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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-3-2, Page 7s. i IRELAND Recent Happenings Told By Mail From the Land of the Shatnrock. Cattle maiming has recently been going on in County Tyrone The death occurred very sudden- ly recently of Mr Samuel Langtry, a Belfast merchant. • A proposal was made in Belfast • recently to standardize the weight of Irish apple packages. The lands of Tyroughney, Car- -rick, containing 115 acres, were :cold by auction recently for $10,- 150. People of Strabane are asking for ,a loan of $20,000 from the Board of Works in order to increase the wa- 'ter supply. Three farms situated in Bally- ;berry, Straide and."Bohola respect- ively, were cleared of their cattle in recent drives. A new steel -screw steamer "Sash- ;sen," for the Hamburg -Amerika .Line, Hamburg, was launched re- cently at Belfast. Many inmates of workhouses who have been offered the old age pen- sion -of $1.20 a week refuse to leave their present refuge. . The death is announced of Rev. Thos. Henderson. Chapman, chap fain to the British forces, which took place at Cork recently. The,tenants on Mrs. Newton's estate in the Ballintree district, have set a movement on foot with the object of purehasing their hold- ings. A young man,insane, who leas afterwards committed to the asy- lum, nearly wrecked the Annagb- more parish church with axeand spade. An old -age pensioner named Ann Jane Hanna, aged 76, dropped dead by the roadside while on the way to. receive her pension at Coleraine. It was stated at a recent meeting of the Mobil]. Guardians that only seven out of tho 35 inmates in. the workhouse, qualified by age for the old -age pensions, had left the work-, house. Out of eighty imitates of Athy Workhouse who were entitled to draw the old -age pension, owing to the removal of the poor law dis- qualification, only eight have act- ually left ctuallyleft the union, At a ptblic'tneetin'g at Kilteevan, Roscommon, resolutions were pass- ed asking the landlords to sell their estates to the Congested Dis- tricts Board and protesting against the grazier system. It is reported that King George and Queen Mary will make a brief visit to Ireland, probably in July or August. They will reside in' the Vice -Regal Lodge, and will hold a series of entertainments. • p~.IBABOOJ S AND .TIGER.. A.niinated Scene in it South African Forest. ` Evidence of a baboon's loyalty to a comrade and courage in the face of the tiger, the most dreaded ani- mal of the South African veldt, is given by. Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, the explorer, inhis"Jock of the Bush - veldt." As Sir Percy's party was passing along a ridge, its attention was palled to a troop of ,baboons in the ravine below. The baboons had evidently been quite close to us, writes theexplor- er. -On being warned by their sen - .try, they had stolen quietly away, and were then disappearing into the timbered depths of the ravine. We sat still to watch them come out on the opposite side a few minutes later and clamber up the rocky face, for• they were always worth watching; but while we watched, the stillness was broken by an ag- Ionized scream, — horribly human in its expression of terror,—follow- •sd by roars, . barks, bellows and ''screams from scores of voices in ev- ery ]cey; and the crackle of break- ing sticks and the rattle of stones ▪ added to the medley of sound as the baboons raced out of the wood and up the bare, rocky slope. "What is it]" "What's the mat- ter 1" "There's something after • them !" "Look ! look l" "There they come!" burst from one and another of es as we watched the extraordinary scene. The cries from below seemed, to waken the whole mountain; greaik • booming "Waughs !" Came from the differedt places far apart and ever sohigh up the face of the .berg; each big roar seemed to act like a trutnpet-call and bring forth a mul- titude 'ef others; the air rang, with , bewildering shouts and echoes vol- leying round the kloofs and faces of the berg. The strange thing was: that the baboons did not continue their terrified scramble up the mountain,. but once out in the brush, they turned and rallied, Forming an irregular semi -circle, they faced down the hill, thrusting their heads forward with sudden jerks as if to launch their cries with greater vehemence, and feinting to charge, they showered loose earth, stones and debris of all sorts down with awkward underhand .ecrapes of their forepaws, and "gran- 'wally but surely descended