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l “stwwgg; Al i About the a A: v A. i ....House v A Qabaeaasessrosasssaaaaâ€" A WORD OF CHEER. There are weary feet That we often meet, [In paths We frequent here, Whose steps Would lighten Would we but brighten Their Way with a word ofcheer. There are loads of care That full many bear 'As they wend their toilsome way; But forms would strengthen And lives would lengthen If a kindly word we’d say. There are woes untold I Which the heart may hold, And bear with a secret grief; But, oh, how often Might trials soften By sympathy's swaet relief! If a sunny smile Would beam the while That the frownsof life yinust chill, How much of sadness Might yield to gladiiess As the soul of love would thrill! Do not count it lost, 'Tis of little cost .When some heart may yearn to hear That precious token Of kindness spoken That comes with the word of cheer. DOMESTIC REcIrEs. Deviled, Oystersâ€"Drain the oysters and lay them 'for a time in lemon Juice and melted butter seasoned with red pepper. Then 'dip in bread crumbs, then in beaten egg. and agaln in crumbs, and fry in deep lard. 'A nice supper dainty for the "R" months. Creamed Mushrooms on Toast.â€" Make rounds of soft bread, half an .inch thick, and toast one side. Lay the untoasted sides uppermost on a flat tin or plate; spread with very thick cream, season with salt and paprika or a very little cayenne, lay a large mushroom, peeled on each round, fill with the cream, seasoned, and covering the dish set it in the oven for twenty minutes. Only coun- try folk can get cream thick enough to make this dish as delicious as it may be. To cook bacon 9r any kind of salt pork, cut into slices and put over the fire in a, frying pan, with enough water to cover the meat. If the meat is old, add 2 or 3 spoonfuls of good vinegar to the water. Cover the pan and let parboil for five minutes or longer. Now pour off the water and set the pan (without cover) Over a brisk fire or in a hot oven. Turn the meat often and cook until quite crisp. Breslau .Beefâ€"One pint cold cooked meat chopped fine, yolks of 3 eggs, g cup bread crumbs, 1 cup milk, % cup stock or its equivalent, 2 table- spoons butter, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well, put into small cups or molds, place in a pan of hot wa- ter and bake in moderate oven one- halfâ€"h'our. Serve on platter with sauce poured over them, made as follows: One cup tomatoes strained, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour. Cook until well thickened, season with salt, pepper and a dash of allslpicez Don’t think you are justiâ€" fied in being laid up with a cold half the winter merely- because it’s the season when everybody is supposed to At first a cold much have colds. may not amount to but it is likely to hang on long enough to give you trouble if it is not stopped with fall’s Earlsiu. . These colds that hang on weaken the throat and lungs and make the way easy for pneumonia and perhaps con- sumption. It is just as well to reduce the chance as much ‘ as possible. Scott’s Emulsion soothes, heals and cures a cold and does it quicklyâ€" that’s a good point to re-_ member. . ill send Vyou a little to try ifyou like. COT’P' BOWNE. Toronto, Ont. ' Partly cook this in the oven, follows: “Apples, onions, flesh and dough make as good a pie as any I know." According to this these are the ingredients for a savory pie. Put a layer of fresh young pork in a deep baking dish, season with pepper, salt and a, little powdered sage. Then add a layer of apples and onions chopped together, another layer of pork, and so on until the 'dish be full, finishing with the pork on top. then take it out and cover with a light paste, replace it bake a light brown. Cake Shortcakeâ€"One scant cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of cold water, one egg, two cups of flour, three teaspoons of baking in the oven and powder. Rub the sugar and butter to a, cream; sift the flour and baking powder together; beat the egg stiff without separating; add the egg to the sugar and butter, put in the waâ€" ter and flour a little at a time, stirr- ing steadily. Bake in layer tins. [Put crushed berries between the lay- ers and whole berries on top as be fore. Lemon J e11y.-â€"Oneâ€"half box of gela- tine, one-half cup of cold water, two cups of boiling water, one cup of juice of three lemons, and sugar, Put the three scrapings of the rind. gelatine into cold water and soak one hour. Put the boiling water, the sugar, and the scrapings of the peel on the fire and stir till the sug- ar diSSolves. Take it off and stir in the gelatine, and mix till this, too, dissolves. When it is partly cool turn in the lemon juice and strain through a flannel bag dipped in water and squeezed dry. Put in a pretty mold. By way of variety apple juice may be used instead of the two cups of water, and only one lemon. The juice from apples boilâ€" ed and strained as for jelly. 