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Peach Pudding.--Cover the bot- om of a baking dish with stale cake orumbs, cut, qver the peaches which have been ; 4. ine and sweetened with granul: sugar. Thengadd an- other layer of the wetale cake orumbs and repeat the alternate layers until the dish is full, with * the last layer of cake. Bake until pown, about 20 or 30 minutes. raw to the "edge of the oven and spread over the top a meringue made from the well-beaten whites of two eggs, two uls of su- and the juice of half a lemon. Bolor a golden brown and serve} hot, with cream or liquid sauce. Baked Peach Pudding. -- Mix a biscuit dough from one quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two-thirds of a cup of milk, ® dash of salt and two tablespoon- fuls of butter. Handle as lightly as possible and roll out until it is less than half an inch in thickness. Lay this on a shallow baking pan and stick it full of peach halves from which the stones have been re- . moved. In the holes thus left stick bits of butter, a dash of flour and plenty of sugar, Bake quickly and serve hot, with cream. Peach Roll.--Pare and cut up fine half a dozen peaches and sweeten them liberally. Mix together one pint of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one half teaspoonful of salt and one small tablespoonful of butter. Mix with sweet milk un- til it can be handled just comfort- ably. Roll out, spread it with the sliced peaches and roll it up, pinch- 'ing the ends to give it a long, nar- row shape, Lay this in a deep bak- ing dish, sift flour over it lightly, dust with pulverized sugar and add a few bits of butter and a cup of boiling water. Cover with a lid and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the lid and brown for five minutes. Serve hot from the pudding dish. The water, flour, sugar and butter, with the peach juice, will have formed all the sauce necessary. Peach Tapioca.--Wash a cup of the fine granulated tapioca in cold water, rinsing several times. Place in a bowl with three cups of cold water and allow this to stand for 30 minutes. Then cook in a dou- ble boiler until the tapioca is clear and transparent. Pare ripe peach- es, cut them in halves and remove the stones. When the tapioca is clear pour it over the es, ar- ranged in a baking dish. Cover the dish tightly and bake in a moderate oven until the peaches are tender. Then remove the cover and brown the « surface slightly., Berve very cool with whipped eream, slightly sweetened. _ | Rice Cream with Peaches.--This is a nourishing as well as a tempting dessert. To make, soak a cupful of rice over night in water 'and drain in the morning. Cook it in the morning in a. quart of milk, sea- soned with half a teaspoonful of salt, in a double boiler until it is -. tender. Dissolve a tablespoonful of gelatine in cold water and heat it over hot water until it is clear. Strain into the hot rice. Add a Yea cupful of sugar. Allow the mixture to cool and add a teacup of cream, whipped stiff. - Pour the whole into a mold. When ready to serve, turn out, of the mold and encircle the creamed rice with : li and s , or you can stew the peaches with just enough water to rich syrup and serve these ice cold around the creamed rice, Melba.--For this popular select large, firm peaches that | water and dry before tak ax. pola out, of ealored 3 e ink spots out of re materials cover with tallow before sending to the lai : : ou " Before peeling onions let them | 3 ; peel, and the eyes will not smart eo badly. - To keep thread or silk from knot- ting as you sew fry soaping it with a bit of pure white soap. To freshen a& refrigerator clean thoroughly and paint with white enamel, giving two coats. Sponge black silk with clear cof- fee to freshen it, and irom on the wrong side when partly dry. To take castor oil easily put orange juice in a glass first, then the oil, then more orange juice. To wash light-colored silk gloves successfully put them on the hands; fasten at the wrist. Scatter grated white potato over the carpets if you wish to clean them and freshen their colors. Pour boiling starch over ink or iodine spots and they will come out in two or three hours. Shrink woollen damning yarn in the steam of a tea kettle before mending the stockings with it. Mend the boys' trousers on the sewing machine and the patch will not pull out as if done by hand. Shoes that are not in use should not be allowed to get dusty, as this eats into them and spoils the kid. Use a bicycle pump to clean such parts of the sewing machine as you cannot reach with a cloth. There is no economy in buying small pieces of ice. Know the size of your ice box and buy a piece to fill it. Acid fruits should never be pre- pared with a steel knife, The best preparing tools are nickel or silver knives. : Do not clean shoes too often. Sometimes they only requare. rub: bing up. Do