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The Brussels Post, 1911-4-27, Page 2Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Retirees and Other Valuable hnformatloi 01 Nartienlar inearest to Women Fglkad,. TESTED RECIPES. Lemon Butter. --Grate the rind stied squeeze the juice of two lens - ens, one-quarter pound sugar, one - :quarter pound butter, five eggs, beaten; cook in double boiler till it thickens, This quantity makes two glasses delicious tilling kr cakes. Date Pudding. -One cup white sugar, two eggs, beaten, One cup dates, seeds taken out, one cup English walnuts cut in half,; two tablespoons flour, one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspeen van - ilk; steam one hour; serve cold with whipped cream.. Cheese Relish.—One half -pound cheese, one small green pepper, ono small onion, one-quaretr tea- spoon salt; put all through food chopper; then make smooth with cream; makes fine sandwich. Rhubarb "Jelly..—This vegetable is 'not made into jelly as often as thould be dune. .Rhubarb makes e delicate pink fine flavored jelly. Cut one large bunch into fine pieces without peeling, add a large chop- ped apple, peel and seeds included. Cover with hot water and cook un- til done. Mash fine and strain through jelly bag. To every cup- ful of juice add one cupful of hot granulated sugar. Boil juice until it begins to jell or about twenty- five minutes. Turn into scalded jelly glasses and seal with paraffin. Roast Beef.—The react beef of old England is presumably the fin- est in the world and has been cele- brated in both song and story, but we seldom hear of the many other excellent ways in which English cooks prepare this meat. One of their most pleasing dishes is beef- steak stewed without the additions of water or any other fluid. To prepare this have three of four hounds of rump steak cut about an inch thick. Put one tablespoonful of butter in the frying pan. and let it melt without browning. Wash the steak quickly in cold water and put it in the frying pan, cover closely and let it slowly become hot. As soon as it is thoroughly heated add one teaspoonful of • of salt and a saltspoonful of white pepper, then keep it just simmer- ing (never allowing it to boil) until perfectly tender. It should be ' closely covered all the time. It will require about an hour and a half to cook it just right. When done place the steak on a heated platter and add half a teaspoonful of wal nut or tomato catsup to the gravy in the pan ; let this get hot and pour over the steak. Sometimes a slice or two of onion or carrot is added to impart a delicate favor to the steak, but it is quiet delicious with- out, SANDWICHES. Peanut.—One-half pound shelled peanuts, mayonnaise, butter, white bread. Chop fine by running through meat chopper one-half pound of shelled peanuts. Add to this one-half parts each of butter and mayonnaise dressing. Mix thoroughly and spread between thin slices of buttered bread. Bacon. -Six slices breakfast ba - eon, three stalks celery, six stalks 'lettuce, mayonnaise dressing. Run bacon through meat chopper, then place in frying pan and fry brown. When cool add celery and lettuce stalks finely chopped ; mix with ma- yonnaise and spread between thin slices of buttered bread on which has been placed a fresh, crisp let- tuce leaf. Raisin Brown Bread. — Two loaves Boston brown bread, one- half pound seeded raisins, one- quarter pound pecan meats, may- onnaise dressing. Chop alternate- ly :in meat chopper a handful of raisins and one of the nuts until all have been run through the meat cutter; mix with mayonnaise and spread between thin well buttered slices of Boston brown bread. Salmon.—One-half pound can salmon, six sweet pickles, one pi- mento, three stalks of celery. Spread salmon and mix with pick- les, celery, pimento, and mayon- naise dressing. Spread between thin slices of white bread well but- tered. Baked Ham.—One poun,l boiled ham, one pimento. one-half cupful pecan meats, two hard boiled eggs, Run all through meat chopper and mix with mayonnaise. Cut thin slices of bread, butter and spread with mixture. Cheese. -Mix finely grated cream cheese with one pimento and one- half cupful pecan meats. Add may- onnaise dressing and spread be- tween well buttered slices of eve bread, • Olive.