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About the i ....House g DOMESTIC RECIPES; Cream Biscuitsâ€"- One siftercof flour; one teaspOonful of. soda and one of baking powder .mixed in the flour, with one teaspoonful of salt, wet up with equal parts of sour cream and sour milk; Bake in a, quick oven. These are fine for short cake by usâ€" ing butter spread betWeen layers. Cream Cookies. â€"vOne cup sugar; . one cup sour cream; one egg: one to.- a’despoonful of butter if cream is not too rich; one teaspoonful- of soda and one, teaspoonful of baking pow- der. Both soda and baking powder are to be sifted in the flour. Fla- vor with one-half teaspoonful lemon over roast ' lfiavor of the gravy. or vanilla. Sweet Crmm Biscuit. â€"â€" Two or three .sifters of flour; use oneâ€"third sweet cream and twoâ€"thirds sweet milk mixed together to moisten. the dough. Hix soft; do not mold them any more than absolutely necessary. Duke in a quick oven. When one gets used to baking with cream she has excellent luck. Havcr‘~'Cake;, -‘â€" Taken cups cook- ed oatmeal, 1 cup'corn meal, § I Cup butter, .1 small cup sugar, 2 cups scur milk, 1‘ teaspoonfeach _soda- and salt, 3 eggs, whites und’yo'lks beat- on separately. Lastly add one cup chopped, seeded raisins. Bake in gem..tins..-...-,g_... . .. A . . Mexican Rarebit. â€" Put a. piece of butter the size of an egg into the double boiler." When this is melted, adds. can of tomato; let this become thoroughly heated. Season to taste «with pepper and salt, and if desired, a large tablespoonful of Worcester- shire sauce, 'and a little salt., Just before serving, slide in four unbeatâ€" en eggs and beat the whole quickly; ‘ then add two or three drops'of onâ€" ion extract. This is a chafing dish receipt, but it. may also be made on the stove. Cream Puffs. -â€"â€" One cup hot water, 4} cup butter. Put on the stove and stir in 1 cup dry flour. Let boi] up, take from the stove, and stir smooth. thn cold break three eggs in it, and stir five minutes. Drop in spoonfuls ontins, not very close together. Bake 25 minutes in a. raâ€" ther“ hot oven, not opening the door more than necessary. For the cream filling, take 1 cup milk, ,1} cup sugar, 1 egg, 3 tablespoons flour. Flavor with vanilla. When both this and the puffs are cool, open the puffs a little with a sharp knife and fill with . the cream. . Black' Pepper"Cake:' -‘-'- Take 5 cup flour, 1 heaping cup butter, 1% cups sugar, }- cu‘p.~black~ pepper}. 2 =tca'.â€"' spoons/ground ginger, 2%., cups ,Sul-r .tana. raisins, 2- teaspoons baking soda,’ 8 cups buttermilk, 1 nutmeg _ (ground).f Rub, butter _ into the flour. “Then put in the raisins, havâ€" ing. soaked them previously in hot w’ater‘to soften. irrgredients, soda is stirred into the milk and poured over the four mix- ture. Mix Well, place in buttered tins and bake in a slow oven as soon as possible, one hour should be long cuough.‘ This is a very fine cake to bake with tea. also economi- cal â€"â€" having no eggs â€"â€" and whole- some. Browa Meat Stock. -- Cut the meat into small pieces about :} inch thick. Fry brown in drippings. Do not dredge with flour first. Put ‘in the soup kettle, salt, and cover with cold water. If there are‘ any bones, break them into rather small pieces them through a sieve, adding a. lit- with a cleaver or clean hatchet. and put them in with the meat. Set on she back of the stove and let heat Add the other dry- though any kind may be used. stock is the foundation for a. great variety of soups. Stewad Prunes. â€"- Wash very care fully through several waters. over night or for several hours. Soak *with cold satisfactory meat for a. standby, alâ€" [vent fat from forming there and mak- This {ing the double chin, which later va- {catcs and leaves the .“harp strings” ' lstanding (dash the throat night and morning out. 'Bcsides the friction the lie.â€" waler, which keeps flesh firm and also lessens the Then place on the stove in a sauce- bility to sore throats and colds. pan, or. better still, a double boiler 'or steamer, - and: let cook slowly. Never boil .thcm rapidly.