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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-6-3, Page 341, CNRISI LEfI U8. AN EXAA'PLE A Plea for the Optimistic, Christian View of Life. For what is your life,—Tames iv, hours "which we might just as well 14, forget end there are many among A Latin proverb sage';, "Art is the dark hours which have left be- long, life .ie short," .But life itself hind a lasting blessing. The most is an art which must be studied; fruitful and valuable hours, those There are two schools that teach whieh give meet impetus to the in - the art of life, the pessimistic and ner life are, as a rule, not the the optimistic, pleasant hours, of enjoyment and Pessimists arrive at the Conde- mirth but the rave and serious Sion that life is hardly worth living, hours, days of woe and nights of That, however, is not the Ohristian tears., times of struggle and priva- idea of life. True Christians are tion; the memory of which one optimists and believe that "a.- would not part with for any price. things work together for good to them that love God." THE HOLY SeliwITTURE In the royal gardens of Potsdam there is an old sun dial which bears the inscription: "1 count only the pleasant hours."One might envy it for this prerogative that records none of the dreary hours, but only . the SUNNY AND PLEASANT ONES. There are some persons that have the faculty of overlooking and for - ' getting the disagreeable features of life and noticing only the pleasant sides. • Such a sunny mind is ter-. tainly a great blessing and there is 'no reason why every Christian should not have it. There are hours of perfect happiness in everybody's. life—hours which reimburse for years of suffering and woe, the me- mory of which many years after lightens the worn face with happy smiles. But the pleasantest hours are not always the mose profitable, and it is true indeed what is said in the Nineteenth Psalm, that our life's•strength is labor and sorrow. There are many of the pleasantest calls life a "sowing of treed" and says : "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also, reap," A selfish life, though it be clean, is without charm and beauty. A ,sinful and contaminated life is still worse --- remorse remorse and self-accusation make it a hell on earth, The only life worth living is the one of which Christ has left, as an example, Devoted to the service of others, full of that all -conquering lave that is •strong as death, it brings light and happiness into: dark ?places and bears that sweet and blessed fruit which is promised to all. Such a life is neither tiresome nor ever a cause of regret, but finds grace before God and man. May we all try to master this wonderful art and life will become- more content, more interesting, more productive of good from day to day until at last it becomes a sweet, harmoni- ous song to the glory of life's Cre- ator. ERNST A. TAPPERT. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 6. Lesson Y. The Power of the Ton - gee. Golden 'text, Prov. 21: 23. Introduction—What is the im- portance of the theme of our les- son? Philosophers have striven to discover what faculty moat clearly separates man from the brute; as, that man is the only animal that laughs, or the only animal that cooks, or the only animal that stands upright. Most thinkers, how- ever, agree that the power of speech, with all that has grown out of it, is .the clearest and most im- portant distinction of mankind, and the surest indication of the superiority that God has conferred upon the human race. The passage we aro to study is one of the finest in the Bible, and is the crown of all writings upon the subject. I. The Ideal of Speech. Vs. 1,. 2a, Why did James urge his read- ers not to be many masters (teach- ers, as in "schoolmasters")? 1. Be- cause the young church met that danger continually ,see Acts 15: 24;, 1 Cor. 1: 12; 14: 26; Gal. 2: 12). In the Jewish church the function of .the rabbi wan jealously guarded, but t a liberty of prophesying (teaching) in Christianity was liable to become license. And "the more the idea prevailed that faith, with- out correspondleg obedience, was all that is needful, the more men would eagerly press forward to teach," This thought joins our present lesson with the Last. II. The Tongue as a Rudder.