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Dari Cakeâ€"Cream one half 0111) Of sweet. waxy butter, add to it gradu- ally one cup of finest granulated su- gar, beating all the time, then add the iOkS of two eggs well beaten, then flit-quaner teaspoonful of mace, one- {1-1.1 unlawful each of cinnamon and 1.0%. one-half teaspoonful of orange --0\\'t:l‘ \VLlLCI‘. Mix well, then add ghfiiuurtcr cup 1molasses, beating ‘5111g1111.'l‘o two and one-quarter we oi sited pastry flour add one And one 11:11 i want teaspoonfuls 0f b"ii-58 10“ war add this with one-half ml) of {11 ll: to the above mixture and 53: I ‘1 xery smooth. Last of all, :8 the wih tee of the two eggs tili 1 amfl aky; then mix all together ‘add 0111» 111p currants which have 5:911 “1: med and dusted WLth flour- ’3 “‘J VUC buy U1 I 81!, hearing all t :oiks of two egg 0fit-quarter teas; “if teaswonful ”‘9 one-half t 50““ WuLer. :.5 0i: NORTHERN FLOWERS.; is :‘ne. highest color of the floral; 31M. and is preferred by bees. Blue Hers are, as a. rule, highly special- 3d both in form and color, and often ssess murxelous mechanisms which 1:11 disseminating the pollen. This *Oring is \ei'y common in" the mint Kl L'mse families, and in this district lens are in the former 49 and in the tter 61 species of blue flowers. Their tucture is. such that few insects be- .“5 tue lmigtongued bees can gain ‘5 ,\ it“: cLOVE ECONOMY. TWO CAKES. a Cakeâ€"Sieve together on a ' sheet of paper two and 3. us of soda flour and the same of plain flour. Also, place three-quarters pounds of the yr and three pounds of pul- .uguz‘ in a large mixing bowl, d mom the oven stock to get In the meantime break forty 0 a: bowl, making sure that r and thumb of the other they are quite down; never em the fingers; pass the ) its place with care, and h the fingers; turn back the slide it over the hand and r pinching the kid, and work we proper place by means £51; pressure, always allow- i to slide between the fin- Terily fresh. The tins for mum Lhen ‘be prepared by Heel) round six-inch cake paper and standing them us. All having been thus gmoceed to prepare the but- ;u‘ in the usual way, addiug is on Griddle; Cakes -- First 5 important of all, is 3 soap- :‘iddle. It should never be I: should be. hot enough to z; the batter touches it.‘Pour r from: a pitcher to prevent .3 :lys insist upon getting me or two sizes smaller 11: to be, in spite of the -fitting gloves will wear and really look infinitely when, as a famous acad- said, the fingers are made .m-lny sausages. It would‘ lare that not one woman ha; 5 gloves large enough probably not another out yier will be wise enousgh Dough to give the gloves 3. near. We can fall back report for the calculation Ll; musty-ass through 2-19 .nipulations before it be- and L118 320th is often unto the first stage of a in a boa constrtctor. u-z's and gratltous pow- Ltl»: help, unless they are nuscul-lr moderation, and y; prevenung spllt gloves .uve wearers what should not be done w1th new )V‘ IfL may insure intercrossing, mm to many objections, such 3 0f preper guests, mecham- {. S‘ V I ections, perforation of the bees, and development 0f .81 at the expense of the es- gens. sing. care should be taken the first button. too much to hope that er be brought to. wear .zh for them. They will "m. but: not too hot, put a m; and two tablespoonfuls 1 molasses in this, then stir :wbeat flour until it is just gh 23 run off the spoon. we honey, and in some in- »ilgle species of flower is single kind of bee, as one burs by one of the bumble- le this high specialization MESTIC RECIPES. 's Buckwheat Cakesâ€"Take f«_“1ukewarm” water, or a. er of putting on gloves urn back the gloves to gm der lightly; put the places, no: the thumb, ork them on with the Have ready dissolved, one-quarter cake of compressed yeast in a little' warm water. gddothig to_t_he_ mixture, them set to rise in the kitchen near the fire, it it is freezing cold; unless very cold let it: stand on the table. In the morning add. a little bit of soda about what can be held on the point of a penknife; Stir and. let stand until ready to fry. Flannel Cakesâ€"One pint of flour, one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of sugar, one-half tablespoonful of melted but- ter, one egg beaten separately, three- quarter pin-t of sweet milk and; one- half beaspoonful of salt; mix flour, baking powder, sugar and salt togeth- er; then: stin in the butter, eggs and