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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-6-13, Page 24, NOTES AND COMMENTS In a small town In one of the canton$ et Switzerland an experiment has been attempted which will be noted with curiosity by all who are interested 'n the problems of careful municipal goer ernmont. The men of the town had pe- titioned for the establishment o1 a place where liquor could be bought, and the women promptly sent Ina counter pre talon, with the result that the men were defeated, Thereupon the linen took revenge by geing to a 1?oiglbor- ing town for dissipation and remttiuhlg •so fate that families soon became de- moraltzed, The women then petitioned that a cafe might be established under their supervision, The petition was granted, drinks wore obtainable, and a personalfreedom joy and a measure of 'feedou reigned. Here 1s a compromise which may cone mond itself to many, The purpose is not to encourage drinking but to keep it within highly respectable . and pru- dent limits. And it Is presumed that the Swiss wives will so contrive that feminine beauty behind the bar is not sd pronounoed as to lure men from their duty or to make them think they are thirsty when they are not.. Thus far the reports from the experiment are most favorable. The women keep early hours and see to It that no cus- tomer carries home with him more than his actual necessities demand, They have what is ' technically termed "41 line" on every man in the town, and they know to the glassful just how much he is able to afford without robbing his family and the exact quantity he can drink without danger to his health or reputation. This seems to be a suggestion not without positive merits, if it may be conceded that a drinking resort can possess any merits whatsoever. The town gets its revenue, the man gets his Iiquor, and the woman gets the satis- faction of knowing that she Is running things and is in a position to tell a man that thus far he may go and no farther. A drinking place conducted by women is a "family resort" in the most felicit- ous sense of the word. At the first sign of turbulenoe or overindulgence wo- manhe °' .and sobriety .put themselves in evidence and trouble is averted without the aid or intervention of the police. It is an important consideration that the men profess themselves entire- lysallsfied with the limitations imposed, no longer care to wander from their own drinking privileges, and cheerfully accept such arbitrary decrees as the women consider essential to the welfare of the community. From all of which a moral may be drawn by those who wish to draw it. Certain it Is that one town has demonstrated that women can control the Iiquor privileges to their own satisfaction and with. the cheerful assent of the men—an example of tem- perance with restricted prohibition. ONE OF THE NEW HATS. "My new hat was delivered here and hasn't been sent to my room. Where is it?" "Heavens, miss! Was that your hat? I thought it was a lamp shade, and told the chambermaid to put it on. the table lamp in your parlor. I—I—Iin (very sorry." BEFORE AND AFTER. Miss Smatters—Flow did you happen to look so smiting in these pictures. Mrs. Pants—The photographer took them before he told one the price. UP-TO-DATE. "Of course, 1'11 give a reference, but it's nay rule, before accepting a situa- tion, to get one nLso. I like the look cf yer, mum, but what's the name and address of yer lest cook who had the place you ask me to patronize?" OBLIGING CONFECTIONER. "I'd like some Scotch kisses." "Our Scotchman is out just at present, madam, but I'll do the best I can for you.,, PERFECTLY FAMILIAR. Minister—"Are you sure you know your catechism, my boy " Boy—"Sures Dere's four ink -spots en de front cover an' de backs tore off, I'd know it anywhere." DISAPPOINTED. It must be a hard blow to a mother to watch for the little hate to grow on the baby's head, and then see it finally come red. "I have just met a young man, whose life you hove saved," said a friend to a doctor. "Indeed! Who was it?" Ink- ed the medico. "Itis none is Can0mot, end he was just en the point of com- mitting suicide, when his uncle died and -left hien a large fortune." "Well, but I don't see where 1 porno In." "Olt, it was you who attended the uncle." "Which is proper," asked little Rob- ert, "the reddest headed or the red headedest?" . "11 doesn't make any dif- ference if she's old and homely," re- plied the child's father, "but if she's het why l0 S rettayty, richest auburn' is The 'first street to be lighted by gas Was Pall Mall, London, This was In January, 1807, In 1810 the London and Westminster Gas Company was inoor- porated. TWO GREAT