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J10U5EHOLP WINTER PEESEEVES.- Raspberry Vinegar. Place three pounds raspberries in a jar and heat them thoroughly to extract all the juices, strain this and add one quart of the best white vinegar. Add one pound sugar to every pint of liquid and simmer gently for 20 minutes to half an hour. Bottle and use as required. Pickled Walnuts. Make a brine with one gallon of water and three pounds salt. Prick the young wal- nuts and place them in the brine. Leave them in this for nine days, chainging the brine every three days. After the ninth day place them on a tray in the sun to dry, when they will turn black. Place them in jars when quite dry. Boil one quart of vinegar with one ounce whole black pepper, one-half ounce allspice, one ounce bruised ginger for 10 minutes. Strain and add it to the walnuts. Tie down ready for use in winter. Chutney. Take one pound each of apples, gooseberries, tomatoes, figs and raisins. Pass these through a mincing machine, add one quart of vinegar, two pounds sugar, one- quarter pound salt, one ounce gin- ger, two ounces garlic and me- quarter ounce red pepper ; plape all in a pan and boil for an hour bottle and use. Crab-apples make excellent chutney. Canning Tomatoes. Scald and remove the skins fro mthe toma- toes, cut out the core and hard parts ; put the tomatoes'into a por- oel.'iin lined kettle and bring to boiling point. To each quart add a teaspoonful of salt, fill the jars, stand them in the cannery and pro- oess for 30 minutes. Be careful to terilize the rubbers and lids before sealing the jars by immersing them in boiling water. Never use a jar that cannot be hermetically sealed. Covering Apple Jelly with Melt- ed Paraffin. Wash and wipe fruit. Remove the stems ; cut in pieces, put in preserving kettle, nearly pover with cold water ; cook very slowly until apples are tender. Pour in- to a hot jelly bag and drain thor- oughly, but do not squeeze. Mea- sure the juice, allow one pound of sugar to every pint of juice. Boil the juice for half an hour ; add the sugar, which has been heated on a platter in the oven ; stir until the ugar it) dissolved ; boil for .eight minutes or until it jellies. Skim when necessary. Pour the jelly in- to glasses ; let stand until firm and pour melted paraffin over the top! of each glass ; then cover with paper cover. Keep all jellies in a cool, dry, dark place. USING UP FATS. Fats that are derived from the cooking of bacon, ham, chicken, beef and other meats should be kept, o.-i*h in its own receptacle, to be used for different purpose*. Home rendering of both suet and leaf lard has its advantages, be- cause the product is generally su- perior to what can be bought for the same price. Both suet and leaf lard require cooking in order to loJjsen the fat from the tougher membrane that holds it. For this purpose the ma- terial is cut in small pkvces and covered with water and allowed to cook slowly for some time until no more water remains. A better method for suet is that used by German housewives, who economize on butter by tho use of beef fat more than do Canadian housekeepers. The suet is cut in mall pieces and covered with water, in which it is allowed to soak for a day, the water being changed onoa in the time. It is then drained, the scrap has turned to a light brown, and put into an iron kettle with one-half teacup of skimmed tnilk to every pound of the suet. It should be cooked very slowly until the sound of boiling en- tirely ceases. When it has partly cooled it should be carefully poured off. This fat has no unpleasant taste or odor, and in many recipes may be substi- tuted for part of the butter. Some cooks add a pound of leaf lard to lour or five of the suet; this makes softer fat, as lard has a lower melting point than beef fat. An old- fashioned method of clari- fying fat from the soup kettle, or from cooked meats, so that it may b used in the kitchen, is to add the cold fat to a liberal quantity of eold w.-iter. then heat slowly and Ut cook for an hour or more. When OoVl, the cak of fat Is removed and th lower portion, which will con- tain the small particles of meat, trtc., should b scraped away and tiw white, clean fat saved. If the Aavor or color of both p-re not satis- factory the process may be repeat- ed several times. Another method which is often* recommended is to cook a number of slices of raw po- tato iu the hoilinjr fat. When an ice chest la used, fat in small quantities may be easily kept sweet for cooking purpose*. If lard is rendered at home in quantity sufficient for a long time, it should be kept covered in tins or earthen jara, in a cool, dry place, as in a cellar or storeroom. RICE AND LETTUCE. A usual combination of special food value is cold boiled rice heap- ed on cress or lettuce. In the cen- tre of the rice put some slices of pickled red beets and sprinkle the whole with chopped olives before adding the completing touch of a rich mayonnaise. Or turn out little molds of cold boiled spinach upon cress or lettuce, decorating with slices of hard-boiled eggs and olives. POISONING FROM OVERWORK A NEW DEFENCE