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Household Seasonable D tabes. Plain Layer Cake. One cup gran- ulated sugar, tablespoon butter, oream together ; two eggs, three- quarters cup milk, one and one- half cups flour, two heaping tea- apo-jtu of baking powder, vanilla flavor. Bake in layers. Canned Cucumbers. Peel and slice the cucumbers, pack in layers with rock Bait in fruit jars, be'gin- uing with a layer of salt and ending with a layer of salt half an inch when the jar is full. Seal, the salt out thoroughly be- fore using. Oatmeal Cookies One cup sugar, one -half cup butter or lard, three well-beaten eggs, two teaspoons cinnamon, one-half teaspoon soda, two cups flour, two cups oatmeal, one cup chopped raisins, pinch of alt (put both oatmeal and raisins thrvMgh the food chopper) and two or three tablespoons sour milk. Potato Cake One and a half cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one cup mashed potato, used while warm. One-third cup grated choc- olato, one cup walnuts, chopped, oae> and a half cups flour, one tea- apiu each cloves, cinnamon, and vanilla; three eggs, one and a half taasp.j.>ns baking powder. Bake in layers and use any kind of filling you wish. Caramel Pudding. Pour one small cup sugar in pudding pan. Brown the sugar and stir until it melts. Then cover bottom and side of >*n by turning from side to side. Mak-- a custard of three eggs, one quart of milk and five tablespoons aug-ir and pour into pan containing m-!c^d sugar. Under this pan put another containing a little water an f put all in the oven to bake. VM! Loaf With Tomato Sauce. Ohop two pounds of lean veal, put it into a basin and add a quarter of a u>>und of chopped salt pork ; then add A-ell beaten eggs, two teaspoon- fuU of lemon juice, one teaspoon- fui .:' onion juice, one teaspoonful of !c and a few grains of red pep- per Moisten well with veal stock ami press into a buttered pan. Covr and bake for one hour. Baste fr-.|'i-ntly during the baking. Turn out and serve with tomato sauce. Cookies. One cupful butter, two cupfuls sugar, three eggs, half tea- ep.>->n baking powder, one even tea- sp>.'H nutmeg, half teaspoon cloves, flour for a soft dough. Begin with tw... oupfuls and add carefully that you do not make them too stiff. CMam butter and supar. add yolks of en<~, spice, one cupful flour with baking powder, the whipped whites and the rest of the flour. Roll into a sheet a quarter of an inch thick, cut into rounds, and bake in a good ov-fu. Naimon Loaf. Remove the skin and liones from a can of salmon and separate fish with a fork. Beat thtv eggs ; add to them one cup bre.id or cracker crumbs, one-half $MapooB salt and a few grains of paprika : combine with the salmon, add::!* two tablespoons melted but- ter Mix all the ingredients thor- oughly ; put in a very moderate 07*11. It can also be steamed, but tUs flavor is not as delightful as when baked. liStt Sauce. Two tablespoons but- ter, two tablespoons flour, one- f.wrth teaspoon salt, a few grains paj-rika. Melt butter; add flour aud seasonings. Add slowly one <W|> lot water, stirring constantly. Hot', several minutes until the flour id thoroughly cooked, then add gra-Jually two tablespoons butter. \Vii-u thi is thoroughly beaten into th* mixture add two hard-cooked egg.-<. which have been chopped very fitif Pour this sauce over the sal- .: !'>af and serve very hot. This g? -mice can also be used on boiled 8-!:u..'n, escalloped salmon, etc. Chocolate Roll. Three eggs, one cup sugar, one teaspoon baking powder, one cup flour, six table- . j8;<.'->iis boiling water. Beat whites untii stiff ; add sugar gradually, the: the yolks well beaten, the wa- ter, &.ur, aud baking powder. Mix carefully. Pour into buttered and floured baking tin. When baked ' turn on sugared paper, spread with filling, and roll. Filling: Melt two squares chocolate, add one-half cup .