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Household Winter Marmalade*. Carrot Marmalade. One dozen raw carrots, grated ; on cupful rugar to each, cupful ol grated CAT ' rot, juioe of three l-emons, straia- ed ; one beaepoonful each of pow- dered cinnamon, cloves and all- spice. Mix carrots and sugar and let stand over night. Add the lem- on juice and spices in the morning and cook slowly for one hour. By omitting apices you have a good im- tbati-un of orange marmalade. Carrot Preserves. - - Wah well and scrape the roots of carrots, and remove all black spots or bruied, , decayed pieces. If you want it to i be nr?t-cLaa, cut only the red port ' outside into pieces, throwing away the middle, hgtit colored and hard portion. Put the cut up red piece* into the preserving pan with wiater to cover, and boil till it 'is soft enough to rub through a hair sieve. To four pounds of this pulp allow lour pounds of loaf sugar, a quar- ter of a pound of bitter almonds, blanched and cut up very fine, the rind grated, and the juice strain- ed of four lemons. The almonds and lemons are not to be added till the carrot pulp and sugar have boil- ed up thoroughly and simmered for fifteen or twenty minute* ; then re- move from the fire, and when cold rftir in the fruit. Allow the sugar and pulp to boil continuously or the run will burn. Just before put- ting the jam into jars add to the above quantity six tablespoonfuls of brandy to make the jam keep. Stir thoroughly. Cover the jars carefully and tie over well to ex- clude air. Grapefruit Marmalade. Six grapefruit, sugar and water. Wa/sh fruit, remove skin and cut it into hort thin strips or run it through the chopper. Cut the fruit into mall pi-eoes, discarding seeds. Weigh the akin and pulp and to each pound add two pints of water. Let stand orer night, and boil the fruit in the same water until the skin is tender. Remove from the stove, measure carefully and to each pint of fruit and juice add one and one-fourth pounds of sugar. Return to the stove and boil until the fruit is transparent and the juice is a rich syrup. Aiubcr Marmalade. No. 1. Wash, wipe and cut into quarters one orange, one lemon and one grapefruit. Slice each quarter through peel and pulp, rejecting ei'tls. Add seven pints of cold wa- ter, let stand overnight, and in the morning cook until the peel is ten- der, whiiA will take several hours. t?t aside overnight. Add ten cups (five pounds) of sugar and cook, stirring once in a while, until the svrup thiukena slightly on a oold plate. Pineapple-Orange Marmalade. Thrse well-ripened pineapples, and mix oranges. Remove the cores from the pineapple, and the white membrane of the oranges. Put through chopper, and for every cup of pulp take one of sugar. Oook very slowly until like jam. Pour in glasses. Auib<>r Marmalade No. 2. Slice one orange, one lemon and one grapefruit thin with a sharp knife, removing seeds and core. Measure and let stand over night with the same quantity of water as fruit. In the morning put on the fire and let boil for two minute*. Remove and let s>band another twenty-four hours. Then measure again and to each pint of juice add one pint of sugar. Boil until it jellies, stirring only as necessary. Put into jelly glasses and seal when cold. Candied Grapefruit Peel. -- Be sure fruit i* perfect and fresh. Wash, remove skin in quarters and out it into strips about an inch wide. Weigh the peel. Measure ou't an equatl weight of sugar. Let the peel stand over night in fresh cold water. Puk it on to boil In this water in the morning using a flat, shallow pan so as not to crowd the peel and let simmer \\itt" the strips can be pierced easily with a 3tr*w. Take from fire and let stand until next morning. Drain off the wafoer, adding more if there Is not enough to cover the peel. Cook the liquid to a syrup with the ugar. The sugar should weigh twice as much as the water. When a ra'ther thick, but nob too thick, jrrup has formed, add the peel, and let the niosa ginimer slowly until the syrup i* nearly absorbed and the peel looks clear. Let the peel Jool, remove It and roll In granulat- ed sugar. Lay it on waxed paper to dry. It can be kept in a wide- mouthed jar. It It gebs too hard, cook again in a little syrup and re- peat the process of rolling in sugar. The syrup make* an excellent flav- oring ana sweetener. sage added to the minced meat will change the flavor delightfuliy. Minced mint added to bhe lamb is a happy combination, too. A few drops of lemon juice added bo the minced hard-boiled egg gives a piquancy bo the egg sandwiches. Dabes and mi'is run bhrough the mea't chopper and moistened with cream make a filling that, is hearty and tasty. A dash of salt improves the mixture. The chopped dates and nut mix- ture is quite changed in flavor if it is moistened with Lernoa or orange juice. A mixture of cottage cheese and cocoanut is as good as ib is unusual. Moisten ib with rich cream and add a pinch of