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SEPTEMBER DAV S.
The skies, a hazy, golden sheen,
The wind, a faint, teasighe
Complathing to the rehriveled stream
That calls as lost love in a. dream,
Front out tlee ewers gone bee
elices cf bread and butter, and
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oPread an. eceital Mintier a slices ree-
1 tiler thickly with finely cbopped tone
guot Prose together lightly,
Ngnparell Meemalade.,-Oao cup of
IA fresh grated pineapple, two cepa of
A freSh strawberries, oi• -red respberelee,
three cups a granufated segar.
sie fruit first, then add sugar; boll until
it CIOkS but. Oot,. loiegoe
about twenty nueutes, wawa,. peal.
hot.
For serrine with afternoon tea, or
for the picnic lunch basket, caramel
cookies are recommended. The lot -
lowing recipe conies from the wife of
a college professor z Two eggs, one
cep a sugar, two cups of oatmeal,
one tablespoonful of butter, ono
teaspooeful of baking powder, two
teaspoonfuls of vannila flavoring, aud
a pinch of salt are required. Cream
the butter and seger, bent the eggs
sePanatelY, arid mix the baking po iv -
der and salt with the oatmeal. The
mixture should - be a thin batter.
Drop on a buttered baking sheet very
Lar epare, Bake in a telerably
quick oven.
Ilielcory-uut umearoone aro eniong
the most tempting house -Made cakes,
and are vary easily made, Stir to-
gether a pound of powdered sugar, a
pouad of ruts chopped as fine as pos-
sible, the whites a five enbeaten
eggs, one tablespoonfuls of baking
powder. Drop from a teaspoon, on
the tin and ;rake in a, very moderate
oven, as they burn rather easile and
need to cook slowly.
The following recipe is quite fam-
ous in •a -Pennsylvania towa, where
aa old negro cook makes what are
'mown. arid delighted 'in al "Betty's
junibles," They are made with one
pound each of batter and sugar, two
Pounds a fican, three eggs, nine tea-
spoonsful of orange juice, three tea-
epoonsfuls of baking powder, salt to
taste, Handle ligtsatly, roll rather
thin, and sprinkle with granulated
sugar before baking in a quick'o-ven.
They will keep -if locked up -for sev-
eral months.
The melancholy woodland ways
Are rile with joy no more;
whisper, as of forest fays,
Steals out along the dreamy days.
.And sennaertime is o'er.
'Adown the orchard's fragrant aisle
'ale ripened fruit swings low;
rf.lhe aster, ia profusiou smiles,
And from the dim .woods' subtle
wiles,
The shadows leugthen slow.
Tho songbirds gather for their flight
Th silence, and farewell;
No more their songs of pure delight,
:Aro heard at 'dawn," and soft twi-
light
By forest, field and dell.
A ceaseless, and a haunting strain.
Comes up from Reid and fen;
A voice as from "the ;erica of pain,"
Is echoed from the deep, dark main,
Sorrowing nature's knell.
So, all is hushed in quietude,
As fade the home; away;
As some sweet dream song's inter-
,. ' lune,
That never more may be renewed,
So dies September's day,
J. R. WILKINSON,
Leamington, Ont.
IN PICKLING TINE,
The following mustard pickles re -
;metric very closely the mixed pickles
for sate, at the groceries. That they
are wholesome when made at home
'by a carefui housewife, goes without
saying. Mix together 1 quart each
Of chopped cauliflower, sliced cucum-
bers, tiny whole cucumbers, very
small onions and one small red pep-
per. Cover with vinegar in which a
tablespooa of salt has been dissolv-
ed and let stand over night, In. the
m.orning cook in ea= vinegar for
15 miantes, then drain well, Mix.
