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HOUSEHOLP Dainty nishr*. Cheese PBdilnf. Spread thm lice* of orustleas bread with but tar, put in making dish with altei- nate !*/ of il'red oheeae. ioto a bow? Weak one egg, beat add one-half teaspoon of salt DO and a half oup* of milk. Pour vex th* bread and bake twonty- .. miaute*. Glnff*r*r**. Heat one oup of molassea with one tablespoon of lard. Beat well, add one teaspoon of ginger, one-half teaspoon of cin- namon, one-half teaspoon of cloves and a little grated nutmeg. Add one oup of our milk in whioh one teaspoon of aoda ha* been dissolved, and eno(fa oor to make a thick batter. Bake for thirty minutes in a moderate oven. Curried Beans. Material requir- sd : One-half pint kidney beans, one- fourth oupful oarro4 out in dice, one small apple pared and sliced, two tahlespoonfuk butber, one table- ipoonful flour, two teaspoonfuls urry powder, one-half cup of water, boiled rioe. Method of pre- paring : Oook the beans until soft. Drain. Melt the butter, fry it in the carrot, onion and apple ; add the flour and curry powder, blend well, then add water and beans j aimmer fifteen minutes. Serve in a border of boiled rice. Hungarian Caabag*. Material required : On* small oabbage, three thick sli*M of fat salt pork, one- half cirpfvl of thin oream, one-half oupful of boilinc water, salt and paprika. Method of preparing : R- mov tho outer Uavee of cabbage and chip the remainder. Soak in oold salted water fifteen minutes. Fry the fat from the pork and re- move tlve piece*. Drain the cab- bage and put in the pan with the pork fat; add th* water; cover closely and cook fifteen minutes. Drain off the water, add the cream ; eason with salt and paprika. Re- heat and serve hot. If cooked in th<- oven there will be no odor from it. Chicken Hash Chop fine the left- over bits of oold chicken and chop with them an equal quantity of cold boilfd potatoes. In a frying pan melt one tablespoon of butter, add one-half tablespoon of chopped on- ion and let oook till soft, but not brown. Turn in the chicken mix- ture seaaon highly with salt and popper and a aaan of Worcester- shire sauoe, aud add, if at hand, on tablespoon of very finely chop- ped green pepper. Let oook tfll well heated, a<id one-fourth cup of oream, remove the pan to the back of the range and let cook slowly till well browned en the bottom. Fold on a hot platter and serve at once. Hot Pot or Hodge Podge. Ma- terial requirtd : Two pounds of loan boef from the lower part of round, tour or five potatoes sliced, two tabl-'spoonfuls flour, two table- spooufuls of tat, one-half of a pep- per shredded, salt and pepper. Method of preparing: After remov- ing the fat from the meat, out it in pieces to **rve. Try out the fat and If there in not enough to moke the two tablenpoonfuk required, add butter or clarified fat to make the required amount. Pour the fat in a baking di*h, blend with it the flour, put in a layer of potato, add part of the onion ; dd the meat, season with salt and pepper ; add the remainder of the onion and the hmdded pepper, cover with sliced potato and pour over it one cup of boiling water. Cover closely and bakn slowly for two hours. If at the end of an hour it looks too dry, add a little water. Serve in the dish in which it is cooked. i Curry f Vegetables. Material required : On* small cauliflower, one-half cupful of carrots, one-hall oupful of turnip, two cupfuls of po- tato, on* onion, one-half cupful of celery, one cupful of strained toma- to, two teaspoonfuls curry powder, two tablespoonfula of butter or clarified fat, two tablespoonfuls flour, salt and popper, one oupful of boiled rice. Method of prepara tion : Divido the cauliflower In small pieces, out the carrot, turnip and oeJery In dice, and the potatoes in on inoh cubes ; slice the onion. Put tJin carrot and turnip on to oook In boiling salted water, and when they have been cooking five minutes add the onion and celerv ; oook un- tfl soft. Drain. Oook the potatoes In boding salted water until soft. Drain. Molt the fat In a utewpan, dd the flour and curry powder ; when well blonded add the tomato . nH one cupful of the water In whioh the vegetables were cooked (discard the potato water) ; odd one- half t(va.sp<Minfiil of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper and the vege- table; strnpier ten minutes. Serve fai a border of rice. This can be made of oooked vegetables. r sfavtu* M0k. When you oannot obtain certified sterilized milk, vt you doubt its purity, try stenlUtlng It ^owi Her* u a method advised by doctor: Put fb* niiTk In a cl.viH jar, cover th* top with sterlHced oloth and stand the jar in a sa/ucepan of cold water de*p enough to com* to the level of the milk. Keep boiling 40 minutes and cool quickly by put- , ting the jar in cold water. Some ! of the quantity of milk is lost in , this way, but the quality U improv- ed out of germs. It