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HOME I'nrprt Wmdom. 'In the spring fantv the housewife's Lightly ( i) turns to thoughts of carpets '." Quito right, too, for the amount of dust and dirt which even well- carpets will retain is marvel- lous. As a matter of health alunc, they must come up for beating and cleaning. Dust is but dried mud, and what it might contain is best not thought about. This article is to help those who have not a vacu- um cleaner, and have to seek the privacy, or publicity, of the back premises for carpet-beating. The first necessity is a flat cane beater. Never use a stick. The French dressing -with two table- spoons of tomato catsup. I'opovcrs. One cup flour, one teaspoon salt, one cup milk, one egg. Mix the salt with the flour, add half the milk slowly, and when a smooth paste is formed, add the remainder and the rgg beaten thor- oughly. Beat well before filling pans. Cook in hot, greased gein pans, or earthen cups, in a quick oven half an hour, or until the puffs are brown and well popped over. Steamed Iticc. Half cup rice, one cup of boiling water, saltspoon salt. Pick over and wash the rice in three or four waters. Put 't with the boiling water and salt in- to the top of a double boiler. Steam for twenty minutes or until tender. Servo with milk or as a pudding with boiled custard or with poach- ed eggs. Salmon Croquettes. Take equal quantities of cold or hut boiled rice and canned salmon, add a little melted butter and salt and pepper to taste. Mold into, small Bansage- Becond, a stiff birch-broom. Flat ' shaped forms and roll them first in beating on grass is best. Beat the finely ix.wdered crackers, then into carpet on the under side first, then pull it away and brush the dirt from the grass or you will re-collect some of it. Now reverse the carpet and sweep beaten egg yolk and again in crack- er crumbs, doughnuts. Fry in hot fat like A palatable, nutritious food, easily prepared, and as the egg prevents the entrance of much it well, following the "grain," and j fat tnev are readily digestible. This in pile carpets the wav of the nile. I* 1 ' 5 * an also bo baked as a scallop. Oatmeal Mush with Naked Apples pile carpets the way of the pile. Brush from the middle outwards' toward each side, and bring the brush off the carpet with an upward ewirl. Do a foot at a time like this, go- ing round and round until finished. One-half cup coarse oatmeal, one-half teaspoon salt, two cups boiling water. Pick over the oat- meal, put it with the salt and boil- ing water into the upper boiler. Now, taking hold of the broom- ] plnce u PP er boiler on the stove and handle rather low, walk backwards, j boil rapidly ten minutes. Stir oc- and hruh viK,n.us!v from loft to ! casionally with a fork, then place it right. The different angle of at-' over boiling water and cook from tack moves a lot of dust, and you've j f " rt y minutes to one hour. Serve a stronger purchase on the broom. | witn baked or steamed apples. Ex- Turn the carpet over again, sweep j cellent for constipation. Fine the under side, and again beat. Re- j hominy and granulated wheat are and Shakespeare. I read Adame Bede over and over again; I know it by heart. "Shakespeare was a great com- panion, but a little white fox run away with Shakespeare. I suppose our greasy, oily fiugers gave the book a meaty flavor. The fox be- came quite tame, and we made a great pet of him. He was just like a dog. "It is the terrible monotony that is the most awful thing about the Arctic region the monotony and the constant dread of death. No man wuiits to die; I do not want to die. "We were rescued at last by a Norwegian ship which had seen our Captain Kjuur verse, brush, and beat the upper side. Do this systematically, so that the whole surface receives at- tention. Brush onco more, and then test for dust. A little may rise, for hand-beating never quite removes it all. Xow temporarily relay the car- oookod in the same way, but re- quire only three times as much water as meal. Whole or cracked wheat requires five times as much water as meal, and should cook four or five hours. Scotch Broth. Half cup peJirl barley, 2 pounds of neck of mutton, pet so that all spots and marks ' 2 quarts of cold wtaer, one-half cup ; may be removed. Go carefully over i ea ch f carrot, turnip, onion and the whole carpet with a hot iron celery, two tablespoons of butter or and brown paper. This will re- j drippings, one tablespoon flour, two move grease spots, visible and in- 1 teaspoons salt, one saltspoon whito visible. If any remain not absorb- [ P^PP", one tablespoon chopped rd bv the brown paper, spread on j parsley. Pick