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wm m^m •I 3sae »c Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Redpes aitd Other Valuable lntarm«tlc« ct fiartiMlar laserect to \Vom*n FoIIul StraWBERIlIES. Strawberry Salad.â€" Cut large â- Etrawberries in halves lengthwise, raprinicle with powdered sugar, and let stand until thoroughly chilled. Serve in nests of white leaves, with whipped cream iiu.vor -ed with mayonnaise dressing, well seasoned with salt and paprika. Garnish with halves of strawberries -and chopped pistachio nuts. iSuraw berry Croquante. â€" Decor- -ate a mold with sirav/berries which cream or rich milk, and season de- licately with salt, white pepper, and a grating of nutmeg, or table- spoonful of k^mou juice as Vjrefer- v ^'^'^' ^^" ^'^^ allow it to codk after leVtucc "i^^^ing the cream, but while scald- ing hot, pour gradually over the well beaten .yolk^i of two eggs. Serve with croutons or crackers.. ECONOMICAL RECIPES. Delicious Rice Waffles.^ â€" Three- quarters cups flour, two tablespoons have been dipped in melted jelly 'sugar, two and a half teaspoons -and arrange closely together , baking powder, oue-q\iarter tea- around bottom and sides of mold ;i spoon salt. Sift thoroughly to- set away on ice to become firm. Igether. Into this work two-thirds Dissolve three heaping tablespoon- ! cup cold cooked rice; use tips of fingers. Acid one and one-quarter cups milk, one egg, one tablespoon fuls of gelatin in one cunful boil- ing water, add oiie cupful sugar, two cupfuls strawberry juice, and 'melted butter, â- when cool fold in two cupfuls of | Bread Griddle Cakes. â€" One and cream, which haj been whipped | one-half cups flour, one cup stale stiff. Pour into aecorat^d mold, j bread crumbs, three teaspoons Set away to stiffen, and turn out i baking powder, cue teaspoon salt, *nd serve when set. This recipe re- two tablespoons sugar, on*- half cup q\iires three pints of berries. j boiling water, three-quarters cup iStrawiberry Trifle. â€" Spread some|milk, one egg, â- v\ell beaten, two small pieces of sponge cake and tablespoons melted butter. Add strawberry jam and fill up a glass j bciling water to the bread crumbs -dish with them, olice some ripe, and let stand five minutes. Add strawberricr over top, and then [the milk, sift tosether, thoroughly pour over custard made as follows :] the flour, salt, sugar, and baking 'To three cupfuls milk add one heap- ; powder, and add to the bread mix ing tablespoonful of gelatin, thr^e •eggs lightly beaten, and four table- spoonfuls sugar. Cook in double boiler until thick and creamy. Set away till cold and when ready to servo pour over top one cupful sweetened cream beaten stiff, and -d()t here and there with large ripe strawberries. Preserving Strawberries. â€" Put unhulled berries in a colander and allow cold water to run through "them to remove sand and harden harries ; hull carefully. Crush one pint of berries in an enameled ket- tle and add one full cup of sugar, granulated preferred. Juice will l>e formed with such weight that berries will not float on top of juice when in the jar. Let crushed ber- ries and sugar boil hard, shaking kettle to prevent sticking. Drop remainder of berries in boiling syrup and cook five minutes, skim- ming thoroughly. Have jars ready placed on cloth, wrung out of cold water, and fill in berries with a silver spoon. Two boxes of straw- kberries when cooked will fill one quart Mason jar, which is enough to oook at one time. iltrawberry Souffle.â€" Put two iups strawberries washed, hulled, and cut in halveb. m an earthen- ware pudding dish. Then sprinkle with sugar, pour over a souffle mix- ture, and bake in a moderate oven from thirty-five to forty-five min utes tablespoons butter, add one-fourth cup flour, and stir until well blend- -ed; then pour on gradually while beating constantly, one cup of scalded milk. Beat the yolks of four eggs until thick and lemon col- ored, and add gradually while beat- ing const.antly one-fourth cup of sugar . Combine the mixture and cut and fold in the whites of four «ggs beaten until stiff and dry. ture ; then add the egg and butter. Fry as griddle cakes. GOOD DESSERTS. Chocolate Pudding.â€" Three eggs, separate and beat yolks light ; add one cup of sugar and beat, three tablespoons of milk and beat, three tablespoons of cocoa or one ounce of chocolate; beat; one cup flour, beat; two tablespoons of bak:;i powder; fold in whites of eggs last. If you use cocoa, add one-half tea- spoon of cloves. Steam twenty minutes in small molds or forty minutes in large ones. Fill molds half full. Serve with vanilla sauce or whipped cream . Strawberry Dessert.