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RECIPES.

Roseleat Wafers-One cup butter.
two cups sugar, four eggs, stirred in
without beating; flavor with extract
of rose and add -four to roll. Place
dough on ice till very cold; roll thin,
cut with leaf-shape cutter and bake
quickly.
Baked Apples-Peel and take out
the cores from six large, juicy apples,
leaving them whole. Place in baking
dish; fill the centre of the apples with
ounce jelly add cup of water and
bake. Sprinkle with sugar and serve
cold, with or without whipped cream.
Farina-Add three-quarter Of g
teaspoonful of salt to one quart OF
boiling water; then slit in slowly one
cup of farlna. Stir and boil slowly
for thirty minutes. Place a dish OF
stoned, stewed prunes on the table,
put three on dish. cover with farlna
and serve with cream ana sugar.
Chinese Ragout-Chop one pint OF
cold cooked mutton: put in stewing
pan and add two tablespoons of butter,
half pint OF water, one small onion,
chopped, half pint of green peas or
half of IL cali, small head of salad
torn in small pieces, teaspoonful OF
salt and quarter of teaspoonful OF
pepper. Cover and cook slowly for
one hour. When done. dish and
serve with border Of boiled rice.
Mush Gems-Put half pint oi
milk and same OF boiling water over
the fire. When hot add one cupful oi
cornmeal. Stir and cook ten minutes
Add two teaspoonfuls of butter and
teaspoonful of salt and set aside to
cook. When cold add two eggs,
beaten separately; first the yolka,
then the whites. Bake in gem pans II
a moderate oven twenty minutes, ano
serve hot. A teaspoonful OF baking
powder should be used. These are
very nice.
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OF the chief, asking her to come to hei

~
hut.
Dinah at once began preparatons fof
the work she had set herself. ABOUT
her thin neck she strung q number OF
peculiar shell-necklaces. About her
head she wound tightly white turban,
and bound it into place by snake SO
naturally preserved, that the eyes and
tongue, in the center Of her forehead,
seemed flashing and darting.
About her lank arms she wound other
snakes, and they looked to be held in
place by their own contractions.
Over her shoulders she threw scar
let mantle, decorated with tinsel stars,
the moon in all It's stages, and queer
cabalistic characters, all the more awful
to the ignorant Indians for their repre-
senting nothing in particular.
This done, Dinah took long staff,
not the one she usually carried, but an
other that looked as much like great
serpent as the rods the Egyptians tried
to palm off on Moses, and her toilet was
] complete.
She next sat down on high stool In
| her cabin door, a sight to alarm the
| strongest if she appeared unexpectedly,
and waited for the coming of tntilla.
In few minutes light, quick step
was heard approaching, and then
shadow fell across the threshold.
Untilla stood there, but the old black
woman, without looking up, said IN
| voice that seemed to come from some
| far-off place:
"Untilla Of de Montauks-'
Yes, Dinah.
you en- me hez got to run race wild
death. We must git ahead of i'm, en-
drive i'm back from de grave"
Il am ready" said Untilla, eagerly;
let US be going"
The old crone seized her staff, took
| from the floor near by basket contain
ing an earthen dish and sundry parcels
of herbs, and then started of.
They bent their course to the west;
the Indian girl walking with the light,
springy step OF fawn, and Dinsh with
a yigor that was wonderful in one OF
| her years.
Without an iustant's hesitation or
stop they hurried on, till the hill, with
the vault at It's base. rose before them.
| They saw Old Somonk and his wife
cooking before little fire on: side, and
Young Somonk and two other Indians
lying on the grass and smoking with an
air Of lazy contentment
At sight OF Untilla and Dinah the
men sprang to their feet and Old So
monk and his wife stopped their work
and looked up in surprise.
Without moments hesitation Dinah
walked up to the fire. removed the pot
boiling thereon and replaced it with her
| own.
Into this she put some water and sew
eral punches of herbs, muttering to her
| self the while. Then she grasped her
staff as a drum-major does his baton.
whirling it around her snake-crowned
head, and began to dance ABOUT the fire,
shouting out wild song, Of which the
terrified listeners could not understand
word.
Stopping suddenly, she drew Untilla
near to her, and facing the terrified In
dians, she said aloud:
DE sperrits Of de dead command dat
all leave but de sistah OF de chief en-
Dinal, de sarvint OF de sperrits. Go,
Somonk, en- yer family; go, ye Mon.
tauks watchin' nigh; 60 to de village OF
de Montauks, en- stay dar until we jine
ye."
ITO BE CONTINUED
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CHAPTER XXI.
CAPTAIN DENHAMS GHOST.