towith- in a dozen yards of the edge. of the its list. "Baas, bans, the tiger 1 Look,` this tiger, there, there on the rock blow I" •Jiin shot0he words out iti vohem- lnt gusts* ttboky 'with .exs tement, and -true enough, there the tiger was. The long, spotted body was crouched on a flat rock just below the baboons; he was broadside to us,; with his fore quarters slightly raised,- and his face turned toward the baboons; with wide -opened mouth he snarled sava'gely'at' the advancing line, and with right paw raised made threatening dabs in their direction. His left paw pinn- ed down the body of a baboon, The voices from the mountain boomed louder and nearer us; clat- tering and scrambling down the face came more and more baboons. There must have been hundreds of them. the semi -circle grew thicker and blacker, more and more threat- ening, foot by foot closer. The tig- er raised himself a little more, and took swift looks from side to side across the advancing front, and then his nerve went, and with one spring he shot from the rock into the bush. There was an instant forward rush of the half-moon, and the rock was covered by roaring baboons, swarming over their rescued com- rade; and a moment: later the crowd scrambled up the slope again, taking the tiger's victim with them. In that seething rabble 1. could pick out nothing; but all the ICaffirs maintained that they could see the mangled one dragged along by its arms by two others, much -as a childmight be helped up -hill. P.O. COISIE AIN7} BOOK. Holt{ Citizens Complain of. Postal System in Germany. In Germany every pos t-offe has a complaint book, and should a citi- zen think he has not been properly treated, -or has received short change, he asks for the book and in the presence of the postmaster or clerk enters his complaint and signs it.. Should there be any person in the past -office ett the time of, the al- leged offence, who considers the caller to be wrong, they also enter and sign a. statement to that effect, The book- is examined periodically by an inspector who takes the en- try for the truth, end for the first few complaints is not severe, gen- erally warning the clerk or post- master, butif the co, plaints con - promoted tlnae,� the official i s not , but mutt remain, in his old position nail his record is better.: Need- less to sal, very few complaints are registored', +F The wont foe you have, is the man who would kill all your enemies. Modern lffe pusltos a span into the mud and then abide hint for ma- terialism, KING TO VISIT SANDY AND PAT WILL SEE OV*IsIN AND E»INs •n BURGH IN JUL Details of the Tour They Will Take in Ii'bla,td uud .. Scotland. "The • King .and Queen hope to visit Dublin and Edinburgh during the month of ,7:uly next," This is the ;simple official en- nounee1eent of the King's Secre- tary, Sir. Arthur Bigge. It is expected that their Majes- ties will include' Glasgow^ in their Scottish itinerary, and that the Sing will there formally open Glas- gow's new Royal Infirmary. The announcement' that the King and Queen are to pay a State visit to Ireland has been received with genuine satisfaction - in Dublin. Their Majesties are assured of a genuinely hearty reception The Trish people had a not unnatural feeling of regret that. Queen Vie- `taria aid not visit Ireland except at long intervals, . while Scotland -was favored with a Royal residence, at Balmoral. Queen Victoria, owelter, nobly atoned for what Irishmen regarded as neglect by coming in the evening, of her days and when a cross-Ohan- nel(journey was . A SERIOUS UNDERTAKING, on a special mission to Ireland to show her appreciation of the ser- vices: rendered during the Boer. War by what she almost affectionately called, -"my brave Irish soldiers." King Edward increased the feeling of gratification by his State visit, It was in the spring of 1903 that King Edward and Queen Alexandra went to Edinburgh and held a court at. Holyrood. They arrived in the city on May 11, and, according to ancient custom, the Lord Provost offered his Majesty the keys of the capital as he stepped from the train. (3n `this occasion, after a trium- phal progress through the streets of Edinburgh, King Edward and Queen Alexandra were the guests of the Duke of Buccleuch at Dal- keith Palace, six miles from the city. The following day they held a court at Holyrood, the first since the reign of George IV. The levee proper was preceded by a presentation to the King of three arrows and three addresses. The arrows, three in number, but. known'in archery as