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The Brussels Post, 1910-12-1, Page 6Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other Valuable information of Particular thateretst to Women! !Polka, ?UDDI.NGCo. Grandmother's Pudding. -One pint ref milk, one pint of. molasses, warm slowly and stir well together. Beat the whites of four eggs and the yolks of five separately until light a,nd stir gradually into the milk and •--—rtlolasscs. Add three-quarters of a pound of finely chopped 'Suet and stir in enough Sudan meal to make thick batter. .Add a teaspoon of cinnamon, a little : grated nutmeg, half a pound of seeded raisins; heat the mixture ,together thoroughly.' Dip pudding bag into boiling water, flour lightly and pour in pudding, tie, leaving plenty of room to swell, 13oi1 four hours.Servo hot with maple hard sauce made of shaved maple sugar and butter beaten to- gether. Never fails. Pudding, --Put into a saucepan over the fire the juice of one can of pineapple, the juice of one le- mon, one-half cupful of sugar and one-half box of lemon gelatin that has been'disselvecl in one-half cup- ful of eels' water. Let Como to a scald, then pour over the well beat- en whites of four eggs. Cut the pineapple into small pieces and add one-half pound of Malaga grapes halved and seeded. Arrange the fruit in a mold, then pour the liquid gelatin over it and let congeal. Serve with a dressing made by cook- ing to a soft custard one pint of milk and the yolks of four eggs and sugar and vanilla to taste; drop flakes of whipped cream on top. • English Plum Pudding. — Three pounds raisins, two pounds cur- rants, one-half pound citron, ene- gaarter pound each of lemon and orange peel, candied, one and one- half tablespoonfuls allspice, four pounds dark brown sugar, three loaves stale bread centers, one pound candied cherries, one pound English walnuts, one-half pound a1- moods, one-half pound suet, chop- ped, eight eggs. Roll the chopped suet, almonds, walnuts, and cher- -ries, cut in halves, the raisins and eurrauts, and the sliced citron, le- nt= and orange peel in flour. Shake the loose 'flour from therm and add the bread centres broken in small pieces,or better if grated, the su- garand allspice. Stir until all are thoroughly mixed. Beat eggs slight- ly and add to above mixture. Add enough flour and water to make a good paste,,or enough to make the pudding hold together firmly. Put pudding into strong square of un- bleached muslin, pull corners of muslin to center so as to form a ball bed. When all is clean, rinse in and tie tightly with strong cord. Fill several clean waters. Do not wring large kettle with water, and when but lift out of water on to line.•You water is boiling rapidly drop in the will be more than pleased with this pudding. Boil four hours. The easy way. water must constantly be boiling all To Wash Blankets.—AI1 that is of the four hours and thoroughly necessary is abundance of soft wa- cover the top of pudding. This putt- ter and soap without resin in it. ding ,can be made two or three Resin hardens the fibres of wool .and weeleslsefore Christmas, as age im- should never be used in washing any proves it. kind of flannel goods. Blankets treated as above will always come MINCE MEATS. out soft and clean. A little bluing Meatless Mincemeat—One peek of ! may be used in washing white blan- green tomatoes put through meat seas. They should beshaken waill grinder, cover with water and boil snapped napeil almost dry; it require two persons to handle them. till soft. One-half peck of apples Woollen shawls and all woollen ar- ticles, especially men's wear, are much improved by being pressed with a hot ironunder damp muslin. pint of vinegar, one teaspoonful w spoonful nutmeg, one-half teaspoon- ful salt, and tablespoonful melted butter,- Beat all well together and pour into three open crusts. These. are light and rich and as good 'as though eggs were used and much cheaper, now that eggs are soaring. Condensed milk and water may be used with equallygood results. t CANDY. Sea Foam Candy.