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mSSSX ^A * Hints for tbc Home Wintor Uri-akfast Foods. Hot breads for bieakiiLet are al- most a necessity in winter. At least they are highly desirable. The morning appetite in ct)ld weatlier demands something substantial, and it gladly takes this substantial disli in the form of a muffin, a roll or some other tempting bit of bread. Hero are some recipes ; not new, but, nevertheless, good. Better, perhaps, because they Ijavc been tried and found satisfying ajid re- liable. plain Miitllii.s. â€" On© egg, well bi-aten; a tablesjMionful of butter and a table.spoonful of sugar, with a teaspiKinful of salt, all beaten un- til very light. One cup of milk, three of sifted flour and tliree table- ^p<)onfuls of baking powder. One- half graham and one-half rye meal may be used instead of wheat (lour • â- r two cups uf cornmeal and one of flour. Drop on well-groased patty pans and bake twenty minutes in a rather quick oven or bake on a griddle in muffin rings. Twill Mountain .MutUns. â€" One- quarter cu|)f»l of butter, one-quar- ter cupful of sugar, one egg, well beaten; three-quarter cupful n)ilk, two cujifiils (lour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream the butter, add gradually liie sugar, then the eggs. Sift the flour and baking powder thoroughly and add to the fir.st mixture alternately with the milk. Hake in liot buttered gem pans '_'.") minutes. Sour ('ream ItisfuKs. â€" Four cup- fuls flijur, one ti'asp<.)onful soda and «>ne teaspoonful salt sifted t^)gethcr. „...„,.„ .,„..^^ one pint sour cream. Roll out on a «'m'ion,"butte7"and se^nmg floured board, having the dough • â-  one inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter and put the biscuits in a grea.«ed pan just touching each other. Bake from twelve to fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Coriinieal \UA\s. \y^ cupfuls of white Hour, three-quarter cupful of cornmeal. f(jur teaspionfuls baking powder, one-half teasixionful salt, one tables|)oonful sugar, two (able- spcxjnfuls of butter, one egg, three- quarter cupful of milk. All mea- surements level. Mix and sift dry ingredients into a bowl, chop but- ter in witli knife, beat egg, add milk and ad«| all to dry Ingredients to make a s<,ft dough that can be han- dled ; add more milk if necessary; turn onto a ilourid board. t-,ss Jightly and roll out one-half inch with rolling pin, cut with roiin<i cut- ter, put a piece of butter size of a pea in ceil I re of each round; f<ild round in centre s<» opposite edges' meet, put onto a buttered baking I ^heet: rub tb<' U,\> with milk ami l>ake in a <|uick oven twelve to fif ti'en minutes. Coffee Hums. sift together two quarts (.f (lour, a i)inch <iT salt and A teaciipful of fine granulated su- gar. Make a hole in the 7iiid<l]ft.of this, pour in one jiint of home-made yeast, and mix thoroughly; (hen Htir in one-half teiuupful of melle<I butter. Mix to a stiff batU-r with lukewann sweet milk ; knead into a emwHh dough and let it ^tand in a warm pla<'e overnight. In the morn- ing knead again, roll out lightly and cut with a biscuit cutter. Put in a greased baking pan, allowing about one-half inch between. Hrush the tops with milk and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Hake in a mod- crate oven for about :tO minutes. Hondiern Corn Hread. Sift two cupfuls of cornmeal twice with an even U-aspoonful of soda and as much salt. Beat two egga very light. Mix one teas|HMinful of su- gar in three cupfuls of buttermilk or loppered milk, add the eggs and » tablesjxM.nful of meUe<l butt<-r. dishwater will brighten the glass and silver. Bread and butter spread with chopped dates nia.ke» excellent school sasdwiches. To pad the edges of doilies before embroidering them, work them in a coarse chain- stitch. To slice bacon properly, lilice down to tlie rind ; do not attempt to slice through the rind. I'aint the handles of the garden tools a bright red ; they will be hard to lose and easily found. If you spill ink on the carpet, put salt on it immediately ; it will lielp remove the spot. To do away