milk, adding the whites of the eggs last. Corn Frittersâ€"One pint of flour one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, one-half. teaspoonful of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of melted; butter, one egg well beaten, three-quarter pint of sweet milk, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, and. one can of corn or 31x ears grated. Corn Meal Griddle Cakesâ€"One-half texacu-pful of corn meal, one-half tea- cup of flour, two eggs, one-quarter beaspoonful of sugar, one-eighth tea- spoonful of soda, and a little salt. Take the cup of corn meal and cover it with emough warm water to wet the meal and allow it to swell over night, next morning add the cup of flour, a pinch of salt, the: yolks of the; two eggs, ,3 lump of butter half the size of an egg, the sugar and- the soda wet in milk; then enough sweet milk to thin them. Add the whites of the eggs well beat- en last. MOTH AND FLAME. Moths fly against the candle flame because their eyes can bear only a small amount of light. When, there- fore, they come within the light of a candle their sight is overpowered and their vision confused, and as they can- not distinguish objects, they pursue the light itself and fly against the flame. One of These Dal-lug Men Describes the Closest Shave lie Ever "ad. The diver’s greatest danger, says ai writer in Chamber’s Journal, is the: air-pipe on which he depends for at supply of oxygen. The writer gives an! experience of his own, which he styles; the “ closest shave” he ever had. The: gates of a lock had been repaired.1 and he had gone down to see that all was finished satisfactorily. With twenty feet of dirty dock water above him, he felt the great gates, each many tons in weight, which were to be shut while he was down, in order that he 'might see whether all worked well. He says: \Vhen ready I sent up the signal, :and in a few moments felt the gate . upon which my hand rested be‘gin slow- 1y to move. It was not long before I _ realized that I had made aserious mis- take. As soon as the huge masses were in motion I was gently lifted off my feet Most by the swirl of water in the narrow fitted t lock, and -irresistibly sucked toward of vege the meeting point of the gates. I made the lat] vigorous efforts, by clutching at and with a; pressing against the gate surface, tot A very save myself from being carried along, ing she for once between the gates I must he! follows crushed to death. On I went, however . into the rapidly narrowing gap, but 011.83.“? fortunately 1 went through it, al‘IWIthln though the gates were so nearly clos-‘ lar wal ed that, as I passed 1111011311: I felt 3‘1 ban in leg knock against the end of eachg g 1 gate. 1 lengthy ; Once on the other side I was pull-I boards ed up by the air-pipe tightening:or eigl against the end of one of the gates,; h 1, and was just congratulating myselfls e V68. , on my escape, when I suddenly realiz-’i from 12- ied that the pipe was still between the; Fruit gclosing masses. A death hardly 1ess'iof rats Ehorrible, and certainly more dra“n!sor-tin-g :now threatened me, for with the Pipe! begins gcrushed flat I should be a prisoner matter Zuntil smothered for lack of air. ; .ple rui i I had no knife or I could have cut; it does gthe pipe, slipped off my weights, and sides, t trusted to the chance of a shoot uD- en out, ' ward. . ‘ __ n“ many \ Charlie, dear, said the young moth- er, I’ve decided on a name for baby. \Ve will call her Imogen. Papa was lost in thought for a few minutes. He did not like the name, but it he opposed it his wife would have her own way. " Av ,,,,,, t ‘r_ That’s. Hi6; He" said, presently, My first sweetheart was named Imogen, and she willutgke It. as a compliment. unfi’cvgill- £2311 her Mary, after my mo- ther. was the stern reply. A DIVER’S ESCAPE. W'ISE FATHER. APPETIZIN G RATION S. Whatever makes the feed taste bet- ter or makes it more enjoyable to the cow, increases its value for milk pro- duction. Early 'cut hay is best for the dairsr cow not only because it contains more protein than that out late, but because its aroma and flavor make it more palatable to the cow. The appe- tizing effect from the early cutting and careful curing of all forage crops, increases their feed value for milk pro- duction. Freshly harvested and fresh- lyl ground grain is the most palatable to the dairy cow, and will give best results. Dairymen who grind feed, should grind often, as