Ceerewwew Sweet Salad Dressing.--For or fruit + One oupful sugar, upful "water, . F onedeuraie ee <e . Vinegar, : i ooh siatar atl ctepa yy When eid : Sd ope-gupful-sweet cream. Breaded Apples.--Place one 'oup- Yul of téeadernatba in ab B over them one opped apples and a small ¢ Pour in one-half pint C) Pl ° oh fifteen minutes |. in a alow oven Pork Cake.--One pound fat salt rk, chopped fine, one cu boil- & water, one-pound raisins, two cupfuls sugar, one cupful molasses, one teaspoonful soda, six oupfuls | of flour, and spices of all kinds. (Mix and bake in a slow oven. Mn or of qiekoty nut meats addit " Fickors it Nut. Cake.--One eupful 'sugar, one-half cupful butter, one- jhalf cupful sweet milk, one and one- . % jhalt cupfule flour, two Is fi/baking powder, one ful ane j fame meats and whi hes of dina -' |Mix in the usual way and edd ta the lwhites ofe Friessastin. ais one cup of jchopped meat, one cup pec one-half teaspoonful mix- herbs, one saltspoonful galt and ia speck of pepper, with one beaten jeae and one or two spoonfuls of jmilk. Shape in small cakes and \brown in butter Dixie Eggs. --Out four hard- boil- pe eggs into thin slices, place in a peaking dish with alternate layers jof grated cheese, sprinkle" with jghake or two of red pepper, a salt- |spoonful of salt and a dash of nut- imeg. Sprinkle top with buttered]: jbreadcrumbs and bake till o gold- 'en brown. Graham Pudding.--A cupful of graham flour, one-half cup white flour, one-half cup molasses, one 'egg, two tablespoons butter, one- half teaspoon soda, one-half cup sour milk, one cupful raisins, one feaspoon cinnamon, one-half a nut- jmeg. Steam one and one-half thours. Serve with hard sauce. Sauce Piquante. -- Brown one- quarter cup butter, add six table- jspoons flour and stir until well [brown ; then add two cups brown stock or water and cook three min- ates. n with two-thirds tea- poontful sait, one-half nful | few ceatne of : copeane , One pei : fe Torrie Mer aie es) irice. Season with one-half tea- jspoonful of salt and a dash of pep- iper. Pour over al! one quart of 'well seasoned beef stock or broth. (Put on the lid and place jar in hot oven and cook three hours. Serve with crisp crackers. Amber -Marmalade.--Take one ory of large grapefruit, orange lemon, wash and wipe dry and a in quarters; cut the quarters 'through, peel and pulp into very 'thin slices, discarding seeds. Add three quarts and one pint cold wa- 'ter and let stand over night. Cook juntil the peel is tery tender. It wil] 'take several hours. Again set 'aside over night. Add ten cups (five. pounds) of sugar, and let cook, stirring occasionally until the sy rup ickens slightly on a cold dish. Store as jelly. This makes about teen glass Bean and Nat Cutlets.--Two cup- vine of cooked lima beans, one-half upful of black walnuts, two table- poonfuls of cream, jspoonful of butter. loon ge sieve and add nuts (chop- ed), add butter (melted), one-third teaspoonful of salt, and crumbs of bread enough to mold mixture into desired shapes.- Dip 'n meat drip- pings, oo crumbs; bake in oven in oiled pa Imitation New Potatoes. -- Pick jout small, round, ripe potatoes ; \wash and peel. Put them into a 'cheesecloth sack and tie the top. Have ready a saucepan containin enough hot milk and water (equ parts and slightly salted) to cover the potatoes. Simmer slowly until done. Lift out sack and let it drain on a colander a few minutes, then let dry in the oven five min- _utes. Make a rich cream sauce, well seasoned, remove potatoes from sack to deep vegetable dish, 'pour sauce over them and serve. Spanish Beans.--One and one- 'thalf pints pink beans, one large onion, one can tomatoes, red pep- pers to taste. Soak beans, afier thorough washing, over night. In the morning fry the onion in olive 'oil or butter until. slightly brown, 'adding the eoft inside of three or four large peppers, or enough cay- ay to suit the taste; salt well and d the can of 'tomatoes; add this to the beans aid bake three or 'four hours. Add a small piece of galt pork or bacon if desired. Hints for the Home. 1. Blankets, after being washed and dried thoroughly, should be wel! 