VALLEYS ' r T MISSISSIPPI 1 Mt TM M SS 11>I AND `,lift . SAS AT CIIEWAN CONTRASTED. Wherein Cenada'e Creat Fertile Yield Surpasses the Move Southern Low Lands. The Mississippi is the largest river on the American continent, The Saskal- oliewan Is noxIIn size. These two state- ments at once challenge further com- parisons, The Mississippi volley extends In a trend of population arid furnishes immense natural transportation facili. ties. The settlement, the bringing under cultivation, and line modernizing 01 the Mississippi valley were essentially the great agricultural enterprise of the nine- teenth century In the Republic of Amer - Lea. identical transformation in the Sas- katchewan valley is the agricultural and Industrial undertaking in the free demo-' oracy of Canada. The work of the nine- teenth century was strenuous In the ex- treme, for the people brought to this work of such magnitude no experiences of former gigantic conquests, no lessons learned from others' labors, but as the needs of the hand demanded the brain was busy with invention, But not so are the conditions surrounding the set- tlers in the Saskatchewan valley. Every device of modern ingenuity Is readily available to bring the land under crop, to harvest it, to transport and market tine produce and to build hones. BUCKBOARD VERSUS AUTOMOBILE. The buckboard was the chief means of transportation in the days of the settle- ment of the Mississippi valley, but the automobile Is frequently met on the prairie trails in these first days of the settlement of Saskatchewan. The differ- ence Indicated by these two means of, travel is a mark of the relative difference that will distinguish the nineteenth cen- tury modernizing of the Mlssissippf val- ley from the twentieth century evolution fn the Saskatchewan. That was the time of our fathers and grandfathers, this is oue time and our opportunity to build a country, a civilization, and wo are con- fident of our ability to do this thing. TRADE ROUTES. Nor do we step farther out across the face of the earth when we turn our feet toward this great valley in the north, but rather draw nearer the throbbing heart of our mother race, nearer to Europe and England and London. Some idea of the location of this vast new land may be gained by a comparison of the relative positions of Sl, Paul and Prince Albert, a town on the upper central part o.' the Saskatchewan River, to Liverpool, which is the largest single„ receiving pcint of American produce fo Europe. From St. Paul to Liverpool via the shortest route through Canada and out of Boston is 4,403 miles, or out of Mont- real a distance of 3,920 miles. From Prince Albert by the present round -about rail and ocean route to Liverpool the dis- tance is 4,790, but a read ,a in process of building to Churchill, and the Govern- ments of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the Dominion have under advisement the completion of another which places Prince Albert just 700 miles from the tide water and 3,200 miles from Liverpool, or 1,200 miles nearer than is St. Paul. The completion of this new route will also bring Winnipeg, the commercial centre of the Canadian Northwest, .675 miles nearer Liverpool than she is now by the Montreal route. FREIGHT RATES REGULAR. Nor is it in the shorter distance to world's markets alone that the producer in the Saskatchewan valley has an ad- vantage in transportation facilities over the resident of the --Mississippi valley. The nature of the route Is equally signi- ficant. Only 700 miles of the distance from Prince Albert to Liverpool is by rail, the expensive method of transport- ing freight, while nearly all the rest of the way it is possible to compete by river craft. The direction of the course of the Saskatchewaa and the Nelson, with their lakes, also provides a natural regulator of rates by being navigable for hundreds of miles into the inleeior. So far, we have been speaking of the valley of the Saskatchewan, but on re- ference to the map of Canada the reader will see that In reality there are two valleys, that the Saskatchewan forks and spreads its tributaries over a veri- table empire, the south branch being 1,700 miles, and the north branch 1,000 miles in length, haus making practically all of the prairie country of northern Saslcatcihewan and Alberta valley land.