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HOUSEHOLD ful of brandy and a little grated nutmeg and put on the ice for half an hour before serving. Strawberry Recipes. Strawberry Cream Pie. Line a pie plate with a good crust, put in two cups of hulled berries, strew with sugar, cover with a top crust, and bake. When done, lift the upper crust and pour in a cream made by putting the beaten whites of two eggs with a cup of cream, a tablespoon of sugar, haTf teaspoon of cornstarch, cooking all together in a doulble boiler until thick, lie- place the crust, sprinkle powdered sugar over the top, and serve. Strawberries in Ambush. Ar- range hulled strawberries in little straight sided nappies, sprinkle the berries with powdered sugar, and pour over them a couple of tea- spoons of sherry to each nappy. Heap them with whipped cream just before they go to table and have them cold. It is well to put them on the ice for an hour or two be- fore serving. Strawberry Flummery. -nSoak a small cup of pearl tapioca over night in two cups of cold water, then put it over the fire with two cups of boiling water and stir un- til clear. Add a half cup of gran- ulated sugar, and set aside until cool, then stir in a quart of ber- ries, hulled, put the dish on the ice, and leave it there until cold. 'Eat with cream and sugar. Strawberry Souffle. Beat to a stiff froth the w'hites of five eggs, fold in lightly the pulp of a quart 'of strawberries, which you have 'crushed, and sweeten liberally. Put 5nto a hake dish, set in a moderate oven for twenty minutes, and serve at once with cold whipped cream as sauce. If the souffle is allowed to stand it will become heavy. Strawberry Sauce, I. Cream to- gether a taiblespoon of butter and a heaping cup of powdered sugar, 'add the white of one egg beaten to a stiff froth, and a cup of ripe ber- ries, mashed to a thoroughly soft pulp. Serve cold. Strawberry Sauce, II. Whip a half pint of cream light and add a half pint of crushed strawberries, well sweetened. Beat all well to- gether. Either one of these sauces makes a delicious dish of a, plain cornstarch pudding, served cold, or of a plain blanc mange. Strawberries Preserved Whole. Cap the berries, saving all the juice from them, and weigh tho fruit. To each pound of it allow a pound of granulated sugar. Cook sugar and juice together in the pre- serving kettle until the sugar is 'dissolved, then lay in the berries 'carefully. Cook quietly at a gentle simmer for seven minutes, then transfer to shallow stoneware dish- es and set in the hot sun. Cover each dish with a pane of glass or with netting and put tho dishes in the sun every day until the sirup is thick. Turn into preserve jars and keep in a dark, dry, cool closet. Strawberry Jam. To six pounds of hulled berries allow four and a half pounds of sugar. Crush the berries with the tack of a wooden spoon and put pulp and juice over the fire in a preserving kettle, bring to a boil, and after this cook for half an hour, stirring often. Add the sugar at the end of the half hour, cook twenty minutes more, and put boiling hot into jars. Should there bo more juice than you wish, dip out part of it and convert it into jelly. Raspberry Puddings. A hearty raspberry pudding, which is wholesome enough for hildren, is made thus : Thicken a quart of hot milk with a table- spoonful of flour rubbed smooth in a few tablespoonfuls of milk. Cook it for 10 or 15 minutes. Then add a saltspoonful of salt, a teaspoon- fu>l of vanilla, a cupful of fine bread crumbs, the beaten yolks of four egga, half a cupful of granulated sugar and the stiffly beaten white of one egg. Butter a baking dish and put the batter in it. Cover it thickly with fresh raspberries and sprinkle them generously witn sugar and a few fresh, stemmed currants. Bake it in a moderate oven until it is firm. Then make a meringue of three egg whites beaten tiff and sweatened wi<*i four table- spoonfuls of granulated sugar and brown it in the oven. Serve either cold or hot, with cream. Another raspberry pudding is made in individual portions. Have ready well buttered individual pud- ddng or custard cups. Mako a dough of two cupfuls of flour, a teaspoonful and a half of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of salt, all well sif.ted, together and enough milk to make it of the consistency to drop from a spoon. Fill each of the little cups about a third lull el raspberries and cover them with dough. Be careful to lt it reach Only to within an inch of the tops Of the cups. Steam it, tightly cov- ered, over boiling water for 20 minutes. Serve immediately with hard sauce. 