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Sear Admiral Saanaaa'B official report of the action off Santiago, etc. We manu­ facture this letk ma-aelves, ana add to the coet of material and workmanship only one small profit, which enables ua to offer it at this remarkably low price. It contains 43large, foll-fage colored ills-- 160 nagea of text. 13% x 18 inches, full gilt edge, printed on extra heavy, expressly for this publication, and bound in morocco and alligator at $10.00, or evidence of 160 pages of text, 13^x18 niches, full gilt edge, printed on extra heavy, •ly »r t! "lis pi: )lue color, xli lect to exami represented a forded by any publishing house. Write m» for <mr catalogue THE WERNER COMPANY, iUcron, 0. paper, made expressly »r ttiis pi grain keratolof a rich, deep brown and blue color, tl * ^as, C.0.9.,1 " _ . ts resresen an opportunity that will not again be afforded by .his magnificent book seat ftvjMid anoa receipt C. 0. D., n'bject to examination, upon receipt of ai.00 with the order as ted above, do not take it. Order at once a&this h 1 fidth. If it la not as bat will not again be «f bookfi, free. Address all orden to [The Werner Company is thoroughly reU»bie,}-- fobUaken csd Mnofar tKrars* BREAKFAST FOODS. Cereals and fruits should form the base of breakfast foods. They will sap- port muscular action, preserve the heat of the body, and strengthen the brain in its nervous activity. Whole or steel- cut oats, and whole wheat, contain the essential elements for the perfect nour­ ishment of the human body. The great objection to cereal foods is their diffi­ culty of digestion, not from any fault of the foods, but first from lack of time in cooking, and second, from lack of proper mastication. Raw starches are indiges­ tible. Of the breakfast cereals steel-cut oats head the list. Any of the wheat- germ preparations are good. After these come the rolled wheat and barely and rice preparations. Rice is the moat easily digested of all vegetable sab- stances, only requiring one hour for per­ fect digestion. While rice is easily di­ gested, and is good for young children, it must be served with milk to give it the proper amount of nitrogen to make it a perfect food, either for children or adults. All these foods must be thor­ oughly cooked aijid eaten without sugar, and with milk rather than with creanS, as is our habit. Where hard coal is used for cooking purposes, oatmeal may be put over the fire at six o'clock in the evening, brought to the boiling point and kept at this temperature oyer night, so that it may be ready to serve in the morning. Where soft coal, wood or gas is used for cooking purposes, it will be necessary to put the oatmeal over the fire at noon, when the luncheon or dinner is being prepared. Pntjour heaping tablespoons of the steel-cttt oats into one quart of cold water; add half a teaspoon of salt, and put it over the fire in a double boil­ er: cover and cook continuously for one or two hours. Then it may be put aside until the night meal is being prepared and cooked again as long as the fire is burning, and then put aside to be re­ heated at breakfast time. The kettle should be covered closely, and the oat­ meal must not be stirred from the be­ ginning to the end of the cooking, oth­ erwise the grains will be broken. Stir­ ring oatmeal seems to destroy its flavor. To prepare cracked wheat put one cup of the wheat into one quart of cold water, add half teaspoon of salt, and cook precisely the same as oatmeal. This may be served with cream. Cornmeal, being rich in fatty matter, is usually served with milk. Grits in the process of manufacture having part­ ed with a portion of its nitrogenous prin­ ciple, milk makes it a more perfect food. For this reason hominy grits are served with milk, and cooked in milk as well. Put half a pint of fine grits into one quart of milk. Soak over night; next morning cook in a double boiler without stirring until the grits have entirely ab­ sorbed the milk, and become perfectly soft and tender; this will require at least one hour. Hominy, containing a little more starch than oatmeal, or wheaten grits, is not palatable when cooked the day before. For cooking wheatlet and rice, put one quart of water into a saucepan; add half a teaspoon of salt, and when it boils rapidly sprinkle in half a cup of wheat- let, stirring all the while. Stir con­ stantly, and boil rapidly for five min­ utes; then push it to the back part of the stove where it will remain at boil­ ing point for at least twenty minutes, it is