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.#â-  t About the House | t M ISCl'^LLAN IX) US DISII KS. Fillots of Chicken IJrnast .â€" (;h.)p ♦ho while inont of a cold roast chick- en f;m^ Season to tasto with salt linil iiappt-r, a dash of onion juico, and a litllo minciHl luirslcy. To o cii]) of the niinccU chicken allow a cup of cream into which a pin(h of baking soda is stirr.-d. Itub togeth- er a lublcspoonful of butter and one of corn starch and M ir them into the heated cream. Cook for a minute, add the minced chicken and cook un- til hot. 'J'aku the mixture from the firo and beat in gradually two well Jx-aten eg^s. Tour into a bowl and set aside until cold and still, shape into cutlet-s, dip each cutlet first 111 cracker du.st, then in beaten egg, then in more cracker dust. Set in the ice for two hour.4. then fry in deep boiling fat. Servo with a white .'-uuce Chicken and Nut Croiuettes.â€" Into a cupful of cold minced chicken stir II half cup of blanched and chopped Knglish walnut.s. Make a while sauce of butter, cornstarch. and Clean, and stir the chicken and nut mi.xture into this. Stir over the lire until hot; add, grnduall.v, the beaten yolks <>f two eggs, mix well and set aside to cool. Form into cro^iuettos and proceed as with chicken liUets. I'"riiit Trifle. â€"Almost any kind of fruit can be u.sed for this di.sh, pro- vide<l the fruit is quite ilpe. When fresh fruit is usedâ€" bananas, straw- berries, rasplrerrii'S, cherries, apri- cots, and peaches aro most suited, rrejiare the fruit and cut the ba- nanas and other largx- fruit into con- veniniit pieces and place them in a class dish. Propaie a custard with a quarter of a pint of milk, one ounce of .sugar, and two eggs, llavor it with vanilla, and pour over the fruit whi-n quite cold. Stand the dish on the ice till waut-d for table. Just before serving whip up a lit- tle cri'ani, sweeten •!, ^i d pour it in a forcing bag with a fancy tube. Cover the top of (he dish with this, and dernrate to taste n ith glaco fruit, cherries and nngeit.'* Chicken t.olatino. â€" .S<Oect a good- siziil fowl, put it t.er ihn lire in cold water, with n buu h of coup herbs. Ilring grndunll./ to a boil and cook slowly uniil th* -neat Is tender. Take it from the lire and let II. get cold in thi- Ihiaor. Cut thi- meat from tlu bo e-i, rejecting skin and grisUo. and slice the meat ncnll.v. Hoil the licpior down to one (|uart, strain it, and return it to til ' lire with the white and crack- ed shell of an egg. Hoil up once. reiMOVi. the scum, add a heaping tablesjioonful of gelatine which has been soaked in a little warm water, ri-niove from the lire, and strain. Season with salt to taste, a salt- spoonful of celery salt and the sanio of paiirika, a teaspoonful each of lemon juice and of minced parsley. Itutter a mold with plain sides, pour in little of the jel v «' range a layer o» the m>>at, ait then a lit- tle more jelly. I'ut next a layer of thill slices of cold bollwl ham or tongue, more jell.y. and then the chicken again. In the crovhes biv tWeiM the meat |>laco blanched al- monds cut in strips, a few pislache ruts, truHles, sliced olives, and a few capers. Meet .'•'oup. â€" ^To make lOngllsh beef soup take the cracked joints of beef, and after putting the meat in the pot and covering It well with water \ui it come to a boll, wlieii it should be well skimmed. .Set the pot wher<! the meat will simmer slowly until it is thoroughly done, keeping it cliBi- ly covered all the time. The next <lu.v , or when (idd, r(;move the fat FOR BOTH Ono diaenso of thinnoHS in I'hildron is Hcroftila; in adultH, coiiHimiptioii. Both have poor blood ; both nci;d more fat. These diseases tlirivo on loan- nesH. Fat is tho best iiKjans of ovorcoming them ; coil liver oil makes the best aud healthiest fat aud SCOTT'S EMULSION is the eafliest and most effective form of cod liver oil. Here's a natural order of things that ishows why Scott's Emulsion is of BO much value in uU cases of iBcrofiila and consumption. More Ifa/i, more weipfht, more nourish' went, that's why. Sond for free aample. SnOTT & BOWNE, Chemists Totooto, Out. 61k.is4|l,0f u II M II AUdfual<ti which hardens on tho top of tho soup. Poel, wa.sh and sllco three good-sizod potatoes and put them into the soup; cut up half a head of white cabbage in shrills and add to this a pint of .Shaker com Uiat hf-.» been soakotl over night, two onions, ono head of celery, and tomatoes if doslred. When these are done, and (hey .