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When the sponge is ready sprinkle on it tlireeâ€"miarters of an ounce of salt, work it in and knead the dough down nice and fine, adding what flour may be needed to form a med- ium slack dough. Let it prove up again, then scale off in five-cent pie- ces, mold them and roll about seven inches long. Set them on baking pans that have sides to them, brush with a little hot butter or lard between the sides and ends. Wash with milk, prove and bake to a nice color. ' Cabbage and Baconâ€"Chop cabbage coarser in the chopping tray and set away in cold water. Slice the bacon in even slices. Put the chopâ€" ped cabbage in a kettle of boiling hot. bubbling water, which has a pinch of salt and one of soda. Boil without a cover, and it won't scent up the house. Now put the slices of bacon in a tin pie plate and set on the upper grate of the oven. In a little while turn Over each slice. Don’t let them burn. When the cabâ€" bage is all cooked, just before servâ€" ing drain onto a deep plate. Now pour over the cabbage the fat of the bacon. Ari-an go around the platter. Oatmeal Biscuitsâ€"Weigh out the following ingredients and put in a convenient place on the table, one and onerhalf pounds flour, two pounds granulated wheat meal, three pounds fine oatmeal, one pound suâ€" gar, one pound butter and lard, two ounces cream of tartar, one ounce carbonate soda, one-half ounce salt and the required quantity of milk. Rub the soda and cream through a fine sieve upon the meal, and mix well with the hands. Rub the lard and sugar into the meal. oatmeal nd flour. Make a, bay, pour in the milk, form into a pliable dough and let it remain for a short time. Roll 21‘, part of the dough. out to oneâ€"quarâ€" ter inch thickness and cut out with a three-inch square crinkled cutter. Plate on wire or tins. Wash over with milk and bake in a warm oven. Mother’s Meat Pieâ€"Almost every man will like this. It is much betâ€" ter when eaten quite cold (’not'froz- en), yet some prefer them hot. Line a picpiate with ordinary pie crust, then take fresh sausage, a little less than enough to fill your pic and add enough bread crumbs to finish the amount. Chop a small onion very fine, mix all together thoroughly, fill your pic, and cover with top crust. Bake in a slowoven. If the mixture seems dry, add water. If you Wish to bake them quickly, fry your sau- sage and onion until nearly done, then add to pie after adding crumbs, and bake. three-quart 'NICE WAYS WITH EGGS. Stuffed Eggsâ€"Cook. eggs in boiling Water for half an hour, then lay in cold water. When perfectly? cold, carefully break off the shell, and out each egg in two a little nearer one end than the other. Remove the yolks and turn the smaller pieces of the White over for the base of the cup, removing a tiny portion from the small end of it, so that the large portion of the white will sit. in it firmly. This will make a. very neat little egg cup. Mash the yolks fine, mix with a little chopped meat or chicken, season to taste, moisten with melted butter, form into little balls, and place one in each cup. Serve on small rounds of buttered toast. These are pretty to look at, good to eat, and a novelty in many households. Eggs with Cheeseâ€"Slice very hardâ€" boiled eggs, and heat them in a nicely seasoned cream sauce. Just before serving add i,» cup grated cheese for each cup cream sauce, pour over buttered toast, and serve hot. Devilled Eggsâ€"Shave 1} 11) nice nice cheese very fine. Butter a shalâ€" low baking dish, spread the cheese in the bottom with little bits of butter, and sprinkle with salt and paprika. Break 6 eggs, one at a time, over the cheese, being careful not to break the yolks. Into 1‘; cup cream stir 1 teaspoon mixed mustard, and pour over the eggs. Set in the oven until the whites are firm. Serye hot. Egg Cocktailsâ€"For each person to be served allow teaspoon vinegar, 6 drops of tabasco sauce, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, =1; teaspoon horseradish, % teaspoon tomato sauce. Mix all Well together, add 1 beaten egg, and serve in a tall glass. This cocktail has become very popular as an appeâ€" tizer. WINDOWS FOR PLANTS. Eben E. Rexford writes that the best exposure for house plants is a southern one, the next best in east- :rn one A south window is just the in the the crisp slices ' one in which to lantanas, heliotropes and all plants fond of much sunshine, while the eastern one is better for begonias, for the sun in the early part of the come more intehse.