salt. Hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine or pressed bhrough a ricer, and flavor- ed with minced smoked herring, make a tasty sandwich filling, either with or without a salad dressing. Gold stewed mu&h rooms, split, are delicious with entire wheat bread if baked beans are season- ed with horseradish or catsup, minced parsley, mustard and onion juice they will bo an excellent fill- ing for bread sandwiches. A tangy cheese, grated and mix- ed to a paste with chili sauce or tomato catsup, will be found excel- lent for sandwich filling. - Another good cheese filling is the grated cheese mixed wibh chopped celery or watercress, olives and a little melted bubber. Minced crisped ham or bacon and minced chicken, with a little let- tuce leaf or shredded lettuce, will be found good with whole wheat or white bread. Chopped anchovies or sardine, mixed with hard-boiled eggs and made the consistency of paste by us- ing mayonnaise or cream, are good with any kind of bread. Shredded or minced sweet green ' peppers, cream cheese and mayon- naise are delicious with nub bread. A boasted sandwich, having for a filling scraped raw beef, will oft<*n bempb bhe appebite when other fill- ings fail. Twice as much chopped chicken as minced ham, seasoned with curry powder, makes an unusual sand- wich filling. If those sandwiches are served with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese, or with balls of bhe cheese mixed wibh butber, they will find f.ivor. Any kind of baked, cold cooked fish, mixed with a sweet or sour minced pickle and mayonnaise or boiled dressing, will make a good sandwich filling. Minced celery and olives, mixed to a good consistency wibh mixed pickle and catsup, will make a basty filling, with or without the addition of minced nuts. SCHOOL M ENGLISH GIRL TEACHES AMERICAN GIRLS TO ROW. Household Iliim. Grape jam with whipped eream on it is a novel and pretty d<*:;*ert. Very sour fruits can be partly sweetened by a pinch of salt while cooking. The living-room table t'tould never be crowded with books. A few are enough. When woolen blankets are past their best, cover with silkoline and tack like a quilt. Individual tarts are always at- tractive and make an agreeable change for the luncheon table. The woman who means to econo- mize on Labor in her home will have aa little bright metal as pos- sible. If a rug curls, moisten it and wrap it around a broom stick in the opposibe way from its desires, bhen tie and let it dry. Meab patties for luncheon dishes are economical because they can be made of almost every sort of cold meat. Anybody who has a lumber in the family can make a very nice little rug of rabbit skins sewn together on a piece of carpet. Keep in the cellar a few onions which you allow bo send up shoots. They are delicious in winter sal- ads or to rub bhe salad bowl with. Bread sauce should never be served stiff and sticky, bub smooth and free from lumps. The sauce should not boil after adding the bread. If lime in the water forms a coat- ing inside bhe beakebtle it mav be removed with vinegar or sulphuric acid. B* careful bo wash the ketttle afterward. Fvcr Trted Those Sandwiches? Apy bit p left-over veal, ateak, chicken or lamb may be utilized tor aandwichesi especially if evwy j crap of gmvy left in the cooking U saved and the meat pu% into it. This keeps th ineiat from drying up. Ju*t before using; mince the meat, andf t&ere will be a most pal- atable filjiag. Sometimes a pinch of Corcan Justice. The Corean judge dispenses jus- tice in the open, and by etiquette only the judge can sit; everyone else must stand, excepting the pri- soner and his friends, who are forced to remain in a humble kneel- ing position with bowed heads. Un- til quite recently these trial* were always very one-sided and shock- ingly unjust. When a man was brought to a judge, it was taken for granted he was guilty, and if he did not confess he was tortured and made to do so. Witnesses, too, were openly bribed. In fact, giving evidence for or against an accused person meant a living to a portion of the community, and these wit- nesses naturally favored those, who paid best. Punishments varied. If the prisons were too full, and tho condemned could not pay a fine, they were ofben given a chance bo escape, or disappeared by some means. Though these are things of tKe past, Corean judges, like tnose. of China, possess a poor idea of the HP.UKO of justice.- -Wide World Mag- azine. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 8. Lesson VI. Darkness and Light Luke 11. 14-20, 33-26. Golden Text, Luke 11. 33. Verses 14-16 are introductory, ex- plaining the occasion for the dis- course which follows. A miracle wrought by Jesus is by some attri- buted to the prince of evil spirits. Verse 14. Demon that was dumb called because it made the dumb. 15. Some of them said Matthew says it was the Pharisees who made this remark (Matt. 9. 