creature
of circumstances,—J, C. Hare,
The freedom of the Press is the first
and last word of civilization.—Lord
Burnham.
Without enthusiasm you might as
well lives in cold storage,—Father
Bernard Vaughan.
Everyone ppaho said "convert the
heathen at Home first" should set to
work and do it: --The Bishop of Man-
chester:
There is no such thing as disinter-
ested friendship in international af-
fairs, and moral responsibility remains
nothing but a phrase unless it is trans-
lated into in'acttcal efforts—Mr. Thos.
P. Millard,
Let our unceasing dare be to better
the love we offer 10 our fellows. One
cup of this love that Is drawn from the
spring an the maunteins is wdrtlh ti
hundred taken from the stagnant wells
of ordinary charity.--11aet.erlinclt,
Little Elsie (after being punished)
—"I think papa is dreadful. Was fin
the only )pan you could got, mamma 7"