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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-2-14, Page 37, ler CIJIMNT TOPICS, lt my be that in somo peels of the country pulses will beat a little more quioirly and high expectations will be TOW through the announcement by *Prof, Bigelow that the daY pear at bend when le will be possffile iota easy foreea,et weather a year in advance. 'One entlY belleVo that such stride§ in sciertoe wilt be gratefully welcomed by the agriculturist, who will be glad to know whether he Is to bo favored with a dry and hot or a cold and wee slimmer, *and who will make hie taming arrange- nients accordingly. Such preffictione, 11 . they can be relied on, will be of incal- culable benefit to the farming districts, for under this system the farmer will 'know exactly whea to put In Ws nral/ and what crop Co select for his year's closest attention. 01 course It Is assumed that the ronfl- demo of the farmer will be scoured by results a little more eatistadory tht. the' evaY of present short thne forecasting., ft may be difficult to convince a farmer that a W041110e. expert who cannel infal. libly see, ahead twenty -tour hours is. .capable of peering into a future or 365 days. Such is the proneness of th human mind to doulfl and misgiving that unless examples of near at hand infant. bility are afforded, the weather prophet, whatever his ability will command as hallo credence as Cassandra.' As for the man in the city or town, ,apart from a slight emotion of curiosity and ecientiiic interest, he does not care .tho tradittonal rap what the weather. is lo be a year hence. But, he is interested to a considerable extant in the weather ot to -night or to -morrow niorning, and as he Is likely to have engagements of one kind or imother it would benefit him greatly to be sure whether he must pro- vide himself with an umbrella or a fur -coat. Ho would like to know 1.7110(1111110 - tally that a zero prediction means zero weather, that he may pay adequate at - Minion to his water pipes and make other arrangements conformable to the fore- cast, Hence, while he has no desire to :stand io the way of the aavancentent of science or to impede the ambitions of the *weather bureau, he will be content with that exhibition of ,progress which accur- ately forewarns him.of a period covering twenty-four or forty-eight hours. Such modesty seeks not to overtax the mind and vision of the forecaster: There no longer is reason why wo should grow old, or evert die. Thus seith the man from Paris. He is a Paris- idn doctor, Prof. D'Aiserival, who says, also, that he has found a way to pro- long life together with his good friend, Dr. Nowhere. Their idea, briefly, is tho elecay of the arteries, whence spring all elealim and dives° may be prevented or ourect by means of their simple expe- dient, an electvic current of high fre- quency. Prof. D'Arsenval ilaS invented a machine of extremely high power, with whteh ehe already has experhnented on patients. One of his patients describes the treatment as an electric bath which cleanses all the arteries and other or - grins, and restoros them to their original elasticity end health. The doublers say that while there rney bo some ground for 1110 statements made, they doubt tho pre- mises: That the decay of the artories.is the cause of death and diseases. PRIVATE POSED .AS OFFICER, (iEN. STOESSEL IN EXILE THE .TRAGIC FATE OF ARTHUR'S DEFENDER, PORT Banished to an Obscure Black Sea Vil- lage—Broken in*Realllt and Spirits by Insults. Quito recently a report was circulated In Saint Petersbueg that General 5100 - sot who achieved world-wide rune by his defense of Port Arthur against the Japanese, had been obliged by necessity to seek financial aid (1001 Et well-known he-novo:lent organization which 18 loth - wetly connected with the Russian army, %smiles Serglus Vollebovsky from St. Petersburg. Confirmation or denial of this report oms reinsert at the office of the Institution in question. Its truth Is considered highly probable, however, by those who know Into what desperate straits eitoessei has fallen of tete, and how pathetic a figure generally le this man whose deeds once seemed likely to be remembered with :granted° by his countrymen as long as the record of thorn survived. It appears like only yesterday that Stoessel's name was a household word in all countries and In every quarter of the globe. His bravery, Ms indomitable perseverance and endurance, his indif- ference to hardships and danger; were described and extolled by enthusiastic scribes alike in America, Europe and Asia. After Port Arthur had fallen, the German Emperor conferred upon Ithp. the Order dt the Black Eagle, the highest decoration in his power to give, 10 token of what was considered his marvellous feat 111 holding Port Arthur so bong against the aggvessIve yellow enemy. Stoessel, in brief, reached the uttermost zenithof earthly tame, only to • learn thal, all SUCH GLORIES ARE FLEETING. As