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1-) juice. Add to this mixture the whites of three is gs and sugar to taste. Beat with an egg beater long and thoroughly until '0‘ TH E HOFI E. white and foamy. A good boiled custard, The House-cleaning Fever. , . g _ _ flavored With orange juice poured around it The season is near at hand when the dust “her removing it, from we mom is very and grease spots will begin to tumble : juice. when homes will to turned upside downl Fried Apples, .Select [use rather tart for weeks; when the husband and children apples, cash and slice them across without (Ska up their abode OK) the outside 0f peeling. Have [ne slice; about, hall an inch the homo: When the hOUUCWlle. Will! 8 5 thick Haves tablespoonful of butter hot ICON Ol Added Wrinkle! ’0 her face and in a saucepan and lay the slices in to brown. .[eevu rolled to the elbow, win )we in . If a sweet sauce is liked sprinkle one little - - - solar and cinnamon before turning the and i, .- , . d5”), oompmmmhlp wuh “upsuds 'slices. Another way is to brown them in scrubbing brush, writes a correspondent. i be, .8“, pork {5‘ without! sweetening There is no person living who enjoys and admires a clean house more than this hum- ble writer. But I think there is such a thing as dissipation in cleanliness. And this spring house-cleaning, that rages like land, is in many instances as much dissi‘ pation as any other excessive indulgence. House-cleaning with us is more of a contagion than a custom. One housekeeper fired with cleanly zeal and blessed wit-h plenty of muscle or hired help, as soon as the snow is gone sets the ball rolling. Her neighbor looks out of the window some morning and sees the house-cleaning enthusiast’s carpets and rugs flying in the breeze. “Bless my soul l” she says, “Mrs. Smith is house‘cleaning. I must get right at it, too.” Now perhaps this neighbor has a brood of little ones around her, a baby maybe. Perhaps her muscle supply is very limited, and she is unable to hire help. Her cir- cumstances may be wholly different from Mrs. Smith’s. She may be in no fit condi- tion to undertake the wearing and tiresome task of pulling a house to pieces and put- ting it together again. But notwithstand- ing all this difference, she has caught the lever. The sigh' of Mrs. Smith’s carpets sets her blood tingling. So for fear she will be dubbed “slack” by her neighbors, she, too, begins to pull up carpets and move around heavy furniture. And what little strength she has, and that ought to be sacredly preserved for her own and her little ones' good, is worn out in this hard effort. Such a mother underestimates the im- portance of her maternal responsibility, and nierestimatee the virtue a portion of the world attaches to a spotlessly clean house. Such cleanliness should be condemned rather than applauded when it can only be obtained by the sacrifice of the little ones' notded care, the mother’s health, and the general peace and comfort of the home. (if the double duties of motherhood and housekeeping, the mother’s duties should aways take first rank. “Do you mean you would not clean house ‘2” some shocked reader asks. No, I do not mean that. This is what I mean . That where a housekeeper is disadvantage- ously situated as regards help and strength, to let her pay no attention to her neigh- bors' house-cleaning. Let her neighbors clean house as they will and when they will. But for her to fortify her soul with an independent indifference as to what others Will say, and clean house according to her circumstances. Do a. little at a time. \Vork when she feels strong enough to, and stop when she gets tired. To sim- ply pay no attention to the outside world, to ignore neighborly rivalry,and work from p I small half clip of butter, is tablespoonful of " conuflw“! Willem” lhrougb‘m‘ “1/ sugar, and a little salt. Let it stand with- Parker House Rolls. â€"Make a hole in a quart of flour, pour in one-half pint of milk that has been boiled and Cooked a little (about lukewarm), one-half cup of yeast, a out mixing two or three hours; then knead t. nrcughly and let it rise once more. After standing a few hours roll it out and out as biscuits, spread with melted butter, turn two-thirds over to form the roll and bake. Apple Custard.