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|ft6u4l*«****«4 About the ...•House BLOTCHY SKINS. A Trouble Due to Impure Blood Easily Bemedied. »a<i blood iB the one great cauac of bad complexion and l)lotchy skins. This iH wl\y you muBl attack the trouble through the blood with Dr. Williiun.s' Pink I'ills. All blotches, boils, ulcers, plmple.i und palenes.s aro the direct, unini.stukable result of weak blood loaded with impuri- ties, llr. Williams' I'ink Pills con- f]iier the position; they drive out all itho impurities; they actually make new, rich red blood; they strike right at the root of all coniidexlon troubles; they arc a positive and per- manent eiu-o for all virulent skin dis- eanes like eczema, scrofula, pimples and erysipela-s. 'I'hey give you a clear, clean soft skin, free from all blemish and full of rosy health. Mr. Matthew Cook, l>aml)Ci-lon, N. W. T., tells how llr. Williams' I'ink Pills cured him of erysipelas after other medicines hud foiled. He says: "My my flesh tender TiaSTlOl) JIECIPKS. Su-ect Ur(iad8 Fried.-Wash in salt Ziiil water, j)ar-b()il. cut into pieces the size of a large oyster, season, dli) m rolled crnckcr crumbs, and fry u HkIiI hrown in lard und butter. C.'ruhum Pulls. â€" Hoat one egg thor- oughly, add one pint of sweet milk, then one pint of graham (lour gradu- ally; beat the whole mixture briskly with an eg;;-lieater: i>oiir into rusl- Iron geui-puns, well grvtiscd and |)ip- Ing hot; linke in wry hot oven; this niixturi' is juht suHiclcnt for twelve gems. t;r;ih;un Crackers. â€" Hub two tea- spoonfuls of bakiufj-poudcr into seven cups of graham 'lour, add one cup of 'skin was tnllamcd; sweet cream or butter, with a little and sore; my head ached; my tongue salt, then odd on.> pint of sweet milk; was coated; I had cliills and thought nii-\' well, and roll as thin as soda cracker.*;; rut in any shape; bnko quickly, then leave thftm about the stove for a few hours to dry thor- oughly. Kor lenion sponge.â€" Whisk the whit'S of five or six eggs until stilt; soak one ounce if gelatine in a ten- cu|iful of cold water for an hour, then dissolve it in half a jiint of boiling water .Set it to eonl; when nearly cold add the whiles of agg to it, al- so the juice of two lemons and the greated rind of one, and half a pound of ca.ster sugar. Heat all until it is as Uriu as a sponge and place in a mould. lio.stoti linked Ueans.â€" Put a (juart of bCMis to soak over night; in the morning pour off the water, and add fresh Water enough to cover, to which add about one tnblespoonful of ino- ln.s.se.i. Put a snmll i)iere of salt pork in the centre, almost covering it with the beans, and liake slowly from si.\ to eight liour.s, adding hot water as needed until nearly doni', when they can be allowed to cook nearly dry, or according to taste. Corned Hecf Sou}>.â€" When the liquid I was taking fever. I tried several medicines, but nothing helped mc until I began using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and drove the trouble from my system, and I am now In the best of health. I thinly these pills the best medicine in the world for blood troubles. It is an every day record of cures like this that has given Dr. Wil- liam's Pink Pills their world-wide prominence. They cure when other medicines fail, but you must get the genuine with the full name: Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for I'alc Peo- ple, on the wrapper around every box. You can get these l>ills at all drug- gists, or by mail at ."iO cents a box, or six boxes for 82.50, by writing The llr. Williams' Medicine Co., Drockville, Ont. twenty minutes, or imlil tliey are done. Put them on a hot dish: pour olT part of the gravy into another pan. to make a gravy to serve them with, if you choose. Then fry apples, which you have sliced about two- thirds of an inch thic.';, cutting them in which the beef and vegetables were | around the .apple, so that the core is First place the feathers in a b%ti of newspapers, not too tightly pack- ed, and bake In a cool oven for sev- eral nights. Then picK over the feathers, cutting off any sharp ends, and tearing off the down from the larger feathers. Hejcct any feather that is stained, put into clean paper bags and bake again till thoroughly dry before putting into waxed tick- ing fur pillows. The secret of success in whipping cream lies mainly in the coldness of everything employed in the process. Chill the cream on Ice, and if you have a syllabub churn â€" an upright glass egg-beater will "do the busi- ness"â€" it should be chilled before the cream is put into it, and in warm weather, set in a bowl of ice while being oi)orated. Heat