—'Use thin slices of white bread, buttered, eut in heaitehape. Between eaeh two slices place a layer of Neufchatel cheese mixed to a paste with equal quantities of cream and salad dressing and covgr with chopped olives, FRUIT RECIPES, er the fire in a saucepan. When boiling add two level tablespoon- fuls of gelatin which has been dis- solved in one-half teacupful of hot water. When slightly thickened, wet a mold and put the gelatin mixture in alternate layers with one heaping teacupful of stoned dates. Set on ice to chill., Turn out in a flat dish at serving time and add a border of whipped cream. The • combination of the flavors of cherries and dates is new, novel, andexceedingly delicious.. Pineapple Dreams.—Small can of sliced pineapple,' 5 cents' worth marshmallows, 6 cents' worth Eng- lish walnuts. Chip walnuts, split marshmallows, cut pineapple in small pieces, Alternate layers of pineapple and marshmallows, and sprinkle walnuts between; Put in the ice box one to five hours. Dish and cover with whipped cream. • Strawberry Sherbet.—Two boxes strawberries, mashed; add two pounds of white sugar and juice of one lemon ; let stand one hour and strain. Measure juice and add as much water as you haus juice. Pour in freezer and as it begins to freeze add whites of two beaten eggs. Strawberry Pie.—Make nice, rich pie crust, put over the bottom of pie pan turned upside down on table; put three or four fork holes in the crust to keep from raising up from the pan. Bake by itself. When baked light brown take the crust, turn on to a plate, then the crust is ready to fill. Have ready one quart' fresh picked strawber- ries, sweetened to taste, fill the crust with the strawberries, cover the top of the berries with the whites of two well beaten eggs,. sweetened with sugar, Put in the. oven just long enough to light brown the whites of the eggs. LAUNDRY HELPS. Tack a piece of oilcloth over the bottom of your clothes basket to keep snow and dirt from clogging the wicker work and soiling the clothes. Never wring linen from a clothes wringer. It makes wrinkles that are hard to iron out. Starched clothes are easier to iron if sprink- led with hot water half an hour be- fore ironing. Starch for a black lawn or or- gandy dress, that will make it look like new and will not show on the surface of the dress goods, can be made in this way:' Take black dye, dissolve as you would for coloring, and keep it bottled. Make the starch quite thin, strain the dye and mix a little of it with the starch. Proceed as usual and the dress will look like a new one when laundered. Do not pad the ironing board with wool blankets, which hold moisture and make your clothes. hard to iron dry. Cover the top with a thick layer of cotton bat- ting—one pound will be sufficient-- then ufficient—then cover with one thickness of cotton flannel, drawing the cloth tightly and sewing or tacking on the under side. Cover this m the same way with one thickness of smooth muslin, and you will find an excellent surface for ironing. For a handy and convenient clothes stick to lift boiling clothes from the boiler to the tub, have one made as follows: It is two and a half feet long, round, and one and one-quarter inches in diameter through most of its length, but the end used to lift the clothes is wid- ened to three and one-quarter in- ches, and made thinner so that it is like a paddle. A °`V" shaped cut is made in the end of the blade leaving two prongs which are also "V" shaped, with blunt points ab- out one and one-half inches thick. A thrust and a slight twist into the boiler will draw something out easily and quickly. THE SEWING ROOM. When your corset steel breaks make a slit near the bottom of the broken steel, on the inside, insert a steel taken from the side of an old corset. This strengthens the broken steel and does the same ser- vice as a new one. Upho'lsterer's Linen. — Uphol- stering linen makes desirable suits for children. It comes mostly in the tan, shades, either tan or strip- ed, and is not expensive. Tho more it is laundered the Netter it looks. Plait Help.—After the skirt is completed turn it wrong side out and sew a tiny seam down the back of each plait within an inch of the bottom of the skirt. The plaits will always hang straight and require one-half the pressing. This is a great help in wash dresses as it makes the ironing of the plaits very easy, as they will be perfectly straight and easily put in, Skirt Help, --When making a child's new dresser even your own, wash dresses, make the skirt long- er than required, to allow for lengthening. Make' a deep hem, take up what you allow for length- Cheeridale Dessert. -- Put . one ening by small tucks, or one or two pint of cherry juice (either from large ones, o Hider side of hem. fresh or canned), one teaenpful of When skirt ` too short let a tuck Your skirt is r t Ym r s rt r ton e fOne-halfo on 'e or tw "i o theuc t water. ho w ) , andwon't be you o i r ov- ] allayt lemon, and. one cupful