with the sound of a watch in a sick ro<jm, place the watch under a tumbler. Suet may be kept fresh by chop- ping roughly and sprinkling it with a little granulated' sugar. Wrap cheese in a cloth moistened witli vinegar if you would keep it moist and free from^ mold. Button loops will be much stronger if the loops are crocheted over with a fine crochet hook. When milk boils over, sprinkle salt on the stove at once ; this will counteract the unpleasant odor. A small piece of camphor in the water in which cut-flowers are put will make them last much longer. Condensed milk is cheaper and as good as fresh milk for the making of cocoa, puddings and ice cream. Carrots cut 'n circles, boiled till tender, then salted, served piping hot and sprinkled with_ chopped parsley are delicious. When you jiaste labels on glass jars that are used for spices or cer- eals, put the label on the iilside; it will stay more securely. A g<iod sauce for lamb is made of currant jelly, broken up and mixed with finely chopped mint leaves and a few shavings of orange rind.' Cold rice left over from a meal can be made into an appetizing dish, with tomato sauce, minced Bake half an hour Lemon juice is invaluable in re- mo\iug stains resulting from pota- to parings or fruit picking. First dip the fingers into salt, and then apply the lemon. -/â-  lastly the prepar<'d flour. Have ready three weJI grea.sed deep jelly cako tins (warmed), divide the bat- ter between them and bake in a quick ov«ii. Some KlonrleHN iteeliies. Iti these (la.\» when flour is rapid Jy increasing in price, housewives •hould fry an<l see what tliey can •cconipliwh in the bakery line with- out the aid of that usiially all im portant item (lour. The recipe for "Pota(o BiH<'ult" Hhould prove gcxxl. Take two cups (lour, three tablespoons »hoit<'iiing, three tea spoon* salt, two cups anashe<l (Mita toes, about two cups milk. Mix as ordinary biscuit an<l roll thin. Bake In qui<'k oven. Another one f<ir "Hrati lliead"i» given, and to any housewife wlxise income has not ris<n with the price «f fooiistuffs, either of these recipes should be of value in helping to feed « hungry brood. Bran Jlrcad One cup niola.'-seK, two teaspoons haking eoda (dissolved in hot water an<l tA<\ed to molassew) ; stir well until batter foams, then a<id one pi/it of liweet or «our milk, on (piart of bran, two cujm of wheat flour, one t«tt»i)i)(.n salt. Mix well and bake one hour in bIow oven. This makes two good sized loaves of fine health bread. iNehil ninU. fiaind vegetabliH are ft« important in the winter as in the Hummer dietary. An excellent stew is niiuie of soup meat and macaroni, flavored with tomatnns. A Ittw dxops of ammonia in the IMSKASF H|:ATS THF, (il N. ICighly Per Cent, of Deaths in War Uiie to DiseuMe. Notwithstanding modern medioal science, eighty of the deaths in the present war are due iu disease, as against twenty due to gun fire. These are the figures compiled by l)r. F. N. SandWith, writing in the Hcspital, London. This same pro- portion oV)tained during the llusso- Turkish war of 1H77-78. During the .\merican (,'ivi! War there were three deaths to disease to every one from wounds ; that is to say, a mor- tality due to disease of sixty six and Iwo-l birds i)er cent. During the French expedition in Miida'^ascar in iHO.'j, according to the writer, only twenty-nine deaths oe<'urre<l in action as against seven thousand who died by diseuse. In the Hoer War the losses from dis- ease were I'lioiiuous, not.withstand- ing the inii)rovemei)ts in military hygiene then in force. The Japanese, however, <luring the war with Russia were able by exercising the most scrupulous care to rever.se the ratio. In the ease of their ti'oops only one man die<l <Iisea»e to every four who «lie<l w<jund(i. Ceiving that it could not escape in that direction, it wheeled again sharply. The quick turn tipped over the badly balanced cart ; it came down like a 'box on Doucy and the provision bags. All this happened in half a dozen seconds. Doucy had' hardly realized his position when he heard a moan- ing b«llow from the bullock, and knew that