a "pair," con- stituted the so-called "reddendo," which the Royal Archers are bound by their charter' to offer to to Sov- ereign when he visits , THE, NORTHERN CAPITAL. The third day was occupied by various ceremonies, including the opening of a new hospital. The last official visit of King Edward to Edinburgh was in 1:303, when nearly 40,000 Scottish Volun- teers olun-teers paraded in the Sting's Park, King George and Queen Mary were in the city two years later fur the Highland and Agricultural Show. The first Royal visit to Ireland, after King Edward aseen'ed the throne, took place in 1903. On duly 21 the. King and Queen arriv- ed at Dublin, and were enthusiasti- cally greeted by large crowds. A levee was held, and numerous ad- dresses' were received, and their majesties visited Belfast, Coi sa- mara and Cork. The late King,accompanied by Queen Alexandra, went W Ireland in April, 1904. Their last visit o as paid in July, 1905, when they at- tended the Leopardstown Races, and the. Kingstown Exhibition. ENGLISH DON'T SPEAK PLAIN. Public . School Singing n . Cure for Mumbling.' Advocating the cause of Public School singing, the musical contri- butor of the London Times advanc- es a practical reason for its contin- uance anti increased cultivation. He says : • "It is uuive.rsally admitted that no nation in Europe speaks its own language with such unpardonable slovenliness as the ' English. We cut our consonants, murderour e our " little w 1 sounds telescope va e words, and drop our voices at the • 'Such Such a national convention has indistinctness 'bootie' that 'ev- en our public singers take it, for granted the words ace not worth communicating. Sometimes they are, and we have our nine -day: grumble, and then the indistinct- ness, like all other national instittt- tions, eontinues•in the okl way. An early training in singing is one • of the few .hopeful ways of securing any improvement." HIS I,]rAsoN. She -Why dos 11r. Johnson al- ways smoke such long cigars'1 Hi -I don't know, but I suppose he wants to get as far away from the smell of, them as possible., ck NO SECRET. "Mrs. Chnokaloy, is your hus- band a member of any secret soci- ety 1,,, "He thinks he is -s• -but he talks in ilia sleet,;" hyd ,.rnssim'. Has been Canada's favorite. Yeast over a quarter of a century. Enough for 5 cts to produce 50 large loaves 'of fine, wholesome, nour- ishin.g, home-made bread. Do not experiment—there is nothing "just as good." E. W. CpLLETT CQ. LTD. TORONTO, ONT. 'Winnipeg Mantrea' Awarded highest honors at a.tia" all Expositions. No, 40' ARE THE ENGLISH COWARDS ? SOME LONDON BURGEONS ARE ASKING. Make More Fuss 1\`ow Over Pulling Tooth Than 'Grand Parents Over Amputation. Are English people more chicken- hearted than they used to 1 According 'to several well-known London (England) hospital surgeons interviewed on the: subject recent- ly, there can be no two opinions on the subject. "The average: twentieth century man and woman in this country,'' said one of the house surgeons, "are frightened at the mere suggestion of pain, and make more: fuss about having a single front tooth • extracted than their grandparents have made over the amputation of a limb. They are frightened to undergo an op- eration, and even to take the anes- thetic very often. 'I don't know, what's tome over English people in recent times." SCARE STORIES RESPONSIBLE C. S. Mills, one of the senior house surgeons at Guy's hospital, London, was of opinion that the scare stories which had been spread. about lately in respect of; deaths under anesthetics were in a large measure responsible of the fear which certain members' of the pub- lic seemed to have for them, "Peo- ple who are so 'ready to criticize hospitals," he added, "seem.to for- get that for the one death under an anesthetic they hear about, there are hundreds of cases in which patients' lives are saved by its use. The rate of deaths is only about one in 5,000, and even then many of the poor people we try to save are at their last gasp. The operation is their only chance, in fact. PUBLIC CRY NOT FAIR. "There is not one of us paid for our work here, and it's not very encouraging to us to do our best to save a patient's life when we know that if the attempt should prove a failure there will be a pub- lic outcry made about another death under an anesthetic. "Patients refuse to run the risk; they often haven't the courage to let us anesthetize them, oven when is is their only chance of life. 1. little time back I recommended a patient to undergo• a