m & Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Keclpes and Other Valuable Informatloa •i Particular Interest to Women Polka, TOMATOES. Bpiced Tomatoes. â€" One quart of tomatoes, one onion chopped fine, A red pepper, a teaspoonful of salt, twc teaspoonfuls of sugar, a cupful of vinegar, and a teaspoonful of ii.ixcd spicos, cloves, cinnamon, ai'd allspice. Boil the tomatoes and tiie vinegar together for two hours, then add the onions and the other things and buil for another hour. This is a b.;od relish for cold meats cf any kind. Cream of TAmato Soup. â€" Cream of tomato soup is mad? quickly and cokjiy if made by the followinj.' co- cuje : Put two saucepans on the fire. In one put two and one-half ci'pg of milk and scald it. In the otiier put two tablespoons cf but- ter When it is raeltsd add three tablespoons of flour and stir till miiooth and bubbles. Then add the Hiilk and stir till thickens. Then pour into this one 10 cent can of to- mato soup which has been heated. Do not dilute the can of soup but use full strength. Heat and serve This makes a delicious, cheap and eaeily prepared soup. Escalloped Tomatoes.â€" Put in a brown jar one quart can of toma- toes, four tablespoonfuls of well mashed rice, four teaspoonfuls of augar, one green pepper sliced fne, salt. Stir and add small piec- es of butter. Bake rather slowly for ono hour. Stir occasionally so the rice will not settle at the bot- tom. Fried Tomatoes on Toast.â€" Dip •licaa of ripe tomato pancake bat- ter; fry until tender and brown; place each fritter on a slice of warm luttered toast and sprinkle with . lalt and pepper. Minced Beef in Tomato Sauce.â€" Make any favorite tomato sauce and when hot add one cup of beef or ory left over cooked meat whijjh has been put through food chop- per. Cook up once and send to iablo garnished with parsley sprigs. CANNING. Gooseberries. â€" To can gooseber- rici to be nice and whole canned llioy should bo cleaned carefully, tlien put as many quarts as desir- ed into a vessel. Have ready a ket- tle of boiling water, pour it over the berries, leave until they turn white, which is only a few moments, fikini the berripH out and put into the jars. Have more boiling water on f pour over them in the jars un- til berries are covered. Seal im- iiudiately. They are thoroughly cooked when opened and will keep. To Can Rhubarb.â€" Wash careful- ly, cut in Kmall pines, fill jars that have t^n warmed (to avoid crack- ing)- /Â¥'"»" pour boiling water ever i*r until the rhubarb is well covo^^d. Seal immediately. Red Beets.â€" Cook beets, small ,.-<no8 (if large, quarter them, after bemg cookexl) ; have vinegar sea- eoned with salt, pepper, a little sugar, boiling hot, ready, and when beets are put into the jars, pour tlie hot vinegar over them. See that they are well covered before «ealing, but seal immediately. De- licious when opened. UNUSUAL RECIPES. Substitute for Meat.â€" Put a can of poas with a cupful of milk into B pan. Let it scald, not boil ; then odd a tablcspoonful of butter, salt and pepper to taste, and then add a can of shrimps. The entire cost is about 30 cents, and it makes a inenl fur several persons. Serve hot with toasted bread, cra-.-kers, or croutons. Add more milk if more jfiavy is desired. Liver and Bacon. â€" A new way of fireparing liver and baeon is to scald the liver, peel off all outside skin, place in a baking pan, lay strips of baroR over each, slice, and bake in quite a hot over. The ba- con bastes the meat and it is sweet, tender and juicy. And it ai£o docs away with spattering the stove. Mfcxican Eggs. â€" Take three sweet grten p<!ppcrs, split lengthwi.se an<l remove the core and seeds. Fry very thin slices of ham and place each piece on a slice of toast. On each slice of ham put a piece of pep- per, and put a poached egg on top of both. ME.\TS. Roasting Meats.- Take a gallon crock, put in any kind of meat, sea- mn without water, cover with a lid ; if the roast is too large tako another gallon crock and put on top. This is esyeeially good for chicken ; niuko? it tender. Beef Loaf"â€" To two pounds of r( iind steak wod to slices of bacon nn) grind. S<;ak about one-half ii'iil stale broad in hot water. Drain w.'iter off broad and add to meat «!lli one small, or a.H largo as de- sired, onion cut fiuf;. .