.14 tablespoons ground neuetard witli
five cots' worth of tumeric, 1 table-
spoon black pepper, 3 tablespoons
:sugar and half teacup flour with
enough cold vieegar to make a
smooth paste. Pour this mixture
into 3 qts, boiling vinegar, boil a
few minutes, thee. ' pour over the
eickles. Mix well and bottle. Un -
Tess you have plenty of wide mouth-
ed bottles it is better to ese one-
-quest cans. This recipe manes 6
quarts.
bet do not pare, enough
green. cucumbers in layers, sprinkling
over them half a teacup salt. Let
them stand 8 hours, To * pint
olive oil add 2 onions chopped fine,
oZ celery seed and 1 oz. each bla.cic
and white inustat•cl seed. Drain the
cucumbers and place in layers,' sprin-
kling between them the Beads, onioes
and 2 tablesuoons oil. Then pour
over them. the rest of the oil and
all the jar with good cold vinegar.
The cucumbers should be of medium'
size and the slices not more than an
eighth of an inch thick.
Tn.matoe, Pickles. --In ;selecting
e,reen tomatoes i-cject all that have
(the slightest tinge of ripeness as they
evil/ soften too quickly. In coolcing.
relut thorn la thick Slices, not more
thaw two or three to e. tomato un-
ites they. are very nese To st busa.
tomatoes use 1 dozen large white
onions cut in medium slices. As they
are cut place them in alternate lay-
ers in stone jars an strew over this
amount 2 teacups sett. Let than
stand over night. In the morning
drain and cook until tender in vine-
gar enough to cover. Drain again
arid place in the jars in 'which. they
. are to be kept.
Heat 4 qts. cider vinegar, add to
it 2 lbst brown sugar, 2 oz. each
ground cinnamon end aUspice i. oz.
ground cloves, e Ib. white mustard
mod, 2 -ozs. ground inestard, a scant
teaspoon cayenne and a tablespoon
celery seed. Tie ground spices loosely
In a bag. Add the celery seed and
ground mustard to the Welding vine-
gar, stirring until the mixture is
smooth. If liked, a little horseraer
fah may be auded to tile vinegar and
• will help to keep the'enielches. Pour
the hot' vinegar over the pickles nt
once and cover closely. Prase act
plate on the pickles to keep. them.
ender the 'vinegar and put a tight
• cover over all. Heavy paper tied
firmly in place inakee an excellent
lalbStitute, for it Hen; fitting. cover.
Take 24 large ripe cucumbers, six
white onions and four red peppers.
Pare and remove the seeds from the
encumbers and chop wen, hut 'nob too
The. Chop 07110/13 arid peppers, mL
thoroughly with the three, 1 cup
earl and 3. oz. white mustard seed.
Place in a inuelin bag and let them
drain over nigat. Remove to glass
jars, cover with cold vinegar and
seal. These tire good.
SELECTED RECIPES.
Orange Frappe. -Two tablespoons
;orange syrup, two tablespoon,' shav-
ed ice, fill with seltzer', shake and
strain.
Jags Phosphate. ---Two tablespoons
()mange veins, one egg, broken into
the glass, fill with ice cold eada,
shake, add it (lash of e tthospkst,
Pour out, grate n nutmeg over the
top, arid serve wilai a straw.
Frosted Coffee -Fill a glens half
full or cracked lee, and add two
roniPs of Sugar. Pour the coffee
IDN'er steady, boiling hot, shake and
etralny add eretun to sign and serve,
lleteriberrn Dash. -Two tabIeepoOne
asPberaet Walla •tsno tableepoons of
erearri, half a ghats or erti.theci
VI *tan seltzer Altaic° end strain,
Olive, and Tongue Sandwiches. -
&ono cred 1ntnce olives, seasoning
With White pepper, thee petted to a
Ormeireah ptete, apread this on thin
MARKING FINE LINEN,
While the simple initial is perfect-
ly correct, the monogram is the more
elegant method of marking them.
The same initial or monogram should
be used oa all household linen, varied
in size to suit the sizes of the arti-
cle to be used.
French embroidery is the most ap-
proved form al decoration, and this
Is done in pure white mercerized cot-
ton or linen; so this must be used
if one wishes to cater to fashion.
The letters on sheets, pillow cases,
anti tablecloths are usually theca
inches in height; for towels and din -
nee napkins two, or two and one-
half each in height, and one and one-
half inch in height for smaller nap-
kins.