-^^hould simmer slowly, caro be- ing taken that they do not burn, strain (or not, aa preferred) tho .soup and servo. The dilTerent vari- ties of bwf soup aro formed by this method of seasoning, and tho dilfer- ent vegetables used in preparing it after the joints have boon well boil- ed. lU'Sides onions, celery, cabbage, tomatoes, and potatoes, many uso a few carrots, turnips, beats and force-meat balls, sensoncrd with si>ico. Hico or barley will give the soup consisUmcy, and are to bo preferred to flour for the purpo.se. Parsh-y, thyme, and sago aro the favorito herb.s for seasoning, but should bo u.sed sparingly. To make fO"ce-meat balls add to one jiound chopped boef ono egg, a smnll lump of butter, a cup or less of broad crumbs; .sea ^on with suit and pepper and moisten wilh water from stewed meat; inako in balls and fry brown, or make egg- balls ly boiling eggs, n>ashin)j tho yolks V'ith a silver spoon and mix- ing wilh ono raw yolk and one tea- spoonful of flour; season with salt and pepper, nial<c into balls; drop in soup just before serving. BAKKD FIIUITS. To Hake Apples. â€" Wip<! and coro sour apples. Put in a baking dish and 111 cavities with sugar and .spice; allow ono-half cup sugar and one-fourth toa.spoon cinnamon or nutmeg to eight apples. If nutmeg is usc-(l, a few drops of lemon juico and few gratings from rind of lemon to each apple is an Improvement. Cover bottom of dish with boiling water and bako in a hot oven until soft, basting often with .syrup in dish Serve hot or cold with criiam. To llako Uannnas. â€" IUmmovo skin.* from six bananas and cut in halves lengthwise. Put in a shallow gran- its pun or on an old platter. Mix two tablespoons melted butter, onft- third cup sugar, and two table- spoons lemon juico. Uasto uanunas with one-half tho mixture. Itako twenty minutes in a slow oven, bast- ing during baking with remaining mixture. To Dako Peaches. â€" Poel, cut in halves, and remove stones from six peaches. Place in a shallow granite pan. Fill each cavity with ono tea- spoon sugar, one-half toa.spoon but- ter, few drops lemon juico, and a slight grating nutmeg. Cook twen- ty minuliKi and servo on circular pieces of buttered dr.y toast. To Uako Pears. â€" Wipe, quarter and core pears. Put In a deep pudding dish, sprinkle with sugar or add a small quantity . of molasses, then add water to prevent pears from burning. Cover and cook two or thre<' hours in a slow oven. .Small pears ma.v bo baked whole. Sockcl pear.s are delicious when bnkod. To Hake (Juinces. â€" Wipe, quarter, core and pnro eight qiiinces. Put in a baking dish, sprinkle with throo- fourths cup sugar, add ono and one- half cups water, cover, and cook un- til soft in a slow oven. Quinces ro- (juire a Icn^ time for cooking. unless the cracks in the skin aro very much inflamed, an application of tho compound just before retiring at night and another In tho morn- ing will generally have tho desired result of healing them. It is alto a line preventive, and few will be troubled with chapped hands who rub it on tho skin in tho morning ailor washing. Otm MIGHTY WHSATFIELDS. Facts and Figures About the Wes- tern Granary. Canada has the largest wheat field in tho world, 300x900 miles. Canada's wheat-growing area in tho west is (per I'rcrf. Haundors' es- timatu) 171 million acres in extent Canada has less than five millions of this area under cultivation, or only 3 per cent. If one-fourth of the 171 nullion acres were under wheat, it would supply Britain three times over and tho homo market as well. Uy 191.5 there will, it is estimatel, be ton million acres uniler wheat, yielding 200 million bushels. Tho Canadian west is capable of producing three billion bushels of wheat. Tho Canadian west is capable ot producing 20 times Britain's annual imports of wheat. Canada's wheat crop, 1004, 80 mil lion bushels (60 millions west). Canada ranks tenth among tho world's wheat-producing countries. Canada's wheat crop is noa.ly double that of the United Kingdom. Canada's grain crop of all kinrts reached (1903) 27.'> million bushels. Prof. Tanner, tho Knglish agricul- tural chemist, sa.vs western Canada has tho richest soil in tho world. Canada's wheat yield for the last ten years averaged 18 bushels an acre. Wheat yield in the United States for sanu) period, 13 bushels per acre. Manitoba's average wheat yield for ten years, 21 bushels per acre. Minnesota's yield for samo period, 14, Kan.sos, 12; Missouri, 11. Canada's western wheat contains 10 per cent, more albuminoids than the best Kiiropean varieties. One hundred pounds of Canadian flour make.