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l ,f M‘Mrum‘ww-W‘WE' SELECTED RECIPES. mates for the Lunch Basketâ€"Dates make an appreciated addition to the lunch basket, either plain. or stuffed. They must, however, be Wash-ed and wall wash-ed; then they may be dried so as not to be sticky to li=a2nirlile.,0ne of the dnin'tiest ways to prepare them) is to steam them after washing un- til they s\\'ell, then roll in granulatâ€" ed sugar. ()r cut open on one side with- a penkuife, remove the stone, anpzl replace. with salted nuts or fonâ€" dant. New Way to Cook Peasâ€"Use either new green peas or canned. To the latter this method will add a delight- ful flavor, which will make them- Seenr as good as the new. Drain. the Leas into a saucepan and cook them gently about ten or fifteen minutes with a small new onion and a tiny bunch" of fresh mint. Remove onion and mind and season the pens with salt, pepper and butter and ad’littlc rich cream if you wish. Stewed Rhubarbâ€"A nice (fish for desert. Slice the peel of one large orange in-ton- thin strips and cook until tender in a rich syrup. Remove them and put in one layer of rhuâ€" barb cut into three lengths and stew gently until soft, but not to break. When clear, skim out and cook auâ€" o-th-m' layer; do this until all the rhubarb is cooked. Put into a shal- low, clcar glass dish and garnish with pull paste, cut in. fanciful shape. Rhubarb Shortcakeâ€"Make a rich shortcakersplit it open, butter and spread with sweetened rhubarb stew- ed i-n. a double boiler Without a drop of water added. Garnish with whipâ€" ped cream and serve warm. Sour Cream Dainticswâ€"In every fam- ily where cream is used there will be small quantities left, perhaps only a tablespoonful. Hoard it up and you can make some i-oo'tlislomo dishâ€" es. In our famin a sour cream fil- ling for layer cake is most welcome. A cup of sour cream an»! one of granulated sugar are blended and put over the fire. When it will hardâ€" en in water it is removed andlbeatenl until of the right consistency to spread. This filling has a, flavor peâ€" ‘culiar to itself and quite agreeable. Nuts and raisins are sometimes adâ€" ded. A nice pudding sauce is made by beating sour cream, adding sugar to taste and flavoring with lemon or vanilla. Sardine Canapes.â€"â€"Cut thin bread '1nto crescents and toast them. The ems-cent is the. true can-ape shape. Flake sardines line with a fork, work into them a tea’spoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and four or five drops of tobaSCO sauce. Stream the toast first with butter, then with the sardine mixture, place on a tin plate, cover and set into the oven. until very hot. Cheese Canapcsâ€"Cut stale bread half an inch thick into crescent shapes, dip each piece into melted butter, roll in grated parmiesan cheese, and cover one side of the bread with grated cheese and chopâ€" ped hamz, mixed in equal parts. Set the czmapes in the oven, brown lightâ€" ly, and serve. Cream Pieâ€"Line a large granite pie plate with rich pastry; bake. Fillingâ€"One Tint of thick sweet cream, whipped to stiff froth, one- h-alf teaspoonvful of vanilla, and three tablospoonfu'ls of granulated sugar. li‘ill crust; dot with blackâ€" berry jelly. Fried Cabbageâ€"Select a nice big cabbage; chop it very fine. Put inâ€" to a frying pan two or th'cce slices of salt pork; fry until done, then turn in the chopped cabbage, sprinkle with a lit-tie salt, and fry slowly unâ€" til done. Peach Cream.â€"â€"One can of peaches, one Cupful of sugar, one ounce of- gelatine, half a, cu; in] of cold water, one pint of cream. Soak the gelaâ€" tine in. cold water and whip the cream. Mash and sift a pint can of peaches, using juice yflll‘d fruit, and stew with a cupful of sugar. Add the dissolved gel-utin'e, and when: cool stir in the 'wlripped cream. Mold. Beaten Biscuitsâ€"One pint of flour, one cup of water, one teaspoonl'ul of salt. Mix into a still dough, transâ€" fer to a. floured block of wood, and beat with a rolling pin steadily for ten minutes, shifting the dough often and turning it over several times. In the olden days hqu an hour was the regulation time, but ten minutes are enough if one has a strict eye to business. Cut into round cakes, prick with a straw, and bake in a brisk oven. Some housewives add a trublespoonful of butter. Wax Beansâ€"An English recipe for serving wax beans is novel. Cut the bonus breadthwise in half or quarter- inch pieces and boil in salted water. Drain Well and prepare the following sauce: Make a roux with equal quan- titics of flour and butter, add salt and pepper and a cupful of sour Cl‘C‘flnl. Add the beans and allow them to bail up once. stirring all the timr... If no sour cream is at hand sax-mt cream or rich sweet milk av drops of lemon juice will I l with a, serve. ON FURNISIâ€"I’LNG A HOME). advised an old housewife. home you furniture lists, swallow up a lot of money. money, never than the necessities at first. you will know what sort of would like to invite to come pass their life near you. -“‘llumn;ony is who live in it. "The wrong sort to make the case without exactly knowing why. remainder of the room. .