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J10U5EHOLP KEEP FOOD CLEAN. What is the composition of duet i It baa been described as a, littl of everything. In the paved street* of ities and town* earthy particles from the soil ara always present. While street dust in the country is largely made up of the powdered earth of the road mixed with inely ground manure, in cities its lighte-r particles are composed of several kinds of dirt sufficiently disgusting to give ug a hearty aversion to dust as an accidental accompaniment to any article of food. The dust of rooms contains earthy particles, minute fragments of clothing fibre, bits of abraded skin and pieces worn away from walls, floor and furniture; also mould pores, bacteria and street dust in greater or less quantity, according to the location. The daily examination of the milk of a certain model dairy revealed suddenly a great increase in the bacterial count. The physician and the bacteriologist examined the premises and watched every process in a vain effort to determine the cause, until it was noticed that the milk pails were put to sun where th dust blew on them. This cause removed, the bacterial count re- turned to normal. These air and dust bacteria are not necessarily harmful, but where large numbers are present they are likely to be among them those which produce disease. A number of cases of itlness are on record di- rectly traceable to fruit, but it is difficult to determine whether in uch cases infection has come through dust settling on the food or through direct contact of the fruit with infected human beings. Better market inspection is need- ed, better protection of food from dust both in transit and when on sale, and a more rigid carrying out of existing law, but, above all, a demand for clean food on the part of th buyer. Precautions should also be taken against dust after the food is de- livered at the house. In modern dairying much stress is laid on the fact that sweeping the stable be- fore milking fills the air with bac- teria which are likely to infect the newly-drawn milk. The same danger arises if food nd dishes are left exposed in kit- chen or pantry during sweeping. Tests have been made to determine how great this danger is in ordinary household practice, and it has been found not only that moulds, yeast* srui bacte-ria are much more abun- dant in the air during sweeping, but that those* stirred up by the sweeping do not settle back again for several hours afterward. Evidently, then, it is not sufficient to cover food and dishes during the actual sweeping ; they should re- main protected for some hours. Dusting with a dry cloth or feather duster also stirs the micro-organ- isms into the air : for this reason a damp cloth to which they will stick i* greatly preferable for cleaning in kitchen, pantry and china closet ; in fact, everywhere. These_ consideration* also show the great sanitary advantages of modern cleaning device*, of which a number of sorts are now on the market, by which the dirt is sucked through tube* into suitable- recep- tacles. Bits of damp newspaper or damp awdust sprinkle*! on a floor will hinder dust from rising when the room is swept, but the wooden or linoleum-covered floor of a well- kept kitchen and pantry should fur- nish little dust. Large particles hould be lightly brushed up and the- floor washed every few days. A source of disease, but one fre- quently overkvoked, is the pet ani- mals of the household. The fur of yen the most cleanly cats and dogs must come in contact with many thine* which we would not care to have touch our food. Tn many fam- ilies where the animals are not al- lowed In the living rooms for fear of soiling the furniture they are given free range in kitchen and pantry, where the chances arc thev will leave more- or less loose- hair end dirt which may find its way to food utensils or to food. CHOICE RECIPES. 0tmal Gruel. Put two heaping tablespoon fuls oatmeal in one quart of cold water, stir until it commences to boil, then cook one hour, stirring occasionally to pre~ Tent scorching ; season with salt, ngar and any spice desired. For infants and very sick patients it dust b strained, and not salted. Fig Sandwiche-s. Chop th* figs very flue, add water to make thin, mooth paste and cook gently until of spreading consistency. Add nut Meats chopped fine-, with orange Juice or extract to flavor Or, if preferred, iwe grated candied le toon or orange pe-el with trash fruit Julep to taste-. Spread between thin Alices of buttered brown bread cut n (a netful shapes or between thin BOM of angeJ food or sponge cake. Wum Pudding.