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f T “’ll If That Bashfuii Blinker. BY W. 3. BAlrfTTON ow pretty she wan an nhe aat with her shape* ly fingers danoing on the keyboard of her typewriter. 11 think in the time to come when this shall have become the , — classic period for the future centuries, as the ancient Greek 4s the classic for us of this time, that instead of the maiden with the distatl as we have, they will have the maiden at the typewriter, ns one of the beau tiful figures that make art everlasting. Her eyes were so blue, her cheeks wore so pink, and truly, her hair must have been transplanted from the banks of the Pactolas whoso shifting sands were crystals of pure gold. The man sat near her dictating a letter. On the window pane next to the street were the words “Hurford, Blinker & Co., Brokers,” and the man dictating was the Blinker of the firm. He was also the Hurford and the Co., seeing that he had bought out every body else, including the well-known name of the firm. And what a man was Blinker— Haverhill Blinker. A bachelor of forty years' experience, a business man of largo and increasing wealth, a calculating speculator, a good all ’round fellow, and among women the very prototype and synonym of hash- fulness. To see him bow and smile to and at a lady when meeting her would have led the most critical to say ho was a courtier of courtiers, but if it became necessary for him to go be yond the bowing and smiling limit, life had no farther charms for Haver hill Blinker. Htraugo to say, too, ho was not always conscious of his weak ness, and there wore times when ho really thought ho was quite a ladies’ man. When ho recovered from one of those latter attacks ho was always sur rounded by a large circle of sympa thizing friends (male). Until within six months ho had never been able to persuade himself that the real and only way to accustom himself to the use of a woman’s society was to employ a “lady typewriter,” and then ho did it because a relative of his, his aunt, in fact, in a neigh boring town, hud asked him as a spec ial favor to help the daughter of an old school friend of hers, in sore dis tress, who was quite a skilled stenog rapher and typewriter. It was entirely beyond the compre hensibility of Mr. Blinker’s aunt that Mr. Blinker would give her employ ment, but the aunt thought he might know someone who had a place for her. Therefore, when he wrote to his aunt saying that he would give the young woman a place in his office at 940 u month she was more than surprised—* she was delighted, and sent the gold en-haired daughter of her dear old school friend right over to her nephew. The day she made her first appear ance Mr. Blinker was ont when she called about 11 o’clock, and the office boy and the clerk having insisted upon her remaining for a few minutes until Mr. Blinker shonld return, she sat down near the window and waited, never once noting the fact that the office boy and the clerk wore each put ting in every moment of his spare time watching her and wondering what the mischief business an angel right from heaven had with Mr. Blinker. When Mr. Blinker finally appeared, and the office boy and the clerk col lapsed, ho hadn’t the least idea who she was, and bis heart began to pound so on tho inside of him that ho thought it was the janitor turning on more steam and shaking up tho radi ators in the office and halls. It was the very first time ho had ever seen a woman in hisoflice, and the exporionoo was so entirely novel that for an in stant he was speechless. "Is this Mr. Blinker?”she inquired, rising to meet him as ho came hesi tatingly toward her, * "Yes’m,” responded Mr. Blinker, as if he were a schoolboy about to bo licked for pasting a wot wad on the walk "May I inquire to what I am indebted for tho honor of this visit, ma’am ?” Blinker would no more have made such an egrcgiously silly and stilted speech as that to a man than ho would have tried to have told the truth in Ghicago, but this was a woman, and Blinker was not resuonsible. "Your aunt," said tho visitor, with • roguish twinkle in her eye, but Blinker didn’t see it any more than he saw profit in honest politics. "I—I—bog your pardon, ma’am,” he stammered. The]very idea of his saying "Ma’am,” to a girl like that! It would havo been criminal if Mr. Blinker had been responsible. Then she told him who she was, and the way Mr. Blinker began to assume airs and strut around ns if ho wore a mighty potentate with a lot of sub jects was os funny as it could be. Now she had been with him si^ mouths, and he sat near her dictating a letter. In