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The Brussels Post, 1904-9-22, Page 2a+04-0-agease+e-aticiee+o4•04-94. IRI KIR vs • f 0 • TOLD or olio or zaront,we • 1,11T5RANS. a 40+ileals4-04-04-0+11+0+04-0+0+ I won't answer for it that the dory, Is a, true one; but why need a good Amy always be true? My old friend, LambeIle, believe:el in it thw- OugbI) told it with steel picture- sque gestu•res, ouch evident delight, taut I esked tar nothing more. -Ho live'd in a little hunting lodge at the end of the park. Among the guns of the Old Guard that wore hung over bis chimney place weee branches of trees, laden with leiref's nests. It was long since Lanthalla .had placed tisane there. "Us seemed very Impatient to try ids autaoray end he ordeeed a lack- ey; ' "Send nee up a ielaa of the Weird -We forst you sone "M this, the King of Pres.%la turn- ed pale, He did not knoW *eat to U o to equal the others. 'A Grenadier appeared. (1 insert a parenthesis to say that oici LamhaIle, wlien he told nee the story, each time described in techna Amer raises afresh tho question of cal teems the 'veal:fere' uniforms; the : mama aro sommeeee eoameeo. m my tho invasion of Great Britain, writes k Dr. T. Miller 'Maguire, in London memory and I do not wish to Ma 0 myself oidleulous repot t ing thou Answers. wrongly. Renee the oiniesion.) In a kind of fatallstic spirit the "A Grecutdier appeared. Alexander tloaerausent says: lf our Nav3r is as erieci : strong as sve believe it to be, there " 'What ds your name?' is no need for a largo Army, because " 'Ivan Ivanovitcha sve can prevent invasion; if it isn't!- " 'Very well. Ivan Ivanovitch, woll, then the enemy need not go to throw yourself out of that win- the trouble of invading us at all, as clew,' it can starve us into sulsmission. " 'Yes, ins Emperor.' Tills is not the sort of talk that "I -Te did not say, 'Ale!' eor 'Catfi' John Bull likes. He cares not to but simply 'Yes,' as tearequilly as if gamble with chance when the safety Racked by rheumatism and tortur- he had received the command to re- of his home is at stake, Ond the ell by many wounds that would not lime a guard. idea of surrender is foreign to hist heal, the brave man's spirit still re- "And, one, two, three, in six steps, natere. And, obeying the injunction mained ready for action, always on with his head hole high and his to ',think imperially," he zeoneriebers the march, with his bayonet upright knees stiff, he streide to tlie window over the great highways of Europa. Surely, at night, his Emperor same to him in his dreams, Fe talked of him so often, with so much of the ardor of love and as if he Were present, that as a little boy when I ran away frozn the chateau to go and see Lamballe and his dogs 51x feet five Inches tall, with a coi- 1 hastened back through the covered lection of medals across his breast Paths, eny heart filled with anguish. I felt a vague, secret fear lost I should meet him, the Man, who still seemed present in Lanaballe's little lodge, even though teceeps of Eng- lishmen were every day visiting his tomb in the Invalidese • The old fellow was elways to be found, sitting in a large straw arm- beeore the open window. Out- side the meadows and softly curving hills stretched as far as the eye could reach. it was there, out in that great dis- tance, that the thoughts oe the old soldier would go, suddenly, in Um nadA of his stories. Sometimes they would wander long before re- turning. And 1 sitting on my little chair would not dare to move, carried aweiy in that mysterious past and alstcuice, like a little child wbom some kiad soldier Has met on the way and carried back to the camp on his shoulders. Then Lamballo would continue : "That year lie had conquered every- where. We had reached the end of Europe, and as he wanted, for once, to see close at hand the Emperors and Kings, who had never shown him anything but thole backs. he invited them to dine, in friendly fasaion, ttt Tilsit, where he was. "I knew the Malt whom ha charged means that he has eddied for 100.