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Canned Tomato Saucc.â€"Peel a dozâ€" en large ripe tomatoes, add a half cup of coarsely chopped sliced ham, half an onion and three tablespoons of hot water; set in a covered sauce- pan on the back part of the range, or over the simmering burner of a gas stove, and cook slowly for from one to two hours. Press through a sieve, add a teaspoon of sugar, a half teaspoon of lemon juice and salt and pepper to the taste. Some Would prefer to have it quite hot with cayenne and others like it more mild. Heat again to boiling and‘seal in small jars, when it will be ready to serve with such dishes as need a tomato sauce when time is too lim- ited to prepare it. Macaroni for Luncheon.-â€"â€"Cook oneâ€" half pound of macaroni in slightly salted boiling water until tender, then drain. Beat the yolks of two eggs, add a tablespoon of melted butter, a saltspoon each of salt and red pepper and two of mixed mus- tard with one cup of sweet cream.- Fill a buttered pudding dish with alternate layers of macaroni, cheese and seasoning, and have the last and top layer of the cheese and seasâ€" oning. Bake in a moderate oven until browned on top and serve hot. French Fried Potatoesâ€"Pare po- tatoes and let them lie in cold wa- ter for an hour. Cut in eighths lengthwise and fry in deep smoking hot lard until a delicate brown col- or and cooked through. Place on browu paper to "drain inside the oven door and when all are cooked sprink- le with salt and serve hot. Lemon Pieâ€"Line a plate with the best paste, pricking it in several places to prevent. blistering while baking. Set in the oven and bake until crisp. Put into a double boilâ€" er the juice and grated rind of one large lemon, one and oneâ€"half cups of boiling water, one and oneâ€"quarter cups of sugar,, three level table- spoons of cornstarch, the yolks of two eggs, and cook until a custard is made. Fill the baked crust with the coo'ked custard and cover the top with the whites of two eggs beaten with one-quarter cup of powdered sugar, and brown slightly in the ov- en. Broiled Steak With Parsley Butter. -â€"I-lave the steak cut thick and dip it in olive oil. Broil on both sides, turning often until cooked through and not dried. Lay in a heated platter and rub over the top with softened butter mixed with finely chopped parsley and a little salt. Chocolate Cream Cakeâ€"Beat yolk of one egg, add one-half cup each of sugar ‘ and milk and two squares of chocolate grated; let it come slowly to the boiling point, stirring all the time. When it thick- ens set aside to cool. Cream one- half cup of butter, add one and one- half cups of sugar and heat, add one-half cup of milk, two beaten eggs, the chocolate mixture and two cups of sifted flour, one level teaspoon of soda and one teaspoon of vanilla. Bake in layers. Do not take from the tins until cool. Spread with a cream filling made from two cups of sugar, ten tablespoons of milk boiled until the thread stage is reached. Add three level tablespoons of but- ter; cool. stirring all the time, and flavor with a teaspoon of vanilla. Unfcrmented Grape Wine.â€"â€"Select ripe, perfect grapes fresh from the the vines; stem, and wash carefully, re- jecting any unsound or imperfect fruit. To every 3 qts. grapes add 1 pt. water; put into a porcelain kettle and heat to boiling. Cook slowly for 15 minutes, and skim carefully. Strain of'f juice, and filter through a. jelly bag until quite clear. Heat again to boiling. Add 1 cup hot sugar to each qt. of juice, and seal in thoroughly sterilized cans or bottles. FOR WINTER WINDOWS . When , frosty nights and howling winds hint of the near apprbach of time when gardens and woodfi Wm be stripped of blossomy beauty and tender greenery, it is well to plan for the keeping of a bit of summer captive all winter long, says Mrs. Henry Wright. Ferns from the rWOOdS tranSpIantcd into good loamy soil will send up their dainty fronds gratefully in the windOWS, and there are many things which will do wen when taken up from the garden. For best results, hoxvever, one must have plants which are more specifically winter bloomers, and mix with them plants as are not too such foliage exacting of conditions. For bloom in the windows, my. ex- perience has taught me to value ox- alis bOWeii, with its immense shamâ€" rockâ€"like leaves, and exquisite pink blossoms. Buttercup oxalis, while not so elegant looking, is a more vigorous grower and bloomer. Linum tryginum is a treasure, covering its leafy branches with golden yellow blossoms in richest profusion, and