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% fc t JbouttheHousei DO.MF.STIC nUClPES. Pork Chops with Cream^ravy.â€" Put the ch()i>s. suited, into aimfoii fryini^ pun^h(jl. but not t'i't'ascd. f^(, fry until Ihcy^'ai-t! touclicd with pli'iily of rich brown uii both sides, but don'l allow the loHn part to harden or crisp. Vou will need ti) loosen and turn lliem tro- qucnlly, and. if Ihoy are fal. pour olt part of the firea-sfc. After llicy are browned without a particle of scorch- ingâ€"which would be fatal lo the gravy- pour in a half-cup of water, cover lighllv. and turn down the gas until the water is cooked out. Remove chops, add a labltspoonful of butler, and it lliorc are .six or eight of Iheni pour in nearly a pint of rich milk. Put Imck the chops, cook a minute in the gravy, and serve. This niake.s the gravy richer and givts it more of the lluvor wliicli is --o decidedly like chicken, but if preferred, Ihe chops may be kept dry and the gravy served in n boat. Pork Chicken Picâ€" To .save time as well a.s lliu heat of the gas. prepare ti double (piantily of this meat with n SU[)erHbun(lance of the gravy when cooking it. .Scrape part of it hot from flic frying pan into your baking dish, set it away over the next day, til il with a lop crast of biscuit dough, and Imkc us you would chicken pie. Creairied f:iii(ken.â€" There arc one or two new brands of canned chicken on Iho market in which Ihe chicken is nice- ly sliced, .so that it cuts up nicely into cubes. 'i"h!s makes a good and ea.sy creauied chicken for an iuinromplu Sunday night supper, and at :!0 or Ki cfcnLs a can is cheaper than buying li whole chicken when they aie expensive. Chicken Omelet.â€" Make a plain ome- let, hut ju.sl before folding s[jread creamed chicken, well seasoned, over Uie Inn. Fold and serve. Creamed fish, asparagus, and caulillower can ht used in this way. Spanish Omelet.â€" Chop fine one green pepper from which the .seeds and stems have hten removed, two inediuin sized tomatoes, one small onion, a s[irig of parsley, three thin slices of fi'ied bacnn, and live inushroonis; add a tablespoon- ful of butter, .sea.son with salt, and sim- mer for iinetn minut;>s. Have a plain omelet mASe, spread this hot dressing over the Jlop, and fold, then pour Ihe rpniainder around the onielel before serving. Banana Pudtling. â€" Dissolve two ounce.s of sugar in a quarter of a pint of water, lo which has been added a .sfjuneze of lemon. Lei this boil for a few minutes, then put in four sliced bananas. When this has simmered for ten rnlnules mash the bananas smooth- ly with a fork or rub them through a •Sitve. Beat Ihe yolks of three eggs, and add one ounce of l.ulter. Add lo llii- the bnnana pulp and one leaspoonful of cake crumbs. Mix all well logt>thet' and put into a i)ie dish lined with rfPh pie paste, and bake In a quick oven for about 20 minutes. wiTngjCE^ Creole nice.â€" \Va.sh«i^n'(l picfr soma rice carefully, say, a third of a coffee cup, and put II in Iwo and one-half pints of rich milk; adtl a Iraco of salt and the smallest amount of sugar, so us lo sweolen .s-liglilly. Put in an oven, not loo brisk, for len miruiles, then open the oven ami stir well. Itepeat this in (Ifleen minutes. Close llie oven for any time from forty ndniiles lo nn hour and moii;, and Ihe spoon will de- termine if 11 is done. II should be .soft, but not run. A brown skin should have formed at Ihe lop. It may first be fiea.soned with ground nutmeg or slick cinnaiiion. It is then ready, hot or cold, and without sauce, for Ihe table. There an; two ways of using a part of this p\idding. One is : nice Sandwich.