the midst of it he stopped short. He had boon tempted to do this many times before. He had studied the matter thoroughly, as he thought, aud having considered it in every light and having deliberated upon it for many days, and having tried to ac complish the desired result by every means in his knowledge, he had at last determined to do this. Therefore he stopped in tho midst of it. "I am very sorry. Miss Prince,” ho began, quite abruptly, aud ns if ho wanted to get through with tho dis agreeable task in a hurry, "but I am afraid I shall have to lose you as my typewriter. Hhe clutched suddenly at the sides of the machine as if to support her self. “W-w-why,” she stammered with qvivering lips, "why, Mr. Blinker, what have I done that I should be discharged without warning? ’ "But I’m giving you warning,” he said, half with bravado, half with apology. "You don’t have to go right away.” "I do not want to go at all until 1 know why I urn going,” she argued. This is all I have in the world, and 1 am entitled to know why 1 am unfitted for this,” "Ob, it isn’t your fault, exactly, ho went on evasively. "There are no such things, you know, asmisfortunes, which can scarcely be classed as faults. In your case. Miss Prince, your mis fortune is that you are too pretty,” and Mr. Blinker actually tucked his head to one side and simpered at her. Bhe had been suspicious for a long time, as most women are when they hirvo their wits about them under cir cumstances similar to those surround ing Miss Prince and Mr. Blinker, and she almost smiled through tho mist that was gathering in her eyes. "You have always said, Mr. Blink er,” she pleaded, "ihat yon liked to see pretty things in your office.” Ho coughed nervously, uneasily. How many things he had said to her ho did not know. How many more ho wanted to say ho did not know. What ho was now saying he did not know how he was ever going to finish. "I know that,” ho admitted, "but sometimes, you know, my dear Miss Prince, a man cannot always have what bo wants. As long as I was a bachelor. Miss Prince, I could do as I pleased, but I am to bo married, at least I hope so, and you know a man’s wife sometimes differs with him ou what may seem to the world at large to bo quite tiivial points.” Married! At one blow all her castles were thrown to the earth, with not so much as a ooruer standing to show that they had ever been other than crumbling ruins. True, ho had never said anything definitely to her, hot there is so much more in what is never said, and daily out of the unspoken affinity which surely existed between these two con genial people the more foolish woman bad constructed snob hopes as women cherish to tho end of time. That ho had thought enough of her to warrant these hopes, a thousand wordless wit nesses testified. Now thus in the very midst of tho work that ho had given to her to do for him, and that she loved to do be- oanse it was for him, the blow fell. "Yes?” she responded to his state ment in the faint pathetic question ing that fills a woman's voice when she is thus called upon to face her heart's doom, and her hands uncon sciously sought to go on with her work. "Yes, Miss Prince,” he said, with no sound of sympathy in his voice, "and I am pretty sure my wife will not per mit yon to remain here as my type writer. I may say,” and ho simpered again, "as my pretty typewriter.” Hhe never so mnob as saw the sim per, and in that far Mr. Blinker shonld have thanked his good fortune. "I havo thought the matter all over,” he continued, "aud I leave it to you as a fcirmindod woman whether it is my duty to gain n wife aud lose a typewriter, or vice versa?” By this time she had recovered from tho primary shock. Bhe had oven begun to wonder how ho had ever mustered up suflloiont courage to propose to the future Mrs. Blinker. Shu even went further and made up her mind that the lady was a widow, and had used the traditional wiles of the widow on the unsuspecting aud bashful Mr, Blinker. "By all means, Mr. Blinker," she said coldly, "gain tho wife. Tho world is full of typewriters, but it is not every day that a man can get a wife. At least snob a wife as you de serve,” and in spite of herself there was something soft in her touo that she did not want to be there. Mr. Blinker noticed it, too, but bo didn’t stop to comment upon it. "Good for you, Miss Prince,” ho laughed. "I know you wore a woman of sense.” She shrank as if she had boon touched with a hot iron. "Thank you, Mr. Blinker,” she said, "Now, if yon please, wo will go ou with our work.” It had seemed os if a lifetime had past siuoe she had written