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neeeneeneemennonneenenonemeoineeene. Lena resting on a runtie bench, one the terror ot the sea passes, By
v. A band On the handle of a baby ear- and by, the element of danger, the
eie .1. ie.inaffefetihat, theeek was trfuenregi,ngee bezte rtiesrlees, tyeofu ufilenc.‘1,0oyiedyge.adadlele tpor,:ile.iseeleine:
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i gravel welk, I speeng to her akin. al gambler, whether in Wall street
• ( ee impulsively, dropping to the sent, or at the small green table in a,
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no got to and stood teemfrentier townambles beceutie it
Story o the Canadien y Wing like a frightened fawn. I spoke fascinates 1nm as surely as he gain -
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t Northwest. ,n, to her and the urged me to leave bles for gain, and that is one reason
; her, which, as I was young and hors- why wheat growing in the Canadian
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est, only maddened me, west is so interesting and that .is
why men plant wheat to the excite.
sion of other profitable craps—be-
cause it's a gamble. 1t took me but
two seasons to see that. Why, we
used to at on the porch for hours
mg Jealous of my father whose bank when a stornt was gatheeing at
was a national bank, he had eon- night, watching the slowly shifting
ceived a dislike for toe. It seems tho clouds. Then Lena would put the
gossip of the tow o had already link- baby to bed and come and sit with
Gd my name with Lona's so her now me again rantil the storm 'broke or
mistress had takee the precceation to passed, or we were too sleepy to
warn her that if was not to Rae her watch longer.
while she made her home at that "Then would come another day,
the back of a .eamneemd •eeeuse a got number. And than was the Cause of another Sixteen hours of sunshine,
a glimpse of him riding .a raft, laden en.
with Route, down the South Sas- teeteiterpeen,Mlies :at the sound of my mth
itil at last e gold of the grain
neicl matobed tho gold in tho west
katchewan. I thought as I saw him "When I pressed her she told tee, when the long day died. Tt is not
shooting a rapid and poling his raft thee she would lose her place if seen' olde interesting, it is really weeder -
rounds, sand bar that he was honing with me. "Lose your Place," 1 l'ee
more fun and more room them any peated, with all the unreasonableeess
other man in America.
.e was captain of his ship and no tee you."
mistake for there was not another
of,,:triibenoy in love. ni'd lose my hie
H
I saw ber pretty chin trem-
soul in sight. From nay ',saddle I ble, tears started :front her big be-
ams, only an endless reach of wild wildering eyes and turning quickly
land, broken hero and there by nee hurried home with the banker's
bluffs or trees, save to the .northeast. baby, while I, from the park bench,
where the Eagle Hills humped clark watched her until her slender figure
on the distant 'horizon, Immediate- faded. in the shadows of the shrubs
ly in front of me the great Saskat- :that surrounded the ,big frame house
chewari chiseled, a deep furrow in .the in which she lived.
"It would tale too long to tell
you tell that passed that summer, of
the many meetings, at first by acci-
dent but later by appointment, until
she seemed to nee the fairest, the
That was !la •tho early summer best, the most abused young woman
when the warm chinook was sighing, In the world. Filially, one day, 1
and the birds were brooding in the took my mother to my heart, as
bluffs and wild duck were nesting in she bad taken me so many times in
the marshy meergins of a million my childish troublen and told her
lakes. It was early autumn when the story of Lena and our love. She
the halebreed boy who was engineer- listened calmly, kissed me coldly,
big the buckboard from which I was and promised to speak to niy. father.
seeing the Saskatchewan, tamed in "The next day I was called to my
for the night at Sanford Sander,. father's private office. He talked to
son's. By the time Sanford had me metbodically of stocks and
sauntered down from tho house to bonds, of lands and large interests
the stables the halfbreed had the in trolleys and town lots, aod then
horses unhooked. Sanford gave us came to the point. It was the old
a warm, wordless sort of welcome story. I must aneike my choice, lip -
that can be fully appreciated only on the one hand there was home and
after you have • come to know San- my heritage, on the other Lena and
dersen. our love. Being blind, young and
We had homemade bread, fresh rash 1 walked out.
butter and buttermilk for supper "OD course, when Mr. Blank learn -
that night, and we bad wild chicken ed that I had been disinherited he
broiled for breakfast. At the re- was ready to be my 'rich uncle.' The
quest of our host I consented to stop Blanks gave us a great wedding, and
over for a few days' shooting. it if we may judge by the presents and
was during these days in the field other plaudits not all the people in
and. the evenings at beg home that I the place toot the view of my father.
got freeze Sanderson, by absorption, And when, as we were leaving. Mrs.