‘ A west window gives too much heat unless shaded considerably, but it is better than no window at all, and if you have no other to give your plants, don’t go without them. A curtain of thin muslin will temper the heat greatly, and' vines can be trained over the glass in such a way as to»break the fierceness of the sun’s rays. A north window is not suited to the needs of grown solely for foliage can be kept there. and lycopodiums will do quite as well there as in a. window exposed to the sun. English ivy can be trained about it. Tradescentia in baskets can be hung up in it and thus it can be made beautiful without flowers if you have a love for "green things growing." One often sees weak, scraggly plants in the sittingâ€"room windows. ly to be healthy. Two things comâ€" bine to bring this about; lack of fresh air and too much heat. if you want fine plants, you must give them plenty of air. They breathe as'you do, and without fresh air they pine and become diseased, the same as you would under simiâ€" lar conditions. Always have your windows arranged in such a manâ€" ner that it Can be lowered at the top, thus letting a stream of pure air low in over the plants. Open- ing doors from the hall, or some ad- joining room into which air can be admitted from Without will let in a supply which your plants will fully appreciate. Never let a stream of cold air blow directly on them. how- ever. Aim to have the cold air mix with the warm air of the room be- fore it reaches them. CARE OF THE FACE. Never, under any circumstances, use hard water for washing the face. Distilled water is best, and next to this comes pure, clean rain water. If neither of these can be obtained tne hard water must be softened by artificial means. The face should not be washed more often than twice a. dayâ€"in the morning, and just before retiring. Soap should be used at least once a day, but in cases where the skin is hypersensitive the use of soap, even of the mildest kind, causâ€" es irritation; it may be cleansed by gently rubbing in a coldcream, and washing afterward with oatmeal water, made by pouring a pint of boiling water over a dessertspooniul of fine oatmeal tied in a piece of muslin. Allow the water to become lukc warm before using, occasionally squeezing the muslin bag during the cooling process. Rough towels, vigorous rubbing of the face, and, indeed, all rough fric- tion should be avoided. A little good toilet cream should be. applied after d‘rying.~ Take a very little on thetips of the fingers and rub gently until the skin has absorbed the cream then wipe the face with a soft hand- kerchief or towel and finally dust rice powder lightly over the face. It is quite a mistake to imagine, that powder is injurious to the skin. The dust which accumulates on the face when travelling, or even when a, day is spent in crowded stores, is far more injurious to the delicate skin than a good face powder. 1f, how~ ever, there is any objection to the powder a clean piece of Chamois should be carried in one’s purse to rub lightly over the face when it is required. ____+____ A DREADFUL WARNING. A timely solemn warning to those who get their reading by borrowing papers for which other people pay the subscription. “A man who was too economical to ’take this paper, sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a $4: stand of bees, and in ten minutes looked like a warty summer squash. I-Iis cries reached his father, who ran to his assistance, and failing to notice a barbed wire fence, ran into that, breaking it down, cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy, and ruin- ing it 2:91 pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and got into the corn field and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, the wife ran. upsetting a four gallon churn full of. rich cream into a basket of kittens, drowning the whole flock. In the hurry she dropped a $7' set of false teeth. The baby, left alone, crowled through the spilled milk and into the parlor, ruining a brand-new $20 carpet. During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man ; and the calves got out and chewed the tails off four fine shirts. ...â€"â€"-â€"- ~+v ....... .â€" GOLF A CAPITAL OFFENCE. Golf-players, who practise in Scotâ€" land, may not know that they are liable to a sentence of death for their indulgence. Technically, that is literally the fact. In ancient times, when Scotland always had work for her soldiers to do, all the young men were compelled to perfect them- selves in archery. They preferred to play golf, and so serious a rival did the game become that it was for a time suppressed and made a capital offence. That curious law has never yet been repealed, and may still be found in the Statute Book. grow geraniums, ‘ fuchias, and such plants as care more _ day than they do after its rays be- flowering plants, but some which are Ferns, palms, aspidistra". fieus They seem to have grown too rapid- "nuns Bum BY'GULD ENORMOUS REWARDS OFFER- ED FOR CRIMINALS. $80,000 for. the Apprehension of the Phoenix Park Murderers. On the evening of May 6th, 1882, was consummated the biggest politiâ€" cal crime of last century, the assassâ€" ination, in the Phoenix Park, Dub- lin, of Lord Frederick Cavendish, and Mr. Burke, the New Chief Secre- tary and the permanent Under~sccreâ€" tary for Ireland. . Within forty~eight hours the city was placarded with proclamations, offering in the aggregate a reward of $80,000 for the