the last word, and as she bout down over it, as if tho better see what it was, a tear fell upon the lino. This Mr. Blinker also observed, but said nothing, seeming to enjoy it. "Before we do, Miss Prince,” he said, "may I ask a favor at yonr hands —a promise?" "What is it? Yes," she answered. Mr. Blinker braeed himself. "That, if this woman whom I am soon to ask formally to be my wife,” he said, "should refuse me, that you will marry me.” % For an instant tho girl looked at him, then she rose to her feet, her eyes fairly blazing. Mr. Blinker saw that the tigress was about to spring, aud he was fright ened. "Wait, stop!” ho exclaimed, hold ing up his bauds as if to shield himself from the blow. "Hold ou till I tell you who tho woman is. It’s you, Miss Prince—you—you—you! Won’t you marry me? Will you be my wife? Haven't yon always known I didn’t care a cent for any woman on earth but you? Butk, darling, don’t look at me like that!” Mr. Blinker was fbing all to pieoes mentally and emotionally, and the young woman took pity ou him, for it dawned upon her all at onoe that tho more bashful a bachelor is the mora ridiculous he is in love, and the only way to prevent a tender emotion from becoming ludicrous is to accept it on the spot. Which she did, and Mr. Blinker never had another pretty typewriter. —New York Bun. His “Little Feller.” "I happened to bo down in my cel lar tho other morning when the ash- msn came around to collect the ashes,” said a gentleman who resides in Becond avenue. “I was opening a barrel of great red apples at the time, aud when the big, dost-covered and necessarily untidy man came back with the empty ash barrel I picked np an apple and held it out toward him, saying as I did so: “ ‘Won’t you have an apple?’ "Ho took it eagerly, saying as he did so: " ‘Thank ye, sir; I’ve a little feller at home who’ll bo tickled to death to git it v I most always find something or other in the ash barrels to carry borne to’m at night, but it ain’t often I git anything equal to this big apple. I tell yo the little feller's eyes will shine when ho sees it.’ "I don’t know how many times that day ray thoughts were of that big, rough-handed fellow, with that apple put away so carefully iu his pocket for that ‘little feller.’ ’'When evening came I thought of tho ‘little feller’ who was on the look out for tho big, dust-covered father, with tho calloused and soiled hands, but with tno true heart and kindly word that made him a king iu the eyes of that ‘little feller.’ "It must have been a very poor and humble home to which tho man went at tho close of his weary day, but then there was the ‘little feller’s’ pre-ence to irake beautiful even the bare walls and floors and to bring tho love light to his father’s even and joy to his father’s heart. "These ‘little fellers’ glorify and beautify many a homo in which pov erty abides. But human affections enu sweetly aud patiently endure toil and rags and poverty when there is a ‘Jittlo feller’ to meet and greet the father when tho long day is done.”— Detroit Free Press. Climate amt MoTeincnt. "The most important physical fac tor in determining lines of movement,” fays a well-known man of science, "hai been climate. Bpeaking broadly, migration follows the parallels of lati tude, or, more precisely, the lines of equal meau temperature, and not so much, I think, of meau annual heat as of mean winter heat. Although the inhabitants of cold climates often evince a desire to move into warmer ones, they seem never to transfer themselves directly to one differing greatly from that to which they are accustomed; while no people of the tropics has over, so far as 1 know, settled in any part of tho temperate zone. "There is one instanoe of a North European race establishing itself oh the sonthern shores of the Mediter ranean—the Vandals in North Africa, and the Bulgarians came to the banks of the Danube from the still sterner winters of the middle Volga. But in the few cases of northward movement, as in that ot the Lapps, the cause lies in tho irresistible pressure of stronger neighbors; and probably a similar pressure drove the Fuegians into their inhospitable isles. "The tendency to retain similar olimatio conditions is illustrated by tho colonization of North America. The Spaniards and Portuguese took the tropical and sub-tropioal regions, neglecting tho cooler parte. Tho French and the English settled in the temperate zone, and it was not till this century that the country toward the Gulf of Mexico began to bo oc cupied by incomers from tho Carolines and Northern Georgia. Whoa the Scandinavian immigration began it Ho wed to the Northwest and has tilled the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota and tho Dakotas.’’