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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-12-16, Page 2I s for Busy tiiouseke persa Recipes and Other'Valueble inforniatloti of pgrticplar fftereat to Women [alike, 14/I:SCEL1aAlT>aliS 1LOIPES. Anise-,Zwiebach,--Beat whites of rive, cgge,'add yolks, one-half pound of rugae; stir twenty minutes (sane direction always) to a cream. Add one heaping tablespoon of anise seed and half a pound xrf flour. Stir together a while: Bake in long; narrow tin, rounded botton if pos- sible, in moderate heat for about twenty minutes, When partly cooled, out in Wien of three-quar- ters of an inch each and brown in oven, Luncheon Dish,—Boil a good sized thicken until done. Salsas - ate from bones and out up as if for' u salad. To this put a coffee cup of bread r crumbs, cof- fee c rao ken c um a c fee cup of milk, a heaping table- spoonful of butter, salt and pepper to taste, Mix and put in a bowl o= pan and eteam till hot through.. A,t :it is served carer with cream sauce and mushrooms, To make sauce, take one pint of sweet milk. Let it come to a boil and then stir in two teaspooufuis of flour previ- ously mixed with cold milk,.a spoon- ful of butter, and can of mush- rooms. Baltimore Whip. --Grate the rind of two lemons and squeeze out the. juice; add two teasponofuls of va- nilla, one cup of pulverized sugar, two whites of eggs, and the yolks See prefer. Put the mixture in a of four, Beat for ten minutes. Die- I sauoo pan with a little water or solve two boxes of gelatin in a cup gravy, aj1 salt and pepped' to taste. of warns water; when cool add to Make a rich puff paste, with which other ingredients drop by drop, line a dish. Put in the hash, leav- then fold in the well beaten whites ing part of the gravy. When ready o: four eggs, beating constantly.` to serve, out a round piece out of stead of the ordinary dressing for duck or other game sul.stitute ap- pies seasoned with salt and pepper and the strong taste of the meat disappears, • ;'low to Use Sage,When prepar- ing dressing for poultry sage is generally used and the stems and leaves are found so disagreeable in the dressing, A good way of pre- venting this is to steep a table- spoon of sage in half cup of boil- ing water, This cap be„ strained right into the dressing. Chicken Hungarian:--lternove the seeds from One green and one red pepper. Slice them and one medi- um sized onion into a kettle. Add one teaspoonful salt,one-eighth o ibhth of a teaspoon each of black pepper, ground cloves, and cinnamon, half cup butter, and one cup of ginned tomatoes. Now put in a three- pound chicken which has been eup up in the usual way, cover, and let barely simmer four hours. Then make noodles and boil them in a separate clear water and when done scatter them over a platter. Emp- ty the chicken and its liquid right on the noodles and this excellent dish is ready for the table. Meat Pie.—Take your cold meat left overs and put through a chop- per with an onion or celery, which wasted, They are excellent fried like mush and eaten with syrup or honey. Never turn pie crust over in roll - big It crit and the pies will roquire less lard and be richer and more flaky. Cook prunes until soft; take out stones and stuff with ehopped ]ng- fiefs walnuts. Serve with whipped cream. When stewing prunes add half a dozen whole cloves to a pound of the fruit, They give a new and de- licious flavor. To clean milk vesaols rinse first with cold water, then wash with tepid water and rinse. Soda puri- fies the sour milk pitcher. A little white oilcloth apron can bo worn while giving children their. bath. It is also useful while wash- ing dishes. Bind the edges with white tape. A dainty addition to the salad course is provided in little choose halls trade by pressing any soft cheese between the halves of ehedled waln uts. • ' Pie pans having burned crust the bottom should n not be scraped. Seek them in hot soda water, which will clean thong thoroughly. A belt used for holding one's shirt waist down made from a half Yard. of narrow elastic and fastened with hook and eye, ie much more satisfactory than using a tape: To remove' old tee and coffee stains intable linen, wet the spots with cold water, cover with glyeer- ine, and let stand two or three hours. Wash with cold water aurl hard soap. If a piece of lard about the size of a nutmeg is added to the water in which any kind of greens are being boiled there will be no boil- ing over, and no stirring will be required. COST OP wonA PS BON—NETS. Turn the mixture into a glass dish, centre of cover, into which pour beating constantly. Serve with the remaining gravy and replace Bills of French Royalties Compared the piece. orange juice sweetened and masch- ine syrup, Orange Flavored Tosyls.