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Household Some Favorite Recipes. ,Apple Snow. One quart of apple lauce forced through a strainer, one pint water, one cup sugar, juice of two lemoiis, whites of two eggs well beaten. This may be packed into a freezer and frozen, a wooden spoon or fork, never metal onei. Never use a jar or bottle which has held anything greasy. Pickled red cabbage does not improve by keeping, but walnuts do. Onions do not vary either way. Vinegar which has lost its strength and color should be poured off, and new hot vinegar poured on the pickles. All pickles are im- proved, and kept better the vine- gar remains strong, too if one or two small pieces of horseradish are placed in the jar. Jars should be corked tightly. An excellent plan is to dip the mouth of the jar when corked into f .-- - r r ~~ -.""' i melted parcel wax or rosin. but if placed on ice and served ice AU vegetab i es for use in pickling This recipe mugt be abso i ute ly cold it is also good. will serve twelve people. Cornbread. Sift ones cnp of flour into three cups of yellow or white corn meal, and two teaspocros bak- ing powder and a teaspoon of salt. sound and I fresh. Both points are important, the first particularly so. A tiny piece of alum, the size of half a hazel nut, to a quart of vine- gar, will make pickles crisp. Store Here are same recipes dealing with the more popular sorts of MFx "thoroughly. Beat three eggs ihe'jara in a cool dry place away light, and two and a half cups of from direct u ht sweet milk, a level tablespoon of sugar, and one tablespoon of melted butter. Make a hole in the centre | of the meal and pour in the liquid, ] Qn'ons Select small silver- heating well while adding. When skinne< i oneSi and pe e l the outside thoroughly mixed pour into a but- , gkin on j Make hot sa i t and wa . tered tin and bake in a 8 teady oven. ] terj amj - , et them soak in thig for French Dressing. One garlic three d _ Drain and dry and bean on three or four lumps of lace the ' m in j ar8i and ^^ on hot - - _ l'itV*- tl.il- i I iii JlV7j <*WU JJ^f^m. sugar, four tablespoons taragon - vineg . ar| j n wh ich has been boiled vinegar, four tablespoons catsup, ' black pep p er and S pice (an ounce ten tablespoons olive oil, one tea-: of each ^ a quart o{ T j negar ). Add spoon Worcestershire sauce juice the ieces o{ horsrad i s h, and then of one large orange, juice of one seal down the jar Cabbage. Choose a medium-size cabbage, trim off the outside leaves, then quarter it, not using the main stalk. Slice up small, lemon, salt and paprika to taste. Mix until sugar is dissolved. Pocketbook Biscuit. One quart of light sponge, one tablespoon lard, two tablespoons sugar, one rinkle with salt and leave i n a egg. one teaspoon salt, to make aieve {or a dav shake well at dough stiff as bread. Put all mgre- t - an<1 ^ t into jarg To dients in pan enough flour to mix ong t of ma]t y . r ad<1 half SL n< l ? ..I'*' ^ "3 tfjl 1 * ?!an ounce of black pepper and one then roll out on board, butter all ounce of allspice and and cut into rounds and turn the gethef wh cold> p?ur on half over, and this forms a pocket- book. Let rise until light; bake hot oven ten minutes. Date Drop Cookies. One and one-half cups brown sugar, one well to- the cabbage and seal 1 pickle should not be week or so. down. This used for a PRINCE PAUL OF SERYIA AND LADY CURZON. Lady Curzon is the best dressed of the matrons of England. She is here seen, in London handing Prince Paul, son of. King Peter, of Servia, a newspaper containing important Balkan War news. Celery and tomatoes pickle well. Take twelve tomatoes, just ripe , ., v i_ i. laKe twelve lomai-ues, jusi, ny^i ha cup butter, one-half cup sour , and two j celerv hea<ls . Re . milk, one teaspoon soda yolk of ^ ye the outside leaves and roots | two eggs one and one-h al f cups |from thft cele chop up the flour, one-half teaspoon cloves, one- jheafts witfa the tomatoeg , and put half teaspoon nutmeg, one-half theffl in a , ined 6aucepan , wit h a pound dates, stoned and cut into pieces, drop in small spoonfuls on well buttered pan and bake in quick oven. Meat Casseroles. One cup rice, two tablespoons melted butter, one pint chopped meat, one-fourth tea- spoon pepper, one-fourth cup milk or cream, one-half teaspoon salt. Boil rice until tender, drain and add while hot the butter, cream, salt, and pepper. Line a greased mold (or individual dishes may be used) with a thin layer of rice. Make one cup of white sauce, sea- son well, and add to it the chopped meat. Put this creamed meat in the centre, cover with rice, place the casseroles in a pan of hot wa- ter (about an inch of water is all that is required), and cook in a hot oven about twenty minutes. Serve at once. Piaisin Bread. Four cups flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one- half teaspoon salt, one cup