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_ w "â€"w vux, Lullu at a cup of boiling water. Beat well 1nd bake immediately. Doughnutsâ€"One cup sour milk, two- thirds cup granulated sugar; one egg, well beaten, salt spoon of salt, a lit- tle nutmeg, a scant teaspoonful soda, Dne teaspoom’ul baking powder, two teaspoonfuls h0t lard. Mix immedi- ately rather soft; r 11 about one-half inch in thickness; cut in rings or nicks. Do no: turn the doughnuts mt once while trying. , Watersâ€"Cream one and one-half mp3 of sugar and two-thirds cup of butter and one egg. Add one-half cup tweet milk, two heaped teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and oneâ€"half tea- lpoontul lemon extract. ‘Mix soft; roll very thin; bake quickly. DOMESTIC RECIPES. Molasses Cakeâ€"One cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, oneâ€"half cup but- ter, one egg, well beaten; one-third cup strong cold coffee, one heaped tea- spoonful baking powder, one-third tea- Ipoonful sodaoone-half teaspoonful of :11 kmds of splces, muted, and one tea- curranns and ciiron; two and one-half cups of flour. When the mixmre is thoroughly incorporated add one-third It a cup of boillng water. Beat well .ma‘ kn!“- =~â€"- Chocolate Cakeâ€"Nine eggs two cups sugar, one quarter pound choco- the yolks of the eggs with the sugar into a thick cream. Stir in the mat- zmh meal, potato flour and sp:ces. Dissolve the chocolate in a little boil- ing water and add it to the other in- gredients. Finally put in the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in a mtderate oven. Eggplant Saladâ€"Cut the eggplant into quarter-inch slices, pare, sprin- kle with salt and pepper. and saute them‘ quickly in h0t butter. Drain on cheese cloth; when cold cut- them in- to dice, sprinkle on them some minced watercress and cover with a cream‘ salad dressing made by stirring three teaspoons 0t grated horseradish, three tablespoons of lemon juice, half a teaspoon of salt and a dash of paprika into one cup of thick, whipped cream. Deviled Lobster.â€"One can preserved lobster, three tablespoonfuls butter, four tablespoonfuls vinegar. one half teaspoonful made mustard, one good pinch Cayenne pepper, boiled eggs for garnishing. salt. Empty contents lob- ster can into bowl one hour before using it. Mince evenly. Put vinegar, butter and seasoning into saucepan; when it simmers add lobster. Cook slowly, covered, one half hour, stir- ring occasionally. Turn into deep fish and garnish with slices of egg. miik; mix into dough smooth and just consistent enough to handle. Flour the) boatd. turn out dough, give it one or two quick kneadings to complete its smoothness; roll it out wiLh roll- ing pin to one eight of. an inch in thickness, cut with sharp knife into squares larger than soda crackers. fofd. each in half to form three-corner- ed pieces. Bake on hot griddle eight or ten minutes; brown on both sides. SOME GOOD RECIPES. Scorch Sconesâ€"One teaspoonful Of sugar, one half teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuis baking powder, one large tablespoanful of lard, two eggs, nearly one pint of milk. Sift to- gether flour. sugar, salt and. powder; rib in lard; cold; add beaten eggs and Codiiah Balls.â€"Shred the fish and let it stand for some time in cold wa- ter. Cook for about five minutes and drain dry. Add an equal quaniiiy of mashed potatoes, made imto a. stiff batter. add2ng miik, butter and a beaLen egg. Flour your hands, make them into flat balls and fry a nice brown. They can be fried the same 88 you try the white fish. Creamed Codfieh.