of sugar •tti jth ems),, ab a able to see there lead been a tuck, which is the case when Woks are placed above the hem and let out. Buttonholes in Lao,—Tho owner of a white waist with a lace yoke is sometimes et a loss to know bow to fasten the, yoke, no it is hard for a psrson to pin her own yoke in. the heels, Baste small squares of lawn underneath each place where you wish to make a buttonhole, then cut the buttonholes and work thorn, Cut away the surplus lawn around the buttonholes, leaving them firm and strong. Also puttiny squares of the lawn, under the yoke as you sew the buttons on. "MIND YOER 1"S AND Q'S." One 'Theory Is That the Saying Originated in Printing Office, Several explanations have been given of the origin of the phrase, "Mind your P's and Q's.". One is that it is derived from an old cus- tom of hanging a slate up in an ale- house on which was written P or Q—thab is; pint or quart—against the name of each customer accord- ing to the quantity which he had drunk ; to be paid when the wages were given on Saturday night. Another explanation given in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette is day, of course, varied. Probably that- thesentence originally was through the crowded sections of a "Menti osiir toupees and queues," populous city, preaching as he went, The toupee: was an artificil lock of Jonah would go no more than six hair and the queue was the pig -tail or seven miles: of olden time. Nineveh shall be overthrown— A .riddle used to be in vogue as This was the message which Jeho- g vah bad bidden him to proclaim the follows : "Who is the best person to keep .ne alphabet in. order 1 Ans-first time, and Jonah had refused, wer A barber, because he ties up I not so much because of fear as be - the queues and puts toupees inIcause of his presentiment that God irons." wished him to' be something more Charles Knight gives the . most than the agent of Nineveh's destruc- plausible explanation, as follows tion, to be, in fact, nothing less "I have always thought that the than the channel of the divine grace phrase `Mind your P's and Q's was (Jonah 4. 2) to these heathen, whose derived from the schoolroom or the wickedness (see Nahum) he believ- printing office. The forms of the ed called for a speedy 'doom. The small p's and q's fn 'the Roman actual overthrow of Nineveh took type have already been puzzling to place in B. C. 606: the child and the printer's appren- 5, Believed God.—That is,°they tice. In the one the downward ,accepted the preaching of the the other, pro - stroke is on the left of the oval; in i phet of God as direct from heaven, and believed their city was doomed. 111[ SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY Y INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 30, Lesson V.—God's pity foe the hea- then, Jonah 3. 1 to 4, 1... Golden Text, Matt. 28. 19. Verse 2: Nineveh --A pity with a great population and one of won - dors of the ancient world. It was situated on the upper Tigris, capi- tal of.Assyria, noted for its tern- ples, palaces of marble and gold, hanging gardens, libraries, broad walls, and elaborate water system, The oity proper was about nine miles i -n circumference, but beyond its walls lay miles of common duel- lings, making a great, city some sixty miles around. It was. to this greater Nineveh (an exceeding great city meaning, literally, "great from God's point of view"), a city whose diameter was a three days' journey (3), that Jonah was called a second time (1) to go. 4. Into the city a day's journey— The distance a roan could go in a "Now, won the right. hen the types are revers- So they organized a public fast, sed, as they are in process of dis- reaching from the king to the low- tribution they are returned by the est subject. Their putting on sack - compositor to his case, the mind of cloth was the outward'sign of the young printer is puzzled to dis- mourning and penitence.. The cus- tingui lithe p frothe q.. In sort- tom probably grew out of the unci - ins re or a mixed heap'of'letters,.ent habit. of wearing merely aloin where the p and the q are not in cloth, wovenfrom goats' and cam- eonnectien with any other letter forming .a word, I think it would be els' hair, for a daily covering of the almost impossible for an inexper- body. From this it became the garb' of religious ceremony. The reality ieneed person to distinguish which g y- is which upon the instant." of the repentance is further evident- ed by the people's sitting in ashes (6)• 7. The decree of the king—A na- tional rather than an individual re- pentance is the only kind a writer of this period could conceive