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ORIGINAL RECIPES.
Baked Cranberries,—One quart
et eranber•ion, two cupfuls of water,
three cupfuls of white sugar, Bake
one hour. They are very nice and
look like ohorrieswhen done, Noe
than stewed ones, as the peelings
are very tender,
Attractive Salad;—To two bricks
of Dream cheese mix in one bottle
of cream to form a paste. Then
add a grated medium-sized onion
and a half a crap of ohoppe•cl peeaa
nue meats and salt to taste. Fill
pimentos with this mixture and
serve on lettuce' loaves with a sprig
of parsley placed on top of the pi-
mentos. This will serve six per-
sons,
English Beef Pudding.—Three
pounds of aeef—cheap cut of round
oaehalf pound of beef suet, one
quart of flour., two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, o,ee-Half teaspoon-
ful of salt, one and three-fourths
clips of milk and water. Cut the
meat in pieces about one inch"
square. Put the meat through the
food chopper and mix it with the;
flour, with whieb the baking pow -
dor and salt has been sifted; add
the Liquids, toll the dough to about
one inch in thickness, having it
round in shape. Lay it on the pud-
ding cloth, which has been wrung
from boiling water and dredged
with flour to prevent the pudding
from sticking. Spread over the
moat and a little salt (rho meat has
little fat in it); dust with salt and
a little pepper. Itoll the dough as
for a roily, poly, plunge into boiling
water and boil three hours, keep-
ing the pudding floating -during the
entire time of 000king. If neces-
sary to add extra water, be sure
that it is boiling. On removing the
water open the bag immediately
and turn the pudding on to a hot
platter. Cut a slit in the pudding,
and if it does not seem to have suf-
ficient moisture, pour into it a lit-
tle stock or drawn butter. Half
of the material called for in the.
above recipe makes a pudding
large enough to serve six hungry
persons. It forms en excellent sub-
stitute for a roast and is much less
• expensive.
Nippy Cheese,—To one cup of
grated dry American cheese add one
tablespoon butter, generous dash
of cayenne, and salt to taste. Work
to a smooth paste and add one tea-
spoon cream. Put into tiny glasses
and keep in cold place until used.
This is a good way to use up bits
of clry cheese of any kind, such as
Roquefort, Swiss, etc.
Egg Lilies.—Place one egg for
each lily in cold water, boil ten
minutes, drop into 'cold water, shell
and while still warm cut with silver
knife in strips from small end near-
ly to base, very carefully lay back
the petals on a. heart of bleached
lettuce; remove the yolks and rub
them with spoonful of butter, one
vinegar, a little mustard, salt, and
pepper from cone shaped ball, and
-N- • placer on petals, sprinkle tiny bits
'of parsley overballs, two or three
Muffed olives carry out the idea of
buds; serve 'on glass dishes to gave
water effect. With ease this is not
bard to make, and its beauty re-
pays all trouble it has cost.
Chicken Shortcake—Make a soft
dough, using two cups of flour, two
heaping tablespoons butter, one-
half teaspoon of salt, two rounding
teaspoons of baking powder, milk
enough to make a soft dough. Roll
-' but into a sheet one-half inch thick,
and' cut twice as many rounds as
you need shortcakes. Butter these
rounds and fold together in pans.
Bake in a quick oven. Mix one
pint of cold chopped chicken, one-
fourth cup chopped mushrooms,
and one pint of rich sauce made of
one cup of ohiekeu stock, ono eup
of create, one tablespoonful of but-
ter,. one tablespoon of flour, one-
half of a teaspoon of salt, and one.
egg, When ready to serve, split
the short cake's apart, cover the
lower half with chicken mixture,
replace upper half, and cover with
chicken. Decorate with a sprig of
parsley and servo at once,
GA1tE.
Cream Fig Cake. Onc table-
spoonful butter, ono cupful euger
(scant), two eggs and one-half cup
milk, one and ane -half cupfuls
flour, one, teaspoonful baking pow-
der sifted with Hour.,
one teaspoon-
ful vanilla.'a:Gleea magasar and ---
butter together, then add eggs one
at a time, beating ono in well be-
fore ndtiing the other, then add A. piece of soft flannel is better
_eine and vanilla, then flour with than n brush fur removing dust
baling powder; bake in two largo from silk,
jelly tins in hc•t oven about fifteen To prevent the ,vashboiler from
minutes, Filling for (bora—Take rusting, dry it mad then rttb the
ono••half pint fresh crown, whin inside of the boiler with a bar of
with an egg beater until arid. Then laundry sone).
cal two tablcapuonfnli powalorod Spots on plu;;h will di:.appear if
sas,ar. and ons -half teaspoonful va-. rubbed lightly and rapid?,; with a
nine, ;]trend en' frrat ]Myer quite t• clean, soft cotton cloth, clipped in
thick, fake oro x rrth poend figs I chloroform.