Perforated patterns for mar -king,
from which the pattern may be
transferred to the linen, may be had
in fancy work shops, and these will
enable the worker to stamp her own
linen accurately, which is one of the
essentials of good embroidery to
which it is to be applied, and one
rule always obtains for good work
and that is : Use threa.cl it little nine
rather than too coaree, for the latter
is Sure to look humpy and clurasy on
it fine ground, even thougli skilfully
bandied. Always place the- stamped
linen in an embroidery, hoop before
beginning work.
Sheets are etamped exactly in tb.e
middle of the top end, about two or
three inches from the hem, witli the
top of the letter toward the middle
of the sheet, so that the letter reads
correctly when. sheet is turned back.
Pillow cases are marked in the same
manner., with letters two' indica,
above tbe hem, the lower end. of let-
ters.
WII.A.T TO DO WITH STAINS.
Iodine Stain. -Wash with alcohol,
then rinse in soapy water.
Scorch Stains. --Wet the scorched
place, rub with soap and bleach in
the sun,
Soot Stains. -Rub tbe spots with
diw meal before sending the clothes
to the weal].
Crass Staina-Saturate the .spot
thoroughly with kerosene, then put
le the washtub.
Blood Stains. -Soak in cold water,
then warth in warrn we ter with plen-
ty of soap, afterwards.; boil.
Mildew -Soak in a weak solution
of chloride of lime for several hours,
then wash with cold water and soap.
Ink Stains. -Soak in sour milk. If
a, dark stain. reelable 1111.SC in. a weak
solution of cbloride of lime.
Verdigris. -Salt and vinegarwill
lamove the worst spots' of verdigris
on brass or copper. Wash off with
soap and water, and polishi with a
whiling wet with alcohol.. '
Grease Suots-Hot water and soap
generally renziove tbeeto If axed by
long; standing, use ether, chloroform,
or naphtha"; All three of thesa
most lao 'used away from either fire
or artificial
IJOUSEKEEPX.NG HELPS.
Many kinds of provisions are dump-
er when bought, in quantities, and
there is always comfort in having a
supply at hand. Soap may be bought
by the box and the longer it is, kept
the 'better it will be. Starch will
Reep indefinitely. 'Borax is a very
useful exticle, and a, box of it ehould
be timed oa the shelves of every kit -
then or pantry. It it> g004 lor
softening hard waiar, either for the
toilet or laundry. Use it liberally'
about the kitchen ehlk and it will re-
move• all die:agreeable odors. A
strong, hot solation of bornx and
water poured down the drain pipes
purifies end clisinfecte them."
There are many tasks tbaii May be
performed while sitting down if one
has cm old -0'inee StOCA in the nitchen.
If you have a high elude ter whica
Ybtt have to airtime tale the top may
be ettwed off, to Make astool-of it.
Paring vegetable, ironing and wip-
leg disbee are not tiresome taelcm
when elm Site down. to do Ileni.
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Police, This has been their sphere
el influence since 1$74.
Canada .orgentzed a moarited
!prep le Toronto in 1873 for
s the purpose of establishing a emir
+ biance of order in the unknown Itu-
tvrt'e Land. Three hundred trocipers
reaelled the West in 1874. Lieuten-
ant Colonel French wee in tern --
mail& They came in by Way of
Fargo and Fort Benton and found
the American whiskey traders in
command, exorcising a despotic sway
over the Jilackfeet. This was the be-
ginning of the figlating of the Werth -
west police. Captain Charles E.
Denny now residV
es; in algarY. Ilo
eras with this original body of mee,
and tells many Interesting stories of
the collisions of the first year.
Where Maeleoci now stands, one
hundred miles from tae border, the
whisk -en traders had erected 'a fort.
