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Selected Recipes.
Pear Salad. -For pear salad select
large, firm but perfectly ripe pears,
Peel them carefully and do not break
the stem. Cut a slice from the large
and take out the core, Stuff the
cavity with a mixture of cream
cheese and ground nuts. Replace the
slice, stand the pear on a lettuce leaf
and drop a spoonful of mayonnaise on
the top. Halves of canned pears can
be used when fresh fruit is not in the
market.
Johnny Cake. -To one cup of but-
termilk and one of sweet' milk add one.
teaspoonful of soda, one of salt and a
tablespoonful of melted butter. Stir
in enough -white cornmeal to make a
very thick batter. Spread about
half an inch thick in a buttered bak-
ing tin and bake in a moderately hot
oven until it has a crisp brown crust.
Brushing the top with melted butter
improves the crust. Serve hot,
Snow Pudding. -Moisten the eon -
tents of one-half box gelatin in one-
half cup cold water. Add to it hot
syrup made of one-half pint water,
juice of two oranges, three-fourths
cup sugar. Strain and let stand un-
til nearly cold and beginning to set.
Then add the beaten whites of two
eggs. Beat little more or until well
mixed, and then put it away to thick-
en. This is better when served with
whipped cream.
Peach Chutney. -Tp two pounds of
peaches, which have been peeled and
pits removed, add a half pint of vine-
gar, cook together until soft. Mix a
quarter of a pound each of white mus-
tard seed, chopped onions, raisins and
sugar, two ounces of scraped ginger
root and one ounce of red pepper.
When well mixed add to the peaches
another half pint of vinegar. Cook
all together fifteen minutes. Place in
jars and seal.
Canned Rhubarb.-Thoroughlywash
stalks of rhubarb, dice and crush with
a potato masher until considerable
juice is extracted. Then fill well
sterilized cans with the rhubarb,
pressing down until the juice over-
flows, and seal, Add neither sugar
nor water and be sure that your cans
and covers are well sterilized. Rhu-
barb canned in this way is just as
fresh and fine as if taken righb from
the garden and can be used in the
same manner and for the same pur-
poses.
Corn Relish. -Sire ears corn, six
large cucumbers, six large onions, six
large green tomatoes, three red pep-
pers, one bunch celery, three table-
spoons ground mustard three cenbs'
worth of mustard seed, one quart
vinegar, one pound graulated sugar,
small amount of salt. Cut all ingre-
dients up fine and boil fifteen minutes
and you will find that you have one of
the most delicious relishes made. Put
up in self sealers and same will keep
for any length of time.
Surprise Chocolate Cake. -One-half
cup butber, one cup sugar, three egg
yolks, one-half cup milk, two eggs
whites, one and one-half cups flour,
two and one-half teaspoons baking
powder, two squares chocolate (melt-
ed), and one-half teaspoon vanilla.
Cream' butter, add sugar gradually,
then egg yolk (well beaten), vanilla
and chocolate. Mix together flour
and baking powder. Add alternate-
ly with milk to mixture and lastly fold
in egg whites beaten sbiff. Bake in
round cake pin in moderate oven.
When thoroughly cold remove section
of top, leaving inch and half margin
around edge. Fill in.with halved and
sweetened strawberries, and pile whip-
ped cream on top, or serve with saucy
of crushed berries. o
Perfection Orange Marmalade. -
Eight large, juicy, ripe oranges and
two large, juicy lemons. Peel six of
the oranges and one lemon, rejecting
the peel down to the pulp on both ends
of remaining oranges and lemon.
Cross cut, then slice thin, making
Small pieces. Add six quarts of cold
water and let stand twenty-four_
hours; then boil twenty minutes. Re-
move from the fire and let sband
twenty-four hours again. To each
quart of the liquid add a scant two-
thlyds of a quart of granulated sug-
ar, and boil in bhat quantity, boiling
rapidly, until a soft jelly is formed
when cold. Remove all green scum
when boiling the last time, and a
perfectly transparent, delicious mar-
malade le the result. Makes about
two dozen common jelly glasses full.
Use only granite ware to set or make
this marmalade in.
Mixed Fruit Marmalade. -This rich,
golden colored preserve is excellent
from every point of view. It can bo
made late in the season from odds and
ends of small quantities of peaches,
pears, quinces end other fruit on hand.
