The Brussels Post, 1909-9-30, Page 2Hints for Busy Housekeepers.
Recipes and Other valuable Information
of ,Particular interest to Wotnen Folks..
C'AI{ES.
Hermit Cake.—
I want to tell you all about
A cake I've often made;
Its name is "Hermit" and its worth
Makes the realm of .oakedien fade.'
But I must tell you lion 'tis done
Else yosi may. thick I fake,
So I hl proceed anti give you all
Tliedetails of this cake,
Brown sugar is the kind to use—
.Two cups will do, I deem.
Mix well with one and a half cups
Of butter to a cream,
Then.<Mop in eggs, of which use
four,
A pound of dates cut small,
Ten pennies' worth of shelled wal-
nuts,
And lemon peel—that's all.
Five cents' worth of peel will do;
Then mix both hard and long,
And when your arms get geed and
tired
Just stop till you are strong.
Now add a level teaspoonful
Of soda—in ]tot water—
Of which a tablespoon will do,
Then add some flavoring later.
Two and a half eupfuls of flour
Are added to the whole;
Then bake—and you will have a
cake
That's worth its weight in gold.
Cream Cake.—One cupful sugar,
two eggs, one-fourth cupful of but-
ter, one-half cupful of lard, one
cupful of sour cream, one-half tea-
spoonful of salt, two cupfuls of
flour, one heaping teaspoonful of
baking powder, a tiny bit of soda
en end of spoon, and flavoring to
taste. Cream Filling—One cupful
of sugar, one egg, one and one-
half cupfuls of sweet milk, one tea-
spoonful of vanilla, ono heaping
teaspoonful of flour. Mix sugar,
flour, and eggs, stir in hot milk,
and boil until thick; spread be-
tween layers and ice with two table-
spoonfuls of sweet milk thickened
with powdered sugar.
Mocha Cake.—One cup sugar
creamed with yolks of three eggs,
one heaping capful of flour with
cue scant teaspoonful of baking
powder, one-quarter cupful tepid
water, and, lastly. the beaten
whites of eggs. This cake requires
much. beating. Bake in eight inch
tin. When cord cut in thirty-six
squares. Frosting—Cream one cup-
sful of butter and gradually add
confectionery sugar as much as it
will take, one tablespoonful cream,
ere dessert spoonful vanilla. Blanch
brown and ehop fine one pound of
almonds. Ice squares on all sides
and roll in nuts.
Recipe for Two Cakes.—Two
cakes may be matte by using five
eggs and the following recipes:
Cream together one cupful of sugar
and one-half cupful of butter. Add
one-half cupful of sweet milk, then
two cupfuls of flour that has two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder sift-
ed into it. Last fold in the beaten
whites of three eggs and stir well.
Bake this in two layers.
Put aside the. whites of two eggs
for icing and use the five yolks you
have fur a simple gold cake. Uro
one-fourth cupful of butter, one-
half cupful of sugar, one-fourth
cupful of milk, ono cupful of flour,
and ono teaspoonful of baking pow-
der. Stir ingredieuts together and
bake in •a loaf. There will be
enough icing for hoth cakes.
Spier; Cake.—One cupful of mo-
lasses, one-half cupful of butter and
lard mixed, one egg, one cupful of
boiling water, two teaspoonfuls of
soda, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon,
one of cloves, one teaspoonful of
ginger, ono -}half cupful of raisins,
two and one-half cupfuls of flour.
Process --Cream the butter, lard,
and egg, and molasses. Add the
epiees and soda to the flour, mix-
ing thoroughly. Mix wet and dry
ingredients except water. -Add
water gradually, stirring constant -
V. Bake fifteen or twenty minutes
in moderate oven.
For a Plain Cake.—Cream to-
gether two cupfuls of powdered
sugar with one large tablespoonful
of butter; then add the yolks of
three eggs well beaten, then the
whites of three eggs well beaten,
one cupful of milk, two heaping
cupfuls of fluor into which has been
sifted two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder; mix well and add one tea-
spoonful of lemon flavoring. Bake
in a round tin 10 a slow oven for
one hour. Frosting—Mix one cup-
ful of powdered sugar with enough
cream or milk to stiffen, and add
a little lepton flavoring.