the tiger had grappled it. I'inned on his back between the provision bags, Doucy felt the toll- gatherer give the dead 'bullock a tug that made the solid cart quiver ; but the harness held. The tiger was puzzled, and the first time he snarled. The sound was powerful and murderous. Then tllie tiger started to circle the cart to see what the matter was. When he had gone halfway round, his footfalls ceased, and Doucy heard his heart pumping and thudding in the ghast- ly silence. Then he became aware that one of the tiny cihinks between the bags no longer showed a thread of sunlight. Something had blocked it. He knew what it was before he heard the deep raucous intake of air with which the tiger drank the odor of human flesh. Doucy struggled to reach the rifle lying under his feet. The toll-gath- erer tore at the obstructions. With a dry and horrible sound his claws ripped one of the bags. THE SUiAyjCHOI SIODY IMERXATIONAL LESSO:S, FEBRUARY 21. Lesson Till. The Death of Eli and HiH Sons. 1 Sam. i. 1-18. Gold- en Text, James 1, 22. Verse 1. Israel went out against the Philistines to battle.â€" The Phil- istines were last mentioned ia Judges, chapters 13 and 16. It was evident that Israel was not able to throw off the yoke of the Phili*-' tines. TThis servitude lastf»i for forty years (Judg. 13. 1). It termi- nated about the twentieth year of Samuel's judgeship (1 Sam. 7. 13, 14). , Eben-ezer, "stone of help," and Gilgal, ••heap-oj-stones,' had a spe- cial significance (Josh. 4. 20). Eben- ezer is at the head of the Vale of Sorek, where Israel defeated the Philistines (see next lesson, 1 Sam. 7. 12). Aphek means fortress. It was one of the strongholds of Samaria in northern Sharon, where the Philis- tines assembled twice, once before they invaded Israel and once be- A Fa'^einuting Spring Costume. Navy blue gabardine, trimmed with striped muslin cuffs and collar; hat, blue velvet with white silk band. TIIK TOLL CATIIEKKIl I of of RANDO^I SAYINtJS. The girl who is as pretty as a pic tiire generally has negative (|uali- lies. The only way to get along with some people is <'arefully to c<inceal .\our opinion of them I'ewer young men would sow t/heir wild oats if they shouUI first stop to look for a nee<lle in a haystack. The man who enjoys single bless- e<liies.s is doubly blessed. The only time we notice an impe- diment in the speech of some peo- ple is when an occasion arises to jiraise others. Siiee<-h is brittle. Any man can make a ibreak, but mighty few can mend it. Home men are amhitiotis to do goo<l ; olberH to make good. Many a man has been carrie<l un- <ler by the sheer weight of hiw own <lignily. ll is hard for a woman to holdiher husl)Hiid'H love when she can't even hoUl her tongue. Life is made up of surprises. Have you ever notieed that the things that don't seem possible happen no often '( « Ni» HaiuAn Eye Perfwt. iMeasi'rements of human eyes de moiistratc tha.t there is pmbably no such thing iu the world as an abso- lutely [leiievt eye. That would be a miracle, which nature with all her intinite ingenuity has never perfnrnie<l. No human face among ithe world's ltl,(>0(),00(t,IIOO may be liehl perfect, either artistically t>r physiologically. To the owner of t'le face this is velait.ively n... uiiim- jiortant matter, but to the owm r of ilhe pair of eyes an error of one ihree hui)dre<lth of an inch in the ourvalure of ilimensioiis of th'' eye- balls may make th"ii all important funoition ahnorm.il, resulling in eye-strain with its alteiulant l>.:y:;i- cal ills. Tim fall rains had uiulermined a section of the track and [ilaycd mis- chief with a quarter of a mile of embankment. What was more seri- ous, the hill stream, which ha<l risen like the Ganges at flo<xl time, had weakened two piers and the retain- ing wall.s of the railway bridge. Doucy, one of the company's civil engineers, bad been sent up post- haste from Delhi to repair the dam- age. He was to get the day labor- ers from the village three or four miles down the valley. They ha<l helpetl in building tlie road, and could therefore be relied upon. Doucy found the job bigger