Take equal quantities of peaches,
pears, apples and quinces that have
been pared, cored and cut fine, To tura never pretends.
six pounds of fruit allow one pint of Water on the brain is never caused
water. Pub the quinces in first and by quenching athirst for knowledge.
Most people wear glasses because
they cannot believe their own eyes.
It is a mistake to imagine that Op-
ting them burn. Take out and mash portunity will waste time looking for
well together. Clean the kettle Re- the knocker,
Sympathy is all right in its proper
place, but it's a poor substitute for a
steak -and -kidney pudding when you
are hungry.
A woman with a(flery temper isn't
necessarily warm-hearted.
Things to Remember.
Rub rusty metal with turpentine.
Chicken fat makes delicious crisp
cookies,
Soup stock may be canned as well
as anything else.
Never wash windows when the sun
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THETHESUNDAY SCHOOL to marry Herodias, and, thus, brought
SCHOOL iIJL down on Galilee bhp ar'Nies of the
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
SEPTEMBER 3.
Third Qgarted.-Leeson V. -Paul's
Sorrows and Comforts. -2 Cor.
11.21 to 12. 10. Golden Text
2 Cor. 12. 9.
Verse 21. Paul wants to make it
clear that the braggarts must not be
be taken at their own valuation: he
shines on them, is obliged. to explain -and the pa-
Sofb flank (beef) fat fried out is renthesis here and in verse 23 shows
a good and inexpensive fat for frying. how distasteful it was -that he could
Oranges, bananas and figs cut up not honestly admit their superiority
together make a very deeicioua des- on any account.
sort. 22, Hebrews, as speakers of the
In making chicken salad be sure to sacred language; Israelites, as mem-
take out every atom of bone, gristle bers of the sacred nation, Similarly
and skin. in Phil, 8. 5 Paul claims to be "of the
To keep lemons, put them in a jar of Israel" and "a Hebrew of Hebrew
of clean white sand, so that they do descent." Abraham's seed is beab il-
not touch. lustrated by John 8. 33. 37.
Good lard is much better than but- 23. We can set how acutely Paul
ter for basting roasted meat and for felt the necessity of actually recount -
frying. ing the sufferings and toils he had un -
Use very little blueing in washing dergone for his Masher: the very pre -
laces, for the lace absorbs a great deal ciousness of them was in their amen -
of blue. sclousness. The catalogue thus
People who use tin cans for can- wrung from him vividly illustratesthe
ning should be careful never to put gaps in Luke'.s narrative regarded as
vinegar in them. a biography. One beating (Acts 16.
When buttons are taken from an old 22) and one stoning (Acts 14. 19) are
dress they should be strung on a chronicled there: a fourth shipwreck
string before putting them into the (Acts 27) was yet to come. Prisons
button box. -Paul's familiarity with prison life
When you make lemonade squeeze a is abundantly illustrated! in the Acts,
little orange -juice in it. You will where two periods of two years are
find that it takes less sugar and the recorded subsequent to the time of
drink is better, this letber. What waste of unspeak-
Screw small hooks inside some of ably precious time! Yet God saw
the cupboard doors -they are exceed- that the time was not lost after all.
ingly handy for hanging articles like Deaths -Tho plural implies different
pot lids, corkscrews, etc. forms of deadly peril.
Meat or fish intended to be fried 24. Jews -The name of his own lov-
should first be wiped as dry as pose ed countrymen stands in reproachful
Bible and it should not be very cold emphasis, as in Acts 26. 2 Forty
before clipping into the fat. stripes save one -In Dent. 25.8 forty
If you want to wash your own hand- was named as the maximum; the
kerchiefs and can't get them ironed punctilious Jew was so careful not bo
pull them into shape, fold and lay be- exceed that he made thirty-nine the
tween papers and pub under a mat- limit -he could take it out in quality
tress. where desiredl•Jesus told his disciples
To keep spoons and forks bright, they should be scourwed in syana-
after washing put diem to stand a gog'ues, as breakers of divine law.
minute or two in a jugful of very hot, 26. Sudden floods in dry riverbeds
clean, soapy 'weber with a dash of are familiar in countries, where the
ammonia. rain comes in mass. We may con -
Rub the stove over while hot with a jecture that peril from highwaymen
newspaper dipped in a little soot and was especially serious when crossing
polish with another newspaper. This the mountain passes in the first jour -
removes all grease Acid saves black- ney, the point at which John Mark's
lead. heart failed him. Note the climax at
Almost any cold vegetable is de- the end -human treachery is worse
licious in a salad, bub it should be than all.