They had nmented several brass can -
hon, and with the aid of the rith
American traders further south at
Fort Benton were able to defy tho
Indians. This field had been. aban-
doned by the Hudson 13ay people to
the American Nox•tlisvest Trading
Company some years before. It was
to drive eta; the American whiSkey
1ttadeas that the mounted police
kilned their first work. The old fort
Was , taken. This was the famous
Nthootiup of the pioneer clays. It
Was. so. tamed because the traders
there ran out of whiskey on one oc-
casion and hui•ried a messenger to
B. C. Powers, the old trader at Ben -
toe. to whoop up the sup.ply.*It was
located at the junction of the Belly
and . St, artery's rivers. The. name
was changed in Owner of
zie romance and tradition of the
Par North for thirty years has made
the Northwest Mounted Police fam-
MIS, says a writer in the NOV York
Herald. Recently it government
edict has, gone forth that will send
the &akar ,Oady of men anther north
and pronticany confine their erforts
to the mysterious region marked on
the south by the Arctic cirele. This
'new era in the career of the North -
Nat Mourited Police is the sequel of
the tremendous immigration that has
been pouring over the southern beim-
dary for the last five years into the
Northwest Territories.
The change means that the militia,
system of the Dominion will be es-
tablisted in this vast western em-
pire, vehicle for more than thirty
years late been subject to the iron
rule of the red coated cavalry of the
British F,mpire. Probably nowhere
In the world, with the p'ooible ex-
ception of Texas, where the Rangers
of pioneer clays attalued faro° as
rough and ready fighting mon, does
history present a more picturesque
example of military ocoupation of a
force of men with so many daring
deeds to their credit. In fact, the
mounted police a Canada have since
their organization presented it fas-
cinating interest to civilization pe-
culiarly their own. There is no
other inetanee in the empire building
record of the British people where
so snugl a body of arrnecl men have
accomplished to much with so little
actual resort to arms. Famed in
song and story'as theexplorers of
Prince Rupert's Land and the pre-
servers or the peace of it domain as
wide as ,from the Missouri River to
the Pecific Ocean and from New Or-
leans to Boston, this splendid army
of vetm an fighters was constructed
uPon
it nucleus of bat three hundred
plainsmen.
It Is an alluring story for the Eng-
lish speaking world to contemplate.
The reign of the Canadian police ex-
tends over a hostile country lying be-
tween the forty-ninth and sixttofirst
parallels of latitude and the 101st
and 1161,h degrees of. longitude. 'In -
clay there are twenty -tour liandred
members of this body. In 1878,
when the force was organized, it con -
slated of 'three hundred. It was in
the following year that the small
army inveded the unknown Prince
Itupert's Land, as all this section
was then lcnown; For years the ori-
ginal force controlled this colossal
empire, iehnbited by tierce tribes of
Indian warriors and fiercer band's of
white desperadoes. 'Elie gradual in-
crease of population necessitated ad-
ding to the force.
FR NORTHERN BOUNDARY.
To -clay tliese cavalry scouts pene-
trate far beyond the Arctie circle
and maintain law and order among
the Indian tribes that slimed out
into the icebound north, where the
red nien's skin gradually clears and
gives place to the Esquimau. From
the American. border On the south
to the Arctic Sea on the north, a
dielanc:o of two thousand miles, and
from Manitoba on the east to British
Columbia on the west, a distance of
eight InnadrecI miles, these men exer-
cise civic control.
It was to this veteran force that
the empire appealed in its darkest
moments, then the Boer sharpshoot-
ers were *destroying the English regu-
lars. Many or the Canadian nioent-
ed riflemen who died at Heart's Riv-
er and taught the republican forces
at Spion la.op were di -awn from these
riders of the Western plains. It was
this leaven that formed the Canadian
regiments sent to South .Africa into
each I:alighting corps similar in mo-
bility and accuracy of rifle to the
Boer commanders. A. generation be-
fore theca same rough riders had .
been called upon tor the hard weak
in T,an,a of British regulars in
putting clown the Mel rebellion 113,
the Northwest. These two fierce
conflicts established the Mettle of
these. men, as a, hundred sharp bat-
tles with Indians and outlaws all
over the Northwest had before and
since tested their red blood.
As rapidly as the Territories are
orgneired the militia se -stein stip,
plants the mounted police. There-
fore they will be eonfined to the
Mackenzie land, Athabaelter and the
unearned regioe iceyond the inlets of
the Arctic Ocean with in it short
time. yo -day the outpoi of civil-
ization On Gteat Bear Lake and the
valley of the Mackenzie River, the
Missis.sippi of the North, are marked
by the presence of o single red coat,
and curious, as it may appear, this
loraly sentinel. the only eyinbed of
:British netlioriey for hundreds of
nines, le ealleient to preserve order'
among the half Wild tribes who sop -
ply the lancleon Bay Company svitli
its fur treasure in that distant land.
