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Household Winter Marmalades, Carrot Marmalade. One dozen raw carrots, grated ; one cupful rugar to each cupful of grated car- rot, juice of three lemons, straio- ed ; one teaspoonful each of pow- dered cinnamon, cloves and all- piee. Mix carrots and sugar and . let stand over night. Add the lem- t on juice and epioes in the morning and cook slowly for one hour. By omitting spices you have a good im- Jtation of orange marmalade. . Carrot Preserves. Wash well . and scrape the roots of carrot*, and t remove all black spots or bruised, decayed pieces. If you want it to be first-class, cut only the red part outside into pieces, throwing away .the middle, light colored and hard portion. Put the cut up red pieces "into the preserving pan with wiater to cover, and boil till it is eofb .enough to rub through a hair sieve. ^To four pou-nd-s of this pulp allow 'four pounds of loaf sugar, a quar- te-r of a pound of bitter almonds, . blanched and cut up v>. ry fine, the t rind grabed, and the juice etrain- *d of four lemons. The almonds and lemons are not to be added till .the ca rroi pulp and sugar have boil- ed up thoroughly and simmered for fifteen or twenty minutes ; then re- . "move from t/he fire, and when cold ^ tir in the fruit. Allow the sugar and pulp to boil continuously or ' the ; mi will burn. Ju L before put- ting the jam into ja/s add to the . above quantity six rablespoonfuls of brandy to make the jam keep. Stir thoroughly. Cover the jars carefully and tie -over well to ex- . elude air. Grapefruit Marmalade. Six grapefruit, sugar and water. Wash fruit, remove skin and cut it into . short thiri strips or run it through the chopper. Out the fruit into imall pieces, discarding seeds. Weigh the skin and pulp and to . each pound add two pints of w*t*r. , Let stand over night, and boil the fruit in the same water until the ' skin is tender. Remove from the stove, measure carefully and to each pint of fruit and juice add one "and onc-fonirth pounds of ugar. Return to the stove and boil until . the fruit is transparent and the 4 juice is a rich syrup. , Auiber Marmalade. No. I. 4 Wa,sh, wipe and cut into quarters one orange, one lemon and one grapefruit. Slice each quarter . through peel and pulp, rejecting te*di . Add seven pints of cold wa- ter, l*-t stand overnight, and in the ' morning cook until the peel is te<n- der, which will take several hours. . t?t aside overnight. Add ten cups , (five pounds) of sugar and coot, stirring once in a while, until the ' syrup thickena slightly on a cold plate. Pineapple-Orange Marmalade. 4 Three well-ripened pineapples, and ' six oranges. Remove the cores from the pineapple, and the white meuibrane of the oranges. Put through chopper, and for every ' cup ">f pulp take one of sugar. Gook very slowly until like jam. Pour in sage added to the minced meat will change the flavor delightfully. Minoed mint added to the lamb is a happy combination, too. A few drops of lemon juice added to the minced hard-boiled egg gives a piquancy to the egg sandwicheu. Dates and nute run through the meat chopper and moistened with cream make a filling that is hearty and tasty. A dash of salt improves the mixture. The chopped dates and nut mix- ture is quite changed in flavor if it is moistened with lemon or SCHOOL LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 8. Lesson VI. Darkness and Light- Luke 11. 14-26, 33-36. Golden Text, Luke 11. 35. orange juice. A mixture of cottage cheese Verses 14-16 ars introductory, ex- p lining the occabion for the dis- and course which follows. A miracle cocoanut is as good as it is unu*ual. wrought by Jesus is by some attri- Moisten it with rich cream and add Du t<l to the prance of evil spirits. a pinch of salt. I Verse 14. Demon that was dumb Hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine or ~& <-"aUed because it made the pressed through a ricer, and flavor- ^^^ dumb. ed with minced smoked herring,! 15 - .Some of them said Matthew make a tasty sandwich filling, either Bav8 ** wa ' s ta Pharisees who made with or without a salad dressing. 4 " 13 remark (Matt. 9. 34). Gold stewed mushrooms, split, ' Beelzebub -This word occurs only are delicious with entire wheat a oiit a half dozen times in the New bread if baked beans are season- .Testament and nowhere in the Old Testament. The form of the word ed with horseradish c-v* w ll-u 11O J C riMJ-lBJl Or C&>uSUj>, "*_ iviiii Ui liic WVH minced parsley, mustard and onion here used is taken from the Vul juice they will be an excellent fill- S*t, or early Latin translation of I ing for bread sandwiches. j the Bible. The Greek manuscripts | A tangy cheese, grated and mix- have instead the word "Beelze- ed to a paste with chili sauce or hul,' which may mean either "lord tomato catsup, will be found excel- ? tye mansion'' or "lord of the lent for sandwich filling. ipit." It is uncertain whether the Another good cheese filling ia the Je^s identified Beelzebub wich 8a- - or believed him to be a subor- evil power. 