- cut into or -l1. ,lacus ••• and When about to sweet, .a carpet,
crinkle uvorttream, then putnn top wet into 'a iatio cearae cornmeal
sprinkle
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one teaspoonful lemon juice, Poul
over cake, top and sides both, A
little pink coloring added to (rust-
ing improves it,
Weary Willie 'White 'Cake. --Put
whitea of two eggs in measuring
cup unbeaten,' then add soft but-
ter to fill the cup to the half mea-
sure, the butter must be soft but
not melted, then fill the cup•up with
sweet milk. Sift one cup of granu-
lated sugar, one and one-half cups
of flour, and two level teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder together
three times. Put this in mixing
bowl and than put in the eggs, but-
ter, and milk -which are all to-
gether—and 'beat
o-gether—and'beat seven minutes,
Bake in moderate oven in loaf. Ic-
ing—Four tablespoonfuls of sweet
milk and one cup of sugar. Boil
slowly five minutes, remove, and
beat to a cream,
Devil Food Cake,—Two cups
darkest brown sugar, ono -half cup
of butter, two eggs, one-half cup of
sour milk, three ceps of flour sifted
three times, a pinch of salt; mix
thoroughly. Take one-half cup of
boiling water, stir into this one
teaspoonful of soda and one-half
cup of grated' chocolate. Filling—
Two
illingTwo cups dark brown sugar, one-
half cup of butter, one-half cup
sweet milk or cream, cook until it
threads.
Fig Cake.—Two cupfuls of sugar,
three-fourths of a cupful of butter,
one cupful of milk, three cupfuls of
flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, whites •of seven eggs,
cream, butter and sugar, Add milk
slowly so as not to separate, then
two cupfuls of flour, -then part of
the eggs, last cupful of 41our with.
baking powder silted in and the
rest of the eggs. Flavor to suit
taste. Filling—One pound of 'figs
chopped fine, one and one-half cup-
fuls of sugar, one-half cupful of
water. Cook to paste,
Gypsy Cake.—Make or buy a good
sponge cake; out it open and spread
between jam or any sweet preserves
you may have on hand.
Now get a few small macaroons.
Cut the cake and put into the dish
you are going to serve it in. Place
the macaroons around and between
the cake and steep the whole thing
in port or sherry for two hours.
Now make a boiled custard or
sweet cornstarch pudding, not too
stiff and flavored with vanilla, will
do. Pour this over the cake and
then on top of that pour whipped
Bream and " stick on top either
blanched almonds or candied cher-
ries. This is rich and delicious and
will serve in custard cups or small
dishes twelve people.
Spice Cake.—One-half cup chop-
ped figs, one cup 'seeded raisins.
Pour over these one cup boiling
water in which one level teaspoon
soda has been dissolved. Stir and
let cool. Ono cup granulated
sugar, one-half cup butte, one
and ons -half cups flour, one level
teaspoon baking powder, yolks
four eggs, whites two eggs, ono tea-
spoon cinnamon, one-quarter tea-
spoon allspice, one quarter tea-
spoonful cloves, one and one-half
teaspoons nutmeg, one-half cup
chopped nut meat... Mix together
except flour and fruit, which should
be added last. Bake as solid or
layer cake. Is excellent. -
Mock Angel Fwd.—This recipe
requires only the whites of two
eggs, but it will make cake that
will melt in your mouth. You can-
not fail if you . follow directions
carefully. Set one cupful of milk
into a pan of boiling water and
heat to boiling point. Into a sifter
put one cupful of flour (no mare),
one cupful of sugar, three tea-
spoonfuls of baking powder, pinch
of salt; sift ,.all together four
times; into this pour the cupful of
hot milk and stir smooth. Then
put in the well beaten whites of
two eggs. Do not stir or beat eggs
into mixture. Fold them in care-
fully, drawing the spoon through
mixture toward you, then shoving
it back with the back of the spoon.
