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in spite of their rather nt place on our bills of ein the form of jelly--are bene: to humanity. : 7 easily diges | 'have value. English dieticians, es- pecially, harp on the health-pre- ving qualities of this small fruit. 'Perhaps the reason for the limit- use of currants is that most ks have a limited way of pre- nting them. Currant jelly, of urse, that is known in every susehold. It is one of the main- stays of life. You remember the fastidious school teacher who de- olared that a real lady would know by instinct that the proper accom- paniment-of roast. lamb was currant jelly? When any article of: food Re reached the stage where it is ognsidered a test of ladyhood it must, be widely. accepted. "And 'some cooks know the deli- cacy of currants, chilled through, removed from their stems and serv- ed with an ice-told syrup of sugar and water poured over them, in the French fashion. Occasionally other methods of serving currants are rife. But on the whole, they are usually served in a monotonous matural state when they are in sea- son and in an incessant jelly state after their season has gone by. Currant Jelly.--Currant jelly is not to 'be decried, in spite of the fact that it is ever present. Here is a reliable recipe for. making it: Mash nicely washed currants and put them in cheesecloth bags. Hang the bags so that =the juice will gtrain through and leave them hanging for eight or ten hours. Then measure the juice, and for every cupful allow a cupful of granulated sugar. Heat the sugar in a flat pan in the oven, but do not brown it or melt it. Boil the clear juice for five minutes, then add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Just before it reaches the boiling point after the sugar is added, remove from the fire and 'pour into glasses that have been scalded.' When the jelly. is cool cover it well with par- Aine. : Currant Catsup.--Currant catsup suggests another way of preserving currants. Wash and stem the cur- rants, and to four pounds of the fruit, after it is prepared, add two pounds of brown sugar and a pint of good cider or wine vinegar. Sim- mer gently in a porcelain pan until thick. Then add a teaspoonful of cloves, a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon and the same amount of ground. pepper. Boil five minutes, strain and bottle. Currant Wine.--This delicacy of the day of our grandmothers is not difficult to prepare, and it is, in- deed, a delicacy. To make it wash four pounds of currants, stems and all, and put them in a large kettle. Add a gallon of water and pub it in a good cellar for three days. Stir from time to time. Then press the currants through a cheesecloth and strain the liquid. Add three pounds of granulated sugar and stir. Pour "into a cask and stand away until it " coates to ferment. Then bottle. Currant Desserts. -- There are many. delicious currant desserts, and one of them is shortcake. This cin' be made either with cake or biscuit crust. The currants, care- fully washed, stemmed and dried, hold be crushed and sweetened and spread between the layers, meringue or whipped cream can be added to the currants piled on top. Currant Pie.--Wash and stem " enolgh currants to measure three cupfuls and put them in a deep pudding - dish, Cover them' with enough sugar to sweeten them. If they are very sour they will need a good cupful. Then pour over them half a cupful of boiling. water and put the dish in a slow oven to sim- mer gently for half an hour, Re- maye from the oven, cool and cover with pie crust. Bakeé until brown; and sprinkle with powdered sugar, urrant Tee Cream. -- To make | industry All ating twisting is ha: Jaollets be sure to rinse out all 8. 4 G i Ae A chicken for broiling should be wrapped in a buttered paper bag. This will keep the meat moist and retain the flavor. Try the plan of allowing a day to intervene between the washing and ironing, and see if it does not prove a strength-saver. Hair brushes can be cleaned by dipping the brush in, being careful not to allow the wood to go in the yater ; then rinse in clear cold wa- Tr. Nothing is better than a large pair of bellows for blowing dust out of the piano. | The front must of course be taken off to get to the strings. 