16. Sought of him a sign from third that ENGLISH GIRL TEACHES AMERICAN GIRLS TO ROW. grated cheese mixed with chopped oelery or watercress, olives and a little melted butter. | Minced crisped ham or bacon and heaven A renewal of the minced chicken, with a little let- ! temptation (Luke 4. 9-12). tuce leaf or shredded lettuce, will Jesus is requested to perform be found good with whole wheat or miracle, for the mere purpose of white bread. i showing his power to unbelievers. Chopped anchovies or sardine*,'! 17 > 18 - J ei us shows the people the mixed with hard-boiled eggs and unreasonableness of believing that made the consistency of paste by us- 1 through the assistance of an evil ing mayonnaise or cream, are good power he opuld c*st out evil. If the with any kind of bread. Shredded or minced sweftt green peppers, cream cheese and mayon-! nls kingdom would be divided and 1 11** i * j * i -nr.sN.il 1 J an i-n ' In \ 1 power of Satan were used to cast out one of his own subjects, then glasses. Aiuber Marmalade No. 2. , Shoe one orange, one lemon and * one grapefruit thin with a sharp . knife, removing seeds and core. f Measure and let stand over night ' with the same quantity of water as . fruit. In the morning put on the .fire and lot boil for two minutes. and let twenty-four hours. stand another Then, measure again a-nd to eaoih pint of juice add one pint of sugar. Boil until it iellies, stirring only as necewsary. Put into jelly glasses and seal when cold. Candied Grapefruit Peel. Be sure fruit is perfect and fre-sh. Wash, remove skin in quarters and cut it into strips about an inch wide. Weigh the peel. Measure out an equal weight of sugar. Let the peel stand over night in fresh cold water. Put it on to boil In this water in the morning usi.-ig a flat, shallow pan so as not to crowd the pee! and let simmer iiaMl the strips can be pierced easily with a straw. Take from fire and le>t sbaud until next morning. Drain off the waber, adding more if there is net enough to cover the peel. Cook the liquid to a syrup with the sugar. The sugar should weigh twice as nruch as the water. \Vhen A ra'ther thick, but not too thick, syrup has formed, add th peel, and let the rua*s simmer slowly until the syrup is nearly absorbed and the peel looks clear. Let the peel .*>>!. remove it. and roll in granulat- ed sugar. Lay it on waxed paper naise are delicious with nut bread. A toasted sandwich, having for a filling scraped raw bee-f, will often tempt the appetite when other fill- ings fail. Twice as much chopped chicken as minced ham, seasoned with curry would surely fall. A house divided against a house Better, ''house after house fall- eth." Here Luke apparently me-ant to enlarge upon the desola- tion brought about by a divided kingdom, ami did not refer, as did powder, makes an unusual sand- i Matthew and Mark, to a divided wich filling. If these sandwiches! bouse (see Matt. 12. 25; Mark 3. sprinkling of balls of are served with a Parmesan cheese, or with the cheese mixed with butter, they will find f .ivor. Any kind of baked, cold cooked fish, mixed with a sweet or sour minced pickle and mayonnaise or boiled dressing, --vil! make a good sandwich filling. Minced celery and olives, mixed to a good consistent^ with mixed pickle and catsup, will make a tasty filling, with or without the addition of minced nuts. Household Hints. Grape jam with whipped cream on it is a novel and pretty desert. Very sour fruits can be partly sweetened by a pinch of wilt while cooking. The living-room table i.'i-ould never be crowded with books. A few are enough. When woolen blankets are past their best, cover with silko'.ine and tack like a quilt. Individual tarts are- always at- tractive and make an agreeable 19. 20. Your sons Jewish exor- cists, who used charms and incanta- tions to drive away* the spirits of disease and other spirits of evil. By the finger of God Matthew (12. 28) savs "the spirit of God." 21, 22. This parable contains a suggestion of Isaiah 49. 24-36. The strong man would then refer to Satan guarding the entrance of his own . court or mansion, and the stronger Wv.u]d refer to Jesus, who would overcome him and take from him his armor in which he trusted. 