â€"Pare, core, and stew six apples until fine and add half cup of sugar. Beat three eggs very light, add half cup of sugar and one and a half pints of milk. Stir again, pour into a baking pan and bake a few minutes until the custard is set. If liked,a little grated nutmeg may be add- ed just before it is put in the oven. This is a nice dessert,and possesses the advantaize of being so quickly prepared that it may e classed among the emergency desserts. ABOUT THE GREAT WEST. A Talk With )lr.W.lt.Scai-tli, ol' Winnlpeg. on leo Topics. Mr. W. B. Scarth, of Winnipeg, Man. was in Montreal the other day. "What are the business prospects in the North-West ‘3” he was asked. “I think that for a new country Manitoba and the North-VVest are not so badly off,” was the reply. “The depression has been the means of inculcatiug ideas of economy and prudence into every class in the community, and as far as Manitoba i9 concerned I think we are on the eve of better times.” ;\lr.Scarth also had an encouraging word to say regarding the setting up of the ooun-y try. Alberta, he said, had received a. very iargc number of new comers and the Cana- dian Pacific were in constant receipt of hundreds of enquiries from the state of New xork to Washington, all along the line of border states, and the number of people who will make their homes in the Canadian West will certainly be enormous. An effort is also being made to settle some of the unoccupied land in the vicinity of Winnipeg, and Mr. Scarth detailed the steps that have been taken in this direction by a committee composed of members of the Winnipeg Board of Trade as well as - other leading citizens. He also explained that a. good deal of drainage would have to be done before a certain portion of the land would be suitable for successful culti- vation. The local Government would, now- a consciousness that she is doing the best ever,be approached in this connection and, thing for her family and herself, and not I no doubt, something would ccine out of it. striving for outside approbation. She may l Mr. Scarth declared that the farmers of not get through as soon as her neighbors ; Manitoba had not lost heart on account of she may not make as big a show at house- the low price of wheat, and he believed the cleaning; she may have a smaller liouse- total acreage sown this year would be cleaning advertisement on the outside of ‘greater than last, when the yield was about the house in the shape of loose furniture and flapping carpets. But the same thing will be accomplished in the end with less sacrifice of precious strength and home contfort than though she tried to adjust her limited strength and means to some one else’s circumstances. So many housewives are so reckless of their strength. They place too low an as- timate on its value. Spurred on by an ambition to keep pace with their neighbors they force themselves to work far in excess of their physical powers. ’Iltey do not stop to think what injustice they are doing themselvos. I once knew a housekeeper who did all the work of her home, and her house contained near a dozen rooms. She was a small woman and nit very strong. \thn spring opened each season she was fired With a perfect house-cleaning craze. Although some of her bedrooms were not slept in once during the year, they were cleaned just as rigorously as though they Were in constant use. She would clean for weeks, until every room from the attic to the cellar was as clean as soap and water could make them. But when it was over that poor woman would be almost dead. Sim once told me it took weeks for her to retovcr from house-cleaning. ~With what an air of pride and satisfaction she dis- played her clean house to her calling ncinh- hors ! She made an idol of her house, while the precious temple with its more precious soul enshrined, fashioned by her Creator, were aboard and neglected. Recipes. Cinnamon Fakeâ€"When you are making bread and the sponge is ready to ktnwi takes sufficent portion and roll out three- fourths of an inch thick; put thin slices of butter on top, sprinkle \Vllll cinnamon and i then with sugar. Let it rise well and bake for breakfast. This is a very nice coilec t'ttkc. Halibutâ€"Cut very fine two pounds of uncooked halibut: put in a bowl and pound with a wooden masher, adding gradually the unbeaten whites of three eggs, and then one gill of cream, one toaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne. Form into egg-shaped‘ quenelle. Have ready a pan of smoking hot oil. Dip each quenelle in beaten eug and drop in the hot oil. \thn it is of-a nice brown, remove, place on paperto drain, then serve. Each must be taken from the beaten egg and dropped carefully at once into the otl. Orange Snowâ€"One ounce of isinglasa dissolved in a pint of boiling water. Strain and allow to stand until nearly cold. Mix wnh tlic lain-.