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.~ vv.-v. .. w: 1:- p. in... -,____i_.L. -_.._.._.__....-_.........,_.,..... ‘in bulk, ready shelled. ' Q’Qéfijéfiééééfiflfi ii退€€ ' a? 93239)»); ....House @wnsasaaaososaofiibois . "l DOMESTIC RECIPES. Salted Almondsâ€"Salted almonds are expensive at 80 cents a pound and it is quite an economy to make them at home. The Jordan almonds are the best (they are the long, slenâ€" der ones), but any kind will do. They can be bought for 50 cents a pound Blanche them by pouring boiling water on them and let stand four or five minutes, then the brown skins will slip off readin between the fingers. Dry them and to each pint of meats al- low two tablespoonfuls of olive oil. Pour oV'er the nuts, toss with spoon or fork 'till well coated, set aside for an hour to let them absorb the oil, then dredge lightly with salt, a tablespoonful to a pint of meats, put into a “bright bakingâ€"tin and set in the oven. Bake till a light gold- en brown; shake the tin frequently to let the nuts brown evenly. They will be done in about ten. minutes. Oyster Saladâ€"Cook for a few min- utes a pint of oysters in their liquor. Drain and cover with this dressing: Beat well two eggs and to them add oneâ€"fourth of a cupful each of milk and vinegar, onehalf of a tea- spoonful each of mustard, celery salt, salt, a dash of cayenne pepper and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Cook in a double boiler until thick. Pour over the oysters and when cold set on ice. Serve on a bed of water cress after mixing with a scant pint of diced celery. ' Rice Crunipets.â€"Deat until light three eggs and then add one and one-half cupfuls of milk, one table- spoonful of melted butter, one cup- ful of cold boiled rice, one cupful of corn flour, half a, cupful of wheat flour, half a tablespoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking powâ€" der. Beat these ingredients well toâ€" gether and bake in greased muffin pans in the oven for twenty minutes. White Fruit Cakeâ€"One cup of butâ€" ter, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two and a half cups of flour, whites of seven eggs, two even teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one pound each of seedless (Sultana) raisins, figs, and. blanched almonds, one-quarter pound of citron, all chopped fine. Mix all thoroughly .beâ€" fore adding fruit; add a teaspoonful of lemon extract. Put the baking powder in the flour and mix well be- fore adding to the other ingredients. Sift a little flour over the fruit beâ€" fore stirring it in. Bake slowly two hours and try with a splint to see when it is done. A cupful of grated m the Excelsior life insurance to. The annual meeting of this company was held at the head offices in the come paiiy’s building on Thursday afternoon. The directors’ report, which was unani- mously adopted, shows a most satisfac- tory increase in each item of the company’s business. During the year the balance of the authorized capital of the company was disposed of at 150, the issue being largely over-subscribed for, tlic_required amount being alloted and paid for within ten days. The amount 01 new insurance issued during the year was $2,238,157, an increase of 88'per cent. The amount of in- surance in force at the end of the year was $7,646,798.35, an increase of $1,- 474,192.85, or 24 per cent. The in- come, excludin capital, was $283,502.- 61. The disbursements were $168,- 286.90, of which nearly $50,000 comâ€" prises payments to policyholders. The company’s death rate for the year was 5.56, the average annual rate since the company commenced business being the unparalleled low one of 8.54. The net assets are $845,671.82, the in- crease being $172,645.80, or 26 per cent. The company's investments have proved extremely satisfactory from the standpoint of both security and pro- ductiveness. The gross assets for se- curity of policyho ders, including un~ called capital, are $1,252,448.20, be- ing an increase of $291,068.58.) It is a. well-known fact that the security af- forded to policyholders by all regular Canadian companies is absolute. but taking the amount of the company's policy contracts into consideration, it will be seen that the extra security Elf- lorded its policyholders is unusually lawn. The reserve fund now totals $7 8,646.81, an increase of $134.29”.