—Two cupfuls of brown and one cupful of granulated sugar, one eupful of water, three' tablespoonfuls cif vinegar or juice of one-half of a lemon. Boil until it forms in hard balls, then stir into the well beaten whites of two eggs until it begins to set, then add one teaspoonful of vanilla and one cup- ful of broken nut meats, and drop on buttered paper or plate in rough shape. Wheat Confection. — Heat one package of puffed wheat in the oven until crisp. For the syrup take one cup granulated sugar, one-half cup water, pinch soda, pinch salt, one tablespoon vinegar, one tablespoon butter, three tablespoons corn syrup and boil until it spins threads. Then mix with wheat and press in- to shallow pans. Cut into squares when cool. • STALE TOBACCO ODOR. There is no odor more disagree- able to some people than that of stale tobacco' smoke and tobacco ashes. Sometimes a room becomes so permeated with it :that it be- comes hardly possible for delicate persons to breathe in it. There is e.' remedy suggested by an Eng- lish woman who suffered and over- came: vercame: Close the room up well overnight, with doors and windows tightly shut, and leave in it a large pail full of water, with a few wisps of straw. For some reason the water and the straw together absorb the smoke and even take up the odor of ashes. .Needless to say, all dis- coverable ashes should previously have been reproved and thrown away. THE LAUNDRY. Heavy Articles.—Make enough warm—not hot—soapsuds to cover what you want to wash. Take your washboard, lay part of the article flat on it, apd scrub with your scrubbing brush until all is scrub - chopped fine; one pound of raisins, ---•aa,a__,pound of currants, one-half pound of beef suet chopped up fine, three pounds of brown sugar, one each of ground cloves, cinnamon. DOMESTIC tit-'v'TS. and nutmeg. Mix all ingredients Toast water is a soothing and and boil till apples are soft. Be- healing drink during attacks of fore using add .a wine glass of 1 bronchitis. brandy to each pie I Turpentine for Fresh Cuts.—An A small pair of pincers is of great assistant* in dressing poultry, Pin feathers can he removed easily with the aid of the pincers. When making jelly and it dogs not jell olean a few carrots, out them up, and put them in jelly. Let boil a few minutes until done. Atter basting in a top cellar tuck tiro front edge down firmly, The eollar will not wrinkle and will stay clean a great deal longer, • A dying palm and several droop- ing ferns were wonderfully revived by pouring about a teaspoonful of castor oi]' on alio soil around the roots, - If you thread knots while sawing rub. the knot toward the needle and not toward the work. If you do the latter the knot will assured- ly tighten. LA'PEST THING IN WHAT. Three Thorrsnntl. Grains Gathered From One Seed. A remarkable story of a single grain of wheat comes from a Daily Aail correspondent at South Hour - church, Essex, England. Seventy ears of wheat containing in all nearly three thousand grains is the astonishing harvest gathered from this one seed, and the owner of the wonderful crop is a Mrs. Gentry, who was following out a three-year-old Russian wheat planting experiment. It will be remembered that Gen- eral Levitaky, the author of the ex- periment, sowed a single grain of wheat in a conical pit about eight- een inches deep. As the grain be- gan to :sprout above the surface of the thin layer of soil placed over it in the bottom of the pit, it was earthed over. The next ...me it ap- peared there were several shoots, and the whole were covered again. Thence, till the pit was filled up, the earthing over process, was re- peated every time the grain ap- peared, the shoots having mean- while multiplied till they filled the whole breadth of the top of the hole. One grain of wheat treated in this way by General Levitsky produced nearly 20,000 shoots, and necessarily increased its product- iveness in an amazing manner; Mrs. Gentry dug out a conical pit of the requisite measurement in a corner of her garden. There was only half an inch of soil between the grain of wheat which she placed in the bottom of the pit and the sub -soil of gravel. The top of the pit was about one yard across. This was done some time in March, 1909, and the grain was just covered with earth. The next time, about three weeks la- ter, the grain appeared there were half a dozen shoots,. From then till harvest -tide the sprouting grain was covered over and over again, until the pit was leveled up and a grass of wheat clothed the whole of the yard -wide circle. During the ensuing winter this miniature crop of wheat, all spring- ing from one grain, remained in the normal state of quiescence, and last :spring it began to go a- head &gain, growing finely all .hrough the summer until a week or two ago, when the bulk of it was obviously ripe for cutting. Mrs. Gentry gathered it. The crop then covered an area of about six square feet. Eighty-five stalks of wheat were the outcome of the experiment. Twenty ears were of very large size and the grain of good quality; 50 were of medium size and alittle below thee average in quality, while the remaining 15 were still green and unripened. Today I was shown the wonderful little harrest,, which is being carefully preserved in the cottage parlor. Mincemeat.