^ more broad of high quâ- ^l- ity than tho same weight of any wheat imported into Britain. For Delicious Flavor CEYLON GREEN TEA is absolutely matchless Sold only In Lead packets. 40c, 50c, and 6oc. per pound. hlshest Award St. Louis 1904^ THE SNOWBALL LETTER EOLLING ALONG WITH ABATED ENERGY. TJN- Famous "Chain" Started by Friend of Australian Hospital Still Going. sorting tho letters. Between 1897 and 1902, when Mr. tJriilin worked tho thing himsi-lf, ho paid over to tho hospital Sfio.'). In 1902 tho hospital sold letters to the value of $130, in 1903 it sold some seventy- thousands for $250, and in 190t tlm .sales realized Sl.'SO. In about nine years, th-refort;, the results of this monumental appeal to the charity ol tho civilb.ed world were $1,185. BEARING IN ]y^I^a), (1) that this is very far from being the full market value of the contents A recent issue of tho South Aus- tralian I{egister, of Adelaide, con- tains a long an<l instructive articlo on the history, present position and in the'f^l"'''-' prosper. ts of tho famous Crif- i of the letters; (2) that a great part fin snowball letter, says London I of them cost the senders live cent* Truth. It is now nine or ten years -each in postage, and tho rest two .since this "snowball" or "chain lot- [cents each, and (3) that many thou- tcr" was started. It will bo remoraborcd that tho thins originated in a small ami in- signi/icant local project to add a j saiMls of letters have never reached 'their destination at all, some idea niay b.; o'ltainwi of the waste which I this whole idiotic scheme has evolved children's ward to a cottage hospi- j from beginning to end. Tho post- IlOU-Sf-JUtlLI) HINTS. If ypu rub grass strains with jno- lasTS tho.y will come out without ililliiulty in tho ordinary wash. .'^pots may bo removed from ging- ham by being Wet with milk and covereil with common .salt. Leave for an hour or so, and riiiso out in several waters. Vou can make a faded dress per- fectly while by washing it in boiling cream of tartar water. ."-â- all dissolvetl in alcohol will often ri-novo grea.so spots from clothing'. llud stains can bo removed from silk if the .spots are rubliod with a bit of flannel, or, it stubborn, with a piece of linen, wet with alcohol. if there is u deep-sot door that it is desirable to permanently close, have bookshelves littetl in. Curtains cm be hung at either side or not, as one pleases. It one does not wi.sli to nil tho entire space with books, the upper shelf can ho set in lower down than would bo wished for books, and china or [lowter and bra.ssware place! t hereon or a pic- ture hung in tho space. KOU CMAPPr.l) IIANIVS. These aro the days when chapped hnnds and lips begin to bo in evi- dence, and, as usual we suppose most peoijle will botake them.selves to pure glycerine for a remixly. Jt is a mistake to presume that glycerine is a cure for such a condition i\s this; quilo on the contrary, it is a disliiul uggravaiil. One of the host romeilies for chaps we know of is ([Uilo simple, and any one could couipouiul it in his own home. Take ton grains of traga- canth and ploco these in thriH! ountto.i of moderately warm, not hot, water. Jt must then bo allowitd to stand for Mi'veral hours, when ono ounce of glycerine should ho added. If it is (lesired to givo â-  tho preparation a pleasant jierfumo, this may bo o\t- tained h.y adding a smnll <iuantily of oil of roses at the samo time. 'J'he whole compound should then bo laix- ed thoroughly either by shaking It up woll or stirring with a spoon, after which it is ready for »ise. This remedy is soothing, pleasant, and nil almost itifnlllble cure after two or three applications. As a rule. TOETTJKING NEURALGIA. Suffered for Ton Years, Cured by Dr. Williams' Fink FiUs. Neuralgia is the king of torturers. A tingling ot the tender skin, a sharp sudden stab from some angry nerve; then piercing paroxysms of painâ€" that's neuralgia. Tho cau.se of tho trouble is disordered nerves duo to thin watery blood. The euro 3 Dr. Williams' I'ink Pills, which make new, rich rod blood, and thus soot'.io and strengthen tho disordered nervjs and euro neuralgia. Among tho thousands who have proven that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure neuralgia is Mrs. U. C. Johnson, of Simpsons Corner, N. S. Mrs. Johnson says: "For upwards of ton years I was a sulloror from tho awful pains of neur- algia. Ovor-oxortion or the least ex- posure to a