\dd plenty of salt and pepper. A little sago e4i;i also be put in if desired. Work all the above I'.itil smooth. A po- t;.t> in&shcr is as good aa au^lltiog Bake in a loaf This is delicious se/ved hot or cold, surved with to- mato sauce. This beef loaf is far to work it with, about one hour tied. u,io Bailee. iiiis oeei loai is lai j>erior to the ono with eggs ad- CLEANING. Carved Furniture.â€" To clean deeply carved furniture use a soft, rrtdium-sized sponge. Squeeze as tiry as possible out of tepid water and go over the carving. It will take up all the dust. Rub dry with a soft cloth and you will be de'ighted with the result. Carpets and Rugs. â€" Eight ounces of salsoda, four ounces powdered borax, one-half pint of alcohol, one pcund of white soap, five gallons of rai" water. Dissolve soap in on© gf.llon water by boiling, put in tub, then add soda and borax, mix, then add remaining four gallons water, stir, and then put in also- Lol. Let stand an hour or two be- te re using. Use with hair brush, scrub place about a yard square at a time. Take sponge, dipping in clear water, squeezing out as dry IS possible, and wipe surface of car- pet or rug. Don't walk on the car- pet or rug while wet. THE SEWING ROOM. When sewing with silk thread al- ways use a new machine needle, as a blunt one causes the silk to draw cr pucker. I Curtain Hint. â€" In making sash curtains of swiss, hem both sides the width of the selvage; one turn| IE enough. They will wear longer, j i'-on easier, and look a hundred per| c«nt. better than with the selvage ! edge. I Kitchen Aprons. â€" Take as many| widths and lengths as desired of ca-i lico or gingham, sew together and 'â- hem both ends. Draw a tape thiough one end to tie around thej waist; either end can be used to draw tape through. When washed take out the tape and vou have' llat work to iron. Aprons made! ti'is way are made quicker than the apron with band and strings, and; laundered in half the time. Padding Embroidery Work. â€" For Ibis lint cotton is much better than thread ; moisten the finger tips and roll the cotton, size and , l<5ngth wanted, and put in plutcetind work over it. No shrirju^ required, as most thread,cltfcs. , â- ' HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A sprig of parsley eaten after on- ions or leeks prevents the offensive ticath which is so annoying to other people. | Milk may be kept from scorching if the pan in which it is to be cook- | ed is rinsed in ctild water before the ' milk is poured in. To clean glass globes soak them' in warm water and soda, add a fewi drops (jf ammonia to the water, and wash them with a well-soaked flan-j r.el. Rinse in clean cold water, dry with a s«ift piece of linen, and pol- ish with a newspaper. | Finger-mark stains on doors and 1 cunboards vanish as though by en- 1 d'antmcnt when lightly rubbed with a piece of flannel dipped io kerosene oil. In order to take away the disagreeable odor of tho oil, rub tho door down with a clean flannel wrung out in hot water. To improve the color of the hands â- f red, try tho following mixture : Take equal parts of rosewatcr, le- rcim juice and glycerine. Mix Unse thoroughly and bottle. Rub the hands liberally every night with this preparation. It should be shaken before use. Few i)eoplo know how to hang fhects properly upon the line. Shake them well while still wet, and hang them with the hems to- gether and the hem-edge pinned to ilie line. This prevents whipping t'lo corners and lessens the w>ar and tear, while the sheet will need losd pulling into shape for the iron- ing. The best means of encouraging truthfulness in children is through mutual sympathy, which teaches the child uncomplainingly to occept mother's wishes as law. To win this trust a mother's correction shculd never outrun her love. It a child onco feels that the day has g<jno by with a lessening of the mother's love, the influence of the mi tlicr for good is dangerously weakened. Undue harshness is ono of those irreparable errors we are euro to regret. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 3. Lesson I. Pictures of the Kingdom, Hatt. 13. 31-8, 44-52. Golden Text, Bom. 14. 