Mothers should remember that it is of great importance to look well to a child’s ï¬rst teeth, as well as to his second set. The second are likely .to be infected by decay of the ï¬rst set, and dentists fully recognise the necessity of looking well to the early .tceth. A tooth grows from a little ‘Linc the pie-plate with the best crust. you can make and ï¬ll with pared apples, cut inleights. Swoeten Nell and dredge with cinnamon and flour. Pour oVer all'onehalf cup of rich cream, -or the same amount of made custard. Top ofl‘ Hubby’s din- ner with a quarter section of this pic. and see how quickly the where- withal! for your new hat will be forthcoming. Bake with a. top crust or heat with meringue or whipped cream, as you prefer. 'Apples are delicious stewed in a rich syrup and when cold covered with a meringue, sprinkled with nutâ€" meats and slightly browned. Gelatine previously dissolved, may be added to the syrup while still warm‘ Turn into a. ring mould. At serving time ï¬ll the centre with sweetened whip- ped cream, with or without nuts. 'l‘heso jellied apples should be served ice cold. Evaporated apples stewed are improved by adding raisins in the proportion of hall a. cup of raisâ€" ins to a half pound of apples. Flav- or with lemon. 'A pic not like that his mother used to make, and perhaps not. even to his “joy of thinking, an improveâ€" ment, is built as follows: The "npl‘el juchcn†of our German sistersâ€"well, you never tasted anyâ€" ,thing better. Try this recipe. Mix a. good tablespoonful of butter into two cups of flour, in which you have sifted two teaspoonfuls of bakâ€" ing powder and a. teaspoonful 0! salt. Beat well one egg, and ï¬ll up the cup with milk. Grease a large, shallow pan, and spread the dough about half an inch thick have pared, cored and quartered apples ready, and press them into the dough in close, even rows. Sprinkle well with Sugar and cinnamon. and bake in a moderate oven half an hour. This is excellent for the little folks, and good hot or cold. When the milk boils in the double boiler, pour it slowly on the meal. Cook half an hour in the boiler, stirring often. Now add the other ingredients; pour into a. deep, well greased pudding dish and bake slow- ly. Eat with cream or apple syrup. Red ones of a. size, scooped out neatly, make pretty cups for a salad. These applecups may he ï¬ilod with a. mixture of cold, chopped meat and bread crumbs, seasoned to taste, soften with melted butter, and baked. ’l‘art apples, combined with celery and Walnuts make a salad ï¬t, for the gods, and beside which their ambrosâ€" in would be insipid. It you are looking for an Indian apple pudding, let your quest end right here. Take one half of a cup of molasses, one quart of milk, one teaspoontul of salt, three scant cups of pared and sliced apples, to which you will add a quarter 01a teaâ€" spoonful of ginger and cinnamon. The very nicest way to bake them is to select the sweet ones, core 1hem and ï¬ll with a mixture of su- gar, butter and chopped nuts, flaw~ cred with cinnamon. Pour a little water around and bake carefully. To make ‘porcupine apples’ just, stick them full of shredded and blunced almonds. Apples fried in butter or pork {at are nice for breakfast, or with a roast of pork for dinner. The necessity of fruit, all the yenri reund, as part of the daily diet, is generally acknowledged. Among I fruits the apple is given the ï¬rst place. Eaten raw, them is no better stimulant for a. sluggish liver, and, the liver is as important in the scheme of living as the ten coni- mandments. Be bilious and be a. vilâ€" Jainâ€"one is the natural sequence of ‘the other. Eat apples, and you will be both happy and goodâ€"you can't possibly help it. Think of Eve as the exception that proved the rule. IA lover of the delicious spheres, hit.â€" ing into the spicy heart of a. ï¬ne one, sees a. very brilliant silver lin- ing to the cloud his Snakcship cast over Paradise. at all events. Without applesâ€"one shudders to think 0! the howling waste! With applesâ€"one can answer satisfactorily at any season, the vexing old conâ€" undrumâ€""what, shall we have to eat?" kih (:Qéégï¬ (ï¬ï¬ï¬â€˜QQQQQQQQ‘Qéï¬, HINTS FOR YOUNG MOTHERS SCOTT & BO\\;17\'E,VElTemists Toronto. 