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7 f 4 Tile flScRJS By MONRE DE CHAPTER II. fCoctinued.1 "Will you penult tue. nmdeuioisel!a n the anniversary of your birthday, to wish you a mg succession o( prosperous )ear. an J may you for long preserve the health wiili which you are blet-d at He then offered her such a bouquet of Bower at was seldom two in Saumur: and taking the heiress by both arms, fare her a ki on either aide of the throat, a fervent salute which brought the color iuto Eugenie' face. The mag istrate wait tall and thin, somewhat re sembling a rusty nail; this was bin no tion of paying court. "IH not di-turb yourself," Mid Gran jet, coming back into the room. "Fine loings these of yours, M. le President, on high days and holi.Hys," "With mademoiselle beside him erery lay would be a holiday fr my nephew," answered the Abbe Cruchot. a!v armed with a bouquet; and with that the Abbe kissed Eugenie's hand. Aa for M. Cru fhot, he kissed her unceremoniously on both cheeks, saying: "This aort of thing makes ua feel older, eh? A whole, year older every twelve month." tJrandet set down the candle in front af the brass clock on the chimney piece; whenever a joke amused him he kept on repeating it till it wa worn threadbare; be did so now. "As to-day is Eugenie' birthday," be aid, "let u have an illumination." He carefully removed the branches from the two sconces, fitted the sockpts Into other !ede-tal, took from Nation's bauds a whole new caudie wrapped iu a crap of paper, fixed it firmly in the socket, and lighted it. Then he went over to his wife and took up his position beside her. looking by turns at his daugh ter, his friends, and the two lighted cau dles. The Abbe Cniehot was a fat, dumpy little mun. Hi peculiar tyie of face might have belonged to some old lady whose lile is spent at the card table. At this moment he was stretching out his feet and displaying a very neat and strong pair of shoes with silver buckles on them. "The ties Grassins have not come round?' he asked. "Not yet," auswered Grandet "Are they sure to corre?" put in the old notary, with various contortions of a couiiteiiaucu as full of holes us a col ander. "Oh." yes. I think they will come," said Mine. Grandet. "Is the vintage over?" asked President de Bonfons, addressing Gruudet; "are all your grapes gathered?" "Yes, everywhere'" answered the old vine grower, rising and walking up and down the length of the room. He straightened himself up as he spoke with B conscious pride that appeared iu that word "everywhere." As he passed by the door that opened Into the passage, Grandet caught a flimpse of the kitchen; the fire was still alight, a candle was burning there, and big Nanon was about to legin her spin ning by the hearth; she did not wish to Intrude upon the birthday party. "Nauon!" he called, stepping ont into the passage, "Nanon! why ever don't you rake out the fire; put out the caudle fiiid come in here! The room is large enough to hold us all." "But you are expecting grand visitors, sir." "Have you any objection to them? They are all descended from Adam just is much as you are. 1 Grandet went back to the president "Have you sold your wine?" he in quired. "Not I; I am holding it. If the wine Is good now, it will be better still in two years' time. The growers, as you know, of course, are in a ring, and mean to keep prices up. The Belgians shall not hare it all their own way this year. And If they go away, well and good, let them go; they will come back again." "Yes; but we must hold firm," said Grandet 1n a tone that mad the magis trate shudder. "Suppose he should sell bis wine behind our backs?" he thought At that moment another knock at the door announced the des Grassing, and Interrupted a quiet talk between Mme. Grandet and the Abbe Cruchot Mme. des Grassins was a dumpy, live ly little person with a pluk-and-white complexion, one of those womeq for whom the course of life In a country town has flowed on with tranquillity, and still youthful at the age of forty. Her husband had been a quartermaster in the Imperial Guard, but he had re tired from the army with a pension, after being badly wounded at Austerlitz. In rpite of his consideration for Grandet, he still retained, or affected to retain, the bluff manners of a soldier. "Good day, Grandet," he said, holding out his hand to the cooper with that wonted air of superiority with which he eclipsed the Cruchot