steadily, but not fast. Hapiil boating nuikos the cream grea.sy. One cup of cream will make a J'int of whipped cream. Now is the time â€" "between hay and grass" â€" when dried and evaporated fruits come in play. Wc are tired of canned fruits and preserves, and wel- come the more acid dried apricots, nectarines, prunes, etc. It makes a great diflercnce how they are pre- pared. Soaked three or four hours and cooked quickly, they bear no comparison to that soak<'d twelve or fourteen hours, simmered gently for three or four hours, and not sweet- ened till about twenty minutes be- fore it is donr,. Cook in the water in which the fruit was soaked, add- ing more if necessary. Stir with a silver spoon, and cook in a granite or porcelain lined kettle. Prunes should be well washed be- fore using â€" so indeed should all dried and evaporated fruits. A half cup of -lugar is sufTuient to .sweeten a pound. Prunellas, which are more acid, re- quire more sugar. I'runes are nice cooked down till the juice halt jellies, then seggeU with cream. Properly cooked, the prune becomes something quite dili'erent from its estate ns we u.sually see it. If the jJancako griddle or the wafflivirons have boon imu.'ied for some little time rub with dry salt be- fore heiiting and grcus-ing. t * 4 boiled is cold, remo^•e all the grease that has ri.si'n and hardened on top, and add tomatoes and tonmto cat- sup and boil half an hour, thus mak- ing an excellent tomato soup; or add to it rice or sago or pearl barley, or turn it into a vegetable soup by boil- ing in Ihv li(|uor any vegetables that are fancied. .Several varieties of soup may have this "slock" for a basis, and ho agreeable and nutriti- ous. â- Macaroni with chee.se.â€" Throw into boiling Water some macaroni, with salt' according to the (junntity used; let it boil one-fourth of an ho\M-: in the centre of each jiieco When they aro browned on one side and partly cooked, turn them carefully with the pancake turner, and let them finish cooking; dish around the choiJS, or on a aoparntc dish. HINTS TO IIOU.SKKKEPEU.S. Hedi'ooni windows should never be entirely closed, if the owner is strong, and even in winter should be left open .nt least two inches at the top. When frying Spanisli onions, put a plate over the toj) of the pan to keep in the steam. This makes the when it will bo a little more than I onions cook quiclily and keeps all the half cooked; drain oft' the water; i flavor in. jilace 111,; macaroni in a saucepan If you aro ho-ir.sc, lemon-juice will) mill; to cover; lioil till done. ; R<pieezed on to aoSt sugar till it is Hutter a pudding di.sli, s;rinkl(> the , like a syrup, and a few drops of bottom Willi i)lenty of grated cheese, ; glycei'ine added, relieves the hoarse- pit in some macaroni, a little white ne!M nt once. 6 pepper, plenty of fjut.ti.r, snrinkle on i If caulidower is boiled with the more cheese,., tlien the rest of the head downward, well covered with macaroni, cover that with bread water, it will come out much whiter crumbs, set In eiuick oven to brown; than if expo.sed to the nir while serve hoi. ! cooking. Dolly Vnrden Cake. â€"Two cups ol I To prevent sticking and burning sugar, two-lliirds of a cup of but- I when fr.ving (ish, etc., when the fat tor, one eiii) of milk, throe cups o( : comes to n boiling point sjiriiiklo the flour, three eggs, one-half teasjoon- bottom of the pan with salt. This ful of F.odn, one fens; onnful creum tartar. Flavor with lemon. Hal'e one- half of this in two pans. To the re- niaindiT add one tnblespoonful of molassi's, one cup of chopped raisins, one-half cup of currniils, piece ol citron chopped fine, otie tenspoonful cinnamon, clov<>s. and nuliiieg. Hnlio In two pans, and put in sheets alter- nately with n llltle jelly or white ol an egg beaten to a froth. To l''ry Apples and Pork Chops.â€" Reason the chops with s-ilt and pep- pnr. Olid a little powdered sage; dip them into benlen egg, and then into beaten bread crumbs. Fry about also prevents the fat from .sjda.'