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The Brussels Post, 1911-1-12, Page 3' E. ;'1', • TESTED RECIPES. Potato mould looks nice served with cold meat, or as a foundation )a outlets, Mash the potato well,. Beason it with pepper and salt. To toisten, use butter and milk, Stir In enough minced parsley to make it look nicer and then put into a buttered mould and bake for half an hour. Turn out to serve. Haricot beans should now appear constantly in the menu, for vege tables aro scarce, and the beans are most nourishing. Soak them for twenty-four hours, and then boil with an onion, pepper and salt, Drain the beane and serve with a ittle parsley saute, or .elee shake esem in a little better, and season )ether highly with pepper and salt. Butter Scotch.—Put one pound of brown sugar into a preserving pan and beat a quarter of a pound of ' butter to a cream. When the su gar is dissolved, add the butter and keep stirring the sugar over the Are till it sets, when dropped into gold water,. Just before the but. ter scotchis done, add a little es Bence of lemon. Butter a dish, pour the mixture on it, and when cool it will turn out. • Fried Hasty Pudding—Prepare as corn meal mush; pack solidly in a wet granite brick shaped bread pan ; when cold cut in three-quarter inch slices; either dip in flour and fry in hot fat or fry without dipping; brown richly on ono side then turn and brown on the other. These slices may be dipped in egg and fine cracker crumbs, and fried in deep, hot fat. Serve with crisp ba- • con. , Apple Johnny .Cake.—Two cups corn meal, two tablespoonfuls su gar, half teaspoonful salt, one tea spoonful soda, half cup milk, one .teaspoonful 'cream tartar, one and three-quarters ceps milk, three tart apples, pared, and sliced; cin .namon and sugar. " Mix the first six ingredients in the order given, beat thoroughly, add apples, mix. well. Pour into a well buttered shallow cake pan. Pour the last .half cup over the top of cake be - ;fore ,,putting into the oven and ,bake 30 minutes in hot oven. Indian Bannocks.—One cup corn :meal, one teaspoonful maple sugar -or syrup, one teaspoonful salt, two -cups scalded milk, two eggs. Add -corn meal to scalded milk, add .syrup,•and salt; cool and add yolks ,beaten very lightly,. then the whites beaten stiff, Bake in shallow pud ding dish, well greased, in very hot -oven, 25 minutes. Serve in pud- -dilg dish. S y boiled hominy as a change :from oatmeal porridge for break last, and prepare it as follows. Take -a teacupful of hominy, soak it in -cold water. overnight. Next morn- ing, pour off the water, add a quart •of fresh water, pour all into a pan and- cook•for an hour, stirring constantly. What is left over after breakfast may, when cold, be cut into slices, fried in eggs and bread - crumbs, and served as a sweet or savoury dish. Scalloped Parsnips.—Boil four medium; sized parsnips till tender, drain very dry, and mash with two / '.ablespoonfuls of butter. Salt and ,pepper to taste, and'add two table- , 'spoonfuls of cream (/) mor milk. +.l p Put .0,1I into , stewpan, stir over the are till the mixture bubbles. Then have some scallop shells buttered, tnd covered with breadcruinbs; fill g .with the parsnip mixture, scatter a breadcrumbs over, dot with' small pieces of butter, and, brown in the by ,oven. This quantity may also be co :put into a . buttered pie-clish and m .treated in the same way. • in Hasty Pudding—Corn Meal Mush dr —Hasty pudding, properly 'made tad cooked at a low temperature for w Eve or'six .hours, or over night ie t t fireless cooker is one of the most bo fclicious which can be served; and so the six generous portions prepared so by this recipe, served with thin or "'berry cream," will not exceed in off cost 16 cents; and it contains every gr element to support life, promote a ;growth and repair waste at a mini- •in slum cost. If milk is substituted at 'Mr cream the cost will be shill less, with little change in the food value. bo Put one quart of boiling.,wator in e bop of the double boiler, add one av and ono -half teaspoonfuls salt, mix ne two cups yellow or white corn meal be ovith two cups of cold milk, stir this slowly into the boiling water, boil en five minutes, stirring constantly,- tw then place vessel over hot water, Sh let. cook, throe hours, stirring ocea fre sionally to prevent lumping,: The ef longer it steams the more delicious st the flavor; serve with milker 1 cream. If white 2• and yellow cern p, l meal is made into }Tasty Padding ell be separate vowels, then packed M en eltornabe layers in ab brick -shaped wh