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Macaroni pu4ding..-Made syrfpl- lows, will be ex'ceilent. _ Boil two ounces of macaroni in boiling water l,iarra quarter of an hour, and then drain it thoroughly. Drop-into a pint of hot inillrisrith a little grat- ed lemon rind and a piece of cinna- mon. When nearly cooked, sweet- an to tasee.: _The macarbrd must book in tltgti1ilk for one hour and a. quarter, taking bare that it does k _ not burn or cook fast. Serve in "i, J’Eeep dish, with boiled custard' We’d over. , -, '.' , 8irfigtzgesrand med cabbage stew- vd:--Strip "off the outer leaves _lrom a, freshly gathered red" cabs base, and cut 1n in the thinnest possible slices, "beginning at -the top. Place-o. stewpan with two ounées of clarified dripping, and salt and pepper, cover closely, and let stew in its own juice for about four hours, stirring and pressing _lt. down at intervals. "When tender Edd a tablespoonful of vinegar, and , mix thoroughly. Put the cabbage" _ on a hot dish, and arrange the _" sausages around it. Economy in Gloves-Rub light gloves with fine breadcrumbs after each time of wearing. If you allow them to get very dirty home-clean- ingiis rarely a success, but if tteat- ed in the manner described they Pea Salad.---) can of peas drained, one dozen small sweet pickles, cut fine, and one onion, cut fine. Mix altogether with a good salad dressing. Oyster Salad. - Yolks three Eggs, one-half cupful of sweet cream, tablesponful of butter, one- fourth (or less) cup of vinegar, one-half cup oyster liquor, one- half cup rolled crackers, mustard, salt and pepper to taste. Beat eggs, add other ingredients. Put on fire, stir constantly, adding crackers last; when thickened re- move from fire, add two cucumber pickles chopped, and one can oysters chopped fine. A Washing-day I'1int,.---Before Putting the sheets and pillow-slips 1n the boiler, put in four table- spoonfuls of boiled starch in one boilerful of water, and after iron- ing the bed linen is like new. To wash colored ribbons make a strong lather of cold water and soap, wash the rlotrons and rinse them several times in soapy water. When partly dry iron them between thin pieces of muslin, keeping the ribbons perfectly smooth. lden color in a little bacon fat, sti in a tablespoonful of flour, let it brown, moisten with broth from the peas and a little stock. And half a gill of vinegar, boil up and put with peas, and cook for another ten minutes and serve. _ Lemon Mincemeat.--Grste the rind of three large lemons, squeeze out the juice, and boil the rest of the lemons till tender enough to pulp. Chop this tinely, and then add the pulp of three baked apples. Add to.this one, pound of stoned raisins, one pound of Currants, one pound of finely chopped suet, two pounds of Demerara sugar, and two ounces of chopped peel. Mix all thoroughly, and then add a tea-cupfull' of brandy, and two tablespoonfuls of marmalade. Put the mincemeat into a jar with a cover and after a, fortnight it will be ready for use. ' Cook 1priedtPeas---Frymac Ger- man recipe as follows, aid you will have a, very tasty dish: Soak one pint of peas overnight in water with arvtiny piece of soda. Drain them the following morning, wash in cold water and cook in salted water, using only just sufficient to keep them from burning. Chop finely a teciium-size onion, fry a Irish stew of salt beef.--Two bounds of potatoes, remains of salt Beef, an onion and carrot, chopped parsley and seasoning of pepper arid salt. Peel and slice the pota- toes, bring to the boil, cook about three minutes, 'and'drain we the water. Into a stewpan put a. layer of, iktatotsi, 'on it thinly sliced carrot and onion seasoned with pepper and salt. Then have a layer of the meat, out into square pieces half an inch thick, and more potato, thus alternately till' all is used. Put a teacupful of stock in. the bottom. and cook gently for. one. and a half hours. Tirn onto a dish to serve. Scatter chopped parsley over. _ _ Apples-Are most ”wholesome tdr breakfast or- supper. Peel, and core thd-fruit.and fill the hollows with spice arid sygu, and bake long enough for the apphrto form a, thin crust. Sometimes a pieee of hufter placed on each apple before baking is an acceptable change. COOKING RECIPES. Cheese Crisps.JAre always liked, and are easliy made. Grate some cheese and make it into a paste with butter, season it with cayenne and salt. Spread some plain bis- cuits with the mixtures make very hot in the overrand' Serve. n' . 