looking indeed like a bit of prisoned sunshine. Plumag Capensis gives plenty of bracts of dainty blue flow- ers, and callas and all of the Dutch bulbs are desirable. I For foliage, nothing is better than that family of fernsâ€"Nephrolepisâ€"to which belong Bostoniensis, Piersonii and Fureans. Sanseveria Zealanica accommodates itself to almost any conditions, Anthericum isteasy to manage, and Latania Borbonica is the hardiest of the palms, and one of the handsomcst. This list is al- ready comprehensive enough to fill several Windows, but one may sup- plement it with other things just as good. The handsomcst geraniums and cyclamen blooms I have ever seen were grown in the simplest surroundâ€" ings, in a sunny hall window, and near them were perfect specimens of Norfolk Island pine, and strong Easter lilies. One plant was there which ought to be included in every collection, because it looks so Christâ€" masyâ€"the Jerusalem cherry. It is lovely with thick waxen foliage and a wealth of scarlet berries. HINTS TO HOUSEK EEPERS. A housekeeper claims to have dis- covered that bects make a good sub- stitute for apples in minccmeat, and advocates canning them for the purâ€" pose. After the minccmeat is made she says it is hardly possible to tell the difference, save for a red tinge that baked. Borax has a good many uses, espeâ€" cially in the laundry. It is excellent to use in washing flannels, a table- spoonful to six quarts of water. It ‘keeps them soft. It helps hold the color of colored goods, and prevents white clothes from turning yellow. If you have old cans with imperfect tops you can use them without rubâ€" bers if you will run around the seam. » A correspondent says her canned mulberries always spoiled until she took to adding several teaspoonfuls of good cider vinegar to each can, since which they have kept perfectly. To save tomato seeds, choose matoes which when cut open the largest proportion of meat and the smallest of seeds. Scoop out the seeds with a spoon into a sieve, and separate by holding the sieve in water and rubbing the pulp through, leaving the seeds clean and ready for drying. Spread on cloth and expose to sun and air. Keep out of a strong wind,_. as the seeds are light and easily blown away. Ants Don’t Like Thesc.â€"â€"Do you know that oil of cinnamon will ban- ish the little red ants? If they in- fest your refrigerator or cupboard, just put a few drops on a paper outâ€" side. There is no harm from put-- ting the cinnamon inside the cupâ€" board, only it will make the taste somewhat. However, that is preferable to ants. For the little black ants, we have never found anyâ€" thing as good as gasoline. Just fill an ordinary oil can, such as you use for the sewing machine, with gaso- line, and squirt it around the ants’ headquarters. Take care not to al- low fire near it. disappears when the pies are sealing wax to- show food 4‘...â€" ANO'I‘HER BIG INDUSTRY. Wire Company Erecting a Plant to Turn Out 100 Tons of Wire Daily â€"Looking‘ for the Northwest Trade. Whilst wire is an article that is used by everybody, it is amazing how few people know anything about its manufacture. This observation is prompted by the reading of a neat pamphlet entitled “Wire, Its Manu- facture and Uses,” 'circulated free by the Northâ€"American Securities Com- pany, Temple Building, Toronto. It contains a complete history of the wire industry, and a description and half-tone engravings of the various processes and machines used in the manufacture of wire and its immediâ€" ate products, such as wire fencing, wire nails, etc. The book, which is mailed free on application, also conâ€" tains a description of the plant of the Imperial Steel &. Wire Company, Limited, now in course of erection at Collingwood. This company is er- ecting at that point one of the finest wire plants on the continent. .The ultimate output will be 100 tons of wire daily; 500 skilled workmen will be employed, and the ground area covered by the buildings will occupy five acres. This company is offering $40,000 of the first block of $100,- 000 of the company’s stock for sale. The stock is $10 shares cumulative preferred 7 per cent., with a bonus of one share common for every share of preferred. Some $60,000 has al- ready been subscribed. Those inter- ested in the vast industrial progress of this country should send for the pamphlet, and those who have surâ€" plus capital available to invest in the growing industries of the counâ€" try cannot do better than put some of it in sucha staple industry as wire. .___..