over and soak the bar- them a paste of fullers' earth and ley over night or several hours in water, leaving it there until dry, and then brushing off. The marks will soon disapear. Any other ppots, of unknown ori- gin, can he successively rubbed with petrol, turps, methylated spirits, or (11 and water. There should now not be a spot cold water. Wipe the meat with a clean wet cloth. Remove the fat and skin. Scrape the meat from the bones and cut it into half-inch dice. Put the bones on to boil in 1 pint of cold water and the meat in 3 pints of cold water. Let the latter boil quickly and then add the on the carpet, and all that remains barley. Cut the vegetables into is to clean it and freshen the col- quarter inch dice, fi^ them five ore. For that make a mixture of minutes in ono tablespoon of hut- half a pint of oxgall in half a gal- 1 tor and add them to the meat. Sim- Ion of hot water, and brush this in- to the carpet with a soft brush. Wash the lather off with cotton cloths wrung out in ammonia and water tablespoon fill to a gallon renewing as.it gets dirty. Here you could stop if you like, but a final rub over with a flannel mer three or four hours or until the meat and barley are tender. Strain the water in which the liones have simmered. Cook one tablespoon of | butler in a sauce tablespoon of flour. add the utrainrd and stir into the pan with ono When smooth, water gradually broth. Add the cloth dipped in soapsuds and turps salt, pepper and parsley, will make perfection perfect. Ths carpet will be as new. Dry very thoroughly out of doors. A worn lMit can be doctored by carefully dolly-dyeing it to the ground color of the carpet. For the Cook. AMp.-iragiiH Salad. Arrange the canned asparagus tips on lettuce leaves or cress and serve with It's Always A Good Thing To have a Clour Horizon nt both ends of t i.e. day. A dish of Post Toast ies for bre-ak'aet and again at tho evening meal opens and closes the day with a daah of eunshine. Toast!** are bits of hard, white Indian Corn, first care- fully cooked, tlien rolled thin and crinkly, and toasted to a delicate, appetizing brown. Not a hand touches the food in manufacture, nml it is ready to servo direct from the package to bo naten with cream or milk and FUgar, if desired. Post Toasties ta-ste delici- ounly good and are richly nourishing. Mad by Pnr* rood Farlnrlei of Canadian Poitum rreal Co., Ltd. Wlndinr, Ontario. Simmer ten minutes and serve without straining. Strained for an invalid, it forms a nourishing and delicate meal. CURES COUGHS & COLDS SHIIOH. IN TIN: POLAR Captain Mikkolsi'ii Spout Two Years on (he Ice in Solitude. Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, the intrepid explorer, -who was lost in the Polar Regions for 28 months, with one companion, has been de- scribing tho terrible experiences they underwent. Captain Mikkelsen set out to find the records left by Krichsen, an- other explorer, who, with two com- panions, died of starvation and cold in exploring tho north-cant coast of Greenland. How tho cap- tain and his companion were lost arose in this manner. They left their ship to cross the wilderness of ice and snow till they came to thf point where the Erichsen party perished. Having obtained the lost records, they retraced their steps, and, after suffering terrible priva- tions, returned to the plnce from whence they had set out. To their horror they found that the ship had been wrecked and the crew gone. Captain Mikkehen tells of his sen- sations on mak'iig thia discovery : "Well, there we were in a hut by the shore. Our ship was gone, and wo couldn't get away; the quicksil- ver froze in the thermometer. "One day as I was breaking up some roots for fuel, I heard a knocking at the door of the hut. ' T opened tho door, wondering who tho caller could he- it was a huge bear ! "I shut the door nnd bolted it, and Iversen put his back against it. The hear knocked again. "\Vh.v didn't we shoot it? Be- cause the oil in our guns was frozen hard, and we couldn't got a eart- rkli,i' in. But, all the while, I was wnrming a gun, whilo Ivorsen stuck to his POH!, by thn door, and at last I managed to get n cartridge) in just in time. Tho boar died. "1 had two booka, Adam Dede signal. Tho Norwegians who land- ed said we looked wild nnd terrible, 'like musk oxen.' And we, who had been alone on the ice for more than two years, could scarcely realize after our long solitude that there could be BO many people in tho world." Old Folks' Coughs Permanently Cured Th Publlm It Loud In Its Pralte ol the Modern Direct Breathing Cure. Elderly people take cold easily. Unlike younf folks, thoy recover lowly, If ever. That in why o many people pant middle life ili.