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| FOR W HOME | 1 Recipes for the Kitchen. « X Mysfene and Other Notes 1 9 for the Housekeeper. a e « ^•©•©•••©•©e®«©eO*©««e WITH THE COOKS. Boiled Sponge Cake--Boil one cup of sugar and one-half cup of wai until it threads and pour on to 1 beaten yolks of five eggs, beat; Constantly meantime. Then ' bowl into cold water and continue beating until the mixture is cold, adding th* grated rind and juice oi Beat the whites oi I he 1 dry « second time. Cut and fold half whites into tho yolk mixture, then the Hour and lastly the other half of the whites. Bake in an ur.greased tube pan about 50 cool in tho inverted pan. Sponge cake made by any recipe is liable to be tough if the mixture be beaten after the flour is added. Incorporate the flour and eggs with as -few mo-Brown Bread--Stir throo cups of boiling water into a quart of Indian meal. When lukewarm, add a pint of rye meal, one cup of mo-two yeast cakes softened in half a cup of lukewarm water, a teaspoon-ful of salt and enough lukewarm water to mix stiff with spoon. Let stand in an iron brown bread pan until light. Put into oven at usual temperature for bread. After half an hour cover closely and bake slowly two or three hours. Orange Loaf Cake--Cream thoroughly one-half cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar ; add the beaten yolks of three eggs, one quarter teaspoonful of salt and one-half of tho grated rind of an orange. Beat in alternately one-half cupful of strained orange juice and one rup-ful and a half of sifted flour, then add one slightly heaping teaspoonful of baking powder and the stiffly beaten whites. Bake in a loaf in a moderate oven and when cold ice with a water icing made with powdered sugar and orange juice. Oyster Soups and Stews--Of oyster soups and stews there are many, Some consisting wholly of oysters, others of oysters and milk, or oys- been hardened, the temperature should be lowered, so as to keep the ;r just simmering, no more. If kept boiling at a high temperature, as is done in most cases, the meat is hardened from without, inwards and fuel wasted. All salt meats should be put on in cold gently simmered. As applied to vegetables, boiling attempts to soften cellulose, and render it tender and digestible ; burst the envelopes of starch grains and to convert the starch into dextrine. For this reason all vegetables should be put on in boiling salted water. All vegetables contain salts and other soluble matter, for which they are valued, and unle water in which they are cooked is used for stock (except the from potatoes) we lose a great deal of their most useful substance. HINTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. Molasses cakes i and i yster soups should ba thickened and oyster stews should not be is inexplicable, since other aoups are usually thin, while stews are thickened, but this seems to be tho common practice. Tho thickening may be fine cracker crumbs or flour blended with butter. Ft* a household where part of the family do not caro for oysters but do tho broth, one measure of oyster two of milk is a safe proport The milk should be heated doublo boiler and thickened and oysters parboiled meantime in their own juice till plump. Then combine, ed tablespooi r, three eggs, in the double md flour, " into the boil-l ten yolks of the eggs. >s of the eggs until md fold them lightly, ittered dish, place the good to make when eggs aro scarce, when children want lunches and the weather is cold. The various cakes into which molasses enter are hearty, toothsome, economical and made he creaming and beating that go in preparing of sugar cakes for the oven. They do not require nice clarified drippings or pork "fryings" being better than Gray linens are to be worn a good deal this season, and it is well to remember that hay tea will preserve the color in washing them. Salt prevents the colors from running in black and white prints and keeps black hosiery from fading brown. A correspondent says a cold boiled potato makes a fairly good substitute for a mucilage. You will be much surprised to see how two pieces of paper will stick together when the edges are rubbed with the potato. quickest and best cement broken china is made by stirring the white of an egg thick with plaster of Paris and unslacked lime. It must i used at once as it will not keep. ENGLISH "WELSH RABBIT." Things are not always what they 3em, for it appears that Welsh; rarebit is not Welsh at all, but Eng-The Welsh dish is simply toasted cheese. The old English rab-de according to the following recipe : Grate a pound o cheese on a coarse grater. Put e lump of butter into your chafing When half melted sprinkle the cheese lightly. Have ready 1 yolk of an egg whipped light, with half a glass each of Madeira and al If the Madeira is omitted, double the quantity of ale. Grate into this one-quarter of a nutmeg and add dash of cayenne. When the cheese begins to melt stir it steadily, ing very gradually the wine and egg mixture till it is quite smooth. Servo on hot toast. FOREIGNERS GROW RICH. STRANGERS FIND FORTUNE WITHIN BRITAIN'S GATES. A Russian's Plea for a Man