—Two pounds lean excellent remedy. It takes out, We chose an average ear from the beef, one-half pound suet, two and soreness without smarting. jj bundle and counted the grams in one-half pounds juicy apples, one pound` seeded raisins, one pound sultanas, one pound currants, one pound figs, one pound dates, one - Never put salt in soup until it if. They totalled 44, and `here - has been skimmed, as salt prevents fore, allowing an average of only the scum from rising.40 grains for each ear of the 70 Persons subject to rheumatism or ripe ears. the grains produced by quarter pound citron, one and'one- a weak heart shoved not take baths thesingle original grain are at half' tablespoonfuls cinnamon,- one! that are ice cold.• cast- 2,e.00. The 70 ears weigh tablespoonful mace, ane -half table- A piece of absorbent cotton int about four ounces. spoonful allspice, three-quarters the palm of your gloves will take; tablespoonful salt, two and one-half quarts sweet cider. Boil beef until tender., cool and chop fine ; pare and chop apples, raisins figs, dates, It is an excellent fertilizer. and citron; mix all well and let Before frying fish dust it off with up all the moisture of the hands. Save all water in which meat has been washed to water house plants. boil a,few minutes; put in jars boil- ing hot. Will keep till summer. PINS. Ptunpkiu Pie. --To one cup stewed and silted pumpkin add one table- spoonful melted butter, one tea - Spoonful flour, one-half teaspoonful each of ginger and salt, four table- spoonfuls sugar, one tablespoonful .N. 0, ,molasses, and beaten yolks of two eggs. In separate dish beat one and one-half cupfuls milk, to wliieh add little nutmeg and pinna- every day with a soft, dry cloth, and mon and one teaspoonful vanilla, it will not nerd to be polished once r after which stir into the pumpkin a week. mixture.. Just before, pouring into Ordinary bread pudding is more the pie tin add beaten .whites of tempting if served with a Coating two eggs and sprinkle :little brown of whipped cream sprinkled with sugar on top, with few bits of but- walnut meats, ter. !take about fifteen minutes, A sanitary and useful article for Pumpkin Pic 'Without Eggs.—One the kitchen is 0 }Mir of surgical can of pumpkin --fir ono quart of scissors, as they are eaudly taken fresh stewed --one quart sweet milk, apart and (leaned. - tvs, g rolled or -round - Bathe.Bathe.ebilblains in eery hot we - Winn soda aracke and one -]calf tuns sugar, Fina, nuc p one tablespoonful • (]ores, vire tea - salt and pepper. Never Use filling or stuffing in fat fish that is to be baked. Turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes and horse radish keep fresh a long time by being buried in • sand in the cellar. Never allow fresh meat to remain in paper—it absorbs the juices. In mixing salads the oil should be added first and thoroughly spread before adding the other 111- gredients and mixing. Polish your toilet silver a littlr ter,as'hot ,as can be borne, and rub' cell with paraffin find mustard soona cinnamon f ] 'nnamo n one-half tea- atd they will soon disappear. p , LADY WITH THE I..AMP. Nurses and Soldiers Remembered in Her 'Will. Florence Nightingale left proper- ty valued at 9173,000, and its dis- rosition was worthy of her. She left 85,000 in cash to nurses or others engaged in charitable work, and several eonsiderab]e annuities where they were needed. Soldiers and nurses were always in her thoughts, and she remembered the former in the disposition of her most valued treasures. Slee left the jewels given her by Queen Vic:torr,r, the lir-wife given her by the Sultan, her other med- als 0041 orders, and an engraving of the: ground round Sebastopol io rbc managers of the. reading .count at i•Terbert, hospital, or at Netlsy or Aldershot, "or at Como other place where ' old 1ere may see there." 'Che bust of herself Riven to her by the soldier She left in the, same way Rev prints, inclucl- ing those Of Quern Vieforis arae Prince ,Albert. given lien by the THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC, 4, Leeson X.