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' close, even rows. Séfiéééégéééééfififlfiéflfiéiéafi(sac or pocket in the gum, and, the i 1 Al coonfifiéfi§e [A3 i ! @snmfiaeewee' s‘seseesbg‘l WAYS oncsmc APPLES. The necessity of fruit, all the year round, as part of the daily diet, is generally acknowledged. Among fruits the apple is given the first place. Eaten raw, there is no betier :stimulant for a sluggish liver, and the liver is as important in the scheme of living as .the ten com- mandments. lle bilious and be a vil- lainâ€"one is the natural sequence of the other. Eat apples. and you will be both happy and goodâ€"you can‘t possibly help it. ’l‘hink,of Eve as the exception that proved the rule. A lover of the deliciou‘ spheres, bit.â€" ing into the spicy heart of a fine. one, sees a very brilliant silver linâ€" ing to the cloud his Snalâ€"zeship cast over Paradise, at all events. Without applesâ€"one shudders to think of the howling waste! With applesâ€"one can answer satisfactorily at any season, the vexing old conâ€" undrumâ€"~“what shall we have to eat?” " 'Apples fried in butter or pork fat are nice for breakfast, or with a roast of pork for dinner. ' Red ones of a size, scooped out neatly, make pretty. cups for a salad. These applecups may be filled with a mixture of cold, chopped lneat and bread crumbs, seasoned to taste, soften with melted butter, and baked. Tart apples, combined with celery .and walnuts make a. salad fit for the gods, and beside which their ambros- in would be insipid. The Very nicest way to bake them is to select the sweet ones, core :them and fill with a mixture of suâ€" gar, butter and chopped nuts, flavâ€" ored with cinnamon. Pour a. little water around and bake carefully. To make 'porcupino apples’ just stick them full of shredded and blanced almonds. The “apfel juchen" of our German sistersâ€"~well, you never tasted anyâ€" thing better. Try this recipe. Mix n. good tablespoonl’ul of butter into two cups of flour, in which you have sift-ed two teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder and a teaspooni‘ul of salt. Beat well one egg, and fill up the cup with milk. Grease a large, shallow pan, and spread the dough about half an inch thick have pared, cored and quartered apples ready, and press them into the dough in Sprinkle well with sugar and cinnamon, and bake in a moderate even half an hour. This is excellent for the little folks, and good hot or cold. It you are looking for an Indian apple pudding, let your quest end right here. Take one' half of a cup of molasses, one quart of milk, one teaspoonful of salt, three scant cups of pared and sliced apples, to which you will add a quarter of a teaâ€" SPOOHIUI of ginger and cinnamon. When the milk boils in the double boiler, pour it slowly on the' meal. Cook half an hour in the boiler, stirring often. Now add the other ingredients; pour into a deep, well greased pudding dish and bake slow- 1y. Eat with cream or apple syrup. Apples are delicious stewod in a rich syrup and when cold covered with a meringue, sprinkled with nutâ€" meats and slightly browned. Gelatine previously dissolved, may be added to the syrup while still warm. Turn into a ring mould. At serving time fill the centre with sweetened whip- ped cream, with or without nuts. These jellied apples should be servad ice cold. Evaporated apples stewad are improved by adding raisins in ,the proportion of half a cup of rais- ins to a half pound of apples. Flav- or with lemon. 'A pie not like that his ‘ mother __used to make, and perhaps not even to his way of thinking, an improve- ment, is built as follows: Line the pieâ€"plate with a... best crust you can make and 'fill with pared apples, cut in. eights. Sweeten well and dredge with cinnamon and flour. Pour over all one-half cup of rich cream, or the same amount of made custard. Top of‘i I-Iubby’s din- ner with a quarter section of this pic, and see how quickly the where- withall for your new hat will be forthcoming. Bake with a. top crust or heat with meringue or whipped cream, as you prefer. HINTS FOR YOUNG MOTHERS. Mothers should remember that it is ‘of great importance to look well to a child's first teeth, as well as to his second set. The seCOnd are likely to be infected by decay of the first set, and dentists fully recogn‘se the necessity of looking well to the early teeth. A tooth grows from a little munâ€"w“ Those who are gaining flesh and strength by regular treatâ€" ment With E l l l E Scott’s Emulsren i should contlnuethe treatment : | I l I l l I In het. weather: smaller dose and a little cool milk wlth it wlll do aWay with any obiec'cion which Is attached to fatty pro- ducts durlng the