-Shred the fish. cover with cold water and let it atmd for a time. When ready to prepare it. pour off the water and cool: Sor three or four minutes in( fresh water. Pour this 0st and mild a pint ij‘iCh milk. .Rn’b a large spoonful of flour and butter together and stir into the milk ; cook thoroughly and when ready to take from the fire add a well beaten At meal time cook in hot lard, as you do doughnuts. You will need to cook the fish fifteen or twenty minutes. This is the way “par excellence” to cook fish. And living on a farm Where one has plenty of good lard, it will be easy to keep a. kettle full and use it for no other purpose. Salt fish, when properly prepared, in a very good. substitute for the fresh. White-fish is perhaps as delicate and nice as any. Take one, weighing; one and one-half pounds. Having dressed it; cut. into three or four pieces. Sea- son. well with salt. dip‘ in' beaten egg. roll in flour and let stand for several hours. SOMETHING ABOUT FISH. There is no more valuable article of. food, or one that is more rich in all that goes to make up a food for old or young. than fish. In the four years in which they have been at work they have visited 295 factories, and workshops, examined 259 witnesses, and held 174 meetings. in the course of their work they have had to learn the intricacies both of busi- ness management and of scientific and mechanical manipulation of twenty-six separate industries. By the care, tacc, and judgment With which they have performed their important duties they have deserved well of all the workers of the community. “DEADL 1' DUST. Most of“ the trades and industrial consists in the inhalation of very tine dust, not necessarily poisonous, but extremely injurious to the respirator organs. As an inStance of the harm‘ wrought by dust, it may be stated; that a few years ago coal miners diedIl in large numbers from a ’form 01 con- sumption, but since the compulsory introduction of improved methods of ' watering the coal dust in the main comparatively healthy occupation. The fourth and final report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the British Home Secretary to inquire into and report upon certain miscel- laneous and dangerous trades is a highly interesting and instructive document. The Committee canalsted of Mr. H. J. Tennant, M. P., chairman, Mrs. Tennant, formerly Her Majesty’s Superintending inspecmr of Factories, Dr.. Thomas Oliver, M.D., and Mr. H. P. Smith, R.N., Her Majesty's inspector of Factories. Report of English Departmental ('ommii- ice on Dangerous Trades is a Highly Interesting Document. PERILS UNDERGONE BY WORKPEO- PLE IN THAT COUNTRY. IN BRITAIN ’S FADTURIES. One can put up a dozen different samples of spiced vinegar in this way, which will be ready for instant use at any time. Tarragon blossoms and leaves, elder flowers, nasturtlum seeds and flow- ers, peppermint leaves, green peppers, and all similar pungent plants can be utilized for flavoring good white vine- gar. a quart of vinegar over a. few bruised garlics, and let the mixture stand for several weeks. Then the vinegar will be so saturated with the garlic that a few drops of it will flagor gravies and salads. A quart should last for a year. Horseradish ground and sweetened a little will make another delicious flav- or for vinegar. A quart of boiling hot vinegar is poured over 51:: table- 5-P'Oonfuls of grated horseradish, and at the end Of a month the liquid is drained off. Those who like garlic can flavor their vinegar m a similar way. Pbur FLAVORED VINEGARS. Vmegar will take the odor and flav- or of certain pungent and spicy ar- ticles in such a way as to change ‘its flavor permanently, and speed vinegar made of allspice, cloves, mace and gin- ger root is very commonly kept in stock. .380 Mix and sift six times through a fine sieve. The powder made with corn starch is finer and whiter than that rhade with flour, and for this reason some may prefer to pay three cents more for ingredients. HOME-MADE BAKING POWDERS. If the best commercial baking pow- ders were not so reliable in quality housekeepers would rebel at the high price paid for them. They grumble and now and then try some of the low priced brands, which they find unsatis- factory. Two recipes for making bak- ing powder at home at half the cost of that bought in pound cans. Either recipe will make over two pounds, and it put together carefully, is warrant- ed to be satisfactory. No. 1. 