- y . to carry his invitations. Alit the 000 hours since his early boyhood had fine stories to tell of the way their messages were received. "You see, the Xi:1gs trembled in their shoes. They feared some unex- pected farce for dessert. "To be brief, there• were only two who dared to come and taste of our cooking; the King of Prussia, anti Alexander,Emperor of Russia. "Naturally, they arrived with all • soots of pomp and ceremony, mount - 'ed escorts, soldiers, flags, and even 'cannon behind. Every one had turn- ' ed out dressed in his bast. "He was the only one who did mot change his dress. He wore the same millionah•e, rose from being assiet- grey- clothes and his hat. ITe did tent in a village post -office. He is a not need to dress up in ordee to look better than tho oLaers. "The dinner was served in a pal- acee-I have forgotten which one, it IS GREAT BRITAIN SAFE ? Mough in the hour of trial to Iceep commend of the sea, and Ube enemy front our shores; but it is the duty RENARXA.BLE REVIEW OF of our administrators to make bete HER POSITION, to -done, or seem to contemplate, for ter provision then they linem hither - The Army and Navy Comparesl the ciefeneo of those islands in case the lleet should be beaten. With the Railway Bee, prtlePARED. Companies. Tho starvation idea Is crude, Under The lutest scamp for reformeng the a wau_orgamaso eiyeLeou, we might ha.ve storehouses of food add ugainst a time of war. If the people think they will be invaded, It is worth any amount to dispel the idea, coed to restore melt - (lame. On Ihe mere threut of inva- sion, such en idea would cost the ea- I tion in moral losses' -loss of credit, I ete.-as much in six menthe as would sustain a well-equipped, effici- ent Army for three years. Erom the commercial point of view alone, therefore, convincing preparedness for invasion, however desperate Due chance of success might be, would Pay. WHEN SEBASTOPOL FELL, Evacuation of the City as De- scribed by W. H. Rustell. The following description of the Ituseian retreat from Sebastopol was writtet by the famous correspondeat of the London Times at that time, NV, II. Bassett : "I went back to My uneasy couch about 2 o'cloek, but I was speedily aroused by en. awful • explosion. I hestened to my lookout post again. The flames were spreading all over the city. It was an ocean of fire. "At 4 a.m, the camps from sea and dieappeaxed. "The Xing of Prussia was distinct- ly =easy. He said to his servant : " 'Go and dernand, in the King's know is whether Great Britain is, or name, the bravest man in the army.' is not, adequately protected from "A man of the leers presently entered Die room, a. suPerb fellow. invaeion? 11 not, why not? And if not, how true security can be at the warning of the Lord Salisbury as to tlie dire consequence that would result from "a blase at the heart of the Empire." 'What he wants to and a deop scar over his brow. " 'My friend,' said the Eing, 'at the conunand of their Emperor aacl to prase their obedience, a French Volttgeur and a Russian Grenadier have just jumeed out of that win- dow. Have you the courage to do as much?' "In a calm voles the Prussian re- plied : '"Is ft for the country?' " replied the King, in a voice that trembled. " "Then I refuse,' said the lancer simply," PERSON -AL POINTERS. Interesting Gossip About Some Prominent People. The Amcor of Afglianistan was very dull at book -learning when he was a boy, but had a nate:red gift for engineering an•d handicrafts; in fact, be became an expert bheele- smith, as he thought a Prince ought to have a trade to fall back upon just as much as any of his subjects. Sarasate, the great violinist, was once asked the secret of his success. "Six hours' practice a (ley since I erns twelve," was his reply; which However, this conetant. practice has resulted in not only fame tal,t for- tunet for lie makes something like $50,000 a year. The °iciest civil and mechanical engineer in the wooed svho is still ac- tively eugagesi in practising his pro- fession is Mr. Charles 11.aynes Has- well. At the advanced age of ninety- five years err. Hasevelt continues re- gular svork, very rarely riaseing day trom his desk in the eingineer- ing bureau of the Board of hatimate and Appointment of New York City. Mr. Lyman Gage. the American tained? HOW WEI STANT). Now, is Groat Britain safe from in- vasi011? I think that the blue -water school is going too far in declaring that it must be the Navy or nothing against invasion. You must remember that to valley were aroused by an awful there is no resemblance between the shock -the destruction of some great dangers and difficulties before us m 1904 and those in 1804, when the quick 511000554011, one, two, three, last serious threat of invasion was four explosions followed. At 4.45 Tile general position hes al- a. on. tee magazines af the flagstaff together changed. Tn. 1204, our po- bastion and the garden batteries ex- pulation of 16,250,000 was practical- PlOded. ly self-supporting; to -day, ,evith a "The very earth trembled at each population of forty-one and a half outburst; but at 5.30 a. ni., when millions, we are dependent Inc the the whole of the huge stone fortress, most part on sea -borne supplies. Yet, tho Quarantine and Alexander were hurlecl into