one nfight say, story of his life. Blank. kissed Lena and cried, I was
Little by little be let me hear it, happy. A woman can kiss another in
hardly. realizing rthat he was telling cold blood, but when they cry theta
it at all. Now; as one picks up the is something back of it that counts
scraps of a letter that has been torn for more than a kiss. •
and tossed to the wind, 1 piece it "Lena emu I lived on a homestead,
out, for et is weemies.1. tale of pion.- Inc from the .railroad, e until .our
eering in the Canadian west. baby was born. Then the railroad
"My grandfather," said Sanderson, came to disturb our peace. I sold
"came to this:eountry, or rather to the South Dakota place and -name up
the United States, a young man into Canada, I bougbt a 4i:tarter
with considerable money. He seemed section on Portage Plains, for five
to have 'a fondness for pioneering, dollars an acre and paid for the land
for he went at once into the wilds of with my first crop. Having learned
Minnesota. He helped to settle the that the new transcconticiental rail-
northend district, and leaving a lit- way line lay across my quarter, I
tie cash, gathered a .goodly fortune sold met for seven •dollars an acre. I
in a very short :time, When the had two thousand •dollars more
Sioux came and klIled him and his money now than I had carried into
household, spaeing only his only Canada, some good horses and a eew
son, he died the riebest men in Min- blooded cattle. 1 .elid not rot:Size at
nesota, at least that is what my the time, but I know now, that I
father used to tell me. Ultimately., -had in my blood the pioneer microbe
the Sioux were driven over :into Can- that had made my father and his
ada. lily Tether, who had been car- .farther fight .ailway.s for the pont.-.ried away, was released, at the ,aug- "I asked Lena if she weeded to go
gestion of the Northwest .mounted back to South Dakota.; it seemed so
police, and found his way back to lonely for a woman away out on the
tlite Acetie of • the .massacre. silent plain. She smiled as sweetly
"After much difficelty hesstablish- ,as ever and said 'Sanford, I just
ea his identity and got possession .01 want to go where you go.'
the lands and othor property leet by One nay at the depot I met an old
his lather. My father was now .20 neighbor of mine from the south,
years 010, ignorant, but handsome bound for the had lands north of
and rieh .for Ms 'clay. Upon the ad- Regina. There wae a great reeve -
eke ,of .an .old famed of the :family ment on.
the boy elevotedtwo years to studY, "I weet back to my temporary
having had .in his .early youtb only Ionic and looked over the map, and
such ,sducation as was to be ,acquir- when I saw how Inc I was behind
ed art .that time by boys in a 'felon- the settlement, I told Lena to pack
tier town. At -the age of 22 he name rap ,rend We took the next train for
into ifull :possession of his property. the front. I had the good fortune to
"Mealy ,oPportueities were open to field a man who hacl a homesick wife
him, but the -scenes of his noelhood en hes hands, and the memory of a
so haunted himethat he determined to bad crop on his mind, and Inc sold a
sell mut ,and ,go west. Sonth Dakota, ball section all ready to seed lor rex
was lust then 'beginning to rise, dollars au acre. 1 botight the other
yawn, and stretch 'herself, and em half of the saute section in the wild,
having liehenfted his father's los'e for .all but eighty, for four dollars.
the frobt, Inc moved to South A foolish elan had squatted on one
Deseota. Alt 80 he was pressident .01f of these quarters for a homestead,
a bank. About tti
hat me he met but when the big land eomPanY
and meureied ney mother who had showed him his mistake, he moVed.
come out to Minnesota to teach I paid him lor breaking the eighte,
school. Our house, ,as I remember it, ,acr.esi Inc heel prepored to plant in
was the &lest in the town, anti we wheat and had him for a neigtbor on
' UkuallY hod company, people coming a homestead Inc could hold.