Put the stuffing that is to be used,
a little in the neek,,the rest in the
body and sow. Up' the opening;
Deese the skirl of the neck smoothly
dowel, and uuder.the back, press the
wings close to the body and fold
the,pinions under, Crossing the.
back and holding down the skin of
the neck. Press the legs close to
the body and slip there under the.
skin as much as possible. Press the
trussing needle, threaded with
white twine, through the wing by
the middle joint, pass it through.
the skin of the neck and back and
out again at middle Mat of the
other wing. Return the nee'.,.e
through the bend of the leg at the
second joint. through the body and
out at the same point at the other
side; draw the cord tight and tie
with the end et the wing juint.
Thread the needle again aid run
t through the legs and body at the
thigh bone and hack at the ends
at the drumsticks, draw the drum-
stick bones close together, cover-
ing the opening made by drawing
the fowl and tie the ends.
Have both knots on the same
side of the fowl and when roasted
cut on opposite side and draw out.
To Roast—Dredge the fowl with
salt, pepper and flour and place in
a pan with a pint of water; baste
every fifteen minutes; .allow fifteen
minutes to the pound to roast. Then
ten minutes before it is done take
out and wipe over with butter and
dredge once more in flour and re-
place in oven until it is a golden
brown and crisp.
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SEASONABLE HELPS.
Helpful Suggestions.—Try a bit
of grated omen and chopped green
pepper with your lettuce salad
(french dressing) and garnish with
radishes made to represent roses.
On thinly sliced oranges chop a
little of the yellow rind and add a
ba -nano cut lengthwise and placed
on the lettuce. M:ay-onnaise is pre-
ferable on t' e banana.
To Keep all Winter.—Around the
sides of a wooden tub lay three or
four gallons of pared and quartered
apples. In the centre of the tub
lay on a saucer a red hot coal the
size of an egg. Sprinkle a tea-
spoonful of sulphur over the coal.
Cover the tub quickly with heavy
blankets and let stand half an
hour. Pack apples in stone jars,
tie paper cover over the top, and
pot in the cellar. Sulphured ap-
ples are like fresh ones when cook-
ed and will keep a whole year.
Melon Jam.—Either watermelon
or cantaloupe may be used. Pare
the ring (after removing the great-
er part of the pulp) and cut in
'small dice. Pare and shred one
large pineapple, add to ten pounds
cf melon, sprinkle with four pounds
of sugar, and set aside for thirty-
eix hours. Skin one-fourth pound
of green ginger, cut it fine, and
add to the melon, adding also three
more pounds of sugar and the juice known, •these figures increased
lion, using the seine vinogar each' T E �` X7s LEss/11
The third time add ono Jl 1/
pound of sugar to the vinegar .and
boil, pouring over es above; else
ndtx. the oil and greeted mustard
together with a small portion of
%he vinegar and meld when eold.
Oil can be omittedif so desired.
Blackberry Vinegar,—Mash the
berries to a pulp in a Stoneware
vessel, add good eider vinegar to
cover well, stand in the son all day
and in the cellar over night, stir-
ring ouasiolially, AText morning
strain and Ladd the same amount of
berries. Crash and over the whole
add strained juice, and set fn son
main all day -and the cellar ell
night. The nett day strain and
to each quart of juice allow one
pint of water and five pounds of
sugar. Heat slowly to the boiling
point, steam and when it boils
btrain and bottle, sealing air tight.
USES OF SALT.
It cleans the palate and furred
tongue, and a gargle of salt and
water is often efficacious. A pinch
of salt on the tongue, followed ten
minutes later by a drink of cold
water often cures a sick headache.
It hardens gums, makes teeth white
and sweetens the breath.