—New York Herald. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Drades of Mackerel. "Mackerel only comes in three grades,” said a well known grocery- man, ‘'though there is not one buyer in each thousand who knows anything about it. These grades are bloaters, selects and extras. They are also known as Nos. 1, 2 and 3.” Number ouos should measure thirteen iuchet from tho tip of tho uosc to tho crutch of the tail; number twos should be not less than eleven and a half inches long, all sizes smaller are lumped un der tho general head of number three. Tho terms bloaters, selects and extras refer to tho quality and condition, and not to tho size. Mess mackerel means that tho heads and tails have been re moved. In tho case of mackerel the fatter tho fish the better is tho quality. Mackerel are also relerred to as Nor- ways and shores. This indicates where they are caught. Shores are not as fat as Norways. The mackerel caught off Prince Edward Island and known as islands should be of a dark red color. Those caught iu the Bt. Lawrence Bay are known as ‘bays,’the meat of which is darker than that ol the ‘islands. ”—Washington Star. Fortune for B70. Several days ago the schooner Robert I. Carter struck ou Aldeu’e Bock, off the coast of Maine, and to all appearances was a total loss. Nautical exports agreed that she would leave her bones there and her owners stripped her and sold the hnlk to Charles Bartlett, who bought it for 970 "on spec.” Wind and tide floated the schooner off, and to the amaze ment of the salts she drifted np Port land Harbor. Bartlett had her towed in. She is worth $15,000 and has be sides a cargo of 1200 tons of coal, most of which is salable.—Boston Tran script. Three members of the legislature of Maine have died since the election, and before the session was half done, a loss never equaled there before. One of the results of the Indian plague has been to flood the Ijondon market with pearls. The native deal ers in the marts of Bombay have been j in such haste to quit the stricken city ] that they have eagerly disposed of their wares at far below the customary mar ket value. The State of Arkansas claims to be first in the South in the production of small fruits and apples, first in the Union in quantity of uncut timber, sec ond in the Union in coal, and second in the number of acres required to produce a standard bale of cotton, Ixmlsiana being first, but only slightly in the lead. A little bit of municipal reform is ap parently needed In Chicago. The Chi cago Evening Post remarks: "When Washington Hesing, at the banquet of the Merchants' Club, said that Chica go was ‘the dirtiest large city in the world except Constantinople,' the truth was so palpable to those present that they were filled with pity and disgust —over Constantinople. And when he said that Chicago’s ‘asressment is the most outrageous of any city in the world,’ there was not a man around the table to take issue with the statement, because every man there knew that it was notoriously, scandalously, discre ditably true.” ‘‘Who shall persuade coming ages,” asks a w’rlter in the Chicago Times- Herald, ‘‘that the busiest city in the world harbors women who pursue whist as the chief duty of life; who screw up their household finances to the tightest possible point in order to pay an expert $3 an hour for instruc tion in its sacred code; who meet over card tables at 9 o’clock in the morning, hurry up their marketing and hush up their children in order to attend whist luncheons at 1, come home again with vexed and wearied brains to sit silent at dinner, absorbed In regrets for leads unreturned and signals unanswered, and wind up the unregenerate day by lingering over a whist table until mid night?” The extent to which the temperance agitation has prevailed in railroad ser vice is shown by the comments of rail road managers on a bill in the Minne sota Legislature. The bill, if enacted, would render a railroad company liable to a fine if it did not discharge an em ploye in the train department who was known to have been intoxicated. The only objection offered to the bil'. by the railroad officers was that it was super fluous. The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad has a rule which is more stringent than the proposed law. It reads: ‘‘The use of intoxicating drinks has proved a most fruitful source of trouble to railways as well as to indi viduals. The company will exercise ( tim most rigid scrutiny in reference