up from Otimmapcille and St. Paul "Here, again, I was 111 great luck,
to visit. I shad fleished in the high 1 ior this was the sinner of 1102,
school and was going to the Chicle- WilOn weetern Canada won the admit.-
, no university when Lena Swinson ation of the world by producing
: Came to our house as paolor inaid. imarlY 118,000,000 blihtals of grairi
i the to that tame I have no reeollee- with leas than 4,000,000 acres under
tion of having .seett a giel who held crop. That was a happy summer for
my attention !or ten seconds. DM, Lena enet I and the baby. Once the
when. I gam Lena I looked right at grain was in tho ground, we heed 011-
110r rand 0-128 Ineiceel at me. X took off le, to loaf rouied and watch it grow,
nNY ;kat, and bowed, instinctively, as a multiotalliomeire listens to the
and Lena blushed. My mother saw multiplication of his accumulated
all this and called sharplY :to me, eash. As the swaying changed from
stampieg her footle ld'y mother was green to gold, 1 sa,w my Mille foe -
1 hem in 1308ton. tune ewelling from a single thoesand
.-"Lenis. lived at eier house a tevhole still in the barn, to ten times that
month. 'Beat was the se/infest Month amotint, barring hainmetorsthat
1 hen °nor known, though I never come seldom in tide section and ey-
saw her 44v in all the time, at clones that came not at all,
lectet oot ae I had seen thorn at the "1 confess that I lay clown at
moment of our first meeting. fel night often with a feeling of dread
course, I wee not notified when Lena lest the day naight dawn oh desolee
. got her notice, 1 game /mine °tee tion, esPesially whers the gen had
(Westing and found. a sew parlor gone down behind a blaele cloud,'
' maid, I was foolish enough to aSk But, alWays, when the next day
itt clinnee what had become of Lena. datvned, 1 could see my soa of gold,
. Between the frowns of my father glowing in the inornin
mg sun and ro-
am' the sharp, dark glaneee of my peat what the poet said: 'Cod' in
mother, / gathered that it Wee Met his Heaven, All's well with the
my besinetle. I knew no rest that woeld.f'
' night, Por days I walked and walk- "You !glow how at sea sometimee
. te, 1, soarthing the World for Lona, you ley' &Wake wondering 11 the nod
It some() to Me. I Could hear her roll will be the last, listen to tho
1 001114, could seo her great bine oyes wash eif witnee that boat ONO% your
' accusing me, Inc I felt that it had barque, and fitialler fell airleers in
: been all rny fault. A week went by spite of youreelf. Then when you
' with thig great gorreee tugging at awake at dawn and And to your
: My heart. turpriee that you are gtill afloat, note
"Cleo (bey at dufik pie.I stumbled feel grateful to the Mester Who Mang
t throenh the little park, called the the shiP ond the AUL Froth day to
Publei inquara, 1 Nona staidenly ttPen Clan you gain ecallieletee MAI in time
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Some good aogel must have been
guiding toy wandering leet whoa they
found the farmhouse of Sanford San-
derson, An observlug person would
guess by his gnome, quick and keen,
that he had knocked about, by hes
unflinching gaze that he knew things,
by the furrows in his noutleful fore-
head that Inc had suffered and by his
silenoe that Inc had a story. had
eosin Sanderson onae Wove, but Inc
hod not eeen me. From my Seat on
"Presently when she had beeonte
.cohnee, she told me that she had
found a good place as nurse in the
house cif Mr, Blank, the man who
ran the state bank. Naturally, be -
face of the earth an hundred feet
deep anti half a mile widB
e, eyond
the river there was more of this un -
staked einpire, sleeping sweetly in
the sun.
buted his silence to the impressiv
scene, Presently I noticed that 111
glance was leveled at the rano
house, X Linked what interested him
and he said he saw a new obJect 11
the corral, and when a few minute
later we tiniest In at the gate te
found a strange craft in port. I
Proved to be a bueleboard. "
thought so," said Sanderson, liltin
O nose -bag reale the back of bitrig. It was marked, "0, T. P,"
"I thought so," Inc repeated, mor
to himself than te nee, "They hav
routed 010 from the Red River . an
again from Portage Plai/SS, driven
ine from the "bad lands," sought in
out Saskatchewan and I presum
they will follow me to tho Peace an
finally push me to the Pacific, ins
as the buffalo and the Indian ha,v
been puished."
While we were still discussing 01011
the pathfinders, four of them, cam
up from the river. The chief of 01
Party introduced himself. They ha
Passed through a month ago, h
said, but foetid nobody at home.
"I've been anxious to see you,'
1
fil mate) ). s en e a ma ei i nk, said the chief, "for, unless we spoil a
ing from the sod, ripening to grain sixty -mile tangent, we must ask you
t
to Inc ground to flom. and inade Into to leus move yoer house ovei
bread that will fend millions of mem , about 11111 -feet."
"So, as I said before, no are all; "Certainly," said Sanderson, aecl
gamblern It is only a question of for the life of me I could not sae
degree and the relative respectability
cd the bank we buck. I gambled
when 1 planted that 400 acres to
wheat. I won, and my late neigh-
bor is at this moment preparing four
thousund aere.s for crop in 100e. If
1 had lost, Perhaps Inc woula not
have risked so touch, but I won,
threshing out 16,880 bushels, for
Which I received n18,504.
"That half section attracted as
much attention as the winner in a
selling race. I had scarcely sold my
last load of wheat, when a Minneso-
ta man came and tempted me with a
offer of ten dollars an acre. It was
O foolish thing to do, but I took the
money. The place was becoming al-
together too civilized, and to add to
my troubles the locating engineers
were setting stakes along my north
line. I shall long remember hole we
sat down, Lena, aml 1, to ligure up
our fortune. After paying for seed
and seeding, for Rome new building,
for reaping, threshing and market-
ing my grain, I had to the credit of
this amount $11,740. The profit on
the land transaction brought the
total up to $18941. Against this I
a.
suffered less of $3131 on impleProminent People,
-i
meats' bought and sold, leaving al The King of Portugal is the best
net prat for my summer's watceing I Ronal riee-ohot in the world. He is
of 518,710. I also quite as good with a revolver
"I asked Lena again, if she want- as with his rifle, and has done some
wonderful feats at the Paris Pistol
Club; of which ho is a member.