apprehension of the unknown murderers. $50,000 of this was Government money. The rest was guaranteed by the municipality of Dublin, and by private individuals. It was the biggest sum that has ever been offered for the detection of any single offence, and the tempta- tion was great to those "in the know." Small Wonder. therefore, that ere nightfall, Mr Mallon, chief of the Dublin Detective Department, who was conducting the investiga- tion, knew practically all there was to know concerning the plot and the plotters. Only, of course, he dare not act. As yet there was no evidence to jusâ€" tify arrests. But the immediate summoning of the four thousand and odd car drivers of Dublin. to account for their time on the afternoon and evening of the fatal Saturdoy, must have struck terror into the hearts of the conspirators. It showed them, that, e: on at this early date, the po- lice knew by What means the murâ€" derers escaped from the park. Some of the latter took alarm, and Carey, who afterwards turned inâ€" former, Ilan Curley, MeCaffrcy, James Mullet, the chairman of the Invincibles, and other prominent members of the order. essayed to quit Dublin, with the object of es- caping abroad. For answer they were seized and lodged in Kilmainâ€" ham gaol, Where their brains were picked and sifted. In a sense it was an illegal proceeding; but Justice was playing for high stakes; and, moreover, Justice know. A HALTER OF $80,000. Meanwhile, those outside the pris- on walls began to realize that those eighty thousand dollars were certain, sooner er 'later, to put a halter round the neck of such of them as were worth hanging. But they real- ized, also, that they could do nothâ€" ing; By night, as well as by day, their every movement was watched. Free men nominally, they were caged by golden bars, in a prison made of money; and there they remained, quaking and trembling, until on Jan- uary 13th, 1883, 'the grand final coup was made, and tWentyâ€"six of them Were arrested at dead of night in various parts of Dublin. Just upon forty years ago, a spur- ious Bank of England note, printed on genuine paper, was presented for payment at Threadneedle street, and was duly honored, the fraud only be- ing detected when some time after- wards the forged document'came to be entered in the "cancelled ledger." In city and banking circles the news caused the most profound con- sternation. Then, as new, the paper upon which Bank of England notes are engraved, ,was made at Laver- stock, in Hampshire, the manufac- ture being surrounded with all kinds of safeguards and precautions. To the mills a, messenger was dispatched post-haste. An investigation follow- ed, and it was quickly discovered that some thousands -of sheets, suf- . ficient for the printing of millions of dollars' worth of notes were missing. TWO FORGERS. At once the directors offered a re- ward of $7,500 for the detection of the thief or thieves, and this had the effect of causing some of the smart- est intellects in England to bestir themselves in the matter. A strang- er and his wife prior to the robbery, taken up their residence at Whitcchurch. a few miles distant from Laverstock. and this fact coming to the knowledge of the detectives engaged on the case, caus~ Cd them to make enquiries, with the result that the former was quickly identified as an exâ€"convict named Burnett. More guarded inquiries. more se~ cret shadowing, and Burnett was tracked to the shop of one Buncher,‘ a butcher in Strutton Ground, and the latter, in his turn, was followed to a house in North Kent Terrace, New Cross, where resided a Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, with Whom he dill business ‘in exchanging the false notes. ' By bribes and threats the woman was induced to confess. and, acting on her information, the officers of the law proceeded to arrest both Buncher and a man named Griffiths, the latter being the actual engraver of the forged notes. The latter got penal servitude for life. Buncher’s sentence being twentyâ€"five, and Burnett’s twonty years. .In addition to the $7,500 reward paid for the apprehension of these dangerous crim- inals, more than $25,000 was spent by the bank officials in shadowing them to see that they did not es- cape while the necessary evidence to secure their conviction was accumu- lating. Never, however, has 'the power of gold to bring even the most desper- ate criminals to justice been more strikingly exemplified than in the suppression of THUGGEE IN INDIA. For centuries the Thug has been an established institution through~ 139;. had, a. short while gnOtifying them of the‘ ' have rooms to out the peninsula; and the best an- thorities, natives as well as British, were agreed that his extinction Would be a. matter of impossibility. Nor did there, to tell the truth. seem much hepe of their being mis- taken. The aSSassins formed practiâ€" cally one vast secret confederacy, with Whom murder was not only an honored and honorable profession, but a sacred religious