Who Robbed Him--Prosperous At Clerkenwell Sessions. London, there recently appeared in the witness box a Russian named MilhoS. He came to give evidence against an Englishman whom the police had arrested in tho act of breaking into his warehouse in the Commercial Road. But so far from wishing to punish the offender, Mr. Milhoff desired strongly that the man might be let off. He explained that he had begun life in Russia, his native country, but that there oppressive laws had rendered his industry una" " ing. Thirty years ago he came England, took out his naturalization -papers, and under free British institutions had prospered excoed-irgly as a tobacconist, says London Answers. The prisoner was tho first Englishman who had even ATTEMPTED TO ROB gratitude t the i 1 off. to testify by getting There are to-day in Britain many other prosperous foreigner; bear similar witness to the benefits of British rule. One celebrated is Sir Ernest Cassel, hose gift of a great fortune flght consumption has recent brought his name before the publi born in Cologne, where h f .ther was a small banker. But the irevailing poverty of Germany hose days prevented any possibility >f making a fortune in his natP" land, so at the age of sixteen, h father sent him to England, where he obtained a situation as clerk Liverpool office at something than £1 per week. Three years later he got a chance to come to London. There his cleverness shone out, and he helped to extricate his fii a very awkward financial cri never looked back. It was engineered the amalgamation of the Vickers and Maxim firms, restored the finances of Argentina, greatest stroke of all--financed the building of the enormous Nile dams which will give NEW LIFE TO THE. oldest of countries. Everything he has touched has succeeded, and the once friendless German clerk friend of kings, and one attained edsewhere. A curious thing lat his native land is now de-lighttx! to welcome* him. He is a FRIEND OF THE KAISER, whose -portrait in enamel he has lately made. The only layman who ever occupied the pulpit in Westminster Ab-;y was a foreigner, whom England ould never have been able to claim i a citizen but for the quick recog-ition of his talent by the Univer-ty of Oxford. Max Muller came to Oxford in 1846 to study some old Eastern manuscripts in the Ashmo-lean Library. He intended to stay two months. He ended by remaining fifty-four years. Oxford made him Taylorian Professor, and he well repaid his debt to us by writing books, which Hindu natives know better to-day than most of their own authors, and by telling us more of the East than most Englishmen have ever known. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1896, and was for years a personal friend of the king. So, too, was Sir Charles Halle, who wa3 driven out of France by the Revolution of 1843 and took refuge with us. His talent was recognized by Manchester, where he FIRST CONDUCTED HIS orchestra at the exhibition of 1857. Our Queen was his pupil, and he was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1888. There are many other instances. Austria gave us the great sculptor, Sir Edgar Boehin, who became a naturalized Briton in 1865 and is famous for his discovery of terra-cotta as a materia] for making busts. Marconi's first Experiments in wireless telegraphy were made not in Italy, his native land, but between Penarth and Weston, in England Dr. Barnardo, Maxim, Montefiore, and /nany other names could be quoted of which other countries gret the loss, while we have been the gainers of useful and distinguished l the v DELARET A GREAT LEADER Instances of His Keen Military Insight.--Got Away When. Cronje Was Trapped. It Was a characteristic act of Commandant Deiarey that he sent his fallen antagonist back to Klerks-.dorp to be attended to as soon as he found that Gen. Mcth >ved. The almond o and let the bat pans two-thirdsRf again and bake COOKING, i a cooking l changed a developed istly cooking plays ut part in the destri ■sites and germs of d lling like coagulating a surface 1 of a'bumen, and thus cooking meat, in a vessel of its own skin, heat being supplied in this case hot water. Albumen is partly soluble in water, and to preve of substa ice in this way, watt be boiling before the meat is and the boiling point will bo. renewed ii * little suet is After tfre cwrftice of ths mi The great business of Renter, without which half the newspapers of the world would be useless, could never have come into existence without the help of British freedom. Julius do Renter, its founder, first attempted to open his news agency in his native land, Germany. Political influences were immediately brought to I w II ' 1 is ill o t papers to receive it" At that time-- fifty years ago--not one nation in Europe would allow telegraph lines to cross their frontiers. They had, one and all, stopped them several miles from their borders. Reuter made an attempt to bridge the difficulty by the use of carrier pigeons. The German and French Govern- STOPPED HIS ENTERPRISE. At last he to England, less and forlorn, in 1851, and opened a small office in London. He began by supplying news to commercial agencies