- The- qual- ity and size of the prunes of course“ determines the lengthof time should be cooked, usually two hours is none too long. When done, stir in A} cup sugar and 1 slightly roundâ€" 'ed teaspoon cornstarch -â€" previously stirred together â€"â€" to each firm cup of prunes measured when dry. Cook gently for 10 minutes. The juice of half a lemon and. the grated rind of a whole one is a great addition. ‘ HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A few slices of bacon under ,and lamb will improve the If the stove smokes give it a thorâ€" ough cleaning out: but if it's ' the :farmer, well, we give it up. Keep a stout paper bag with your blacking rags to slip your hand inâ€" :to when rubbing the stove. VA crack in the stove may be mendâ€" cd by a cement made of ashes and salt mixed with water. 2 Marion IIar.land-’,s~-adviceto~ young .cUoks relative to their failures is; "'Nevcr let a spoiled dish be, seen, much Jess-tasted, _- Get. rid of _' ‘if you have to bury it." ' ' ' Never cover warm food when‘you Lset it aside." "Pile-moist heat». that! remains. makes..m9l1,.lfl,,6‘y,ift and .sflure.” rWarm potatoes, it covered, soon get so soggy that they are not fit for use. [--â€"A-half,,hour. of soakirg in the morn- ing while you are doing the other 'housework will make the clothes ‘wash far easier. A few minutes sav- edthat Way will rid you'o'f many an hour's backache. ' ‘ ' i A frying'basket is a convenience in families where fried cakes, fritters; lcroquettcs; etc.;_.'are much esteemed. lift is made of fine wire, to fit t-hdfryâ€" ling kettle, and lifts out with all its Lcontcntswhen (lone. ' ‘ l Strain the fat after frying doughâ€" nuts, etc., using a cloth for the pur- pose. By the removal of extraneous matter the fat remains swcet longer and does not get full of sediment which turns it dark colored. Lima Bean Soup. â€"- Simmer 9. pint of beans gently in sufficient water to cover them until they are well cook- ed, then rub them through a. colanâ€" ldCl‘. Season with salt and pepper, ladd‘a pint of rich milk and a. little butter and flour rubbed together. The Toilet Crockery should be kept scrupulously clean. It should be cashed daily in cool soapy water and wiped dry on a clean towel kept for the purpose. If‘hot Water be used the tendency. .isto crack. the enamel, in:.whicli event foulodorslwill- be reâ€" tained; ' The white of an egg. thoropghly ‘beaten, slightly sweetened and [la- ;vored, is both food and medicine in leases of stomach and bowel diseases. It acts as a coating on the inflamâ€" ed membranes, preventing, irritation, and at the same time is a concen- trated nourishment that can be re- tained on an extremelyweak stomâ€" ach. Of all the dried bean family none lis better than the'Lima. To cook iwash them thoroughly,‘ soak over night ‘in Cold water, and simmer lslowly for. ‘two or three hours until ltender, but not broken. Season :with salt, pepper“ butter, then stew Iiup in a little cream. What is left 'will make good soup by putting tle hot'milk and thickening slightly with flour rubbed with butter. One of the most unbecoming signs they . t, 'eien' very slowly, being Careful that it -of age in a Woman is the “dewlap” does not boil. Prepare early in the 'that comes under the chin when the morning so it can be on the Whole iplumpness of youth is past. This day. The last thing at night. Strain gloosening of the skin may be pre- through a. colander. Skim off thczvented, if taken in time, by a little fat before using. Beef is the most ldajly friction of the throat, to pm. BREAKING I'I‘ GENTLY. The Doctorâ€""My poor boy ! I’ll tell you the just at the time school opens again 1’3 Worst! You’ll be well ' the men who had captured the If you have adelicate' cake to bake and fear the .oven is too. hot, place a piece of white‘kitchen paper tithe? shelf of the-oven and close the door. 9 If~in ten minutes :the' paper is dark yellow, the oven is. right for . anyâ€" thing that takes time to bake. Ifl the paper is only light yellow it is right for small cakes baked in fancy tins. For pics and rich cakes the temperature should be such as will .color a sheet of white paper a light browu in the time named; when the paper turns dark brown the oven is right for almost anything that re- quires to be quickly baked. If the paper chars, the oven is too hot for anything. ' -â€"â€"~o THE ‘RED BRACELETS . _â€" Clever Device of an Indian Robber to Escape Punishment. In connection with the punishmen of the 9th Lancers for the alleged. complicity of some of its members in the murder of a native, the follow- ing story, communicated to us by an English officer. in. command. Dig-3.4 large body. of-native Indian .‘»police,; throws "an interesting light on the ingenuity of tli'e"‘nativcs lin-xfabricatscl. _,- ing evidence. 