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Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Redpes and Other Valuable Inforinatloa •I Particular Ia«ereat to Womea Polkji SELECTED RECIPES. Sweet Potatoes with Peanuts. â€" lut cold boiL-d sweet potatoes in lices and place them in a shallow an. Pour melted butter over aem and sprinkle with peanuts hopped rather fine. Brown them I a hot oven. Apple Stuffing for Game or Fowl. -Take one pint of tart apple-sauce, IT thin sliced raw apple, mix with me small cupful of bread-crumbs, pne-quarter of a ieaspoonful of towdered sage, a small onion sliced Ine, and season with cayenne pep- A New England woman's way of mproving winter vegetables. â€" Beets: Boil the beets until almost lone. Put them in a pan, coat »ach beet with a little melted but- ter, sprinkle with sugar, and bake iill brown. Squash : Boil and Hash and beat until perfectly imooth. Put in a baking-dish with pieces of butter on top and bake. Carrot Jam.â€" To three pounds of tarrots add two and one-half pounds of sugar, the grated peel »f six large lemons and two ounces »f almonds. The carrots must be baked until tender in an earthen jar containing sufficient water to cover them, then smashed and passed through a sieve. The al- monds should be cut very fine. Boil til together twenty minutes. The |am will keep for a long time. Buckwheat Johnny-Cake. â€" Use kwo cups of fresh, rich buttermilk, â€"if it is not very rich, add two iablespoonfuh of cream,â€" one cup ol maple-syrup or melted maple- lugar, two teaspoonfuls of soda, Dne heaped teaspoonful of ginger, •nbugh flour â€" equal parts buck- irheat and common wheat â€" fo make batter as for griddle-cakes. Bake In a Icng tin and cut in squares, tndia wheat flour is even better in this receipt than the buckwheat, but in most districts it is not easy k> procure. Peanut Soup. â€" Into a double boi- t'.r put one tumblerful of peanut utter, one pint of water and cne luart of milk. Add two teaspoon- hils of salt, a slice or two of onion, tccording to size, and one cupful if chopped celery, or one saltspoon- ul of celery seed. Moisten two evel tablespoonfiils of cornstarch D a little cold milk. When the mix- hire in the double boiler reaches tiie scalding-point, add the <orn- jtarch and stir for five minutes, >fter which the soup is ready to Jerve with croutons or crackers. A German Receipt for cooking .»eas, beans and lentils. â€" Because »f their nutritive properties and fceir cheapness these vegetables are lighly esteemed by Europeans. In Bermany this is a favorite methixl )f preparing them: Cook the peas â€"or beans or lentils â€" in water un- )il they become a pulpy mass. Sea- )on them with bucter and salt and fress them through a fine sieve, hey should be of the consistency if mashed potatoes. At the last Boment, before serving, put over hem two or ihree tablespoonfuls of ried onions. ' Chop-Sucy. â€" Boil separately one- â- ^alf pound of pork, one-half pound rf veal and one small chicken. Fry luickly in butter and oil three »rge onions and three stalks of lelery. Slice the meat, onions, cel- tty and one-half pound of fresh Bushrooms, and mix thoroughly, vdding the stock of the meat. Cook dl the ingredients together for half \a hour. \Yhile cooking, add two ,«aspoonfuls of Chutney sauce and «ason with pepper and salt. Serve it bowls. Sometimes a sauce, made ^f equal quantities of Chutnoy and iVorcestershire sauce, is served with jhis dish. -A New Meat Pudding â€" Ever since tie times of which Chaucer wrote, nglish people have been fond of .meat pudding. Only recently has )t been discovered, however, that ihe substitution of corn-meal fur .white tlour makes a much more de- licious dish than the time-honored pudding. The receipt requires two pounds of round steak, or other lean beef, two cups of corn-meal, •one cup of flour, one-half pound of â- Â«uot and one tablespoonful of salt. •Chop the suet fine ; mix it thorough- ^ with the corn-meal, flour and salt and add enough watc<- to make a itiff dough. Roll out -the dough to » uniform thickness of a little less than half an inch, and place it on » cloth. Cut the beef into small pieces and season with pepper and *alt. Put the meat on the dough, draw the cloth together and tie it iightly, so that the meat will be •eompietely enclosed by the dough, fioil for five hours. Two Kinds of Filled Cookies. â€" for the fig filling put one-half Eund of figs into a saucepan with ree or four tablespoonfuls