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Strips. --Cub in ut in small' cubes : Gr. -P) e as above, but run through ing careful to catch the juice in a clean bowl and adding it to the grated fruit, 2 Es Proportions.--Half ag much sugar as water is usually used for the syrup in which to can the sliced or . cut fruit, but if grated a liberal * sugaring without the addition of water is best, as much juice is ex- tracted by running' through chop- Por. id + Variations.--If canning is done rather late sour cherries, one cup- ful to each jar, may be if cub will be found very| 4s drain, then sift with nowdered | sugar and serve fresh. "Bien plo Hard " that has formed over top. A stoned cherry or large sugared : strawberry may be placed on each slice. Nice as a first course at din-| ner or luncheon. ; ; eapple Shortcake, -- Ingredi- ents: Two oupfuls of sifted pastry flour; two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; three teaspoonfuls of su- ar; tw lespoonfuls. of butter "or butterine; one egg; three-quar- ~ ters cupful of milk; two cupfuls of _ ground pineapple; sugar as ed. - Method: ents together, Tub in the butter and add beaten egg to the milk. © Stir into flour with a fork, mix ; eased laver in powdered sugar; one whipped . cream; one diced and sugared pineapp' pug il ; large eeded Boil the rice in a large htly salted water until 5 te) Drain and und | in which rice is cooked will elim- | inate the necessity of stirring, as 'a cup on | and set unmold, *| ing the juice also. all dry ingredi-| | balls enfolded, and they will be "strawberries are needed. | "food chopper, be-{ : will. attempt the South Pole en route. lay on brown paper or a fine sieve with bread custard pudding.) Me Rub one or two table- spoonfuls of soft butter into one cupful of sifted Ponfectioners' su- gar, adding ground pineapple, us- _ Beat in as much as is needed to make a fluffy mix- ture, then pile onto fanoy dish, 'mounding it into a cone. Sef away to chill so sauces gets quite stiff: Useful - Hints. " ' Do not wash colored clothes in very hot water or leave them wet very long. £0 : "Use old stocking tops for eloths with which to handle hot pans and dishes while cooking. x Boiling het starch poured over fresh iodine stains will remove "then 3 ( reg 8 To get rid of ants in the pantry, mix cayenne pepper and borax and dust around where they are. When storing carpets or rugs roll them up with alum and moth | 8 dcw sdrops of patefin added to shoe blacking will impart 4 food i preserve leather. Rr Rn z "Time will be saved if a frying pan or griddle is wiped with a piece of newspaper to remove 'the surplus grease before it is washed.- ; A nice sandwich may be made from dates. Chop dates with English walnuts and spread mixture between thin slices of but- tered bread. He Ton A small white marble in the pot it will roll around and prevent the rice from sticking. ! An excellent grease eradicator can be easily made by mixing two ounces of nia, one ounce: of i shavings, one quart water and one. teaspoonful 'Shackleton and His New Ship "The Endurance.' In this ship Sir Edward Shackleton, shortly sail for the Antarctic to oross the polar contin aked | cent. of the | cur are caused regions, re ---------------------------- ing water over it; then cover for Gum arabic starch is made then strain through a cloth. a DANGERS WHICH FROM DAY TO DAY. Meet Death in the Bowels "of the Earth: of this country; lances - tlefield, says London Answers. a bring danger of a miner's calling. were men brought smaller disaster. Hearing the Inaudible. the famous Antarctic explorer, where he will make the ent from side to side, stopping at few moments with cold water, dry- ing the bacon on a cloth before put- ting into the sizzling frying pan. y putting a quarter of a pound of the best white gum in a large-monthed bottle and covering it with a pint of water. Set the bottle on a cloth in a pan of water over the fire to dissolve. Stir until it liquifies, MINERS BESET BY PERIL HE FACES Many Ways in Which a Collier May Not a day passes without some terrible accident in- the coal-mines in fact, the ambu- to our great pits are constantly in requisition. There i no braver class of men than col- liers, and day after day there are oe h deeds of heroism performed as © 4 any carried out on 'the The heroism of the collier is somve- Ying 0 usual that it is unknown to the bulk of individuals. - It is con- sidered merely everyday conduct by the men themselves. Now and then calamity at some mine will vividly 'before the public the 'It is when mute wives and crying children await in vain for the re- turn of bread-winners, and sce but blackened fragments of what once out of the mine, that public sympathy is aroused. Yet the fact is that such great dis asters are comparatively rare, while not, a day passes without some T. away the beams which pi 1 to the ground, while some stimulan may given to the man in order to keep the flicker of life in him. | Then, after some hours, he will be lifted out and carried away in the | ambulance to the nearest infirmary. |" It is such a common occurrence for @ miner to be entombed that it _| scarcely excites remark--even when | his mates, in their endeavors to save him, suffer a similar fate. De- spite the donger, the survivors will work away, to a man, without any thought that they themselves may meet the same