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Ian" Vancouvfl': n r; ya. molly nviiuc no.- ’A..- A .rkot MO AWAY i’.‘ MAsoN- 1; Directsz for 18 Bent: ml for Sale. GIRLSl Montion thin m- $2,600,000 1 $200,000 to Liven-p.“ "qu “co .m‘u Toront'0 -, u them. Cut off the green tops and cut the carrocs into thin slices. Put into 3 sauce pan three ounces of butter, two tablespoonfuls of water, a salt- spoonful of salt, a little pepper and the sliced carrots. Dover the pan and stew: slowly for thirty minutes. Mean- while beat light the yolk of two eggs, and add to them half a cup of cream and one tablespoonful of chapped par- eley. Four this sauce over the cook- ed carrots, and let them remain over the fire long enough to cook, and then serve immediately. The French manner of cooking very young carrots is delicious. Boil them L LL-_.- 2.. L-Iâ€"-.. 5 file Home ’gw mm av-“o ' until tender, then cut them in halves lengthwise. Melt some butter in a hol spider and when the butter bub- bles, lay in the carrots and sprinkle them with some sugar, salt and pepper, and finely chopped parsley. Fry them until the edges become crisp and bTO'WXle’J. Ly-ounzlise carrots are made in the same way, only cooking some finely chopped onion in the melted butfcz‘ before adding tthe veget- l‘c mike creamed carrots, put in a 52mm um um tablespoonfuls of butter, and when it is melted stir in one int-[Mn ui of flour. Gradually add 10 1h 5 one cup of rich milk, and season h pepper and salt. Lu he bo led carrots into cubes or with a small scoop into small balls, and stir them into the creamed sauce. When hon turn them into a heated (ism. wrinkle chOpped parsley over Li! DEATH IN THE PUT. f '11:" us) of enznmeiled iron ware :1): cuilnarly purposes is becoming ' _'» (‘ommom Moat households ~~n one or more of these arti- 9.105, which have much to recom- mom them on the score of ease in Ti~~;ansing, and the rapidity With \h heat penetrates to the con- ”Wis. )Ir. Sharpin, F. R. C. S., of i;-.;:‘:; on, has, however, oailed our \'e-!1Liun to this latter pr0pertY. 2.; shown that it may constitute 1 cs of danger, says the British 3‘-'o-:lc1l Journal. He met with the of a cook, “no. in cleaning macs-pan made of this ware, had ten-:1 pierced vith a small piece of 3.» enamel under the finger-nail.. 1 you examination after extrac-! "m; the fragment proved to Veb- glass in appearance and sharp ‘ new, He points out how readily' "(.s enamel breaks off from the fi-jzicent iron, if it be submitted‘ E 1) rapidly to a great heat. This he attributes to the rapid eXPaflSlOD c: the metal without a correspond- :nz ex ension of the enamel. Once 1:.ked moisture obtains access is) :he iron, which bceomes rusty, xii the enamel then peels off in >31“! {likes 01 large pieces. Mr. 5111:9111 ascertained that it was 9121' ditficult to pick these pieces vi of certain vegetables, for ex- {mplth spinach or cabbage, and. ‘li'.l\Vs the inference that many: pcOple eat iood to which particles 91 namel are adherent. He then lilQllll‘eS whether, such being the Use, this may not account for the g! “:1 er frequency of ceztain in- e~ inal ttoubles at the present day 51111 in the days before enamelled. 4a: e came into general use. . He therefore advises that all house- keepers and. Others in charge of me domestic arrangements in house- ho ds where enamelled saucepans. etc., the used, should ha’e them overhauled at frequent interv ils, and. that those ‘.. Â¥. CARROTS. 5 3 rue carrots are not treat- ,ppc {ully e char by cook or din- \e: b -y are a wholesome veget- m; 322 of being" made into 9. mm ”me, if they but fall into clev- 1 few receipts to this and may be eryfce to the housewife, who is hard pressed for variety even in ring her vegetables and a salad her simple dinner, and who hereto- , hys only thought of carrots as golden slice in vegetable soup accompaniment of a pin bone 5%: 1e method pf preparing oar- ‘ is in this wise: Take sever- meshes of small carrots and 1:8 them into boiling water for mix-wee; then rub the outer peel with a clean cloth. This is con- red 3 better way than scraping 1-1.1 119; uziter,11nd cook until they 12.1: 1: 1y tender. Then dram off all er,r1nd add one cup of stock, ”1101111111 of sugar and some salt 1:1»; per Cool 1131p dly unti- the «1 111.5 been almost boiled away, . huge tablespoonful of butter, .31: :ke the pan so that the butter 1m - :11ning liquid will mix and ad- = the caorrots, coating them. Pile 1:11.015 in the centre of a hot 7»1 and serve with small fritters 1-11 around the edge of the _- p?ckled carrots. cut them into \ or balls and cook them until -z' but. not soft. Put them in a mi cover with hot vinegar, to '1; 11:15 been added a sliced onion, .v peppercorns. some celery seed :x couple of bay leaves. This w is very nice for serving with meats or using with beets to gar- pomto salad. 