- of pneumonia. Even thovigh pneumonia dow not develop and kill, onugha certainly weaken all elderly peo- ple. ruh Syrupi seldom do much f<vxl ho- cause they upaot dilution. Any <lrusrriit or doctor knows that a much more effec- tive treatment li "CATARRHOr'.ONE." which henls and Roothcs the irritated BUT- facei of the throat. In n :! Patarrhoiono you do not tnk" medicine Into the tomn<-h-you nlmply breathe Into tho thrnat, nfWP nnd lut'ft" rich plm>y balsamic vapor, KO full of haul- ing nnw<*r that onlHn, catarrh nnd broil- rhltlo dixappvar ahnoet inntantly. "At l*ty-e!ht years of e I can tci : tify that I am nover troubled with much* or ooldi." writOH J. E. Pilrim, of Klng- tnn. "They lined to bo thi> bain of my life, and thnt was before I nnd Catarrh- oione, which wn recommended to me by T. li. Pronne. rlrugfint. To use Catarrh- ozoiic IB Juflt like being In an lmmenM> pine woods. The baUamio vapor of Ca- tarrhotone Is like a tonle. It Is so otlnin- latlng to tho breathlnir organ*, no nooth- Inn to sor<> not. o full of power 1o drlvo out rold and contention. I wi'l n'wayo UM> nnd rcixmiinend fntarrhozono as a preventive and euro for couffiis. oolds. bronchitis, throat irritation and oatirrh. (Sinned) "J. E. PILOB1M." A C:it:irrhoon Inhaler in your poc- ket or iiurnfl ennblea you to Btop a cold with the flrit sncxoo. Large :/., crntti Jt 00 and etiiiiilieo treatment for two innnlliH; email sire., 50tv; trial site Z5c.; all storekeepers nnd druggists, or The Cntnrrlioionc. Co., Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Canada. THKIR Sl'NDAY RKST. HOW I li-.,.|;!iMir;H.-(| < i.:i IT;::|- tions Appear ut Church. Tho wife of a missionary long ta- lionrd in Africa confessed the other day that nhc becamo hysterical with suppressed laughter at the first service, that her Imsbnnd hold at th^ station after bringing her out. She hnd, indeed , to leave tho chapel under pretext of a sudden nose- bleed, lest she should disgrace her- self by an outhurst of unseemly mirth. Tho cause of hw discomfiture was an important convert, an gf<l nnd vencrublo chief with snowy wool and a countenance of ferocious dig- nity. Tho youriR wifo hnd thrown away the day hcfore an outgrown pair of her tiny daughter's auklo- tiofl. Thoy wrrn of gay scarlet morocco; mid when they re-appear ed at church, buttoned neatly Or. Morse's Indian Root Pills are narlc nccordiiiK to a formula in use nearly a r"titury aco aiming tho Inr! ! :!, A\,A Ir.irnrcl from them by Dr. Morsr. Though repeated at- tempts liavr- l.-vn made, by physl- cians and chum t, it has been found impossible to improve the formula or the pills. Dr. Klorse'a Indian Root Pills area household re metly through- out the world for Cmntination and 11 Kidney and Liver troubles. They act promptly and effectively, and Cleanse the System O/ SAFE * /O INVESTMENT The National Securities Corporation, Limited, now offer to the publao their 7% Profit Sharing Bonds, which mature itt.five years, with interest payable half-yearly on he 1st of June and the 1st of December. The National Securities Corporation, Limited, acts as a holding company for several largo and profitable manufacturing plaata that have been built up by members of the Cor- fx>ratio<n in the past quarter of a century. The proceeds of these bonds are to be used In etill further developing theso plants in acquiring another long established manufacturing plant which has shown large profits for years and in purchasing well located timber lands. The Corporation now has a large limit under option containing 1,000,000,000 feet of virgin timber. This latter should largely increase in value in the next few years. All profits beyond bond interest and utock dividends a-re to be divided equally between the Bondholders and the Shareholders, and whatever profits arc thus divided will be la ex- cess of (he 7% annual interest on the Bond. Theso Bonds are amply secured by investment's of the Corporation in these manufac- turing- plants and in the value of lands, timber and mills which it control*, and will be fur- ther secured by the acquisition of other plants and timber limits. The Bond* are offered to th public in denominations of $100, $500 and $1,000, and may be purchased cither outright or by meana of the periodic payment plan, In th latter case, an initial payment of 10% of the face value of tho Bond will be required. Bondholders may withdraw all or part of their investments, with interest, at any time after one year on eixty daya notice. Payments should be made to the National Securities Corporation, Limited, either by cheque or money-order. More