^hing. Remember to sweep the carpets the way of the ua)), to brush the other way is to lirush the dust in. Attend to all stains as soon as possible. If left they will soak into the carpet and ho very dilllcult to remove. When Hout falls iqion the cari>et or rug, never attempt to sweep it up at once, for the result is sure to be a dis'iguiing mark. Cover it thickly with nici>ly dried salt, which will en- able you to sweep it up cleanly, so that not the slighlest stain or smear will bo loft To cleanse feathers for a pillow. THE INVALID'S STANDHY. Egg (iruelâ€" Heat the yolk of 1 egg well, odd 1 teaspoon sugar. Stir in 1 cup scalding milk and grate nut- meg over it or add 1 teaspoon van- illa. Then add the white of the egg be.aten very stilT. Cracker tJruel â€" Four teasi.oons line cracker crumbs, 1 cup milk, 1 cup hot water, salt to taste. Put the water and milk on the stove together until hot, then add cracker crumbs. Corn Meal tJruel â€" Two teaspoons corn meal, 1 teaspoon (lour to 1 (|t. boiling water or half milk, and half water. Mix (lorn- and corn meal with cold water, add the boiling water and cook ane hour. >Salt. Harli'V Clruel â€" Stir '2 tablespoons barley into '2 cjls. freshly boiling wa- ter. Hoil three to four hours. Milk may bo added if desired. Strain through a sieve and .sv.eeten to suit the taste. Oatmeal Cruel- Put 4 tablespoons oatmeal into 1 pt. boiling water; add i tea.spoon salt, und boil without slirring for .'10 minute.o. .Strain in a sii've. rulibing fhi'ough as much oat- meal as possible. Have ready 1 egg well beaten, add 1 teaspoon powdered sugar. Keheat the gruel and pour ovi'i' the egg. 5Iix carefully and serve. Whipped cream may be a sub- stitute for the egg, and make's an xreedingly nice gruel. DR. A. W. CHASE'S CATARRH CURE... Is sent direct to tho diseased parts by the Improved Blower. lleaJB the ulcers, clears tbc air passaites, stops droppiiif;s In th« lliroat and neiinan:intly cures Catarih and flay Fever. IHower free. All dealers, or l>r. A. W. Chai« Medicine Co , Toronto and Bufiala â€"4- YOUNG FOLKS PHOEHK. () mother, sec that little bird Up in the tree alone ! She calls "Phoebe, Phoebe, Phocbel" Why doesn't I'hoebe come "? O where is Phoebe that she fails To hear her mother call ? Or does she hear und never heed Or answer back at all '? Dear mother, when you speak my name, I'll answer your first word, And never let you call and grieve Like that poor mother bird. THE LONF-SOME LITPI '^ BOY. A little boy once went U .isit his dear grandmanxma, who lived a long, long way oil in the country. He wore bis best suit and his ruffled blou.se, and he carried his nightgown rolled up in a nice bundle. He rode all the long, long way in the milk- man's cart, and he thought he was going to have a beautiful time. But when he had u few minutes at his grandmamma's; he began to feel very lonesome. The grandmamma lived in a little red house with a flower garden and a farm, and fields and fields, and an attic, and a hammock on the piazza. Hut the little boj' was lonesome. He .sat in the hammock and kicked with his new shoes and .several large tears dropped down on his ruffled blouse and took out the starch. He was sorry that he had come. Just as he was feeding so very un- happy, the grandmamma's large gray tabby cat came purring up on the piazza. She rubbed against the little boy's legs, and she said. "What's the matter ?" "Oh. I'm so very lonesome," said the little boy, "aren't you ?" "No, indeed," said tho tabby cat. "I have too much to do to think about being lonesome. You just come around to the barn and sec my kittens." So the tabby cat led the way to tho barn, and the little boy followed after, sobbing every step of the way und saying, "I3oo-hoo, boo-boo." The tabby cat made him climb u[) the ladder to tho hay loft and there he saw three little white kittens, and three little gray kittens. Oh, they were cunning, and they had their faces washed, and they chased their tails, and they rolled over and over in the funniest way, and tho tabby cat sang to them. "Purr, i>urr. mew, mew ! Wo never could crv with so much to do." The little boy forgot to cry for a minute, watching them, but pretty .«!Oon he sat down on the top of the ladder and began to boo-hoo again. As he was silting there, a nice fat i^pidor crawled up beside hiiu and said : "What's the matter, little boy ?" "Oh, I'm so lonesome, boo-hoo !" the little boy said. "Aren't you Umesome, too '.'" "Lonesome, dear no," said the old spider. "I haven't time to be. " Then she began to make a web from tho top of the ladder to the highest barn window. When she came to the top of the window she hurried to tho ladder again with tho spool of thread which she carried in her pocket, singing all the day shell some round green peas into a bright tin pan. The little boy sat down in the rocking chair, and ho played the j)eas were bullets rattling against a fort as they drop/yed into the tin pan. When the peas were all shelled, his dear grandmamma gav< him a bright cent. He went out and called the tabby cat and thej walked together down tho road U tho store and bought a peppermint stick. Afterward when ho sal on tho porch eating tlic i>eppermin; stick he decided that he was not » lonesome little boy any longer. BABY'S HOLD ON LIFE. The little