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os, : haps, because they have! tied and found satisfying and re- wble. rE Ee i Plain Muffins. -- One. egg, Ww beaten; a tablespoonful of butter and a tablespoonful of sugar, with a "teaspoonful of salt, all 'beaten un- til' very light. One cup three of sifted flour nd threé spoonfuls of baking powder. half grabam and one-half rye mea may be used instead of wheat flour or two cups of cornmeal and one of flour. ; Drop on: well-gre patty pans and bake twenty minutes in a rather: quick oven: or bake on a griddle in muffin rings. 4 Twin Mountain Muffins. -- One: quarter cupful of butter, one-quar- ter cupful of sugar, one egg, we beaten; three-quarter. cupful milk, two cupfuls flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream the butter, add gradually the sugar, then the eggs. Sift the flour and baking powder thoroughly ard add to the first mixture alternately with the milk, Bake in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. our. Cream Biscuits.--Four cup- fuls flour, one teaspoonful soda and one teaspoonful salt sifted together, one pint sour cream. Roll out on a floured board, having the dough one inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter and put the biscuits in a greased pan just touching eac other. Bake from twelve to fifteen minutes in a hot oven. . . Cornmeal Rolls.--1Y cupfuls of white 'flour, three-quarter cupful of cornmeal, four teaspoonfuls Poking powder, one-half teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar, two table- spoonfuls of butter, one egg, three- quarter cupful of milk. All mea- surements level. Mix and sift dry ingredients. into a bowl, chop but- ter in with knife, beat egg, add milk and add all to dry ingredients to make a soft dough that can be han- dled; add more milk if necessary; turn onto a floured . board, toss lightly and roll out one-half inch with rolling pin, cut with round cut- ter, put a piece of butter size of a pea in centre of each round; fold round in centre so opposite edges meet, put onto a buttered baking sheet; rub the top with milk and bake in a quick oven twelve to fif- teen minutes. boy Coffee Buns. -- Bift together two quarts of flour, a pinch of salt and a teacupful of fine granulated su- gari. Make a hole in the middle of this, pour in one pint of home-made yeast, and mix thoroughly; then stir in one-half teacupful of melted butter. Mix to a stiff batter with lukewarm sweet milk; knead into a smooth dough ahd let it stand in a warm place overnight. In the morn- ing knead again; roll out lightly and cut with a biscuit cutter, Put in a greased baking pan, allowing _@bolit 'one-half inch between, Brush the tops with milk and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake in a mod- erate oven for about 30 minutes, Southern Corn Bread.--8ift two cupfuls of cornmeal twice with an even teaspoonful of soda and as much salt. . Beat two eggs very light, Mix one teaspoonful of su- gar in three cupfuls of buttermilk or loppered milk, add the and a tablespoonful of melted hutter, lastly the prepared flour. Have ready three well-greased deep' jelly cake ting (warmed), divide the bat- ter between them and bake in a quick oven. Some Flourless Recipes. In these days when flour is rapid- y increasing in price, housewives ould try and see what they can accomplish in the bakery line with- out the did of that usually all-im- portant item--flour. The recipe for 'Potato Bisouit"' should prove of milky La . Buet may b ping roughly and sprinklin a little granulated rap cheese in a ith vinegar if you would keep it | mold. + ill be much moist and free from Button loops wi over with a fine croche : 'When milk "boils sprinkle salt on the stove at once} this will counteract the unpleasant odor. A small 'piecé of camphor in the stronger if the loops are {otheted water in which cut-flowers are put 'will make them last much longer. Condensed milk is cheaper and as good as fresh milk for the making of cocoa, puddings and ice cream. Carrots cut in circles, boiled till tender, then salted, served piping hot and sprinkled with chopped parsley are delicious. When you paste labels on glass jars that are used for spices or cer- eals, put the label on the inside; it will stay more securely. A good sauce for lamb is made of currant jelly, broken up and mixed with finely chopped mint leaves and a few shavings of orange rind. Cold rice left over from a meal can be made into. an appetizing dish, with tomato sauce, minced onion, butter and seasoning. Bake half an hour. Lemon juice is invaluable in re- moving stains resulting from pota- to parings or fruit picking. First dip the fingers into salt, and then apply the lemon. mei eit. DISEASE BEATS THE GUN. Eighty Per Cent. of Deaths in War Due to Disease. Notwithstanding modern medical science,' eighty of the deaths in the present war are due to disease, as against twenty due to gun fire. These are the figures compiled by Dr. F. N. Sandwith, writing in the Hospital, London. This same pro- portion