grain that has lost its freshness is not the best relish- ed by the cow. 3 Often the . dairyman has a large! quantity of coarse, rather unpalat-‘i a{ble fodders, such as corn fodder and over-ripe or slightly damaged hay, which he must feed, and has only a lim- ited quantity of choice roughness to feed with it. In this case, best results can be secured by giving the more. pa- latable roughness in the morning or with the grain night and morning and feeding the poorer roughage as the last feed at night, or else: put in racks in the yard for midday meals. Palat- a,ble feed in the morning gives acou- tented cow through the day, and this contentment gives more _milk. W’hen several kinds of feed are giv- en' it gis usual to throw them together into the manger and let the ooweat at will. This method does not secure the highest milk yield. You do not want your. soup and pie served togeth- er, on’ the same plate, and neither does the cow like this method of serving her food. If all the feed stuffs for a meal are thrown together, the more palatable are eaten first. In separat- ing and eating these, the others are “mussed” over, and when the cow comes to ea.t them, they do not taste good and she will not eat enough to produce the greartest milk yield. We like to \feed our most palatable rough- ness and give this just before the milk- ers. go to their meal. \Vhen the milk- ens come back from eating, the cows have finished 'their first feed, and the less palatable roughness can then be given to them. It will not then have been slobbered on, and will be etter relished and more of it eaten. This method of feeding requires time and care, but it pays. If the cows are given their rough feed in racks, out of doors, it will pay to put feed in these racks often, so that the feed will be clean and ap- petizing. Mangers, feed-troughs and racks should be kept clean and fresh from old, soiled feed, both as a matter of health and because the food in a clean manger smells and tastes bet- ter. UV... The dair'yman’s rule ‘should be to havest feed in its most palatable form and feed in the most appetizing man- ner. STORING FRUITS AND VEGETA- BLES. .l Most farm cellars are not properly fitted up for the convenient storing of vegetables, and apples, especially the latter. Rats make terrible work with apples if they can get to them. A very good arrangement is ahang- ing shelf or bin, which is made as follows: Nail strips of boards six in- ches wide and long enough to come within two and a half feet of the cel- lar wall. Two or three pairs of these hanging shelves are placed across or lengthwise of the cellar, upon them boards are laid, with sides and ends six or eight inches high. Upon these shelves apples 3 from the basket. Fruit thus placed is out of reach of rats and is conveniently. located for sorting over at any time when decay begins to be. seriousâ€"a. very important matter to attend to, as one rotten ap- ple ruins ’the flavor of its neighbor if it does not induce further decay. Be- sides, those partly decayed can be tak- DLUUD, buvw rutâ€"- V‘J “' vv'd en out, using the sound portion in sol many ways known to the frugal house- keeper. If stored in abin or barrel in the usual manner this weeding outl of the damaged ones is quite imprac-S ticable, unless they be dumped out upon the cellar bottom. If you have room for only a small shelf, erect it and fill it with the early winter and late fall apples. When they are gone, fill again, with late keepers that may have been stored in barrels until this time. If the cellar is very dry, such vegetables as potatoes, carrots, beets, etc.. may be piled upon the b0ttom, as they will keep fresh and plump long- er than when placed in barrels or boxes. This hanging shelf, makes an ideal milk shelf during the summer, especi- ally where cream is raised in the common shallow pans. Simply remove ”-31 1-4-1... about eighbinches apart to set the bottom and put in a slatted bottom. This will prove an ideal milk shelf and in no danger of being troubled by rats and mice. Of course the shelves must be brazed to make the whole outfit as rigid as possible. CRIMSON CLOVER. Crimson clover is a. failure because it will not stand our cold winters! flINTS FOR THE FARMER. emptied directly Thiq statement is made by a number of farmers. We do not admit, how-i ever, that crimson clover is afailm‘e where it does not Stand the winter. Sown in July, or early August, it will if