“And, above all. making a home, steer straight for comfort. You will have to live in it, while a. stranger will only glance occasionally into it. lice a thoroughly cozy lounge where a' tired man can throw his weary limbs, or that invil-CS the exhausted housewife to take a refreshing nap, to sacrifice this for some piece of furniture that may look smarter when a visitor calls is the height of folly. Because it is an. error that anxions beginners often fall into, take warning. ’ ’ A BEAUTIFUL lMxPRESSION. A lady called at the house of a neighbor on: an errand; but, as the family were away, she asked the hired man: to tell hisI employer that she would call again. Being in a hurry, and not thinking but that the man know who she was, she did not leave her name. The lady of the house returned before the rest of the family, and the man told her that a lady had been there who said she’d call again. “Who was it?” inquired Mrs. II.-. "Oh, I don't know her name," re- plied the man. ' ' "But you should have asked her," said Mrs. EL, “so we could know who had been here. Can’t you tell me anything by which I can know who came? Where does she live?” l~‘I don’t know,” said the man, “but she’s the one that always smiles when she s; oaks." SFNSIBLE SUG G ESTIONS. To Clean Lacquered Silver.â€"â€"â€"M-ake a strong solution of hot water and Washing powder, put the articles that are tarnished into it, and cook on. the stove until bright. The pine-apple's crown should be twisted off if the fruit is not to be used at once, as these leaves,if left on the fruit after it is ripe, will ab- sorb both flavor and Juice. The mixing pan can be quickly cleaned if a little boiling water is poured into it for a few minutes and a. close cover put over. The steam softens the dried dough- so that it will readily wash off. W YIELD-INC A POINT. It was 5 p.111., and George Mont- gomery had been spending the afterâ€" noon with sweet Lillian Lauray. ""Goodâ€"bye, darling,” he said, l'onidâ€" 1y, as they stood at the front door. "Coedâ€"bye, George,” she murmurâ€" ed, nestling her head in the time- bouzorod place. -‘-‘ G oo'd-bee. ’ ’ " lood~bye.” ‘ “In every parting, dearest, there is the image of death," he whispered, holding her close and kissing her passionately, "and we may never meet again.” ‘ .“Oh’, George, darling!” she said, clinging to him almost fiercely. “Who knows, my own, what happen between this hour and \\ hen we meet again?” “Oh, lcorge, my love, say that you Will come back to incâ€"to your own little loving Lillian, leorgo; the some beautiful and brave George you have. always been.” “Trust me, Lillian, darling; trust your George.” "Oh, darling, she said, strong in the faith which women have, "I do trust you. How could I love you so if I did not?" and she kissed him fondly. “Then I shall come again, Lillian, my own.” “.lut when, George? asked, anxiously. “At eight this evening, darling.” “Oh, George,” she walled, “will it be. so long as that? So long, so long?" J; \l‘hcn?’ ’ she Ile tool; her in. his strong arms tonidcrly. ' "I'larlin-g,“ he “‘li'iSPercd, “I will 7.30!” it came make it And spoken. to pass as he had â€"â€"-â€"â€"+ Follies of life are the aiiuisemcuts we don't care for. Make the best of the troubles you have and don't hunt more. "-Allow twice as much‘ money as you expect you will need for furnish- ing and houwrmaking, and be ready to spend a lum-ptsurm. above tIhat,” “ n u. always want a litmd'rcd and one things that no one Would ever dream; of putting down: in the and which} always "ll'lliether you have much: or little attempt to get more Wait until you are inside your home; then picâ€" tures, hangings and nick-nacks you am the one absolutely necessary thing in a home, and this apples just as much to the decoraâ€" tion of it as to the spirit of the folk of pictures or curtains in a room is quite enough Occupants feel ill at 'lloln-‘t forget when getting a hiomle to- gether that good taste is worth far more than golden mouldings. A piece of cretonne in harmonious colorings is far more beautiful than. a costly silk that is out of keeping with- the when you are And to sacri- may i RUSSIA. Issued by Their Presses. Own imaginary Russian sia, so far as movement is concerned. As for secret societies I have been committee” in the London Standard verifying the statements of a son who claims to close touch found that he was unknown to Cases like this are frequently with, and confiding "American Sensational fiction writers alone. We liaVe in anarchist organization. Of they purely criminal character, at every revolutionist shudders disgust. HELPED OUT OF TIIENI. societies in divisions, volutionary which have pire of the Czar. their names’ Labor party. ty. 3. The Polish Socialist party. oration . Lithuania and Poland. 