remembered that there should be two 27. The trials of this verse are ar-
parts of oil to one of vinegar in the ranged in three groups. First comes
dressing. the weariness of physical and mental
When you have not quite enough toil, wibh frequent denial of the sleep
news peas for pea soup, cut up a few that would restore enemy. Then the
new potatoes, boil them with the peas long waits for food and drink, often
until tender and make the soup in the ending in failure of an expected sup -
usual way. ply. (We may be sure Paul is not
Stuffed eggplant is a delicious dish thinking of useless austerities: he had
which few people appreciate, and egg- quite enough unavoidable fasts with -
plant stewed like squash is another. out imposing mere ritual fasts on
Bobh require a great deal of season- himself! And we may well doubt
ing• whether a man so emancipated from
Grease spots on the pages of books the ritual law found fasting a means
should be sprinkled with finely pow- of grace, which is its only justiflca-
dared pipe clay, then a piece of tissue tion,) Then comes the necessity of
paper laid over the pipe clay and the traveling in all weathers, and often
page pressed with a warm iron. Rub withoub clothes enough to withstand
off with india rubber. the cold.
To rid carnaries of the parasites 28. From things that are without,
which affecb them, place a clean white which touched his bodily comfort or
cloth over the cage at night. In the even threatened his life, Paul comes
morning it will be covered with, very to that which alone found an entry to
minute red spots, almost invisible his soul. How does this confession
without a microscope, which are the p# daily "worrying" square with
vermin so annoying and fatal to birds. Paul's own precept "In nothing be
Burn the cloth and repeat if necessary. anxious" (Phil. 4. 6), or the Master's
--r own commands about anxiety? (Matt.
COFFEE IN THE EAST. 6. 25. 34.) We find that the forbid -
Wildly Denounced When It First Ain ben anxiety is purely selfish; anxiety
peared In Constantinople. for others is an essential part of
For one who has ever walked the loves burden, The New Testament
streets of a Turkish town, it is almost takes us far beyond the message giv-
impossible to imagine them without .en to Ezekiel. Those who `watch on
coffee house, says G. H. Dwight, in behalf of souls" may "deliver their
Scribner's Magazine, Yet, those re. own soul" by faithfully warning the
sorts are of comparative recency sinner of backslider; but that cannot
among the Turks, and they were not mean washing one's hands of an un -
acclimatized without bitter opposition. worthy man as seen as he has been
While the properties of the coffee adequately admonished.
berry are supposed to have been die- 29. Weak -How this colossally
covered or rediscovered by an Arab strong man "bore the infirmities of
dervish in the thirteenth century, g
they were unknown in Constantinople the weak" appears in many of Paul's
until 300 years later. The first coffee chapters. He felt for them so deeply
house was opened there in 1554 by one that he'truly put himself in their
Shemei, 'a native of Aleppo. The place, Caused to stumble -There is
beverage so quickly appreciated was good reason bo believe that this word
as quickly looked upon by the Ortho. Would be more exactly rendered en-
dox as insidious to the public morals,
It was variously denounced as one sheared, entrapped, tempted so as t
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of the four elements orthe world of fall. Just as to the Old Testament
,pleasure, one of the four pillars of Phophet the undelivered message was
the tent of lubricity, ,one of the four "as a fire in his bones," so is the news
cushions of the .couch of voluptuous- of a Christian's fall to the apostle.
nese, and one of the four ministers of • 30, Weakness -In quotation marks,
the devil -the otber three being to. as it were. The world might scoff
bacco, opium and wine,"I{ahveh, at a saintes tears over the "sinners
whence our coffee, is a slight modifl- against their own salvos" (Heb. 12. 3,
cation of an which takes away helly as it should be read).God does not
meaning "that which away the
appetite," count them effeminate! So again,
man do nob boast of their prison re -
MUCH IN LITTLE. cord or judicial or judicial floggings!
Paul's humility puts aside all those
Patience is the virtue that is made splendors -so razzlingly clear to us -
of necessity, which would have prompted any small
Pretence is never natural, for Na- man to boastfulness had he possessed
a fragment of them. Ho declares
(aa in 2 Cor. 12. 6) that his appeal
will be to the moab rigid' standard of
truth, attested by God himself.
