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Y'ork Herald.
In Denmark many odd little stories
are told of King Christian and his
kindly ways, above all of the friendly
interest he takes in the doings of his
subjects. Until within quite recent
days, when his strength has begun to
fail him, he used to spend much of his
time in Copenhagen walking about
the streets, and nothing pleased him
better than to stop and have a chat
with any workman he chanced to en
counter. Whenever any Dane makes
his mark in the world, 110 matter what
his station in life may be or what his
views, the king always sends for him
at the first opportunity, that he may
know what he is like and have a talk
with him. Little wonder that he un
derstands his people or that they un
destand him!
In spite of the intervention of man,
Nature generally workg out her own
scheme". Here, for instance, is a pe
culiar state of things in Australia,
wnere the farmers have for many
years suffered from a regular plague
of rabbits. Finding it impossible to
kill them off in any of the ordinary
ways, they imported cats and scat
tered them around the country, in the
hope thf 1 they would aid materially
.*n abating the nuisance. But the cats
■con turned their attention away from
the rabbits and sought daintier and
more natural prey —the birds —so that
the cat importation has become a sort
oi boomerang, for not only has it
failed to help the farmers by reduc
ing the number of rabbits, but has
done them an injury by destroying
insectivorous birds. And the foxes
luat were imported to help the cats
kill the rabbits are waging a regular
warfare on poultry yards.
Rice culture is regarded us no
longer an experiment in Southwest
Louisiana and Southeast Texas. Al
though all records for drought and
heat in those sections have been
broken this season, more than an aver
age crop of rice has been saved by the
irrigation systems. The average
yield per acre has been increased, the
average quility has been greatly im
proved, and new varieties have been
developed- Many yields are phenome
nal. while a product of ten to twenty
barrels per acre is common. Domestic
Japan, the outgrowth of sowing im-
ported Japanese rice in local soil,
developed an improved seed, taking
tile first place in the American market.
J .anils two years ago were selling
slowly at $5 to sls. Today such land
Is selling much faster at S2O to SSO
per acre, and immigration to the rice
belt is quite active. The growing of
rice is regarded as the safest and
surest cereal production, as it is also
the most profitable, rice having the
largest use aa< market of all the
grains.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
King Edward is sixty years old.
Horseback riding is President Roose
velt's favorite exercise.
The Brazilian Congress has voted
$25,000 to M. Sanlos-Dumont, the aer
onaut.
Brigadier-General Henry C. Mer
riam, U S. A., has been placed upon
tile retired list for age.
Lord Roberts, it is believed in Brit
ish military circles, will resign bis
office before next April.
THE PILCRIMAGE.
BY CLINTON BCOLLAKD.
Under our comrade's name
Lo, this legendry!—
Gone on a pilgrimage
Into a far countree.
Never a word to say
If lie will come again,
Treading his buoyant way
Over the paths of men.
Never a clue to guide
Whither his footsteps fall;
Back from the parting tide
Never an answering call*
But there shall dawn a time
We shall be pilgrims, too;
Then we shall know the clime,
Then we shall find the clue.
And they will grave for us
This same legendry;—
Gone on a pilgrimage
Into a far countree.
—New York independent.
g#isM
MBS. CALEB UK OWN
reached her little North
Side apartment, after a
(, round of calls to tind her
mother there looking somewhat l'alnt
and more than somewhat worried. The
mother lived in a southern suburb and
the daughter was not expecting a visit
from her that day.
"What's the matter, mamma? - ' said
Mrs. Brown anxiously. "You are look
lug all used up."
"Oh, there's matter enough. Phyllis.
I'm always unfortunate; never seem
to be able to do anything right, and
then just because I'm ueur-sighted
everybody imposes upon me. I came
In to do some shopping at Meadow's.
Clara wanted me to buy some lace for
her and she gave me a $lO bill. You
know Ceorge has been out of work for
u mouth and we've had to economize
dreadfully. I didn't bring another cent
with me; just a hill. I had my com
mutation railroad ticket. When Clara
put the hill In my purse she told me it
was a tea aud said that she'd rather
give me something smaller, hut that
she didn't have it. Well, I reached
Meadow's and went straight to the lace
counter, where I bought a collar for
Clara. It cost $1.50. I gave the clerk
my $lO bill and in a few minutes he
handed me the lace collar and fifty
cents In change. Just think of that!