â€" Make a rich- crust and fill with berries partly mashed and mixed with sugar. Cover with sweetened whipped cream and serve. Short cake â€" Make an angel food and bake in two tins. Put strawberries between and serve with whipped cream sweetened. PRESERVING HINT. Instead of waiting till later in season and buying berries and fruits in large quantities try this plan. Each time strawberries are purchased for table buy an e.\tra pint or quart and make a glass or pint jar of jam. It can be made while washing the dishes or doing For the mixture: Melt three any work in the kitchen and takes no extra time. It is quickly made, can be cooled, sealed and set away the same day and the expense will not be noticed, while the fruit clo- set will be filled without effort. This is A perfectly practical and satisfactory plan and can be ap- plied to all fruits. mush do not cook as long as for eating, but pour into a deep pan after stirring ten minutes. When cold dip the slices in beaten egg and they will fry crisp. It is wise to wash the egg beater directly after it is used. If this is imijossible save yourself trouble later by plunging it at once into ft bowl of water su the egg cannot harden on it. Be very careful to keep the lids of saucepans clean, for the flavor of one dish may cling to a lid which has nat been washed and spoil a second dish which is prepared- in the same dish. Vases, vinegar cruets and other bottles may be cleaned with a hand- ful of raw rice in soapsuds vigor- ously sh.aken. The rice is better than shot for this purpose and pol- ishes as well as cleans. For scorched articles use perox- ide. Wet two cloths; place o"ne be- neath and one on top and watch the space become "clear in fifteen or twenty minutes. Let stand this long without ditturbing. Pudding cloth, jelly bags, and so on should be well washed, scalded and hung up to dry. It is not nec- essary to iron them, but they should be smoothed and folded be- fore they are replaced in the drawer. Stand saucepans, fish kettles, etc., in front of the fire for a few minutes after washing them, so that they niay be thoroughly dried inside. This makes them last loif- ger and helps to keep them in good condition. 4^ A LAKE OF SODA. But the Sinail Boy Must Not E.\- pect Too .Hufh. Wonderful as have been the re- ports of the yast soda deposit at Lake Magadi in East Africa, says Current Literature, the tendency hitherto has been to deem the stor- ies fantastic. Now, however, the mystery has been cleared up by the report of an e.xpeditioii which pene- trated quite to the interior of Britain's remote possession â€" as far, indeed, as IS' miles from the front- ier of German East Africa. The ascertained facts according to the Chemical News, are more surpris- ing than were the first reports. What, in the case of an ordinary lake, would be water consists at Magadi of a solid deposit nt soda, with a hard surface looking like pink marble. During the wet sea- son â€" which in this region is very short â€" the surface is covered with a few inches of water. Immediate- ly after the cessation of the rains tne whole surface becomes dry with the e.xeeption of a margin about 30 yards wide. Even during the wet season the amount of water on the surface in no way renders impracticable the working of the deposit. For many years "Indians" from Nairobi, who use this soda for washing purposes and as snuff, have been removing it from the lake without regard to the season. ASPARAGUS. Canapes of Asparagus. â€" Take sHces of bread about two inches ihick, and stamp them out into neat rounds with a biscuit cutter. With a smaller cutter mark a cir- cle in the center of each round and VALUABLE HINTS. An obstinate headache will often disappear if the head behind the ears be bathed with hot water. Brushing moth holes in furniture with parafiSn will arrest their pro- gress. The holes should be filled with paraffin wax. Removing grass stains. Before wetting rub the stain with molas- scoop out the crumbs to the depth j ses and wash in the usual way. of an inch, taking care to leave tlie Used on either whiie or colored sides and bottom quite firm. Ar- range these in a shallow dish and material. Valuable china and glass may be pour over them a half pint of milk, saved from chipping by placing a to which a beaten egg has been ad- dled. Then take up carefully and slip into a kettle of boiling fat. T'hey will brown almost immedi- ately and must be removed when a pale golden brown. Drain