the air, almost simultan- with. tire enormous additional re- eously, with appalling roars, and the sponsibilities which this depond:ouce sica was all reddened by the inces- and the defence of Empire have put sant flashes of Die bloating shells, upon the Nav.y and Army, these fore - ahem the boldest lield their- breath and es are no stronger relatively in 1804. Study this: gazed in awesiruck wonder. It was br?"la'dised0Tru.seian fleet was DATTX.ESEITPS. gone, the 1805. last of their men-of-war was at the bottom-ouly the steamers were ac- tive, towing boats and moving from. Jame to place on mysterious er- rands. Thirty-five magazines in ell wore blossm up, and through all the night of the 8th end the morning of Sept. 9 the Russians wore marching out of the south side. We could see the bridge covered With them still. At 6.45 a.m. the last body of infan- try crossed the bridge and mounted the opposite bank, "Yes, the south side was left to tragazitte behind the Redan. 10 -British .• 83 French and Spanish 61 1901. British ...... 68 a'rerich and Russian .. 74 NAVAL AND lifIL1TARY. Melia ineluded.) 3805 868,000 men 1001 949,869 men VOLUNTEERS. le0,1 . 450,000 1904 . 241,000 There is not a single admiral who the possession of the anles at last, will guarantee the Invulnerability of Sebastopol, the city, the docks mid our food supplies in wartime; and if the 0,1801101 WaS ours. they refuse to guarantee these, will thoy absolutely guarantee us against Invasion? WHY TAKE RISKS? The Navy has been shaky several times during my career, and 0017 stead, sea power has heels knocked out for "Meantime the fires, fed by small a time, cut off from food supplies, explosions, spread till the town invaded, niel wrecked. I should like seeined like one great furnace vomit - to know the name of the man at the ing out columns of velvety black great believer in rico men helping Admiralty who soda WC were liable smoke to heaven. Soon after 7 promising young lads, instead of to meth; of rive tliousend. 1 do not o'clock columns of smoke began to founding huge buildings. 211r. Gage believe Gout two admirals of any ascend from Fort Paul. In a minute was some German Neale -up oa the considers that the progress of the stunding would append their names or two moreflames were seen breek- top goor. Probably the gueste had world is helped on enuch more by to any such statement. Lot us have ing out in Fort Nicholas. The first preferred thet, so that they could a:misting a boy to finish his educe.- a powerful Navy by all means; but , exploded with a stupendous roar er see off in the distance and also tion at college then by spending let 118 else make some provision latin the clay; the mines under the e watch us, their soldiers, .scattered moneY ie bricks and mortar, against invasion in COSC that Navy latter did et take fire. The retreat Daniel Vierge, who diod recently in as beaten. Is i1, wise to leave forty af Gortchakoft was effected with inasterle: skill." half an beer more the end of the bridge •itself was floated away by some inaisible agency frore the south side, and in less than an hour the several portions of it were col- lected at the further 'Aided.' 'the road:. about, reakmg friends. "We had fought for so long against each other that we were not sorry to scrape acquaintance and drink a glass together before loading up our guns agate. "Up there, at the Emperor's table, they were talking about us. Each • inan was boasting of hie owa men, elf ever you get to be a. colonel, little one, you will -understand what that leeleng is, A man loves his .re- giment butter than. Ms wife. He watches its thoughts tend its honor as truly as if His own honor wore wrapped in the folds of the fiag. "Every cancer in the army merles this anxiety in his beart, but ove one ever felt it in the way that he did, and that was the reason we loved him more than the sunlight. "I do not enoW just which one of the three it was that raised - the miestion as to which could best rely upon the devotion of his men, • "X am sure of inirwa scold Alexan- der. "He replied: "Every one of my sol- diers is ready to die for me.•' 'Then the Xing of Prussia exelaiou- ed. 