— Vs. 2b -5a. To illustrate perfect speech, to what does James compare the tongue? To a horse's bit or bridle, which, though small, turns and governs the whole body of the great animal; and, similarly, to a ship's helm or rudder, which, though not so small in comparison with the great ship, and so weak in comparison with the fierce winds, yet Turns the ship, in the face of the winds, whithersoever the gover- nor (r. v. "steersman") listeth (r, v. "willeth"). Even so (like the brittle and the rudder) the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things, "vaunts great words, which bring about great acts of mischief. —Alford. III. The Tongue as a Flame,— Vs. 5b, 6, What is the next com- parison used by James? "The firesti sprung tl orld from thotlnri es it—is of five iniinenees of the atmosphere, Gehenna. It is a little fire Che tube whistlers have either two, eye; but a little fire can kito the three, or a n' five folies. 1n .some anasi great forest, So the tongue can ruin the whole body—nay, the whole life, in its revolving course from the cradle to the grave." The course of nature is literaily the wheel of birth, the wheel of exist. once set revolving at birth. It is less likely that James had in mind a potter'a wheel, whose work is spoilee by an untemperecl heat; and still less likely that he meant obis terraria% the Circle of the earth. Ilow great a matter is lit- erally how much- wood, or how great a ferest, . The tongue is called rt world of iniquity because "all kinds of oil that tyle in the world are exhibited there in miniature." IV. The Tongue as a Wild Beast.—Vs. 7,8.. What is James's next comparison of the tongue? To an untamed beast; all other living things have been mastered by mankind—the four divisions of animals according to James's rough zoology, namely, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, and fishes But the tongue is an exception. No man can tame it; only'God, who made it can keep it under control. It is an unruly (restless) evil, full of deadly poison, and so to be classed with the animals most hated and feared, the serpents. V. Inconsistencies of Speech.— Vs. peech—Vs. 9-12. Why does James drop comparisons when he comes to his last point? Because there aro no comparisons in nature to man's inconsistency in speech—only con- trasts. Fountains do not send out of the same orifice now fresh water and now salt water. Fig -trees do not bear figs at onetime and at another time olives. Vines do not yield grapes in one season and figs in another, The constancy of nature was as well known in James's day as in ours. But the tongue is sadly different! Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing ! - _. PIGOEN-WHISTLE CONCERTS. Enjoy Aerial Music While Sitting in One's Room. A traveller in Eastern lands tells us the following story of the Chi- nese and their most unique pigeon - w his ties. One of the most curious expres- sions of emotional life in China is the application of 'whistles to a flock of pigeons. These whistles; very light, weighing hardly a, few grammes, are attached to the tails of young pigeons soon after their birth, by means of a fine- copper wire, so that when :the birds fly the wind will. blow through the whistles and set them vibrating, thus produeing an open-air concert, for the instruments in one and the ,same flock aro all tuned different- ly. On a serene clay in Peking, where these instruments are manu- factured with great cleverness and ingenuity, it is possible to enjoy this aerial music while .sitting rn oak's room. There are two distinct Types of u hi.stles—those consisting of bam- boo tubes placed side by side, and a type placed on the principle of tubes attached to a gourd body or wind °.hest, They ase lacquered in yellow, brown, red, and black to protect the material from degree mens the five tubes are made of ex -horn instead of bamboo, Tlr:e gourcl whistles are furnished with a mouthpiece, and small apertures, tothe number of two, three, six, tem and even thirteen. Certain among them have besides a num- ber of bamboo tubes, some on the principal mouthpiece, some ar- ranged around it, These varieties are distinguished be different names.Thus xs a whistle with one mouthpiece and ten tubes is called ''tire eleven -eyed • one." The bunter e£ courtesy should be thickly spread upon the bread of ineependence, TRAMPED ACROSS AFRICA JOHN CRESWICK WAL1i.Iif1 1,500 b111:1413. Forger Sentenced in -Rhodesia to Penal Servitude Escaped Front a Train. Adventures as thrilling ea those of the prisoner who escaped from Devil's isle ended recently in John