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The Brussels Post, 1917-1-11, Page 3zlseIt7fe' eo,er Useful Recipes, Curried Potatoes, -Slice a ,large o ion and brown in two tablespoonfu of butter. Cut up two cupfuls (boiled) potatoes and put into a fryin pan with the onion; dredge with cLn'ry powder, add half a cup of w ter, a little salt and a squeeze lemon, Cook ten minutes and serve hot. Owing to potatoes being so dear now suggestions as to substitutes ere welcome. One such to serve with moat is mashed hybrid turnips. Thes properly cooked and mixed with a li tle oatmeal and a sprinkling of sa pepper, will be found to answe the purpose very well. Novelty Suet Pudding. -Roll th paste out thinly' and line it three quarters with sliced apples. Sprinkl with moist sugar and spice. Now ro the paste up; the part which has no been spread with apples will form double cover. The pudding is the cooked in the usual way. Of tours all kinds of fruit can be used fn thi recipe. Plums must be stoned'an dried fruit soaked, when excellent re sutls are got. Cocoanut Rocks.- Three ounce cocoanut, two ounces butter, tw ounces sugar, six ounces flour, pine of salt, one teaspoonful cream of tar tar, one-half teaspoonful bicarboneit of soda; one egg, two tablespoonsfu milk. Sift the flour, soda, cream o tartar and salt together, beat up th egg and add the milk. Cream th butter and sugar together, add a littl flour and grated cocoanut, then a lit- tle egg and milk, and so on alternate] beating between each addition anti all are well mixed. Put in littl heaps on a buttered baking sheet an n - Is of thoroughly, let rise until double in g' bulk (about three hours), and again knead, working in three fourths cup- of ful each of walnut meats and raisins cut in halves. Put in buttered pans, let rise again until double in bulk, and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Chocolate Calce.-one cup of sugar, e one tablespoon butter, one cup sweet t' milk, one-half teaspoon soda dissolved nit in milk, one teaspoon baking powder, ono and one-half cups flour, three i tablespoons cocoa, one teaspoon vanilla. Mix thoroughly and bake in e a hot oven for thirty minutes. For frosting and filling take one cup � pow- dered sugar, moisten with warm wa- d ter and flavor with vanilla. a Useful Hints. e, • It is wasteful to buy cakes of soap d dissolved in one-fourth cupful of luke- warm water, one cupful bread flour and about five cupfuls entire wheat from•, or enough to knead. Knead to be used in a washing machine. After clothes are soaped and rubbed they should first be rinsed in hot water. s Potatoes for baking should always o be well scrubbed. h Mock cherry pie can be made with -.cranberries and raisins. e c Always save the bits of soap, they 1' can be used in the shaker. f1 There is no light easier for the e strained, eyes thin that of the kero e sene lamp. el Fuchsias are strictly summer bloom- ers. Their place in winter is in the; y, cellar. 1 e d bake ten or fifteen minutes in a quick oven. Roast Pork in Vinegar. -Remove the skin from a leg of pork and do not leave on it -too much fat. Pour some vinegar into a large earthenware pot together with cloves and onions. Rub the pork well with a handful of salt and place in the vinegar, where it must remain three or four days and be fre- quently turned. Place the pork in ' the even in the same vessel it has lain • in end with the vinegar about it. Lemon Biscuit. -One-half pound ftour, pinch of salt, four ounces but- ter, lemon essence, one-half pound su- gar, one egg. Pass the flour andsalt through the sifter two or three times, rub in the butter -with the tips of the fingers and add the flavoring and su- gar. Mix in the egg and then make into little balls and dip in powdered sugar. Bake on a butter baking sheet until a good even brown. Cornstarch Biscult.-Three ounces flour, pinch of salt, one-half teaspoon- ful baking powder, three ounces corn- starch, three ounces butter, three ounces sugar, two eggs, ten drops of essence of vanilla. Sift the flour, cornstarch, salt and baking powder together, cream the butter and sugar and thein add the eggs, one by one, with a little of the flour beaten well in between each. Add the flavoring and the rest of the flour, beat well and put into small greased tins. Bake in a very quick oven for seven minutes. Old -Fashioned Gingerbread.