CAPTAIN DENHAM'S GHOST
Uncas, chief OF the MontS-%s. was 10
remain IN sag HarDor until he had had
another meeting with Captain Fox.
1t may be said, not in extenuation as
much as in explanation of the Indians
conduct, that he believed in Captain
Fox as q friend, as did Doctor Hedges,
and that is saying great deal for his
credulity. Until recently he had kept
his dislike for Captain Denham, dis
like born Of his impetuous love for Lea
Hedges, to himself.
But Fox bad discovered his feelings,
and with that rare skill he had FOR bind
ing men to him through their weak
nesses, he availed himself OF the pas
sions Of the Montauk.
1t had been Uncas' desire to meet
Captain Denham in combat, man to
man and blade to blade, foolishly be-
lieving--as had been the custom Of his
barbarous ancestors-that the hand and
at once given to the victor.
Captain Fox destroyed his thought,
or rather supplanted it with another
that was much safer, if not equally
heroic.
The chief reasoned that If the great
Captain Fox-the whites Of Sag Harbor
said he was great-could advise as
sassination, it was not SO wrong after
all.
Fox had showed him that Denham
was really very bad man, and that
inst sad OF being a sailor, as the people
thought, he was Il pirate, substituting
his own character with great skill for
that of his victim.
Crime becomes much easier if the
criminal can delude himself into the
thought that good is to result to others
from the act he contemplate, so Uncas
soon began to look on himself as an in
strument Of justice.
Except Old Somonk, his son and wife,
with the two warriors who helped to
carry Ralph Denham from the boat TO
the vault, not ono OF the Montauks
kn wv anything about the murdcrous en-
terprse in which their chief was en-
gaged; and even if all knew 1t and de-
preciated it, fidelity to their CHIEF would
prevent an act of betrayal.
But Uncus mad a spy on his acts,
whom he dreaded with superstltlous
| I, ar that is often found associated With
the greatest physical courage.
He wished old Dinah as dead rs he
believed Ralph Denham would soon be-
| but neither he nor any Of his TRIBE
would have dared 10 raise hand
against her.
From old Dnah's bold statements the
chief had suspected that Hhe knew all,
but his fear of her interference was
Offset by his faith in tho fidelity OF the
| people who had his secret
Dinah lost no time alter tncas le1t
with his white visitors and their scrv-
! ants cor Sag IIarbor. She sent an In"
dian lad TO Intilla the beautiful sister
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A HoRR1FYING PICTURE.

Stand in the city streets and watch the
wretched women Sinking into the rumshops.
They are dirty and unkempt, and on their
sodden faces the combined curse Of drink
and poverty has left its unmistakable mark.
You are Mortified. and wish to turn away
from and forget the sight. Yet these women
we're once young girls, for whom the future
held high hopes. Domestic peace and hap
piness and comfort, no doubt, they dreamed
would be theirs. And what has snatched
these blessings from them, and left them as
they are now, wrecks oftheir former selvess
The answer is simply-drink. Very likely
the glass ''just to be sociable," the glass $50
as not to be odd," the glass 80 as not to
offend" this one or that one, the glass OF
"only wine, which wouldn't make anyone
drunk" the glass $50 as to be fashionable"
There is always beginning to everything,
and beginnings are generally small and ap-
parently insignificant. But the consequences
OF our every action reach out beyond our
widest thought. as is sally exsmplifed In
the case OF the wret ched, saloon frequenting
women. not one OF whom plunged into the
abyss of drunkenness at once. but by little
and little became enslaved by this evil habit,
whence there is no release save in the infinite
mercy of God.
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PRUNEs MAY BE MADE PALATADLE.