faction. "Mademoi selle," he added, addressing Eugenie, af ter a bow to Mme. Grandet, "you are al ways charming, ever good and fair, and what more can one wish you?" With that he presented her with a mall box, which servant was carrying, .nj which contained a Cape heath, a plant only recently introduced into Eu rope, and very rare. Mme. des Grassins embraced Eugenie very affectionately, squeezed her hand, and said, "I have commissioned Adolphe to give you my little birthday gift." A tall, fair-haired young man, some' what pallid and weakly in appearance, came forward at this; his manners were passably good, although he seemed to be shy. He had Just completed his law , studies in Paris. He now kissed Eu genie on both cheeks, and laid a work box with gilded "liver fittings before her; it was a showy, trumpery thing enough, In spite of the little shield on the lid. on which "E. O." had been engraved In Gothic characters. Engente raised the M with a little thrill of pleasure; the happiness was aa complete aa it was on leefcsd for the happiness that bring bright color into a young girl's face and i her tremble wita aeugnt tier eyes ! to her father aa If to ask whether aft atlfht accept the gift; M. Grandet aaewered the mat inquiry with a "Take it, amy daagtur in tone whkh would asm aaaae tka ftfwUttoa of aa actor. ti ttuw Orach at daa.foaaa'ot. DAUGHTER BALZAC when they saw the bright, delighted glance that Adolphe des Grassins receiv ed from the heire. who seemed to be d&uled by such undreamed-of splendors. CHAPTER III. M. des Grassins offered his snuff-box to Grandet took a pinch himself, brosh ed off a few stray specks from bis blue coat and from the ribbon of the Legion of Honor at his buttonhole, and looked at the Out-hots, as who should say. "Parry that thrust if you can!" Mme. des GrassW eyes fell on the blue glass jars lu which the Cruchots' bouquets had been set. She looked at their gifts with the innocent air of pretended interest which a satirical woman knows how to assume upon occasion. It was a delicate cris'ia. The Able got np and left the others, who were forming a circle round the fire, and joined Grandet in his prom enade up and down the room. When the two elders had reached the embras ure of the window the priest said in the miser's ear, "Those people yonder are throwing their money out of the win dows." "What does that matter to me, so long as it comes uiy way?" tue old vine grow er answered. "If you had a mind to give your daugh ter gulden scissors, you could very well afford it," said the Abbe. "I shall give her something lieller than scissors," Grandet answered. "What u idiot my nephew is!" thought the Abls as he looked at the magistrate, whose dark, ill favored coun tenance was set off to perfection at that moment by a shock head of batr. "Why couldn't he have hit on some expensive piece of f (vdcry ?" "We will take a hand at cards. Mine. Grandet," said Mme. des Grassins. "But as we are all here, there are enough of us for two tables. . . .' "As to-day is Eugenie's birthday, why not all play together at Into?" mid old Grandet; "these two children could join iu the game. Here, Nanon, move the ta bles out." "We will help you. Mademoiselle Na non," said Mme. des Grassins, cheerfully; she was thoroughly pleased because she had pleased Eugenie. "I have never seen anything so pretty anywhere," the heiress had said to her. "I have never bc 1 so happy iu my life Ufore." "It was Adolphe who chose it." said Mme. des Grassins in the girl's ear; "he brought it from Paris." "Go your ways, scheming woman," muttered the magistrate to himself. "If you or your husband ever fiud yourselves lu a court of law. you shall be hard put to it to gain the day." Two tables were in readiness by hnlf nast eight o'clock. Mme. des Grassins, w ith her wiuuing w ays, had succeeded in lilji-inif her son nest to Eugenie. The old cooper himself eyed the group with a ertnin self -com nlacewv: he looked at Mine, des Grassins with her pink feath ers and fresh toilet, at the banker's sol dierly fate, at Adolphe, at the magis trate, at the Abbe and the notary, and within himself he said; "They are all after my crowns; that is what they are here for. It is for my daughter that they come to be bored here. Aha! and my daughter is for noue of them, and nil these people are so mauy harpoons to be used in my fishing." Just as Mme. Grandet had won sixteen sous, the largest amount that had ever Ix-en punted beneath that roof, and big Nanon was beaming with delight at the sight of Madame pocketing that splen did sum, there was a knock at the house door, so sudden and so loud that the women started on their chairs. "No one in Saumur would knock in that way!" said the notary. Nanon took up one of the two can dles and went to open the door. Gran det followed her. "Grandet! Grandet!" cried his wife; a vague terror seized her, and she hur ried to the door of the room. The play ers all looked at each other. 