in such a case. The inclusion of the beasts is intended to give a heightened ef- fect to the picture of a people pros- trate in sorrowful supplication. This is in keeping with the temper of Orientals, to make every possible outward expression of their sorrow. They believed God would not over - luxuries and the improvement in look the sight of their sackcloth and the quality of the articles' sold, but, ashes, and their cries and the cries after making all allowances, arrives of the neglected cattle. Perchance, at the conclusion that there is an when -he saw these works (10), he would repent of his harsh purpose And so he did. Bnt the change was not so much in God as it was in themselves. Just as he had suited his warnings to the moral` state in which they were (compare Ser. 18. 8), so now he suits his actions to the moral state indicated by their sorrow for their eviL Chapter 4, verse 1. It displeased Jonah -He was jealous. It did not. set well with the Israelites that God should postpoare the doom of the heathen while the world seemed to wait with groanings for justice. And DEARER EVERYWHERE. Cost of Living in Berlin, Germany,: Now and Ten Years Ago. Dr. Friedel publishes in the Ber ]in Tageblatt, as the result of ex- haustive enquiries in shops, stores, etc,, an. interesting comparison be- tween the expenses of a Berlin household of to -day with its expen- ses ten years ago. He carefully al. lows for the increased demand for. average increase all round of 25, per cent. in the cost of living. If the ladies of Berlin were will- ing to dress in the simpler manner, and in the perhaps poorer materials of ten years ago, say the ladies' outfitters, they would- still have to. pay from thirty toforty per cent. more than they did then. Furniture costs 25 per cent. more than it did ten years ago and .in the last year has risen nearly ten per cent. The price of the coal bri- quets, with which the German por- celain stoves are heated, has risen that they should repent was parte From 22 cents per 100 to 31 cents. cularly offensive to them. Meat, as the housewife buys it is 2, Tarshish—So far as Israel was nn an average, 25 per cent. dearer, concerned, this represented the The price of bread is about the ends of the earth, for, it watee same, but even burlais have become more expensive. A funeral which k' ship $125 ten years ago now costs $175. SENTENCE SERMONS. We may with advantage at times forget what we•know. You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. What is left when honor is lost?. A fair exterior is a silent recom- mendation. When Fortune flatters she does it to betray. - Powerful, indeed, is the empire of habit. Amid a multitude of projects no plan is devised. When two do the same thing it is not the same thing after all. PACT AND FANCY. One good thing about the liquor dealer is that he is never out of spirits: The; banana is 95 per cent. nour- ishment. It is especially in love -making that the new woman finds; there is something of the man about her. Be who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion, The fear of death is more to be. dreaded than death itself, country in the extreme southwest corner of Spain. Taking s ip to Tarshish was a kind of proverb for a long journey. Byfleeing to this distant port, Jonah hoped to put forever behind his back the odious commission of God. The magnitude of his sin is measured by the fact that he knew God to be gracious, merciful, slow to anger, . and, in spite of this knowledge, evaded the duty of making this known to the hated heathen, And now that he saw at length the unfolding bf this abundant loving kindness of God, and his willingness to repent upon condition of the heathen's turning from their evil, he thought it hardly worth while to live (3). 4. Doest thou well to be angry ?-- Here he gives no answer, for he doubtless is silencecl by the sting of the 'rebuke. But later, he con - eludes (9) that it is well for him to be exceeding angry, even unto death. He felt that it was right that his prophecy should beabso- lntely fulfilled, and he could not tol- erate any divine forbearance with the foes of his people. In this he was a true type of Israel, for even. after the exile they continued to chafe at the prosperity of the Gen- tiles, In their pride, as the chosen of God they -nourished a fear that ethers than themselves might' be the objects of the infinite grace. 