'beaten witha carpet beater. ) Cut glass will be clear and spark- 'pota- toes very thin and lay in a stone jar, add a smal! cupful of canned (peas, a thinly sliced turnip, a alio- onion, one-quarter cupful of raw 'a e 4 i Fae a ; Lacquered brass can be by washing it in rea eee water, little soap may be add 8 ry. Do not allow the hearth of the blackened, as it. will bas rons or dresses. Wrin out of warm water a wipe the hearth clean every. morn- nese Blacking it will not be neces- 4 'good way to strengthen the worn places in epee in se: E stitch them with the sewin ©| back and forth in parallel ae aad then turn the run stitches = oe angles to those already " 'turpentine is put on a burn immediately, it' will stop the burn- ing and there will be no pain. Sat- pentine, then wrap the burn 'care- fully and saturate again and again, keeping the bandage wet for some Sry A good 5 scouring for boards and tables is this: Work into a paste of soft soap and a quarter 'of a pound of lime. Put it on the scrub- bing brush instead of soap, tien wash the wood with plenty of clean water. If you have not access to a hot &) water bag when it is needed, a good substitute is a flannel AB filled with hot sand or salt. good idea is to keep half a dozen "wile ones filled and ready. The flesh of Bch out of season is unwholesome. If ary to keep fish overnight, place them where the moon will not shine on them; the effect is as bad as hot sunshine. Cod, hope and hali- but may be kept @ day before us- ing; but mackerel and white fish lose their life as soon as they leave the water. In cooking meat, the idea is to retain the nourishment and flavor. off the leather,-and then saturate it with the oil, rubbing it in thor- poe cg before a fire. Put the boots aside for two or three days after oiling them for the first time, aod afterwards oi] them before going out. A simple and easy way to iron sheets is to first fold the two hems together right side out, then fold! th the sheet across the centre, forming @ square with the broad 'hem on top of the sheet outside. Then sim- ply iron the square on both sides and the sheet will have a well-iron- ed appearance when on the Velveteen which has served ita purpose as a dress or blouse should} , be preserved and made inte polish- ing cloths. In this connection vel- veteen is almost as good as a cha- mois leather, and can not only be used for obtaining a fine polish on satinwood and mahogany furniture but as a means of brightening sil- ver and p go hen soile the velveteen may be su cleaned by washing --_--_--______ Thoso Punctuation Marks. "Oh dear !" sighed Warren, as he came in from school one day; "I wish we didn't have to much about periods comma and semicolons and stich things. th: " y em. ' Mamma laid down her sewing and said: "Why do you bate them, Warren?" "Why, it's so hard to remembes when to use them, and, besides, don't think they are of much uss. I don't see why we couldn't write eentences without putting in any punctuation marks, Mamma emiled, and then, rising from her chair, she went over to the kk and got out @ piece of paper and a pencil, Then she wrate: "The little borkay strutted -about the yard and ate corn half an hour af- ter Waa =o all ' mum w fun exclaimed Warren when - one OF read it. "How could a aes walk around eating corn without any ead 1" it in a soapy .| father, "He couldn't," replied mamma, 'and yet I have written juss what I intended to write, I have, how- ever, left out all punctuation marks.' Then she bent down and Lewes ated the sentence, "The little turkey sheeted about the yard and ate corn ; halt an hour after, his head was cut off." "Oh, I see,"' crled Warren. And then and there he resolved to learn all that he could about punctuation marks.