'Suppose we go, too?" said M. des Grassins. "That knock meant no good, it seemed to me." But M. des Grassins scarcely caught a glimpse of a young man's face and of a porter who was carrying two huge trunks and an assortment of carpet b-gs, before Grsndet turned sharply on his wife and said: "Go back to your loto, Mme. Grandet, and leave me to settle with this gentle man here." With that he slammed the parlor door, aud the loto players sat down again, but they were too much excited to go on with the game. "Is it any one who lives in Saumur, M. des Grassins?" his wife inquired. "No, a traveler. As a matter of fact," said the notary, drawing out a heavy an tique watch, a couple of fingers' breadth in thickness, and not unlike a Dutch punt In shape, "it is nine o'clock. The mail coach is not often behind time." "Is he young looking?" put in the Abbe Cruchot "Yes," answered M. des Grassins. "The luggage he has with him must weigh three hundred kilos at least It must be some relation." "Let us put down our stakes." said Mme. Grandet gently. "M. Grandet was vexed, I could tell that by the souud of his voice, aud perhaps he would be dis pleased if he came in and found us all discussing his affairs." "Mademoiselle," Adolphe addressed his neignlxir, it will be your cousin Grandet, no doubt, a very nice-looking young fel low whom I once met at a ball." Adolphe went no farther; his mother stamped on his foot nnder the table Aloud, she asked him for two sous for his stake, adding in an undertone, meant only for his ears, "Will you hold your tongue, you great silly!" , They could hear the footsteps of Na non and the porter on the staircase, but Grandet retaraed to the room almost im mediately, and Just behind him came the traveler who had excited so much curiosity, and loomed so large In the im aginationa of those assembled; Indeed, his sudden descent into their midst might be compared to the arrival of a snail in a beehive or that entrance of peacock Into eome humdrum village poultry yard. "Take a aeat aear the are," said flmlet, alaVseeiag etraager. The voung man looked round the room I and bowed very gracefully before seat ' lug himself. The men rose and bowed I politely in return, the women courtesied I rather ceremonioosly. "You are feeling cold, I expect, air," ( said Mme. Grandet; "you have no doubt : come from " j "Just like the women!" broke in the 1 good man, looking up from the letter ! which he held In his hand. "Do let the ' gentleman hare a little peace." ! "But, father, perhaps the gentleman , wants something after his journey," said Eugenie. "He has a tongue in his head," tie vine grower answered severely. The stranger alone felt any surprise at thia scene, the rest were quite used to the worthy man and his arbitrary be havior. But after the two inquiries had received these summary answers the stranger rose and stood with his back to the fire, held out a foot to the blaze, so as to warm the soles of hia boots, and said to Eugenie: "Thank you, cousin, I diued at Tours. And I do not require suything." be added, glancing at Gran det; "I am not in the least tired." "Io you come from Paris?" Mme. des Grassins now put the inquiry. M. Charles, for this was the name Ixirne by the sou of M. Grandet of Paris, hearing some one question bim, took out au eyeglass that hung suspended from bis neck by a cord, fixed it in his eye, made a deliberate survey of the objects upon the table and of the people sitting around it, eed Mme. ds Grassins very coolly, and said, "Yes, madame. You are playing at loto, aunt," he added; "pray go on with your game, it is too amusing to le broken off." M. des Grass in put down a counter on his wife's card; the lady herself was not thinking of loto. her mind was full of melancholy forebodings; she was watching Eugenie and the cousin from Paris. She saw bow the heiress now aud then stole a glance at her cousin, aud the banker's wife could