- One cup brown sugar, one cup syrup, one cup butter, one cup sour (silk, one- half cup cornstarch, two and one-half cups flour, one teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon soda. French Toast -One loaf bread, two eggs, one cup milk, one teaspoon sugar. Cut into thin slices. Beat eggs well. Add milk and sugar. Dip bread in the mixture and fry in butter or dripping. Serve with 'syrup. The toast makes an excel- lent breakfast dish. Sour milk raisin cake. -One pint sour 011110, one cup sugar, one cup mo- lasses, 000 cup shortening, one quart flour, ono heaping teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful cloves, one-half nutmeg and two cups raisins, chopped, This will make two loaves. Soft ginger cake. -One cup cook- ing molasses, lour tablespoonfuls melted shortening, two 'cups flour, one teaspoonful• soda and one-half tea- spoonful ginger. Add one cup hot water. Eggless Recipes. Crabapple Butter. -.Crabapple but- ter is slightly inferior to cider apple butter, but as crabapples are neatly always abundant and cheap it makes a welcome substitute in some years. Wash the crabapples well, cut them up without peeling or coring them; Place them in a granite kettle, acid en- ough water almost to cover them and boil them slowly until they fall to pieces. Then press the crabapples through a granite colander. Add' Otho pulp to the water in said h the • crabapples were cooked, and allow it to simmer until it is thick. Add en- ough eugar to eweeten the butter, and If 'desired a littl spice. o p , Continue the boillug, with constant stirring, un- til the butter is perfectly smooth and of the right consistency; or, if prefer.. a'ed, the cooleing may be done in a' stone crook in a slow oven:» Nut and Raisin Bread. -In broad mixer put two teaspoonfuls of stilt, two tablespoonfuls of laid, three table- spoonfuls' of violence aril olio cupful each of scalded mills and boiling water. When lukewarm add'ono yeast calco To renovate household brushes •or any kind, put a teaspoonful of soda in a basin of hot water and swish the brushes up and down in it, then dry in hot sun. Toast is much more delicate if the crusts are cut off. There is no waste in this, because the crusts can be dried and rolled or made into croutons, Unless the chicken is young it should not be fried. Young chicken. is known by the tender breastbone and the clean, yellow feet. • Be careful when buying a sirloin steak to select a cut that has little tallow with it. The fat weighs heavy aud•eannot be eaten, To have dumplings light they should not be uncovered from the time they are put into the pot until they are dished up to serve. Buttons instead of being sewed on lace or•net should be tied on. Using a needle with ;a double thread, bring. the endi through to the wrong side and tie them. If tied carefully, the thread can be easily untied. PHOTOGRAPHY IN WARFARE. Bulgars Carry Picture as a Sort of Safe'Conduct. Another use for photography in war has been found by the Serbians in connection with their prisoners. The Bulgars, with 'the remembrance of their own cruelties to the Serbs weighing on their minds, at first fear- ed to surrender to the Serbian army, their impression being that the Serbs would not take prisoners. Such as did give themselves up were, of course, treated as well by SUPPLANTINHORSES, G THE SUNDAY SCHOOL Mules and Motors Principally Used for Transportation: Captain Henry H. Holmen, polo INTERNATIONAL LESSON manager at Meadow Bgook in 1918, JANUAl�'Y 14. and more recently the manager of e trench mortar battery "somewhere in Prance," is in New York on leave of absence, following some terrible exe pertences at the front. He confines the statement recently made by the New York Herald that the modern style of warfare, with its vastly in creased use of artillery and its few opportunities for cavalry operations, is tending toward the partial elimin- ation of horsee. Lesson IL -John The Baptist and Jesus -John 1. 19.34, Golden Text John 1. 29, Verse 19, We must distinguish two deputations, arranged In collusion, like that to Jesus in Mark 12. 18. Priests and Levites would be Sad- ducees, conservatives in religion, who "Cavalry cannot operate in a come - thing not believe that God had an cut up with trenches," he said the thL9 new to say to his people. other day. `I have seen only one This absolute sinking of the cavalry charge in a year, and that was personality in rho message is char - so disastrous it is not likely to be re - half of Scripture. More than panted, half the books of the Old Testament "The principal use for horses at the are annoymous. The 'writer of this front is in moving the big guns, but Gospel never mentions his own name. these are often a month or two in the Of the Epistle to the Hebrews Origen same place, Motor trucks do most of. says only Cod knows who wrote it. the transport work which formerly Nothing but the message mattered to fell to the lot of the horse, and it is these inspired men, lifted above desire only in the ammunition columns that for human fame. Isaiah -Th horses find constant work, Even great Prophecy (Isa. 40. 