--The Evangelist, urate a piece of bandage with tur- pe half a pound of sand, half a pound. :|son, the present King owed at a most trying hour, brought her one son throu the dynastic peri ak years and when they did see him once more they were charmed. They beheld a-smart and dapper yeung King entirely after their own hearts, and they accorded him as much ie ers as can ever be ex- Peale "i We. dand of The n Sone ing was not allowed to remain a bachelor long. He had long cherished a keen affection for his cousin, the child Princess Mer cedes of Montpensier. The mar- riage was not a popular one, 'for children, | tiabella, had fied Queen Christina u her laureis,"" and well may she do 80, for in spite of con le sonal unpopularity in in--w: she is supposed to have the "'e S eye"--She has scored «triumph as @ Queen which has no parallel in perils, and has{ the establishe The then ruler of Spain, Sick of Republicanism. But the 8) s00n grew sick gerous sixteen years of his ne ty, Fi ed these years she had the seeing her son's country deprived in war of all its once-vast sg Empire. During the six elapsed between the Soars of tae Alfonso XII. and the birth of King Alfonso XIII., Queen Ohristina's eldest daughter was Queen of Spain This Princess remained heiress to the Spanish throne for the fir s roud| twenty-two years of her life, and when she fell in love with one of the hated Caserta princes and in- sisted upon marrying him, the Church was in a state of --_ dur- ing the wedding ceremon She had one child, tr then died in giving birth to another, and last +f --"Spain's Dowager Queen. ie bride's family were disliked by Spaniards, but it was a "'love fede and Spaniards are not! not chivalrous. On the wedding day King a gave lis pretty young bride a tiful ruby ring, and almost trom that moment new Queen' 8 health began to fail. In spite of every atten the girl Queen of Spain only lived two days after her eighteenth birthday. She left no children, heartbroken young Mo his raed the ring and gave it to mother, Queen Christina, wheed only survived the gift for a few weeks. The King then gave the Royal ring ly | to this anew sister-in-law, who went to her grave three months la- ter | An Unlucky Ring. ring was "un- tueky but King's English ma to wear it Meaeele very soon a "stricken man es Bpain's first necessity was an heir (all the bloodshed for many years haying been caused by the failure of direct heirs to its crown) King Alfonso promptly mar- ri no, He this time chose for his bride the Austrian archduchess, who was 4 great-great-niece of the ill-fated Mario Antoinette, This young Princess had been dogged by misfortune almost: from her birth; and when she had -pre~ ie nted. her. King with' two uite ughters, death overtook -him yery suddenly The esorrowing Royal -widow. re- moyed the ill-omened ring from her dead hueband's hand, and decided that it should never open be worn, So she caused it to snspended round the neck of the gol irgin of Almadeno, Madri patron saint, and there it pte to this day. But youth and hope were with Alfonso's seeond widow, and. when, six months after her husband's| he death, ehe gave to Spain her only Alfonso, 'she entered upon e new career, From that interesting moment Queen Christina devoted herself heart and soul to the upbringing of her son, so that he might be able to hold his own against a whole nation of year King Alfonso's'only remaining sister died under precisely the same circumstances: There-seems to be a fatal destiny attached to heirship to the Spanish throne. Naturally enough, the deaths of both her daughters have been a sore trial to the Queen-mother. Queen Christina was but 25 when she was widowed, and though not loved, she is highly respected by all classes of the Spanish people. HEALTH Food Poison and Disease. ThereAs more or/less disagree- '}Ment emong physicians concerning the significance 2f uric acid in the system; many deny that is any such thing as the "urio- acid diathesis." But whether uric acid is the agent that produces disease, or is iteelt @ product of some other more subtle poison, matters little to the patient. He suffers from eadaches, pains in the muscles or joints, poor circulation, or eczema, and he is less interested in the pre- nel cause of his trouble than in its "Undoubtedly the poison, what- ever it is, is the result of the chemi- cal changes that certain kinds of food sometimes undergo in the di- gestive tract. To relieve the con- dition, we must attend carefully to two things--we must see to it that the patient eats little of the fi t produce harmfu toxins; and that ip: poison that | +3, is formed does not stay in the in testines long enough to be absorbed into the syate Meat is aa source of most of these toxins, and anyone who gives] ; ------ of su @ from ae, Sp emp must eat less meat acoustomed to, al- hovel it is not always wise to etop all meat at once. However, if the eczema' or the joint pains or other symptoms are obstinate, it may @ good plan to abstain for two or three weeks from everything ere bread and butter, potatoes and rice. BSugh @ diet will often cure a uric-acid skin dis In addition to dieting, the must be very eure that the sec does not remain in the intestines long enough to be absorbed. For this purpose an English surgeon Republican state publican setae be Rev. 19. 