"I told the man that I had given Idm
a $lO bill. He declared that 1 had glv
eu him a $2 hill aud nothing else. I
I TOLD IIIM 1 KNEW BETTEK.
told him I knew better, and that It
was impossible there was any mistake
about It. He was nlinost rude and
looked at me as though he suspected
me of trying to rob him. People began
to gather about aud I got weak and
nervous, and so 1 came away. We
can't afford to lose that $8 and 1 don't
know what to do. Clara will scold me
and will say that I ought to have im
pressed on the man that it was a $lO
bill. I feci absolutely ill over the mat
ter."
Mrs. Caleb Brown Is the wife of the
head of the advertising department of
one of Chicago's great dallies. Her
husband knows the controlling spirit
of every,department in every big store
In the city. Mrs. Brown knew that if
she Introduced herself to the manager
at Meadow's he would take her word
for the $lO bill matter.
"Never mind, mother, I'll lix the
thing up for you In a jiffy," she said.
"It's a perfect outrage. You go to
sleep till I come back." Then Mrs.
Caleb Brown put on her bonnet and
went scurrying downtown. Arrived at
Meadow's she went directly to Mr.
Hlghridge, who holds the store's destin
ies in the hollow of bis hand. Mrs.
Brown told Mr. Hlghridge who she
was. Then she explained the $lO hill
matter to him, waxing Indignant at the
carelessness, if it were nothing worse,
she said, of the clerk who eould cause
an elderly and near-sighted woman to
lose SS, which meant so much to her
under the present condition of house
hold affairs.
Mr. Highricge was politeness itself.
He said that the affair was truly un
fortunate, hut was it not barely pos
sible that Mrs. Brown's mother was in
error herself.
"Not a bit of It," said Mrs. Brown.
As a matter of fact, she almost
snapped it, for she was so indignant
that she was half ready to believe that
the whole store had entered into a
conspiracy against licr mother. "Mr.
Hlghridge, my sister Clara put the
money into mother's purse, and said
that it was a $lO bill, and that it was
all the cash that there was in the
house. Mother knows of lier own
knowledge that there was just $lO left
last night after they ban paid the coal
bill. It is utterly impossible that there
should he tiny mistake. The fault lies
here."
Mr. Higlu'idge looked at Mrs. Brown
and smiled a little indulgently. "I am
very sorry that you have had this trou
ble. Mrs. Brown. I will give you an
order for SS. You can get it cashed at
the window there. Let me say. how
ever, for the sake of the establishment
that it is utterly impossible under our
system of change making that a mis
take of this kind should occur."
Mrs. Brown's eyes snapped. "It can't
be impossible, Mr. Highridge. Here is
a perfectly plain case of error. You
study up your system a little, and you
will find that there is room somewhere
for lots of mistakes." Mrs. Brown's
temper was making her forget herself
a little, because she was so absolutely
certain of the ground upon which she
stood.
Mr. Highbridge made out an order
for $8 and handed it to his visitor.
She forgot to sny "Thank you." be
cause his last words were, though giv
en in a tone of kindly consideration,
"Mrs. Brown, I assure you that under
our system of change making mistakes
are impossible."
Phyllis Brown shot one indignant
look into the managerial face, cashed
her order and went home.
The look of relief in her mother's
face as she handed her the $8 amply
repaid Mrs. Brown for the unpleasant
ten minutes she had spent at Mead
ow's. That afternoon the mother went
home.
Two days later Mrs. Brown received
a letter that sent a flush of blood up
Into her face, and then left her feeling
as ill as did her mother two days be
fore. This was the letter:
"Dear Phyllis—You can't imagine my
mortification and almost horror when,
on arriving homo and telling them of
my city experience and of your visit to
Meadow's, when Clara broke in with
'Well, mother, it was a $2 bill and not
a $lO bill that I put in your purse. I
was certain that it was $lO myself un
til after you had gone. Then Geral
dine told me that Bhe had taken the
$lO bill about an hour before you left,
and had paid the butcher's bill with it,
receiving a $2 bill in change, which she
put back into the drawer.
"Clara did not look at the bill when
she put it into my purse, and of course
thought it was $lO. Isn't it awful?
How can you ever face Mr. Highridge?
But, of course, it must be done. Take
the $8 back right away, and I will re
pay you the next time I come in. Y'our
loving and mortified MOTHER."