duty. Moreâ€" over, their victims were almost in- variably, wealthy men. the conse- quence being that the lower classes, who at that time, constituted fully ninety-five per cent. of the populaâ€" tion, held them in no abhorrence. Nevertheless, Sir William _(at that time, Captain) Sieeman, who had made a lifeâ€"long study of the Thug and his methods, was convinced that the plague could be stamped out if money enough were spent, and said as much to the Indian Government. The answer he got was to go ahead and spare no expense. This was in the autumn of 182 of next year, every ryot in every vilâ€" lage and hamlet throughout the coun« try knew that from $5500 to $2,500 could be easily and safely earned by simply discovering a Thug to the authorities . ‘ Now even the former sum to the average Hindoo peasant is wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. Never- theless, just at first, approv/n's were few and far between, for the dread of the terrible society and its vengeance Was upon the land. But as soon as it became evident that the Govern- {ment was not only willing to pay well for information, but was able to protect the informer. the spell was lifted, and the assassins were (ch nounced wholesale. The revelations were sufficiently startling. High native officials, wraithy merchants of repute, men who had up till then been the trusted servants and friends of Europeans, Were proved to have been all along active members of the most hideous murder society the world has ever known. In seven years (1828 to 1835) over $2,500,000 had been spent, but Thuggee as an institution had ceased to exist. No fewer than 382 Thugs had been hanged; 986 had been transported or imprisoned for life, and an unknown number had fal- len victims to the communities they had so. long and so successfully ter- roriscd.â€"Pearson’s Weekly. hand per £100 of paper Issue. +â€"â€"-â€"â€"~â€" BRITAIN If ALL READY. TRAVEL WILL BE MADY EASY FOR THE CORONATION. Round Tour of Three Months Arâ€" ranged so as to Give June in London. Already the coronation, writes a correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, is having its definite inâ€" fluence in turning toward this coun- try tens of thousands of visitors from across the seas, for, in order to secure passages to England in the spring, it is necessary to book berths betimes by the steamers of the sever- al linesfi Enquiry in London dis- closes that the holiday traffic from all parts of the British Empire and also the United States will be abâ€" normal; but there is no reason to anticipate that a deficiency of accomâ€" modation upon the steamships or in respect of London hotels will be ex- pericnccd. The metropolis has expanded so rapidly of late years, and especially since the Diamond Jubilee, as a. cosâ€" mopolitan centre, that visitors will find an abundance of hotels and boarding houses, apart from private houses, which are in de- mand, in accessible positions. It is perhaps, not generally known that the most enterprising steamship companies make the comfort of their passengers their special concern, and they strive to save them all trou‘ole upon arrival in the metropolis by hotels which spare immediately they disembark at the port of land- ing. A great deal of worry and anâ€" xiety is thus obviated. and the efâ€" fect of the policy has been to encour- age strangers tO'spend some portion of their time in London on pleasure bent. ' A striking development in travel is particularly noticeable in the inâ€" crease in the size and speed of the Ocean lcviathans since 1897, the year that is taken by experts as affording the nearest estimate of the require- ments of 1902. The transâ€"Atlantic stramers have, in particular, largely added to their carrying capacity, and the advanced bookings are already in excess of the numbers on the cor- responding DATE OF LAST YEAR. It is not easy to calculate how many passengers actually land in this country from the United States by the several routes, for the only returns are those compiled in New York from the records at that port. But it may be taken that fully 130,- 000 first and second cabin passengers crossed the Atlantic to Europe last year, and though some of them went direct to the Continent the majority disembarked at Liverpool, London, Plymouth and Southampton, the rest going to Cherbourg, Antwerp, BrcL men and Hamburg, or by the French boats to Iâ€"Iavre direct. Southamp- ton is the port used by the American line for outward and homeward boats, and by the two German lines -â€"the Hamburg-American and the North German Lloydâ€"for sailings westward. The homcward bound exâ€" press boats of both the German comâ€" panies call, however, at Plymouth By the spring‘ ' . 