81, God is named first as "the God
and Father" of the Lord for whose
dear salve Paul toiled and suffered.
Then -as constantly in the language
of :pious Jews (and others! -see Marls
14. 81) he is the recipient of eternal
thanksgiving from grateful mankind,
82. A typical instance of his hair-
breadth escapes is added as an after-
thought. Agates -Father-in-law of
Herod Antipas, who divorced hie wife
lot cook gently until they become ten-
der, And the other fruit and cook
all thoroughly end slowly withoub let -
turn the fruit to it, add one anti one-
half teacups of granulated sugar to.
each pound of fruit, also the strained%
juice of two lemons and two oranges.
Cook slowly for nearly two hours,
Put up in small jars and cover air
blunt.
Outraged Arab king. • Areees was
spepiakl r friendly tb the Jews, which'
explains Saul's commission to arrest
Christians in Damascus.
33,• Here ie a close link with Acts
(9. 24, 25). The words there through
the wall, lowering him, are identical
(except for the passive) with Paul's
own "I was lowered through the wall"
here; the words for basket differ.
Luke had heard Paul tell of it, but did
not preserve the exact form. The
window would be in a house overhang-
ing the wall, like that of Rehab in
Josh, 2, 15,
THE JEERING GERMANS.
BRUSILOFF I5 A '
IVIODERN LE ER
UNLIKE SOME OF THE OTHER
RUSSIAN GENERALS.
He Is One of Few Czar's Social
Favorites to Succed in
the Army,
Hamilton Fyfe, the well-known
British journalist, describes as fol-
lows his impressions of General Brus-
ilof when, as the correspondent of
Inhuman Treatment of Mutilated tee London Daily Mail, he visited
Irish Prisoner In Germany. him at army headquarters before the
An exchanged prisoner who hoe re- Russian offensive began;
turned to England, relating his ex- Were I Ring, Emperor, or Sove-
psriences as a prisoner of war being reign People, I would have no gener-
aken to Wurzburg, tells a "moving els in my service older than fprty-
1n the
of a young Irishman who was five. Yet to this rule I would make
in the b carriage with him. This young .
man had been very badly wounded to an exception, and it would be in
Ulu' face, having lost sight of one eye, favor of General Alexis Brusiloff.
was also deaf in one ear, and shook- Never did anyone illustrate more
!ugly disflgured, At Aschaffenburg, aptly the truth of the saying that "a
one of the places they stopped at on man is as old as he feels." General
the journey, a mob came in to look at, Brusiloff is sixty-three, only two The then Mayor of Cape Town had i Queen Victoria would not, however,
the prisoners. years yonger than The
Ivanoff
the invited about a hundred of the lead-; be denied, and in answer to her point -
The sentry, he says, was telling our Brusiloff
he succeeded recentlyingetizens of South African metro- blank question he said, `It is quite
visitors that one of the Englanders
had been shot in the face and was' chief command upon Russia's south- polis, together with a few of the most i true, I do not care for women, with
badly disfigured. Whereupon a Ger-� western front. In everything but notable military men at that time one exception." "And who is that?"
, man soldier pulled the poor fellow ;fact there is twenty years' difference resident in the Cape peninsula; to , he was asked. "Your. Majesty," was
out of the sleeping mass on the floor between the two men. Ivanoff is do honor to "K." ere he left for Eng -'the courtier -like. reply.
and sat him upon the seat, the others' big,' slow-moving, old-fashioned in land, and a dinner was accordingly] Like all notable men, Kitchener was
standing round pointing with their j his views. Brusiloff is spare, alert, arranged. After dinner a small comeI besieged for his autograph, and the
fingers at the poor mutilated face modern. As T sat and talked to him pany of ladies was admitted to the story is well known of how be told
with coarse jeering laughter, The; in the bare room from which he di -
young Irish soldier sat patiently room, in order to listen to the one youthful autograph hunter to go
through it all -his blind eye was a recta the operations of one of the speeches which followed the repast. land make his own autograph sought
running sore, the torn cheek in heal -{three groups into which the Russian At the close of the proceedings, as after,
ing had left a hideously scarred hole armies are divided, I felt at once the guests of the mayor were enjoy- His handwriting was .clear, bold
low, and the mouth and nose were{ that his mind worked quickly, that he ing a quiet smoke together, a young and legible. Asa rule he used a "3'i
twisted to one side. His condition I is for never -ceasing "push and go,' girl advanced towards Lord Kitchener Pen, and although nearly every maker
would have stirred pity in the heart' that he is first, last, and all the time i with her autograph -album in hand, ! of fountain pens under the sun sent
of a savage, and yet these Germans a man of action. and asked him if he would kindly him a specimen to try, he preferred
laughed and jeered. e. honor her by putting his autograph in i en ordinary twopenny penholder rim -
her book. I med with cork.