of â- rater, and place over s slow fire. Dover the saucepan and let the figs ^mmer until the water is absorb- ed. Then chop them very fine, re- turn them to the fire, with one-half Clip »* 'lot waVer and the juice of \ixli a temoQ, a&A «uck to a smuoth paste. If raisins are preferred, use one cup of chopped raisins, one- half cup of sugar, one-half cup of water and one tablespoonful of flour. Boil the mixture until thick, being careful to watch it, as it bums easily. While the paste is cooling, make the cooky dough by using one cup of sugar, one-half cup of shortening, one egg, one- half cup of milk, three and one-half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of ' cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of i soda and one teaspoonful of vanil- ! la. Roll the dough out in a thin sheet ; spread the paste on one-half of the dough, fold over the other half and cut in squares. Bake the filled cookies in a moderate oven. lery, cook them in the following ' way : Scrub them, and score the skin with a knife lengthwise and across all the way round, but not deep. Then boil in salted water. The cracked skin lets out the water and renders the potato dry and floury. Hands roughened by housework can be much improved and softened by the use of the following mix- ture : Take equal parts of olive oil and glycerine and mix well to- gether. Apply as follows â€" Wash and cleanse the hands thoroughly | before going to bed with good soap , and warm water, when partially ' drp, rub the mixture thoroughly into them. USEFUL HINTS. Verdigris may be removed by rub- bing with liquid ammonia. Mahogany or any other colored wood may be darkened by polish- ing with cold drawn linseed oil. i Carpets are brightened and color I preserved if wiped with clean cloth ! wrung out of salt »vater. I For worms in furniture paint the worm-eaten part with a camel-hair brush dipped ia carbolic oil. Feathers uncurled by damp wea- j ther are quickly dried by shaking I over fire, in which salt has been ' thrown. j Metal kitchen spoons should be washed to get rid of the grease, and then scoured with salt and \ sand. Meat should be hung in a cool, airy place, but not in a strong draught, for that makes it dry and unpalatable. A pinch of salt on the tongue fol- lowed 10 minutes afterward by a drink of cold water often cures sick headache . To improve pork chops add a tea- spoonful of finely chopped onion to a beaten egg and a good pinch of sage. Pure glycerine is a wonderful stain eradicator. Smear a coffee or tea stain with it, and then rinse in warm- wat-er. The best way to learn dresmak- ing is to begin by unpicking old dresses. This discovers how they are put together. When roasting meat in the oven put a small basin of water into it to prevent any disagreeable smell, or the oven getting overheated. Dusters can be made out of old cotton dresses, and chintz covers. These are nice and soft, and bet- ter for use than new material. Pieces of newspaper soaked and squeaeed out in water and sprink- led over a, carpet before it is swept will keep down the dust. I Milk will clean piano keys satis- factorily. It will take out ink spots of long standing. Used in starch, it will give a satisfactory gloss. A little fine cornflour mixed in be- fore cooking helps to keep custard from curdling, and also absorbs the water that comes from over-baking. A housekeeper who spilled ink on a green plush tablecloth took out every particle of the stain with a weak solution of baking soda and water. If a vanilla bean is kept in the sugar jar, it will give the sugar a very delicate flavor. This is especi- ally desirable for sugar to be used in cake baking. When boiling a pudding put a savicer at the bottom of the sauce- pan in which the padding is cooked, and there will be no danger of its sticking. If potatoes are rubbed with but- ter, lard, or olive oil before bak- ing the skins will bo found to be thin and soft after baking; olive oil is less liable to burn. If a pair of shoes has become stiffenetl with walking in the wet, I they should first be washed with j warm water and then have oil well rubber! into them. White floor matting may be scrub- : bed with bran water. Put two pints I of bran into two quarts of water and boil it. Strain, and, when cool, I use for scrubbing the matting. The yolks of eggs will not turn dark when hard boiled if they are put in boiling water rather than cold at first. Half an hour is not too long to cook them to