renders will remember, assertions were made soon after the fall of Port Arthur that its defense had not been concluded in an efficient, manner and that General Stoessel had committed a number of grave indiscretions and mis- takes ill the 'course of his contest with the Japanese, These accosations wore supplemented by tar more terrible ac- cusations of cowardice and treachery. Stoessel was accused of handing over the fortress to the Japanese in spite of Um fact that he still possessed sufficient troops, stores and ammunition to hold out for a further period of many months. Both General Stoessal and those of his friends who were in the Far t?,ast when these accusations were first made, tele- graphed indignant denials of the charges, but the statements once spread another high officer who took a promi. could not easily be suppressed. Conse- nent part in the Manchoorian campaign, quently, the soldier instead of cuerying presided over tho come -martial, and a out Ids desire of remaining in the Far leading lawyer named Maximow was East resolved to return to Russia in peemitted to act as counsel for the de. order to face his accusers and to repo. diate the charges leveled against hcim. fense. The proceedings of the court. martial were conducted irt an extremely From that moment until now, the' de - unsatisfactory manner, for the, military, fender of Part Arthur has experienced judges followed no particular rules of nothing but a succession of insults and procedure, and .accepled or rejected col - humiliations. He returned from the East. derice according to their own personal on. board a steamship of one of the Ger- whims. Evidence proffered by General man lines and his uepleasant expert- ences began during the voyage back to Sloessel to prove his innocence eves re. Europe. His fellow passengers included jected, while wilneeses who testined agaiost him were allowed to discourse a number of Russian officers who had been invalided homefrom the war or on their Impressions for hours together. were returningto Europe after haying The whole course of the proeeedings of . been released from captivity in japan on the courtonatital led impartial observers to the conclusion that it, was their word of honor not to take 0any more part in the hostilities. Al Shane CUT AND DRIED 13EFOREHAND. hai It number of German officers from Klao-Chau came on board and were first Yel this military tribunal, despite its cabin passengers as tar ns Hamburg. injudiclal character, was not able to find The Russian officers practically boy- Geneeal Stoessel guilty of the charges cetted the unfortunate Stoessel. ned Me levelled against him, and shuffled out German officers, following their example, of the controversy by administering a shunned hint ostentatiously at 011 times reprimand to Ilia itemised man. This and at all places. • come ruined Stoessel without exposnig SHUNNED AND 130YCOTTED. his military judges to any disagreeable The officers, both Russian and German, consequences for causing a miscarriage refused to sit at the mune table with of justice. General Stoessel left the &nesse) and demonstratively turned court, not indeed Mended as 11 cowerd their backs to him when he happened to and traitor, but still with a sufficient be in their vicinity. When he made his slaln on his OharacLor to render him an morning's promenade on . deck the outcast from hts own plass ol eociety for and ever. others made no attempt lo conceal their ever desire to avoid that part of the ship on General ' Stoe.ssel afterward renewed which he was. taking his:exercise. This his applications for permission to leave condition of affairs was indescribably "Saint Petalsburg, but the authorities humiliating for a man who lind com- obstinately refused to allow him to settle In any .other part of .1eurieneari Russia. Finally, however, he received definite orders to withdraw to Lulinov, a small mein in a southern Caucasian province on the shoves of the Black Sett. This town was a centre of political and rectal upheavals, and General Stoessel in pm. seeding there seemed likely Ober to be massecred by. barbarians, Tartars or fanatical Mohamtnedans, or to fall • victim to tho deadly climate 114 110. 1,63)1)i:wee, in 0111011 strangers could ha Ile is still In exile in .this place, living 00 a miserable pittance teem the Russiau Government, Willing enabling him to keep body' and soul together, ilis brave wife, the companion of his strenuous campaign in the Far East, holds out um flinchingly against all lho dangers of their Caucasian. home. Conceal Stoessel,. though slin in the prime of life, is a broken down man. His hale has turned gray, 1118 face is furrowed with lines of care and his shoulders are bent sent.' the stoop of dejection. Ile sees no prospect of ever being able to prove 1118 inno. cefice, and he is inteesely unhappy. Nevertheless, he is convinced Kett when the history of the eh:dense of Port Arthur comes to be weitten in full; It offil be sedi that Ile did