easily dis cover in those glances a cresceudo of amazement or of curiosity. There was certainly a strange contrast between M. Charles Grandet, a hand some young mini of two-and-twenty, and the worthy provincials, who were scorn fully st lulling the stranger with a view to making game of him. CHAPTER IV. It seemed to Eugenie, who had never in her life beheld such a paragon, that her cousin was some seraphic vision, eome creature fallen from the skies. The perfume exhaled by those shining locks, so gracefully curled, was delightful to her. She would fain have passed her fin gers over the delicate, smooth surface of those wonderful gloves. She envied Charles his Utile hands, his complexion. the youthful refinement of his features. His manners, his way of adjusting his eyeglass, his superciliousness, his affec tations, his manifest contempt for the lit tle box which had but lately given so much pleasure to the wealthy heiress; ev erything, in short, which had given of fense to the Cruchots and the Grnssin istes pleased Eugenie so much that she lay awake for long that night thinking atxiut this phenix of a cousin. Then there was a general stir and a wheeling movement in the direction of the fire. Eugenie left the room to help her mother and Nanon, seized with a restless and urgent desire to see that all was right in her cousin's room, to busy herself on her cousin's account, to see that nothing was forgotten, to think of everything he might require, and to inaks sure that it was there, to make ceitain that everything was as neat and prettj as might be. She alone, Eugenie thought, could cuter into her cousin's ideas and understand his tastes. Her mother and Nanon were about tr leave the room in the belief that it was all in readiness; Eugenie convinced them in a moment that everything was yet to do. She filled Nauon's head with the ideas, the shpets had not leea aired. Nanon must bring the wanning pan, there were ashes, there was a fire down stairs. She herself covered the old tabls with a clean white cloth, and told Nanon to mind and be sure to change it every morning. There must be a good fire in the room. She ran downstairs into the parlor, sought In one ofghe sideboards for an old japanned tray, and from the same source procured a hexagonal crystal glass, a little gilt spoon with almost all the gilding rubbed off, and an old slender-necked glass bottle with Cupids en grave.! upon it; these she deposited iu tri umph on a corner of the chimney piece. More ideas had crowded up in her mind during that one quarter of an hour than in all the years since she had come into the world. (To be continued.! WILD LIFE OBSERVATION Most of Us See More or Leva than tb Truth. Good observers are probably about as rare as good poeu. Accurate seeing r an eye that takes In the whole truth, and nothing but the truth how rare Indeed It Is! So few persons know or cau tell exactly what they see; so few persons can draw a right inference from an observed fact; so few persona can keep from reading their own thoughts and preconceptiona Into what they see; only a person with the scien tific bablt of mind can be trusted to report things as they are. Most of u, in observing the wild life alwut us, see more or less of the truth. We see less when our minds are dull, or pre occupied, or blunted by want of inter est This Is true of most country peo ple. We aee more when we read the Uvea of uie wild creatures about us In the light of our human experience, and Impute to the birds and beasts human motives and methods. This la too often true of the eager city man or woman who sallies out Into the coun try to study nature. The tendency to sentimentalize na ture haa. In our time, largely taken the place of the old tendency to demoulze and splritize It. It is anthropomor phism In another form, less fraught with evil to us, bat equally in the way of a clear undrstan41ng of the Ufa about us. John Burroughs In the Cen tury. fJnole "De people dat pots In de moat Mme looUn' foh trouble," said Uncle Kben, "la de very ooea dat knows da least abort what to do wlf It when day finds It" Waehlagtea Star. New Condition for Ksrroerm. One day, late in 'be autumn, a half Wn farmer, coming fifteen nille. rove iuto a prairie village with heavy Had of corn. They went to the prln Ipal elevator and asked the price. "Thirty cents a bushel to-day." "We will go to the buyer at the otn r etid of the town," said the spokes Dan. "It