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About the best way to get rid of them is to have for each room infested a large tin pan smooth and shining and with high‘ sides. In the bottom of this pan put some bits of cake or pie, or smear the bottom with molasses. Set it where the roaches are most troublesome and lay a bit of lath from the table to the floor to the edge of the an. . P The roaches are fond of sweets and they will run up the lath to the pan, into which they tumble, and are then unable to climb up the smooth sides. When you rise in the morning cremato the catch, and keep it up till none are left. Be sure the sides of the pan are perpendicular and deep, for they can climb a short distance. Old lard cans are excellent for this purpose, and old tin buckets, but they must not be rusty, as the roaches can climb up and get away. Sev- eral women have cleared their houses of reaches in this way. It takes time and pat- ience,but when you are once rid of them you can keep rid by this method. The Right Sort of Oven. By using the following tests one may be reasonably sure of getting the proper heat for the various kinds of baking : For sponge cake and pound cake have heat that will, in five minutes, turn a piece of white paper yellow. For all other kinds of cut cake, use an oven that will in five minutes, turn a piece of white paper dark yellow. For bread and pastry, have an oven that will, in five minutes, turn a piece of white paper dark brown. When the ovon is too hot at first, a crust forms on the bread or cake, which prevents its rising. It is better uhezi baking bread and cake, to have the ovrn a little slow at first, and increase the heat gradually. When baking pufl‘ paste, the heat should be greatest first and decrease later. This is to keep the paste in shape. When the oven is too hot the temperature cold water. When baking in an oven that is too hot at the top, fill with cold water a dripping pan which is about an inch deep, and place it on the top grate of the oven. Should the oven be too hot on the bottom, put a grate under the article that is to be baked. Apple Recipes. Apple Almond Puddingâ€"Having blan- ched and pounded‘half a pound of sweet almonds, peel and grate eight or nine tart apples, mixing the apple with the almonds. teaspoonful of butter, with sweetening to suit. Havingy mingled these ingredients thoroughly. add four well-beaten eggs, and pour the mixture into a welLbuttered deep dish. Bake in a quick oven till quite brown, turn out on a platter and serve with lemon sauce. It is equally good eaten cold. Apple Tapioca Puddingâ€"Soak a cupfull of Tapioca in four eupfuls of water for three hours, add two large talilcspoonfuls of sugar. and keep in a warm place, at the back of the stove. Fill a two-q uart pud- ding dish three-fourths full of peeled and quartered apples, pour over them the warm tapioca, and bake in a inmieratc oven for an hour. Serve With liquid sauce or sweet- ened cream. Apple Custard Puddingâ€"Peel enough tart apples of a uniform size to cover the bottom ofa llat pudding dish. leaving the may be reduced by putting in it a pan .f/ suffer her prestige in the East to be in any Flavor with nutmeg, lemon rind, half a, custard mixture, and bake nu n. is set, DAN which will require about fifteen or eighteen minutes. Cover the top with the whites of MOST OF THEM ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE FARMER. the eggs beaten to a froth with three table- Ispoonfuls of powdered sugar, and brown in The Ghost Hawk Stays With us the the oven for three minutes. It- is served cold. , Apple Ilice Puddingâ€"Steam a cupful of Ye,“- Through and is n nu", Daring Bird. That Was slush Fund in Olden 'rlmcs. rice till it is soft. and with i:- line the hot- The hawk family in Canada, called in tom and sides of a well-buttered pudding scientific language the falconidae,inclndes a dish, reserving enough to cover the top. Fill the cavit with thinl 'sli‘ed tart a ice 3 3 L pp large number of species; leaving out, however, several that only visit the and spread over them a covering of rice. country occasionally, or just cross Steam until the insertion of a fork shows the apples to be tender, then set away to the southern border, there are fifteen that regularly reside in, or ' visit the cool. When cool remove the pudding eastern half of Canadaâ€"that is, from the from the dish by inverting, and serve with Atlantic to Lake Superior. The farmer sweetened cream. thin custard, fruit sauCe, or garnished thh bits of apple jelly, cream and the sports-.uan often consider that all hawks are injurious to their chickens or being poured over the whole. their game, and shoot them whenever they have a chance. The United States De- partment of Agriculture have collected and examined, for several years, an im- mense number of stomachs of the birds of prey, in order to determine the exact food of the different species. The Department issued, last year. a report on the subject, by Dr. A. K. Fisher, which states that many of the hawks feed so extensively on field mice, ground squirrels, grasshoppers, and other large insects, that they are on whole, a positive BENEFIT TO THE FARMER, and should be protected rather than de' stroyed. Even the eagles. though very injurious in sheep districts, are highly beneficial in those parts of the country Apple Boiled Pudding.