7 0 should contlnue the treatment In hot weather: smaller dose anda little cool milk with It will do away with any objection which Is attached to fatty proâ€" ducts during t h e h eate d season. Those who are gaining flesh and strength by regular treat- ment with Scott’s Emu!sion @QN TENQE M)§>99)»>b9»>§§bba .WAYS OF USING APPLES. About Sac. ind $1.00; 311 druggists‘ Sand for frcc sample. House the Ohmrio sac or pocket in the gum. and, the second teeth being developed close to the ï¬rst ones, it is only natural to believe that the milk teeth will have a good chance of affecting their successors. During warm weather milk for children should always be boiled be fore using. To do this, heat to , about 170 deg. Fahrenheit, and keep at this temperature for about thirty " minutes. This precaution is especialâ€" ly necessary when an epidemic of any kind is prevalent, as infection is M carried more quickly by milk than in - almost any other way. 1 9’2???) a ' W Approaching the brink. he sudden- ly swung himself round with a whirling motion that threw his hind legs high in air, and as they de- scended they just touched the further side and his feet took a ï¬rm hold. As the DUg dropped out of sight it looked for a moment as if the ant would be drawn after it, but the hind feet held last, and presently the captain emerged triumphant with his booty, starting 011 in a bee line for the clay house behind the partiâ€" 1 tion. All went well till he came to withâ€" in two feet of a. pool of water that the servant had spilled upon the floor when filling the empty tomato cans under the legs of the dresserâ€"a necessary precaution to keep the ants from climbing up and taking possession. The captain scented the water from afar, rose up and in- spected it till he was satisï¬ed that it was impassable, and then began Presently the big ant, with his now feebly struggling captive, reachâ€" ed the widest crack in the floor; to the other ants a. yawiling gulf, to cross which they were obliged to make a. detour of half the length of the room. But the captain had no idea of squandering his time in this Way. In every instance the little fellows rodoubled their efforts at the ap- proach of their commander, but in the case of the green bug with no satisfactory results. For fully a. half hour the big ant continued to move leisurely about, inspecting here a body of ants as they toiled at a bit of chicken that had fallen from my plate, there a couple that were devising some scheme to get a kernel of rice across a, crack that stretched like a great canon between them and their forâ€" tress behind the partition, and in still another quarter a trio tugging at a green bug that was not yet dead and that clung tenaciously to 'A BAMBOO SPLINTER. For fully n. mjnute the big ant watched the efforts of his fellows, and thenfas if in disgust. at, their puniness dashed upon the prey, scat- tering the three toilcrs in as many directions, and seizingwhe bug1by a wing quickly jerked it from its posâ€" ition and started ofl‘ across the floor at, n great rate of speed. ' Thu three seemed to hold a consulâ€" tation, and presently the two retir- ed an if to carry out, the orders of their commander. The nursery should he the snnniosl, room in the house, but (lo not choose 0. top room unless it is absolutely unavoidable, as the ceilings are genâ€" erally lower than in other rooms, and being close to the tiles are ter- ribly hot in summer. Children are like flowers: unless they get plenty of air and sunlight. they cannot be really healthy, and, as microbes flourish in dark rooms, this is an additional reason that the children’s domain should be flooded with light. Every morning an army of the lit- tle scavengers came briskly out from their nest of clay built up some- where behind the partition and de- ployed over the floor in search of anything dead or alive that might serve them as food. At ï¬rst as I watched them they seemed to work at random. Then one afternoan when the sun- light was exceptionally bright I noticed an ant considerably larger and longer limbed than his fellows moving leisurely across the floor and pausing frequently to look about him. During one of these pauses two ants hurried up to him from op« posite directions. BATTLE BETWEEN BIG RED ANT AND SPIDER. Babies are generally very thirsty when teething, but, do not, constantâ€" ly give them milk to drink. Cold boiled water is much better for quenching the thirst, and, as a rule, babies are not given nearly enough. Milk is a food, not by any} means a thirst quencher. A doctor, Writing to the 'Lancet,’ advocates the use of sleeping sacks for children, with arms and a button at the neck, instead 01 a nightdress. A HGHT TO THE FINES}! The child could not walk about, in a