sugar, three eggs, and one and one-half cups of milk, one-half package seed- less raisina. Sift flour, baking pow- der, salt, and sugar several times, , then stir in raisins. Add milk and eggs to flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and raisins, and bake one t hour in slow oven. Bride's Cake. One-half cup but- [ T ter, one and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup milk, two and one-half cups flour, three and one-half tea- gpoonfuls baking powder, whites of Lsix eggs, one teaspoonful vanilla. [Bake forty minutes in a deep pan. WOMAN WORKED MIRACLES SKELETON FOCND IN TOMB OF THF. "SORCERESS." cupful of vinegar, a tablespoonful francoisc Saurrstre Predicted Iler Body DC- and a pinch a short tea spoonful of cloves, allspice, mus- tard, and celery-seed, with a quar- ter of a pound of sugar. Bring slowly to a boiling-point, and then I A striking example of the religi- let it" simmer for an hour. Stir oc- ' ous fanaticism that still prevails in AVould Resist striu-tion. casionally, then fill the jars and cork while hot. RANCHES OF ARGENTINA. Vast Tracts Recovered from In- diana Supporting Great Herds. It is almost impossible ot con- of Magny and asked for the Last rites of the Church. The priest refused unless the wo- man would restore to the Church the sums she gained through the in- tercession of Sainte Philomene. The woman refused, and the priest MUCH INSANITY CURABLE. Remarkable Results Hare Bcn Obtained In Some Coses. Following the announcement of Dr. Toulouse, the Director of one of the- most important Paris lunatic asylums, that remarkable results had been obtained in cases of aute insanity by subcutaneous injections of oxygen, Dr. Toulouse has stated that he considers madness one of the most curable of diseases, pro- vided a cure can be found, and aa long as the trouble is not caused by actual lesions of brain tissue. Siace the first announcement he haa been studying further cases, and has produced cures which he considers conclusive. He believes that when further investigations have been made even cases of long standing will be found curable. When asked whether such cures were likely to be permanent, he said that he could not promise that the patient would be immune from a relapse if brought into the same conditions thus resembling per- sons with weak lungs, hearts, etc. Dr. Toulouse stated that he had been led to hit on his method of giving oxygen injections as a pos- sible cure for dementia by observ- ing that madness generally arose in a period of great exhaustion of body and nerves caused by over- work, strong emotion, grief, etc. As the action of oxygen was to stimulate immensely the vigor of the system he resolved to try it on a certain number of cases, with the results already known. He announced that during the coming winter he will carry out with Dr. Charles Richet. the well- known specialist, a number of fur- ther experiments in quite a, differ- ent direction, which will, perhaps, put into their hands the key to in- sanity. MAKING PETS OF REPTILES. Japanese Women Cultivating a Fancy for Pet Snakes. To make pets of snakes is the left her deathbed. Just before latest hobby cf Japanese society, death she made the prophecy that i Fashionable women are cultivating during seven years her body would a fancy for small and live serpents, retain its natural form, and by this i They have about them, the harmless her followers would know her su- spotted keel-backs and striped pcrnatural powers. In the cemetery at Magnay a snakes, which are easily tamed. IDE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSOR INTERNATIONAL LESSON. August 24. Lesson VIII. The Bread from Heaven Exod. 15.27 to 16.36. Golden Text, John 6.35. Verse 2. Murmured againatf Moses and against Aaron Tho hardships of tne desert journey were real. A scarcity first of wa- ter and then of food was among the more grievous trials that the peo- ple encountered. 3. When we eat by the flesh-pota the expression may be taken lit- erally, but in a wider figurative sense it wands for the abundance of food of every kind which the Israelites, notwithstanding other afflictions, had enjoyed in Egypt. 4. Bread from heaven Literally, food, not bread in our sense of the word. (Compare note on verse 14, below.) The people shall . . . gather a, day's portion every day A severs test cf obedience and faith, especi- ally when the supply each day waa ample for a larger period. 7, 8. The glory of Jehovah Quite evidently the reference here is not to the glory of the cloud, mentioned in verse 10 below, but to the miracle of providing food. The next verse seems to require this interpretation. This shall be, when Jehovah shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full. 9. And Moses said unto Aaron- Aaron is still the spokesman for Moses, who had a physical dif- ficulty of speech which he apparent- ly never overcame: "And Moses said unto Jehovah. O, Lord, I am. not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue" (Exod. 4. 