___§___..._. “Blykins has his own way in his house.” "Yes. But his wi c always tells him what it is going to be beâ€" forehand.’ ' Women of the Cayman Islands Dress the Same as in Crom- well’s Time. “.What splendidâ€"looking claimed a tourist, as he watched half a dozen sailors unloading turt- les from a small schooner anchored in the. harbor of Kingston, Jamaica. Not one of them was less than six feet tall, and two were giants. .Well men 1" ex- built, tanned by the tropical sun. brawny, handsome, frank of coun- tenance, and agile as cats, they looked the ideal sailor. “Don't you know who they are 7” said a Jamaican friend to the tour- ist. “They are Cayman Islanders. No wonder you admire them. I supâ€" pose that, physically and morally, they are about the finest race of men in the world.” The Caymanians, tucked away and isolated from the rest of the world on tiny islands in the Caribbean Sea, between Jamaica and Cuba, have succeeded in establishing that ideal commonwealth of which philosophers and statesmen have dreamed. Crime, immorality and disease are unknown among them; they have just as much civilization as is good for them, and no more; and they hold fast to priâ€" mitive ideas of duty and religion, and practice the old-fashioned virâ€" tues. The Cayman Islands are three in numberâ€"Grand Cayman, Little Cay- man. and Cayman Brac. On the first over a thousand people dwell. and they have even a couple of small towns, called Georgetown and Bod- den Town. On the second there are about a hundred residents, and on the third, a barren rock jutting sharply out of the placid surface of the Caribbean, only a couple of famâ€" ilies dwell. ‘ Unlike the other islands of the West Indies, they are inhabited mainâ€" ly by white people. There are no negrocs in the smaller Caymans, and only a small minority of them in Grand Cayman, and these are RECENT ARRIVALS . The original settlers were 501110 of Cromwell’s Ironsides, and the manâ€" ners and virtues of that stern breed of men survive in their de- scendants to this day. When Cromwell had England and Europe under his heel, he sent out an expedition which captured Jama- ica from the Spaniards. Some of the men in that expedition were vetâ€" erans of Naseby and Marston Moor, and they Were naturally advanced to the highest offices in the new colony. But when Charles II. came to his own again these men found the times out of point. They were "deprived of their oflices and harshly treated by the ,Royalist authorities. Unwilling to "bow the knee to Baal,” they sold their possessions, bought a ship and sailed away to colonize the Caymans and live as they pleased, unhindered by kings or governors. They were another shipload of Pilgrim Fathers. The Caymans were desert islands, occasionally used by buccancers for refitting and provisioning their Ships. The Ironsidcs made short work of these gentry, and had the islands to themselves. They established a patriarchal form of government. till- ed thc ground, built houses and vilâ€" lages, and sailed the neighboring seas in ships of their own construc- tion, They hoisted the British flag, but practically they were an inde- pendent people. Their descendants to-day are nom- inally subject to the Governor of Jamaica, but they make their own laws and govern themselves through elected overseers and vestrymen. All the other colonies in the West In- dies are autocratieally ruled by offi- cials sent out from England, but the Caymanians are as independent as the Canadians or the Australians. Just as they have kept the old English methods of government, so they have kept the old English cusâ€" toms and manners. The women dress like the Puritan maids of Oli- ver 'Cromwell’s time. That is beâ€" cause they never see a foreign wo- man or a fashion paper. Daughters have dressed like their mothers for generations. They have had no other way, and even it‘ they had, a newâ€"fangch idea would-have been frowned upon as A SNARE OF THE EVIL ONE. The spirit of Smiteâ€"Them-lâ€"Iipâ€"andâ€" Thigh Tompkins and his fellows still pervades the little connnonwealth, but it has its advantages, On the other West Indian Islands, from half to twoâ€"thirds of the children are born out of wedlock, and half the population steals the other half’s 'crop. On the Caymans, the morals are of the best, and neither theft nor any other crime is practiced. There is not a single policeman in the archipelago, and no need for one. “What would you people do to one of your number if he or she went wrong?” a patriarc’hial Cayman Is- lander was once asked. “Verily,” he replied, in the grave archaic slow, l speech