— J. Spencer, in Canada West. WAR ON MARIHUANA SMOKING. Mexican Government Wants to Extermi- nate a Weed that Crazes. The effects of smoking the marihuana weed are so harmful that an effort is to be made under direction of Lhe Govern- ment to exterminate Us plant through- out Mexico. The War Department issued orders some lime ago prohibiting sol- diers from smoking the herb. The law against gathering or selling it has been extended to apply to all classes. The consequences of smoking mari- huana were shown at Monterey the older day. A friend gave Malqulades Mireles, a Mexican laborer, a small sup- ply of Ilse weed as a joke and fold him h smoke it. Mireles rolled the broken. leaf into the form of a cigarette and be- gan smoking it. Pleasurable sensations at first passed over him, Ile had hardly finished smok- ing the cigarette when he was suddenly seized with a fit, of insanity. fie made a murderous assault upon his wife witha knife and then stabbed a policeman. Mirelos then ran, pursued by a force of police and other men. lie ran for sev- eral blocks and then turned and attack- ed his pursuers. He was knocked sense- less, bound and shill up in a room where h, remained until the effects of the marl- heana had worn off, When he came to ha could remember nothing about bis actions, A. report has been received at Mexico City from Tuxtla Gutierrez, State of Chi- apas, that dose Soles, a deserter from the Fifteenth Battalion of the army, while under the influence of marihuana killed Maximo Salaam', a citizen of that be Ib' Wlddor McDooley? place, Soles was violently insane when ho committed the murder. Illearned u e n r u na while in eto s p a ih a e tn c army, and his uncontrollable desire fo" the weed led to his clesertlon, Tee Ind was with a Imlfe, .Solas watking up todone bis victim and without a word burying rho blade in his body. It is a ram thing for a foreigner to be- come addloled to the use of marihuana. One instance of this kind is reported from the oily of Oaxaoa, A young American located there sm- eral years ago and went Into the mining business. He prospered and became wealthy. One day while on a hunting Trip he was Induced by en old Mexiran to smoke a cigarette of marihuana. He found that the sensations of the poison were indescribably delightful. He had smoked perhaps a dozen or more of the eigarelles in as many days, when he was suddenly seized with a fit of insanity. He broke away from his home and ran into the mountains, where he remained for several hours. The in- sanity fit had worked off when he re- turned lo town. 13y that time he had become addicted to the use of the poison and found IL 1111. possible to give it up. The insane spells came upon him more and more 1re- quently, and In order to prevent hhnself from doing violence to some one he al- ways had his servant lock him in a strong room when he felt the first symp- toms of the attack. Isis downfall was rapid. Marihuana brought 11110 to his end In a few months. it is staled by local phy:sieian.s that the use of marihuana invariably produces a homicidal Urania. Many horrible crines have been committed by men under lis influenoo. 3'— LONDON'S WATER SUPPLY SOME REMARKABLE FACTS AND FIGURES. The Londoners Have Every Inducement to be a Clean and Temperate People. 1f a Londoner is not a perfect model of temperance and cleanliness it is cars fainly not through lack of facilities ad the figures lust published in lite annual report of the Metropolitan Water Daniel abundaintly testify. Indeed, these statis- tics are so amazing that they well make. the least impressionable of sten gasp with astonishment. Here are a few startling of pictures suggested by them - Raze every building in London within the circle of the tour -mile radius from Charing Cross, and convert this vast area, on which all the world's inhabi- tants could and standing room, into a reservoir, of over fifty square miles, to a depth of 7 -feet 2 inches, we shall have the quantity of water supplied to Great- er London last year. COLOSSAL RESERVOIR. Similarly, if we throw Hyde and Re gent Parks, with Primrose Hill, Into one enormous park, and on this base of 850 acres construct a gigantic cistern, 345 feat high, London's twelve months' water supply will fill it to the brim; and it will be so deep that if we sink the London Monument upnight in it, and on the top of the iMenunent poise Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, the great admiral's feet will be less than a yard above the water. In this colossal reservoir the warships of all the world's navies could ride at anchor. If we now (and the work is easy enough in fancy) dig a canal 100 feat wide across Europe, from the extreme north to the south, and empty our els- tern into it, we shall flnd that the water in our canal, which is 2,400 miles long, will rise to a uniform height of 10 feel.; and every drop of 1t is consumed by the inhabitants of Greater London with - id a year; while each man., woman and child living to -day throughout the world could draw fifty gallons from it with- out exhausting its contents. 