8) is in th there the mule is supplanting the book of Isaiah, but it was written fiv horse. Ile has shown himself to be generations after Isaiah by anothe hardier and less likely to. -go sick or "Great Unknown." The way of th lame. But it takes six mules to do Lord was originally the highwa the work of one good four horse team, along which the prophet foresaw th Of course, the mules weigh only about captive Israelites returning fro 900 pounds, while the horses will Babylon; the fulfilment -as always i average 1,400, so the difference in true prophecy- went far beyond th their capacity to pull weight is more original idea. • 1 24. Read And some Pharisees 'ha apparent than real, been sent, with the margin, which The transportation of ammunition is a tremendous 'undertaking nova- however, rather overdoes the effort t days. In our sector we leapt 220 be literal. It is most unlikely tha horses and mules busy hauling shells the priests and Levites woald come a for sixteen guns. Except when a big ; a deputation from the Pharisees. push is on the horses and mules get • . &r. Baptism implied that its sib pretty good care and treatment, and they though children of Israel, need they last a long time. I ed moral cleansing. For such a da "The French aro using mules almost : lag novelty very special warrant wa demanded. Hence the Lord's own exclusively for transport work In the History of Self -Starter. The perfection and rapid rise of the self starter is partly responsible for the present popularity of the auto- mobile. It has made the gas ear perfectly adapted to the use of the la- dies and so has almost doubled the possible market. One of the officials of the New York Show gives this history of starter de- velopment; The spring starter was proposed as early as 1893, but no cars worth mentioning existed and no buyers were in sight. A three cylinder compress- ed air motor was advertised in the early part of the century, but again lack of buyers allowed it to die. Many devices began to be tried as the num- ber of automobiles increased, and some e. of these were very curious. -Revolvers e1for firing blank cartridges into the el cylinders starting plugs with powder ✓ lcharges in them, hand pumps for e forcing in the proper amount of ex- yplosive mixture, igniting cocks through e which a big -headed match could be m introduced and which contained means n for igniting the match were among the e things tried. One genius used carbonic acid gas d capsules, which can be bought in many places for carboniting beverages. o From the medley of methods order be- t gan to come when one maker fitted s an air starter as a regular part of the car. This was followed by a - wave in favor of gas starters in which the usual mixture of ecetylene rI gas was used to form a working mix - s tare in the cylinders and was intro - 1 uced ntro-iduced in the proper cylinder at they difficult mountainous region of the question to them u1 Mark 11. 30. proper time. These, however, were 1 very close to a billion dollars. Elijah -As foretold in Malachi (4, 5).1 Vosges, but the habit of braying had The prophet -"Like unto" Moses, as short lived. Finally the electric. de- vice began to coma to the front. At 'first the battery was charged at the garge, bub it was found to bo lighter and more reliable if a charging dy- namo was carried on the car in ad- Island. n mall electric mote •used A SAIL TO THE MAGDALENS WHERE WOMEN WORK ASHORE FOR MEN AT SEA. Interesting Visit to Islands North of Prince Edward clition to ties r for tunring the engine. This com- plated the development of the two - i unit starting system, but the progress did not stop there. Attempts e,t simplification soon showed that one electrict machine could he made to serve as both motor and dynamo and a wave of single unit starters swept over the trade. But doing two jobs was rather" difficult and sometimes swung the other way, and the two -unit outfit again seemed to be favored. Inventors did not quit, however, and many improvements have been made in the various parts until it is a question as to which will be the final form or whether both will be used, Farmers Buy Autos. It is said that sixty per cent. of the automobiles made in America last year were sold to farmers. Roughly, a million cars costing eight hundred million dollars, were purchased by Canadian and American farmers in the automobile year ending the 81st, of July, 1916. Manufacturers esti- mate that about the same percentage of cars made in 1917 will go to the farms, and as the number of cars made. is expected to show an increase of about 25 per cent. ever the output of 1916, the money spent on this contin- ent by farmers for motor cars in the automobile year of 1916-17 will come to be overcome, b fo •a the mal a 0 es were promised in Dent, 18. 