Creswick, an alert, determined looking man of forty, appearing in the nook at Bow: street, London. Oreswtck was sentenced to six years' penal servitude in Rhodesia for forgery and was placed on a train at Uwolo for removal to Sal- isbury. He was guarded by a num- ber of men, his ankles were 'man- acled, and it seemed impossible that he could escape, During the early hours of the morning he eluded his guards and reached the back of the train. The train was travelling at a rate of twenty miles an hour at the time, but, without hesitating, he jumped off, and landed uninjured on the rough track. ties disappearance was not dis- covered for some time, and although his movements were impeded by his chained ankles, he was able to reach a place of safety. His first necessity was to rid him- self' of his irons. This he .accom- pp fished, after many attempts? by breaking the steel rivets with pieces of rock. Even then his plight was little better, for he was in imminent dan- ger of dying from hunger or being killed by lions. By an extraordin- ary chance he met a friend, who gave him a rifle and ammunition. and lent him some money. FIVE MONTHS' TRAMP. Croswick decided that his best chance of escape was to reach the port of Boma, in the Congo Free State, and he set out on a 1,500 miles' walk across Africe. For five long months he ,tramped through' the heart of the continent, living on animals and birds he killed with his gun. At times he was on the verge of starvation, he underwent many privations, and his escapes from death were countless, but at length he reached Boma. Here he ex- changed what was left of his prison dress for a pair of grey trousers, a striped jacket, and a cricket shirt, and booked his passage by a steamer to Antwerp. From Antwerp he travelled to London, where he thought it was impossible that he could be recog- nized. He was walking in Leman - street. Whitechapel,when he was stopped by Detective Inspector Belcher. I believe you are John Ores - wick," the inspector stated, "and that you escaped from custody in Rhodesia." "Oh, no," Creswick-replied. "The man I want has the Prince of Wales' feathers tattooed on his arm," said the inspector. "Let me look at yours." "You are right," Creswick ad- mitted. "I am the man." After his arrest he told the whole story of his adventures. He was re- manded in order that the authori- ties might decide how they Will deal with him. SENTENCE STRMONS. Love never has to advertise fox a job. Saints are never seen by search- ing in mirrors. Faith never travels far when it :forgets the facts. No man knows truth who wants to patent it. The way to be faithful to truth is to follow it. Every gift is measured by its real cost to the giver. Riches become dangerous only when rooted in our affections. The greatest verities are found by loyalty to small truths, The baggage ear does not go through on the heavenly train, A good deal of public generosity hides a lot of private meanness. The large hearted elway's see large qualities in their friends. Whatever is given by the hand is more than gained by the heart. The only way to fill the harves- ter's wagon is to empty the sower's bag. Every man's view of this world is better for his being blind to some of it. It often happens that the punish- ment we think is remitted is only ripening. It takes mote than Sunday dreams of heaven to make a heaven- lJ y week. - Some people have a way of pray ing for others that makes them pre- fer cursing. The meek who inherit the earth do not get their title to it by crawl- ing in the dust. • Some seem to think the best evi- <enee of being the salt of the earth ie ability to maks folks smart. The most popular religious delu- sion of our day is that disonssing duties is the same thing as doing them, NEVER Adam had one thing to be thank - el for. He never had to weed his pa's onion beds when the other boys were going fishing. urriPsysms, iv** OPSPIPONP4 *PO 1 Q Horne The i .a...+.....