16 TONS OF GOLD. The mains through which these hun- dreds of millions of tons of water flow for the use of London ere almost long enough to stretch a quarter of the way round the earth at the Equator, while it would take a locomotive, travelling at the rate of sixty miles an hour, more than four clays and nights to race from one end of them to the other. The peo- ple to whom this water Is supplied out- twmber the combined papuhations of Scotland and Wales, with the county of Worcester thrown in; and the aver- age supply to each individual would al- low him thirty-three gallons for his daily bath the year round, his full year's supply making a heavy burden for forty horses. And to crown these startling pic- tures, the sum paid annually by Lon- doners for their water supply repre- sents over sixteen tons of gold, a weight of the precious metal which 300 stout porters would not find it an easy mat- ter to walk off with. r T00 MUCH TO EXPECT. "You must get up and investigate, John," she repeated. "I • heard that noise again, and I'M convinced it's a burglar!" "Huhn" he grunted sleepily; "you don't expect me to have the courage of your convictions, do you?" DON'T TAKE THEM OFF. Don't take them off. Don't shed them now. Cling to them fora while longer. We believe that we know just how you feel, and list we can enter into your feelings. But don't take them aft at present whatever you do; AT INTERVALS, Pal-ls Casey ih' boss in his own house? Alike ---Only whin he's drinlcln' In Dolin's saloon. HOW AIB. MCDOOLEY POPPED. Mr. Mclh)oley—Failte, an', it de bo a question 01 have et' ,yez, m0 cfarlhi ."• Miss Chancey --1 fwnt Is it, Pal? Mr. McDoolcy-••Whin it comes loins ter the funeral, hove would yez loike 1' OUR FRIENDS THE ENEMYIGAN DOUMA SAVE RUSSIA GIUGAT' General IltPAIN IS A GIENERODS CONQUEROR, Rothe Lea the Doers, Rut Is Now Premier of the Transvaal, \','hen race was signed at Vereenig- ing in the late spring of 1002, how many people would have prophesied that Gen- eral Botha, the most daring, skillful and stubborn of our foes, would in less than flve years have become the first Pre- mier of the Transvaal? Yot so it is; and this is aver Creat Britain's way with her conquered enemies, says a London paper. The terms of pence were gener- ous enough. As Mr. Chamberlain saint in his Intervliq with Botha, Delaney and lin Wet at the Colonial °thee, "There 1s no parallel in history for conditions so generous i.being grunted by a victorious belligerent to his opponents," BOERS WERE WELCOMED, Most people can remember the enlhu- sieslic reception given by the English people to the Boer generals on their visit. Received al Southampton by Lords Roberts and Kitchener, with Mr. Cham- berlain, they were invited on board the King's yacht at Cowes, and their greet- ing in London was eordlal to an aston- ishing degree. Cheering crowds pur- sued them everywhere, and their appear- ance in a place 'of amusement was the signal for a wild outburst of applause. Nothing like this had been seen In the British Isles since the visit of Getawayo in 1882. Only three years before, the British had been compelled to wage a sanguinary war against the the arrogant Zulu king. Thousands of gallant Britons fen beneath the assegais of the savage warriors of Celewnyo, r and over four millions of money was spent in the brief campaign. Tho Prince Imperial of France was slain fighting on England's sidYee.' t the Zulu monarch no sooner showed tits dusky face on British soil than he became a popular hero. Quar- ters were taken for hire and his atten- dants in Melbury Road, Kensington, where the artists live. SHOWN TILE SIGHTS. He was shown all the sights of the metropolis, and invitations literally hailed upon him from society people. Celewnyo was the great sensation of the hour. Arabi Pasha was the cause of one of England's biggest "little" wars, but to British clemency he owed his fife itself, not to mention an existence of leisured ease on a comfortable allowance in one of the beauty spots of the earth. After the tiny British army had scattered the Arabists at Tel -el -Kabir and Kassassln, crossed the desert at night and. entered Cairo in triumph, the rebel wee brought to trial.' He pleaded guilty to some vague charges of rebellion, an(was sen- tenced to death, The sentence was im- mediately commuted, and the Egyptian .Ministry were so disgusted that they re- signed in a body. Arabi was exiled to Ceylon, whither he was no doubt fol- lowed by the blessings of the sorrowing people in England who had lost. dear ones under rho rifles of the rebel's de- luded followers. ALWAYS THE WAY. This has always been the way of the British with a beaten foe, ever since