will do you no good." was the vply. "a all the buyers pay the same rh-e here." "Very well; we will go borne and leud our corn to market on foot" They drove trfiok fifteen miles and inloaded the com Into their own gran Ties, to be shipped later In the for.n f fat cattle. Such an incident would have bevn mpossible ten years ago, when the av irage farmer was compelled to take fhat was offered for his crop. But (wo things have worked a transfor ation In the grain-growing portion, of he Wrtt; the farmers have become Vmservatlve with prosperity, and the allroads have widened the markets. Five years of good crops In the West mve not only paid the debts, but have ilso made the farmer capable of -m-loying business methods. A few 'ear ago a wttler visited town only a fortnight or once a month. lie iiok home with him the county papers,, he few tnagazlni-s that he received Ind a large bundle of gnx-erles and Iry goods. With rural delivery and rural telephone all that Is passed. t'ndcr these conditions the Wcste-n tanner has developed an independence: !n the movement of crops disconcert ing to the mnrket manipulator. C. I. Harger, in the World's Work. Butt Holder. A convenient bag hoUlir Is made ns follows: Procure a piece of two-Inch 'blank thirty Inches long and as wide IS you can get. Bore two one aim a Hinrtcr inch lol- In the plank twetity fiiur Inches apart. Then get two Btk-ks three feet nine Inches loug of some lough wood. Shave these sticks to fit tightly Into a three-quarter Inch hole Now take two blocks of hard wood four and one-half Inches long like A In illustration. These circular pieces should lie one inch thick ech way nd they should have alwut three small ath nails sticking out one-quarter of U Inch to keep the bag from slipping off. It Is the spring of the two long sticks that holds the bag tight The blocks can be sllpjied up or down on the side strips to suit the length of the bags. V. A. Franklin In Iowa Home vtead. Profits of a fcinall Dairy. Having seen several records of dairy fanning by some of your read era, I will let you know what we have flone the past year, from January 1 1SSM3, to January L 1904. We started with four cows the first six . months, ind five cows the balance of the year, jne a heifer coming fresh last of June, Iiellvered at creamery 2H,1.'5 pounds t milk which made 1,2J5 pounds of butter. Total sales for the year as follows: 1.225 pounds butler $.100 T l head of hogs llli 04 988 dozen eggs 170 40 i yearling heifers.. 21 00 t'oultry and calves 22 8.1 Total ?044 70 Bought oatmeal, bran, shorts, etc 107 00 Balance, net $487 70 I don't think this Is a bad showing for a place that some of the ne!ghlors ald, four years ago, when we came here, "You can't raise anything on tha Id place." C, E. Ringer. Fodder Rye. The first crop to be of service In tho iprlng is rye, which fs sometimes ready for feeding the last week In April ' . ... I A . 1 U Hllll ilia utr cuiiiiiiuru ujiouku me first half of May. It matures very rapidly after the beads appear, and ran tie successfully used for a period ttf from ten to fourteen days if seeded it different times, and cutting is begun before it comes in head. Where It oot practicable to practice soiling the trope may be pastured. Thia method, while more wasteful, la less expensive than soiling. It Is very Important to have a pasture crop. at that season because coming before meadow paa lures are ready. The crop yields well in medium soils, though It responds arofltably to good treatment It is rec- C1 fey J 'lief ' COrtVESlENT BAO HOLDER. ommended that ft be seeded thicker (ban wuf the cror is used for graix Froui two to two ai1 one half bushels of seed may le used with adtantage on md soils The fertilizer should I, rich ia available phosphoric acid. A fertilizer containing nitrogen 3 i" cent, phospuori" aHd H er cent. t ssh 5 per cent, may lie applied at t ine of seeding at the rate of '- to : pounds i-r acre. A top dressing of nitrate of soda In the spring at 1h rate of lou to 150 pounds ir acre is excellent Aa to Fsrai Poultry. It Is very hard to make farmers un derstund how great their advantages are lu poultry raising. They will say the work doe not pay. for It takes their time from crop that bring more money. There is something in this If one has a crop which is profitable and which is brought to the marketing point at small expense. It would be folly to advocate that anyone drop a paying crop to take