Cut flowers may be kept fresh by
adding salt to the water.
Weak ankles should be rubbed
with a solution of salt water and
alcohol.
Bad colds, hay fever and kind-
red affections may be inueh relieved
by using fine dry salt like snuff.
Dyspepsia, heartburn and indi-
gestion are relieved by a cup of
hot water in which a small spoon-
ful of salt has been melted,
Salt and water will sometimes
revive an unconscious person when
hart if brandy or other remedies
are not at hand. Hemorrhage from
tooth pulling is stopped by filling
the mouth with salt and water.
Weak and tired eyes are refresh-
ed by bathing with warm water and
salt.
Salt rubbed into the scalp or oc-
casionally added to the water in
washing prevents the hair falling
out.
Feathers uncurled by damp wea-
ther are quickly dried by shaking
over a fire in which salt has been
thrown.
Salt should always be eaten with
ants.
AUSTRIA'S WAIL ON SNAKES.
New Additions to the Empire Over-
run With Reptiles.
Austria's new territory is unde-
sirably rich in snakes, mostly of
the poisonous varieties, and the
Government is taking vigorous
measures to exterminate them.
In the ten years from 1896 to
1005 the average yearly death roll
from snake bites in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, was thirteen persons,
and 1,338 head of cattle, horses and
domestic animals. Besides this,
hundreds of persons were bitten by
snakes, bet recovered.
Since 1906 the provincial authori-
ties hare given money premiums for
the killing of snakes. In that ;year
80,056 dead snakes were 'brought
in. of which 25,938 were poisonous.
Next year, when the official reward
systembecame more generally
of three lemons. Simmer for four
hours,
Peach Jam.—Pare ripe peaches
and cut in quarters. Put in a pre-
serving kettle one bowlful of fruit
and one bowlful of sugar ; let boil
twenty minutes; then add another
bowlful of fruit and one of sugar,
and let boil twenty minutes. Do
this until all is gone, then let the
NN hole amount boil twenty minutes
lunger. Let cool a little and put
in glasses, Plums can be used the
same way.
Jelly Helps. --In making apple
jelly, add a few black cherries to
She apples before ,cooking. This
gives the jelly a beautiful color and
r. fine flavor, Apple jelly may also
he given a tart, pleasant taste by
combining one-third rhubarb and
two-thirds apples. By taking the
same proportions of rhubarb and
blackberrres one may hive a jelly
that has the blackberry flavor but
not the sweet taste, which many
do not like.
If the cooked blackberries and
rhubarb are pressed through a sieve
to extract the seeds, sweetened to
the taste, and cooked about ten
minutes, it makes a nice jam,
CANNING HELPS.
Mixed Pickles.—Ona-half peck
green tomatoes, twenty-five meditun
sized cucumbers, fifteen large white
onions one-half peck small anions
. HOW TO ROAST TURKEY.
First remove pin feathers and
singe off the hairs over an aleuhol
flame. Then thoroughly wash and
wipe with a soft clean clout. Then
draw the fowl and wash inside wit,.
warm water, • (:tit off the neck close
tc- the body, leaving the skin to
fold over the opening. Then bend
the leg back and carefully cut the
akin on the joint just enough to
expose the sinews without break-
ing :them and draw them out by a
fork,' Break off the leg at the joint,
the sinews hanging to it. ('nt the
oil sack' away from the rump. Now
it is ready to. stuff.
enormously, no fewer than 280,718
snakes being killed, including 271,-
085 poisonous.
Last year's figures were very
nearly the same, and it will be
some years before the work of ex-
termination can be anything like
completed. But at the same time,
the number of persons reported bit-
ten by poisonous snakes seems to
be steadily decreasing -206 in 1907
and 140 last year•—Pall Mall Ga-
zette.
NO FLIES ON IIIM.
John D. Rockefeller, at the end of
a day's testimony in the Govern-
ment's suit against the Standard
Oil Company, talked to a group of
reporters. The subject of quick-
wittedness carie up and Mr. Rocke-
feller said :—
"As quick-witted a man as I ever
knew was one of our drivers—Tim-
othy—back in the business's early
days.
