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sugar add boiling r, one tablespoonful at a time il dissolved, but donot add more n three tablespoonfuls. Spread ngo Onke, Cream' half a 'up with one 'oup sugar, add' ou spread w follows : ot one cup fugar with one-quar- Bot Sup 3 water un o : then > radually to stiffly | n white { of ous duly & whip, ds adding jone-quarter icup orange juice, one § ful "of lemon juice' and a i in i until thi am. «Ice Cream ;Cake.--~One cup, but- ter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, three and one-half cups flour, two 1 and sugar, milk then flour, and beat. Add whipped. whites and beat again, Flavor with almond 'extract. "Bake in three jolly tins in hot oven and when oold put together with boiled icing flavored with almond extract. Devil's Food Cake.--Butter, one Aping teaspdon; sugar, otie'cip ; beat to a good cream, then add Jolks of two eggs. Cut up one- fourth bar of 'chocolate, put in saucepan, edd one-half cup of cold water, let come to boil, then pour over above. Next add one and one- half cups of flour scant, with one teaspoon baking powder... . Lastly add one-half teaspoon scant baking A #oda to half cup . boiling water, . then add to above contents. The secret in making this cake is to have the batter thin. Take: the whites of the two eggs for boiled 8. x Lightning Cake.--One scant cup sugar, one full cup flour, one tea- spoonful baking powder; stir these together in the mixing dish. One- third. of a cupful of soft butter, break into the cup on top of the butter two eggs, fill the cup with milk; stir this for an instant, enough to break the eggs, and pour the contents of the 'cup into the flour, sugar, and baking powder. Add one teaspoonful vanilla and fir all together. for a moment. bake in two layers or one lar- jor sheet for from twenty minutes Ao, half an hour. This is easily de. and a light cake. It makes ood dessert - by cutting «nto 'squares and covering each piece 'with a generous portion of maple or. white sugar boiled frosting. ; ' ICED DISHES. . Violet Bherbet.--Boil together r five minutes a pound of sugar a pint of water; add the juice two lemons: When icy cold add pint of grape juice and. free. n frdzen sits, a meringue t | be ioy cold. ; | mold in hot water, turn compote 1 out eyes of ripe pineapples; strip - | tablespoon flour, one and one-half d| til the cheese is melted and the | brine. of three quarts of water, one At serving tim ice on a high nish outside with | 'head fruit in center ; yecially if serv- | ed with cream. Allow one pint of) minutes. Pare the peaches and pack in cans whole; leaving the pits in 'gives more of a peach flavor, In each filled can put one tablespooa- ful of pure aleohol, then pour the hot. syrup over-all till the cans are brimful, and seal. These will keep 'perfectly two 'years or more. | Pineapple Help.+---Pare and cut all pulp from core with silver fork. To a pint of this add a pound of granulated sugar. Stir constantly until sugar is dissolved. Put into fruit jars. 'This will keep a long time. Brown Bugar Pie.--Two-thirds cup brown sugar, one tablespoon butter, two tablespoons milk, cook until waxy looking; then take yolks of two eggs, one heaping cups milk ; mix all together, smooth, add to the above ingredients, cook until thick; add vanilla; have a baked crust; use the whites beaten stiff for top; return to the oven for 'a minute or two. TESTED RECIPES. Eggless Fruit Cake.--Two cupfuls sugar. two cupfuls buttermilk, one pound seedless raisins chopped fine, four cupfuls flour, one-half cupfal butter, one tablespoonful soda dis- solved in a little hot water; spices to taste; a cupful of rich preserves of pears or strawberry jam adds to the good fruit taste so well liked by many. Bake in a slow oven. Bea Foam Candy.--<Cook three cupfuls brown sugar and one table. spoonful of vinegar until the syrup forms a hard ball when dropped in cold water; pour it slowly over the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, beating continually until the candy is stiff enough to hold its shape. Then, if liked, work in a cup of chopped nuts and half a teaspoonful of 'vanilla. Drop in small pieces on waxed paper. / Muskmelon Frappe.-- ve the tops of small nutmeg mélons so as to form a cover. Take out all the seeds and membrane and scoop out as much of the soft pulp as can easily be removed. Cut this latter into small pieces. Place the seeds and membrane in a sieve to drain the juice, them add the latter to one quart of whipped cream, sweet- ened; turn this into an ice cream freezer and turn until stiff. When ready to serve take the shells, | which should have been chilled on ice, place the frappe cream in al.' ternate layers with the melon pulp. Fasten a narrow ribbon looped bow on the lids with long pins; set the melons on lace paper doilies and serve with cake. An excellent company dessert. : Deviled crackers are very nice to serve with salads. Cover the top of the crack- ers with finely grated cheese, using a mixture -of plain and Parmesaa. Put in the centre of each cracker a teaspoon of tomato catsup and a 'dusting of salt and pepper. - Place in a baking dish in a hot oven. uh- crackers are crisp. 