acceptable hardness. Keep bedrooms sweet by admit- ting plenty of fresh air. Avoid woollen curtains, and, above all else, an old carpet. Nothing is more likely to give a close smell to a bedroom. When two glass tumbler? or dish- es stick together so that there is danger of breaking in getting them apart, put cold water in the inner one and hold the outer one in warm water, and they will separate at once. Flour should always be kept in a cool, dry place, well protected from dust. It should be sifted before baking, as this helps to make it light. Half a teaspoonful of salt .shouKi be sifted with every pound of flour in order to bring out the flavor. When potatoes promise to be w»t- CHEAP PHOiNES Ii\ SIGHT THE GREAT HAVE FALLEXJHE S. S. LESSON THE HOLY CITY. Seturnod Tourist Complains of "BibUcal Traresties." The 'brutal exploitation" of Jerusalem by its inhabitants for the sake of getting money from the tourist ia complained of by a recent and evidently pious German trav- eler. The road to Cavalry, along which Jesus bore the cross, for example, is pointed out, although in fact the ancient city with its streets lies buried many a yard beneath the surface. The marks of His foot- steps, the impression of His hand, the site of the Ascension and many other fancied historical remains are used for the purpose of extracting backsheesh. At the same time Dr. Richard Linde, the traveler in question, ad- mits that not all he saw in the Holy City aroused such feelings of in- dignation. He was particularly and earnestly impressed by the scene that takes place each Sunday at the old wall of the Temple, three yards high and five long, where since the Middle Ajes the Jews are wont to bemoan the vanished glory of their city. One uears the touch- ing litany in the form of a dialogue between the leader of the lamenta- tion and the wailing congregation around him. "On account of the Temple which has been destroyed," begins the leader, and his sung is taken up by the crowd with "sit we here soli- tary and weep." "On account of the walls which have been destroyed, on account of the glory which has passed away," continues the leader, and again the crowd wailingly replies, "sit we here in solitude and weep," just as the daughters of Zion sat and wept by the waters of Babylon. Or a prayer is put up to heaven. "Have mercy on the people of Zion!" sings the leader and the crowd continues, "Reassemble the Children of Jerusalem!" "Haste, haste. Thou Saviour of Zion!" and the crowd continues, "May the empire of Zion be again established '." Such scenes as this, Dr. Linde says, suggest the true atmosphere of Jerusalem to the Christian, not the reliques and Biblical travesties which are palmed off on the merely curious tourist. MASON WORK IN WINTER. Chief Engineer Rabut of the street de' i;.'ueut of Paris has de- monstrated by a long series of ex- periments the efficiency of anhy- drous carbonate of soda as an agent permitting the pre- paration of mortar for build- ing even in the coldest w«.>ather. The results are said to be superior to those obtained by the use of warm water, of alcohol, of sea-salt, or any other mixture hitherto employed. Not only does the addition of the soda prevent the ill effects of low temperatures upon the nnirtar, but causes it to set and harden more quickly than it otherwise would. The masons employing this process wear rubber gloves to prevent inflammation of the skin. NEW DETICE WILL SAVE MIL- LIONS OF DOLLARS. American Officer Has GiTen Hultl- ple.\ Telephoae InreatioD to the Nation. Patents have just been bsued to Major G. O. Squiers of the United States Signal Corps, for his multi- plex telephone system by the adop- tion of which millions of dollars in tolls is expected to be saved in telephone tolls. The inventor ded- icates his invention to the people of the United States so that any one can make use of it, free of all cost of royalty, license or rent. It cannot be appropriated by any one corporation or individual or trust. It is the invention of an army of- ficer and belongs to the people of the United States. M.VNY TALK ON ONE WIRE. The discovery may bo d.?scribed as Wireless telephony guided by a wire. As many as ten conversa- tions, or more, it is said, may be held over one wire. The theory is that the vibrations of the ether sur- rounding the wir« became the veh- icle by which conversation is held, not by the wire, as in ordinary tel- ephony. The instruments to be employed are those now commonly