15-18. 1 fit for service there. This was ac -1 26. With water -The implied con- coniplished, so I am told, by a slight trast is not expressed till verse 38. !surwhich has given them theical operation on a nostril, , brayless' . 27. I atchet-The leather strap pass- i ,7 in over the foot, to hold the sandal �; .1 e It was the work of the 'slaves to ti' r;g 11 mule. on. "take off" (so read in Matt. 8. 11) the 6. NORTH SEA BLOCKADE. THE guests'sandals as they entered the - house ; other slaves would then wash Why Hens Don't Lay. Police Chiefs Mainly Royal Naval Re- their feet. FIe of whom John thus Why don't hens lay at this time of serve \len. spoke -and Jesus called John the the year? They do, if their owner "The North Sea blockade centres greatest yet born -deigned to do the chiefly inan area to the east and slave's work for his own disciples is on to his job. y(John 18). It is about as natural for a hen to north of Scotland, stopping all trade 28. Bethany -Unknown. In later.lay in the fall and winter as it is for to • and from Norway, Sweden and days the site was fixed by guesswork roses to bloom at the same season. Denmark. Month by month our police at Bethabarah {margin). But the expert poultryrnan nowa- force grew till a mixed armada of a 29. The Lamb-Tn Rev. 5. 6 the days with his modern methods of thousand ships parcelled out the sea f Lamb is figured with the emblems of breeding, of feeding, of housing and in cruising networks, writes Walter omnipotence ("seven horns") and of handling has his hens to lay 200 or G. Ford in the Windsor Magazine. It' omniscience ("seven' eyes"); we must more eggs per year and to lay a good - was soon impossible for any vessel, . not think of a sheep according to our ly number of these in the fall and vin - great or small -steamer, sailer', ori associations of helplessness and fisherman -to pass without sharp t stupidity' He is Lamb a Sacrifice challenge and direct investigation. 22. $ a sera ce "Patrolling squadrons are strate- , (Gen. e ynib. n 01 the away- "Patrolling placed in units which command ! Compare the symbolism of .scape- goat. every lane of traffic. IThemay be, 80. Both this and verse 15 refer ter. Can an ordinary farmer or small poultry keeper get a good fall and winter yield of eggs? He can if he will have a properly built house -not meaning an expensive one, but a house out ofsig ofeach other, but are al-; back to an earlier witness, of which that poultry use and live in and can't Upsets the Family Tradition of s ways within easy steaming distance.: Mark tells us (1. 7, 8). Before me- be kept out of. He can if he will °Safety First." v that each has `eye -way' of fifteen me (in time) is different. The mar -Say they are twenty miles apart and , In rank: the Greek of the next before feed the modern way or feed all grain 1 in litter; feed beef -scrap, fish scraps To the average mind a kangaroo is or milk -animal protein heavily; feed dry mashes, and perhaps wet mashes. or blow in it with a pair of bellows. The lime will rise in a cloud, and as the chickens gasp for breath they in- hale it, and the worms are killed. The chickens must not be left in the box ! or coop too long, or the lime will kill them. Two or three daily applications of lime in this way will free the chickens entirely from any further• trouble. Poultry News. Clean and disinfect the chickens house frequently; never allow accumu- tions; change the bedding on the floor and material in the nests frequently. Never make a quicic move about horses, cows or other animals, and this applies also to chickens. Move care- fully among the birds so as not to frighten them. A pint of crude carbolic acid mixed with a gallon of kerosene makes an excellent spray for poultry houses. KANGAROO A TREE CLIMBER. A night's sail to the north of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf. of St. Law- renee, one happeus on the Magdalen Islands. Low-lying and scattered Amherst, Grindstone Entry, Alright, Coffin, Byron and the Bird Rocks -a group of romance -filled islands which if they Were better known would have visitors by the hundreds through the Summer months. La Grande Demoiselle et La Petite Demoiselle are the two smoothly rounded combinations of mounted and cliff which together with sand- bars, miles in length, form the chief landmarks of the approach, Here in these islands, whose history dates back to the French discovery and possession of Canada, one hap- pens on rare things -women 10 sun- bonnets riding iii carts, knitting in hand; berry -pickers, ready with a pleasant smile to have their pictures taken; hay -makers, whole -family groups, the women and children all helping with the hay while the good weather lasts; little boys