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'^-•y^i-'„-.-Jfe.;'- â- Â«Mta mmtmmm L ) : I About the I ....House %gMI^^^ ^♦♦♦♦♦^♦♦♦^♦♦♦^'^♦•f'^^^^^ ! satisfactory meat for a standby, al- .vent fat from forming Iberejuid mak- '< • ! thotJgh any kind" may be liscd. This ing the double chin, which later va- 2 fitot^ is the foundation for a great cates and leaves the "harp strings" i -v-ariety of soups. - standing out. Besides the friction f Stewed Prunes. â€" Wash very care- ; dash the throat niffht and morning | LI w ^ I fully through several waters. Soak with cold water, which keeps the I lOUSC • ' over niijht or for several hours. ; Ue&h linn and also lessens the lia- * 2 ! Then place on the stove in a sauce- bility to sore throats and colds. j â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" ' â- â-  - . J . . - . â-  â-  â- â-  J- . , â- â-  , ,,»3 ! pan. or better still, a double boiler i If you have a delicate cake to bake ' BITTER illLK. W ^♦♦**<PV"»'<r*Vv<F#»* V* I or steamer, and let cook slowly. ' and fear tiia oven is too hot, place ! ,. I Never boil them rapidlv. The qual- a piece of white Ititchen paper on the J'^'^^ ott^iu complaints are made ity and si.'.o of the piunes of course slielf of the oven and close the door, "^"^""t cows giving bitter miJc. The [determines the length of time they ilf in ten minutes the paper is dark ^i-"*^^ . °"y ^'^ ^'^^ drinking water, one teasptjonful of soda and one of ! should be cooked, usually two hours 'yellow, the oven is right for any- ,'''^. ''• °^ P- certain stage of bilking powder mixed in the llour, I is none too long. When done, st.ir \ thing that takes time to bake. If DOilESTIC RECIPES. Cream Biscuit â€" One sifter of flour; baxteria, or a certain stage of lac- tation, or by cows eating weods, etc. If the milk when lirst drawn with one teospoonful of salt, wet up | in i cup sugar and 1 slightly round- jthe paper is only light yellow it is with equal parts of sour cream and ' ed teasqjoon cornstarch â€" previously [right for small cakes baked in fancy '^ S'^eet and wholesome the bitter ^^^ ^ ^^^^ sow milk. Bake in a quick oven, stirred together â€" to each firm cup tins. For pios and rich cakes the °'-'^^ "* ^au-sed doubtless by bacteria]^.,, c^rtainlv not These are fine for short cake by us- | of prunes measured when dry. Cook ; temperature should be such as will be remedied by scalding gently for 10 minutes. The juice half a lemon and the grated rind a whole one is a great addition. HOUSEHOLD HIXTS. A few slices of bacon under and ing butter spread between layers. Cream Cookies. â€" One cup sugar; one cup sour cream; one egg; one ta- V/i'jspoonful of butter if cream is not 1.00 rich; one teaspoonful of soda and or.o teaspoonful of baking pow- der. Both soda and baking powder ai'e to be sifted in the ilour. l-'la- 1 vor with one-half teatjpooniul lemon over roast lamb will improve the or vanilla. j flavor of the gravy. Sweet Cream Biscuit. â€" Two or i If the stove smokes give it a thor- thrco sifters of Hour; use one-third ! ough cleaning out: but if it's the swei't creajii and two-thirds sweet 'farmer, well, we give it up. milk mixed together to mois'ten, the | Keep a stout paper bag mth your dougli. Mix soft; do not mold them 1 blacking rags to slip your hand in- any more than absolutely necessary. ; to when rubbing the stove. Dake in a quick oven. When one ' A crack in the stove may be mend- of color a sheet of white paper a iight ^^^^^ ^^^ J^^^ 's fre^. The ut- of i brown in the time najned; when the "'°,f '^^f should be taken by the Ipaper turns dark brown the oven is '""''<-''" also, as to the care of the I right for almost anything that re- , ^"'^ .^^^ , ."