cold wave would .set luo nearly wild with torture. I doctored with two physicians, but they d'd not cure me. I then tried several n('- vertLsed medicines, but found no bea- olit. Tho trouble continued at inter- vals that made life miserable, until six or eight months ago when a riv lation of mine brought mo a box A Dr. Williams' I'ink Pills and urged me to try them. I used this box and then got a half dozen more, and -^y the time 1 had used them all trace of tho troubl'j had disappeared, and M I have not since had the slightest at- tack I fool safe in saying that tno cure is peimanent." Mrs. Johnson is one of tho beat known ladies in the section in which she resides, and is a prominent worker in the Congrega- tional church. Naturally her family and friend.1 arc rejoicing over her cure, and Dr. Williams' Pink PiUs have mad.) many warm friends in that section as a result of their go. id work." It is" because Dr. Williams Pink Pills make now, pure, warm blood that thov have such great power to euro disease. They positivel.v cure rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, partial paralysis, kidney and liver troubles, anaemia, and the ailments from which women alone sulTer. The purchaser must ho care- ful to set) that tho full name, "Dr. WillianiH' I'ink Pills for Palo I'eo- ple," is printed on tho wrapper around i«>ch box. Sold by all medi- cine dealers or sent by mail at -M* cents a box, or six boxes for $2.f>o. b.> writing the Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. ta! in a suburb of .Sydney. On the coinmittoe was a genlleman namt^d Grilfin, who Was a professional stamp dealer. In conjunction with his daughter ho propo.sed to the committee that a chain letter should bo started by his daughter, in her own name, for the collection of a million used penny stamps, and that ho would add to tho proceeds a cer- tain sum suflicient to make up the sun- required. Something in tho wording of tho original â€" probably the reference to the need of a children's ward in a hospitalâ€" apptaled to public senti- ment, which was easily gratiOed by tho fact tiiat all that was aske<l for was ten o'd postage stamps and the repetition of tho appeal by tha re- cipient. The loiter at onco spread like wildiiro, pixsseil from New South Wales into tho other Australian col- anies. tc' Kngl.ind, tho linitod .States aud to any number of FOUKICN COUNTRIES. I have iny.self seen copies of it in Krencli, tierman ami Spanish, among othoi- languages, the Spani.sh ver- sion corning from South America; and the South Australian Register states that tl r. plies have como in "alm(iKt. every known language and dialect." Tho original letter contained, in the usual form, an intimation that when tho re<luplication of the a.\y- peal reached a certain number â€" I be- lieve it was eighty â€" it should bo stopped; but, as always happens, this number was spo«dily alleri'd through the thick headednoss of tho copyist, who niver seem to reflect that the more duplication of tho let- ter to the eighty "power" implii-s tho despatch and record of more let- ters than there are human beings in the world. In tho same way, the address, ond even the name, of Miss (JrifTin became mangled beyond re- cognition, and man.v letters arc now in circulation directing tho contri- bution of stamps to bo sent to places and countries remote from Now .South Wales. As re.garils tho result of all this letter writing and stamp collecting, tho information given b.v tho South Australian Register is most inter- esting. I have be<m under the im- pre.ision ray.self that some time ago tho New .Si>iilh Wales post olBco took the drastic step of stopping tho deliver.v of tho letters; hut on this point 1 llnil that I have hoen mis- informe<l. It turns out that tho let- ters have been and .still are l>cing delivered, so far as is practicable. It se<'ins. however, that Mr. and Mis.