23. H that ig not with me is against me The contest between Christ, and Satan is such that no one can remain neutral. Indiffer- ence here is equivalent to opposi- tion. 24-26. In reproving the Pharisees for their baseless criticism of him and for their desire for a miracle to test his power, Jesus depicts their spiritual condition by ujing the parable of expelled demons, a subject foreign to our thought to- day, but moving in the region of popular opinion of his day. The The Washington University Women's Coach. Miss Lucy Pocock, holder of the woman's single scull championship of England, is now teaching the women students of the L'niversity of Washington at Seattle how to row the Eton stroke, and is making great progress. Miss Pocock is 24 years old, and was born at Ted- dington on the Thames, where she was taught to row by her bro- thers, Dick and George, both champion single scullers. change for the luncheon table. po { nt of the para ble for us is the The woman who means to econo- fat , t of c<)mmon experience which it mize on iU have as little bright metal as pos- emp hasues. that he who has once experienced the goodness and If a rug curie, moisten it and j ^n'an<T\h"e^fterprmUs''th7"ord mercy of God in the forgiveness of wrap it around a broom stick in habits to again take possese i on o f the opposite way from its desires, his life is sure to sink steadily to lower and lower levels. The lan- throughout is figurative and then tie and let it dry. Meat patties for luncheon dishes are economical because they can be 1 "* details" oTthV parable Tmust n"ot made of almost every sort of cold be f orce< i i n their application, meat. Waterless places -T>eeerts, ceme- Anybody who has a hunter in the ter i 8 , an< i places uninhabited by family can make a very nice litt,I! men wore thought to be the haunts rug of rabbit skins sewn together o f j emons on a piece O f carpet. Seeking rest and finding none Keep in the cellar a few onions The dera<jn j s seeking for a place of which you allow to send up shoots. They are delicious in winter sal- ads or to rub the salad bowl with. Bread sauce should never be served stiff and sticky, but smooth and free from lumps. The sauce, should not boil after adding the bread. If lime in the water forms a coat- ing inside the teakettle it may be removed with vinegar or sulphuric acid. Be careful to .wash the kettle afterward. * ( 'i IT, -m Justice. The Corcan judge dispenses tice in the upon, and by eticjuette only the judge can sit ; everyone My house No one else has taken possession of it, so he still calls it "my house. 1 ' He findeth it swept and garnish- ed, but empfy. Evil can be per- posi- a good manently overcome only by tive good, a bad habit by one, wrongdoing by right conduct, selfishness by service. 33-36. In these verses Jesus car- the argument of his discourse one step farther. Not only -must individual allegiance to the king- dom of heaven result in positive goodness, but that goodness must be helpful to others. It cannot re- main as a secreted personal pos- . o dry. It can be kept in a wide- did not confess he was tortured else must stand, excepting the' pri- 1 session. The two illustrations used soner and his friends, who are by J*ue make this point perfectly forced to remain in a hmnble kneel- ing position with bowed heads. Un- til quite recently these trials were always very one-sided and shock- ingly unjust. When a man was brought to a judge, it was taken for granted he was guilty, and if he clear. The lighted lamp is not intended to be hidden in the cellar, or crypt, under the house, nor vet to be covered over with a oushel, the household basket, used for measur- ing grain and vegetables. It ifl ra- to give light and thus mou . thed jar. If it gets too hard, and made to do so. Witnesses, too, ]ik< . t hc eye serve* not it- cook again in a little syrup and re- , were openly bribed. In fact, giving wlf a ] t , M< but the entire body, and peat the process of rolling in sugar, evidence for or against an accused , lpon ^ s h e4 ]th will depend clear- person meant a. living to a portion n<M o f vision and saletv. of the community, and these wit- nesses naturally favored those who paid best. Punishments varied. If the prison* were too full, and the Tha syrup make* an excellent Sav- oring ana sweetener. Fvcr Tried These Sandwiches! Any bit of left-over veal, t**k, chicken or lamb may be utiliaed for , condemned could not pay a fine, andwiches, especially if every : they were often given a chance to crap of gravy left in th cooking , escape, or disappeared by some li saved and the nwat put into it. [means. Though these are tilings of This keep* the meat from drying up. -the past, Corean judges, like tnosie Jiwt before usinot mince the of China, possess a poor idea of tlie meat, an* there will be a most pal- PMK. of justice.- Wide World Mag atabl filling. Sometime* a pinch of Single, in this parable, mean* "sound"' or "normal," as evil moans '''disease." Wlmther the light ... be not darkue Examine thyself and B*P if the eye of thy siil is BO dia**d that it cannot receive the light. MAN'S TEARS OF GROWTH. Organs and Bones Grow I mil lie Is Forty Years Old. It is claimed by scientists who have made a study of the bubjcct that a man's organs and the bones that are not subjected to pressure grow continuously until he is forty years old ; that is to say that the heart should grow stronger, the capacity of the lungs increase and the brain should develop steadily until the end of the fourth decade of life. A man ceases to grow tall, how- ever, at the beginning of the third decade, because after that time pressure exerted by the weight of the body while