of his people, however, and by the' advice of my life I haye seen but three others. There was a British steamer many years ago which came here for sup- plies, being out of her course and overdue. Seen afterward a timber schooner, going to Jamaica was blown hither by a hurriCane. The third was an American steam yacht, a few years ago. The owner was rich and great in his own country, so they told me, but he liked our simple ways, and stayed among us for many months." But if the Caymanians do not get many visitors, they do a lot of visâ€" iting themselves. One of their prinâ€" cipal industries is shipbuilding, in which they are experts. Their schooners are the staunchcst and swiftest in the Caribbean Sea, and there are no hardier or more fearless sailors than they. Shippers in all the ports of the .West Indies and the Spanish Main are eager to give them charters. They usually work for themselves, hOWever, catching turtles on the Central American coast. They are the turtle fishers-inâ€"chief to the world. The green turtle soup es- teemed by the Aldermen of London and by the patrons of the best res- taurants in all the cities of the Unit- ed States is placed upon the table through the energy and daring of these simple, plainâ€"living Cayman- ians. Themselves the least luxur- ious of people, they provide the world with one of ITS G REATEST LUXURIES . Turtle fishing is no easy task. Squalls and hurricanes are frequent in the Caribbean, and many a Cay- man sailor has perished with his schooner, or lingered miserably in an open boat under the blazing tropical sky, until he died of hunger and thirst. Innumerable coral reefs and sandbars add to the dangers of navigation, especially along the Ni- caraguan coast, where the turtles are caught as they bas’k upon the beach. The Nicaraguans are another peril. They strongly object to the Cayman- ians catching turtles on their terri- tory and try to mete out to them the punishment awarded to seal poachers in Siberian Waters. The Nicaraguan and British governments are always nagging at one another on the subject, and at the present moment they are engaged in a more than usually bitter controversy over it. But the Caymanians can generally take good care of themselves. Seldom a month passes without their having a fight on the beach with Nicaraguan officials and soldiers. Nine times out of ten the Caymanians Win the battle and carry off their turtles in triumph to their schooner, leaving half a dozen Nicaraguans stunned and senseless on the sand. The Nicaraguan government does not want to have ~any Caynianians killed in these af’frays, lest the Briâ€" tish government should take serious offence, and the soldiers do not, therefore, use their rifles. They try to arrest the Caymanians, whose oars and boat strgtchers are more than a match for clubbed guns. Lately the Nicaraguans have given up their attempts to suppress the fishery, and now they are trying to collect a tax on each turtle caught. But the Caymanians send the tax collectors limping home with bruised shfins and broken heads. After the turtles have been fought for and won, the are taken to Jamaica by the sc iooners, and sold to merchants there, who ship them in ocean liners to New York, Bosâ€" ton, Philadelphia and London. With the money obtained by the sale of the turtles, the Caymanians buy flour, rice, cloth, pork and other supplies for their families and neighâ€" bors at home. Until a few years ago they never used money, but transacted all their business ’by barter. The growth of their turtle fishery compelled them to adopt a currency. Cayman postage stamps have only been used for a year or two, and they are much prized by collectors. The mailsâ€"a new institu- tionâ€"are carried at irregular inter- vals by the turtle schooners. ______._4__ NOT A CENTAUR. King Edward Often Fell Off His Horse. The intenserlove for all kinds of sport by the king of England has by no means rendered him anything approaching a capable performer in any branch'of it himself. He never could learn to play cricket, which, strangely enough, was a peculiarity also of both 'of his brothers, the duke of Connaught and the late duke of Edinburgh. I-I'is majesty has done more than any man in Europe to promote and encourage horse racing, yet he is noâ€" toriously a poor horseman, and durâ€" ing his military career he had many a nasty tumble. In his subaltern days in the crack regiment, the Tenth hussars, he was continually falling out of the saddle, and if it had not been for his rank and posiâ€" tion the riding master of his comâ€" pany would