~â€"Into two eggs, beaten light, stir a pint of milk, flour to make a moderately thick batter, a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, and lastly a pint of chopped tart apples. Boil in a pudding mold or covered tin psi], and serve with liquid sauce flavored with jelly, or with hard sauce. Dr. Dodds’ Apple Pudding.â€"-Beat the yolks of three eggs, whip into them two tablespoonfuls of sugar, add two teacups of sour cream (or may be part sour milk), three eupfuls of grated tart apples, one tablespoonful of fine corn meal, two eupfuls of sifted white flour, stirring all well to. gether. Then add the whites of the eggs, beat to astilf froth, one tablespoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, and again beat thoroughly. Pour into a shallow pan, well buttered, and bake in a very moderate oven for forty or fifty minutes, till well browned. A good plan is to set the pudding dish in a dripping pan, containing boiling water, while baking. â€".â€"--â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"~.,uâ€"â€" A MOVE IN THE EAST. Great Britain Placing llerself in Position to Protect Brltlsli Interests and Brit- ! lsli subjects in China. The seizure by Great Britain of the island of Chusan, which is within a few hours’ sail of Shanghai, has led to the report that she has determined not to wait for action on the part of the other Powers, but is placing herself in position effectually to protect British interests and British subjects in China when the proper time comes. Such fighting as has been done has been confined to the northern coast of China, and now the Japanese force is concentrated in the Gulf of Pechili, preparatory to a descent upon Pekin. Great Britain has not ventured £0 interfere with the operations of the belligerents in the gulf, but at Cliusan a force of SEVERAL THOUSAND INDIAN TROOPS TYPE OF RAI’TORIAL FOOT. where rabbits, prairie dogs, or gophers abound. The gyr-falcons and the duck hawk do indeed feed mainly on game, but they are northern birds, and rarely frequent the settled districts. The three hawks most injurious to the Canadian farmer are, probably, the sharp, shinned, which is very fond of young grouse and chickens; Cooper’s hawk, which makes a specialty of pigeons; and the gas hawk, the size of which enables it to carry 'off full-grown game and poultry, on which it almost exclusively feeds. THE GOSHAWK (accipiter atricapillus) is one of the largest and handsomest of its tribe. Many of them remain in Canada throughout the year. Adults vary in size from twenty to twenty- our inches in length. Above they are bluish slate color, turning to black on the head ; below is white thickly barred across with zigzaglines of grey, and a few dark streaks along the centre of the feathers. This combination of fine dark and gray lines produces a most beautifully delicate effect. ‘ Audubon gives the following graphic account of this bird’s flight. "The flight of the goshawk is extremely rapid and pro- tracted. He sweeps along the margins of the fields, through the woods, and by the e lges of ponds and rivers, with such speed as to enable him to seize his prey by merely deviating a few yards from his course, assisting himself on such occasions by his long tail, which like arudder, he throws to right or left, upwards or downwards to check his progress, or enables him sudden- ly to alter his course. At times he passes like a meteor through the underwood, where he secures squirrels and hares with ease. \Vhen travelling he flies high, With a con. will be massed, presumably to be in readi- ness to pounce upon Shanghai, one of the treaty ports which England can justly‘ defend from hostile occupation on the ground that her trade interests and her subjects there must be protected. The most significant feature of the situation, and one which shows that something ‘serious is afoot, is the mastering of this large Indian force on this island. Chusan is not only a valuable possession but from a. strategic point of view is con- sidered to be of great importance. Cer- tainly as a base of operations against Shanghai it is invaluable. It is significant that Admiral Fremantle has been ordered thitherand that several cruisers are al- ready tliere. The hasty occupation ofit attests the seriousness of the situation on the Chinese coast, so far as the Brit- ish interests are concerned. It is not probable that the English will throwany obstacles in the way of the complete victory of the Japanese or of their capture of Pekin,but that she will way weakened is also improbable. The hostilities between China and Japan have not reached the magnitude of a great war, and so far CHINA HAS SUFFERED Bl T LITTLE in loss of men. Her fleet has been crippled and the drain upon her treasury has been constant, but if the strife ceased now China would be little the worse for the encoun- her. But the opportunity offers for partition of the country, and the pressing question is, will not the European powers avail themselves of it 2 What the Russians may be doing on the Chinese frontier may be known to the English, but has not been made public. The Russians practically control the railway which traverses Asia from the Caspian to Pekin, and their inter- ests are closely knit with the Chinese. But whatever Russia may do, England is evidently getting- ready to protect Shango hill, and the consequences of such an act cannot be foreseen. â€"â€".