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Selceted Recipes.
Pancakes. -- Delicious • ancakes
may be made by adding to an good
prepared pancake flour ane any
egg and .a little milk. This en-
riches the batter and noticeably im-
proves it.
A Variation in Serambled'Eggs.—
Beat the eggs, .season with salt and
pepper, and -add them to melted
butter in chafing dish. When nearly
-serambled, 4scid bread cut into dist
and browned.
Duck Stuffing (Peanut) — Three-
quarters of cracker crumbs., one-
half of a cupful of shelled peanuts,
finely .chopped, one-half of a cupful
of heavy cream, two tablespoonfuls
of better, a few drops of : onion
juice, salt and Cayenne pepper.
Mix the ingredients in the order
given.
Ripe Cucumber Relish. — Twelve
ripe cucumbers, four large onions,
flour green peppers, two red pep-
pers. Put through coarse knife of
meat grinder. Add half cup salt,
one cup sugar, one and one-half
cups vinegar. Can col•c'. This is
delicious, retains its crispness and
is exceedingly pretty, too.
Oatmeal Mush With Apples. -
Core the apples, leaving large cav-
ities ; pare and cook until soft in
syrup made by boiling .sugar and
water together, allowing one cupful
of sugar to one and one-half cup-
fuls of water. Fill the cavities with
oatmeal mush ; serve with sugar
and cream: The syrup should he
saved and reused. Berries, sliced
bananas or sliced peaohee are ex-
celIent when served with any
breakfast cereal.
Chicken and Oyster Soup. — Out
up and prepare a medium-sized
fowl as for • fricasseeing. Cover
with water, and cook slowly,. re-
moving the scum as.'it rises. When
the chicken is tender, take it up ;
strain and return the ,broth ro the
kettle. If there is not a quart of it
add tboiling water. Add one quart
of oysters wit'htheir juice, and the
same .amount of scalding milk. Sea-
son to taste with a little salt and
pepper ; also a little mace and nut-
meg if liked. Tl.icken with one tea-
spoon:ful of flour and butter rubbed
together and just before it is sere•
ed stir ,one-half of a tea capful (,f
hot cream into . the soup. This
makes three, quarts of soup,
Batnta ilnhsby (staffed pctnt.oes)).
--Peel a dozen medium sited pota-
toes, Ballow them out through a
email hole with a :sharp knife until
the shell is about as thin as an
orange peel, and fry their well with
butter. Mince into very small pierces
a euft'icient quantity of lean, tender
-mutton, add a proportionate qu a-
tity 9::f pine seeds eea.wn the mix -
titre with salt and pepper, and fry
it thoroughly. Stttff the putat ee
vii h the friend meat and set them
side by side; with the hulk. epee tit,
in a selieepa,n, Pi,t s;:mri t,,rna. : t„
a little butter and half a plait er +ret.
of water in the pert. tied creat
potatot.s over a 'ice tt lite, foe flifi!`.t
belf en hair, 'The pin ;;seeds c!t)'i
gr.nerally b•c eremite d ,a; v elyi
oar
grocer,v eii Ir l}i l,rtt. tart 7').
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the 3 t
rxat.at. may either in,
used aline, or in combination with
some other ingredient.
Saner Kraut and Cucumber
Pickles. -Cut cabbage fine,- using
kraut cutter. For every gallon use
a rounded tablespoon of salt and.
one-half teaspoon caraway seeds.
Mix well. Wash medium size cu-
cumbers. On the bottom of an
earthenware jar put a few dill
stems (seeds .will do), Hienput in
alternate layers of cucumbers
sprinkled with salt, and the pre-
pared cabbage. About three times
the thickness of cabbage when
pressed down with the palms of
your hands as of cucumbers: Con-
tinue until jar is lull, using cab-
bage as last layer. Over all put a
white- cloth and a White plate turn-
ed over with a weight on it to keep
contents under .brine. Add more
water later as needed. , When ready
to use elide cucumbers lengthwise
for the table and boil kraut as
usual.