Phyllis Brown put on her bonnet and
went downtown again. She walked
around Meadow's store three times be
fore she finally screwed up her courage
to go in. She went to Mr. Highridge.
He saw her coming, and a half amused
smile spread over his face.
"I am sorry, Mr. Highridge. I can't
express my mortification in words suf
ficiently strong. It was a $2 bill and
not a $lO hill that my mother gave
your clerk." Then Mrs. Brown ex
plained matters, and gave back $S into
Mr. Highridge's hand.
He thanked her, nnd, as she was
about to leave, a twinkle came into his
eye and he said: "I assure you. Mrs.
Brown, that under our system of mak
ing change mistakes are impossible."
And then when he saw the tears
which had gathered in Phyllis Brown's
eyes Mr. Highridge wished he hadn't
said it.—Edward B. Clark, in the Chi
cago Record-Herald,
The Cougar's Thick Hide.
The fighting dogs were the ones that
enabled me to use the knife. All threo
went straight for the head, and when
they got hold they kept their jaws
shut, worrying and pulling, and com
pletely absorbing tile attention of the
cougar, so as to give an easy chance
for the dcatli-blow. TTio hounds
meanwhile had seized the cougar be
hind, and .Tim, with his alligator Jaws,
probably did as much damage as Turk.
However, neither in this nor in any
other instance, did any one of the dogs
manage to get its teeth through the
thick skin. When cougars fight among
themselves their claws and fangs leave
great scars, but tlieir hides are too
thick for tile dogs to get their teeth
through. On the other hand, a coug
ar's jaws have great power, and dogs
are frequently killed by a single bite,
the fangs being driven through the
brain or spine; or they break a dog's
leg or cut the big blood-vessels of the
throat.—From "With the Cougar
Hounds," by Theodore Roosevelt, In
Scribner's Magazine.
A New Arizona Intlnstry.
"A new industry has recently boon
started in Arizona that promises to be
come tremendous in a few years," said
a man on his return from Buffalo.
"The industry is the growing of dates,
and at the exposition I saw a box of
this fruit, the first that had ever been
prown and cured here. They were ex
eellent dates, very plump, very sweet,
very juicy. The Arizona man who
raised them told me he had a dato
farm near Phoenix, that the climate
there suited the dato palm admirably
and that he had 110 doubt all the dates
eaten in this country would be grown
here in a few years. lie pave me one
from his box to taste, and I found it
to be sweeter and tenderer and fatter
than the imported dates I occasionally
eat."—Philadelphia Record.
Invention to liar Tut ruder*.
Nervous travelers who dread sleep
ing in uuknown houses will welcome
the so called "vigilant dragon" which
Is not unlike a small brass shelled tor
toise. It is. In fact, a dome gong table
bell, with spiked legs and with a
spiked dragon's head. When a bed
room door I 3 closed the spikes are
placed in the floor nnd against the
door and then the dragons tail jirst
touches the floor. This tail Is con
nected with the bell clapper, so that
if nuyoue endeavors to open the door
from outside an obstacle is met with,
and the alarm given. When the anx
ious watches of the night are over the
"vigilant dragon" becomes a repose
ful bell for the writing table.—London
Express.
WONDERFUL SALT FARM
THE MEN WORK UNDER TERRIFIC
CONDITIONS OF TEMPERATURE.
An Old Colorado Industry :if lvlilrh Men
Work In n Tomperuturn of 140 A
Thousand Acres of Solid Salt—Most of
the Laborers Arc Indians.
One of the most curious pieces of
real estate in existence is now the sub
ject of a suit brought by the Govern
ment to recover the property. It is a
salt farm—looo acres of solid salt,
which is plowed and hoed and hilled
up like so much earth. It lies in a de
pression 204 feet below the level of
the sea, in the midst of the great Colo
rado Desert, just north of the Mexican
line, in the State of California, and the
1 own which has grown up on its border
takes its name, Salton, from the crys
tal deposit.
For many years salt has been taken
from this district, but on a small
scale. In ISU2 a temporary stoppage
was put to the locul Indus ry, the over
liow of the Colorado River, forming
what was known as the Salton Sea.
In time the water receded, evaporation
followed, and there was left a resi
iliuin of almost pure crystal salt, a vis
ta of unimaginable and almost unbear
able brilliance and beauty. From a
distance the effect was that of a sheet
of the purest snow, glittering in the
sunlight; but when the first explorers
ventured upon the newly formed crust
they were unable to endure for long
the fierce refraction of the light, and
fled blindly with aching eyeballs from
that insufferable radiance. Equipped
with colored glasses, they returned,
and soon a company was working the
richest salt crystal field in existence.
