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Rice Griddle Cakes fnr Two.
Into onvhalf cup of thick sour milk
stir thoroaghly one-half cup of boiled
rice; add one-quarter , teaspoonful of
soda and heat briskly. Add one-quarter
cup sweet milk, three-quarters cup
bread flour sifted with one-half tea
spoonful baking powder and one tea
spoonful of melted butter. Beat and
cook on a hot, well-grea9ed griddle,
one large tablespoonful to each "cake."
Pile on a hot plate, spreading each one
with a little melted butter and a lift
ing of sugar. Cut the pile In quar
ters like a pie.
Southern Old-Strle HUcnlt.
The old way waa to beat the birculi
dough with an ax, and to give It 300
blows by actual count. The ' well-bas-tinadoed
suhatance was then made Into
small round cakes wtlh the bands a
cutter Is an Insult to true beaten bis
cuit each about half an inch thick.
The top of each one is then pricked
three times with a fork, and they are
then baked in a moderate oven for
from 20 to 30 minutes. After you have
once eaten them you are harldy sur
prised at their favor with the native
BUILT OH QUICKS AST).
Chocolate Glase.
Put two squares of chocolate Into a
double saucepan. When it is melted
remove it from the fire and stir Into
It half a cupful of sugar, then add a
quarter cupful of hot water. Return
to the fire, stir it until the sugar is dis
solved and continue to cook it without
stirring until a little dropped in wa
ter can be taken up and rolled between
the fingers like a soft ball. Pour it
over to the top of the cake.
Preparntola of Rle.
Instead of washing rice half a dozeu
times In cold water to remove the
starch, rinse twice In very net water
and the same results are gained. Few
northerners succeed In getting the
separated grains, such as are always
see n on southern tables. To obtain
them throw rice slowly into rapidly
boiling, slightly salted water and cook
twenty minutes uncovered.
Ginger Honey Cake.
One cup honey, one-half cup buttet
r drippings, one tablespoonful boiled
cider, one-half cup hot water or one
half cup sour milk will do instead.
Work these ingredients together, and
then add one tablespoonful ginger and
one teaspoonful soda with flour enough
to make a soft batter. Bake In flat
Dan.
Baked Herring-.
Take the herrings, and after wash
ing and drying, rub with ground
cloves, pepper and salt. Place them In
an earthen pan, cover with vinegar
and tie them over with a thick paper.
Put them into a moderate oven, and
bake them for an hour. To be eaten
-old.
Macaroni Roup.
Put 4 ounces of macaroni' and a teu
spoonful of butter, salted a little, into
two quarts of Btock; let It simmer for
half an hour. As soon nn tender cut
Into rings, and drop it again into boll,
lng stock. 8tew quarter of an hour
and grate a little old cheese over It
Codfish Chowder.
One cup pick-up codfish freshened in
hot water twice. Boil with one onion
and one good-sized potato thinly, sliced.
When all are tendar add one pint of
milk, butter and pepper. Heat and
serve with croutons or crackers.
Fried Herring.
Clean and dry. Very little butter Is
Heeded In which to fry them. They
should be well browned. They are rich
enough to be eaten without any kind
of sauce. They will take three-quarters
of an hour to cook.
Hint Abont the Home.
Brush pie crust with cream to la
sure a rich, brown color.
Paint which sticks to glass can be
removed with vinegar.
Slight stains can be removed from
black cloth by rubbing with a freshly
cut raw potato, wiping It with clean
cloth.
When you make griddle cakes, beat
the eggs and milk together with egg
beater. They will almost melt In your
mouth.
Chicken salad Is delicious If mixed
with small pieces of green pepper and
mayonnaise. Press the meat into pep
per cases.
Wash cane-seated chairs with strong
liot lather and dry in the open air.
Avoid the sun, as this will give the
cane a faded appearance.
A plateful of grated Parmesan
cheese it served In many households
with macaroni or spaghetti instead of
cooking the cheese with it.
If you haven't a shoe horn, drop
your handkerchief Into your shoe be
fore Inserting the foot, then pull tight
mad It will slip on easily
Remarkable Piece of Ensrtaserlna; ea
Chlaeae Railroad.
The most remarkable piece of en
gineering on the Pekln-Hankow Rail
road, China's Iron backbone, is Yellow
river bridge. Outside America It Is the
Argest of its kind In the world. It
measures almost two miles from end
U end and Is constructed entirely of
iteel. There Is no stream which shifts
Its bed more than Yellow river. It Is
sailed China's sorrow, and Is said to
baye changed Its course no less than
aine times within the past 20 centu
ries, each time choosing a different
south by which It enters the sea. At
the last great flood, when the waters
forsook their bed, many millions were
lrowned.