FOR SHORTER HOURS. A Tired Person la Poisoned by Waste Products of Ilia Own Body. During the last century, while many who have seen the practical results of overwork in industry, and year after year sought a legal re- medy, men of various sciences have unknown to them been studying the same phenomena in the labora- tory. Physiologists, chemists, bac- teriologists and psychologists have Where lettuce alone ia at hand ! contributed to this study. It is the vary the dressing instead of the j facts brought out by such investi- principal ingredient. Combine for ' gations, which, as presented by the sauce half a cup of cream, the ; Louis D. Brandeis and Miss Gold- yolks of two eggs, a dozen capers ( mark, have afforded a powerful and and four teaspoonfuls of tarragon vinegar. Beat thoroughly and pour over the lettuce, tossing the latter with a fork to mix the sauce thor- oughly through. A salad that the men folk will re- joice in that sex aa a rule being partial to onion is made in this way : Half a dozen sweet green pep- pers, with the seeds removed in the .usual way, and one large Bermu- successful argument before the fed- eral supreme court for upholding state legislation regulating health conditions in industry. A tired person is literally and ac- tually a poisoned person poisoned by his own waste products. But so marvelously is the body con- structed that, like a running stream, it purifies itself and during repose the cast-off impurities are da onion, all of these minced fine j normally burned up by the oxygen by passing them through a meat brought by the blood, excreted by chopper. Add salt, pepper, French the kidneys, destroyed in the liver, mustard, a cup of olive oil and the or eliminated from the body juice of one-lemon, in which a one- j through the lungs. So rest repairs inch pfbce of preserved ginger has fatigue. been minced very fine, lettuce, very cold. Serve on This balance is kept true and fa- tigue is repaired just as long as it The basis of many a tasty salad is [ remains within physiological limits ; cream cheese, one recine applying ! that is, as long as activity is bal- to it being as follows : Chop very anced -by repose, the obnoxious pro- fine some olives and green peppers ; ducts of activity are more quickly combine with the cheese, using eliminated and tissue is rebuilt, enough cream to arrive at an agree- i The physiological normal phenome- able smoothness, and serve on civss ' non of fatigue becomes pathologi- or lettuce which has been dipped in cal or abnormal exhaustion, as soon followB. A short period of over- exertion is assumed to be compen- sated by a subsequent let-up. But the slack period whicn often follows overtime does not give the suppos- ed opportunity for leisure and re- cuperation. It ia itself a, season of deprivation. For slack work means slack pay, with a consequent loss rather than gain in opportuni- ties for recuperation. Yet, so far as the overworked are concerned, all these causes of dis- tress might be removed wages, food, housing and sanitation, all be raised to a higher level and yet the essential cause of breakdown would be untouched so long as the few extra hours of work remain, as our supposed critics would call them. The shorter workday and relief from overstrain are not in themselves the cure for the ills we have considered, but they are the sine qua non without which no other cure is possible or conceivable. Just because a fatigued person is a poi- soned person, poisoned by the ac- cumulation of his own waste pro- ducts, nothing can fundamentally cure the exhausted workers which does not eliminate the cause for such accumulated poisoning. ROPE HORSESHOES. How the Germans Provide for Safe- ty in the Streets. IDE SIMM JIH SIM INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AlUL 18. UK. FRED. TOKKAME. Who has been appointed Veter- inary Director-General for Canada in place of Dr. J. G. Rutherford. SALVAGE MONEY. Some Rich Prizes Found on the Deep Blue Sea. The owners, officers, and crew of any ship that rescues another at sea from a perilous position are en- titled by law to receive salvage asphalt and wood blocks and to the congestion of traffic in the large with "rope" horseshoes. These shoes were first manufactured some ns cbserve this law. The amount of salvage money re- .- I ceived for rescuing a disabled ship affor L7 aS o f u f d . nec , e8sar - v * j depends partly upon the value of I greater safety for horses to I the rescued ship's cargo, and partlv ^ent their slipping and to enable, on the extent of the risks run bv them to come to. a quick stop. This i the rescuers in salving the disabled bas > been attained by fitting them j vessel. As a general rule, a fifth of the value of the cargo is paid by the owners of the rescued ship, but y nlj u o ""* sp, ou. the last decade that the industry f rom time to time as much as half has grown to large proportions. i the value of the salved cargo has Various forma and shapes of been pa : d ' ' French dressing. Or chopped olives and pickles can be stirred into the- cheese i.i the same way. A DANISH WEDDING. as the balance between rest and