certain treat- ment as his last hope, but he was afraid to do so. He signed my book to show that he had refused to do what I suggested was best for him, and the; poor fellow was dead in 30 hours. "The public haven't any idea what we hospital men have to put up with when they start to criti- cize us. Only a Clay or so back there were 30 serious operative cases for us to attend to in the surgery, and that was by no means.a recvord_ There is a tremendous lot of ingra- titude in the composition of some folks to -day." FIVE CENTENARIANS. Wonderful Old Lady Who Had 170 Living Descendants. eleven children, of whom only c a daughter, who is in receipt of an old -age pension .survives. Except for being rather deaf, Mrs. Ed- wards retained the full possession of her ' • iulties. Few would dread the approach of old age if it came to all as gently and as lightly as it has done to Mrs. Bacon, of Burghclere, .'Hampshire, whose hundredth birthday was marked by a letter of congratula- tion from .the King. This wonder- ful old lady leads a life that many a man or woman thirty years her junior might envy. Each morning she ,comes down to breakfast at 8.30 and fills her day reading the news- papers and writing to and receiving her many friends and relations. When it is fine she goes driving in a donkey chaise. I am not a very good walker now," she said, as she stepped out of the low carriage, and went briskly to the house. At lun- cheon and dinner she sits at the head of her table and carves or helps the various dishes, and in the evening, when tired of reading—she wears no spectacles -she plays be- zique or some other game till ten o'clock, when she goes to bed. Mrs. Ann Speed, who celebrated her 101st birthday at the village of Heighington, near Lincoln, receiv- eletters of congratulation from all quarters of the globe. Almost every Friday morning Mrs. Speed carries her basket of eggs to Lin- coln. She attends to her poultry herself, and still bakes her own bread, At Leicester (England) Work- house Infirmary the death has oc- curred e •r cl of Mrs, Elizabeth Jarrom, in her 101st year, When the lady oel,ebrated her 100th birthday, on March 13th last, there were great rejoicings in the workhouse— birthday party -and a big birthday cake, which Mrs, Jarrom took great interest in clotting. She had a fam- ily of eleven children, of whom six survive, the eldest being a son of 72 years and the youngest 02. Her descendants'inclnde 48 grandchild - rets, 108 great-grandchildren, and 8 great -great-grandchildren, making a total of 170. Mrs. Jarram smoked a clay pipe regularly, and was the proud possessor of a handsome sil- ver tobacco box, presented to her by Dr, Ellis • on the occasion of her !Doth birthday, Mra. Kate ' Sykes Waters, who lived at Milton, Sittingbourne, with a son aged 82, and his wife aged 80, is dead at t])e neo g$ 101, She could coo to read, atr��cl thread is needle without the aid of ;glasses, Mrs, Clementine Edwards, Ctiluesineborough, passed away in her 141st year, She w.as the mother of A. TIGHT CORNER.. A Traveller's lsrpericnce in a ' Chinese Village: An exciting incident of a day's holiday crowd in China is told in "Tramps in Dark Mongolia," by Mr. John Hedley. A fair was go- ing on in a Chinese village, and Mr, Hedley decided to take a photo- graph of the crowd. He contrived to get the tripod set up on the old wall, well above the people ; but a crowd surged up round him until he feared that both he and his cam - ecu would be overturned and trod- den upon. I whispered to Yuan Min to get back home with the camera as quickly and as quietly as possible. He, wise man, at once left me, and made tracks . slowly along, the cen tre of such a rushing and pushing crowd as I had never been in dur- ing my life. The crowd, however, although curious, 'was in no way rough or insolent. In China, perhaps more than in the Western lands, a crowd needs to be wisely and judiciously hand- led. A hasty word, an angry push might easily percipitate a riot, but a good-natured joke and a cheery smile will turn the people from pos- sible foes into Teal friends, and send them away singing loudly the praises of the wonderful man of the West. I therefore walked along as well as 'I could, chattrn•- with the men nearest to me, telliag them I thought they should each pay me for affording them such good enter- tainment, and so keeping them in good humor and myself in good health. But the old wall now stood before us, and over -that I had to climb, It was literall,K black and blue and purple ;y;ith ren and women, and that I knew would he the place most difficult to cross safely, At the bot- tom tom of wall a 1 I looked up at the ed 1 gazing crowd above me, made a re- mark which set then all into a mar of laughter, and before they had well gotover their guffaw, I had got over the wall, and was heading in a bee -line for Mr. Ting's front door. Arrived there, I turned round and faced tho crowd that had raced after me. I gave them the formal Chinese salutation by placing my !lands together, raising them to my 'head, and making them an elaor ate bow. In the best Chinese I could command, I thanked them with mock gravity for their so great attentions to so insignificant a stranger, expressed nay regret that 1 'multi not invite thein all in- side to a cup of tea, but that, as I was myself but a passing guest, and unwishful to cause my host any annoyance, I hoped they Would now quietly disperse to their reeroations at the fair. And with that I went back to my roots, thankful that 1 had so safely got past thetightest corner I had ever been in. COOKING SCHOOLS ON VIIHELS THEY GO FROM VILLA.GE TO VILLAGE IN GERMANY.. New Plan for Teaching Girls in Country Places the A.rt of Cooking,. The government of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen has been for some time past experifhenting with a plan for teaching girls insmall country villages the art of cooking. At the present time there are three female' teachers in the employ of the gov- ernment, each one of whom has pre- scribed district. The course in cooking in a village lasts six weeks and each teacher visits seven vil- lages, thus keeping her employed forty-two weeks in the year, the remaining ten weeks being her vacation A' teacher receives 169 marks ($37.84) for each course, or 1,100 marks ($261,80) per year. Each pupil pays 12 marks ($2.86) for the six weeks' course, being equal to 48 cents per week, and is allowed to eat what is cooked at the school. No school is opened in a village, un- less at least 12 pupils are guaran- teed in advance, because less than that number would not warrant the expense of starting it, EASILY TRANSPORTED. One of these schools at Vellsdorf was held in a large room in. a wing of the local inn, the school hours being from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Every article in the room was portable,. 'capable of being easily transported to the next. village with very little trouble or expense. In one corner of the room was a cooking stove, in which coal was burned, and at one side of the room was a large, wide bench, on which the vegetables, etc.,' were prepared, and above this bench hung the necessary cooking utensils. At one end of the room was a large cupboard filled with china and necessities for the table, and - at the other end of the room there was a ; long table at which the pupils were sitting. The teacher had just given them the list of dishes they were to cook that day for dinner, and was questioning them as to the market price of the articles needed for them. The cost of each ingredient was reckoned, assuming that enough was to be made fora family of four. The din- ner was to consist of soup, meat, rice and dessert, the cost of which was to be reckoned at 24 cents for each person. Everything was taken into ac- count when reckoning the cost, in- cluding salt, spices, etc., as well as the cost of the fuel used. The Saxe-Meiningen government sup- plies everything except the cups and plates, which the pupils like to bring themselves, because each pu- pil usually has her favorite china cup, saucer and plate at home. In most of the villages in Thuringia the only kind of vegetable known is cabbage, or, in another form sauer- kraut, • It is said that the German farmer will eat only what he has from childhood, and great difficulty is, therefore, experienced by the teachers of the school in inducing their pupils to partake of any dish that is cooked for the first time. A house - of theaverage The cooking g wife in a small village in Germany is so rudimentary that the latest attempt of the government of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen to teach at least the rudiments of cooking to young country girls is consider- ed worthy of commendation and support. A number of the principal citi- zens in the duchy donate sums of money toward defraying the inci- dental expenses of the school as a sort of upkeep, but any and every deficit is met by the government, At the end of the six weeks' course a large dinner is given, to which the