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♦♦♦♦•» ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ »»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I About the House I r.UMib and Veal Wambut â€" Cul .some (hill slieei of bucoii and lay Ihoin nt tin Iwttoiii of a saucepan, cover witli luyere of cold roast lamb and vonl, bliced onioKS and young cabbage U'avfs, a seasoning of salt, popper, and .small pii'ccs of butler U'iiig placed beUocn cacli. I'our a cupful of strong stock over all, lay .some slices of smoked sau.sage on llif loj), cover closely, and simmer gently for two or three hours. Serve with llie slices of llif Miu.sage in the cen- tre and a border of trii-d pntaloeii. .Strawberry Dumplings.â€" Mix together a pint of flour, a half teaspooiiful of salt, and ono teaspoonlul and u half cf baking powder, then rub in two heaping teaspooiifuls (if butler. Mix to a soft dough with milk and roll out halt an Inch thick. Cut in rounds Ihc size of a saucer; on each lay six or eight berries. Draw the edges logother and pinch firmly. Lay clasc together in a givaaed pun and sleam for Iwenty-dve minutes, .^itand in tin' oven tor a iiioiiient to slightly dry Iho tops, llien scr%e witli a liard same into whinh has been beaten as many pulpi'd In'rrics as can be add- ed without curdling llie mixture. Brown Kidney Stew.â€" Wash and wipe two good-sized beef kidneys, then from each lobe cut off the lighter outer jiarl with a sharp knife, rejecting the rentral purplish core and while lubes. Wash the cut pieces again, place in ft sauce- pan, cover Willi cold water, and heat slowly to Ihc steaming point. Drain, cover a .second lime with cold water, fieal and drniri as before; repeat a third time. While the kidney i.s thus gently cooking prepare a brown suuco by browning one tublespnontul of butter in a pan, adding a large tablespoonfiil of flour and browning again. Stir in gradually one .scant cupful of beef slock or water. When smoothly thicUeneil add snlt and i>epper to taste, ten drops of onion juice, ion drops of Worce-ster- shire and one lable.s|)oonful of tomato catsup. Now add the ilraine<l kidneys, stand over hot water fur ten minutes. add one tablespoonful of sherry, and serve, garnishing with toast points. Old-Time Itecf Soup.- .Select four or five pounds of lean beef .shoulder, cross rib, or under roundâ€" in one large square piece, and order with it a marrow In me. Wash meat and bone, place in a kellle, cover with live quarts of cold water, and let stand on the table for at least an hour. I'ive holirs Iwforo the soup is U) be served place on tlie lire, cover ami heal slowly lo the tiulliiig point, lioil bard for a mmnetit. Iln'ti diaw back wliere it will siiiiiiiei- slowly but stead- ily. .Scrape and thinly slice sullicicnl caiTots to measure one pint, scrapo and grula carrots lo measure one cupful and (I halfâ€" llie deeper red Ihey aiv the bel- ter. Trim, witsh. and lliinly slice six large leeks or chop white onions to mea- sure a half pint. Wash, cut into tour- inch lengths, and tie together several stalks of celervâ€" gret^n tops will do. Wash and drain a half cupful of rice and cut line one tables|K)onful of pars- ley. In two hours add to the kellle the sliced caiTots, rice, and one tubiespoon- ful of siill. An hour later add every- thing but the parsley, which goes in live minutes before serving. .Sea.son when the last ingre<lient.s linve been added. Stir frequenlly to pn'veiit the rice stick- ing to the l)oUnm of the kettle. This sStip will bear reheating, and is, in fad, almost heller on the .second day than the flrsl. Dumpling are frequently served with this soup, and. with a slice or two of the meal, thi.s will form a hearty and niilritious luncheon. Mix together a pint of flour, one-half of a lea.sfioonful of sail, and one large tenspnimful of baking powder. Stir lo a soft dough with .sweet milk, roll out an inch thick •lul cut in small bisruils. Dip into a shallow wide kettle a portion of Ihn 60up. iKiuring it through a strainer, and returning the rice and vegetables lo the large kettle. Bring the clear soup to a sharp boil and drop In the dumplings. Cover and move the kettle lo a poinl where H will keep iKiiling. but not too violently. Do not imeover f.ir from tlt- teen In twenty minutas, ai;conling to the Biii) of the dumplings. Ihen skim them out to a hot .serving di.sli and return the soup to the large kellle. .^luffed Peppers and Mire.