-ugr, and one-half cup water. Stir until well blended, then add one teas[- M,U butter, one and one-half tabit-,poons cornetarch mixed in one half cup milk. Stir until boil- Ing. Remove from fire and add one- half teaspoon vanilla. Household Hints. If the doors of a closet are wiped with gasoline or benzine after being orubbed it helps to keep off insects. Borax is one of the best external) - tor* for ants. Pantry shelves and Otack< should be sprinkled well with it. A pinch of baking powder added to the mashed potatoes when they Are Hoing beaten to a fluff, makes thtMii lighter. If ming ammonia to soften water, put it cool waier instead of hot as the latter will evaporate the ammonia. Table silverware, if washed in plenty of hot soap suda and rinsed and dried thoroughly, will require very little cleaning. To ensure one's measurements of dry ingredients being correct, it is well after tilling the spoon or cup, to level it off with the back of a case knife. After boiling salt beef leave two or three carrots in the salt liquor until cold. The carrots will absorb the salt and the liquor can be used for soup. Melted beef drippings or tallow may be used over the top of jelly instead of paraffin. After it is cold, cover the space where it has shrunk away from the glass. To give an ordinary chest, closet or bureau drawers the virtues of a cedar chest soak pieces of wood in cedar oil and lay them in the draw- ers, chest or closet. The fat from boiled ham or bacon drippings will be found excellent substitute for butter in seasoning vegetables or in making a roux for vegetable soup. If you are mixing a pudding or cake with a wooden spoon beat the mixture with the back of the spoon. It is far easier and becomes beaut- ifully light in half the time. "Prickly heat" is relieved by ap- plications of water into which 10 cents' worth of sweet spirits of nitre has been poured. A half a glass of water is the proportion. Hot soapsuds should be applied to irons whenever they seem soiled. They should be rinsed in clear hot water and dried thoroughly, and then stored in a dry, warm place. When a kettle is badly burned, do not fill it with water, but set it aside to cool, then put in a hand- ful of washing soda and water and allow it to boil for an hour or more. A delicious jam is made by using four parts of rhubarb and three part* huckleberries. Use three- quarters of a pint of sugar to a pint of the fruit mixture and cook till thick. A thin coat of potash left on the sink overnight once a week will re- move the ugly yellow stains that will not yield to kerosene. It should be applied with care, as it is pois- onous. A particular laundress always has a piece of fine sandpaper tacked se- curely to one end of the ironing table" 'She says this is the best thing she knows for keeping the irons smooth and clean. Many people ruin the nap of the cloth in scraping mud from their ! garments with a knife or sharp ob- I ject. Take a coin, a half dollar, and scrape the mud off with this after it is dry and it will not harm the nap in the least. Fat i easily clarified if a few pieces of raw potato are added to it and then it is heated slowly in the oven or on top of the stove. When it ceases to bubble, strain through cheese cloth and let it stand till firm. Keep in a cool place. JAPANESE SWIMMERS. Can Perform Truly Wonderful Feats in the Water. It is a common practice for stu- dents of the universities and schools of Japan to go to the sea- side during the summer months, and there train systematically. Regular courses of instruction in swimming are given to those who wish for them. Mr. E. J. Harrison, in "The Fighting Spirit of Japan," tell* some of the feats performed by the expert swimmers. The Japanese are fond of swim- ming, and among the younger gen- eration of students and the coast population there are some splendid long-di&tance swimmers. Schools of natation teach the art in a sys- tematic manner, and although the best racing records in Japan are not equal to the Western, a Japan- ese export can perform some truly wonderful feats. For example, he can jump into deep water and maintain his position with the wa- ter no higher than the loins, while he fires a musket or a bow and ar- row, writes on a slate, paints a pic- ture on a fan with a brush, or moves freely in every direction as if be were walking on solid ground. The expert, while he rarely emu- lates the graceful high dive of the Kuro.iKMii or American, can leap from. a great height and strike the surface of the water with his chest, without sinking or wetting his face and head. In some mysterious, way