horrible, lingering death. In most instances an explosion is | caused, not by gas, but by the very fine coal-dust. Even a spark may ignite this dust, in which case the ' | explosion will rush along, gather- ing strength from every particle of dust - that remains. = Strangely enough, the "shots" used for blast. ing purposes very rarely cause an explosion. This is possibly due to the fact that the vicinity is well watered to keep down the dust. All the same it is a terrible fact that in a four-foot seam' during the last half century the number of deaths have amounted to 1,600 from explosions from the dust. The pub- lic only hears of the great disasters, knowing nothing of those explosions which may kill only two or three men, though in the course of a year these mount up terribly. Many Fatal Accidents. Few people are aware of the num- ber of fatal accidents which take place by men being run over in the pit. For some reason a horse with its load may take fright. There is then no hope for the man in the narrow roadway who cannot crawl into one of the shelter places; the running miner may stumble, either being run over directly or crushed against, the sides. . There are innumerable ways in which a collier may meet, his end in the bowels of the earth. While *us- ing his pick he may strike a "pock- et" of metal, sending out a stream of sparks which ignite the coal dust, and go cause a minor explosion. If electricity is employed, something 'may go wrong with the insulation, and so cause another little explo- sion. A man may even meet his death 'I'by receiving the full force of the electric current as he steps into | some pool of water near a faulty part of the electric mechanism. It is not uncommon for a man to be drowned by a sudden inrush of wa- ter. It is quite a-common occurrence for a miner to lose his life by firing shots which blast the material. One common form of fatality is for a single shot, say, of a couple, not to fire properly. The man, thinking that both shots have gone off, will return to the fuse too quickly, and then will meet with an awful death. +In Countless Ways. The collier may even be lost, His lamp, may go out, and he, taking the wrong turning, get into some abandoned portion" of the mine, where he may wander for days until his strength is spent. " Deep below in the impenetrable 'larkness, the miner runs practically every danger that a man runs on the surface, while, in addition, he must face many others. He may Lhe run over, drowned, suffocated, erushed to death, or blown to pieces. But, no matter what may 'happen, his gallant fellows are ever willing to risk their lives even on ti a | The perils which the miner has to he most forlorn chance of aiding fate are most commonly other than {5 In fact, some 60 per| fatal accidents that oc- by the falls of roofs atively com- a His Majesty's Fault. 'In the reign of Francis I." of France, quickness of wit was often more promptly rewarded than ac- tual merit. The monk, Regnier Mainus, did not lack merit, but he the o mun owed his first advancement, never- theless, to a clever retort. *. Francis, who was very fond of the e of tennis, was playing a match y with Mainus.. The monk ded the hard-fought game be several months. + ii | Jesus was going before them : and they were amazed--Jesus mingled so freely with his disciples that on this occasion, when he walked apart from them and did mot communicate his thoughts, they were surprised and were unable to explain 'his manner. - No doubt his mind was occupied with things which he knew they could not clearly under- stand, and with which they would probably not be in y. 'They that followed were afraid-- Others of the company, besides the disciples, were awed by Jesus's demeanor, and though they follow- ed him, they did it with fear. He took again the twelve--Becom- ing aware of the effect on the disci- ples produced by the strangeness of his manner, Jesus again joined the company of the disciples and began to share with them his thoughts re- garding the crisis awaiting them at Jerusalem. Matthew says that he took the disciples apart, that is, away from the rest of the followers. 33. This is the third time that Jesus had announced his passion to the disciples. The details as given here and in verse 34 correspond so closely to the events which later took place, that it is possible the writer recorded his later clear un- derstanding of the import. of what Jesus said, rather than the impres- sion made when the words were spoken. St. Luke says, "They perceived what he said' If we suppose Jesus to have spoken at the time in veiled prophecy, we can better understand the inconsiderate demand made by James and John. The chief priests and the scribes -- Representing the Sanhedrin, or the governing council of the Jews. Before this council were tried the more important cases coming under the Jewish law. Shall deliver him unto the Gen- tiles--This had not been mentioned in the earlier predictions of the death of Jesus... The. Roman law did mot permit the Jews to execute a death sentence ; it reserved to it- self this right. 34. Scourging--with a whip of many lashes--was an invariable ac- companiment, of crucifixion. Jesus would naturally expect to be mock- ed, because his claim to be a king would excite the ridicule of the sol- diers and the unfriendly people; but this prediction as a whole seems to rest on something more than ordinary foresight, since no one could know definitely what the Ro- man governor would do, and the definite time of the resurrection was, of corse, a revelation. 