6. "he Polish "Prelctariat" list party. Federation. 10. The Labor party of Finland. 11. The Ukrami Socialist Federa- tion. 12. The Ukralni Revolutionary Federation. 13. The Socialist Revolutionist Federalists' party of Georgia. tic Labor party. , 15. The Socialist Gromada of White Russia. Constitutionalists’ party). 17. The/National League of Poland 18. The Executive of the Active Committee of Finland. 19. The Armenian Federation. 20. The “Islam” League of Cauca- sus, Transcaucasus, T‘anscaspia and Crimea. 2].. The “Pan ISlam” League. The above societies control the whole of the population of Russia. and their delegates met last year in (Paris to consider 'mcans of over- throwing the existing government, and the result of that conference was the present internal disturbancras in Russia. Every one of these Societies has its headquarters, as a rule, in promâ€" inent towns of Russia, under the nose of the police, whose efl'orts in ondeavoring to find their whereâ€" abouts havo always been abnortive. Apart from this, they have-represen- tatives in almost "‘ r “VERY CAPITAL OF EUROPE, and some of them are officially reâ€" cognized by certain European Pow- ers, whose names I am not at liberâ€" ty to disclose. . Quito lately, St. Potersburg repreâ€" sentatives of certain Powers were inâ€" formed of the intended strike and demonstration that took place there, also of its objects and aims. Every one of these societies has its brunâ€" ches and Sub-ln'anchcs everywhere, which are known under various names, such as “Dagonet,” “The llallet,” “The Thunder,” "The Lightning,” etc. Every society is composed of an executive or active committee, with a president and vice-president, approved by general members, thongh elected only by the members of the so-called “' Revolutionary inner cir- cle." Every society possesses its own press and newspaper. Most of these secret presses are in Russia itself, though enormous quantities of revol- utiunnry literature are published abroad and smuggled into Russia But experience has shown that it is better to publish all their literature at home rather than abroad, owing to the risks and difficulties of smug- gling it. There are. secret presses in almost every important town of Rus- sia, though Southern Russia has more than any other part of the emâ€" pire. There are even villages where a great deal of secret. printing is done. The Russian secret police are hauled by the secret presses and the circulation of revolutionary literaâ€" turc. The means of these soc1ctics are HOW THEY Aim WORKING IN Literature of the Different Bodies NOWadays one reads so much about secret societies that I think it is time to write showâ€" ing the real state of afl‘airs in Busâ€" the revolutionary the reading about almost daily in various papers no Russian revolutionary committee is aware of their existence, writes a "member of a Russian revolutionary I had recently the opportunity of per- haVe been in with the revolutionary movement and gives himself the tone of authority, with the result that I any revolutionary organization in Russia. met and English publics are easily led to be- lieve all the; horrors of these organiâ€" zations, which really are worthy of Russia no recognized course there are many individual Anarchists but these have never been responsiâ€" ble for anything considered to be a revolutionary character, except that sometimes commit crimes of which with Nor do these people repre- sent the Russian revolutionary spirit. Revolutionists in Russia are not in league with Anarchists, but if an Anarchist is in difficulties he will be At prCSent there are. twentyâ€"one rcâ€" Russia, and subdivi- sions, scattered throughout the em- The following are 1.â€"â€"The Russian Socialâ€"Democratic 1. The Socialistâ€"Revolutionist par- 11-. The Jewish General Labor .li‘ed- 5. The Social Democratic party of Socia- 7. The Social Democratic party of Lithuania. 8.”'.l‘ho Latish Social Democratic Labor Federation. 9.. The LatiSh Social Democratic 14. The Armenian Social Democra- 16. The Union of Freedom (Russian ‘ f . A ,. . MANY SECRET SOCIETIE iifivffibiiiifithfiniiéi.