obtained during the Russo- Turkish war of 1877-78. During the American Civil War there were three deaths to disease to everyone from wounds ; that is to say, a mor- tality due to disease of sixty-six and' two-thirds per eent. During the French expedition ip Madagascar in 1895, according to the writer, only twenty-nine deaths occurred in action as against seven thousand who died by disease. In the Boer War the losses from dis- ease were enormous, notwithstand- ing the improvements in military hygiene then in force. The Japanese, however, "during the war with Russia were able by exercising the most scrupulous care to reverse the ratio. In the case of their troops only one man died of disease to every four who died of wounds. rrr eee RANDOM SAYINGS, The girl who is as pretty asa pic- ture generally has negative quali- ties. pee The only way to get along with some people is carefully to conceal your opinion of them. Fewer young men would sow their wild oats if they should first -stopto léok 'for a needle in a haystack. The man who enjoys single bless- edness is doubly blessed. The only time we notice an impe- diment in the speech of some peo- ple is when an occasion arises to praise others. : g Speech is brittle. Any man can make a break, but mighty few can mend it. EE Some men are ambitious to do good ; others to make good. : Many a man has been carried un- A Fascinating Spring Costume, Navy blue gabardine, trimmed with striped muslin cuffs and collar; hat, blue velvet with white silk band: } UL UU UU UU AU LL UL UU SULIT UU THE TOLL GATHERER | GG GA GG GAG GL The fall rains had undermined <a- section of the track and played miis- chief with a quarter of a mile "of embankment, 'What was more seri- ous, the hill stream, which had risen like the Ganges at flood -time, had weakened two piers and the retain- ing walls of the railway bridge. Doucy, one of the company's civil engineers, had been sent up. post- haste from Delhi to repair the dam- age. He was to get the day labor- ers from the village three or four miles down the valley. They had helped in building the road, and could therefore bé relied upon. Doucy found the job bigger than he had expected. The wrecked em- bankment did not present unusual difficulties, but the repairing of the stone work was a more serious mat- ter. Under the pressure of the seething flood, the big scows that held the workmen were continually slipping their cables, and either a few tons of water aboard | at a gulp or sinking altogether. Then the donkey engine had to fish out as many' of the stone blocks as | that when stuffed with grass was a its grappling hooks could seize and yank up : ing to the network of life ropes be- low the bridge had to be rescued and induced to attempt the danger- ous work again; all of which used up valuable time. © lor . As the camp was large, it was necessary to send a bullock cart to e plies. "During the second week one of the carts did not return: 'The next day a foreman who had gone to investigate found it in the road. with a broken-necked bul ood. - Take two cups flour, three | der by the sheer weight of his. own |}. tablespoons shortening, three tea-' pe salt, two cups mashed d pota- toes, about two cups milk. as bison and roll thin. Bake "Bran Bread"is, dignity. : : + Tt ds'hard for a woman to hold her husband's love when she can't even | j : tr hold her to Life ig 1 up of surpri you ever sun that the 086 | that don't seem possible ten? eater. the scow. The men cling- [fa ithe village. th Tillage 'every other day for rice, | mealie flour, and other Food, sup: they had dubbed the tiger, was men- tioned. He was a coward, they de- clared. He could overpower a driver asleep on his cart, but his heart failed him when it came' to facin; several armed men. They wo burn his whiskers on the camp coals yet if he did not look out. Suddenly, however, a mad bullock cart came spinning into camp with the ashen-faced driver crouching mong its rice bags, All the others had been killed and eaten, he de- clared ; only his own extraordinary courage had saved his life. The at- tack had come like a bolt from the blue, and no vigilance could have | 1X forestalled it. Presently three of|8¢ the escort, dust and covered with sweat, came running into camp ; the fourth had been killed. The sur- vivors all agreed that everyone had been brave and that the toll-gath erer was invulnerable. fot Everyone mow realized that this was an unusually determined man- er. The eaolies refused to drive the supply cart, and were almost ready "to break camp in 'a-body Doucy saw rid of the toll-gatherer if he wished to retain his workmen, = 'He made his 'arrangements with some ingenuity. Out of some 'brown cloth and a framework of bamboo he put together a figure He wound The. fol: ir imitation of & man. as dirty turban round its' horse ito the seat of the Thy owing day he got into the body of clippings from the : for hair, and cart with his rifle and drove to | Nothing happened on that rip or' ¢ next, but Doue On the that he must himself got gros