used in ordinary wireless tele- phony, and may be bought of al- most any electrical supply estab- lishment. There is, as in wireless telephony, a us© of "tunes" for each conversation. Major Squiers believes that gen- eral use will soon be made of his discovery by private individuals and by telephone companies. He expects that one result will be a general reduction of the cost of tel- ephone service and possibly its more widely distributed use. The machine is regarded of special val- ue for long aistances. It gives a flear and audible tone an<f will pro- bably be first applied in that direc- tion. EDISON PREDICTED IT. This discovery was predicted thirty-five years ago by Thomas A. Edison, when the prediction was regarded more as a dream than a possibility. One feature of the new telephone is its success in transmit- ting music over the wires. The strains of a band, violin, or of an organ are distinctly heard. It is believed that long distance trans- mission of opera music, sermons, and lectures is possible by this means. The new system of multiplex tel- ephony it is said, may be applied to all local telephone exchanges with- out any modification of the present installation, and could conduct a telephone system without the use of two wires, as now. The superposition of numerous conversations on one wire will not in any way interfere with the pres- ent use of the telephone by the ap- paratus now in use. The multiplex may be used with one wire or two, and can be accommodated to the simplest or to the most complex in- stallation. The telephone companies xvill de- rive imme<li3te benefit from the in- vention, but in time it is expected that there will be a reduction in tolls of all kinds as the system be- comes generally adopted. In the cost of wire alone, of which there are many millions of miles in the United States, there will be mark- ed saving, and the annual exp... li- ture for new equipment will be much reduced. AeiSTOCB.VTIC ENGLISHMEN DOWN A>D OUT. Noblemen Have Taken Humble Pu.<4ition.>4 When Fortunes Were Squandered. There are many stories of down- â-  falls of aristocratic Englishmen j which only a few people ever bear about, because they are always cleverly hushed up. I How many, for instance, are aware that in l^lorida an English baronet is working as a day labor- ] er for five dollars a week â-  He hopes j to be able to go home again some ; day and marry a wea^wuv laay who is "waiting" for him. His career I has been a strange one and not al- I together creditable. Cheating at cards was the cause of his down- fall. COUNT IN PAUPER W.ARD. Many Europeans will still remem- I ber that a famous count died in the ! pauper ward of one of the New York hospitals. He was the son of ' a prince, and a grand-nephew of ! that great German Field-Marshal ' who helped the Duke of Wellington 1 to win the battle of Waterloo. ' .\nother count, a man who left I England because of the bitter op- , position of his relatives to his mar- â-  riage with an actress, is now act- ; ing as hotel manager in one of the small hotels in San Francisco. I There is a remarkable hotel in j Chicago. The proprietor is an I Englishman who has been officer in I a crack cavalry regiment, and the manageress is the widow of an ' English clergyman, while the book- keeper is alleged to be Count Szechenyi. the nephew of one of the Austrian .Embassadors at Berlin ; ' and to crown all the hall porter of this exceedingly aristocratic hotel is a real live baronâ€" once a caval- ry officer in the Austrian army. RIDING MASTERS. A nephew of a Prussian Cabinet Minister, and a cousin of Princess ! Bismarck, has been a member of the Salvation Army in New York. Before finding a refuge among the followers of General Booth he had experienced all the bitter miseries of poverty. His career has been a ; very strange one, 'and before de- parting for the States he had some exceedingly interesting adventures â-  in South America. ! Quite a number of noblemen are to be found employed as teachers at the New Y'ork riding academies. j Some years ago it was said that a I cousin of the late Prince Consort â-  was the chief instructor at one of these schools near Central Park, , though why he occupied the post : has never been explained. Teach- ing the art of riding seems to be a j popular profession for aristocrats down on their luck ; even to-day two barons and a count hold similar I posts. CUT OFF 11,000 QUEUES. Hong Kong has just witnessed a remarkable queue-cutting demon- j straliou. Si.