7 'l'he Indian police'are often notor- 'the. the. . troubleof _. investigating , charges'brought against a suspectedl thief, they will frequently torture him with the object of making himv declare where he has hidden '~ the} goods he is supposed to have stolen! or of gaining any information that may lead to his conviction. Of course, I alwaysset my face sternly . againstflthis mode of obtaining cvlâ€"l dence, and some time ago made it known that the next case of “tor: nut; that occurred 'shmxld be visited with condign punishment.» But 'i required all my vigilance. They; would put a large Indian beetle withl sharp feelers on a man's chestâ€"unâ€"‘ der his upper garmentâ€"and the crcaa turc would dig frantically into hisE flesh in its efforts to escape ; they' would bind the wrists of their pris- oner tightly with cords. and so on. One man, whom the police had, long tried to convict, was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in' .etc. If the milk when first t I be used brush. planted in the spring." <_-... “Nb, BITTER MILK. .V.ery often complaints-are. made about cows giving bitter~ milk. , The causes may be. bad drinking -water, bacteria, or a. certain stage of law- tation, -or by cows eating weeds, . drawn is sweet and wholesome the bitterâ€" ness is caused doubtless by bacteria and mu be remedied by scalding while the milk is fresh. The ut~ most care should be taken by the milker also, as to the care of the cow and also to his owu clothing. As the skin of the cow is an active excreting agent and a large amount of foul matter removed from the blood by it, it stands to reason that this matter must be removed or else it will dry and clog the pores. This dry dandruff must be, removed or it will get in the milk and cause a most unpleasant odor very quickly. A card made of fine wires should first, followed by a stiff These two implements should be used every morning tn each cow before attempting to milk. But a few moments will be required for the Work each day. The extra work will‘bc doubly'repaid in the inéroasâ€" ed health “of'tho animal and improvâ€" ed appearance.‘ The water to which“ the 'cows‘ h'ave' access shouldjbe pure} [They should not be allowed to drink . .. . ifr ". ‘ . iously-~mdolent'-,U and,"m order ‘vto-‘save he??? aar:9%?:::d§f9£ them Should be > If these 'matâ€" no ~bitter~umilk~uw Sometimes the cow-.- is too for advanced in lactation and this is the cause of the bitterness. If all means fail to remedy the trou- ble; she should be‘drie’d up, fattened for market or otherwise disposed. _'I‘IIE APPLE ORCHARD. When an'npple orchard is planted, lhe ground should be in a high state ofxcultivation (IIKI-Jlotnftllowcd to deteriorate, writes Mr. S. .A. Rea’de. To ‘aCcomplish this, corn may _ I _Sliallow cul- t',vation should be followed and at, last'working, sow 'cowpecs or crimr. eon clover before the burrow or cul- tivator. I would not advise the sowing of small grain in an orchard of any kind. In breaking up the land in an apple orchard, I ._would plow as if there were no trees pre- sent, that is, divide the orchard inâ€" to such sections as seem most adâ€" vantageous, and avoid dead furrOWS an extensive robbery. He complained between the rows bitterly to me next day of the cruel torture . he had been subjected to“ showing me his wrists, each of: which, he said, had been tightly? bound with a. cord. (which. had cut! into the flesh) and then tied to a beam. I was very‘angry, for eachgof the man’s wrists was marked with al By plowing in this way, the land is kept level and not worked into ridch or gullies. Ease the breaking plow out of the ground, so that no d-i-rt will. stick to the tree. Care should be taken not to injure the surface-roots by plowing. If cowâ€" peas are sown, a disk or cutaway blight Girdle of Tedf{illlml‘cntly'Iconr’harrow should be run over‘thcm_ It“. firming ' ‘ THE TRUTH OF HIS STORY. As I expected, the native loudly protested ,their but I did not for a moment believe they were speaking the truth, and told them that the threatened pun- ishment would be inflicted. That evening as I was smoking my pipe and thinking over the matter again, it suddenly struck me that there was no mark of a knot either wrist. self, "if each wrist had been tightly bound-with a cord, instead of there being a circle of red entirely around the wrists, there Would be the marks ran all round each in a bright red unbroken ring.” The following morning I made a an old woman had visited the prisoner for a few minâ€" utes on the night of his arrest. I commande her to be brought before me, and by (lint of a few judicious threats succeeded in solving the mystery.’ It‘ appears that there is a mation.“ that native plant, with a. juice of bright'blue color, which, when ap- plied to the skin, leaves a blue stain I: when Washed the blue color vanishes, leaving a vivid red mark, whiéh remains for some hours. ‘old woman, who had heard of order, had brought this juice and thus she and her relative Were nearly successful in their revenge on prit. This juice does not give pain when applied to the skin yond irritating 'it slightly.â€"â€"London Tit-Bits. . ' _.___..+_n._.._.. SCIENCE AGAINST GAMBLING. The republication in English of the famous essay of the great French mathematician, Laplace, on the theory of probabilities serves to re call the harm that has resulted from a lack of general, information on this subject. The confirmed gambler and the reckless spoculator do not know how continually they fly in the face of the teachings of science. A recent/reviewer remarks : “If in a game of even chances rod turns up 20 times in succession, it is still an even chance whether red or black turns up on the 2lst time; but. no amount of mathematical reasoning will enable the gambler to realize that a previous run of bad luck of recovering his losses by a run of good luck in the future.” It was partly 1'0 combat the superstitions of gamblers and others that Laplace wrote his essay. .DOHCC land and borrowing with two innocence ;I ~ On ' (1 ot' the dair “NOW,” I said to.myvthe work of pro u ion as y of the knot on each, whereas I dis-lfa_rm tinctly remember that the red marklmateflals. ' crate . . . , , ling stall fattened. few inquiries, and elicited the infor~u Th‘c‘ the pounds of total food material. In her and had concocted the scheme ;lcow produces in . 1twice as much food materials as the (3111-; to these . any dichr from those of beef by being far be- m ore nitrogenous, gives no grounds for the expectation- ter the vines are dead from frost.‘ and clover should succeed them the following spring. ln breaking up hor- ses, I would. not use the double. or singletrce or even the trace chains. It is impossible to take such an outâ€" fit in the orchard and work without injury to trees. ' ’ THE DAIRY COW. VProbably no animal on the farm utilims its food so completely in cow. 1n manufacturing, the econoâ€" my of the machine is judged by the proportion of work tot-total energy expended. This may be applied in judging the relative economy of animalsas- producers of food A cow producing a modâ€" yield of milk will require about the same food as a. steer be- . Lawes and Gil- of England, have shown by cow berrt, elaborate experiments that a. yielding tcn quarts of milk per day will produce in her milk weekly 6.6 pounds of nitrogenous substance, 6.3 pounds of fat, 8.3.pounds.of ~mi1k sugar, and 1.8 pounds of mineral lmattcr, making 22.5 pounds~of- to- 0~ tal food materials. ’ A steer gaining fifteen pounds per week-'will produce [in the increase made 1.1 pounds of nitrogenous club- Istancc, 9.5 pounds y'of fat and two pounds of mineral f matter, or 10.8 41,. with other words, in a given time, Last. hot milk about isteer stores in' his body. According figures the solids of milk and thus more valuable as food. With milk at three cents per quart and beef at seven (tents per pound, the market. value per pound of the solids of the 1two classes of products is about the .smne. When, milk sells at a. rela- ltively higher price than this the inâ€" creased economy of the dairy cow, as compared with the beef animal, be comes still more apparent. DAIRY AND STO CK. A thrifty calf and a healthy boy are very much alike in some rcL sports. Both are choke full of mm- chief and always hungry. . Give the lambs clear wheat for the first third of the fattening period, half wheat and half corn for the second third, and corn alone for the last third. ‘ if your cow puts up her foot to pus-h you aside when you go up to her when .