'Apple parings are quite as good as the whole fruit. Homemade Wedding Cakeâ€"Dissolve a large teaspoonful of soda in two tablespooniuls of warm water and add it to half 9, pint of thick sour cream. Beat well, then turn into a bowl in which you have blended half a pint of brown sugar, half a cup of butter, a tablespoonful each of cinâ€" namon and allspice, and a teaspoon- fu1_ of grated nutmeg, with a cup of New Orleans molasses. Add gradualâ€" ly three and a half cups of sifted pastry flour. The batter should be quite thick and still. Have ready a. pound of raisins, stoned and halv- ed quarter of a pound each of sliced citron and cleaned Currants, an ounce of chopped lemon peel. Flour these ingredients well and stir lightly into the batter. Turn into a large round pan lined with greased paper and bake in a. very moderate oven an hour an a half. When perfectly cold remove from the pan and ice with a plain boiled frosting flavored with orange. Let this become hard and firm before adding the decorations, which are of frosting applied through a paper funnel. ,â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€" FEW SUG GESTIONS.. Every housekeeper knows how the sun rots the lace curtains that are exposed to its full strength in sum- mer In rooms exposed to full light and sunshine and in upstairs rooms, the daintly spriggcd dimities‘, sold for summer gowns and often to be bought for “from ten to fifteen cents a yard at the midsummer sales, are of much service when made up for curtains. ,They are fresh and dain- ty, launder well, and are perfectly suited to the season. For use in summer cottage, or the sittingroom and upstairs room of a farm home they are pretty and appropriate. The dining-room of a farm house, through the windows of which the sun streamed brightly, were curtainâ€" ed in winter with draperies of un- bleached muslin lined with oil-boiled Turkey red calico and bordered with an oriental striped cotton in which red predominated. The effect of the sunlight on this color was almost as cheerful as that. of' an open fire. The red was placed next the glass. and as the big bay window occupying al- most the whole end of the room was on the side of the house, the color was unobjectionable. And anyway, we live on the inside of our houses don't we? Sometimes where there is a cluster of three or more windows one is puz- zled to know how to curtain them. A good way is to put a short val- ance over the middle window or win- dows and straight breadths hanging plain from the end ones. 'All kinds of cheap materials are employed by the who has more‘taste and time than money. The possibilities of crash, the common kind used for dishtowels have been discovered by a woman zwho wanted to curtain the secondâ€" bcst spare bed-room cheaply. There Were two long, rather narrow winâ€" dows. For each she got twice'the length she wanted in the cheapest and coarsest crash she could _find, 'faggotted them together with coarse cotton, edged them with little balls made of the same cotton and sewed on two inches apart, then as they were for a blue room, dipped them in a very deep and dark indigo water which gave them a pale blue tone. A friend who beheld the result achieved other results out of the same simple material. She put her breadths together with a cotton tor- chon insertion at five cents a, yard, and edged them with lace to match at the same price. To make the lace the color of the crash she dipped it in strong coffee. The wetting not only colored the lace, but shrunk it, so that crash and lace ironeld evenly after washing. She made a, spread for the little single iron bed in the same lfashion, An English Squab Pieâ€"In the west of old England runs an old saw as Ingemous woman they are to be maintained in future. using 'five strips of the crash. As the lace was put in on the machine the work was done in an afternoon. For a. spread it is wise to use a, betâ€" ter quality of‘ crash, and if the strips are put together with crochetâ€" ed or knitted insertion one has some- thing pretty durable and unusual. REMOVING STAINS. Oilâ€"Colors, Varnish, and Resin-.â€" TurLentine or benzine, then soap and water. Vegetable-Colors, Wine, Fruits, and Red Inkâ€"Sulphur fumes, or a hot solution of chloride 0f lime. _ Nutgalls‘ Ink and Iron-Rustâ€"Oxahc acid selu-tion or bruised sorrel leaves, each over steam. Other Inksâ€"New milk, ripe toma- toes, or turpentine. Tannin and Green Nutshells.