is not enough to sterilize milk, especially for babies, unless the utensils in which it be served are free from germs. All bottles and driuking mugs should be scalded and rinsed well with hot soda water when cleaned, and should be rinsed again before using. Much dust is collected even in th clean- est closet, and who can say when a fly or other insect has not left its deadly trail on the apparently clean cup or spoon. It is a careless, insanitary and not very dainty habit to pour a glass of milk into a glass that looks clean but may Lave been standing uncov- ered on a buffet for hours. Do Not Have Poor Lights. Poor lights are often caused by the condition of lamps and wicks. The lamp should be filled and the charred portion of the wick remov- ed each time before lighting. New wicks should be put in every month. Used wicks should be dried before the fire every two weeks and put back into the oil while still warm. The wick is the vital part of the lamp. Do not try to econo- mize by using clogged wicks. Wicks are cheaper than oil or eyesight. The seoret of a good light ia a good oil, a clean chimney and a j dry, well-trimmed wick. Chimneys may be easily cleaned by blowing the breath into the chimney and wiping out with a newspaper or a dry cloth free from grease. If these directions are followed there will be less trouble from poor lights. LEPEBS SLAIN AND BURNED. Diode of Execution Practised by Chinese Governor. Thirty-nine lepers recently were put to death in an atrocious manner by order of the provincial authori- ties at Nanning, Province of Kwang Si, China. Tho sufferers from .the dread disease first were hot and then their bodies wore burned in a huge trench. These advices were received in a letter from the Catholic mission at Nonning. The letters stated that the leper* lived in the woods a few mile out. i. in tof the City of Nan- ning. Tho misbkm sought permis- sion to build at its own expense a lazarette for them, and the provin- cial aiilhoni i H, pretending to con- sent, dug a pit in which wa* plaoed wood soaked with kerosene. At the point of the bayonet the lepera then were driven into the pit and shot and the pyre woe lighted and their bodice burned in the presence of a large crowd. The authorities offered rewards for tho discovery of other lepers, and this offer resulted in the ehooting of one more man afllicted with the dis- ease. The Governor after the massacre issued a proclamation, in which he accused the lepera of having com- mitted outrages. The lettent from the mission say there is no founda- tion for this charge. one "WANT OP WORK." Tho Supply of Labor Is Everywhere the Same. We talk about the supply of la- bor, and tho demand for labor, but, evidently, these are only relative terms. The supply of labor is everywhere tho same two hands always oomo into the world with one mouth, twenty-one boys to every twenty girls ; and the demand for labor must always exist as long as men want things which labor alon can procure. We talk about the "want of work," but, evidently it IH not work that is short while want continues; evidently, tho sup- ply of labor cannot be too great, nor the demand for labor too small, when people suffer for the lack of things tihat labor produces. The real trouble must be that the sup- ply is somehow prevented from sat- isfying demand*, that somewhere thero is an obstacle which prevents labor from producing tho things that laborers want. Take the case of any one of these vast mosses of unemployed men, to whom, though ho never heard of Malthua, it to-day seems that there are too many people in the world. In his own want*, in the nerds of his anxiou.s wifo, in the demands for hi* half-cared-for, perhaps eyen hungry, shivering, children, there i demand enough for labor, Hea- ven knows 1 In his own willing hands is the supply. Put him on solitary island, and though cut off from all the enormous advantages whioh the oo-operation, combina- tion, and machinery of a civilized community give to produce powers of man, yet his two hands can fill the months and kep warm the backs that dopond upon them. Yet where productive power ia at its highe*t development he oannot. Why 1 It ia not beoauso in the one case h* has access to the material and force* of nature, and u> tho other this aooass i* daniinll MISS PELLT. Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of Oonnaught, whose engagement to Capt. Bulkeley, Comptroller of the Household, is announced. THE SOW SCHOOL LESSOU INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JANUARY 26. Lesson IV. Cain and Abel, 4. 1-15. Golden text, 1 John J. 15. Gen. Verse I. I have gotten The He- brew .word for "to get" ia kanah, whioh thus resembles the Hebrew of Kayin (Cain). The choice of the name is explained on the basis of this resemblance in sound, which must be carefully distinguished from relationship on the basis of a com- mon derivation. 2. Abel !!