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ill J. t ' t K MOU5EHOLP CHOICE RECIPES. Orange Marmalade. Soak the- kins of nix oranges, cut into shreds overnight in three and a half cups of water. Save the water and in the morning add two and one-half cups of strained and sweetened ap- ple sauce, one cup of water, six tablespoomuls of white vinegar, and four cups of granulated sugar. Boil steadily for two hours. It is good. Uncooked Candy Fondant. Here is a French fondant which re- quires no cooking : Beat the white of an egg very lightly after mixing it with its own bulk of cold water and adding the least suspicion of ealt. Work into it about a pound of confectioner's sugar ; use a little more if not stiff enough to handle well, but beware of getting it too stiff. Dip your hands in sugar and shape the mixture into balls, after flavoring it to taste. Roll the balls in dry sugar and set on "a sugared plate to harden. Nuts or fruit can be put in the middle of the balls, which can be also either rolled in grated chocolate or dipped in that whick i melted. Either way these And many other candies, even simp- ler, will prove helps to health. When Cooking Meat. In broil- ing steak or chops, the fire some- times dies down too quickly. When this happens sprinkle a little granu- lated sugar over the coals. This intensifies the coals and the smoke from the sugar will impart to the meat a delicious flavor. When the roast is small, it is best to start it on top of the stove. Heat the pan very hot, put the roast in, and turn it frequently, as you would if pan- ning a steak. The quick searing holds the juices in. When it is thoroughly brown all over, place it in a hot oven to finish. Bacon will be much sweeter in flavor if it is covered with boiling water and al- lowed to stand on the back part of the stove for about five minutes. It should then be taken out of the water and laid on a cloth to dry before broiling. Beef Stew with Dumplings. Take one and one-half pounds of beef, wipe with pieces of wet cheesecloth ; cut into two-inch pieces ; put on in three quarts of boiling water, add two tablespoonsful of cirt onion and boil slowly two hours ; add one tablespoonful of salt and one-quar- ter teaspoonful of white pepper, then add the dumplings and boil, with a cover, for 10 minutes, with- out removing the cover. Lift out the dumplings and put around the edge of the platter, which has been heated. Put the meat in the cen- tre of the platter; mix one table- spoonful of Hour with a little cold water until smooth and add to the gravy, pour over meat and sprinkle with one tablespoonful of chopped pastry. To make the dumplings, sift one cup of flour, one teaspoon- ; ful of baking powder and one-half teaspoonful of salt into bowl. Rub in very lightly one teaspoonful of ! shortening, add enough cold milk to hold together ; take a piece the ize of an English walnut, roll in ( floured hands. This amount makes j twelve dumplings. Stewed Fish. Two pounds of ; firm fish that will not fall to pieces under long continued boiling. Cut into two and a half or three inch slices, cover with ealt, and leave it j thus for one hour. Then wash ' thoroughly and arrange the slices neatly in a broad bottomed pot o as not to have them overlap one nother. Now cover the fish with two large onions (sliced), two car- rots cut into slices a quarter of an inch thick, two bay leaves, three whole allepice, two teaspoonfuls of salt and one of black pepper. Pour into the pot carefully, so as not to disturb the order of the contents, two quarts of cold water. Let it eoine slowly to the boil and sim- mer gently for nearly four hours or until the water has boiled down to one quart. The advantage of the slow boil is that it retains all of the flavor of the fish. Do not tir while the cooking goes on. When the fish i done take up with- out breaking the slices, lifting the regetables carefully ami disposing ! them between the sliced fish, and ' lay upon a broad platter. Have a border of minced parsley and pour over all the liquor from the pofc. Let it cool and set in the ice for three or four hours. If properly cooked the fish, vegetables, and oup will be a solid jelly. It tastes better when prepared the day be- fore it is eaten. WAYS TO MAKE CELERY SOUP. There are any number of varia- tions on the subject of cream of celery soup, and there are many oups in which the celery has with it a single other vegetable, like beans or potato, or it may have with it many other vegetables. In almost any case where milk instead of a meat stock is added a white uce is the thing that gives the oup li.'