—The Virginian housewife is famous for her savory roast duck. This is due to the orange flavor combined with it, for she, instead of using onion in her dressing, as is else- where done, roasts one large or several small oranges in the body of the duck. The orangea are washed and put in whole without being peeled, then the dressing is added. This plan may be adopted with turkey and chicken with ex- cellent results. Individual Oyster Pie.—For each pie take. a tin plate half the size of an ordinary dinner plate, butter it and cover the bottom with a puff paste as for pies, lay in fire or six select oysters, or enough to cover the bottom, butter them and sea- son with a little salt and plenty of pepper, spread over this an egg batter and cover with a crust of the paste, making a small opening he it with a fork, Bake in a hot oven fifteen or twenty minutes until top is nicely browned. potato Pancake. -Grate six raw potatoes; when grated add one egg, tablespoon of flour, and salt and KITCHEN. To Keep Apples.—Wrap each ap- ple in a piece of newspaper and than in France, where from time pack them in a box and put in a immemorial the women of all clan - cool place, They will keep for three es seem to have given it their par- or four months.. To .Fry Bacon Without Shrivel With Present Priees. The importance of feminine head- gear is an old story in many lands, but in none is it more interesting tieular attention, says the Pall Mall Magazine. ing—Lay strips with edges slightly, The Impress Eugenie and the overlapping in in a cold fry pan and Princess Mathilde, it is well known, l P g were never women to waste money fry slowly until crisp. on frivolities such as poufs senti- To Prepare Vegetables.—Place inentales, although the descendant all long vegetables such as aspara- of Worth, the first man dressmalc- gas, carrots, parsnips and salsify er in Paris, has many souvenirs of in cold water to make them crisp, the Empress Eugenie's patronage of then put on a board and scrape their house in its early days, At from you. A great quantity of ve- that time 200 francs was a very high getables can be prepared in a short price to pay for a bonnet, and in space of time, besides leaving the the records of a fashionable woman hands absolutely stainless. of the day are the following details: Drinking Water Test.—Fill a pint A white straw bonnet trimmed with bottle three-fourths full of the lavender ribbon and rosebuds, 100 water to be tested. Dissolve half a francs; a wreath of roses for even - teaspoonful of pure granulated su- in@ woad; 27 francs, ancl�a night - gar in the water and cork the bot- cap of fine lace and lawn, 25 francs. te. Set it in a warm place for two Compare any 01 these prices wit° days, and if at the end of that time that of to -day and it will be seen it becomes cloudy, it is unfit for use. cont ter in -:lessen of thte years if considerable. The feather hats of If it remains clear it is safe. last season were sold for enormous Kitchen Apron.—If you have an prices, some being as much as 1,000 old, outworn rubber coat cut a kit- francs and none being under 300, e er. Try the same as any 'pan- (then apron out of it, to wear on the most simple of morning hats run PPP wash and cleaning days. Your between 100 and -00, and an ev- cako. These are fine with fried 'house dress thus will be kept clean ening coiffure can quite easily mount up to 200. Yet it cannot be that material is su very much dearer. for the same old record tells us that broad sa- tin ribbon cost from 8 to 15 francs a yard, white crepe 20, and fea- thers varied between 45 and 100. It must be, therefore, that the work girls are better paid than they were, and in this case we can have no- thing to say, unfortunately, how- ever, higher wages always create new wants and there is the same story of poverty to be told all over ham. Escalloped lam.—Two cups of finely chopped boiled ham, one cup of finely chopped hard boiled eggs. one teaspon of mustard, pepper to taste. Mix the above together with a white sauce (of boiled milk and little one. flour), corer top with bread crumbs Keep Browned Flour on Hand.