34). Beelzebub This word occurs only about a half dozen times in the New Testament and nowhere in the Old Testament. The form of the word here used is taken from the Vul- gate, or early Latin translation of the Bible. The Greek manuticripbs have instead the word "Beelze- bul," which may mean either "lord of the mansion" or "lord of the pit." life is uncertain whether the Jews identified Beelzebub with 8a- ban or believed him to be a subor- dinate evil power. 16. Sought of him a sign from heaven A renewal of the third temptation (Luke 4. 9-12), in that Jesus is requested to perform a miracle-, for the mere purpose of showing his power bo unbelievers. 17. 18. Jesus shows the people the unreasonableness of believing bhat through the assistance of an evil power he could cast out evil. If the power of Satan were used to cast out one of his own subjects, then his kingdom would be divided and would surely fall. A house divided against a house Better, "house after house fall- eth." Here Luke apparently meant to enlarge upon the desola- tion brought about by a divided kingdom, and did not refer, as did Matthew and Mark, to a divided house (see Matt. 12. 25 ; Mark 3. 20). 19, 20. Your sons Jewish exor- cists, who used charms and incanta- tions bo drive away the spirits of disease and other spirits of evil. By the finger of God Matthew (12/26) savs "the spirit of God." 21, 22. This parable contains a suggestion of Isaiah 49. 24-26. The strong man would then refer to Satan guarding the entrance of his own court or mansion, and bhe stronger would refer to Jeus, who would overcome him and take from him his armor in which he trusted. 23. !! tha.t is nob with me is against me The contest between Christ and Saban is mich that no one can remain neutral. Indiffer- ence here is equivalent to opposi- tion. 24-26. In reproving the Pharisees for their baseless criticism of him and for their desire for a miracle bo be>b his power, Jesus depicts their spiritual condition by using the parable of expelled demons, a subject foreign bo our thought to- day, but moving in the region of popular opinion of his day. The point of the parable for us is the fact of common experience which it emphasizes, that he who ha-s once experienced the goodness and mercy of God in the forgiveness of sin and thereafter permits the old habits to again take possession of his life is sure bo sink sbeadily to lower and lower levels. The lau gua.ge throughout is figurative and the details of the parable must not be forced in their application. Waterless places Deserts, ceme- teries, and places uninhabited by men were thought to be the haunts of demons. Seeking rest and finding none The demon ie seeking for a place of abode. My house No one else has taken possession of it, so he still calls it "my hoiise." He findeth it swept and garnish- ed, but empty. Evil can be per- manently overcome only by posi- tive good, a bad habit by a good one, wrongdoing by right conduct, selfishness by service. 33-36. In these verses Jesus car- ries the argument of his. discourse one step farther. Not only must individual allegiance to the king- dom of heaven result in positive goodnesSi but that goodness must be helpful to others. It cannot re- main as a secreted personal pos- session. :Thc two illustrations used by Jesus make this point perfectly clear. The lighted lamp is not intended to be hidden in the cellar, or crypt, under the house, nor vet to be covered over wibh a bushel, the household basket, used for measur- ing grain and vegetables. It i* ra- ther intended to give light, and thus bo serve all who enter *ne bouse. In like manner the eye serves not it- self alone, but the entire body, and upon ito health will depend cle-ar- nes* of vision and safety. Singl*. in this parable, mean* "sound" or "normal," as evil means "di-a.se." Whether the light ... be not darknessExamine thvself and see \ if the eye of thy soul is so diseased that it oannot receive the light. - [__, * Never before in Kng'.antl have KO many .women offered themwlxos HS candidates for town and tnetvopnli tan boruiigh councils. The Washington University Women's Coach. Miss Lucy Pocock, holder of the woman's single scull championship of England, ia now teaching the ->-omen students of the L'niversity of Washington at Seattle how to row the Eton stroke, and is making great progress. Miss Pocock is 24 years old, and was born at Ted- dington on the Thames, where she was taught 'to row by her bro- thers, Dick and George, both champion single scullers. MAN'S YEARS OF GROWTH. Orguna and Bones Grow Tntii He Is Forty Years Old. It is claimed by scientists who have made a study of the bubject that a man's organs and the bunofl that are not subjected to pressure- grow continuously until he is forty years old ; that is to Bay that the heart should grow stronger, the capacity of the lungs increase and the brain should develop steadily until the end of the fourth decade of life. A man ceases to grow tall, how- ever, at the beginning of the third