his duly us. a. man aild as a , .eoward end a traitor and treated hine accordingly. Consequently, instead of re-entering ilusset in that ceremonial style suitable for is liriro cornitig heck Muni the wars, General Sloe.esel crept into Ids lialitm land like 1 crituinal being hunted down by the police. At the lirst sound of - the hosille cries on the quay, lie hastened to seclude himself end his wife in a dosed cub and drove Illus to the dwelling 01 (3 11050 relativii. lime) he felled a welt:nine and ahellee, but hie stay In &lint Peters- burg became a more Severe .test 01.111s !nunhood and mileage than all the clan- s.gea7ol Port Arthur had been (Wring the v Ti Is (erste-limey for ROSSI/IDS of rank who return home from foreign service lo be recetved by the Czar, who then listens from their own lips to a report of their official activity. General Stoessel was not summoned to the imperial p15 - S0000, and when, after an. Interval of vealting, Ile applied for an audience with 1110 CUP, Ise WftS curtly informedby the communication of a subordinate covet official that his petition could not be -slanted. It is also customary for a Rus- sian general to report himself to the minister of war on returning from for- elgn service, but when General Stoosseh presented himself at the ministry to ens- chargehis duty, HE WAS NOT ADMITTED, and soon .afterward received a written cornmhnication that the minister did not desire to see him. When he went to effit on old comrades wIth whom lie lia.d been on terms of Intimate friendship before end during the war, they frequently wore "no1 at home." When ho went lo the theatre, thm. persons sitting round him made critical and insulting remarks about, les generalship in voices intended to reach bus ears. When the general ventured out into the streets for o walk'he was often re- cognized and pursued by a mob of fana- tical, patriotic Ruesians, who over- whelined him with curses and showered Insults on him with asionishIng vehe- mence. On 0110 or two Occasions he was still more seriously molested by palrlo- lIe street mobs, when men and weneen alike attempted to tear the clothes Moat Ills back. At another thne a partyof womep and girls spat In his face, curs- ing him as a cowardly traitor to Russia. When General Stoessel applied for per- mission to leave Saint .Petersburg in order to seek refuge from persecution In some secluded pert of the empire, the authorities refused to allow him to de- part, 011 the ground that he was sus- pected of a desire to suPport the revolu- tionary moveinent. Finally, atter a long period of tribula- tion, a court-martial met to try General Stoessel on the charges tormulated against him in connection with the de- fense of Port Arthur. General Fioug, mended ti, great fortress in a great war, Masqueraded in Superior's Unifortit rind .and who, irnmedieftely after the capture of Port Arthur, had received lire highest decoration which the German Emperor heti pewee to confer. Mule. Sloe:est:le who accompanied her husbend home teem the war, was overwheini,i1 with shame and chagrin at this Iretilinent and suffered a nervous PrOSI111111011. NVI11011 threatened to have serious coneeettences. For a limo she and her huelland left the cabin as title es poselble il °Mar Jo nvoict being shunned and hoycolted by their fellow pas.sengers. After the long Weaey voyage bad ter- minated, General Stoesseintel with the same hostile recoption on landitig once more 111 his native counloy. A 80101-05- ful geheral, returning front a campaigi In which he had gained honor, is usually received with public marks of IIPProba- lion, but General Sloessel came eshore without even Mose marks of respect be- ing manifested which it is customary to show a high officer on his return feom foecign service. Dressed in a slouch hat., a gray suit and ti long ahalthy overcoat Instead of his brilliant military uniform, the hero name ashore carrying his own beg and supported only by Ithetremieling .wite. 110 eeemed desirous. of avoiding publicity, .for he anticipated and deeaddl an opertly. hostile 'reception from hi i3 fel- low„counlvjgnene -Gut Ws effores to m- etope nottee were uneneceseful, and when he had been perceived hy • the • crowd ninny- biller cries weve raised, such as "Theta goes Ihe traitor," "'elm Mellor lute dared to lend," Gave Orders to Everyone. Private Morgan of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers is to be court -militated for a remarkably daring exploit. Morgan, whose parents reside.al Staf- ford, England, while on furlough con- ceived the idea of nmsqueradine tils master's uniform. 