up something they are doubtful about, but where there are diversified Interests on the farm poultry can be made to pay more than It doe. The writer knows a man who has one acre in a small town devoted to poultry. He goes to a nearby city and buys live poultry of wholesale commis sion men at the market price, amp them home, fattens them ami market them dn-nsed in the towns war him Niue-tentlii of the food consumed by tliu fouls must Im bought, and yet inn man makes a comfortable living out ol the work. This 1 one case of many, ml if this can be done It Is ccrtalul.v' reasonable to claim that the farmer, who can raise the chickens from eggi nd also the food consumed by them. an turn the result on 10 me unn at a profit. The one cause of failure is not un dcrstamliiiR the tieetls of the fowls and how to f.iil them to advantage. Learn his bv experience, and ultry raising will be found one of the most profit- ble ventures In w hich the fanner cat) engage. imiiauapoiiM jfws, KIk Missouri Corn. In the corn contest at St Iiuis. which was held under the auspices of the Missouri World's Fair Commis sion early In February, Lewis county was awarded the first prize for thil icst county display. The second prizd was awarded to Atchison county ami be third to Pettis. Tin-re were mor than 3is exhibitors contesting fnt prizes, and prizes were awarded amounting to $1,000. The St I-oui Republic says that corn was on exhi bition that was from 14 to IS Inchei n length and 11 Inches In circumfer ence, u has neeii PHtimaieu mat .Mis souri produced one-eighth of the corn crop of the t'nlted States Inst year, and one-tenth of all the corn raised on the globe. Gas for Incubators. An extensive chicken raiser at Ho- chetle, 111., operates fifty large Incti. batois with heat from natural gas. H has Ibrce thousand chicks out and hut about fifteen thousand eggn nndci way. Kurm Chat. Overloading the teams Is a bad Idea It will start horses to baikinj quick er than anything else. An egg broken in the feed of horset Is very beneficial to them In clearini up the skin and hair. A small flock of sheep well care for Is more profitable than a large om allowed to pick Its own living. Always strive to stimulate the milk yielding capabilities of the cotvs tt the highest limit within reason. A good judge In farm crop statistic! says It will take three bumper cori crops to create a surplus of that prod uct That means three years of hust ling. In testing seel corn we often feel that a seed will be good that is much slower "coming'' than the rest of them, It will produce a weak stalk and elthet no ear or a nubbin. It will not puj to select such seed. It should be dls carded as doubtful. Canadian bee keepers report an tliv usually severe winter with serlom losses. Most bees wintered out ol doors unprotected show a very hlgl per cent of loss, ranging from prao tically a total loss to forty per cent Bees which were protected range, aa cording to the dozen or uiore reporti received, from twelve to fifty per cent With all crops It Is the e:ir!y cultiva tion that Is the most Important Kej the soil clean and In a little while tin plants are young and tender, glvln them every opportunity to make a goc-0 start to grow and It will be a mw easier matter to maintain a gooi growth until maturity. A good garden is one-half the living, In making arrangements for the gar den why not do like the Irishman win was told tiiat to buy a certain atovt meant to save one-half the fue!7 IH said he would take two stove of thai u.ake and save all of his fuel. Havi two good gardens and save all the llv lug. The grocerymnn suffers when l good garden Is at hand. In most local ltles good garden truck Is always sal able if one has more than enough fm his own family. Don't forget that little memorau dum book. At no time will it be foun so bandy aa now. Keep It In tin pocket and put down everything that neeus aueiiuu.i, auu i.ien oo . au .ot jne , wncn t g wlng Or In It over occasionally and do that whir I tbe julce wth w,llt.h ,t batwJ Jf needa being done tbe worst without roasting in a pan. delay. Much loaa Is prevented in thlil, u, . ., ,'... ,. ' , k-,. rtL octatoes wh-i alcohol rubbed on a polished .Dd.0ad SSTSL d Z : I ; "j jjj 2 :j other work bad to be hunted up. TU f.'"' "" ""' Th tittle "want book" revealed wl Jf TJ J not J?rtf ,b t abottld be doot, cheaper than the medicinal alcohol. Green-and-W bite Cake. Cream one cupful of butter