'Let us put it the proof.' " 'This very moment!' cried the Emperor. ' 'And, warmed With Wine, Ile said • Lo a footman " 'Send up Moreau, of tho Guard, to me.' "An utter silence followed his • Words. ale wee frowning In a tot:K- ele fashion when Moreau entered. • "Ee Wee VOltigeue, andatis brtto- sry was fabious aneona the bravest. He had a$' many woods as he had ehevrone. "Ushered ei by the footaian, he ; stopped for ce =meat, an the throe- -hold of •the door, making his mill- • tery salute, hie hand at his temple, " ellfoleauesaid the Easperor, 'are you reday to obea me?' • "Yes rey Emperor." fealthoet diecuseionr "As he epoice, the Emperor looked et Win, aetrange light itt his °yeti. "•anithout.diseessiona Moreau re- peated, galte unmoved. '"Veree Neon, then Jtenp Mit of that whale:ea' "At tbeee Worde the Voltigeur etarted Slightly, • ahnoet imporeepti- bly, it Mere start of serralso. Bee dray ites imeeediettely eked Said : ''My Eteperer, you knee, T have a wife and tete children, I reecnne tend them to yea.' " 'Teat itt enderetmed. jetteted. 'More:all aeleded once more, Wake el to the evindoW end lateMe(3. a 'My tateay Doled' eald Alonandere, Pans and who was known as the millions cf people living by Indus - father of modern •illustration," was 'tries, and with small yeserves of a Spaniard by birtii. At the eight-fod, to chance of raids 'upon such etle birthday celebration of Victor ' eentres as Cardiff, Newcaetle, Liver - Sega he was stricken with paralysis pool, Glasgow, etc., and not to have which rendered his eig/it side Power- even the pretence of an Army, as ac - less, but with rare courage and per- cording to Mr. Arnold Forster, is severance he treined his left bank and now the case? Why,a crusade hi fa- continood to the end to be nt the vor of risk, humiliationnot to say head and front of modern illuttra- ruin? If we are now 55150, Mr. Pitt tors. and his contemporaries were mad la 11...Gootlees, tile French pronder, is ism. a doctor by• erofeselon, and still re- There ought to be no difficulty in tains his old copper nameplate "Doc- :eeping up en efflieient /UMW, In the tour Combos" no the front 'door -of days of Pitt, they did it wieh tette:R- ids holeie at Pons. Occasionally his medical SCCVle01 are asked by his ely 1075 resources. Compere those: 1800. 40,000 Old townspeople, and be says he ex- leieeleun Raga 25,000,000 porioncee more satisfaction in reliev- ing their pain then in winning a po- litical victory, eels chief recreation in Paris is said to be the study of foreign languages. He is else very fond of cycling -a pastime, however, which he only engages in when stay- ing in the comary. The Staten of Turkey eannot have O pas ticeolarla Kappa life. Ho is so efrovid of aolenn that every 'dish and drinking meal is covered with a loth anti settled, At any moment he may commend 0110 of his attend- ants to taste some portion, and a number of mifortunate pet animals 1110 kept constantly at hand for the same 111115050.He ts fond of read- ing exciting, eensationat novels, is a good shot wale rifle anel plays' the piano, and corietantly has concerts, ploys, and cieemh atograp performances to while away his and unhappy houes. Sir John Jaclosori, who wail not suceeeefel in Winning the seat at Devenport, England, has peobably built more doeks thee any other contraetor In the woelel. He is fifty- two, and 'a YorIcshieeman: began his engineering•mercer in the Tyneside end undertook hie first eon - Wed at tho early age of twenty - 10111a This Was at NoWcaetle, end tlie Work Wee so well done that yeeerig Jecksoil Mario to bid fc»: the completioft of tile Qemen's Doak at Olasgow, He Was tefen tWenty-five, and the work took throe years. -Whew it Wee Selielied his name Was Made, aila thenceforward dock arid haebor eolistrectiots beearise the work of his life. Genial, unctefeeted, and ime moneely riche Ho is Mai Of the most broad-minded of mole mid 'It epealcit Wall of hien that, 1.1)0051! he timely feWer theti a,000 men tit • Work for 31118, lie Woe Weer had a Strike', DISCOVERIES IN RODESIA: The Source of Xing Solomons Gold Supuly. Among the latest arrivals in Eng- land Ilene South Africa is Mr. la V, 1511.11, F.R.G.S., who is ,woll known' as 'a leading authority on the in ruea- terious ins of prehistoric times, the inonuments of which etre scatter- ed thrOughout southern Rhodesia, many of 1,110111 being assoolated• wh it tho expenolve ancient gold we -adage from which in the Biblical Ophir por- e:ee 1,000,000 11,010,000 believol to have been exteactecl. Mr. Met enormous quantities of gold are l. tele novenae) 437,""" 413°,"D'n Hall £1,000,000,000 bits recently completed tWO Qspilsi R14,010,000.00 I ie,:years' exploration work CM the Great Neither alesoeutely 1101'telat---e. I Zirabeeme at the request of the Rao - have the people as much taxationas; v I desian goernment., end also throe in 1800. The cost of defence is not , Imo:dila' examination work at the re - excessive, colnPared with 0111 1.