‘lass tlzo jiizcv of ax c-r seieii .r‘uwfig “up,” 1... .10 a ... h...: ,... '1‘“), of 17,000,000 bushels. "How much wheat is there yet in the country '2” “ I think about two million bushels, a part of which is yet in the hands of the farmers and the rest in the elevators along the line of the Canadian Pacific.” Mr. Scarth, in referring particularly to the condition of the Manitoba farmers, said that apart from the mortgages they were not more indebted than the same class of people in the province of Ontario. “ What do you hear as to the payment of interest ’2" “I hear that the loan companies havp little to complain of on that score," was Mr. Scarth’s ready reply. Wheat Injured by the Cold. The farmers of Golden Belt wheat region of central Kansas, including a dozen coun- tries of the north central section of the state famed for their wheat production,are becoming alarmed at the condition of the wheat plant, which is not showing the anticipated recuperation from the severe winter except in en :h portions as had heavy local showers last October, packing the soil around the roots of the plant and so lessening the injury from drought and high winds during the winter. But these rains affected only a cotnparativelysmall portion of the wheat section. Not only has the hard freezing affected it, but there have been high winds, which blew the soil from the roots. ___._+â€"_._ Taken From Church to be Lynched, Near Tyler, Dallas County, Alu., a gang l of inceiidiaries fired a number of farmhouses and barns recently. The citizensorganacd to run down the guilty parties. Joe Smith, 3 negm. suspected of being one of the in- cendmries, reached Selma on Tuesday and reported that Sunday night a number of white men visiteda negro church and ar- ,r.'stc-d Dan Dawson, liob Holman and Jim Holman, three suspects, and carried them away in the darkness. As nothing has been seen or heard of them since it is believed they were lynched. Smith says the same night a mob riddled his house with bullets, two of which passed through his bed. He fled to the woods and escaped. He Understood. Teacherâ€"Do you understand the mean. ing of the terms Capital and Labor? small Buyâ€"Yes'in. If a boy has a sled. that's capital. if another boy rides down tart-1h him, and then pnllsthe sled up, that's lalor. MRS. GALLUP’S WOES. Supper hang over, Mr. Gallup went out at adistance and ed them. “ He is never in a hurry about his bill, and he also sings bass with the choir. I want. you to hev ’em sing ‘ Sweet Hour of Prayer’ fur one of the hymns, and he sings that bewti- to see that the barn doors were secure, the fully, 1 w“ think,“ tho omel- d.y q,“ gate latched and the hens all on the roost, my body might be stolen after burial. and when he came in he had abushcl basket I ve had “mumpsmmi mum‘uz' 1“? of corn in the car. And he sat down and began to shell it into the disbpan to make chicken feed Mrs. Gallup lighted a candle and went up stairs to the old blue chest to look for something which might be cut into carpet rags. In a dim, uncertain way Mr. Gallup realize d that she went upstairs. In that same dim, uncertain way he realized that she was singing “The Orphan’s La. ment” as she went. He had shelled two ears of corn and was holding up a third and wondering why corn did not grow in pods instead of on cobayvhen keyboard a shriek and something came rushing down- stairs. That something was Mrs. Gallup, and her eyes were hanging out, and her face was as white as snow. As she sank into a chair and pressed both hands to her heart Mr. Gallup rose with a grunt and went slowly upstairs. In the storeroom he found the blue chest open, garments scattered over the floor and the candle sitting on a broken chair. He picked up the candle, made his way down to the kitchen, and after blowing out the light With a hearty “p~e-w l” he snuffed the wick with his fingers and set the candlestick on the shelf over the sink. He had resumed his seat and picked up an ear of corn before Mrs. Gallup said:â€" “ Samuel, please help me in on the bed and git my shoes off and then go fur Dr. James and git three or four of the nayburs to cum in '2” Mr. Gallup began shelling his third ear of corn. If he was aware that Mrs. Gallup sat there on his right, he gave no sign. He had shelled about half the car when she tearfully said :â€" “ But you needn’t mind, however i As long as I’ve got to die I might as well die here as anywhere. Folks die while sittin' on hard-bottomed cheers as well SOMETHING CAME BUSHING DOWN STAIBS. as while lyin’ on hair mattresses costin’ $40, and I expect they go -to Heaven jist