— and small pieces of butter, and bake :1'or the making of gravies, thicken - and dry and you don't need to worry 'about your appearance if unex- pected callers should drop in. The sleeves, if lined with warm flannel and cut after pattern, make a pair of waterproof gaiters for the one-half hour. Rice Puffs. -One eup of cold boil- ed rice put through potato ricer, add two well beaten eggs, salt to taste ; drop by spoonfuls into hot fat,fry a light brown ; serve with maple syrup for breakfast or as a garnish for the roast or steak for (linter. MEATS. Roast veal,—Take the cold roast veal chopped fine and stir into a well seasoned white cream sauce. When all is hot put little pyramids on triangles of bread toasted brown and well buttered; stew a little chopped parsley over eaoh and serve. Pressed Veal, --Boil two and one- half pounds of lean veal off the leg (and a bone) till tender, then grind it through a food 'chopper. Add three trackersrolled into crumbs,. one onion chopped fine, hall of a red pepper (omit the seeds), add a little salt and a little chopped par- sley" boil the juice and the bone -. fifteen minutes longer till you have half a pint of juice,, then add it to the treat. • Put into a mold and press 11 down writh, a weight, Be- fore putting in mold lay hard boiled eggs, sliced, in the bottom of the mold and siders and stripe of red pepper, itnd' /plan ditto' a design in the bottom of meld. Cabbage Most.—Take one and ono -half pounds 'of round steak ing of roast gravies, it will be found useful to have browned flour on hand at all times, which can read- ilc be kept in a mason jar, or any covered vessel. To brown this flour,. there is no bettor way than to put a quantity on a pie or cake tin, in- to a hot oven, say while roasting or baking, or after through with either and the oven is still hot; brown to the desired color and put away for future use. This will be found convenient, and a time saver in a great many instances. Place to Keep Pastry Board. -- The pastry board hanging on the wall doos not give things a neat appearance. A convenient and out of the way place may be had by nailing two slats the thickness of the pastry board underneath the kitchen table, the distance apart being as fat as the pastry board is long; over these slats nail two wid- er slats a half an inch wider will do, the extra width extending over. ono side of each slat; the pastry board can then be easily slid' in and out. USEFUL HINTS. A few chopped almonds in simple. rice or bread puddings add great- ly to their flavor and tastiness. if the dish is rinsed with cold. water before pouring mush in Le fry it will turn without sticking. ause lent When deeming house plenty ground, two pounds porktteale el turpentine im the scrub water. gtpund,one asp of soaked breedIt means certain death to moths, crumbs, two eggs, salt, popper to l A good liniment—one part extract taste, Mix well and shape into .of wintergreen and two parts aloe - balls, Rollinto a boiled cabbage hof. Use for sprains, lame back, lea/ and fry in hot butter.. els. IJressieg for Roast Thiele—In- Left -over eerfals need net be again. LIVE STOCK NOTES. A spirited horse will in the end TQQ POND 3IO`T'1Oi11S. Shonla Not Allhw Her ilfi'retion to Ovel'rille. Bier Cotninon Sense. Self-relianoc•is to -day recogniz- ree as one of the greatest assets of any young mean or young women. JY gives them the confidence to do things, to get there, to overcome obstaolea in their way, while an- other may be whining about hard hick. .And yet there aro many mothers to -day who kill that self-reliance in their children. They allow their af- fection to persuade them into doing things for the youngsters which the latter should learn to do themselves at the earnest possible ago. To quote an everyday remark, "They wait on therm hand and foot," rho consequence being more often than not that the youngsters grow up selfish and inconsiderate, The greatest injury la mother can de to her son—or daughter Dither, for the matter of that—is to allow her affection for them to overrule her eomtnon,sense. She must not commit the error of tolerating their bad hibits because she is so fond of them. With the boy, these must be eradicated while the child is young and puny, at the same time teaching him his proper positron ; otherwise he will learn to respect no one, and probably turn round in later years and blame his mother for her lax methods in bringing him up. There