he contrives to escape the painful consequences which the impact would inevitably cause, to the for- eigner who should try this feat. It is &aid that the old-time samurai frequently made u*e of thia trick when crossing a river or stream. In such cases they carried their ar- mor arid weapons on their heads. In illustration of the antiquity of swimming in Japan, it may interest foreign readers to be told that the famous "crawl" stroke, which Occi- dental swimmers first acquired not very long ago, has been known and practiced in Japan for hundreds of years, in addition to several other methods of progression in the water that would coine as a revelation to Europeans and America**. THE SHUT SCHOOUESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 3. , 1 Lesson V. The Plagues of Lgypt Psa. 105, 23-36. Golden Text, Matt. 23. 12. Our lesson passage is taken from one of the so-called historical psalms, in which later generations in Israel ommemorated the good- ness and guidance of Jehovah dur- ing the earlier period of the na- tions development. In the yerses of the psalm assigned for study Je- hovah is praised for his faithful- ness in protecting his people when they were oppressed by the Egyp- tians in Egypt. The preceding ver- ses (1-22) and those that follow (37- 4o) tell of the earlier and later man- festations of divine goodness as re- flected in the connected history of God's chosen people. The histor- ical narrative as recorded in Exo- dus is very much fuller and goes more into detail than the brief po- etical summary which constitutes our lesson. (Compare Exod. 7. 8 to II. 10.) The inspired poet is, more- over, not interested in the chrono- logical sequence of the events so much as in the greatness of the de- liverance wrought by Jehovah in each instance. To this fact we may ascribe the omission on his part of all reference to two of the plagues (those of pestilence and boils) men- tioned in Exodus. This religious interest of the psalmist may also account for the order in which the plagues are mentioned, which again differs from the order in Exodus. According to the Exodus narrative they occurred in the following or- der: (1) Nile water changed to blood; (2) frogs; (3) lice; (4) flies; (a) pestilence ; (6) boils ; (7) hail : (8) locusts; (9) darkness; (10) death ofj first-born. Verse 23. Israel The reference is to Jacob as the immediate an- cestor of the twelve tribes. The po- etical form of the reference permits the use in close proximity to each other of the two names for the same person. The land of Ham Egypt. 84. Increased his people greatly -"And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceed- ingly mightv ; and the land was filled with them" (Exod. 1. 7). Stronger than their adversaries Stronger than the Egyptians, whom they served. 23. He turned their heart The J subject is Jehovah and the reference is to the Egyptians, whose hearts, like the heart of Pharaoh, were i hardened and embittered toward ' the Israelites, whom they came ' gradually to fear because of their \ increasing numbers. To deal subtly Deceitfully or treacherously. 26. Moses his servant It is as the servant of Jehovah and his repre- j sentative to the people that Moses | appears throughout the Exodus uar- ! rative. Aaron . . . chosen Chosen ; to serve Moses as spokesman and in i other ways. 27. They set among them- Moses and Aaron among the Egyptians. His signs The manifestations of his power and will. 28. He Sent darkness The Egyp- tians were worshippers of the sun- god, and with them, therefore, the plague of darkness would be espe- cially calculated to inspire fear of Jehovah upon them. This interpre- tation of the plague appears the more probable from the next sen- tence, "And they rebelled not against his words," in which the pronoun "they" is generally taken to refer to the Egyptians. The whole sentence therefore reflects the attitude of the Egyptian people toward the Israelites, to whose de- parture out of the land the people were reconciled much earlier than was their stubborn king. 29. Their waters^ Those of the Nile river. (Compare Exod. 7. 20- 25.) 30. Frogs According to the Exo- dus narrative, the second plague. (Compare Exod. 8. 1-15.) 