with two nf sugar; put with it one cupiui oi milk, beat In alternately four cupful f flour sifted with one heaping tea- !HM.ufuI of baking lewder, and the whipped whites of six eggs, tueu ?tir n the juice of one lemon and uair the grated ieel. Iip out one ctiprui oi batter, and add to it a little spinach ,uice. This is made by putting splnacn l lives over the fire lu a double boiler, with no water lu the Inner vessel, and Looking until the Juice Is expressed from them. Squeeze the leaves In a tloth, and use the liquid from them. V'ou will have to add more flour ti 'he portion that haa been thinned by he spinach Juice. Put the white part if the cake in a cake tin and marblo t with the green. If care Is used, the uke may lie very prettily mottled ami rariegated. Ilnke in a steady oven. Orange Salad. Cut a tart orange In half; removt (lie pulp and cut Into small pieces; .iip the edges of the shells with scls lors and Join the two halves together ride by side on a plate by a narrow riblxui run through slits in the slib-j mill to the pulp six slices of banana, ten Malaga grapes, halved and seeded, six candled cherrie. Julie of half a emon, one drop of almond extract ind one spoonful of sugar; chill ImMIi fruit and shells; w hen ready to serve, place fruit In shells, heaping a spoon ful of meringue on each. This Is a lainty salad, pretty in npKnr:iiiee and always appreciated whenever served. Prune Jelly. One pound of prunes, one half crp ftil of sugar, one half ltox of gelatine, oiie-linlf pint of cold water, one-half pint of boiling water; wash the prunes, cover them with water and souk them over night; next morning bring to a boiling point; cover the gelatine witlt cold water, soak for half an honr and add It with the sugar to the prunes) with a spoon carefully break open the prunes and take out the seeds ot press through a colander; turn thd gelatine mixture Into a mould and stand aside for three or four hours to harden. Serve with plain or whlpix-d rreum. Hire .Milk Soup. Take three ounces of farollua rice, lx breakfast-riipfuN skim milk, oua tenspoonful tugnr, half-tcitspooiiful alt. Wash the rice well, rinaiiig iu plenty of cold water; put It Into a saucepan with one teacnpful of wat' i-, boll for a few minutes, add the mlilc jiid simmer slowly wlili the lid on f-r Due hour; then add the ngnr and salt A soup of this kind Is a valuable ono for summer, when fresh fruits and vegetables are being used. Savory Minced Ik-i-f. Ingredients: ii:e pouml of coM roast beef, two ounces of butter, one jmall onion, two ounces of flour, one pint of white stock or water, half a cupful of tinned tomatoes, half a dozen mushrooms, one tensooiiful of salt jiepIHT. Cut the meat Into Very thin slices and fry with the butter and onion minced until quite browni ttlr In the flour and add the stock of water; also the tomatoes and mush rooms, salt and pepper; bent all well together and serve. Lemon Dumplinics. Mix up with ten ounces of flno bread-crumbs, half pound of beef suet chopped very small, one large tabic spoonful of (lour, the grated rind of !wo lemons, or of one lar lUiices of powdered loaf rge one. four powdered loaf sugar, three )r four eggs, well beaten, and the ulce of the lemons strained, lihida !li) k Into four equal parts, and tie In well-floured cloths utid boll for an hour. llonton linked Ilrana, Let stand In cold water over night, Iraln and put Into an eurthen bean pot, with two tablespoonfuls of molasses and a little pepper. Add a small plec of pickled pork, gashed or marked In squares. Fill the wit with boiling water, adding more from time to time as it evaporates. Pake twelve hours with steady heat At the end of ten, hours, let the water simmer away un. til the beans are nearly dry. Short Suggestion. When buying new lamp glasses, h put lu water mid allowed to boil firs' they will last longer. When ronstlngor baking meat In the oven place the dripping-pan on a dlsli if water. It will prevent tho gruvy burning or lilllng away. To keep flutlrons clean and smooth, rub them first with a piece of wax; tied In a cloth, and afterward scour them on a paper or cloth strewn with t-oarse salt Potato peelings, If dried lu the oven, are very useful for fire kindling. If sufficiently abundant they may lie us ed Instead of wood, but In ar.y case they will economize it The toughest beef or chicken csn be made lender and palatable by putting a irood snontiful of elder vi i- j SET J