318 To drive a nail into plaster first bore a hole about twice the diame- ter 'of the nail 'or screw and fill it up with soft plaster of Paris. * In- sert the nail, and when the plaster hardens it will hold like iron. To iron 'a natural colored pon- gee so. as to preserve its beauty, iron it only 'when it is perfectly dry and with an iron only moderately hot, 'as nothing scorches quite so easily as silk. Do not sprinkle pongee, as the water spots never iron out. To clean cane-bottomed chairs sponge both sides of the cane thor- oughly with hot soapsuds in which a handful of salt has been dissolv- ed. Then stand the chairs in the open air to dry. This cleans them beautifully, the cane is kept a good color, and if the seats have relaxed with wear they become quite firm again, . A good soup for invalids is made by adding a half-pint of beef tea to a half-ounce of tapioca; stir over the fire until it comes to a boil, then simmer until tapioca is thor-4 oughly cooked. Flavor with salt and pepper. When cool stir in the yoke of an egg well beaten; sim- mer slowly until the egg is cooked. To clean a dirty matting: First shake it well to remove all dust, then wash it with salt and water, Tt must not be made very wet, and should be well dried after being rubbed with a coarse cloth, then hung over a rail in the sun. If there are any stains, spirits, such as gin, will remove them. , --R SOME QUEER TASTES. Monkeys and Bears Have a Liking for Alcohol. Some animals and also birds have very extraordinary tastes for dif- ferent foods and drinks quite apart from those which Nature has pro- vided them, and it is in the know: ledge of these peculiarities that the skill of the trapper lies. > 80 marked is a monkey's taste for an intoxicating liquor made from the fermented juice of rice that this drink is invariably used for trap- ping these creatures. Bears are very partial to alcohol, and many of the performing variety find their highest reward in honey and beer, or rum-andéwater mixed with su- ar. Canaries delight in eating let- tuce, which is well known for its narcotic properties, and they will eat it to such an extent as to leave themselves stupefied for a long time afterwards. Foxes, ordinarily the most cun- ping and, consequently, the most difficult to capture of animals, readily submit to a trap baited with the body of a dead cat. Stoats, weasels, ete., are seldom proof against a, trap sprinkled with oil from fish. AT LONDON'S DOCKS. Enormous Amount of Shipping Which Is Dene. "As London is 4he world's largest market, so, also is it the world's leading port. Yet few people seem to realize what marvellous hives are the docks of the met putting ammonia in cold water and |' | 'Panama is not on mmercial Suffragettes at Laurence Irving's Funeral. Two Suffragettes from the Actresses' Franchise League outside St. Margaret's Church, London, when a memorial service was held in rerdombrance of the late Laurence Irving and his wife, Mabel Hack- ett, who were drowned when the Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Laurence River. < WILL FAVA CANAL PAY? IS IT WORTH WHILE AS A BUSI- NESS PROPOSITION? The Maintenance Expense Will Be Twenty-two Million a Year. Now that the Panama Canal is near ly finished, a review of the prospects for returns on the investment may be interesting. a Charles Frederick Carter, in the New York Sun, makes this estimate; Up to the end of 1913 the outlay, can be operated the same size, so dig at Panama. motored modest inn. on the undertaking footed up $314; 726,717. By the time the job is fins ished it will have cost, according 'to present estimates, $375,000,000, or say $3.75 for each man, woman, and child, in the country. This is more than thelf nine other principal waterways of the world, including the Suez Canal and the two canals at Sault Ste. Marie, have cost. The fortification scheme must be added the cost of maintenance and operation, Possible Traffic. : Estimates submitted to the New York Chamber of Commerce by its committee on foreign February, 1912, fix interest-on bond issued to build the canal at $11,000,000} a year; upkeep, operations, and con-j tingencies, $6,600,000; total, $14,600, 000 a year. provision for amortization of bonds, which would require an additional $7.1. 