- One-naif pound flour, one-half pound chopped suet, nl' povnd breadcrumbs, one- half pound raisins, one egg, milk and sugar. Mix the flour, crumb* j and a little sugar together, rub in the suet, add raisins and egg and milk to make a very thick batter, j Put into a well-buttered dish, and bake in good oven for two hours. Marshmallow Pudding. Dissolve two tablespoon fills of corn starch in one-half cupful of cold milk, add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, ; threo-kmrths cupful jaf sugar and : one-half tea.poonful~bf butter into | one quart of boiling milk ; stir this rapidly. Remove from the fire and ' divide into equal parts. Into one part stir the stiffened whites of two i eggs; into the other four table- 1 spoonfuls of melted chocolate. Fla- vor wi^h vanilla. Put into a mould in alternate spoonfuls and serve j with cream. Making Cranberry Pie. For the pastry : Sift half a teaspoonful of j salt and lj< cupfuls of flour; add: four tablespconfuls of butter when ! thoroughly chilled. Chop until like ' meal : add cold water to make a | stiff dough. Chill ; roll on a floured i cloth - r moulding board into a rec- 1 tangnlar shape ; fold ends toward j centre, double. turn half-way | around and roll again. This paste is a superior one. Chill before roll- ing for pies. Roll the paste one- quarter inch thick. Cut paste an eighth of an inch larger than plate-. Cut strips three-quarters of an inch wide for a rim. Cut upper crust at least one-eighth inch larger than plate. Arrange lower crust on. plate, wet edges with cold water, lav strips of paste on rim on this, taking care to lap and seal the ends with co'd water. Fill the pie with whatever material is to be used. Cut little slits in centre of upper crust. Lay on pie:wet edges of rim. Have all edges even, leaving fulness in centre to allow for shrinking. Press edges lightly but firmly. For the pie : For filling, mix iVj cupfuls of chopped cran- berries, half a cupful of chopped raisins, one cupful of sugar, one- quarter of a cupfu! of water and one tablespoonful of butter. This is sometimes called mock cherry pie. SOME STRANGE FOODS. Delicacies Enjoyed by the People of Some Countries. If you go to New Caledonia or New Guinea for your holidays there is a chance that you will have dishes of clay served upon your dinner-table. Odious as the idea may seem to us. it is a fact that that there are many human beings who feast on, clay. Travelers in the- Orient declare that the yellow races are especially addicted to the prac- tice. After all, food is purely a matter of taste-. The Eskimos delight in mice cooked in tallow. Then the Chinese consider that alligators, mice-, and rats form most excellent foodstuffs. A certain tribe of In- dians in California thrive upon ants. On the European Continent but- terflies are sometimes eaten. The Turkish enjoy goldfish, and in Ja- pan a good deal of fish W eaten raw. The South American Indians go hunting 'or caterpillars, kill them by crushing their heads, and then pack them carefully in grass until required for "table use." Some of the natives of Australia live largely upon the seeds of different species of grass. They also eat certain roots and bulbs and the gum ob- tained from trees. Another Australian delicacy is the flesh of snakes, and a favorite dish, cal'ed tuiuaiuba, is composed of pupa cases. WF.ATHER PROPHET LEECH. A leech kept in a glass jar of wa- ter is an excellent weather prophet. The jar should contain about three- gills of water, which should be chnnged once a week in summer, once a fortnight in winter. When the leech lies at the bottom of the jar, anil curled up in spiral form, you may reasonably rely on fine ueither. If. however, it creeps up to the top of the jar and remains there, rain is coming. When the leech darts about its lodging with great swiftness, it is not suffering from rain, but is telling you to look out for wind. If a hurricane is on its way the leech will be more out of the water than in. and will have convulsive movements. The jar, by the way. should be onlv par- tially fil'fd with water, while the top s-h u'd be covered with muslin. When Jack Frost i going to pay us a visit the leech behaves as when foretelling fine weather -i.e., he lie* at the bo Worn of the jar: but when snow is coming he climb? right up to the- mouth of the- jar and sticks there. MUNICH'S BEER RECORD. The capital of Bavaria. Germany, msintnino its supremacy a a beer- drinking community. Statistics just published by the municipal authori- ties show that the consumption of beer per head of the population last year amounted to no less than 70* ^ gallons. This is nearly three times ns much as the Englishman's average. Last year Munich's brew- eries produced M, 732. 000 gallons of beer, of which 42,500,000 gallons was drunk in the city, while the rest was exported to other parts of German v and abroad. This home consumption represented an in- orea*e of 9,310.000 gallons as com- pared with the prevloue ye*r. THE MIGHTY BRITISH BATTLESHIP LION They call her H.M.S. Hellfire in the navy, because the heat from her funnels on the trial trip Nrarped the steel in the fighting-top. Britain's augmented fleet will be full of improved "Lions." THE SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 11. Lesson VI. A troubled sea and a troubled soul. Mark 4.33 to 5.20. Golden Text, Psa. 4. 