comploto particular* furnished on request NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION LIMITED ; CONFEDERATION LIFE BL.DO. TORONTO, - ONT. through the distended lobea of the old chief's ears and dangling con- spicuously , against his withered ebony shoulders, ths spectacle was too much for her especially in combination with the rest of his costume, which consisted of a dirty blue loin-cloth, and a head-dress made of feathers artistically com- bined with imported shirt-buttons. Missionary gravity is often se- verely tested by the go-to-meeting- best of tho unsophisticated congre- gation. Even our own country can suppily instances <n point. The talc comes from Alaska of an Indian settlement the resident pastor of which prepared the minds of his people for the coming of a distin- guished clergyman who was going to preach to them, by explaining that not only would his words be worth hearing, but that his charac- ter was such that he might be con- sidered an exemplar of all the Christian graces, and eminently worthy of imitation. During his earnest and eloquent address, the visiting preacher had occasion to use his handkerchief; having done BO, he thrust it care- lessly into a coat-tail pocket. He quite failed to observe that the greater portion remained hanging outside, and strer ->ed backward as he gesticulated in a manner that the respectfully admiring natives demcd peculiarly elegant and ef- fective. The next Sunday the decorum of their own pastor was severely strained when ho beheld a flock more suggestive of Little Bo-Peep's than any other, proudly advancing down tho aisle. Every man, woman and child had a handkerchief, J>ag or piece of white cloth, of any ma- terial, from sailcloth to muslin, and of any size, .from six inches square to a yard. They they had sewed or pinnrvd securely to the rearward portion of thoir attire, to waggle as thoy moved in a manner as rea- listically tail-like as possible. AVhon it was tactfully explained to thorn after service that this cleri- cally imported fashion was tho re- sult of a misunderstanding and not the latest and most correct thing of the East, they were greatly dLap- puintod. HANGED BY THE NECK No death la more eertaln than the end that ooin< to vory olTomler treated by I'nliiuiu'H Corn Kxlractnr. Out oomen the corn or warts, root and branch. 1 - i-r on "Putnam 1 *" only. It's tho beet, free from a, i.l- and palnlem. Price 25a., at all deal- era. STl'DEMS PLACED IX CELLS. Arc I Martini Law at Exami- nation limes. Students actually are'- worked to death in Wuchang, "China, where every third year the quwretit col- logo examination in tho world is held. From 12,000 to 15;000 stu- dents nro locked in cells for three days while they struggle for a de- gree. So great is the strain tlmt frequently several of the students die be-fore tho end of tho 72-hour bout, and several times hopoful candidates have been crushed to death t tho gal- when trying to get in. Every row of celia has two servants whr cook and attend to tho wants of I ho candidate!!. Martial law prevail* during the examina- tion, in which about only ono per cent, of thoso who take it ore NUC- resuful. An army of 30,000 trades- men, doctors, cooks, tailors nnd printers gather in the univrirxit.v town when the big examination is pulled off. A Huluta of Rim in flrod in honor of the lucky Chine-so who nkin through. BRICK PAVEMENTS. 1,000 Miles In Cleveland. Ohio, aad Surrounding Country. There is probably no place on tho continent where more attention has been paid to the improvement of country roads or where the benefits accruing from such a policy, have been so striking as in the county of Cuyahoga^ Ohio, in which the city of Cleveland is situated. The highways radiating out from the city, and other main roads, have been paved with brick, which will endure the heaviest motor- driven traffic for from 50 to 100 years, A thousand miles of brick pave- ment has been laid in the city and county combined, and 110 miles of rural brick roods will be added this year, while 43 milee of brick paving has also been contracted for in the city. The good roads policy has had many beneficial results, both for the farmers and the city popula- tion, and the value of farm lands has increased in some cases from $75 to $300 per acre during the last ten years. The three County Commissioners who manage the road building, are Messrs. William F. F.irick, Harry Vail and John G, Fisher. Mr. Ei- rick says that tho large expenditure on rural roads has really not cost the county anything. The increased revenue from the boosted land values has counter- balanced all the expense of paying for the