on soft paper. Cut the tender part of as- paragus into pieces of an equal size, rejecting that whicTi is woody. Wash and simmer in salted water until tender. Drain. But a heap- ing tablespoonful of butter into o saucepan with a tablespoonful of flour; then add a quarter of a pint «f water in which the asparagus fi&i cooked; let it come to a boil; add the asparagus, the juice of a lemon, and a teaspoonful of fine chopped parsley. Fill the canapes -with this ; arrange on a platter and garnish with cress or parley and diced lemoB. Asparagus Soup. â€" Put two dozen asparagus stalks in boiling salted water (just enough to cover), with a small dnion^ a few sprigs of pars- ley, and a stalk of celery. Cover closely and cook twenty minutes or a half hour, until tender. Take out the asparagus with a skimmer and strain the water from the other vegetables. Press the as- paragus through a purse-strainer and return to the water in which it was cooked. Make a white sauce by cooking together one heaping tablespoonful of butter and a level tablespoonful of ilour. Stir until UDooth. add the asparagus and water. Allow it to boil a few min- utes, then add a half pint of sweet heavy Turkish towel at the bottom of the basin in which it is washed. If a pan is burned or blackened rub the inside of it with a hai-d URGE USE OF GASOLINE. French Antoniobilc Club Would Have Farmers Save Money. The usi| Of gasoline motors for farm work is being promoted by the French Automobile Club, a special committee of which holds meetings at intervals of several years, and bestows prizes for the power plants of cultivators, six- teen awards of cash or medals hav- ing been recently made. Original applications or develop- ments by tht farmer himself are specially encouraged. The winner of the first prize, M. YvonnctThov- areck, made use of a 1 1-2 horse- power motor for driving nine pieces of farm apparatus, includ- ing straw cutter, root cutter, grind- stone, circular saw, well pump and a variety of dairy machines. The various devices are belted to dif- ferent counter shafts, all in one building. This use of power has added much to the eflSciency of the farm, and is estimated by tlie owner to save him $600 a year. Another crust of bread dipped in sa.t and , ^.^^ ^^^ ^ Tniebaut. has made afterward wash it with hot sodaij;^ ^j ^ second-hand tricycle mo- and water. Add a little soda to the water in which you wash plates and dishes. The aoda loosens the grease on them and gives the china a good shiny surface. tor for driving a thrasher and oth- er machines. MEDICAL H.\NGMEN. Although it is common knowledge To set'green, blue lavender and j that medical men are exempt from pink colors in wasn goods, soak in serving on juries, the cause of their alum water. Black, dark blue and imnmnity is not generally known gray should be soaked in strong salt water. Cornstar<;i! foi iodine staips. Cover the atain with the cornstarch, wet in cold water or milk. Let stand until stain disappears. Change cornstarch if necessary. Wash a sauoepau in plenty of hot water ; but nevar wash cake tins or frying pans. Wipe them well with a piece of paper, which is af- terward burned, and polish them with a dry cloth. (Keep a bottle of ammonia at hand to use. when acid takes the color from any fabric. Apply a little of the ammonia immediately, and in almost every instance the color will be restored. When using a bottle of glue the stopper may be prevented from sticking by rubbing a fresh one with a little lard or grease of some Namely, that in ancient times when doctors were not held in the high esteem that they merit to-day, their occupation (like that of butchers and executioaers) was held to bo too bloodthirsty to permit of them serving impartially as jurors. Al- though it now sounds curious to hear medical men classed with hangmen, still, in the early days, their work was much mixed up. Not only were executioners granted a license by King Frederick II. of Denmark in 1597 (which is still in existence) "to set bones and treat wounds," but the public execution- er was supposed to be able to per- form surgical operations as well. Apropos of this, there still exists, treasured in Mr. Pierpont Mor- gan's famous library, a book upon the treatment of various diseases by Andre.is Liebknecht, a public o'^ocuti'' ,:r of Copenhagen, who WHERE BLACK BOLES WHITE' ABOUT THE RIG II n."ttE.