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•«M« !9BB Hints for Busy Hou9ekei$|)ei^« RedM* ooa Other Wliubl* lafMiaatlM «f Particular latarMt U Wobms F«lk& CAKE. Molasaes Cakeâ€" Prepare together two oupfuia of mo^casea, two of krova augsr, one til sour milk, en« 5-i» toMpoonful of 8o<^ sne cupful of butter, two boatea «sga, five and a gnarter cupfuli of flour. Beat all together. Line a dripping pan with buttered paper and put in tlie A>usrh. Sift white sugar over the t«p before baking and bake in a •low oven. This is excellent and wUl keep for weeks. White Cake.â€" Beat together one eopful of granulated sugar with one-quarter of a cupful of butter. Beat for ten minutes, then add one- half cupful of flour; last of all stir in the whites of two eggs beaten to a froth and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake alowly Cold Slaw.â€" Put a tablespoonful of melted butter in a stewpan and add to it a teaspoonful of flour ; mix and then put in a teacupful of rinegar. Beat one egg, and add to it a teaspoonful each of mustard, sugar, salt, and a half teaspoonful of pepper. Beat all tf^rether and â- tir in the boiling vin^ .^ar. Boil one minute. Pour over sliced or chopped cabbage. Wine Cake.â€" Beat together two cupfuls of sugar, one-ha'ii cupful of butter, and three eggs. Add two cupfuls of sifted flour, one teaspoon- ful of baking powder, and one gill of wine. Mix into a firm batter. Put in deep mold and bake in a moderate oven. Frost. Dried Cherry Cake.â€" Beat to a orcam one cupful of sugar with one-half cupful of butter; add one- half cupful sour milk, one cupful of dried chorries, one teaspoonful of soda, spice to taste, and flour enough to make a stiff batter. Bake in paper lined tins in moderate oven for about one hour. White Fruit Cake. â€" Cream well one cupful of butter with two cup- fuls of A sugar. Then add one cup- ful of milk, two and one-half cup- fuls of flour, whites of four eggs beaten quite stiff, two even tea- spoonfuls of baking powder, one- half pound of figs, one-half pound of raiains, one-half cupful of al- tacnds crushed, one-fourth pound citiun chopped fine, one teaspoon- ful of lemon extract. Put the bak- ing powder in the flour and mix wel! before adding to the other in- gredients ; also flour fruit well be- fore adding. Bake in a. slow oven for two hours tatoes on the hot board all around the fish, and garnish with parsley and slices of lemon, and serve at cnce. With it serye in a gravy boat a sauce made as follows : Melt a tablespoonful of butter, add a tablespoonful of fluor. When thor- oughly mixed add a large cupful of milk. Place on fire and stir until thick as cream. Then season wita pepper, salt, a few drops of lemon juice, and a dash of curry powder. Oyster Pies. â€" Line small, deep pie tins with rich biscuit dough, cover bottom with a light sprink- ling of flour. Fill pans with raw oysters, liquor included, season well with pepper and salt, dot with butter, and add a few sprigs of parsley and one or two nice stalks oj celery cut in small pieces. Sprinkle a light covering of flour over the mixture in pans in order to slightly thicken oyster liquof. Cover with upper crust, in which one or two holes have been cup, to allow steam to escape. Bake in quick oven twenty minutes, or un- til crust is a nice golden brown. Pie tins about the size of a saucer and rather doep arc best. This is an old Maryland recipe and is a delicious way of preparing oysters. TWO DESSERTS. California Cookies. â€" Two and two-thirds cupfuls of floTir, three level teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one-third cupful of butter, one In purchasing a turkey ascertain that the legs are firm and smooth, the wattles a bright color and the claws yellow and supple. A ycuing turkey takes about au hour and a half to roast, a little longer to steara or boil, and a large bird should be from two and a half to three hours in cooking. When giving baby medicine or a drink of water hold the wrist firm- ly and the baby will never strangle or ohoke. To revive a dying fire scatter on the embers a spoonful or two of granulated sugar. When rubbers look old, apply a coating of patent-leather shoe pol- ish and they will be like new. Hominy given long cooking and served as a vegetable with butter is one of the standbys of Nortn Carolina tables, being used in place of potato. The cereal is cooked in a double