31. Swarms of flies . . . lice Literally, swarms of dog flies and gnats. (Compare also Exod. 8. 16- 32.) 32. Hail . . . flaming fire Hail accompanied by thunder and lightning. The reference is to a single plague, the seventh, accord- ing to the order in Exodus (Exod. 9. 23-35.) 33. Smote their vines . . . brake the trees By moans of the hail and lightning. (Compare Psa. 78. 47. 48.) 34. Locust . . . grasshopper Again referring to a single plague, j The Hebrew word probably denotes the locust in its larva state, and in the English revised version is there- fore translated cankerworm instead of as in our text. 36. Every herb- Grass and vege- table foliage. The fruit of their ground This expression may refer to such bulbs as wore used for food. 36. The first-born in their Innd Both of cattle and of human beings, and therefore tht> chief of all their SABBATH-KEKPING ANIMALS, f Elephants Could >ol Be Coaxed or Cajoled to Work on Tbut Day. That elephants can reason and can count as far as seven, at L-ast, is the opinion of Mr. Benjamin LeFevre, who has lateJy returned from a tour of the world. Further- more, he believes that they have a moral sense as well, and tu prove his contention he tells of a cur.nn thing that happened iu ll*e city of Rangoon. '"From Rangoon. ' he says, "they ship the huge teak logs that flout down from the interior. They are so heavy that they cauuot be hand- led only by elephants trained for that purpose. One of the brutes will pick up a great log, and bal- ancing it delicately on its tusks. will carry it to the proper pile, and push it carefully aud neatly into place. "Most of the elephants are owned by native Burmese, who hire them out to the lumber merchants. Sev- eral years ago, however, an English NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST BETW'ZKX ONTARIO AND BRI- 1 TISH COLUMBIA. Items From Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys and Girls Are "Making Good." Around Keeler, Sask., rain fell for 14 days in succession. A new $10,000 public school is to be built in Balmoral, a. suburb -A Calgary. A 8"5,000. contract for the build' ing of gas wells has been let in M''Uic:ue Hut. During June there were :!2 new school districts opened iu Saskat- Over 5.000 was collected in' th* Winnipeg Police Court during th month of June. Mayor Harrison, of Saskau>->iv sold $500,000 worth of that city'* bonds iii Chicago. firm, finding the native whose ele- j .v n Edmonton woman found a phants they hired careless about J ral . antll [ a ln a bunch of banana* A FAIRYLAND MOD El- Misses dress of royal blue crepe and light blue* accordeon pleated voile. Broad goisha belt with stiff bow. strength. This was the tenth and last plague, and proved so convinc- ing that even Pharaoh was not only keeping his contracts, bought a j herd of young elephants and train- ed them in the work of log-piling. "Xow the native Burmese has uo special day of rest, like the Jew, the Christian, or tho Turk, but j tests whenever he feels like it i which is much more frequently than { once in seven days. His elephants, j therefore, are accustomed to work I whenever they are called on. At the yard of the English firm, how- ever, Sunday was strictly observed as a day of rest by man and ele- phant. ''Now it happened that one Sat- urday afternoon the river L>ega.n to rise rapidly, and early Sunday j morning news from the interior told of still greater floods above. The ! ri'.-m had thousands of dollars' worth of logs piled on the river- willing but anxious, to have the Is raelites depart from Egypt. The manner in which the Hebrews themselves escaped from the rav- ages of the death angel is recorded "^ oufc hu own her<1 an< , in our next lesson, in which we re- ; hifi men to hire vpry availal)le e i e . ] vert to the Exodus narrative. | phant from nativo O ' wners Aa the I * ! Burmese drivers came hurrying up ! bank. and it became necessary to move them early Sunday morning, if they were not to b swept out to sea. At daybreak the manager or- JAPS ARE ALWAYS READY. with tneir animals, word wad givon tho beasts in the firm's corrals to fall into line. "But not an elephant moved! Marched Directly to a Monument Iu Ueart of Melbourne. James Francis Dwyer. the Aus- trajian novelist, tells the following