17. Verse 31. Mustard seeel- A pro- verbial emblem of an exceedingly sn.all quantity. Not the tinnber tr<>e, but the black mustard, a gar- den herb, sown annually, is refer- r<'d to. 32. Less than all seedsâ€" Not, of course, literally bo ; rather by po- pular estimation, since in ordinary gaidening no smaller seed was ever sowed. "Small as a mustard seed" was a common Jewish say- ing, in which was exercised the poetic license often found in the proverb. When it is grown â€" The impres- sion is not of rapid development, but of the contrast between the in- significant origin and the mature product. Tho Christian believer can afford to wait until the seed is grown. Greater than the herbs â€" It tow- ers above the pulse, parsley, and mint ("ten feet high, drawn up amongst brushes, and not thicker than whip-cord"; "as tall as the horse and his rider"), so that^ to all intents, it has the appearance of a tree. The birds . . . come and lodge â€" An Old Testament expression for the spread of a great kingdom, £iv- ing shelter to many (Ezek. 31. C; Dan. 4. 9-18). The application of the parable is self-evident. From a perie>d of precarious life amidst persacutions and toils, the kingdom of heaven has gradually enlarged JtE sway till it has become a world- wide protector of the poor and op- pressed, and a power that can no longer be neglecte^d in any of the Councils of men. During the nine- teenth century the number of the adherents of Christianity increased more than in all the preceding cen- turies of the Christian era. 33. Leaven â€" The fermented dcugh, lightens it. Scientists have dihcovered that this effect is pro- duced by tiny living organisms 46. A merchaDt seeking-rHe re- ptesents the man who devotes his life- to tho diligent quest of truth. Goodly pearls â€" There is a cer- tain beauty and lustre to other re- ligions, but they have no absolute value ; and if a man is in deadly earnest to find the best, ho will not fctop with them. 46. Found one pearl of great piice â€" ^The end of all life is to find for oneself this gem of solitary stlendor. What was the price? All that he had. Was it too high? It i? no less for any of us. Life eter- nal is a jewel of such transcend- r.nt rarity, that nothing else will match it except the unwithholding renunciation of a human being. 47. A net â€" The seine, or drag- net, which is often worked by fast- ening one end to the shore and carrying the other end out to sea in a wide circle and afterward bringing it to the starting point, thus inclosing all the fish of every kind, as in the world are men of every type and condition. Until the final disposition of all, the good pud bad freely mingle. 49. The end of the world â€" As in the case of the tares, the angels are the agents of judgment. 52. Every scribe â€" By his use of pcrabolic teaching Jesus has shown how the disciples may become tea- chers and give apt instruction in th'i things of the kingdom. Like a householder, who takes out of his chest old things and new, so they iire> to present to men not only the old truth in the old way but both ckl and new in a new way, lik§ their Master presenting all truth thiough the vehicle of commonplace facts and experiences of life and nature centrifugal pumps would extract the whole of the sand contained within her in from one to two mcnths. The total •eost of salvage should not exceed $35,000. "No 2 Wreckâ€" This vessel is in a goe>d salving position. Her con- tents, according to evidence of a thoroughly reliable nature, were valued at $1,000,000. I estimate that the greater part of the specie could be recovered in six months at a maximum cost of $35,000. MIGHT WIN $3,500,000. "No. 3 Wreckâ€" The worth of the contents of this vessel represents a value of more than $3,500,000 in specie. She lies in twelve fathoms of water, on an ocean bed cover- ed by kelp. I am certain that with ENGLAND IN EOYPT. Uevenue 20 Times as Great as Whea British Control Began. When England assumed sole con- ticl in 1882 Egypt was still bank- rupt, with a public debt of more than $500,000,000 and an income in- sufficient to pay the interest and carry on the Government. The public revenue in 1883 amounted to $4,500,000; in 1907 to $SI, 500,000, more than $10,000,000 ia excess of the expenditures. On January 1, 1908, the sum of $45,- 000,000 was in the general reserve fund and the public debt was re- eluced in 1908 by $1,600,000; it now is $479,000,000. The cities and towns were with- , .J- J 1 I out any drainage or sewerage, says a few expert divers and good, up- ^^^ ^^^,^ ^^^^^^ On ly*" Within t^.