road work. City and county real estate ten years ago total led 9171, 000,000 in value. To-day it has risen to $605,000,000, an increase of 8131,000,000. Farm lands in the country ten years ago were worth $29,000,000, but TIOW nro worth $101,000.000, showing an increase of $72,000.000. The growth of the public markets in Cleveland is one of tho beneficial results of the good roads movement, ami it is one of tho very best ways to ftsht the increased cost of living, for it brings the producer and con- sumer together to a much greater extent. Easy transportation has encouraged the production of mar- ket truck, and turned a good part of the county into a vast garden. Country life has becomp popular with city people of means, who can motor in to the. city easily uml quickly, nml the farm for pleasure and th ? benefits of the country life. This has bec-n an important factor in raising tho valuo of funu pro- porty. Good brick roads cost tho county $1,000 a mile for each foot of width. Stono curbing with an expansion joint is used to protect the edge of tho pavement. Usually one half of the road is paved^ tho right hand half for th heavior-loadwl traffic that is bound toward town. The other half of the roiul is grnded and can be used in dry weather. The method of construction is to lay a solid concrete baao nnd im- pose a two inch sand-cushion for the brick. A grout film- unit&d the brick into ono solid substance. Revising Things. Hewitt --What do you think of this suffragette business ? Jewett If it is carried to its logi- cal conclusion it will result in -wo- man putting her money in her hus- band's name. A squire, worsted hy Sydney in ni'Kiimeiit, ttaid, "If I had a son who was an idiot I'd mako him n parson." Smith said, "Your was of A different mind." Buys Option-Contract (put or call) on. 50 sharea stock, 10,000 bumhels wheat or 50 bales of ootton, affording unusual chances for largo profits without further outlay. BEIMEL & CO., 6 Wall Street. MOW YORK. ld <n ' h " ' ' ' > v .. "8LD L'BOf COMPK1ITIUX you cannot - do b.ittor IB.IM sand f , r oar I ~ A. ^ ^ (Malaga*, and ne what w 151 T ^S h" to offjr In ,1K,U)OA1S ^J U k ^9 " bar* t iplend:d stock and will bo (lad t . send simplea. IOEO. KEITH & SONS. u 4 Klnr St. Et Tcr. nto. Out. 8d M.-chct* 9 noa lgi. Hints for the Home. Stamps which have become stuck together may be separated by pass- ing a hot iron across their faces. After wringing clothes get a piece of old blanket and mangle it two or three times. This will dry the rollers and save them. If fine linen is stained -with tea, evn after a long time, the stains can be removed by applying glycer- ine. A little of the best glycerine should be rubbed on the stained parts before washing. Cabbage is made more nutritious and digestible if boiled in two waters. It contains a certain oil, which is apt to have a bad effect on people with weak digestion. Boiling in two successive waters corrects this. An iron soon becomes cold when placed on a cold ironstand. To prevent this place an ordinary bric-k in the oven some hours beforo ironing. Use this hot brick as an ironstand, and the iron will keep hot a much longer time. Before applying a new coating of paint to the wall of a room it is advisable thoroughly to clean the old surface. I)o this by dissolving 1 ounce of soda in a pint of warm water and use while warm with a piece of flannel. Finally wash over with clean, hot water. When boiling new milk, to pre- vent a skin from forming on tho top as it cools, add two tablespoon- fuls of cold milk to every pint when at boiling point, and stir for a min- ute. The so called skin will then be re-absorbed, and the milk will not be so impoverished. When -washing new curtains you will generally find that they "are full of lime. A great deal of trou- ble may be saved by soaking the curtains over night in water in which a little salt has been dissolv- ed. The salt draws out the lime, and makes the curtains quite easy to wash without too much rubbing and Hoa. WHY IS THE BEST FOR YOU. BECAUSE It keeps your "White Clothes" looklnR Just Ilko New. It does not Spot or Streak the clothes as thora Is no settling. It Is the "Hnndtesl Kind" to use. It Is Guaranteed to give Perfect Satis- faction or money Choerfully Refunded. L'lST EN! TR * IT ' and Prewe II "J-R R hi r I) much bctttr lor You rlt . thai iiy other." Ml A.ocentpack- Tliouuon, Belmont, Man. act lasts about "J-R Bine Is an Excellent 6 months, as it Blue, Superior to other bluea sj Good Blues." Mrs. Frank J. Sl Wihmg Moore, Conn, Ont. Manufacture by "J-R Blue l th* bsl Th Johinon. Bluelferusd Mr. W. f ^'i'"" 1 Co- Swltr, Brandon. Man. KSSii, CM.