°.'queet. of Mr. Rhodes' trustees in the sources; it is only exeessive in 1.10W Ilefrarma district, which abounds in of what we get for the expenclitine. he nation is quite able to bear the 1)011 as it contains bell forts, T 'bell tetaacee, stone -lined pits and bullion that, is placed upon it, , but galleries, aqueducts and other relics it ought 1.0 have something better lot eeme mogeroegotaso moo. Air, that: it gets foe the money. lam; Hall infonued Reuter's representative our present, Arniy ealienditure--viaii that his recent operations at Great $1 50.000,000 -we should have a ' Zhebabye had brouglit the enigma splemliel striking force of from ciehty ot Leese reins very much nearer solo: - to a lenalred thousand inere-rot the 1 Lion, Ills discoveries of new and adicolons NIXt,'01) thoosancl seggested cant. erchitecture, buried buildings, in the latest scherne---ready to take gold ornaments ancl relies, represent: - the field at it moment s notice; a ling the period when phallicworshia force of elli Oita the best -officered in I wits Peactieed, have been highly Ma the world; 250,000 Voltail ears, with i portant, A large seetion of the tra»sport costa egeipment; Iteeervee in Ilattee, also of gold end othee relies, abn-ndance, cunt a contented body of bas lean secured, - The ovideticee eolcliers. illicit Rhodesia was llie coentry from RA.mwAys v. WAR aallan, which King Koloinotes gold Was ob- tained aro g teit accumulating. The Think what our railWay companies hell -dere of the more encient Peet ion de en 5170,000,000 a YrIa)." Th°4' of these massive and exteneire ruins maintain a flingnifieent• star6-P5Iareate bellesed to have been elabaco- ly centeeted and well Paid -0( 280a Arelanne of about 1 000 11,1?, who et, 000 men, 22,000 up-to-date loconto- Lent thee, weal. 11,1 „ea pon.o.,ops tivesa-Inow notny gime have, WO tor or gestim, 'hag Dia 0100leyee-22,000 miles of Per- been 11111fli, that any of the seructures manentavey, and palatial Luildinge, were reveled by the lelmenleitme, but evith which to Compare one military eietinee 11,1005 nf Thee, mimeo” are baloacks Would be ludicroes, Why ocumet everything be es well done in the Army for almet the same air:out:la The imbecile incompetemer believed to Mae been (I:seesawed, " etill ('11 (110,' abt1 Ibe eve of our riding classes is at the bole Or after Immehelen to the Showmen, tem of He 'We catmot have an en -He -hat the liump on that camel's:. ("mous coteceipt A1111,V like Germany Ibeek It+ foie" , "What's it for?" or leranee; but we eau, end ought to, I"Vee; 111 sthel value is ite" "Well; have ah efficient, ferce to back up Ities ham of value, The erome wotad 1110 na,Val 3)0WM. in ce se• of at tempted 1 be no mind wit holt t • it e' "Why 1000111150, end o 10111 abroad to 'no 1' ` \VI1y ? Vey dowt wee. guard our iimeateelone. !pose ,poople eiti pity 10 • eeni11 to soo Our. Navy mey peeve itself Strong a camel without a, hilnip, do yer?" *seeKieseielaifKia‹<•teslOcea•eaeilieatee, A 7111 About the ..0.1-11 o use A A; fle eheaaiaaaaaeeeenieeieianaaaaaa (P ITINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. A little variety can be given to P055 by cooking them with green) string beans in slightly salted wa- ter. Put both on together, drain when soft, put in a generous lump of butter, a waft of paprika, and with flour. Put back a tablvepoon or two of the water in which they were boiled and let all Ammer for O few moments. Minced parsley adds to flavor and appearance. at in a good plan 1,0 save all pieces al old table ham for 1150 in drying green salads after they come from their bath. If the eggs come frorn the icebox they will whip namh stiller than if kept in a warmer place. A Ware spoon whisk is best for eggs when they are beaten separate- ly. A revolving goatee is best when the yolks and Wkiites are whipped to- gether. A distill of powdered charcoal kept in the refrigerator will help to keep the air sweet. It should be changed twice a week. Tea matting, which any grocer will give to customer for the asking, may be charmingly utilived in de- corating.0 room with flowere, ferns or foliage. leaehion tlie matting ta- to baekets, cornucopias and the like, and tack them under pictures in corners and in other desirable places. An old housekeeper says that a little dissolved gelatine added to the cream will prevent all clanger of its turning to butter, as it is apt to do when it is W1111111161 in hot wee.