^so to his own clothing, [quires to be quickly baked. IL-the^^ ^^'f. ^^"^ °^ tJ*" cow is an active [paper chars, the oven is too hot for ^ ^'^J^^^Yi'^ ^^»^,'5t_ '^"^ a Jarge amount anj-tjiing. " "" """* 9 they have attalnad during the sum- mer naust not be allowed to »top, nor muat tliey be pernuttod tc> become poor now. Do not turn oS a cow Jest because slifi is old. The question of u.seful- ^e^â- j is far more important than tliat of iiije. Not that we sliould ba swerved from our best judgment by sentiment. The butter tub tells the stoi-y. Milking at five o'clock in the af- ternoon of one day and seven of an- other is the surest way to serve notice on the cow that you do not care whether she does her best or not. If you fail on your port, she work bajrd to keep up her part of the bargain. slie Never let spoilewl dish be seen even gets used to baking with cream has excellent luck. Haver Cake. â€" Take 2 cups cook- ed oatmeal, 1 cup corn meal, J- cup butler, 1 small cup sugar, 2 cups sour milk, 1 teaspoon each soda ami much le.ss tasted. Get rid of it salt, 3 eggs, whites and yolks beat- I if you have to bury it." en separately. Lastly add one cup i Never cover warm food, when you chopped, seeded raisins. Bake in 'Set it aside. The moist heat that gem tins. j remains makes- mould swift and sure. Mexican Rarebit. â€" Put a piece of Warm potatoes, if covered, soon get butter the size of an egg into the so soggy that they are not lit for double boiler. When this is melted, add a can of tomato; let this become thoroughly heated. Season to taste with pepper and salt, and if deeired, a large tablespoonful of Worcester- THE EED BEACELETS. Clever Device of an Indian Robber to Escape Ptmishment. POULTRY YARD. Ice water is not an egg producer. A hen is not to be blamed if she does sometimes get into a stew. If you have no scratching shed iju.st sweep up the floor ami put down sheaf ed by a cement made of aslies and salt mixed with water. Marion Harland's advice to young an English officer in comm.aud of a Cooks relative to their failures is: [large body of native Indian police. of foul matter remo\-ed from the blood by it, it stands to reason that this matter must be i-emoved or else a basket of clover heads or a it will dry and clog the pores. This of oats. dry dondruii must te removed or it | Let the poultry share the turnips will g<.>t in the miLk and cau«» a iaad beets with the pigs. Boil with most unpleasant odor very quickly, {meat scraps and thicken stew with A card made of ane wires should jcoru-meal and bran. In connection with the punishment ^^ "^^^ ''•"st. foUowed by a stilT | Fowls will gain very little by be- of the 9th Lancers for the alleged brush. These two implements .•jfeould â-  ing permitted to wander about the complicity of some of its members in he ustd every morning <:n each cow ipremlses in very cold or stormy wea- the murdjr of a native, the follow- before attempting to miik. »wt ajther. They are better coniiued to, a ing story, communicated to us by ^'^^ moments will be required for the | roomy house. work each day. The extra work | For irostu'd wattles and coml>e, cuts will be doubly repaid in the increas- lor bruises of any kind, keep in the I throws an interesting light on ingenuity of the natives in fabricat use. A half hour of soaking in the mom- • ing while you are doing tl;e other housework will make the clotlies ; wasli far easier. A few mimutes sav- Bhirc sauce, and a little salt. Just ed that wa.y will rid you of many an before serving, slide in four unbeat- hour's backache. en eggs and beat the whole quickly; ' A frying basket is a convenience in then add two or three drops of on- families whore fried caies. frittors. Ion extract. This is a chafing disli j croquettes, etc., are much esttcmcd. receipt, but it may also be made on It is made of fins wire, to lit tho fry- tho stove. i ing kettle, and lifts out with all its Crcttin Puffs. â€" One