to fTne habits of employes in ttalA respect, and any employe who has |>een dis missed on this account will Hot be re employed. Drinking when on duly or frequenting saloons will notibe toler ated, and preference will be/given to those who do not drink at all” Mr. Prater, of St. Louis, who has studied the cornstalk scientifically, thinks that within a few yean the far mers of this country will be receiving from $15 to $25 per acre for thiir corn stalks. Mills will be established In the South and other parts of the country, he says, and pretty nearly the whole crop of cornstalks—at any rate, that part of the crop which is grkwn on farms contiguous to railway lines— will be used In the mills. The market for the manufactured products is al ready made, as the products will be sta ple articles in constant demand. Of the products that may be evolved from the matured cornstalk—the stalk which has borne its grain—Mr. Prater enum erates cellulose, celluloid, smakeless gunpowder, lacquer, cattle feed, roof ing material, and a material that will answer every purpose of papier mache. Green stalks, he says, are rich in glu cose, and will yield “a better quality and a finer sugar with less expense than can be made from the cane of Louisiana.” Queen Victoria, born In 1819, is by no means the oldest of living monarch® or potentates. The King of Denmark. Christian IX., is one year older; there are three German sovereigns older than Queen Victoria, and Pope Leo XIII. was 9 years old when Queen Vic toria was born. But In respect of the duration of her reign. Queen Victoria Is the oldest living of sovereigns, for she ascended the throne of Great Brit ain In 1837, and on June 20 next will complete the sixtieth year of reign. The next oldest of the sovereigns of the world Is Franz Joseph of Austria-Hun gary who ascended the throne in Vien na in 1848. Sixty years' reign of one monarch is an unusual thing, even in England where revolutions have been rare and where the present royal fami ly is of great longevity. George I. reigned twelve years; George II., thir ty-three years; George III., fifty-nine years and three months; George IV., ten years; William IV. seven yeags; Edward III., reigned fifty years; Henry VIII., thirty-eight years; Mary, five years; and Elizabeth, torty-four years. In honor of the Queen s sixty years’ reign many patriotic Englishm—i are already preparing celebrations and fes tivities designed to show tho increase of England’s influence and her pro gress in commerce and the mechanical arts since 1837. A point brought out In a recent re port by Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, of the Department of Labor, bearing on the sex and age of employes in the industries of the country, is that the proportion of children to the whole number of people employed is largely decreasing. “Children” in these sta tistical reports are those under four teen years of age, and the decrease In the number at work is supposed to be due to the more stringent legislation in many of the states regarding child labor and school attendance. A com parison with the latest census report shows an increase of G3 per cent, in the number of male employes of eigh teen years and over, and a decrease of 80.5 in the number under eighteen years, while female employes under eighteen have Increased 89 per cent. Out of 780 cases examined where men and women work together at the same occupation and with equal degrees of efficiency, men receive greater p^y in 595 cases, or 76 per cent., and women receive greater pay in 129, or 16'i per cent., while in only 58 cases, or 16V. per cent., did the two sexes receive the same pay for the same work. The men receive 50 per cent, more pay than the women in the 595 cases in which they get greater pay, but the women receive but a little over 10 per cent, more pay in the 129 cases in which they get high er wages. It will not be many years, remarks the Atlantic Constitution, before the commerce of the globe is exclusively carried on by steam. Each year boil ers are substituted for sa'.is and im proved methods of navigation take the place of the eld ones. For example, in 1896, the world’s said boat tonnage was reduced $264,000 tons below the year preceding, while Its steamboat tonnage was Increased 1,106,000 tons. Of the total increase in ship building for the year only 299,421 tons of steam, 108,710 tons of sailing craft, were built outside of England. In this connection it is gratifying to note that much of the year's activity In tho line of ship-build ing was confined to th -1 United States. On the great lakes especially the