the same. Samuel, do you know what happen- ed upstairs 1” Mr. Gallup didn’t, and he didn’t appear to have the slightest curiosity to ascer- tain. Mrs. Gallup had brought down with her the tails of an old black coat, with the hind buttons still attached, and before proceeding further she wiped her eyes and blew her nose. “ I was singin to myself and over haulin the chief,” she finally said, “whenI felt sun- thin like a clammy hand laid on my check. I jumped up and looked around, and I saw -â€"yes, Samuel Gallup, I saw as plain as day, and it’s no use to dispute meâ€"the figger of Aunt Mary Gregory standin in the door l You remember Aunt Mary Samueh She was killed by lightnin while 3' under a cherry tree, you know. I saw her jist as plain as I see you, and she had on that same dotted ksliker dress and held her snufl‘box in her left hand. When I shrieked out, she smiled and beckoned to me and disappeared. Samuel, you know what that means, don’t you ‘2” Yes, Mr. Gallup did, but he was too busy with his fifth ear of corn to reply. In wiping away her tears Mrs. Gallup skinned her nose on one of the coattail buttons, but unmindful of the accident a he continu- ed : “ It means, Samuel, that I am called to spread my wings and play on a golden harp, and that tomorrer you’ll be snooken around arter a second wife. At least seven people that we know of hev felt that clam- my hand and seen that speerit figger. and every one of ’em died within 12 hours. Yes, I’m sent fer, and there kin be no mistake about it this time. I was thinkin to-day that I’d like to live long nufl‘ to git my rag carpet done and make another crazy quilt, but if the time has cum to go its not for me to complain. Samuel, are you gain to let your second wife buy a wire clothes- line and use granula'ed sugar instead of brown?" Mr. Gallup held an ear of corn in his hands and“9 looked thoughtfully, but it was impossible to say whether he was thoughtful over the corn or Mrs. Gallup's question. She sobbed seven large and dis- tinct sobs, made use of a coattail to wipe either eye, and‘ when she could control herself she said : " Yes, Is’pose you will, and she’ll ask you to buy a pump for the well, fix the cellar stairs and paint tne front fence. I've been askin you to do them things for the last 23 years, but they hain’t done yit. When old Mr. Parmalee took his second wife, he went and had handles put on all the knives and forks the very inst thing, and they had only bin married two weeks when he painted the hogpen and brcug home a new disbpan. Samuel, what under- taker will you hev ‘3" Mr. Gallup would probably have ans- wered this question, but just at that mo- ment he was thinking that he ought to have melted up some lampblack and tallow and given his dry boots a good greasing instead of shelling the corn. “ I guess you'd better hev Mr. Tyler," said Mrs. Gallup as she held the coattails fever, liver complaint and bliss and felons and the doctors will want to know what I really died of. Do you think they will steal me, Samuel! And if they do will you prosecute ’em 2” Mr. Gallup didn’t say whether he would or wouldn’t. He was looking very fixedly at a red ear of corn he had found and didn’t seem to hear her question. “You orter prosecute ’em, Samuel !" sobbed Mrs. Gallup, suddenly breaking down again, "but if it’s oin to be any great trouble let it go 3 ou’ll be snookin around and fallen in luv and feelin like a young calf agin, and ’tain’t likely you’ll keer whether my body is stole or not. I hev heard of dead wives cumin back in the shape of ghosts and kickin second wives all over the kitchin and outdoors, but you needn’tbeafeared of me doin it. I'ma Fuller, and the Fullers never lowsr them- selves. Wbat time d’ye think I‘ll die Samuel 2" Mr. Gallup paused in his corn shelling and seemed to give the question full con- sideration, but as he had made no reply at the end of three minutes Mrs. Gallup blew her nose with a loud snort, gave a last wiple to her eyes, and getting ofi her chair sai : “Very well, Samuel Gallup, very well i I’ll go in and lay down and die now and hev it over with and let you begin lookin fur No. 2 l” She passed into the sitting room and from there to the family bedroom, and three- quarters of an hour later, when Mr. Gallup had finished the corn, shut up the stove, bolted the kitchen door and was ready for bed, he found her asleep with a very red nose and a tear oozmg out from each closed eye. INSANITY IN ONTARIO. Increase In the Number oi’ the Insane and ldlotlc 1n the Province of Ontario. The report of the