9). is, twelve to three and three to six o'clock. WE MUST an THE KING Our Business Is To Do It Hand and Heart In Utter Consecration of blo | oasis in the. desert of the first sine chapters of Chroni- cles. re is one of those infre- quent passages in the Old Testa- ment which i the plants| --the humble toilers! we. whose Tite were far removed! A Seca the great city of the king and ® are tem again to forget that there were such people as these in an- cient Israel: But such a text as this shows that they were all of the time, living obscurely and dying unknown, just as they have alwaya lived and died, and always will Until the End of Time.' Now aa I read this text I am im- pressed by the significant statement of the chronicler that these humble toilers were doing the king's work. They were working for the king just as truly as the greatest man in all the realm of Israel. The ob- scurest potter among them, dwell- ing in the most wretched hovel "plants and was just as much a ser- vant of the king as the mightiest, soldier in the royal army or the proudest statesman in the royal palace. And right here; I take it, -is the essential thing in human life. Not how much have we gained, nor how high have we climbed, but regard- less of poverty or weakness or ob- scurity, are we doing the work of the King, and doing i "That. is consequence, but care. small; some famous, some obscure; therefore, if we be faithful, ing unto . to se is the question |". Ged, our been placed is not oe the oe only how.we are. ity at the task allotted to our ome of ua are great, some wo some~ "have the five talents, some , but the one; some are courtiers in ag palace of the king, some mere- y plants and hedges." But all of ua "'potters" dwelling "among { are God's people; all have some part of God's work to do, and all, : | are liy- Our business is not ek the ranks and titles, the gilded trappings and displays, the alth fame and power of the - I woetd. Our business is not to beat another in the race for gain or out- do a rival in the quest for glory. | Our Business is to do Our Ei } be it big or little, "to the limit,' | to serve the King i in our place, it high or low, as well as we know how. We must be li ke the stars of which Matthew Arnold says, in his . famous sonnet :-- 'Bounded by themselves, and un- regard In what state God's other works may be. In their own tasks all their powers pouring, These attain the mighty lives you see," In his biography of John Gilley, j e.farmer and fisherman, Dr. C. W. Eliot says, in the closing para- graph :--"This is the life of one of the forgotten millions. It contains no material for distinction, fame, or long remembrance, but it does contain the material for a normal human development through ming- led joy and sorrow, labor and rest, adversity and success, and through the tender loveg of childhood, ma- turity and old ape. We cannot but believe that it is just for countless . : quiet lives like this that God made 7 a upho this earth."--Rev. John Haynes Holmes. TH. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Lesson X. Watohfulness (Temper- ance Lesson)}--Luke 12. 35-48. Golden Text, Luke 12. 87. Verse 35. Girded--The long flow- ing garents formerly worn by Jews impeded movement. In preparing for work or for rapid traveling the wearer drew them close about the waist and fastened them with a girdle, ~Lamps burning -- This s suggests the parable of the ten virgins (see Matt. 25. 1). 36. When he shall return from the marriage feast--The master of the house has been invited'to at- tend the marriage of a friend. As the wedding festivities ueually last- ed a week, the servants would be left alone 'for some time. The pa- raliel passage in Mark mentions i (Mark 13. 34). 