'taefetaetmse)kWyaef HINTS FOR THE HOME '55? aaaaaaaaaaaf HOME. SALADS most ' [wholesome EUROPE% DANGER-SPOT. The most dangerous place in Eu.. rope after dark is perhaps the Bois do Boulogr1o---a veritable forest, covering eighteen hundred acres. Carriages are stopped, and their occupants robbed; wires are stretched across the cycling track; and pedestrians are constantly be, ing attacked, and compelled to give up their purses, under threat of a. revolver, or the famous Apache knife. It is recokned that there are six- to thousand criminals in Paris. To cope with these there are only eight thousand "sergents-de-ville" .-_. or poheemen-and three hundred de- tectives. The Apache is generally a youth from fifteen to twenty-two, ever! ready to take part in a battle, if he can do so without risking his own life. Be will attack and rob inoffensive people at night, and even knife them for pleasure. He calls it art for art’s sake. In spite of raids made almost every night by the police, the Apaches do not disappear; they only change their haunts. "Barbillon." He is a lad who has run away from home, and helps burglars. When he reaches the age of fifieen he becomes danger- ous. Anxious to make a reputa- tion for himself, he makes a'bet, drinks to give himself courage. and His gymnastic abilities, and the Get that he is most of the time warned by his comrades, generally Help him to escape the police. As soon as he has become unusually heroic or revengeful, and t'ecog- nizes this, the Apache adopts a name, and his life henceforth is spent in trying to make that name famous and more dreaded. The "Terror of Pantin," the "Panther of Montparnasse" have almost be- come classical names. During the summer months they come down from the centre of Paris into the main boulevards after mid- night, under pretext of looking for work in the central markets. Apache is almost a title. Tha young man must be known for his courage, his fiendishnass, and his ability in playing with the knife to be recognized as an Apache among his peers. - _ ... _ _ _ uses a knife. If he wounds dan, gerously a passer-by at night, he is admitted into the gang, and Besides the Apaches, there are various classes of criminals, The The Paris newspapers contain daily records of the. Apaches' crimes. It, is most dangerous to walk at night in at least one dozen large districts of the French capi- tal. The worst are La, Vilette, La Maison-Blanche, Point 'du Jour, and the, Porte de Vincennes. As for the Bois de Boulogne, the fam- ous and immense park at the4oors of Paris, it is simply swarming mth these ruffiang. Evefy large city has its hooli- gans, but nowhere are they so num erous,' and, above all, so daring, so well organized, as in Pans. They call themselves "Apaches," and have, indeed, the cruelty, the audacity, and bloodthirstiness of the famous tribe of Red Indians, of whose fearful exploits every child has read. N, If the kitchen f1ooreloth looks shabby, as it does when the célors begin towear off, it maybe made to took equal to new by treating in the following mtirurer. Procure some broWn paint." Choose a time when the k1tchen door cah be Clos- ed for two days. Coat all careful- ly over, and when thoroughly dry give a, good polish with furniture cream. The result will pay for labor expended. , Paris is often called, HLa Ville Luminere"---the "City of Light." It may quite as truly be called the "City' of Obscure Crimes." A Usefor Tea Leavts,---Save old tea leaves for a few days, pour boilinrwater over them, leave till nearly cold, strain, and use the water for washing paint. It gets off stains very easily and quickly. Clean white paint by rubbing with a damp flannel which has been dipped in whiting. Soda should never be used in washing paint, as it injures the color. _ Sixty Thousand Criminals in. the _City--So Cunning the Police _ are Helpless. THE ihffi'l'liRES OF PARIS DARE PLACES IN THE FRENCH METROPOLIS. Worth Noting.