11c. is allege.d'to have helped .ffimself freely to articles belong - mg to the officer's 33'ardrobe, tuul appear- ed somethnes in full uniform, and at others in multi. He reprimanded spe- ctral private soldiers on furlough for upper' ring in slovenly uniform, and threat eneol lo retsmt them teethe command- ing °Meer. Even bluejackets did not eecapo hts attention. One able seaman was, it is said, aolually escorted to the railway station by Morgan, and sena back with his kit to rejoin the Channel Fisot Morgan's crowning joke wns at the exPense of the local recruiting sergeant end deill instruetee, whom he visited in the Volunteer armory. Stnartly dressed in civilian clolliese he adopled an impotious air, and accused both of- Ilrers of laxity in not notifying men improperly dreesed .00 fuelotigh. Beth officials were ilatureav perturbed, and viken their Ndsitar, Wi.th'Solerno dignity, esetommed hinteelf as "Lieut. •Vaughan, 300e5.:' they at once concluded thot 'it waS a surprise • visit IV an inepeeting offeler, rind saluted ticeorclingt),. At length Nforgan's identity WaS 1118 00500,1 and he wag arreeled, * NO Cf "Jessie, I have told you again and again trot 10 epeak when office pcvsons are talking, hut wale 'until they stop. et've treed Mai already, mamma. They cover do slop," And by not getting nineeled Settle 101411040 10 live impplly over atter.. iletWeen 1370 end leen eleven Ault - marine Mattes were laid aerOss the At. ' "DEATH TO Alt' ;1111A11'011S," and other cruet 11- '115 of Ole SUITIO nel or, During the , torrtble period when ite enminnotled the garrison cif Pael, Arthur and directed with skill and bravery 1111) defense ot thal foelross, when cloy ;tiler titiy.ito faced death' affil eew sleevelet/1 ,els ring him ill OW ham'Genova! Sloessel used to eneouvege himself 0115. to strengthen his owe resole,: 13' pl1lilring Ilia leillniphe which vemed [nil 1!! 111e eit lc lict e1te000001 10 Melting all honotedile fight for the geed mime ni Russia, The god 1113(1 110 illede soult Ogle. 1i0,1 Imp/mild iffiseivelo 01 lire sirogsie l%ori) fir OW 841110 00111:00, . yol WS 01011 0011111Py111011 regeriled line 08 soldier. it. "And now, darling," said the young men, when the questiten had been.. duly proposed anti fevorahly answered, el 51 )5)5050 I meet Moe the imeeeim, with youe father. Will he 11,1 frightfully art. ivy?. "011:- 1 clone think so," replied the foie girl. "Of coliese, he'll be 01V- 10111: eurpreeed, but I'm $11re ffint after a bit he'll give In,( end il will be all right." Then Henry went end meant- ly kneel:NI al the smoking -room donv, and palm celled out, "Come in, young nom. What en awful lime you've been eettling ilint Mlle malice( Of course, my answer is 'Yes.' Bless 30111' The Australian jrngle roue builde Itregest nest ot any Wed. Yrriworlr.r. RECORDS AS-11USDANDS Tile, CURERS OF SEVERAL MUCH MARRIED MEN. The Six Wives of Henry VI11. a Mere Iffigatelfe to Some of These Elora Recorded. The much -married man, tehorn we have nil hefted ofeewfut 11.4 seveu wlvee, seven oats, and 1301-511 k1111171S, OS 15> 15,1-' "going to SI, lims," must now hong lie head in Ignominy, and allow that Mori 1.1110 others In the world who are mme fascinating to women than 110 could pos- sibly be, saes London Ti1.13ite. 'Tette, Ms record exceeded that of tvlealsfrYnn\e'lelideegood, beity es mrrionanoly)evotoli humorous proclivillos as a "professional widower," 13111f1 King liars record we0! recently equalled by that of an ex -sol- dier named Albert Henry Capper, who was sentencect to ten years' penal sale. tude not long ago hy the Lord Chief Jus- tice at the Wilts Assizes. "With ono ex- ception it is the worst case ot bigamy ihat has ever come belore me," wits the opinion expressed by his lordship, whe subsequently said to the prisoner, "It is difficult to express in moclet•n language the sense I have of your guilt." Capper's first marriage took place al r'niahanl, in 1803, so that on an average ha a' ida NEW WileE EVERY TWO YEARS. At times, however, he greatly exceed- ed his average. In 1898 he was nuteried at Weakistone, 1 1901 at Hampstead, in 1904 at Stroud Green, and la 1005 at Salisbury. His record, however, did not seem- to stop hem, for the counsel who prosecuted said there were indications that he bad made a seventh marriage at Barry, and he had certainly just become evirioggnige. ed ssto another woman when the Saltebury police cut, short his fascinating The most heartless career on record LS undoubtedly null of the late Mr, Lioch, who Was commonly called the Chicago Bluebeard. lie admitted to having mar- ried over linen, women, and to have murdered most of them, which series of crimes he expiated in the electric chair not long ago. lie was followed by gentlemaq known to fume as the Light- ning 13ridegroom, though Haan described him as a mere vulgar adventurer in the fields of mattimony. The greatest, living bigamist in America at the moment is suid to be a 111411 who calls himself by the name of an 13nglish peer. How ma»y wives ho has nurried is apparently diffi- cult to determine, but only a few months ago the portraits of half-a-dozeo of his wivee were published in the papers, Mr the ladies had, so to speak, pooled their deceptions, and had formed a sort of syndicate for the purpose of discovering the whereabouts of their betrayer. A man with the record of eight wives, was