than he had expected. The wrecked em- bankment did not present unusual difficulties, but the repairing of the stone work was a more serious mat ter. Un<ler the pressure of the seething flood, the big scows that held the workmen were continually slijiping their cables, and either taking a few tons of water aboard at a gulp or sinking altogether. Then the donkey engine had to fish out. as many of the utone bhx-ks as its grappling hooks could seize and yank up the .scow. The men cling ing to the network of life ropes be- low the bridge jiad to be rescue<l and intluced to attempt the danger- ous work again; all of which used up valuable time. As the camp was large, it was necessary to send a bullock cart to the village every other day for rice, mealie flour, and other food sup plies. During the second week one of the carts did not return. The next day a foreman who had giuie to investigate found it in the road with a broken-necked bulloek be- tween its shafts. Some twenty or thirty yar<ls from the rim of the bank tbat ran along the roiulitide lay all that was left of the driver. The siK)or of a large tiger led off into the jungle, but Doucy an<l his trackers failed to run the beast down. Several <lays later the tra.!'Mly was repeated. Another <lead bui lock lay in the red dust alnxist at the same point where the first ha<l been killed. At the tail of the cart was the drivor'iS empty gun ; the ho<ly of the <lriver was fouiul under a tangile of fluwering crpe])ers. DoiK-y or<lere<l a goat and its ki<I to be tethere<l on the bank, ami that, night and the night after he took up {\w watch on a little plat- fomn built in the bran<'he.s of an a<ljaceiit tree. But the tiger did not Hpp(>ar. As he had to keep hinisi'lf fit for his work, the eiigi- neer let one of \\u assistants take his i)liice in (Jui tree on the folli>w- iiig nights. Meanwhile the cart was sent out with a bodyguar<! of f' ur pickc<l men hesidci^ the <lriv,<r, jind thus escorted, it nia<le several trips without misliap. The <'Mo!irH began to snap their flngt r«! when the toll-gatherer, a» they had dubbed the tiger, was men- tioned. He was a coward, they de- clared. He could overpower a driver asleep on his cart, but his heart failed him when it came to facing several amied men. They would burn his whiskers on the camp coals yet if he did not look out. Suddenly, however, a mad bullcK-k cart came spinning into camp with the ashen-facecl driver crouching among its rice bags. All the others had been killed and eaten, he de- clared ; only his own extraordinary courage had saved his life. The at tack had c(une like a bolt from the blue, and no v'gilance could have forest allcil it. Presently three of the escort, dust and covered with sweat, came running into camp; the fourth hiul been killetl. The sur- vivors all agreed that everyone had been brave and that the toll-gatih- erer was invulnerable. F.\eryone now realized that this wa.>t an unusually determined man- eater. The coolies refused to drive the supply cart, and were almost ready to break camp in a body. Doucy saw that he must himself get rid of the toll-gatherer if he wished to retain his workmen. He made his arrangements witili some ingenuity. Out of some brown cloth and a framework of bamboo he put together a figure that when stuffed with grass was a fair imitation of a man. He wound a tlirty turban round its head, add- ed clipping.s from the tail of his horse for hair, and roped the thing to the seat of the cart. The fol lowing day ho ^ot into the body of the cart with h's rifle and drove to the village. N«)thing happened on that rip or the next, but Doucy did not give up. On the third trip he kept as clos<^ a watch as ever, and was par- ticularly careful on liis way back from the village. It was a very hot afternoon. The groaning and squealing of the unoiled woixlen wheels were the only sounds to break the iieavy siJence. The red dust eddied up round tlie cart in clouds. Doucy occasionally lifted his hea«l warily to 8<-an the sur- roundings, but all he could see was a red shimmer of heat waves melt- ing into a brassy glare