Then draw the spoon from right
to left and shove mi ^o hack with
back of spoon ltc•;•„tit this until
the whites of eggs Ire evenly -fold-
ed into batter. Do not grease tin
or flavor cake. Bake in moderate
oven. Ice with writer icing made
by sifting one oupf .,: of powdered
sugar and adding water and flav-
oring until it will spread.
THINGS WORTH KNOWTNC.
ills the dirt when swept, without
filling the room with dust.
The ehea oat way of cleaning a
white felt het is to rub prepared
Emelt ehalk well, into it, and then
brush off with a hard, (lean, white -
bristled jrrush, Blt,ok magnesia
well rubbed in also cleans wllito
felt successfully,
When frying pgtatoes have the
fat very trot, it not actually boil-
ing,' before the potatoes are put in,
Have each auto wiped quite dry,
and when each is browned take it
out and platoon a paper.befuro the
fire to dry.
New lamp wicks if boiled in vine-
gar and thoroughly -dried before
using will nut smell bad when burn-
ing,
A work solution of turpentine lah, at this time, was for all we
Poured down the water pipes once know to the contrary, at the house
a week will drive the water' bugs of the widow oflcarephatlse •
away. 2. And Elijah went—The drought
To rid your cellar walls of mil- had done its work, and it was time
dew try burning d, little flour of for the prophet to follow up this
Wither in, a tin plate, Paste up terrible calamity by a public de -
the door with strips of brown paper monstratiou of the supremacy of
after you have set light to the aid- Jehovah. To go before eAhab at
phur and leave for at least twenty such a time retjuired'both• faith and
four hours before re -opening the courage, for the king no doubt at -
.door, tributed the famine to the meddle -
To remove grease from silk or sameness of Elijah. In fact, the
wool placethe grease spots between royal wrath burst into flame as
blotting paper aide.1 press with a soon as he set eyes on this troubler
hot iron. The blotting paper will of Israel' (17). But, when he point -
absorb the grease and the most de- ed to Elijah as the source of the
licate shades can be cleaned like trouble, he simply evaded a guilt
new in this way. svhich he knew was his own and his
An egg beater never should be people's. His bad conscience is
left to soak in water, as the oil will evidenced in this weak acquiescence
be washed out of the gears, mak- in the plan proposed by his flaw-
ing it hard to turn. ser. A strong king, sure of his in -
Turpentine is a powerful disinfec potence, would have taken the pro -
tent and will dispel all bad odors. phet into custody at once.
Add a teaspoonful to every bucket 18. Thou has followed the Baalim
of hot water used in scrubbing or -Elijah'doesn't mince piattcrs. The
washing utensils in a sickroom. sole cause of the famine was the
Don't pour water in which cab- idolatry of the king and his people.
bage or other green vegetables 19. Gather to me all Israel—It is
have been boiled down the sink. more than a challenge. It is a.
The unpleasant smell that arises is fearless command, the audacity of
likely to be decidedly unhealthy. which stamps Elijah as one of the,
Never stand on the edge of a most masterful men of the Old Tes-
chair when reaching up for any- tamont, as well as the most pic-
thing. You may quite easily over- turesque. Carnal was a fitting
balance and have a nasty fall. place for the proposed contest. Rioh
Don't, however fond you may be in arboreal growth, commanding a
of it, have very much brass or oop- splendid view of the surrounding
per about if'you have to clean it hills and plains, it became in -Old
yourself. To keep it clean takes up Testament literature, and else -
a lot of time and strength, and you where, the type of lofty grandeur
don't want to wear yourself out and fertility. The mountain still
:leaking' a.tter your household bears the prophet's name (Mar
goods. Elias) and the spring of water which
p resisted the drought and "Elijah's
HIGHEST RAILWAY STATION. grotto” are still pointed out. "The
whole' mountain murmurs with his
Ticlio in Peru Has an Elevation of name."
15,665 Feet. • The prophets of Asherah - They.
do not appear in the story again.
Their .eating- at -Jezebel's table,
means that they were maintained
at the queen's own expense.
21. And 'Elijah—On one side
everybody else -priests, king, peo-
ple.: The prophet of God stands
alone. His first eppeal4is to the
people. It stirred the patriotic
pride. of Elijah to see his owl peo-
ple feebly limping along in inde-
cision. Their answering him not a
word was an open` acknowledgment
of guilt. Their course had been
one of vacillation, now a service of
Jehovah, now a service of Baal.