PRUNEs MAY BE MADE PALATADLE.
By many the wholesome and nutrl-
tious prune is scorned and passed by,
but we'll known physician has said
that "there are certain medicinal
properties in the prune which act d.
rectly upon the nervous system.
This despised fruit may be made
into many healthful and appetizing
dishes. For breakfast dish soak the
prunes in just enough water to cover
them when swollen to their natural
size, and add little sugar and some
lemon juice. The prunes should then
be cooked very slowly and have very
little liquid when they are done. Serve
them with good rich cream and they
will not be refused.
For Stewed Prunes.-Soak one
pound of large, nice prunes over night.
In the morning drain them and put
them in a saucepan with cupful of
water, and cook the prunes very slowly
until they are tender. Take out the
fruit with skinner and place in the
dish they are to be served in. If the
water in the saucepan has boiled away
add little more. Slice lemon very
thin, remove the seeds, and put the
slices and what juice may have come
from the lemon in cutting to the
liquid in the pan, and sweeten it to
srit the taste. Have tablespoonful
of eelatine soaking in little cold
water, and when the liquid has come
to the boiling point after the sugar is
added put in the gelatine. and when
this has entirely dissolved pour tho
liquid over the prunes. This is usually
very acceptable dish, particularly if
whipped cream is served with it.
For Prune Bread Pudding-Soak
one pint OF stale bread crumbs in one
quart of milk for two hours, then
mash them very fine with spoon.
Beat two eggs light and add three
tablespoonfuls of sugar and half tea
spoonful of salt; mix with soaked
crumbs and milk. Stir in generous
cup of prunes pitted and cut into
quarters. Turn the mixture into a
buttered baking dish and bake in O.
slow oven forty.five minutes. Serve
with a sauce made as follows: Beat
the yolk of ar .gg until it is very
light; then stir in half cup of pow
dered sugar. When these are we'll
mixed add three or four tablespoon
fuls of whipped cream. Beat the
white Of the egg to stiff froth, and
then stir in the yolk mixture and
serve.
An excellent dessert is called prune
puff. Mix half cup of butter
with two tablespoonfuls OF granulated
sugar and the yolks of two eggs. When
they are thoroughly beaten together
add one cup of sweet milk and two
cups of -four, to which two tablespoon
fuls of baking powder has been added,
and stir all we'll together. Have a
large cupful OF fresh prunes and cut
them into quarters. Butter a pud'
ding dish and put in the bottom a
layer of the butter, and sprinkle over
it layer of the prepared fruit; alter
late until the materials are used,
Place the dish in steamer and steam
two hours without lifting the cover.
Serve hot with sauce.
Fresh prunes pitted, cut into pieces
and stirred into thick custard are
nice to put between layer cake.
Large fresh prunes make nice af'
ter-dinner sweet. Make openings in
one side and remove the stones, fill the
spaces with blanched almonds, and
roll the prunes in powdered sugar. -
New York Sun.
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STUDYING OUR COTTON.
Chu Japanese Minister is Making Tour
In the Cotton States.

Mr.. Toru Hosbi, Envoy Extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary from japan to the
United States, arrived at Galveston, Texas:
with n retinue. When interviewed he said
hat his visit 20 the South was due to the fact
hat Japan is very extensively engaged In
,be manufactnre of cotton goods. The JAP
,nese manufacturers, he said, used to pur-
,hass most OF their cotton from India, but
low they prefer Egyptian and American cot
:on, aud especiallythe staple grown IN Iexas,
because it possesses length AMI strength ana
a preferable for some lines Of gooos. He
mid that he had come South to Investigate
he cotton trade generally and report to his
Iovcrnnment upon the conditions as he
ind them,
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS,
TOUCHES WHICH BEAUT1FY THE ZONE.

TOUCHES WHICH BEAUTIF9 THE HUHEs
The woman who is devoted to things
nautical should have at least one room
in her house curtained with fishnet
drapery. This effective material is an
excellent imitation of genuine fishnet,
is somewhat softer and drapes better.
IL is made of threads woven with
loose, coarse mesh, and when used for
curtains is generally finished with
founce of itself. An odd idea is to
have the pole from which the curtain
hangs like an oar. II the curtains are
tied back at all, let it be with rlhbon
the tint of the sea.
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Monument to q Ballad Writer.