6. A gourd -Like Elijah, Jonah, thwarted in his purpose, withdrew there God panne to him, as he did to Elijah, in compassion, The gourd was a fruit of a vino that grew very rapidly and spread its broad leaves as a protection from the sun, when planted by such booths as that of Jonah, or near the. trellises of houses, 10-11, Thou Myst had regard for the gourd ---'The meaning of this part of the story is clear enough If Jonah's ogre for the poor gourd is so great as to excite his pity and even anger when it, withers away, shall not God show pity to the thou. sands of people of Nineveh, especi- ally the helpless little children (those that cannot discern between their right hand and their left), and the innocent cattle? So the closing impression of 'the book is one of a compassionate heavenly Father who has regard for all the works of bis hands. CHINESE SPORT' MEN. Fishing With -Unbelted U'ooh— Long Guns for Bird Sheeting, As we. passed through the town - let of Houkou on the Nadas: Creek a crowd was on the bank watching the manoeuvres of two fishermen who were reaping a -harvest of mussels and winkles. These fisher- men were dressed in fowling cos- tume—a eowskin coat and stocking all in one piece, with the hail' turned inside, says the North China: Mail. The only apertures in the gar- ment into which the wearers work- ed their way feet foremost were at the neck and thecuffs, which were securely tied before entering the water, into which the men waded up to their necks, As soon as their feet came into contact with any of the shellfish, which seemed to lie in beds, the fishermen loosened them as well as they could from the muddy bottom of the creek and then brought them up the "tale" in a grasp net. The men were eminently success- ful during the short time westop- ped to watch them and piled up a big catch on the foreshore. Another sight which interested us was a novel way of fishing. Two small boats were moving parallel with one another about thirty. feet apart. The ends of a line about sixty feet long to which small, ue- baited hooks were attached about four inches apart to two sticks were held respectively by a man ineach boat, As the boats moved slowly along, -first one man and then the otherwould give his stick a jerk. Immediately that the hooks struck anything theline was gradu- ally hauled in and invariably with success. We certainly saw fish struck four out of five times, many of them running apparently from a half pound to two or more pounds. It may be that China is the only place in the world where fish are caught with unbelted hooks. The third incident we witnessed occurred at the well known Shapa, or, lower barrier. A native shoot- er had his gingal with him—a most uncanny looking weapon. That there should be no question as . to itslength, it was placed upright alongside myself and towered above my head two feet two inches (meas- ured), which would make the piece of ordnance over eight feet in length. We foreigners "sometimes growl at. the 6 1-2 to 7.1-2 pounds our guns usually weigh. Fancy having to carry a twenty-four pounder which was what this 'man did all day long and for every day in the week. He was accompanied by a small,' weird looking animal, a most un - presentable little wonk, on whom he laid great store; Curiosity im- pelled us to look at man and dog at work, and what we saw made such an impression upon us that we thought some little record of it might interest others, A hen pheasant happened to drop into a furrowed field at feeding time.' The native took her bearings, crept up as closely as he safely could, deposited his gun on a bit of higher groundand kept it trained on the bird. Meantime the doglay down across the barrel of the gun as a screenfor his master. The psychological moment had arrived, the gunwas fired, the bird was kil- led upon the ground and the dog remained an the barrel until his master took the gun up to reload it. VICTORY. "I am truly' sorry to give you. pain, Mr. Hankinson," said the young lady, "but please do not al- lude to this subject again. I can never be your wife." "That is your final answer, Miss Irene?" 'rIt is,in" Nncan induce you to change your decision?" "My mind is finally and unalter- ably made up." "Miss Irene," said the young man, rising and looking about for his. hat, "before coming bore ;this evening I made a bet of five dollars with Perkins that you would say 'No 1' to my proposal, I have won. It was taking a risk, but I was dead broke, Miss Irene," he continued, his voice quivering with c:notion, "you :have saved a desna;ir„yg man from the fate of a suicide, and won to a solitary place where leo could the life-long respect and. esteem of Fault-finding, like charity, often be alone with his distress. And.1 a grateful heart. Good -evening,” WHE'lltl, THE SIiA IS DEEPEST. One Place in fhe North Psciflo Iias 01,033 Feet' 01 "?fitter. The ocean has been sounded in nearly all directions with modern ispppliairoes and these soundings show that the floor of the ocean consists of vast undulating plains lying at an avernGe depth of about two and a half melee beneath the surface of the waves. lei some places huge ridges and cones rise from these" submerged plains to within a few hundred fathoms of the see eurface, or they may rise above the surface as voleeiiie is- lands and coral atolls. 