1, 2. Verse 35. On that day The par- ticuiar afternoon of the day on which Jesus sat in a boat and taught the multitudes in parable*. Unlike Luke iS'. ii>. Mark ass--ciates the events so that he, remembers the very day. The other side. The eastern shore of the Lake, about opposite Capernaum. 37. S;orm of wind Greqi. n great squall. Matthew calls it a "tempest" (8. 24). 38. The cushion On the helms- man's seat. The mention of the cushion and other little boats indi- cates *he careful detail of Mark's narrative. 39. Peace, be still Silence, be muzzled. He addresses the waves as though speaking to an unruly Unclean spirit Compare Lesson Text Studies for March 10 for now on Demon Possession. 6. Worshiped him Paid him rev- erence. This was an act of obei- sance which did not necessarily amount to the worship of deity, but was a common means by which one person acknowledged the superior- ity of another. The demons clearly recognized the mastery of Jesus over them. What have I to do with thee- '. The utterance of the man, impell- ed by the demon, which had nothing in common with Christ. Thou Son of the Most Hish G-xl As though he recognized the deity of Chr ; st. It is to be noted that although men were slow in recog- nizing: Jesus as divine the demons identified him immediately. 9. Legion So called because they were many. A legion was a depart- ment of the Roman army number- ing 6.000 men. The language of the demoniac was of course fizurativ,>. It was as though he said. "I fee! as though I were possessed of a thousard devils." 10. Out of the country Luke S 31 reads "into the abvss." The demons feared being: driven into torment, while the possessed man feared he would be driven from his MARRIED BLUEJACKETS. Sailors in British Navy Feel la- erease in Cost of Livins. One of the most important prob- HAUNTED BY 2L These Figure* Pursue I.ondoo MM Home and Abroad. Harry W. Devonshire in a letter to the London (England,/ Tunea save : "During a residence of seme seventeen years in the metropolis T have lived at s.x different address- es in the West End of Locdon bear- ing the number 31. Five of these addresses I approached without any preconceived intention of doing so and one of them by design. Four of my intimate friends reside at addresses .n town, each bouse being a Xo. 31. Five other friends live ia residences in London exactly oppo- site houses bearing the number 31. "If my -axicab should be held up by congested traffic my vehicle has times without number stopped ex- actly opposite a No. 31. While strolling around a West End square recently my attention was -attracted to one of the houses by reason of its original design, and upon ap- proaching it for closer inspection I discovered it bore the number 31. "Leaving the enclosure at the London Aerodrome last Saturday to walk around the grounds with a friend we were suddenly attracted by Barrel's remarkable exhibition. of flying. I led the way to one or the numerous slightly raised foot- rail* which border the enclosure, and when we stepped back again on to the ground we both observed it bore the number 31. "I attended an evening function a short time ago at which over 300 lems connected with the British j guests were preheat and tae disc navy is that kaown as the lower ! handed me in the cloak-room waa deck grievances. This problem may y, : , 31. j may state that not a sin- be split up into questions of pay. of ' z l e person in" the building but the privileges, of promotion and of dis- j friend who was with me and whc. cipline. accompanied me to Hendon knew of The question of pay is the great- i these No. 31 occurrences, and his est of them all. The pay of the ' astonishment was as sincere aad navy, both for officers and men. has ! profound as my own. remained stationary since Nelson's! -On Thursday of the present d&7- ! week, in the ckvak-rocm of a certain Of course the sailor is lodged, fed \Vest End house which waa crowd- and clothed by the Government, j pd to repletion, with wedding and the question of pay would not ' quests, the" man servant tendered be so important if sailers were sin- me a disc \ o . 31 j n exchange for my gle men and had no home but their ' hat and stick and I refused it. I ships. But the navy is essentially was determined to attempt to break a married service. Practically ] t he spell of this irritating and every lon# service sailor gets mar-' ghastly No. 31 which pursue* me ried. and of the men in the service ; everywhere and upon occasion. I more than 50 per cent, have wives mar conclude these experiences by ox. The Greek word carries with j asylum among the tombs, it not only the meaning that the | 13. He gave them le-are Mat- sea should become, quiet, but also that it should remain eo. A great calm "In contrast with the great storm." 