sack, and, therefore, could not get to a ï¬re and ignite its clothes, for it would be naked. One defect, of 01‘â€" dinary nightdrossos is that a restâ€" less child kicks off the bcdclothcs and rolls up the niglitdress under its arms, leaving its legs and half its body exposed. The Ant Overcomes Great Difï¬cul- ties and Earns His Dinner. I was conï¬ned to my bed in Manila l’hillipine Islands, with dengue fever, writes a. traveller. Through my mosquito bar I watched the red ants explore the Cl‘aZy old Spanish floor with its gaping seams which the hem; of the dry season in the Philippines had opened up. llly very thirsty do not constantâ€" to drink. Cold much better for Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Makes Strength for Summer. Every man and woman in Canada needs a. tonic medicine at this season of the year. They must have new, rich blood to build them up to bear the tryng heat of summer. Dr. Wil- h‘ums' Pink Pills are the greatest spring tonic in the whole world. Every dose makes new, rich bloodâ€" new vigorous life. They transform Weak, weary, anaemic girls into healthy, graceful, well-developed woâ€" men. They make debilitated men strong lusty and energetic. They give worn, despondent women new health and comfort. They do this every timeâ€"they cannot fail. 'After a course of Dr. Willinms’ Pink Pills, every man and woman can withstand the summer's heat free from back- ache and headaches, weakness and despondency. Mrs. M. ‘A. White, Seal Cove, (2110., says: “I cannot praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills too highly. They have not only made a. new person of myself, but have been of incstimable value in my family. I always keep the pills in my home and the result is I have no doctor’s bills; nor have I any delicate boys or girls, as the pills keep them strong- and healthy. I constantly reâ€" commend the pills to my iriends, and I always hear good words from those who use them.†Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills do. not act upon the bowels; tlleyhdo not bother with the mere symptoms of disease; they simply make new rich, red blood, and thus cure all the common ailments 01' life. But you must get. the genuine with the full name Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for I’alc People, on the Wrapper around each box. Sold by all dealers everywhere or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Wil- liams’lledicine 00., Brockville, Ont. Mark Twain tells a story 01 a felâ€" lowâ€"worker who was recently in re- ceipt of a. letter from a man who has regularly nmde it a practice to borrow money from him. In this letter the writer surprised his correspondent by saying: “This time I have decided to rev‘erse the usual order of things, and, instead of borrowing from yOU, I enclose h-erewith' £5, _which I am going to ask that you "kill lay aside for me couldn thought he might have dropped it. Then quite accidentally he turned over the sheet on which the lettér was Written and discovered this postscript: “I’ve just looked out of the window. and ï¬nd it's raining like the very dickens!" asK for Suddenly the ant stopped and sprang round deï¬antly in front of the bug, and the next moment I saw a gray spider (the variety which us- -.ually travels with huge bounds like a' flea) approaching warily. It shot forward a few inches, paused, 'shot forward again, and then seemed to debate the advisability of attemptâ€" ing to capture the hug from his fel- low marauder. The debate lasted only a moment. The ant's courage evidently failed him at the near approach of his big antagonist, and in a sudden panic of [car he retreated behind the bug. Like a flash the spider leaped upon the choice niorsel, and hurrying away with if. to one of the tomato cans under a leg of the dresser mounted to the edge and began leisurely to devour his prize. For a time the ant seemed frantic a: flea) for“ ard forward debate For a time the ant seemed frantic with grief and rage. He dashed aimlessly about looking for the bug, as if he could not believe that he had really been robbed. 