In Calgary, nearly two thousond
miles from Chicago, the people do'
hot cons aloe 'Nam eel ves anywhere
near the border of ci vil ization to-
w ard the hTortli. Here is located the
great barraeIce of the polka, but,
three aunt/red miles north,' 1i:flit/ors-
ton, a eity of 10,000, is the north-
ern teerniints of the Canadian Paci-
fic Redirond. Tlien for
ANOTHER THOUSAND IVIILF,S
oat:Unary commercial r el et ions are
maintained through tao chain ' of
JIutiton/3it3t trading poste. Not
until that inmate region le eerie -bed
do Canadians beginto see the bier -
dere of their empire. , In fact the
Peace :River country, that lend of
prolate° Which it being sought by 'so
many .Aineeicarie te-they, is flea hun-
ched: eritles 21.0111 of Tilthrlotitott. 1Tere
the Alherlecine are to -day raising
1therstjf oat, In a, laud where
wegetallem Wee a fear years ego
atieepoe , *to be absolutiely extenct,
This gi. an idea of the treenendeue
COLONEL MAC.LEOD.
The mounted police stations were
gradually extended north. They
reached the present site of Calgary,
one hundred and fifty miles north,
the following year. It was here that
'a curious character of history was
found -Sam Livingston. He was lo-
cated in a natural fort at the con-
fluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers
and eked out an existence trading
with the herlians. He' was an Am-
erican, who had -come West as a thild
with "Kit". Carson. Then and for
years afterward Livingston claimed
absolute domain as far as his rifle
would shoot in any direction. The
extraordimary character resides bore
to -clay, one of the ties that bind
the present with the early part of
the last century. It was seine time
ago that the old man made a trip
down to Winnipeg, it spot he had not
vieited in sevehty years. He declar-
ed that "inedicine” Lad becm put in
his eyes when he saw the tall build-
ings. He witnessed the aniovenrents
of an electric car then for the first
time, and again declared it more
"Medicine" than real.
The mounted pollee barracks at
Calgary are a spacious park, includ-
ing many buildings... Lieutenant Colt
onel Sanders is in connuand. Corn-
missioiaer Perry resides tat Regina,
capital of . the Territories, six hun-
dred miles further east, but this is
the important post, since it is the
point where the Canadian Pacific
Railroad lines cross for the east and
west, north and south. The police.
are attired in cavalry trousers, a
bright red tunic and white helmet.
They carry two heavy revolvers and
a Snider carbine. Strung out in
every direction over the plains, the
police are prepared by this chain to
convey news of the railways with re-
markable celerity. they ride in re-
lay e and couriers reach the Arctic
circle froro the American border eas-
ily at the rate of one hundred miles
a ay. Two score men are main-
tained in the Calgary barracks for
emergency 'duty aid are rushed out
in relays as desired. Regular mili-
tary discipline is maintained and any
man permitting a prisoner to eseape
is sent to the penitentiary. In the
Isolated districts these police make
arrests, aet as judge and iurer and 111
not infrequently as exeeuting officer. s
This complete command gi-ves thi. s
force extraordinary influence oven at 1
Thu event in the Iiistox•y of the
force that reflects most credit upon
their capacity for handling critical
situations grew out ,;:if the flight of
old Sittleg 13011 and hie Sioux bend
of bravo after the Caster Ineseacre.
Captain Doily, of Calgater,. Liee in
comenaecl of a detachment of police,
surrounded tfie Sioux, eutnembered
a Iven.ctred to one, and forced teem
to remain in a preseribed lanit pend -
big negotiations. with Sam,
It was the deehleg Mounted Isoliee,
Captein Denny who took froth Sit-
ting /lull the huge gold watch the'
old Indiaii chief had snatched from
the still quivering corpse of the dar-
ing Custer on thablootly field of the
Little Big flor» and retui•ned it to
Mee. Custer. Though the Sioux had
just destroyed more than twice as
many fine cavalry troopers as Cap-
tain Denny coefronted bine with, his
braves seemed cowed by the very
latowledge of their bloody victory
naid offered no violonee to the small
body ol Canadian prate°.