10). 12. At even Literally, between the two evenings, that is, in the late afternoon. 14. A small, round thing, small as the hoar frost on the ground The word translated ''round thing" may also be rendered "flake." 15. What is it ! Or, Is it manna ; Hebrew, man hu. For a descrip~ The man who haa done more than i tion of the manna, compare Num. some parts of France is found in the recent happenings in the litti town of Magny-sur-Tille, near Di- ] jon. There lived a woman reputation for working miracles had spread throughout the neigh- boring villages so that her follow- ers when she died urged that she be made a saint of the Church. At handsome chapel was erected to anybody else to establish this hobby n, 7.9. In looking for a natural hold her body until the day when j is Kinjiro Xakaanura, who ha* explanation of the feeding of the her coffin would be opened" by the ; been engaged in the snake business | Israelites in the desert, some com- belierer*. Within the chapel wire j for more than twenty years, aud j mentat-ors have assumed that the lr , Ui ~ J stature of Ste. Philomene and the j who has a wonderful assortment of I manna was a natural desert pro- wnosc lf_ m ,^,,_ .,.;., ni . .r \ ... ..,;], .n ! ronfilu TVio miiat. rnvxrliiptivw ^ii- duct, the exudation of a desert tree Ab 13 mllKWV l*Jfv ..*, w , , ceive of the enormous growth of j ^ death h predicted that her body would resist the destructive nature for seven vears. the stock industry of Argentina in \ *<* the last quarter of a century," said i ', rce j. Ernest Maffel, a large cattleman of She died Ion April 22. 1908. Buenos Avres. "Less than forty I The 'Sorceress, as the enemies years ago" the great rich tracts of|<>* Francoise Sauvestre called her, gnu land an Argentina were prac- ' tieally unproductive. The Indians roamed the plains and general set- of h ble parentage in a village, - r 'bamte Francoise, as she was followers, was born P rlest of d Ars " a11 The most productive around lay crutches and canes dis- ! tricts for snakes in Japan are cer- still common and formerly much carded- by'those who had been heal- i tain mountain sections near Tokio more abundant throughout the ed. A society of her followers was ', and Xikko. Here they are caught! Arabian peninsula. The exudation formed and on the twentv-second of ; in large numbers. Japanese snake | referred to is descrioed each month there were pilgrimages catchers drink sako before starting: lers as a glutinous, waxlike sub- to the chapel. If these pilgrim- out to hunt large serpent*, so that ages fell on rainy days the pilgrims i they will not be stupified by the tlement on the land was dangerous **""**' 8he wa * a cn PP le U , and well nigh impossible. The In-!* nd chlld sh * wnt begging ' dians. however, were subdued in vl!la to village. Then she . , . 1378, and that date saw the incep- disappeared and for many years no tion of the estancias or ranches and the systematic reclamation of the land to pave the way for an indus- r she reappeared grown woman. of at At One day Fauverney, a this time, the jaim iv LK**T HIT? " < * i^ * .>.* ._, . . try the magnitude of which t<Mlay | vllla * e P r . l st f Ar f had acquired a reputation throughout the coun- try as a doer of miraculous deeds, strange woman announced is stupendous. "The immensity of the cattle business can be estimated from the , official returns recentlv published, j that the priest had confided his se- which show that last 'y<?ar in the |~t to_her and that all who suffer- Argentine there were 30,000,000 hite frosting One cup sugar in cattle, 70,000,000 sheep and 7,000,- ae half cup sweet cream or rich 000 horse*. The cattle and horses lilk; cook; when done, add one are bred in the warmer parts of the ed ? ho ld <* e uld *? On b - v they easpoonful vanilla ; 3\ ; spread on cake. whip until Celery Relish. Twelve stalks cel- ry, five grains garlic, twelve green six large onions, two country to the north, where alfalfa abounds, and the sheep in districts in the southern provinces. "Some of the large ranches carry- as many as 50,000 head of cattle came, the lame, the halt, the blind; then in groups and later in multi- tudes. Francoise Sauvestre's for- tune was made. But the physicians of the district, who had lost all their clients, sought legal means to the ofth < r in fortune j -*3 UJUA1JF Hr<9 W.Vw-W *!