‘she docs not know it, don’t kick the cow, but say, time you pass her. Calves need the best of attention, especially in winter. The growth “Ex- cuse mo,” and S'rcak to her the next they have attained firing the sumâ€" mer must. not be allowed to stop, nor must - they be permitted to become poor riow. Do not turn off a cow just Because she is old. The quostic: of useful- ness is far more important than that of age. Not ‘ that we should be swerved from our best judgment by sentiment. The butter tub tells the story. - ' Milking at .fiveo'clock in the. e.f~ ter'noon of one day and seven of all-- other isthe surest way to serve notice on the cow that you do not cane whether she does her best or not. If you fail on your part, she will certainly not work hard to keep up her part of the bargain. POULTRY YARD. . Ice water is not an egg producer. A hen is not to be blamed if ‘ she does sometimesget into a‘stew. - . ' If you have no scratching shed just sweep up the floor and put down a basket of clover heads or a. sheaf of oats. Let the poultry share the turnips and beets with the pigs. Boil with meat scraps and thicken stew with corn-meal and bran._ v Fowls will gain very little by be- ing permitted to wander about the premises in very cold or stormy weaâ€" ther. They are better confined to a roomy house. For frosted wattlcs and combo, cuts 91‘ b'ru-iScs of any kind, keep in "the ~ poultry house an ointment made by ' mixing' a pound of vaseline -or' cosmoline a. teaspebnmi,eachfotrt‘nrs ' pentine, crude petroleum, . oil of ' tar and oil of sassafras. ' ' If you ' - expect. to have a liberal Suppl-y ~~.-of .eggs. look around ignow and secure a special market for strictly fresh eggs. When you get customers of the class you want, such asnppreciate a‘good article and “will pay what it is worth, ro- ligiously fulfil your part of"the con- tract. CEMENT moon. Ta" make a cement floor, fill- - In- w-ith four inches of broken stone or coarse gravel. Mix- one barrel co- ment‘ with eight barrels coarsesand, and then with. water, so it is quite thin. Let this fill all the. openings and" cover the stones to a. depth of one inch. After it sets, and be- fore it dries, put on a coat i to § inch thick, ‘made with one part Portland cement to three parts . of good sand. Trowel this'down per. fectly smooth, and sprinkle it occa- s'onally with water so it (low not dry too quickly. . ---+ iaunnsnmo SAILORSQ’HT ....â€"â€"â€" Cannibals in New Hebrides Attack ".'.TracIing vessels. . ' Mallicalo is the~ second largest is- land" in"“‘the‘ New Hebrides group. which now' belongs to I‘France.” Some. missionaries a while, ago chose this island as a promising field for their work, but “thus far they are great-1y disappointed with the results. , ' None Of the missionaries has yet been harmed by the natives, their imanunity being due perhaps to the liberal price they pay for all the food and other things they purchase; but the natives care nothing for their instructioncand have recently attacked an English trading vessel which stopped at the island to land. a number of “"‘native passengers. Capt. Atkinson, his first mate and several others were killed. A few days later 'the Pearl, another trad-1 ing ship, was also attacked, several of the crew being massacred. .. There is no, doubt that the Engâ€" lish or French will call the Mallicolo- natives to very severe account for their deviltry. These natives have long been rem garded as particularly interesting beâ€" cause they occupy a transitional zone- between the Melanesian and Poly- nesian worlds and the natives con- sequently prcSent a great variety of termixture of the-two races. The. tribal grOups in the island differ greatly, (in appearance, customs and language. When theislands were" discovcrcd the natives went naked or, Wore nothing beyond'a strip of‘ pounded bofrk', leaves or cocoanut. fibre. At present most of the peo- ple use considerable European cotton clot-h for all or a part of their atâ€" tire. ' Cannibalism still survives among- them, though it has disappeared from many other islands. The raâ€" tives have a reputation for ferocity and wickedness, but there is no doubt that they are sinned against. as well as sinning‘. Those who knew Melanesia best say that the- whitcs have been far more treacher- ous and cruel than the natives. Bis/hop Pattesz-on, who was killed on the island of Nukapu in 1871, fell by the hand of a man whom the whites had just robbed of his childâ€" ren. lr‘. Markham has reporte'l that. many of the natives of these islands, such us these who murdered the misâ€" sionary Williams, make use of fireâ€" arms only against the whites, whom they regard as kidnappers. They wmxhl considrr it disgraceful to em- ploy 1130 new \vcapors they have ac- quired in the local Wars between kindred tribes. w -.â€"§._.. Why is a lighted candle like an ex- tinct file? â€"â€"â€" It burns no longer. Why is gas like poetry? -â€" Because the number of feet required we reâ€"~ gulated by the metro (meter). types, according to the extent of in- ~ ar- - raw-ext "‘ Ian-v»