JUDICIAL POWER,.
• These fighting men have no author-
ity within towns and cities through.
the Teeritories to rnalre arrests ex-
cept when the crimee aro committed
beyond ouch municipal bouna, How
ever, they act as a militia force, to
be called M whenever the ordinaey
constabulary are unable, t�, maintain
older. The troopers do eog'ular pa-
trol work and ride by their chain
seretani from the American•liee to the
Arctic circle in their relay system. It
is one of the marvels of the many
curioeS things witnessed in the Far
Noitli-the presence of single red -
coated men, grim and silent, keeping
in check h^undreas audeven thou-
sands of. Indians and their ,wildei
hall -breed companions. It is the cer-
tainty, however, that if -violence is
done one cif these men retribution is
swift that gives them the annereng
command of turbulent forces ;site-
gether out of proportion to their
ability to enforce the laws. The
police COMMUSI 021er or highest ofn-
cer present sits as a court end dis-
poses at all cases brought by' the
,srouts, with little regard /Or the'
hairsplitting technicalitio of the le•
gal fraternity, The guilt or the inno-
cence is 'deteernined not infrequently
upon hearsay evidence, but it is em -
Meetly satisfactory to the law abid-
ing people. 'Elie American settlers
aro the loudest in their praise pi
this strange sYstene that embraces
both civ•il and criminal jurisdiction,
with little hope of guilty men evad-
ing it.
USED CORPSE LYMPH.
. —
London Patier's Charge Against
English Doctors.
The London Morning Leader pub -
tithes a sensational article, dealing
with what are described Rs "revolt-
ing extieriments on London chil-
dren." •
During the late smallpox epidemic
in London, a number of children
were vaccinated with lymph from the
bodies of dead smallpox patients. "It
was made Into calf lymph first, but
its origin was the human corpse.
There is no mistake about It.
"It was in 1001 that there was a
strain of lymph raised in London,
and used air the vaccination of thil-
dron, from corpses of, smallpox
patients In Glasgow. The proces-
sion of the smallpox pulp on its way
to tlie children was through thee°
:Donkeys and an unascertainable num-
ber or calves. On October 8 material
was removed from the fourth calf,
end all we ate tolcl is that 'it was
subserelently employed for tiie vac-
cination of other calves, a strain of
lymph Tieing thus • obtained which
continued to give excellent results
both on children and calves.' "
TIa'ACHINCI 17.3.31 A LESSON.
A wealthy broker is so fond of
ewers that he frequently spends
ome tin,e in and about his plants,
conetimes doing a little gardthing
grated. A few' days. ago he thought
e would water some plants, so he
ailed to his new coachman, •wlio was
landing near a watering -can, ond
old him to fill it eked bring it to
ilnijghat.
n-hie
"Beg pardon, sir, I'M tlie coach-
man." arid the importation, teach -
"Well, that's all right; bring that
can here." -
porots so remote that they could not
back their edits by force.
POPULARITY 01? THE FORCE.
While the members of the mounted
police receive but ninety cents a clay
and Prin.-ender for their mounts, the
semiee is surrounided with such a
halo .or romance that the adveniene
one card the restless of all nations
Vie with one another in securing the
positioris. Since the American oc-
capation the -country has so rapid-
ly ottlecl ep that the service has
retrograded becauee of the lack of
exciting duty. 13t4 tostlay it includes
a Lee body of cavalry, ready to
teoe-te day or night on the slightest
provocation, To the readiness of
these raiders- of the plains to mo've
from point to peiet, nialte time and
shoot quick is drie the extraordinary
freedom of the Canadiaii Weet from
lawle,ssness. • On the American side
of the border, south of Macleod', the
tow pinchers go armed and the
"bad" man flouris'h'es his weapon, al -
Ways conepicuously displayed. The
line 19 the limit of this vort of thing.