ones are frailâ€" their holil upon life is slight. The .rlightest f.y ii.pt om of trouble should be met \>l a reliable corrective medicine. Haby'i Own Tablets have proved by theii record of succes.s to be an ideal medi- cine for the ills of infants and younj children. The Tablets cure all stom- ach and bowel troubles, allay the ir- ritation of teething, break up cold.s. prevent croup and destroy worms The mother has ,a guarantee thai this medicuiei contains no opiate oi harmful drug. Mis. T. E. Greaves. Marilana, tiue.. says:â€" "I have u.scd Baby's Own Tablets with great suc- cess. They never fail, in my exiwrii enco, to cure the little ills of chil- dren." You can get these TableU from any medicine dealer, or tho;^ will bo .sent by mail at 2.'j cents a box by writing The Dr. William.l Medicine Co., Hrockville, Ont. QtfEEE SOLTRCE OF IlfCOHE. There is said to be at least one man in Loiulon, England, who earns a living â€" or eks out an iiiconx- from other sources â€" by a habit ho lia-s con- tracted of meeting with accidents. According to a statement in the Southwark County Court recently this enterprising individual is known to have accomplished five more or less successful accidents in the last year or two â€" and to use a common form of api'lication for damages af- terward. It Was a lado'er on two occasions, a cellar-fl.ip on tho remaining three. The "victim" was slated to have claimed £.50 unsuccessfully after tho last mishap, but one. Then, it was represented, ho clain:od £15 against a publican, but the solicitors he en- gaged withdrew on learning of his la- mentable record of accidents, and the suil fell through. Nov; a barri.ster asRcd on behalf of the publican and the public for costs on tho higher scale. .ludge Addison was sympathetic. "I remember," observed his hoiior, "once being in a case where a man u.sed purpcsely to fall over carpets put down across the pavement to save dainty ball shoes, etc., from be- ing soiled. "Hut instead of my getting any good by showing that he liad several times purposely fallen over cai'pets, a noble law lord, who tried the case, was very much interested in the m.in's favor, and thought it was very hard that hi- should have met with so many accidents." Howe\er, Judge Uussoll decided that he had no power to grant tho present application. "Hut," argued the barrister, "you have pow<'r to certify where it is a matter of public importance. And where you got n man of this kind, who maizes it his hobl)y in lifo to go about and put his feet through peo- ple's cellar (laps or coal gratings or to run up against ladders and then claim damages. it is a matter of imiHjrtance to resist such cr from falling down outside public jhousi'H it would he conferring a great boon." admitted the judge. "That is most essential." rejoined the other, "but failing that wo aro trying to stop a nian who doesn't fall, but says he does." A Lasting: Cure of Itching Piles A Chronic Case o-f Unusual Severity and Long Standing- Cured by Dr. Cha.se's Ointment. niroiighnut Cnnadn there are hun-lvimed that the ointment m.-vde a dreds of cases similar to tho one de-|perfect cure. scribed below in which Dr. Chase's | "I consider Dr. Chase's Ointment OInlmenI has proven a positive and an invnlimble treatment for piles. In most severe form lasting cure for th of itching piles. Mr. .Me.x. McLaughlin, for 30 years n resident of Hownuinville, Ont., writes : â€" "For twenty long ycnrii T sufTcred from Itching piles, nnd only persons who huVM been troubled with that nn-iused it for noyiiig disenKc ran imagine what I | nui almost my rase I think the cure was re- murkablo when you consider that 1 am getting up in years, and had been so long n sufferer from this disease." Mrs. .lane U. Scott, Ninth Oren- ville, (Mimberlund Co., N.S., writes : "l.nst spring I obtained from yoti a box of Dr. Chnno's Ointment and inward piles. It gave instant relief from the PAY, PAY, PAY ! .^n amusing practical joke has just been perpetrated in a Continental club. A member hurt his linger, nnd not wishing to consult his own doc- tor he asked a brother member, who was a physician, to look at it. The physician did ro. end. to the sur- prise, sent in a bill for 810. 'I'h<! victim showed the bill to nn- ather member, who was a solicitor, and asked him what he should do. The solicitor promptly advisi-d him to pay tho bill, and sent him in an- other "for $.") for advice given. The man complained of his treat- ment to yet another member, who reported him to the committee failing to meet his obligations, was ultiniaiily fined a case of cham pngne. Baby IN AN OLD THTTWK. Finds a Bottle ot Carbolic Acid and Drinks It. endured during that time. About | torturing, itching and liiirning, and iioven years ago 1 nrked a druggist if 'n» tJio trouble has never returned I ho hud anything to cure me. He 'consider tho cure « permanent one. said that Dr. Chase's Oiiitmont was, You may use this stnlonient for the most favorably spoken of, nnd on (jgnelit of others." his lecommcndnlion 1 took n box. | n,-. Chase's Ointment, 60 cents a â- â€¢.