boiler for an hour or two. To cut hard jelly squares, use a perfectly clean pair f scissors dip- ped in cold water. Thus one can cut small pieces more easily than with a knife. Carefully clean and dry the scissors before putting them away. A kettle-holder to which is attach- ed about a yard of tape is very use- ful when one is working in the kit- chen. Tie the tape to your waist- belt, and then the kettle-holder will be ready to hand whenever you want to take anything hot from the stove. Coffeo stains, even when the cof- fee has been mixed with cream or milk, may be removed by rubbing the spots with pure glycerine. Rinse afterward in lukewarm water, and pre?-8 on the wrong side of the fab- ric (either silk or wool may be so treated) with a warm iron. In cleaning bric-a-brac, especial- ly china pieces, it is n good plan to u.io an old sha\ing brush. Half a lemon dinned in salt will third cupful of lard, one cupful of | i,^ £^,„n(i invaluable for cleaning brrwn sugar, one-half cupful of chopped figs, one-fourth cupful chopped walnuts, four eggs, one- fourth cupful milk. Sift together flrur, baking powder, and salt. Cream sugar and shortening, add biass and copper utensils. A teaspoonful of lemon juice to a THE S. S. LESSON INTEBNATIONAL IJISSON, MABCH 18. LcsMD II. Two Mighty Works. Matt. 8. 23 34. Goldea Text, Matt. 8. 27. Verne 23. He was entered into a boatâ€" Literally, "tlie boat." Be- eause of the multitude, Jesus had asked for a boat, "to wait on him" (Mark. 3. 9), and subsequently it is referT«d to as the boat, as if the one placed at his disposal (Mark 4. 36; 6. 32). His disciples followed himâ€" The boat must, therefore, have been of fairly large dimensions, although not as large as the "vessel" (Acts 27. 41) in which Paul suffered ship- wreck. Mark says (4. 36): "Other boats were with him," as if they were loath to part with him. 24. There arose a great tempest â€" A common occurrence, inevitab- ly connected with the situation ot the lake. The storms were sudden and violent, due to the fact that the lake lay so low in its hill-en- circled valley. Through the deep gorges of the watercourses, which converged at the head of the lake, the winds were sucked down with terrific violence from tlio massive plateaus. He was asleep â€" the days in Ca- pernaum had been strenuous ones. Jesus lay down in the stern of the boat, with a rough headrest (Mark 4. 38) for his single comfort. 26. Save, Lord ; we perish â€" A cry inspired, as the next verse shows, by fear rather than faith. Still, there was something in Jesus which inspired in the disciples hope, if only a forlorn one, and their cry unconsciously pays tribute to the WOBST T HMe WE CAN M The , Bad Habit of Brooding Over Oiir Own ^Weaknesses. Tliere is a spirit in man. â€" Job xxxii. 8. Man was created like the other animals from the dust of the earth, but there was a difference. God breathed into him a living divine spirit. The body came possessed with an immortal soul. It is this spirit in man that directs him and drives him on. It will not suffer him to rest contented. It demands always more struggles, greater sac- rifices, completer victories. Each stop gained becomes the basis for a new advance. Three centuries are a little time in which to cre- ate a modern city and the splend- id material civilization which it typifies. A hundred yag/f^^^^cem not enough in which toi^'.oduce the marvelous developments and mighty CONQUESTS OF STEAM. The insatiable spirit in man al- lows him but a moment for retro- spect. There are greater things yet to be done. After the conquest of the earth comes the conquest of the air. Beyond the world are the stars and beyond the stars there is infinite space. The body of man has reached its limit. We can by taking thought scarcely add a cu- bit to our stature or a decade to our span of life. But the spirit in man knows not limitation. It has life tliat is eternal and possibilitiea that are infinite. The living spirit travels in the direction of greater power. It multiplies itself by laying hold up- on the forces of nature. It drags energy from secret places and eeta it to work. It seeks also to under- stand psychic and moral forces and bcud thorn to its imperious wilL' The spirit in man travels in tho' direction of completed knowledge.' It must know all things. It sets man to searching our facts of every kind. It honors the explorer, the inventor and