'They should be served hot." . Homemade Corn Beef.--Make a cup of coarse salt, one-half cup brown sugar, and saltpetre size of 8 | a hazlenut. "Boil all together and plicated matted in Sardinia than it let cool. Belect the piece of meat | you prefer, put it into a crock, and | marriage customs are very curious. turn the brine over. Let staal about six days with a weight on to 'keep under the brine, when it is ready for use. Cover with cold | wil think it the best you ever | water and 'one cupful of sugar for |.making.it liable to crack. add | each can and. boil this mixture five | off Crackers. -- Deviled | dip the meat in a little sweet milk. nd cook over a slow fire. | event of her not wishing to be seen '| been in use since time "tween. Small * children; need 'n uid b whatever. ' Their Rotary how : oonsist of milk, . cereals, fruit, and vegetables. Eggs are good for children, but should not be fried for 'them, but simply 'boiled or poached, or eaten in the form of custards. ; To remove iron-mould or rust, the best way is to stretch the spots over a bowl and moisten with salts of lemon until the spots disappear. Then the soiled part should be thoroughly rinsed in warm water to remove the acid.. Articles of food that are damp or juicy should never be left in paper. Paper is merely a compound of rags, glue, lime, and similar sub- stances, with acids and. chemicals intermixed, and, when damp, is ua- fit to touch things that are to be caten. Irons require to be kept very clean, but in case of their becom-' ing rusty through long disuse, the following Will be found a"good way of cleaning them: Make the iron fairly hot, and then rub it over with a little beeswax tied up in a piece of rag or cloth. When the rust has been removed by this ap- plication, wipe the iron over with a clean cloth. . 4 Holes in walls, caused by nails which have been taken out, are ex- ceedingly unsightly, and it is not always possible to conceal them by means of pictures They may, however, be rendered hardly noticeable by filling them with fine sawdust mixed into a thick paste with glue. Apply this while it is wet, and when dry it may, if iked, be painted over with the ame color as that used in the room. There is nothing to equal milk, especially stale milk, as a remedy for an ink-stained carpet. It must, however, be applied the moment the ink has been spilt, before it is left to dry in, as is often done. Blot- ting-paper or an old rag should. be used to soak up the milk and ink, a little more 'of the former being added until the mark has disap- peared. Finally, the spot must be gone over with a cloth wrung out in hot water to remove the mark of the milk. To Stiffen Starch.--Dissolve five cents' worth of gum arabic in eight ounces of water. Bottle up, When wanted for use, add one table- spoonful to the pan of starch while hot. The clothes will remain stiff indamp weather. This is especi- ally nice for shirt waists and cal- ored clothes, but will do equally well for 'white clothes." ~ A Frying Help.--When frying veal, either steaks or chops, first Then place it in a frying pan con- taining hot butter or a mixture of hot butter and lard. Fry 'over a good fire and see the results. The milk causes the meat to brown beautifully and imparts to it'a de- licious flavor and unmuspal tender- ness: - Veal fried in this way browns quickly and the juice of the ment is. retained, which is not' the' case when frying is continued for a long time. : Ci : COURTSHIP IN SARDINIA, Wooing. is a slightly more 'com- is here, says the Gentlewoman, The If a father ' has a marriageable daughter the" would-be ' suitor ap- plies to. him 'for. permission. to see r as she goes to church, or in the he communicates with her by means pean i A It is a long string with knob at eh oo ermission having or ornaments. |: | quarrie Hho to Was come-- course several: mouths hed psed since 'the start from: - lon, 'for a long stretch of desert 'eight hundred siniles month could be chosen' than Tisti our October), which was the month; of the great feasts of Trumpets and Tabernacles, and Atonement. The people ...-, as 'one man--It was a popular movement, in which the multitude was in full co-opera- tion with priests and aristocracy. [on 7 A a ed | the huge trunks from the hill coun: | sti; Be a ey loaded x them upon great rafts, and. flgated. them 'to Joppa, the nearest seaport to Jerusalem, a distance of The grant « . . of Cyrus -- This must be understood generally, inas- much as Cyrus had no jurisdiction oyer the Phoenicians. The trans- 'action was simply carried out ac- cording. ta his wish and under his avor. ) ) 8. Coming unto the house--Where the old temple had stood, and where the new was to stand. = Here.as- The first temple was the work of a [f¢mbled, .in . the second month king; this undertaking was the humbler work of returned exiles. They assembled apparently almost on the ruins of the old temple. 2. Jeshua--He was the son of one of the exiles (1 Chron. 6. 