â€"-â€"-â€"- Consulting The Fates. There are few nations, and few individ- uals even, that would now look to the events of chance for any knowledge of the future. A late iiistance of what used to be a common form of divination was re- ported in one of the Lindon newspapers at the time when there was war between England and Ashantcc. The King of Ashaiitee consulted his fetish men in order to find out from them what his future fate was to be and the result COSHA‘VK. stant beat of the wings, seldom moving in large circles like other hawks, and when he does this, it is only a few times in a hurried manner, after which he continues his journey.” Like Cooper’s hawk, it is VERY BRAVE AND DAEIXG, and one writer gives the following instance of its boldness. “ A farmer who resides a few miles from my office, wishing to per- petuate the old New England custom of having a chicken-pie for Thanksgiving dinner, caught some fowls, took them to a log, severed the neck of one, and threw it down beside him. In an instant a goshawk seized the struggling fowl, and flying off some ten rode, alighted and commenced devouring his prey. The boldness of the attack so astonished the farmer that he looked on with blank amazement. Recover- ing his surprise, he hastened into the house. and brought out his gun, which secured him both hawk and fowl." The goshawk .WWVnâ€" v-v l British and Foreign; VERY MUCH ALIKE. WM The Governments. Religious. and the. Ac‘ tnal Conditions of Inssla and (‘hlna~ The Salvation Army is being bovcoued are Strlkln: and Substantial. ‘ in Finland. So strictly is this being carried The western world is accustomed to think m“ ‘h‘td‘ny Flam” 0‘ the arm.“ “‘ Pm“) . . r v . ' » ~ . of Rama ‘3‘ country f“ m “knee of o anya tertisement bearing on rm mine .01]. _ n h d p ‘ _ _ ment, is sufficient to cause an enlirc issue ina ina _t at stan s for civilization ; and of a, newspaper to be uncalled. - while this is true in a measure, correspond- The 100th anniversary of the diazli of encea between the governments of the two' Edward Gibbon, tl‘e historian, Occurs next the religions of the two and the actual con- month, and the event will be observed by - exceeds that of Russia 1 . a still of his opposition to the English. He there- fore, after having resorted to various means, without success, ordered two he- goats to be selected and brought before apples whole. but. removing the cores. Stew these in a very little water, and just before they become tender sprinkle over lhzm two or three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Take mm‘om’ gum-e” mad" the "the! "f a . b k. spotted white color. them {mm "W “M'D‘” “mom "a "’3‘ This was done, and after due fetish and arrange them in the pudding dish. ceremonies had been performed over the Heat a pint of milk.aiid add very gradually "3’0 goats. they were set at each other. aspooniula: a lilllt‘ to pnsvcnt curdliuy, T51? Will” 80M “Elly overcame and the yolks of three eggs. With each yolk a kllgttl hl-i ‘Oppouvut- b fulllablespoonful of sugar should have been kofl'ec (sicalli, after‘ this test, was beaten . p,” the can. 3penur(s of um satisfied that he was doomed to defeat at and Hallo!!- was much prized in olden days, when hawk- ing was an almost universal sport. Though not belonging to the true falcons, which were ‘ noble hawks,’ it was still a favorite bird with which to take hares and rabbits. In the noble ha wks the second wing feather is the largest. and they have dark hazel eyes ; while the ignoblc ones, such as the goshawk, have the fourth feather longest, and their eyes are yellow or orange. In England different birds are allotted to diderent persons. according to their rank Thus royalty might. use a “ppm; with jam, jellv, marmalade or pre. lltu hands of the white man. immed- gyrfalcon ; an earl 3 perczrine S I Y€°man “n.3, of Mn; kind, or with stoned and chop. lately sent an embassy to Sir Garnet o Kuhn“! 3 3 Pm?“ 1* sparrow bulk 3 and pea raisins or dates. Pour over them the “331510?” 