8 ounces bicarbonate of soda, ‘ 8.05 6 ounces tartaric acid. . . .25 1 quart sifted flour. . . . .05 and butter while hot, and nerve. No. 2. 8 ounces bicarbonate of soda, $ .05 6 ounces taxtaric acid. . . .25 6 ounces corn starch. . . . .08 Coraâ€"Per flatter you, haps he is Citizen Greene. So you" the city fathers. Tell me pavements. When a pave first-rate condition. then i when that pavement is ripe up. 01' at He, however, was a resourceful man: who did not believe’ in letting a wo- man get' the better of him. You needn’t bother, he replied. ] buy them by the‘ dozen. I have decided, she said, to your ring, A person can’t help being a little bit proud of his ancestors. That’s true, replied the candid young man. One can’t help a certain feel- ing that if they had done no more than give him a place in the present gen- eration they would still have some- thing to brag about. u‘- GETTING EVEN WITH HER. She wished to break! it to him gent- Iv me to be a slur a't 8-hur sistum enny sum not more than 8 hurs he is wel- cum to do but not more. Yours truely, Abram Blank, Senr. - Next morning the unsuspecting teacher, in looking over the little pack of exercises, found Jim’s sum unat- tempted, and the following,- letter in- closed in the page: ‘ Sur: I refuse to let Jim do this sum you give him last nite has it looks to .AGAINST 'HIS FATHER’S PRIN-e CIPLES. A New South Wales country school teacher recently gave a boy a question in compound proportion for home work, which happened to include the circumstance of men working ten hours a day in order to complete a certain work. Of course this is a bad as well as a dirty practice, especially for children. As Dr. Oliver remarks, “There 18 no reason why the saliva of young- peo- ple should be put to such a use." in- deed there is every reason against it; for even if there be nothing actively harmful on the label, constitutional- derangement is apt to be set up by} so much licking. To give an indication of the amount of licking possible to be done, one wo- msan' informed the Committee that when busy she could complete forty- tive gross of. bobbins a day, or, allow- i-mg a. ticket for each end. of the bob- bin, nearly ninety gross, 12,960, of Labels 3. day LABEL LlCKIN G. (Although not exactly a dangerous trade, the report devotes a chapter to what ”is, to say the least, a nasty practice.” At one of the large thread mills in Dancashire there were em- ployed at one time some twelve“ full- timers, who each licked from forty to fifty gross of_ lahele per _da_y. Of dangers in gthe manufacture of salt, in flour mills, in metallochrome powder for lithographic work, in the use of lead in print and dye works, 'in the use of arsenate ot soda tor dyeing, the report deals with full knowledge and manifest care. The danger lies in the packing, be- cause of the dust. -. vuâ€" w‘v v,-vv - 'â€"â€"v a 3 ft. wheelvat milâ€"there is a great danger of centrifugal breakage, be- sidesp the injuries caused by the dust given off in their use. ' BASIC SLAG. The slag is the refuse left ‘in a spe- cial process of steel manufacture. When ground to powder it is used 1n the [manufactune of a patent manure. It has to be ground into an almost impalpable powder, so tine that eigh- ty to eighty-five per cent. of it would ' pass through a mesh 10,000 to the inch. The Committee strongly recommend that the basic slag worker should be protected by special rules. 1 SILICATE OF COTTONXMM” The following account of the manu- fiacture of slag wool is interestingâ€" .A. fine stream of molten slag. is al- lowed to flow from the blast furnace, and this stream IS met by a strong blast of. steam through a narrow pipe. Small globular particles, by reason of their Viscous nature and the velocity with which they are forced through the air, is drawn a long thin filament. The aggregation Of these filaments con- Stitutes the threadlike, spongy mater- ial, which is deposited in fine white {lake's nor unlike snow. The silicate of cotton or slag wool, as it is called, is