"We liked to keep our teams
looking nice, and so we instituted
an annual prize for the man who
could show the best -groomed hors-
es, the cleanest stalls, the bright-
est harness, and so forth.
"Timothy seemed certain of this
prize, and when mid -year inspec-
tion time came sure enough his
splendid work left nothing to be
desired.
four heads cabbages, one .pint of "But as the inspector took ane
grated horseradish, one-half pound last look around, just as he had
of white mustard seed, one-fourth made up his mind to give the prize
pound ground mustard, one-half to Timothy, he frowned, for his eye
teacupful ground black pepper, one- had fallen on a cobweb in a dim.
half ounce ground cinnamon, two ecii'ner of the grey mares stall.
ounces turmeric. Slice the tomo- "Timothy saw the inspectors face
toes and large onions; cut cabbages change, and saw the cause of the
as for slaw, quarter cucumbers change, and he spoke up briskly:—
lengthwise,
riskly:-lengthwise, but in pieces two inch- "'I keep that there web there,
mo, long, leaving the peel on, and bees,' be said. to catch the flies.
add the nanall onions whole,. Mix The way they torment the mare is
with salt thoroughly, . let stand sumpin' herce.' "
teenty-four hairs. Drain off the ---F
juice and pour vinegar arrd water
ever pickles, Let stand a day or " lirupp's is the biggest cannon
two. Strain again as dry as pos- ever mulch, isn't itl" "Yes, a1rl
silble. Mix the spices well, except the earth is the largest revolver."
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
OCT, 3, °
I',esaou d. Paul a Prisoner .-- the
Arrest, Golden. 'Tutt,
2Tim. ;3.
Verso 18, James—It scores to be
All the elders were present
established beyond doubt that this
*s one of the brothors'of ;our Lord.
kfe was the aclntowledged head of
the vlrur'ah at Jerusalem,
—,
These men constituted the govern-
ment of the church, together with
James.
19. He rehearsed one by ona —
Luke was present, but oinks the de-
tails of Paul's narrative, as the
ground has already been covered so
fully,
20• Thou west . , , how many
thousands there are among the
Jews of them that have believed
It was the feast of Penticost, about
twenty-seven years after the mira-
culous gift
ira-culous'gift of the Holy ;Spirit. The
greatest problem which had arisen
during that time must have been
the one here mentioned, that there
Jewish Christians were all zealous
for the law. To them Christianity
was only an improved Judaism, and
they clung tenaciously to all the
Mosaic ceremonials in which they
had been trained. 'The destruc-
tion of Jerusalem was necessary in
order to make the complete break
between the old and new,
21. They have 'ben informed ,con-
cerning thee—The verb indicates
that at Jerusalem a systematic
teaching had been going on in op-
position to Paul, and as a result
great hostility had been aroused
against him.
Thou teaches . . . to forsake
Moses—Knowing as we do, from the
acts and wards of Paul, how per-
verted was this accusation, we can
understand the ferocity of his de-
nunciations of these malicious Jn-
daizes.
23-26. The Jerusalem elders, while
recognizing and confirming the 1'b
e.ty of the Gentiles,, as guaranteed
to them by the greet council, urge
upon Paul a corse which may die
arm his accusers of their preju-
dices. In short, he is to ally him-
self with some humble Nazirites
(see Num, 6. 1-21) and complete
with them the final purifrcason
ceremonies of a vow which they
bad assumed. As an evidence of
good faith, he in to pay for all the
sacrifices, .and remain in the tem-
ple until the full ordinance is ob-
served. In this way the disaffected
will see he does not neglect the law,
and he himself will contradict none
of his own teaching or practice, as
he has already declared himself
willing to become all things to all
men, for the sake of the gospel, to
the Jews becoming as a Jew, that
he might gain them.