cup hot water, .contents when done. 4 cup butter. Put on t!;c stove and , Strain the fat after frying dough- stir in 1 cup dry Hour. Let boil nuts, etc., using a cloth for the pur- up, take from the stove, and stir pose. By the removal uf extraneous smootli. AVIicn cold break throe eggs matter the fat remains trwctft longer in it. and stir live minutes. Drop and does not get full of sediment in ^"oonfuls on tins, not very close ; which tuns it dark colore*!, together. Bake 35 minutes in a ra- ! Lima Bean Soup. â€" Simmer a pint ther hot o\'cn, not opening the door | of beans gently in suiEciont water to more than i-.ecessary. For the cream cover them until they axe well cook- J filling, take 1 cup milk. ^ cup sugar, ed, then rub them through a colan- i 1 egg. .'j tablespoons tlour. Flavor i dor. Season with salt and pepper, i with vanilla. When both this and ', add a jiiut of rich milk and a. little j tho putTs are cool, open the puiTs a | butter and lioor rubbed together, little with a sliai-p knife and till with j The Toilet Crockery should be kept , . the croam. ; scrupulously clean. It should t-c | ^'^'*^''- '"^ ®-^'''' Black Pepper Cake. â€" Take 5 cups j .a.shed daily in cool soapy water and ' bound with flour, 1 keaping cup butter, IJ cups, wiped dry on a clean towel kept for sugar, i cup black popper, 2 tea- the purpose. If hot water be used spoons ground ginger, 2J cups Sul- ; the tcmdency is to crack the enamel, tana raisins, 2 teaspoons baking \ in which event f.ul odors will be re- soda. .'> cups buttermilk, 1 nutmeg â-  tained. (ground). Rub butter into the! The white of an egg, thoropghly flour. Then put in the raisins, hav- , beaten, slightly sweetened and 11a- ing soaked them previously in hot vorod, is both food ajid medicine in water to soften. Add the other dry cases of stomach and bowel diseases, i'gredioiits,- soda is stirred into the It acts as a coating on tho inrtam- milk and poured over the four mix- ed membranes, proventinR irritation, ture. ili.x well, place in butiei-ed and at tho same time is a conceri- tins and boko in a slow oven as trated r.ourishment that can be re- soon a;i possible, one hour should j tained on an axt:x'mely weak stom- be \aus enough. This is a very fine . ach. -^ cake to bake with tea. also To cook I there was no mark of a knot soak over the ^'^ health of the animal and improv- j poultry house an ointment made by ed appearance. The waur to whi>-h mixing a pound of va-seline or ing evidence '^'"'^ cows have access sliould be pure, cosmoline a teaspoonful each of tur- The Indian police are often uotor- 7'"'^ should not be allowed to drink Ipentine. crude petroleum, oil of tar from stagnant pools. It these mat-; and oil of sassafras. lers are attended to there should be | If you expect to have a liberal no bitter milk. Sometimes the -ow 'supply of eggs look around now is too far advanced in lactation and land .secure a special market for this is the caute of the bitterness, 'strictly fresh eggs. When you get If all means fait to remedy tJie ti-ou- j customers of the class you want, ble. she should be dried up. fattened for market or olherw^ise disposed. iously indolent, and, in order to s;ive the trouble of investigating the charf;es brought against a suspected thief, they will irequently torture him with the object of making him declare where he has hidden the goods he is supposed to have stolen or of gaining any information that may lead to his conviction. Of course. I alv.'ays sot my face sternly against this mode of obtaining evi- dence, and some time ago made it known that the next case of tor- ture that occurred should be visited witli condign punishment. But it THE APPLE ORCH.VRD. When an apple orcnard is planted, the ground should be in a high state of cultivation and not allowed to deteriorate, writes Mr. S. K. Keade. To accomplisji this, corn may be such as appreciate a good article and will pay what it is wortli. re- ligiously fuliil your part of the con- tract. CEMENT FLOOR. required all my vigilance They 'Pl^ntoJ 'i^ the spring. Shallow cul would put a large Indian beetle with J'"^=^''"° should be followed ^ sharp feelers on a man's der his upper garmentâ€" and the crea- ture would dig franticallv into his . ,, . . , . flesh in its elTorts to escape ; they ^.V"''"?..