The Countess of Carlisle is one of
the best of women platform speak-
ers, and somatInies takes her place
in the pulpit. She has a YriVate
chapel at Noworrtli Castle, and - cm-
cemionally eel/duets the whole ser-
vice, sertoon and all
Mr. Asquith, leine,,, 'M.P., the fam-
ous English politic:4m, is an expert
amatein. meclianie. He has con-
structed many mechanical models in
his time, and he also built :two bi-
cycles, one of which ie now in the
poss.snen of the Prince .of Waees.
The Duke of Devonshire possesses,
as an heirloom, Claude Lorraimees
"Book of Truth," whioh is saki bo
be one of the rarest and most vain -
Wile noltimeenu Enrolee It is worth
Nix times es. much as the "Mazarin"
Bible, the most costly book thett the
Iiiitish Museum can boast. The late
Duke refused an offer el 5100,000 for
11
Mr. Alexander Siemens, rreSident
of the Institution of Electrical len-
gieeers, is the possessor of a ueique
distinction, inasmuch as Inc is the
only letellAnnan who wears. the
01 der of 1.1m, Trell Cross, He fought
in the trenches at Metz in 1870, and
WAS rewarded by the coveted decoe-
ation. Mr. Siemens, who was
tweitty-theue at the time, went all
throegh the: lerance-Pruceeian war as
a private soldier.
Of the world's monarchs probably
the most Impeder in France is King
Edward, The story goes that on
one (=mien 11 pretty Parision.ne &a-
ssayed that elm wished His Britannia
Majesty might Inc in very truth what
the Eings of Engiand once claimed
to be—"Sovereign of Franco and of
Navarro," King Edward only
whiled as hi made the reply, "You
use up your Kings too quickly in
this coun•teen"
'The story of the Czar's betrothal
is quite interestiter, Although the
great question bad been planted and
thought out for the Royal couple by
their respective parents, thoy were
both cleteoniried to 11010 3 say - in
(Inc matter. Th•at they svere its love
tvIth each other ever'MOW, 'OW, and
lenween themselves a mutual ender -
insulates.; had heen arrived at in the
meaner -house of York Cottage; bet,
as Cestrevitch, the future Czar bad
emhe
to it° t'formal and old-fashioned
orer of 'Isis band. "The Emperor,
nty fathee," Inc said, addressing the
blushing bride-to-be, "has com-
manded me to make yob the offer of
my howl and heart." "My grand-
mother, (Inc Qteeenn' replied the pm -
sent Coarina, "has commanded me
to accept the oiler of yew' hand
he "—
sbroke into a rippling hoigh—
"end your heart I take of my own
free will." ,
Hero is an inetance of the lealiser's
cattle ranch, It is not so exciting 013ProWess With the rifle, Wbile wait -
wheat growing', but it is nice quiet ing with Darott Minnie for the ape
work and doesn't hurt the country, proach of some wild boar, Ills Ma -
'Cod's cottuftw' of a truth, just as jesty whiled asvay the time by /en:lo-
ll° left, it when Ile 10011(1051 001. the tising 011 ob)ente at a dial -ince of
world, •
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Such is the story of Sanford San-
derson. I remember how, as w
drove home0 after our last day's
shooting, filandersot grew eloquent
as he pieturecl his Paradise as it lay
befolo.tts bathed in the first faint
flesh of tho sunset's gold. As we
topped a low ridge tied creme in view
01 the rattail, Sanderson shook the
lines out, the lithe cayusee slipped
aloeg the train in that easy fox-trot
go 00110000 in the wet:tern range -
bred horse. From the chimney Wo
epeld see a thin eoltunn of smoke
ascending. T.,ene, Was cooking gim-
e ; poet they nod th
tee cap1•3
ital •"" 10111Sanderson grosv Von end fame- 1110 It" meth shoe teinemee
whether Inc Was inking er in earliest.
The engineer was obviously em-
barrassed hut managed to thank our
host. • "0, don't mention it," said
Sanderson, as Inc led the way to the
house. "It's ne trouble at all."
Now here were halfa deem half
starved men, not to mention my boy
and Sanderson's boy for Lena to
feed, but she met her heoband antl
his hungry geeets with a. haPPY
sunile and in half an hour was mak-
ing tis welcome at her good table,
ln was no trouble, as Sanderson said
when they asked him to move his
house.
"Good-bye, Sanderson," said
"this has been a pleenant 'OSA, here,
and when the road is open I'll drop
in on you again. There'll be a town
hero at the 'crossing, I fancy."
"Oh, yes," he said, "there'D be a
town, but I won't Inc here, Inn go-
ing to pull out for the front."—By
Warman in 'American Agriculturist.