.ly and food value. Cream of Celery and Potato Soup Peel three small potatoes, out up fine one head of celery, add a slice of onion and cover with a pint of boiling water. Cook until the potatoes are tender. Prepare the white sauce in a double boiler. Press the cooked vegetables through a sieve and add them to the white sauce, cook a moment, season to taste and serve. Celery Soup. One cup of celery diced, half a cup of fine barley browned, cover with three pints of water and boil slowly two hours. When done add one tablespoonful of flour dissolved in a little water, stir and cook until smooth. Add a cup of milk, salt to taste, and serve. Cream of Celery Soup No. 1. Take parts of celery not suitable for the table and boil in water to cover. Make a quart of white sauce, and add to it the strained water from the celery, boil up once, season to taste, and pour over a well-beaten egg. Cream of Celery Soup No. 2. Parboil two cups of celery, cut into one-half-inch pieces, in three cups of water for 10 minutes, drain and then cook until tender in one pint | ! of water and then rub through , Sir Hiram Maxim Is a Firm Be- ! strainer. Scald 2Vi cups of milk AUTOS IN BRITISH ARMY MANOEUVRES. Motor cars played a very impor tant part in the recent manoeuvres of the British Army. In the photo are Captain Willoughby, owner of the car pictured, and Col. Stur ney Cave, C.B.. watching the field operations. THE SEA SERPENT. with a slice of onion, remove on- ion, add milk to the strained celery lievor In It. Sir Hiram Maxim is a firm be- liever in the sea serpent. The other with one tablespoon each of butter day he gave out thi: . i nter view :- and flour cooked together with pep- per and salt to taste. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. "I think the time has arrived when we must admit that there are certain large animals living in the sea that are not described in any works on natural historv. Messrs. A slice of apple rubbed on the C. A. Nichols and Co., Springfield, hands will remove stains. ink and fruit Mass., published in 1S82 a very re- markable work. In this I find that To soften water put a tablespoon-' j n 1551, and for some years follow- ful of borax into the bath. j in - th >* a serpent or sea serpents Stains on knife handles may be ' appeared very often off the New removed by rubbing with a paste of E n {*' an d coast, whiting and turpentine. . . a PP ear s there were two kinds ,, , , , of these monsters. On one occasion Corks for home-made wines, the anima , tha wag ^ ^ & sauces, etc., should be soaked in nsn -!ike head, very large eyes. boiling water before use. gills, and a continuous fin extend- Flat-irons may be made perfectly j j ng t ^ e whole lngth of its back smooth by^ rubbing first with beets- supported by numerous pines, after wax and then salt. the manner of a stickleback. It was . Flour for cakes and pastry should ; simply a very large fish of an un- be well dried and passed "through I known variety. a sieve before using. This is half the secret of light cakes. The monster that was seen a great number of times by numerous people, had about the diameter of Mixing Mustard.-Mix with hot ; a large cask, with a head closelv water using three parte of mus- resen r bling tnat of a snake . tard to one part of salt ; a little j .. T quote the following from the cayenne essence' is often added and considered an improvement. publication referred to : " 'From all this testimonv there Stains from Iodine. Put some j seemed to be no doubt, reasonable liquid ammonia into a saucer and or plausible, of the existence of a place the stained part of yourj sea serpent, of some SO or 100 feet towel in it. Rub well and the stain; in length, and of the size of a large will vanish. To stone raisins easily, pour boil- ing water over the fruit, let it stand for three minutes, and then pour off. The softening of the skins ren- ders the task an easy one. Red ink is easily made. Into a perfectly clean one-ounce bottle put one teaspoonful of aqua-ammonia, gum arabic the size of two peas, and six grains of No. -10 carmine. Fill the bottle with clear soft water, and after standing for a little while it is ready for use. A curio hunt is a good game for a party. Take a dozen things, such i ( as a bodkin, a postage stamp, wed-| gj'tfi*!!? barrel or cask. ' 'Indeed, so great was the sen- sation created by the movements of the monster, so repeatedly seen for successive years by so many wit- nesses who saw the creature on shore or at sea, some of them from a distance of only 10 yards. ' 'According to these witnesses the monster was from ''O to 90 feet long, his head usually carried about two f eet above the water; o* dark brown, color, the body with 30 or more protuberances, compared by some to four-gallon kegs, by others to a string of buoys, and called by several persons buncho* on the ding-ring, bangle, thimble, sheet of paper, and so on. Put them about the room so that they are not hidden, but are not easily -dis- cernable. The brass thimble on the ornamentation of a mirror is hard to sec, the postage stamp stuck on to a paper of its own color, the wed- ding-ring slipped over looks like a brass band. a handle very rapid, faster a whale, swimming a mile in three minutes, and some- times more, leaving a wake behind him : chasing mackerel, herrings and other fish, which were seen jumping out of tihe water fifty at a time, as he approached." "It has been suggested that this creature is a mammal. If so, it would have warm blood, and would II SIM'/ SIM STOflf INTERNATIONAL LESSuN, SEPT. i. Lesson XII. The feeding of the flve thousand, Murk ti. 30-44. Gulden text, John 6. 