°^.^."''''' ^rain in an orchard nd at crim- son clover before the harrow or cid- ivator. I would not advise the j.],j,j.^ yjj_ last working, sow cowpeus or would bind the wrists of their pris- oner tightly with cords, and so on. One man, whom the police had long tried to convict, was arrested oil suspicion of being concerned in Ian extouKive robbery. He complained ; bitterly to ir.e next day of the cruel j torture he hud been subjected to, i showing me his \rrists, each of had been of any kind laud in au apple orchard, I would plow as if there were no trees pre- sent, tliat is, divide the orchard in- to such sections as seem most ad- vantageous, and avoid dead furrows betwc-en the rows. By plowing in this way. tho land is kept level and net worked into . ridges or gfullies. Ease the breakiuft tightly pio^y (jiit „f jj,g ground, so that nj cord (which had cut ,iirt will stio'>t to tho tree. Care mto tho Ilosh-) and then tied to a i^hould be taken not to injure the beam. I w.is very angry, for each of surface roots bv plowing. If cow- the man^s wrists was marked with a , poas are sown.' a disk or cutawav bright circle of red, apparently con- j harrow sJiould be run over t;hcni af- firming ' j.gr J.],,, vines are dead from frost. THE TRUTH OP HIS STORY jaitd clover should sticceed them I following spring. In breaking As I expected, the native police : laud ajid harrowing wiUi two hor- loudly protested their innocence :;sos. I would 'not use the double or but I did not for a moment believe | singletree or oven the trace c!:ains. they were speaking the truth. and It is impossible to take siich an out- told them that the threatened pun-: lit in the orchard and v.-ork without ishment would be indicted. ! injury to trees. That evening as I was smoking myj ' THE DAIRY COW. and thinking over the To make a cement floor, CU in with four inches of broken stone or coarse gravel. \Ii.x one barrel ce- ment with eight barrels coarse sand, and tiien with water, so it is quite thin. Let tliis liil all the opeaiings and cover the stones to a depta of one ii;cii. After it sets, and be- lu breaking up the i'"^''''* ''^ '^"^^S' P"*^ ^^ "• ""^^ i to 4 incli thick, mace with one part Portland ceaent to tliree parts of giod sand. Ti-owel tiiis down per- fe.'tly smootli. and sprinkle it occa- s onallv with water so it does not dry too quickly. •aUSDESING SAIXOES. Cannibals in Slew JECebrides Attack Trading "Vessels. Probablv no animal on the farm pipe and thinking over the matter economi- I Of all the dried bean family none I again, it suddenly struck me that: ,-â- â-  ,^ •> , , , , , cal - liaving no eggs â€" and whole- j is belter than the Lima. To cook there was no mark of a knot on i ",""=^ , ^f f°*^ -^. '^n'Pi*^t»?i> . '" some. . [wash tbem thoroughly, soak over j either wrist. -Now," I said to mi- ^ "l ''"''Vl" ?l,V.'.';'!"rr!.?.^"^,!^^.'.'?..'