Marshal Soult, on his visit to London, was acclaimed by the people wherever he went. At a Guildhall banquet Wel- lington and his ancient foe were toasted together, and it is said that the biggest round of applause went to our old enemy of the Peninsula. When Cronje surrenderred at Paarde- berg, it will be remembered that he was given the only bottle of champagne in camp. That was symbolic. Great Bri- tain always hands bottles of champagne to her beaten enemies. CHANGED. Tramp—"Madam, I was not always thus." Madam—"No, It was your other arm you had in a sling yesterday. NOT ALONE. Miss Withers—"I believe Arthur is afraid to propose to me." . Belle—"Of course he is, and there are plenty of others just lice him." EXPERIENCED, "You seem to know a good deal about married life," said a woman of the world to a youthful admirer. "Are you married?" "No, but my father is," replied the yodLhful admirer, with a blase air. DISAPPOINTED ROPES. "You can't rake up anything against that candidate." "Well, I happen to know he is in love with a married woman" "Do you? 05, who is she?" "Ills wife." A CRUSHER. Fond Papa : "My baby says such bright things." Dyspeptic Uncle': "And yet you want me to believe in this rot about heredity." DIFFERENT. "I want my boy to be able to earn his own. living," 'To can 11, Mr. Merge'?" "Well, to get it." Towne: "You see, he married her be- cause he heard sho had five thousand dollars." Browne: "Ah, 1 sec; and site did'nt have it, after all, elm?" Towne: "Oh, yes, she did, though. And she's got It stili. Chat's the trouble." Jones—"I understand there is trouble between Mrs. Pool and her husband." Smith --"Yes, Be couldn't soil his poems and she coaide% eat them, so she left him." It is reckoned that by 1020 larger New INNER WORKINGS OF 7'RF, STRUG- GLE NOW iN PROGIIIISS. Peasants Tired of Disorder ---Minh Will Depend on Harvest —Ile Crown and the Parties. • The present Russian Douma, while be- lieved by some to be inferior to the first, has lived long enough to reassemble after the Basler, recess. 'rlie London Times, always one of the best informed journals upon foreign affairs, contains. this significant statement; "A new group of the Daum, composed of members of the moderate parties and of the right, has now Seen Ponied. IIs. chief aim is to preserve the.Doume from dissolution, Increase the fruitfulness of !le tubers, and wage war against those who try to abuse the privileges of the Douma for revolutionary purposes. The group is split up into several sub-divl- slnns. These sections maintain their In- dividuality, but this will not prevent them from acting as a singio group in Parliament," The London Morning Post, which minces a feature of foreign and colonial poetical news, has an article by icon. Maurice Baring concerning the situation in detail, from which the following sum- mary is taken. THREE DIFFERENT VIEWS. "V,'i(h regard to the present situation in Russia 1 havo met with three differ- ent opinions, which between them seem le sum up all, there is to be said on the natter. the first is that a most tragic moment has been reached in Russian affairs ; a situation has been created from which there is at present ria visible issue. 11 is impossible for the Douma to accomplish any legislative work, and on the other hand if the Douma be dissolved a coup d'elat must ensue, unless the Govern- ment desires to summon a third Downs, which would possess all the defects of Ilio present assembly In an inlenser de- gree. That is the first view, which can be summed up thus : that the present situation is a vicious circle irons which there fs at present no visible escape. MODERATES WILL SAVE 1T. One can sum up the second view thus; That the Douma hes a sufltcienily solid centre to enable it to carry on Its bust- ness if that centro be supported by the Government; that the legislative work will be accomplished in committee; but that, if the Government does not support the centre, the Douma may at any mo- ment come to grief owing to an alliance between. the exlreiee--right and the ex- treme left on some revolutlonary mea- sure. In connection with this reasoning I should add, by the way, that it is. argued by some people that the Govern- ment never had and never will have any intention of supporting the centre; :that td Slolypin is indeed anxious to bo - operate with the Douma, but that int is incapable of grasping what constitution- al government means, and incapable, therefore, of understanding that such co-operation implies the possession by the Douma of certain rights and liber- ties, and that as soon as the Douma claims these rights it is told that they aro beyond the sphere of their activity. Now, for the third