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Eid fil E. : arg & ® 5 Bs 2 8 £3 you may finish with a meringue if you wish or serve without. _. Things Worth Remembering. + Do not allow fish to stand in water. e-| Very good fish chowder is made with the top of the stove is red | hot, the oven is not hot. Put alittle ammonnia in the warm wales used to wash paint. s| New stockings should always be 'The best fish for baking are cod- fish, haddock and pollock. "the closet w and cooking utensils is badly lighted, try y fainting The hooks and nails white. Chamois leathers should be washed in tepid water and dried with the soap in them; they will then be nice and 0| . Camphor will remove fruit stains from table linen. = Before the linen goes into the wash, go over the spot with camphor. If the hair is dry and brittle, give it a good application of vaseline or ure olive ofl on the scalp the night -| before shampooing. = A wringer that is stained from wringing colored clothes can be cleaned by rubbing the rollers with a cloth saturated in paraffin. x Cold mashed potatoes from yester- day's dinner make very nice _cro- ttes. by the adding of one egg. hape them, roll them in crumbs and 1 | fry in fat, : Ass ceable way to serve ° cold {botled potatoes 1s : toes is to put them through the 2 Jota Season with butter and salt; form into cones and brown {in oven. % If a boot or shoe pinches, damp a | sponge with very hot water and hold it - | over the part that hurts. The eath- | er will expand and so afford relief. People who feel the cold very much should see that their beds are pro- | vided with ample covers and a hot- bread | water bottle: before 'attempting to n{ sleep. RA | Put white washable skirts on to 'their stiff inside belts by means of 'a strip of snappers and there will be H oven and. cook until set. When done |. no belts crumpled and ruined in' the around | washing. AT AR | Turned Down at Home She Succeeds in England. . Mrs. Kathryn M. Stanton, aglow with the triumph of selling the centrl- fugal gun for which she stood spon- gor, to the British Government, has returned to the United States. - The new weapon which she sold to Great Britain is operated and is noiseless aswell as smokeless. It hurls missiles with deadly aim, the missiles may be any- thing from an egg to a lump of dyna- mite. There is no barrel to the gun and it may be operated by any um- trained man or woman. It is simple of 'construction and all of its parts can be made at any machine shop withia cost of less than one-tenth ' of the price of .a weapon using explosives, Mrs. Stanton financed the building of the model and personally superintend- ed the making of the gun. The wea- pon was tried out at Sandy Hook and the officers present acclaimed it as the weapon of future warfare. The United States did not care to pur chase the invention, so Mrs. Stanton sold to Great Britain. This 1s we second invention in a short time that was turned down by the United States and later accepted by Great Britam. While Mrs, Stanton was abroad ner husband died unknown to her. The glad tidings: she expected to convey to him were hushed on her lips when her sister broke the sad news to her. ree tli -- HAVE LOST ALL CHANCE. Conclusion of Danish Expért Regard. ing Central Empires. The military correspondent of the Christiana Morgenblad, Captain Nor- regaard, whose work as a military critic during the war has beén high- ly appreciated, expresses the opinion that the developments since the be- n of the allies' offensive prove that the Central Powers have lost all chances of winning the war. The Central Powers, he says, have everywhere had to leave the initia- tive in the hands of the allies, and even if - they regain the initiative locally they cannot accomplish now what was too much for them in 1915, whén their military power was at its zenith, and when the allies were in every respect less well prepared and organized than they are now. ain' however, difficulties || Acts 13. 16 and Acts 21. 40. | than "madness." | {duced on Festus the impression that | Festus was a newcomer. 'Herods and (which fs say: 2) the bast of them. His erse the o last of Fi k 6. 14), his Bop bhew pare ( | Agrippa I (Acts 12. 1), his son | Stretehed #cith his han wth : 24, Loud voice--The tone suggests } | impatient interruption; Festus was ] | afraid they were to have a theologi- [cal lecture. . Mad--Perhaps enthus- iasm or franaticism is nearer the idea ately conscious of rudeness to aman i} | who he obviously respected, and he, | | hastens to add that it was great learn- | ing that was turning his head, Luke's | report of Paul's defense is, of course, 'only & brief summary of & speech that 'may have lasted an hour; Paul doubt-; § | less quoted law and prophets largely to prove his great thesis. = This pro- Paul was "a great man of letters," as the Greek for much learning literally 8 ts. 5 20, Paul's appeal to the notoriety of the facts is made to Agrippa, since In John 18. 