collected after the steam has been turned off, packed in bags and sent out. {Ehelre is another Very hard rock, from Smyrna to the Isle of Naxos, ground into the finest {powder and then made into wheels by the addition of some substance like shellac or india rubber, and then made into wheels un- der. hydraulic pressure. Cdrundum, an oxide of aluminium, which comes from Canada, is used as a substitute for emery. In the use of these wheels, ow- Committee suggest that spectacles and respirators should be SUpplied by tpe occupier to all workmen who desue UNAVOIDABLE EGOTISM. A I SO IT SEEMS OTHER PERILS. } IDIPROVEMEN T The principal ’k 0f the street WHEELS. only trying to you- are one of 1 me. What are g1}: situation? :«es that 8113 single week. me but I believe L m is the time t for digging return _--â€" -w vvv‘. 1.1.1 LULD way the 'field'is cleared before frost, allow- ing it to be run through; with the sod Owing to the coarse nature of this cereal it is more“ difficult to handle than any other farm crop. There are [uls onto them, but undoubtedly the quickest way is to tie the stalks into good bundles and have; one man pitch land the other on the wagon. 'l'hen in unloading, there is, not that loss which occurs in a load of loose stalks writes H. Peaender. I cut my corn with a binder, do not unite the bum -dles at husking, but simply turn them around a few times. A table is used to lay the bundles on while husking, thus saving a good deal of back-bending to the husker, and more palatable leaves stalks near the. door of the hay loft driveway, and in winter cut the stalks with a fodder cutter and feed in the barn. Pound for pound, the cut corn fodder gives us. better returns in the milk pail than the best hay. - T“ â€"-Aâ€"â€"--â€" l :A fence has to be taken care of. If it becomes loose, tighten it up at once before it gets beyond repair. The winds, the rains, snows, sleets, and hot sun are all wearing upon it, and natur- ally the fence will become worn. Al- ways keep the rank grasses and weeds cut away from the fence, as these help to injure the posts by holding moisture about them. The weeds also harbor chinch bugs and other insects destruc- tive to field crops. . {l‘he secret of building a good fence is to get the corner and brace posts firmly set. The smooth wire fence -is the only one which exactly meets the demands for a first class fence. In the orchard the trees can be protected against rab- bits, sheep, hogs on mice, by being sheathed with close woven wire fenca ing. The chicken yard when sur- rounded with a woven wire fence is the best kind of enclosure yet devised. Wire fences have found their way into the cities, where town residents have been quick to appreciate their useful- ness and ornamental features as lawn fences. SMOOTH ‘VIRE FENCES DESIRâ€" .The proper handling of; milk, as de- monstrated by practise and experi- ment all over, is {to aerate it just as soon as possible after it is drawn from the cow, and then -to cool or chill! (it, rl‘he reasons for these two processes are simple. _ The first removes from the milk certain animal odors and gas- es that taint all fresh milk. The sud- den cooling checks the multiplication of injurious bacteria, which will in a short time increase so that the milk is in a fair way to sour in a brief space of time. The modern aerators and coolers perform both of these opera-<1 tions at once, but a farmer can imitate‘ the work to a certain extent without: them. The aeration simply, means to expose the milk to the clear air by spraying it out in a thin stream. If one has a tub. and pours the milk out slowly from a height of several feet, he will accomplish what the? aérators do. eThe chilling of the milk should follow immediately. Clean cans that have been scalded out with boil- ing hot water can be sunk into a tub of ice, and then by pouring the milk into them and closing-1 the top tight lwith tin and flannel, . the necessary low temperature will be obtained in a short time. Some farmers have sim- ply