MEXICANS BRAVE FIGHTERS. ^ es eq.- "n" Much as the late Secretary of State While strangely shy in public,
-
for War disliked this kind of thing, Kitchener was most expansive when
Their Courage in Field, Differs From { ` a a' he could not very well say "Nay," ; lat ett mu or in the society of a few se -
That of Anglo-Saxons. „- .�, and so signed his name in the book. friends. Then the inscrutable,
He was in the act of handing it back, silent man which legend has pictured,
Under their leaders serve a motley to the young lady, when, before those would tell interesting stories of his
array in and out of all kinds of Ani- �r : in the room could realize what had experiences, and would retail the best
form, says a writer in World's Work. jokes he had picked u
Not fearing death, the Mexicans are
happened, she dexterously implanted P Pat Simla.
a kiss on the cheek of the tanned and'
brave. t Little Girl Conquered Him.
;• ; s a obviously annoyed distinguished sol-
But theirs is a kind of braveryhe
which depends upon certain circum- " c die T. I Kitchener liked to think that when which
and is notquite like the tour- Needless to say, the company ex-, was never beaten in his life, but when
close formation against a 10 per as was possible in the circumstances, forced to make an ignominous surren-
' s pressed its disapproval and disgust he took charge of the Indian Army he
age of Angle -Saxons. They will not
'. ". of the action in as forcible a manner confessed to his staff that he had been
which me professional typo of officershf INSCRUTABLE
which came to the front, Brushoff
is almost the only one of the. ,pro-
minent social figure's in the Russian
army who has made good,
He began in 1914 as the command-
er of an army corps, Soon he had an
army under him, and his army did
the most brilliant work that has been
done by any of the combatants, In
his 'mode of life he follows the habits
of westere Europe. Isis interests are
those of cultivated people. He talks
French like a Frenchman, and says
he will learn English after the war.
SHE KISSED KITCHENER. .
SILENT MAN
SOMETHING ABOUT THE LATE
LORD KITCHENER.
Tales That Are Told About the Great
Soldier Now No
More.
Lord Kitchener was always a nit's -
Capp Town Young Lady Lived to tory to women, among whom he held
the reputation of being a woman -
Tell the Tale, hater, That only made them the more
It happened at the close of the curious to know him, and on the rare
South African War. Lord Kitchener occasions that he has appeared at As -
was at the time en route from the cot, the great festival of fashion, the
Front to England, having completed fair devotees of racing have buzzed
the arduous task banded over to him around him, to the mixed amusement
by Lord Roberts when relinquishing 'and annoyance of the great man, says
the post as Commander -in -Chief London Answers.
shortly after the advance to Pre -I Many people often asked him who-
toria, gave an evasive ane
Lord Kitchener, it will be re- flier this suggestion that he was
membered, assumed supreme come i averse to women's society was true,
Nand in South Africa at the outset lbut 1 -'
of the Boer guerilla war campaign. I sever.
go forward, as a rule, under fire in
cent. loss. But if they are charact- j rr n A but the girl captured the position by der on board ship. A little girl play-
=' means of a direct frontal attack, and ing ball on deck happened to roll her
eristically deployed and acting inde- �' - lived to tell the tale.
pendently among a great crowd of
their own people in a general attack,
they will keep on going against what
eventually proves to be very heavy
losses, although they are not obvious-
ly so during the attack.
Your average Mexican is not, like a
Russian or a Turk, particularly good
in trenches where he must fight it out
in one spot or die. He wants a
chance to exercise a choice. Very
few troops are more naturally good at
utilizing cover.
NEED A DICTIONARY.
Many New Words Being Used Since
War Started.
Gen. ilei. Brusstlojf.
HINT OF A BLOW IN RESERVE.
Germany Will Operate All War In-
struments at Her Disposal.
ball urder his chair as he was com-
fortably dozing, peremptorily waken-
ed him up, and insisted on Isis getting
up, stooping down, and retrieving the
ball.