'As the. fruitless search continued he seemed 1.0 become more and more excited, chasing about, in big, zigzag loops as if demented. Then of a. sud- den he paused on the very spot where he had been robbed, and after what. seemed to be a moment’s rc- flection started off on the TRAIL OF THE ROBBER. The spider recognized its enemy from afar, and dropping the partly devoured bug into the water, ran around to the farther edge of the tin. The ant, with the dogged persis- tency of his race, ï¬shed out of the water what remained of the green bug, dropped it over the side of the can, and descending leisurer, car- ried it away to his clay house be him] the partition. The ant seemed quite to have reâ€" gained his self-possession now, and reaching the can climbed deliberately up, and raising his head cautiously over the edge located the object of his Visit. Quick as thought the spider was upon him, and for a moâ€" ment there was a. confused blur of shifting gray and red, as the two fought desperately on the jagged edge of the can. . the range of my vision, and a. moâ€" ment later I was surprised to see him beating a. hasty retreat, tugging frantically at the. bug, much as deâ€" feated soldiers tug at a. ï¬eld piece to prevent it. from falling into the hands of the enemy. Suddenly them; was a tiny splash, and a moment later I saw the two struggling in the water. The spider made spasmodic efforts to climb up the smooth side of the can, but the ant, far more active in the water, always dragged it back. In a. few moments the spider doubled up conâ€" vulsively and lay, a. still gray ball, upon the surface of the water. h( MT THE RAINY DAY HAD COME lat you 'm‘ rainy day. the red} (1 f0 1ble- A SPRING TONIC? fac ient of the y remittance on the floor here letter under "Hello!" said He. "The vei‘y thing we want. I Have orders to send a. convoy of shot to Seville against those (logs of English.†And he Conï¬scntcd the lot; but, ï¬nding them rcnmrknbly light, broke one, and forth gushed The Brigadier agreed, and managed to get them into the Prado at Madrid in the_night; but as those in the plot Were unloading the goods up rode an ofï¬cer. “Look here, my friend,†said he, “I want you to convey for me 0. quantity of cannon balls and shells to the capitalâ€"as many as your horses can draw.†Then he showed him piles of these munitions of war. The Brigadier dcmurredâ€"the weight would be urodigious. “Bah!†reâ€" plied the smuggler. "They are all of blackened phsteboard and are full of velvcts, tobacco, brandy and liqueurs. Get them safe into the Prado and. you shall be paid for your pains 75 louis d'or': They will let cannon balls pass the barriers without taxing them.†THE FINEST COGNAC. In Paris for some time by an in- genious contrivancc a good deal of wine and spirits was passed beyond the barriers Without paying duty. A subterranean passage had been made from the village of Les Vertus, near St. Denis, in the house of a citizen, and it led into the collar of a blackâ€" smith near the Foire St. Laurent. The passage Was lined with planks well greased, and kegs were sent rolling along it ï¬lled with every kind of merchandise that ought to pay toll at the octroi. At the black-. smith's there were extensive cellarsl in which these goods were stored. I But one who was in the secret heâ€"l trayed it, and the oflicers oi the law came down suddenly on the blackr, smith, penetrated to the cellars, and‘ with the contents loaded seventeenI wagons. l HAVE MANY CLEVER DEVICES FOR HIDING GOODS. ' In (lower, at Llangenneth, the runners of smuggled goods had conâ€" trived a. most, ingenious cache. A little stream falls in cascades from the mountain above. They diverted the stream, formed a cellar under the spat. Where the water splashed down, well covered with broad slates above, on \vhiclr‘ï¬they cast torrent rubble and in this hid their kegs. But a. storm brought the stream down With such violence that one night it tore away the roof and revealed the con- cealed run goods. When Joseph Bonaparte was King of Spain a good many individuals, even those highly placed, enriched themselves at the expense of the rev- cnue. One day a. contrabandista met a Brigadier at Segovia, about to reâ€" turn with empty caissons to Madrid. Smuggling en'ectivcly is one of those ï¬ne arts that have decayed, at least in England, where, as we have duties on little else than tobacco, tea and spirits, and when: We have a seaboard CIOSely watched, it canâ€" not be carried out to any extent successfully. Pasteboard Cannon Balls Filled With Brandyâ€"Dogs Carriers of Laces. Now and then the revenue men are entwined, but rarely on a. large scale, and never can a contraband trade be carried on for long undeâ€" tected. It is not at the present day worth men’s while to apply their minds to the overreaching of the coast gua’rd, says Chamber’s Jour- nal, and consequently the art is in its (image and decline. Attempts are