-date plant, the greater portion ci-uld be recovered at a cost of $60,- POO in a period of six months, as there is no sand to extract from the ship. "No. 4 Wreckâ€" This vessel is in a similar position to the one stated above. She is in five fathoms of water and is filled with sand. From the investigation of authorized re- cords I have ascertaiacd she was CE trying $4,000,000 in specie w lest; her bell and two other ar- tides, easily accessible were recov,|^,^^ population. eicd. She would have to be worked I T;r.Li_ u.. i: * in a similar way to No. 1. I esti tea years even Cairo itself, with a death rate of forty-six per one thousand, has undertaken any such public work. In the country every canal was polluted and stagnant pools of filth were near ev«ry vil-i lege. The annual pilgrimages to Mec- «,a were like -vise the means of intro- ducing many diseases. Cholera and r"°!other epidemics were of frequent occurrence, and their ravages car- ried off thousands and thou.sands of Little by little the various diffi- culties of the situation have been mate that m ordinary weather th^i.^^^i^ ^nd solved bv the adminia- t^K^^ ^U^T^'^' ^^^ ^''â- ''''f^!''^^<'^''on, until now Egypt may be €30,000. The time occupied m this 1;^' J reasonably healthy TREASURE IN WRECKS I-LAN TO REGAIN $20,000,000 FRO.M THE OCEAN. Captain Gardiner Gives Account of Fortunes to be Won from Neptune. Previous to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1870 all British transports and East Indiamou made the voyage to and from the spread through the leaven in large! I-ast by way of the Cape of Good numbers. Inasmuch as leaven gives j Hope. Many were wrecked. Most of these wrecks lie close to tho shore, and all attempts to salve their contents were, until quite re- cently, attended by great and in a disagreeable taste and odor to the bread, yeast is now much more commonly utcd. , Three measures â€" No significance atiachcs to the number. The seah was tho recognized unit of mea- surement especially in the case of dry substances. It was equal to about one peck and a half. Till it was all leavened â€" This took place by. the influence of the leaven, first upon the particles near V'here it was hid, then, through th< se. upon all the rest. Such is tho persuasive influence of operation should not be over six months. "Tho above four wrecks I have located and surveyed, as I have twelve others. Besides these six- teen wrecks, the contents of which I have ascertained, sixteen further wrecks remain, all of which I have located, but not yet surveyed." Thus, only a matter of $399,000, which the company desires to com- mence business with, is needed to collect untold treasure from the depths of Father Neptune's realoi. MILK-BOTTLING MACHINE. Has a Capacity of 7,6S0 Rotttes an Hour. The filling of milk bottles by or- dinary methods is such a tedious task for large metropolitan milk companies that a machine to do the work has become an absolute ne- cessity. The latest form of milk- beittling machine is operated by two iven, one to operate the machine itself, the other to see that it is properly fed with bottles; it has a most cases insuperable difficulties, ! capacity of 7,680 bottles an hour, owing to the inefficiency of diving I Each operation, which takes about ana salving apparatus and the ' fifteen seconds, fills with milk practical impossibility of removing I tvvelve quart bottles in one carrier 'he sand with which most vessels j and twenty pint bottles in another submerged for some years are cov cred. BETTER DIVING APPARATUS. During the last few years, how- ever, great strides have been made tJue Christianity upon the life of ;!" Pe*"fecting diving apparatus, and ir.ankind. Beginning with Christ,!" is now practicable to work a a it has spread through the apostles, â„¢"<=" greater depth than was here- then through the early church, gra- 1 ^'^ore possible. At the same time dually working to transform the!*"*' introduction of tho powerful entire mass. Tho meal is tho whole j fcntrifujal pumps now available complex life of men, art, commerce, | «"tn<l<'rs it possible to renjove large letters, religion. The Christian '^"'^"titifs of sand in a very short dis-ciple must bring to bear upon ^'H'**- LATE KING'S LUCKY NUMBER King Edward's lucky number was niiic. Both his parents were born in 1819, he was born on the 0th, his marriage took place in the year 'ii3, which numbers added the on© to the other make nine; his roi^n oKHimeneed in 1901, he was to hftv« been orownod on the 27th, which figures added together make ni«e, and he was actually crowned on the rth o( August. all these the force of his leaven- ing faith and love, and penetrate them with his ideals. 44. A treasure hidden in the field â€" In the East it was not unusual for men to conceal their wealth in this way, because of the uncertain tenure of property. Often, because of the vicissitudes of life, tho woalth would remain unclaimed in its hiding place. .