9 ohms entree is made thus: , and cut into cubes enough a a to make one quart. Put these ounce‘pan contaming threg pi_nts and serve. COOKING WITH HONEY. There seem to be but .few cooks that ever use honey other than in its na- tural state, or strained. There are many ways it which it can be used other than as above. Baked Apples With Honeyâ€"Wash as many apples as desired, cut them in half and remove the core. Into the h allO‘vV made by removing the core, put a little butter and a teaspoon of honey. Pour a little water in the pan, and when done put a little more honey into this juice and cook until thick. Po_1_1r oventhe apples. Honey Muffinsâ€"Sift together 1 1-2 p'nts flour, 2 teaspoons baking pow- tier and a teaspoon of salt. Rub into the floor 2 tablespoons butter; add 3 well beaten eggs,1 cup stralned honey and 1-2 pint milk, Beat well until thoroughly mixed, and bake in jem pans in a hot oven. Honey Cake .â€"-Mix 1 cup each of honey and granulated sugar, 1-2 cup soft butter, and 2 well-beaten eggs. Sift together 1 pint of flour with a heaping teaspoon of baking powder and a little salt, and stir into the above. Bake in a moderate oven a half hour or more. Honey Ginger Snaps.-â€"One pint honey, 3-4 1b. buItter, 2 teaspoons gin- ger, boil together three or four min- utes and when nearly oold add a well- beaten egg and flour to make stiff enough to roll. Into the flour put a teaspoon of baking powder. Opinion of Dr. Edward llecker, 3 Cole braced Physician of “'elsbaden, Ger- many. Not one of the new. nercotic drugs advertised as “absolutely harmless” is so, and therefore it: is far wiser to overcome insomnia without drugs than with them, even though it may require a little more time and trouble. Habit. and will power have most to do with the act of: (going to sleep. We feel sleepy at our usual hour for retir- ing, just as we wake :usually at. about the same time. Insomnia often. comes from irregularity more than anything else, and once the team of not sleeping well has been aroused that: very fear prevents natural‘rest. . -. The patient must be persuaded as] much as possible that he did sleep well: the night before and will sleep well; toâ€"night. tAnd if he. still! is fearful of the coming darkness, mix some harmless powder in a. glass ofl water. give it to him. and he is apt to sleep, under the impression that he has had a narcoric. It is a fact that. many. who think they have not slept a wink have actually had quite an amount of sleep, ‘absolute wakefulness being very rare. tIn the case of nervous patients quiet ‘and patience will do much! 10 give ‘them the required rest. 'l‘oo protract- ed labor is oiten the cause of sleepless- ness, and when this is the case a re- lturn to a regular hour for retiring iwill help to re-establish the sleep habit, especially if the brain has been rested for some time before retirng. \Vhere it is evident that: the sleep- leesness is due to congestion; in the brain the use of cold hip and footbaths is wise. If it is found that the proper reaction does not follow the cold footbath give the patient: a. hot foot- bath before the cold one, and. then put a hot-water bottle to the feet- in bed. 'lhe feet must be warm for any one to sleep well. lt is a grave error to try to compens- ate for the loss of sleep at night by taking a nap in the daytime, for this only aids in continuing the trouble. If the insomnia is treated promptly, by ascertaining its cause, a little common sense in avoiding a continuance of the exciting agency and a return to the most regular possible life will gener- ally effect a permanent cure of far greater value than that offered by the use of drugs. Give nature a chance and she will reassert herself. but of course if you continue to do too much work, to smoke, drink or eat to excess, not even drugs can give you Ethat calm, peaceful sleep so necessary to the economy oi} the human system and the buirding up of' waste. Mice have long been in demand as pets. The-y can ‘be trained to perform many tricks, are very fond of music and have been taught to dance grace- fully to waltz time. CENTUR IES-OLD WOOD. That wood will stand the passing of centuries as well as metal is prov- ed by the unearthing near the Nile of some Egyptian boats nearly 5,000 yeam old, which are in good condi- tion. VVhem I came to this town, said the man on the dry goods box, everything I had in the world was tied up in a red ban-dana handkerchief. "Add. finâ€"ow? asked the tourist, who was