then ready to serv^ Where rice is served ai a vegetable it should of course, be boiled in water so that each grain will stand out separate from the other, white and dry. Where it is used as a breakfast cereal, especially for children, it is much more nutritious when cooked in milk. Half a pound of rice will absorb one quart of milk with­ out being pasty or heavy. Put the milk in a double boiler; wq*h the rice and add it to the cold milk; heat quickly and cook for three-quarters of an hour. Many of the cornbreads may take the place of cereals. Being baked, they must be masticated, which ensures better di­ gestion. Mush bread will take the place both pf bread and a cereal, and is, per­ haps, the most attractive of the simple breakfast foods. Put a pint of milk in a double boiler. When hot stir in two- thirds of a cup of white cornmeal; cook for five minutes, take from the fire: add a teaspoon of butter, half a teaspoon of salt and the yolks of four eggs. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, stir them in carefully, turn the mixture into a bak­ ing dish and bake in a moderately quick oven for thirty minutes. This double cooking makes the bread digest more easily than it otherwise would.. Hot breads, such as griddle cakes and quickly baked muffins, are more difficult of digestion than even the underdone ce­ reals. They are baked quickly on one side and turned, perhaps only three min­ utes given to the entire cooking: even the finest starch particles, made into a batter of dough, to be digested at all shoild be cooked fifteen minntes. 4 Fruits are more appetizing and per­ haps more easily digested, if taken in the. early part of the day wtfethfer or not before the breakfast must be determined by the eater, grapes, oranges and shad- d& k« may be served before the cereal. B iked apples, peaches, baked bananas, figs, dates, prunes or stewed fruits should be served at the close of the breakfast Acid fruits most at all times be used moat sparingly, especially by - i f % , persons inclined to rheumatic troubles. The continued use of an orange or shad­ dock before breakfast will diminish • the power of stomach digestion, for which reason they should be served with ce­ reals, or such foods as require only In­ testinal digestion. The sub-acid fruits, such as apples, figs, dates, peaches, persimmons, pears, prunes and apricots, are perhaps the best of the winter fruits,1 and may be used to good advantage with animal foods. Fruits differ from cereals in that the heat-giving portion is already con­ verted into glucose - a form of sugar perfectly prepared by nature--so that when the fruits enter the stomach the nourishment is at once dissolved and passes quickly into circulation. Raisins, sultanas, <lried figs and prunes should be soaked thoroughly so that they may take up the same amount of water with which they have parted in the process of drying, and should then be heated just enough to soften their skins.-- •Catholic News.' '• ' T?*e Skill of a One day a* naturalist lay mot%nte3S m n fallen log Id the forest and silent­ ly watched an .animal at play In the grass near by. This was a large, brown backed mouse, a meadow moiise, that had come but from hla home under the log' and when tired of play had sat up to make his toilet. Using his forepaws as hands, the mouse combed the white fur on his breast and licked himself smooth and sleek. Satisfied at length with his ap­ pearance he began to search for food. He did not have far to go, for a few stalks of wheat grew among the thick weeds near at hand. The mouse waa so large that he could probably have bent the stalk down and brought the grain within reach. If not, he could certainly have climbed the stalk. did not try either of these plans, how:- ever, for these were not his ways. Sitting up very straight, he bit through the stalk as high up as he could reach. The weeds were so thick that the straw could not fall its full length, and the freshly cut end settled down upon the ground, with the straw still erect and the grain out of reach. The mouse again bit the straw in two, and again the upper portion settled down. In this way he bit off five lengths of straw before he could bring the grain within reach of his paws. These fore- paws were Tery skillful little hands, and he deftly husked a grain and ate It, sitting erect and holding it to his mouth as naturally as a boy would hold an apple.