is also a certain type of mother who seems to think her daughter is always a child. Poor; crushed creatures these young wo- men are. They are not allowed to choose their friends. The mother sees to that, and the consequence is that the girls are probably made to consort with companions with whom they have no taste in com- mon. Such girls are taught to re- gard all members of the opposite eex with suspicion. The conse- quence is that as the years go by they find themselves being left on the shelf on account of the fact that prospective husbands have been frightened away. It is not suggested for a moment that there should not be any safe- guard, but there is a great deal of difference between safeguarding a, daughter in a proper manner and absolutely refusing hot pleasures of her own choosing. To deny a girl the right to select a friend or mix with members of the opposite' sox, for instance, is extremely fool- ish. How can any girl develop mentally if she is not allowed to act a little for herself ? The individual bent of mind is stunted,: and one can only expect the girl to -grow up a sickly type of womanhood. INTELLIGENCE OF THE FOX. .thio to Distinguish Between Real and False Dangers. The intelligence of the fox is of. ten shown by the way he refuses to be headed when ho has made up his mind as to the safe course to take, says the London Globe. The West Somerset have an excellent fixture at Kilve, but it has one drawback—the sea is not far off, and foxes naturally often make for the cliffs, a secure refuge. A fox can be easily headed at times, but that is nearly always when to be seen would betray him to his ene- mies the hounds -and give them an advantage ; but when if he makes his point the advantage is on his side, then nothing will turn him. To return to 'the West Somerset at Kilve; they found a fox, and time whipperin, seeing that the fox meant to go to the cliffs if possible, started to head him off. The ground was open, and for half a mile' tee whipperin and fox were taking par- allel lines, the fox clearly meaning to slip by and find a refuge in the cliffs. The men turned the fox away at last, but in a short time the hounds lost him, and I believe he got back after all. Again the master ranged up some of the field to prevent another fox going back into a certain covert. In vain whips were rattled against be made slow and spiritless by saddle flaps; the fox went right constant nagging, twitching of the I through the watchers and made his lines, peevish urging and other wearing processes that fretful driv- ers practice. Now is the time to get ready for winter eggs. You can't do it after cold weather sets. in. Keefe the hens in the best possible condition, clean the houses often, feed carefully of good, clean fend, spray for rites anci lice, and you will be as apt. as anybody to get eggs, The amount of protein in cotton- seed meal drakes it ono of the cheapest foods the dairyman can use for milch cows, but its exces- sive use is certainly dangerous, 11 causes a danger of barrenness or impotenc,yin the males of the herd, and abortion in the cows, and 'de- rangement of the bowels in all. The amount of protein in it issaid to be more than four times as much as in cornmeal, three bines that in wheat bran or shorts, and twice that of pea meal or malt sprouts. While few full-grown cows can bear more than three quarts a day, there may be some that will bear more, axis] we have :felt that; a safe limit was to quake itabout one-fifth of the entire grain ration, s— - BEWARE l point. It is a thing I have often noticed both with stag or fox, that the quarry seems to distinguish be- tween real and false clangers. e' WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY. Feria Electra Villa, the Seine -side home of a Mr, Knap, in the little French town of Troyes., has all the electrical appliances imagined by fiction writers to embellish the won- ders of an inventor's home. No ser- vant ever enters Mir. Knap's din ing-room, The centre of the table descends into the kitchen at the end of each course, and returns freshly laden. In the kitchen, electricity prepares the food, makes ,.ne sauces, grinds the coffee, does 'the cooking, and, after a meal, washes up the dishes. Tho outer gates of the villa grounds open by electri- city, and close behind the visitor by the same. silent agent, in the bed -rooms, the curtains are drawn apart and closed by electricity, if you wish to breakfast in bed in Feria Electra Villa, you just posh a button, and, a table, with break- fast laid out, glides towards you, SUCCESSFUL, It's better to deserve sttcceeri and Beware of the people who are al- not have it than to have surcess and waysdying complfinents.. Ten to not deserve .it; although loss plea• one, they seldom pay anything else. sane. DISUIPLINE oi PATIEU A Warning Sounded to triose Seeking Sudden Wealth, So be drove out the scan ; and he placed at the east: of the garden o£ Edon cherubim, and a flaming. sword which turned every way, to beep tiro way of the tree of life.