- t•h'er. A roast of veal is maile more "taety" by seasoning over night in this way. Take equal' parts of pep- per and salt, and nioiston with grat- ed onion. Rub this thoroughly into every crevice and cranny of the roast and pet it In a double balcieg pan. Next day, "lard" with its own suet or a little bacon, anti let it brown slightly. Then dredge with flour, putting a half cup of boiling, water la the bottom of the pen as a gravy foenciation. By renewing the flour every time it is dredged the gravy Will be found thick and cirearny, when the meat is roastocl. Frettoli-fried toast is more deli- cious and easier of digestion if the crust is cut from the bread just be- fore it is dipped for a moment in scalded milk. Pat as dareas pos- sible with an old napkin, and give It a coating of beaten egg, 115in5'0. pastry brush. Have ready batter in a frying -pan and fry quickly, dust- ing with powdered sugar and grouncl cinnamon before serving, which slieuld be done promptly atter cook- ing. Besides making an excellent sweet -pickle, cutumbers 0011 be con- verted into ono of the richeet of pre- serves. Sliced lemons, spices and plenty of sugar aid in the transfor- mation. Big yellow cucumbers which have gone to seed are best. Peel and serape carefully mid cut in- to long sakes, then prepare tbo syrup according to any of the old- fashioned "pouna for pound" recipes. Pat caeoembers and lemons in to- gether and use a spice -bag, as di- rected in former oases. Put away wall wasaid papers when quite cool, using either large or small glass jars. DOMESTIC RECIPES. Poverty Co.kee-Break one egg into a cup, beat with it a piece of butter the s•izc: of an egg, and 1111 up the cup wilif sweet mile, oe lake -warm water; add oho cup sugar- ared one - and three-quartere chips of Aber in which tam •teaemoonfuls ad baking powder have been sifted. Bake in thee° layers and put together with lemon filling, .1pr which take one egg one-half eup sugar, half cup eweet Milk and two-thirds of a teaspoonful of flour, Cook till it thickone, then beat -In the juice and grated rind of a lemon. Oneumber Plealea.-Put small cu- cumbers in a stone jar, scatter' a handful of salt over them, and cover with boiling water. Let stand oiver night, then drain and repeat the process. Rinse in clear water, wipo and put into boiling vinegar sweet- ened and epiced to taste. OlcaIrnehioned Gingerbread. - One cam each of butter, sugar, enolaeces and buttermilk, ono tenepoonful each of cineamon, ginger and soda, the latter diesol-vecl in hot water, two eggs, and about five cups of floor, Slir the ihert four ingredients witli the spice 1.111 115111. arid creamy, then add the milk, eggs and flour. teat hard, and bake los ,shoets of patty - tine, Banana Shortenae,-Make ci rich aiseeit crust, hake in jelly take 1,1110 110h, too thick faeces. Whet: chme, split open with • forks and butter' while hot, three layers being enougli for one cake, The two bottan: lay - eel end one top nialze the 13051. elicepa Take about three good-eizod tam- oughly ripe bananas Lied' hrod finely with a 'fork. Spread it layer of the fruit on the erust, adding the lettee bit or salt, and sprinkle well With powdered feigns', Add Lae next lay- er in tho some WRY. On the leet 011(1 spread fruit very thiclay, wolf mixed with esigar, 00 as to form is, 101't of icing, Servo with soft eusterd 1101'- orcsi with vanilla. ('linlO OhoW--H'nuf a pootk ni grenn tomatoes, two teng•e heads of cab- bage, fifteen goailaeleed onione, leventy-flve cuettinthere, one pfa.t. Of herse-redish, half a pound terestancl seed (white), one eninee eelery seed, one ounee airmeittee, half it teacup- ful groused bleak' popper', Out Die 1 o Ina tws, 00c -umbers, Doll one tied cabletego Mall, and pacific that he teat for ono night, Li the morning drain the sale oil, anci hiy them in vine- gar and water for a day or two, then (Main them again, 13W 1 the epices in balf a gallon of vinegar, with three pounds brown ssigar, and pour it over wane hot. Repat tale for three dive, then mix floe melees mesterei ClIKI halt 0 pint of Dee best salad oil. Acid two quarts more of vinegar when the pickle is cold. Tide is good to eat, in two months, Chocolate ace-Creel:ea-One quarter requiem of chocolaee, 0110 tab/10000a- ral of sugar, one tablespoonful of boiling water, one-tiaid cupful of •tain cream, a few graia$ of selt and two :drops of Vairilln, Melt cheep. late in small sasecepan placed over hot water, raid auger and boiling water geoid:Jelly, stirring contetan•tly, Pour on slowly the main, add salt mild vanilla, Gum freeze. Spaniel! Pickle. -Slice very* thin one gallon green tomatoes; let them remain In brine one night. Proper° a mixture of walte mustard seed, one pint grated horee-raeleh, one-third pint green peppers, one-third pint of chopped onion, onci tablespoonful groend bleak pepper, two tablespoon- fuls cloves, two of nsnee; put in the jar a layee of this mixture, than a layer of tomatoes, and so on Wail it is filled. Pour on stallelera elder vinegar to rover the whole. , To one quart of