view. This view, which I have beard expressed by people who have had great experience of the inner working of the Russian adminis- tration, is as follows : The situation is hopeless, because a Deana which pos- sesses a revolutionary right and a revo- lutionary left cannot possibly last long. The Government, on the other hand, has within lis ranks no statesman; nobody gifted either with the power of initiation or the power of foresight. It is guided by no principle and based on no policy. PEASANTS WANT PEACE. The only comments 1 will make on this view are first, that people who are in touch with the peasants tell me that the peasantry is not at all inclined to- wards revolution at present; that They want law and not revolution. The wish is, ofcourse, father to this thought ; - but this is also the case with those who say that the country is seething with revolu- tion. Therefore, on this question it is safer to say that the attitude of the pea- santry will probably depend on whether the harvest Is good or bad. Secondly, 1 believe that. the Douma is only one factor in the situation, and I also believe that we are not now on the eve of a revolu- tion, but in the middle of a revolution; thatfs to say, In the midst of a sequence of events leading from the desteuciion of a bankrupt regime to the establish- ment of a new order by means which are not always and not wholly peace- able. But at the same time I consider that the process is deceptive to the eye and nearly always slower than it ap- pears to be going to be. It is useful to remember that in the English revolu- tion six years elapsed between the date when Hampden repeated his relusal to contribute to the ship money, and re- solved to rouse the spirit of the country by an appeal for protection to the law (16361 and the outbreak of the civil war (10421. -- DIDN'T APPROVE, A. ally financier, who had advertised for an office boy, selected one out of the many who presented themselves. To !him he said: "i like your appear - arse and your manner. I think you'll do. Did you bring a character?" "No, sly," related the youth; "but 1 can fetch 15" "Very, well. Come back to -morrow morning, and if. it is satisfactory 1'11 engage you." Lata that afternoon lis boy returned.: "Well," said the (Menefee, "have you got your character?" "No," replied the boy, "but I've got yours—en' I ain't coming." Most people are more than satisfied with their misfortunes, belt not with their fortunes, NOT SAFE. 'train --Miss Peach has a secret ahem aloof, her that [ can't unde'stenrl. York will have a population of 8,G24,. ,lack—Oh, dont let that tvOrry you, t30, which will exceed London of that. She won't keep it any more than any date by about 1150,000,, other secret, FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND , AQa,RS OP INTEREST FROM 11E11. IIAN5S AND 13114155, What Is Going On le the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scolia, The flow of omigratlon stilt en:tansies from the West highlands and islands to Canada, Soltle finely chiselled and cawed Monte have lately been unearthed at Melrose Abbey. A woman 311 years of age was 501010 Ila: Salle -oats Police Court on: the 80(5, Her offence wits "drunk and cllsorderly," Tho other day a man with 11 !noisy - order the ;C7 6s, 8d. canceuled in his sklalcing applied At Barnhill Poorhouse fa: food end lodging. • 110 got It for 14 days 111 prison. All the families who are Ontlied le wear the Stewart tartan ere In be tid- mitted to tine Clan Stewart Society, no matter what mune they usually sign, Mr. Alex. Stewart has been elected presi- dent. The latest report by lir. Chambers, the Glasgow Medical Officer of health, shows that spoiled fever fs dcalining in the city. The death is announced of Thomas Clarke, BenShill Street, Glasgow, a Crimean Mcrae, at the ago of 70 years. While cycling at Branxton the other day Dr. ihullee, Cocicburnspaih, waS up- set by a rat and seriously injured. A Ilan of Feeserborough iishcurets have purchased a motor launch for use in Their business al Ballasowld and Ler- wick. As all of (he churches have given up 01:serving the Spring Fest-day, the Kirk- wall Town Council this year recommend- ed that it be a holiday. George Reid,' wood forester, Old Cram ford ton, Dunslriesl:ire, was fatally scalded tlto other day by falling into a lank of boiling tat'. Ayr Burns Chub has been unable to arrange for a school children's Compe- tition in Scottish singing and recitation because the headmasters object to pub- lic competition nnrong the scholars. James Mulyden, a Glasgow commer- cial traveller, was killed at Linlithgow Station. IIe endeavored to open a car- riage door while the train was In mo- tion, and fell between