Ontario Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities contains much that is interesting regarding the class of patients treated in these institutions. The first thing impressed by the carefully arranged statistical tables is the increase in the number of the insane and idiotic in the Province, an increase not warranted by the growth of population. Ever since the mentally afflicted were regarded as invalids ‘ rather than culpable victims of demoniac possession methods of treatment have been rapidly improving. Relics of the old superstition are still with us, in the general delicacy shown towards discussing mental diseases and their remedies, and in the peculiar feelings entertained towards those who have undergone treatment for such ailments. The treatment growing out of the old superstition survived the beliefs on which it was instituted, and the final removal of the straight-jacket the chain and the shackles is a comparatively recent event. Yet in spite of the beneficial results of humane and natural treatment, and not- withstanding the increasing proportion of euros, the number of insane patients in the Province and their proportion to the total population are on the increase. was svaascs DAILY NUMBER of insane patients residing in Provincial institutions has increased from 3,674 in 1893 to 3,809 during 1894, or an increase of 135 patients for the past year. The num- ber of lunatics and idiots remaining in residence at the close of the year shows an increase of 166 when compared with the previous year, and during the past five years 916, or at the rate of 183 1-5 patients per annum have been added to the asylum population. It is true that during the past three ears there has been a falling ad in the yearly admissions, the total admitted dur- ing the year ending September 30,1894, being 781, 39 less than during the previous yezfr. But the inspector attributes this to the limited accommodation in certain dis- tricts, there being 104 applications out- standing at the time of compiling the report. According to the last Dominion census the insane and idiotic population of Ontario in 1891 was 5,855, or one to every 361 inhabitants. This number no doubt included a great many harmless patients who will never be treated in any asylum. In this respect Ontario compares favorably with other countries, France with l to every 400 and Germany with] to every 417 of the population being the only coun- tries showing s. more favorable average. It is a matter for regret that 40 per cent. of the Provincial patients are committed on warrants, and are in consequence TREATED AS CRIMINALS at a time when scientific treatment would be most effective. Thelesson of the report is that, as in other diseases, prevention is better than cure. And the necsssarily brief reports transmited by the eminent special- ists at the head of the Provincial institu- tions contain much valuable ad vice and many suggestions which should receive a wider measure of attention from the public. Hereditary predisposition has been traced in so many cases of insanity that repres- sive laws regarding the marriage of those afflicted withsuch an inheritance have been suggested. But while little or no good could be effected by such measures much can be accomplished by the general diffusion of knowledge. One lesson, culled from many, is that the mental faculties are more apt to rust out than to wear out. The re- markably high proportion of farmers' wives, domestic servants, housekeepers and labor- ers among the insane show that monotony and hard work are the most effective com- bination of causes which superinduce men- tal disease. 4% Pretty Tough. Auntâ€"You look rather delicate. Are you perfectly well 2’ Little Nephewâ€"Oh; I’m tough as a pine- kuot. I can stand anything. You ought to see some of the doctors' doses I’ve taken and lived through. RUUND THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE Old and New World Events of Interest Chronicle-d Brieflyâ€"Interesting [lap- pelluxs of Recent Date. England has 30,600 physicians. India's cotton mills number over 150. Great Britain makes 'over 130,000 bl- cycles a year. The Duke of Norfolk has an income of £369,000 a year. ‘ English pennies are cotned yearly to the extent of $50,000. Parliament has met at eleven places he- sides Westminster. Aberdeen harbor is to be improved at a cost of $230,000. Greece stands lowest in point of wealth of all the countries of Europe. In Germany aluminium is used for nails in the boots of the soldiery. In marriage announcements in‘ Spain the ages of both parties are given. George Wallace, once champion sprinter of the world, died at N etvcastle. Vernier, the young French mathematical prodigy. is only 18 years of age. King Humbert opened the Italian Parliao ment with a ten-minutes’ speech. The new Russian loan of $75,000,000 has been subscribed for forty times over. The demand for farms in Matabeloland continues to be greater than the supply. The Egyptian council of state has de- cided to extend the railway to Asscuan. During the last two centuries the wealth of Great Britain has increased forty-fold. France has the largest circulation per capita of any country, the amount being 336. 