22-24. The conditions of the con-
test.- Elijah was the only prophet
of Jehovah 'left, the test having
been either slain or. silenced. He
therefore must stand as the repre-
sentative of the old form of worship,
while he is opposed by thefour
hundred and fifty prophets of Baal
equipped with safe brakes, ruts For each a bullock is to be psoyid-
before each passenger train, car- ed, and this is be'beeprepared for
rying an inspector on the look -out sacrifice, Dean Farrar suggests
for fallen rocks or other dangers. that the condition relating to. fire
The grandeur of the scenery along was ar erecauttiion i stet riestly
this route cannot be imagined.tBaalthe ;god
The second highest railway in the of the sun it was 'fair that Elijah
world is that from Antofagasta in should challenge them to call. upon
Chile to Oruro and La Paz in Bol- his name in the hope of securing
ivia, and it is periiaps.the narrow- fire from heaven. Elijah had ap-.
est gauge line for snob a distance,pealed to the people, and there
being two and one-half feet in widtwas nothing left for the priests but
of track. The highest point is Tat to comply with these conditions, for
Collohuasi, where the altitude is the people declared the'speech well
15,809 feet, fifty-six feet lower than spoken. Then, as now, and always,
the Peruvian line.. the people wanted a God who could'
do things.
THE PROOF. 26 -29 -The predicament of the
priests of Baal. 1. They cried with
"You're very contradictory, my incessant monotony from morning
son." till noon, 0 Baal hear us. But
"No, I'm not, pa." there was no voice. "'There` lay the
It's difficult to secure a welcome dead bullock putrescing under the
that is guaranteed not to wear out. burning orb which was at once their
How one woman must hate an- deity and the visible sign of his
other when she speaks of her as presence. No consuming lightning
"that thing." fell, even when the sun flamed in
It sometimes happens that in mar- the zenith of that cloudless sky."
tying it good cook a man gets a 2. They ''performed a heathenish
poor wife, donee, with wild getticulations and
It is always safe to bet your shrill cries. 3. The taunts of Elijah;
money on another man's game—for Until the sun had reached its high -
the other man. est point he kept silent. But now,
If you want honest criticism of with stinging references to the pos-
anything you do tell your friends it Bible preoccupations of the sun-god,
is the work of another, lm holds them in derision, 4. Cut
There aro tines when the aver- by the sarcasms of the man of God,
age man would like to write a lit. the four hundred -and fifty priests
tie unwritten law forhi'
mself.. resorted to the "extreme meae,ittps
of their worship, and begat slash
IMPOSSIBLE. ing and mutilating their bodies in
terrible frenzy. Meanwhile, until
time for the evening offering o4.
meal, they kept up their weird jar-
gon of cries (prophesied). But all
in vain,
30-35.—Tho prel.arations of Eli-
jah. With anorderly calm that
stood out -in impressive contrast to
the noisy:,confuston of the priests, 1
the prophet made ready. 1, With Tho Home Office authorities have
ono stone for each of the twelve °Mei ed the destruetion in his Ma
tribes of Israel, he repaired the old josty.'s prisons of certain deserip-
altar'which the queen had doubtless tions of irons used in the restraint
torn down, 5. He built next a bread of prisoners, retaining forniuvoum
trench capable of Melding about five purposes any of an old 'character.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
FEBRUARY 12.
'Lesson VIL--Elijeles t'ietoy'y over
the Pii'opbets of Baal, I, I(Ipgs
18, 1, 2, 17.40. Golden:
• Text, jest*. 24, 15.
Verse 1. In the third year.--Th-atis, of the famine in ,Samaria (2). It
lasted' three years and six months
(Luke 4, 95 and James 5, 17). Ell -
The distinction of being the high-
est railway in th'e world is' claimed
by the Morococha branch of the
Central Railway of Peru,. a wholly
broad gauge line operated by the
Peruvian Corporation. The alti-
tude of the mails is here exactly 16,-
665 feet above sea level.
Tielio, the western portal of the
Galera tunnel and the point of
junction of the Morococha branch
with the - main line, is the highest
railway station in the world, at
15,665 feet.