Bread.—One large cup mashed
potato, two tablespoons lard, -one-
half cup sugar. Beat all into mash-
ed potato while liot. Add three
cups lukewarm water and strain
through medium fine ,stnainer. Add
,to ,above mixture one pint flour,
warmed, and beat till *ell mixed.
Some brands of flour will require
more than the pintto thicken: Add
one c•e•ast cake dissolved in one-half
cup warm water. Stir all together
for several minutes or until thor-
oughly mixed. Set in warm place
to rise and stir at intervals, as . it
makes a lighter sponge. At b•ed
time or early next morning warm
two and .one-half quarts of flour
(or more if not enough to stiffen
properly), add one tablespoon of
salt. Mix the sponge into this
flour until a medium stiff dough , is
formed. Knead and pound well and
set away to 'rise. When light mix
into loaves. Knead each loave well
for better bread. Warming the flour
is part of the secret of .this bread's
excellence.
Household hints. `
By dipping a broom in boiling
suds once a week it can be preserv-
ed for longer use.
Linen stored in a closet, warm
and poorly ventilated, will soon be-
lcome yellow and crack.
One yard of •shecting will make a
pair of ;pillow case.', and will cost
much less than pillow tubing.'
If a few drops of paraffin are ap-
plied to a out, it will give instant
relief and also assist it t{W heal
Boiled tehestnuts served on lettilce
!eaves, with French 'dressing, make
s: delicious .and seasonable salad,
A piece bag made of mosquito
' netting enables one by a look to
find the particular roll of goods de-
sirrs+il,..
• Spirit.. of turpentine will remove
most spots from silk, but care must •.
be taken le be sure that the dye is
fast.
Varnished paper on walls should
lei cleaned with a flannel etiipped in
weak tea and polished with a dry
cloth.
Tr., Fitaapeu a knife, ;old a piece crf
emery Leper in the centre and draw
the k i fe rapidly hack and fortthi
several ti:me,e.
A sera aI' aur.es a f. grass Island over
a cookery h1 ok when lying open on
the table keeps ia'open and enables
t 41 i',.nk to reed the .recipe eitIviet
farat(fVi'ai lira (arn)•;, with slide}•`fin••
\VJi tt "furred`" i i 1
fill it with water) add aooti-sized
lump of max,, anct et it boil well.
Then pour away the borax and wa-
ter, and rinse tthoron ialy with dear
cold water,
litcet sitirits• of !nitre will remove
ink -spots L:rom wood. Bub the epots
with the nitre! when tare wood
turns white, wipe it off with .a, soft
ootbon rag,. I may be necessary to
make a second sirpplicatioki.
When you have finished ,with the
kitchen fire kr cooking purposes
take some fine coal dust, put° it In
a strong brown paper bag, damp it,
and put it on the top of the fire,
The lather will burn slowly for.
hours,
Chinese gloss .starch Is made
two tablespoons raw starch and one
tablespoonful borax . dissolved in
one and ane -half cups. water, Gar-
ments are dipped in this, rolled
tightly and left a few hours in a
dry cloth before ironing.
Soups should be made from the
liquor of every vegetable cooked,
with a • little milk or butter added.
The seater from the vegetables,
thrown down the drain contains the
mineral salts or the vital element of
the vegetable, and should never be
wasted;
People who suffer much from
"acidity" will do .well to try going
without bread and especially with-
out any starchy thinwith an acid,
at the same time trying to find out
how much fat can be tolerated, but-
ter, cream, or the fat of bacon; and.
eo forth, Fats do not stimulate the
gastric juices,
MO DERN EXPLOSIVES.
Various Kinds Used by Different
Countries.