A man of most temperate habits,
hie affable remark to Captain. Mar-
chand at Fashoda, "Come and have a
Prominence is given in Der Tag of whisky -and -soda and talk things
Berlin, to a long article on Thor's over," prevented war between France
hammer by Dr. Reinke, member of and England is historic.
the Upper House of the Prussian The great man had a keen sense of
His face tells this. Dark, steady, Diet, Dr. Reinke opens his article by his dignity. Once stopped in the
searching eyes, and a nose with a recalling the fact that the hearts of street by an affable nobody who greet -
high, commanding curved bridge, millions of Germans were lifted up ed him with the effusive remark,
ge, giveto the God of Christians," at the Hallo, Kitchener! I bet, old man,
him the look of au eagle. No pale commencement of the third year of you don't recognize me." Kitchener,
pro of r, this. here. No student or I the war with a profound feeling of fixing him with his steely blue eyes,
professor, When
Flim chin, vigorous gratitude for "the immeasurably retorted, "You've won your bet," and
jaw -line, When this man begins a
To keep in touch with the news of great things we have achieved during passed on.
the world, which is now bringing task he will carry it through to the two years of bitter struggle in this Although Kitchener had a fine town
forth a strange army of words from end, as he carried his Carpathian defensive war forced on us." , house and a beautiful country house,
all the corners othe earth, one campaign. ••• Dr. Reinke writes: I he always • complained of loneliness.
must needs have the knowledge of a Has Great Record. "The God of Christians is the God Whenever he visited Lard Desborough
Mezzofanti or be the possessor of a of love, of faithfulness, of justice at Taplow Court he used to say:
polyglot dictionary. The war be- It was he who overcame all the dif- and of mercy. We are to serve Him "I have come to this place as my
tween the Turks and Arabians has re- faculties of that surprising adventure. n spirit and in truth. His service home because I have no home."
leased a number of words, some of Spite of winter, spite of deep snows
which, like the Arabian terms, and terrible cold, he pushed on till he does not, however, preclude us Ger. Hated Cranks and "Nuts."
"alkali," algebra," 'astrology," etc., mans from turning also to the gods
had the whole ridge of the mown- An intense dislike for cranks and
may in time be adopted into our of our Teutonic forefathers, who in
language. Here is the Arabic word tains and was ready to push his troops their, myths divided among several for effeminate young men character -
the stone which, according to Mo- No fault of his that the efforts and ; taan teaching embodies as a whole presence produced a scented silk
hammedan tradition (was brought by the victories naught availed us. Hehandkerchief,with his monogram de
Adam from Paradise and became has his place in history.He has in the image of God."gra
"Thor and his hammer," Dr. Reinke' licately embroidered in one corner,
stack through the sins of men. The made new records in the annals of „ Kitchener, sniffing the air, signifi
stone is at Medina. It is covered by war. Never before I believe, lies an asserts, symbolize the .German +
a veil, which is raised by the pilgrims army taken prisonsrs to the number heroes up to the present day, and it cantly remarked:
who come Pram great distances to is the blows of Thor's hammer that What is your taste in hairpins?
kiss it. It has been called, irreverent- of twice its own strength, General I Lord Kitchener from the first be
Brusiloff's arm averaged about 180,- i are wielded by the German soldiers
ly, the blarney stone of Mehemet. At y on all the fronts of the present bat -,leaved that this would be a long war.
000. It never exceeded 200,000. At i tlefield. One great blow of this He recommended all our troops to be
times it dropped as low as 100,000, hammer is still needed in the west brought from India and Egypt, and
He captured in all 360,000 Germans before the peace that Grmany when protest was made that we might
and Austrians, with 400 guns. "And n � thereby lose these portions of the
3' how many machine guns? I asked wants reveals its face. y
„ g One does not speak of this great British Empire, he replied, "If you
him. I forget. Thousands," he re -
final blow, he says, but everybody is ;lose the war in Europe, you lose
plied, constantly thinking about it, and it everything; if you win, all and more
Ivanoff, the son of a peasant pro will consist of operating sinmltane- shall be restored to you."