500,000 a year for fifty years, making a grand total of $22,000,000 a year to be. derived from the revenues of theif. asked the chambermaid. = lots of things," the King re- "Pm shaving him just now." 18. YEARS IN COLD STORAGE. So far as published records disclose, | « Bn " 2 Quarter of Beef Appeared Perfectly ; Sound. : A quarter of beef kept for eigh- teen years in cold storage was ex- posed to the public view for an hour and a half at the Smithfield (Lon- don) markets recently. No test was made of its eating Quslities, 'but the meat appeared pe | though slightly faded. Tt back into storage to remain an ob-1{ s [ject of curiosity, the owners hoping ed to 'complete a | canal in order to place it on ths basis of a commercial entérprise paying its: own way. This includes nothing for profit; but the benefits popularly ex pected to be derived from the oper ation of the canal may be assumed be acceptable in lieu of cash revenue. no one seems to have thought of the. expediency of investigating the com- mercial prospects of the canal while the undertaking was under consider- ation. Search through several ponder- ous volumes of reports of canal hear: ings before Congressional committees | reveal just two pages of vague gen: eralizations . on the commercial out- look, including a summary of thirty- three estimates of possible traffi These ranged from 400,000 tons a yea the estimate of Joseph Nimmo, Jr then chief of the Bureau of Statistics, of the Treasury Department, to. 16 750,000 tong. The high estimates were all from French sources, the highe being that of Bunau-Varilla. . French, it will be remembered, had a: canal concession to sell, and Bunau- Varilla was trying to sell it for ther Old 'Routes Shorter. commerce in ~ This does: not include} side the well. 'Perhaps you jesty himself?' - "Yes, Ido." "And what do i HOh, plied. allow So long as a British ship of 2,500 tons year, and a German ship for $15,315 less a year than an American ship of long will the world's" carrying trade be performed by foreign ships, no matter how many canals we mre He ALFONSO SHAVES IN YARD. King's Wish to Remain Incognito Respected in Castile. King Alfonso of Spain is fond of taking motor trips incognito. He ) recently through a wild region of Castile and put up at a "I am sure,"' he said, 'that they won't know me here." : ; Well, they did know him there. They treated him like an ordinary traveller, so much so that when he 'went to shave the next morning he | found there was no 'mirror in his om. _ Bo hie went into the inn in 4 will absorb other millions, to which Sr Sleeves and Mere 8 Sham piece of mirror which he set up be- Finally she said; "You are not just an ordinary traveller, are you?' ma _ "Why do you ask me that?' | "I don't know,"' 'said the maid, "but there's something about you-- perhaps you belong to the 'court at Madrid?' : 'Yes, I do;" he answered. for $18,289 less per royal work for his Ma- you do for him?' ectly sound, al- was pub {United States. {to Soa "with $125,000,000 0 01 th Rist Ee whe eat la, mutton Zealand. : 'be added whi rest in interest, meat from 75,600,600 © In KE Denmark, ny--each of to the value of 'Danish and Dutc 000,000 and $70,000,000 respectively. seems almost incredible that Den one of the world, should be able to supply. 'food, chiefly butter and eg: more than a quarter of the v food imports from all the. Fn Bessions abroad, even though the Netherlands and $50,000,000 or more, this coun er, with a total of food a year. sister island with $ 160,000,000 worth ark; more eggs than nearest competitor. . Beef Trust Probe in London. "The City Corpora considered ths case o Prop ade that ment of by ( stalls "it may hold kel was Igcing a limit on the number interfere. ave very materially cl dency to. eliniinate the 'mid commission agent, and the trade' into fewer dleman, es. 7 "The corporation decided, however, 90 votes to 70, to have a private quiry to ascertain which sections the market, if any, controL Talks Again After Ten Years. A strange Story diver recovering hi after ten years comes from (Kent). : While performing conjuring feats s speech and hearl Ashfo moved a clot of blood, covered. he surprised his speaking quite el Egan says divin ters bit him on the leg. e shock caus him to become a deaf mute, since eked out a living about performing conjurin e was attacked intends to return to. where his relatives live. . = . The more conseryative men amo thé English. trade' unionist, who. their trouble with Jim Larkin, the strike agi the flery 3 8 : alarmed over his latest announcem ¥ Ya ki ned the lead r njght, but it n asked. to. announced that to start a syndical