33. Verse 30. The apostles The lit- eral meaning of the word "apostle'' is "one sent with orders." The name is applied to the twelve whom Jesus selected from among his numerous disciples. It is de- scriptive of their official work ra- ther than of their discipleship. The names of the twelve are recorded by Luke (6. 12-16) and Matthew (10. 2-4). Gather themselves together unto Jesus After they returned from their missionary tour described in Mark 6. 7-13. 31. Come ye ... and rest a while The necessity for rest is partially este. a French shown in the next clause. This is passenger sailing \ J J" " l ship. She was sighted bv the Bri ^ ardlv the /"I 1 ' easo ?' ^wever as - tish ship Highlander October 4, ^us sought intervals of quiet fel- 1875, and in reply to the signals [*ship with the twelve m which gave the answer Two days later when sighted she did not reply. She was boarded, but not a living or dead person was found on board. Everything was in perfect order, luncheon was laid in the saloon, the personal belongings of the passen- gers and crew were intact and a bottle of medicine was found up- right on the captain's locker. The log had been kept down to the pre- vious day. but there was no entry to account for the mysterious disap- pearance of all on board. Nothing was heard afterward of any of the passengers and crew. he might more carefully prepare them for their future work. Mat- thew gives an additional reason, namely, the profound grief which overcame Jesus when he heard of the death of John the Baptist (14. 13). 3:2. A desert place Not a sandy waste, but simply an uninhabited region. The place mentioned was probablv back from the northeast- ern shore of the Lake of Galilee, not far from Bethsaida (Luke 9. 10). Their point of departure was probably Capernaum. 33. On foot Or by land. Outwent them The multitude ar- rived before Jesus and the twelve. The distance around the northwest- ern shore was little farther than the course across, and perhaps even shorter than that followed by the small sailing boat. 34. He came forth Out of the boat. John's account differs, how- ever, stating that Jesus ha/d spent So many embezzlements and defal- some time in the mountain before cations in banks and business | emerging into the presence of the houses in the last few months have I waiting multitude (John 6. 3-5). GERMANY TO CHECK BETTING Many Defalcations Result of Race- track Gambling. With the spread of horseracing, there has come a. great increase in racetrack gambling in Germany. been traced to pool rooms and bet- ting on horses that the Government As sheep not having a shepherd This unusually strong figure . . - . &^**H IftU UB1MBMJ ai 1 i~/*llt H*< < i ^ is now considering steps to check j makes clear the hap i SS condition th T e y l1 ' . ! of the people. Like sheep, thev Instead of forbidding pools and were depcndont upon tho 1I ,; i : l i. UR ,, of shepherds. The scribes and Pharisees, who were the religious leaders, were themselves blind to spiritual truth, so that the people were left to wander aimlcsslv with- bookmaking altogether, it is pro- posed first to try the effect of limit- ins the opportunities for betting by reducing the number of bookmakers and by closing poolrooms. The proposal is also made to place a limit on minimum bets taken, the- idea being that then only those who can afford it will bet. while now bets as low as 10 cents are taken. Another proposal of the Govern- out spiritual guidance. 35. The day was now far spent- It was late in the afternoon of the same day on which they had arriv- ed at the desert place. We need not. therefore, think of his dis- ment is to put a stop to the selling course to the multitude on this oc- casion as having been an un usually long one. 3ti. Somewhat to eat In their haste to follow Jesus they stave lit- tle thought as to where their nuest would lead them, so that they had neglected to provide food 37. Two hundred shillings' worth and circulating of tips on horse races. ,H OIL TANKERS IN DEMAND. Its cards the articles hidden, and give a certain time for the hunt. Prizes for the most successful bring it to a close. Write on | have to breathe at least as often as GREENWICH TIME MUST RULE All London Clocks Must Be Under Oily Control. The craze in London, England, for regulation has reached the clocks. Hereafter, according to a ukase of the corporation of the city, all public timepieces must be syn- chronized. London's clocks generally have never been noted for timekeeping and the new regulation means that most of them will have to turn over a new leaf if they expect to syn- chronize with Greenwich time. Only three of the great clocks have proved themselves models of accuracy those of St. Paul's Ca- thedral, the Law Courts and Big Ben in Westminster Palace. A tour of the streets proves that it is the simplest thing to lose or gain time. By walking a block the pedestrian could gain from thirty seconds to two hours, or he might lose as much. Four