mold, tisen sliced cold and served otl with cream; it makes a very Write- to bivo dish. WITH APPLES. Apple Prappc—Baku one dozen to large, sour apples until soft and Tr press through. a sieve ; nild twice cls the' bulk ie newly made sweet eider wh And freeze: Tide .may he served say if ,y -on with in mess covered with me yellow custard, We would prefer `at without, Apple Salad—One pint of tart it chopped zoppeci rather fine, one- half pint orange pulp, one-half pint celery, mixed together with mayon- nafse dressing, Place in red ap ple cups and put a teaspoonful of whipped cream on top of eaeh, Danish Apple Calve—One etlp flour; one-third cup butter,'haif cup brown sugar, one egg and a pinch 0f flour, well worked together. Mold on+a board, tieing as little 'flour as possible, cut into three parts, and roll each to fill a pie plate. Bake until light brown in a, slow oven, Peel and boil a few apples as if for sauce, rub through a sieve, sweet- en,' season with cinnamon, and spread over the cake layers half an inch thick. Then cover with the following cream ; One and one-half cups rich milk, one tablespoonful of butter, half cup of sugar. When. about to boil, thicken with one well beaten egg and one tablespoonful of corn -starch stirred smooth with a little milk, and lemon extract to taste. Pour over the cake while warm and set away for 24 hours in a cool place. • HOME HINTS. Salt on the fingers 'when clean- ing fowl or meat will prevent slip- ping. "flull" a pillow catch it by one corner and drop it down hard upon the other. • - Jelly glasses without fitted tin or glass tops can be' 'covered by pieces of writing paper. Allow two level teaspoons of bak- ing powder to each cup of. flour when no eggs are used. To bring the white of an. egg up quickly to a froth add two or throe drops of lemon juice. Bice will absorb three times its measure of . water and a larger quantity of milk. or stock. White paint, when dirty, 'if wash- ed with skim milk will be easily cleaned; use cold tea for colored paint. One ounce abutter and one-half ounce of flour are used to thicken one cup of liquid in making a sauce, Try having a small waste basket in every room, and notice how much longer your rooms will stay clean. To prevent salt in saltcellars from becoming damp and lumpy, when filling them put in ten to twelve pieces of rice. White cotton laces should be washed in a warm lather, or, of sery dirty, they may be boiled; then pinned down on an ironing board to dry. When cleaning stained ;xuives. take a piece of new potato, clip it into brick dust and scour the knives; in this way the most ob stinate stains will be removed, .. To try if eggs are Fresh place them in a basin of water; if fresh they will sink, but if not so fresh they become more or less sunken; if stale they will float upon the toy. A little . coffee burned on the stove night, and morning is au ex cellent disinfectant and not an cn' pleasant odor through the house To most people it. is delicious. To'prevent scum rising on pickle put pieces of horseradish root in jar of pickles. This will keep white scum from forming on top also gives them a nice flavor. For a slight cut there is no,',hing better to control the hemorrhage than common unglazedf paper, such as is used by grocers and ` iarke men. Bind' a piece on the �.ut. To sharpen scissors cut them ra- pidly on the neck of a small glass bottle, or better still, on a ground, lass stopper. It trues the edges nd makes them cut like new. Pastry of all kinds is improved keeping for a few hours in a Id place before baking. It is ade more flaky by frequent aoll- gs, and •the • addition of 'a few ops of lemon juice. Rubber gloves to wear when asking china and old kid gloves when crusting are an inestimable on to housekeepers, for nothing ruinsthe skin as coarse soaps, ad and dust. Before polishing the stove wasp it with vinegar. It retrrves all. ease, leaving the surto ie smooth, an keeps the blacking from bun- g off so quickly, saving much time lel labor. If kerosene is spilled on carpets, oks er manusc�:pts, try removing by sprinkling COM meal thickly or the article- immediately. Ro- w frequently until the oil has en completely absorbed, ' To remove fruit stains put two aces of alcohol into a bottle with o tablespoonfuls of guns camphor. eke well ;before using. Apply; quently to the stained part. artshorn will'also remove fruit sins. Sevoral funnels made, of stiff a per and kept on hand in the kit - en will be foun•d'a great conveni- cc. Tlioy are unequalled for use on emptying cereals, coffee,; or ler articles into