this with a pad made of old velvet. A strong solution of borax and hot water poured down the sinks and drains will rid them of any of- fensive odor. Re AS SENSITIVE PLANTS. Many of Them Close Regularly at Night. The irritability of various plants, and the nightly folding of many; has occupied the attention of botan- ists from the time of Linnaeus to the present day. Plants possess three kinds of irritability, all dis- tinct, to wit, such as depend on atmospheric pressure, spontaneous motions, and such contractions as are caused by the touch of other bodies. The common wood-sorrel shows two of these influences. On the approach of: rain it closes up, and at night, even before as well as after rain, the leaves close. And they are said to shrink together at a blow with a stick. The seed ves- sel also partakes of the general sen- sibility of the plant, and when even slightly pressed opens at right, jerk- ing 'out the seeds. Many of the leaves of our common plants, -par- ticularly those that are pinnate in form, close regularly at night, as well ag before rain. Clover, peas, vetehes and mountain ash are readi- ly. affected by moisture in the at- mosphere or the coming on of night. | The sleep of plants is not confined to the folding of the leaves. As night approaches many alter their position. 'Sometimes the leaves fold over the petals, but many close quite up. The, daisies receive their name from their ' morning light. Flowers of the rayed form, like the marigold, liarly so affected field sho is. only to the are pecu- 'the on his throne, and the ve that he was King lent glory throne. 32. And before thered all the nations--The func tion of judge is not ascribed to 1 Messiah in the Jewish literature written before the time of Christ This is a new comseffiion 'of / the Messiah, although Jesus himself has repeatedly said that he came not into the world to judge the world, but to save it. His judg- ment, rather, is seeking the con- soiences 'of those who go before him in such a way that they begin to examine and judge themselves. The Christ leads his followers 'in- evitably to the point of self-exam- ination, and in this self-examina- tion they begin to judge them- selves. So the Messiah as a Judge of man is to be understood only in the indirect sense. This indirect judgment, because self-inflicted, is the most severe. The sheep and the goats, al- though herding together, separ- ated one from the other naturally. And so do good and evil people na- turally fall into separate groups of their own kind. "A man is known by the company he keeps" has no surer proof than in this na- tural separation of the sheep an the goats. : 33. The sheep on his right hand . + . the goats on the left indicates the natural place where those preferred and those accused would stand, the right being the place of honor, Ra 34. Come, ye blessed of my Father--Those who are blessed are singled, out with a definite adjec- tive--ye blessed--and they are the blessed because they belong to the Father ; another point of natural association of the good with God. The kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world-- Notice from the very beginning; from eternity, a kingdom has been prepared for those who are good. 85. Hungry . . . thirsty . . . a stranger--These are three expres- give terms to show extreme need. Many a man goes hungry and finds no one to give him meat; or fam- ishes with thirst; and ina land where a drink of water is.some- J the him shall be ga- | ed; but is a chnnce at An growth. The Ww comes from the Greek wo: ing "age-long" ; hence, those wi merited the condemnation of ean 'ho x vid J Son of Man are to be cut back, | vice-admiral pruned, and be subjected to this treatment for a long period, so that if there was any worth in them, they would have a chance to bud out and develop afresh. How- ever, this judgment is not to be taken as referring to' the future life, as though those who have al-' ready pa ino the beyond still have a period of probation. The force of the teaching is that man's attitude toward God is to be dis® covered in his attitude toward his fellowmen. If he loves them to the extent of being ready to minister unto them irrespective of how hum- ble they are, he 'loves God. And as the righteous in this parable did not know the Lord inosmuch as they had never seen him, and yet by ministering unto their fellow men had ministered unto him, go may he who has no powers to dis- cern the actual being of God re- veal vital relationship to him in every act of loving kindness, EE aI WHY GERMANY PLUNGED. Reasons Why She Went Into the Present War, ) Why did Germany think the pre- sent so favorable a moment! We believe that some fecling seized her as to the magnificence of the oppor- tunity offered by the existing state of Europe. She thought the situa- tion was going to develop favorably in the future, and that she, in