4
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Interesting Gossip About Some
ed to go bonie, and she said nothing,
but smiling shook her bead slowly,
looking at the cheques in iny hand
and the figures 011 a slip of paper
that told the simple story of our
summers work, As we sat there
trying to realize how it feet to. Inc
'rich,' ene 01 107 Men drove up. 3111
had been deem to Davidson tc> leave
tee shoos pulled from apair of
horses I kept 1 or driving 'and had
swung round by Hanley feeethe inane
He handed me a letter. I instantly
recognized my mother's .hand upen
the envelope. I opened it and found
first a New York draft for a thdin
sand dollars. The sight of this
draft drove all the happiness oet of
my heart and flooded my soul with
theold bitterness that I hod hoped
was liciesed.
'Presently, I read the letter, the
first that I had received holm home.
It was full of the deathlesS mother
Java that survives so often when all
else perishes. She begged Inc to re-
turn, to bring Lena and the baby
and make our home with them. My
father, she said, would be only too
glad to torn over the berden of his
growing business to nw, and while
he had not seid so in so many words,
she felt confident Inc ha(1 forgiven
me. Right there I made a mental
note to Inquire as to the
nature of the crime for which
was about to receive the pat-
ernal pardon, but by the thre.
had finished my leathern litter
the resentment was gone.
I coula see how her pride had been
hurl; and how helpless she lied linen
as agednet the seetence of any stern
father. So I wrote her thanking her
for the draft, which I returned, and
for (Inc assurance of her love which
treasured and told her how impos-
sible it would Inc for us to go back
home as if We had failed, ending
with an -urgent request for her to
visit us at our new home of which
still lied poesession, To eny surprise
she came, etayed a month, aud when
elle went back left a lot of her
boundiese love with Lena and the
baby,
After selling my section in the
"bad lands," I came over bere and
squatted 111 the shadow of the Eagle.
ITtles—here where the great Saskat-
chewan sweeps down to the northern
lakes, where lhe summers are match-
less and the winters mild, whom the
Wenn rillf1001C COMeS crooning over
from the coast rauge, making March
as balmy as May on the North At-
lantic. Beyond (Inc river, over in
Alberta, I have gathered a goodly
band of cattle and a liee bunch of
ranch horses. These liardy horsee
hustle for themselves from Chien;
mas to Christmas, as do the cattle.,
save for a few hundred tons of wild
hay wo cut for them to feed on 10
the hardest of the winter. We never
house them. Open sheds for the
color% and oohs ave the only out-
hundings we have on (Inc horse or
about 1,50 yaerls. Ono oR these was
O eigeopost insitribed "To tho Bran-
ealierg." Turning with a laugh to
&iron Heintee, (Inc EmPeree stela,
"Which letter shell hit?" "The
capitel " was the ariewer, Tho
Ednipm'or fired accordingly at the let-
ter "D," "And noW?" inquired his
efejesty, "The Ice " replien the Bar-
on, ,Iests after title a wild boar ap-
peared, "Whiell eye shall 1 hit hire
in?" mecca the Emoneor, "In tho
Ieft, your Maje.ety," saki Baron
Menem, When the party reethed
the dead boar they foetid the Erne
pewee had snot him in the /eln seee,
and on wining up later 'to the etre.
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MAPLE DELIOACULIS.
Parfatt--Yolks of 5 eggs and 1 cup
maple syrup boiled together in a
double boiler. When thick, remove
from fire and beat until cold, Adel 1
Pint whitened cream, musk in ice and
ealt and let stand three hours.
Delicious Cakes—One cup grated
moplo sugar, 2-8 cup rich, sour
cream, 2 eggs, J3 testemoon sada dis-
solved in tablespoon hot. water, a
pinch of sale and 2 teacups sifted
0010.. Beat eugar and eggs together
add dissolVed soda to the cream:
mix and bake in a loaf.
Maple Cesteird—Malce a custard of
4 well beaten eggs, pinch of salt, 8
clitis milk, 1 eup maple syrup. Strain
into buttered cups and bake in a
pan set ir het water, in a slow
oven. Wht n. eentres are Men, chill
the custards. Tern front molds and
serve with whipped cream which has
bvage
ezreeteited and flavored wh
eit
oi
Maple Rolls—Sift together 2 cups
flour, saltspoon salt teed 2 teaspoons
baking powder. line in 8 table-
spoons better and mix to a soft
dough with sweet milk. Roll ou1 on
floured beard and spread thickly
with finely -shaved enaple sugar. Roll
iuvPithasa slIciacrp4k11"if101"ClotjellIrlYtOCC'slIcieceasnia
inch thick. Place in a greased tin
oriel bake 111 minutes. Serve hot.
' Cream Walnuts—Break 1 lb. fresh
maple sugar leto pieces, put into pan
with 2 tables/mote boiling water and
Zei cup cream Cook 20 minutes,
add 1 cup chopped English walnut
kernels, beat 'until creamy, pour into
buttered pan and mark off. into
Sallarefi,
Maple leing—Cook together 2 cups
grated maple sugar and 1 cup cream,
withoet.stirring. When thick, enoegh
to form a hall when. dropped into
cold water, remove front fire and
whip hard until ready to spread. •
Ice Creame-Scald in a double boil-
e- 1 pint new milk. When hot add 1
cup maple syrup. Beat 8 eggs till
thoroughly aiiixescl, return to the
boiler and cook, stirring constantly.