waiting fqu :3. train. __ AInd nowJ'eplied the man on the box, scratching his jaw. everything I've got in the world is tied down thh mort- AFTER THE BOOM \VAS OVER. T0 CURE INSOMNIA. HIS ONLY ALTERN AT] VE. MICE AS PETS. WHAT CATTLE MANGE IS. Cattle mange is a very ancient con- tagious disease. Moses described it. It is due to a parasite, the Acarus Bovis. an insect provided with four pairs of legs, covered with hairs and scales, and furnished with suction cups and armed with claws or hooks, and pro- vided with mandibles or jaws. The female insects are larger than the males, [they lay from ten to twen- ty eggs. At the and of from four to seven days the young larvae hatch out. They change their form, i.e.,un- dergo metamorphosis, three or four times before they arrive at the ma- tuzr'e stage and are able to reproduce. ’They mature in from fourteen to sev- ienteen days, and live from three to isix weeks after laying, their life be-‘ ing longer and more active in damp weather. In a dry ’place the eggs lose their- vitality in from four to six days. Any of the different antiseptic drugs will kill them, as will also potash solu- tion, lye, turpentine, tar, tobacco so- lution, sulphur and soft soap. Amix- ture of sulphur and quick lime made into an emulsion with coal oil and warm water is particularly destructive to them. The parasites live on the surface of the skin and adhere to the fatty mat- ter and the hairs. They produce an intense inflammation of the skin through the numerous stings which; they inflict. They are easily seen; with a magnifying glass upon any dark surface. In handling the afflict- ed animals, should any of the para- sites get upon man they quickly die. Mange is never developed, but from mange a spontaneous cure has never been seen. The only safe diagnosis is the microscopic search for the Acâ€" arus Bovis. After exposure from the time the parasite is deposited upon the body to the time of the inflammation of the skin there is an inqubative per- iod of from two to six weeks, depend- ing upon the number of parasites transmitted. Animals which are emaciated or weak and in poor condition are partic- ularly predisposed. The disease first abpears as pimples and vesicles, then scaling and the formation of crusts and scabs. These are attended by in- tense itching, worSe during the hot part of the day. Animals scratch, rub and bite ”themselves on affected parts, the hair falls out, the skin becomes bloody and thickened, ulcerated, scab- by and wrinkled. The whole surface of the body may be invaded, but the disease usually begins on the sides of the neck and shoulders, the base of the horns and the root of the tail, spread- ing thence to the back and the ‘ribs. Treatment should be preceded by a careful scrubbing of the skin to clear off the ornate and must be renewed after some time, The first treatment only effects \the parasite, .but does not kill the eggs. In about a week these {give birth, to new parasites. In many cases it is necessarly to make a third al'plication. FOOD FOR THE DAIRY. Formerly the dairyman planted the smallest amount of corn possible for food for his cows, and depended upon grass and hay whenever possible. To- day we are going gradually more “to that we can get more from an acre of corn than we can from hay, both in quantity and quality. ‘1 Corn far outranks hay for the dairy- man’s needs if. it is properly fed. W'hethe-r- we putt the crop for the silo befone the grain is ready for harvest- ing or simply raise it from the grain and feed the stalks to the stocks, we wâ€"w get more for our labor per acre than if the land was used for raising hay. Corn is a wonderful food plant, and is undoubtedly the finest in the world. The ignorance of feeding the grain too: freely to animals as an exclusive diet, and causing sickness thereby, does notl in the least injure the real value ofi corn as a food. It merely shows that the true way to use the crop for food was not understood. \Vherever corn does its best oats and pease thrive! also, and these crops are intended by, nature to supplement that of corn.j They should be raised in a limited way with corn and fed in conjunction with: lit. Then the dangers to cattle so ofâ€", ‘ten threatened by injudicious feeding of corn will all be averted. With an; ample supply of corn and some oats: and pease we have a standard of ra-3 tion that cannot well be excelled. These crops should be raised so "that the dairyman need buy as little by- products as possible. The fashion has become in recent yeans to recommend the feed of by- products of factories, such as linseed and cottonseed meal, and to ignore the byâ€"products of the farm. Undoubted- ly this fashion has helped the large ducts. and the prices for them have steadily advanced under the demand, so that to-day when a farmer pays a good round price for a ton of any of these by-pr'oducfts. it is a question whether it would not pay him better - l..