the thinker. Nothing is unimportant, if it is REAL AND TRUE. The spirit in man travels in the direction of a more perfect righte- ousness. It strives ceaselessly for' a better government, a juster social systom, the abolition of poverty, am! war, a life of happiness. ; Progress is the law of life. W«' can neither go backward nor stand still. The spirit docs not end un- til the dissolution of the body, un- til the dawning of an eternal day, when we awake in His Likeness. Thomas Reed Bridges, D.D. 30. Many swine â€" Mark, whose fuller account must be compared with this, says there were two thou- sand. They were feeding, afar off on the mountains above Khersa. 31. The demons besought him â€" They feared their doom was at quart of water will make rice very | --d-ul influence he had gained 'Zi\Tto%i\Tl.n ^27:. white and keep the grains separate' "'''"" ^"<'"i- when boiled i 26. Ye of little faithâ€" Note, in Encourage children to eat bread, ^att. 6. 30; 14. 31 ; 16. 8. how often yolks of eggs, milk, fruit, and nuts, !„,_.jjg ^f ^.,,^1^ ^p^i ground, notl*'^''' ^'^^'^ ^*» "PO" the lips of mixing thoroughly Stir in half the j.oited. so that the bran which con (lour add the stiffly beaten whites, ^.^-^^^ ^j^ minute quantities of lim<- and finally the remaining flour, jg present Drop by teaspoonfuls two inches Pmij;',,^' doths should never be apart on buttered tins and bake in y,„^hcd with soap ; soak them in a moderate oven fifteen minutes or until brown. Enough for sixty-five cookies. Date Pudding..â€" Cream together one cupful each of brown sugar and j ^„j jj^^r well, suet, add the yolks of two eggs, two rolled shredded wheat biscuits, two- thirds cupful of milk, one and one- half cupfuls of chopped dates, two- thirds cupful of raisins, one and cold water, then wring in very hot; water; then dry in the open air if possible before using again ; dip them in boiling water; wring tightr- NEVER OPENING FLOWKKS. one-half cupfuls of flour sifted with One-half cupful of! two level tcas)>oonfuls of baking two eggs. Steam two hours, dry off in the oven, and serve with hard or wine sauce. Will serve si.x per- sons. dates can be added if liked. I powder and a pinch of soda, and Burned Sugar Cake.â€" One-fourth i laat'y the stiffly beaten whit-es of cupful of butter, one and one-half cupfuls sugar (light brown prefer- red), two eggs, two rounding cup- fuls of flour (measured before sift- ing), oj:« cupful cold water, two tea- spoonfuls baking powder, three or four teaspoonfuls of burned sugar syrup. Use common straight tum- bler to measure with instead of cup. Cream, butter, and sugar together, break in the eggs, and beat well ; add water, burned .syrup, and last- ly flour which has been well sifted with baking powder. Bake in lay- •rs The burned sugar syrup is prepared by putting any quantity desired of granulated sugar in a spider ovev the stove and stirring constantly until a nice brown, theu a^d boiling water and cook to syrup. Put into a can or any con- venient receptacle you have on hand. For the frosting, use one and one-half cupfuls light brown sugar and the whites of three eggs, add a little water and three tea- spoonfuls of burned syrup to the sugar, and boil until a little drop- ped in cold water will "ball." Stir about half this with the beaten whites and allow the remainder to oook a little longer. Beat until cold. of Jesus. Even after many other miracles, Jesus had to chide his disciples: "Are yo even yet with- out understanding 1" Rebuked the winds and the sea' â€" By addressing to them the words! found in Mark's account, "Be muzzled," as if speaking to mad beasts. A striking proof that. Jesus considered himself Sovereign of the physical world. There was a great calm â€" Not the ordinary gradual subsidence, mark- ed by the long, rolling swell, but a sudden abatement of the disturb- ance. 27. The menâ€" No wonder those in the other boats marveled, when even the bosom friends of Jesus were so cowardly. "The sjeep and FISH. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Sprinkle granuliktcd sugar on top of jellies to prevent mold. i.