When the mixture thickens, strain,
cool, add 1 cup whipped cream and
freeze.
Waffles—To 1 pint of milk add 3
eegs, soltspoon salt, 1 cup shoved
maple sugar men „enough flour to
melte a stiff batter. Add lastlyethe
beaten whites of the eggs.. Enna waf-
fle irons well greased and hen
Maple Sager Ilisessit—Sifte together
1 quart Roue, 2 • teaspoeins baking
powder and a saltspoon 'salt. Rub
in 2 tablespoons butter -lied enoegh
milk to make a soft dough. „When
ready to roll out stir et. 1 -cup. /maple
sugar, which has been shavecl into
fine pieces. Roll out and cut into
fancy eh•apes.
v.itLuABLE
'To keep moths from furs and wool-
en articles: When putting away int%
and woollen articles for the summer,
carefully wrap each article separate-
ly in newspaper, and put pieces of
corbon away with them in a tin bax
or cupboard. Printer's init is death
1.0 moths.
Mildew is one of the most difficult
strifes to remove. Rub well with
brown soap, then apply a paste oi
chalk and water, and put the article
in the sue. After two, or three ap-
plications the mildew will be bleach-
ed out.
The fire can Inc drawn from a burn
by applying claths, wet in strong
alum water. It will also aselst in
relieving the pain.
Stains on Nock cloth rail be re-
moved by rubbing with a freshly cut
raw poLato, Afterwards rub with a
clean cloth.
Always put the sugar used in
pie in the eeetee of the fruit, net at
(Inc top, as this makes the paste
soden.
Oxalic acid will retnove stales
from ivory, Inly, piano keys. Ordin-
arily the keys may be kept in con-
dition of whiteness by simply rah-
bing with nlcohol.
nannuata aro very good with beef
steak. While the steak is on the
broiler slice two bananas in rounds
about half an inch thick, Fry them
in a little butler, and arrange over
(Inc beefsteak on a hot platter.
Tho thing101' a woman to eats
whose complexion is not above re-
proach aro coeked vegetables, raw
and cooked salads and stewed fruits.
The cooked saleces are those that aro
nada of vegotableg and the Russean
selads, which are composed of sbrect-
clod beets, cold potatoes, string
beans aed peas, all beautifully Mose-
cel with eilayonitaise, a dish fit foe
tho Czar.
A Novel Cranberry Pia--Talce a
good-eized cupfel of cranberries, cut
them in tWO and put them in Cold
water to draw aut the 'seedo. Mix a
tablespoonful of flour with a cupful
of sugar, and then add slowly a
scent cunfel of boeling water and
hair a cupful of misfito stoned and
cut in tem. Lift tiro cranberries out
of the water Which shonid Inc thrown
away, and mix them wale the, other
ngrecelente, Bake lietiveen 11300
cruste. Sometiroeg e teaspoonful of
tonna is added.
SHIRT WAIST FASTENINGS.
No hooks and eyes on swish waists,
hoteld Inc the motto of the amateer
rnsam,ils�,' 530htomisi Wheroyee pee-,
ible, tinder any ciremnietances,
hey •ttre Inc preferoble to Hooke. In
Inc Mosey ;valeta, buttonarid but -
510110118 can he hid Metier a fold. In
11>3 wnsii waists, band:go/no buttens
nom be fastotuot on with te tiny split
ing atol readily removed when the
waist boo to go to the tele In the
vaists Which neetee at the bat, bet.
hooke end eye% or hooks end loope
So few people mane good button
boles that the tmnptation to ue
hooks wed eyers as being less trouble
is very great. But It is a rideLalce
Just as is the ueing of Melees, in net
of buttons oe undergarments. Th
hest fittlag garments, whether tilos
that aro vieible or those that ar
'hidden, but. none the loss requir
smoothness in order to inilke th
garment set properly above them
one those seeurely fustenecl witl
pleuty of buttons width win. ea
break in the wash. The need
Dimity of bettons Mimed Inc empha
sieed, because tho tendemay seems to
be toward fastening a shirt -waist in
the back with oboe-1(1Iva buttons, and
this means wrisightly rtnel entldy
neles.
--
A WASHING IIINT.
•
The other day, when away from
home, and with only a, few clothes in
ow nag, my little daughter upset a
bottle of shoe dressing down the
front of her dress, ruining a light-
colored gingham blouse, and her new
blue serge hill skirt, writes Mrs.
Henry Wright I was in despair for
O esew moments, bet went right to
work to see what I could do. I
washed both garments in clear
water, without a particle of soap,
and after passing through three
waters, to my surprise every stain
of the dressing disappeured.