To reach this point from sea level
the line passes through fifty-seven
tunnels, oiler dozen principal
bridges and utilizes thirteen switch-
backs, but has• no gradient up to
4 1-2 per cent, nor does it resort to
rack propulsion.
A handcar started at Ticlio will
run unaided to Calloa, the seaport,
and as a matter -of fact such wear
car
you find work?"
Tramp--"Yessmn ; but 'everyone.
wants a reference frond. my list em-
ployer."
Lady—"And can't you get one'?"Tramp—"No, mum. Yet see, he's
been dead 28 years."
Iri`wQI3IS1TIVE.
,She --"Thin piece of lace I wear
emend my neck is over fifty ,years
old."
The Brute-- ".tt's beau
tlful. Did
you make it yourself a"
gallons, 3. He xlrenobed with water
the bullock which ho had, out in
pieeae and laid upon the altar with
the wood, and' filled. the trench also
with water, Ho that there could be
no possible deception.;
30-437—The prayer of Elijah. It
was a simple, forvcne prayer, free
from unavailing repotitians .and ac
eompansmenta of frenzy, 'Thrice he
Invoked the name of Jchovalt, end
with a single purpose—that the
God of Isrgel Wright be vindicated
and his name exalted among the
people,
38-40—The results; 1, The utter
consumption of all that was on the
altar, together with the shattering
of the stones and the licking up of
the water in the trench, 2, The ef-
fect on the people, With one ac-
cord they fell an -their faces and
cried, in the, expressive Hebrew
tongue, "Yahweh-hoo-ha=Elolrim,
Yah-web-hoo-ha-Elobim," convinc-
ed that Jehovah, and not Baal, was
the true God. 3. The slaughter of
the priests, • Unnecessarily cruel as
this seems, viewed he the light of
our higher Christian ideals, it
doubtless accorded with the rude
ethics of those a far-off days.
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS Br •!MAIL ABOUT JOIN
BULL IND 411.S PEOPLE.
Dee errences In the : Land That
Deigns Supa•eme In the Cons.
martial World.
During . 1910, humming birds'
skins to the number of 37,603 were
sold in London,
Prices have advanced $1.20 per
cwt. an.'all useful qualities of hops
in London.
A fine otter has been killed while
swimming across the Thames at
Cookham.
Medical officers in Islington are
to he supplied free with diphtheria
antitoxin serum. -
Sir John Aird, head of the fam-
ous contracting firm, died recently
at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield.
Important alterations are pend-
ing in the statutory regulations
concerning the education and exam-
inat'ion-.of chemists and druggists.
Prizes for good teeth were, com-
peted':for by the Wickham, School
Children. Some.45 youngsters took
part, and of. these the girls were
winners.
The voluntary aid detachments
to be formed by the Britian Red
Gross Society in ,Sussex now. num-
h91.5, with a total membership of
1,459..
Southampton is stirred up over
the "dangerous aliens" question,
which .has seriously affected that
part for some time. Many undesir-
ables have landed here.
Recent stor'niy weather having.
caused a scarcity of fish, cid fish
were' sold at Scarnorough for $2.16
each, skate for 96 cents, and soles
at 44 cents per pound,,.
Robert Coles, of Croydon, a Cri-
mean' veteran, who was 103 on
Christmas Eve, thew bis first
age pension pension a few days. ago, with
one for his wife, Who is nearly
ninety.
A total"of 1,772 cattle, 144,005
sheep and lamb carcases, 3,008 box-
es, of meat, and 44,865' quarters of
beef landed at: Liverpool from 10
steamers during the first week, in
January.
Between $10,000 and $15,000
worth of jewels that were stolen
from a firm of'Latton. Garden dia-
mond merchants were returned un-
expectedly -through,the-poet to the
rightful owners.
The principal tramway scheme on
foot at.present in London is the
fotur-mite line from the Marble
Arch to Cricklewood, which has al-
ready been the subject of so much
controversy.
The new. battleship to be laid
down at Devenport will be named
the Centurion', ' The navy estimates
prolific for $483,615 to' be. spent
on the ship during the current fin-
ancial year.
Twelve hunclrecl of London's poor
est children selected from the Rag-
gedSchool missions, dined at the
Guildhall: recently as guests of the
Children's Sunbeam Society of.
South Australia.
A nursemaid named -Entine Res-
ser,e_aged nineteen, of Neath, Gla-
moirganshire, was killed by a run-
away horse the . other day while
saving the life of. a child of whom
Shewee in charge.