\f(er three applications 1 felt bet- box, at nil dealers, or Edmanson, lor. nnd by the time 1 had tised one llatas St Company. Toronto. To pro- box 1 WHS on a fair way to recov- tect you against imitations the lK)r- pry. I ronlimied the treatment im- I trait nnd slgnntiire o( Dr. A. W. Ill th<Voughly cured, and I have notiChnso. the Innnnis receipt book «u- vufleiwd Aujr al'^e. I •â- Â» /\riuly con- ' thor «r« on .vary box. UKAI.IA' HONEST. "\os," said the hon<«t farmer. "I know there are people whot always puts the big apples at the top of the barrel, but T don't." "That'll right," exclaimed his hon- est friend, admiringly. "I have al- wavs tried to convince folks that that sort o" thing doesn't pay in the long run." "Ah," exclnimod tho farmer, "if they'd go to the city once in a while they'd learn something. I always put" my big apides at the bottom of tho barrel. "That's tho wa.v ?" "Vpb, you sec, jvople have got so Busplclou's that they almost always open the barrel at the bottom now- adays." Whenever a boy aees anybody eat- ing •oniething he wanta * bite. •Over and under, through and thiough, jpulilic t never could cry with so much to clhims do." I "If you could .stop [leople altogeth The little boy forgot to cry for a while, but before long he lay down in tho hny and sijueezed out two tears. Ho was just beginning to boo-hoo when he spied a little mud house at tho lop ot the eaves. A mother swallow flew out, and said : "What's the matter, little boy ?" "Oh, I'm very lonesome," the little hoy said. "1 supiioso you arc, too." "Not at all," said tho mother swallow. "Don't you see how bus,v I uui 7" The little boy watched and he saw she was Hying in aiul out of tho barn door, bringing wet mud in her bill. Then she flew out the door for more mud, singing all the way '; "Nests and eggs, atid baliie;;, too; I never could cry with .so much to do." The little boy was beginning to feel a mite happier now. He climbed down the ladder from the loft and went out into the orchard. He sat for I down in the grass and ate a largo jle red apple. When there was nothing left but the core, he remembered that ho was lonesome, and be cried one tear on his ruffled blouse. An old mooly cow who was all ulone near by, eoting grass, came up close to him and said : "What's the matter, little boy V" "Oh, I'm Ko lonesome." said little boy. "Aren't you?" '•Hless mo, no," said the mooly cow. "I'm too busy. Don't T have to chew all day to make cream und milk for you and when it comes 4 o'clock don't I have to walk way down to the bars and get milked '? I'm doing something nil the time. "Cream for butter and custards, moo-o ! While the mother was unpacking an old trunk a little IS months old baby got hold of a bottle of carbolic acici while playing on the floor nnd his stomach was so badly burned it was feared he would not live for he could not cat ordinary foods. The mother says in telling of the case : "It was all two doctors could do to save him as it burnt bis throat and stomach so bad that for two months after ho took the poison nothing would lay on his stomacli. i Einall.v 1 took hiiu into the country land tried new milk and that was no jbctter for him. His (Jiandma final- ly suggested (.'roiH-Nuts and T am thankful I adopted the food for he commenced to got better right away and woubl not eat anything else. He *''"' 'commenced to get fleshy and his checks like red roses and now he is cnttrely well. "I took hint to Hatainorns on a visit ond every jdace we went to stay to eat he called for Oi'ni>o-Nuts ami I would have to explain how he came to call for it as it was his main foi'Kl. "The names of the phy.<:icians who .4itteiuU'«l the Imby are Dr. Eddy of never could cry with so much to j,his town ami Dr. (Jco. (Jalo of New- port. O.. and anyone can write to boy stopiM-d crying for | „,„ „r to them and le.irn what (irapp-Nuts food will ilo for children an<l grown-ups too." N'ame given do The little just a minute and then he heard his denr grnndmnnnna calling : "John, John, come into the kitchen a min- ute." So he weal into tlic kitchen and hia dear grHiidinnnuna asked him to by Postum Co.. Hattle Creek, Alich. Look in each pkg. for the fnmoui little book, "Tho Kuad to Vf*)\ *'lllc."