3“ instead. Liverpool is the headquar- ters of the English linesâ€"the White Star and the Cunard together dealâ€" ing with about 36,000 firstâ€"class pasâ€" sengers to Americaâ€"and London is the ~ port selected by the American transport line, which” carries about 4.000 to New York annually The German steamers call at Cherbourg after touching at Plymouth, and the American line boats at Cherbourg be: fore Southampton. One effect of the coronation festiviâ€" ties may be to‘ induce American tour- ists to arrange their round tour, which usually lasts three months, so as to spend the month of June in London. In order to do that con- veniently the summer trips may, in some cases, be begun earlier, for us- ually it is not until the middle of May that the ships are getting full, and the real rush is in June and July. But those visitors who decide to see Paris and Switzerland after London will disembark either at Liâ€" verpool, Plymouth or Southampton, and thus create a good deal of cross country traffic, by which the English railways, and in particular the Lon- don and North Western. London and South Western, the Great Eastern and the South Eastern and Chatham companies will benefit. For the sum of £20 a trip from America to this country and back can be comfortably made, but the multiâ€"millionaire, even without engaging a suite of rooms,- can easily give £200 for a, single passage on a “crack” boat, and it IS precisely this class of visitor for whom splendid vessels, not in exis- tence, or at all events not on the sailing lists of 1897,- are now avail‘ able. Five and a half days is the time occupied on the voyage iron' Sandy Hook BY THE SWIFTEST BOATS. Among the latest monsters are thf White Star Company’s Celtic, 20,880 tons, built in 1901, and 3,600 tons to 1899; ,the Hamburgâ€"American’s Deutschlnnd, 16,500 tons, launched in the following year, and belonging to the North German4Lioyd are the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 111,500 tons, and the still larger and newer Kronprinz 15,000 tons. Some of these vessels ‘carry as many as six hundred first-class passengers. A whole fleet of the modern ten thousand ton car? go passenger boats doing the jour- . ney in ten days, might be enumer- ated, and by these will come the more leisurely holiday maker from the Statesâ€"an ever increasing class of summer traveller. From the British colonies the indi- cations are clear that a, large influx. of visitors will reach this country by the March and April sailings, In- deed, the Orientâ€"Pacific boats from Australia are almost fully booked by intending passengers. In the spring, so as to benefit by the English sumâ€" mer the home coming colonist is usâ€" ually well represented, but he is like- ly to be a much more numerous class this year. v . On the Australian lines, as in the American services, the tendency has been to build larger and larger vesâ€" sels, the latest Orient boats being the twin screw Omrah. 8,291' tons, and the Ortona, 7,945. Still larger are the White Star Medic, Persic and their sisters, of 12,000 and 10,000 tons. 'Nor have these companies, with other English lines, the monop- oly to Australia, as the German Lloyd \and the French Messageries Maritimes have fine vessels. From other parts of the Empire the coron- ation is expected to attract British subjects, the West Indies having at command the Royal Mail services and from Jamaica the Elderâ€"Demp- ster boats to Bristol. The latter newlyâ€"established line has proved a success, the ships filling well. A great many officers taking periodical leave at the various West Indian sla- tions are expected to make their trips home this year. As regards South Africa everything depends up- on thc course of the war, but the Union-Castle line is fully prepared for coronation visitlors. _. M-.. THE FIRST BLOCKI-IOUSE. The history of the blockhouse as an engine of war is interesting at the present juncture. They seem to have been first extensively used by the Russians in their long war for the subjugation of Caucasia ; and the teaching of that campaign seems to be that they are a sure but a very slow mode of conquest. The Russians began to build them to “wall in" Sch-anin in 1849. It was not until 1859 that that warrior prophet was Walled in and caught. A fresh set of blockhouses had then to be constructed to wall in the tribes still in revolt. This took another five. years, the final surâ€" render not taking place until 1864.. Over and over again the Circassians got in among the blockhouses and blew them up; and they repeatedly ambushed and cut up the mobile columns to which they served as n base. In one ambush in a forest 73.â€" 000 men were killed. In the end, however, the blockhouses triumphed and the population was deported. «â€"â€" + LEGISLATIVE BODIES, The largest legislative body in the World is the British House of Com- mons, which has a membership of 670, The French Chamber of Te- puties has a membership of 584; th: Italian Parliament 508; the Hungan lan House of Representatives, 453; the Spanish Cortes, 431; the Aus- trian Reichsrath, 425, and the Ger man Iielchstag, the smallest of tin European Parliaments, 397. Thl present meinbershlp of the United States I-louse‘of Representatives it 357. I larger than the Oceanic. which dates ,