have pronounced him a hopeless failure. No one ever doubted his courage, the “the thought hath never been preâ€" late Queen Victoria, who was made Sent with me. then threeâ€"score years the Lord hath ‘ithe preserved us from that calamity. I know not what we would do. But such an one could not live among us thereafter.” ' I “Do ships often call here and bring you news of the outside .world '2” he was asked. “No,” he replied. “Once in three or four years a British warship com- es hither, bringing the Governor In my life of more acquainted with his incapacity in saddle, he was forbidden to mount anything but' the quietest horse that could be procured. The queen also insisted .that he must take no part in hunting or in any form of sport in which there was an element of danger. W If men were compelled to eat their of words there would be an epidemic of Jamaica on a tour of inspection. In indigestion a: this country. LOSSES IN MANURE. three series of steer experimean were made at the Pennsylvania Experiment Staâ€" tion. comparing the gains obtained from animals kept without tying in a box stall and from those tied as usual in ordinary stalls, the former being watered in the stall, the latter turned out daily to water. The re- sults showed that by the former nie- thod a very large saving in cost of attendance is secured, without any decrease in the gain of live Weight or any disadvantage, as respects the quantity of food required to produce it. The relative economy of the two methods is, however, not fully demâ€" onstrated until the value of the re- sultant manures is known; for these differ materially in the conditions of their preservation. The manure from the box stall was formed upon a cement floor, and was kept under the animals, compacted by their trampling, until the close of the expirement; that from the ani- mals tied in the stalls and watered in the barnyard was, on the con- trary, daily relnolved and stored in a compact heap under conditions closeâ€" ly approximating those of a covered manure shed, except that it was not subject to trampling by the stock. The fertilizing constituents in food and litter, less those used in form- ing new animal tissue, were com- pared with those recovered in the two manures. The comparison is especially interesting because of the increasing use of the covered shed method in Pennsylvania. The trampled manure suffered little loss of fertilizing constituents, though less than two-fifths of the dry matter of food and litter was recov- ered in the manure. The covered shed manure lost one-third of its nitrogen, oneâ€"fifth of its potash, and one-seventh of its phosphoric acid. Only oneâ€"third of the dry matter of food and litter was recovered in the manure. The potash and phosphoric acid losses must be explained by seepage of liquid manure into the clay floor. The loss of nitrogen is, howdver, chiefly due to volatilization of carbonate of ammonia. The money value of the fertilizer constituents lostby the second as compared with the first method, is equivalent to $2.50 for each steer stabled for six months. Therefore, manure, if prepared upOn a tight floor and with such proportion of litter that it can be trampled into a compact mass, loses very little, if any, of its 'fertilizer constituents so long as the animals remain upon it. This method of preserving steer maâ€" nure is therefore distinctly superior to that of the covered shed, though the latter method may not always exhibit as great loss as that observ- ed in this experiment. â€"__.â€"- SILO THE CORN. In 1899-01, feeding My opinion is that it would pay farmers to build a cheap stave silo and convert a portion of their late corn into silage this year, especially if they have young stock on their farms or can procure young stock at reasonable prices to feed this winter, writes Mr. E. D. Funk. I am not yet ready to say that it is the best for older cattle, i.e., feeding cattle, nor have I any thoughts of saying that it is good feed for .them. I have not yet proved that to my owu satisfaction. Through the college of agriculture we have been conducting experiments along that line on our farm and we expect to have some very interesting and valuable figures which will come out in bulletin form when the ex- periment is fully completed. I would not advise going to too much expense in putting up a per- manent silo right at the start, for the reason that what will. suit one farmer will not always be applicable to his neighbor, and therefore We must choose for ourselves”. 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