in the erect position compresses the vertebrae of small bones in the spine, the disks of cartilage between them, the pelvis and' the thigh-bones, and this pressure overcome* the natural elasticity of the disks and the growth of the bones. A British scientist contends that were a man a quadruped, and therefore freed from the downward pressure produced by his weight upon the spinal column, he would continue to grow in height for ten years longer than he does at pres- ent, since it has been found that bones not subjected to compression increase up to the fourth decade. , $ A SECOND GIBRALTAR. Heligoland Has Been Strongly For- tified in Recent Years. Wonderful changes have been made by Germany in Heligoland during the past few years. From being merely a fishing village the place has been transformed into a \eritablo Gibraltar, with a home for all small warcraft, including dirigibles and waterplanes. The German Gibraltar protects the mouths of four rivers, including the Elbo and the \Ve*er. A protect- ing sea wall has been built half round the island, and from the high Oberland, the biggest and best Krupp guns, on disappearing plat- forms, command all approaches from the sea. A tunnel pierces the island from west to north, through which am- munition and other material may be safely taken. Huge searchlights discover every distant vessel at . night, and there is a wireless eta- > lion. To the south of the lower part of the island a new island has arisen from the waters. It is half as big j as Helogoland itself and has been built of mate-rial brought from Ger- many. This new island provides shelter for torpedo boats, destroy- ers, submarines and cruisers. There are also magazines and sheds for airships of all eorts. Two years ago the garrison was 100 strong, "now its men number 1.500. - instinctive, and so also are her neatness, her coquetry and her her modesty. In all weathers and in all company she cleans her fur and her face. A trained cat pre- fers to make her toilet before a mirror. Man's love for his cat is free from snobbery. The Persian cat, the cat of China, or the tail- less Manx, may be the object of our admiration or our astonish- ment ; the common cat of our own household is the object of our love. Camoens was too poor to buy a caudle ; he had no light but the luminous eyes of his cat on the night when he wrote his chant of iii-- Lusiad. Idleness and agility dwell together under the velvet pelt of the cat; and her savage atavism is linked with gracious and grate- ful civility. Her waj's are strange and contradictory. She creeps through the night like a shadow, springs from the darkness as if elec- trified, and lies in the torrid heat like a worshipper of the sun. CONTROL OF THE WEATHER. Sir Oliver Lodge Suggests New I'se for Electricity. Sir Oliver Lodge, the distin- guished physicist and principal of Birmingham (England), University, in an address before the Institute of Electrical Engineers recently, suggested the possibility of obtain- ing some measure of control over the weather. -If clearing weather, he said, was due to electricity, it might be im- agined that man could acquire some control over the electrification of the at me sphere. If it wais desired to produce rain, why not send up a kite to reach the clouds ? He believed that if enough electricity were discharged into the clouds the drops would behave there as they did in the laboratory ; they would coalesce, and, once that had happened, the process might be repeated and cause a shower. When rain was wanted, the lec- turer said, negative electricity should be sent up, an<i if fine wea- ther was wanted, positive electri- city. WOMAN TO EXrt.OE DESERT Will Traverse Region No Eurooean Haa Ever Entered. Countess Molitor, of Russia, has drawn her plans for the crossing of Arabia from west to east, including the exploration of the Ruba el Khali Desert, a region of 000,069 square miles which no European has ever entered,, and which is probably the most mysterious and inaccessible region in the world. Whether it contains, as some be lieve, remai.is of buried cities, or whether the whole is nothing but arid sand, none can say, for it is very doubtful whether even a na- tive has crossed more than the out- skirts of the desert. Countess Moli- tor has already done considerable travelling alone in Southwest Af- rica. ''I intend," she said, "to travel alone, so far as Europeans are con- cerned, for I believe thi* to be the safest course. I shall dress and live as an Arab. My plans have been discussed with the Geographi- cal Society, which admits the im- mense interest attached to the des- ert, but) makes no secret of the dan- gerous character of the journey. "From Daira I shall travel to Teims, the point from which several unsuccessful attempts have been made to get into the heart of the country. This part of the journey will involve a couple of weeks' tra- vel over mountains. My next objec- tive will be Tamreh, three weeks' journey to the