# MISOELLANEOUS RECIPES. Mock Terrapin. -One cup veal out in dice shape, one cup cream or rich milk, one hard boiled egg cut in small pieces, one tablespoon but- To overcast sleeves into place in- ter. Put all together in a stow pan, stead of basting them before stitch - season with salt and pepper to ing. This finishes off the soar and taste, beat to boiling point, and eliminates the withdrawal of last - thicken with one teaspoon of corm ing threads at the same time, starch dissolved iii milk. Serve on In packing white lace orwhitehot buttered toast, silk waists or fine laces, if you wish Noodles, -Beat four eggs add. a them to remain perfectly whttn pinch of salt and enough /lour to wrap in liglttblue cheesecloth or ?rake a stiff batter. Then roll out tissue paper and place in a box. thin and'let dry for two hours, I have kept a white silk dress in Then cut in small, narrow strips, this way for sixteen years. Put in dish and cover with boiling To sew all buttons on garments salt water and let boil for ten just far enough apart to allow an minutes. After draining put in iron to slip between readily except a spider, add a heaping teaspoon- where close set buttons are re- ful of butter, and fry for a few quired for particular reasons, This minutes. Serve at once, width usually looks well and the Sour Cream Cabbage,—Shred half appearance of the ironed article small firm head of cabbage; punt in is greatly improved. kettle with cold water to cover; To use only light brown or white add salt to season; boil until ten- paper to clean the iron on ironing der; drain off water; add half' a day if the eyes have the least ten_ cup of sour cream and four table- deem. to weakness. The ink used spoons of vinegar. „et it boil up in printing newspapers and maga- once before serving. It will take a tines when rubbed with the hot delicate pink ' and is extremely irons rises in a sort of poisonous palatable. vapor, irritating the eyes greatly in Fried Stuffffed Eggs. Fried stuff- many instances. ed eggs make a delicious luncheon When an article becomes scorched dish. Boil the eggs for twelve in ironing lay in over a plate or minutes and then drop them into platter and moisten the scorched cold water and remove the shells spot with a jellylike mixture of without breaking the whites. Cut soap, starch, and water. Place a the eggs in two through the middle, piece of glass over all and lay in take out the yolks, and mix them the sun. Remoisten as often as with minced ham and chicken, or necessary until the stain is re- any savory meat on hand. Season moved. to taste, add with salt and pepper Cut up old newsp spers into sheets the uncooked yolk of an eggs, a few about eight by ten inches until you bread crumbs, and a little butter. have a package about an inch thick. Minced parsley and a soupcon of Drive a nail through this and tack onion juice add to their flavor. up in an inconspicious place near Then put the eggs together again, the kitchen sink. Use these sheets pressing tho sides tight; they to wipe out greasy dishes before should not be filled so full as to washing, to wipe the greasy rim prevent this, and roll the eggs of the uishpan, and to catch many first in the white of egg and then scraps which would often soil table in bread crumbs, repeating the or sink, process if the surface is not well Some vases are made of such or- covered. Fry in a basket in deep ous material that it is impossible fat and serve with tomato sauce to use them as flower receptacles and celery or parsley as a garnish. without the moisture spreading to Green Pepper Stuffed With Corn. the stand or table upon which. they —Cut around stem end of pepper are placed. If a little varnish brush about three-fourths around, leav can be used the inside may be yarn- ing other fourth as hinge, forming ished well, but in some instances a lid. Put peppers in cold water the openings are too small to permit sufficient to cover and bring to a any such work. In such cases boil. Drain,_ cover with freshly pour the varnish inside and shake boiling water, and cook slowly un- it all around until the sides are til tender. Dram again, salt light- thickly coated. The extra varnish ly, and allow to cool. Allow two can then be poured out and the tablesnoons of butter to become hot rim wiped before it has time to in frying pan,, add three cups corn, harden thereon. three tablespoons boiling water in That a button tied to the end of which is dissolved one teaspoon beef a string and let down intee a bottle extract. Cook five minutes; add into which a cork has slipped can half cup cream, one teaspoon salt, usually be made to bring the re - half teaspoon pepper. Cook slowly fractory cork within reach. Also until quite thick. Cool and fill that when sealing up bottles of peppers. Fasten down lids of pep- fruit juices, etc,, it is a good plan pers and place in buttered baking to first lay two pieces of clean, dish. Melt one tablespoon of but- freshly