the late lir. Levi H. Rogers, who al one time in his life lived in Oklahoma. El 3 was likewise distinguished for cath- olicity of taste, for nearly each of ids wives represented A DIFFERENT NATION. Ho married his first wife in the State of Georgia, and when she died six months later, he went to Texas,where he fell hi love with a Mexican woman and led her in the altar. Eventually he divorced her, and in succession he married a Bohe- mian, a red Indian, a German, a Louis- iana girl, and, finally, a oegress, who survived him, 1111(1 W110, he always de - eland, proved the best wife of all. Sta- tistics state that married men live longer than single ones, and as Mr. Rogers rounded out the tale of eighty-seven years, his case certainly bears out Me theory. Aneither case with direct bearings on this idea of longevity being acquired through marriage was that of Mr. Zerad Pomeroy, who, at the age of eighlymtne, made his twelfth marriage, to a. girl of teirenty-two. She, curiously enough, was 61.1itsi, oLe.,granddaughler of his first wife's That first wife be married when he was twenty, but she died a year later. Ile soon married again, and, accompanied by iiis second wife, he was cum of nnetely people who chartered a trOssel and sailed round Cape Horn to the Pacific Coast in order to try his lock in tho gold fever which swept- over Cillifornia in "the glorious days of '40." His wine died in that State, so he look to lilmseit a third helpmate, 0110 Idiom he went to Japan, whore, elm died. Pettivning from the irar East to Now York, he maveled six wives in succession. Four died, one disappear- ed, and one he divorced. So he went on until ha had completed his tate of twelve. Another American, Dr. jomes Nicholas Vann, not long ago married his Mir - Month wife AT THE AGE OF NINETY-FIVE. lio is the author of a book celled "The Annals of an Adventurous Life," it which he has related the story of Ns metrimonial experiences, and, under the circffinslances, few 'people would quar- rel with the title he selected. In Europe, the title of the Champion Husband has been claimed by Frits Ken- non, of Creglingen, in aVortemberg, who had eleven wives. The nrst three died young, filo fourth end fifth were drowned, the MAUI committed suicide, the seventh, eighth and ninth dled natural deaths, the tenth was killed by 0 buil, and the eleventh had a leg cut off Ity a 051130113' Main, 111111 SO eompened the poskponetneitt 01 1135 wedding. • In the cemetery at 'Welton may be Aeon the tombstone of Mr. Jeremiah Simpson, Who married eight Hines, 1118 epitaph, which can bo distinctly read, allhoogh the inserffitiot 0318 out needy hie) ceo. furies alto, rffile es follow's I 'Thee tient He, (mid Jeremy, 'who Iva eight, limos .nineried beam 1(51 11030, in his ould he Iles in his cage under the 6111S 140 green; evlitelt Jeventiali Simpson de - fowled this life in the 8(1>1 yeare of his ago, in the yeaoe of our Died, 1110.1' After this rt man with a record of five wives scarcely deserves coosideration. The Met, 30111011 Manors the Mention of iliS 1111100 is 11111 1 he was, in turn, the hushend of live eisters. Ile married the nest at nineteen, and IsO wns flay When be 11140010)1 1110 110, Who aelualle jilted a. hentleome young innei for 1110 Tempest, ot Incoming bis wife, • Knelt 01 1118 previous wives creel ot eortsimmlion, solIb whieh ,61-E'i OF SC--.07-T*C-11-... NATIVE WHAT"11113 PEOPLE 011- AI1L1) SCOTIA 1,1115 ON, illeffl Is P011111100, SCOOPS, 011(18, itoleb POICII, Corte a Leckie and Somme. Any Ona who Is pining h, be a &melt - mart would do well te etude, the ienow. Mg deecription of the averege daily faro in Scotland : For breakfast, says a writer In 8110- 00Le, there is the inevitelile porridge, I10.001111)110111(1 by nhillc Or (Tem; when the cows go dry I hove seen it eaten with treacle or porter. Theu them ie tea-othe black breakfast tea—toast, aeries, onteakes or "baps." These baps are a breakfast bread, for which America has no Neel. 'They aro Ono, delicious, floury biscuits, Os 1/11%0 43 a. lea -plate, raised with yeast, baked iti a brick oven arid vended about town, piping hot, in lime for the earliest 'tweak - fast. Fresh or unsalted butter is eaten with all breads; the Scotch housewife resorts te suit butter only when the cows go dry. A favorite appetizer for breakfast Is orange mermalarle. There may be an addition of boiled eggs, finnan huddle, a rasher of bacon or red !leering:3, but, a$ a vole, porridge and tett with baps prove filling enough. THE MID-DAY N1EAL of Scotland is a subsinnlial dinner, It generally begins with a soup, the im- mortal hatch patch, or a broth which is suis to have barley in It. In Scotland the soups are 511 made by boiling ihe meat. 