- 94, or 23 per cent. The net surplus on policyholders' account is $88,801.89. l‘lie company's sphere of operations has been extended during the year, the com- pany now pushing for business and meeting with good success in every art 1’ the Dominion. It is expected *hat t 9 additional organization effected will result most advantageously to both shareholder and policyholders. The com- pany attributes its continued success to its attractive plans of insurance and liberal policy contracts, coupled with its prominence in respect to those fea- tures of its business in which policy- holders are m0st particularly interested. The directors' report was unanimous- ly adopted. The following gentlemen Were re- elected directors of the company for the ensuing yuanâ€"David Fasken, Esq., B. A., Toronto. President; S. J. Parker, Esq., Owen Sound, and Rulifi Grass, Esq.. Toronto. Vice-Presidents; George Goodcrhum, Esq, Toronto; Thomas . Toronto; John Ferguson, M.A., lfi.D., Toronto; J. i. W. 1353., M.D., L.R.C.P., Toronto; . Mel: arland, E391” Toronto; Alex- Il.A.. ‘oronto; Geo. E. Weir, Es ., resden; W. F. B. Colter, ,, L. .S., Sarnia: Wm. Harvey. E23, B. ., Winnipeg; R. W. Gordon, Esq.,Pembroke; Jos. Wright, Esq., Tor- 0 $0; J. S. Kneelitel, ESQ” Hanover. he company have desirable openings or good men on their Arency sta . hose interested will do wel to com- ‘nunloote with Mr. William Harvey, ‘V 0 Ross w. J’ under Fnskeu stern Manager, Winnipeg, or the Head ce, Toronto. Emulsion. to 'fine crumbs on a pastry board. Add salt to taste, mix the powdered nuts with enough fresh cream cheese to make a. paste that can be easily spread on unbuttered bread.- Keep in a cold, damp place until wanted. Egg Sandwichesâ€"Mash the yolks of hard-boiled eggs to a powder and moisten with olive oil and a. few drops of vinegar. Work to a. paste, and add salt, pepper, and French mustard to taste, with a. drop or two of tabasco sauce. Now chop the whites of the eggs as fine as pos- sible (or until they are like coarse powder) and mix them with the yolk paste. If more seasoning is neces- sary add it before spreading the mix- ture upon sliced graham bread. Persons have been known to gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of Scott’s Emulsmn. It is strange, but IMPORTANT TRIFLES. Your lace or muslin curtains. will keep clean twice as long if you will lift the curtain poles from the brackâ€" ets and lay them, curtains and all, in another room when you are about to sweep, as no dust will settle on them. Every precaution should be taken to keep the curtains clean as long as possible, as it is the wash- ing that wears them out more than the using. Keep plenty of dust sheets and covers. They can be made from partly worn» dress skirts or of any light Weight or much worn piece of soft goods, no matter what the color or material. Cover all the pieces of- furniture that cannot be moved out of the room when sweepâ€" ing, with these covers, and when the dust has all settled, gather them carefully by the corners and carry them out of doors to be shaken. When greasing pans or moulds as well as griddles, a small flat brush should be used; these small brushes can be bought for a trifle, and they are excellent for washing the outâ€" side of glassware that is deeply cut Ifyon havenot trlcdit,scndfor free sample. Its and £01 Cleflimijgtablcs' agreeable taste will surprise you. RICH WARM BLOOD ' SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, Toronto, Ont. __ Absolutely Necessary to Health, Strength Blood Banishes Disease. it often happens. Somehow the ounce pro- duces the pound; it seems to start the digestive machinery going preperly, so that the patient is able to digest and absorb his ordinary food, which he could not do be- fore, and that is the way the gain is made. A certain amount of flesh is necessary for health; if you have not got it you can get it by taking Scott’s cocoanut is a nice addition to this cake. Mutton) V9111$0n Style-‘0.“ cold People with rich, icd blood do not roasted or bOiled mutton in thin feel the cold of wimpy. When vom- slices. Put into the chafing dish four feet are cold you), fingers numb‘ami tablespoonfuls of tomato ketchup, _ f blu’; d manna it 1.; a one tablespoonful of tarragon vineâ€" your.ace. l’ an I ’ ’ - ' - - ‘ certain Slu‘ll that your blood is thin gar, four tablespoonfuls ol currant and you: circulagion Weak. Your lsefiy’ and a ta-blgépqonful Of-buuer' blood needs buildinn' up with Dr. r all these ingiedients until hot. ,, _ , . 1. 1).“? The make Put in sufficient mutton to absorb Wllhams Pm‘ 1 5' y ‘ the sauce thoroughly; add half a tear new blood; they stimulate the cirâ€" spoonful of gait and a sprinkling of culation. The new blood they make pepper_ races through your veins‘to every Imperial Cake.