glass jars or in - the cans in which they are kept. First Tramp—"After all, it pays be polite, pardner," Second • amp--e'Not always. The other y I was acting deaf and dumb 1 en e man gave me tin tents, s 'Thank you, sir,' and he had arrested.r WORK{ OF SHEEP DNS AI.bfOS'T' II1111LAN SALACITY SILOWN DY TREK, Trials in Which, Their Movements Are Guided Only,By Siguala mad rifhdetles. One of the sheep dog trials which are famous occasions in England is described in the Youths' Compere ion by a spectator, In one coamer of a big meadow a number of wild sheep were confined in small tem- porary pens, for the trials are made with sheep that have.eever before been foldedd. A double line of flags defined the course over which the sheep were to be driven by the dogs. This course was circular in shape, and at one end was a fenced enclosure, in the centre of which was a pen. At a signal from the judge of the trials one of the shepherds took his place at a stake which, had been driven in the ground near this en- closure. To the stake was fastened a rope with a loop through which the contestant passed'his left arm. The rules governing these con- tests are on-tests-are that no wordshall be spoken by the shepherd, nor may he move from the stake, -He is ex- pected to control the movements of his dog entirelyby whistles or ges- tures of` his free right arm. And thus instructed it is the dog's busi- ness'within a specified time, to drive the sheep between each 'pair of flags to the enclosure and into the pen. ON A SECOND SIGNAL from the judge, one of the tempor- ary pens was opened and three sheep were liberated. Sheep ere proverbially, hard to drive, but when they have passed their days far up on the fells, never hearing any sound but the voice of their shepherd and the bark ofthe .sheep dog, and are suddenly introduced into the presence of a noisy crowd, many carriages, several motors and a. rassb band, the task becomes doubly difficult. The 'first dog had things much his own way, for the sheep, thoroughly frightened,ran straight up the course between the flags until they had covered half the distance; then they swerved and bolted in differ- ent directions. The ehepherd now began to instruct the dog as to the best way to get them back into the course at the point where they had left it. With admirable tact, stopping ;av- ery few seconds to listen for or- ders, the dog gently urged them back the the way they should go, betraying no undue haste although the shepherd saw that they were kept in constant motion. Present- ly they were in the course again and the dog nursed them along be= tween the flags, but the moments were flying, and before they had reached the goal time was called.' It was much the same with two other trials, both full of excite • ment, but unsuccessful. It seemed, such a AN IMPOSSIBLE FEAT u that we abandoned the idea that it Could be accomplished and express- ed our disappointment. A farmer standing near us turn- ed' and said : "Don't ye gie up now —wait for Davy's dog 1" t As he spoke a fourth shepherd took hisplace at the stake with his dog at his side. The dog was small and of a dirty slate color, with shaggy coat and hair hangingaboet his very bright eyes, and he seemed to have a special appreciation of what was expected of him. Pro- bably he remembered former trials. He sat beside his master, his lit- tle reel to_; :e banging out in his excitenecee ri:d bis head cocked on one side, alert for the first signal. He looked about him with the keen- est interest and trembled with anx- iety bo be at wort., but never mov- ed'. Three sheep were liberated, and atthe first gesture from tate shep- herd he was after them like a flash, but a whistle broughthint instantly to a wallc as lie neared them. As one ofthem showed an inclination to wander a whistle sent' hire after it with an eruption of expostulatory barks. He got it back with its mates and: passed the three be- tween the next flags, .when two of them turned and ran back. • The dog, perplexed, stood still, but tt signal from his master sent trim tearing after the runaways. He looked like a grey streak against fisc green English turf as he ran to tread them off and turn them back to the course, This .accomplished he started them np the coarse at a lively gait, NIPPING AT THEIR HEELS to hurry them. Joining the other sheep all three of "them trotted .off the dog in close attendance, It was not all plain sailing, how- ever. The sheep seemed to have talcen a sudden aversion to going between the flags. A whistle from his master and lie dashed tothe