minute* could be gained by crossing Fleet Street from one newspaper office to an- other, while a sporting paper on the same street had evidently started its racing season by being five min- utes ahead of Greenwich time. St. Margaret's, w'nich from its ecclesiastical associations would be expected to be truthful, wa-s three minutes ahead of time, notwith- standing the reproachful looks of accurate Big Ben across the way. Indeed, there seemed to be a con- spiracy of disagreement among I/ondon clocks and on no street could more than two clocks be found to coincide. a whale, but as it remains below the water for days and weeks at a time, it is safe to say that it has cold blood, and is probably some kind of a snake." THE OCEAN'S PHANTOMS. Ghost Ships That Appear When a Storm Is at Hand. The number of phantom ships is British Vdmiralty Increasing Fleet of These Ships. The demand for oil carrying ships is so great that about a hundred of the type are on order, both in Great Britain and abroad, and sev- eral of the firms that specialize in this class of work have announced their inability to consider further contracts until the end of next year. Owing to the impossibility of get- ting early delivery of tonnage for The reference is to the silver ile- narius. a Roman coin, which was more nearly equivalent to the Eng- lish shilling than any coin with which we are familiar. Its actual value was between sixteen and sev- enteen cents. It represented a day's wages in the time of Christ. so that its purchasing power was the conveyance of rx?trileum and j much greater. The question rerre- othpr liquids in bulk some owners i sents the impossibility of provid- are actually buying ordinary cargo boats for conversion into tankers. Meanwhile the British Admiraltv is in the market for oil carriers and has just chartered for twelve months one of the boats owned by a London company while it ha-s also ordered four tank steamers from private yards and is to have an- other two constructed at Devon- port. The Admiraltv alreadv owns legion. Several of the vessefs which *""*; oil tankers - * -that important developments are evidently contem- plated. were wrecked in close proximity to the scene of the Titanic disaster are even said to reappear in the same spot on certain occasions, says the London Standard. The Packet Light is one of these, and the story runs that whenever a storm is threatened a ball of tire emerges from the spot where the ship sank, which presently forms itself into the shape of a vessel, and then sinks and disappears. King George V. and his brother, the late Duke of Clarence, when on their cruise in the Bacchante from 1879 to 1882 are stated to have seen the phantom of the Flying Dutch- man, and the Duke mentioned the fact in his diary under date of July 11, 1881. A three-masted frigate is said to haunt the English Channel in the vicinity of the Owcr lightship when- ever a gale or snowstorm is threa- tened. Hundreds of people have declared that they have seen the apparition and heard the cries of the ghostly passengers. It is some- times said to be the phantom of the training ship Eurydice, which went down off the Isle of Wight March 24, 1S7S, involving the loss of about 200 lives. There are a host of vessels which have not been heard of since th'. v y sailed, but o'v of the most marvel- ous stories conivnis the Marie Col- WH ALING IN THE PACIFIC. Five Hundred H;IVI> Been Caught Off British Columbia. Five hundred whales thus far in the season, thirteen of them sperm whales, is the wonderful record made since the beginning of the season, according to Capt. Shad- ford of the steamer Grey, tender for for the Canadian Northern Pa- cific Fisheries Company, which maintains a number of whaling sta- tions along the coa-st of British Columbia. In addition to the 500 whales caught at the three stations there are many hundreds which have been caught along the coast by other companies and by American and Norwegian concerns in Alaska waters. It is believed that before the season is over at least 2,000 whales will have been caught on the north Pacific coast. The huge number of mammals caught in such a short period is a direct contract to the old methods of whaling, when it would have taken years for a big fleet of sailing vessels to have caught a similar number of whales by the old har- poon. ing for such a multitude, as so large an amount was beyond the meager purse of the twelve. 38. Five, and two fishes An amount sufficient for about one person. 39. Sit down by companies Or recline "in parterres," a term used for flower beds of many colors, per- haps suggested to the writer by the colored clothing of the different groups. Green grass This realistic touch of Mark's story indicates his habit of close observation and love of the pictorial. It also makes known to us the season of the year, which was spring, about the time of the passover (John 6. 