â€" The Creole rice may lie shaped lo a circle, in which make a The Better .Way » • 'The ^ues of the throat are inflamedgand irritated; you I codigh, and there is more irrita- tion â€" more coughing. You take a cough mixture and it eases the irritation â€" for a while. You take SCOTT'S EMULSION and it cures the cold. That's what is necessary. It soothes the throat because it reduces the irritation ; cures the cold because it drives out the inflammation ; builds up the weakened tissues because it nourishes them back to their natural strength. That's how Scott's Emulsion deals with a sore throat, a cough, a cold, or bronchitis. WE'LL SEND VOU A SAMPLE FREE. SCOTT S BOWNE, "^i^^'t^ cavity, left to stand In a cool place to b^,nrm. When so, cut in half hori/.on- tnlly. Take peach prcsei-ves, preferably last year's doing, home made, of course, and spread neatly on the lower ring. Mask well with the syrup. Pul on Ihe \i'^"er ring and ma.sk well with syrup. Pul in a cool place until serving, when cut V-shapc and serve with imllavored cream. Frozen Rico.â€" Is anollier. as this pre- paration, if it can be fitted into the la- bor of Ihe Creole rice. Is economy of material and labor. Cut the cold rico into thin slices and lay apart. Ilavo some bes.t cooking raisins Rcaldcd, Seeded, and wiped, and cut In Iwo a little crystallized fiuil. but il is not necessary, only if al hand. Pack llie sliced rice in layers with Ihe raise 'â- . in a mold lo take the quanlity, but not lighlly. Flavor a cup of Ihick cream strongly of ca.lawlia, ev(n half and half, lieing careful not lo curdle and being discreet as lo the cream and wine, so that there may not be any wasted by providing loo imich for the spaces in the rice and raisins. Pour this in until Soak to the bottom of Ihe mold and 111! lo brim. Cover and fi'eeze. il should be as hai'd as llrm iced cream and form j sparkling crystals IhroughcMil. A Q\wk Iced Cream. Whip one-half I pini of table cream sliff in n jiowl filled with rice; add a trace of .salt. .Sweelen with powdered sugar faintly, add a tablespoon of maraschino, and stir in well; also a dozen sweel almonils, nol blanched, and chopped line. Stir well and put in any moUlâ€" a tin box will do â€"and freeze. II will freozt perfectly soon. IIOUSFIIOI.D HINTS. Puller Test.â€" Take a clean piece of while paper, smear a lillle of Ihe butler on il. roll up Ihe paper, and sel it on fire. If Ihe buHei' Is pure Ihe smell will be ra.thei' pltasanl, but the odor dis- tinctly liillowy if llie butler is made up wholly (jr in part of animal fat. To I're.shen Fur.â€" .A fur that Is con- sl.anlly worn often gels vi'ry shabby- looking round the back. This can largely be prevenled by shaking il in front of a fire for a few secoruls every time afler wearing. To clean, m(asleii sawdust or bran Willi benzoline. and rub this well into Ihe fur. Shake out and repeat till it looks clean and fresh. Renieniber that benzoline must nol lic- used near a fire or light. Save washing and dusters by using old newsfiapers for cleaning. They are excellent for window polishers, firsl- rale for .scouring lin-ware, and are as good as a brush for polishing a slove. The [irudent wo^^an will always keep a good pad of newspaper at hand and u.so it for wiping up L'rea.sf or water .spilt on the gas or coal cooking-stove, for il will enable her lo ki ep Ihe slove clean wllh half the usual trouble. The best way to dean v\ liite paini is to lake a soft flannel cloth, fliii in warm water, wring out, and tlun di|) in a .saucer of clean bran. The frirUon of the bran will remove any slain willi- oul injiu'ing the paint. .Soda or strong soaji should never be used nn enamel oainl, iLs it desli'oys Ihe glo.ss .so allrac- tive in Ihe while finish. ICggs in Cakes.