87, He shall gird himself, and make them. sit down to meat, and: shall come and serve them--This is the inversion of the relation of and servants, the lord do- ing the work of a slave in gratitude for the servants' faithfulness. This is a promised at the Marriage Supper Lamb (Bee e usual course be- ¢ween- master and servant is given in Luke 17. 7-10. 38. In the second watch, and if in the third--The Romans divide™s the night into four watches, the" Jews into three. Jesus probably also nt} referre to the Jewish division, that 39. A second illustration to show the need of watchfulnese omne mtamered Peter's ssaoeli son--The upper servants, or ete- estates drunken--This servant was prob have been given to the ing; many stripes for willful heg- degrees of pu of him ehall m was sentenced to "'perpetual deten- tion" in 1867 for a brutal murder, high privilege is offered to all or reserved for the apostles alone. Compare 'Mark 13, 37. 42. As was often his custom, Their portion of food i in due sea- wards, on Roman rved out at regular intervals the food apportiofied to the lower servants. 43. So doing--Serving the others, that is, doing his work faithfully. »44. He will set him over all that he hath--Increased responsibility, not release, is the reward for faith- fulness. Compare the parable of the pounds, in which the servant who was found faithful in a very little, was given authority over much (Luke 18, 17). 45. To eat and drink, and to be ably dissipating on what should i servants under him. 46. Shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the un- ithful--Unfaithful servants, that , those who abused their trust, ~ punished with epee death. 47. Note the gradation of punish- | ment shown in this parable, name- ly, violent death for gross evil do- leot of d few stripes for -unoon- ag: + neal, eince the servant be in a measure responsible smd not having found out his lord's will. Luke 10. 19-14 also suggests . nishment. , bpm ne much is given, fh be required--The principle is the same as "that stated in the talente and the pounde. See comment on verse 44. 47 Yéars in Prison. . An ok1_ convict named Giur, who 48. spoonfuls, an-hour before meals. It not machinators.. x has introduced the use. of liquid paraffin, in doses of two e-| indicative is e'me + for it fa not ab- sorbed, and acta only as a@ lubri- cant, Ask the advice of a physician before you. take it; - however, sometimes there are reasons wh would be better to use some other | or means of atiminsting © the food poi-| be easily sons,--Youth's Companion throngh."' ee Sandy's Doots. the Son of Sandy Macpherson went into a restaurant and asked for~a bard- pales After cracking the tof looked doubtfully at the, con- tents. bee | doot," said he, 'the hen that been boiled long asked the waiter, i ie ied Jasna been boiled long enough, but it-hasna heen boiled goon enough," ly, watchful, if the would like and his the twelve, Son of man may come unexpected % behooves all disciplea to be Know this--The verb is probably and. would therefore mean, "You know this." He would have watched, and not have left his house to be through--Except among the: rich, whose houses were sometimes built it] of stone, the walls were of adobe, sun-dried bricks, and would oxen "broken," or "dug 40, In an hour that ye think not man cometh--Since the ® is sometimes well to ask ourselves at the close of the day time has been spent as we to have spent it were that day our last, 41, This verse gives another illus- tration of riage A copa: an for 5 Five doubtless has in mind the promise given in verse 37; and wishes to know whether this « has just died at the prison of Lenz- bourg, canton of Argovie, Swatser- land, aged seventy-four. During his impriconment of forty-seven consecutive . years-- the ticket-ol- yetem does not exist in this country--Ghur never id the prison, and nobody visited him. He was obedient, a hard worker, and never gave any troub|gto the warders, with whom he made friends, , ous. "Your friend, that he is a self- -- hear ® self- Miss C Smythe, noun made al ou made Mr, Critic cag 'They like every one to think it's natural." If a pan in which milk is cooked is rinsed out in cold water the milk will not be so apt tos When poverty comes in. at the door Jove makes a noise like a fly. ing machine.