—Peter's Decrial, Matt. 20. 31.35, 6945. Golden Text, 1. Cor. 10.. Verso 31, Then—It was, accord• ing to Matthew's account, and Mark's also, just after the dramatic scene in the upper room, and the minds of the disciples trust ba'.e been filled with the amazing declar- ation of the Master that one, 'of thorn should betray hint. Now comes the even more defin,te stale- anent that on this very night they all were to be offended '(teat ts, maclo to stumble) because' .1 filth, This was simply in accord, Jesus ex- plained, with the ancient w scab' of Zeohariah (13, 7) to the effect that the sheep would no longer hold to- gether in the flock when God should smite the shepherd, but they would be scattered. It ;was not said as a rebuke to their cowardice, but be- cause now at the end, more than ever before, they seemed to him lies sheep without'a shepherd, and he. pitied then. So, lost despair should overtake them at the dread an- nouncement, he proceeds to real sure them with the hopeful promise of the next verse. 39. I will go berore you—At tete close of the passover they would naturally turn back to their humes in Galilee. Besides, events to fol- low were to make Jerusalem an in- secure place for them to remain. 80 they were to be scattered, but, when they had returned to the old haunts, they would find that Jesus had gotten there ahead of thea. 33. But Peter—In his headstrong. self-reliant way answering for the rest, and vigorously protesting that, for himself, he will never be offended, He takes no account whatever of the promised resurrec- tion and meeting in Galilee. His impetuousness leads him to contra- dict his Master, to assume a super- iority to all his comrades, and to claim for himself an invisible self-' sufficiency. . 34. Jesus, introducing his asser- tion with the strong Verily I say. unto then,' is equally emphatic. He reiterates that on that very night Peter will be one of those to be of- fended in him. This is enforced with the addition, before the cock crow, which is an expression for the approach of dawn of day. All the Gospels agree that there are to be three denials, although there is some confusion as to just the form in which Jesus made this declara- tion to Peter. 36. Even—Matthew's way of say- ing what Mark expresses with the words "exceeding vehemently" (14. 31). There tan be no question about the courage of the man who drew his sword in his Master's defence in the garden, and afterward dared toproceed to the palace of the man whose servant he had smitten. He was the kind to follow Jesus to the death. In fact, all the disciples en- tered the same protest, 69. Peter was sitting without in the court—Compare John 18. This was at, the high priest's house, with- in which the trial of Jesus before the Jewish authorities was taking place. The court was beneath (Mark 14, 06) the audience chamber into which Peter would be unable to gain admission. A maid—Elsewhere we learn she was the portress. How• she identi- fied Peter as one of the compan- ions of the Galilaean we cannot tell. The accounts agree only in the larger fact of his repeated de- nials and are full of differences in the matter of detail. As John was actually present, his version of what took place should be studied carefully. 72. Denied with an oath—Per- haps he felt that, having been • tricked into one falsehood, he must now hedge himself in with another and more emphatic repudiation of any connection with Jesus. 73. They that stood by—A group • of servants and officers, who were "warming themselves at a fire. Pe- ter's part in the skirmish in the garden seems to have been the thing [which led to his detection now I (John 18. 26). I 74. To curse and to swear -Was' ft a revival of "the habit of his old 'fisher days, dormant these three ears"? 