sailing toy boats that they have themselves have modelled and fitted; men and women wearing homespun garments and homemade shoes of sealskin; basket - makers and hookers of gay patterned ruge. Lobstering and Clam Digging. The soil is rich, the farms are good and the houses are generally good- sized, attractive and comfortable. The chief employment is lobstering. There are several very large lobster canner- ies scattered over the islands, eod- fishing with the attending stages of salting and packing, and mackerel fishing. This Iast mentioned involves yet another work. That of clam dig- ging. For the clam is the tempting morsel that is used to bait mackerel hooks. A more foreign looking sight cannot be imagined than the clam dig- gers at work on the flats. Carts, bug- gies, dog cars and even a cow drawing a box cart may be seen on the clam banks in shallow water quite a dis- tance from shote, the horses munching hay while the woman and girls in bright kirtles and long boots or bare- footed, three -pronged forks in hand, dig Inc the clams upon which the suc- cess of the mackerel fishing by the men depends. Havre Aubert, on Amherst Island, is the capital and here one is likely to meet with interesting people who are always ready to give one interesting hits of information concerning the islands. In the Winter time sealing is very uccessfully carried on, and sealing essels from Newfoundland frequent - y come as far into the gulf as the Magdalena for their season's catch. Excellent modeling clay is found in the islands, and one sculptor, Seumas 'Brien, whose work is well known on. oth sides of the Atlantic, has very leverly arranged a little studio for imself in one of the historic old homes where he has turned out sever- al excellent busts during his Summer vacation. A sculptor's studio is the last thing, one would expect to stum- le on in these distant Magdalens. Steamer Calls Once a Month. French is spoken in the island, but English is also commonly in use and Entry Island is an English-speaking olony. The Bird Rocks, the chief reeding spot of gannets and gulls, is ery difficult to access and visitors ave to be drawn up in a huge net- asket by the lighthouse keeper and Le men. The steamer makes the call o these rocks once a month, the in- requency of her visits being due to ne fact that the landing is at all nes attended with some danger. tang de Cap, Havre, Maison, Etang u Nord and Grindstone are the chief ettlements on the islands and the oats of call for the mail, passengers nd freight boats which run between miles to the horizon This ensures' gin there is wrong, we now know. • , that no blockade runner can pass be -1 31. I know him not -Best taken lit- tween without being seen by one or erally. John was brought up in the both. ] south, and the fact that Mary and Questions like the above are now "Naval officers there are in the Elisabeth were related (Luke 1. 86)fflooding the Pennsylvania Depart - force, but only a sprinkling to duvet' 1 --which incidentally makes it highly ]meat of Agriculture and the replies are broadly like the above. The out- standing feature of most of these let- ters et ters is the fact that these writers manifestly bell at if theycan learn what to feed t hens they and command. In the main our 90-1 improbable that Mary was of the lice chiefs are Royal Naval Reserve house of David -does not prove that men, with splendid records in the i their families mat again. Ecdesiasti- YP . cal tradition, often embodied in art, is a sort of underslung animal having a pouch for carrying young 'uns, and a big, dangerous tail. But Mike, the i 0 latest orphan to find a. home in the r b New York Zoological Park, has upset c all the notions. In the first place, h Mike hasn't any pouch worth mention- ing, for he isn't that kind of a kan- garoo. In the second place -if you merchant service. The are peculiar -teal get what I mean -his tail isn't at all the aerprans as uy any cunei section ly fitted for blockade work, knowing too late to count. Israel -As always, 1 �u dangerous, for the keeper has already b oof the alined army, and to show other those waters as the taxi -man does the : the name of privilege. ! must lay. That feed, good feed, or taught him that a tail is only meant Bulgarians that they incurred no dan- London streets or the Grimsby iranvl- 82. This is very characteristic of plenty of feed, will make hens lay is for wagging purposes. ger by surrendering, the Serbs had a er the shoals and banks where herring John's writing; the Synoptic Gospels I a great if popular fallacy. 