All that was necessary was to
plow out the salt and grind it up. A
salt plow was devised and built. It
has four wheels and a heavy and pow
erful steel beak, or breaker, and the
motive power is steam. Then a grind
ing mill and drying plant were put up,
a dummy line run up to connect with
the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the
work of taking out five and a half
tons daily at from $6 to $35 a ton be
gan. The great difficulty, however,
was to get labor. Probably nowhere
else on the earth's surface do men
work under such terrific conditions of
temperature as at the Salton salt
farm. The normal heat of the Colo
rado desert, which is such that few
white men can live in that region, is
enormously increased by the refracted
and reflected rays of the sun. For
weeks at a time the temperature of
the field reaches 140 degrees every
day. Under these conditions, of
course, no white man can work. The
salt plowing is done by Japanese
and Indians, mainly the latter, who
seem to endure the rigors of the cli
mate without evil effect.
To watch the steady, stoic perform
ance of the red-skinned toiler, as he
hoes, shovels and scrapes the field, or
operates the engine that propels the
plow, is to appreciate the qualities
of the Indian us a worker under the
most trying conditions. Some of the
Indian laborers even work without
glasses, but all the Japs protect their
eyes from the baneful glare with the
darkest of spectacles, and even so
they are often laid up with optic in
flammation. In addition to the other
discomforts of the salt fields the flying
particles generate a particularly irri
tating and persistent thirst. The work
ers drink great quantities of water,
and this serves as a safeguard against
sunstroke, as it keeps them perspiring
freely.
The deposit of salt varies in thick
ness from one to eight inches. It forms
In a crust, and the plow breaks this
snlt covering by throwing n broad but
shallow furrow of salt lumps up in
parallel ridges on either side of the
machine. Here and there underlying
the crystal plain are springs of water.
When this crust is broken the springs
seep forth their dirty, brackish water;
and the Indian lads follow the plow
with hoe in hand, knocking to and fro
the clumps of salt and mud in this
water, until the earth is dissolved, and
then the crystal salt is stacked in
conical pyramids to await transpor
tation to the mill.
The salt crystals do not dissolve dur
ing the washing, doubtless on account
of the quautity of snlt already in the
water. No sooner has the plow gone
over the field than the crust begins to
form again; therefore, It would seem
that the salt fields of Salton are in
exhaustible. The salt is allowed to re
main in the pyramids until complete
evaporation of all water takes place,
when It is transferred to the fiat cars
and carried to the mills at Salton.
The factory is a structure about (>OO
feet in length, and consists of a mill
ing and drying plant. When the salt
arrives at the mill it is thrown into
a bulkhead breaker and reduced to
uniform particles, which are run
through a burr mill and thoroughly
ground. There is an almost imper
ceptible portion of carbonate of soda
mixed with the uative sait, and this
simply aids in the cleansing process.
When thoroughly ground the salt is
sifted like flour through lioltiug cloth,
put through an aspirator, which re
moves all foreign substances, and is
then ready to sack. Aside from the re
fined or domestic salt there are tons
of hide salt shipped annually from
Salton. This glade is only sold for
commercial and Industrial purposes.
The most delightful time to visit the
crystal lake is upou a moonlight night.
The spectacle Is magnificent, but
weird. The rows of glistening pyra
mids, the glitter of the moonlight from
the facets of millions of crystals, the
distant background of low, black bills,
the expanse uud stillness of the shad
owless plain strike one with awe and
wonder that eau uever be forgotten.
Lust December the United States
Land Office unearthed some records
which seemed to indicate that the salt
farming company had no right or title
to the valuable property it is now
working. Owing to the peculiar geo
graphical conditions consequent upon
the overflow of the river forming the
Salton Sea and the subsequent subsi
dence and disappearance of the sea,
the legal points involved are quite in
tricate.—Washington Times.
Life of a Lock.
A railway mail clerk in one of the
railroad stations of this city gave the
lock to a mail pouch a snap as he
tossed the bag into bis car.
"There are a half million of these
locks in use on mail bags in the
United States," he said to a reporter.