533 for Pf”we a knave or servant a kestrel. l dition of the two are striking and substan- tial. \Vhen the predecessor of the present Emperor of China died the heir announced his accession to the throne in terms curious- ly like those of the proclamation just sent out by Nicholas II. of Russia. The Chinese heir declared that “ prostrate upon the earth we bewailed our grief to heaven, vainly stretching out our hands in lameno i l ' tation. The welfare of the peo- ple and the good of the state were ever present in his inmost thoughts. Not in words can we give expression to the sadness which pierces our hearts and shows itself in tears of blood.” “ Our grief," says Nicholas, “is not to be expressd by words ;” “in the welfare of Russia" the late Alexander “centered all his thoughts." Like an Emperor of China who declared it was owing to “ the exalted love of Our Late Imperial Father. Our Canopy and Support that the Divine Vessel (the throne) was bestowed upon our keeping, we looked on high for guidance to the ancestral precepts for aid in devotion to our government and love toward our people making the fear of heaven and the example of our forefathers the mainspring of every act." Nicholas of Russia says : “ In this sad and solemn hour in which we ascend our ancestral throne of the Russian Empire we, to remember the legacy left to 3 us by our lamented father in the presence that seems dark and an,“ of the most high make a sacred vow to '1‘ make our sole aim the peaceful develop- ment of the power and the glory of our beloved Russia, and the happiness of all our faithful subjects.” ~ In more respects than proclamations and assumption of direct divine interposition in regard to the youth mounting the ancestral throne, China and Russia present strange likenesses. Neither knows the number of millions of its “faithful subjects.” \Vhile Russia compreliends probably twice the area of China, the population of China ' greater ratio. The governmental structure of the tWo despotisms is practically the same. The individual citizen is supposed by the theory of each to have in the emperor a father; and the masses of the two nations are equally superstitious as to this imaginary father- hood. Infant. the individual in neither nation has any relation to the government except as its Victim. ' As in China, government in Russia reaches the subject only through many in- termediaries, all tax collectors; and the peace of the individual in each depends upon the submission with which he consents to be robbed-by the government official nearest him. Dread of torture, fear of death, prospect of extle, make the helpless masses docile; while in Russia the com- munal land system chains the peasant to the soil. out of which alone he can get subsistence, and assures the hereditary government a Chinese wall against attempt- ed revolution whose nests are in cities and whose leaders are doctrinariES and dreamers. With the approach of a new century it is possible that the old east, to “lllCll both Russia and China belong, will wake to new consciousness. It is possible that Nicholas will grant a constitution to the people of Russia. It is' possible that Tsait’ien will come out of the Forbidden city. cease to be “the Solitary Man,” go down among his people and discover that there isa world of More likely, neither goverment will make a step forward; but neither can hold its people back. Russia is moving all the time. The constitution that a despot will not vo- luntarily grant another generation will rest. and base careers of his ancestors, and.from a short life of vice pass away before China opens her almond eyes to the west in pup- ilage. But a later China will come into the family of nations as her little sister Japan has done already; and before the next cen- tury shall be far on its way the line divid- ing the ancient world and the modern will have grown less material and will be more difficult to find. Cruel and Cowardly Shooting. A despatch from Niagara Falls says :â€" A shout, some screams, and the bridge officers on the Upper Suspension bridge on Saturday afternoon saw two boys writhing in pain near the centre of the bridge. was holding a smoking gun. The man had evidently shot the boys. \Vheu the officers reached the lads they found them suflering from buckshot wounds in the hands. sides and head. They were hurriedly taken homein acarriage and theirinjuries dressed. They proved to be John and Albert Robin- son, aged 14 and 9 years, who reside on the American side and were coming over to the Canadian side to visit their grandparents, when they were so cowardly and criminally shot at. The police of both sides of the river immediately sent up a patrol, and as it was dusk the men who had been shooting ducks in the gorge landed and climbed the bank. They were nabbed by the American police. Their names ware Ernest Fraunlie and James Watson, two young men. The excuse they gave for, shooting at the boys was that one of. them threw a stick off thebridge at them. Watson, who did the shooting, is held on the charge of assault in the first degree. Health Not Risked. Mrs. Suburbâ€"N I never noticed until we moved into this house that the pump is out-doors." Agentâ€""That’s so the water will be nice and cool in summer. ma'ani.” “ llutI don’t want to be running out- donrs dozens of times a day in winter.” "No need to, ina'ani. The pump al. ways freezes up in cold weather.” The Emperor of China may follow the brief! Be- low, in a‘ boat, were two men, one of whom] l trade to which hitherto he had no knoweledge.J the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. At the same time there will be an exhibition of manuscripts, portraits, and relics of the historian. Chateau Neuf du Pape, the. famous vine- yard of