4), since in Pales- tine the grass is green for only a short period following the winter rains. -10. In ranks, by hundred 1 ?, and by fifties Herein is suggested the or- derly arrangement of the people to render convenient the distribution of the food. Gereach describes the formation as follows: ''Two long rows of one hundred, and a shorter j one of fifty persons. The fourth side remained after the manner of the table of the ancients empty and open." 43. Twelve basketful* Ordinary Oriental traveling ba'ge. Inasmuch as we are led to believe that Jesus and the twelve carried as litle "luggage"' as possible on their tours (Matt. 10. 9, 10). we may sup- pose that these bags were secured from among the people, many of whom were on their way to Jerusa- lem to attend he feast of the pass- over (John 6. 1). There was one "basket" for each apostle. II. Five thousand men Not in- cluding women and children (Matt. 14. 21 V FORTUNES IN SEAWEED. It la Used in Many I. in.- of Manu- facture. Seaweed is rapidly establishing a claim as Che greatest friend of man, and many new uses are being dis- covered for it. If the experience of the Japanese and the dwellers on the western .shores of Norway, Scotland, and Ireland is to be accepted, there are huge fortunes to be made from sea- weed. The Japanese employ some 600.000 persons in the industry. They are mainly engaged in prepar- ing edible products. China alone consumes thousands of pounds' worth of the gelatinous articl every year. The edible seaweeds of Great Bri- tain and IreJand are advancing in popularity, even among epicures. Served with roast meats, they are extremely palatable. The London industry, which employs Devon- shire and Japanese seaweed in the manufacture of such diverse ob- jects as cloth, stout shoes, golf- balls, policemen's boots, picture- frames, marble floors, and electrio switchboards, by no means mono- polizes the industry. In most coast districts seaweed is used as a fer- tilizer for the land : in France it finds utility as a stiffener for mat- tresses and a size for straw hats; while the native fishermen of South Australia make rope and fishing- nets from local varieties. PERILS OF GERMAN TRAVEL. Attacks on Passengers Load to Call for American Cars. The stabbing of three women on a train in the immediate vicinity of Berlin last week by a madman has been quickly followed by another robbery of a woman on a train near Zozzen. The German press has become greatly excited over these repeated attacks on travel- lers. Attention is called to the sepa- rate coupe arrangement that pre- vails on German cars as compared with American cars which insure greater personal safety. Addition- al officials and employees have been placed on all passenger trains running into and out of Berlin. They have to walk back and forth in the corridors, as owing to the separate compartment system in use there it is impossible for them to survey the entire car from end to end. The recent attacks on passenger* are irivintr impetus to a movement in favor of Americanizing the pre- sent German passenger coaches, a step to which existing social class prejudices have hitherto been an insurmountable barrier. GERMAN "MEAT WAR." I.WMI l|.i--- Killed for Food Laat Month in Berlin. As a consequence of the rapidly- rising prices of meat, the consump- tion of horseflesh in Germany is in- creasing to au extraordinary ex- tent. In Berlin. .Vii-j-t horses were slaughtered for human food in the first six months .> f this vear. against 4. 161 in the corresponding period of 19H. Last month i.otio h.TM-s were killed for food in Berlin, and in the workmen's quarters of the city be- tween 20 ami 30 more shops wore opened for the sale of horseflesh and ho~se <a:is:iffes. Fn-tu all parts of the empire .-onie reports of what is called the "meat war'' protest meeting* against the closing of frontiers, boycotts of butchers, and similar measures. South Germany and Hesse Parm- ta<lt appear to be the districts where the indignation of the popu- lace has assumed the most acute forms. In view, however, of the ever-increasing financial wants ol the Government, and the extra ex- penditure on the Army and Navy, it is not at all likely that the Chan- cellor will take any steps to meol popular demands. HOT ICE NOW. Marvel From Unique Apparatus and Tremendous Pressure. Dr. Percy W. Bridgman of th<j department of physics. Harvard University, has succeeded in tuak- in.it "hot ice." He has manufactur- ed some having a temperature ol 173 degrees Fahrenheit, and he is confident he can make it even hot- ter. The hot ice was produced by put- ting water under extraordiuarj heavy pressure and at the same time regulating the temperature ol the water. The apparatuses include a hydrau- lic press for producing the pressure and a very thick tube of steel to hold the water. There is also pro- vision, by means of jackets on tihe tube, for keeping the contents con- stantly at any desired tc'npera.tnre. In studying the five forms of ice, Dr. Rridgman kept his steel bottla filled with wate.- and ice until he had gotten a pressure of more than 2.000 atmospheres (more than 300,- 000 pounds a square inchl and a temperature of 173 degrees Fahren- heit. In appearance hot ie- is -\imJai to the brand in gxaeral use.