of sunlight. Tho decoy sat vacillating on its seat witJli its turbaned head bow(>d for- ward in the exact manner of a sleepy driver. The dummy lia<l been greased with eocoanut «.ul and w;ell man haiuNed to make it "saiiell right"; it seemed lifelike enough to deceive a hungry tiger. Doucy lay face down in his nest between the bags, with very little except his khaki eovcre<l back in view. As they neare<l the end of tllie ri<lge lie heard a peciliar «ound 1ik«^ n passing gu'^t. of ir; it was followed by an almost n^ iseless but very jarring shock. He threw up his bea<l in time to see the de<'oy, torn hvose fr<mi its fastenings, in the clutch of a huge tiger. The pair insUintly r<vlled from the <art, and the bullock wheeled aiul da.shed straight at the bank. In its dos- jierate tefror it actually scaled the lower part of the aloj>e ; but por- f\s the great paw gutted it of its! fore they crossed the plain of Ya- contents, Doucy felt the bag loosen ; draelon. It was not far from tho then it collapsed like a deflated bal- 1 Mizpah of Benjamin, and was un- loon, and the cart settled a little on , doubtedly the Aphek of Josh. 1-.J8. that side. It relieved his cramped position just enough to enable him to grasp his rifle. He instantly thrust the muzzle under the edge of the cart. He had not a second to waste and, with the butt of his rifle pressed to his side, fired w-here he knew the beast must be. The answering roar of the tiger showed that he had been hit ; but he was not crippled, for he threw himself upon the cart with great fury and tried to tear away the side with his teeth. Fail- ing in that, he pushed his paw un- der the edge of the cart, and hisi unsheathed claws, sweeping fierce ly througLh the low opening, nar 3. People means the army. Tho elders had a council on the evening of the defeat and resolved to send the ark of tiie covenant of tho Ix>rd in battle. Wherefore hath Jehovah sijiitten' us to-day before the Philisiines.â€" This was the cry of the former time ts"c Josh. 7. V). I. The people.â€" Here, again, the army is meant. As we read in the book of Judges repeatedly in those days there was no king in Israel. And so whatever action was taken seemed to be the concerted action of the army. Shiloh was not many hours dis- tant from Aphek, as the ark wai rowlv missed Doucv's face. i brought the next day. DJucv aimed again instantlv awl I ^Vl'<> sitteth above the cherubim, fired. The toll-gatherer gave an-; The cnerubim were conceived u otlier roar that ended in a deep, | l^earing the Ixird upon their wingj gurgling cough that told of a wound I (see -i Sam. C. 2: -1 Kings 19. 15| through the lungs. Doucj- heard a heavy thrashing sound and the rattling of gravel against the side of the cart. Then everytOiing was as still as death e.xcept for the pounding of his own heart. Bathed with sweat and half stifled by tlie close, hot air under the cart, be waited a long time. There was no sound outside except the uuzzing of hundreds of flies about the bul- lock. At last Doucy began to push away the dirt under the edge of the cart with the butt of his rifle, and when he had scooped a shallow trench he cautiously stuck out his head. Directly in front of him and a little bek>w him, with ears laid back and body gathered in a tense crouch like a cat at a rat hole, was the toll- gatherer. His mouth was open, and Doucy saw that his fangs, which at one time must have been unusually large, were broken and decayed like those of most mtwi-eaters. He aimed his rifle at tho knot of frowning niu-scles between tlie fierce eyes, and was about to pull the trigger, when the tiger leaped. But the effort was too much for the wounded beast. Just aa Doucy shifted hia aim and fired he saw the great body crumple in «nid-air. It fell only a few feet beyond where it had been croudhing, as Jimp as a rag. The toll-gatherer hat! made has last leap. Doucy crowle<l out from under tho cart and cut off the stiff black bris- tlas from the fl.xed, snarling lips. The coolies would burn them on the camp coals that night witli impres- sive ceremony. Doucy was. a tilK>r- oughly practical man, but he knew that native superstitions had to be considered'. Probably the men wouJd spoil a haifdiayof work by dragging the tiger into camp the next morn- ing and holding a triumpili over tJie biKly. At any rate, tlie road was open again; the toll gatherer would c..