\ wealthy elders, the' aggregate of whose ages is 49 years, â-  set an example to th'cir fellows on ' the platform of the Chinese Club, ' while an Indian military band play- ' ed se'ections from Gilbert and Sul- j livin operas. Hundreds of other men followed their lead. The pro- moters of the movement had effect- ivly cited the case of an oiler who was killetl when his queue became entangled in some machinery. The movement has become so wide- spread that in Hong Ko g alone within three days U.OOO men vol- untarily discarded their queues. No change in the national costume is contemplated. MUST GO TO SCHOOL UNTIL IS. Munich is said to be the cleanest, best-governed city in Europe, to all appearances. It has women street cleaners, and they keep the asp- halt as clean as a ballroom floor. But it is ia its conduct of education that Munich excells. Education is compulsory until 18 years of age. The pupil may attend "half time" after a certain age, but attendance until the age of 13 is compelled. Technical training is given in school in almost any vocation you can con- ceive. If you have decided to b« a bath attendant, you can take a course in that or in barberiug, it OVER ICE I> CHAINS. Convict Escap»^ From IMand Fort- ress of Sciilusselburg. For the first time in living mem- ory a convict has escaped from the island fortress of Schluesselburg, in the Neva, Russia. While working in the afternoon in the open air the convict scaled the wall with the aid of a rope and subsequentlj-, though chained, walked all night across the ice of Lake Ladoga toward the Burgrov- sky Lighthouse. Early on the fol- lowing morning the ukiTi was dis- covered by some peasants and was seized and taken back to the pris- on. Tlie Schlusselburg fortress, rich in memories of the battles between Russians and Swedes, is seen from the river, a place of old walls, and low, round watch-towers. Among the famous political prisoners who spent years there was Biron. the Empress Anna's favorite. The Schlusselburg prisoners nowadays are treated with no little consider- ation. â-  The cells are lighted with electricity and heated by hot water radiators. The prisoners are al- lowed to smoke, and there is a good library. Every man sentenced to more than eight years' penal servi- tude is during the first two years chained on the feet. To keep outdoor brMS bright, olean the brass as usual, tiMB rub it carefully over with a soft oloth dipped in vaseline, and afterwards polish with a dry duster. This will keep it from tarnishing quicklj^, «vea in the dampest weath«r. AN EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL. Where Chinese Ladies ^uioke, but Study .>ut. A. S. Roe, in his beok called "China as I Saw It," gives an odd pen picture of a school, many of whose pupils, from S to 40 years o'.d, were the wives of higii offici- als. "Eager to display her knowledge of Western customs," he says, "the principal, a Chinese lady of rank, herself well educaied, dressed her- self a I'anglaise in a purple, sack- like tunic, belted in at the waist, a shiny black sailor hat lined with flannelette and trimmed with real flowers that had withered away, and lastly, brown boots on her poor little misshapen feet. " What do you teach themt' ask- ed my friend. " "Oh,' whispered the little lady, confideutially. 'they don't really learn anything, you know, but they like to come and their husbamls like them to come.' " 'What do they do, then?' " 'They just talk, and play, and smoke their water pipes, avl if there is any matter of dispute their husbands sit in committee and de- cide the question.' " 'But what a pity,' said my friend. 'Could you not urge them to make better use of their time ?' 'â-  'Well, there was one,' said the little laJy, sadly, 'who had plenty of ability, but when I pressed her to studv, she complained to her husband that she was being ill treat- ed and that was an end of it.' "There is certainly a pathetic side to this new craze in China for education and Western knowledge in any shape and form. Even the man who advertised that he could 'teach the English language np to the letter G' probably did not lack for pupils." SAFETY APPLIANCE. Tb© Tailorâ€" "Married or single*"' The Customerâ€" "Married. Why?" Th# Tailorâ€" 'Then let me recom- maod my patent safety deposit pock- et. It contains a most ingcniLxis little contrivance that feels exactly like a live mous*.'' INTEBNATIONAL LESSON, JAN 22. Lesson IV. â€" Omri and .ihab LeaJ Liruel into Greater Sin. I. liinga 16. I5l3a. Golden Te.vt, Prov. 14. W. Verse 15. Zimri . . . seven days ta Tirzah â€" He had slain not only th« drunken king, Elak, but all tha male members of the house of Baa- siia, according to the word of Jehu the prophet. Hia crime and ter- rible fate became a byword ia af- ter years (.2 Kings 9. 