1 For the sauce oream a cupful of granulated sugar with half as much outter. Beat ths whites of two eggs stiff a.nd add them to the but- ter and augft? ana beat a few mo- ments longer. Add a tablespoon- Hints. Lace veils may be washed in a strong lather of white soap and lukewarm water. Let them soak 20 minutes, then squeeze the dirt out of them, softly, and rinse in several waters. The final one should have 'bluing and just, a dash of boiled starch to stiffen the lace. Country housekeepers can dye articles in beautiful shades of fast brown, by drying and using the gren and .brown lichens from rocks, trees and fences. Boil the moss in water to more than cover it. Strain and put in the goods. To bleach handkerchiefs add some slices of lemon to the water they are boiled in. Another method is to wash ths handkerchiefs and then soak them over night in water with a little cream of tartar in it. In hanging up a washing be sure to put clothes pins in where they will not leave a mark. Shirtwaists should be hung from the bottom, and shirts from the belt. Cereals with fruit make very economical luncheon desserts. The cereal should be molded and smoth- ered in fruit either fresh or stew- ed in a syrup. Bees wax and salt will make rusty fliatirons clear as glass. Rub the irons first with a wax rag; then scour with paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. Tulle veils that have become limp may be pressed with a warm iron, 'being careful to put a layer of thin mualin between the tulle and the iron. Orange salad is made of the sec- tions of the peeled oranges, mixed with sliced celery and broken nut meaits. Serve on lettuce with may- onnaise. When mayonnaise dressing separ- ates it is sometimes because too much salt has been addexi to the eggs, or the oil may have been dropped too fast. ' To prevent a glass or cup from cracking when a boiling mixture is poured on it, try putting a silver spoon in and pouring the mixture on it. If moths have gotten into a oar- pet, work powdered borax into the carpet wherever there is a sign of the insects and scatter it under the furniture. There is nothing better than washing s<xla and hot water for scrubbing the deal kitchen table. 1 Kerosene applied with a brush or cloth makes a good silver cleaner. Rinse in scalding water. Hair ribbons may be ironed while still damp if one wishes to have them a little stiff. If by accident soot is dropped on the carpet, sprinkle salt over it and sweep all up together. As summer comes on, it saves a great deal of trouble to have all the desserts of fruits. A good deodorizer for a sickroom is camphor gum and ground coffee 'burned together. Roomy arm chairs for the porch are made of French willow and have a pocket on one side. 1 A small clear vegetable brush should be kept handy to brush out the fringe on doilies. The most economical way to buy soap is in large quantities, then leE it dry before using. Cheese balls to serve with salad are good made of Parmesan and cottage cheese. If paint sticks to glass remove it with hot vinegar. Soften hard water for toilet ueo by a pinch of borax. Linens are best bleached on thick clean grass. SUNSET COAST ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN ABBEY. Westminster Now Illuminated With 250 Lamps. The monastic gloom which has pervaded the Abbey of Westminster for so many years has been dissipat- ed. The albbey h*s now a new light- ing- scheme which makes it the best illuminated of English abbeys and cathedrals. Electric light has been installed in every nook and corner and it banishes forever the atmos- phere of ecclesiastical gloom that is usually associated with churches. The new scheme of illumination has taken three years to perfect, and the abbey has now 250 electric lamps, hanging in groups of four and six from the distant roof, and the electric current is supplied from a cable in the street. Prior to the present installation all the, lamps stood upright at the corners of the pews. The electric lights are so arranged that the min- ute print of t)he average prayer book can be read during evening services in the remotest retreats of the build'ing. j. Electrocuting 'Hmber. A French process of "olectrocur- ing" timber is stated to give per- fect seasoning in a single night. With lead-plate electrodes on each side, the timber is placed in a solu- tion containing ten per cent, of borax, five per cent, of resin and a little soda, and application of the current expels tho sap and fills the wood cells with borajc and resin. Many a man complains that things are not coming his way when it is really the fault ol bis way. WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE ARE DOING. Progress of (ho Great West Told la a Few Poiutcd Paragraphs. A brass band has been organized in Molson. A public school has been opened at Dragon Lake. A swimming club has been organ- ized in Port Alberai. Baaver are plentiful between Fairview and Dog Lake. Post office im.'ney orders are now issued in BrUlesville. Near Hediey work has been re- sumed on the Oregon Mine. There are 4,714 names on the voters list in the Okanagan. The Icelanders have started a colony on Graham Island. Nine murder charges will be heard at the Clinton assizes. Work has been resumed at the Dunedin Mine in tho Slocan. Houses are being moved on scows from Skagway to Juueuu. More than 200 men are working in the shipyard at Whitehorse. Indians will present the passion play in British Columbia this sum- mer. The big sawmill at Chase is