27. Seven days—The appointed
time for the fulfilylinent of the vow
in the seclusion of the temple.
28. Against the people, and the
flaw, end this place—A threefold
,charge, namely hostility to the
Jews themselves, contempt for their
law, and desecration of the temple.
This last charge was supported by
a declaration that he brought
Greeks also into the temple. This
reference to Trophimus' (verse 29),
one of Paul's companions, a Gen-
tile from Ephesus, was, of course,
unfounded. The "Court of Israel"
was distinct from the euter court,
known as the "Court of the Gen-
tiles," and separated from it by a
high wall, with inscriptions threat-
ening death to all Gentile intsud-
ere. Though Paul was not ,actual-
ly a subverter of the Mosaic law,
he had preached that a man was
saved by faith in Christ and not
by words of the law. In this end
this would lead to a disregard of
the law even among the Jews.
30. Dragged him out of the tem-
ple: and ... the doors were shut—
This precaution was, doubtless, in-
tended to prevent a profanation of
the temple by the murder which
they were contemplating.
31. Tidings came up to the chief
captain of the band—This officer of
a thousand men was stationed in
the fortress Antonia, adjoining the
temple, on the hill Acre. Notice,
therefore, the acuracy of the de-
scription, "came up to " and
"ran down upon them" (32).
Yhc ground Then boil IIrtsbanrl--"hid yon hear the
one and one-half gallons freel, sap- storm when it broke this morning 1"
Pie vinegar and Pour boiling hot \ ile--"Than wasn't the eturin. It
over the pickles.
Do thin three mornings in sueces-
30, I am a Jew, of Ttu',sue .. , •
eitizen of no mean city—Targets was
rb city .of rare mature, devoted to
philosophic studies, and .as citizen
ship there was oonfieed to a se-
lect few, its possession wa se mark
of dunk.
40, Beelconed with the hand unto
the people, ---The captain, must have
released one of the chains for the
time being, This, with the gesture
made by Paul, would really gain
the great silence among Orientals,
Chapter 22, verse 1, The defense
—Paul made four points in his own
behalf : (1) that he waa a Jow by
birth And ;training, and had been
zealous for the law to 'the point of
per'seottirig the Christians; (2) that
his conversion came through a Cl/ -
Ville intervention, and was eon-
fia'iued by a later revelation to Ana-
nias; (3) that after his conversion
he continued to worship 10 the tem-
ple, and received it vision there;
(4) that because of the unbelief of
the Jews, God had sent him to the
,Gentiles.
Fathers -Members. of the Sanhe-
drin and rabbis.
3. Gamaliel-The :greatest'' schol-
ar of his age among the Jews, and
still referred to by theme as a man
of exceptional ability. Ile- was
called "the beauty of the law."
5. The estate of the elders—The
t5nnhedrin.
8, Jesus of Nazareth—Tile other
accounts of Paul's eotsverSion
(Acts 9 and 56) do not refer to
Jesus in this way.
11. Could not see for the glory of
that light—This is the only place
where this explanation of his blind-
ness is given.
14, The God •of our fathers—No-
tice that in the mind of Ananias,
there was no thought of rupture
with the Jews.
15. All men—A stupid avoidance
of the hated word "Gentiles."
17; When I had returned to Je-
rusalem—the visit referred to in
Acts 9. 26. Paul 'had been mean-
time in Arabia.
While I prayed in the temple
a5uch a man would not be likely to
disesteem Jewish observances.
Fell into a trance—Paul had
many of these experieneea.
18. Get thee quickly out of Je-
rusalem—His stay lasted only fif-
teen days.
21, 22. Unto the Gentiles. And
then gave him audience unto this
word They restrained themselves
until Paul reached the point where
he could no longer keep back the
hated word, -then their violent pas-
sion broke forth.