'rhus two courses ore provided from the 581 01- fowl that a cook %you'd utilize for one dish. The meat may be a piece of beef, a leg of mutton, a shank of veal, Or ft rab- bi1 or a fowl with a sovory dressing. If It is fowl, it, is probably the famous code a lecke), which Sir Walter Scott extols, or "chicken friar," a reminder of olden days when the finest conking in the country was done by the monks teat IForlalonteveed Mary Queen of Seette from One may trace a French origin In many a dish of national repute be the ONE IlfeedeitED AND MTV SIM*, TONS 15 6111:11 l'4011T61. They WastedTime in the Summer While Visitors Occupied Their Attention. Word has reached Daw.3on fele, 01 1135 find of the siceletens ift a trite. of na- tives who perished from henget. and fetniue nearly twenty years ego. l'he find was mode by a party of mospee. Mrs on St. Lawrence lelund, where they were) inveetigating stone quartz veins. The ono hundred alai filly skeletons bore grim etinowy to the suffering svhieis 1110 natives must WINO endured. The natives at that lime had DO Bre. arms, and many bows and arrows and other, primitive weapons ‚501-5 found by the prospectors. A native guide whom they met at the village told them that the tradition et the natives at that place Imew of the other settlement of natives further south, but Mat the two tribes were not 011 terms of friendliness, and that them had been a feud between them for near- ly ono hundred years before the terrible winter in which they all perished. DID NOT PREPARE. Tim natives staled that a whaling veseel (511(1 come to the southern pore lion of the island during the previone warner, and that instead of spending the open season in hunting and fishing, the dead 101 liVOS had idled newly their time. The catch of seal and walrus wes very poor that year, and the tribe found themselves at the approach c.1 the cold weather practically unprovIded for. The winter nets severe. One heavy blizzard followed another all through the season, and the natives were un- able to hunt or 1100.131-0)1110113h lily tey died off, and hereto 1111warm weather came aroma] again limy were all dette. The party of preepotoes state thin Um tale of the guide seems to be Lome out by the discoveries they made. 1110skeletons are nattered over a very wide MOO, Wall, ill 111111051 every instance, , the remnants of ifows and arrows and use of leeks, chives, parsley and oillev I other ovude implements for hureting vegetables, which, before the sixteenth and fishing. century, were unknown or unappreciated in that northern clirne where they new attain luxuriant growth. FisIs is plentiful and cheap everywhere in Scotland, because even the very in - leder of the island is no distance from Me ocean, Splendid cod, whitings, amckerel, skate, ling', herring, haddocks and flounders are part of everyday liv- ing. The great catches el haddock on the coast of Aberdeenshire are utilized I:y pickling, then the fish is dried on the rocks. The tiny village of leindon, with ite only industry of fish curing, lias given its mune to THE FAMOUS FINNAN HADDIE. Scotchmen are keen anglers, and no fish of 41111' country surpasses the trout pulled from a brook that has meandered its way through a peat bog. Of vegetables Scotland boasts no such variety as WO have on this side of the Atlantic. There is an abundance of po- tatoes, cabbage, kali, carrots, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, lettuce, radishes and peas, all of which are in daily use, The sun in that northern climate is not hot enough to ripen peaches, grapes or plums. There are fine pears in Scot- land, however, and a poor imitation ot apples; these have to be tralned against a whitewashed wall to attain anything Mee the quality of our fall fruit. 1151 no country can surpass Scotland tor its luscious crop of cherries, =- ' tants gooseberries, raspberries and strawberries; they attain a size and a juiciness of which we do not even dream. They are plentiful, therefore cheap, rend all summer long they add much to the sImplicily of the national diet. The Scotch hou.sewife—like the Scotch jam factory—puts up such jellies, mar- malades and jams, as stand unexcelled by the world, and. so from the preserve cupboard comes many a delicious addl. lion to the dryness bt oatcakes. THE TIIIRD NIE.AL OF THE DAY (a Scotland is called tea and is served tit 5 o'clock. Meat seldom appears on the table, lanless 11 ho a few sllces of polled head; instead, there is cheese cie kippered herring, sconce, oatcake, currant loaf, gingerbread, shortbread and jams ov jelly. Few Scottish femiltes go to bed without supper, n sort of nightcap lunch, for whiCh the table is not at. In 001110 conntry lsouO ilie inst meal Is a steaming bowl ot sowans, a etrange sour concoction inado from while farina remeins in the husks of oats. If you woirld know how swans aro made, here is a grpahic description of the dish by art Englishman who found himself lodged one night In a &dell croft : "There seemed to be small prospect," ha said, "of much to eat, but my land- lady boiled some dirty watee in a pan, and by the grace of God it turned Into a very decent pudding." .