15), and was now high-priest. Since the work about to be accomplished was "a sacrificial work, he and his breth- ren, the leading men of families. The order is reversed in other places. In such a ceremonious act as the building of the altar, these chief men represent the whole peo- ple. The altar, a huge, square structure of rough stone, was the all-important symbol of Jewish worship. For fifty years, sacrifices had been at a stand-still. Now they were to be resumed in full force be- 'fore anything was done toward the refounding of the temple. "The worship itself is felt to be more im- portant than the house in which it is to be celebrated." J Written in the law of Moses--The law concerning the offerings for the 'first day of the seventh month is found in Num. 29. 1-6. Burnt-of- ferings had a peculiar sacrednéss to the Jews, since they symbolized the self-dedication of the . worshiper. Moses is several times in the Chron- icles spoken of as the man of God. 3. Set the altar upon, its base-- Perhaps this may mean that they cleared away the accumulated rub- bish and set the new altar. upon the foundations of the old. = The marginal reading, in its place (that is, the place it was permanently to occupy), is, however, the probable meaning. They did this in haste on account of fear of the peoples of the border countries. The erection of the altar, which was a rallying-point for the whole people, would tend to inspire confidence in themselves. 4. The feast of tabernacles--The most gladsome of the Jewish festi- vals, when for seven days, begin- ning with the fifteenth of the sev: enth month, the people celebrated the goodness of God in the final harvest, and the best of the vintage. It commemorated the wanderings in the desert, and from this time was to signalize the deliverance from exile. Bee Lev. 23. 34-44; Num. 29. 12-38. All this was a revival of ancient customs, and in careful conformity to the revealed will,of God (as it is written). By number--The passage in Num- bers 20 gives a detailed list of the required sacrifices for this feast. Every day would have its own num- erical requirement. Le 8." Afterward the continual burnt- offering--Implying that, after th: feast of the tabernacles, the full sacrificial system, including these daily morning and evening sacrifices prescribed by Exod. 29, 38-42, whi had beep interrupted. since the de- struction. of Jerusalem, was resum- ed. ,The: new moons, although ceiving ne special attention in the Levitical code, was a popular day of religious' practice. These burnt- offerings' were also made upon-the occasion of the 'set feasts (Lev. 28. 2-37 and 2 Chion. 8. 13), and upon the presentation of the freewill-of- fering on any of the 'great feast days by an individual, Jew or Geh- tile, That all this should be done before the foundation of the temple was laid (6) would seem a thing in- credible to Jews of a later day, . who inevitably associ sacrifices with a-temple building. : 7. The masons--As. the stone for the altar was taken from. the hill upon 'whieh the city stood, the ma- sons probably included those who stone, as well as those trees. These were = apparently all 'that dine So as otherwise for, (April) of the year B. C. 536, the people; under.the direction of their leaders, 'both lay and -ecclesiasti- cal, began the work on the second temple' by appointing the Levites to bear the!chiéf responsibility. Ze- rubbabel, 'as the head of the royal house, arid the one to whom the commission had been given, is given the place 'of honor in the account. The Levités were comparatively few in number (seventy-four had re- turned from the captivity), but they had great influence. In the book of Numbers the limits of age are fixed for them at twenty-five and fifty. But under David the lower limit fell to twenty, and now, with their numbers so impoverished, it became even more needful to keep the standard as low as possible. 9. Jeshua--Not to be confounded with Jeshua the high priest. This one was a Levite, and the verse is best understood as a designation or catalogue of the Levites. Of these there appear to be three families; that of Joshua,that of Kadmiel (the sons of Judah, or Hodaviah, being a special branch of the family), and that of the sons of Henadad (see Neh. 3. 18). - 10. They set the priests--The sub- ject must be the leaders, not the builders. . Their apparel was their 'white priestly garments. 11. Sang one to another -- This seems to be an allusion to the com- mon practice of antiphonal singing. The refrain, he is good, is a litur- gical response, frequently used at sacred feasts, not a quotation from a written psalm. : 13. Seen the first house -- The destruction of the temple of Solo- mon took place B. C. 587, and the foundation of the new house of Je- bhovah was laid about fifty years later. 1. The adversaries--See Introduc- tion above. 2. Esarhaddon--Reigned over As- syria B. C. 681-668. 3. We ourselves together -- The undertaking was to be the work of the united Jewish people. While it seems like a narrow exclusiveness, not to say intolerance, it was a de- fensive measure on the part of a homogeneons community who fear- ed treachery from those who could not be in total sympathy. 