<:>., Hebel, meaning a breath." A keeper of the sheep ... a tiller of the ground The origin of two primitive occupations IB thus accounted for. of mankind In the de- velopment of Hebrew national life the nomadic or pastoral stage pre- ceded the agricultural. 3. In process of time When both sons were grown to manhood. An offering unto Jehoviah The author assumes the existence of al- tars and an established custom of sacrifice. It is quite in accordance with the simplicity of this early narrative that it should explain the origin of some institutions while taking for granted the existence of others. We should note also that the author is careful to point out that it is Jehovah tho Ckxl of Israel whm the first family of men wor- shiped. 4. The firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof Later Jewish law required that tho choicest animals and the choicest parts of the ani- mals be reserved for sacrifice. Com- pare Num. 18. 17. 5. Unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect The reader is left to infer the reason for God's displeasure from the sequence of tho narrative. From this it is plain that it must , have been tho spirit and motive behind tho act rather than the act itself whioh determin- ed it* value in the sight of J*hov*h. Wroth Angry. His countenance foil He became downcast and sullen. 6. Why art thou wroth t As in the case of Adam and Evo, Jehovah seeks by meaus of a direct question to rouse the conscience of the guil- ty man, and to elicit from him a confession of his guilt. But while Adarn and Eve sought only to ex- cuse themselves, Cain doea not hesi- tato to tell a deliberate falsehood, even defiantly denying hie obliga- tion toward his brother. 7. If thou doest well Well in the sight of God. Lifted up Bright and open, the opposite of downcast and sullen. Sin coucheth at the door The figure is that of an enemy, like a wild animal, lying in wait near the habitual haunts of man, ready to spring at the first opportunity. 8. Coin told Abel Heb., said un- to, that is, conversed with. The grave warning of Jehovah proved futile, and in spite of it Cain yields to the promptings of his sullen and envious thoughts ; he invites his brother to walk with him to a soli- tary place in the field and there attacks and slays him. " 9. Where is Abel, thy brother T Again Jehovah attempts to rouse the conscience and bring Cain, now become, a murderer, to a recogni- tion and confession of his guilt. But a warning query no longer suf- fices to awaken the heart already hardened in sin. 11. Cursed art thou from the ground From in the sense of away from. Apparently the "ground" here refers to til ^ vated noil more particular contrast to the face of the eartl general. In wild and unknown 1 regions, far from the scene of -his present prosperity, Cain is to be- come an outcast wanderer. The succeeding vorsea give in detail tJvo results of the curae. IS. A fugitive and s wanderer -- The word translated "fugitive* means literally a man of unsteady or uncertain gait, a totterer, like one not knowing where to go, or fainting for lack of food, or under the influence of drink. 13. Cain said unto Jehovah The severity of the curse alarmed him, though there is no intimation of penitence unless it be intended in the Hebrew word translated pun- ishment, which means also iniquity, as the marginal reading in the Re- vised Version indicates. In har- mony with this thought of a confes- sion of guilt we would have to trans- late the phrase greater than I can bear to read greater than can be forgiven, which is permissible (com- pare marginal reading). 14. Whosoever findeth me will slay me The conscience of the guil- ty man is at least sufficiently aroused to impress him with the justice of the punishment and re- veal to him his precarious position as a culprit from justice. 15. Vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold That is, seven of the murderer's family shall be slain to avenge the death of Coin. The ven- geance, according to ancient no- tions, would be executed by rela- tives of the murdered man. A sign for Cain-X31early a sign A RESOUBCEFUL REPTILE. Uncle Henry T*ll About a Queer Thing 'Hi '..i Happened to Him. At the village grocery the evening gossip had turned upon snakee. There had been the usual tales of dens of reptiles unearthed by ex- cavators, of hoop-snakes taking their tails in their mouths and roll- ing rapidly down-hill, and the like. Through it all "Uncle Henry" Car- penter sat silent, with a look of tol- erant superiority upon his face. "Have you ever had any experi- ences with snoiesf Uncle Henry?" asked one of the listeners. "Wai, I did have a queer thing happen to me about thirty years ago," Uncle Henry responded. "The minister happened in to din- ner one day, and Sary Ann had me go to the chicken-yard and kill our l*st rooster. While he waa floppin' round, as chickens do with their heads off, he