'rhe greatest depth hitherto re- corded is in the Challenger (or Ne- ro) Deep in the North Pacific -8,269 fathoms. If Mount Everett were placed in this deep 2,000 feet of wa- ter would roll over the peak of this, the highest mountain in the world. The greatest depth in the Atlan. tic is in the Nares Deep between the West Indies and Bermuda - 4,062 fathoms: The greatest depth in the Indian Ocean is 3,828 fath- oms, in the Wharton Deep, be- tween Christmas Island and the coast of Java, We have now fifty- six of these deeps where the depth exceeds three geographical miles, ten areas where the depth exceeds four mike and four places where it exce=eds five miles. The sea is Behest where strong winds blow :across the surface, as for instance, in the trade'wind re- gions and in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. It is Tess salt. says Harper's . Magazine, toward the poles and in the deeper layers of the ocean. It has long been known that the very salt water of the Mediterranean flows as an un- dercurrent outward through the Strait of Gibraltar and thus affects the salinity of the deeper waters of the Atlantic over a wide area. Although the amount of salt in sea water varies the composition of sea salts remains very constant; slight differences' have, however, been noticed along the continental coasts, in the polar regions and in the water in direct contact with deep sea deposits. The temperature of ocean water varies at the surface from 28 .de- grees Fahrenheit at the' poles to over 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the tropics. The cold water toward the poles has an annual variation of less than ten degrees Fahrenheit at any one spot ani ., The warm water of the tropics also en annual varia- tion of less than ten degrees Fah- renheit in a band that nearly en- circles the earte; this is the region of coral reefs and atolls. Between these regions cf small annual varia- tion there are two bands surround- ing the earth where the annual var- iation is greater and may exceed in certain regions 40 degrees Fah- renheit at any one spot. GOOD THINGS TO EAT.' Novel Combination of Fresh Mush- rooms With Sausages. "Have you ever tried broiled sausages with mushrooms?" asks a correspondent of the Epicure. • "As a matter of fact the sausages are not broiled at all, but the smal- lest of breakfast sausages are laid in a sizzling hot frying pan and cooked brown on one side, then turned and taken out to drain on paper when sufficiently cooked. "Some fresh mushrooms that have been peeled are then set cook- ing in the sausage fat, and are served with the sausages on slices of toast which have been buttered., For a change add a few slices of bacon to the dish of sausages be- fore cooking the mushrooms. "A certain egg dish that was in- vented in a Latin Quarter studio in Paris is +delicious. Butter some little earthen dishes such as are us- ed for shirred eggs and break one or two eggs into each. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, grate on a liberal quantity of dry Gruyere cheese, add some bits of butter, pour over cream to cover and bake in a hot oven until the eggs ace set. "For another dish : 'Put a sweet Mexican pepper or Pimento mor- rones—the tinned variety—in the bottom of a mustard cup or earthen egg cup, break in a fresh egg, add salt, pepper and butter, and bake until the egg is sufficiently cooked. Serve with fingers of crisp buttered toast." HE KNEW A THING. Irritable Father—"Want to mer- ry my daughter, hey? I suppose she thinks I am idiot enough to take such a young man as you are into my, . family,- does she?" Young Man—"No, sir. She didn't think it would be of any use for me to ask you, She said you were se cross and so contrary you would order me out of your office the mo- ment I spoke to you about it." Irritable Father -"Ob, she said that, did she? Well I'll show that impudent young thing she doesn't know what she is talking about. You can have' her, sir, any day you please) .' Practice is the 'est of all instruc- tions. All the world's a stage, and all the Hien and women want to be Oats, BRITAIN'S GROWING M1 lloLjL. Many Millions Added to the Civil.; Service Budget, "Curse your .charity, give us• worlc: used to be the cry of the• processions of the unemployed in Leaden, '`Mahe ns.officiale' is the. modern demand, Great I3i'itain isfast rivalling bu- reaneratio Franco and Germany in. her quick production of state func- tionaries, who have been increasing, of lute years at the rate of 1,000a, year. When the present govern- ment came into ogles in 1906 the civil service appropriations amount". ed to $140,000,000. They have now - risen to .