1 There s only one thing that Mike photograph taken of long files of Bul-and halibut swarm. Our sea police had recorded the baptism of Jesus, The department wishes to especially i insists upon retaining in the repo:- There's prisoners drawing rations, each are, moreover, accustomed to ships' , and he need not tell the story. Just emphasize that fecundity and persist- toire which he brought from Austra- man holding a loaf of bread and a manifests and papers. They scent a I so he does not tall of the institution ency in laying are inherited factors lia, and that is a strongly developed c bowl for soup. , Two thousand copies of this photo- graph were printed, and the Bulgar- ians who had surrendered were invited fake,' and woe to the skipper lube of the Lord's Supper. els adove- and that usually, 1f a flocic is to lay penchant for tree climbing. Now, in h tries tricks with these alert and silent Milton addresses the Spirit in his well it must be out of a flock ahead the best of kangaroo families tree'' great opening words, "Dovelike satst Quick, comprehensive, and judicial brooding [Gen. 1, 2, margin] o'er the to write messaages on them to their inspection is made of cargoes, Where vast abyss." In the flood story, the comrades saying how they had been fair doubt exists we are lenient and dove symbolizes peace. Abode - received. The 2,000 picture postcards soon release the suspect. Tri the case This is the essence of the Manhood ofl were then dropped by aeroplanes into�f trawlers -the North Sea is alive: Christ; imperfect men have the Spirit! the Bulgarian lines. with these -the cargo can be examin- i fitfully, and often "grieve" him -Jesus Since then surrenders have been ed at once. But it is impossible pro- has him unchangingly, much more frequent, and the men who perly to inspect a big steamer with a! 34. The Synoptic Gospels very clear give themselves up always try to large cargo in mid -ocean, especially ly show that Jesus kept the secret of bring with them a copy of the photo- iii heavy weather. Contrabrand is i his divine origin and Mossiahship till 1 graph, which they` regard as a sort often concealed in bales of hay, inIthe end of his ministry, even front sentinels of Britain's power. of safe conduct. One man said that he had paid fifteen francs for his, and that he carried it always with him in 1 s; 1 terpreting, and not merely reporting, case he should be captured. -London the saysings he gives. He is not eon- f Tit -Bits. casks and cases, in passengers' bag -;the apostles. The discrepancy is ex -1 gage, even in the nail's of neutral plained by the fact that John is in - "Blockade runners have been :found with hollow masts and trick decks for smuggling petrol end rubber. Great sheets of copper have been detected Inc under water, deemed to the keel." Why Rain Follows Thunder and Lightning. Why does a heavy downpour of rain often follow a clap of thunder? Not, as is popularly believed, because the thunder jostles the cloud particles together into raindrops. In the vio- lent turmoil between the positive and negative electricity in a thundercloud there will be places whore the produc- tion of drops, by condensation, and their subsequent breaking up proceeds more rapidly than elsewhere. Hence in these places, there will be 01000 (100ps to fall as rain, and also - marc electrification, the raiiifall occurring about the sante time as tho flush. We have, then, starting toward the earth at. the sane time, light, sound, and raindrops. The light, travelling at a speed of about 186,000 miles per sec- ond, reaches us almost instantly. The sound travels far more slowly -about 1,090 ;feet per second ---but the rain falls Much slower still.. Thus we eh - serve, first, the lightning, than tho thunder, and then t'ain., Intends to See. He -Why do you refuse me when I say I can't live without you? She -You have aroused my curios- ity. Envious. Young Doctor -T haven't lost a petietn-since I hung out my shingle. Second Ditto -I wish I had your luck. All mine got well. • The late Professor Lounsbury of Yale was a ;foe to the purist and pedant, On his sunnier holiday the professor gazed cut neross the lake one gray and sultry afternoon, and remarked; "It looks like rams." A pedant was seated it a rocking -chair near by, 'What 'rooks like rain, professor?" ho chuckled. • "ITa, ]nal I've got you there, What loops like rain''" "Water." Professor Lounsbury answer od coldly. corned with the chronological develop -1 meat; he thinks only'of the perrnanett significance of what he relates. r� 1\aryg1 s?