Now she could gee along without
the blouse, but I did not see haw
she could dispense with the skirt.
Irons could not Inc obtained, and so
1 tad to set sny wits to work,
'seashell the skirt through all addi-
tional water, took it out without
wrieging ft, and with my heads
smoothed the pleats in place and
pietted it to the line by eafety pins
through the bolt. It dried in a few
hours (there svas a strong Wind
blowing, and height sunshine) and
when 1 took it in, no one would have
guessed that an iron had not touch-
ed it, and better still, It had not
cold water only.
shrunken one bilcis it had been in
POTATOES AND cilialsE.
One of the meet delicious of French
vegetahie dishes is polatoes prepared
with cheese, but, it Is so delicious
that it is feet becoming almost as
welt known here in America.
And potatoes are so staple a thing
--so necessary et part of every day's
meals, that the pleasant blending of
cheese and poiato is a ebange that is
almost piquant.
After six or seven potatoes have
boiled until they are nicely, mash
them as smooth as possible, adding
a couple of tablespoonfuls of butter,
salt, end popper, and enough hot
milk to make them quite soft, Geate
a half oupful .of cheese and beat it
into tho mashed potatoes, and grate
a thin layer of cheeee over the top,
sct in the oven until the cheese
toasts, and eery°.
Or cut thin boiled potatoes. in ra-
ther large pieces, see if for frying,
and arrange In 'a bake' dish. ' Grate
cheese over each layer of potatoes.
Poilr a thin cream droeling, over ali
tho 1ayer; grate a layer of cheese on
top, and brown.
2181 TRO—UG11.7;41—T eaten:IT DO.
When Patrick received an order Inc
followed it iniplicitey as far as he
could—sometimes even farther than
his Celtic brain realized.
• "He wants a pane ,o' windy -glass
tin itches by foorteon," said Patrick
One day, as he entered a shop where
his employer, a. master carpenter
trialcIt'tclhe shop was a young clerk,
who riever miseied a chance for a, lit-
tle joke at the Irislunan's expense.
"if we !lanolin any ten -by -four-
teens," Inc said, -I may have to give
you a fourteen -by -ten."
Patrick rubbed his head though t -
fully. Then he stood pondering fur a
moment, and at last, remarked:
'He's In the great rooeh for it,
and there's no other plaeo near to
get it. Give me wan o' thim Poor -
teen -by -tins, and if Inc tenets it side-
ways and oppsicle clown, there's not
sowl would know the difference."
SABBATARTAN CYCLIST.
"'Major" Taylor, a negro, is ad-
mittectly one of the greatest living
racing cycliets. But eince the cham-
pionships wen> held at Montreal in
1899 he has been debarred from
competing, because of the races be -
1118 hell,' oil the Continent, whore all
the more impel tent events' are de-
eicied on Sundays. He has religious
scruples against Sunday racing, anti
at a sacrifice of thousands of dollars
has steadfastly refused o race any-
where on the first day of the week,
Last yam. he refueed en offer of
51 0,000 to compote at a series of
race meeting's in Franco. because ac-
ceptance Would have involved the
sioitj.lflediettyweraoef1113.1,sis principles ageinst
CHILDREN'S WORKING 1.101.1.11S.
Inaporehnt physlologieal experi-
menee leave been made in Russia to
test the endurance of schoonchildren,
The results prove that in the lower
four classes Meg& may Inc continued
for a period 1101 exceeding twenty-
tWo or twenty-seven hours per week,
but that excessive ti gu reset te
from longer c out inuance of bran:
Work, This time for teaching theee
elassos has been fixed by (Inc latest
order of the lginistrer of Public. Tit-
ructiore et 10 urged, however,
hat this should bo the outside lim-
it, awl thee no ieesons should be
studied at home.
Princess Cheatees of Denenctek Is the
Youngeet datighter of the King and
Pigeon, SIM ie devoted te all oet-of-
door amegeenente, is a tapital shot,
end an ardent photographer. At one
time the Princess Wea very keen on
nYeling, and te eaid to be the only
member of the leoyal Fondly who
has cycled through the /braille of Len-
non, She can atm use bill:land
otte with marked dexterity, Sitio hag
always been a great feenteete in her
„ home circle, whore she le kfietne by
one aro mecietnere reliable than the nielmaree Of "Batty q
KING'S PECULIAR TASTES
BLA0K BREAD AND TEA WITH
nEMON.
His Majesty Lines Good C ffee,
and ls a Great Ltimen 01
Salad,
Xing linievaed Is never conorentititeal
when he atm avoid being so With Rai,
isinction to himself tend those
around nim, His Majesty is Pay -
1110110117 indivIclunt in regerd to his
teeing In food, and has wany pe-
culiarities in this respect svnich aro
known to few beyond his intimate
friends,
For example, the Meg is very fond
of his afternoon tea, and having 0,
sweet tootle as Queen Vietoria had,
likes to see confeceionery ou the
tabIe. But 11 is not so well known
that His Majesty never by any
chance partakee of butter, and that,
moreover, he never talcee tea made
unit milk., but in the Ruesian lash -
Me, with a pieee of lemon instead.