-â€"-â€"One pound of su. part of your body from finger tips gar, one pound of flour, threeâ€"quarâ€" to toes, and makes you warm, hapâ€" ters pound of butter, one pound of py and healthy. Mr. Alphonse La- ‘almonds, blanched and out fine; one- coussiere, St. Leon, Que, says: half pound of citron, oneâ€"quarter lb. “About a year ago «my blood beâ€" candied cherries, oneâ€"half pound of came impovm‘ished and I was badly seeded raisins, rind and juice ~of one run down. My hands and feet were lemon, two pieces of candied orange, alivays cold and I could not stand one “Utmeg: ten 983$ the least exertion. My trouble was Allgel Cakeâ€"Whites of twelve eggs further aggravated by pains in my â€"0r:. measured, 0116 and One-Clual‘tel‘ kidneys and bladder, and often I cups of whites of eggs. Add 0116- could not go about Without aid. I th‘fl‘d Of a tCEISDOODfUI Of salt, and consulted doctors, tut they did not beat until stiff. Sift into this one hejp may and I was almost in de_ and one'flum‘tel‘ CUPS Of gl‘am‘lated spair when I was advised to use 'Dr. sugar, and beat. Have at hand _ one Williams! pink P1113 I got, Six Lox- Cup Of flour that.) 3’9“ have ,Slfted es and before they were all gone I five times? Sift thls 1“ “1‘1,le one knew I had found a medicine to cure teaspoonful of extract of bitter alâ€" me_ I took the pins for about a FnondS’ or any preferred flaYor' Bake month longer and every symptom of in slow oven; and do not glease your mv trouble was gone and I have pan. .” . , ’_ ,, __ , S‘lllce enjoyed the best of health. Vigglfragaenfadagalifisgoldilfo? Dl‘. Williams’ Pink Pills cure after is 5 ' . . . .. ., - u .. to a mixing a tablespoon of mustard, one , of brown sugar, an egg, and a half new iich blood, and so stiengthen a cup of Sweet milk, stir in Slowly all the organs and brace up the with the vinegar and keep stirring P'erf'es- . That .15 the Way they cure till it -boils_ Cut up fine half head of indigestion, kidney and liver trouâ€" bles, rheumatism, nervousness, neuâ€" ralgia, palpitation of the heart, St. Vitus’ dance, partial paralysis and the secret ailments that fill the lives of so many women with misery. Do not take any pills without the full name, “Dr. Williaiiis’ Pink Pills for Pale People,” on the wrapper around each box. Sold by all medicine dealâ€" ers or sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writâ€" ing the Dr. Wiillianis’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. cabbage, season with pepper and salt, and put it into the dressing and let it‘come to a boil. Beet Saladâ€"Equal quantities of beets and red pickled cabbage, and if possibfe a little chopped cold tur- key. Garnish with celery and hard boiled eggs. Dressingâ€"cream, white sugar, and vinegar together. SANDWICHES. Cheese and Lettuce Sandwiches.â€" Slice Boston brown bread very thin, butter lightly, and spread with Neufâ€" chatef or with cottage cheese. Have ready crisp lettuce leaves, dip each in a bowl of French salad dressing, then lay on the buttered brown bread. Press another slice of but- tered broWn bread on this, and the sandwich is ready. These sandwiches must be kept moist until it is time to serve them. Sardine Sandwichesâ€"Lay the sar- dines upon tissue paper for a few minutes to free them from the oil in which they come. Reject all bits of skin or bone and break the sardines to bits with a fork. Work into them a little melted 'butter and a few drops of lemon juice, and spread them upon buttered bread or rolls. Chicken, Nut, and Mushroom Sandâ€" wichesâ€"Mince the white meat of a roast chicken and mix it with half a can of French mushrooms, chopped fine, and a half cupful of chopped English walnuts. Season to taste with pepper and salt and moisten with melted butter. Put the mix- ture between slices of whole wheat bread. Anchovy Sandwichesâ€"Spread thin slices of bread with a very little butter. Cover this with a thin layer of anchovy paste. Mince finely some olives and use for a filling. Waldorf Sandwichesâ€"Toast slices of bread to a nice brown; while hot spread with butter and put between the slices a lettuce leaf, some cold chicken cut in thin slices, a few chopped olives and pickles, some slices of hot, crisp bacon, a layer of _ 45......" DIDN'T COMPLAIN. He was such a Weak and humble little man that when he came into 'the grocer’s to make complaint the assistant was disposed to be haughâ€" ty and imperious. “May I inquire,‘ he said, in a small voice, “if any gentleman li'ere