ganized in_ Ireland. Vii he English workmen foresee that will be necessary to make a fight agal Larkin and his methods, a _talking of aking English 'trade unions with that end ew. 5 5 J "Stockings" for "Fire Hose) amusing the "International An Fr German s, fol- yo or 200, Chunrics Oo ns, {lls--the figures given are ts paid to mea t and tea from In ida, wheat and om the m the is Stil one figure 8 ses 1 . the t of its] VE A po- | vice. Now, on his way Ti 3 . ni States were valued at more than 126,000,000, Tn 1912 they had sunk t rope there are three countries which exports to us food The h exports total $105,- smallest countries of _the| [i would seem from the mention the father's name first that he wag = known #o the. Christians for whom : blind beggar would expeet to receive alms from the pilgrims going to Jerusa". sh jo some" al- owances must be made for the fact that Denmark .draws from Russia part of the Supplies which 'she exports to y. The case of « Ireland is even' more striking. Not many persons reale that she is Great Britain's largest provision. In 1912 she supplied the st ith $10,000,000 worth more meat than Argentina; with more butter' than any other country but Den- my any but Russia and four timbes as much poultry as her n of London has the big American meat trust firms and their alleged con- trol over the English meat supply. The mi the - develop- such a trust stesild be clipped ai in he Smithaeld u e corporation, acceptin t of the special committee, has n : © committee: sald that the condi: tions of business and the nature of the anged dur- ing the last ten years and that the ten- to concentrate hands is affecting the meat trade as well as other activi by in- are under American of a deaf and dumb n, the cattle market the man, named Egan, had a fit, which is believed to have re: and when he re- friends by early. that ten years ago while near a wreck in American wa- BY.2 shark, which and he by travelling tricks. He | the United States, ei thet or, a 'to "raise ; Tin Bogie dur the PL £ atly | Master or Lo rl in resig ership of the ish Transport Workers the other was hinted that he had t out. He now | is coming to England | calist union of transport workers here similar to the one he or- nst they are a combination of all mistakes will be Fire th ty : publican, ; the city, meeting the rich. ¢| man, -giving' the of -| laborers in the vineyard, and plying to the Petals dona of James and John for the firs places in' his kingdom, with teaching of greatness thro: t city, he sees a despised bl ni gar by the wayside, and df ues his discourse to teach helpfulness. "A great multitude i | considerable crowd." ,|. The son of Timaeus, Bartimaeu Mark wrote. Sitting by the way side--A lem for the passover. nel dy, 'though blind, knew that an number of people were passing, he: ma; 150 He h fore as the prophet of Naza himeelf, as he had heard of ! having received it, arouses him put forth the greatest effort ™ bring his request to Jesus. Son of David--A popular, for She | Messiah, whom the e , a8 the prophets. told} * would be PR desg David . This title is hergMfzed the first time in Mark's Gospel. 48. Many rebuked him--They of ar the shouts of a blind beggar. of rd in ery was one of desperation, 49. heeded. 5 50. Casting away his garmen His outer robe, which was long loose and would impede his motion in running or rapid walking. ! act shows how earnest and Bartimaeus was. Gin 51. What wilt thou do unto thee That. is, "What you wish me to do for youd' Al evangelists record thi SH ed ) ord, apparently a dignified title than rabbi. 'It Ww: used by Mary Magdalene whet he recognized her rigen Lord 20. 16). Ly 52. Hath 'made thet TO a hwoy i And straightway sight, and followed hi Jesus had said; "Go thy wa had not suggested Bartimae: lowing him; but Bard doubt wanted to remain near 'Master, and he joined the it in ple a lesson of brotherliness and id < fa pr Better, "x Tl $ When he heard that it wad Jesus the Nazarene -- Bartimaeus, have inquired the cause. no doubt heard of Jesus Je e- and the hope of receiving help for herd % Jesus stood still--He could: not let the piteous appeal pass un. ¥ This eager] that T should ~ did not wish to have Jesus troubled by' He cried out the more a read 0 deal--Not being able to see Jesus,| or to tell where he was in the! crowd, the blind man felt that his| opportunity was passing, and his!