num ber of steamboats is rapidly increasing. Only a few years back these inland seas were covered with sailing boats and such a thing as a steamer plowing their depths was a rare and novel spectacle. At the present time, however, sail boats on the great lakes have become as odd as steamers were a few years ago. In the disappearance of the sailor there is something intensely pathetic. So much of romance and adventure in times past have clustered about this knight-errant of the deep that progress seems inconsiderate, if not cruel, in re tiring him from the wide theatre of his activities. Except in the literature of a by-gone age the sailor boy will soon be without a habitation. Acting on the advice of several high officials who have known the delights of hunting big game in Africa, and who, with reason, apprehended the speedy extermination of the larger animals if the reckless slaughter of recent years should not be forbidden, the English government has determined to set apart the coast region of Somaliland as a sort of ‘‘elephant sanctuary.” Here after sportsmen will not be allowed td intrude; Its denizens will get to live in peace and safety, and that any infraction of the regulation will be severely punished. The reserve ex tends from Sheikh Pass, on the east, to the Abyssinian frontier on the west, with, roughly speaking, the edge of the Hand for its northern boundary, and it has an area, approximately, of 200 miles by 50. The herds of elephants which remain in this reserve are at present, however, confined to the much smaller area, about forty miles square, of the Gadabursi Mountains. The weak point of the arrangement is, it is said, that there are no means of enforcing the ordinance as against the natives. Active steps in the same direction have befen taken by the German authorities in German East Africa. An edict signed by Gov. Wissman establishes two im portant sanctuaries, and others are in contemplation. In addition to this, li censes are required for hunters of ele phants, a higher scale being exacted from Europeans than from natives. This latter regulation has been for some time in force, and the native hunt ers willingly pay for these licenses, be ing well aware that tho preservation of the animals is as important to them as to the whites. When they cry wolf in the Govern ment of Saratoff, Russia, it means something. During the last two years the wolves there have devoured, ac cording to the official returns, 11,000 horses, 10,000 horned cattle, 33,000 sheep, 5,000 swine, 1,000 dogs and 18,- 000 fowl. They have also during the same period attacked 68 persons devouring two on the spot, and inflict ing fatal wounds on twelve others. In France it is estimated that 500,000 of these animals exist, and the damage inflicted by them is set down at about 50,000,000 francs annually. A regular body of men, numbering over 1,000. called the Louveterie, is maintained to keep down wild beasts, and the force has a certain efficiency, but is unequal to keeping the country clear of them. From time to time high bounties for wolf scalps have been paid, as much as 200 francs in the case of a known man- eater. dreaded there as the man-eating tiger is in the Hindoo villages; but Lie animal is never extirpated. In r .ue years his ravage is greater and i" oth ers less, but he is always in ev.dence. In this country he has been pretty well put down in the inhabited parts. A few days ago a prodigious wolf-drive was set on foot in Atchison County, Kan., five square miles being covered and 700 persons participating. They rounded up 200 jack-rabbits, but not a single wolf. Considering his fierce and predatory character abroad, and his resistance to all efforts to destroy him, the American animal must be set down as rather a meritorious creature, easily amenable to extinction and not so des perately destructive, even where it con tinues to maintain a foothold. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. BROOM BRIDLE. The thrifty housewife long ago dis covered that to sew a piece of cloth on the upper part of a broom did much to increase its allotted time of useful ness, bat it remained for a man to devise a wire attachment that would serve the same purpose, and might be transferred from broom to broom. This patented device, while simplioity itself, effectually prevents the broom from losing its shape. It consists of wire arms encircling the broom and fastened around the handle, where they are clamped in position by a sliding ring. The broom-encircling arms are also provided within a slid ing ring, which admits of adjustment from time to