75.He out—It had happen- ed, went o as Luke tells us, that at this moment Jesus was being led from the judgment chamber of the high ;prima out into the court, and he heard the imprecations and last de- Inial or Peter. So it was the look i which Jesus gave him, as well as the I simultaneous crowing of the cock, that made the, disciple hurry away weeping bitterly, It is this sincere irepent.ance on the part of Peter by which we must measure his guilt, It1 ,roves to ne that his love for the ! iLlastrr had nol rra]]y rhangod. ilia 1blunders were the result of what I .appear to be worthy enough ino- tive'. He may hatk wished merely ' to ]veep near Jesus, and denied the fright of: anyone' connceted'with the Queen at. Balmoral in Iarat, ar i li rin 1 livir, cr mein the lv i n e l l among u g Training Suhcol for Nurses, t' loneliness of bis Master to know his ofi•sto avoid be- identify, Belie lied first. v, d l. lug thrown out, auci titan a second time to over rep a falsehood wliieh, if discovered, would surely load to his ejoation, and still a third time simply tp keep, up his dogged deter - initiation to sec the affair through to the end, Of course, there is 119 defending itis oouduot. - But it was not the conduct of a Maven and faithless disciple, CATS 'CAUSE01?DISEASE. House Pets Carry C'ontttgion from f1heir Plebinis : Fricntls. The United States Bureau of Ag- riculture have the domestic oat in their black books. Pussy is a men- ace to public health, say they, and of precious little nae in any re- spect. Dr. A. K. ]Fisher, of the bit - resat, a recognized authority on the house cat, says ; • "Tito highly -pampered pet cat of the luxurious household never fails to get out and roam around with the ordinary alley eat. in many instances the alley cat, which prowls .all night long with the pet cat, has spent the day steeping in some hut or hovel in an alley where smallpox, diphtheria or tubercul- sus is hid. This disease is trans- mitted from one cat to another, and thus carried into homes where• everything but the pet cat is sani- tary. "I can state from my personal observation that only about -five per cent. of cats are really mou- sers. As a matter of fact, they prefer birds to mice. Little harm would be done if the whole eat tribe wereexterminated, but there would be too much opposition to. that,, Still; when some of the facts concerning cats are known to the public, many mothers will be more oareful about allowing their chil- dren to play with eats." SLUMP 1N IRISH WHISKEY. Big Drop in Exports Under the New Tax. Striking figures as to the effect of last year's budget on the Irish whiskey trade were submitted` the other day at a meeting of the Dub- lin Licensed Grocers' and Vinters' Association. e They amply justify the forebodings, to which expres- sion was given when the extra du- ty of 3s. 9d. was imposed. Briefly they show that while the higher tax was in force for only eight months of 1909, the export of whiskey from Ireland for the calendar year de- clined in value by something like a fourth as compared with the average for the previous five years. For,,the period 1904-8 the average export exceeded 8,000,000 proof gallons, and the annual value, free of duty, was over £2,000,000. The actual figures for 1908 were 8,108,157 gallons, valued at £2,195,- 958. In 1909. during four months of whish the old duty was in force, the quantity exported amounted to only 6,156,593 gallons, valued at. £1,667,392, or a decrease rn. quantity as compared with 1908 of 1,951,634 gallons, and in value of £528,567. This, it was sta- ted,' was the actual loss which the country had sustained, and there is, of course, no reason to antici- pate a better state of things for the year, 1910. . • BRAVE MAN: Silently the burglars proceeded from the pork pie to the Burgundy, from the Burgundy to the silver spoons. But it was a house of antique build, and a- board creaked. "John," whispered a voice in the bedroom above, "I believe that there are burglars in the house." "Well, I don't:" came the gruff reply. "Wake up, John, and be a man!" she urged. "What shall I do 7" "Do?" exclaimed his better half.- "Why, go and catch them." - "All right, dear," answered John, and began slowly to crawl to- wards his dressing gown. Then an idea struck him. Seizing one of his slippers, and banging it upon the floor, he shouted: "Hi, there! I shall be down in u minute !" WHY THEY DRIFT TO TOWN. France of late years has been suffering froma drift, of farmer's boys to towns. Conscription is held partially responsible for this trend, for the ,young soldiers are initiated into the pleasures <er city life, and when their terns is over. they will not return to their na- tive fields Another cause of the exodus is the ravage of the vine - worm, which for twenty years has destroyed vineyards. Whatever be the cause, the fact remains, and agt•icultire will continue to suffer more each year from e scarcity of labor. SENTENCE SERMONS. The nail of a good precept always needs the hammer of practice to drive it in. The oiler always indicts the stream for flowing the wrong way. No virtue without vigor. Ally man who awns' an automobile wil Itol] you that a pueetur'nt tire 18 anythieg but an inexjtons]ve blues.out, ODD GLUES TO' MURDERS IN -MERRY. OLD ENGLAND ]HOST CIUtMJNAI$l ARE FOOLS, DETECTIVE SAYS. - 1.111161 i S.