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Household Selected RecjpeS, Eagles* Cake. 'Cream together one cup sugar and one-half cup but- ter. Add one cup sour milk, one cup dry cocoa, one even teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, pinch of salt and flavoring. Mix with enough sifted flour to make at iff bat- ter. To make a good spiced cake use brown sugar instead of white, leave out the cocoa, add to the flour a half cup or more of seeded raisins or currants and flavor with tea- apoon each of ground cinnamon and allspice. Beat very thoiwvghly. Johnny Cake. One cup flour, one-half cup corn meal, one taible- qpoou sugar, one teaspoon salt, one- half teaspoon baling powder, one tablespoon butter or lard. Sift all together, then add one aiid one- fourth cups sour milk, beat until smooth, pour into a greased pan and bake for about twenty minutes in a quick oven. Soft Gingerbread. One-half cup butter creamed, one cup brown sugar, two eggs, one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, three cups flour, one teaspoon soda dissolved in milk, one teaspoon ginger, one tea- spoon cinnamon. Bake in a moder- ate oven. This will make two. Sour Milk Griddle Cakes. One egg, well beaten, one cup sour milk, half teaspoon soda dissolved in a Little of the milk, half teaspoon salt, nd flour to make into medium thick batter. Beat thoroughly and cook on hot greased griddle. Brown Bread. Two cups sour milk, two-thirds of a cup dark brown sugar, two level teaspoons soda, pinch of salt, three cups gra- ham flour. Bake one hour. Cottage Cheese. When curd has separated from whey in souring, turn the curd into a coarse cotton (bag and let drain in a oool place for twenty-four hours, or until free from whey. Add salt and sweet cream to taste, and shape into small balls. Process may be hastened by heating thick, sour or clabbered milk first, but the cheese ia tougher. Cheese Cakes. Nice to eat with tewed fruit or preserves. Oae and one-half cups cottage ^heeae, one third cup sugar, two tablespoons cream, grated rind and juice of one lemon, three eggs, one-half cup juice of one lemon, three eggs, one- half cup currants and citron, one- fourth cuip sherry -wine, on-3 table- spoon melted butter. Press coeofe through colander or uotato ricor. Add sugar, cream melted mutttr, juice and rind of '.emoa, eggs beat en light, the wine and fruit cut in- to small bits. (Both wine and fruit may be omitted.) Line small tins with pie crust, fill with this mixture and bake about fifteen minutes or loader if necessary. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve while warm. Frosted Peaches. Select some peaches that are not too ripe, and dip them one at a time in water that has just boiled, so that the skin may be easily removed. Then cook the peaches in a syrup until they are soft to the fingers. Strain them and plunge them into the whites of eggs beaten to snow, roll them in powdered sugar, and leave them for a few minutes in a gentle oven. Hash some macaroons and angeliques, and on removing the peaches from the oven roll them in this hash. Old fashioned Almond Rings. Roll one-half pound of puff paste vory thin, and cut out with biscuit- cutter. From eacih round cut a wnaller one from the centre so that the ring will be about an inch wide. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth ; add one-half pound of pulverized sugar, and stir with the dish in boiling water until tho mer- ingue is thick. Slice one-half pound of blanched almonds very tain. Stir them into the meringue. Uool. Then with a silver knife place this mixture on the riugs. Bakie at the temperature proper for cake. These almond rings will keep tresh for several weeks. Scotch Short Bread. 'Mix to- C'iher one pound of flour and one- f pound of butter; stir in one- quarter pound of sugar, and the yolk of one egg. Work with the hands until stiff ; cut in two por- tions. Sugar the board instead of flooring it, and mold the dough, pinching the edge like pastry ; prick vlth a fork to prevent its rising in blisters. Mark it before bakiiig, and break it when serving. Put on tin or in a round tin, ungreaaed, and bake a long time in a very slow oven. It is of a fawn color when done, and ia soft until cold. It is Improved by putting the dough Into oool place for an hour before bak- fag. 