- Cul off the Stem end from the gii'en pi'ppers. re- move the inside, and put Itiem into a kettle of hoi wali-r, and t'eiilly simmer them for live minutes: drain liiem care- fully, turning the o|)eiiing down; pre- pare a iiii\tme iiiadi; of one cup of gra:ed bnad rrmiiKs, one tablespoonful of melli'd liiiller. half a teasp(H>iiful of salt, a teiisjioonful of musliroom catsup, half a pint of cold lioiled asparagus cul In siniill, even pieces, a latile.spoonful ol oliv« oil, and a teaspoonlul of lemon juice. Mix thoroughly: fill the peppers; put them into a shall hnking-dish; aixl COOK for half an hour in a moderate oven, hasting freipiently with brown Disease takes no summer vacaticn. If you need flesh and strength use Scott*s Emulsion summer as in Mfinlcr. Stad lor liM lapli. soorr ft BowNi, rin«hii. ToiMte, Ontario tK. u4 tt.m; all dni((iali. Stock or hot water mixed with a t''n- spoonful of kitchen bouipiet and as iiiui h incited butler. Arrange around a mould of hot lioiled rice, and garnish wilh large pitted olives, made hot in what a left of the slock. Crown Itoast of r.anib. â€" The crown roast may have llie centre filled with forcemeat halls riiade from the Irim- inings of the meat. Chop Tine, .sea.son highly w'ilh salt and pepper, mix with an uiibeuten egg, and roll into balls us large a-s a hickory-nut; saule quickly in hiilter in a hot frying-pan, and fill the centre of the meal. Mini .sauce or mint jelly should be .served, with a brown gravy and the vegetables. The jelly is made by bruising a bunch of mint and adding it to an ordinary lemon jell, .straining out the night before setting 11 in the mould. A little green coloring will be net'ded fo make it look as it should. HINT.S F0|{ TlIF, lIO.\fE. Knives will lake a brilliant polish if riibl)cd in powdered charcoal and then wiped on a soft linen rag. When mixing stanch 1tie addition of a little turpentine will be found lo produce a .splendid gloss on the collars, cuffs and shirt-fronts. I.naf .sugar should be pounded and added lo boiling green vegetaljles and vegetable soups. A piece of sugar should not be lorgollen when seasoning .sauce.s and gravies. I'atenl leather boots should always he warmed before being worn in cold wea- ther. A mile olive oil rubbed into pa- tent leather alioul once a week helps to preserve il and prevents cracking. The wrinkle for cooking omelettes is lo remi'inber that it is betU'r lo use wa- ter instead of milk wilh the pgg.s. Whip the eggs till they are qiiile light and frothy, and .sprinkle .salt on a -savory omelello when it is half cooked. In hemming IitIjIo cloths a thread al- ways hati to be drawn in order lo have llie end even. This neces.sitales cutting off n lillle slrip of the goods. .Save this' piece, for later on, when time demands a darn. Ihe threads, by ravelling, of this strip will be just the thing to pnt the durii in wilh. In (lilting lireakfa.sl bacon, lay the rind side down on tlio meat board, cul down lo the rind a.s many slices as are nmled, then cut it off in a block. Turn (flgewuy.s and cut off one end, tlion tlio other end, llip inside, and last Ihe riiid, and you will have trimined all llic slices nearly as quickly us you could have tniniiied one. Save washing and dusieis by using old newspapers for cleaning. They are excellent for window-polihiicrs, lirst-ratc tor .-.couring tin-ware witti, and are as good as il brusli for polishing a slovn. 'ihe prud.-iil woman will always keep a good p:ul of newspapers at hand and use it for wiooig up grease or water spill on the gii.s or coal cooUing-sluve, for I will enable her to keep the stove clean with half Ihe usuiil trouble. Things a Guest Apj.iveiiiles.- -There are several .sinull coiirleMCs Ihat can lie shown a guest which will ulvvay.-, !»â-  gratefully received. .-V wash clolli among the towels on the rack is » welccum- sight lo U\c tired and dusty traveller, and a clothes tree at the foot of the bed is also found handy. In one home 1 know of the guest always finds on llir table in his room a plate of cookies oi crackers, with a pitcher ol leinona>K', ice-vvater or milk. To Dry a Wet L'mbrella.