25. Tied him up with the thongs
---Stretching the prisoner forward
by means of straps, so that he will
be in positn for the scouring,
28. I am a Boman born -Boman
citizenship was acquirable in four
ways: (1) by birth, if both parents
were Romans; (2) by grants to cer-
tain districts; (3) by grant for great
service to the abate; (4) by pur-
chase. Under Claudius (A. D. 41-
54) ib was cheap. It is assumed
that the apostle's parents were 01.1.-
6011S.
29. Was afraid ... because he ]tad
bound him—He did not now loose
him from the chains, simply from
the scouring thongs.
3F
34. Shouted—Luke is the only
New Testament writer who uses
this word, Both here and in Luke
23. 21, it describes the din of the
multitude.
33. The stairs --Leading from. the
temple ares to the castle, .and un-
covered, as is shown by the fact
that Paul was able to address the
crowd. '
3C, Away with dint—The same
ery raised by the Jews against
Jesus.
37, 30. Dost thou knots Greek 1
Art thou not 'then the lies-pliant--
Evidently
es-ptiant—Evidently the captain knew that
ihis.Egyptian, who for some reason,
he suspected Paul of being, was
unable to speak Greek, The ban-
dit leader of the Assassins (or
Sicarii), according to Josephus, in-
spired his men to murder influen-
tial Jews who were friendly to
home. Thirty ihonsand of these
11071 trio <lto break into Jerusalem
1 v forte: Nem the Triune of Olives,
suis the new girl crashing tee hut were di••per.sed, and the Is'gyp-
t,reakfast-dishes. tian cicuped.
BIRTH RATE IN FRANCE.
Dr. Bertillon lilakes an Interesting
Analysis of Returns.
Statistics just published by. Dr.
Jacques Bertillon, the chief of the
Municipal Statistics Office, east an
instructive sidelight on the shrink-
age in the French birthrate. Tak-
ing 445 prominent married Parisi-
ans, Dr, Bertillon finds they have
a total of 575 children. These 445
men he divides into three eategor-
ies—artistic, literary, and political.
The persons in the first category
—94 in number -have 104 children.
Included in it are 35 artistic per-
sons who have no children at all.
The second category—literature,
133 in number—have 127 children,
and included in the class are 65
n riters who have no children. In
the third category fall 111 politici
ans, who have in all 193 children.
Exactly one-third of the political
group are childless.
Finallythere are 23 merchants
and manufacturers with 39 chil-
dren, 33 military men and function-
aries with 54 children and 51 other
notabilities with 56 children.
France, says Dr. Bertillon in con-
clusion, is marching rapidly to her
ruin, because she follows the ex-
ample of those very people whose
duty it is to inatruct and advise her.
FROM' LONDON TO DUBLIN..
Eight Days' Joni' II Regarded as
Short in 1700.
In these days of rapid. transit a
paragraph from a Yorkshire paper
of 1760 is interesting. It is an am
count of a London merchant's jour-
ney from London to Dublin anis
back. Leaving London on Monday
evening, the traveller reached Liv-
erpool on Wednesday morning, in
time to catch the packet for Dub-
lin, which city be reached on Thurs-
day. During that day he transact-
ed his business in the capital, and
next morning sailed for Liverpool,
arriving there on Saturday. Mon-
day, saw him tacit in London, and
his journey was complete, having
taken only eight days; "And,"
canoludes the writer, "there is
osery reason to believe that it will
he possible to beat even this par-
former= in the near fixture 1"
JOSEPH DAVIS' HEROISM' A MYSTERIOUS INVENTION
DARED) A. HORRIBLE''DEATH TO
Sit.V1 HIS COtIIPANION.
Iis Australian Blas John Allen
I"ell 11'hie hiIountiag to Avoid
Explosion.
To the long list of heroic deeds
associated with the sturdy miners
of the Australian goldfields of Bal-
larat and' Bendigo must be added
another story of a man risking his
life for his friend,
OnFriday afternoon, July 16,
ry
John' Allen, a married' miner,: 28
years of age, descended withtwo of
Dan
his mates, Joseph Davis and.