20 Jesus similarly emphasized the pub- licity of his work. It was he himself who determined the publicity ,of his last act. His enemies wanted to kill him "ina er" (Matt. 26.5): he forced | | them to do it in the sight of the sun, 27. Agrippa was a professed Jew, and through his great-grandmother the ill-fated Mariamne, had Maccabean blood in his veins. Paul had that within him that "believes all things" (Cor. 18. 7), and he gave Agrippa credit for a seriousness foreign to his nature. 28. It is very doubtful whether the Greek of this verse is capable of translation. The acceptance of a very slight change found in one impor. tant manuscript, or an equivalent con- without | jecture by Dr. Hort, gives the sense adopted in the paraphrase, "thou per- suadest thyself, art confident." A Christian--The familiarity of the term --seé lesson study note for May 7-- --makes it difficult for us to realize what it meant as.a new word. "Christ- man" aboye attempts to suggest this. The Authorized Version makes Agrip- pa speak seriously, but the whole sep- tence is intapable of such meaning. Paul's answer alone is enough to show that the king was not a hope- ful convert; what a different ring such a hope would have brought into his voice! : 29. I would to God--Literally, "I could pray to God"; but the verb is not the deeper compound. that is used of Christian prayer. It appears in Acts 27. 29, and is the ordinary word for prayer in pagan vernacular. If Paul had cherished real hope of Agrip- pa, he would have used the stronger verb and in the indicative, "I do pray." With much (trouble)--With a tithe of the encouragement the old version of Agrippa's remark implied, Paul would have eagerly pleaded all day ! 80. Bernice--Agrippa's sister, a noted beauty who changed husbands with some freedom. 81. We have to assume that Luke heard of this conversation ultimately from one of the assessors. iene! MBIT, / WHEN BUCCANEERS REIGNED. St. Thomas, West Indies, Was Once Headquarters. The importance of the island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, arises from the fact that the harbor on the south side of the island, on whose borders the town of Charlotte Amalie is located, is one of the finest in all tropical America. From the days of the buccaneers its strategic advant- age has been realized, for when the Spanish Main was the happy hunt- ing ground of the gentlemen of the black flag this harbor was their head- quarters. ; Behind its outer hills the pirate craft found shelter. from the open ses, and were well screened from the sight of passing ships until the mo- ment came to pounce down . upon them. In more recent times it has 'played the role of safe harbor for the thousands of vessels bound from Eu- 'rope to Panama and surrounding bridesmaids once led the bride- ? and the dge- e bride. 4 4 y man that can he 'resources wit 'of nawab or Ee Tadial he pod it 'nawab or rajah i he | a vidr. We have four <TON™ | Festus is immedi- "Few people who buy automobiles realize how modern efficiency and 'science have. veritably revolutionized the materials entering into the units of to-day's motorcars," says a well- facturer of armor plate knew anything about steel. It is a remarkable fact that the $8,000 or $10,000 automobiles of fifteen years ago (made with axles and shafts which were guaranteed to stand the strain) were made"then of gun, battleship or tool steel. This | sort of steel evolved from the chemical laboratory, and what is more natural than that the chemical laboratory is now a component part of the automo- bile industry ? "Through the workings of science {in the laboratory the cheapest car now ; on the market has better steel used in its construction that that used fifteen years ago in making the rich man's car. No motorcar of to-day is build [3 are utilized. : "It would be entirely impracticable to cons the modern motorcar of one kind of steel, hence the men as- signed to this task in the chemical lab- | oratory conduct a seriés of exhaustive - tests to finally determine what is best | for some specific use. The addition ganese, nickel, chromium, tungsten and vananium are the discoveries of the chemical laboratory. These ele- ments are added for various purposes, such are hardening, toughening and increasing the resistence of the steel. Carbon steel used in motorcar cam- of one kind of steel, but many kinds! of such elements as carbon, man-| | shafts is subjected to a spe treatment determined tive tests. : "Likewise each differen steel, depending, of or functon each is to serve, } definite heat treatment, and finally of the tific instruments, such ss Bimnell, Riekle and many other 'machines, | Mistopliotography iso Plays. on part in the n portant be ne LL) on (. ag . may be by some instruments "insure a uniform stee | thus preventing the use of metal h -is not of the proper composition or 18 too hard or too soft. of the steering and braking mechanism, 'this is a great factor in preventing serious accidents. i | "The final analyss conclusively shows that modern science has exert od a potent influence in creating bet- ter and still better motorcars at a much per price than was formerly thought possible," Don'ts For Touring. Don't overcrowd your car, Don't load up with supplies you will not need. Don't start with a car that is not in first-class running