-- OYSTERS AND TVP110111: Trouble Attributed to the Partelice of Bleaching and Fattening. Investigation has shown that oyster% eaten raw frequently 041100 typhoid, Not lee thin, grayish oysters. fresh trimi the briny deep, but those width, in con. segtience 01 1(10 consionerei theentue 111111 Ilia bivalve be good le his sight as well es to his perverted Mite; ere subjected to a bleaching process widen makes them plump as well. '1'0 secure 0118 appearance (he selt watee product is pieced in 1re811 water, frequent!), in Mesh wider oleeitnes. This bleaches Mom, mill, owing lo • the fact less, nuwildays few 611'011111S are pure, that lite oysti r eletoths so remelt wider that it noodles phinip and nun its digestive functione aro velarded by the unnehmil concillioes, any herein in 1110 water n1.8,7'1,011 /11111111/13'. biu interline the oystee. 'rhie infeeled food, often shipped long dielances, becomes ft 111)111100 10 ihe health of whole diniteunffies. Thls Or'ltC. • 1110 family was • tainiet , but 1110 Met tee, 01 igeeening and U11101111g um 0,08. 11 Ines Gee million dorm; is. grow the !levee dii'oroe"1 111n1 10)110 taw"Ye; going cerMinly ehould be' diemouraged by Nvavld's tobacco, hack 10 it 111 80010 13' 710W 11011)11101, 01,14170.14115 and 001141100 in gonad, HUNTED IN VAIN. There WE15 every evidence that many cif the unfortunaM natives had fallen in their tracks' while they were in pur- ault of some animal with which to sus- tain life. The prospectors also made another interesting discovery in the form of tin uninhabited island, some distance to the south from St. Lawrence Island. The island has the appearance of he. ing mincrulized. Ono of the retuned prospectors stales that the natives on Si. Lawrence Island had not previously seen any dynamite, and when a charge was put In the ledge which they were prospect- ing and exploded, the natives took to their heels, and from Mat time hence gave the place a very wide berth. FLOATLNG MINE PE1111: Dangerous Derelicts in the Seas About eapan. "The Floating Mine Peril" Is still a headline in the Japanese papers, and the last mail brings news of several disasters. The authorities, it appears, have offered a substantial reward to anyone who can discover one of these infernal machines. It is thought that the rough .seas have lately biefecen the chains fixing some of the mines about Vladivostok, and in the fourth week of November three were washed on to Japanese shores and four more were sIghLed at sea by a fiapanese steamer 011 lis way teem Vladivostok to Song - jos A mine found at Homo/num on lives. That was the night following November 26 exploded, killing one cf tier flight to London 10 got trawled. She passed it In hem husband's arrns beside hay.staelc. She is a wonderfully hnle old woman, and in her neat round hand she still eonlinues to setslown daily the story of her simple life. She lias nc- complished something absolutely uni- ffile. Never, surely, since Atirun delved and Eve spun, leas there been produced such 11 1111111110 record of a human life. WIDOW'S MINUTE DIARY HOT TAB ON ALL SOR BAS POW IPOA NSABI.41 A OBNTIAV, Every •Tillie She Washed Iler 1.0004 or Bathed Her Feet She Made a Note a H. So great a task Is lee keeping of a consecutive diary Mat few of the mil- lions cif peopie who resoivo each year to keep a complete record of their do - Lege from clay to day carry out their ParPose. Wiriew ilaffey of Noweligate, 110ftr Dorking, England, possesses a de- tailed reeord of everything she has done sinee she lammed to write In the 02 years elle has Jived. So aecurately has the record been kept thae the old 00- (511115 can tell to a penny how muclt Money she has spent, how much she has oaten, how many Limes she has washed her hands and face and bathed her feet, anti various other things that ordinary folk never keep Meek of. For ! the historian of a thousand years hence, who• will doubtless regard our munh vauniod civilization as barbaric, this cunazing record will constitute a wel- dablio bonanza of statistical information. Widow Holley has just passed her Pend birthday. On tbe anniversary she was entertained at dinner by a friend, and there announced some of Um totals at hoe figures lo date. The cost of maintenance from birth to her 92rid birthday she figures lo be Se,568, an av- erage expenditure of ABOUT 82 A WEEK. Songs which tvere sung al her birth- day dinner—Ahunting' We Will Go and My old Gray Mare—she records as hay, ing sung 1,106 times sinee her .father taught them to her when a little girl. The inventory of clothing Willett she has worn would make an intoresting =marls= with a like record from some women of the extravagant class, She, has had only, 47 pettieoals during her life, 43 dresses, 80 pairs of shoes and 274 mites of stockings—only three new pairs a year. In bonnets and huts stie kept down to the modest number cf 165, or less than two a year. Of aprons she wore53; shawls and wraps, 34; gloves and mittens, 30; hair nets, 161, and hairpins, just 1,010. Many of these articles were made by her own nimble fingers. Mrs. Battey says