The bed of Yellow river Is of quick,
land, so deep that It was Impossible to
ase any masonry In constructing the
bridge. Steel tubes were sunk In place
jf the ordinary concrete pillars 'and
these were Joined together by steel
bands. There are eight of these steel
tubes, each of which goes 50 feet down
Into the bed of the river. Other steel
tubes extend down from 33 to 45 feet
The arches of the bridge have a span
)f 65 feet, where the current Is strong
est, and- of 88 feet In other places. Tha
iteel piles, or tubes, have been filled
with cement to give them strength,
ind rock and stones have been sunk
iround their bases to solidify their
foundations.
ThB et059 were first dropped down
Into the river without any support and
were carried away by the quicksand.
Later mats made of the branches of
trees, bound together with wire, were
let down around the plies and the
itones dropped upon them. In this
way tons of stone have been moored
an such rafts about each pile and they
have made the bridge as firm as
though the piles were bedded in con
:rete. The bridge was put up -in a
year and a half, and on the opening
day a train of 21 cars passed over It
without causing a perceptible vibration.
A FIVE DOLLAR HEX HOUSC
FASHION HINTS
The fashion of very sheer over-dresses
or tunics, combined with heavier materi
als, is exceedingly pretty, if used in good
taste, o
The sketch shows a rose foulard,
polka-dotted in black, and having a tunic
of black chiffon, the hem being embroid
ered in rose, as is also the vest.
Faithful to His Trust.
I was waiting near the elevator In
the factory building for my friend to
come down when I noticed a small boy
sitting In one corner of the hall hold
ing a large, thick sandwich. Me eyed
the sandwich lovingly for a long time,
then he carefully lifted off the top
slice of bread, took out a piece of dill
pickle, ate It, and replaced all as be
fore. In a few seconds he again re
moved the top piece, extracted a piece
of pickle and a piece of meat and re
placed the top. Again and again the
performance was repeated until all the
pickle and almost all the meat were
gone, the sandwich, however, appear
ing Intact as at the beginning.'
"Why dont you eat up your sand
wich and not pick at It In that way?"
I asked the boy, with some curiosity.
"Why," hs answereH, looking up
with great Inaocence, "It ain't my
sandwich." Woman's " Home Compan
ion. A feature of the winter season lq
Quebeo Is a competition for the best
snow statue to be made In Dufferln
terrace, directly opposite the Chateau
Frontenao. Snow lends Itself admir
ably to modeling, as several success
tul Btatues made In past winter car
nivals In Canada testify. It Is prob
able that one of the three judges vlll
be M. Paul Chevre, of Paris, who is
the Bculptor of the Champlaln Jtatue
on Dufferln terrace. M. Chevre Is
spending several weeks in Quebec at
the chateau. The Chateau Frontenao
offers a purse of $50 In gold to the
sculptor of the best snow statue and
two other prizes, each of $25 In gold,
are offered by business firm.
Poultry- House for Five Dollars.
We have two poultry houses made
from rough lumber, sawed from a tree
out of the woods, and covered with
shingles, but the cheapest one we have
I made out of scraps of lumber found
around the barn and lumber pile such
as can be found on most farms. Inside
measurements are 10x12 feet, 5 feet
high In front, 4 feet at back and 7V4
feet at the comb, which is 3 feet from
front.
We like this shape and size of house
very much and If we were building
another, think we would build the
same shape of roof, as it is convenient
and easy to get around in it
"Of course, there were cracks and
Irregular shaped boards in my house,
but after I had covered the entire
house with three-ply - roofing paper
these were covered up and we had a
nice looking, warm and dry house.
The window In front Is 3x4 feet and
is hinged so It can be easily opened for
ventilation. At the end of the house I
made a smaller window of ten panes of
glass. These window openings are
covered on the outside with -lnch
mesh wire screen. We have an inside
door of lath, which we can close and
leave outside one open on mild days In
winter w"hen the ground is covered
with snow and we don't want the
chickens out, or at night In summer.
It required four squares of roofing
paper to cover the entire house, which
cost us about $3.75. We buy 8x10
glass by the box of 100 panes; so the
26 panes cost about 52 cents, and the
wire netting for windows 75 cents.
I built the house four years ago and
It is as good as ever, excepting the
roof, which was damaged by a very
hard hail storm last spring. We put
new paper on top of old, and it Is now
as good as new. Mrs. J. E. Thompson,
q Farm and Home.
The Quality of Butter.-
The quality of butter depends to a
great degree upon the food and drink
of the cow. She should have clean,
pure water and wholesome food. Much
care should be taken In the selection
of the ration. The individual cow has
much to do In this regard. But with
respect to the part that is played in
handling the product of the cow too
much carelessness is evident In the
processes of butter-making. After
churning is finished the butter and
milk mixture should remain quiet for
about ten minutes in order to let the
butter come to the surface. A cup of
cold water will hasten the process.