decade, because after that time pressure exerted by the weight of tho body while in the erect position compresses the vertebrae of small bones in the spine, the disks of cartilage between them, the pelvis and the thigh-bones, and thin pressure overcomes the natural elasticity of the disks and the growth of the bones. A British scientist contends that were a man a quadruped, and therefore freed from the downward pressure produced by his weight upon the spinal column, he would continue to grow in height for ten years longer than he does at pres- ent, since it has been found that bones not subjected to compression increase up to the fourth decade. A SECOND GIBRALTAR. Heligoland Has Been Strongly I'or- tifled in Recent Years. Wonderful changes have been made by Germany in Heligoland during the past few years. From being merely a fishing village the place has been transformed into a veritable Gibraltar, with a home for all small warcraft, including dirigibles and waberplanes. The German Gibraltar protects the mouths of four rivers, including the Elbe and the Weser. A protect- ing sea wall has been built half round the island, and from the high Oberland, the biggent and best Krupp guns, on disappearing plat- forms, command all approaches from the sea. A tunnel pierces the island from west to north, through which am- munition and other material may be safely taken. Huge searchlights discover every distant vrssol at night, and there is a wireless sta- tion. To the south of the lower part of the island a new island has arisen from the water*. It. is half as big as Helogoland itself and has been built of material brought from Ger- many. This new island provides shelter for torpedo boats, destroy- ers, submarines and cruiser*. There are also magazines and sheds for airships of all sorts. Two years ago (lie garrison was 100 strong, now its men number 1,600. - *__ FAITHiTL PUSSY. Alinoat Every LHerary Man Tins UN Familiar < M*. Apart from rare exceptions, due to natural antipathy, the predilec- lion of writers for cats is general. Every real literary man Tin* his familiar cat rolled in a ball, pur- suing hi* flying pen with warv eye or following it with light and dis- oreot side pats. Th<? cat is not a traitor. In some cascH^iihe is oven more faithful than the dog. Affection for her friends s instinctive, and so also are her neatness, her coquetry and her her modesty. In all weathers and in all company she cleans her fur and her face. A traim-d cat pre- fers to make her toilet before a mirror. Man's love for his cat is free from snobbery. The Persian cat, the cat of China, or the tail- less Manx, may be the object of our admiration or our astonish- ment; the common cat of our own household is the object of our love. Camoens was too poor to buy a candle ; he had no light bub the luminous eyes of his cat on the iiixht when he wrote his chant of iho Luftiad. Idleness and agility dwell together under tho velvet pelt of the cat; and her savage atavism is linked with gracious and grate- ful civility. Her ways are strange and contradictory. She creeps through the night like a shadow, springs from the darkness as if elec- trified, and lies in the torrid heat like a worshipper of the sun. WOJIA* TO EXtfLO&E DESERT, Will Traverse Region No European Has Ever Entered. Countess Molitor, of Russia, has drawn hor plans for the crossing of Arabia from west to east, including the exploration of the Hub* el Khali Desert, a region of 600,099 square miles which no European has ever entered, and which is probably the moat mysterious and inaccessible* region, in the we rid.. Whether it contains, as some be- lieve, remain of buried cities, or whether the whole is nothing but arid sand, none can say, for it ia very doubtful whether even a na- tive has crossed more than the out- skirts of the desert. Countess Moli- tor has already done considerable travelling ulono iu Souih A eat Af- rica. -_j "I intend," she said, "to travel* alone, so far as Europeans are con- cerned, for I believe this to be tha safest course. I shall dress and live as an Arab. My plans have jeen discussed with the Geographi- cal Society, which admits the im- mense interest attached to the- des- ert, but makes no secret of the dan- jerous character of the journey. "From Daira I shall travel bo Teims, the point from which several unsuccessful attempts have been made to get into the heart of the country. This part of the journey will involve a couple of weeks' tra- vel over mountains. My next objec- tive will be Tamreh, three weeks' journey to the southward ovor diffi- cult mounbain country. "Tamreh is the last point in tha desert marked on the map, and the 1,200 miles of desert between that place and Muscat is absolutely un- known. One of the greatest perils will be the absence of water, but I am arranging to travel in the spring-, when my she-camels will have a plentiful supply of milk. Baa- ing my rate of progress by camel at thirty miles a