fa- tigue is destroyed. DIE FROM POISONING. In extreme instances, as when aninrvorse- t , th shoe Others ar closed; and often, ! Teacher, to rescue, at great risk ides being closed there is a to herself and her crew, a Russian brdgei or crospiece joining the two j liner, which had broken her nro- _ sides. \Vhen tlhis is the case the! puller when within ten miles' of hunted animals drop dead in the 1 l ld *e is constructed like the rest : Manukau Bar, on the West Coast There Are Seldom Fewer Than 50 th< : htart > but from 8neer chemical chase, they die not from overstrain ! ^ ^ ne shoe, inclosing a tarred rope, of any particular organ, such as i There are usually eight nail holes in shoe ; and in order to strength- waste matter of fatigue. G nests Present. The number of invitations var'es according to the means of the bride's parents, but there are sel- . , **" ^.VJJ4**awivll VA IfU^ *T1LCVL Ji. V V Ct" dom less than 50 assombled, and work on health output an<1 often as many as 150, old and d uct i O n young. A day or two before the wedding the various guests se>nd their gifts, not to the bride, but to , poisoning due to the unexpellaAi en P*. , bottorn - and especially to at> ^.t+^, * f-f I make the nail holes more secure, *u more secure, j gerous bar, of New Zealand. The Russian ship was in a most perilious position when the Teacher came to her res- cue ; she was drifting on to the dan- the laws of fatigue jta-l* STM3 ^ ?ace7 "5 a scientific bams for legislation and space in the centre V of th '' an explanation of the effect of over- 1 O f ten cove red and would certainly for is the more import- ly arrival of the Teacher, which took | her in tow and brought her safely over with various to port, where she was able to get kinds of inserts to protect tfoe frog fitted with a new propeller. from injury. The latest novelty, I The Russian ship had $300,000 in , . . ' , . regulation of the length, which has been adopted bv the Hoy- specie on board. The Teacher's Worlln 8 hour s has been so bit- al stables, is the insertion at the captain who was also her owner ' her parents, consisting generally of y ^P 08 "* 1 b y tnose WDO fear ! back of the s^ * of a block of wood ' demanded $150.000 for salving this contributions toward the expected I tnat tn * lessening of the hours of into which stiff bristles have been ' valuable cargo, and, after some contributions toward the expected I feast, and beyond participating in much revelry and good cheer the bride and bridegroom do not derive any benefit. One- friend contri- butes, say, eight pounds of butter day the rallying cry for the most di- piled high on a platter fringed with! ve reminded opponents of legisla- ** ' .^omary to use special oT*>a>w>rv or^.fl,.,,. ,, D ^t fi^r. ;,., K^n *K^ ,;, r., ,,..,..,.; . .!"* w ith WTisf lie,i,)s MI attaching labor means a corresponding eco- j driven. This is an additional pre- nomic loss. From the firet dawn ventive agam slipping. When the of protective legislation in England ground is covered with snow a. spe- over a century ago to the present' c ' a ^ * ce plate is inserted in its stead. greenery ; another a score or two of j tion has been the threatened ruin eggs or some chickens. A lamb, j of industry and manufactures. Yet joints of beef, or a small cask of fine old ale follow in quick succe-s- sion, and in this way the parents frequently receive more provender the unconscious consensus of tes- timony from various states and tracfc fch(Mn with(mt ^ oufc ^ countries on the economic benefits r ,, na rh** n -,; with long heads in attaching the flioes to the hoof. When the . nai ' s . are . used it is e to drive them in and to ex- linen for the person as well as the house, which store, together with a pair of young horse-s, a couple of cows, and a pair of sheep, invaria- bly form a part of her marriage outfit. Bridal ornaments are not litigation in the Russian courts, he was awarded $75.000. Under the award each of the crew, of whom there were six, took 33.500 of the sum allowed. This was one of the biggest hauls ever taken in the way of salvage money. Another big haul was made by a small Spanish tramp. She rescued an English cattle-ship named the Barking, which had on board some , rope. These; nails, ' which are ' tons of cable wires, and became dis- of the short day, recorded in offici-j driven between the outer side of abled in mid-ocean through the al and unofficial documents, is m the groove and the tarred rope, also, smashing of her steering-gear. The its turn as impressive as we found help to hold in the rope. The tarred Spanish tramp towed- the BarkiiiK the unanimity of evidence on the rope wears down simultaneously into Southampton ; the owners of physical effects of the long day. with the rest of the shoe, and it is ' the La Manta. subsequently sent in The essential injury of overtime only on rare occasions that the rope a little bill for $25.000 to the own- is due to what has been graphically! must (je, withdrawn and new insert-' era of the Barking, which was paid. Each of the crew received $500. Sometimes the captain of a rescu- ing stoamer goes to the rescue of a disabled ship to make a bargain with the captain of the latter that a certain sum will be paid him or his owner in the way of salvage money, and a much bigger sum is of the hiring of plates and from the nearest stores in the town where the farmer seMs his grain and buys his wife's groceries and ribbons. - - For month* before tfhe wedding P rov ^ by the ergograph that ef-|ed. This change can be made with- the bride, with her mother and n-| fort increases with fatigue, that! t removing the shoe. The aver- ters. have been hard at work at the ! work continued after fatigue has ** e ' Ilf f * a r P horseshoe is six to loom, spinning and weaving all the j ^t ' n requires so much more sub- el (L? fc ist be wit! This ch; sequent time for recuperation. But ! 