fact, was now on the crest of the wave. What made her think this? In the first place--and we believe that this 'has all along played an enormously important part--there was the opening of the Kiel Canal. A month ago that canal was finished. The next consideration was the belief times priceless; finds mone to give: that England 'was on the -verge of him drink. He may be a sbranger among those who are not of his own kindred and may sleep in thelg streets as we read of now and then in the Old Testament, the vim- panion of the dogs and other ani- mals, no one inviting him to shel- ter. v 36. Naked . . . sick . . . in pris- on--Three more exceedingly ex- pressive degrees of need. Naked means ill-clothed. It was more dif- ficult properly to clothe an ill- clothed man than it was to give him meat, or drink, or shelter. The sick are frequently abandoned; or ignored, especially if the sick are poor. or strange. It took a parfic- ular amount of love in Palestine to lead one to visit the strange sick man. The prison is indicative of a loathsome, foul, ill-smelling dun+ geon. A man may be righteous and wrongfully east into prison; civil war, and therefore that her 'neutrality was almost certainly as- ed. Again, there was the belief, encouraged by the disclosuresin the French Senate, that France was at that moment very badly prepared for war. Lastly, there was the very perl IEE every day getting stronger, and that if Qergany waited another. ? 'years the advantages just named might be obliterated by vast .in- creases in the Russian armaments a) ¢] Land especially in the development of | her strategic railways. To put the thing in another way, we believe | that the real cause of the war was that Germany was seized by one of those impulses which are prompted by ithe thought of 'now or never,' | impulses which are the most fre- quent causes of war.--London Spec- tator. > ¥ but the very fact that he. is there: carries a - 87-39. When saw we thee -- The ighteous are exceedingly surpris- of when they are themselves prais- ed, for they had absolutely mo re- with it. He is tho be shunned rather than sought out, - | British Sea Power. 2 : British sea-power exists ose and for one purps collection of seeing the Lord -be-: ; fore; in fact, they knew that the; 'had not seen him. For had es rate 'dore of Home chief of the staff to Sir John Jelli- coe, is a brother-in-law, of that offi cer. Entering the ii i i) Rear-Admiral Madden, OMef of Staff to Admiral Jellicoe of the - British Navy. Rear-Admiral Madden also served in the Egyptian war and specialized in gunnery. Promoted to flag rank | in April, 1911, while of two years as Fi he has since flown serving a term th Bea Lord, is flag in the First Battle Squadmon and Third and Second Cruiser Squadrons. The Battle Squadrons, Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis . Bayly commands the First Battle Squad- ron, flying his flag in the new battle- ship Marlborough. He is 56 years of age, and has been in the navy since 1870. A torpedo specialigh, he obtained the £80 prize for this branch at Greenwich College in 1884. * On two occasions he has seen war service; in Ashanti in 1873-4, and. during the war of against Evia emplo I 8 commo- did much to promote the efficiency of the flotillas, a ' laced in command of the W = lege from 1908 to 1911. : Vice- i i n- are al | destruction of her | ways, and: the stoppage | |commerce. Germany's lo 1 {should 'say, already is $1,250 0d was afiorw ards | ed upon. "I don't suppose anybody o | earth can answer the question as {the probable daily cost of the inl individual power. | 000, although it was, it would only cost $75,000,000. {depends upon the management, the circumstances. l « waste was responsible for the hige ultimate total. ; "If the Boer war cost England | above $1,500,000 a day, Sundays in- this war cluded, as it did, what will this wa | cost England; France, G Austria, Russia, Belgium, and vial Already the loss to Belgi is nearly $300,000,000 because of the : : P all 'her 1 it will go on increasing © "The pay of the English LA : tary one, and pri "; shilling and ole iiving oh is paying the wife of each volunteer 1}{ francs daily; with half a frenc Belgium. pays highest daily wage to it English territorials, while they are in the ranks receive the same'; as volunteers, and now that have been called upon- will recei full army pay.' ; ik "The duration of the The. © resent war is very difficult to jus judge, bub seems to me that with the forth- ve «of the enormous Russian armies on Germany it can- not possibly last many months. I should 'be sorry to see the nol German people crushed and humili- ated, but for this they have as thank their ruler, who inyoked Go to his ; i 08, and laims the di- vine right of kings. The only good that any one can hope for from terrible ig" that i : "THE MARSEILLAISE." Roused "the French Soldier. nto