drou'th is not too severe, make a magnificent growth by the time the ground freezes up. By this growth, the roots bring up and help to make available to crops that may follow considerable mineral plant food that they could not Otherwise obtain. The crimson clover also takes much nit- ween from the air, directly or indi- rectly. Now if the crimson clover crop is plowed u‘nder in the late fall or early spring, this great store of ni- trogen and other plant food and vege- table matter in the clover is added to the soil. For fertilizing purposes elone _such a crop of crimson clover is estimated as being worth from $5 to! as high as $20 pelt acre. Some level- headed farmers who grow crimson clover on a, large scale, maintain that by plowing under crimson clover no farmer eve’r neeti spend a cent: for ni- trogen and .will' only have to buy pot- ash and phosphoric acid as a fertili- zer. The fact that this crimson clov- er ca~n be sown after early. crops are removed in July and can be plowed under in time for planting the regu- lar crops the next spring makes it indispensable wherever the soil re- quires fertilizers or humus, and this irrespective of whether the crimson clover stands the winter or not. Some Wonderful Escapes From lmmlncn Death. There used to be a story in Hawaii about a native who always took his morning dip off a point of cliff 120 feet above the surf. Naturally enough this yarn met with little belief, but, considering the distance a man can fall and yet live the Hawaii native’s {performance is perhaps not so won- derful as it sounds. Only the other day one read of Mlle. Morel, who, with her mother, fell on the Alps near Zermatt, a distance of over 1,200 feet. The first 30 feet of this W88 perpendicular, and the rest down a tremendously steep slope- Yet, though the mother was killed the younger woman escaped with mere bruises. F. S. Sutherland, late of the United States navy, has turned Steeple Jack. ahd has had in this excitlng profes- elon many wonderful escapes. While In Chicago in 1898 he climbed the wa- ter-works tower, 240 feet high. When near the top a stone gave, and he made a sheer plunge of 175 feet. He struck the telegraph wires :10 feet above the street, and landed 1n six inches of slush in the roadway: Hundifi‘eidISâ€"wofqpeggig ééw Sutberlgrjd falling, and stood spellbound W1th hor- ror. seemed inevitableâ€"nay, it was gener- ally believed that he was dead long before he reached the telegraph wires. Doctors and ambulances were sent for in the hope thataspark of life might remain; but when the doctors examâ€" ined Sutherland, they declared, much to the onlookers’ surprise, that there was little the matter with him . After seven days in hospital he was up and about again! ~ - ‘0 ! .__. Mr. W'hymper’s fall when climbing alone on the Matterhorn the year be- fore his successful ascent is well known. He bounded from rock to rock down the bottom of an almost ’Perpelndicular gully for over 300 feet. His head was badly cut, but. theoonly lasting evil effect was the impairing of his memory. - I. llnm_-_.A- â€"â€"--__-_'_ A few years ago a father attemptâ€" ed to kill his children by throwing them off the Suspension Bridge at Clifton, and one of them, agirl about eleven years of age, survived that terrific plunge. A woman, too, once reached the water below in safety, after an attempt at suicide by jumP' in-g from the same parapet. But this happened in the days of the crinoline; saved her. Most marvelous of all is the account of Charles \Voolcott’s terrific tumble from a height of no less than 3,000 feet. It was in Venezuela, and he was making a parachute descent. The parachute refused to open till within a- hundred or two hundred feet of the ground. Then it spread out suddenly, The unfortunate man crushed both ankles and both knees, broke his right thigh and hip, dislocated his spinal column, and suffered other injuries. Yet after a year in hospital, he, too, recovered sufficiently to write an ac- count of what was probably the most fearful accident mortal man ever sur- vived. PROPER QUANTITY OF FOOD. Dr. Pavy, one of the most eminent authorities upon diet, says that the average man in a state of absolute rest can live on 16 011311095 of food a day, a» man doing ordinary light work can live on 25 ounces, and a man doing lagboriou's work needs from 26 to 30 ounces. This is food absolutely free from water, and it must be remember- ed that everything we