boiled tape across the mouth ter in half cup boiling water, add of the bottle, crossing them in the add one teaspoon of beef extracts center. When the cork is pushed Pour over peppers and bake for in .and sealed up the ends remain twenty-five minutes. Delicious when on the outside, and will be a de- served with fish. cicled t%icl in uncorking the bottle when it is desired to do so, for all that will be necesseey it to break the wax from the edge and pull on the tape ends. Spice Cake from Bread Dough.. '.pwo cups bread dough, two cups eugarone cup butter, four eggs, one teaspoon cinnamon, one tea. . apoonl cloves, one teaspoon :all spice, one small teaspoon soda dissolved in water, one pound raisins well figured; cream butter and sugar'; add beaten yolks of eggs; add spices; mix with bread dough; add raisins; add wall beaten whites of eggs; then soda; bake in very slow oven one hour and a hall. WORTH KNOWING. PIES AND CAKES. Cocoanut Pie.—Beat the yolks of three eggs, add one tablespoon of flour, two tablespoons of sugar, one-half cup cocoanut, two cups milk. Put this in an uncooked crust and bake till set, then beat the whites o.f eggs with two table- spoons sugar, and brown in oven. Walnut Pie.—The yolks of three eggs, one cup sugar, ane cup milk, and one tablespoon flour, Boil to- eeether until thick. Let cool, and then add ono cu- cho-red walnuts and flavor with lepton extract. Use whites of eggs for top. Cocoanut may be used in place of walnuts, or good without dither. Banbury Tart.—One cup raisins, one eup sugar, one egg, one crack- er, juice and riled of one lemon. Roll pastry as thin as for pies and cut in squares or rounds, three or four inches in diameter. Put two teaspoons mixture on ono -half of round. Brush the edges together with cold water and fold over, A GOLDEN BOOB;. pressing tight. Bake in a hot oven. Lemon Nut Cake.—One and one- half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, whites of two eggs, one-half cup of chopped walnuts grated rind of one-half of It lepton (just the yellow the rind,one cup of sweet mill:, two teaspoons of baking pow- der, flour enough to make a thick batter. Cream butter and sugar together, add whites of eggs Otto at a time, milk, end baking powder, sifted in the flour. Frosting: White of one egg beaten stiff, with the juice ofone-half - tie e half of a lemon and powderod sugar; make tbiok enough to spread with knife, spread on cake when cool, and Winkle with chopped walnuts. BREAD BAKING. BOTH TAINTED. "You are in the employ of that millionaire up on the hill, aren't you l" snapped the sharp -faced wo- man who ran the butter and egg shop. "Yes, ma'm," responded the man in the white apron "and I want two pounds of butter for my master's table. He said he'd send to town after it, only the roads aro so bad." "He did, eh 1 Well, we are. not particular about his trade. Did you tell him 1 said iris money was tainted 1" "Indeed I did." "And what did he say 1•' "Said so was your blamed old butter." t• Hint for Bread Baking.—After putting light bread in the oven to bake, to make it rise even turn the pans before the bread begins to brown, th loaves will rise the same on each side. Light Biscuits,—To each quart of The most valuable work in ex- istence is said to be a copy of the Koran, now treasured in the Mo- hammedan city of Ispnan-Ruza, Persia. The covers, 91,tin. by 4in., are of solid gold, egin. thick, while precious s stop s e set in symbolic de- signs figure in the mitre and at each of the corners. The book is written upon parchment, and this part of the work alone is valued at 350,000. SEE S 1 And yet, figuring it in any way you want to, what every woman knows isn't much as compared with what nearly every man owes: NOTHING NEW. "I'u, introducing a brand new in- vention—a combined talking ma- chine., carpet sweeper and letter oponer, said the agent, stepping briskly into an office, wheal flour add one-half cut, of "Got one 111 early," answered the graham flour. This makes cloltght- proprietor, "I'm tna.rried. ful hiscnits and art nmeli more healthful, as the graham flour does 1TNOLE SILAS SAID: .1.