35. James and John, the sons of Zebedee--In Mark 1. 19 and Matt, 4. 21 we learn that these brothers were fishermen, that they were mending their nets in their boat on the Sea of Galilee when Jesus had called them, and that they had left their father and the hired servants and followed him, They had been partners with Simon and Andrew, who were called at about the same time. Their mother was named Sa- lome (see Matt. 27. 56; Mark 15. 40). She was one of the women who followed Jesus in Galilee and ministered to him of their substance (Mark 15. 41), and many think she was a sister of the mother of Je- sus, Comparing the two references above with John 19. 25, 'his mother's sister" is generally taken to mean Salome. Saint John's omission of the name of his own mother is similar to the indirect way in which he refers to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." If the supposition that Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Salome, the mother of James and John, were sisters is correct, then Jesus and these brothers would be cousins, and this relationship may have seemed to them to justify their re- quest for special recognition in his kingdom. It also helps us to under- stand how their mother could come to Jesus with a similar request (Matt. 20. 21). The fact that Jesus, while on the cross, commended his mother to John supports the theory that they were related. We would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall ask of thee--This demand seems most in- considerate, especially since Jesus a hows shat his teaching could 'clearly rehe 1 ot have been 87. The disciples may have taken lly Christ's words about the standing ; comprehend his teac shortcomings and their fe believed they ld come torious, and he did not worthy of respect. What a of strength it must have been to them later, when the dark hou came, to re r the confidence that Jesus had had in them! = 40. Places of honor in Christ', kingdom are to be attained; nob given away. They have been pre- pared for those who are fitted for them, and influence counts for nothing. | 41. The ten . . . began to be moved with indignation--James and John were introducing political method for their own advancement.' The ten naturally resented this. 42. Jesus called them to him-- He had been speaking to James and John only. Hearing the objections on the part of the other disciples, he called them to explain to all the twelve the broad principles u which greatness in his Ren rests, Lord it over them--The rulers are lords or masters, and the people become their servants to do their will and to minister to their plea- sure. v 43. But it is not so among you-- In Christ's kingdom greatness is not won by competition and self- assertion, but by working for the common good ; by making a state of gociety in which the strong help to! bear the burdens of the weak, and the welfare of every individual is considered important. Minister--One who serves, though this word does not indicate his re- lation to the person whom he serves. 44, Servant--That is, bondser- vant, one who is under obligation or holds a personal relation to those whom he serves. This posi- tion in Christ's kingdom is higher than the position of minister, who does not hold the personal relation- ship. h '45. For the Son of man also came not to be. ministered unto, but to minister--The Son of man is not ex- empt from the rule stated. -"His kingship is also that of service, and not that of lordship." To give his life a ransom for many --Christ's life is the price by which men become free. This was true of his life in a sense in which it is not true of other lives, though the world has not been without its herces and heroines, especially on the mission fields, who have given their lives that others might live fuller, truer lives. se FRANCE'S BIRTH RATE. Year 1913, with One Exception, Lowest in Nation's History. In France 5,221 fewer babies were born in 1913 than in 1912, acoord- ing to official figures made public recently. This is the lowest birth rate ever recorded in the country, except 1n 1911. There were 298,760 marriages in France in 1913, or 13,169 fewer than in 1912. At the same time divorces im- creased from 14,999 in 1912 to 15,~ 076 in 1913. The Temps remarks that the population of Germany incr by about 800,000 in 1913, or about 20 times as much as that of France, which was augmented by only 41,- 901. ---- Continental English. The idea that English is to be the universal language of the future seems to be spreading. Certainly thousands of Europeahs struggle bravely with its rules and idioms. Here is a sample of the progress that has been made in one quarter. It is taken from the advertising matter that a large Continental ho- tel publishes in the form of an ela borate illustrated booklet : Its spacious dimensions, exquisite comfort, elegant fashion of its fur nishing, the unobjectionable prer- 2 tives as to the roles of its itehen an tents of its cellars, beside the Ta in Llp, which, assisted by well-experienced attendants, does its utmost in ways duly treating,--all this united already for many years past ob- tained a general renown, even abroad too. : Nah a iin MY al: