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mer cup flour. = Bake in a shal- in a slow oven and cut in 'while "of Wales Cake.--Two and. gif cups granulated sugar, three- | rtening (butter and ixed), one egg, two cups sour ie sour milk), one teaspoon- amon, one-quarter teaspoonful ; one-half teaspoonful allspice, one-quarter. teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoonful cocoa, flour enough to a. stiff batter, one-half teaspoon- am of tartar added to tHe flour lastly, one cup hot raisins. | Twelfth Night Cookies.--To make these delicious cookies beat to a cream ; | and a half of sugar and one scant cupful of butter, add four eggs beaten light, a pinch of salt, the juice and grated rind of one lemon and a teaspoon of soda, one-half cup of boil- ing water and flour to mix just stiff enough tor oll, but not too stiff. Roll, cut out and bake in a hot oven; when cold, frost with white i¢ing, and fore it hardens decorate with) small pink candies arranged to form a star in the center. Date Loaf.--Take a breakfast cup- ful of flour, two ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, one egg, half a pound of stoned dates and three ounces .of stoned raisins. Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten egg and a quarter of a cupful of boiling water in which has been dissolved a quarter of a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, Mix in the flour, together with half a teaspoonful of baking powder, and lastly stir in the fruit, cup up small. Bake in a moderate oven in a well- greased loaf tin for one hour and a half, and when baked leave uncut for a day or two. Ratafia Biscuit.--Take half a pound of sweet almonds and hatf-a pound of bitter almonds and pound them in a mortar, very fine, with whites of eggs; but three pounds of powdered sugar, mix it well with the whites of the eggs to the proper thickness in a basin; put two or three sheets of paper on the plate you bake on; take your knife and spaddle, made of wood, and drop them on the paper; let them be round and "about the size of a nutmeg; put them in the oven, which must be quick, and let them have a fine brown and all alike; let-them be cold before you take them off the paper. Sponge . Fingers.--Use five eggs, their weight in powdered sugar; half their weight in flour and the grated rind of half a lemon. Set the flour, beat the egg yolks and sugar until . stiff and frothing. This takes about '© 20 minutes, Beat the whites to a stiff froth and add to the yolks and sugar a little at a time, sprinkling in the flour alternately. Mix well, add the lemon rind or a teaspoonful of any preferred flavoring and put into the tins, which should be prepared by . greasing with a blend of flour and butter and then ting with powder- ed sugar. When the tins are filled with the mixture sift a little sugar er the top and bake in a moderate oven, Whistles.--Half a pound white! 'sugar. Quarter of a pound of butter | 'and six eggs, the whites and yolks (sic) beaten separately. Stir the "sugar and butter to a cream, then add, the eggs previously beaten, and sifted ; flour to make a thick batter; flavor with rosewater, if you like. Drop the | 'mixture by the large spoonful onto! 'buttered paper. = The mixture should be dropped several inches apart and read out thin. Bake then until of ight brown, on a board which will, not be over five minutes. Lay them! n a moulding board that has white 'sugar sprinkled on it; roll them on a stick while warm. When cold fill them with any kind of jelly that is Without Eggs.--Boil 1 cup in cup water for 10 minutes, Add 1 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoonful soda in cup of 14 teaspoonful cloves, I tea- cinnamon, pinch salt, 2 table- | Bake one' * Mades good- | ous for dessert, 7 ne | : eliced vegetables aud 3 uiicient broth to Sever. ; Ret §t on top of the we, and as scon as it begina to sim- er put it into the - for ah hour and a half, casiorally with the gravy. Garnish: "gtoned olives and the turkey with ) | ich should be serve with the gravy wh slight'y thickened. Flank steak, poultry dressing, ba- con fat, stock sauce or ketchup. Spread the steak ott on a table or board and cut the fibers crosswise with a sharp' out knife, being careful, however, fot to 1 cut through the entire thickness of the 8 meat. Prepare a dressing such as would be used for roast veal or chick- en. Spread this over the meat, roll up and tie in shape with a string. or tape. Brown lightly by cooking in a little hot fat--bacon fat would be good. Then thicken the fat in which the meat was cooked with a tablespoonful of flour and a cup and a half 'of water and a little stock sauce or ketchup &nd bring the meat to boiling point in this thickened gravy. Cook for ten min- utes, so as to heat the entire mass through to the center; then place in the fireless cooker and cook from six to eight hours. ens Household Hints. Skimmed milk and cornbread and butter are a nourishing lunch. Palms and ferns should be kept away from draughts and gas. To enrich the soil on your flower beds, empty your tea and coffee grounds there. A few 1iinced dates added to fudge as it comes from thé stove will make a novel and dainty confection. Blueberry cake cut in squares when hot and served with a strongly flavor- ed thin sauce makes a delicious pud- ding. oe A 'good dressing for fruit salad is made of a cup of whipped cream with two teaspoonfuls of French dredsing added to it. When making an apple pie, sift a little flour over your apples before putting on the top crust and the juice will not cook out. The oil left from sardines is a good substitute for butter in fishballs or any kind of minced fish? i To have blooming geraniums in win- ter, keep