sunk their cans in a brook or spring of cold water, burying the bot- tom in a foot or two of cold gravel. Where one has no ice handy this method is a good substitute. By treat- ing the milk in this way it will be sweeter, cleaner and purer, and at the same time it will be so freed from bacterial germs that it: can be kept a day or two longer than milk treated in the ordinary way. ~' If possible the milk should be cooled to a tempera- ture of 58 degrees and kept so. lt'goes without saying that the utmost care is necessary to keep the cans and utensils perfectly clean, and that they must be scalded out without boiling water every time they are emptied and be- fore new milk is put in them. HANDLING MILK. t Most creameries educate the dairy. man who supply them up toa certain standard in handling milk and cream. A set of. rules is applied, which, if re- peatedly disobeyed, brings trouble to the dairymen. These rules are formu- lated upon the best-known principles, and they should be: kept and lived up to by farmers who make their own dairy butter on a small or large scale, They will. in the end, profit by them, for they all tend; to the making of good butter and cheese. It is the order of the day to improve dairy pro- ducts, and the man who can produce gilt-edged milk, butter or cheese is sure to make a good profit. HANDLING CORN FODDER hauled way tains high. And sing our U Until we see the h ‘To whiCh our 5] JOHN IMRIE- Some ships sail \Vith' fair winds 3 . t At last their anchoraSQ ‘5 635. \Vithin some tranqu’l twine 511m While- others scarcely 193v?! AEre dark clouis nd loud the angry ° v ‘ Rude lightnings rend the 5k" â€"--v' Cflils alight. Oh. life is like the mean 1 w‘ With constant ebb and f0 ' And we the ships ups-n A-sailing to and fro; 'visle Each- steering {0.1. -:- 1 Beyond the setpng s _ to 51! mom: 2nd Battalion Rifle C01. C. J. E. )Ietcalfe 151; Battalion Royal 1n 87thâ€"Lieut.-Col. E. R. C. lst Battalion Royal Ma ers, lOlstâ€"Lieut.-Col. E. a 2nd Battalion Royal Dub .1 103rdâ€"Lieut.-Col. L. 1). C4 2nd Battalion Gog‘don 92ndâ€"Lieut.-Col. \\. H. ham, V. C. 13c Battalion King’s Corps, 60thâ€"Lieut.-Col. ning. 2nd Battalion King’s Corps, 601hâ€"LieuL.-Col. Browne. ls: Blttali on Mimhest 63rd â€"Lie:ut.-C01.A. E. F 2nd Battalion Rmal Berkshire Regi' (linent Cfithâ€"Lieut. 4‘01. C. Evans-GM on ls: Battalion Leicestershire 3881‘ meat, 17thâ€"Lieut.-Col. G. D. Carleton lst Battalion Gloucestershireufifig“ ment, 28thâ€"Licut.-Colg. E. P. \hlford lst Batallion Border Regiment, 34thâ€"Col. T. H. E. Hinde. lst Batallio-n Loyal North Lancashlfl Regiment, 47thâ€"Li:;c-ut--COI. R. Gm Regiment, 47thâ€"Lieut-Col. R. 6.1 Kekewich. _ g lst Battalion Devonshire, Regiment, nthâ€"Col. J. H. Yule. lst Battalion King’s Liverpoglfiegi‘ mte-nt, 8thâ€"Lieut.-Col. S. L. M11131. 15L Battalion Norzhumberland Fusi- liers, 5thâ€"‘Lieut.-Col. C. G. C. Money, In addition to the above the Sand African force under Sir Redveranl- ler would include four of the Guard! Battalions and one of the Rifle Bfi- gade. ‘ ’lhe £0110 . Lug butalions are eithw in South Xfrica or en route there:- Ist Battalion Royal Dublin Fusilieq? 102ndâ€"Lieuu-Col. G. A. Mills. Emmi Dublin. 1 lst Battalion Argyll and Sutherland; Highlanders, 915Lâ€"Lieu-t.-Col. J. IL}? Campbell. From Dublin. l 4' lst Battalion Connaught Rangerg? 88thâ€"Col. L. G. Brooke. From Alb? lone. 89thâ€"Lieut .-C 01. Colchester. lst Battalion H'Lg try, 7lstâ€"Col. \I. 'b anport. 2nd Battalion the Blick‘ we; Royal Highlanders, 73rdâ€"Lieut.-CoL J. H. C. Coode. From Aldershot. 3rd. Battalion King’s Royal Rifl. Corps, 60thâ€"Lieut.-Col. R. G. Buchan. aâ€"n-Biddell. From Kilkenny. lst Battalion Durham Light Inn; try, 68uhâ€"Lieut.-Col. A. L. “’00th From Aldâ€"ershm. ’nd Battal lion Seaiorth Hi 78thâ€"Lieut. -( 01. J. V. ._Hugh n Q n Th---” 1“, ghlandm . . 1 ’ quxhers, 27Lhâ€"Lleut«€011kal 1hackeray. From . 2nd gattalioz} th:e__Black W; pnnnl 1~L‘ lst Battalion RoyalWelsh Fusing“ 23rdâ€"Lieut.