season. Send for free sample. SCOTT 8: BOWNE, Chemists. Ontario. heated Toronto, .,5oc. and $1.00; all drugglsls. l I I l l l 3 -ed as if to carry out the orders of] Second teeth being developed close to the first ones, it is only natural Ab t the Aglto believe that the milk teeth will (A; have a good chance of affecting their successors. During warm weather milk for children should always be boiled be- fore using, To do this, heat about 170 deg. Fahrenheit, and keep at this temperature for about thirty minutes. This precaution is especialv 1y necessary when an epidemic of any kind is prevalent, as infection is carried more quickly by milk than in almost any other way. Babies are generally very thirsty when teething, but do not constantâ€" 10W mm‘aUder- ly give them milk to drink. Cold boiled water is much better for Quenching the thirst, and, as a rule, babies are not given nearly enough. Milk is a food, not by any means a thirst quencher. A doctor, writing to the ‘Lancet,’ advoCatc-s the use of sleeping sacks for. children, with arms and a button at the neck, instead of a nightdrcss. 'l‘hd child could not walk about in a sack, and, therefore, could not get to a. fire and ignite its clothes, for it would be naked. One defect of or- dinary nightdresses is that a restâ€" less child kicks off the bedclothes and rolls up the nightdrcss under its arms, leaving its legs and half its body exposed. The nursery should he the sunniest room in the house, but do not choose a top room unless it is absolutely unavoidable, as the ceilings are gen- erally lower than in other rooms, and being close to the tiles are terâ€" ribly hot in summer.‘ Children are like flowers: unless they get plenty of air and sunlight they cannot be really healthy, and, as microbes flourish in dark rooms, this is an additional reason that the children's domain should be flooded with light. A Flfiiil" Til flit: FiiiiSll BATTLE BETWEEN BIG "RED ANT AND SPIDER. The Ant Overcomes Great Difficul- ties and. Earns His Dinner. I was confined to my bed in Manila I’hillipine Islands, with dengue feVer, writes a traveller. Through my mosquito bar I watched the red ants explore the craZy old Spanish floor with its gaping seams which the heat of the dry season in the Philippines had opened up. Every morning an army of the litâ€" tle scavengers came briskly out from their nest of clay built up someâ€" where behind the partition and de- ployed over the floor in search oil anything dead or alive that might serve them as food. At first as I watched them they seemed to work at random. Then one afternoan when the sun- light was exceptionally bright I noticed an ant considerably larger and longer limbed than his fellows moving leisurely across the floor and pausing frequently to look about hinn. During one of these pauses two ants hurried up to him from opâ€" posite .directions. . The three seemed to hold a consul- tation, and presently the two retir- their commander. For fully a half hour the big ant continued to move leisurely about, inspecting here a body of ants as their toiled at a. bit of chicken that had fallen from my plate, there a couple that were devising some scheme to get a kernel of rice across a. crack that stretched like a great canon between them and their for« tress behind the partition, and in still another quarter a trio tugging at a green bug that was not yet dead and that clung tenaciously to A BAMBOO SPLINTER. In every instance the little fellows redoubled their efforts at the op proach of their commander, but in the case of the green bug with no satisfactory results. For fully a. minute the big ant watched the efforts of his fellows, and then, as if in dlsgust at their puniness dashed upon the prey, scatâ€" tering the three toilers in as many directions, and seizing the bug by a wing quickly jerked it from its posâ€" ition and started off across the floor at a great rate of speed. Presently the big ant, with his now feebly struggling captive, reach- ed the widest crack in the flour; to the other ants a yawning gulf, to cross which they were obliged to make a detour of half the length of the room. But the captain had no idea. of squandering his time in this way. "Approaching the brink. he sudden- 1y swung himself round with a whirling motion that threw his hind legs high in air, and as they deâ€" scended they just touched the further side and his feet took a firm hold, As the bug dropped out of sight it looked for a moment as if the ant would be drawn after it, but the hind feet held last, and presently the. captain emerged triumphant his booty, starting off in a bee line for the clay house behind the partiâ€" tion. All went well till he came to