^ THEY HAVE IN UAYTI. A Beautiful Land with a Glorious Climateâ€" .Haguilkfut Sfenery. Hayti is probably the most turbi*- lent country in the. world. Out of its last iweuty-sevea. iDresidents, twenty-three had vsither to flee for their lives or were assassinated or killed in battle. ,«.., It used to be a French posses- sion, and a mangled French is siill spoken tliere ; but for the last l^eii- tury or so it haa been an indcpoiid- ent black republic. The Haytians believe theniselvei to bo the most civilized nation on earth, but it is comiio opera kind ol civilization. The cities, for instance, are fitted up for electric light, but the elec- tric.ty does not work, and nobody tries to make it. Hayti is so shift- less that it has no foreign trade to speak of, so there are very few whites on the island. The few who do live there keep very quiet, for Hayti despises them. No white person is allowed to own land. This law alone is suflici- ent to pre\ ent a large white popu- lation collecting there. TITLES ARE CHEAP. Hayti used to be known as the land of the dukes with the absurd names. Some sixty years ago it started a peerage, and every peer chose the naine wnose suund struck his fancy. One black nobleman was the Duke of Marmalade, another the Duke of Lemonade. There was also a Marquis of Ciinger Pop. But the peerage has been abolish- ed. Nowadays Hayti is chiefly known as the land of generals. The latest statisticsâ€" which, Hayti fash- ion, are twenty years old â€" show an army consisting of 6,503 privates, 7,000 regular oEBcers, and 6,r)00 generals. Those generals who have no horses ride on mules, and the army is clad in the cast off uniforms of half the regimeuts of Europe. Some of the men parade v.ithout boots, some with cigarettes in their moi^ths, some with long sticks of sugar-ca.ie there ; some have rusty swords, the rest walking-sticks. CELEBRATING THE EVENT! There are many civilian generals as well. Country squires are usu- ally generals. As every respec- table Haytian has a passion for frock-coats and silk hats, perspiring generals are often to be seen work- ing in the fields frock-coated under a burning tropical sun. Hayti has a navy composed of six third-class cruisers, but even Hay- ti does not take that navy very seriously. When foreign vessels put into Haytian ports they are plagued by Haytian tars trying to sell for a few pence brasswork and engine-room fittings ! Hayti is steadily slipping back in- to barbarism. Some years ago the municipality of Port de Paix showed sufficient enterprise to construct waterworks. The town was well piped, and hydrants were placed at short intervals all along the streets. Decorative fountains and drinking-troughs were put at every corner. The natives were delight-, ed. For a week they gave them- selves up to fetes, balls, and pro- cessions, to celebrate the great event. But at the end of the week they went and tore up the whole system. Now they tie horses to the hydrants and pick their way in the main streets among fragments of pipes, and are happy. It would seem they haven't much use for fresh water. WITH rrS GRIM SIDE. There is a grim side to Hayti's re- lapse into savagery. Voodooisin is getting a greater hold than ever it had. Voodooisin is simply a sacred form of cannibalism, practised by high, and low. At intervals these frock-coated generals retire to the depths of the jungle and worship the snake-god, sacrificing and eat- ing children in its honor. All re- spectable inhabitants of Hayti hot- ly deny that this is so, but travel- lers have seen. At least two of Hayti's recent presidents were known Voodoo-worshippers. Hayti is a beautiful land. It has a glorious cHniats, some of the lov?- liest mountain and forest scenery in the world, and the most fertile of soils. The Haytian is a lazy, good-humored child. But somehow there is an uncanny atmosphere about the island, and most of the few travallcrs who have found their way there have confessed to heav- ing a sigh of relief on seeing the coast-lino fade on the horizon. â€" London Answers. inSTORY IS NOW A DEUGUT Ku^'lish Sdbooluiisd'o.ss Children by Plays. Tlie dramatic way of teaching children hi.-^tory bids fair to replace the tim-jworn text-book method, judging by the success of a'n experi- ment tried at an English school in WiucliolEca. The clrildra'n, instead of being learner:; of dull, dead facts, have been living factors in the history 4if tlto peiiod aliout which tliuy are learning-rby tm simple expedient rr THE SHNDAY SCHOOL STUD? Teaches IN'rEftN Alio N A L hESSO > , JUNE 25. j Lesson .\'1II. â€" RcvitMv. . . Goldcv Tc.\t, .llic. 0. 8. t I QUESTIONS FOR SCHOLABG. Lesson I. â€" Elisha Heals Nuaman ._ â€" ...„ .„j ...„ â€" j,._ _..,.-_.â€"- jjjy Syrian.