--Our Animal Friends. Danger of Being; Too Ohllging. The other evening, while attending a lecture, Howard Tonikins observed, sit­ ting three seats In front, a man whom he recognized as an Intimate acquaint­ ance. Tonikins requested the person who occupied the seat next to him to lean forward and poke the other indi­ vidual with his stick. The polite stran­ ger at once obligingly did so. When the disturbed person turned his head a little to find out the cause of »e poke, Tomkins discovered his mis- ke--that be was not the person he had taken him for. Fixing bis attention steadfastly on the lecturer and* Affecting complete un- cohsciousness of the whole affair, Tom- kins left tbe obliging man witb the stick to settle with the other for dis­ turbance. There was, as may be readi­ ly imagined, a ludicrous and embar­ rassing scene, during the whole of which Tomkins e.videneed. the pro- foundest possible interest in the lec­ ture. f At last the man with the stick asked In aggrieved and Indignant tones: "Didn't you tell me, sir, to poke that man with my stick?" "I certainly did," replied tha ana- bashed Tomkins. "I wanted to see If youvwould poke him or not." was the audacious an­ swer.--Pearson's Weekly. <)net«on* aai Answers, A school inspector well known for his weight was trying to extract the word "flesh" from a class.. His efforts had failed, but, taking hold of his .fat cheek between his thumb and forefin­ ger, be pulled it out and asked: "What's this?" .The unhesitating v answer Clune promptly, "Pork, sir."; The same Inspector was once giving an object lesson on an umbrella. To il­ lustrate his subject he took his o#n silk umbrella, which happened to have a small hole in it. ••What Is this, boys?" "An umbrella, sir." JLty "And what is this?! "The stick, sir."- • "And these?" % WK.S- "The ribs, sir." "With what Is It covered!*! . Silence. -w*;\ "Surely you know. What|klnd of an umbrella would you call It?" "An old 'ua. sir."--Good Wordi. ^ Kxcanion Rates to the Mardi Grli and Winter Resort*, Via the North-Western Line...On ac­ count of the Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile, excursion tickets will be sold February 19 to 25, inclusive, at very low rates, limited -fqr return pas­ sage until March 15. Excursion tickets are also on sale daily, at reduced rates, to the principal winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. For full in­ formation apply to ticket agents Chi­ cago & North-Western R 'y. ^ Made. Young Again. * "One of Dr. King's New Life Pills each night for two weeks has put me in my 'teens' again" writes D. H. Turner of Dempseytown, Pa. They're the best in the world for Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Purely vegetable. Never gripe. Only 25c ai Jttlia .̂ Story's drugstore. Here is a Rare Opportunity foi 1 ? • •fl-:-:.-' ... >JL] I We have always advocated the'best way to buy your Clothing, to have the garment laid before yoii, and still stick to that opinion. We still have ^ ^ fair assortment of Overcoats, and a goodly . . number of winter weight Suits oh our V counters, that will be sold Regardless , ,4 of Cost for the next thirty days, in t * V, 1 \i "«< order to make room for our large ';**•< ;; ^ • Viitk spring'stock we are .now coi^ !,-;.|ractmg for with'the manufactnrexs, ' .C For the economical Grocery Buyer we have made «p the following list to be sold jjp j 1 $5.00 lots only. 'Ml 80 lbs best white Grannlated Sugar... .|1.00] 90 lbs good Rice.i........ 1.00 4 lbs good bulk Coffee 1>00 n lbs Uncolored Japan . *.v..**... 1.00 8 0 b a r s g o o d S o a p . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0 Bloqsom Brand" Mince ; 9 Yours for business, JOHN J. MILLER, - West McHetiry* 111. ISF, • w -*U 4 f t v". • - 'V ..rv» rou and your neighbor know that we ways have on hand a complete fresh stock A , staple groceries. We have reason to beli< <*11^ our iine 0f fancy groceries and delicacii *'V; .. y |s superior to any stock trial will convince you. GILBERT BROS, ilcHeni ifW ;W: v^' v jt'v. Fruits in Season* DUSICAL INSTRUHENTS V h *' Watch Repairing^: *'• - V'i 'V s&ijr: •im mm Instrumental and Vocal. !7'ZV. .. FN S3FF,S 'V#vj "I ""tvS N. A. HUEMAMN West McHenpr, Ulinolk , ; WE SELL THEM! ft * »«# M-l- ». ; ' ** * I*?: 1 ||! Pure Drugs and Medicines finest Perfumes Toilet Articles $»,«/**&• ^ Paints and Oii^ s Notions galore J® School mm *•« •M mm GEO. W. BESLEY West McHenry, every day rear Every Thursday EST RATES ST TIME ON THI FINEST SCENERY Only route by which you can leave home any day in tht week and travel in tourist cars on fast trains all the way. For descriptive pamphlets and full in- .jr formation inquire of nearest agent.