story about tho Japanese. Dwyer began as a reporter in Melbourne. "Japan sent a warship on invita- ' drivers borrowed tion to Australia,'' said he. ''We were to unveil a monument in a park in the interior of Melbourne. The Japanese sailors were to grace the occasion." It on Sunday. The drivers coaxed and and killed it with a hat pin. Calgarv now has a municipality paving plant, which it is claimed is saving the city $1,000 a day, Winnipeg is to have a new 200,- 000 theatre fronting on mark** Street, with a seating capacity ol 2,000. Calgary Street, Railway, which it a. municipal venture, had a- net pro- fit of $10,000 for the month of M*y. W'.tiin the past three monthl eight dairies have been closed bf the medic*! health department al Calgary. In tho first six month of 1313, 2,000 marriages were solemnized in Saskatchewan, of which 47S were in June. P. D. Ede, a noted breeder of Hoi-steins and shorthorns in Out-ar-- io, will shortly start a big stock farm in the Me'/ort. Sask., d'istricb. At Calgary somebody set fire UJ a wooden building in which was stored all the fireworks to be used in the fair, which was to last a whole week. The C.P.R. is erecting 10.000 miles of new telegraph wire be- tween Calgary and Winnipeg, madu necessary by the increa.se of p<>pu-. '.anon and business. Humboldt. Sask.. has the greaV est building boom in its history. A* cajoled; the hathis stood blinking their little eyes in scorn at the hurrying native beasts. Then the an o<'i tusker from the Burmese, and tried to lead thorn with him. Not an ele- phant moved. The frantic drivers i dug the goads into the necks of their charges, whereupon, as if by present public buildings to the val- ue of over half a million are being, erected, as well as 30 private dwell- ings. A Winnipeg girl, charged wittt: shoplifting, said she did it because her brothers and sisters were starv- ing and her father had been una-bl* to get work for three- months. The C.P.R. will build a new Not one of the Japanese had ever f preconcerted signal, each elephant {u>m s a3 k a toon to Calgary. It will been on shore there before. When swung up his trunk, seized his dri- ! up a new lrr i wr y al)< i ua ra'.- the morning of the unveiling came } ver about the waist, and put him 1 ; e j tile (_ y ^ Goose Lake line : -r Melbourne sent a mounted escort j gently but firmly on the ground, as to show the visitors the way to the who should say, 'You mustn't d.- park. The escort wasn't needed, j that, you know! We'll work faith- At the head of the brown column' fully on weekdays, but we won't marched an officer with his nose on a map. pinned to a bit of board. ''He never looked up." said Dwyer. ''Xow and then he'd give an. order in Japanese, and the col- umn would wheel to the left or right. Kind friends would wave their hands at the mounted escort, marching proudly on the wrong street, and tell them they had lost j then resumed that clumsy swaying the city's guests." Two or three times that perform- ance was repeated. Then the mounted escort gave it up in dis- gust. The Japanese went to thi 1 park in the interior of the city ; P. and the elephants bad their straight as a pigeon flies to a hole in the barn. Afterwards Dwyer and other reporters measured the wyrk on Sunday.' "At length, the head driver, in desperation, seized the ear of his elephant witli the ankus, or hook, used to subduo fractious beast < Conscious of the indignity, the ele- pliant picked him up in his trunk n-nd Hung him against the side of the corral, twenty feet awav, and that marks the elephant well satis- fied with himself. The man didn't get out of the hospitaJ for nix weeks !'" The English firm had to give it Sunday rest. Several months after- a considerable distance. Railway workmen in Alberta were successful in finding many I'DX, cubs, for some of which they re- ceived from breeders, as high a* 32,000. Altogether the lucky) navvies" cleaned up about $13,-, 000. Two Hungarian girls were frol- 1 icking together at Melfort, Sajk .,. aud one, Julia Jainks, threw a dead" prairie chicken at, the other. K.th-, arine Simon. The latter then beat the Jauiks girl lo death with & spade. Six baggagemen, employed in thft C.P.R. depot at Calgary, were ar- rested charged with