right; another whistle and he dash- ed to the Wt; still .anomer whistle lad he was jogging peacefully in eve, teas, his tongue lolling out, They %vete on the home stretch now and the fanners had their wat- ohms out. Then the shepherd and his dog went to work iaa good earn- est, One more pair of flags and then the pen and the prize ---aim on- ly two minutes left! The shepherd lcopt his expressive right arm in constant modem and every kind and condition of whistle issued from his lips. When the dog failed to under- stand he crouched and waited for a repetition of the .signal. Then off he would go, now to the right of the sheep, now to the left, now making savage dashes in their rear. They were through the last pair of flags, two of them in the enclosure, when the third, which had been the best behaved of all, refused to enter, There wan no time to lose and the deg evidently knew it. He woes Arra; indeed he was more than firm. A series of nips at the refrac- tory sheep's flank, some very Aee'ce growls and it followed the others through the small gate and into the pen. The shepherd sprang from his post and dropped the pen doer into place just as time was called, amidst the cheers of the crowd; and if ever there was a delighted little dog it was "Davy's" dog as he leaped and frisked about his mas• ter, FATAL RED TAPE. Lives Sometimes ,Lost by Too Rigid Regulations. With the possible exception of Germany, England is popularly supposed to be the home of lied Tape, but France has just supplied an example of the fear of acting contrary to regulations that must be unique. • A farm servant had had a die agreement with his employer, and straightway went, out ane hangs himself on a tree, A passer-by die covered him almost immediately but instead of cutting him dow and so . savinghis life,went off t inform the nearest official. Thi worthy hurried to the spot, wher a small crowd stood gaping at th unfortunate man without attempt ing to do anything; The official was as bad. H found that there was still a chance of saving the would-be .suicide, bu he was hanging in the neighbor ing parish, he recused to act with out the proper authority, So h went . oil to find his comrade in whose district the now dead body was suspended. This gentleman was not found un- til halt an hour had elapsed, and when he arrived a discussion en- sued as'to which parish the body was really in. Neither man being certain, they went away to consult a map, when ib was found to be in a third parish! After the correct official had been notified and 'ac- cepted the decision, he went away to consult his superiors, after which ;the body was at last remov- ed. Something of a similar nature happened in London nearly two years ago. A man who was casual- ly employed by the Camberwell Borough Council moved across the street because of some unpleasant- ness with his neighbors, he was a man of good character,'who dis- charged ins duties to general satis- faction, but oae of the unemployed. in the borough reported that there• was a laborer working for the Council who did' not belong to Cam- berwell Inquiries were made, and it was discovered that this man by moving across the road had come under the jurisdiction of Walworth. He leas quite unaware of the fact himself• but as a committee of the Council had passed a regulation that noee but Camberwell men were to be employed, the engineer had to dis- charge him. As soon as he found out he was in Walworth and so was ineligible for employment, he once more shifted his quarters. But he was too late, another had been given his place, and as he ooui.l nut find work elsewhere after trying his ut- most, he committed suiade A wernan who had met with a ser- ious accident not ?ong ago was within an ace of losing'her life ow- ing to a stupid adherence to regula•• tions. Owing to a street accident slit staggered into a chemist's shop, with a bad' gash in her arm. Tho chemist saw it was a bad ewe and necessitated hospital treat- ment, so hastily binding up the wound, he held the bandage as tightly as possible to prevent the `excessive bleeding. Having'a telephone pone in his shop, he called up the exchange and ask- ed sk ed to be put en to a doctor, but the girl would not do so until he had put the money in tha.slob. In vain be stated it was an urgent case, that lie had no.. assistant. in the place, and that be had no change. In the end he had to carry the half: unconscious woman a faw doors away where he got into Communi- cation with a doctor. She was ul- timately taken to the heepitai where elle lay unconscious for six hours, and