----. not lis heave on the slomeeh as "A soft answer turneth away the white flour done, • More gra wrath, but it won't a fresh book ham may be added if desired: agent nor bill eolleetor," tlOW TO GET ON IN CANADA NEWCOMER MUST 'TAKE RI PART IN PRODUCTION, S No Plaee ig.,Canada for Square Man in Round Hole, Says John Saunders, • John Saunders, an English im- migrant, Writing to the London' Standard on Canada's call for set- tlers, says that Canada, like every other progressive State on the face of the earth, bas not a single vac- ancy for "the square moan in the round hole." In spite of that, he comes, encouraged by agencies which do not take account of the man's fitness or unsuitability for changed conditions, Broadly speak- ing, the success of the man or wo- man of natural adaptability and tact is assured beyond all doubt in this country, It does not fol- low here, any more that it does elsewhere, that because a man has been a cobbler all his life he can- not farni successfully. The writer knows, among a few score cases of "euccessful transplantation," that of an Englishman in Saskatchewan who, with his wife, daughter, and two sons, has scored one of the best records in home-building and crop - raising in that wonderful prolific Province, and whose only practical knowledge of farming lay in handl- ing the draft -horses employed in his business of a suburban laundry in England before he came West, leas than five years ago. A TYPE NOT WANTED. The man who is not wanted in Canada is the cobbler or "candle- stick makers" who cannot, or will not, turn his band to anything else. The cities at the present moment are inundated with that type of "settler." He is the fellow who comes out with no aptitude What• ever except for "his own job," and because he finds there are "no hands wanted" goes home, or writes his wail and complaint. On the other hand, not a single man or woman of good character need hesitate to come out to Can- ada with the purpose of taking a share in the cultivation of some part of its productive possibilities. Whether he or she is possessed of capital or not is a matter of second- ary consequence, but to be perfect- ly frank, for some time to come at least, it is needful that the immi- grant who is to be of real and per- manent use to himself as well as the state must produce. The writer has indicated in what way. In market gardening, gram growing, or iu the breeding of stock, the chances are the very best that any territory on the earth can offer to- day. With the slightest possible qualifications, Canada's one source of wealth is the land, and it is by the cultivation of the still fallow lands that cities will grow and com- mercial enterprises will be fed, as has been the case with the great Republic to the south. READY TO ASSIST. Not one, but scores of business houses in Winnipeg and at other points in the West are perpared to assist intending settlers of the right type to the very last point that does not compromise their in- dependence. The "right type" in indicated by the words Integrity. Industry, Thrift. There are scores of thousanus of English men and women who can respond to all these, and who to -day are eagerly seeking for a better return for their labor than they can possibly obtain in the growing congestion of things at home. They have all the elements of success within themselves. They may bo possessed of a little capi- tal, but they don't know just how far that capital will go in estab- lishing themselves in Canada. Some of them may have farmed independ- ently in a small way, or have been employed as farm hands all them days; they are making a living, and possibly saving a little,, but they I fear to risk an assured position at home and lake their chances abroad, INFORMATION FOR SETTLERS. Tli ire is a regularly organized Development and .industrial Bureau in Winnipeg, witu a Commissioner in charge for the exclusive pur- pose of collecting and supplying ex- act information as to the industrial and commercial conditions of the city and the surrounding market, and to whom any inquires may be sent, with the certainty of eliciting facts, whatever the -inquirer may care to male of diem. He will also direct the homeseeker or prospec- tive settler so far as that may lie in his province. ENGAGED ON THE SPOT, Applicant—"I'm a teary experi= enced barber, and I should like to get a. berth in your shop if sent have a vacancy." Master Barber—"You 1 You'ti never do at all with that bald ]read. A customer would laugh if you asked lrini to buy a bottle of our celebrated Magic Hair Restorer." Applicant—"Aye, but I'd bre the man that uaed the •hair s'estorci' that Jinx sells in the shop toned the .corner," Master Barber—"I never thought of 'that; yen 000 start work at Mee," ar Wotnon argue with titter