--% V* -r _- _ -- _ rge green peppers (cut part of I and prov i d e hunting grounds for *? woman was finally prosecuted |eds out), one-half teaspoon mus- one-fourth teaspoon red pep- many Englishmen. The 'gaucho' is one of the most picturesque as well r, one-half teaspoon black pep- as useful fi s OB these ranc i, es r. three cups sugar, two quarts and fonM the counter j mrt O f his ler vinegar, ^alt to taste. Boil ! >wly three hours and put in Ma- far from unpleasant, and on some of the big ranches under British control evening dress for dinner is the custom. The Argentine \vool is oft jars. [{jhicken en Casserole. One three >und chicken, three sweetbreads, mushrooms and one-half ind almonds. Boil chicken and famous brother North America. the cowboy of Life on a ranch is for practising medicine without a license and put in jail. Instead of the people losing faith in her she immediately became a martyr. Accomplished Many Miracles. After serving her term in prison. Francoise Sauvestre went to Mag- ny-sur-Tille. There she opem-d a chapel consecrated to Sainte Philo- ^threads until tender in salted water. When cold, cut up ,nd add blanched almonds and _^ oms. Cut in small pieces. jotter with sauce made as follows : '-W tablespoons butter and five blespoons flour rubbed together; ff five cups of cream. Bake half hour in oven or an hour in the eless cooker. Points on Pickling. EverV housewife should make her [n pteklea. Here are some prac- il hints, based on experience, k tested, which, if followed care- . means success. ?ays use the very best white r> and do not get too "sharp" ad. ever wse glazed jars. Common Uiized earthenware jars or wide- Ihed bottles are best, hen boiling vinegar, always use saucepan, and keep the lid and ; ' * - mcne and the, venerable priest of well| ot high grade and a large part of Ar? Her cult rosembled in a roat unlit c*s to supply the home mar- , p , SL,^-^ kets." INSANE SINCE WKDDIXG DAT. Lord Durham's Wife Has Been in Asylum Since 1884. When the King and Queen visit Lambton Castle in the autumn one 08 Lord Durham's sisters will act as hostess to his royal guests. Lamb- ton Castle has no Chatelaine, for the most terrible of blows darken- ed the marriage of Lord Durham to Miss Milner in 1882. On the very wedding day tho bride and Count- ess of only a few hours lost her rea- son. It was a repetition in real life of the tragedy of the "Bride of Laiu- merinoor," but accentuated by the fact that she still lives and is legal- ly Lord Durham's wife, as the courts in 18.S4 refused to annul the ,1 the time. Five minutes is ! union because it was not proved ongest time that vinegar that she was insane when married, , boil. j though she became so a few hours ^paring pickles, always use] afterward. great many ways the Christian Science of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. "Have faith ond pray with all the fervor o! your belief," was her cardinal principle. In front of the statue of the saint she burned a little oil, mixed with it some melted wax. and with this inoffensive mixture she rubbed the part of the body which was diseas- ed. The- ceremony ended by invo- cations in which she mingled indis- criminately the names of the au- thentic Catholic saints with such names as "Saint Bain de Broid'' and "Saint Barbe en Fleur." Ac- cording to the statements of her fol- lowers this curious woman cured <liso,isos said to be incurable, and caused horrible wounds to heal. She also read the- past of her clients like s,n open book, and even pre- dicted the future. But even such a saint could not live- for ever, and on April 22, 1903, at the advanced age of 88, Fran- coise Sauvestre passed away. Just before death she sent for the priest even drank the water that dripped from the roof of the chapel, in the belief that this water, being sacred, would cure their ills. Skeleton Found in Tomb. The followers of the cult of Fran- coise Sauvestre endeavored to have their leader made a saint, but the Church objected. The Bishop of Dijon, Mgr. Monestes, demanded proof, and the members ot the eect pointed to the woman's prediction that her body would remain un- touched by the destructive forces of nature for seven years after her death. Finally, under the pretext of transferring the woman's body to another place, the authorization was procured to open the tomb. Three hundred of the faithful gath- ered for the occasion, and with much ceremony the lid of the tomb was lifted. An unmistakable odor went forth, and when the lid was finally removed it contained noth- ing but a human skeleton. Not withstanding this the members of the sect threw themselves upon the skeleton, and, praying aud chant- ing, dipped their moistened hand- kerchiefs into the tomb, and then wiped their faces. Others gathered up the dust of the body, mixed it with water and drank this weird concoction. Despite this ocular proof that Francoise Sauvestre was onl\ an ordinary mortal the members vi" her sect insist that at the end ot' the seven years, April 22, 191o. the body of their saint will be reconsti- tuted, and that when the tomb is opened'on that date they will find her body as it was when laid to rest five years ago. Chilean Guano Outranks Gold. The guano deposits of Chile are worth more money than the richest gold mine in the