southward over diffi- cult mountain country. "Tamreh is the lat point in the desert marked on the map. and the 1,200 miles of desert between that plaae and Muscat is absolutely un- known. One of the greatest perils will be the absence of water, but I am arranging to travel in the spring, when my she-camels will have a plentiful supply of mi!k. Bas- ing my rate of progress by camel at thirty miles a day, I should, with luck, emerge at Muscat i.. May." \pv?r b<-f<ire in England hv so many women offered themselves a* candidate^ for town and metropoli- tan borough councils. FAlTHFt'L PUSSY. Almost Every Literary Man Has His Familiar Cat. Apart from rare exceptions, due t<> natural antipathy, the predilcc- ti<>n of writers for cats is general. Kvery real literary man baa his familiar cat rolled in a ball, pur- suing hi* flying pen with wary eye or following it with light ana dis- creet side pats. Tin- cat iv UK! n traitor. Tn some cases she is evt-ii nmrp faithful than the dog. Affection for her friends UNIQUE BRIDGE. One of tli. 1 Most Interesting in the World in Indo-China. What is claimed to be one of the most interesting railway structures in the world is the bridge- over the Faux Xamti gorge in Indo-C'hina, where, owing to the peculiar diffi- culties in the way of building a bridge of any type, it was necessary to adopt a special design suited to the only method of erection that seemed possible. The sides of the gorge, according to a writer in Popular Mechanics, are practically vertical and have no chance of the approach to the bridge from either side except through tunnels. The track grade is 335 feet abov% the river, so that no system of falsework could be used in build- ing tho bridge, while cantilever* were out of the question owing to the lack of "elbow room.' 1 The design, finally adopted consist- ed of two steel trusses, each hinged at the cliff side, which were erected in a vertical position and then lowered so that the ends met, forming a structure of inverted V-shape. The ends of the two trusses were firmly connected, steel towers were erected on the humps of the trusses and on this support the steel deck truss, carrying the track, was placed. At the beginning of the work it was necessary to let the workmen down by ropes from the tunnel mouth to prepare the> foun- dations of the supporting trusses. The track trusses were built in the tunnels and were then moved into position on rollers. From end to end this bridge measures 220 feet 4 inches, while the distance between the heels of tho supporting trussei is ISO 1 ., feet. ANOTHER SOUDAN SCHEME. EXPENSIVE TO RUN LONDON. Immense Sums Arc Required For Various Purposes. It costs $130,000,000 a year to run London, England. This cost is re- vealed in a return which the Lon- don County Council has issued. The County Council spends $55,000,000 a year, but as it gets grants from the Government for various pur- poses, such as education, it only aaks the ratepayers for $35.000,000. There are other authorities which have power to ask for money, and so chaotic is the system of local government that it is not even pos- sible to say to a million or so the exact amount which the people have i to pay. All that can be said is that : it is somewhere in the neighborhood of $130,000,000. Since the London County Council was created 23 years ago it has on capital raised no less than $2,25(5.- 000,000. Of this as much as $120,- 000,000 has been spent on street improvements. Education has tak- en $90,000.000, aud $60,000.000 has; been spent on main drainage. Lon- don is an expensive place to man- age, and despite trie economies practised during reont yars i is gtting very obvious that local gov- ernment, will cot the people much more in future. Still, there i a! population' of !' millions to bear! the burden. To Build Dam on White and Blu Nile South of Khartoum. Work has been commenced on an- other grea-t scheme to reclaim by irrigation vast tracts of desert in the Soudan. It is believed it can be made to add enormously to the cotton output of the British Em- pire. The tract which is to be watered is known a* the Gizra territory. II lies between the Blue and White Nilea, below Khartoum, and con- sist* of 1,500,000 acres. The force and flow of the two rivers ia suf- ficient to water the entire district when properly harnessed. The pro- posal is to build two da-ins south of Khartoum, one over each of t.h rivers. Tints the tract between the streams will be irrigated, while at the same time the force <>f t-lve wa- ter flowing into Egyyt will be con- trolled At present the Blue Nile conies down in a raspnu flow, and the White Nile, flowing in steadier fashion, combines wi!h it to niak a hug* overflow. The building >f the two dams wi!l sb!^ the flow to be properly regulated and will practically mean the final harne- ing of the Nil*. After several years of exrxri- ments French inventors claim tv have perfected an artificial w<>od wirh th strength o? oak >n;id* oi straw.