--• Genesis iii. 24. The meaning is that, as for our first parents, so for ue, the Al- mighty has set certain bounds, and that within these we.will find pros - Polity .and peace, and; furthermore, that in nveesbepping the sacred lim- its appointed for us to walk in we will find ourselves outside the Eden that God made; yes, and often kept out of it by a flaming sword which turns "every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." In innumerable ways we see that it i Thuspro- vision beneficent o i., is so. it is b c a P vision that tho parent should pro- vide for the child and bring him up "in the nurture and admoni- tion of the Lord." In conformity with this law we find peace and SATISFACTION OF SOUL. But let a pian not be oontent with a reasonable competence for him and for his children, and there is danger of kis becoming at last a mere moneymaker, and of finally finding that a flaming sword is keep- ing him out of the Eden of a happy. Home and hearthstone. Falling more and more render the mastery of the money mania, the man be- comes essentially a miser—that is, a miserable scan, who has turned to his hurt that which should have been for iris good. Or consider the ease of an ordin- ary young man, ,who in a.posibicn of trust is pl >dding along et hard work and small pay. He reads of millions tirade in a day creel the tempter tells hint to make a "clash" for fortune, .FHe thinks he can soon replace the money taken to specu- late with and no ono will know it. But his venture turns out discs* trously and the embezzler beconces a fugitive or a prisoner and then finds that A FLAMING SWORD which turns everyway keeps him out of the , Felon of an honorable placen among men. e n. o Suppose that, by some rare ppor- tunity, a man suddenly, gains a for- tune in a day and. that, too, with no loss of honor or self-respect. But, even so, he has Lost that which no man can afford to lose, and that is that discipline of patience and proof of principle that would have come to hint in the staid and sober process of a regular and systematic work its the world,' Alas, of k ow many it may be said, se it was of Adam, "So he drove out the man ; and placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned' every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." REV. A. W. SNYDER. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 19. Lesson XII. Fourth Quarterly Re- view. Coldon Text,. 2 Tim. 4. 7. SIMPLE PLANS FOR REVIEW. Our task to -day is to review in an instructive manner the eleven lessons • of the Fourth Quarter of 1909. We can hardly do this, how- ever, without recalling their rela- tion to the lessons of the+first, Sec- ond and Third Quarters. Our Fest Quarter's lessons brought to our attention most of the pivotal facts of the historyof the infant church before the con- version of Saul, and his ordination as Paul the apostle to the Gentiles, had opened the way for general obedience to our Lord's command, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every crea- ture." The Golden Text of this First Quarter, "They that .wore scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word," is well .illus- trated by the descent of the Holy Spirit, .the; imprisonment of the apostles, the martyrdom of Steph- en, the introduction of the gospel into Samaria, the stories of Philip and the Ethiopian and of Aeneas and Deices. The teacher cannot, on this Sunday, well afford much time to the First Quarter, but if its general course can bo quickly re- called to the minds of the pupils, it will be of advantage as a founda- tion for our lesson to -day. Recall the Golden Text for the Second Quarter, "With great pow- er gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus"- a statement which is well illustrat- ed by the stories of. Peter's activi- ties of the conversion of Saul of Paul's first missionary