thefts frm trunks aud valises. Three- of tlvj, i two allowed out on *;is- sentence, and one was dis-, j men were sentenced to a month in jail w ard. Mr. Letevre. on returning to . Rangoon, asked about the Sabbath- ! u ,i sse< i route and discovered that- the Jap- j keeping elephants. ''It was no j' H M . Kdward Kilgren, of Dilke. anese. guided only by their war j mere whim," replied the manager, j ug ^ tl kerosene to start a fire with. Twice since that we have tested , havi her infant daughter in her them to see if they did actually keep arms at lue , ime The usual r ,. su - a an accurate account of work-days. tnap, had taken the shortest route to their destination through a strange city. WUAT OIR BODY STANDS. Is I nil inin-d in Oven at Tempera- ture of 212 Degrees. The human body is capable of sustaiuing the heat almost double that we ordinarily think the linii' of endurance. In Central Australia, for instance, the temperature often ranges from 115 in the shade to 110 in the sun, and has reached over 150. In traversing the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the hottest month the mercury hangs between ISO and 140. Even in the most un- expected places great heat is some- times found. In some- recent climb- ing in the Himalayas, in the month of December, at 9 o'clock in the j morning the mercury reached 131.1 at an elevation of over 10,000 feet. Two English experimenters, Bleyden and Chnutrey, have tried to find out jiu>t how much heat a man can stand. They shut them- sclve-s in a furnace in which the heat was raised by degrees until it passed 212 degree*, the- boiling point of water. Thai this was possible was due to the profuse perspiration, the eva- poration o which cooled the sur- face of the body. They believe that if a man's body is kept from touch ing the side* of the furnace ho can stand a temperature that would cook a cutlet. and once again I got the Burmese to trot their beasts by. But my ani- mals won't work on Sunday. There does not seem to be any conspiracy ; each brute has figured out the situ- ation for himsel/. They haye ar- rived at a rudimentary conception of individual rights, and as they never dispute their employer's right to their services on week- d.-iys. they d.> not intend that lie j should dispute their right to a day ! of rest on Simdav." Grains of Gold. The virtue of prosperity is tem- perance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.- Bacon. Experience teaches us that as often as not a fine memory is j'.'ined to a feeble judgment. -Montaigne. Bo uot curious in unnecessary matters; for more things are sh"\\n unto thee than men understand. F.cclesiasticus. I gather that your home is de- pressing. Every one's home is de- pressing, I believe. It is your diffi- cult duty to make it less so.- Rob- ert l^iuis Stevenson. Men help each other by their joy, nut by their sorrow. They are not intended to slay themselves for each other, but to strengthen thorn- selves for each other. Maeter- linck. Time taken to boast is time wait- ed followed, and now both mother and baby are in. the hospital. Neither, is expected to recover. A bakery in Calgary was fined for- selling loaves of bread under v pound and a half in weight. It wa contended that the bread, being of a fancy variety, need not be of le- gal weight, but the magistrate ruled that the by-law referred to ,U bread. Peter Bollivar of, Winnipeg jump- ed into the Grand River U> rescue young man who was drowuing. pre- viously taking off his coat and giv- ing it to a mail to hold. When h* came back after saving: the mau'i i life he found his cont, but the man had decamped with a valuable w.i teh which was in one of the ets. Dublin Ahead of tho Time*. They are a little ahead of tlifl times in Uu-blin, Ireland. You m&y buy there colored postcards bearing pictures of King George and Queen Mary opening the new Irish Parlia- ment. Cme. card shows them driv- ing up in a carriage with postilioni to the steps of the Varlianvul Building, at the entrance to which flies a flag bearing tlv-> words "Wel- come to Krin I" The interior view represent* tho King ami Queen on the dais, with most of the members of the House looking in thf- ctht-t direction, while the gi'.Lry is i>.*ck-> d with women.