\dd a pinch of salt to starch. It will keep the irons from sticking. Dry salt and a bru.sh will take dust off from velvet, plush and heavy embroidery that cannot be washed. I' your rugs curl up at the edges, they can be made to lie flat by dampening the curled edges and pressing with a hot iron. Nearly all metal teapots will cor- rode or rust slightly when put away for a time. \ woman who travels says she preserves such ar- ticles by filling (hem with flour. It is dry and will not admit the least moisture. Boiled salad dressing will not cm die. but will be smooth and light if stirred frequently while cooking in a double boiler, with a revolving egg beater. To beat bread sponge quickly use a large size egg boater. It does the same work as a machine and is quickly cleaned, will also save work in mixing cake batter. A conimou crock makes a fine baking dish for young chicken, as it keeps the meat juicy. To make cabbage crisp shred and lllii.sirnlinn From the Violetâ€" Their Qiialily of Fertility. Tlie never opening flower, or, as botanists call it, cleisLogamy, is well illu.=trated bv the ease of the common sweet violet. The familiar j *'«« outward appearance," said^ __ ._ purple, sweet .scented blos.som, C^^O'sostom, "showed man, the sea | them want to tell the news. These which to most people is the violet |"na calm declared bun God-" | madmen had been the talk of the flower, hardly ever produces an.v to restrain them 31) As a compromise they entreat- ed him to send them into the herd of sw'ne. 3-2. Goâ€" More forcibly, "Away with you." Went into the swineâ€" See note above on demon-possession (2). Rushed down the steep into the sea â€" What made Khersa easy of identification as the scene of the miracle was the fact that at only this point on the eastern shore do th:; mountains come at all near the beach, and here "the incline is such thai one rushing down would be precipitated at once by the impe- tus into the water." The whole herd . . . perished â€" Are not two men of more value than two thousand swine? The de- mons would spare the swine and destroy the men. Not so Christ. 33. They that fed them fled â€" Partly because of dread, partly be- cause of their excitement that made 28. To the other sido-The east- 1 town, and liiid foiled every attempt seed. But altogether unseen bv i ^^n shore, opposite Capernaum most people, the violet produces a See verse 18 of the chapter. number of minute, scentless and I Country of the Gadarenes â€"This colorless flowers which never open, cannot have been the neighborhood 34. They besought him that he would depart â€" The destruction of so many swine would be a great say<' the Botanical Gazette. I of Gadara, which lay several miles commercial loss, and, perhaps, they These are self-fertilized and pro- j southeast of the lake; for then the feared more. In that case they diiee abundant seed. The word i swine must have been compelled would seem to care more for their eleistogainous expresses the fact that fertilization takes place with to race over mountain, river, and plain a long distance before reach- Herring Salad. â€" One and one-half salt herring, two cupfuls of beets, two apples, one salt pickle, two cupfuls of boiled beef, two and one- half cupfuls of potatoes, four or six drop into a bowl of iced water au tablespoonfuls of vinegar, white | hour before using. jKJpper. Soak herring in water! To be sure of smooth dressing add twenty-four hours. Clean well, re- j a tablespoon of cornstarch to beat- moving skin ami bones. Dry in j en ingredients. Beat all well and towel and cut in cubes. Cut in cook in double boiler. ., cubes also the pickle, peeled apph 8, 1 \ bowl of quick lime left in a meat, beets, and potatoes. Mix all i damp cupboard will absorb the together and add vinegar, sugar, nioisture. and popper. Pack firmly on phit- 1 Every coffee pot should occasion- tor and garnish with finely chopped jal'y be washed out with a solution beets or hard boiled eggs. of soda and boiling water. Planked Fish.â€" Now that lent is Always keep cheese well epvered here a dinner with planked fish as i jr, a cheese dish. If wrapped in a tho main meat course will prove a! vinegar moistened cloth it will keep treat. Get a long, oval board sold ' beautifully moist, and retain its out the opening of the flower, and|i«« the Sea of Galilee. The best hence without the agency ot insects, suggestion is that popular usage Such never opening flowers occur gave the name of the chief town to in a large number of plants, some- ! all the east .shore country. Modern times along with blossoms of the! Khersa has been accurately identi- ordinary sort and sometimes with- fi"'! as the scene of the city (verse ou'. them. It