-“ ttll"l ‘5 VI- nu, __ _ _ [0‘ buy a ton of cats or corn from .a neighbouring farmer at the market- __:_ - n ‘ I , ,4‘ L- JalM-‘A iimn nn‘. leible, and with a little skill in man- agement it is an easy matter not to be forced to buy any food for stock. In this age of science and intelligent farming every dairyman should know something of the relative value of toads, and of the relative cost of rais- ing them in different sections of the country, but by the way that some neglect their opportunities, and drift with the tide it would seem as if the business of daering was crowded with many leftâ€"overs from other profes- sions, and took to this business as a last resort. Sooner or later such peo- ple will learn that it takes skill, in- dustr'y and intelligence to be a sucâ€" cessful farmer ’or dairy,an. STAND BY THE HOG. If one has learned how to breed and improve a hog, to feed and care for him, b.nd if he has kept the wolf from the door in bygone days, paid the mortgage and stone bill, put you on a sound basis, and been a rewarder t 0‘ all Your care and your trials of pa- i tience, then stand by him now, even if his price is so low that many de- clare him a robber. Sheepmen have said the glory of the hog has depart- ed, the golden hoof would soon wear the crown and everybody would eat mutton now and for evermore, and wear wool instead of cotton. Soon we would learn how to preserve the AA‘A Then comes along the stately beefer , and says, “ I am king and will reign I hereafter. Away with the hog 1 It nevâ€" er! shall be said that he? is king 1” Bult the day is not far distant when the hbg will sit upon the throne and. dicâ€" tate to all. Hams, bacon, sausage, lard, pigs fee-t amd loins are too securely fastened to ethet aste and appetite of men to be dislodged. Packers will find that they make a mistake in forcing his price: below cost of production. The hog will finally stick to his own terms in spite of combine, greed or dishon- esty. So stick to him! Down him his enemies cannot, if they try ever so hard, because he. will stick to the man who grows him, pay his bills or inter- est, and will give strength to the lab- oring man ‘who eats his flesh. 'WITHOUT PREJUDICE. A? party of young men and women were bicycling along a country road. It was a sketching class and every. eye was Wide open for. an- artistic sub- ject. Suddenly the whole party . dismounted with ’various exclamations '. of delight and surprise. . Just within the fence on the left '. grew innumerable graceful stalks, each - bearing aloft globes of pale green that . shaded into gray and purple. D wa enchanting i” said a young wo- man. H‘ow decorative! said a young man. Just what we are looking for, said ' the teacher, a full-fledged artist. A gardener was standing near at hand.' . Do tell us, cried a girl, what those beau-oo-tiful things are? Which? replied the gardener. 4 those, said the gii . Them? said the gardener, with a ° to seed. 9 i 5 2 E 5 ‘3 tr 14 ya 0 D‘ c: O W H O 1-3 D” (I) 3. 0) O E O U m (n O D (D Of course we have to pay more for coal now than we (did a month or. two ago, said Mrs. Chugwater, but we ought not to mind that. I suppose it means that they have been raising the But the Postal Depariment flan Acqulflezl lt-el l‘ Favorably. As a corollary to the recently issued report of the postmaster-general, where the item of insufficiently or obscurely addressed letters is dealt with, it may be noted that the depart- ment had had many tough tasks to deal with, and has acquired itself tri- luumphamt'ig', say» the London Tele- graph. Once an enveIOpe intrusted to it on which was inscribedâ€"“Gro- fredevi, London"-â€"sent from Italy -â€" was delivered to the eminent scientist, Sir merghrey Davy. ‘ , But perhaps St. Martin’s most sur- ;passed itself on points of cuteness 5 when recently a letter reached the an- ? charities which had been posted at In- Iverness, bearing the rude scrawl, :“Tuglmor, pipe, Colstraly.” Every ‘ person was puzzled. Then it was de- geided, considering the quarter whence {the missive was sent, to call in the iservices of an exâ€"sold-ier of a High- Eland regiment, a Gaelic speaker, who I'was employed as a mail cart driver. This authority. thus read the inscrip- tion: “Dugal More, psi-per, Gold, Aus- itralia.” Then the gold rush to Aus- tralia was in full. swing, and Dugal ; More, it was surmised, was one of the :gence reached