praetor, has remained in essentials a „ The War Secretarywas known for
peasant all his life. He lives in the curly and ruthlessly with all the his neatness of habit. His desk was
sin lest fashion, He mi ht have forces and all the instruments of
p g war at our disposal:' I always nicely kept, and his papers in
tiality of British police methods and advanced himself by marrying a Dr. Reinke observes that the order, and this neatness extended to
theundeviating fairness of British rich wife. IIe preferred to be a back- Chancellor expressly declared he his dress.
justice is, says the Daily Express of elor. Modesty he carries to almost On the muddiest of days he many
London, in the proud keeping of the orbid len th, One of the censors of holds this in reserve, and ho avers; Y $
authorities dt New Scotland Yard. nd g the Chancellor is supported on this ed to escape without a mud -splash on
his staff told ma he was quite angry I point bythe whole nation. The only'his boots, and when sometime ago he
It is a roll of honor of urea who because a newspaper telegram was ,Itis
some of the brigades of
forsook their life of crime and volun' passed praising his conduct of ter- question is, he adds, is decisive
when this the New Army in the dripping rain
tryily offered their lives
hewar.rcomeThere thin operations! A man accustomed • heaviest ariaanticipation wf o£ hick y
try on the outbreako the hammer, "in o w and in sodden fields, he was the only
are seventy names on the roll. All all his life to working continually, he the Britannic giant lives in a state , one of the company wbo came away
of constant fear and anxiety," is to ;looking spick and span,
be struck. "Thor's hammer must' Kitchener had a great impatience
be swung with such strength and vig- !for people who complained of difff-
or that the blow when it falls will mate'. 'People who can do easy
make the rock of Great Britain wa-•things," he used to say, "are twelve
ver. England will never be willing I a penny,"
to discuss peace until she feels the Intolerant of fools, be liked to have
effect of such a blow. around him men of 1 ownype--
Dr. Reinke is one of Geruuany's silent, austere, and competent. A fa -
leading savants in the domain of bio- vorite saying of his was, "Work goes
logical research. to the men who can do it."
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1 Pigeon Back After Three Years,
the side of the tomb of Mehemet is a
tomb awaiting Jesus, whom the Mus-
sulmans regard as one of their proph-
ets.
OUT OF PRISON, GETS V.C.
Seventy Names on Unique British
Roll of Honor.
A roll of honor which forms a noble
commentary on the scrupulous impar -
of them were criminals and became
elean-living, self-satriflcing soldiers
when they realized that their country
was in peril.
The majority of thou) seventy men
have been killed in action, Some of
them were decorated for bravery.
Ono man was awarded the Victoria
Cross for a brilliant achievement, la
the trenchee in Franco; another was
decorated by the Czar with the St.
George's Cross.
A hot temper warps a man's better
judgment.
And many a men has ruined hie
eyesight sitting in a saloon looking
for work,
Good looks may catch a man, but
it takes good housekeeping to hold
him.
Probably nothing bores a man more
than to have another man begin an
explanation bhat he himself was just
going to explain.
liked doingfax himself many things
which a commander-in-chief ought
to make others do.
A Social Favorite.
General Brusiloff's career has been
as different as possible from that of
General Ivanoff; therefore his mind
and temperament have developed
along different lines. He is of good
family, went to the Russian Eton (the
"Pages' Corps"), and then began life
in a fashionable cavalry regiment.
Ability and influence combined to
make his advancement rapid. He held
many good positions, eves reckoned a
favorite at Court, distinguished him-
self as a daring rider, encouraged
ca'ytiry officers to go in for polo and
cross-country steeplechases, was pop-
ular in Petrograd society. Then came
the war to try out the capacity and
otraractera of men. Most of the
"fashionable" soldiers went under
very quickly. It was the studious.
After an absence of three years, a . Reduce t-tving Cost In Russia.
pigeon that was entered in a pigeon A. Bociety for combating the high
race tram Bordeaux, France, has re- post• of living has opened a 'timber of
turned to its loft at Wtiheridge, Eng. chops 14 Petrograd for the sale of
land. provislol}a to the Working population
so clasost possible margin, Eleven
en. --
no
se shops have all'oad been
Who breaks no law trembles before t'} y
ve tablrhed, They axe located in the
no law, Tlsus ignorance may certain v e(ntty of taatoi•ies lvhlch aro gyms-.
ly be bliss, bug for the battens]. defence. It is
Some people seam to spend a lot of P ,)posed tp open a total of thirty Buell, •
tame looking for traps to walk !into, a ops in bio s near future.