$210,000,000, .and the enor- mous payroll is further to be in- creased .at the end of the year when the telephone service will bei absorbed by the Government. In the last four years 873 new civil service appointments each worth more than $500 a year were• made, of which 325 were in the In- land Revenue Department and they' involved salaries amounting in the aggregate to $1,198,875. All the. salaries are on the rising scale, and all are patronage appoint- ments. The budget alone has 'given jobs, to more than five hundred officials• while the labor exchanges have pro- vided for 000 more who are drawing $325,000 a year in salaries. Thep there are the posts created to con- trol the super•taxation of the rich,. and the evicted tenants administra- tion is; Ireland, which is costing. $25,000 a year. Theenew mine in- spectors will have salaries of $50,- 000 a year. In every department of local government new posts have, been created for which the taxpay- er has to find the moiney. The County Couneils Association' has protested against control by a bureaucracy in London and the Birmingham and other Chambers of Commerce have declared that the - multiplication of .officials is a men- ace to the welfare of the country. H,, DISCHARGED CONVICTS. British Government Will Heip, Them to Find Work. The new Government scheme for helping discharged convicts comes into operation next -month and ar- rangements have. already -been. made for giving a fresh start to ab- out 130 prisoners who finished their sentences on April 1. A Government official who is in.. charge of the scheme bas visited. all the convict prisons and ques- tioned the men about to be dis- charged to learn what work they- wish heywish to- take up on their discharge. Some cases have been disappoint- ing. One man, when asked what. work he had done before his con- viction said frankly, "Burglring," and when asked what he proposed to be when relased answered quite, as openly, . "Burglar." Several others admitted that they were go- ing straight back to crime. The great majority professed to be anxious to make a fresh start in life. One professional man, whose conviction for extensive frauds was a sensation at the time, said he would Pike to get into touch with. a solicitor who had promised to look after him on ;his .release. The solicitor was communicated with, and when discharged the ex -con - vice will go straight to him with the object of getting work. Police supervision has been cancelled in this case because it would make a fresh start more difficult. The majority of the 130 diseharg- ed"on April 1 ere put to work .as laborers. Several are professional men, clerks or tradesmen, but it is found that such man after working in the open as laborers fora num- ber of years are not anxious to 'go baek to indoor work. Two murderers who will have completed rentences of twenty 'years, said that they wanted to get back to their native place. The proper arrangements have been made, and the two ticket of leave men will start to work among their old surroundings. SLAVERY IN SCO'T'TISH MINES. As Late as 1775 Men Were Bought and Sold With Litull. The threatened strike and stop- page of all the coal mines in Scot- land reminds one that slavery lin- gered in the Scottish nines until the very eve of the nineteenth century. Mr. Haekwood, in "The Good Old Times," draws a picture of the Scottish miner's unhappy lot in the past: "From about the year 1445 until 1775 the miners of Scotland were bought and sold with the soil. It is stated in old chronicles that bloodhounds were kept to trace them if they left their employment, and to aid in bringing them back. By statute law miners were bound to work 'all' days in the year except Paschal and Yule, and if they did not work they were to be whipped in the bodies for the glory of God and for the good of their masters'. Not until 1775 was the first law passed in an, attempt to better this state of things, but it was 1799 ere the law gave the working miner et Scotland his complete freedom."— London Chronicle. 3, One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. It is a bad plan that admits of nti moi1ifiaation.