the footboard and the platform. AL Dunbar Police Court on the 27115 ult., Judge Christies refused for the se- cond time to convict John Turnbull, fisherman, for failing to see his son properly educated, on the ground that accused is a poor fisherman and a widower. Centuries back Ayr had to figlt the blowing sands. They covered Up streets and nearly killed the town. The winds lifted them from the graveyards and left the bodies exposed. To a considerable extent this fight still goes aim.' Ayr put all its refuse into the Destruc- tor. Last year It destroyed over 0,000 tons, and the product was 2,755 tons of clinker, value £250. Sixty-two policemen from the Ayrshire constabulary were on duly in Glasgow on the occasion of the Prince and Prin- cess of Wales' visit. Sinoe the News Year there have passed away ten aged inhabitants of New Gallo- way. Of these only one was under 70. The other nine ranged from 72 to 01, For the second year a pair of thrushes have built their nest alongside a tel phone box within the North Berwick Beltway station. The other day Charles Kennedy, an ex -soldier, and holder of the Victoria Cross, was killed hi Edinburgh while al - tempting to slop a runaway horse. The death is announced of Air, Thomas Grahame, who was Emigration Agent for Scotland of 'Canada, and was e grandson of James Grahame, a Glasgow man, who wrote "The Sabbath," it poem which was widely read about half a cen- tury ago. An ancient landmark of Carulks has been removed—the large tree which has stood et the corner of the Braldwuod and Crossford roads in Lanarkshire for close upon 200 years. SUNDAY MORiNNG, Old Gent—"You know, you little boys ought not to be balling here." Boy "i know; we're not coming here next Sunday." Old Gent--•"Ahi that's better. I'm glad to hear you say so." Boy—"We're goin' higher up, where there's not so many stones," Before polishing furniture that is very dirty, wring out a cloth from very sol water and. rub it over the furniture. Wipe dry at once. Then apply the cream in the usual way, and a very high polish will be obtained which will not show Ongor-marks, For Captain's Sauce.—Take one quart of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of catsup,. ditto soy, six cloves of garlic and six of shallot. The vinegar should be boiled, and then poured on the pounded shallot and garlic, the catsup and soy added after hall an hour. To Cleanse a Mattress.—Remove the hair from the lick, pick it well, and then plunge into a lather of soap and soft water. \Vhen clean, rinse it and lay in lit sun to dry. Wash the lick, then re- place the hair, taking care that it is per- fectly dry and well picked, Browned flour is necessary for good gravies and sauces. '1'o make this sprend the flnur half en inch deep in a bnking- lin, stir it constantly while it stands is a steady oven, When. the flour is browned evenly, lot it get cold before it is placed in a tin for use. 'fo maks lime winter for the baby, Take a piece of unslaked lime about the size of a walnut, drop it into two quarts of filtered water contained in an earthen vessel, stir Thoroughly, allow it to settle, and use only from the top, replacing the water end stirring as consumed. Slewhng.—Use 0111y as much water or stock its Is required to prevent burning and leo fast ranking, The juice of bolls mel, and vegetables odds In the gravy Keep the pol erweetd la relein the steam end the (levees which oro dissipated by i1. Stinky Iso pmt eonshinlly to prevent anything liurnsg on to the bottom. SOME DAINTY DISHES, An Invalid's Egg Oyster',—Brealt. a new -laid egg Bolo e. glass, containing hall a teaspoonful of lepton -juice, and season wills pepper end salt. Tho egg should not be beaten, but swallowed Inco an oyster. A Boiled Pudding.—Shred four ounoes of fillet Vel'y finely and rub It with seven ounces of flour. Add a small teaspoon- tut of carbonate of soda and the same quantity of baking -powder; then four tablespoonfuls of strawberry pfeSCV've. Mix all with. a gill of milk. Place in a groused mould and boil fast for four hours. Serve wills sweet sauce. Macaroni with Eggs. — Break two ounces of straight Macaroni thio Inch lengths and throw tote bolting salted weld.; when (ender drain in a colander, Have ready Ivo hard-boiled eggs, chop them rather coarsely, mix with half a pint of while sauce, odd the macaroni, end season with still and pepper, Servo gnrnhsbed with slices of fried toinato and parsley. Brosws Scones,—Rub three ounces of bullar bolo one pound of wholemeal flour, odd a dessertspoonful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt and' three tea - simonises of baking -powder. Mix into a light soft dough with milk. Roll out, cut into rounds or scone shapes, brush over 1111111 m1111, and bake In a quick oven. If possible use sour or butter- milk instead of fresh milk. Savory Cabbage. --Wash a nice spring cabbage, boll it in water with a pinch of salt and a little .soda, When the vege- table ego-table yields to the pressure of the finger lake it out and squeeze dry, then put it Into a clean saucepan with a little but- ler, sell, pepper, nutmeg, and a table- spoonful of grated cheese. Pour over all a little milk, and stew far ten minutes. Serve very hot. Imitation Sweetbread.