- 1't'll'ial Ca800 Upou Which Greet Criminal Cases ]lave Turned, - Criminals are very forgetful per- sons. The famous series of frauds en the Bank of England by the , Benson brothers a generation ago was torntinated by the. fact that! the forgers of the drafts forgot to date, the last one presented, This almost incredible blunder led' to the breakup of the most: dangerous band of criminals England has ever known, says Pearson's Weekly. An uneasy conscience gave away Dougal, the Moat Farm: murderer, He had presented a forged checic on his victim's banking account, and the clerk, not recognizing the signature, asked Dougal to wait a few moments. - Convinced that it was a trick' to detain him until the police were summoned, the wret- ched man bolted, and .that set in motion a train of suspicions that eventually resulted in the discov- ery of ono of the most cold blood- ed. crimes in the history of nturd r l Any detective, of exoeriencc will tell you that most criminals are fools, which is a good thing in the long run for those whose business it is to detect crime. There was a case in the midlands nearly twenty years ago which'con- oerned a man who spent many days planning A WOMAN'S MURDER and disguising his own personality so that nobody...0111d ever suspect him of the crime. Then, when his plans were completed, he lured the unfortunate woman to a lonely place and murdered her. Ho was more than astonished to find himself under arrest within an. hour of the discovery of the dead body, but it was no wonderful feat of detection after all. In his haste and oonfusion the murderer had ac- tually left his visiting card on his victim's body. A child's penny toy lantern di- rectly led to the hanging of Pow- ler and Milsom for the Muswell Hill murder. It was it lucky clue, that finding of the child whose toy had ben left behind in the house with: the body of Mr. Smith, the murdered man. It was the pro- perty of Fowler's little brother, and the child's innocent pleasure at the recovery of his lantern eves the cul- minating stroke in one of the great- est tragedies of the last fifty years. Clothes played a prominent part in the Yarmouth Beach murder case of nine years ago, but it was a boot lace that finally fastened the crime on Bennett. That trivial boot lace had been used to strangle the poor woman who died where so many had. found holiday happiness; and those who attended the trial will never forget the PROFOUND IMPRESSION created by the production of the string. Upon a certain occasion a prom- inent merchant and railway mag- nate was talking in the street to a friend of his, who was eminent .in the service of the State. A young man passed by and,_, to the aston- ishment of the former, his compan- ion nodded pleasantly to • him. "Who was that?" asked the rail- way director, thinking he might have been mistaken. "Oh, that is Mr. Blank, the well known philanthropist." Now the gentleman of the rail- ways knew Mr: Blank by another name and in a different capacity; in fact he was one of the clerks in the employ of the railway of which he was director, Examination of the books confirmed the worst sus- picions, for the pseudo philanthro- pist had ben robbing his employers for years in order to gratify his am- bition to get into society. Had it not been for that -casual recogni- tion in nubile the company 'would have lost thousands more than it did. That was trivial chance of course, but it was more than this which caused Mrs. Dyer, the Reading baby farmer, to wrap one of the bodies of her victims to a piece of brown paper bearing HER OWN NAME AND A1)DR:GSS It broke away and floated to tho top of the river. But all great criminal eases have turned more or less on trivial things. A railway ticket played a prominent part in the recent trial at Newcastle of Alexander Dick- man, charged with the murder of Nesbit, the colliery cashier, It bore the name of one station mid was given up at another. Ralf an addressed envelope con- victed a'- murderer twenty years ago, although the name and address had nothing to do with hint except that the otbnc' half was