â€" I"or making cakes, whatever eggs are to be used should be aiided afler all the ingicdienls are well mixed, lly ob.serving this lule Iwo eggs will be found to go as fai- in enricliing Ihe cake and making il light as llu'ee would if added al an earlier stage of Ihe preparation. To Shlfen I.ace.â€" IJ.se rice starch made by throwing one ounce of rice in- to one. pint of boiling water and set it Kim'mer for five mlmiles. Strain, and wlien still warm dip in the tare. See that the fabi-ic is thoroughly saturated, .â- ^iiueeze belween the hands, and spread on a (lamiel-covered boai'd to (by. Pick out I'arefully when nearly dry, but do nol use an iron if you can avoiil II. For a Fomentation nf Poppy Heads and Catnomile I'lowcis. - Take foui' poppy heads, pour one pint and a half \ of boiling water over them, boil for seven minutes, then add two ounces of camomile llovver.s; boil for three mill- Ides longer, strain off Ihe liquor, keep] it hot, di|i pieces of llannel in, and ap- ply extern.ally lo the pari affecled. I fiood for toothache or any inflanimalory pain. Here is a .'^ubslllute for a .Sponge.â€" Make a bag twelve inches long by eight wide of cheese cloth. Pul in a large handful of wheat bran, a little pinch of 'owdered soap, and one ounce of well- bruised orris-root. Use this bag exactly as yo\i would a sponge, and place il in the air to dry each day. The bag should be refilled aboul once a week with fresh bran and soap powder; the orris-root will la.sl longer. Making dish-clolhs is excellent flicside work for the time between the lights nn winter afternoons. Very strong ones are made of ordinary bits nf siring knitted on coar.se needles. Those hav- ing a rn\igh siirface are capital for for cleaning. Coarse unlileached knil- ling cotton us pleasanter to work in, and also makes excellent dish-clolhs. When in use il is necessary thai these dish- clolhs should be washed through daily and hung in the air. and Ihal once a week they shoidd he boiled in soda water lo keep Iheni sweoL (.I.OTIIlvS ROOM CONVENIRNCR. The appninlnient of an up-lo-dato clolhfts rlo.set or wnrdrotie are a long way ahead of those in Ihe lime when ime hung her garments on nails, or possibly wooden pegs driven into Ihe wall. The first improvement on Ihe primitive nail was when a woman saved the wooden spool from her .sewing cot- ton and slipped it over Ihe nnil iK-fore it was driven, to .save her best gown from a pn.s,sible tear. Then Ihe lacquer- ed iron or brass hooks were made, and .some people depend on these yet. Small barrel hoops cul in halves, then wound wilh strips of cloth, a loop of .slnng tied lo the middle and .slipped over a hoo^^r naibj were Ihe forerun- ners of InBfcaduca, satcheted clothes hanger of fiS^ay, and servi d Ihe purpo.se very well of holding out Ihe shoulders of a coat or the lop of a skirl. The modern cloihes hanger is a ciuved piece of wood with a long hook at Ihe top. It is nflen covered wilh a strip of cotton balling wound round it and sprinkled liiierally with satchel powder as it is wound. Over this is shirred a double length of soft rilibon and a perky how is tied at Ihe lop lo llie hook. The housekeeper wilh limited closet room often envies the convenience of the shop where a dozen garments on liang- j ers occupy Utile space. It is now possi- ! ble lo buy this arrangement of a rod to j be lait acro.ss the clo.set, upon which â- .several hangers can be slipped. The I handy man can make one at home. F.ven a broiim-handle sawed off Ihe right length and fastened securely and pieces of cloth-covered barrel hoops wilh their string loops would be fiw better than packing one garment on annlher against tlie v;all. as many house-kee))ers wilh hniited closet room. are compelled lo do. JUST THINK All Japan teas are adulterated, while ticijir iiiJin CoyBon Natural GREEN Tea is ABSOLMTELY PURE, SOA Only In Sealed Lead Packets at 40c, 50c and ftic per pound. By all Grocers. HICjIIEST \WARD, ST. I.OUIS, 1904. F.MITIKJI'VKKS IN J.VP.VN. One Per Day is llie \vera(je on the Is- lands. Earthquakes, Uke volcanoes, occur Biong many coastlines. Failh tremors are eillicr con.