made occasionally to outwit the preventive ofï¬cers, as when a, Vessel came into the Colme some years ago with its corda‘ge of twisted tobacco, but it was found out. 011 cans are made, or were made, with an interior consisting 0! an inverted tunnel of tin. Then the ofï¬cers put a. stick through the neck and turn it about they draw it out and ï¬nd that the rod has been in oil. But the upper bulging sides of the can contain smuggled spirits. Said only in sealed lead packets. By all Grocers. mack, mixed or green. Highest Award St. Louis l904 ' An old woman died lately at Cauâ€" san-d who for long hoodwinked the coast guard by carrying about a. baby. This was actually a, bottle or jar of brandy, which she drew off from a hidden receptacle of the smugglers. "You've a, very quiet child there; I never hear it. cry,†said one of the guards to her. “That may he,†replied Nanny, “but I war- rant you he’s got a deal 0’ spirit; in him.†TRICKS 0F SMUGGLERS At the present day a. great urï¬ty is Gocdness, Goodness 5 Strength. AND HE LET HER PASS. Tea Combnes them All. SOIH‘CO Children shudder at castor oil, and with good reason. Castor oil is a relic of old-time barbarism. Not only is it. repulsive to the taste, but it. gripes and tortures delicate chil- dren. Modern mothers use Baby’s Own Tablets, a. gentle laxative which does not. gripe; a. comforting medi. cine which may be given to a new‘ born babe without fear of harm. Those Tablets cure all the minor ills "of little ones, and promote natural sleep and repose. Mrs. .R. H. James, Fcnaghvale, Ont., sayszâ€"“I ï¬nd great satisfaction in the use of Baby's OWn Tablets, and do not know how I could get along with- out them. They make children Well and keep them well." And you have a guarantee that there is not one particle of opiate or harmful drug in this medicine. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at, 25 cents a box by Writing the Dr. Williams Med‘ icine Co., Brockwille, Ont. "Aye!" said the omithologist hit- tefly. "Pretty Poll! I shall wring your neck for telling secrets." "Poll, pretty poll When you are dead I will stuff you with laces,†or else, “Poll, I will stuff you with' can de cologne.†Now it fell out that once our naturalist was conveying a. collection of specimens across the frontier. and unluckily he had his parrot with him. At the custom house, all at once. it screamed out: "Pretty Poll! When you are dead I will stun‘ you with lace! Poll! Poll! When you are dead I Wil) stufl' you with eau de cologne!" of annoyance to the Spanish frontier guards is the extensive smuggling that goes on from Gibraltar, and dogs are trained as the mediums. They have laces and all kinds of English produce sewn around their bodies and are let loose. They know perfectly whither they are to go, and the guards ï¬re on all such dogs that they see coursing over the country. In the same way in Perigord dogs are educated to poach trufles, which they oig up and hide in well known caches, where their masters can re cover them. On the Swiss and French frontier an Italian plied his trade. He had a bear and a. monkey that sat on the hack of bruin. Sometimes he we: in France, sometimes in Swit- zerland. But actually the beast he travelled with was an ass. 'I‘in re- cephaClCS had been formed, adapted to his sides and back, and these were ï¬lled with brandy, and the whole was covered over with THE SKIN OF A HUGE BEAR. As the showman with his beasts passed the frontier one day, as ill luck would have it, his bear gave voice. There lived near the French Iron- tier a learned ornithologist, who not. only himself had a collection of rare stuffed birds; but he also was con- sulted by amateurs and by learned societies throughout Europe when collections were sought, to be made up; and he undertook to precure the specimens that were desired in France or Germany or England. Con- sequenin there was constancly going on a, trade in ornithological speci- mens over the frontiers, and usually our savant accompanied these, as they were rare and valuable and liable to injury if roughly Handled. Now, it so chanced that he bought a live parrot, with which it entertain- ed him to converse. After a meal he would stand by the perch and say: p “I will trouble you,’ said the cus- tom house ofï¬cer. "to let me investi- gate your collection of stufl'ed bird's.†“Hello!†said the Custom House ofï¬ce)‘, "What a' very remarkable bruin, that. bruys like a. donkey!“ and so the trick was discovered. A MODERN MOTHER. STRONG IN DEATH