\ man foundâ€" His coining by sheer accident upon the treasure, without seeking at all, is true to li.'e. Many a man finds himself sinldonly confronted with a noble tiuth, in the Bible or out of it, and in obligcil to take an attitude to- ward it, either of receptivity or of refusal. Selleth allâ€" The man who is keen enough to recognize the unrivaled worth of salvation will experience only joy in paying the necessary pjice. The test of sincerity, in ev- eryone who conies face to face with t'le truth, is simply whether he is willing to give all he has and is in order to make it his own. And surely, that which alone fully satis- fus the longings of the human heart, and fills up the whole mea- sure of being, warrants tho sur- render of all those things which do r.< t, and never can, satisfy. Buyeth that field â€" It is easy to Hflk foolish questions in the inter- pietation of a psrable. Hero, for example, one may ask: "Can one purchase membership in the heav- enly kingdom ) Was it right for the man to hide the treasure before go- injt to buy the field " No parable is to be interpreted to the remot- est detail. Certainly, salvation is not a commercial commodity, and if the man's conduct seems like shrewd practice, it is only on the fringes of the story. The essential thing is, that he was eager to act toward that treasure as any roan ought to act in the presence of great spiritual opportunityâ€" he joy- fully pcrted with what was of small account In order to beoome owner ot y>itijlt, comparatiT«l7, was of ia- &aiWhkooova%. An experienced mariner. Captain Gardiner, is to superintend the op- erations on the wrecks. Evidently tley are plentiful down south, for it is state<l th.it after an exhaus- tive search in the archives of Cape With almost human intelligence tho machine picks up a carrier of empty bottles, straightens it, if it happens to be out of line, moves it uider and lifts it against a battery of spouts from which the milk is- sues, lowers and carries it to an apparatus which automatically caps, . , ,- , , each bottle and then discharges! ^â- 'â- ®°^^®? ^^'^^ .shghtly a gong the carrier upon a car. This car!*'^''°"^ '^* warning through thfl country. Of course vast sums of money have beeu required to ef- fect such a result. ! At first enormous difficulty was cr countered by the English in mak- ing changes in the system of taxa- tion, because the people, so long accustomed to the betrayal of their irterests, thought the plans pro- poted were simply for the purpose of increasing their burdens. Little by little, however they learned that another era had opened, asd final- ly their suspicions were calmed. They then began to work with re- newed energy, and now, secure in the fruits of their labor, they aro cot merely improving their own c( nditions, but are building up the reputation of their country. ., CROWN JEWELS PROTECTED. luiprovemeuts in the Strong Room In Tower of London. The alterations in the strong room in the Wakefield tower of the Tower of London are nearly com- plete, and when the jewel room is reopened, visitors v.^ill find a great chansce in the structure and inter- nal fitting. A fresh stone flooring has been laid and a new steel grid has been built to enclose the plate glass showcase containing the re- galia. The bars of this grid are of tem- pered steel, placed closer together than the bars of the old case. A hidden electric alarm of the latest typo has been connected with the new grid, so that if a bar be a car carries the filled bottles either to a cold-storage room or a platform from which wagons are loaded. The machine is claimed to be ab solutely sanitary, even the caps* for the bottles being sterilized after they are placed within it. The rate of operation may be regulated to the fraction of a second by a speed- adjuster, operated by a hand- wheel. This is necessary because it Colony the captain selected no i tykes more time to fill a quart hot fewer than 137 of the more valu able and accessible wrecks and succeeded during the course of sev- en years, at an expenditure of $20,000, in locating thirty-two of t! cm. Of these ho has actually surveyed sixteen and recovered surface property from four of them. The government of the Cape of Good Hope has granted licenses to work these vessels, subject to a royalty of 15 per cent, of the value of property recovered. In his report Captain Gardiner says : WRECKS WORTH MILLIONS. "Although I ascertain the have been able to tie than a pint. Half-pint bottles, which have a neck the same size as tii.