work- nig two shifts and employing 200 men. About 1,000 fruit trees will be planted at Duck Creek and Wynn- del this year. Recently 85 otter pelts, valued at $1,200, were shipped from Porcher Island. The Crofton smelter is ueing coke from Australia that costs $13 a ton in Victoria. For having opium in his posses- sion a Vancouver Chinaman was fined $50 and costs. Last month five new postoffices were opened in British Columia and two closed. In the Fraser Valley a live man can make wages growing apples at 75 cents a box. In Victoria a Chinaman was given four months in jail for supplying Indians with liquor. Nye Harris of Northport has not slept in bed for 12 year*. He suf- fers from chronic asthma. Frank Carel has put two big wa- gons on the stapo route- between Burns Lake and Fort Fraser. A nursery has been established seven miles from Lillooet, and 15,- 000 trees will be planted this month. Retail clerks of Vancouver want the ministers to help them in their efforts to secure a half-holiday onco a week". T. Gyr was given six months in jail for running a blind pig in Prince Rupert. He appealed tho caso and is out on $500 bail. Sir Saville Crossley, Bart., who hod just arrived at Victoria from the Orient, was knocked down by an auto driven by a woman. An enlarged photograph of the first Mayor of Victoria has been placed in the council chamber, a gift of the Native Sons' Society. There is no truth in the report that the Ikeda group of copper claims on Moresby Island has been sold to an English syndicate. At their placer claim near Mol- son, a few miles west of Green- wood, Earl Walker and Earl Hurst, are washing out a little over an ounce of gold daily. Ore crushing will begin next month at the Coronation Mine in the Lillooet district with a 10 stamp mill. Thirty or more men will be employed at the mine artW mill. Dr. F. L. de Vertreuil, of Victor- ia, brought suit against a jeweller for $1,000 damages, claiming the latter had lost the 15-1, 000th port of a grain of radium belonging to the doctor, who won tho case. The New Queen of Greece. From an excellent picture of Hci Majesty taken recently. MARY'S HA*IR PUT UP. English Princess Given Suite in Buekiiigham Palaec. Being now in her seventeenth year, Princess Mary has put up her hair, though not quite in the orth- A BATTLE IN THE ALPS. ChuuioU mid I'.' .-!: lu a Desperate Duel. It very ofton happens Hint the chamois of the Swiss Alps have to defend their young against the fierce attacks of eagles. Generally tho littlo mountain-goats, after a bravo struggle, succumb to tho cruel beak and sharp claws of their enemy. A contribution to the Taglichen Rundscliau of Zurich tells of one of thesn battles that re- sulted more happily for tho cham- ois. Tho observer, a Swiss mountain guide, was returning home ono evening, down a steep mountain pass, when he saw abovo him on the rocks two chamois with their young. Over them a huge, fuil- grown eagle was circling. The chamois evidently hoped to find safety in flight, for they came bounding down tho rocks toward the spot where the guide had hid- den himself. Before they oould escape, how- ever, the eagle cajne swooping after them, and seized one of the young chamois that had lagged behind. Immediately the two old chamois turned and attacked the bird so fiercely that he had to drop the little animal he had seized in his claws. The momentary advantage that the chamois had gained did not last long, however, for the eagle began rending and tearing them with cruel strokes of his long tal- ons. Now that the fight had act- ually begun, the chamois would not retreat, but bravely stood their ground. The young, trembling with fear, and bleating piteously, crouched against their parents, and unwittingly hampered their do- fence. SCH99L LESSON Every time the and tied up with a large bow of i uown on the group, int. wo oiaer black ribbon ,m her nprk A m , shaanois, rising on their hind legs, odox sense. It is made into a plait . ^^ " e ? 1< > *"*&* ami tied .m with .. ],, h .,f i down on the group, the two older black ribbon on her neck. And very charming she looks, the new style giving her the first suggestion of the young lady to be, writes a London correspondent. According to all accounts Prin- cess Mary was very excited over the fresh arrangement of her beau- tiful tresses, for putting up the hair is a great event in a girl's life. It is nearly as important as putting on her first trailing dress or re- ceiving her first love letter. Of all the royal family none takes a more hearty interest in airships and air heroes than Princess Mary, whose great ambition, it appears, is to fly. She made a tour of her offered their horns. The long, deep scratches and the dripping blood that appeared after eacli attack showed that tho battle was telling on them, although with each swoop, too, a cloud of feathers and the eagle's raucous cries showed that tho chamois' little horns were also finding their mark. After each at tack the eagle would return to a near-by rock, where he sat gazing with his beady eyes at the group