>laiit or occa.sioiial. .Many •^nviW causes, partly frosioiial and i/arl- ly deformutional. conlribule lo the Ireni- l<lmg of Ihe land. Eai'tiiquakes in tin.' slricler sense are more local and occa.-,- lonal, but in .some regions lliey are very lre(|uenl. Japan averages one earlli- cuuke a day. The earth movement gen- ! erulcs three kinds of waves, ii rock 'wave, a sea wave and an air wiive. Tlie liange of Ihe earth wave is really \ei'y small horizonlally. and still less verli- icaliy. ullhougii il apoars deceptively I great lo an oliserver. .\ small .-jhock I has n horiziuilal range of only a few I tliirty-.sectindths of an inch; len milli- nielers begins to be dangei'ous; 2|.j lo i' inches i-^ a great e;ii-tlit|uake. .V ver- tical movement of half an inch is a very !leirible earthquake. 'I'he intensity .f i the shock is dependent on Ihe velocity j 01 jerk, whii-h may be from se\eral hun- dred feet lo Ihree miles per second. The I (lui'alion of earllitpuikes averages aboul 1 Iwti iiiinules. The frequency varies in |diffei'enl y.-ai's and different .seasons in an earlhqUHki! dislricl. Between 1HH5 and ls'.)o at Tokio lliero was annually an j average of sixty sliock'.s". At Ihe time -if lhi> disaster of bSSH there were X.m ! -hocks in b'n days, nuring the succeivl- : uig two years there W(!re 3,:!(il shocks. j There ar>' nau'e shocks in winter than I in siinuner and nuu-e in the night than in the daytime. The structure of the rocks strongly nffecls Ihe transmission of a shock; sometimes an earlh(|uake un the surface is not felt in a mine. In ISfiK in Peru there was an i'ailh<piake which affected .-i dislricl 3.0(Â¥) miles long, pill iif llie eaflh(|iiake centrum Farms and Blocks of Land In Sizes to suit purchasers, from 160 aores upwards, situated on or nsar railways In the famous whaat growing districts of MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN and Al-BERTA vpnuc (0 OENCnjUt and HS.PPUL that oysry Induttrioua man may owns I BnWI J pnOFITABLE and OOMFOHTASLI Farm Moma The Oharastar and Purpois •' our Ooiipiny, will oh la ore^anlzad UNDER THC Auspices of the IHOiPENDSHT OSaSil of FOJESrEHS, may bt doaarlbad aa 8TR0NQ. RELIABLE, HELPFUL. PATRIOrtC. For lulumuktlon ana Pricjj, applr to p, W^ HODSON, MA.<(AUKK lulMl I)KPIRT>I«?<T. The Union Trust Company, Limited, AGINTS rVERTWHCRE. TEMPLE BUILDING, TORONTO. Whon Writ: '4 Mantion Ihii l*»i)9r wr«»««a««»«>»^.««.=iiaa««i The varies from four to lliirly geographical miles. The principal ('arthquake centres of Ihe wiirld lie in Ihe ocean at Ihe base «' steep submarine declivilies. Tlie I'oodlide nn Ihe coast of .lapan In \A% riiginalc,! in a submarine earlhqiiake which had ils centre on the 4,000 fathom line. IIFvVI.TII IN SPUINfi. Nature Needs \ssis|nnre in Making New lleallh-(ii\ing RIood. Spring is liie sea.soii when your system reeds lulling up. hi liie sjiiiiig you inusl liave new blowd, jusl as llie tir 'S must ha\e new .sap. Nature demands il. Without new blood you will feel weak and languid; you may have twinges of rheiiiualisni or neuralgia, oc- casional headaches, a variable apiielite, liimples or eruplions of Ihe skin, or a eale, pasty complexion. The.se are sure .signs that Ihe bloiul is out of order. \ tonic is needed to give new energy. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the best tonic ii. all the world. Ilicy make new, rich, iilnod - your grealot need in spring. They clear the skin, drive out disea.sc and make lired, depressed men and wo- men bright, active and strong. Mrs. f'lias. Ma.s.son, Yamachiche, Qi'e., proves Ihe great value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in building u)) people who have be- come weakened and run down. .She says:â€" "In the winler of l!M).5 1 was very much run d<iwn and lost llesli rapidly. My blood was poor. I suffered from indigestidii, severe headaches and gen- oral debility. In this condition I decid- ei' lo give Dr. Willianis' I'ink Pills .t trial, and thanks lo this valuable medi- cine 1 am again enjoying perfect health." Dr. William.s' Pink Pills cure all the ailments due lo poor blood or shaller- ed nerves. _Thnt is wliy they cure anae- mia, rlieumalism, neuralgia, kidney Iroulile, indigestion and the secret ail- ments of women and girls. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail al .W cents a box (u- six boxes for ,.$2.50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine tlo., Brockville Ont ' Two thousand designs suitable for all cla.s.ses of work such as Chtirrhes, Schools, Stores, Halls. Also special desi>!ns for llou.scs. Kit- chens, Dininfl-noonis, etc. Nothing has ever been devised to equal Ped- lar's .Steel Ceilings for Kami Houses. Cheap as lalh and plaster and will never crack or fall off. Avoid Accidents by Using Pedlar's Steel Ceilings, Made In ni any size room and ran be nailed on by any mechanic. Shipped from our warehouses oainlcd all ready lo apply. Orn C.ATAI.tMJt'K. NO. ii C. DESCRIIIKS MANY DKSHJNS. NVni'l'E I- on IT. IT COSTS YOl) NOTHING. WHITE TO-DAY. THE PEDLAR PEOPLE MONTREAL, QUE. 787 Oralir St. WINNIPEG, 70 i-ambard SL OTTAWA, ONT. 423 Suaaaz St. TORONTO our. 11 OaliMrna tt WKITC YOUK NUBKilT OrvicK. LONBON, ONT, •• Dundaa St, VAHOOUVER, BO. •15 Paotfar St. Head Office and Works, Oshawa, Ont., Canada iiopdiops OP ST. PRTrnsrunr,. There is a good deal of Ihe grim "order in Warsaw" senliment about what is taking place in St. Petersburg jusl now. The po))Ulace have had their Ihoughl- less orgie of license and are now pay- ing Ihe piper in cruel repression which only Iho foreign press dare mention. The riiissian newspa))ers are as much lerrorized as ever. The Mayor of Ihe city, as Ihe result of a lour through the police stations and prisons, has had In report a terrible stale of things lo Ihe municipalily. Kvery cell intended for one person is occupied by al least four, and even Ihe waiting-rooms are crowded wilh .suspccls. Sanitation Is neither po.ssible nor alleinpted, and men re- leased tell revolting talcs of their exper- iences. Fvery jail is overcrowded to an appalling extent, for Ihe most part wilh men and woHien again.st whom no ac- cusation is brought. LAND OF THE PAHIS CAB.MAN. Place to Which He Returns Wilh His 8a\in(| lo End His Days. it is a peculiarity in Paris, which every visitor who knows enough i'lench to lell one dialect from anollur must ha\e noticed, lliat nearly all Paris cubiiieii come from ihe .same part of Ihe coun- try, says Ihe London .Standard. The same! thing is Irue uf cual luercha'ils ami eif dealers in roasted che'slnuls, who ceime freiiii Auvergne; eif the goatherds, who hawk I heir milk about the streets, who are ilreloii pcasauls, and of many other Iraeles. Ihe cab elrivers' land is probably It- tiei known to Ivnglishmen. II is down in Ihe Ave'yron, aiiel llodez is its capital, a liny village, wliere the worst language and the be'sl hearts in all France are lo lie found. 