eat contains more or less water, so that from 48 “VLV V- to 6:) ounces of. drdi'nary food are ne- cesgsary accordmg to the work in which a. man is engaged. ’ AGES OF TREES. A wellâ€"known scientist furnishes some information in regard to the ages if trees. He assigns to the pine tree 500 to 700 years as the maximum, 425 yea-rs to the silver fir, and 170 to the it was the bzilloon-like expanse FALLING 3,000 FEET. A FEARFUL DEATH PURE” CANADIAN NEWS. INT ERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered from Various Points from flu Atlantic to the Pacific. Sandon, B. C., has a new Presby terian church. Nanaimo, B. C., firemen, recentl; gave a banquet. New Y. M. C. A. rooms at Orillia have been opened. A lumber company is building fl houses at Byng Inlet. Work on the new C.P.R. station 31 Rat Portage is progressing. Cheese factories are being closed after the season’s operations. Hon. F. J. Scott, formerly Attorney- General, of Newfoundland, is dead. \Valter McGibbon is President of St Andrew’s Society, St. Catharinea. James Sutherland, M.P., will erect a. new business block at Woodatock. John McQueen, of Guelph, heed hi! shoulder crushed While coupling tWG course of erection at Moose Jaw, W. T. Rev. A. T. and Mrs. Green, of Port Hope, recently celebrated their golden wedding. A. C. Howard, is president of the Prince Albert, N.W.T., Mechanics’ 111* sti‘tute. J. B. McDougall has been elected president of the Nipissing Teachers‘ Association. George Malcolm has been elected president of the Stratford St. Am drew’s Society. Brantford people talk of making a presentation to their former citizen, Hon. A. S. Hardy. Mrs. W. H. Greenway sister-inâ€"law of Premier Greenway, died recently at Crystal City, Man. Over one hundred self-binders werq disposed of in the vicinity of Moosejaw during the past season, Wm. Peter. an American lumberman. who owned a mill in Parry Sound, died at Columbus, Ohio. Mark Lazier, hailing from Bellevillo, has been sentenced to serve threc years in Auburn Prison. - The residence of Joe. Ada-ms, on the North-west road, 16 miles from Parry! Sound, was destroyed by fire. An Indian recently appeared in Van-r couver Police Court. His name was " Windy Dick, the Ball Tosser.” And‘y Grant, near Edmonton, wag found dead in a barnyard. His horses ran awa’y and he was thrown out. Mr. Knox, formerly publisher of the Ymir BC. Miner, has gone to South Africa as a correspondent of the A8~ sociaied Press. ( Mount Pleasant, B.C., Presbyterian Church has called Rev. G. A. \Vilson, of Vernon, to become its pastor. A‘ salar‘y of $1,000 is offered. Over thirty new buildings age la Prairie, has gone to spend the Winter in California. Before he left his friends gave him a gold-headed cane. C. W. Cavers on leaving St. Catn- arines, for Havana, was presented with a. travelling case by the employee of the Star office and a purse of gold by friends in the city. Theodore Ludgate, was gained so much notoriety over the Deadman’a Island scheme at Vancouver, B. C., has been granted a permit to erect mills and wharves at Seattle. in five years. B. F. Ackerman will contribute $1,000 A. Parker, $750, and Hon. Senator Cox $500. What romanticists women are! How they love to weave webs and put fell in ’eml And if, in the weaving the: can but make matyrs of themselves thl weaving is done with unusual pleasure Mothers, whose daughters are to b: married have a splendid chance at thiJ sort of business. They weep and wai and never stop to think that wha what brings happiness to us. Moth ers claim that daughters after the: are married, will never be quite th same; that their hearts are then d1 vided. Some think not. There is nothing like matrimony u give one the world in all its seriou éresponsibili‘ties, and the girl who waa 'frivolous and shalldw is as likely t5 lbecome as brainy and philosophical i lwoman as any that ever bumped int“ numerous, hardâ€"shelled problems 0 life. Then it is that the mother 1. appreciated all the more. It workso the same rule that sums up to you thj indisputable fact that a number ' never full}r appreciated by her chill dre-n until the children are parents Then they. know. The years ofi sacrificl and sweet unselfishness and constan} The heard; of a vegetarian beats 01 an average of fifty-eight to the min- ute; that of the meat eater seventy! five. This represents a difference 01 20,000 beats in twenty-four hours. WHEN DAUGHTERS MARRY. VEGETARIANS’ HEARTS.