started up one of these pesky joint snakes. In no time I hod him, broke in two at every joint. I'd heerd tell, though, how they go together again, if ye leave the pieces layin' round, so I jest took the piece with Mr. Snake's head on it and burned it in the etove. "Wai, we was enjoyin' our din- ner unos-ual, and the minister was callin' for another heJpiu' of chick- en, when a rooster began to crow out m the chicke-n-yard. " 'Land's sakes, Henry,' says Sary Ann, 'what rooster'* thatt I'm sure rite only one we've got is right here oi) the table and he's in no condition to crow.' "The minister and 1 me, we hurried right out into the chicken-yard, and sure enough, we heerd another orow, w>rt o' husky like, before we got there. Wai, it was simple enough whea ye atop to think. The j'ints of that snake had all j'ined together again, and when they couldn't find their own head, they jest took the rooster'*, which I'd left layin' handy." There wa a moment's silence. When the conversation was re- ICTSFRdMSETdSJ WHAT THE WESTERN PKOL'Li ARE DOING. Progress of the Great West Tu In a Few Pointed Paragraphs. there are 20,18$ 7t bricks ." ware. t In Vancouver telephone*. Last year 150,000 made in Penticton. The new breakwater at Victo'ri*. will cost $1,800,000. There are 35 telephone* in awf Princeton. ; Athabasca Landing will soon.be> lit with natural gas. There is a motor car for ever/ 43 inhabitant* in Victoria. . ' Eggs were 60 cents a dozen ia New Westminster last week. Last year 110 carloads of were chipped from Penticton. In November 30 carloads of cattif were shipped from Nicola.. The Canadian Northern Railway is laying tracks east of Hope. The November pay-roll ati thp Cumberland mines was $75,000. Kaslo people consumed sumed, it no snakes. longer dealt with WILLIAM THE PEACE-LOVER. Pursues a Constant and Determined PaciHo Policy. When William II. ascended the German throne, Europe expected nothing less than to see a new Bar- barossa burst into the arena of European politics, writes G. Fer- for his protection and apparently r ' ro j in th Atlantic. Strange le- &ends were current about hrm : drink attached directly to his person. , ' Just what this sign was, however, j 5?? 1 ? i not stated, and it is wholly use- less for us to speculate concerning the matter. EARNS LIVING SLEEPING. he had sworn never to a glass of champagne until recognize that peaco to me.'" Prolonged Nap of Man Is Employed J h i S _ w !l to Advertise. To sleep for one's living may ap- peal to some as a more attractive alternative than to work for one's living. But the feat has been achieved. In the Daily Courant of August 9, 1711, the following advertisement appears: "Nicholas Hart, who slept last year in St. Bartholo- mew's Hospital, Lond<m, intend* to Bleep this year at the Cock and Bot- tle in Little Britain." Some fur- ther particulars of this profession- al somnolist are to be found in the Spectator for October 1 of that year. It appears that Hart was every year seized with a periodical fit of leeping, whioh began on August 5 and ended on the llth, it* various stages are thus described : "On the 1st of that month he grew dull; on the 2nd appeared drowsy; on the 3rd fell a-yawning; on the 4th be- gan to nod ; on the 6th dropped asleep ; on the 6th was heard to snore; on the 7th turned himself in hia bed ; on the 8th recovered his former posture; on the 9th fell u-st retching ; on the 10th, about midnight, awakened ; on the llth, in the morning, called for a small boer." This performance, it is asserted, gained for Hart "enough to support himself for a twelvemonth." Champagne should be annexed to the German Empire ; others, that this one ambition was to cover his n&me with glory, and that his war- like aspirations were boundless, ramon talk, and the- newspaper* of the day printed it. Twenty-four years later the em- peror could boast, as he did not long ago to a French friend of mine, alluding to the Morocco incident and the crisis of 1905, "History will WORLD'S BIGGEST ORGAN. 10,5(7 PipPH and 215 Draw-stops Go- Ing Into Liverpool Cathedral. Tho new organ which 1 to be placet! in tho great cathedral now in course of erection in Liverpool will probably be classed among the wonder* of the world, as it will be the largest organ in existence. Ac- cording to the Muaical Time* the organ in the Sydney (Australia) Town Hall now has the distinction of standing first in point of size. The Liverpool organ will tiike four years to construct. It will con- tain 215 drawstops, speaking and mechanical, and the total number of pipes will reach the remarkable number of 10,567. It will occupy two special chambers, one on each side* "of the chancel. It i the gift Mrs. James Barrow ,of Water- loo, near Liverpool, and will oot $450,000. Exouses don't amount to much, as people tldom believe them. Of the 11,000,000 married oocrplei In France, childless. nearly 8,000,000 ara Europe owes And