^ Griflln themselve-s long ago be- came tired of the ages niono would account for many thousands of dollars. For all this the hospital gets $1,18;". Finall,y, to crown tho absurdity of the thing, tho children's ward which was tho object of the wholi busines,s. waa provided long ago, the hospital having constructed a new men'a ward and appropriated the old on« for the use of the children. Tho snowball, however, is stilt roll- ing on, wilh apparently imaliated energy, and it is likely to do so in- dofinilely. BABY'S AWAKENING, It ought to be a pleasure to look forward to baby's awakening. H« should awaken bright, suiiling and full of fun, refreshed by sleep and ready for a good time. How many parents dread their child's voice, be- cause the.v know when ho awakes ha will cry and fret and keep everyone on the move until ho falls aslo-.p again from sheer exhaustion. Thesa crying fits make the life of the inex- perienced mother a torment. And y;6 baby is not crying for tho fun of tli» thing â€" there is something wrong, though the mother may not see any- thing ails tho child. Try Bab.v'a Own Tablets in cases of this kin 1, and we venture to sa.v baby will wako up happy and smiling â€" an alto- gether dilTerent child. Hero is pruf from Mrs. .lohn S. Sutherland. Bliss- field, N.S., who says: â€" "My baby waa terribly cross, and often kept mo awako half the night before I got Baby's Own Tablets for her. Sin- » I began giving her tho Tablets, sl.a is perfectl.v well, sleei)8 soundly ail night, and wakes up bright and fresh in the morning." Baby's Ow« Tablets aro a safo medicine for chil- dren of all ages. The.v cannot da anything but good. You can got them fiHrtn your druggist, or by ma4 at 2.') cents a box by writing Tho Dr Williams Medicine Co., BrecJ^* ville. Ont BACK AT HER. Nollâ€" I told Jliss Sharpo what y.Mi said about her literary club; that yoii wouldn't join because it was tf o full of stupid old nuiids. Helloâ€" Did you? What did she say? Nollâ€" Sh ) said .vou were mistaken; that there was always room for one more. LABOR AND EXPRN.SR involved in merely opening the let- ters and sorting their contents, as well the.v migat under tho circum- stances; and ever since 1902 Mr. (iriilin has haniled over his mails in bulk to tho hospital. Ho says that ho has thcroby lost many private letters addressed to himself, which serves him right. And what does tho hospital do with these mountains of corrcspon- diTice? It simpl.y sells them in bulk to any buyer for what the.y will fetch. Tho pn>sent rate is $2.75 a thousand. The seer 'tary of tho ho.s- pital Is of tho opinion that »>ccas- ionnlly tho buyers make a good thing put of it, for Iho reason that the letters now and then contain contributions in cash as well as in old stamps, and it naa happened that n buyer who has found money among tho loiters has been so con- .scientlous as to return it to tho .Such cases, however, are DODBTFUL. Stlppleiâ€" Did Mi.ss Kutts admiro your paintings? Dobber â€" 1 don't know. , Stipplorâ€" What did she say about i hospital, them? rare. Dobberâ€" That sho could fool that I I At any rate, tho ho.spital evidently put a great deal of myself into my 'considers that the chance of finding work. an occasional post oflico order or Stipplcrâ€" Woll, that's praise. cheek instead of stamps is loo .spocii- Pn iberâ€" I.S it? 'I'he picture I show- 1 lull ve to justify the exptndituro it 0<1 l.ir was Calves in a Meadow. Iwuuld have to incur in opening an.l A BIG EARTHQUAKE. May be Expected Along Next March or April. Abbe Moreau, of Paris, in a lettot' on- tho subject of the recent solar activity, says: â€" "As solar activity will slowly di mini.sh, it is highl.v probablo that earthquakes will occur in March an4 April next." It will be remembered that Abbe Horeau in a previous article, whick was widely publisho<l, predicted the earthquake;; which a few mouths aga devastated India, and which he hol4 duo to sua spots. Ho declared in an article publishod last week: â€" "There is a connection between so- lar activity and volcanoes and ovoa earthquakes. Tho awakening of in- ternal forces of the globe coincide."* with tho sudden change in tho curvo of tho sun .spots. The number of dis- turbances alone is not a decisive fac- tor. Ther.i must be .sudden augnwi- tatio:>s or diniimitions. F^rthqual^es, espt>cially of volcanic action, are lo- calized on tho lines ot the fractura of tho globe, and particularly at tha iiitersectioi- of these lines â€" tho west coast ot tho two .Vmericans, the lino including tho volcanic districts of Ka.stern Asia, South Sea Islands, and .'Vustialia, and, finally, tho de- pression ot the Mediterranean cutting tho first three 'lines of tho fracture' almost a!, right angles. "The.se are facts. Hypotheses less certain have suggested that tho sun acts on the crust of the earth eithir by causing potential electriril.v to vary or by modifying the heat sent to tho earth. For both there would bo dilatio.i or siuinkago of the en- velope." ♦ "That's whet T call a roujh draft," as the builder remoi-ked wh^m he discovered tho rough draft of which he was tho victim.