time. FURNISHING A GUEST ROOM. A woman’s idea of hospitality may be gathered sooner from a glance at her gnest room than from attending twenty teas and half a* many dinners at her honse. And not infrequently this same guest room proclaims a mis tress a very poor hostess. A gnest room should not suggest to its occupant that she is expected to leave as soon as may be. Half emp tied bureau drawers and closets with three or four pegs in use are equiva lent to a command that the guest cut her visit short. The room should have a habitable air aud should not suggest the mauso leum. If possible, have a lounge, or at least, a low, capacious armchair, fur nished with a cozy, usable cushion or two—not tho heavily embroidered affair which plainly says, ‘‘Touch me mo not!” Then at the head of the lounge, or besiilo the chair, place a substantial table, atd on it scatter a few books, ranging from grave to gay, and one or two lato magazines or jour nals—not those dating six months back. Let the drassing table stand in a good light, and see that it is furnished with all the small toilet accessories, pins, hair pins, a whisk broom a hand mirror, a bottle of violet water, and all the trifles required by the fastidi ous woman. Next and perhaps most important of all, is the wash hand stand. Let the toilet set be roomy aud complete, and be sure to supply a capacious foot bath. Let there be a generous pro vision of towels, generous both as to sizo and quantity, and do not fail to provide a Turkish bath mat, so that the guest may enjoy her morning tab without a haunting fear of splashed rugs and mildewed carpets. A writing table or small desk is also indispensable to the eomfort of those who tarry beneath your vine and fig tree. Fnrnish it generously with sta tionery, with various kinds of pens, with a good big blotter, with a calen dar, a paper ontter, and, last of all, an ink stand filled with good fresh, black ink—not tho stiffened paste nsually found in the bottom of the spare room ink welL RECIPES. One Egg Fruit Cake—One-half cup sugar, | cup butter, J cup molasses, mix together, then add one egg well beaten, one cup raisins stoned and chopped, and one cap sour milk in which one teaspoon soda has been stirred. Add sufficient flour to make a rather stiff batter and one teaspoon cloves and two teaspoons cassia. Bake in one loaf. Fat in a stone jar and it will keep nice for a month. Eggless Cake—One quart floor in which two teaspoons baking powder have been well sifted. One cup milk, one cup shortening, two caps currants or chopped raisins, spice to taste and sufficient cold water to make a father stiff batter. Bake in two loaves. Sponge Cake—Two eggs, beat the yolks with ^ cup sugar, then the whites, and add to yolks with another i cup sugar. Add li cups flour in which one teaspoon baking powder has been thoroughly sifted, aud last 4 cup warm water. Flavor with 1 tea spoon lemon and } of vanilla, Bako twenty-five minntes in moderate oven. Cocoannt Cake—One cap sugar, one tablespoon melted butter, J cap sweet milk, one cup Hour, one egg, one tea spoon baking powder and a little pinoh of salt. Tarn into a sheet tin, then sprinkle a large tablespoon of coarse white sugar aud one of shredded cocoanut over it and bake in a moder ate oven. Look at it after it has been in the oven ten or fiftean minutes, os the top scorches easily; put brown paper on top if the heat is too great. Indian Padding—Scald one quart of milk, then stir into it very slowly three tablespoons Indian meal; remove from the stove and add one egg well beaten, 4 teaspoon ginger, | cup molasses and a little salt. Bake in moderate oven 14 hours. Blanc Mange—Wash a small hand ful of nnground Irish moss, letting it soak five minutes first, to swell, and free from shell and seaweed. Put into a saucepan with I4 quarts of milk, let it boil slowly for twenty minutes, be ing careful it does not scorch upon the bottom. Strain through a flour sieve and turn into cups or fancy molds. Apple Sago Pudding—Fill an earthen pudding dish with quartered and peeled apples, choosing a tart Bald win. Upon two tablespoons of sago pour one pint of boiling water, cook until soft, then add J cup sugar, a lit tle salt, butter sizo of walnut and one teaspoon vanilla; lastly one more cup of boiling water and pour over apples. Bake two hours in moderate oven, cov ering with plate after half an hour. Serve with milk and sugar. Steamed Date Padding—Make a plain batter as for steamed apple pud ding, substitnting stoned dates for tho apples. Steam two hours and serve with a liquid saace; this is delicious. —New England Homestead.