-f pint bottle, aro also used, tho machine being adapted for cream a? well as milk, also for buttermilk. C'ream and buttermilk flow much slower than milk â€" another reason for the speed-adjuster. MUSIC AND CRIME. French Socialist .\dracatcs lusirnc* tion in the Arts. Marcel Sembat, a French Social- ist Deputy, is developing the thesis that society ought to make use of music, which, the poet says, has whereabouts and ' «harms to soothe the savage breast. vahiea of thirty-two wrecks, exhi biting assets representing a sum erceeding $20,000,000, I should mention that I am in a position to Iccato other wrecks, many of which ofier to the recoverer prizes whose worth should figure at hundred of thousands of pounds sterling. "I will not enter upon a detailetl statement concerning the thirty- tv'o wrecks to which I refer, but w'll eonfine myself to making men- tion of four. "No. 1 Wreck â€" It is recorded and coiroborated in a report from the captain of this ship to directors of the East India Company that her cargo embraced, among other things, 720 bars of gold, 1,400 bars of silver, nine boxes of precious stones and -specie, tho reputed ag- gregate value ot which is calculat- ed to exceed $5,000,000. The assets should be recovered with great fa- cility and with less difficulty than from most of the other submerged ves.'cla. "She lies in from three and a half to four aad a half fathoms of water. The hwll is intact and thus her con- tmtt ar« easily evailable. Modern tower. Every lock throughout the room has been improved and made more complicated, so that various keyi have to be used in the opening. Thfl iron lined doors have been streng- thened and additional electrir lights have been installed. A scheme for constructing a trap in the stone flooring of the jewel room, through which the regalia and precious stones could if neces- sarv be lowered into the dungeon beneath tho Wakefield tower, wa;» found to be impracticable owing to the condition of the underground cell itself. This dungeon is beneath the level of the river and is very damp. Nothing has been housed in it since the Mkldle Ages, whea piisoners languished in the tower. for tho prevention of crime through its influence upon human character III process of formation. "I firmly believe," he declares, "that instruction in art. and in music particularly, would turn many young persons, especially those of the laboring class, from tho e\il way that leads to the wine- shop and too often to prison. "Tho alternative of virtue or vice is presentcKl at a certain ago oach of these afliording seating ao^ .f. â€" LUXURY IN AERIAL TRAVEL. Salon of New Passenger Airnhip a Marvel ot Comfort. The German Aerial Navigation Company is trying to ensure tho comfort of the passengers who will travel in its airships. The passen- gers' cabin for the L. Z. VII.. the frst Zeppelin liner, has just been fitted to the balloon now rteariug completion at Friodrichshafcn. Tho cabin, which was jtiacle at Stuttgart, i9 paneled in mahogany- inlaid Trith r«sewo<_Kl and mother- of-pearl. The entire cabin, .which is thirty feet in length and "froift six foot to eight feet in width, i» divided into five smaller cabiui,. before each of us. Temptation to crime is chiefly the desire to pos- sess the means of pleasing the op- posite se.x. Tho cultivation of music or other arts will produce le- gitimate opportunities for the hi.'althful association of young men and young women and will afford the needed relief from daily toil, while giving to it a /est which is now lacking, and will toiul to arrest th* rapid growth of that class which ia the fruit cf a diseased uud un- naturally restricteel <uvilization â€" the Apaches." "He has the bad habit of borrow- irg." "And tho worse habit of never paying back." coiumodation for four people. The si ats are wicker armchairs screw- ed to the floor, but made to re- vtlve. There are a small anterooia a.'d a lavoratory. Tho windows are planned very spaciously to allow a good view, and are fitted with glass in the fore- part of the cabin, 'The walls arc of thin mahogany, while doors, cov- ered with sail-cloth, lea<l forward and aft and to the gondola of th* vessel. .1 J* 'i *» n THE WAY TO GO. "He was driven to his gravel" â- "Sure hft was. Did you expect^ him to walk there J"