^' Svhich night in cold water, and simmer ' .slowly for two or three hours until len;ier, but rot broken. Season • with salt, pepper, butter, then stew up in a little croam. What is loft self, "if each wrist had beea tightly bound with a cord, instead of there being a circle of red entirely around the wrists, there would be the marks of tho knot on each, whereas I dis- Brown Meat Stock. â€" Cut the ment into small pieces about i inch thick. Fry brown in drippings. Do not dredge with Hour lir.st. Put in the soup kettle, salt, and cover with cold water. If there are any bones. :will malie good soup by putting i tinctlv remember that tho red mark break them into rather small pieces : them throm;h a sieve, adding a iit- I ran all round each in a bright red with a cleaver or clean hatchet, and ;tle hot milk and thickejiing slightly {unbroken ring." put them in with the meat. Set on j with llour rubbed with butter. | The following morning I mad." * a she back of the stove and lot heat | One of the most unbecoming signs : few inquiries, and elicited the infor- very slowly, being careful that it of age in a woman is the "dewlap" does not boil. Prepare early in the that conies under the chin when the morniiijT so it can bo on tho whole : plumpness of youth is past. This day. Tho last thing at night, strain loosening of the skin may be pro- through a colander. Skim olT tho â-  vented, if t.Jion in time, by a. little fat before usinff. Beef is the most : daily friction of the throat to pre- cow. In raanui'acturing. the econo- my of tho macJiir.e is jmigcd by Use : to total ot This may te applied In Mallicolo is the second largest is- land in the New Hebrides group, which ;:ow belongs to Franco. Some the jmissionaries a while ago chof-e iliis up i island as a promising field ior their jwork, but thus far chsy are greatly disappointed with the results. I -N'one of the missionaries has yet been harmed by '..he natives. their immunity teiug due perliaps to the liberal price thej' pay for all the food and other things they purchase; but the natives care nothing for their ins-truction and have recently attacked an English trading vessel >toppe.i at the island to land a number of native passengers. proportion of work to total energy | •^"'^f"^" Atkinson. hi=. drst mate and :e.xpendcd. This may te applic,! -"i,, I several others were killed. A lew ' judging the relative economy of , . _ . . I f;u-m animals as producers of foodj''^*' ^"^^ uuilerittls. A cow prcwiucing a mod , ,,., . , , ... .u » ..v erate yield of milk will require ',. |,'"-'"-'^ "^, ^^'."''' ^^*l ^'i^ ..'^-"f about the stune food as a steer 1^ -''^"^ °'' ^'•>-""'^'' ^"' ""^^ ^he Mallicolo killed. A later the Pearl, another trad- was also attacked, several of the crew teing massacred. There is no doubt that the Ing stall fattened. Lawos and Gil- bert, of England, have shown b.v elaborate expeiiiucnts (hat a cow mation that an old woman had visited tho prisoner for a few min- 1 yielding ten quarts of milk per day utcs on the night of his arrest. I i will produce in her milk weekly 6.6 commanded her to be brought before ; pounds of niti-ogenou>* .substance, 6.3 * me. and by dint of a few judicious I pounds of fat, 8.3 pounds of milk "threats succeeded in solving theis\igar, and 1.3 pounds of mineral SCIENCE AG .UN" .ST GAMRLINC BREAKEia IT aE>rrLY The Pocttti^â€" *'Hy poor bay ! I U tell you the worK I Vau'U b« well J\Mt It ttia ttee school OfUMia again t" mystery. It appears that there is a! matter, making 22.3 pounds of to- native plant, with a juice of aUal food materials, bright blue color, which, when ap- A steer gaining fifteen pounds per plied to the skin, leaves a blue; week will produce in the incrca."