--Amueur blouse- makers will" save themselves a great deal of trouble if, instead of sewing the hooks and eyes to the blouse, they sew them on a, piece of tape.. This can be sewrrby hand down the from: of the blouse, and when it is sent to the wash the tape is easily removed. _- _ a long time. _ _ New brass goods should never be cleaned with metal polisnes, but as long as the lacquer remains they should be simply dusted with, a soft; cloth. The lacquer is preserved by cleaning the brass occasionally with furniture polish, with .a very light rubbing. will preysnt a "ART FOR ART'8 SAKEY' nice appearance for "The man I had with we became frightened, and after creeping some distance through the grass, jumped to his feet and ran. This aroused the beast, for it lifted its head and looked after the man, giving me the; phaocc , Wanted- The most abominable point about the crimes which are daily taking place in the French capital and its suburbs is that on almost every occasion they are committed with- out any apparent motive. Parisian hooligans have been known to play at cards, after having agreed that the loser would shoot the first man he should meet on leaving the room. The loser, considering his "honor" as engaged, never hesitates to ful- fil his "duty," and to pistol s0mtV one brutally in the back. A few years ago a terrible ac- cident befell an English spousman in pursuit of the rhinocerous.. It is given in a book entitled “On Safari," by Mr. Abel Chapman, to whom the story was related by the unfortunate man. The sportsman was in pursuit of eland, and had passed a "rhiuo," which he resol- ved to go back and endeavor to se- cure. He tells the story as follows: "The rhino was one hundred and twenty yards away, with its back towards me. I sat down in the grass, eighteen inches high, and waited. After ten minutes the rhino turned round and- walked slowly toward me, grazmg. a "I put a solid bullet in the centre of its chest, and it went down heavily. There seemed to be not the slightest breath of life in it, so I walked toward it "When I was less than twenty yards away the huge beast gave a roll and got on its feet. My rifle was up at once, and I put a bullet into the shoulder; but before I could get in a second shot the brute was charging straight. "I commenced to run, but the iirse step I moi; I tripped and fell, and before I could regain my feet it was on top of me. A POINT OF "HONOR" ! Soon the word was on every lip. The "Trauriens"--flattered, unfor- tunately, at receiving so much at- tention--began to live up to the reputation. of the new name which had been given them. In December, 1898, a cafe on the Place du Palais Royal was broken into and robbed, and on one of tho mirrors the thieves had traced, with a, piece of soap, the words, "This was done by the Apaches." During the whale of that winter outrages abounded._ . The novelty of such a crime struck the reporter, who, having read the Red Indian stories of Mayne Reid and Gustave Aimard, exclaimed: "This must be the work of Apaches!” . Next morning the reporter's ac- count of the crime was published, with the heading, "Crime commit- ted by the Apaches of Belleville." It was the first time the word had becn used in connection with the hooligan class, and it became at once popular. Sportsman at the Mercy of a Wounded Rhinocerous. The Apache, when caught, runs little risk, unless he has a previous conviction. He can generally' pro- duce a, certificate of employment, showing that he is earning his liv, ing somewhere or other, and the police, after arresting himfor lo't ering, have to stand by' and watch the magistrates discharge him again. _ _ “That is a, good name," replied tht police official.. . Prior to 1898 tho Apaches were known as "Vauriens/'/ or “No Goods.” In that year, however, a French newspaper reporter walked into the Belleville poliderstatipr1 to hear what had happened during the last twenty-four hours, and learnt that on the previous night, m the Fauboutg, du Temple, a man had been discovered by the police gagged and bound,' with a woman's hat-pin pierped clean through his face, and the neck had" been out- rageously tattooed. ' Certain periods are known for their crime wave. Thus, from Janu- ary lst to July 1st of last year no fewer than 374 street rohberies, night assaults, freefights with knife and revolver, and murders, were committed in Paris. Out of this number, 160 "occurred in less than twenty days. T _. - _ wt HOPELESSNESS OF THE LAW or around Paris. No day passes without at least a dozen attacks on passers-by. Burglaries are more rare in Paris than in London, but Food is drawn far more frequent- The “M-onte-en-l’air.” Be is less of a coward, and generally older than the average Apache. He 1s the professional burglar. His "work" requires special qualities of initiative, energy, strength, nim, bleness, and pluck. The "Monte- en-l'air" never works alone, but associates with two or three of his fellows. Tho number of these hooligans has undoubtedly increased since the end of 1906, for at that time the abolition of capital