with- in two feet of a pool of vater’that the servant had spilled upon the floor when filling the empty tomato cans under the legs of the dresserâ€"a necessary precaution to keep the ants from climbing up and taking possession. The captain scented the water from afar, rose up and in- spected it till he was satisfied that it was impassable, and then >egan a WIDE DETOUR TO THE RIGHT. This movement took aim to sprang round v; i th I the rangg of my vision, and a mo- ment later I was surprised to see him beating a hasty retreat, tugging frantically at the bug, much as de- feated soldiers tug at a field piece to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy. Suddenly the ant stopped and defiantly in front of the bug, and the next moment I saw ,a gray spider (the variety which us- lually travels with huge bounds like a. flea) approaching warily. It shot liorward a few inches. paused, shot forward again, and then seemed to debate the advisability of attempt- ing to capture the bug from his fel- The debate lasted only a. moment. The ant’s courage evidently failed him at the near approach of his big antagonist, and in a sudden panic of fetch-ho retreated behind the bug. Like a flash the spider leaped upon the choice morscl, and hurrying away with it to one of the tomato cans under a. leg of the dresser mounted to the edge and began leisurely to devour his prize. For a time the ant seemed frantic with grief and rage. Ile dashed aimlessly about looking for the bUg. as if he could not believe that he had really been robbed. As the fruitless search continued he seemed to become more and more excited, chasing about in big, zigZag loops as if demented. rThen of a. sud- den he paused on the very spot where he had been robbed, and after what Seemed to be a. moment‘s reâ€" flection started off on the TRAIL OF THE ROBBER. The spideu recognized its enemy from afar, and dropping the partly devoured bug into the water, ran around to the farther edge of the tin. The ant seemed quite to have reâ€" gained liis selfâ€"possession now, and reaching- the can climbed deliberately up, and raising his head cautiously over the edge located the object of his visit. Quick as thought the spider was upon him, and for a moâ€" ment there was a confused blur of shifting gray and red, as the tw0 fought desperately on, the jagged edge of the can; Suddenly there was a tiny splash, and a moment later I saw the two struggling in the water. The spider made spasmodic efforts to climb up the smooth side of the can, but the ant, far more active in the water, always dragged it back. In a. few moments the spider doubled up cou- vulsively and lay, a still gray ball, “upon the surface of the water. The ant, with the dogged pcrsis~ tency of his race, fished out of the water what remained of the green bug, dropped it over the side of the can, and descending leisurely, car- ried it away to his clay house beâ€" hind thc partition. -â€"+â€"_â€"â€"-â€"vâ€"‘ A SPRING TOI‘IIC. Dr.. Williams’ Pink Pills Makes Strength for Summer. Every man and woman in Canada I needs a tonic medicine at this season of the year. They must have new, rich blood to build them up to bear the trying heat of summer. Dr. Wilâ€" liams" Pink I’ills are the greatest spring tonic in the whole world. .Every dose makes new, rich bloodâ€" new vigorous life. They transform weak, weary, anaemic girls into iealthy, graceful, wellâ€"developed wo- men. They’ make debilitated men strong lusty and energetic. They give worn, despondent women new health and comfort. They do this every timeâ€"they cannot fail. 'After a course of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. every man and woman can withstand the summer's heat free from back- ‘ache and headaches, weakness and despondency. Mrs. M. 'A. White, Seal Cove, Que., says: "I cannot praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills too highly. They have not only made a new person of myself, but have been of inestimable value in my family. I always keep the pills in ._my home and the result is I have no doctor’s bills; nor have I any delicate boys as the pills keep them strong and healthy. I constantly re- commend the pills to my friends, and I always hear good words from those who use them.” Dr. Williams’ l'ink Pills do not act upon the bowels; they do not bother with the mere symptoms of disease; they simply make blood, and thus cure all the common ailments of life. But you must get the genuine with the full name Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, on the wrapper around each box. 'Sold by all dealers everywhere or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Wilâ€" liams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. .