-â€" Bleaching lye or hot chloride water. Tar, Waggonâ€"Grease, and Fats.â€" Lard 'or turpentine, followed by soap and Water. Acids (vinegar, sour fruit).â€"For cottons, boiling poured through; for woollens, ed ammonia. Alkalis (Lime and Lyc).-â€"For cot- tons, simply washing; for woollens, greatly diluted citric acid. Blood and Albuminous Spotsâ€"Teâ€" pid solution of one tablesp-oonful of kerosene to one gallon of water. If old, use iodide of potassium diluted with four times its weight in water. Machine Oil.â€"Tepid rain water with soap or baking soda. Mildew, Peach and Plum Stains.â€" Chloride solution. Stains on China, G-raniteware, and Tinwareâ€"B-aking soda. The chloride of lime solution is made as follows :â€"â€"-Dissolve two tablespoons of chloride of lime in one pint of hot water; strain, then add Soak the stains wine, and water dilutâ€" one gallon of water. antil they disappear, then boil the goods. For the oxalic acid solution, use three ounces of oxalic acid crystals to one pint 0f water. Wet the stains with the solution over steam or in the sunshine, and wash immediately in weak ammonia solution (one table spoonful of ammonia to one quart of water) to counteract the acid, then rinse well. Always experiment first on a. scrap of goods on which you have made a. similar stain. +_._.__ A REMARKABLE RECORD w Baby's Own Tablets have a markable record. All over the reâ€" land you will find mothers who will tell you this medicine has saved the lives of their little ones. When you give Baby’s Own Tablets to your children you have a, guarantee that you are not stupefying them with poisonous soothing stuffs. No other medicine for children gives this guar- antee, and no other medicine safely cures all such ills as colic, indiges-i tion, constipation, diarrhoea and teething troubles. The Tablets not only cure these troubles, but an ocâ€" casional dose given to a. well child prevents them. Mrs. G. A. Sawyer, Clarenceville, Que, says: “I have used Baby’s Own Tablets for my little girl and find that they are the very best medicine I can give her.” Try the Tablets for your childrenâ€"â€" they will not disappoint you. Sold by medicine dealers 01' sent by mail at 25 cents a, box by writing the Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. .__.___+___.__... ENGLISH ARl‘dY BANDS. Government Allowance Inadequate to Keep Them. Up. The threatened extinction of miliv tary bandsâ€"in the present form, at any rateâ€"is to be deplored, if only for the reason that the big drum is the best recruiting agent that the army possesses, says the Pall Mall Gazette. It is undoubtedly the case that the inspiring crash of the brass and shrill whistling of the flies acâ€" companying a regiment on the march have done more to arouse martial enâ€" thusiasm in the hearts of the proâ€" spective soldiers than all the Govern~ ment placards put together. The average aspirant for military glory reads the well-known “Free Kit” and remains calm; to hold out against the roll of the drum, however, is quite another thing. For a long time past the Pall Mail has looked with disfavor on military hands. This has now culminated in the decision of the War Office to isâ€" sue a new set of rules under which These have occasioned consternation broadcast, for when they come into effectâ€"somewhere about the end of Julyâ€"it will be found quite impos- sible to carry on the bands in any~ thing like their present state of efâ€" ficiency. The principal reason for this is, first, because the numerical strength is to be cut down to a more 21 in each instance; and, secondly, be- cause the financial support hitherto accorded to a band by the commis- sioned ranks is to be withdrawn alâ€" together. Accordingly, a regimental band will have to exist as best it may on its Government subsidy of £160 a year. when it is remembered that this Works out at less than £4 a week, the futility of the proceeding needs no further laboring. Although the authorized “estab- lishment of a military band has for many years past been 21, and it is for this number that instruments have been provided officially, it has been the practice of every regiment to add to this considerably. The cost of doing so has been borne by the officers, all above the» rank ,of subaltcrn contributing for the purâ€" health and Luxury headlined. CEYLON NATURAL GREEN TEA. is so pure it can be drunk with impunity by confirmed dyspeptics, and to their benefit. It will displace Japan tea. just as “SALADA” Black is displacing all other black teas. all grocers. Lead packets only. 25c and 400 per lb. By .._- _» _'â€"'â€"â€""‘_â€"“ “W‘me pose one day's pay a month. this system that