it was feared ab first that she would not recover, so much blood had she .lost. --Pear- son's Weekly. MANY DEADLY DISEASES WIIEItE GREAT' EPIDEMICS 'WYXiRE ROItN. Plague Cones Froau Persia, and Yellow Fever From t the llle ican Gulf. In 1874 a number of navvies went out froze England under contract to build a railway across the Andes.. For a time all went web, and the work progressed apace, Then, as the line reached the deep gorges at a height of about seven thousand feet above sea -level, the men began to fall ill with a strange and mys- terious malady. The surface of their bodies became covered with warts which ranged in size from a large pea up to that of a thrush's egg, and these turned into raw sears; which bled continually, so that the unfortunate victim literal- ly bled to death. This disease, which at that time was unknown to European doctors, is known as "verrugas," and is found nowhere else in the world ex- cept in these lofty Peruvian val- leys. There it is epidemic and so deadly that of unacclimatised white people who contract, it not one in seven recovers. This ease is quoted to prove' that a disease can have a birthplace., Others similar might. be menti •ned such as the strange boil or car- bunclewhieh attacks residents of Penjdeh in the Pamirs, "peflae,rn;' which exists only in Lombardy, and Malta fever from which the garri son in the island of Malta suffers so severely. c B t t B 'mown t 1 d Diseases of this kind which are onfined to. certain localities do not s a rule spread to other places. n ut there are some, like b1ael; wa- e er fever, which seem to pursue heir victims even across oceans. lack water fever is a complaint e peculiar to tropical Africa, and un - own in temperate elimates. Yet here are cases on record of `men eaving Africa in fair health and e keeping well on the voyage, and on ut arrival in England being stricken _ down with the terrible and fre- quently fatal disease. e The most terrible inflictions un- der which mankind suffers are the 'greet epidemics which stalk west- ward across the world slaying thou- sands or even millions as they go. Most of these diseases are so an- cient in origin that their birthplace is, to say the least, uncertain. But of late science has been peering backwards into their history, and some at least have been traced back to somewhere near their beginning, Tlse man who rises all the know- ledge he has has all the krtovfi.edgo he can rise. Plague, for instance. This awful visitation, which has been known under many names such as Black Death, Pali Plague, and sweating sickness, has probably killed more of the human race than cholera, yellow fever, and all the rest of the great epidemics put together. It first appeared in Constantin- ople in 544 A.D., and was said to have been brought across from Par. she Since then it has travelled all over Asia and Europe, even visiting Norway and Iceland. The worst visitation was in 1348-50 when the plague destroyed not less than one quarter of the whole population of Europe. Cholera is a much. newer disease than plague. At any rate, it never appeared in Western Europe until the nineteentl'century, The re- cent history of cholera is that in the year 1817 it suddenly broke out at Bunclelkhand, in North-Western India, and killed five thousand men in five days. But it was not until 1896 that the horrible epidemic made its first rush westwards, In five years it was in Britain, reaching by way of Riga. Its British birthplace was Sunderland, and thence it passed all over the country and across the Atlantic to America. After that came one assault after another. In 1848 fifty-three thousand people died of Aseiatic cholera, and it was not finally stamped out in England until the late seventies. A disease which medical science is slowly but surely crushing is yel- low fever. The birthplaces of yel- low fever are well known. They are principally the Mexican Gulf Coast and the Guinea coast of Sierra Leone;. The disease is tropical and does not travel further than 38 degrees north -latitude er 32 south. The germ or microbe of yellow fever is nowfamiliar to doctors, a protec- tive serum has been found, and the drainage of swamps and proper sanitation will eventually destroy this horrible form of pestilence. The newest of the deadly epidens- its is that knbwn as Kala Azar, or black sickness, which is the mast fatal of known diseases. Only throe in a hundred recover. Its name comes from the fact that it . turns the akin blade. It euddenly appeared in Central India in the year 1886, and since then has spread all along