â€" Mow did Naaman heai of getting them to act part in his- ^^ ^,^^ wonderlul propiiet in ba torical plays. ' inaria / venty-one of them ^^ ^.^^.^^ j^. ., ^^,^^^^ ^â-  Ion to act he play of ^j^^ kmg of Israel fear when h V-'T 'm fnn Th;'c<^"W »°t ••â- "'•e himi Who did cur L\clyn iVlason. ine -, „ „ .„ ^i Who sent lam to Israel to did be Recently twenty-one went to Lonhdon "Saxon and N sion of Ladv L\ciyn Mason, ine "; "'â-  "t;* „„ ,, . „ .,, 1 'i ^1 f ,1 Naaman/ How was the cure (wr plav was umier the auspices of the â- :'"" ..,, ,. , .,.. , , ' . TTi, /n I J • u-; ,;..,! «„ formed! What did hhshii do witli Village (.hiklren s Historical >50- , « i j, u' ,<- ...w-^A cietyf the object of which i^o the proffered reward MVuatwic.ed broaden the village children's thing did ns servant Gehazi, dol •i^j . . How uas lie punished ( Hitherto Harold the S,..v,.„ King, I Lesson il -Elisha's Hcavenl, the Norman Con<,uest, William the ' Detenders.-flow did Ben-lmdad Conquerer. aiul the rest have been try to capture King Jehoram ! ^\hat more names signifying harrassing did he tunik when Jehoram alwayi lessons. To-day, Harold and Wil- escaped him? Wliat did his ser- liam, the Saxons and the Normans, vants toll hun? Where was Elishal are all very interesting people in- i How did Ben-hadad try to captur« deed, and quite as real as pirates him 'i How did Elisiia'B servan) and redskins. .Ml 'because they feel when he saw the Syrians sur- have themselves acted in the play | roundJug them 't What vision was of "Saxon and Norman" in their given him i How did Elisha treat leisure time and their school time, the Syrian army i too. I Lesson III. â€" Easter Lesson. â€" Miss Passev the headmistress of The Resurrection Morn. â€" For what the school, commenting upon the purpose did the women go to the effect on their work, said that when tomb on Easter morning / Who an inspector recently came to ques- 1 reached the tomb first 1 What did tion them lie did not plough any. j she find f Whom did she tell MVhat "1. !,„„ ,«-,^i., (!,„„, ,/..-v Upon o" ' iIkI they believe ( To whom did the risen Jesus first appear? What was she doing at the time? What did he send her to do ? Lesson IV. â€" Joash Repairs the Temple.â€" Who ruled over Judah just before Joash I Ho.w' had she become queen '.' How was Joash jjrcberved from death? How was he proclaimed king? What became of Athaliah? What did Joash di- rect the priests to do? How did they carrv out his command] What did Jehoiada prepare to re- kind and using that in place of tlK»1 <t»aj4jj^ Hie close of the seventeenth old sticky one. |ceiitui t "'•jred European fame as When cooking mush for tried a physioisa of no small repute. It has madii them very keen on history," she added, "and we had verv good reports from two other inspectors, for there was not a sin- gle question in history they could not answer. Another noticeable effect was that unlike the ordinary village children one meets, these little act- ors and actresses are anything but i shy. and speak up and answer as j readily as city children. When ask- I ed questions in history they ans- I wered at once cori'ectly. and sejm- jed to take a â- ^[^"^.•"t^J''.;:^ .y;,,,;''^ ceivV the'i^^^ How was ! people they spoke of , ]ust as though „,,,„„* sni-nt? I they were famiHar acquaintances the mo-y^spent^^^ ^^^^^^^ i°'-"?h7i^o/i;:fnow done f.ur ' Heathen. -Who sent Jonah , out as â- historical plays," Miss Passev said, f foreign rniss.onary ? ^^ here was "nanifelv. -Saxon and Norimm.' l>e sent ? How did he try to s urk twice; 'Robin Hood.' 'The Spanish his duty ? How was he brought back Armada,' and 'Caedmon.' Nbt to his duty What was the result onlv does this acting teach tlipm of his preaching? Why was Jonah historv and siimulate their liking displeased at God s mercy upon for it." but it makes them intelli- Nineveh? What lesson did God gent and able to speak well, clear- teach Jonah? ly and pleasantly." Lesson Vl.-Uzziah, King of Ju- Little Allen Eastwood, aged scv-'dah. Humbled.â€" Along what three en, one of the youngest children in ; lines did L'zziah strengthen Judah t the cast, rehoar.sed a portion of his ; What,' old enemies did he overcome t part. He had evi<lently learned to How did he fortify Jerusalem? i gulp down pTomplly any shyness. ' What works of . peace did he con- for he spoke his lines in a clear, big struct ; Who helped him in thesB voice, and. what is more, under- enterprises ? What irreverent act stood exactly what they meant, did Uzziah commit? Why was thit Charles Turner, aged twelve, plays act wrong? Who rebuked himi the part of Harold, whose oharac- jjow did he take the rebuke? How ' ••• ' â- '' ' - -"â-  "â- "'* was his pride humbled? ter, likes and likes he discussed as if he wore an intimate friend, and described how he hated Nor- mans. EAT RYE BEEAD. Lesson VII. -Isaiah's Vision and Call to Service.