and Stock Exchange ) 10 Years. | speculators. Very soon the news- papers found what a man was among Cliem and asked him for news. Within a few years his_ name became the household word it is today. It was Reuter who got the news of Lincoln's assassination a couple of weeks before the rest of Europe. Among his scoops were the capitulation of Napoleon, the disaster of Majuba, and many other historic incidents. He became "a naturalized Englishman and when he died he left this country the nerve centre E the telegraphs of the world. The interesting articles on Russia t the "Encyclopedia Brit.imiic.i" nd in "Chambers' Encyclopedia" for a child of 8 ! ar0 both from the pen of a distin-■ards 'of' material I guished Russi -ards 27 inches country drove gave slielier. Baikalia, and the recipient, of a gold medal for his adventurous exph tions in Asia in 1872. The pi hands of a live British General was not calculated to disturb the clear judgment of this remarkable descendant of the old French Huguenots and lead him into personal re- A record of the strategy and tactics of J. H. Deiarey, the prosperous landowner and leader of the burghers of Lichtenburg for many years throw back attackers, as had been successfully done in the Kaffir wars. Deiarey said : No; they will assume that we are the kopje. Let us go somewhere He had his way at Magersfontein, when he moved the Boer front line forward and to the left into the long, low bank of roughflat, away from the big hill, and thereby trapped the Highlanders. Heiw right he was may be judged by the fact that Lorel Methuen poured lyddite all the previous afternoon on tho hillside, where it subsequently appeared there was nobody. Again when Gen. French struck round to the east for the relief of Kimberley, Deiarey was against Cronje's plan of falling back along the Modeler, and the Lichtenburg man got his commando away north to Boshof, taking with him the big-gun that had been turned against Methuen's camp at the Modder for the previous two months. He also got away the Boer siege guns outside Kimberley and took them all up to his new base WITHOUT A CASUALTY. His habitually accurate reasoning led to Delarey's being frequently taken away from his western Trans-vaalers to devise positions for other Boer leaders. Since the British occupation of the railway line and the stretching out of the block house system have made personal meetings among the Boer leaders more difficult, he has remained in the western Transvai of which--excepting the towns--he still practically master. He is a humane, companionable man, not at all cynical, otherwise his release of Methuen might hsi been accompanied by the expressi of an earnest wish that they uiij again meet soon in battle. Before the war Deiarey was leader among tho liberal Transva ers, and not on very cordial ter with the Pretoria Government, is. an older man tha.n Christian De Wet or Louis Botha, is as deeply ligious as his Huguenot forbears t has great personal influence among the country Boers, who in the west of the Transvaal include a large proportion of men of his race. AN HOUR WITH UNCLE SAM HOW THE BUSY YANKEE SPENDS THE DAY. >me Interesting Matters of Moment and Mirth Gathered From His Doings. - peae~, ------- r. bbosi. -j'biable ,m students of waif. mid ] CHILD'S FRENCH DRESS ludLU dress known as uits little girls to the height of pre-lho very pretty exam-lade of nainsook with mining of fine needle-worn with a ribbon ashable materials are riate, while cashmere, tross and simple silks vogue for the heavier mlar i joined j sorting Tin:a: < , but 1 I ges the Czar ag. , was seized, and 1 l the taps, and I j ii thai ing England. Here 1 the ■ scientific South i struggle. But apart from a v erenius that recalls the per-of his ancestral ; French Re-, there is another side to De- i the f " irey as When the Boers struck their first blow in the western campaign by capturing the British armored train on the Mafeking ling and occupying Vryburg the Boer operations were directed by Deiarey. When Vryburg which lies out in the flat wholly unsheltered and was an easy capture, found itself without a constituted government, the neutrals began help themselves freely to the household furniture of the British dents, who had hurried south Cape Colony. DELAREY HIMSELF moved south with his Lichtenburg commando, collecting burghers as h went, and held the railway south c Kimberley. But as soon as he learn ed that proceedings which were no in accord with his sense of the ar of war had followed the Boer oc cupation, he ordered every stick c property in Vryburg to be^ returne set up a municipal system which wa found working in perfect order eight months afterward, wheii whelming 1 Boer die Ti The bank n the present 1 reoccupation had worked 1 any kind ;a porized go-s This season the yielded an albino four albino deer, bino squirrels. The insurance c 3 woods have PEOPLE GREAT AND SMALL Characteristics and Peculiarities of Some Well Known Personages. Baroness BurdetVConits is supplied with rarliawvw.'ary blue books nd carefully reads thoso that con-iru philanthropic interests. The Sultan of Turkey annually ives away a great many