the Popes during their exile at Avtgnon, which Ms devastated by the phylloxera, so that hardly a bottle of the wine could be had in France, has been entirely redeemed and is now in full hear- ing again. The wine is celebrated by Mis- tral, the provencal poet. and by Alphonso Daudet in his tales of Provence. \V’averly parish, in Surrey, objects to being swallowed up by the parish of Fara- hani,which surrounds it almost. completely. It has only eleven householders and fifty. one inhabitants, but Walter Scott took the name of his first novel from it ; it still has in Waverley Abbey the ruins of a Cister- cian monast-ry, and it claims to have been sari. independent parish from time imniemor- is At the Paris Mont de Piste, the official pawnbroking establishment, a wedding 'ring pawned in 1857 has just been redeem- ed. Only seventeen francs was lent upon it originally, but the ticket was renewed thirty six times, and the owner paid fifty francs in interest. Tickets are still re- newed every year for a pair of cotton cur- tains pledged for four francs twenty-two years ago, and for an umbrella pawned in 1849. . ‘ Mrs. Humphrey Ward lives in Russell quare. London, in an old-fashioned house y to the visitor. he rooms are of great size, the furniture [massive and mirrors, curtains, cornioes, and all the furnishings have a gloomy hos- pitality that is oppressive. But the hos- pitality dispensed there is gracious, and :the house is an attractive place of resort { for literary people. The number of deaths caused by wild animals is increasing greatly in India,snake bites heading the list last year with 131,000 victims. Of 2,800 persons who were killed by animals, tigers killed nearly a thousand: leopards, 291 ; wolves. l75: bears, 121 ;and elephants 68. Ninety thousand head of cattle were destroyed, an increase of 9,000 Over the year before. 011 the other hand, 15,000 wild beasts were killed, including nearly 1,300 tigers and over 4,000 leopards, besides almost 120,000 deadly snakes. The English gravediggers are the latest claim an eight-hour day. They complain that the hours of work at \Villes- den are no less than thirteen. We do not know how long it takes to dig a grave, but thirteen hours a day seems to point to an alarming mortality. In this case at all events the public will desire to see the hours of labor shortened as much as pos- sibleâ€"prefeiably by the diminution in the demand for graves rather than by the in- crease in the supply of gravediggers. The ships ofthe first division of the Eng- lish naval reserve are supposed to be ready to go to sea within forty-eight hours after receiving orders. The Gibraltar, which was ordered to China thies weeks ago, is not yet ready, and may not start for three weeks more; and other vessels of the divi- sion are no better off. Prince Louis of But- tenberg was to have joined the Mediterran- ean squadron with the Astrira. but the re- pairs she needed took so long a time that he was ordered totake the Cambrian instead. The unprepared condition of the ships it exciting much comment in England. Two weeks before the sickness of the Czar of Russia took a turn for the worse, Miss Strutton, his former governess, died in the \Vinter Palace at St. Pctersburg. Miss Strutton, who was an Englishwoman, loved Alexander Romaiioff as dearly as though he had been her son. The Emperor and his two brothers attended the funeral, following the hearse on foot from the palace to the English cemetery, almost two miles apart. His Majesty and the two grand- dukes had carried the coffin from thedeath- room to the hearse. When the body was, lowered into the grave, the Czar, it'is said, wept like achild . Battle on Stilts. In I748, when Marshal Saxe was travel- ling through the Low Countries. he came- to the town of Namur. in Belgium. Among other things which the citizens did in his honor, they got up a battle on stilts. The town was subject to overflows from the rivers on each side of it, and the people. from much use of stilts at such times, had become very expertwith them, and often had stilt-battles on holidays. The young men formed themselves into opposing armies. with flags and trumpets to make the scene gay. It was against the rule to use a club or weapon of any sort, or to strike with the fists. Punching with their elbows andkick- with their stilts, to knock theiropponcnts legs from under them, were the methods of assault employed in these stilt-battles. It was rough sport, for the combatants fought asif their lives and fortunes depend- ed on the result ; and . although no one was ever seriously injured, there were many bruised arms and legs before a battle was decided. The wives and sisters of the combatants cheered them on, and hastened to the assistance Of those who fell, helping them up again as soon as they had recovered. .‘llarsnai Saxe declared on the occasion of the. battle arranged in his honor that if two real armies should fight with as much fury as was displayed by these young fellows on stilts, the battle would deserve no better name than that of hatchery. W Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.â€"â€" Tennyson.