Birmingham city council applied
the other day for authority to pro -
Deed with a town -planning scheme
embracing 2,320 acres in the par-
ishes of Quinton, Harbor•no,Ed-
bastou, and Northfield: ,
Appeal is .matte for help to raise
$10,000 for the ten widows and
thirty children of the fishermen, be-
longing to Brixham, South Devon,
who lost their lives in the gale of
December .16, in the Bristol Chan -
no.
AIRSICKNESS IS TUE OL
ILL-EEPEC'T'S OF JOURNEYINO
THROUGH TILE 'AIR.
When llleo1lanicel1 Ditliclrlties a>•
Solved Oast ;Aman Frame
Stand 111
space immediately beneath their
feet, owing to the vague feelings
of giddiness; fears of falling arising
oet of a ,sense of " a jeopardized
equilibrium;
THE LANCET SPEAI{S,
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Seasickness is a terror to map
people and the ehances are that air
=knees will he worse. Most per
sons, again, have experienced the
unpleasant' feeling in a lift' whe
it commences, its, deecent,•or in a
swieg-whoa, litre a pendulum, i
swings back. ,Net a' few people re
fuse to stand close to the edge c
a cliff or to trust themselves to
look down into a vast ahem of
•
And yet' these same people, says
the London Lancet, converse glibly
about the nearness of the day when.
aero traffic will be an accomplished
fact and point in support of their
view to the enormously rapid ad-
vances which motor trafficin the
streets has made. When the_ques-
tion is carefully considered in de-
tail it will be eonooded; that there
is• hardly anything that is compar-
able between the air motor and the
land motor from the point of view
of attaining practical, success.
A HARD PROBLEM.
The problem in the case of the
former is complicated by the first
requirement; the conquest of that.
great force' which, do what we will,
pulls us back again to earth the.
moment we dare to rise fioni its
surface, No special motor appli-
ance is required to keep allcat on
the sea or to, keep a stable position
on land, but we can only gain sup-
port in the air by means of moving•
machinery analagous to the wings
of a bird or by utilizing a buoy or
substance which is much lighter
than air and upon which therefore
tends to float upon it. The machin-
ery in the former case must ob-
viously be well-nigh perfect •and.
incapable of breaking down, while
the diffigulty in the case is the en-
ormous bulk' of floating gas that
must be used, -
UNCER'TAINTY AS YET.
In short, the advances Yet to be
made .in order to bring aviation
within the practical affairs of daily
life must still be very far reaching,
Then, assuming the great consum-
mation has been reached, will the
human organization be able to
stand aviationl This is by no
means certain, having regard to
the constant changes of atmospher-
ic pressure, with their marked ef-
fects upon the respiratory and cir-
culatory -processes which a journey
the air must entail.
AMY BALLOONS.
Long List of Fatalities Will Not
Deter Trials in England:
Progressive development in con-
nection with the army balloon
school and the army balloon factory
go to prove that the long list of
aerial fatalities in 1910 will not .de-
ter the military authorities from
pushing on with the formation and
extension of the Army Air Corps.
Both the Beta and Gamma airships
are ready for commission,: and. the
Lebaudy, which ripped while en'
tering the balloon shed a few
months ,ago, has been restored. Al-
though Salisbury' Plain will furnish
the chief flying groundscfor heavier-
than-air machines, the scope offer-
ed for short practice flights on the
Long Valley and Mattan'a Plain
is evidently not to be ignored. A
Farman biplane has just been . de-
livered to the balloon school on
Falsborough Common:'' This is the
third type of 'aeroplane which ]las
been added to the stock at Earns -
borough, for the .original Wright
machine presented by Mr. Rolls
was supplemented a few weeks ago
by an original biplane, the inven-
tion of a young civilian now en-
rolled . on the balloon factory staff.
Several officers have returned from
Continental' schools possessed of
flying certificates.
BONUS FOR TEMPERANCE.
Speaking of present conditions in
Scotland recently, the Laird of Ski -
bo told of distilleries lying idle.
"Not a man on our estate," Mr.
Carnegie d Blare n
e at of
a butler,
a gamekeeper• or a chauffeur, even
to the captain of ouryacht, but lie
is a total abstainer. Go the first
of Jar}uary i each year, a bonus of
)0 per pent. is paid to every em-
ploye of the estate who can truth-
fully say that he has not tasted
liquor in the Last twelve months
except by.ordo>3 of his doctor: That
is the most eloquent sermon for
temperance that has over been
preached in Scotland."