>llect no more tolls.- Fisher .\me8 in Youth's Companion. True Ueroism. He had been courting the girl for a long time. It happened on Sun- day night, after churc<h. They were sitting ver^' quietly on the sofa, and she looked with ineffable tenderness into his noble blue eyes. "Tom," she murmured, "didn't you tell me once you would be willing to do any act of heroism for my sake 1" "Yes, Mary, and I would gladly re- iterate that statement now," he replied. "No Roman oif old, how- ever brave, was ever fired with a loftier anvbition, a braver resolu- tion than I." "Well, Tom, I want you to do something real hei\iic for me." "Speak, darling, what is it?" ".•\sk me to be your wife. We've been fooling long enough." A street car inspector wias watch- ing the work if tJie green Irish con- ductor. "Hore, Foley, how is tbisl" he said. "You have ten passengers and only nine fares are rung up." "Is that sol" said Fo- ley. Then turning to the passen- gers he shouted t "There's â- waai too nisny av yez on this oar. Get out ol here, waa av yea I" Sam. (J. t ; '> Kings 19. Isa. 37. IC). 6- In the camp ol the Hebrews.â€" This is the name by which the Is- raelites were known to their neigh- bors (Exoti. 1. 15, 16. 19; 2, 6, II, 13; 3 IS; 5. 3). 7. There hath not "been such a lhia„ l.vfitofore. â€" Tl'.e Hebrew word for "heretofore'' is yesterd»v and the third day, meaning the daj* beforo. This was a common expres- sion among the Israi-'lites (see Gen. 31. 2. 5; Exod. 4. 10). 8. These are the gods that smota the Egyptians with all manner ol plagues in the wilderness.- \bl only didj the Israelites never forget the deliverance of their fore, fathers from Egypt, but this inci- dent liad become so fixed as a tra- dition that the neighbors of Israel knew thereof. The Philistines, there- fore, were exceedinglv disturbed when they saw that this same CJt>d was come into tlie camp of Israel. By "in the wilderness" is meant tho shores of the Red Sea (,F.\o<l. 13. •20; 14. 3, 11, 12). 0. Be strong and quit yourselves like men.- Sauit Paul uses similar words in I Cor. 16. 13, "Quit you like men, be strong." This hea- then piHiple was able to rally ita forces by an appeal to tlio inanh<x>d of the army. 1 1 . And "the two sons of FJ i . Tho. man of GioA (1 Sam. 2. 34) liad pro- phesied that both of Eli's sous sliould die in^ one day. 12. And there ran a man.- Run- ners among the Israelites were wtII- known persons. As there wa.< no other xueans of quick communica- tion, men who were particularly fleet of foot were develoj)ed for messenger service. Well-known cases of runners were Cushi ami Ahimaaz (2 Sam. 18. 19-31), and Asahel (2 Sam. 2. 18). There were also running footmen who aceoni- panied the chariots. These run- ners became professionals, as is in- dicated in 2 Sam. 15. 1 ; 1 Kings 1. 5. His clothes rent, and with earth upon bis head. Indicative of bitter grief. Those who saw him, running thus would knt>w that bis message was unfavorable (see 2 Sam. 1. a; Josh. 7. 6). 13. By the wayside watching.^ This was doubtless a street leading to the \Vatch tower (2 Sam. 15. 2; 2 Kings 11. «. 19"). 18. When he made mention of the ark of God.-Kli as priest of Gtxl was particularly responsible for tho ark of the covenant of the Lordi. He had allowed "the j>eople" to go, to tlie very extreme measures of taking the ark into the battle iu or- der to win the victory. Wlien the ark was taken, therefore, he knew that there was no other help. The shock of this disaster wa.i too great for him to stand. Fell from off his seat. This seat, or throne, ha<l no back. The fact that Eli fell backward, however, in- dicates how great was the excite- ment which resulted fronii the wop? of t'be me.iisenger. The biggest docJk Wales. is in Cardiff, Oecnsii)ually the i-ireacher's aim is in<accurate and lus seriaon hits you.