them in small pots all sum- mer, When you take them into the house in the fall do not re-pot them. When making apple pie the flavor is much improved and the apples will keep in good color if a few drops of lemon juice are squeezed over them just before the crust is put on. Charcoal is & cleansing agent in the kitchen. A lump of charcoal put in any jar keeps the contents sweet and purified, for the charcoal absorbs un- pleasant odors and impurities. A lump on each shelf of the icebox is also useful. ' Cracks in Plaster--A good filling is plaster of paris mixed with vinegar, which will not set for twenty or thirty minutes, while water will set very quickly, often before you can use it. The, putty-like mass must be pushed into 'the cracks and can be smoothed off evenly with a table knife. To clean irons rub them on brown paper over which powdered bath brick has been sprinkled, and if they become rusty, rubbing them with emery powder and a little paraffin will put them right. 'But table salt sprinkled on several thicknesses of strong paper, over which you work the heated iron is just as good as any- thing. To Freshen Gilt Frames.--Dust gilt frames carefully, then wash with one ounce of soda beaten 'up with. the whites of three eggs.' Where scratch=) ed, patch up with gold paint. To clean oil paintings use castile soap and water, very carefully applied. = Gilt may also be brightened by adding to a pint or two of water sufficient flow- er of sulphur to give it a golden tinge. In this boil four or five onions or a quantity of garlic. Strain off the liquid, and wash' the gilding with a soft 'brush. When dry it will look like new work. = Tg ai : High Price for Stamp. The highest pried lately paid for a postage stamp was $670, a sum given' at er Yotk auction the other day for afive-cent Hawaiian mission- AY SIBEP OF he eyes 1851: Whe slow- 1,005 at 'prompts that oie fo 5 . son prnerly he Gd > Ss oe B ut m Ia 'Gen. 1, The author of Prov. 8 pictu Wisdom as with God at creation; and for Christian thought "Christ the Pow- er of God and the Wisdom of God" more than fulfilled these highest ideals of Jew and Gentile alike. = 2. The apparent repe n is in- 'tended to open what is really a'new paragraph, 8. Through him--This preposition usually marks the action of the Son, the Father being the original Source, Without him--It is the same word as; in John 15. 5, "apart from me ye can' do nothing." . Read herd, "Apart from | him not even one thing came into be- ing. That which hath' come into be- ing was life in him." Note how often life appears where we might expect ;alive: the self-propagating quality of !life is always in thought, never stop- | ping with one object, but passing it- self on. It is rather attractive to con- nect in him with the preceding verb, (and understand that "all which has | been born in him" has this great qual- ity of life. The light--Life and Light are the two great words of this Gospel, {and the Epistle which accompanies it: they meet in Love, which is the es- sence of God. B. Overcome (margin)--The same phrase in John 12. 85, "lest darkness! overtake you': what possessed our | translators to take the other sense of the verb here, and what the meaning may be, are mysteries. Darkness may "overcome" us, but {never the | Light, which is eternal. 6. These three verses prepare for ! verse 15, the report of the witness for | the sake of which John was born. Note that in this case the Fore-runner.was like his Lord, who in John 18, 37 de- ¢lares'that he was born and came into the world that he might "bear witness | to the Truth." And He to whom John | "bore witness" is himself the Truth: 8. The negative points to the strong and repeated disclaimers of John, who even long after his death was still be- lieved to have been the Messiah (Acts 19. 8). 9, Coming into the world refers to the light (compare again John 18. 87). The universality of the Light is here expressed most strikingly. Every hu- man being has some glimmer of the True Light, and that Light is the Word. : : 10. He was--The masculine pronoun in this verse comes in to tell us that the Light, like the Word, is no ab» straction, but a Person. Moreover, he was in the world: the statement that ihe was coming into it does not mean that he then visited it for the first time --it is a new and fuller manifestation of "that which was from the begin- ning," Knew him not--There are two words for know; one for having knowl- edge (as in 2 Tim. 1. 12), the other (as here, and in Phil. 8. 10; John 17. 8) for getting it. The world could not be blamed for ignorance: its con- demnation was that it would net re- cognize its Maker. : 11. His own--Compare the parable of the wicked husbandmen. As a na- tion, the Jews rejected their Messiah, and the Evangelist's almost invariable use of "the Jews!" as a name for the Lord's enemies is, the presentation of | the fact as it stood sixty years after the crucifixion. - But Isaiah's doc- trine of the Remnant still held, and in every place Paul visited he sought first for these true Israelites who could recognize and preach their King, 12. As many as--"They called them- i i | { Way to clear land from timber pleted. 