"They are made right here in Wash
ington on C street, between Four-and
one-lialf and Sixth streets, in the mail
bag and repair shop of the Postoffioe
Department
"The Government employs about
sixty machinists there, and about 230
other employes on mail bag making
and repairing. If the tire in the rear
of this building on Indiana avenue a
few days ago had extended to and con
sumed the shop and its contents the
service would have been seriously in
terfered with for a time.
"The locks which hold the mail so
securely in the pouches are very
strongly made, and are called 'eagle
locks,' because each has an eagle in
bas-relief on the face. By a new pro
cess they are tinned inside and out.
and the old disagreeable feature of
rust will lie removed. These locks
stand the hardest kind of usage and
all kinds of weather, yet their average
life is ten years. They turned out of
the C street shop 12,000 locks and
7300 keys last year, at a cost of about
?4.1,000. In enumerating tile industries
of Washington in the future the lock,
key and mail bag manufacturing in
dustry must not bo omitted, as it is
considerable.
"The department lias a special lock
for its valuable registered packages,
and also a special key. Each of these
locks and keys is numbered and re
corded and carefully guarded and
traced. Many thousands are in use."
—Washington Star.
Electricity in tIE IIOUPO.
Not every man who airily claims
that his house is equipped with mod
ern improvements has any idea of the
extent to which these improvements
have been developed.
Not so long ago a steam radiator, a
gas jet and r. bathtub constituted all
the known improvements that even
the owner of a modern palace would
dream of coveting.
But the marvellous application of
electricity to every existing domestic
Institution has made the present list
of improvements a burden to count.
To be quite up to date, for instance,
you mast equip every room in your
new mansion, especially the sleeping
rooms, with hand lamps which light
at the touch of a spring. Equally con
venient is n pocket lamp and battery
made like a folding camera—obviously
a great convenience to burglars
something, indeed, that nobody in the
world of graft cun afford to do with
out.
There are also ornamental candles
with miniature lights at their tips; a
tiny lamp attaches to the front of a
clock, and small lamps for decorative
purposes.
A current is introduced in a house
to supply power for flat-irons, curling
irons, coffee mills, ice cream freezers,
and sewing machines and heat for
chafing dishes and tea kettles. Tele
phones are replacing speaking tubes in
most of the new mansions and also
to connect with stables and other out
buildings. If power from a waterfall
or windmill Is available the owner of
a house can install an electric plant of
his own at small cost. In mnuy large
country hour s the dynamo is run by
a gasoline engine.
Tlie Azores.
The Azores are volcanic islands,
piled up masses of lava. But the sea
bed around is now proved to be far
more irregular than was formerly
supposed. If the ocean were lowered
by 1000 fathoms, they would form
two distinct groups; but a further
sinking of 000 fathoms would unite
them into one. The great island thus
revealed, of which the present Azores
are the culminating summits, would,
however, be largely extended toward
the north, and on this mass also sev
eral conspicuous hills would be seen
to rise. Even among the existing isl
ands the surface is diversified by sub
marine eminences and rather deep bas
ins. But everywhere beneath the ocean
the process of rock building Is going
on. Slowly, but surely nature is
"sowing the dust of continents to be,"
not only with the material of Aeonian
hills, but also with that which has
once been alive. In every part of tiie
North Atlantic this work is proceed
ing.
When to Use "Shall" and "Will."
"At what time shall you be at liber
ty'.'" is the correct form when you
"desire information, not consent or a
promise." "At what time will you be
at liberty?" is equivalent to "At what
time are you willing to be at liberty?"
It implies that being at liberty is de
pendent on the will of the person
spoken to. "At what time shall you be
at liberty?" is equivalent to "At what
time are you going to be at liberty?"—
being at liberty is regarded as simply
a matter of the future, not dependent
on the will of anybody. "Will you?"
expects the answer "I will;" it de
notes willingness, consent, or deter
mination. "Shall you?" expects the
answer "I shall;" it denotes futurity
and nothing more.—Elizabeth A. With
ey, in the Ladles' Home Journal.
HOUSEHOLD
AFFAIRS
Burlap For Walls.
In using plain burlap for a part side
wall covering a lighter shade of the
same color in paper is often used above
it with disastrous effect. The tones of
the burlap and paper do not seem to
harmonize somehow. A two-toned ef
fect in a little darker tints of the same
color is preferable to finish the walls,
with a plain ceiling above, or the two
toned paper may run up on the ceiling
a little way also.