A monument to Carl Loewe, the
German ballad composer, was unveiled
in Kiel on the hundredth anniversary
of his birth, November 30. Tho
monument is the work Of the Berlin
sculptor, F. Schaper, and bears tho
inscription, ''Born i'll Lobeiun, Nov
ember 80, 1859; died in Kiel April
20. 1882" beneath which are the
words: "Erected i'll memory OF the
mnster of the German ballad, by ad-
mirers of his music, on his hunircdth
birthday" The monument stands in
a grove which was one of Loewe's
fayorite resorts.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
LIKE A HEARTS REFRAIN" >"

"LIKE HEART REFRAIN.
The night sets dark and rainy.
And the wind. like hearts refrain,
Cries round the shredder maple.
And means at the window pane.
I see the wet black pavements
Stretch through the cloistered night,
Like sonndlessly flowing rivers
Through spectral flood gates Of light;
And across the shimmering shadows,
And the infinite darkness behind,
The cilys endless professions
Out Of the distance wind.
Strangely the faces showing
Where the post lamps white rays glean,
And the restless voices sound muff1ed.
Like voices heard in dream.
O.hurrying men and women.
In the echoless dusk and rain.
Is there peace in the hearts ye carry,
Or dirge of sleepless pain?
Is love in your souls far harbor
Angelic pilot at guard.
Or dark as the starless nightfall,
The life-tide pulling hard!
Black is the sky. o brothers,
Like garment worn for the dead
But the home-lights burn in the windows,
Past the wet night overhead .
o sisters, spent in the battle,
Over the tired heart sing;
Nearer is rest-a day nearer
In the mansions of the King!
Isee the great throng passing,
The city's poor after toll.
And nv ewes are wet with quick tear-drops.
With hurt of their hurt in life's moil
Brave o We tired men and women.
Though the night sets in darkness and
rain,
There's light at the breaking Of morning,
And Joy finds its wings out Of pain
Louise Durham Goldsberry, in Wester n
Christian Advocate.
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THE CURSE OF RUM.

The State OF Michigan is said to have one
retail liquor dealer for every three hundred
and fourteen inhabitants. and the ratio Of
dealers to population is not growing less.
Why shouldit3 Nothing Is being done to re-
duce the number. Our tax law allows Just
as many as choose to pay the price. and
some that do not choose to pay, Pay orno
pay, they all make dlunkards, and turn to
utter waste money, brains and heart. Moth
ing consumes a fortune more quickly than
convivial habits, unless 1t be gambling, and
these generally 80 together. Nothing over
throws sound judgment and brrtalizes the
moral nature sooner than drunkenness.
Here and there may be hard drinker who
Is kind in bearing toward his wife and chill
dren, but not one can prevent the unkind-
ness of his habits, nor the degrading effects
Of those habits toward the innocent ones he
has sworn to protect and cherish. Whisky
Is an unmitigated curse to the man who
drinks It and to he nation that tolerates II.
It is cursing America. 1t is lowering our
moral standards, weakening our commercial
Industries, degrading social life and eating
like canker into the very vitals Of public
integrity. It is shame and disgrace to our
Republic that, tor money consideration, 1t
doles out licenses to class OF men whom 1t
ought to sternly rebuke for their disposition
10 destroy their fellows.-Michigan Christian
Advocate.
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Our Father, which art in heaven, reveal
Thyseif to ns ere we nre translated to Thee
We have been making too much OF the
bridge of death. We have said. first death,
and then revelation = Thou sayest. first
revelation and then death" Thou wouldst
not have us taste of death until we have
seen the kingdom Of Christ. Let the power
of His resurrection precede the fellowship
with His suircrings. Let the vision OF Mount
Nebo anticipate the promised land. Teach
us beforehand the language OF the new
world. Send us in advance robes OF the
upper sanctuary. We would not be un-
clothed even by death. but only clothed
upon. We would have something to
carry with us when we leave the
sun and moon behind us. We would
have = fragment of Thysrlf in our emptied
hand. Give us a gleam Of Thy light when
,u, wll.,.uws of the sense are darkened.
Give rs Il breath oi Thy love when the
br,athiug of our hearts is low. Give US
whisper of Thy voice when the voices of
earth are faint Put the chid-Christ in the
arms Of the dying Simeon. Let us come to
th,. tomb through the garden. and forget the
fading hy reason Of the flowers. Let us be
led bv,thc hand Of life through the valley Q!
the shallow Of DEATH Our departure shall
be no severance. if, ere We 90, We shall meet
with Thrr-Grorge Mathcson, y. D.. IT.
''Srarrhings in the Silence.
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The Founders OF Science.

biologists regard Aristotle as the
founder of their science, although the
scientific classification of the animal
world was not made until the time Of
Linaaous, who in l744 divided the
animal kingdom into six groups. The
classification of animals into tour
divisions was made by CuvIer i'll his
great work, "rhe Animal Kingdom, "
in 1916.
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Exp!oring a Deserted City.