is a disputed point, 34) near which the miracle took however, whether there is any plant Place. Trace a line directly across from Tiberias, and somewhat to the which in all circumstances will pro duce nothing but eleistogainous flowers. There arc nevertheless a number' north stand the ruins of Khersa, close to the seashore. Two possessed with demonsâ€" Tho ally produce nothing! belief of the Gospels about demon- which else. pniduced by the clcistogamous fl(jw- ers are never inferior to those of tho ordinary blossoms, in some cases they are superior and in others they are the only seeds pro- duced by the plant. Mr. Hill's studies relate to a species of linaria (L. canadensis). He has found that the amount of eleistoganiy varie.'^ with the height possessions tliaii for tho presence of Jesus. Perhaps, however, tliey were moved by feelings of reveren- tial awe. THE WISE MISTRESS. Note Method of Woman Who Kcepi Her Servants. She doesn't nag. System is her strong point. Sho has regular duties and sticks to them. She knows her own mind and does not distract with changing orders. She never loses her temper or permits it to be lost by her subor- dinates. She expects to be obeyed in hor own home, but does not give im* possible commands. She keeps the children within bounds and does not permit them to impose ujion the workers in tho household. She niakf s her maids comfortable. Their bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchen are as attractiva as she can make them. She provides, if possible, a special sitting room with a writing desk, work-table, easy chairs, and a shelf of interesting books. Sho dues not refuse permission to have callers outside of working hours, and is willing to give extra days off when occasion warrants. Sho takes a, friendly interest in the affairs of hor maids, but never degenerates into a regulator or pryer into those affairs. In return she expects good work faithfully done and a willingness on tho part of her maid to help in so emergency. -Above all, she knows the value of judicious praise and kindly encour- agement. "BLUE SIGN" HOTELS. Look for Blue Signs in Gcruinny if Von Want Quiet. Little blue signboards, hearing recondite devices, are appearing spcittdically over the doorwavs of FOOD AND MAN. The pessimistic views expressed by Sir W. Crookes in 1898 coneern- iiiK an impending dearth of ths wheat supply of the world havo often since boon the subject of com- ment, and at the recent meeting o| th? British Association they were afiain mentioned by Maj. P. O. Ciagie in his address to the Sub- Section of .\griculture. He was more hopeful than Sir W. Crookes, hotels in various parts of Germany. \s reRards fert'lity the seeds i P"'''^"^*^'°° includes these points : | These are outward badges of tho , , . . â- --'-'- ' - (1) There is a kingdom of demons j spiritual roctitudu of the jiarticu- 1 """ "^ pointed out the necessity of of which Satan is the head ; (2) they i l«r hotel proprietors, men who at j ''^^'''"P'"K the grain lands of the ar? incorporeal and generally in- j the bidding of a now society have I ^^*^""''^' ancl expressed the view that visible; (3) they ore the cause of ' called down quietude to be the pre- t'"c most important thing was not mental and physical disease; (4) I siding genius over their establish- '" '^r'ng Hie food to the men, but more than one can lake possession } nients. Therefore, nerve-racked ' t^' '""in*? t-lie men to the food; that of a man at the same time; (,5) tr.ivellers should make for those I j* to 'he land capable of producing Christ cast them out in his own j blue signs and enter the portals i '•'. The 1,600.000.000 persons con- of the plants. The shortest l>ear , , . . cleistogamic flowers onlv, and those |Th''f possessed are some deaf and a little t-iiler have a few small opeti j ^'''''^- ,='""^'' ,>''"''â-  ^"""^ «'^^"'K«' tho closed 1 ^^'""' abnormally strong, some giv name; (0) he never treated those which they adorn; but the youthful ' ^tituting tho present population of possessed as wilful sinners; (7) he saw in every case a result of sin. 