the North Coast of Afriea, as well as into Ar- abin., Pour years ago a soldier at Notley was found to have contract- ed the disease. No Cure has yet been discovered, though it is believ- ed that the parasite lives in the •soil. THE COUSIN OF EUROPE TUI11 114.141IFICAT'IONS OR it0;.41 RELA'i'IONSIIIP. Iiia g George g Ts Related aced tp Moat of the Reigning Families of Europe. In early days it was always the object of each reigning monarch to marry his sons or his 'daughters to the children of neighboring rul ors, In this way he could, or be Bevel he could, securepeace for bis people, If to -day it were impossible ,for two countries whose ruling houses were related to quarrel, Europe at large might literally turn the sword into a ploughshare, for if we ex eept Turkey and Italy, there • is ab- solutely no other ruling family up- on the Continent of any importance with whom George V. is not allied by ties of blood. Two of the most powerful thrones in Europe are occupied by first con sins of our King. The mother of Kaiser Wilhelm was King Edward's sister, while the mother of the Tsar Nicholas of Russia is sister of Queen Alexandra: Denmark, being the• original home of Queen Alexandra, is the coun- try with which our Royal house has become most closely linked, and the alliance was further strengthened by the marriage of the King's sis- ter Maud to the Danish Prince who is now King Haakon of Norway. SPANISH TIES. The marriage of young Alfonso of Spain with the daughter of Prin- cess Beatrice created a close link between the two -countries, and placed a Royal crown' upon the head of another cousin of the King. The Tsarina, as well as her au- gust husband, ism cousin of our King. She was Alix Victoria, youngest daughter of the late Prin- cess Alice, and is therefore a first cousin of the 000upant of the. Brit- ish throne. The family likeness be- tween the Tsar and King George is very strong, and the tweare excel- lent friends. Another country, the throne of which will, in all human probabil- ity, be occupied by two first aim sins of our King, is Greece. The present King George of Greece, who was elected King by the Greek National Assembly in 1863, is a brother of the Queen -Mother Alex- andra, and is therefore uncle of our present King. His eldest son—the Duke of Sparta—heir-apparent to the throne of Greece, married the Princess Sophia, who is the young- est sister of the German Emperor, and also a cousin of our monarch. King George V. is also connected, although not so closely, with the reigning families, both of Belgium and Rolland. The Belgian Royal family is related to the Saxe-Co- burg-Gotha House, of which the late Prince Consort was a member, and the late King Leopold was a second cousin of King Edward VII. CASE OF HOLLAND'S QUEEN. The Queen of Holland is not cre- dited with particularly kindly feel- ings towards England. During the Boer War her sympathies were ra- ther with the Boers than the Brit- ish. Nevertheless, she is fairly closely connected with our reign- ing house, for the Duchess :of Al- bany is daughter of the late Prince George of Waldeck, and therefore aunt of Queen Wilhelmina. It is a curious fact, and one dif- ficult to believe, that the present, heir to the throne of little Rou- mania has, as far as descent goes, actually a better title to the Brit- ish throne than any member of our own Royal family. Young Prince Carol of Roumania, who is now' justseventeen, is directly descend- ed from Henrietta, youngest daughter of Charles I. The line runs through Louis XV. of France, Princess Charlotte of Spain, Pedro IV. of Portugal, and so down to King Ferdinand, who married Princess Marie, grand -daughter of Queen Victoria, and cousin of King George V. Our Royal family is thus linked to those of both Portugal and Rou- mania. It is also connected, al- though mach more distantly, with the Hapsburgs. Through the Prin- cess Sophia, eldest sister of the Duchess of Tent, and great-grand- mother of King George, our Royal family is related with most of the great families of Austro-Hungary, and also with the House of 1'i ur temberg.