'Spinach Pats. Finely crumb the inside of one-half of a loaf of stale <bcead ; soak the crumbs in water, nd squeeze them dry. Cut the crust into small squares, and fry them to a golden bro^wn in hot but- ter or oil. To the bread-crumbs add a smi'l onion, cooked soft in butter aid chopped fine, one-half of a pe<-* .it -^ina-sh, pick*'* over, washed, and chopped, a teaapoon- ful of whole-wheat meal, a pinch of salt, and the fried crusts. To bind the mixture, add two eggs ; form it into small pats. Dust them with bread-crumbs, cracker-crumbs, or fine flour, and fry to a golden brown on both sides in a flat frying-pan. The pats are particularly good serv- ed with baked ham. Baked Eggplant. Cut in halves a medium-sized eggplant, from stem to tip, leaving the half-stem in place. Put the two halves in boiling water for about five min- utes, until the meat cau be readily scooped from the skin. Chop this meat fine, and a-dd to it one gill of (raw) pine-nut or one pint of (boil- ed and chopped) chestnuts, one-half pound of chopped 'boiled chicken or any kind of meat preferred), one-half pint of boiled rice, one tablespoonful of chopped celery, one large onion, one large tomato, one-half green, sweet pepper (all chopped), salt to taste, and add four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, and two eggs (well beat-en)." Mix these ingredients thoroughly, replace in the egg plant .skins or shells, and bake one hour in a slow ovon, pre- ferably in a dish in which the vege- taible can be also served, as remov- ing it from the baking dish is likely to spoil its appearance. Household Him-. Use boiling water for tea stains. Use salt and lemon juice on ink stains. Mud stains should be soaked in kerosene. Hub grass stains with molasses and wash. Turpentine or benzine will re- move paint stains. Scorch stains, remove by expos- ing to Bunahine. Tar stains should be soaked in warm milk and salt. To- remove acid stains use ammo- nia or chloroform. Perspiration stains will be re- moved only by boiling. Fruit stains should .be soaked in milk or use oxalic acid. Chocolate stains, soak in kero- sene and wash in cold water. Blood stains should be soaked when fresh, in cold water. Put dry salt on fresh wine stains and warm milk on old ones. Coffee stains should be treated with boiling water when fresh. Tope of old shoes, cut into shape and covered, make excellent iron holders. A cut lemon will remove the mark made by striking matches on white paint. Never allow a mirror to hang in the sunlight, or the backing will become clouded. Equal parta of beeswax and tur- pentine rubbed on dull floors will brighten them. Cook carrots and beets whole, then skin and slice. Avoid cooking vegetables in an iron kettle. Save a ham bone to cook with dried peas for pea soup, and thus add to the flavor of the dish. A teaspoonful of ammonia mixed with half a cupful of cold tea ;.< said to be excellent for cleaning black felt hats or men's black coats. Ap- ply with a bit of cloth. Some housewives believe that if bhe pitcher containing milk or cream is put into a pan of water it will be more likely to keep sweet during an electric storm. A pinch of <Hxla added to a berry pie before the upper crust is put on will keep it fjrom running over. Pieces of wood soaked in cedar oil and laid in drawers of an ordinary chest, closet or bureau will impart all the virtues of the most costly cedar chest. Stains from tinware, agate or crockery may be removed by rub- bing with a damp cloth and sifted wood ashes. When the nickel chafing dish be- comes dull, wipe it off with a soft cloth moistened with ammonia, and then polish with another soft rag. Sew a small button to tho corner of a dish towel. This will prevent the necessity of getting a knife to scrape a dish or plate. To prevent custard dishes or cups from cracking when pouring boiled custard into them, place the dish or cloth on a dump cloth. If hot i:i._i. is used instead of cold when making meat sauce, it will greatly improve the flavor and give the sauce a better color. White enameled furniture can be cleaned by dissolving one table- spoonful of baking soda in one pint of warm water. Saturate a soft cloth and wash ihe furniture. A quantity of quicklime put into a damp cupboard for a few days will absorb the dampness. When the. hot^-water bag starts to leak do not throw it away, but heat clean white sand and put it into the bag. The Band is better than wa- ter It rot-wins the heat longer. The best way to cook an egg is | to do it one's self at the breakf;tst table. Take a quart of boiling wa- ter and carefully drop the egg in. At the end of five or six minutes it will be beautifully cooked. A deli'.'ious ho-t weather sandwich la made of whole, wheat broad, stale, buttered with unsalted but- ter, and spread with chopped olives and walnuts. Raisins also make a good filling. Spiced jelly for decorating meat dishes is made with gelatine a boxful soaked in a cup of cowao- THE KING'S PRIZE WINNER. Private Hawkins, photographed just after winning the prize. mime. Let the liquid simmer and add a cupful of tarragon vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of fruit juice, any kind, and two of lemon juice, and a teaepoonful of salt. Cook five minutes, strain and chill. Swiss eggs are a good luncheon dish for summer. Butter a pie dish, cover the bottom with slices of cheese, break the eggs over the cheese and sprinkle with bread- crumbs. Bake until done. NEW SLEEPING SICKNESS. British Savaut Describes Fatal Disease. Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, head of the Sleeping Sick- ness Commission, who was sent to Central Africa nearly two years ago, reports that the work will not be completed for another year. The object of the commission was to study the relationship of the Af- rican fauna to the spread of sleep- ing sickness in that continent. The work 'lias been carried on in a wild and remote region about fifty miles from the shores of Lake Nyassa, where the ruem-hers of the commis- sion lived and worked in mosquito proof huts. Sir David Bruce finds that the so-called sleeping (sickness in Nyassaland is not iii- same as that of Uganda or the West Coast, although it belongs to the same category. It is more rapid and even more fatal. There has been no case of recovery. It is now established beyond doubt that tho disease is carried by glossina morsitans, a fly which is widely spread over the whole of Africa. The disease in Xyasaland and north and northeastern Rhodesia ha been given the name of sleeping sickness, but the work of the com- mission went to show that it was the old tetse fiy disease of South Af- rican hunters, which was formerly supposed' only to attack animals, but has now spread to man. Sir David Bruce does not believe that there is any danger of the disease spreading. He is of the opinion that it has probably been in these areas from time immemorial, and that it will never assume the terrible pro- portions of the sleeping sickness of he Congo or Uganda. SUSPEND LIFE FOR MONTHS. Professor Baklimetilcff Makes u Bold Assertion. Professor Baklimetilcff, of Mos- cow, announces that he has been ex- perimenting to determine the source of life and has obtained some re- markable results along a collateral line, the suspension of life, by the use of a substance which he calls ''anabiose." He has .been a specialist for seven- teen years in the study of hiberna- tion, and the results of cold upon m animals, particularly bears, and his discoveries are in this field. He has progressed to a point, he says, where he can place an entire herd of cattle in a state of suspend- ed animation during the severe Russian winter, thereby saving the cost of fodder, shelter and attend- ance, and revive them in the spring in good condition. The treatment, which he haa ap- plied successfully to several differ- ent kinds of animals, reduces them to total unconsciousness ; respira- tion and digestion cease completely. They are kept for months at a uni- form temperature, regulated by a thermometer, and when they are brought into light,, humidity and warm they recover consciousness, I apparently not weakened by their experience. Professor Bakmetieff has not yet been able to apply " anabiose" to human beings to determine if healthy persons could be transfer- red to complete suspended anima- tion and then restored at will to their previous health : but he is in negotiation with the prison depart- ment to obtain volunteers among condemned men who will submit themselves to the treatment. The other day he brought back to full life a large sturgeon which he had kept under "anaboise" since winter without any kind of nourish- ment and in complete stillness. It proved to be perfectly healthy, with the roe in fine condition, which would not be the case with a fish kept frozen. BRIDAL FINERY IN SUMATRA. The Dress .-mil Oriiameuts Are Heavy With Gold. Brides all over the world like to make th best display possible on their wedding day, and the bridal attire of the various countries is in- variably both costily and beautiful. For sheer gorgeousness, however, sa-ys a writer in the Wide World, it would bo hard to rival the wed- dinjf finery of the belles of the is- land of Sumatra. The dress is wov- en entirely of gold thread, and its weight is so great that the wearer can hardly move ; even standing up requires a distinct effort. Apart from this shimmering, golden gar- ment, the bride is loaded down with gold ornajneuts, lings, bangles, oar- rings, pendants, girdles, and neck- laces, and sundry ornamental pur- ses of the same metal. The huge ornaments hanging on chains round her neck are hollow, but all the smaller charms are of solid native gold, most massively wrought. One might almost think that the natives, having heard something about a good wife being worth her weight in gold, had .set out to prove the fact by loading their quaint little brides with the actual equivalent of their weight ; ju the precious metal. AIR-SHIP IN REAL EARNEST. Graphic Accouut of Its Work iu the Turco-Itulian War. An interesting comment on the progress of aviation and the influ- ence it is exerting on modern Tneth- ods of warfare is furnished by an account of the work of a dirigible in the Turco-Italian War, publish- ed ia the Stampa of Turin. The dirigible left