punishment was practically' decided. T There has been during the, last two years an average of five murders a: month in The "Roulottier." His specialty is., robbing parcels at railway sta- tions, in trains, or from mrrjages. dubbed a, "costeau" who has drawn his first blood." T I Fr A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. For a long time it spread no fur- ther, Yet it furnished an object lesson that could not be indefinitely ignored. Thoughtful Germans came in time to ask themselves why it was that the kingdom of Sweden, with 5,000,000 inhabitants, has few- ei places for the sale of'dpirituous liquors than are to be found in the single city of Knoigsburg, with 180,000 inhabitants, or in Bremen with its 150,000. ___ - _ - - Thoughtful Englishmen asked why they must necdrhaso a drink shop for every 243 inhabitants, while one for 13,000 sufheed in Sweden. They proceeded to develop a form of the Gothenburg system which, in (the hands of prominent English. men, has accomplished a great deal, even without the aid of special leg islation. The following story of Mr. Jus- tice Darling, of England, is too good to lose: He was dining at a, friend's house, and the Conver8a- tion turned on some debatable topic. One of the guests expressed his own views at some length and with some heat. Suddenly he said to the judge: "I observe that your lordship shakes his head at that statement. I desire to reafr1rm it, although your lordship dissents/' _ .. "f am not aware," coldly re- sponded the judge, "that I have intimated how I shall construe Four arguments, nor what my de- cision will be in tho event of my entering into this discussion. Your remark is, therefore, entirely un- called-for." "True," said the judge; "there was a fly on my ear. And I'll have you know, sir, that I reserve the right to remove a fly in whatever manner pleases me." The system which has accomplish- ed so much in Sweden was first put; into operation in its developed form in the city of Gothenburg, and hence came to be generally known as the Gothenburg system. lt was adopted in due course by all the chief trities and by many of the smaller cities in' Sweden, and it met a. similarly favorable reception in Norway and in Fin- land. head The per capita consumption of spirituousliquors decreased in Swe- don from 22 liters in 1851 to 7.2 litersrin 1896 Instead of 8 quarts (the equivalent) 7.2 liters) per capita, tho consumption in this country is over 17 gallons for every man, woman and child. This is the average given by the census It- ports for the year 1900, when the total consumption of liquors in this countrywas 1,322,000,000 gallons. At that time there were more) than 23,000 distilleries in Sweden! and it was said that liquor could; be purchased in almost every but’ in the kingdom. When the new law! had been in force six years accord=1 ing to McClure’s Magazine, the; number of distilleries had dropped] to less than 600. Itr1896 it was 132. l Meanwhile the saloons shrank away'so rapidly that in 1869 were was but one for 8,028 of the popu- lation, and eleven yams later only one for 13,450 inhabitants. More Than" 23,000 Distmeries Closed in Last Half Century. Instead of going dry in any of the various ways now being tried in this country Sweden‘has invented a method of liquor tiuyffie control whiclrcan show some extraordin- ary results. ' The novel. features of the law enacted in that country so long ago as 1855 consisted in the provision that local companies or committees might be formed in various com- munities to conduct the liquor traf- fie in such a way as to eliminate all private profit, any gain that might Iresult from the traihe being directly applied to the promotion of public utilities calculated to serve as counter attractions to the saloon. The spot where the catastrophe occurred was fifteen miles from camp. The nearest doctor was dis, tant 100 and thirty-six miles. there on the desert veld, a shat- tered wreck, with right arm smash- ed, ribs broken, and many minor injuries, lay the hunter, exposed to the fierce equatorial sun. It was hours before his men found him, and midnight ere they could carry him into camp. It was not until eighirdays after the accident that the doctor arrived, and the necessary operations could be per- formed. “It hit me Erst Wuxl its nose, dropped with both knees on me, then, drawing back for the blow, threw me clean over its back. The horn entered the back of my left thigh, and I saw the animal well underneath me as I was flying through the air. The man lost his right arm, but otherwise bears no trace of his ter- rible experience. 