Removing Ink Spots.
Ink spots on furniture may he re
moved by an application of nitre. Mix
together one teaspoonful of water and
six drops of nitre and apply to the
stain with a feather. As soon as the
ink disappears rub the spot with a
damp cloth to remove the nitre which
will otherwise leave a white spot be
hind it. A saturated solution of oxalic
acid is sometimes used in the same
manner to rid furniture of ink stains. *
Beef Made Tender.
A waj' of cooking beefsteak that is
a wee bit tough was accidentally
stumbled upon one day. Company
came when it was too late to order,
and the contents of cupboard and re
frigerator were very slim. Two ends
of porterhouse steak were hastily run
through the meat chopper, using the
medium knife. A coffee cup of rice
was put on to cook in salted boiling
water, then the rest of the dinner was
prepared and ready to serve before the
meat was cooked. Have skillet smok
ing hot and grease with .lust enough
butter to keep from sticking, stir in
chopped meat and stir until meat is
cooked through; one or two minutes is
long enough. Heat meat platter and
place meat in centre of plate, heaping
it up with lump of butter in top, then
salt and pepper to taste. Make a bor
der of the rice around the plate and
serve together. Sometimes I serve
macaroni with the meat instead of
rice. None of it is ever wasted, and
twice a week is not too often to serve
it to my family. Hound steak is a good
steak to buy to chop if you have 110
odds and ends to use.—Good House
keeping.
New Edges For Curtains.
Many new edge finishes are observ
able upon the cretonne curtains so
much used as overbanglngs l'or mi
lady's bedroom or boudoir at the pres
ent tltuo. One simple idea for a por
tiere bad both sides of the same mate
rial to match. The edges had a good
deep three-quarter-inch xuru iu and
then were machine stitched about
three-eighths of an inch back from the
edge.
Another effective finish is a binding
of braid about three inches wide, not
unlike a Hercules braid in weave, com- '
bining all the varied tints of the blos
som bestrewed cretonne. Cotton fringe
combining all the colors of tlie pattern
is another popular edge finish.
These cretonne hangings arc effective
In the extreme, and grow in favor
every day. For windows over muslin
curtains, where the inside does not
show, they are often left unllned.
Again, they arc, lined with a harmo
nious plain shade of silk or sateen.
For portieres, as lias been mentioned
above, they are made double of the
same pattern, or when between bed
rooms, where cretonne is used in each,
one side one pattern, the other side the
other.—Philadelphia llecord.
R I£ IPES i^JI
Curry Snuce—Molt two tnblcspoon
fuls of butter; add same amount of
flour, one teaspoonful or more of curry
powder and one-fourth a teaspoonful
of salt. When frothy stir iu gradu
ally one cup of ivilk or white stock
and let cook live minutes.
French Straws—Beat four eggs until
very thick; then add five ounces of su
gar, a half teaspoonful of cinnamon
and nutmeg mixed and flour enough
to make a stiff dough. 801 l into a sheet
half an inch thick; cut into slips the
width and length of a linger; give each
one a twist and cook in deep fat like
doughnuts. Wheu eool sift sugar ou
them.
Tomato Chutney—This is delicious
with cold meats, chops or steaks. Slice
one peek of green tomatoes, sprinkle
with one cup of salt and let them
stand all night. Iu the morning pour
off the liquor and put the tomatoes a
into a granite pan with vinegar enough
to cover them; add six peppers and
four large onions, chopped flue, one
cup of brown sugar, one cup of scraped
horse radish, cup of chopped celery,
one tablespoonful each of cloves and
allspice, four apples, chopped, one tea
spoonful each of red and white pep
per, Boil slowly four hours, aud put
in air-tight jars.
Fried Bolls—Soak one-half cake of
yeast in one-fourth cupful of warm
water. Scald one cupful of milk and
add to it one heaped tablespoonful of
butter, one rounded teaspoonful iff
salt. When the milk is cool add the
yeast aud stir iu flour enough to make
a smooth batter. Beat the white of
one egg stiff; turn it into the batter,
and when well mixed stir in enough
more flour to make a stiff dough.
Knead it until smooth. Let it rise in
a warm place till light, then knead it
down; take out pieces as large as an
egg, make them first into balls, then \
into finger rolls. Let tliem rise some *
distance apart, aud when light drop
them into hot fat and cook brown.