4 The> advantages and disadvan- . 4 during a rush or overtime season i ta *. 8 j the ."# oe. can be ,u ,.u i - marized as follows : Advantages such time for recuperation is neces- sarily lacking. The girl who is kept. are light and comfortable for in the great department stores un- the horse: they help to prevent i sometimes secured in this way by slipping: they break the concussion | a rescuing ship than would be n v- T, YT, I - ' U r 12 C at nlg fc dur " and deaden the sound of the hoop, awarded her owners, officers, and WSSSLM?***!* JfceDan- m g one or two frenzied weeks be- Di-odvantages-The driving of the crew in court: but. on the other a simple fore the holiday which heralds ish peasant girl wears crown of myrtle with her national costume varying with the district, but always charming and pots of myrtle are carefully cherished by girlish hands through the long win- ters in anticipation of the great event. Her sole heirloom is the great oaken dower chewt. heavily clamped and often finely carved, that holds her gcndly store of linen. At 11 o'clock on the wedding morning all the guests meet at the bouse of the bride, driving up in carts, and when she is ready the long procession starts for the church, headed by two outriders, who are the "best men." Next fol- low* a cart containing the band, comprising three or four brass in- struments, and the village fiddler. After them comes the cart contain- ing tihe bride alone, both parents remaining at home to put the fin- ishing touches to the festive board, already spread. Behind the bride comes the bridegroom, also alone. He> sits in the middle of his vehicle, in all the conscious glory of a, new tall hat and a vast cloak of man capes, worn even in the summer time as lending a dignity suitable to the solemn occasion and as a mark of distinction. Near the church children strew flowers, aa well as near tflie bride's old ho-me, where there is also an archway draped with flags. Returning from church, th bride and bridegroom sit together, the band preceding them, heralding their approach with gleeful strains. THE UUGN* OF PEACE ; the girl who works at fever heat all naila requires more care : the black- hand, if an agreement of this sort smith must have in stock a larger is entered into, the circumstances quantity of shoes of various shapes in which the captain of the disabled Anything you get for nothing is usually worth a littte less. evening stitching shirtwaists in ; and sizes. Great care has to be ship has no choice but to accept. it- January for the spring trade, is taken in the preparation of rope, may be set aside if the matter not relieved from the necessity ofi horse shoes not to overheat the iron comes into court. This was done some years ago, when the captain of a German steamer demanded $20.000 from the reporting for work at 7 or 8 o'clock' "or to hammer it when too cold, the next morning. She comes to' otherwise it will crack on- the an- work unprepared and with each day of overtime accumulated fa- tigue necessarily grows. In theory the requirement of overtime is supposed to be balanc- ed by the slack period which often vil. In addition to the plain tarred j captnin of rope horseshoes there are shoes in which rope interwoven with wire. wood, rubber, copper, wirework, rush. etc.. is used. These are heavier, somewhat more expensive, and less practical than the plain rope shoes, and therefore have not become 90 well established. LONG BUT NARROW. English Tourist "How far do you call it from Kilmarnock to here?" Scot: "It'll be aboot tw mile, I'm thinking." Tourist: "Your miles seem a bit long about here." Scot: "Aye, mon, they're lang, but they're trey narrow." MORE WOMEN SMOKING. Smoking is becoming far more common among women in London, England, society. The habit is in- dulged in more openly thau it was. and it is not an uncommon I'l^it to see a woman motorist, who is mak- ing calls puffing away at a cigarette between visits or . woman golfer doing the Banre thing. At many of the West End rewitau rants women no longer tak the trouble to con- ceal their liking for the cigarette. Many women, moreover, have got beyond the cigarette stage and smoke cigars mild Havanas. Perhaps no man ever practised all he preached, but this is not a final argument against preaching. Many a man who is rich in ex- perience is unable to raise the price of a square meal. an English