Sitmilarly he has a special way of
his own of making coffee, or, rather,
it le the way of his own particular
coffee -maker, Ibeahim, a dark-skinned
Turk, with whose skill in this parti-
cular department of kitchen work
Hes Majesty was at the nret experi-
ence so pleased that he brought htin
home with beer from one of his join-
neys abroad, and installed him in
the Royal household to do nothing
else hut snake the King's coffee. Sc
inelispensable is Ibrahimto the King
that lie is ofteit taken abroad with
bine His method of making
THE KING'S COFFEE
is as follows: nerst or all tho water
is boiled, and then the conne is put
iit and allowed to "infuse." Ibrahim
then warms It again until the coffee
grounds "Hee to (Inc top, turn over,
and descend." The grounds are then
allowed to settle, and finally Ibra-
him pours olT the liquid with a
flourish ef his long, dark aro], the
coffee as he makes it in this way be-
ing superb.
Another peculiarity of the King's
taste is tor the German black bread
which is known as "schwarzbrot."
It has been a favorite with him for
many years; but it is an acquired
taste and needs much assiduous cul-
tivation, for the person who tastes
it for the first time feels that he
would never care to do so again.
However, two varieties of rye bread
baked In the German fashion are
regularly supplied by a Carman firm
in the City of London for His Me-
jesty's use. One variety has a large
proportion of Vienna flour added to
the rye meal, and in (Inc case of this
bread the peculiar sour flavor is not
so noticeable. Beginners who wish
to train themselves to eating "sch-
warzbrot" usually begin with it,
Bt it is the real Osehwarebrot," :the
genuine sour black bread, which most
feeqUently finds its way to Use
King's table, and inis Majeete.
THOROUGIeleY ENJOYS IT,
Hui atm; is a great lover of salad,
alld has a particular preference for
elle special Preearation of hearted
lettuce ar romaine to any others,
The best French cooks say that let-
tuce of this kind, being naturally
protected by its manner of growth
Mole tho intrusion of dust or insects
should not Inc washed, but meeely
stripped carefully leaf by leaf, and
wiped with a perfectly clean cloth.
A. small quantity of Gruyere cheese,
which lies been cut into short
lengths like the ye/eatables in juli-
enne soup, is then scattered over the
salad, and in this way the precise
flevoring which His Majesty prefers
is given to the salad.,
Ono of the King's favorite dishes
see the clinner-trible is a minute chick-
en on a morsel of toast. These
little "poussins," as they are called
by the poulterer, yield but two or
three moittlifitie of clolicalo, white
flesh, and in London they are retail-
ed at such high prices Unit they are
a rare dainty. Nevertheless, in (Inc
West of Ireland they are sold by
barefooted peasant gerla, who charge
only dd. each for them:
STRANGE LI 13 RAT1Y.
There is. at Cassel a library pro-
bably unique it the wend. It la
bound in timber, printed on timbal.
pagee—poseibly from wood blocks --
tied deals exclusively with timber.
The lihrary In question is the Heinle-
bliothek, which was compiled more
than a cenney age by Karl Schield-
barh, and is ronepoSed of about rioo
\mimeses made from trees in the peek
at Wi !lie! lush oho.
RTVETS IN STEAMERS.
The, importent part which rivete
Play in tile construction of modem
steel steamehips is well illustrated
by the fact that in the new Cunard
liner Camilla, the largest ship evee
constructed in Great the I aim • no
fewm. then 1,800,000 rivete were
mod, the total weight represent:el
being. about 600 tons, lieu greater
part of the riveting •worie was hem
by hycheollic power.
efONSTellt WAVES.
The eiee of the Athletic, 3109011 11,15
boil (medially measured ' for the
hVetlis8obliii
iiCt1
ii1)41,1f,\s;clat.‘•oegeraittisleii,coil;c3,siree.egvetti,,e4Ine
about 80 fort, len in vorigh weather
they attain from 4!1 feet, to 18 feet.
During stoents they are orton from
500 feat to ono root long. and Met
ten or eleven seemed's, while the
longest yet known measured heir it
toile, and did not spend itself foe
twenty-ilireo seconds.
HANCH.NG—IN PERSIA
The Forgets voey genteel hang a
trian, for crime, IC Inc kills another
is fined 515 dad ollowed to go,
lieohpe1511111 io 11ydd
0no0cri 'oitWert' Inctl4
Ibe
poilgltb
to be put out of tho way, he in
iheang:dv,:driatbyhothies Oa: gCOC se
they Wang ratio in this cowetry. 5110
weight 15 tied te bIt> lien&
101 01 alloWeri to di&