the department to the ; effeCL that the addressee had been dis- ’co:ered. The letter, which was from .his brother, ‘Was delivered to Dugal, iwhilv he was delighting his Caledon- {iam comrades on the gold fields by '{skirlinzg on the bagpipes. ~ Papa, what are “the sands of time?” They constitute the grit with which woman hangs on to her favorite THE M ‘ AxN'S VIEW' AGAIN. :d at‘ her over his glasses, you good for this wicked world. MANY PUZZLERS. INNOCEN CE. AS USUAL. did that woman (1 the candy, tasted and to whom you patent medicines? . two-cent stamRSOt used the directory Acqulézezl ander? Renunciation is giving “9 something that you can’t get. Why do they say, “ poets are born. not made '9'” They want to put the blame on some one who can stand it. Usher, the court having been much annoyed by the shuffling of feet,â€" Will ye hould yer tongues up there with yer feet in the gallery! Be is not in, said Mrs. Shortly t0 the collector. Madame, I know he is not tin, said the collector. \Vhat I want to know, has he any? Returned Volunteerâ€"W'hat‘s an aP‘ Propriate gift from a scldier to his sweetheart? Jewelerâ€"I should think a Powder box about the right thing. Teacherâ€"Why don‘t you answer the question, Fritz? Fritzâ€"You yourselt told us only the other day to remem- ber than: “speech is silver, but silence is gold." Rejected suitor, flippantly â€" Oh. well, there are just as good fish in the sea as were ever caught. Sheâ€"Yes, George, there are ;' but unless you change your bait they are safe. That Miss Topsail makes me angry with her talks about yachts. Why? I told her I had put a new binnacle on my yacht, and she asked me if I had SOJ‘MJ'Bd all the old ones off the hull. Customer, in a rage â€"\Vhen I but- toned your coat for the first time it split down the back. Clothing Deal- erâ€"Indeed! It‘ must be, then, that the buttons were sewed on too strongly! They say she married for money.‘ That‘s where they were wrong. She thought she mamried for money, but she was mistaken. Then what did she marry for? She hasn’t found out yet. What is renunciation Uncle Alex- Mrs. Youngwedâ€"Are you happy, dear, to be sailing on the matrimonial sea; with such a kind and loving mate! Mr. You‘ngwedâ€"Yes, indeed; but don’t you think we’d better put into port a. little while and ship a cook? An Absorbing Topic.-â€"Dick - King is so reserved and has somlihthilve to say that I can’t keep oonvensation with her from lagging. Jack, her for- mer beauâ€"Mention pearls to her, and you! will have nothing to do but listen â€"a.nd buy. I suppo‘ee you had money to burn in the Klondike? No, answered the man who had been lying by the hour, we didn’t have anything but chunks oi chilly incombnstihle gold. We‘d have A-..“ _---LL‘ncou‘n Anybody, who knows enough. said Mr. Spiffins, can learn something from anybody else, however ignorant the latter may be. That is true, assent- ed} Mrs. Spitting, cheerfully. Now, I can occasionally learn something from it. Lend it to me for!" two or three hours, for fear of accidents. I don’t dare do that, Rivers, It always rains when I lend it. Mrs. Candleâ€"HOW do you dare tc come back from the tavern so late Mrs. Candleâ€"HOW do you dare tc come back from the tavern so late as this? Mr. Candleâ€"Yes, you are right! I’m an unworthy husband, and a drunkard, and Imust turn over a new leaf! Mrs. Cau'dle, *at first speech less, then breaking out in angerâ€"\Vhax do’ you mean? Am I to read the cur- tain lectures here or are you? Blake-«‘30 you didn’t go abroad this summer? Hodgesâ€"No; I was thinking of going across in the Gwendolia, bu! she had hardly any life preservers am no boats or life-rafts to speak of. Biakt -â€"But you could have taken the Bar bamssa. BOdgesrâ€"I know; but she: hac such a complete outfit of life-saving devices that it really looked suspio ious. I didn’t think it safe to trus‘ myself in her! Yes, sir, politely replied the new cleik, late of Joblmz's department stone, will you take it with you, or shall we send it ’ ran. I think, said the 01d lady Wisely. that young Mr. Rinks has a hold on Mabel's affections. Possibly, possibly, replied the old. gentleman, who had just glanced into the parlor, At any rate he has a. hold. on her waist. My good woman, said the clergyman to the sorely tried woman,“ did you ever try heaping coals of tire on your hus- band's head] '1 I..-“- u. No, your rive-rence. but Oi've. thrown alighted lamp at him once or twice. .0. WHY SHE SINGS. [ like to hear a servant girl ‘sing- at her work. It shows a good disposi- flan. THE CLERK'S SMlSTAKE. I want a l‘urkisb bath, said the pat- HE HAD SEES THEM: ”Ways: 1 think our 3â€"- FALL FUN. DID HER BEST.