condition. Don't try to do the impossible. Don't race with locomotives. Don't fail to take an extra tire or two along. Don't disregard local regulations. even if they seem unreasonable. Don't neglect to prepare for rain and cold. Don't forget safety first, last and always. "HUNTING DOGS" OF GRAND FLEET ZEST IN THE WORK OF SUB- MARINE CHASERS, They Kill Much More Often Than They Capture--Some Surprises. Generally speaking, official names are frigidly unimaginative concep- tions. Only those who know the navy from stem to stern can tell from its title what special duty any particular unit of our fleet is entrusted with. Jack holds in small esteem this sonorous indefiniteness in nomencla- ture and corrects its shortcomings by giving to various bits of seapower the designations which he deems | most befitting them. And he has an infallible knack of "making the label describe the contents of the can." For example, the craft employed in seek- ing out enemy submarines are known among bluejackets as "the hunting 'dogs." : This is both terse and explanatory, tions" are coming. All the same one cannot expect the people who are flocking around UC b to believe that submarines are taken in a hair spring or coaxed into captivity with lumps of sugar! No Aimless Wandering. When tracking down U-boats the "hunting dogs" work perspicaciously. Anyone unfamiliar with their meth- ods, who watched them beating over ' a patch of grey and apparently empty sea, might think they were nosing about rather aimlessly, when the truth would be that they were hot upon scent. This much can be said for them; once they do pick up a scent they seldom fail to kill, and they kill more often than they capture, as one would expect from the nature of their hunting. Perhaps one may be per- mitted also to say that they do not do much aimless wandering, and that | once an enemy submarine puts fairly i to sea it has very small chance of get- | ting back to its harbor again. In this connection it should be re- membered that a dog cannot snap up {a rat until the rat has come out of jits hole. Quaint tales are accumu- | lating against the time when the full | story of the anti-U-boat campaign may be told. When it is, we shall hear of submarines that fought sub- | marines, albeit not altogether de- EE Eat on md LJ Ral oF She PO Tt "catches" now lies alongside Temple sonfidenty expecting only an _ Pier, whither all London is craning. ped in jaws that crushed them re- its-neck to get a look at it. ' lentlessly to death. Also, Hier will Pid Bi RE Bigg von Tbe Rp ot Bo iid continue their quest for more "game" | face in the midst of British squad- of similar kind. Now a word as to, rons, and fheseafrer Soy hénven wa the "dogs" themselves. One finds in left to help them. You mus now the. "packs" quite a motley collection | that the submarine occasionally be- of "breeds." These are heavy lurch- | haves like a mole-bird creature and ers which beat over the ground with: blunders into places it were better to untiring persistency; pugnacious lit- have kept out of, and thereupon suf- tle terriers which nose around the holes and when they have "found" call up the bigger dogs to the "kill- ing"; also greyhounds, keen of eye and swift of movement, which pounce with deadly spring upon any quarry that may show itself in the open..But whatever the "breed" all work hard, and it is no secret that their hunting has been remarkably successful. The People's Debt. Very little had been heard about their doings, but, all the same, every man, woman, and child in the United Kingdom lies under a great debt of obligation to these toilers on the deep who have done as much towards keep- ing our tables well laden as any part of the fleet, and in some ways, per- haps, more. As to the work of sub- marine hunting, one cannot gain much idea of its exigencies from the little sop that is being given to the curios- ity of London. Submarines are elusive things. "Rousting" one out from a stretch of open water somewhat resembles searching for a needle in a hayrick. There is always the chance that one may find the needle by sitting down pon {t un edly, and _ the sub- vered with sim- fers the usual fate of those who leap before they look. El THE VISION OF BIRDS. They Can See a Speck a Mile Away, It Is Said. If our airmen possessed the vision of birds it would, perhaps, be well for us, No animal---certainly no man---pos- sesses one half the power of vision | given to a bird. It is said that the eagle can look straight at the sun. But this is hard to decide, inasmuch as it seldom falls to our lot to see an eagle. Small birds, however--which all can see--can notice a speck a mile away. Notice the "alarm" on afine day among the birds in a locality. One minute all the choir is in full music. Then suddenly a disturbance takes place! Not a bird is seen, or heard in a minute. . ; Ap last the human watcher sees a tiny speck in the sky. It.comes near- er and nearer. It is noticed to be a sparrowhawk. s SE The birds saw it long before the watcher, . Unerringly, too, they Lod 3 ' down to be a hawk, Hence their al- arm. NE Paar TRY er| The seltadmiration of ® { proves that there's Sa