“fifé‘gifmti literature and from "at homes” or amateur theatricals, organized under some charitable guise. Often it happens that these societies receive anonymous donations in cashâ€"that is, .banknotcs or gold, owing to the strict Stu-Veillance of the banks, which have. to furnish lists' of checks received and drawn and details con- nected with them. EVery society publishes a. yearly balance sheet, in .which particulars of expenditure to the last farthing are giVen, and these documents are duly certified by the members of the executive._ The funds are used in forming workmen's unions, in organ- izing new divisions, in maintaining secret presses and in keeping propa- gandists, who otherwise have NO INDEPENDENT MEANS. Broadly speaking, a reVOlutionist rarely takes advantage of the funds of the society; on the contrary, he contributes himself toward them, if he can, sometimes even sacrificing the most essential necessities of life to enable him to do so. The methods of revolutionary pro- paganda are Various. The educated and literate classes are approached through the newspapers of the socic‘ ty and revolutionary pamphlets, Sent through the post under sealed cover, and even sometimes registered. In these papers no Russian address is given, but a Continental one, in order to mislead the police. I member a. case which happened in London several years ago. The Rus- sian police were anxious to know who was the real editor or publisher of a certain paper, so one day a Russian agent called at the address given in the paper and requested to see so and so. He was shown into the room and fairly staggered on seeing his brother, who was engaged in commerce. On being questioned, the agent pulled out of his pocket the paper and showed the name and address of his own brother, who really had no knowledge of the matter, and could not account for it. However, after many years it was found out that his servant girl was the agent of the revolutionary party, and received all letters without the knowledge of her master and forwarded them to the proper quarters. This servant girl was the daughter of a Russian general. She is now back in Russia, and workng among her Russian sisters. Cipher is used to a. great extent in private correspondence, and no three revolutionists can understand the same cipher, it being always limited to two of them only. Recently many letters were seized by the Russian police, who offered several hundred pounds to have them read, but un- successfully. No figures are used in such ciphers, but letters of a certain language, while each letter denotes at given letter of ANOTHER LANGUAGE. However easy it may have been to apâ€" proach the educated and literate classes, on the other hand, great dif- ficulty is exercised in approaching the illiterate classes and peasantry, numbering more than thirteen mil- lion families. Having always had in view the reâ€" ligious prejudice and the superstiâ€" tious awe with which these classes regard the State and the Church, it was decided to approach them under such guises as Were calculated to ap- peal to them. Therefore, self-sacriâ€" flcing propagandists with university educations donned the garb of the priest to go forth and administer both to the soul and the body of their fellow creatures; others became plain peasants, soldiers and officers in the army, sailors in the navy, public notarics for the villages, policemen, publicans, tramps. In fact, every imaginable guise that could be thonght of these champions of liberty have adopted for the pur- pose of approaching their fellow countrymen belonging to the lowest strata of Russian society, to awaken in them the instinct of individuality which has been dead, owing to con- turies of continual suppression and slavery. I may say that these proâ€" pagandists were not disappointed in their expectations. 'l.‘hanks to their efforts, to-day you will not find one single peasant who does not underâ€" stand the rottenncss of the present monarchical regime. Among such propagandisls there are many priests like Gapon, many bishops, and even archbishops. Then I know captains, colonels, superior commanding oiliccrs in the army who are propagandists, and whose whole regiments are revolutionists. I know many doctors, lawyers and en- gineers who have sacrificed brilliant. careers for the sake. of their country and countrymen. These are not conâ€" fined to the middle and lower classes only. There are our agents in the Palace of the Czar, among the high- est society of Russian aristocr:wy, among the Ministriesâ€"men who ocâ€" cupy high and exalted positionsâ€"all .members of one or another revolu- ftionary society. LAND LO ST. Great Britain lost 148,006 acres between 1867 and 1880. by the en- croachment of the sea, and 29,105 .acrcs between 1880 uni 1890. A lsurvey in the reign of Edward I. gave the Duchy of Cornwall 1,500,000 acres, but the. Ordnance Survey some years ago showod that this had been ereduced to 829,500 acres. Villages have disappeared in the ocean, as in the case of Dunwich, of which nothâ€" ling remains but a ruined church on ‘the edge of a cliff. CE“ ‘ MEN OF VERYJIIANY WIVE STRANGE DESTINY GAVE SEVERAL HELPMATES: Man Led No Fewer Than Twenty-Five Women to the Altar ‘Two old records exist», of which one could wish for fuller details. One. contained in the register of Brant. Broughton, Lincolnshire, makes menâ€"- t-ion * of Thomas Watson, who on One April 23rd, 1678, buried his- eighth wife. The other, alluded to in ‘ 'Notcs and Queries, ’ ’ refers to James Gay, who died at Bordeaux on April 26th, 1772, after having, in the course of a life of 101 years, espoused no l‘cwer than sixteen wives. Herr Gruhn, of Berlin, espoused two (months sin-cc his ninth wife. He- is still barely fifty, and his matri- monial expericnccs have been conâ€" tained within the comparatively short; space of thirty years. In no instance has a married spell lasted over three yearsâ€"dds first wife, whose married life was longer than that. of any of her successors, dying. within one month of the third anniâ€" Versary of her wedding day. Herr Gruhn is‘said to be a most affectionâ€" ate and in every way a model hus~ band. Well cared for by his twelfth wife. l'Mr. Zerard Pomvroy is spending the evening of his days at his home at Middlefield, Connecticut. As far back as 1833. when only in his twentieth year, Mr. Pomcroy launch- cd forth on A MATRIMONIAL VENTURE. His first wife died in a few months, and within a year he was married again. The Second Mrs. Pomeroy was equally short lived, and the widower appeared for the third time at the altar with a lady who short- ly afterwards disappeared. Then ensued a series of marriages, all of which terminated in the divorce court, so that at one time Mr. Pomâ€" eroy had six wives living. He marâ€" ried the lady who is now his wife when 111 his eightyâ€"ninth year. As a husband M. Jean Boulangcr, of Rouen, who died a year or so since could not be regarded in the light of a. mascot. Ilis eight. wives all came to untimely ends. His first; was drowned, his second was killed in a railway accident, his third and fifth were burnt to death, his fourth mysteriously disappeared, his sixth was accidentally poisoned, his sev- enth Succumbe'd to smallâ€"pox caught; while nursing a sister who was ill with that disease, «mile his eighth, who survived him caught a cold. attending his funeral, and in less than a month was herself BORNE TO THE GRAVE. Fifteen wives was the tale matri- monial of an Italian workman. namâ€" ed Chicodo, who died lately near Milan in his ninetieth' year. How his wivesâ€"of whom he married the first when seventeen and the last when eightyâ€"eight years of ageâ€"mie't their death is not recorded, so it may be presumed they died from na- tural causes. Strange as it may seem, there ex- isted in England until quite lately a. regular community of Blue-beards. In the Essex Marshcs it was no unâ€" common thing to meet men who had married from: six to twelve Wives. Occasionally that number was far ex- ceeded, as it was by a native of Canvey Island, a man who had led no fewer than twentyâ€"five different women to the altar, while his son, who was only thirty-five, had been wedded fourteen times. These marsh men invariably mar- ricc: girls from the neighboring up- lands. who, unacclimatized to the marsh (lamps and vapor, usually sickened and died in a few months, leaving“ their husbands free to se- lect other uninured brides, a pro- coeding that in some cases was el- mnst annually repeatedâ€"Louder. Tit-Bits. CHINESE COTTON WORKER“. 'The working day in Chinese cotton mills lasts thirteen and a half hours, night- shifts working ten hours. From an economical point of view it is said to be better to confine the hands to day work only, and but few mills work day and night throughtout the. year. As is not un~ reasonably to be expected, there is a slight falling off in efficiency during the smnmer months. Many mills in Shanghai pay by piece-work, and the wages earned amount to about 12¢ per day. - ____+ _ NOVEL OYSTER PARTIES. Oyster parties are the great diver- sion of the Spanish gentlemen who pay family visits to Vigo. The party goes out in a large flat-bottomed boat. Then the oysters are fished up opened, and eaten on the spot, and a prize goes to the guest who can show most shells at the end of the day. In CXCUSC, it may be said that the Vi‘gyo oyster is small, for a prize- winncr will sometimes Show as many as 200 shells. _-...â€"+ . The man who was ill had called in his lawyer. "I wish to explain again to you,” said-he weakly, “about will- ing my propertyâ€"â€"” The solicitor held up his hand reassuringly. “There, there!” said he. “Lcav: that all to me.” The sick man ed resignedly. "I suppose I might as well," said he, turning upon hi1 pillow. F'i'on’ll get it, anyway.'5 Far . , "-2 A sum ausmfi. filmme-IW V _, i .: Kâ€"xfi'ACu a:<.w.........s..._.. . _.. . . _........,.m-._ . i . I l r i l l l l v Nxfyzfz 7, ., v “no. a.‘