The desperado wad rides across is
kneed to diseaed hie weapons. If he
reeists ha is confrouted with certain
death. The road agents who have
periodically raided the tritnecontin-
ental trains passing through Mon-
tana, .when peraued, ritle cloee up to
the Cancalian Bee, bet, seldom eras's.
The Canadian Pacific express trains,
richly laden With the 'brownie° of the
Orient peseing throligh to the im-
perial conere, are immune fromethe
attath' e or bandits.These olitlaws
realize that on that side can be found
day ned night several: hundred men,
ao Well anted and as Well motorted
as they, wtho knave' ilia country bet-
ter end 'who call 111CSITC teeter oil
;eight notice than all tlie sheriff pos-
ses the Western States could ciegati-
tza.- 'Upon the same theory to arra a
tieleber of reeoltita Men and keep
them With their enceinte O'er itady
to 'go aboard a feet train to pirsite
trete iobbers, the Ceriadirin West
Clorainatea the lawless, "gon figlitere"
of the Territoriee, It 18 the diSagay
Of tette atif preparecheess.
'glee pude)), sir, rm tlie coach-
man.'
"Well, wen, I know that. Dring
the can here. 1 want it."
The coachman touohed his 'hat and
still made the same reply. Then
something dawned on the broker.,
"Oli," lid said, "so you're the
coachman, and can't bring the can.
Well, coachman, go and ha,ya tho
black team Iiitabecl to the faultier car-
riage and bring it here. Have one
of the ostlers ride on the box with
vie coachman teethed his hat
again 3:avec:tro11y-and went. Pres-
ently lie drove up in style.
"Now," said the broker, "chive to
where that can. Is; and you ostler,
pick it up, get back on you,
box,
drive round to the stable with the
coachman, 1111 it with water, and
have him drive you back again."
It was 40110, and the can brought,
111 lcd,
"Now, (artier," sail the broker,
"you may go. Coat...lin:are you re-
main where you are. 1 may need
you again. Don't drive away 'until
eive yeti leatre."
'Jae coachman reeved his dignity,
but, he set on tlie sett of that teach
for two hours after ilie broker bail
finished , watering the 1.1.owere.
BIRDS THAT SHAVE.
Man lute a rival in the art of
sbaving in a South ,American bird
called' the "Irma/1ot' which actually
begins shAving Mt arriving at Inciter-
bTatutally. adorned with long
blue tail feathers. it Is tot satlefied
with thein in their natural state, but,
with RS beak nips Off the 'Web on
eeea ;tele, lea -Virile only, a, little ottal
tuSt at the exef of each,
GENERAL nirronirris,TIQN.
Tit -Bits of Knowledge Which Yoe
• Should Know.
The average) Japanese seldier is not
more time 5 feet 4 inches high.
1.1e-ery fate boy in India Is
school, and only every fiftieth gill.
11 is a curious fact in natural
bbs-
tory that no bird can fly brickwarcle.
There are Mier° then 4,000,000
eteel pens used up every dey
land.
Morocco Is the most important
State that is absolutely without a
newspaper.
Paris lies the biggest debt of any
city in the world. Xt ameneas to
$400,000,000.
The largest serpent ever meaSured
was a Mexican anacoada, wIlidli wee
found to be 37 feet in length.
The 'argot bronze Statue in Ilia
world le that of Peter the Geeat nt
St. Petersburg. It weighs 1,100
toes. ,
China Holt's the vvorld'e record In
the Ivey of executions. There aro
at least 12,0010 legal exereetione
yearly.
Tlie cheapest municipal tenenieets
can be rented for 50 ent
ca
are those owned by Dublin, arire.re e
two rooms
a week.•
So light is the -touch of the 'na-
tive barber of India, that he tan
shave a customer wane asleep with-
out waking him.
Saientists estimate that there is
energy enough le fifty acres Of sun-
shine to run the machinery of the
world, could it be concentrated.
Rheumatism is almost unknown to
JaPan. • The Japanese escape the
malady to it great degree by avoid-
ing the excessive use of alcohol and
tobacco.