!o stain ; when washed the blue color made 1.1 pounds of nitrogenoiis* isib- vanishos. leaving a vivid red mark, stance, 9.5 pounds of fat and two which remains for some hours. The 'pounds of mineral matter, or lO.S old woman, who had heard of the'pouixls of total food material. In order, had brought this juice with, other words, in a given time, the her and had cor.coctcd the scheme ; '. cow produces in he! milk about omd thus she and her relative were twice .is much foeil nuiteiials a« the nearly successful in their revenije on . steer ."Stores in his hodj'. .Vccordins the men who had captured tho cul- ; to these figfures the i»i>lid3 of milk prit. This juice does not givu anyidif?e»* from ttose of beef by beinff far pain when applied to tho skfii be-jmoro nitrogenous, and thu* mon; yxind irritating it slightly. â€" London i valuable as food. With milk at Tit-Bits. three cents per qwnrt and l>eef at â€" » â-  I seveti. cents per poun;l, the uMrkct value per pound of tie solids of thtj two da-^scs of i>rod»ct«» ia about tJie The republication in English of tho i ****'*^- ^"^"^'^ H""^ , â- '«"••' a* a r.da- famous essay of the great t>ench I '^^"'^y '''«^''^'' f"""* than Uus the lu- mathematician. Laplace, on ^^o «"'^-'^^'' '•"^''".''f >" °' ^>\'^""'.'"=?'''' *-' theory of probabilities serves to re- compare^l with tho beef animal, bo- call the harm that has resulted from a lack of general infonnation on this subject. Tlio confirmed gatnhlor and the reckless speculator do not know how continually the.T fly in tJ>e face of the teachings of !»cience. A recent reviewer remarks : 'It in a game of even chances red turn, up 2t* times in suce.>ssion. it ia still an e»en chance w he' her red or black turns up on tho 'Jlst tiin.; Nut no amount of mathematical rmsoning will iHiahle the gambler to realise that a pre^'iou."* run of bad luck give, no flcroui«ds for the expwrtabion' uf recovering hlw lo.'wes by ;» ruH otf gOiMl luck in the rutur<^. " It waj>! p*Kly to eo!nfcat the mLpwi»«iti»c.3{ of gamblers a.id others that lApdae« ^oto his comes still more aPPoront. DAIRY AND STOCK. A thrifty cal! :«!i<l a healthy boy ! are very much alike in ."Jome re- apoctd. Botii a!X"> eiiokc full of mia- i chief and always Jv'Ugry. Givv the laJinN.'" clear wIio*t for the ftrst third of the fattening period, halt wheat and half corn for the second third, and corn »Ione for t*e last third. It your cow put'* up her foot to puah you a.sWo when you go up to her whan sfco dees n.% kN*w it, don't kick tluj cow. but soj'. "Rk- oiMKi rat." and iiFe«Jc to hei' tho aoxt time yoM piLS» h*r. CalTO. newt th* b«»t of alteotion. ovacMilr In wiat«r natives to very severe account for their deviltry. These natives have long been re- gai-dcd as i^articulai'ly interesting; be- eause tbey occupy a transitional zone between t'ro Melanesian and Fol.v- nesian worlds and tho natives ccii- 5e<iuent!y present a great variety of types, according to the extent of in- tenui:vture of the two races. Tho tribal arroui>s in the island differ greatly in ai-peurance. customs and languege. When the islands were disco-. o;'ed the natives went naked or wore nothing be.vond a strip of pounded bark. leaves or cocounut fibre. At present most of the peo- ple use considerable P-uropeaai cotton cloth for all or a part of tlieir at- tire. Caimibalism still survives among thorn, though it has disappeared fl-oni many other islauds. The ra- tivcs h.ave a. reputation for ferocity and wickedness, but there is no doubt that the.v are sinned :< gainst as well «.•« sinning. Those who knew Melanesia best say that the whites have been ;";ir more tre^ieher- ou.* and cruel than the native."?. Bi.'ikop Patte«nui. who was killed on tho i-sland of Nukapu in 1S71, fell by the hand of a man whom tho whites had just robbed of his child- ren. Mr. Markhani has roporte«I tU<it many of tke natives of these is!an<i3. snch as tho.^e who muwlered the mis- sionary Williams, niaie ii.w of lire- arms imly .Tgaiuat tlio whites, whom they regard as kidnaj>pers. They Would conaid.T it c'i^graceful to em- ploy the new woapors thfy havo .ic- quired in tfce local war.j betwitcn khjdrod t rites. Why is a lighted eaadla like an ex- tinct lire? â€" It burns no longer. Why is gas like iw»etry? â€" Biocai:fo the number of feet required are ro- TTw growth gulated by the meti-e ^.ttietiir^j