vinegar, adcl them quarters of a. pint of sugar: boll togetlier and pour over the pickle. • This quantity Will fill a two -gallon jar. TAXING OUT STAINS. Here is a serviceable list to • be kept for reference: To take out grass stains use ordinary coal oil; wet the spots thoronghly just before putting itt tho wash tub. Nor iron rust wet the spots with Ifenoe juice, lay the garment in the AM, and spread thick with spelt; ov- el'a 210W anti again scpmeze lemon juice over, keeping it wet. Two or three exposures may be necessary. When your tableeloth and nate nap- kins are stall:fel by fruit, have a small bottle of javelle water pre- pared at the druggist's, and satur- ate the spots, letting it, lie awhile before launderingif fruit etains are token in time, however, have some one hold the spot over the sink and pour boiling water slowly througli. Oxalic acid MILS a liole in a few motnents unless immediately evaeherl out. Cilycerine takes out coefee and tea stains. First soak in cold water, then spread with glycol:1ms roide leave all night. The stains will illeapPear in the laundering: Those who have esed vneeline know what an ugly stain it leaves on linen. 'leas can bo removed with chloroform or oth- er, but InUSt be 1150d with: care. Hose a cep or bowl handy; pour a. few drops of ether on Die etain, invert tlie bowl over the spot to keep the fumes from evaporating and leave 1101110 time, When a garment lies been scorched in tho ironing, imleas too aecp, a riot eun betel will effectually cfraw mit the spot. If not mate gone, wet the place and rub laundry soap on it; then lay in tlie sem. AUSTRALIAN STEEL. Inventors Have Process They Wish to Dispose of. For some time two Melbourne in- ventors have been at work on an in- vention, for making irOn and Steel di- rect from the ore without the neces- sity, o•f first making pig Iron. Their experiments so far have licien. With magnetic oi•o obtained frora Taranalea N.Z., but they claim that they have now so far perfected their process as to be able to treat with equal success, all cldsees of iron ore and effect a saving of fully $10 per ton over tho present manner of mak:- ing iron and steel. They have fully protected their pro- coss with patients in all parts of the worla. The success of these Mean - tors and the possibilities that it of- fers has. caused widespread' discus- sion thrinighoet, -the coantryeeree it is preposed time the government. Shall obtain the. 'patents .ancl make it 0, govenanent monopoly. • • 151. is proposed teat the Now South eVales government *all Pay to the inventors the lump sum of $1,000,- 000 for the rights to •the invention and then that irommesters through- out Australia shall be licensed on, a royalty to manufacture, at is aisle proposea that the right to eve- the peaces:, shall be let to iroonnastere in different parte of tbe World, but that in the caeD of works outside af this -eountry a differential royalty shall be charged et about 05 per ton, to erpeatiee the higher rato al wages paid here. When Elea Edward was a -little boy, a party of Ojibway Indians, who wore given an audience by Queen Victoria, caused him. nerueli :amusement, and he rail aboat among them, pulling at their framer] leg- gings and exainining their treppinge, without the slightest fear, One of the chiefs delighted him hugely by pro:oiling hint with an eagle's tee- the:. and a bear's dew, and else merle the little Treece 11. pt•etty 4500111, iicseribingeliirn in tiele Red Tadian fasaion• as "the very big lit- tle White leather lehoee eyes are like the sity that! steed tolt things, end who is fat With goodness like a, win- ter bear." eibir 'Frederick Ifolcier, Selectee", of 111(1 Ilbeee of Reoreeentatives, preached LW I tc, 111 the Methcallet Church, Goklen Square, Beadily, last Suncleaa"11115 • item of a505, coa 'I tract int ft•cen tbe latest Melbourom .5115000, may eound a lettle 011:0050 Olt this !ode of the world, but melt ennoenconente haim long been feteil- tar to Anstealien tenders. Sir Free.