journey and the council at Jerusalem. "So mightily growthe word of God and prevailed". is the text which unites in one of the series of the Third Quarter. Paul is the chief hero of them all. We com- press his second missionary journey into five lessons andhis third mis- sionary journey into four.,, Our Fourth .Quarter's lessons, which we review to -day, begin with the arrest of Paul (Lesson L) and comprise the chief events of his icn- prisommnent• the plot to kill him (Lesson 'IL), his defense before Governor Felix (Lesson III.) and before Festus and Agrippa (Lesson. IV.) -all. studied in October; the voyage (Lesson V.), the shipwreck (Lesson VI.), Paul's arrival in. Rome (Lesson. VII.), his owe story of his life (Lesson VIII.), his teach- ings on •self-denial (Lesson IX.)— all studied in November; and two lessons studied in December ;. Paul un the Grace of Giving (Lesson X.), and Paul's .Last Words (Lesson XI.) 'To -day's Review stand's as Lesson XII., and Lesson XIII. as a Christmas lesson. • As we look. back over the eleven lessons eve have already studied the" fall naturally ..into three lsous, of, oyes? end two and . two essons resjieotively, me follows: Lessons L-vrt, Paul a prisoner; tenons TX. and X.. Paul's doc- trines on self-donial and the grace of giving; and Lessons VIII, and EL, his own story of hie life, and his last words. Any niothod is good that will call up with distinctness the scenes of these lessons, but be sure that they aro tied together In the minds of the pupils by the thought of our Golden Text, "I have fought a. good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." A survey of the dates, and especi- ally a survey of the geography* of the lessons, is necessary toan in- telligent review. It should not be difficult for any teacher to interest his class in tracing the journey of Paul as a prisoner from Jerusalem to Rome. Show how the teachings of Les- sons IX., X., and XI. are especi- ally characteristic of Paul. As lies been suggested' elsewhere, an in eerosted class will derive profit from a tabular, review made out in part' during the session. Let a wide sheet of paper be given to each pn- nil, ;and memoranda of the lessons be made during the lesson hour. On the other hand, we should nev- er forget that a successful review. must always be begun beforehand, Slips may be given to the pupils,. or postal cards sent them, with blanks for them to fill in. FARM NOTES. He who sells butter at common prices made from milk produced from common cows fed the common way, will never rise to comfortable circumstances, but lead a hard life of toil all his days. Begin shoring in time to be well through with eveiything before dark. • Many barns have been burned -by neglect of this simple rule. The farmer is entitled to his evenings, and the hired plan will do better work if he knows he is not is bo kept until dark before be- ginning to do chores. 11 does' not seem to be a good practice to crpiyd.things on an un- willing market. People get in the habit of paying little for their sup- plies, and it is all the harder after awhile to get prices dip again. Bet- ter let a lot of stuff go to waste, rot on the ground or feed itto pigs and other stock than demoralize the market by flooding it with a lot of stuff. to be sold at any price, even below cost of production. At the North Dakota 'experiment station they made a trial for nine months of the comparative value of feeding oats and barley to three horses and two mules. • In every case of animals working in pairs at the same work, the opo given barley made less gain' or lost more flesh, according to the work they wore doing. When changed about,. the result was the same. The one that gained flesh on oats lost it on barley. Beside this, if the barley feed was continued long, the ani- mal that had it would refuse to oat' the barley, sometimes for several .meals. The rough fodder was the same, good timothy hay in all oases. They, therefore, decided that bai- ley was not as valuable food for horses as oats' when fed in equal weights. 