An old recipe says:
The butter should be carefully
skimmed off into a wooden bowl half
full of water. The water should be
repeatedly changed until it shows no
indication of milklness. It is impor
tant that the butter should not be
pressed or worked during the process
of removing the milk from the butter.
After this the butter may be pressed
Into a mass and salt to the extent of
one-fortieth Its weight worked Into it.
The water should be well pressed out,
but the less worked .he more perfect
ly Its granular character Is maintained.
Catches All the Fruit.
One of the most Ingenious of time
saving contrivances Is the fruit gather
er designed by a Kentucky man. It
collects all the fruit
that falls from a tree
and holds It where it
can be quickly picked
up and placed In a
basket, also saving the
apples, pears or what
ever they may be from
damage by falling. A
circle of stakes Is
driven around the tree
in a radius wide enough -to Include
anything that falls from It. A circle
of canvas, with a hole in the middle
to receive the trunk of the tree, Is
fastened around the latter and also
festened to the stakes with the outer
edge of the ring lower than the por
tion around the tree. Around the outer
edge, too, Is a wall to keep the con
tents from rolling oft to the ground.
The fruit falls from the tree Into this
canvas net and Is thus saved from
bruising. It rolls down to the outer
edge and lies there until the picker
conies along and collects It, thereby
saving the latter time and trouble and
keeping the fruit Itself In good condition.
Fattening Fowls.
Buckwheat meal Is very good to use
In fattening chickens, but shr-4 he
used In preference mixed, ha)
dqik or otner meal, choice being given
to cornmeal or ground oats. To fatten
a fowl you should commence doing
so exactly eighteen days before the
fowl or fowls are needed for killing
or for marketing, as after eighteen
days of fattening they begin to lose
flesh instead of gaining it A. V.
Meersch In Western Poultry Journal.
Rheumatism of Horses.
In the highly fed and pampered
horse, Inadequately exercised, a form
of rheumatism, indistinguishable from
gout Is met with, says Horse World.
It chiefly affects the fetlock, but may
attack the navicular joint when the
patient experiences "those pains arth
ritic which Infect the toe of libertine
excess."
The lameness Is peculiarly painful
when the latter Joint Is involved, as
no swelling can take place and give re
lief which Is afforded by the puffing
of a fetlock, a knee or hock. There
can be little doubt that many 'of the
intermittent foot lamenesses attribut
ed to true navicular disease are rheu
matic in origin, and that the so-called
cures of navicular lameness otherwise
than by the operation of unnerving
are due to the disappearance of rheu
matlo athrltls. Many navicular bones
examined after the death of horses
long suffering, from disease have all
the appearances of the rheumatic de
posits. The Milk Industry.
The milk producers of Northern Illr
nols have decided to resurrect a dor
nrnnt Industry In their fight against
the milk trust They are considering
plants to re-establish their own
creameries which were sold to the Bor
den Company ten or fifteen years ago.
These will act as an outlet for their
product If the association does not suc
ceed In establishing Its own distribut
ing depot In Chicago, which is looked
upon as more than a possibility. Fif
teen years ago the Northern Illinois
section was dotted with creameries
established by the farmers, many of
them being run on the co-operative
plan. This was when the Borden
Company was beginning to branch out
Offers of purchase were made to fa
cilitate trading with the fanners and
they agreed with most disastrous re
sults. Agricultural Epltomlst
Homemade Plank Harrow,
A good homemade harrow can be
made by fastening together several
planks so that each plank overlaps
the one next to It like the clapboards
of a building. It Is said to be as good
HARROW MADE OF PLAXK8.
a? a roller for smoothing and fining
the surface soil on lumpy ground. It
will be found to work especially fine
In the lighter soils. It can be used
also for broadcasting small seeds and
In the planting of garden truck.
Cost ' of Producing Eggt,
A bulletin from Cornell University
gives the results of a record of a few
hundred hens kept in 1902 as 9.2 cents
per dozen for the average feed cotft of
eggs throughout the year. Some figures
published in Farm Poultry gave the
record of a large number of poultry
keepers, which shows the average cost
of eggs per dozen In winter as 15
cents, in summer 8.7 cents. Undel
present prices the feed alone would be
about 11 to 12 cents per dozen.
Slow Development Beat.
When one is growing baby beei
there are good reasons for forcing the
feeding. With that class of animals
forcing is necessary, but Is not neces
sary with animals that are to stand at
the head of herds. Development more
than normally quick will be of no
advantage to them. With them that
style of development should be fol
lowed that will result in fullest and
most vigorous growth when matured.