_ 1 Brealcfast on the Continent of Eu- rope has gone its way in pence for many years with nothing more than coffee and rolls, Even in heavy -eating England a rasher of bacon and e bit of tea is quite ail right, without eggs, for breakfast, Samuel Pepys seems to have gotten along without any breakfast, could do half a day's work without a bite. In feet, breakfast, as a regular meal, in a recent institution. It's the two or three soft-boiled eggs that are hero obiected to..as partieui laxly tautologic, One's enough and tine second is mere absent-mindedness, Thera are a lot of little things that go to make up the high cost. g. - Gasoline Conserved. The gasoline consumed in tiro United States this year has been esti• Mated as equivalent to a stream tax feet wide and a feet deep flowing at a (ipeetl of a anile an hour, of it that has laid web. And that this climbing simply isn't done, but Mike is the factor that metas the difference simply can't resist the temptation. In between hens not laying at all and lay- Aw tralia he neon the amateur and ing woll at this season. professional tree climbing champion- ship for three years, and then mane Disease Affecting Chickens. to this country because he heard there Thousands of chickens die annually were taller trees here. of gapes, and it ichickens keryns die ann that The keeper explains this little idio- 01 ndcotnusly rearing on the synncrasy of his pet by saying that in fowl runs,grscd, and lysurearing water Australia Mike belonged to a private ssameom dirty t,oandsuse all d aefancily that kept a fox terrier, and it able for such outbreaks, It acaused was to escape the dog that Mike by the presence in the windpipe o£ leaned to dig his toes info the bark and go up a tree, small red worms, as many as fifteen FRENCH FAT. having been found in the windpipe of one chicken. The young birds are usually attacked when they are be- tween three and eight weeks old. One of the Great Discoveries of the When first affected they make a slight War coughing noise. As the disease gains ground they gasp, or "gape" for To all of us who realize vividly the breath, so that the symptoms aro hardships to which our men aro ex - easily recognized. Various remedies posed in the trenches it is pleasant to hive suggested the object being to kill, hear (Sir W. Robertson Nicoll writes} nr expel, the worsts, without destroy- that one of the discoveries of the war Mg the chickens. A simple pray of is the efficacy of trench grease. It ap- treating gapes is, directly a chicken Penn's that when the feet and legs a e begins to sneeze, to puff tobacco well rubbed with the grease that is aamnlce down the hii'd'e throat Give liberally supplied to the men the cold second dose after a few hours' litter- and damp are robbed of n good dent val.(Apt oldsaucily, miteh used when of their terror. A young soldier who young pheasants have the gapes, is to hies hal 15t tnontlu+ in the trenches, t:nke a feather, clip ht in tnrpenline, and fs ni. the present. 10011110111 on iiis then ripening tiro Wire; month, pass' way back to than. tells that or aio it into the windpipe, gluing it a sharp occasion, on his way to his trench near twin • with l" esti er b got bogged t the fingers. If the feather $ t, e g t cave, d m n semen, P+ is then withdrawn, one or 11101.0 of the and had to be pulled out by fear of worms will cone away with it. The his -comrades, who succeeded in es - treatment is repeated till all the tricating him, bat at the expense of worsts have been removed. leaving his rubbers in the mud, As a An excellent and sure cure is the result he harm to put in four days it esti-fashioned one. it is a follows; 'te Wet trenches in his stockings, Take a good-sized les, r,r turn up a ']'hanks, however, to trench grease, he coop nn its back, pact mint, slaked was able 1.o keep himself tolerably powder(.: lime in • pl inn the ; hie](- warm, and suffered no evil effects ens, inside, and cativo ,hake the box from the exposure. h b ,h t. f tl ti -` s p a Pictou, P.E,I., and the Magdalena every Monday and Thursday. The Magdalene islands were granted in 1798 to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin in a fee simple and whose heir, Admiral Coffin, now holds thein. The tenants pay a yearly rent of one shilling per acre, but of late an ordinance Inas been passed by the Government of the Province of Quebec making it possible for tenants to buy the lard outright, but it seems that few wish to heeome • land owners at the price of $4 per 'acre, preferring fur reasons of their , own, to pay the shilling rental.. --Vie. rola Hayward in Hartford Times, Nol. Really Popular. The definitio, of popularity as given by a salesman in a large music store is one that inay be applied to other things beside songs "Is this a popular seen"" riled a young woman, holding up a sheet, oi' music brilliantly decorated in red ani' green. "1VeI1, no miss;' mai the ,n1, :nuns •assuming a judi,+ia1 air, "1 cant say it it, as yet. Of eoutse, lois of pen- plc are singing it, and everybody likes it, but nobody's got tired enough of it yet for it to be what you'd call a popu- lar song, miss,"