â€" Who was Isaiah 1 What vision had he? Where did he see the vision? In what yeai did this occur? Of what did th« vision make Isaiah feel conscious t How was he assured of forgiveness! To whom was he sent as a messen- ger? What result was to follow his preaching? What was the final hope of Judah ? Lesson VIII.â€" Song of the Vine- yard.â€" To what does the song of th« Case of Maria Joncseo, Who Is j Hale and .Vctive at ll.'i. ' There is living in Kishincff, Ilus- i sia, a hale and active old lady, I Maria Jonesco, who has just celo-j-': ',' t j u V "m'i,«_- 1 . ru ,,-.1 i,-..*i,.j.„ «!.« wna vinevard compare Judah? vVher« I brated her lloth birtlioay. isno was i • . ' , ,.„. ,9 h„™ I I â-  .1 1} !.;„„ viiincTo r.f was the vineyard planted f How born in the Bessarabian Village 01 • ' wv,of i,»,.„i..« I Strasben in 1796. She is a child- ; ^vas it cared for What ha vest i less widow. Hor sight and hearing, « as expected of it ? What did it are still nearly perfect, she is com- I P'oduce? How did Judah resemble parativcly active on her feet, her the vmeyard How had the weal- ! silvcrv hail- is abundant, she has thy oppressed the poor ? How did lost onlv four teeth and has never many of the people spend then in her "life made the professioal ! days and mgtils ? acquaintance of a doctor. I Lesson IX.â€" Micahs Picliire ol Maria loiiesco, who still con- ! Universal Peace. -Who w-is Micah J serves a naturally sunny dispos- : In what kingdom did he prophesy! 'ition and a happv temperament, | What fate did he warn the Jc.ts oft attributes the len'gthv tale of her. Of what final hope did he telll years to a black bread diet. She ] What condition will follow th« has never eaten white wheaten \ knowledge of the Lord by all peo- ' bread since her early girlhood, and j pies i What will become of warsi ' the rye bread she has always con- | How shall the nations Show theii : sumed has been known in Russia | love for God? Who shall be theii a« 8<)ldftti<ki khlyeb, or soldierfc' i bread, whicii is the blackest and i heaviest and purest of whole rye foodstuffs. There are six daily newspapers in Toronto, 49 weekly papers, '20 semi- monthly, 70 monthly, eight quar- terly, and one directory company. Mrs. Snappem (who has been suf- fering from toothache)â€" "Thank goodness, I've had that tooth out at last:" Mr. Snappetn -"Happy tooth!" Mrs. Snapiicm "' Whaldo you mean!' Mr. SnuiJiicni - 'It':< out ol kh« reach of your tongue." NO LUCK. The tradesman rendered his bill, waited for several weeks, and then wrote : , â-  "Please, sir, I want my bill." r ]^ck came the bill with these words : "Certainly ; here it is." The bill w'as aga'n retuinpd, and the tradesman wrote : "Kindly send mo the amount of m> bill." • The answer oau.o (iromptly and politelv : "Certainly. It is .$5.00." The next week the tradesman again wrote : "Will you send me a cheque tor ; my bill ?'â- ' 1 The answer cnnie in the shape of ^ a bl.uik, unsigned cheque, with the , rness.ige : I "By all means. Here is a ! cheque. 1 have the bill." I In desperation the tradesman i then wrote : I "I w;int my bill paid." .\nd back came the answer: •F,. do I." i T'"v-ii (he tv;p'esnian gave it up. esainples? Lesson X.â€"IsraerH Penitence and God's Pardon. â€" How, did Hosea re- gard Israel ! What did he appeal to Israel to do ? Whose help did he ask them to forsake? What evil practices did he urge them to abandon ? How did he say God would regard Israel's penitence t What promise did he make con- corning Israel's future prosperity 1 What did he say about the ways of' the Lord ( Lesson X. â€" Hezekiah's Great, Passover. â€" Who had closed tho< temple ? Who reopened it and had| it cleansed? Whom did he invite! to come to- Jerusalem ? For what purpose dill ho invite them to come? When was the passover celobratj'd '. How long did the co lobration continue? What did the people do when they returned home ? Lesson XU. -The Downfall of Samaria â-  Who was the last king of Israel I Who exacted tribute from him' How did Hoshea seek to avoid pa,\ ing the tribute ? What did the Assyrian king do the^t' -How long did the siege of Sainari*. last? What was done with the Israelites? W'hat finally becanio ofv them? What was the lause of' Israel's destruction I EI). 2 ISSLE NO. 21-U