40. Have- ye not yet faith t This question seems to indicate the prin- cipal lesson which the incident i* intended to teach. In view of all the preceding miracles it would seem that these men. who had been intimately associated with Jesu*. should have been confident of his power and disposition to care for them, yet the incident discloses a woeful lack of faith TV st-irtled appeal to their sleeping Master be- speaks the distrust which possessed them when confronted with danger. The stilling of the storm is one more incident added to the long list of mirncles which were designed to inspire the disciples with a constant faith in Jesus as the master of every situation. 41. Feared exceedingly At first on account of their danger, later because of the mysterious power which Jesu* exercised. Even the wind and the sea obey to look after. Marriage is encouraged in the navy. The Admiralty recognize* 31 that it is a gocd thing for men who remain from a dozen to twenty vars in the service to contract the tie of matrimonv. but it mentioning that the entrance to my club which I dailv visit faces a No. NEW WAT TO KILL LOCUSTS. does nothing to help them to main- tain their shore homes. They sec no extra pay and no separation thew 9. 32 records that Jesus gave j allowance like the soldier. Thus it the command. "Depart." There oomes about that the recent rapid ' rise in the cost of living has been very keenly felt by the bluejacket. As a rule the married sailor makes an excellent husband. In the matter of messing and of quarters the- saiVr is better off than he used to be : his food is more var- ied and it is better cooked, while the new ships give him more light and air and deck space. Unnecessary interference with a curtailment of leave is another I cause of the discontent among the men of the lower deck. When Lord Charles Beresford took over the is no intimation, however, that they were- commanded to enter the swine. TJJs.sgGhM nton ie shrdlu dlu uu About two thousand As e-=ti- matfd by the- terror-stricken swine- herds. 14. In the citr Gersa. 15. In his right mind No longer controlled by demons. They were afraid Of the mys- terious power which overcame the demon* and resulted in such de- struction. 16. Declared unto them how it Invented by a. French Scientist. Dr. Felix d'Uerelle. During a visit to Mexico two years ago, Dr. Felix d'Herell*. a \.a._ -. .- : iue Pasteur In- stitute, noticed that locusts were subject to an epidemic disease, and concluded that the best means of destroying the insects would be to spread the disease among them. After careful research he discov- ered the bacillus of the disease, and. as the result of a paper read before- the Academy of Sciences ia Paris, was invited to make a prac- tical test of bis discovery by the Government of the Argentine, where every year-the plague of lo- custs does incalculable damage to befell him Told a simple story of command of the Channel fleet the j offence of leave breaking had reach- the incidents and their resuk*. e.xpeur'.meats were imme- diately successful, a- swarm of lo- 18 As he wM entering into the e,l very serious proportion*. Every. , between barriers f . r oh- boat The incident resulted in Je- i Mot-day hundreds of men f sus departing at once without hav- j return to their ship*. Lo'd Charles ing an opportunity to teach. ' extended the privilege of leave- and That he might be with him A re- ' gave the men liberty from Frioa-y quest prompted by both fear and devotion. 19. Go to thy house The demo- niac became an apostle to those whose doors were closed to Je-sus. him Recorded in all three synop- [ 20. Decapolis A group of ten tic Gospels, indicating the- marked impression made, that not only were disease and demons subject to Jesus, but the natural eleme-nt-s as well. 5. 1. Gerasenes Luke V 26 gives this rendering, while Matthew 1. 29 reads Gadarones. The* city Ger- sa. or Kersa. from which the proper noun Gerasene? is derived, was situated on th~ eastern side of the lake-, about nrdway from north to south, and about a mile- from the shore. The shore at the point op- posite is narrow and steep, drop- ping abruptly from the high t:b'e- land to the water's edge. Here there is another heap of ruins de- signated bv the same name The proper noun Oadnrenes. on the othfr hand comes from G^d-ira. ft citv six mile' southervst of the Hke and south of the Hieromax or Yar- muk gorge Gadara was fortified ' in ano'ent ti""*" and w one o* , the p-'nc'pa' cit'es of Dec-polis. . Compar" veroe ?0 Because of its i importance it wa known more w : de!v outside of Palestine than was Gerss, a'>d thi fact tnav have led to th< substitution of Gada- renes for Gerasene-s by some- an- cient popv?sr<5. When we renvneber now often the manuscripts of our fj.->5pe'<i were copied and recop'ed during tnp rpanv centuries preceding the invention of printing, the won- der is t^nt more popvitt's errors of this kind than fictnaUv do occur are not f-Mind to th, Gospels. 