—London Answers. • is HOW KINGS HAVE DIED. England has been ruled by thirty- seven sovereigns in the 844 years that have elapsed since William of Normandy began his reign. Six have been murdered,'two have been executed, while four have died from wounds, On an average they have ruled about twcnty•three years each. June is the unluckiest month for sovereigns,` Six kayo stied in June—the `sixth 'month— while Henry Ti, died or ,Tuly.6tlt, Riehard I. en April 6th, and Charles II. an February 6vb„ liin,g to ar h who Edward isthe on o Edwa oily has died in May. N»IAN INTOXICANT. Tnlapal Schism Pails to Awaken the homicidal Instinet, Dillon Wallace, on his Western trip for the Outing Magazine, hoes given some valuable information regarding the Indian of the present) day, "Winn the Indians are sober, they are, I believe, entirely harm- less, but when they become intoxi- eated upon their native drink, tula- pai, they are apparently at the mercy of any momentary whim or fancy that takes possessiou of them, and if that whim should ba to kill a man they are very likely to carry itinto effect. During the past several Indians have been kil. led by other Indians, the homicidal instinct being awakened by tulapai do practieally every instance. At Coleman's ranch I saw soma chil- dren whose mother, . a -short time before, had been ahot and killed by the intoxicated father.. These sev- eral murders have led the Indian agent to disarm, so far as possible, all Apaches in the White River Agency, save duly appointed police- men. The authorities endeavor to prohibit the manufacture of tulapai and to destroy any found upon the reservation, but, needless to say, ' large quantities are made in secret and tulapai drinking parties are of almost daily occurrence. "Tulapai, I was informed, is -a liquor made from maize or Indian corn. I had no opportunity to taste or see it, but understand it is vile tasting, and to the white, man a most unpleasant concoction, though the Indians appear to be extremely fond of it. In this connection 1 must relate a little incident that occurred last year. Post -master General Hitchcock visited Coleman to join him in a bear hunt. While in camp, Rain -in -the -Face, an old Indian living nearby, informed Coleman quietly that ho had some tulapai and asked him to invite the white man from Washington to come to his lodge and drink ` it. Coleman accordingly, in anticipa- tion of Mr. Hitchcock's feelings when he drank the stuff, extended the invitation to him. When Mr. Hitchcock tasted the liquor he ask- ed to be excused, but Coleman in- sisted that not to do so would be considered by the Indian a gross breach of hospitality, and' the Post- master General finally took a cup- ful of it down like a man, but with a wry face, and I believe never re- '• ported to the authorities that ho had partaken of the forbidden drink with an Indian," INVENTS WHIPPING MACHLINE Frenchman Devises Instrument to. Cw'e Worst Criminals. An automatic machine has been invented by a Frenchman to per- form the work of whipping con- victed criminals. The inventor had in mind the punishment of the Apaches who have been such a me- nave in Paris. His idea is that it would be difficult to find any Frenchman,. not himself a criminal, who would be willing to apply the dash to a fellow being. In operating the whipping auto- maton, the victim is tied; then an index needle is pushed until it points to figures representing the number of strokes to be given; next a button is touched just as one would do to turn on an electric light, and immediately a stout arm working a thick lash is released. The strokes are extremely vigor- ous and no two of them fall in the same place. This humane feature of the contrivance is greatly vaun- - ted by the inventor. 4 PRICE OF TEA GOING UP. Ceylon Tea is Higher Than for 111 rears. The priceof tea is going up be England, according to the state- went of a manager of one of the largest tea companies in London. Ceylon tea is dearer than it has been for fifteen years. "The rise is mainly in the cheaper grades," he said. '`This is duo largely to the rubber planting, which' has to a certainextent pushed out tea, mak- ing a shortage there as well as in Northern India. Added to this,. we have been using mneh more tea this year than last, and at the same time importing less, which has caus- ed a' great depletion of stocks. "Russia and Australia are out- bidding England in purchasing tea, and it is anticipated that the short, age this year will amount to be- tween three and six million pounds. So great is the demand that blen- ders are tempted to mix what is hardly betterthan rubbish with a little good tea in order to satisfy those who call for cheap tea, The English are not half as wino-awaice as the Irish, who know that good tea goes further, weight for weight, and they insist on having it. But they pay for it." As an inclination of the prices ruling in the London Sale 'Rooms, it may be mentioned that Darjeeling, tea about two weeks ago realized an average price of 71 cents a pound jla bend. Sn.