the authorities Pall Mall are now going to knock on the head. lArmy bands in future to be Conducted in the “regulation”i manner or not at all. The latterl contingency is the sure and certain! fate of those belonging to practically {Woman about all the "crack" corps. Take the, case of the Grenadiers or streams, for example. tainsâ€"and them for proper upon themâ€"thirtymine musicians, in addition to the afficial twentyâ€"one. requ i res It is so that robbery was evidently in motive of the outrage. Coldâ€" | tri an for the In the Transvaal may now be seen aremiany beggars who disdain to walk, and travel over the country on ex. cellent bicycles. strong, healthy, goodâ€"looking yOUng The other day a twenty years of age got oli‘ her bicycle and asked a pedesâ€" some money, saying that Each mainâ€" her parents were very poor and had the fourteen children, whom they found it discharge of the calls made very difficult to support. On the famous bird island of Layâ€" san dWCll great numbers of the white Without such aid it would be impos- tern, which lay their eggs in the sible to perform half the pieces in most extraordinary places. They their programmes. Again, if they {Seem to love to balance them. on the l were not available, there would be no one to take the places of men’ temporarily off duty. At present a proportion of these “extras” are alâ€" ways under training, and are drawn upon to fill up the constant vacancies due to- discharges, etc. ...___.._+_..____.. HERE AND THERE . Notes of Interest From the World’s Four Corners. zegulations against young girls wearing corsets are contemplated by the German Minister of Edllc.tl.l.(nl. Washing is done in Japan by getâ€" ting into a boat and letting the gar- ments to be washed drag after the boat by a long string. The railway companies of England and Wales employ between them 312,â€"} 000 men. The Scottish and Irish; companies employ 40,000 men be- tween them. Snakes in Australia are now being systematically reared for the sake of their skins, which have a considerable commercial value in London, PariS, and New York. The latest fashion in New York Soâ€" ciety is for a girl to have two en- gagement rings. The first is given to her when she says “Yes” and the other when the engagement is anâ€" nounced. ‘ No fewer than thirtyâ€"five thousand people succeeded in eluding the vigilâ€" ance of the Russian railway officials last year, and travelled on the Trans- Caucasian Ilailway without paying a‘ny fares. Owners of vicious dogs in Dresden have just been informed by the post office that. unless they remove them at once, there will be no further dp‘ liveries of letters. This is done to save the cost of the leather leggings which the Government had to proâ€" vide for the postmen. Many Eskimo bands in Northern Canada have been decimated by measles, and in some cases entire bands Were destroyed. The Eskimos have pursued the same practice that the Indians adopt when afflicted with the diseaseâ€"lying in snowbanks to get. cool while the fever is raging, A Burmese woman was reclining in a thirdâ€"class compartment of a train near Sitkwin, in India, with one arm hanging out of the window, when someone passed along the footboard and cut the limb clean off, apparently I with a sharp sword. The lost ‘hand was covered with rings and bangles,l ma >_._._____ New Vigor Edit. 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If you had the tonic would work all right. What more car.- you expect?’ ’ for HAD MADE A CHANGE. “Isn’t there something in my poâ€" licy,” asked a caller at an insurance office he other day, “about me ‘having to report any change of resiâ€" dence.’ ” “Yes, sir,” said the man at the nearest desk, picking up a pen. “Where have you moved to?" “I haven’t moved anywhere,” re- joined the caller. “l have made a change in my residence by painting lit a light straw color and putting a the kitchen chim- Good day!” chimney-pot on I think that’s all. ney. A BIG ADVANTAGE. “Yes, sir,” he said proudly, “I began life as a bareâ€"footed boy, and see where I am now.” “Yes, you are Well up in life. But you had a big advantage at the start." “How so?” “You began life a. bare-footed boy;‘ the rest- of us began life as bare« footh babies." ‘ Teacherâ€""What is the meaning of 'parvenu’?" 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I‘ have a copy of Dr. Chase’s Receipt Book and would not part with it for $50 if I could net get another.”' Test the extraordinary upbuildingg power of Ifr. Chase's Nerve Food,2 50 cents a box, at all dealers, or Ed-l manson, Dates & Co., Toronto. The: portrait and signature of 1.79. W.‘ Chase, the famous receipt book tho-r, are an every box. I