The village of Neumuegen StWeet-
plialin) boasts of a laborer who hare
been working, on the Same farm. for -
seventy -eight years. Ho is nowre-
tiring into the workhouse.
Tes the dominions of the British
Empire alone 8,000 individuals van-
ish evert,' year without leaving any
indications as to their whereabouts. '
or ever appearing again.
Great Britain, Prance, and Ger-
many produce 65,000,000 pins• every
day, according to last year's eta-
tietics. Of this nuraber Great Br, 1-
tain alone manufacteies 53,000,000.
The finest -looking 'people of Fatrope
it is slated, - are the llziganere . or
gipsios of Hungary..• Physically they
aro splendid specimens of men end
women, and are rarely ill.
The coinmen, house -fly souraTe ilia
note Ia in flying. This means that
its v:ings vibrate 385 times a sec-
ond. 'The heyaey-bee sounds A, • iere
plying 440 vibrations to the necond.
• In the tropical northern territory...
of South Australia, travellers mottle
not carry a cempass. „The district
abounds with the nests of the mag-
netic or meridian ant. The longer
axes of these nests polut due north
and south.
In fasting feasts the sect known as,
•tlie Jales, in India, is far ahead of
' all rivals: Fasts of from thirty ata
forty days aro very common, and
once a year the people abstain fronle
food for seventy-five days. la.
A merchant in Ruesia can be die'
dared bankrupt if his liabilities ex-
ceed $1,000 and he has not the ready
cash to meet fm, He eon be ar-
rested, and his detention depeixis ion
the will of his creditors.
There has just been buried rit
Stand °Wirth, Wliitefleld, Mr. John
leullough, who has lived in orue
street all his life--narnely, eighty-
seven years, and died in a house.. op-
posite to the one In which he Was
born.
The family of a deed Japanese
soldier gets as a pension about 'one-
third of the pay of leis raisk. Tins
wati14 give the widow of a private
$1.25 a month; of a first lieutenant
$6.25; of a captain. $7.50; and to,
the widow of a co/onel $25 a month.
'Waterloo, it town in Iowa, has a.
church for which one immense glaci-
al boulder furnished praetically all
the material. • The huge stone before
being blasted was 28 feet high, 30
feet wida, ana 20 feet thick. 11 was k
estimated to weigh 15,125,000.313e. -ea!
It is asserted by a- sculptor that
the human foot. is becoming smaller.
masouline foot of twenty cen-
turies ago woe about twelve !lichee',
long. The average rnan's foot of
tedclay ie easily fitted with a No.'
St shoe, which is not above ten inch. -
es and seven-sixteentlis in length,
The law of France requiring all
seamen to deposit 8 per cont. of
their wages with the Government ie
applicable to • fishermen, and ,elite
fund so collected is .esed to create a
service pension payable to all who
have Served twenty-five years tinder
the French flag on the seas.
THE rim:1m I'llINT.
Identification by finger -print is gee -
;wally sapposed to be quite it nrcxlern
European detective device; but itOP-
pears that it was employed in Harem
1,200 yeare ago, The Rev. W. Con-
ner, a former missionary in Korea,
in an address to the Anthropological
Society, stated that lie had been able
to trace back its use for 1,2,00 yeare
in. the deeds for the sale of slaves..
The slave was required to place her
band -all the slaves WOVe W0111011—
tipou the sheet -of 'paper on whkil
the deed was written, and the out-
line of the lingers and Lamb wee
traced, alter which an inle impreee
of each of the fingers was taken.
Collyer's experience of the Kele
esuis led him to describe them as a'
people of keen mental capabilities,
sharp -Witted, mid always ready with
an anetdote.
Ragbag Ittgan (after a long ratite)
--"I'm nalmarieg I ellen go ena list
for a eafer, Widow Skelly."
then, its a peer sojee yoaill nutnel"e-
"Phawt do yez me1ic7" "Oh, notb-
conale.
lug Only a man. wbo kapes 4
cellist"' ea a Widdy for a
f-
yectre withott pluck On000 t& shpa§.
his MOincl, #tlexiq, tli� attAite al et
sojer M
Siereetbnes mi Manh to for boreal
btit a hobby'.