be- low. Then he would sw<iop again. Soon the fierce encounters began to exhaust the chamois. Tho little ones were bleating more and morn anxiously, and the animals were all own of the airsheds at Aldershot pressing more closely together. and was fascinated by all she saw. Princess Mary has her own suite of rooms now at Buckingham Pal- ace. They are those which former- ly were occupied by her aunt, Prin- Tho older ones were clearly less alert. Finally, after the eagle had taicn a particularly long rest, ho camo swooping down again. The mother cess Victoria, and have a charming I goat struggled to get upon her hind view up Constitution Hill. They feet, but was too weak to raise licr- In the Hands of His Friends. The conductor of a Western freight train saw a tramp stealing a ride on one of the forward cars. He told a brnkeman in the caboose to go up and pnt the man off at the first stop. An exchange tells what happened : When the brakeman approached the tramp waved a big revolver, and told him to get away. "Did you get rid of him?" the conductor asked, when the train was in motion again. "I hadn't the heart," was the re- ply. "He turned out to be an old school friend of mine.'" "I'll take care of him," said the conductor, as he started over the tops of the cars. When, h? came back, the brake- man naked : "Well, is he off?" "No, he turned out to be an old school friend *f mine, too," replied the conductor. Some Relief in Sight. "I got a new attachment for the family piano," said Mr. Growcher, "and it's a wo/iderful improve- ment." "What, is it?" "A lock and key." have been considerably altered for her, made all pink and rosy with white walls and woodwork. There is a schoolroom where she pursues her studies and does her reading, and a delightful room it is, with its chintz covered chairs and book- cases filled with volumes all bound in rose leather with the princess' own book plate within. Raskin is one of the authors the queen approves for her daughter's perusal, and every one of his works finda a place on those shelves. Princess Mary is as fond of her camera as the rest of the family, and she does not shirk developing her pictures herself. In fact, she regards it as the best part of the fun. The Prince of Wales, i! custom and etiquete allowed him, would reside with the king and queen until ho marries. He is reputed to be very shy on the subject of matrimony. Indeed, it is said of him that the less he has to do with ladies the better he is pleased. He will talk eloquently about war, about aeroplaning or sport of any kind, but the moment the fair sex is mentioned he is boyishly reti- cent. There is one exception, how- ever. The tactics of the suffra- gettes are said to cause a merry twinkle in his eye. The prince is to pass another year at Oxford and not go to Trinity College, Cambridge, as had orig- inally been contemplated by the king. The heir apparent, who has been enjoying the best of health since his return from Germany, will remain at Magdalen until the end of the summer term of 1914. As soon as he leaves Oxford pre- parations will be made for his pro- posed visit to Canada, but how far it will bo possible for him to visit other parts of the British em- pire remains to be seen. . ifr First Ma (die* in 1834. Lucifer matches that is, matches tipped with an explosive substance that bursts into flame on being struck were first used about J834. Many improvements have been made in matches since then, the most important of which was the in- vention of the safety match, strik- ing on the box only. ^ Poor Husband. Wife (to sleeping husband) "'John. I hear pussy mewing to get in." "Hang it, Mary. I just let the brute in." "Well, then, she's mewing to get out." self. As tho caglo came on, how- ever, the chamoisi buck rose to meet it. There was a flash of clawing talons. Then, with a sudden vi- cious thrust, the chamois dug his horns into the breast of the great bird. With a wild beating of its wings, the eagle freed itself, and tried to fly away. But tho wound was too deep. He thrashed, about helplessly on tho ground, and tho chamois, quick to follow up their advantage, gored a.nd trampled it with their horns and hoofs. When their enemy was quite dead, the little family, limping and nursing their wounds, made off be- yond a projecting cliff. STRANGE MALADY. New Disease Which is Epidcinie in England. English doctors are puzzled by a new disease which has appeared in the wst country and spread with almost the rapidity of an epidemic. The chief symptom of the disease is tho appearance on the tonsils and back of the throat of a mem- brane resembling that of diphther- ia, together with a swelling of tho lymphatic glands in the neck, "very high temperature, severe erysip- elas, swelling in the joints and heart failure and other symptoms. The heart weakness often persists indefinitely after all the throat symptoms have disappeared. It wa.s first thought the disease w-is diphtheria, but >;xudate from the throat was forwarded tjo the Clin- ical Research Association in Lon- don, and no trace of the diphtheria bacillus was found. Since then it has been suggested that the dis- ease may prove to be a non-typ- ical variety of scarlet fever or measles. Paris is suffering from a similar epidemic, and there the death rate among children affected averages 15 to 20 per cent., which is worse than the mortality from diphtheria before t/he days of antitoxin. Big Trees to Block Napoleon. Tho bolfry of Wrabness Church, in Essex, looks more like, an ancient summer-house than a belfry. Its chief interest lies in the fact that it contains two huge saws made at tho timo when Napoleon was supposed to be on tho point of invading Eng- land. These saws were to b uswx! for cutting down troee, with which the roads wcro to be blocked against the invader*. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 22. Lesson \!1. I In- Blinding .j.''.-ct of Sin. Amos 0. 1-8. Golden Text, Aiiii.s 5. 14. Verse 1. Woe The Hebrew word is an interjection indicating dis- tress, which in its present context is uttered in the spirit of warning. At ease Indifferent and care- less. Zkm Jerusalem, the capital ol the southern kingdom. The mountain of Samaria The plateau stronghold and capital of the northern kingdom. The pro- phet is uttering a note of warning to the notable men occxipying posi- tions of leadership in both nations. 2. Calneh Probably an Assyrian city and possibly the same which in Isa. 10. is called (,'alno. An older Babylonian city called Cal- neh is mentioned in Gen. 10. 10, though the identification of the city here referred to is not certain. Hamath On the Orontes river, 150 miles north of Dan ; an impor- tant city since very ancient times, the modern Hama having a popu- lation of approximately 60,000. Gath In southwestern Palestine, near the Mediterranean. The pro- phet challenges his hearers to look to the kingdoms of the east, and to those of the north and to those of the south, and to draw a lesson from the humiliation and disaster which have befallen them. 3. Ye that put far away the evil day Ye that consider yourselves secure against the day of reckon- ing and disaster. Seat of violence Judgment seat in which might has superseded right. 4. Stretch themselves In idle- ness and luxury. The midst of the stall The railed off central portion of the general fold reserved for lambs and calves. To eat the young and tender of tho flock was itself a luxury. 5. The signs of indolence, self- indulgence, and disregard for tho serious responsibilities of life are multiplied. They include idlo songs, improvised for purposes of amusement, sung to tho accompani- ment of all manner of instruments gf music. 6. Drink wine in bowls To ex- cess, out of costly vessels used ordi- narily in connection with divine service. (Compare Zech. 9. 15 ; 14. 20.) The chief oils Those that are the most prized and expensive. All this seemed like shameful extrav- agance to the frugal shepherd and prophet accustomed to simpler ha- bits of life and industry. Are not grieved for Do not worry about the affliction of Jos- eph. Ephraim and Manassoh, the provinces named after the sons ol Joseph, comprised the heart of the northern kiiiRdom, and seemed at this time at the height of prosper- ity. But although unnoticed by tho eyes blinded by extravagance and luxury, a cloud was already gath- ering on the horizon, and the day of dire affliction was already im- pending. 7. Go captive In 734, only a few years after the prophet had uttered his warning, Tiglatli-Pileser invad- ed Gilead and Galilee, carrying the foremost of the inhabitants into captivity. 8. The Lord Jehovah An unus ual combination, used, perhaps, for emphasis. The excellency Or, pride. Either as in Hos. 5. 5 and elsewhere, the vainglorious temi>er of the people, or the things of which they with their distorted vision of things were proud. Jacob Referring again to the southern kingdom and to its capi- tal, Jerusalem. Another permis- sible explanation of the phrase, tho excellency of Jacob, is to regard the expression as a whole a.3 refer- ring to the capital city, Jerusalem, the palaces and general symbols of pride and luxury of which are an abomination unto Jehovah. Deliver up the city with all that is therein The northern capital, Samaria, was taken and iis <-iti- y.ens exiled in 721. The southern I kingdom survived until 5S7, wh-n Jerusalem was destroyed and it* citizens carried into captivity. Sool-Fall 850 Tons Por Mile. It will conif as a surprise to the general public to learn that on each square mile of the city of London, England, no less than 050 tons of soot falls in the twelve months. An influential committee lias been at work fur a year past using a spe- cially <levie<| "so^t-cati'lier" to fest Vivo actual amount of the &>lid contents of the air from day to day. In south west London tho iiniounb is returned at 460 tons per tw)uar^ mile annually, the total for tho, whole- of London s 117 square mile,9 being 70,050 tons of soot. This re- presents 0,000 tons, of ammonifv, ! 3,i0 of sulphates, 3,000 of ohlor- idHi, to s> nothing of caibu* and liar.