its hangar at six in the morning, with the com- mander and two pilots. The object was to carry out an offensive recon- naissance. Rising over the sea to the height of one thousand meters, the balloon turned eastward toward Koefia, and passed over that oasis. The crew could see that, for the moment, a.t least, there were none gible turned south toward Sidi Mufta, in the neighborhood of which were scattered the tents of the Turk and Arab camp. No sooner had it reached the edge of the encampment than numerous little puffs of white smoke were ob- served on the ground beneath, and the unmistakable crackle of rifle firo made it-self heard above the roar of the air-ship's motor. The Turks and Arabs had begun a vio- lent fusillade against the dirigible, which promptly answered by drop- ping its first bomb. A flash of fire and a dense cloud of smoke rose from the middle of a group of tents, and men were seen to rush out and away from them. The Turks, realizing the futility of their rifle-fire, brought their ar- tillery into action. From the edge { of the. sand-dunes came two flashes, soon followed by others. Evidently tho Turks had prepared the artil- lery beforehand for this purpose, for the shells took an almost verti- cal line of flight. The Turks had posted their guns on the slope of the sand-hills, and buried, the tail of the carriage deep in the sand in order to prevent the recoil from overturning the gun. In spite oB all the preparations, however, the- aim of the gunners was wild. The dirigible, on the other hand, let fall other bombs, which seemed to be as effective as the first. The aeronauts, moreover, while carry- ing on this aerial combat, which lasted almost an hour, accomplished also he chief end of their voyage an exact reconnaissance of the en- emy's camp. They took numerous photographs, which, when put to- gether in proper order, gave a per- fect plan of the position. The diri- gible returned to its hangar at eight o'clock ; it had been two hours in tho air. THE SONDAY SCHOOL lESSfll INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 31. Lesson XI. Israel at Mount Sinafc Exud. Chap. 1. Golden Text, i. 12.28. What It Was. The small boy was the first to an- swer the telephone. The person on the other end of the wire was a friend of his mother, and the fol- lowing conversation ensued: "Is this Mrs. Blank's residence?" "NV, ma'am, it's Mrs. Blank's lif.'e boy." Speed .-in <l Endurance. ''Money went a whole lot further in the old days than it does now." said the Old Fogy. "That's because it didn't go so fast," explained the Wise Guy. The Difference. He stood beside the altar, And his face was grave and sad ; She stood beside t/he altar, With a smile both siveetand glad. Once is Enough. Proh They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Kohn Well, what's the use? No man is happy unless he* thinks he is. But there in little marrow in the bone of contention. Lois of failures can be traced to the belief that other people are not quite as smart as we are. But why this awful difference Betwei-a the jnan and maid I Her clothes were made to order hi* wejf ready-made. INVENTING A GAME. A Magpie and White-eared Fly- catcher Have Some Fun. A young magpie cama into the possession of Mr. E. J. Banfield, who, in his book, "My Tropic Isle," gives an interesting account I of the bird's accomplishments. It i went in and out of the kitchen at ' will, and if by chance food was not, i spread out at tho accustomed ' place, it protested loudly, and al- ways effectively. The bird spent many hours en- deavoring to sing. No cultured relative was. present, to teach tha notes of its kind, so that in default it learned the complete vocabulary of the domestic poultry, besides the more familiar calls and exclama- tions of its mistress. A white-eared flycatcher took up j its abode near the house, and the magpie, after a decent lapse of | : time, admitted the stranger to its i companionship. The wild, larder- less bird, however, had little time ; to play. All its wits and energies i were devoted to the serious, busi- ness of life. It knew none of tho games that the magpie invented ex- cept one a kind of aerial ''peep- bo," to which the more intelligent bird lured it by means of a prize. The magpie found a moth, big of abdomen, fat and brown, a tempt- j ing morsel to any insectivorous i bird. Envious of the dainty, tho wagtail fluttered and skipped about the magpie with cheerful chatter; but tho fluttering moth, daintily held by the extremity of its body, was alternately presented and de- nied. While they danced about a bush, the magpie tantali/.ingly held the moth for acceptance and hop- ped off as the wagtail wa^i about to snatch it. To tho tame bird, forti- fied by the knowledge that its meals were provided, it was all fun. Tr> the- hungry wild one, tho moth dangling temptingly be/ore it aix) whipped disappointingly away, it was a game equally sincere-, but of varied interest. The one assumed a whimsical air. ehuekliag in en- couraging tones; the other took it- all in earnest. At last, unable to restrain an ex- clamation of delight, the magpie unwarily slackened its hold, and the moth fluttered off, to be snap- ped up on the instant by the wild bird, and gulped without ceremony. After this the game was frequent- ly playwl, but the magpie hd in variably to make it worth the while of the wagtail by offering a prize in the s)i.'i.