__+__.__ THE RAINY DAY HAD COME. | Mark Twain tells a. story of a, fel- low-worker who was recently in re- ceipt of a letter from a. man who has regularly made it a practice to borrow money from him. In this letter the writer surprised :his correspondent by saying: “This time I have decided to reverse the usual order of things, and, instead of borrowing from' 3:011, I enclose herewith £5, which I am going to 'usk that you will lay aside for me for a rainy day.” But the recipient of tie letter couldn't find any remittance. He searched for it on the floor, under the tableâ€"in fact, everywhere he ltliought lie might have dropped it. "then quite accidentally he turned over the sheet on which the letter was written and discovered this postscript: “I’ve just looked out of the window, and find it’s raining like or girls, beyond the very dickenS!"- Sold only in sealed lead new rich, red . Purity is Goodness, :2 é" ' -" . Tea Samba lack, mixed or green. 59534 - lRlCKS arguments that goes on HAVE MANY CLEVER DEVICES FOR HIDING GOODS. ._...._I Pasteboard Cannon Balls Filled With Brandyâ€"Dogs Carriers ‘ of Laces. Smuggling .ell‘ectively is one of those lino arts that have decayed, at least in England, where, as we have duties on little else than tobacco, tea and spirits, and where we have a. seaboard closa-ly watched, it canâ€" not bo carried out to any extent successfully. . ' Now and then the revenue men are outwitted, but rarely 011* a large scale, and never can a. contraband trade be carried on for long unde- tected. It is not at the present day worth men's While to apply their minds to the overreaching of the coast guurd, says Chamber's Jourâ€" nal, and consequently the art is in its dotage and decline. Attempts are made occasionally to outwit the preventive officers, as when a vessel came into the Uolme some years ago with its corda’go of twisted tobacco, but it was found out. Oil cans are made, or made, with an interior consisting of an inverted tunnel of tin. Then the officers put a. stick through the neck and turn it about they draw it out and find that the rod has been in oil. But the upper bulging sides of the can contain smuggled spirits. An old woman died lately at Cauâ€" sund who for long,r hoodwinked the coast guard by carrying about a This was actually a. bottle 0 \V ere baby. ‘jar of brandy, which she drew oil from a. hidden receptacle of the smugglers. "You’ve a very quiet child there; I never hear it cry," said one of the guards to her. “That may he,” replied Nanny, "but I warâ€" rant you he’s got a deal 0' spirit in him.” AND HE LET HER PASS. In Gower,‘ at Llangenneth, the runners of smuggled goods had conâ€" trived a most ingenious cache. A little stream falls in cascades from the mountain above. They (liVerted lie stream, formed a cellar under the spot where the water splashed down, well covered with broad slates above, on which they cast torrent rubble and in this bid their kegs. But a storm brought the stream down with such violence that one night it tore! away the roof and revealed the con- cealed run goods. l When Joseph Bonaparte was King of Spain a, good many individuals, even these highly placed, enriched themselves at the expense of the rev- enue. One day a. contrabandista met a Brigadier at Segovia, about to reâ€" turn with‘ empty caissons to Madrid. "Look here, my irien ,” said he, "I want you to convey for me a quantity of Cannon balls and shells to the capitalâ€"as many as your horses can draw." Then he showed him piles of these munitions of war. The Brigadier demurredâ€"the weight would be urodigious.‘ l.'l3ah'l” reâ€" plied the smuggler. “They are all of blackened pasteboard and are full of velvets, tobacco, brandy, and liqueurs. Get them safe into the Prado and you shall be paid for your pains 75 louis d'or. They will I let cannon balls" pass the barriersl without taxing them." The Brigadier agreed, and managed to get them into the Prado at Madrid in the night; but as those in the plot were unloading the goods up rode an officer. "Hello!" sin "(I lie. “The very thing we want. I 'ave orders to send a convoy of a lot to Seville against those dogs of English.” And he remarkably light, broke one, and forth gushed THE FINEST COG-NAG. In Paris for some time by an in- genious contrivance a good deal of wine and spirits was passed beyond the barriers without paying duty. A subterranean passage had been made from the village of Les Vertus, near St.’ Denis, in the houSo of a. citizen, and it led into the cellar of a black- thc Foire St. Laurent. The passage was lined with planks! Well greased, and kegs were sent‘ rolling along it filled with every kind of merchandise that ought to pay tell at the octroi. At the black- smilh's there wore extensive cellars in which these goods wore stored. But one who was in the secret be- trayed it, and the officers of the law came down suddenly on the l)lncl~:;-_ smith, penetrated to the cellars, and with the. contents loaded seventeen wagons. At the present day a great source confiscated the lot; but, finding them| smith near ' Goodness packets. By Highest Award St. Louis They have laces s Strent. an. all Grocers. of annoyance to the Spanish frontier. the extensive smuggling from Gibraltar, and are trained' as the mediums. and all kinds of. English produce sewn around their bodies and are let loose. They know perfectly whither they are to go, and the guards fire on all such dogs that they see coursing over the country.. In the same way in Perigord dogs are educated to poach’ trufles, which they dig up and hide in well known caches, where their masters can re- cover them. On the Swiss and French frontier an Italian plied his trade. He had a. bear, and a monkey that sat on the back of bruin. Sometimes he was in France, sometimes in Switâ€" zerland. But actually the beast he travelled with was an ass. Tin re- ceptacles had been‘formed‘, adapted to his sides and back, and these were filled with brandy, and the whole was covered over with' THE SKIN OF A HUGE BEAR. As um showman with his ‘ beasts passed the frontier one day, as ill luck would have it, his bear gave voice.. . .“Ilello!” said the Custom House officer, “what a; very remarkable bruin, that brays like a donkcyl’s and so the trick was discovered. There lived near the French fron- tier u. learned ornitlfologist, who not only himself had a‘ collection of rare stuffed birds, but he also Was con- sulted by aiirateurs and by learned societies throughout Europe when. collections were sought to be made up; and he undertook to procure the specimens that were desired in France or Germany or England. Con- sequently there was constantly going on a. trade in ornithological speciâ€" mens over the frontiers, and usually our savant accompanied these, as they were rare and valuable and liable to injury if roughly handled. Now, it so chanced that he bought a live parrot, with which it entertaim ed him to converse; After a. meal he would stand by the perch and say: “Poll, pretty poll When you are dead I will stuff you with laces,” or else, “Poll, I will stuff you with eau de cologne.” Now it fell out that once. our naturalist was conveying a collection of specimens across the frontier, and unluckin he had his‘ parrot with him. At the custom house, all at once it screamed out: “Pretty Polll When you are dead I will stuff you with lace! Poll! Poll! When you are dead I Will stuff you with" eau de cologne!" "I‘ will trouble you,” said the cus- tom house officer, “to let me investiâ€" gate your collection of stuffed birds.” “Aye!” said the ornithologist bit- terly. "Pretty Poll! I shall wring your neck for telling secrets."- ..+..___. A MODERN IlIOTHER. dogs .â€"â€"â€"-â€". Children shudder at caster oil, and with good reason. Castor oil is a, relic of oldâ€"time barbarism. Not only is it repulsive to the taste, but it' gripes and tortures delicate chilâ€" dren. Modern mothers use Baby's Own Tablets, a gentle laxative which does not. gripe; a. comforting mun- cine which may be given to a new- born babe without fear of harm. These Tablets cum all the minor ills of little. ones, andpromote natural sleep. and repose. Mrs. R. H. James, Fcnaghvale, Ont., stayszâ€"“I find great satisfaction in the une of Baby’s Own Tablets, and do not know how I could get along with- out them. They make children well and keep them well.” And you have a guarantee that there is not one particle of opiate or harmful drug in this medicine. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box by writing the Dr. Williams Mch icine Co., Brockwille. Ont. "4â€", ' ' " STRONG IN DEATH. In the line of absolute and ab? stract politeness nothing can quite, reach the heights attained by a cer- tain English baronet who became the High Sheriff of London. It was his invariable custom when hurrying along the street to salute any ol‘ 1m; numerous aciluaintances with “L how, a touch of the hat and the words "Sir, I wish you a very gorll morning!" 9,5, High Sheriff of a county it once brcame his painful duty to attend u“. execution of a criminal, when, 11;.ving seen that all the preliminaru arrangements were complete, he bowed, touched his hat to the cu;â€" piit, whose black cap was already over his face, and took his leave with his customaryzâ€" _ you a very 3-001 “Sir, I wish morning!’ ’- ,wuéijl%mm; , \ g . ’ . v" woo-“w to w saw; ‘ ." . vac-- . v ‘