2. S^rai^htwav A common word in Mn'-k 1 " rapid sketch of events. Tombs Cave* in the limestone cl ; ff in th vicinity of Gersa. A man Matthew mentions two. T.uke. however, mentions onlr one. It is not improbable that there were two of whom on was the fiercer and acted as spokesman. cities Iving south Lake of Galilee. and east of the afternoon to Monday morning. In i these two clear days they were able j to go home, that- was what they wanted. and leave-breaking' promptly ceased in the Channel fleet To-day the offence is mere or less prevalent again, for the Beresford system has been abolished, not be- cause it had a bad effect on the efficiency of the fleet, but because the financial people at the Admiral- ty complained about the cost of it. FIND $500.000 IN TREASURE. Russian Peasants Unearth Relics of the Fourth Century. While some peasants were digging in a field in the village of Malaia. Russia, recently, they urtearthed an o'd chest containing treasure to the value of J500.000. The treasure was in gold and silver coins of the fourth century and several gold and silver vessels of a later date. One of these was a large d : sh of daraas- j , j -., ,1 ^A ' v 'sit >wit7erland everv vear *s tne cened god with a richlv embossed, _ .,_ . NO TIPPING IN SWISS HOTELS Extra Charges Will Be M.ide on Tourists* Bills Instead. Joy undoubtedly will come to the ' serration purposes being extermi- nated in six days after they had eaten grass sprinkled wi:h M. u'Herelle's preparation. Within less than a week dead locusts were > - found thirty miles from the in- fected fields-, while forty days after- wards locusts beaming the mark of the epidemic were picked up two hundred and fifty miles from the in- fe-ctcd area. The locust plague in the Argen- tine threatened to be worse than ever this year, and in the spring the doctor set out, accompanied br mules carrying the disease-spread- inc liquid, and sprinkled every swarm of locusts that could be found in the ProviiKv of Rioja, where acr~ after acre of the in- sects had just hatched. After three vi warm was rim encrusted wi'h precious stones. A Latin inscription shows that this dish was at one time in the posses- sion of a Bishop who Hvrd in the eleventh centurv. A similar dish is result . f tlie announcement that a number of Swiss hotels are going to do away with the tipping evil. Wherever the tourist goes throughout Europe he must leave a trail of silver behind him. weeks only one living swarm le''t in the entire district. The doctor declares that his pre- paration in no wav affects the cat- t'-.- ir'-i.'iMg in fields sprinkled the 'i-.niid. II.. a Persian monarch of the fourth century. Other articles were ^ ven ^Kd ^d Persian cups. The laborers kept the treasure in cottage for a long time, thinking it was brass and lead It wa< through their efforts to make a bar- gain with the owner of the field on their own valuation that the true worth of the metal in the chest was discovered. The estimate of valua- tion placed on tho treasure is onlv what it would bring as bullion and not what it would bring In the world's great markets for antiqui- ties. porters anol others are Mirtkttlarly exactirg. So much so. in fact, that CONVICT TRIES SUICIDE. Nails. Screws. fila*. lead. Etc., Found in 11 N Stomai-h. A convict who is urdfrcoing s_ '. -.c sentence in the prison of Lenz- bi>urg. Canton of Argovie. became t *^ ^ * I ^ . WV - I I l.\. . I -TV't tll>*l<-tlt * > *_!_! if a tourist shou'd tip sparingly or ; tired of life recei at all his baits and trunks are marked ttvtt when he arrives in to hasten de.ith bv a curious meth- od. He swallowed every piece of Within p*rkd of flftv reare, the population of the United States has 330 per cent. The nnrefillaMe bottle has come at last. The unpefiUable pocket- book we have alwjm had with us. the next resort town he is labelled metal, glass. _etc.. he could find in as stingy and mean. This means of course poor service. The methods of "highway robbery" in practice at the Swiss hotels have been a the courtyard when the were not watching him. This con- tinued for week. and the convict seemed to thrive, but the other source of numerous complaints to j he was fou. .1 writhing in hotel managers and it was realized that something must be done about the matter. The nvnedy proposed Is this : A specific sum under the head of man'* V6 "special services" will be charged on the tourist's bill for polishing hoes, tvindlfag baggage and other such services. Although it is not announced which hotels will take up the new cheme, it is certain to become gen- eral. and the doctor, to save th life, performed an operation haste. From the convict's stomach were, extracted 147 nails of various s:z*e, 89 ecrewe. S4 piece* of glass, 9 bHe of lead. 29 brae* bends of nai'v | collar button*, and the blades of knife and a chisel The operation was a success, and f *ie ocevict. who has changed hk vi*w oe-ncernlng h!s departure from U world, will soon b veil