|n- of some tit-bit. A succesful man is not necessar- ily a cleverer man than the failure. He may merely have worked a little harder. The narrative intervening be* tweeu our last lesson and this on includes a number of important events. At Rphidim the . people murmured against Moses because of lack of water, which, after Moses's earnest intercession, with Jehovah, was miraculously sup- plied. Then came Israel's war with Amalek, familiar to Bible readers principally because of the incident on the mountain top in which Aaron and Hur supported the hands o( Moses while he prayed for Israel's victory. Xot long afterward, Jeth- ro, the priest of Midian, Moses'j father-in-law, visited the camp ol Israel in the wilderness, giving Moses wise counsel concerning th way in which he might best admin- ister the important affairs of his difficult office (chapter 18). Our 'lesson passage takes up the thread of the story immediately following the departure of Jethro. Verse 1. In the third month- According to Exod. 12. 1, 2, the de- parture of Israel from Egypt wai commemorated by the inaugura- tion of a new calendar: "This month shall be unto you the begin- ning of months ; it shall be the first month of the year to you." But the first month of the Jewish calen- dar corresponded approximately to our month of April, which would fix the time of the year for the events of uur lesson as midsummer. The same day Three months to a day after their departure out ol Egypt- Wilderness of Sinai The unhab- ited district in the immediate vicin- ity of the mountain. Sinai iUelf is usually identified with Horeb, ami located near the southern point of the peninsula between the Gulfs of Suez and Akabah. Rephidim Somewhere in the vi- cinity of Sinai, perhaps just north- west of the mountain itself. 3. Moses went up unto God Went up the mountain to be alone in meditation and prayer. The house of Jacob Jacob's de- scendants, the Israelites. 4. Bare you on eagles' wings A beautiful figure illustrating solici- tude of Jehovah for his people. The habits of the parent eagle were not unfamiliar to the desert pilgrims. This king of birds is said to hover round and beneath its young when these make their first attempts to fly, ever ready to, support them on expanded wing when they become exhausted. Brought you unto myself Sepa- rated you from other peoples wor- shipping other gods. 6, 0. My covenant From this time forward Israel's relationship to Jehovah is to be a peceuliar covenant relationship. Israel be- comes Jehovah's own possession, a kingdom of priests and a holy na- tion. "And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreign- ers shall be your plowmen and vine-dressers. But ye shall be nam- ed the priests of Jehovah" (Isa. 61. 5, G). Verses 7 to 15 inclusive record the preparations made by Mose and the people for the further manifestation of Jehovah's will t- ward them, in harmony wit-h Jeho- vah's announcement to Moses. 16. The voice of a trumpet ex- ceeding loud Jehovah's summons to the people discernible between the peals of thunder. 17. Out of the camp And nearer to the mount. 19. Smoked . . . quaked -- Th whole manifestation was awe-in- gpiring and overpowering in its ef- fact upon the minds of the people. The language t'n.xnmhout is that ot th early prophetic narrative, abounding in expressions in which the actions of Jehovah are brought within the range of human compre- hension. 31. Break through unto Jehovah Approach too near the sacred' mountain. To gaze- Merely for the purpose of satisfying their curiosity. Mascot Kin? ftir Duchess. The mascot engagement ring is th<> latest tlung ai jewelry. It is said that Prince Arthur has given the Duchess of Fife a delightful old ring, which belonged to the family i if the Hed Prince, to which house his mother belongs. This jewel has a history. It wa given by a for bear of the Duchess to her fiance, a soldier prince, when lie was g" 'i^ to the wars. It is in the shape of a nine, within which are nine man't-- cent diamonds taking the form <'f an anchor, indicative of faith and trustfulness. For y*ars the maso'* ring has been in the possession ol the Duchess of Connaught, Conjugal Amenities. Kni'.'ker You must take me f<.>r hank, you are always asking ft"" money. Mrs. Knicker You must talcs W for a railroad; you are a':*;i.i* thinking I can d with. !&. >