-Col. C. C. H. Thoma From Pembroke Dock. 2nd Battalion letâ€"Lieut ,-Col Aldershot. lst Battalion â€"Lie'uL.-Col. H, Butteva-nt. 2nd Battalion 11 th',-Lieu1; .-Col Alders'hot. Seven ly THE VOYAG Battalion y Thousand Men the Ground-Cor] HV“ 7 pallfiHl 5011156 “ v seems W "' anCS' >ur aw" L11 overWhem.1 and do. the t riumph‘ haven‘l ships b‘ Mambester Regime“ B, Curran Roy :11 Irish‘ Highgagq Light Mani Cameronians. R9331 834 -Col Dublin Emsj 3'). Cooper- Brigade/“U b.5033! . nigh Wong 1 Highland“! Dick-C335” edLiea" : 3W . u H v.11.:x;‘ , TN 3010119 fl Shty. years, Who was driv- m“ “ fti “”195 in order that. the he“!!! 3:8: t. '9 Union Jack once more hi died. This was an attem- II T . embodimentlzef old lady was a 61 C. K. Pearson. the of Natal, and consisted fine :3 1ft Battalion 13th Prince .41- Zen Banners. All sorts of 8 Were brujted about, 3 nts Should be found Lo favogr file}; a Step, The column empioyed I? ,1.er to give effect to lbs? Mm‘eterma. nation W88 under the - “d of Colonel c. K. Pearson} w: “ flu. Edam: 0f Natal- and nnnulcl'or ‘ The Boer “ Commandos ” declined to: like any 'Part in storming rocky fast-, < J . and the Volunteers were not?‘ iently numerous to make 800d% 5”! azdvantages that they :emnorq ix! rammed. To mount a hill held by so; E ”numptible a {09 as the, szlccmt-‘OS : Vaseomparatively; easy, but to remain . “the hill .Without water or supplieer ”I“ imposmble, and the inevitnhln r9- Rement that followed in everv (-390. V8.3 always attended by heavy loss. Fheus matters came to a standsziii. in Treasury became insolvent. and Be Day Of the “Volunteers,” as Well 11er Bubmstence of all the forces bee, 0031M no longer be provided. The her%_d1398rsed to their homes. and bus clunteers would probably have the same as a. body, but that so W“ them had no homes to whk-h Iatcmldobetake themselves. At this but are SIT Theophilus Shepetono virus the Pretona, escorted by a small hinent of he Natal Mounted Po- dada of affairs which constiLuL- n. L .pger to all South Afrérn nvv- l 1 x \ The mm 1852, when the determination of heBritish Government was auuoum:~ d. From this (time until 1877 Dmiâ€" ars were permitted to “drift,” and Ideed, there was little reason for any ther Policy. Independence having Lima MM to the two Boer 3161.11111211m. 'rcsumption of sovereignty (amid :aroely have been justified, except ii: â€" or very extraordinary circumstan Fin accordance with the express a - ire of the inhabitants. As the year 1876 drew to its (low leTransvaal was gradually d: lftiun Ito a condition of HOPELESS CHAOS. h°.B‘°P'Ilblic was at war with 891(11- m but had failed to achieve zim' kw we unrest created amongSL 1m: tlve Populations by the successgs 01 Mty Chief, for such Sekukum ac.â€" lily Was in comparison w:th the fission, and against the wish- . at its p0pularta'on, the orange Free State was compelled to name an independent Republic, whilst upstate Convention, known as the. udRiver Convention, was concludml ith the Transvaal settlers, under rhich they also, subject to a few trifâ€" ngreeervatione, became an indepen- ent State. The annexation of the Orange Free tate was not finally cancelled until wees whatever. All fighting wonky the name had been done by Volun- are, 01'. as they were irreverem‘iy “104 "Filibustem,”â€"â€"men belonging almost any nation, but p'rc'maily glish and American for the mmt mlaatz, and the annexatzon stheln submitted to. In 1852, howâ€" ,r, the political countenance dew}.- d yet another change of ('X_ ,bnt to all intents and purposes undesired freedom was granted affairs which consumm- '0 all South Africa, 0“- 98¢ created amongsL the. causes Which Have 1116 01 famlne ‘ stores 0. line :13 fields is loss of a‘ average greatly i 'ln abo in the I reach a ; be eaten. will be ! nauons pracucaL as follov “'WL £1011 Ma 1 cro'g w human British 0115 100 likely 111 been sh: convene tinned. Dr. H. V M. 83' D DI'O was helq annexatl fired in! occurred W 011 L811 Known brated E bll‘ BACTEE Before b promxsi persons lenge h WILL mo Br bee O reco‘ W and TH :“l!