Some men are always tr'yieg to
get a finger in the Pie in order to
spoil the appetite of otlecre for the
pastry
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Already the whole country is
flooded ,with tens of thousands of
circulars and letters—to the local
authorities, enjoining them to see
that -du, naming and numoering of
every street is in "apple pie order"
before the fatal day of the census,
so that the work of the' enumerat-
ors may be hada as simple as pos-
sible; and to the thousands of
superintendent registrars, requir
ing theto arrange in good time
'for:.the services of a vast army of
entimerators, whose number fax
;Great Britain alone will exceed 40,
000. All this naturally leads to a.
deluge of correspondence—letters
by tens of thousands, tach' of which
must be carefully considered and
answered,
A most intricate and • difficult
work is the'division of the country
into enumeration districts, so that
no part of it, however minute, may
he excluded front the survey, and
go that each district shall be within.
the compass of ono man's lamer' fax
a day. It is found in practice that
in towns a district comprising ab-
out two :hundred houses is largo
enough for one enumerator to tack-
le, while, in the country, a. district
involving a fifteen mile walk is the
measure of his . powers, and into
tens of thousands of such sections
the whole area of the country must
be mapped out.
MILLIONS OF SCHEDULES.
For this purpose it'is calculated
that 20,000 reams of paper have to
be specially manufactured, and
something like 9,500,000 schedules
printed.
Later these millions of schedules'
will be sent to every point of the.
compass,, to the superintendent re-
gistrars, who in turn will distribute
•them amongst the heads of their
sub districts,, to be kept until a
week before the census day. Then
they will be handed out to the fore
ty thousand or more enumerators,
each of whom will distribute them
in his special;district, noting the
delivery of each schedule in a book•
provided for the purpose.
On the 3rd, of April all the sched-
ules will bo collected, with their
many .questions duly . answered; if
any assistance is required in filling
up the form the enumerator's duty
is to give ib. But his work by no
means ends here, although he will
probably, have well earned the mon-
ey by this time. He roust further
"-copy the entries in the schedules
into his enumeration book, and
make an abstract of thetas in a form
showing the total number of per-
sons, males ants females, the num-
ber of houses, and so on."
This task completed, the super -
intendant registrars despatch their
thousands of bundles of material to
the Pimlico headquarters, where a
largely augmented staff of clerks
wrestles with them, gradually
evolving 'from seemingly' chaos
those wonderful tables of statistics
which proclaim. to the world all it
wants to know about icing
George's subjects at home.
A CLOSE CALL,
The unfortunate bather mention-
ed in this story from the Loudon
Telegraph will have many sympa-
thizers. Everybody who has visit-
ed a region much'atected by sports-
men has had oocasioij to observe
with regret how easy it is for ltcr�
set j_ncompetents co procure guns
and ammunition, and how danger-
ous the neighborhood immediately
becomes.
A clear-sighted sportsman strolled
tod a little hotel on the sheW•
een
f
Loch. Carron, • and complainingly
sain
"Just seen a seal, shot at it.tltrco
lines,. anti missed it each time."
At dinner, an hour later, he sat
ext to a tourist who had a bond.
IH
round his head,
,[fad an accidents" asked the
poresenan,
"A.ocident 1" growled the other.`Attempted murder, yuu' mean. 'I
as having a ball about an hour
go, when some lunatic with a gun
fsad at mo three :inns rfrom the
s core and shot part of my Saar oft.
don't know why such animals Dr's
lIoved'out w ;lout a liccnsra"
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Will Be Gigantic
'ask.
Once more th fiat has gone fortli
for the numbering of the King's
subjects, on.San day April 2, The
necessary Census Acts—one .for
for Great Britain, the other for
Ireland—have been published, and
atter rusting from its labor's for
nearly ten years the great census -
taking maehine ry has begun to
work again, an. will know no rest
from its laborsfor considitrably,
more than a ye r,
More than a entury ago, it was
no easy task to count the King's
subjects, when hero were fewer
than 9,000,000:persons in angland,
Now that the p pulation has grown
foytrfoid, and t0
-day is, as nearly
a8 possible,` 36,0 0,000, its vastness
requires no pointing out,
AN ARMY OF ENUMERATORS.
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