0 Jus TWO WAYS OF CLEARING When time is no object, the best growth" is to let nature and live stock assist. When the growth is removed and brush burned off clean, which, most growths, may be made | 2%! able operation by the sale and firewood, down the sprouts, the stum slowly but surely. decay, and their Th stare from #ix 10. vaids. + money process W o from ix 10 never vet has x ten years before clearing can be com- ! yet has har' TAY " ~ - Motor trucks are being used, at the' present time, by many farmers engag- | ed in the fruit, dairy, creamery, cheese and allied industries. Sometimes these trucks are purchased new, direct! from the manufacturers or their. agents, at pricss ranging all the way | from $750 to $5,000, but in most cases the machines are either purchased second hand, after having been replac-: ed by new ones in city work, or a pas- senger automobile is torn down and a truck body placed upon the chassis. Both systems find many advocates, and both bring varying degrees of sat- isfaction.. If you have never used a over, to the acre, and seventy-two truck, it might be well to go slowly at smaller stumps, it required an aver- first, but the m that we suggest age of twenty minutes with a team| Would be the purchase of an old pas- and driver and two men to remove Senger car with an obsolete body but each of the large stumps ands min. | an engine: of standard make and in utes to remove. each of the smaller satisfactory ones. The 120 stumps required 40 can either r body hours, and the smaller ones 6 hours. | place a new truck body on: the The relative cost, therefore, stood: Or pursue the simpler method of tak- as follows: Where power machinery ing off the rear seat and building a was used, cost per acre was: platform instead. This will leave the 46 ho ork, team and drive 92 hour work, el 5 at i8c, " 830 h 11 ng at 18e ... 60 hours work, burni At the Experimental Station, Fred- ericton, N.B., where it was desired to bring the land into cultivation at the earliest possible moment, two plans of stump removal have been tried, and herewith are given figures of the rela- tive cost on land from which an aver- age. tree growth had been removed. The two methods employed were: stump pulling by power, and removal by dynamite. pit A stump puller of the drum and long lever type was employed, giving a lifting power of 256 tons with an ordinary team. With one hundred and twenty stumps, 10 inches and P1412 op 16 68. ° . | truck + B59 40 wr 10° 80 | , jl02 48 'Where explosives were used, the 'cost per acre was: Us powder at § A.30 150 bs, "stumping 160 lbs. stumping powder J al 500 300 per ours work, clean Such a step should provide of from 1,000 to 2,600 Ibs. capa-' city for from $600. tip. There sre a' great many arguments in favor of hard tires, but we believe that the farmer will find that the pneumatic' tires give greater satisfaction, as they do not have a tendency to com- municate stiff dary and jolts to the motor. Hard truck tires are econo- mical where the pavements and roads a ! 60 hours, labor piling at 18c.... 10 80 EY Smooth ned ery but they 40 hours, labor burning at 18c.. 730" ; A $82 76 On other areas, where there were| heavy boulders and small stones, the cost of clearing ran up to $186 per acre, while, where the land was free from stone, and stumps' were. small{ and comparatively few, the land was made ready for the plough At a cost of less than $40 per acre. % y : y -| "Fertile eggs cost the farmer $15,- 000,000. a year?" This statement is made in Farmers' Bulletin 528, Hints to Poultry Raisers, pub & 1 United States Department of Agri The bulletin states further; ly caps at $1... hours, "1 f erator" at 23¢ 0 hours; team and 80 hours, helpers at 18 OULTRY THREE MILLION TIES. For 'Railways 'in Rear of Fighting _ Line, C. N. R. Share. ~~ Vice-President D. B. Hanna, of the ent "Farmers. lose » ) 1 Canadian Northern Railway, .in dis- | from. al f Bry produting and cussing the call for the laying of a hand eggs. One-third of this loss railway line back of the fighting line! is preventable, because it is due to the in France and Flanders will, he said, | partial hatching of fertile eggs which involve the cutting of about three mil-| have been allowed to become warm on: ties. : : . {enough to begin to incubate. A large portion of these could be| The prices of pg : supplied from the territory surveyed higher. by the Canadian Northern Railway orth of Lake Superior, selves, both Jews and Greeks" (1-Cor.|P® ® 24). The right, or privilege, to pme chil For the natural son- velation front seat for the driver and passeng- 'truck, it may pay a purchase two trailers, one of which hand the road. It is f ' draw a trailer with a load that heavy for the car,'as damage, strain, may resuts to the mechanism of the automobile, = There are a few points' regarding tHe trailer proposi- tion that are worthy of your attention. On muddy, slippery and sandy an automobile must, of necessity, re- duce its speed greatly when drawing a . The reduction on good roads can be safely estimated at about 15 per cent. You must remember, however, that a passenger ear hauling a trailer, and so lesséning its speed, ~will nevertheless deliver twice the quantity of goods that might otherwise be expected without the trailer. Trail- ers are attached to passenger cars through a drawbar which in turn is attached to buffer springs that take : : ors > great x not see way clear to invest n "you very well to 'ean be in the process of loading while your passenger automobile is deliver- 'ing the other to any destination. Iron tires are used 'on trailers where thé goods to be transported dre in no sense fragile, but if your product is subject - to breakage; in going over bumps and rutty places, hard or pneumatic rub-- ber tires must be used in accordance 'with. * your requirements.---Auto in Farmer's Advocate. ails feathers f after killing, the body of the goose is dipped three times in water wl is almost at the boiling' point, dip; it slowly in and out each time, and then wrapping it in canvas or closely woven cloth to keep in the steam, In a minute or two this will loosen feathers so that the easily. : prominence to an artic ports to outline scheme for ui 'power r a view to est in a