31J. Gibbethon â€" See above. There had been an iniermitieut siege of this place for twenty-seven years, wUh no apparent success. 16. Made Omri . . . king â€" Th»! army, which had not been taken into the counsels of the headstrong Zimri, refused to accept the new, order of things, and hailed the; more powerful military rival ofl Zimri as their king. 13. The castleâ€" A fortified strong-* hold attached to the palace. 19. His sinsâ€" The words used Uti describe the misdoings of Zimri are the customary words, which cama to be a kind of formula for the mis- conduct of the kings of Israel wha did that which was evil in the sigh* of Jehovah. In a sliort regency ol one week it is hardly probable h« would be able to promote to any^ extent the calf -worship of Jero- boam. 20. The rest of the acts of Zimriâ€" This is also a stereotyped expres- sion. His acts must have been few. The book of the chronicles of coursa is not our First and Second Chroni- cles, which were written much later, and whose author had no interest especially in apostate northern kings of Israel, but was one of th« sources, now lost, from which th« author gained his information. i\. The people . . . divided â€" Omris immediate suppression of th« revL'lt under Zimri did not save the, kingdom from civil strife. Though! first with the army, Omri seems to have lacked fall popular support.; A certain Tibni, whose brother Joram exercised a strong influence, backed by a large following, suo- cessfully disputed the right of Omri for four years, at the end of which time the two brothers wer« killed, and Omri reigned. j 23. Six years reigned he in Tir-! zahâ€" The palace had been burned,* and Omri must have been impress-j ed with the weakness of a city which! could be t.aken so easily. This facfc[ made him look about for a capital) more central and impregnable,' with the result that Israel was giv-; en a great and permanent centre of* government. [ 24. Samariaâ€" Besides the natural^ beauty of its position, which made Isaiah refer to it as Ephraim's' â- â€¢crown of pride," Samaria i>os- sessed a great advantage from its natural strength. .\s its name sig-' nifics (."watchtower"), it stood on a lofty hill, and was sufficiently isolated to make strong outworks possible, so that it was able to hoI<I out for three years against th« powerful armies of the Assyrians under Sargon and Shalmaneser. Its fall in B. C. 721 involved the en- tire kingdom in disaster. Nebu- chadnezzar, in B.C. 554. required thirteen years to capture it. Under the name given it by Herod the Great, who rebuilt it. it still ex- ists. 25. Omri â€" Though he dealt wick-, ediy above all that were before him, he was, nevertheless, "a sovereiga of far greater eminenc-e and import- ance tiiaa we might suppose from the meagerness of his anrtals hera preserved." lie was un.successfui in his wars with Syria, but was vic- torious over the Moabites to tha southeast, ths record being found on the famous Moabite stone. Ha gave his i>eople political ascendency and is the first Jewish king whose name is recalled by tiie Assyrian inscriptions. 26. Walked in all the way of Jero- boam â€" The prophtc Micah rpeaks unsparingly of "the statutes ol Omri," as if his influence upon tha religious life cf the people had been particularly pernicious. 30-33. Ahab the son of Omriâ€" Hit rsign is studied in uetail in the les- sons for February. The particulai ofleusiveness of his acts, recorded in this lesson, consisted in his mar- riage with the heathen princess Jezebel, and, through this alliance, the introduction of Baal-worship, together with the sins of Jeroboam. The alliance vas probably a pi_>pu» lar one, snasiiuich as it strengthen- ed Israel and brought wealth to th« crown anci a certain prestige. Bui it was mockery of the true religion. Jciebcl's father, besides hearing the name of Baal, and giving hit daughter the same name, had been the high priest of the great templa. of Ashtoieth in Tyre, and was no^ satisfied until Baal-worship was es- tablished in Israel. 31. Baalâ€" The supreme deity ot the Phoenicians ; in this <-ise, Mel»^ kart, the Baal of Tyre.