—Pour in a mor- tar ono pound of veal, add to It a little bacon, two beaten eggs, half a teacupful of breaderumbs, season with salt, pep- per and a pinch of mace, Stir In a table- spoonful of cream or melted butler, Farms lite mixture Into the shape of sweetbreads, bake for half an hour, bast- ing meanwhile. Serve very hot, with rich brown sauce. To Make Almond Rock,—Dissolve ono pound of best loaf sugar in halt a pint of water with a teaspoonful o[ acetic acid; boil this to the "crack" degree, add half a gill of noyeau and a few drops of cochineal ; boll up again, add two ounces of blanched almonds, pour the candy on to an oiled. baling -sheet; mark it in squares when cool, and break them apart when quite cold. Parmesan Rice.—Have ready a pint of rice, well boiled so that each grain Is separate; fry a thinly sliced onion in butler wills a teacupful of shelled shrimps, or half a tinned lobster. Stir in a teaspoonful of dry mustard, add Um rice and Ivo tablespoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese. Stir and cools for a few minutes. Serve very hot with chop- ped parsley scattered over. Macaroni wills Ilam.—Boil a quarter of a pound of macaroni and drain thor- oughly, add a raw beaten egg to half a pint of while sauce, then mix into 11 a cupful of fried minced ham and cayenne pepper. Drop the cooked macaroni Into this and place in a deep dish. Scalier breadcrumbs oval., moisten in the dis- solved butter, and bake till the crumbs oro browned. Davanshlr'e Tea-Cakes.—Put one pound of flour into a basin, andmix with it two teaspoonfuls of baking -powder. Next rub into it a quarter of a pound of clot - led cream, and add six ounces of cur- rants, two tablespoonfuls of sifted su- gar, an ounce of finely -sliced lemon -peel and a little nutmeg; mix thoroughly to- gether. Beat one egg in a Mlle milk, and 'add lo the flour and other ingredients, working all into a thick paste. Roll out, out into rounds, end bike for about evenminutes hal ov Stewly of Coldin Ba eet.—Sliceen. an onion thinly, and fry it in an ounce of lathier. When this begins to color stir in one ounce of flour; then add a cupful of stock, a pinch of powdered sweet herbs, a quarter of a wineglassful of tarragon vinegar, and two tomatoes, Stir quickly till the sauce has well boiled; then strain it, pressing the pulp of the toma- toes into 11. Trio some slices of cold roast beef free irons all fat, skin, and browned parts, lay then in the cooled sauce, place the saucepan where its con- sents can heat very slowly, so that the meat may become tender and well flavored ; when half done, add some chopped gherkins. Serve whit a wall of mashed potatoes round the dish, and the slew hi the centre. HINTS FOR TILE BOMB. Fresis milk will make dances which cut like a pound cake. Sour milk or butter- milk makes alight cake of spongy lex- lu. 'I'reo Clean a Stove Pipe.—Place a piece of zinc on the coals of a hot Move. The vapors arising from this will carry off the soot by chemical decomposition. Sultanas and raisins are very good with intik pucidings, etc., i[ slaved in a syrup made with water, lemon juice, and sugar. Wash the fruil well before stewing. ' A Good Method to Purify a Drain,— Dissolve four ounces of copperas in a gallon of water, and pour it down the chain. This treatment should be eotntin' ued.for two or three days. A box of cedar -durst should be kept in every kitchen. If any disagreeable small erases from cooking, poi, a lillle of the dust on the !hot part of Ilse range, and the scent given out will purify the air roan edits tely. '1'o Renovate Lealltes—First wipe with a slightly -dampened cloth to cleanse the swine, and rub (ley will a clean cloth. Beat rho white of an egg to a stiff froth and apply 1t quickly to the leather with a soft rag, To peal an orange costly and to got the skin off fn one plena, put the'ornnge in front of the fire for three or four minutes. The skin will then coma off easily. This method is particularly use- ful when ,you wish to 1111 the peel with jelly, last cut the peel round in a straight lino before putting the orange down to warm% and the two cups will be easily remotes and a good shape.