day, I should, with luck, emerge at Muscat in May." CONTROL OF THE WEATHER. Sir Oliver Lodge Suggests New Use for Electricity. Sir Oliver Ledge, the distin- guished physicist and principal of Birmingham (Kngland), University, in an address before the Instdtut-e of Electrical Engineers recently, suggested the possibility of obtain- ing some measure of control over the weather. If clearing weather, h said, was due to electricity, it might be im- agined that man could acquire some control over the electrification of the atmosphere. If it was dftsired to produce rain, why not send up a kibe to reach the clouds ] He believed that if enough electricity were discharged into the cfouds the drops would behave there as they did in the laboratory thev would coalesce, and, once bhai had happened, bhe process might be repeated and cause a shower. When rain was wanted, the lec- turer said, negative electricity should be sent up, and if fine wea- ther was wanted, positive electri- city. EXPENSIVE TO RUN LONDON. Immense Sums Arc Required For Various Purposes. It cost* $130,000,000 a year to run Ixmdon, England. This cost is re vealed in a return which the Lon- don County Council has issued. The : County Council spends $55,000,000 ! a year, but as it gets grant* from j the Government for various pur- ! poses, such as education, it only uaks the ratepayers for $35,000.000. There are other authorities which have power to a-sk for money, and so chaotic is the system of local government that it is not even pos- sible to say to a million or so the exact amount which the people have to pay. All that can be said is that it is somewhere in the neighborhood of $130,000,000. Since the London County Council was crea-l/ed 23 years ago it has on capital raised no less 'than $2,250.- 000,000. Of this as much n<s $120,- 000,000 has been spent on street Improvements. Education has tak- en $90,000.000, and $60,000,000 has been spent on main drainage. Lon- don is an expermive place to man- age, and despite the economies practised during recnt ,v*rs ib is gtting very obvious that local gov- ernment will cost the people much more in future. Still, there i a population of 4ja millions to bear tlif burden. UNIQUE BRIDGE. One of the Most Interesting in the World in Indo-Ckina. What is claimed to be one of the most interesting railway structures in the world is the bridge over bhe Faux Namti gorge in Indo-C'hina, where, owing to the peculiar diffi- culties in the way of building a bridge of any type, ib was necesbary to adopt a special design suited bo the only tnebhod of erection that seemed possible. The aides of the gorge, according to a wriber in Popular Mechanics, are practically vertical and have no chance of the approach to tho bridge from either side except through tunnels. The track grade is 335 feet nbov% the river, so that no system of falsework could be used in build- ing the bridge, while cantilever* wore out of the question owing bo tho lack of "elbow room." Tho design, finally adopted consist- ed of two steel trusses, each hinged at the cliff side, which were erected in a vertical position and then lowered so that the ends met, forming a structure of inverted V-shape. Tho ends of the two trusses were firmly connected, steel bowers were erected on the humps of bhe trunse* and 011 this support bhe steel deck truss, carrying the track, was placed. At bhe beginning of the work it was necessary to let the workmen down by ropes from tha tunnel mouth to prepare the- foun- dations of the supporting trusses The track trusses were built in the tunnels and wore then moved into position on rollers. From end to end this bridge measures 220 feet 4 inches, while the distance between the heels of the supporting trussei is 180V.,' feet. ANOTHER SOUDAN SCHEME. To Build Dam on White and llhi Nile South of Khartoum. Work has been commenced on an- other great scheme to reclaim by irrigation vast tracts of desert in the Soudan. It is believed ib can be made to add enormoualy to the ootton output of the British Em- pire. The tract which is to be watered is known a bhe Gizra territory. M lies between the Blue and White Niles, below Khartoum, and con- sist* of 1.500.000 acres. The force and flow of the two rivers ia suf- ficient to water the eniire district when properly harnessed. The pro- posal is to build two dams scrtith of Khartoum, one over each of the rivers. Thus the, tract between the streams will bo irrigated, while at the same time the force of the wa- ter flowing into Egypt' will be con- trolled. At present the Blue \ile comes down in a raging flow, and the White Nile, flowing in steadier fa*hk>n, combines wuh it to mokfl a huge overflow. The building of the two dams will wable the flow to be properly regulated and will practically mean the final harness- ing of the Nil*. ___ jf, __ After several years of experi- ments French inventor* claim (hey have perfected n artificial wood with the strength of oak nad ol straw.