70. Most of the Asiatic countries have been ruined by the system of "farming the taxes.” The estate of Sir Samuel White Baker, the famous African traveler, is valued at £60,859. David Christie Murray prides himself upon being able to write a three-volume novel in five weeks. In the Bank of England 60 folio volumes or ledgers are filled daily with writing in keeping the accounts. Deposits of saltpetre that promise to be the most valuable yet discovered have been found in Cape Colony. "Mrs. Wales and family" was the entry once made by the Princess in the visitor’s book at a country hotel. In spite of the closet espionage the dia- mond mining company, of South Africa, loses $1,000,000 per year by stealing. In Finland the Salvation Army has now 140 cflicers and 5,000 recruits. The Russian authorities no longer oppose its work. In thirty years the number of looms at Lyons has decreased from 80,000 to 12,000 and only 3,000 of these are working. Prince Thoon kramon Tho, who is likely to be chosen heir tothe Chinese throne, is studying at Ascot College, England. It is said that the romances of Jules Verne have made a fortune for his publish~ era, but only $5,000 a year for the author. A lower floor of.the crypt of old St. Paul’s was recently discovered by a bin of wine falling through from a cellar just above. Dr. Behring, the discOVer of the anti. toxine diphtheria. cure, was decorated on Monday with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. In South America an electric drying machine. in which air is forced through a chamber of heated plates, is to be used in drying ‘wheat. The death is announced in London of Mr. William Taylor, the founder and proprietor of the Atlas Parcel Express, at the advanced age of 76 years. Archdeacon Denisou, of Taunton, Eng- land, who has just entered on his 90th year, has been sixty-two years a priest and forty-three years an archdeacon. Winston Churchill, eldest son of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, aged 21, has been appointed a lieutenant in the Fourth Hus- sars, now stationed at Aldershot. The Bank of Ireland has cut down its dividend from 11 1-2 to 10 1-2 per cent., which is the lowest rate distributed since 1885, when 10 per cent. was paid. Hearne, the well known Lords’ profes- sional, has been retained by the Maharajah of Pat-iola, who is up to date in all his notions, to teach the natives cricket. B. L. Farjeon, the novelist, attributes all the good fortune that his been his to the luckâ€"giving New Zealand green stone which he has carried for years on his watch chain. A racing ostrich , with a stride of four~ teen feet, and a speed of twenty-two miles an hour, is among the possessions of one Gottlieb von Klackenburg of South Africa. Railway travelling in Britain is the safest in the world. In America, one passenger in every 2,400,000 is killed : in France, one in every 19,000,000 ; and in Great Britain only one in every 28,000,000. Lord Rosebcry handed over to the burgh of Queensfcrry, Linlithgowshiro, a public hall and recreation room, which, at the cost of £3,000, he has erected there as a memorial to the late Countess of Rose- bery. The medical authorities of Berlin have notified the physicians of that city that they can get the new serum for the cure of diphtheria free for poor patients, on condition that they send in afterwards careful reports of the "Jacki. The Queen and the German Empertr and Empress have received a curious and season- ablo present. iierr Heinrich Kamp, the proprietor of the African Ice Works at Cape Town, has sent them boquets of ex- tremely rare flowers frozen fresh in blocks of ice. Several canal projects are at present un- der consideration by the Ministh of Roads md Communications in Russia. One of the most important plans is that for connecting the White Sea with the Baltic. The esti- mated cost by the latest survey is 10,000,- 000 rubles. . , i mm tin-mm- tinâ€"Glut. .ua, wnmw “4...”; ,. 4.44.44 “