mayor, parents of the scholars and principal people of the village are invited, A small charge is made for this. Moreover, small stuns of money are also usually given by well-wishers„pf the school who may be present. WHY SEA IS BLUE IN COLOR SO11ll!TKING ABOUT TIDI COLLA ORS OF PHE BRINY. Rlue and. Green are the PrevallinO Colors lit the World's Seas and Oceans.. Visit the Mediterranean or the Carribean, and here you will find , the trite blue. The Gulf Strewn, which pours liko a gigantic river out of the boiling -pot of the Car- ribean, and; drives its way north- westwards in a volume a hundred tiimea greater than the mighty Am- azon, is blue as the shy, and affords a most startling contrast to the green Atlantic', through which it flows. Its temperature is 74 deg.; that of the ocean on either side not above- 50 deg.; and its edgesare marked by long lines of flotsam and jetsam ---driftwood, Danes, palm -leaves, all sorts of tropical debris. Why is the Gulf Streamblue, and the more northern ocean green'? The answer is that it has been prov- ed that the blueness of sea -water is in -constant ratio to its saltness. In the tropics the tremendous evap- oration induced -by the blazing sun causes the water to be much more salt than it is in higher latitudes. For about 30 deg. both north and south of the Equator the waters of the world's octans are of AN EXQUISITE AZURE. Beyond these latitudes the blue fades, and changes to green, and in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans the greens are almost as vivid as the tropical blues. The extraordinary blueness of the Mediterranean has two, causes. One is that very few large rivers of fresh water sun into this sea ; the second, that the Mediterranean is practically land -locked, and, being exposed to a powerful sun, evapor- ation is great. By actual test, the waters of the Mediterranean are ' heavier and moresalt than those of the Atlantic. But blue and green are not the only colors observed in the world's oceans. In January, 1909, a river of yellow water, three miles wide, and of enormous length, was ob- served running parallel with the Gulf Stream. It stretched from Cape Florida to Cape .Hatteras,;and was undoubtedly caused ls' some tremendous submarine upheaval, probably of a volcanic nature. It remained for •several weeks. Again, about nine years ago, the sea turned almost black off a large portion of the California coast. Th.; whole of Santa. Cruz Bay assumed this extraordinary inky hue, and fishing came abruptly to an end. Li '' this case, the darkness seems to have been caused by millions of tiny animalculae, Progress in the human race de• penile less on getting ahead than on helping along, KNOWN AS WHALE FOOD. The dull reddish tint which is oc- oasionally seen in the Red Sea, and • which has given that sea its name; has a similar cause. The water be- comes full of microscopic algae— tiny weed. China's, Yellow Sea is usually supposed to owe its origin to the flood of muddy water whioh its great river pours into it. But here, again, modern scienoe has proved that living organisms are responsible. Occasionally, and for some cause ars yet 'undiscovered, great areas of the ocean turn milk -white. In March, 1904, the passengersand. crew -of a Japanese merchant ves- sel, steaming at night between Hong Kong and Yokohama, ran into a show -white sea. Not an opaque, phosphorescent surface, but an expanse of pure snow-white, having a dazzling effect upon the eyes. The phenomenon lasted for six hours, and alarmed the pas- sengers so greatly that not one ' slept at all that night. 0 IS RADIUM ELIXIR OF LIFE? Frcneh Surgeon Proposes to Blake Serum -to Renew Youth, Rejuvenating qualities in radium have been discovered by Prof. Ga- briel Petit of the Veterinary School at Alfort, France. Ho injected two milligrams twice in the jugular vein of a very old horse with surprising effects. The animal seemed immediately to gain a new lease of life. It put on flesh, became frisky, considerable traces of sulphate of radium appeared in its blood, and the red globules in- creased. in number. The injection, Dr. Petit says, produced lasting radio -activity of the system. He thinks it highly probable that a radio -active serum may be obtained in this manner which will arrest to a certain extent. the advance of physical decay : in human beings. In other words radium may be trade the basis of a real elixir of lifo. ALWAYS BEHIND. "Is your son still �rpursuing his studies, Mrt. Brown "Yes; but it seo.tns to be a stern chase."