4 FREQUENTLY. An old colored man, who cgald, iteithar read nor write, and who had been found by his mastor to be deficient its lois market book ac- counts, blamed the butcher for tampering with his book. The genbleman of the house remonsbrat- ed by saying; 'But, Tom, figures don't tie," "No," answered the old man, "but liars do figure." METHODS OF ASSASSINS REVOLVER HAS TAKEN TUE PLACE OF BO3113. Malty Prominent rheas IId^e Been Shot ill Late ie+lta-1301nli Not it Success, No longer is the bomb the favor- ite method of dealing death in the ease of political criminals. The, assasin profess sone weapon c tainin e reservoir .of u,r i' " os, such us the revolver or FaCIVIausex automatic -pistol. Next to tine weapon the stiletto is preferred. . The cowardly attempt to assassin. ate Sir Andrew eraser was by means of shooting, the life of the Lieutenant -Governor of Bengal be. ing saved by the bravery of an In - diem prince. Sir Andrew had is. sued a warning regarding the growth of sedition in India, After. wards quite a number of political assassinations took place by meant of e tipistol. 1 0 P Ab the beginning of last year the King and Crown Prince of Portu- gal were killed in a similar man- ner, the detestable crime which then,, shocked civilization being commit. ted by means of pistol shots. Pro. sident McKinley, the Empress of Austria, the King of Italyt and the Ring. and Queen of Servia were nor killed by bombs. BOMBS MAY MISCARRY. Political criminals have learned that the bomb is not nearly so reli- able as the gum and assassination by bomb, in a majority of cases, has entirely failed. King Alfonso of Spain has had two bombs thrown at Ldps, and in a similar way the deposed Sultan of Turkey escaped without the slightest injury. Even the very best infernal machines may miscarry; hence such death -deal- ing articles are out of favor with assassins. It was by pistol that the attempt was made to kill our own Ring on April 4th, 1900, by the Belgian Au- arcliist Sipido. The miscreant fixed at the Prince of Wales, as he was then, just as the Royal train was leaving the Nord Station, Brussels, 'on its way to Denmark_ ROYALTY AND BUILDINGS. The numerous bomb outrages in England made by the Irish dynami- tards when they attempted to blow up the Tower, the 'Houses of Par- liament, the Nelson Column, and other public properties were prac- tically failures, as were all the other attempts made at the time in different parts of the country. Tho last bomb outrage in England simp- ly resulted in the Nihilist annihil- ating himself near rho Greenwich Observatory. ' It is the 'Russian Royal Family which has been most marked out by Anarchists. In 1880 an attempt was made to wipe oat the whole of the Royal Family, a cellar underneath the Royal dining -room 6f the Win- ter 'Palace, St, Petersburg, being filled with 124 pounds of dynamite. The explosion took place a few min- utes.boo soon,' as the Loyast amily were not in the room at the seime. In this case the Royal dining-i•ooM was not injured much, although other portions of the palace were blown to 'atoms, ten persons being killed and fifty-three injured. LAYING A MINE. Some years ago an exceedingly ingenious scheme to assassinate the present Czar came to naught. It was. known that the Czar and Czarina would pass down the a ovy Si'iat, Warsaw, at a given time: on their way to the Royal Castle, and the Anarchists made their prepara- tions accordingly. They undermin- e] a portion of the street, under Which they laid dynamite bombs whieh were connected with an elec- tric battery at a. considerable dis- tance from the place. A few hours before the Royal procession start- ed the excavated portions began to fall in, and some masons communi- cated with the authorities, A num- ber of Anarchists were captured in the mine itself, while over 100 persons were arrested in the town. It 1902 a daring • .attempt -.was made upon the life of the Czar and the Kaiser while they were lunching together on board the Royal yacht Hohenzollern, when off Reval.: A steam .launch canoe up, from which. stepped a man who was attired in tbe Russian uniform. The imposttu•e was found out im- mediately, however, and the would- be assassin was arrested with a re- volver in his hand. It wvas discov- ered in this,, ease'tbat tido plot was to kill the twa Etnperors.--London Tit -Bits, THE EXCEPTION, In is home where the mother is somewhat aggressive and the father good-natured and peace-lovieg, a child's estimate of home conditions were tersely' expressed the other day. While dressing, the toolbar paused in the got of putting on hot shoos and said, "I certainly ani cries, oh 'shoes, I have worn theca for four months. I don't lame: what yon wonld do, John, if 1 wort not. I am easy on everything." Tho little girl looked up from her dolls and remarked, "Except fa- ther."