â€" The be,st way to dry an umbrella, and lo pre- serve il, is to leave it spread on the llonr in the hull. When there is not enough room lo allow Ihat. revi-rse the usual method, and stand the umbrella in Ihe corner with the handle down. The rain drips quicker off the points. The ordin- ary way collects all of the water at one place, where the cloth dries slowly and, therefore, rots the quicker. Never piil .several wet umbrellas together in an iinibrella^stand. To pi^vserve furs from moths there is nolliiiig iieller than to frequently lake them out and shake Ihem in the open air, but us one is apt lo forget lo do this regularly, and curel.s.sness is fatal, il Ls well lo ii.se parallln as a preservative. Take a drop or two of the oil into the hands, rub it on them, and then pa.s.s Iheiii o\er the fur. The paraflin will not injure Ihe fur in the lea.st, and its unpleasant odor will .soon pass off in the air when winler wraps are again needed; but in the meantime it will ipiite prevent moths from carrying on their work of destruction. Another way to use pnrallin is to sprinkle il on clolhs, and lo place lh(^se in the drawer or box in which fur is stored. The Care ot Birds. â€" If you wish to keen your pet bird in good health and «ing the following advice will be vkorlh reiiieinlH'riiig : Don't leavi' a bird in a mom which is being ^wept; diisl iniiires the voice. Don't hang Ihe bird in a window. Don't hang the tiird in the sim.shine except just after Ihe hath, and only long enough to dry his plumage. I'Kin't hang a bird where there an- drniiglils, or in a kitchen where there is steam or damp air. Don't give it llgs, sugar, or sweeLs. Don't allow the bird lo fly about the room if vou want his l>e.st songs. Don't feed it with mustard or turnip seed instead of sweet rape; they look like good rape, but are bitter, and as 111 for a bird as sawdust is fop you. Don't fall to change the water in tlie cup from which a bird drinks every day, and during hot weather several lliiies a day. mVKKTlIEAm'H "GHOST." A Dead GIA nevisils Her Praying Lover. The story of Ihe return of the spirit of a dtsud sweetheart is told on the au- thority of Ihc Bev. A. Chambers, (,f Hr(x;kenhurst. Hants, ICngland, in the Occult Hcvicw. The vicar relnle.s how a young man in ariet at Ihc death of his sweeth(?url prayed earnestly and constantly for a sign that stic lived beyond the grave. 1 he .sequel w'as that while at work in hi.s ofllce one day he looked up and saw tlie dead girl on the other .side of th; rcoin. She moved a lillle towards him and tried lo speak. When he rushed lovvards her stie vanished. After this occurrence he woke one night and found the girl standing I y his bedside. Three limes she laid ner right hand a'^ross her mouth in a pe- culiar manner. Later he remembered that before the body of his sweetheart was put in the coflln he had tried to ki.ss her, and a sister pulled his hc^.d lack and laid her hand across his mouth. "If ta.shion makes our bonnets any bigger," commented Ihc fair joiing thing, "I don't know what the wurnen will do." "I know," venliired the wise youth. "What? Bevoll against fash- ion '(" "No. Wear the bonnets." Mother (policeman's wife): "vyillie, I've l«H!n sliouUng for vou this half- hour. How is il you are never here when you are wanted ?" .Son: "VN'ell, mother, i suppose I take after falhcr." PALE, \>EAK WOMKN. Cain New Health and Slrenoth Through Dr. Williams' l>ink Pills. .\iiaernia is ju.st the doctor's name for I'loodlcssiiess. Dr. Williunis' I'ink I'llls for I'ale I'eople actually make new blood. Can any cure be more direct or Certain? Blood is bound lo cure blood- hssness. Dr. Williunis' Pink I'ills cure uiiaemiu just as food cures hun- ger. They cured Mrs. Chue Cook, a young ICnglish wdiiian who recently cuiiH- to tins c.iuiilry from I'ortsnioulli, I'.nglund, uiid is al present residing at I'rince's Lodge, Halifax Co., N. S., She says: "I am an enthusiastic believer in llie value of Dr. Williams' fink Tills as a cure for anaemia. I had suffered from the trouble almost from child- hood, but a few years ago it develupetl into a .severe lype of the trouble. y skin was pale and waxy; my lips si;em- eu bloixlless, and my entire system was run down. I suffered from headaches dizziness and weak spells, and my friends feared Hint 1 was going into a decline. 1 tried tonics and eimilsioiis, tiri without benelil. Then u fnend who had used Dr. Williams' Pink I'ills for the .same trouble advi.sed me lo try them. In a stioil time the.v began to help me and in a couple of months 1 was quill! well, the color having re- turned to my face, my appetite im- f lovod and 1 had gained in weight. I can strongly recommend Dr. Williams' fink I'ills lo all anaemic girls and wo- irien." The pale anaemic person needs only one thingâ€" now blooj. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills do only one thing â€" thoy make new blnid. They won't cure any di.sease thai isn't originally caused by bnd blond. But when Dr. Wil- liams' Pink I'ills replace bad l*ood with good blood they strike straight t Ihc root and cause of all common dis- eases like anaeiiiii,. headaches and l.rieknch.'s, rticumntism, indigestion neii- mlgm. St. Vitus dance, kidney trouble and Ihe secret troubles that every wo- II an knows but none of them like to talk about, even to their doctors. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills arc sold tiy ri) ir.edioine d(>alers or by mail nt 50 cents a hox or six boxes for .'52..50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Bruckville Ont. PFIISON.VL POINTERS. Interesting Cossip About Some Pronii- iient People. The Duke ot Connaiight is one of the most experienced horticulturists of the day. \\ hen at home al lUigshot House the Duke bu.sies himself almost every day in his gulden. He laya out the beds with his own hands, and has quilc a lemarkable knowlodge of botany. Ttiero is al least one society leader who has not yielded lo the prevalent craze for the guitar, and that is the Duche.ss of Itoxburghe. Now, as hcrc- lofoi-e, il is the banjo which her drace favors and plays really well. She sings "coon" .songs delightfully. It is said that to her rendering of these simple ditties she owes her great popularity with the Princess of Wales, who is very fond of them. LoixJ LeconlieUI, who has just cele- brated his thirty-fourth birthday, is a nephew of Lord Ho.sebery. He is un- married, and his mother often acts as hostess for him. Lord I.econlleld, who .servtMl wilh distinction in the Boer War, owns about llX).fVX) acrcw of land, and has a reiil-ioll of .liViO,!)!)!) a year. His London house in Chestertield Gardens one ot the finest mansions in the Metropolis, whilst his country seat. Pel- worth, is one of the show-places f Sus.sex, and has been naiued "The Hou.se llcautifiil." Sir Lawrence .Mmn-Tadema, the dis- tiiigiiishod painter, is a strong believer in llie luckiness of numbers. His lucky miinber is seventeen. +Ils wife, ho will tell you, was seventeen when he first met her; llic number of the house lo which he look her when they were inarrioil was .seventeen; his pre.sent house bears the same number doulilel; and the llrst spade was put to the work of rebuilding il on August 17th in tSR6. It was on November 17lh that he and his family llrst look up their residence there. Lord Bendel was by profession a barrister, and was for a lime a partner in the linn ot l.or.l Arinslrong, being raised lo tlic peerage just twelve years ago. .\ talent for engineering runs in Ihe family, as his father, Mr. James Kendel, was a celebrated engineer, who Imilt the harbors of Holyhead and Port- land, as well as the dcwks nt l.eith, whilst his elder brother, Sir .Mexander Kendel. has been consiiUlng engineer to the India Ollice for over thirty years. 1.01(1 Mendel has no sons, but four duiighlers. There is no more considerate house- The Wisest Thing: II LS TO OISCARD TBK ADVLTEBATBD JAPAN TEA AND USB- II SAUDA CEYLON GREEN TEA. AM ABSOLUTELY PURE TEA OF TNE HIGHEST POSSISLE QVAUTT Lead Packets only. 40o. 5So and soe par lb. At afl Oooert. Hir.IiF.ST AWARD ST. UiVIS, 19M. GOBALT-The World's Richest Silver IV|ining Gamp THE COLUMBUS COBALT SILVER CO., Limited. AutborUed Capital Stock. S'<50,9M. Shares %i each. BOAnU OF DIRECTOnS: UOX. RICIIARD IIARCOrUT. President. 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I'he undenixned pttrsooally offers for .lale at par only a limited numb«r uf iihares, aa it i;i expected that in a abort time it will t;reatly adrance. There la now a full force of miners developing the roperty. Send fur full particulars. Mail your order, with markod cheque or expnua order, to ' e order of DANIEL SI.MPSON, P. O. Box 129, Cobalt, Ont. ^ Slock sold on the instalment plan. k; A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT Scientists sj^ioo that for the amount ol power expended the bicycle above al! other nriachines, or means ol convey- auce, uiakes the greatest returns. /~-' IT PAYS TO RIDE A BICYCLE BECAUSE l( saves time, l( saves car tares, Il is always ready (or use. It will get you there hi the qitickest way. WHEN QUALITY COUNTS OUR BICYCLES RANK FIRST CLEVELANn PKBPECT SILVER RIBBON !U\S.SEY BKANTFORD Made in Cushion or Rigid Frame Models. Up-to-date Equipoient â€" Sills nyyienir llaiidlebars, C. C. M. Vor row CiOiister Brake. Backed up by the broad guarantee of CANADA CYCLE AND MOTOR