Ilareey, a neve shaft in the Gold-
fields Consolidated.}nine at Dia-
mond Hill, Bendigc, to bore holes.
preparatory to blasting aperatione,'
The new shaft was sunk below the
730 -foot plat, The men had to bore
the holes, insert the'dynarnite, light
u slow-burningfuse, and then
mount by a ladder to Use plat,
where they were to await the ex-
plosion. Allen was the last to leave.
Be lit the fuses and made for the
lidded. Just, however, as lie
reached the plat, he missci. Ms
footing and
FELL TO THE BOTTOM
of the shaft where the fuses were
ready to explode the charge.
The men on the plat heard the
fall, and one miner cried in agony,
"Jack's gone." Joseph Davis,
however, without the slightest he-
isiation, rushed down the ladder
to the rescue of his mate, regard
less of the danger of meeting with
a horrible death. On reaching the
'bottom of the shaft lie found Al-
len huddled in a corner with hit
leg. 'broken, but still conscious.
The red glimmer of the burning
fuse seemed more pronounced in the
darkness, but, nothing daunted,
Davis clutched his mate's body and
dragged him to the north end of
the shaft, about five feet away.
Just than the first charge explotl •
eel with a deafening noise, but luck-
ily the debris 'was thrown against
the oppoeitc side of the shaft, clear
of where the two men were crouch
•
ing. Davis endeavored to drag Al-
len's legs up under him, so as to
make sure of escaping the earth
dislodged by the second hole, which
exploded a moment or two later.
The shift boss and Dareey, who
had been in a terrible state of su-
spense at the plat, imagined that
nothing but
CERTAIN DEATH
could be the fate of their two com-
panions,
on,panions, and the signal was given
denoting that a serious accident had
occurred. They then descended to
the bottom of the shaft, and were
overjoyed to find the two men alive.
Allen, though suffering great pain,
was quite conscious. His leg was
broken just above the ankle, and
he was otherwise bruised and
knocked about. Davis remarked,
"I feel all right. Take poor Jack
uT to the plat. Take the tail rope
off and take him to the surface.
I can climb up the ladders."
4
DIED AT
Centenarian_ Whose Whose Uncles Fell at
Waterloo.
Mrs. Hannah 73ursnell died rec
ently et Skillington, Lincolnshire,
England, in her 106th year, leaving
upwards of 100 descendants.
Mrs. Bursnell wa's born on April
9, 1804, at Wymondham, Rutland.
She was married at the age of 23,
and celebrated her diamond wed-
ding. . Soon afterwards her hus-
band, who was a shepherd, died,
and since then she had lived with
nue of her children.
Mrs. Bursnell would often chat
pleasantly and intelligently about
the early years of the past cen-
tury. Two of her uncles fell at
Waterloo, and her native parish
was without a clergyman for two
years owing to the rector, who went
to the war to see a friend, being
taken prisoner. •
Reading and knitting were Mrs.
Bursnoll's thief reereatiort in rec-
ent years. Her health was seri-
ously affected by a fall just prior
to her last birthday. She was very
l'ighly esteemed at Skiliington•
SUICIDE OF WILA,L'ES.
Refusal to Live After the Death of
Their Mates.
141. Edmond Perrier, addressing
the Academy of Science, described
a whale that voluntarily ends its
days when its companion dies. A
specimen has been preserved by M.
Anthony, of St. Vaasa de la klou-
gu e.
This sea manual is extremely;
rare, said M. Perrier. Despite its
length of sixteen feet, it almost al-
ways remains hidden from the eyes
of man. Only 28' specimens of this
]rind of whale are known, noel Ibis
is the lirSt time it has been pre-
served. It possesses only tri°o.teeth,
placed in the middle of the jaw.
M. Perrier said that these whales
enme ashore only in couples, Should,
the mole elle. onr can expect to see
a female Strancled soon aftca varus,
n,d vi•c've, n., "Suicide for love,"
7Is' Fd:mt,id Perrier explained with
a ensile.
'WONDERFUL WEAPON THAT
WILL ABOLISH WAR.