she has eaten 4,784 fieffiee and hut little meat, which would frglierite Met a piscatorial diet is con- ducive ixith to longevity and firm adhe. store to good resolutions. Her daily bread amounted to 11,960 loaves, and She has eaten 50,730 potatoes and 10,138 cabbages. In tea drinking, Me widow did not done up to what is probably the nor - nun figure amens the gentle sex, but she credits herself with, having drunk 134,320 cups 011110 beverage, besides 67,- 160 glasses of milk and only 33,580 glasaes of water. The old woman was married but once —and in that instance she walked to London and back to have the knot tied—adding 51 miles to the 221,426 she figures out she has walked during her lifetime. THE NOW WRINKLED PACE she has washer 67000 times; her hands, 123,424, and her feet, 2,208 times. •She hns slept 302,e20 hours of her life away, drawn 33,58e buckets of water front-elle° well in her garden, cut her linger nails 1,656 Rates and hee toe nails 750 times. Dressing, undressing nnci arranging her simple LAW accounted for 67,160 hours of her re ,ears. She has done trp and teken down her hale 53,4(0 WOOL Sho has wrung the necks of 4,500 chickens. fetiened 138 pigs and written 1,104 let- ters, IIer cottage floor she has scrubbed 2,098 times, has dug up her little garden 140 times and trimmed the hedge sur- rounding ft 138 times. Only one night has slue been away from the humble cottage in •which she the men who were dragging it up the 'beach. On the same day, according to The Japan Chronicle, a mine that had drifted to Katsute, Michikawa-mura, Yuri district, was first diseovnred by a boy of twelve years of age, and then the attention of a man named Sasaki, formerly a sailor in the navy, was called to it. This man, assisted by a younger brotber find two others, pulled the mine up nnd conveyed it to the proxi- mity of Sasaki's 'hoose. In doing this, 110 doubt, they were following old' the offietal proclamation offering the reward, which seers that Um finder need only present some proof er his discovery, such as a fragment of the mine after he has exploded 11 It un- able to explode the nitric without great rtsk, he should secure it hy a rope et some sato piece and then report the dis- covery lo the authorities. Now' for the horrible sequel. The depuipmayor et the 'village considered it highly danger - o05 to leave the mine near the house, end ordered Sasaki to convey it back te ihe soft -beach arid take all inensures necessary for the prevention of an ex- plosion. At about 5.30 in the afternoon three men touched the explosive point ot the mine, with Me result that it ex. ploded and twelve men were killed im. mediately. Two others died soon nt- terwards and a great number were ine Need more or less severely. alms (he tale of (hs victims of the tale war is still growing. The total mortality oil leo Japanese side is tow officialty reek - cis olneecalLt.t120,000, of whom 41,000 died of 1115 cloormsss. Unekies"What makes you loolc so Un- happy, Tommy?" Tommy—" 'Cense ribbody ever dells me good unless len doing something 1 don't wane to do." LOAM Nipper t "I say, dad, why <MCI necessity know' no law, eh 1" Dad; 08115e he talUt afford to pay the law. yers," 'Ninny a matt imaginee he line a pie anee becituse bes wile doesol drive hint to drink. BRITISH ARMY REP011:11. The War Minister Announces Plan of Reorganization. Afte Haldane, speaking to a Glasgow audience, recently, said plans had bean perfected by the Government by which the regular army would be organized. The plans were tar -reaching. Instead 51 one army corps, and another of small divisions, sonic of them rather rugged, they bad organized regular troops according to this new scheme, which had been worked 051 by the Gen- eral Staff, and by the highest military (twee brigaJes each, with ,four brigade, oarfu Ilon eiTn:trolitIll Lys iwx1101.157ttellaioet of(1;:taiiSrreik;Sti#010„.: pert of the scheme, they tied assigned lothesoet ,iititniyc,for lslotls. 11 Ibay didnthe .1.1 loment. covet*/ essigited to Scotland,. that was not because Scotland would not heve Cavalry, but because 110 had not yet got barracks into . which cavalry 40011.1 be fitly lodged. But. he could lodge something else, They were taking 1110 batteries of artillery that wove surplus to the tequiremenls.of the lighting bate tortes—that was to say, between thirty arid tfila batteries—und they wee° mem. lilt; these into 'training schools or brie gades, consisting each of throe baiter. los, arid they were going le -bring these surplets batteries Into various parts of the country to 1013111 training schools in order Its fraln more artillery 01e11 ter thu service 01 1138 fghting line, for the Pgitt- ing batteries.' Two of these irainitIg. beigades' were coming to Stothind, one to Glasgow, and one to letlinburgh, 1111 hoped now there would, therefore, be a keener artillery spirit amenget the fmo. pie. The Mei tWeive months had Well - a period of thifficirig, bUt 'it had Med been a period 01 dation,