Smallest Cows In the World.
The smallest cows in the world ar
found In the Samoan Islands. The
average weight of the males does not
exceed 200 pounds. The females aver
age about 100 pounds, they are very
stocklly built and are seldom taller
than a merino sheep. In color these
cattle are nearly all alike, a reddish
mouse color marked with white. They
have very large heads, and their horns
are of exceptional length.
Fastening Wires to Small Posts
If you are using hedge fence posts,
especially small ones, .ho only sure
way to fasten the barb wire to them
Is to wire It with hay wire. The
staples might possibly stick at first,
but the chances are that there will
be a crack at that point and the sta
ple will drop out or be pulled out soon
er or later.
Sowing Beet Seed. .
Beet seed should be sown rather
thinly, if you want to save back-breaking
thinning. Parsnip seed should be
sown rather thickly to insure their get
ting through. In thinning parsnips
never touch them when wet, as wet
leaves touching any part of the hand,
uenoJiy unexposed, will make painful
Alcohol
not needed
Ayer's Sarsaparllla Is not a
strong drink. As now made
there is not a drop of alcohol
in it. It is a non-alcoholic tonic
and alterative. Ask your own
doctor about your taking this
medicine for thin, impure
blood. Follow his advice
every time. He knows.
A
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yers
W. banl.h .l.-v.,
frost our moduunaa
wo area you to
'u.uik your
ooior
A c-1 ws.ii Jnntn. tTTI.-. I- .1- - rt
w jwui UUV.IVI, w mi is me nrsi great
rule of health?" Nine doctors out ol
ten will quickly reply, " Keep the boweli
regular." Then ask him another ques
tion, "What do you think of Ayer'i
Pills for constipation?"
'Xsda by tha J. O. Aysr Co., lwall, Kaai.
tolea Joke.
The shade of the Ice baron had In
troduced himself to Charon on the
river Irip.
"Quit a roomy bit of water, this
Styx," he commented. 'Never freezes
over, does it?
"Not so's to Interfere with naviga
tion," said Charon smilingly, "and,
by the way, that very fact gave Me
ohlsto the Idea for his favorite joke."
"You dont say! What's the gagr
"Why, when a guest In hades com
plains of the scarcity of Ice the old
boy explains that It's due to the un
precedented perversity of the past
winter." Buffalo Times.
Ants aad Colore.
It was proved long ago that anti
have the power of seeing the to us
invisible rays of the ultra violet por
tion of the spectrum. They fear the
light for their larvae and when al
lowed cholee between different degrees
of light always carry them to the
darkest place accessible. When given
the choice between a compartment
lighted with yellow light and one dark
to our eyes, but under the actinic ray,
the ants unhesitatingly chose the yel
low light, showing that to their eyes
It was darker than the other, to man
n visible. Argon au t.
Mothert wtn find Mrs. Whitlow's Soothing
Byrap the bast remedy to Uso lot their children
luring the teething period.
Consul General James W. Ragsdal
states that another example of the pol
icy In Canada to produce the finished
flsh product is the recent venture of a
cold storage company at Halifax In
putting up fillets of flsh. This is a
Droduot virtually unknown to tnls
tountry, but very popular in England.
Omissions of History.
Pope Gregory had revised the calen
dar. "The spelling needs reforming, too,"
he said, "but I'm afraid to tackle that"
Which shows what he missed by not
having Prof. Brander Matthews handy
to brace him up and viva him courage.
Siamese HuaTlish.
Here Is an amuslug extract taken
from a Siamese paper that has an
English column for foreign readers:
"Shooting Outrage O Fearful Ago
ny. Khoon Tong was a man of Lan
goon and on his return accidentally
shot at by some miscreant scoundrels.
Untimely death, oh fearful! All men
expressed their mourn. The cowardice
dogs is still at large."
SORE EYES, weak, inflamed, red,
watery and swollen eyes, use PETT
IT'S EYE SALVE. All druggists or
Howard Bros.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Recent sl.ui .ca ol iiio German
army show that neurasethenla Is thret
and a half times as prevalent amoni
the soldiers as It was a decade ago,
while hysteria cases are twice as numerous.
Making a Distinction.
"There la not a particle of evidence,
your honor," said the attorney for the
defense, "to show that my client waa
within a dozen miles of the scene when
the crime was committed "
"I beg your pardon," interrupted the
othur lawyer, "but his brother-in-law
testifies specifically that he saw him
there."
"I know It," rejoined the defendant's
attorney, "but his testimony Isn't evidence."
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W. I Douglas .1.00
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quality considered,
la the world.
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equal, In style, lit and
wear, other makes
coating BO. OO to SW.OO.
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