Dr. Louis Bell says that thestor-
ies about mysterious explosives of
tremendous power are inaccurate,
or greatly exaggerated. As a mat-
ter of fact, military expects do not
use the most powerful explosives,
for they will not stand the enor-
mous shock sef being fired, from a
high-power gun, without exploding
and blowing the gun to pieces, The
explosive needed is one that can
stand: the enormous shock of being
aoeerlerated to a velocity of two
thousand feet a second in less than
twenty feet—the length of the can-
non. ' "The eubstanees most used
for military work," says Doctor
Bell, "are those that arise from the
nitration of some of the benzene
compounds, the simplest of which
is nitrobenzene itself, which has
formed a oomponen,t in a. good many.
explosives, •including some excel-
lent sporting powders. Other mem-
bers of this. group are obtained by
the nitration of carbolic acid, toiu-
ol, naphthalene, and analogous sub-
stances, The first mentioned, trini-
trophenol commonly known as pic-
ric acid, has long been 'a favorite,
for its use runs back for something
like twenty years. Melinite, first
used by the French, and lyddite, fa-
miliar in the English service, are
both essentially picric acid. This
substance will not stand firing in
shell in its usual crystalline form;
but when melted down into- a dense
slug, it ,stands the shock, and, by a
sufficiently powerful primer, can be
detonated with extreme . violence ;
its power ranks, in fact, with that
of the best nitroglycerin explosives.
It has often been loaded into the
shells by :actually pouring the melt-
ed substance into the cavity, and
letting it solidify. Another explo-
sive now popular is trinitrotoluol,
loaded in to similar fashion. If the
reports from the front regarding
the German shells, jocosely named
'Jack Johnsons' by Tommy Atkins,
are to be trusted, this compound is
the one probably used by the :Ger-
mans, as it is in several other ,ser-
vices, since the explosion of trini-
trotoluol is characterized by dense
black smoke." Dr. Bell character-
izes the 'widely -published story of
the French shell that on exploding,
liberates vapors that smite every a
living being in the vicinity with
instant death as a falsehood.
NeRVes :TN»IER
HRH 1341103
Of all the-mysteriesofwar — and
there are many --:none is more baf-
fling or more' elusive to the.student
of fighting human nature' than the
way in .which blind: panic will grip
and tetzporarily paralyze even the
most seasoned troops, writes a vet -
Bran war correspondent,
No fighting MAW in the world, the
British bluejacket or British '.Loan-
'im
my Atkins not excepted, ismuno
from the sudden, subtle attack of
blue funk.
:However,, so ,far as a eomparison
of the, fighting qualities of the vari-
ous nations is possible—I have
never found any material difference
in man's courage, be he white,
or black, though it assumes
different forms=I should sty, with-
out disrespect to our allies, that
the Frenchman is the most susoep-
tiible to panic.
The Frenchman's imaginative
qualities make him a bonny and. en•
thnsiastio fighter r 't but, just because
he has a vivid imagination, is he
peculiarly liable to lose his head—
and to lose it very badly.
I remember being with the
French Foreign Legion during the
Moroccan war when, late. one night,.
the goums (native scouts) came gal-
loping back bo camp with the news
that the Moors were coming in
•force, .
Panic will seize men in broad day-
light, but certainly there is. nothing
more favorable to its development
than the actuality or fear of an at-
tack in the small hours of the morn-
ing. The alarm, as it so happened,
was a false one, but the mischiefwas
was . done. Suddenly,•instantane-•
ously, like the dropping of a great
black pall, 'fear fell upon us, and
these hard bitten, reckless devils of
the Foreign Legion broke and scat-
tered.
I dare _ say to the mind of many
a reader there will spring a picture
of a disordered, yelling mob run-
ning this way and that, but the pic-
ture, if conceived, would be false.
If one can lay a finger on any sa-
lient characteristic_ of panic, it is
that panic-stricken men do not run.
They walk; or rather stumble along,'
heedless of whither 'they are going,
so long at it is away from the
enemy. Also, men in the grip of a
nameless fear do not cry out. Their
tongues, like their limits, are more
or less paralyzed.
When I`mee�t a man who tells me
that- he has never been afraid un-
der fire I know., him to, be a liar.
Perhaps, in one's first engagement,
the novelty' and excitement of the
o•ecasion •oounterbalance fear, But
I am certain that the oftener a man
goes into action the more he- is
afraid, and it is morale, 'discipline
and, above all, the fear of being ex-
posed, as a coward, that keeps him
from running away.