found in his 'bedroom. A piece of filo convicted a murderer named Orrock, who is now forgotten, but whose crime ex- cited tremendous interest 'sono years ago, Armed with half of a common file the police tracked bine down after one of. the finest feats work itt the enrolls of of detective..n NEWS IIT DIAIL ABOUT J011V DULL AND ITIS PEOPLE, Qaearrences In the Laud That Mina Supreme in Om COM' menial World. The honorable secretaries of fling Edward's hospital Fund for Lon- don have received at the Bank of England the sum of $50,000 from an ananyntous contributor. With a catch of 215,000 herrings the steam drifter Light has beaten ell records at Southwold, Suffolk. Tho catch, representing one night's work, sold for $1,375, • The members of the Sunbury Fire Brigade have decided to resign in a body at Christmas unless griev anoes between them and the super- intended are adjusted, This year's hop crop in England is estimated, in a preliminary state- ment issued by the Board of Agri- culture, at 302,075 cwt;, as compar- ed with the yield of 214,484 ewt,, in 1909. - Sacred selections are played on a large gramophone, and brief ad- dresses on the music and composers are given by the vicar at the ser- vices in St: Michael's church, stour- bridge, Willesden. Attacked with a poker by an in- mate of the military hospital ,Til- worth Barracks, Salisbury Plain, Private William Williams, of the Royal Array Medical. Corps, died from the effects of his injarres. It was announced in a recent "gazette" that Colonel Robert Pringle had been appointed Direo- tor-General of the Army Veterinary Service, and Hon. Major General, vioe Hort. Major General F. Smith, retired: For having unsound pork in his possession, George Harrison, a but- cher, of London road, Brighton, was • recently fined $75, Thomas Baldock, a carrier of Wivelsfield, Sussex,. who sold the meat, being fined the same amount. The removal of the Marconi wire- less station at Waterloo, near Liv- erpool, to the Seaforth Barracks, has proved quite satisfactory, and ultimately the Admiralty will take over the stationto be utilized solely in the interests of coastal defence. ''The six months old child of Thomas Thompson, a laborer of Wymondham, Norfolk, was burned to death while sleeping in a peram- bulator in front of the fire. Some sheets hung before the fire were ig- nited and the flames spread to }the child. • WON'T WOEIC-WON'T LEAVE. Troublesome Variation of the Ser- vant Girl Puzzle. An unusual phase of the servant girl problem. was presented by a man who applied to Magistrate Francis at Westminster Police Court, London, England; for ad- vice about a girl he had hired the previous day..She came to the house in the afternoon, but absolutely re- fused to do any work, nor would . she leave. At present she was in. her room and likely to remain there: She demanded money, but he had.offered her what he thought was a reasonable amount. "May I use a certain amount of force, sir 1" asked the applicant. Mr. Francis (the magistrate) : "I am afraid you must manage your own affairs and get rid of her as best you can." The applicant (smiling): "Can 'I get hold of her and turn her onti" Mr. Franois—"Don't use . any more violence than necessary. Try persuasion first. You must do the best you can." . The more a bore the church is the less hole it makes in the world. That religion is a sad failure . which succeeds only in making us sad. When the preacher is trying to make a hit he often conies to with a bruise. When a man makes his faith into a fort he quarantines himself front truth. The test of life is not in great things, but in taking all things in a great sprit. Platitudes ars popular because their edges are worn too smooth to hurt. • i'O11LSTS 09 CANADA. Only One Acre, an Twenty Covered With 'Press. An English paper gives 100,000,- 000 arses as the forest area of Can- ada. This seems a ridiculously small estimate, .1t is only about, a quarter the area of. Ontario, or one- fifth the area of Quebec. But this figure is given on the authority of , an American expert, who allows the „ nited States seven times as r nt nl t u. XT The sande paper gives the standing timber of New Zealand Int 90,000,- M0O acres.' Tilt would mean that a quarter of New Zealand is covered with forests, and only a twentieth part of Canada. Perhaps the figures for New Zealand are from an Ameri- tae source also. Thtrt is nothing detection. like gutting information first hued.