world. It would seem that the precaution taken by the Chil- ean Government In restricting the ex- portation of this fertilizer is hardly warranted when we realize that the deposits of the Chincha Islands, whert> this material abounds, are computed to be 180 feet in depth, and as the re- moval proceeds the quality improves. The value of the guano of these is- lands Is computed to be $1,000,000,000. poisonous breath" of the reptile. A real combat occurred recently between three men and a. twenty feet long, its head about six feet ground, knocked two men with its tail, rendered another un- conscious by its "poisonous which in the morning after its first appearance is white, chang- inz rapidly to a dirty yellow color; it melts quickly in the sun. and be- fore the day is over is absorbed in ' the ground ; it appears each morn The- snake poised j j during cert ain monthi af the above ' I year and is sweet to the taste, he n ' ing used for food in tinus if fam- ine. A more recent suggestion identifies the manna with lichen, grayish-yellow in which grows in great Bpbundanct on breath," and then escaped. Bnt Mr. Xakamura haa found other uses for snakes. He says they are popular as tonics for the digestive organs, and that some are! curl up, the plant loosens from the rocks and stones of tlu When fully matured, the desert, leaves In order to ascertain a man's true character it is necessary to know what he is in private life. Some men are too tender-hearted to beat a rug. Not all good men are great, but some great men are pretty good considering. used successfully as a remedy for pulmonary consumption. There is the food question, too. Xakamura says that the Japanese viper is splendid as a stimulant, either in powdered form or eaten with Japa- nese soy. In the districts around Xikko rice with snake-fricasee is considered a most royal dish. The viper is also good a-s a cure for , stomach trouble, if taken soaked in I these Japanese sake. r ck and is blown abiut by the wind, being gathered ultimately in heaps in the ravines and sheltered places not unlike the leaves of au- tumn, though of course very much smaller. This plant is a not un- common substitute for corn among the natives in the steppe region of southwestern Asia, being ground baked like corn. The first of STRANGE BLUNDER. Governor Signs Letter Declaring He Is Unfit for the Post. The Governor of the province of Kostroma, Russia, has just been relieved of his post in consequence uld harmonize with the description in Numbers so far as the size and gen- eral appearance of the m.tnna is concerned, but the narrative here clearly implies a supernatural pro- vision, on account of the larga quantity which was needed. QUEEN FORBIDS "AD." of an extraordinary blunder committed recently. It appears that for a long time the Governor k-oked upon his ap- pointment as a mere sinecure and left all the real work to be done by his subordinates and underlings, with whom he was by no means popular. All he did was to scrawl his signature at the foot of the doc- uments brought to him to sign without so much as glancing at the contents. It was through this lack of curiosity that his fall was brought about. One day recently one of his secre- taries brought him for signature, unions other documents, a letter beginning "I have at last realized that I am absolutely incapable of fulfilling the duties attaching to my position as Governor." Following this was a list of his alleged faults | K > Objects to Label on Perfumes >ladt by Princess Christian. Queen Mary seems fated to have trouble with the occupants of the royal gift residences. The latest of these- to be brought into a dispute with the Queen is no less a person than Princess Christian, aunt of Kinji George, who with her hus- band lives at Cumberland Ledge, Windsor Park. For a couple of months the Prin- cess has been adding to her hus- band's rather slender income by selling bottles of perfume made by herself at Cumberland Lodge, she has been actively aided by Princess Patricia of Connaught. Princess Christian, recently bcg:m putting labels on the bottles stat- ing that the perfume was made at Cumberland When this the Queen and errors. Without a glance the "T 1 P* ^ r T ! ordered Princess Lhnstian to Governor rapidly wrote his name at the end of this incriminating [ document, which was posted in due' " course to the President of the. Council, M. Kokovt*off. Upon receipt of this unusual let- tor the authorities at once demand- ed the presence of the Governor of Kostroifta 'at St. Petersburg, and the sequel to an interview with M. Kokovtseff missal. was the official's dis~ I selling the perfume in bottles with labels. Th? Princess niain- i tains that she has a perfect right to do so and refuse.-! to comply with the request of the Queen. ^ ib It takes a clever child to keep from saying smart things. Sincerity a prily is thej men ii