disre- gard as to the accuracy of their statements, FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS 1gy liA1•L PROM IRE* LAND'S SflORi;S, lappenings iu the Ensois•-a l Isle 01 interest to Irish- men. Out of 240 deethe in the town of Wexford last yearn•, every fifth one was due to tuberoulosih:: There are several Neweastles in the United Kingdom, but only ono Newcastle, County 1/own. The aleath aoourred recently sit C1onakilty.Workhouse of Cornelius Itialiony, a native of Shannon: Vale, in his 101st year. J'loode recently prevailed at Fere' bane, 13ahlycumber and Banagh:er, where the Shannon overflowe.d its banks for miles, Owing to the recent heavy rain- fall there were great floods in Kung's County, The land around Tullamore was a veritable lake. Recently in Maty street, Dublin: a live eel 3 feet long, which had been released from the water pipe, was •seen flopping about the street. So great is the amount of dis- tress prevailing in Dublin that the Lord Mayor has conceded a public meeting to discuss the lack of em- ployment, Dr. Edward Heyns, for 41 years Medical Officer of Ballyvaughan dis- pensary district and the Work- house, has resigned hie position, on account of advanced age. Jahn Purcell and Luke Fagan, who were evicted from their farms on the Blakeney estate at Fuerty, some years ago, have been given farms by the Estates Commission- ers. The damage done by a Belfast ere is estimated at something like 81,000,000. It began in the bonded stores, in Dunbar street, of the Messrs. McConnell, whiskey dis- tillers. The Congested Districts Board have purchased the interest from Mr. Thos. Smyth of some Go acres of inland farm adjoining the vil- lage of Brosna. It will bre divided into plots. The Local Government Board have sanctioned the issue of a loan of 81,125 to Donegal Guardian for the purpose of enlarging the infirm- ary and providing a shelter for con- sumptives. Through the gift of Andrew Car - f negie, three public libraries have lbeen established in Belfast. One ir; situated in the Falls Road, an- other in Old Park Road, and the third in Donegal Rued. The belly of an old age pension- er named Mark Conary was found at Drung, near Cavan, under suspi- cious circumstances, two gunshot wounds being discovered. An ar- rest has been made. About seventy-five meal have: been laid off from Kynoch's factory in Arklow, and the probability of a large number of others laid off is giving much concern to the towns- people. Nearly one hundred men recently . visited the farm of Mrs. Sarah Prior, Stroke, one of the evicted tenants, who was a few weeks ago. reinstated and in a short time pre- pared her land for tillage. The Countess of Aberdeen an April 14 laid the foundation stone of the first county consumptive. sanatorium in Ireland, provided by the Joint Hospital Board of County Cork. The site is at Stream Hill, near Doneraill. IS 660TH A N NIVERSARY, First Steeple Clock Set up in Milan in 1309. In this age of centenaries, this year, according to a French con- temporary, marks the six hundredth anniversary of the setting up of the first steeple clock. It is claimed that the honor belongs to Milan, and it was in that city, in the year 1309, that the venerable sun dial of the campanile of Saint Eustare gave place to the clock. Dante on more titan one occasion refers to 16, and the horologe is said to have in spired other ports with themes for vorsidoat:io The claimn, of Milan of having the first steeple clock is not an estab- lished fact—that is, if the date of its installation be 1309; for the late Lord Grin-M.:ape, no mean autltor- ity on horology, states that a clock was put up m a former tower at Westminster with some great bells in 1288. out of a fine imposed on a corrupt ehief justice, and the motto, "Discitc jnstitiain, moniti." The bells were sold, or rather, it is said, gambled away by Henry VIII, In c 1192 a clock is mentioned in Canter- bury cathedral as costing £30, There is also a elock to Dover Castle • with the date 1348. Lord Grim- thtope adds that it is much like our common Blocks of the eighteenth century, except that it has a vib• rstug balance, but no spring, in- stead of a pendulum, for pendulums were not invented for three eon - Curies after that date. --London Globe, l� t)ttl•FLI.l514Tl�TG, Women are foto'-fluslilttrs, tori. Many a time a woman says "pass the Dream, plilease,' when elect knows well that there's nothie in the pitcher, mighty thein milk fiat that.