'Iho eldest of each family in Kode^z takers Ihe land ami Ihe paternal collage. The eild folks live with him un- lit their death, anel Ihe younger sons go lei Paris and eli'ive cabs. For years Ihey di'ive abenit in all wea- thers, scraping together sou by .sou un- til they have garnered enough to go bomc anel pay for their board and loeig- ing feir the lenmineler of Iheir days. Tliey gci with the elder breilher lo a notary on the llrst day of Iheir return homo and sign a deed l)y which he is bound lei keep them for the remaiiuler of their liays in idleness in return for their sav- ings. There is nn olil priest In flodez who thoroughly underslanels his Hock. He never asks them lo enter the church, but chats with Ihem outside it, and preactie-s informal sermons as he thinks fit. \- few days ago a elepulnlion of the men look him a plaster statuette of St Fiacre (falsely believed tei be the cabmen's pat- ron saint), whose rakeâ€" for .SI. Fiacre was really a gardener- -they hnel cut away, and subslituled a tiny cabman's whip. been told. We therefore e^uote Sir Fred- erick SI. .lohn's ex|)lanalioii:~ "When acling in conjune:tion w'.lh llie Chinese general, San-kei-lin-sin, against either Nankin or Foeichow, Gordon re- ceived a message from llio rebel leaeb ers, offering submission if Iheir live>s were gunranteed. Having oblaiiie^d llie consemi of Ihe Chinese comitianelor, lie agreed. The town sun-endereel. and Iho three rebel chiefs appeared before .San- ke)-lin-sin. He si'eing thai tliev had not shaved their heads in sign of .suhmi.s.siem laid them decaiiilnled on the spot. Whereupon exasperated beyonel contrejl by such treachery. Cordon arnieel him- self wilh a revolver, and was hasteniii" to Ihe ge-'ni^ral's lent wilh the inlenlion o' rhashsing him in Ihe most siimniarv manner for his bre'nch of faith, when suddenly he paused, and coming on rellection, lo Ihe conclusion that bis conteinplalpd ncl was simfilc murder, ha threw away his weapon and registeriM a vow that, .so long as he remained in China, he would never again carry any weapon more feirmidable than a cane'^ GORDON'S ONLY WEAPON. Had a Cane in kiis Hand When He Fell al Kiinrtoum. In .some reinini.sconces of Sir Fred- erick St. .lohn. a diplomatist who served his country well, we have Ihe facts which prompted Cieneral (iorelon to carry no weapon but a cane when leail- mg Ihe ImpiTial troops during Ihe Tai- |,ing struggle'. How he came to do <o has not, so far as we are aware, before HEALTH IN THE HOME. Baby's Own Tablet,"? are equally eood for lillle babies or big children. If a child IS suffering from anv of Ihe minor ills of childhood a few eloses of Ihe Tab lets will cure il. Anel an occasional eleise to Ihe well chilel will piwent sick- ness. Mrs. A Mercier. Piviere Ouelle, Cup., says:~"My baby was cross irri' table, did not sle.-p at night and eliel not. .seem lo thrive, |jut since ^Wmc. her Rally's Own Tablets all this is cliancrpii She now eats well, sleeps well and i« growing fal. The Tablets have proved a blessing to both iny.self and the child " So say all molhe'rs who have use^i thi<i medicine. Paby's Own Tablets ai-e sold l;y all druggisls. or you can get them' n-om The Dr Williams' Medicine Co . Brockville. Qui., at -25 cents a bo.x. The more money you have Ihe ea.sitp It is for von lo practice ecemomv Young Rhymes - "1 loll you liiarriag. lakes all Ihe poetry out of a fellow ' Frie-nelâ€" "Then It can't be a failure " Fair Friend ( In renlea.sed convict) - "I suppose, sir, that the singing of the lirds relieved Iho monotony of vou dieary life?" Kx-Convict (profoundK nonplussed) - "The .singing of the birds miss?' Fair Friend â€" "Yes, sir; the litll gaol-birds, you know. They raust Ium been such a comfort to you." â- mt « i. * «â-  * * ♦ a * * * < t < T C* t >\ â- 0*' n