presents, tost of which are- made in a, special orkshop in Constantinople, where fty workmen are kept employed. Sir Henry Irving possesses a wonderful Shakespeare library, which of almost all the editions ever been published of the works of the great dramatist, as well as all volumes of criticism upon Lord Goschen says that his father ime over to England from Germany ith one friend and one half-crown, and that he was obliged to start the banking firm, which has since become so famous, because he wrote such a bad hand that i iploy Queen decessors ter of dr. hats and Portugal is i ! thro lany < i the r bonnets, and has had a fitted up in the royal Lisbon, to which the lab-la n fashions are brought The Mikado of Jcpan, a man of much energy and endurance, is very fond of outdoor sports, and has warmly encouraged the introduction of football into Japan. Ho is a hunl tion, and is a good shot with a rifle. His devotion to lawn tennis is also marked. Mr. Asquith elates the commencement of his brilliant career from a certain dinner given by the "Eighty" Club to Mr. Gladstone, when the power and eloquence of the young and delight to the famous who was satiated with the verbose platitudes of ambitious young politicians. Mr. Henry Scott Tuke, the clever A.R.A., is a young looking, dark moustached man of forty-three, who follows his beloved art under singularly happy conditions at Falmouth. His days are devoted to the sea, either in painting it or sailing stolen for a spin on his bicycle or for his hobby of stamp collecting. That King " lii.1 ' iig- iompanies ha mt their losses by the recent Paterson will not be less than $3,000,000. , t ^ I The highest of the noted health rel sorts of California are in the Sail Jacinto Mountains, at an elevation of 8,000 and 9,000 feet. Lake 'Superior is the deepest of the great lakes. Its greatest, depth is 1,003 feet, and the lake is 601 feet above tho level of the sea. National banks in Chicago hold larger amounts in deposit at the present time than they ever showed before in their published statements. It is expected by the management of the New Jersey Central that about May 1st hourly service be-York and Philadelphia dent once occurred at Marlborough House which well illustrates the keen sense of humor possessed by his Majesty. A great ceremony was taking place, when some journalists called to ask if they could be present. The he'weis Prince of Wales at the time-- who replied : "Certainly, show them ' the door they'll get i widow of the blind Pos .biy i liis polit She i i of e 1 be c There fishing •iter after the British e a perfect model, and appear that there is a anding private claim of i Vryburg when i were the half ie Bechuanaland Deiarey con- to RUSSIAN SCHE •HUNG OUT OF ' t Sandy Macdone ut those ,o take the tn When they wer-i none had any lal regard t til they i pers j. H. Deiarey . De La Rey--is a medium-s slight build. His head and feature are large and his complexion look pale against his FULL BLACK BEARD. He'i u-y mentalit inly i i of e , but he looks 3iit who occupied the ad been his quarters of Bloemfontein. •uled Piet To of" fight-sides and fron-lanzes using the ier positions to 10,000 men engaged in ie great lakes, and the ested is $6,000,000. vessels engaged is 208, and of small boats 3,300. The contractor has done half the iigging for the tunnel in New York it a cost of $13,750,000, and the mgineers expect that the remainder >f the excavating will be completed Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, wife of .he president. of the United States Steel Corporation, has 1 ravelled ex-:ensively* and has a large and valuable collection of miniatures, of which she is an enthusiastic collee:- y sToO.OOoT to\be urunce money in • ii with the old S church, Edinbui deal. It"was in March, 1857, that th Duke of Devonshire was elected t represent. North Lancaster in Parlia ment, so that his Grace, who recent )y entered upon his sixty-ninth year has been concerned in political lif for forty-four years. His record c office is a remarkable one. In 186 lie served first as a Lord of the Ad ment of 1868 he office of Postmi Irish Secretary ; n leader' of the Lib 1.880 ho became S. and afterwards ret Office. In 1895 he sielent of the Com orial t Iir. Episcopal ho attended se -as a student i urgh. The latest statistics of the coir ion schools for colored children i the United States are :--Negro chr of school age, 2,912,910: mm ber of these enrolled in schools, 1, 511,618; average daily attendance 969,011 ; number of colored teach 28,560. bronze tablet : b-h r lav- body < i people. Tho m .-en by elect ricily, winnowed by f in state the y, President , September i the crushed Owing to the depleted condition of the city treasury Chicago is threatened with an epidemic of typhoid fever. According to a recent bulletin of the Health Department there has been no sower-flushing rain in the city since last October. In November sewer-flushing was suspended for lack of funds. johnny'S RE IMPOSSIBLE. "Do you think she's "So Alice has decided finally to marry an officer?" "Yes, she captured him in what she positively der clares to be her last engagement/*-