The Armies and Navies el the
Nuri. Will be helpless. Against
the Rcrtzian'Weves.
While the nations are building.
Dreadnoughts against each other,
the sehenttsts have been busy dis•
covering other weapons for tits
warfare of the future,
llffles and swards are mere toys
eompared to the weapous that sei,
ence is perfecting. Quito recently
a French savant made a series of
remarkable experiments with what
are known as ``Hertzian waves."
• Withoat going too deeply into the
subject it may be sufficient. to ex.
plain that "Hertzian waves" are
so called after Heinrich -Hertz,
who found by experimenting, about
the year 1888, that it was possible
to control to a large extent the
magnetic current in the air.
WILL PIERCE' STONE WALLS
The "waves" move :along very
much like a corkscrew, and al-
thottgh for the moment scientists
are not able' to centro} them, or
steer them in any given d'ir'ection,
there seems little, doubt that.. this
feat will be only a question of a
few years. •
The effect of the "Hertzian
waves" may be judged when it is
stated, as the result of the recent
experiments in France, that they
will pierce stone walls three feat
thick.
For . practical purposes the
"waves" are spirals of moving, in-
visible flame, Already there is a;
theory by which it is believed the
power of directing and controlling
this invisible fire may be acquired,
and in the face of this new force
the armies and navies of the world
till be helpless.
Two or three men, sitting at their
instruments, could direct a group
of "waves" through the air towards
an advancing fleet that threatened
their shores. The "waves" would
strike the ships, and run .along the
metal portions of them as a Hanle
runs along a stream of inflammable.
spirit
And all the while the ship would
1•e giving off electric sparks, just
as is done in the simpler experi-
ments with, an electric battery. In
a few seconds the ships world be
alive with sparks. All the shells
on board would explode, and the
powder magazines, dreneht d in a
shower of fire which no skill could
divert, would be fired, and blow
the biggest ship to fragments
IN LESS THAN A MINUTE.
And not only on sea, but on land
could these destructive "waves" be
employed with the most devastating
effect, In every fort where powder
was stored the danger from a series
c f "Hertzian waves" would be al-
ways imminent.
At the will of the operator the
"waves" would be directed for-
`rard. They would pierce the walls
of the strongest fortress, wrecking
everything in their passage, men,
horses, and guns, and leave -behind
them nothing but charred and
smouldering ruin.
Tdiers at whom such a
terrheiblesolmeans of
gainsattack happened
to be employed could not lift a
hand to save themselves The un-
seen "waves" would advance with
a spiral roll through the air, as in-
visible as the finger of death itself, - •'
and just as invincible.
The outposts and sentries would.
not have time to give the alarm,
for as. the "waves" passed then
they would twist guns and swords
into shapeless things, and any sol-
dier remaining conscious would
scarcely have realized his position
before he heard the explosion and
shrieks that would tell of the
crumpling up of a mighty array like
a piece of useless paper.
Tho first scientist to discover how
"Hertzian waves" may be propell-
ed and guided over a distance of
ten miles will hold the peace of the
world in his hands.
NAVIES CANNOT PUT TO SEA.
No nation would put an army in
the field if it were satisfied that its.
sten would be annihilated by the
unseen formes of nature, without
the chance of striking a blow in
self-defence.
No navy would be put to sea
knowing that at any moment the
dread, invisible "waves" might
scatter it like chaff before the wind.
Even if more than .one nation
should make the forthcoming dis-
covery at toe same time, the chanc-
es of a warlike contest will be equ-
ally remote, n of the
The earliest ietintatio
enemy's presence will be the then-
der, announcing annihilation, and
Such a chance is too great for any
bes
take.t. a nation of anadnicn to under -
The outcome of such a moment -
008 disoovcry must be—peace.
KEEPING OUT OF SIGHT.
"Have you seett Brown since he , _.
got homer
"No. He :borrowed ten.. dollars
born mo to go awayon,
Few mien will stand being
upon,
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