stoamer, named the Eagle. which had grounded on a reef near Aden, in the Red Sci. The Eagle had been on the reef for three days, and it was certain that, if she remained there another day. she would be- come a total wreck. She was carry- ing silver specie, to the value of $50.000. which fact, when it became known to the captain of the German steamer, made him demand the big sum of 820.000 for getting the Eagle off the reef and towing her to Aden. Litigation ensued over the matter subsequently, and the Gorman tramp was awa-ded exactly half the sum her captnin had forced the cap- tain of the Eagle to agree to. London is the healthiest capital in Europex Silence is golden when it is pur- chased with hush money. There' solitaire s many a slip 'twixt the and the marriage altar. During the last seven years the farming population of New South Wales has increased by 7,000 peo- ple. I Lesson Til. The ruler's daughter, Murk -21-43. U olden Text,, MarK 3. 41. Verse 21. Crossed over again Immediately after healing the de- moniac uii the eastern shore of the Lake of Galilee, Jesus and his dis- ciples returned to the western shore. Mark, in characteristic fashion, iuterweavee the incident of healing into his narrative. He does not follow the chronology given in Matthew 9. 1-18, but seems to se- lect incidents which he considers of . great importance. 22. Falleth at his feet Though a distinguished citizen and of digni- fied social position, his parent grief brought him in self-huniiliatiun. to the feet of Jesus. 23. My little daughter Accord- ing to Luke 8. 42, an only ua ligh- ter. At the point oi death Luke re- cords that she "was dying." 24. Thronged him Crowded clos about him. The narrative is Interrupted al this point by the incident of tha healing of the woman with an is- sue oi blood, verses 25 to 34. Al- though Jairus's case was urgent, Jesus took time to honor the faith i of the woman who touched hii garment. However, the interrup- tion has the literary value of sus- j taining and ointensifying the inter- est in the main narrative. 35. While he yet spake To the ; woman who touched his garment. Why troublest thou ? This may j represent a subtle effort on the j part of Jairus's aristocratic friends I to have nothing further to do with the Galilaean peasant. It is more likely, however, that the question was the result of their belief that j the child was past restoration and further solicitation would cause Jesus useless trouble. 30. Not heeding the word Or, 'overhearing. Jesus overheard what ' was not addressed to him and paid | no attention to it. Fear not, only believe An exhor- tation to steady, unwavering faith i in the face of the aparently greater i difficulty. Here, as in many other places, faith is represented as the i condition upon which the miracla ! is to be effected. In other instanc- es, such as the healing of the wo- 1 man with an issue of blood (verses 25-3-1), the condition of the healing 1 is personal faith. In this instance it is substantial faith. Th-> child it dead, so that she has no power to believe, but the father's faith is ac- , cepted as sufficient ground for re- storation of her life. 37. Peter, and James, and John Jesus's "inner circle" of friends who were with him at the trans- figuration (Mark 9. :!) and in (Jeth- seniane (14. 33). Only the three <lis- i ciplos were taken, that the strictest secrecy might be maintained con- cerning this unusual miracle. It had been the habit of Jesus on numerous occasions to enjoin sec- recy in regard to his miracles, his object being -to avoid as much aa possible the unwelcome notoriety which they produced. Yet he de- sired that some of the disciples i should have the benefit of such a lesson. 38. Weeping and wailing greatly The lamentation of hired mourn- ers. the number and commotion of which had increased to meet the requirements of the family's social standing. 39. Not dead, but sleepeth Sleep | was a common symbol of death. The | statement did not in any sense de- tract from the reality of death. Jesus uttered it in the conscious- ness that he would raise the child to life again. 40. Laughed " him to scorn The conduct of the hired mourners, who knew the ir! to be dead. Put them all forth Except the five mentioned. 41. Talitha cumi The actual Ara- maic words which Jesus spoke, inclining "Maiden, arise." Re- corded only by Mark. 42. Straightway The return to life was effected instantly. 43. No man should know -- The report of such a miracle would so increase the popularity of Jesus among the people and create a cor- responding hatred among the Jew- ish leaders as to hinder the more important work of teaching the principles of the Kingdom. ANCIENTS USE PETROLEUM The petroleum industry, which has made such groat advances dur- ing the last fifty years, de-als with a product which has bee-n known in other lands from earliest days. In China it was used long before his- t tory was first written. The famous petroleum springs near Baku on the western shore of the Caspian sea have been known from the ear- Host times. Antiquarians say th.-it Pliny and Herodotum each kurw or had heard of petroleum-.