'i: flowers in nddition to ones. The tallest (ilanls have larger open flowers, with only a few eleis- togamic. en to convulsions, raving, or foam- ing at the month. .Ml these are signs of epilepsy. (See Basting's Dictionary of Christ and the Gos- pels; article, "Demon"). Coming . . . out of the tombs â€" an.i the giddy aged, who love 1 1''' g'ol^*"- are concentrated in nar bu^tle, clatter and music, will go row regions, and large parts of th ia stores for baking fish. You will appreciate this board after once eating planked fish. Whiteftsh or trout arc best suited for this pur- pose. Clean and remove the bono by pulling out the spine. Heat the flavor longer When nursing the sick never per- mit any one to sit on the bed, or allow it to be jostled in any way. .Mso avoid any persistent noise, such as dripping water, creaking board, then butter it. Then place furniture or doors. the fish on it. Season tho fish and A little healing lotion, which put; little dabs of butter here 3.M should be kept ni tlic house for there ; then place in oven and bake every emergency, is this: One until done when tried with a fork, diaelim of boracic acid, two ounces; was abundant temptation to deer U^pj/ diseased mindsi he appears to When removed from the OTcn place) ©f rose water. When a child shows stealing and regulations concerning i,,^^p come as the Messia-Judge to th(! board witn th« fi»i» on it on » any little .ikin irritation it can be lelosed sisasons would have been pxocute vengeance before the time; platter, put mounds ot mashed po- applied with splendid results. I tnattd witli indifferent respect. 'that is bfors the last judgment. E.VTING SNAKE'S FLESH. .YnMrnlian Native.s Count Dish of Snakes a.s Luxury. Many .\frican tribes count snake flesh among the delicacies, and John Ward says thai with the Australi- an natives "a dish of snakes is a much-ostcemed luxury." Many kinds of birds eat snakes. Pigs are particularly fond of them, as also are some deer ; but in the old days it was understood that deer only ate snakes in summer, for which j to be their linal Judge, is this : In rea.Hon their venison was at that Qapernaum. witli the crowds .they time poisonous, a sagacious fiction had heard Jesus preach and beheld which it was doubtless well to make his wonder-working. But they hod widely known in times when there |no£, yielded to him, and now, to elsewhere. The new Teutonic .\nti- Neise Society's special aim is to enlist hosts who will agree, to pro- vide shutters to all bedrooms, so that they may be darkened at will, a sitting room where silence broods over tho scene, doors which mito- matiealls chK^e without banging or creaking, silent dining room scr- Near the ruins of Khersa are re- '^.'<<' an alarm system by which a miiins of ancient tombs carved out;''""S'« 8"e8t will be surely awak- of tho face of the mountain. Chris-;*-''"-'" without calling up every <ither tianitv h;id not vet come to found **'**^I""K " 'ght on (he same flour, asylums for such' unfortunates, and '^"'^ to bani.sh the muse to an ann;-x thov were allowed to roam like entirely apart earth, capable of great agricultural development, are left relatively barren. . The best solution of the problem of food supply Would be to find a wny to iiuhico tho surplus I)(i|)iilation to inhabit and develop the hinds now iieslected. from the iiuiiii beasts. Burial places were their favorite haunts. Those two had terrorized the vicinity, so that no mar could pass by that way. 29. A reasonable explanation of their recognition of Jesus, and of his Messiaship and consequent right building. So far so good. Hut trouble will assuredly arise over the solemn promise to keep a, bla<'k- list; for cuirculation among the Knights of Silence, a. list which will bear the names and descrip- tions of persons cursed with rau- eou" voices, resonant laughs, evil tempers, or any other faults likely to jar the nerves of susceptible peo- ple; such objoctionablos to be rig- orously turned from the doors. It's little use talking to a man about his aoul whon the soup is burned. PHOSPKIUTV OF BELGIUM. lielgiurn is, perhaps, tho most prfsperous i,t;il<; in Kurope a.s well as the most thickly settled. Tho late, king's reign was at least marked by nn enormous ad\ auce in wealth and social rt^form. C^ne of till! couiitiy's .'?pei ial advantages is that its intertniliuiial neutralism' permits it to dispense with a navy,, while the Belgian army is main-, tained on a very small and incX" pensive basis. Some men thirik tliey an- e.\hi-, biting faith in Providence wh^n, they buy a horse on his spoeifica»< tions. Two officials of the Austrian Go»s eriitneut fought a duel at Viciina I on Saturday, in \\hich one of lhei% I was killed. 1.