'Ut threw me the second time, but I cannot recollect the throw clearly; and then came athird time. I was lying on my back when the great black snout was pushed against me. Then I found myself on my feet, how, I do not know, and staggered off, "After going about forty yards, expecting every moment to be charged again, I felt that I might as well lie down and let the beast finish his work, so I lay down." A JUDICIAL PRIVILEGE. But your lordship shook his DRYING UP SWEDEN. I Continental nations whose ter- ritories are contiguous are always Tin a state of panic as to collision 1etwen their respective, subjects. {Some years ago, some young ‘Frenchemn from Perpignan were :picknicking near the Spanish front- :ier, when they fell irrstrith some (Spanish hawkers, and, for, a joke [upset their barrows. / Then the British Government was moved to take a hand. Strong representations were made to the Italian Government, and the money was paid. Esposito, hunt- ed by troops, escaped to the States, but was recognized in New York, arrested and sentenced to hard labor for 1ife.-London An- swers. , ed me he asked me it I had any money, and I said 'yes,' of course." PIECE BY PIECE. The kidnapping by brigands of subjects of other States has more than once come very near to caus- ing war. There was a to/rfble row, when, in 1876, Mr. Rose was captured by that Sicilian rudian Esposito, _ _ Five thousand pounds ransom was demanded and when the money was not forthcoming one of the un- fortunate man's ears was cut off and sent to his wite. A week later came the other ear, and with the threat that if tho money was not forthcoming, the captive's body would be sent piecemeal to his rc- latives. "No man on earth is good enough for 1r_wop1ap,'/ she said positively. "That's right, I gues‘s,” he fe- plied. "I never yet heard of a man being able to please one." on them, killing one -and wdunding others. They then escaped into Canada. "But," said Goodley, "Dr. Price-Price doesn't ask for pay from poor p.at,ityJtts-,',' H‘v‘iof" repiied Markley, "because be wouldn't get ft. Whey be treat- General Dix, who was in com. mand at Vermont, ordered repri- sals. United States soldiers were actually on the march into Canada, when fortunately, news reached Washington, and President Lin, coln wired Dix to wait. "ALL'S WELL TBAT----" The Franco-Spanish incident brings to mind a crime which came within an ace of causing war be- tween Britain and the States. One night in October, 1864, towards the end of the Civil, War between the North and South, twenty armed men galloped in to the town of St. Albans, Vermont, robbed the bank of some thousands of dollars in gold, carried off a dozen horses, and when some of the inhabitants tried to defend their property, fired It turned out the raiders were Southeners, who had taken refuge in Canada, where they had been warmly welcomed. Of course, Canada was obliged to give the robbers up, and all ended well, but it was a close shave. This terrible chime was the cause of a serious international quarrel. Troops had to be hastily sent to the border to keep order, fora. mob of Spaniards, burning for revenge, were gathering to attack Perpignan. The press of both countries devoted columns to the incident, and the wires betwen Paris and Madrid were kept busy for some time be- fore, the matter was arranged. One of the Spanish hawkers fired among the Frenchmen, killing one of them on the spot. his friends rushed at the Spaniards who ran for their lived.' But the French- men, mad with rage, chased them, caught two of the hawkers, tied them to a tree and tortured them horribly with pieces of broken glass. I810 there was a Scotchman liv- ing at Potchesfstroom named Alec Malcolm. He was a stonemason, and, because of his sturdy inde- pendence, gained the hatred of the Boers. One day four or five men caught him, flung him on the ground, and placing a table on him, jumped on it. They then kicked him in the face and in the stomach with spurred boots, and, when he was unconscious, two of the ruffians --Smit and Pretorious by name-- shot him dead. No punishment was ever inflicted on the murderers, buf the British -in South Africa never forgot it. A More or Less Commosr-plaee Murder or Theft Will Itifiante Whole Nations. Von Veltheim, in March, 1898, shot and killed Woolf Joel-- in Joharmesburg--a shot which, it has often been said, was responsible for the