COMPANY, Limited "Makers ol the Worlds Best Bicycles." GENERAL OFFICE AND WORKS TORONTO JUNCTION. Write (or catalogue. sa mistress than Qiiivn Aloxntidru, and in many little ways she arranges for the pli-asure of tier servanls. II is her cus- tom, for instance, to invitt the maids lo form in line lo see her when she is dre.ssod for f;'"*'al occasinns. The Queen has set her face again.sl the unwritten law by which maids shall wear blacl< drosses in the afternoon. She likes her servants to wear ordinary colori-d (•owns, and exproji-stxl this desire when last Christmas she distributed, as usual, patterns from which the maids might choose the dress which was Her Majes- ty's gift. Lord Cadogan is known as one of the best landlords in London. When North Street, CheVsea, was remodelled a short time ago, Lord Cadogan was approached by a syndicate which asked him to sell tlio properly to them. 'I'u which the earl replied :â€" "1 will sell it, hut 1 mu.st in- sist upon your granting new leases to everyone who is in that street, so that no one is tume<l ont for five years, and «n Biat they will all have ample notice." That made a difference of *»50.0(K) to I.otd Cadiiganâ€" in nlher words, if he had sold il outright without a condition ..( that soil, he would have got $250,000 more thnn he did. The Sultan ot Morocco is somewhat barbarous in his methods, in spite of his acquaintance with Kuropeun civilization. Not long ago, Ihe story runs, he visited his private menagerie with a camera in order to photograph Ihe animals. Ar- rived before the cage ot a tiger, Ihe young monarch suddenly desired his Minister ot NVar to hold the beast Ijy the ear while he photographed it. Dreading his master's displeasure if he refused, the trembling Mini.ster approached Ihe cage and, thrusting his hanil between the bars, grasped the animal by the ear. With a tierce growl the tiger sprang to its feet, while the wrolched Mintlcr chrng firmly to it, divided between fear of the tiger and dread of the .'^ullan. ..\t that moment, to his incxppc-ssiblo re- lief, the camera clicked, and his ordeal was over. His courage did not go un- rewarded. The Sullan has distributed numerous copies of the photograph as an evidence of his .skill as a phot'i- grapher and of the pluck of his War Miuisler. VOICE FROM GRVVIi. Robert Louis Stevenson's Prophecy- About 'Frisco. It is almost .startling, after reading the accounts o( the San Francisco di.s~ aster, to turn lo the late llobert Louis Stevenson's essay on that city. After an extremely beautiful description of' tlie place and its suburb, Oaklands, h» goes on :â€" 'Thus, in the course of » generation only, this city and its su- burbs have ari.sen. Men are alive by tha score who have hunted all over th« foundations in a dreary waste. But I I wonder what enchantment of the Ara- Ibian Nights can have equalled this, ! evocation of a roaring city, in a fcwi : years of a man'i life, from the marshesf and the blowing sand. Such swiftness< of increase, as with an overgrowHj I youth, suggests a corresponding swift- I ne.ss of destruction. We are in early- geological epochs, changeful and inse-! cuiv. and we feel, a.s wilh a sculptor'ai model, that tlie author may yet growi weary of and shatter the rough sketch,"' Never, surely, have the mussings of bh poetic genius been so suddenly and' starllingly verilled. F.ven the luuu who Isn't square may be cornered. ^ CHILDHOOD AILMENTS. Most of the troubles that afHicl lit- lie ones mi>y be traced to the stomachi or bowels and if these are put right the/ child will get well and thrive well Raby's Own Tablets will cure all sto-.' iiiach and tmwel ailments, and all thai clher minor troubles of bubvhood aiiit childhood. And the mother" has the, guarantee of a government nnnkat ttiat this medicine contains no poison-l cus opiate or hiirnifuKdrug. Mrs. Wil-l fert McKenzie, Chelmsford, Ont says-i "My little girl was troublixl with ohsfi- r.iile constipjition to such an extent Ihat we did not think .she would live ' Slw cried iilmosl conslanllv and was wasting away. I got a box of nnbv'.*' Own Tablets, and in three days found a great improvement. I conlinuw! civ^ ing her the Tablets for nearly a month, and every trace of the trouhla |.as disappeared, and she has since been a bright, healthy child and h.n.s grown nicely." You can get the Tablets from any medicine denier or by mail at 2J cents a box by writing The Dr. wJl bama' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. 4 I ; • . h