history her rill, doubtless, recognize this pacific dis- position of his in the future more than his people do now. For the last few years the German emper- or has not been so popular as he was during the first ten years of reign. The reasons would be too many to give here, but one is his constant and determined pacific policy. He has invariably tried to reconcile himself with France ra- ther than to seek occasion for an- other war. On this account a por- tion of his people accuse him of lov- ing peace overmuch and, therefore, of following a weak and vacillating policy, letting slip opportunities which might never present them- selves again. Godmother to 8,824. The Skged Empress Eugenie a pathetic figure nowadays has, in six ornate boxes, .the names of no fewer than 2,824 person*, all of them her god-children. Shortly be- fore trie advent of the- ill-fated Prince Imperial, the Emperor Na- poleon arwiou-nced that he and his wife would become sponsors to all tho children bom in France on the aarne day. So it was that the Empress "stood" of course by proxy for more children than any other wo- man in the world. She preserved an exactl list of all her charges, and has, as far as possible, followed tthoir careers. More, she set aside some souvenirs or gift for every one of them. pounds of turkey during the h<Ji- days. There are 625 telephone* in North Vancouver and 635 in Nelson. Last year 50 miles -of roadi wem opened up in South Vancouver. The Hudson Bay Company had A $60,000 fire in Hozclton lost sionth. This year some work will be don on an asbestos claim near Okana- gan falls. In Kelowna the hotel liquor li- censes are to be raised from $301 to $600 a year. Mrs. Jenkins has been a foembar of the school board in Viotpria tor 18 yeara. v. The Grand Trunk Paoifi* Ian at Prince Rupert was recently de- stroyed by fire. * Every day at Holson the, farmer* are delivering more than two loads of grain. . Last month auto* were still run- ning between Edmonton s"nd Atha- basca Landing. Two steam shovels will eoon f 6t at work on the railway g_ra*io wfet of Coalmont, In the Leadville camp, 21 milea from Otter flat, there is'sii feetfol suow at the Indiana cabin. The night school* of ' Vanoouvw employ 62 teachers, ondare at ed by more than 2,000 pupils. For the Allen estate* at Va,ss*a Lake, in the Okanagan, 50,000 fruit tree* have been ordered. During November 83 new phones were put in at Kam 1 That town now ha* 359. step Adam Abraham, for auppJyi quor to Indiana at Prince Ru; was fined $300 or *ix months in Count Vass, a cousin of the peror of Germany, has bought eral m-ore ranches in" the Valley. Two hotel men in Dawson fined $100 each lost week (or eta- ning poker games in their hodtea. Last week potatoes' were ton in New Westminster and ed ducks and ohickenfe 25 c pound. At Hope, James given three months in jail with herd labor for supplying Indians v.th liquor. South Fort George S seeking TV- corporation as a city. Amjtler townjjMtl'rat vicinity will be Princ^^reorge. The proprietor of th EagU tail rant in Prince Rupert was $10 last week because* his not kept clean. , The Canadian Pacific Rail putting on gome of iv gines to run between ami the Crow} town*. , More than $50,000 worth of is shipped from Greenwood month, and no real estate boater has ever mentioned this fact. There, are 2,500 men workfy ;on the Grand Trunk I&cifio e*T ol Hazelton, and more men comSjf in daily. The- grade to Telkwa wil bt finished this month. * Lethb g >ld e wy Near the Limit. A tall, austere man, who was evi- dently a stranger in those parts, en- tered a church in a small town in Maine. He took a seat in the rear of the church, and listened, appar- ently interested, for a short while. After that he began to show nerv- ousness. Leaning over to an old gentleman on his right, evidently an old member of the congregation, he whispered : "How long has he been preach- Inir ?*' *Thirty-nv years, I think," re- sponded the old man. "But I don't know exactly." "I'D. tay, tS*n," decided Se tranger. ''Ha must be nearly fln- ' ishxl Child Drunkards. Remarkable etatements ing drunkenness anfong Rv school children are made by " Grove, the British Cofrsul, in port on the trade of the Miso trict. It i* admitted, he that inebriety is very rapW creasing among the school c'h in Russia in general and m M<j and the Moscow provinces inj ticular. The Moscow, Tow i~ recently made an inquiry ra subject, and it was^sta-ted tt the. adults wfoo are* addiotej drvnk it had bee<n ascertain^ 90 por oe-nt. learned* to drink] still at school. Out of 18,134 i boys in the* Moscow Province J the ages of 8 to 13 years, 1SJ 66 per cent., drink'strong and out of 10,404 g^rla of ages, 4,733, or 45 per cenil drink. There are about -620,000 railwav in the world, of wnTijt>h*. United Kingdom an lay cl) some 23,880. Th* British Arnniy cots p mor* than twice a* muck] most expensive e army in Europe. m.-