beginning of the Boer War). But it was really another, and almost forgotten, crime which, more than anything, made a con- flict between Britain and Boér ine- vitable. - CRIMSON CRIMES THAT HAVE CONVULSED COUNTRIES. WHAT BEGAN BOER WAR? "Well, he said: U'll take “Well? HARD TO PLEASE ALL HE HAD "3624:? The reformer wno brows a trum. pet is more anxious to gstonish the natives than to surprise the enemy The fool has two extremely dim- cult tasks, to know himself and keep othgrs from doipg the same. We" can do nothing better than analyze the problem of poverty an nothin worse than to stop with analySIES. vo'" Brazilian cocoanut palms lim from 600 to 700 yam. Religion is -always a bad bargain to the man who tries to get it cheap. -_-_ The church does not lead follm to heaven by looking like a funeral. A man's religion goes no deeper than the big potatoes in his bushel. Thi, man who brags of his humili ty is equally proud of his consii tency. _ A -- _ A plate of soup may way as much in the umversc as many a song or sermon n brotherhood. Repontche is always Iamo_with- out restitution and reformation. When you get after the profits of oppression you will hear a lot about the princ_iples of liberty: _ “The bigo€ is the man who thinks that all souls.go to heaven only through his_prlvate knothole. It may be interesting to add that since the French Government has diminished so many of the legal and administrative obstacles to marriage, there has been a marked increase, "not only in the number matrimonial alliances recorded, but also in children. The reforms in this connection inaugurated by the Clemenceau administration seem to have arrested the alarm» ing decline of French population. Many a tailored suit covers a lot of hand-me-down ems. No map ever spoke truth with- ou_t hearing its echo in heaven, _ It's hard to go on singing "Take my silver and my gold” after you get some. T Citizenship in heaven will not exempt you from either taxes or services here. ' Friendship is often a severe test of love. No man can buy peace by selling principle. - -. _ _ He who loves a cave is always sure as to the sun. Right pride keeps a man from being proud. None come on happiness b hunting it. ll The way to kill love is to count on its profits. No than gets to be a star by re-' beaming as a cloud. A - King, Philip IV. of Spain decreed that financial "tssiseanoe, towards securing a wedding outfit should be furnished out of the public purse to any girl othersviuysbacaad--, poverty fttm marrying; and Cd bert, marquis " Segnelat, one o France's greatest' 'Mini'ster‘si' of Finance, induced Louis XIV. to issue a decree tvecbrdinguin annuity for live or1,000 livres, to any wife of an gentilhomme who had ten children,' the pension to be in, creased to 1,200 livres if she had twelve. Be also obtained legisla- tion to the effect that any girl who married under twenty should be re-. lieved from taxation .until her twenty-fifth year. _ From - this it will be seen that this question has been a matter of concern to monarchs, and states- men in former centuries, and that legislation of various sinus was- de.. vised by the seventeenth and, eigh- teenth century monarchs of France and of Spain, oi Prussia, of Aust: ria, of Swederrand of Portugal; ip- deed laws of this order were gen- eral in those days. Moreover, they proved effective. '._:' . _ HELPED IN WEDDING OUTFIT. In Spain in the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries, men who mar- ried were relieved for three years after their weddings, of certain personal taxes, while any, couple that raised a family of six son's was exempt Horn all ta%reidp for the' remainder of its days. _ I' In France Unmarried Folk P395 a Rate Higher Than That of Married; People who are constantly sug- gesting the impos1cion of" special taxes on celibates, apparently imagine that legismtion to that ef- feet would constitute so.meth.i,rrgrs new. This is far from being IIa" case. In the days when the power‘ of monarchs was more autocratic than ti-day, imposts of this char- acter were frequent. Thus, in tlys-- reign of Louis XIV. and Louis2Hr. of Frames, bachelors and old maids . were required to pay a head tax three times higher than married people. The first and second kings of Prussia' imposed, by virtue on a decree issued in 1705', a tax 0 six cents a quarter on every girl of over twenty, no matter whether noble or peasant, who remained single. . : BACHELORS AND OLD MAIDS PAID A HIGH TAX. _ ' TAXED THEM LONG Mi) SENTENCE SERMONS