Another curious .characteristic of
panic is the fact that, though the
retreating Wren may be fired into
and hustled they will not retaliate..;
In fact, they seem to wish ` to be
killed, and during a debacle ` one
might say that every man'hangs out
a placard on his back of "Please
shoot me I„
Eighteen miles did the Foreign
Legion stumtble"across the desert,
though no 'enemy pursued. ' Then,
as suddenly as it had come, fear left
them and: they pulled up, ashamed
to look at their officers, ashamed to
at themselves.
What ,stops a pane 4 It is hard.
to say.' `As often as not, it goes as
mysteriously, as inexplicably as it
came. It may be said, however,
that it is `always the officers who
save , the sit>,, ation, beating and
taunting the men into manhtod;
gain.
During the last Zulu war the late
Lord'Bill Beresford came Upon a
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Tommy who had a bad attack of
funk and was cowering behind a
rock, Beresford looked ant him and
then said: "Your poor) dear old
mother would the proud if she could
seeyou, wouldn't she "
With a snarl the man leapt to his
feet, rushed into the thickest of the
fray, and fought like a tiger'suffer-
ing from toothache.
Of all fighting men the British
b'luejaoket or soldier is the least li-
able to panic. Still, even he does
not always escape, although, in an
experience as, a war correspondent
which embraces nineteen campaigns
and 29 pitched •battles, I have only
once eeen the•°British Tommy 'thor-
oughly and utterly demoralized,
• This was at the battle, of Tamai,,
when through a blunder .for which
General Sir Gerald Graham, V.O.,
Chivalrously assumed a ;responsibil-
ity that was not his, the leading
square was ambushed.
It was so neatly trapped that be-
fore anything could be done, there
were 3,000 of the enemy inside the
square. Then the amen began to
give.
There was no.shouting, no run-
ning, but just a, confused, •strag-
gling, aimless walk or roll, to no-
where in particular. This last -ed
for seven or eight minutes, and then
a trifling incident, caused the cord
of fear to snap: like a: fiddle string.
A. wounded Tommy, downin the
sand, had, got hold of a -Dervish.
round the legs in such a, manner
that "the latter could not use his`
spear. Some, of the men, catching
sight of the struggle called to the
others to turn and watch it. In a
few seconds the square was station-
ary and facing inwards, ,wattehing a
duel. -
Slowly, pertinaciously, hanging
on like a ulldog, .;tlhe. Tommy -a
very powerf ul man—dragged ` the
Dervishdown, stretched him across
his keee and broke bis back in two.
Cheer after cheer greeted the
feat, and then the late Bennet Bur:
Leigh lifted up a most unmusical
voice and bellowed forth "Rule
'Britannia,"
That did it. Yell after yell of Ho-
meric ' laughter burst from the
ranks, Then came silence --a grim,
terrible Bilenee, as the men spat
on their- hands and wentto the bay-
onet killing. Of the 3,000 or more
Derviathes inside th,esquare not one
casae out alive ; but for about ten
minutes it had been . touch-and-go
with Tommy Atkins.
was in the first battle of El Teb,
when Valentine Baker Pasha's
force of 0,000 Egyptians and some
300 European' was out to pieces.
Over 4,800 Egyptians were slain,.
while I was one of the six survivors
out of 300 Eurapeans. The ill -form-
ed square broke at the -first Bedouin
onslaught and then ensued a hor-
rible, panic-stricken procession
back to the sea.
The enemy hung on for two or
three miles, cutting, slasihing, kill
ing at will, for, as I have , said,
characteristically of panic, the 'men
made no effort to• defend them-
selves.
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Women el; !Jives ,t o Brill °•fro(i(tic's" to Soldiers in, 'trrenchtts.
nt�,r t ,-ra.. n, ,., .r>�M.o .r Y ' t t s' a r' soldiers
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•v , l 1 al t .,t..t.....,itb .r:°tz walnuts'. trh., Belgian .,go�,cliers in the tree,.^..te,e
ween Duffs!! 4t .cl Lierr.' wh.! the rsseek by the Germans on Antwerp was raging.
In this Armageddon there will ba!
panics,
Personally, I think the Lattia#1
races will be the first to oraok un-'
der the strain, . At the same time,.
no rase has •a monopoly of panic'
for none escapes our common rheritw
age of fear, only some men have the'
panic sence ;more highly developed..