Five archaeologists from Philadelphla anc
New York have arrived at OXaca Mexico,
On their wav to explore n deserted anclent
city in the State OF Chiapas This Wonder-
ful city was discovered several months ago
by L. 7. Janver while exploring that seceion.
Vnlnahle archaeological and historical dis
eoveries are anticipated as u result OF the
expedition.
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ALL CAUSED By DRUNKENNESS.

Drunkenness causes every year in Eng
land 60. GOO deaths. According to the testi-
mouy of the magistrates 1t IS the source,
directly or indirectly. OF seventy-fve per
cent. Of the crimes committed, causing the
disastrous ruination of families and destroy
ing domestic life, together with the prac-
t1cs of religion and the Christian education
of the children.
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THE BREWERS DOG.

While walking one evening along one OF
the streets OF the North End, Boston, we saw
Two men supporting third, who appeared
unable to walk. What is the matter2" we
inquired. "Why," was the reply. "the poor
man has been badly bitten by the brewers
dog" "Indeed," we said, feeling somewhat
concerned at the disaster. ''Yes, sir, and he
is not the first by good many that has been
thus bitten" "Why do they not kill the
dog?" "Ah, sir, he ought to have been made
away with long ago, but the law won't allow
it. Il is the strong drink. sir-that's the
brewers dog" National Temperance Advo'
cate.
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American Horses in Germany.

The Prussiau Minister Of Agriculture has
recently altered the regulations for the i'm
nortation Of American horses. Tho eXeen-
tive authorities have been instructed that.
her Ieforth, American horses are to be kept
Isolated at the ports of entry for eight days.
After veterinary inspection during that
period they are to be tree for sale or inland
transport, if the veterinary surgeons declar+
them free Of infectious disease.
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Lis incestors Revolutionary Heroes.

His Ancestors Revolutionary Heroes.
Horatio Austin Smith. a farmer and milk
dealer, and who had held many town offices.
died at Medford. Mass, IL few days ago, IN
his nincty-Afth year. His father. Elijah Jo-
siah Smith. his grandfather, and his two
uncles, Josiah and Abraham Smith, oil par
ticipated in the battle Of Lexington.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
The man who eats cloves.
May disguise his condition;
But he's never quite free

But he's never quite Tree
From the breath of suspicion.
The saloon is the constant horror OF every
wife: every husband should therefore fight
the SALON.
I'm not afraid Of anarchy If you will
abolish the saloon. 1t is not the pipe filled
with dynamite that is the real bomb, It is the
bottle on the saloon shelf-Dr. P. s. Hen
son.
Hereafter no member Of the Masonic
fraternity in Minnesota can sell intoXicanfs,
and 100 persons now in the liquor business
will be expelled from the Order if they do
not change their occupation.
Old Adam. in Gas You Like It," in refer
ring to his vigorous old ago says: II never
in my youth applied hot and rebelliouss
liquors to my blood" This is a piece OF
shakesperean wisdom which should be
needed
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TEMPERANCE
CHARLES LOGIC.

CHARLES LOGIC. s.
Who is the New Woman? My mother I
For she will never be old to me.
If she is not old
Then she must be new.
Ihope that's no
Puzzle to you.
She's temperance mother, too.
/ love this New Woman, my mother,
For she's ever SO
Good TO me.
II boy has no mother,
Pray what can he do? .a. :
Such mothers as mine
They are few
She's temperance mother, too.
Mrs. M. A.Kidder, in Temperance Banner.
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PhosDnates In ArHnnS0s.

It is reported that large denosits OF phos-
phates have lately boon discovered in Arkan-
sas, and the people arc beginning to think
there will be millions in it.