5. Hired counsellors--This was one effective means of opposition by which the Samaritans weakened the hands of the builders and put a stop to their work. In addition to open attacks, Syrian officials were paid to make false reports at the Persian court. Darius--Reigned B. C. 521-485. + -- gf -- DEW PONDS IN GREAT BRITAIN Among the most singular archaeo- logical remains found in Great Britatin are the ancient dew ponds, the construction of which is ascrib- ed to the nedlithic'age. 'The pur- pose of these ponds was to furnish drinking water for cattle. An ex- posed position where springs were absent was selected and a broad, hollowed surface was formed and covered over with straw or some other non-conducting material. Above was spread a thick layer of clay strewn with stones. During the night the cold surface of the clay caused an abundance of mois- ture to condense from lower layers of the air. Some of these ancient dew ponds are still working. re ee A SENSITIVE SPIRIT, « Mrs. Moriarty owns a goat, for which she has a warm affection, All the neighbors 'regard Nanny as quite as much a member of the origrty family as is Michael or een. ; One fing morning Mrs. Riordan mn -agross the street with she sick? the corner of was lookin' ill 1"? bless Waky 40 wi® MAL | J ere ng I doubt whether . iron will' that conquered France) {would have moved the donkey. Nay, Ido not doubt: I am oe it! would not. And since men are a' than Honkels I dm sife B Was' ¥ on will alone that:-Napo ruled the Frenth, : ' The iron will only served to santly at the 'working out of h great idea, the idea of convi > men that he was the ablest among' them, 'that by following him they did best for themselves. 'A political boss does 'the same; 'there is no iron will fnvolved: merely he shows his followers that they all gain by going with him, "And the same rule holds true in: the case of band conductors. A military conductor can get his way because the men under him are punished unless they obey him; an opera or concert conductor may get his way because he can throw out of employment the men who do nob obey him. But the true born conductor, eith- er military or civil, gets his way and fine results when his bandsmen know that by paying close attention to him and putting their backs into their work they help to secure per- formances of which they may all justly feel proud. When Nikisch first came here many years ago we were told how on the Continent he was wont to magnetize his men and make them insensibly yield; they would have béén' dismissed if they had' not' but the magnetism did not in the least work in England. The men sim- ply paid no attention to it; there might as well have been no mag- netism at all; twas in vain Nikisoh essayed to fix them with the glitter- ing eye of which we had read so much, too much; the inhuman ras- cals refused to be fixed ; the per- formances were poor and some one must have lost a fair sum of mone, over the concerts. ' See what happened when Nikisch returned not as master but as ser- vant of the orchestra. The Symp- hony Orchestra engaged him; the glittering eye nonsensz and the iron | will nonsense were dropped, and at, once artistic results were got. One might disapprove of many things he did, and especially of his affected readings but he gained the effects he wanted, and gained them in a legitimate manner, through the faith the men had in him. -- A SELF-TRAPPED MOOSE. Right lind Leg Caught in a Cedar Root. Many wild animals meet with ac- cidents and are unable to help themselves. In a recent book, "With Gun and Guide,' the author tells of an incident in his own ex- perience in which, to his certain knowledge, a young bull moose was kept a prisoner for four days and, a half, without food or water. The poor beast had suffered' the mis- fortune of having his right hind leg cedar 'root. The spot was about three feet from the shore of a lake. With his other feet free, he was trying all this time to free himseHM, and was constantly digging for him- self a muady grave. T rushed in as fast as he dug, and the result was an enveloping come: pound of sticky mud. ' , I had heard nim plainly on Fri-- day and Saturday nights, because the-wind was from his quarter. Sun- day night it changed, and on that night and the following night 'we heard no sounds. ' On Tuesday morning a guide and I passed right by him without see- ing him, although, as I have al-' ready said, he was but three feet from the water. ) ) On the return trip, however, the guide, who had left me more than a mile above, again heard the noise, and soon found out the cause. Going back to the camp, he enlist- ed the aid of one of our party, an expert photographer, and to-' gether they puddled up to the im-' prisoned mooSe. With an ax the cedarroot was cut, and the animal's leg was freed. - . The next thing' wag to get. the beast out. They used a sapling as a lover, having: placed .it under. his 4 8, 4 x - 3 . With gre ign pulling at his apt lers; the other hoisting ; means of the lev doing all he cou wag ab last liberated. Both men. say that: with and by turning round' 6 them at tep he took himself to keep him hard and inges-|* CO 2 rg Se ue caught in some manner behind a he water with 'a log for a fulcrum. h, Al Bont 3 Fata