What about the Teuton The
German soldier may either set an
example of moral -stamina or he
may prove to be overtrained and,
stale and, therefore, 11alble to the
sudden onrush of senseless fear.
One thing, hotwever, T can assert;
with confidence ; If ;there be a mast'
on earth who is impervious to panic
—who can avert it or stay it once it
has developed, then that man is the•
British officer, naval or military.
Except in his own petty or non-
commissioned officers, the British
officer is unapproached in the hold
he has over himself.
KEEN -EYED' K. OF K.
Interesting Anecdotes of the Great'
Soldier.
Anecdotes of Iaord Kitchener of
Khartum—K. of IL, as he is popua,
laxly 'called by the English—have
been going• the rounds of the icor-'
eign and ;the American newspapers
since the outtbreak of the war in
Europe. $ome.are new, and more'
old; some credible; and more ins:
credible. One of tthe most popular
is that of- the hairpins—of which
there are almost as many versions
as there are pins in a lady':s hair:,
The ori final version, however,
seems to be that brought from
South Africa at the 'time of thfl
Boer Was by a lively young French
journalism Mona, Jean Cariere of
the Paris Matin. Acooreliing to him,
a dandy Britiish .odicer, with an un-•
fo.r+tunatterly effeminate taste in
trifles, one.day cameto Lord Kitch-
ener bringing a, fine lawn kandkeie.,
chief upon which, in compliance,
'With a fashionable fancy of the ono-'
,m•ent, he desired to obtaitn,the gen
er:ixl's aurboggr�aph: '
K. of K. took ;the handkerahief,i
turned it over, turned it round,'
carefully inspected its quality, and
inquired:
"This is doubtless your sister's
handkerchief ;
('IYo" replied the officer, "tt'gs
mine,
"Ah," echoed Kitchener, "ib is
yours I"
And he handed it back; without
writing upon it, inquiring as he did
so, "And what kind of hairpin's do
you wear 1"
If the story is. not true, it is at
least invented in �harmlony with the
.known oherracterisrties of -K, of K.,'
who despisers fripperies, and affects-)
tions. Mrs, E•rakine, wife of one of!
his former officers, tells how, at'
Prertor'ia•, he one dayo�b•served a
young lieutenant sporting a mono -
ole
"Does, your eyesight .recludre you
to Wear thab1" he inquired,
"Itt does," replied the y>o;ung
man, hastily,
"Then report to -morrow ;morning
o the line of communications," or-
dered Lard Kitchener, 'crisply. "1
do not require men with poor eye-
i•
nt headquarters,"
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K. of K.. d.espistes :self-tadizertising,
and has never sought popularity,
When he oan, he weaves lionizing;
and he appears to care nothing far
e applause and approval of the
ublic, except so far as it helps him
o carry ,on his work. But' his ob-
ervantt eye discriminstes as keenly
s in other things between the • real
aaad the artificial in popular re
awn: llrs: Erskine cava ribes hgow,
lifter an elabortaSe, .function in his
honor, at which a pompons master
f cr°•rernon ee lied .delivered a veer-
ose eulogy heifer e• a distinguished •
omp:any (boring. hire most fright-
ully), she anrcl'her httsbancl return-
tg home on horseback in his c.oni-
any. • On the way they passed ,a
shabby ice-cream cart, the side,; of
vhichy were _decorated with ' Chea:pi.•
thograprhs of Queen Victoria, the
rinds of Wales, `end Ki•bahen•cr,j.
C. 'of X. learned, •endclonly forward
n
Pulsing, flecked life own dusty,
•nri:rait with the tip of his riding
.hip, and declared s
"'Miele, and that Only is. frzrn.e."
Tor",lt l.11m Prisoner.
A story is told of ,a British 8,61
ler in' Belgium, His colonel, obs
erving him one nm,orning wending'
is way to camp with a fine rooster
1 his arms, stopped hien to know
her had b•ern g chickens
No, eolant'l, ' n tts rho reply ; "1} t _t v lis old fellow Sitting on
tall, and I.cordered him to
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