- eriek was a Weeleyan pigeteliet for enemy yeare in Senth Australia, of !which coloey he Wes Premier when 1 Vs, ferat 1011 wee necomal !shed. He !Was elected the first Sp:niter of the ; ConnotanWeal Pale lament, and le - Acted of reetiom on famolners, Ilbo , every other Speaker, lie Mole his Ivey by forte of lasbit bdo eoleo Meithea- let pulpit.. HERE'S HEALTH TO YOU TOASTS WHIca AitZ 130Tal WITTY.L.ND WISE. • Many Are Hidden Prom the leforba and Revealed Only to a Privileged Few, Tliere Is quiets a Mina of wit and wiedono in toasts, many of which are hicederi from the world cot huge tied revealed only to a prioileged aad convivial few. Trade and profeselonal toasts aro by no moans tho least enteetaining, as, for instance, tho shoemaker's son- tinment, "May eve have all the we- northtaot shoe and the MOO tO boot," beloved of glaziers, -The praiseworthy giamier No:0 takes 'panes' to see it's way' through lam", A favorite toast among lawyers ie, perbaps, not so respectful to those In Nigh places as it might be-Pho Bench and the tar. 11 it were not for the Bar, there would be little ilea for tho Bench"; and certainly it is not so witty or appropriate as this of the pawrobroleert "Wbon we lend our eaeh to a friend, may it be to his interest to pay the principal alai his princeple to pey the interest." Ono of the many toasts affected by schoolanneters is cts portentous- as al is professional. Thus: - Addition to patriots. •Subtreation to placemen. Multiplication to the friends al pemee, `Division to its enerniee. Reduction te abuses. Rule of three to Xing, Loads, and Commons. 'eidetic° to reformation. ' Decimal Fractions to the clergy. , Fellowsbip to tritons. Discount to the National Debt. "All heads to the enema" is said to have been the temperate teast at a recent teetotal ha n (met; ant a North-cour try manufacturer once startled his auditors by this proposal: "Sink our coal -shafts, dam our rivers, 00115M110 0111' tures, and disperse British: commerce to the four winds of ilcavon." Many patriolic and political Locusts are often amusing, as "May the one- enies of Great Britain always leave long Corns and short shove." In the dews when Cromwell !meted it over England the Cavalier would put a crumb of bread in his glass and, before 'drinking, would exclaim, "Fate send this Crumb -well down"; while in later years the Jacobite would drink confusion to Willeaanee TIL: "To ehe squeezing of the; rota. ten Orange," or would empty itlinir glasses "To the little gentlenieen be the velvet waistcoat." 'The 13r11.ish Limo -may hr never rise in anger end sit down ini fear," Is a characteiestie John Belli seeeti- ment; as also this toast:- ' { Here's a health to His Majesty, Confusion to his enemies; And he that will not pia lam his health I wish him neither wit nor wealt But just a rope to hang himself. "May you live, my lady ducliese, until you begin to grow uglyee wag the toast of 0 great statesman to his aged but still comely hostess. "I thank you, sir,'' tho ductiess retort. ad; "end Joey you long continue your taste for antiquities." ,Clueen Eltzebeth was not always too well pleased velum bor courtiers toaeted her. Observing ono (ley that a noble member 01 ,1101 household was rattier conspicuously enema she in- quired the cause of Isis mirth "1' faith, madam," the nobleman hie - coughed, "it: is through &inking your health." "So 7 thought," won tile Queen's cutting rejoinder'; "and I am sorry for it, for I never fare . worse tlian when my health is drunk." Ile must surely have been a jlitciJ River who proposed "WOrann, the tboitote2rnulicahlfmaofrimi6ettnahnw.dilicTsgsaireblythat tpasse--"Woman. To deecribe her is superfluoug-s•ho species for lie:self." "A. full puree, a fresh bottle.. mild 13 pretty face" reareeent a combinaticie jertliaetttiaeresealestintoienTsancire. a 't"F°Thhseteefro:;ili rbeLet work of Nateen-woniam" and "Lnv wilitout ' 'deceit and 'nentri• many without rogret."-London 1311.5. BUBBLES. Some diseases, lace spree fishhook are not catching. ' • . The man who serves you with, mile likes cream pules, Spooney couples in the park -seem to prefer the dark nmet. The unsucceesfoil laundryman lays' It to the irony of fate. - A barrelful of money woulcinet be Much If it Was a gall 1)011'01. ;As you might stay, hydrophobia in O Ad°g-gigrl°neincerft Y. Istahsleug' time 'to burn when she does burne-wood work. The photographer is mit gullible lest because ho takes you at your word. • EVOn Vrlinn the 40C1t1101' 11 TMSt+0111.15 1,011 can truthfully say, "Olt, We fair." 8011 10 1 I, g ing 005 11 11, IS 0111(1 an ateursion. Of course, it is quite poeelble to oat light; lunch in the dark, ' A faded, rickety old tualerella ie• a chiilidulty 00051(1 people have to taboo under. A traveling deesa mita erten be do. Scribed as "fits end starts." 11.15011 it VOI`y 11111 man, you ketow May be a little shore or ridiculous. The enterprising eadertaker th take he le &oral to ney uncleetaking, ,A woman with an ebutalance Hair is often falsely iteeneed, Sealaintess le one thing a Doreen can'Aetre laeill <c°Ptoiesie, dllityTulricnow, It man tette tout' no' flee Weeke to make anal , lAtir'°1'101S' c'leistinettiool le the thief of thre bat it eeldoin pee ado jell, "Tiatiee What all hard 1 ' amid the facetious more, eee he Pieked. 'up a ailvag dotin.r.