sold my wife some butt-er yester- day?" "I’m the man," brawny fellow. “Oh, excuse me," exclaimed the customer, shrinking-1y; “I meant no offence. The butter is all right, but I wanted to say that three colors of hair in one roll is somewhat iii- congruous. And I just thought I might also add a request that if you could send up a brush and comb with the next lot we should be ever so much obliged. Of course, it was an oversight on your part, and I am not complaining, you understand â€"not complaining. merely suggestâ€" ing.” The assistant‘s face was a study. “Annd,” went on the little man, “I don't think it is quite fair to put tacks at ten cents. the pound in butter at twenty-five :cents, unless you make a discount for difference in weight and prices, or throw in a hammer so that we can draw the tacks upon getting the butter on the table.” The assistant gasped, and still the little man Went on. “Referring again to the hair menâ€" i responded a big, and Comfort â€"â€"Good And the Isn’t it Quite Likely Once Tasted To Please You Whel; It Pleases Millions Of Others, ".i‘fis. .,.. Always Used. Black, Mixed or Green. Highest Award St. Louis l904. Sold only In lead Packets. By all Grocers. objection. In the old times read that Samson had long hair and a great deal of it, and your butter ,forcign competition, and this has rights our entire family is bound to respect. Our only regret was that you did not send it up in a cage.” The assistant had now fallen against the counter. Still the little man paid no heed. “I might possibly,” he continued, gently, "touch upon its age, but I have reason to suspect. that this but- ter is made from milk, and that the milk came from a. cow, and that the cow is a female. Now, I have been taught from my youth upwards to abstain from all references to age in relation to all female kind. Thereâ€" fore I shall say no more except that the phrase. ‘feeble old age,’ does not in the remotcst degree apply to this case. "I wish" you’d send up to the house a pound of soda, four bars of soap, a packet of starch, and fourteen pounds of sugar. My wife asked ,me to leave the order, and she said she’d look round herself and see about the butter. Good morning!” little out. ._...._+..__._. WILL REVIVE ENGLISH GLASS Newly Inverted Pot Arrives at Right Time . I: At an opportune invention has just land to regain trade. glass have been be done. But to explain. furnace. But up these pots have been hours and longer before the working the pots overnight lost money. The new Vices it is simple. Messrs. Jules Lang of glass. and thus kept going day and night. The - Lung pot glass, and it is placed in the race in such a two necessary Opflll‘lllg'SF-thu and the- arch man walked meekly momentâ€"when the glass industry of England is go- ing from bad to worseâ€"a remarkable been patented which, it is hoped, will enable Eng- much of her lost The small manufacturers of practically wiped out owing to their inability to stand the strain of paying workmen for the long hours in whiéh no work can The materials of which glass is composed are put in what is technically called a pot, and this pot, or crucible, is placed in a to the present so fashioned that workmen have to wait eighteen metal can be drawn for practical purposes. In some cases even as long a time as fortyâ€"eight hours has elapsed, and it is a common occurrence for workâ€" men arriving in the early hours of the morning. with the intention of metal melting in the to find that they have to wait for a few hours before they can commence. All this means invention prevents this loss of time, and like all clover de- The inventors, & Son, have thoroughly tested it, and have pro- duced glass beautifully clear and as refined as it is possible to be. The Lang pot, by an ingenious arrangcâ€" pcarline Suds prepare-d cspcciauy for nient, permits an uninterrupted flow the work can be holds a ton of openingâ€"can appear. we With this pot a small manufacturer will be able to hold his own against year lshould witness a great revival in the English glass industry. BABY’S OWN TABLETS. A Pleasant Medicine Which All Children Will Take Readily. You do not have to coax and threaten to get the little ones to take Baby’s Own Tablets. The case with which they are given as com- pared with liquid medicines will ap- peal to every mother. None is spill- ed or wasted; you know just how big a dose has reached the‘ little stomâ€" ach. As a remedy for all the ills of babyliood and childhood arising from . derangements of the stomach and bowels Baby’s Owu Tablets have no equal. Mrs. E. A. Jewers, Mitchell Bay, N.S., sayszâ€"“I think the tab4 lets a blessing to both mother and children as I find them a certain cure for all the ills to which little ones are subject. I do not know how I could get on without them.”- Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 250 a box by addressing the Dr. Wil- liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. .+_.__.... When a Sheet has become too much. worn to be used upon the bed the corners are often quite strong and a very good pair of pillow slips may be made from these pieces. Cut from each corner a piece large enough for one side of a pillow case and the four pieces will make one pair of cases and it takes only a few min- utes to sew them neatly on the machine. Bodies and napkins made from flour sacks are convenient and easy to make. ' The cloth is loosely woven and the heinstitching is quickly done at odd moments; you can cut them any size you want and the small cloths, such as tea and tray cloths are a great saving to the table cloth. no.“ AN INCREASE OF 24 P.C. We are publishing in this issue the Annual Statement of the Excelsior Life Insurance Company, which shows a decided increase over the business of former seasons. That the amount of Insurance in force at the end . of the year showed an increase of 24 p.c. is an advance of which the Excelsior may well be proud, and we extend to them our congrat- ulations. g If the colors in the embroidery of any of your pretty centerpieces have become faded from careless was-hing they can often be brightened by dip- ping them in weak ammonia water. The small cloths should always be washed by themselves in a warm them, and the all white pieces are improved by soaking over night in the su‘ds, but the nice embroidered pieces should be washed, rinsed and Tm” ironed as quickly as possible, and manner that only everything should be ready for the mouth completion of the work when it is commenced. dication of liver troubles. When the liver the blood and poisons the. system. The tongue is coated. You have attacks of headache. paired. Th ere are the left shoulder blade. els alternate. temper is bad. Pills. This Wellâ€"knOWn direct and specific liver, enlivening it in its work health and vigor. In a wonderfully short time Dr liver right and symptoms of liver salad dressing, another lettuce leaf, tiOHOd pl‘eViOUSW.” he said. “Per- . and the other side of the toast, mit me to say that 1 find no fault gestion, biliousness and Peanut Sandwichesâ€"Shell and skin with its quality or its length. The tion. ‘ incongruity of color was the only freshly roasted peanuts and roll them Biserd m: of Biliousnoss, Stomach Troubles, Bowel Derangements Dls_ appear When the Liver is Regulated by DR. CHASE’S KlDNEYâ€"LEVER PELLS Pale, muddy complexion is an inâ€" ilcial sluggish the “bile poison” is left in ed and invigorated and the whole machinery of digestion set in per- feelings of oppression have been about the stomach and pains under the Crow’s Nest Pass branch of the action on the made me well again. of Dr. Chase's Ointment for eczema last filtering the blood and restoring its summer. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills set the overcome all the Cents a box, at all dealers, or Ed- complaint, indiâ€" manson, Dates & Co., Toronto. The constipaâ€" portrait and signature of Dr. .A. W. as Ms results are obtained by using Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills. The gets torpid and liver, kidneys and bowols are cleansâ€" whole fect working order. Mr. R. B. Dixon, 0., “'l‘lLOSIâ€"HI McGillivray, B. have found Dr. Appetite is fickle and digestion iinâ€" Chase‘s Kidnethiver Pills to be exâ€" actly what I needed. Since 1807 I on the construction of C. P. 12., employed in all capacities Constipation and loosenes-s of boW- and exposed to all kinds of Weather. I contracted a severe cold, then pain The spirits are depressed and the across the back, and owing to the hard fare we sometimes had to live The most satisfactory regulator of on, the liver got sluggish and out the liver is Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liver of Working order. Dr. Chase’s Kid- ney-Liver Pills seemed to be the very medicine has a treatini'ent I needed, and they have I also used It cost only sixty cents a. box, but was worth $60. ,The cure was complete.” Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills, 25 Chase, the famous receipt book 1111.. Not relief merely, but lasting bene- thor, are on every box.