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The Brussels Post, 1905-3-9, Page 6Ab A'°tit the deem -louse IYADH1Pi!?n3neernerni/i?lr' Att SOME TrlinALY RECIPES, (corn Relislf,—Ten cups of corn (et from cob), ten Cups at cabbage chop peat line, five red peppers (large chopped line, one-half gallon vinegaa three tablespoonfuls of salt, thre cups of sugar, four tablespoonfuls white mustard seed, two tahlespu0n- Ants of celery, seed, Mix thorough] and cook one-half hour, Birthday Cake—One-half cup butter, one cup of sugar, one -ha cup o1 100k, one and one -hall cups o flour, one teaspoonful of baking poly Glee, the whites of four eggs. Illi as usual, flavor with one-half tea - spooeful of vanilla and half titgrated rind of a lemon. One pane of London layer raisins, one -hal pound sultanas, one-half pound o dates (chopped) one-half polled u figs, one-half pound of blanched al mends, one-eighth pound of citron shredded; one-fourth pound of can died orange 111111 lemon peel together Gana of tba board of health now ole-I`j"ERRIB1 C SCENE (1F ��/ 1 hand the disinfection of all bedding t 1 11 l,L V rY f, in eases of tubeectelosis and other , ..,... communicable diseases, yet the need THE 23ARTLE OF LIAO for renovation is often quite as great without compulsion from without. While the ohs'.tinny discomfort and labor at having a anattress renovat- ed is now removed from the house, superseded by the general establish- ment where all such work is dune, „khat is the most terrible war there aro also disadvantages tenni Brune you ha" wit.nv seed"?'" 1 avert nected'with the present methods, tin-! sometimes asked. '1'h'o t f uestfon is less one has absolute confidence M WAS BLOODX', Horrors 01 the Field Vividly De- picted by One Who Was There, it the upholsterer there is the nubility,not gnarly aiswered, for War. 10 ,1 - 01 having good hair replaced by in -'thing of ace uu,ulntEng horrors, ) feller products, or even rags aro Wmfes .eln 10. A, eiciveie in London •, other refuse, twee 111 first-class es- Alleive'S. tablishments there is the unpleasant 1 The most tragic detail in modern at reflection thnt beds from fastidious' fighting Is the injury indicted urn ilullehollls are apt to come ht con-! twauxgl and children, few of US who tact withthose from objectionable Ivory preeent at the battle of Liao public ,•esol'ts of sloe -eine families, i Yang will ever forget Lhe sight of orf a condition of aflame that can scarce- the Wounlied babies in ares, the if • ly be guarded against any more than, ntothlrrs shut accidentally while f the hit -or -lines style of n general; nursing their children, and the boys, i l0Yuidrv. Occasionally a workmen !scarce able to toddle, cut down by x! may be 1(11111(1 who will Colne to the eera4'ne1 fire, house and de the work In the olds No scale slants out more vividly ter way, but this is the exception, not: than the Wieners of Ince Cake 10111, (11 the rule, 111 the meantime the ut-I the Spioa ftop of Manchuria. A fi most care should be takers to see, Immo 'raged around this for n'arl0 f! that the work 3s sent to a reliableIa Week, and the hill was tem anti f' establishlnelu, where every satoguard retaken by' either side. Al. the end f it was a horrible ,`shambles, gorged with blood.I was with Genera]Km trroki's amity i y shredded. Use an additional cup o flour to (hedge the fruit, Add fruit to the dough, bake its u paper -tined cake pan, Moving lube in the center Bake in a slow oven, Imperial Cake. -0110 pound of su gar, one pound of nom, three -guar tens pound of butter, one pound o almonds, blanched and cut 1111e; 011e - half -pouted of citron, one-quarter pound candied cherries, one-half pound of seeded raisins, rind and juice of 0110 10/11011, two 1/10008 of can- died orange, one nutmeg, tell eggs. This is very delicious and will keep for months, Vanilla Wafers,—Creon one-third cup of butter; add one cup of sugar; one Well -beaten egg, one-half cup of milk and two teaspoonfuls of vanilla, Mix and sift two and one-half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking Powder, a pinch of salt. Mix all well and set out to chill thoroughly for a couple of hours. Lay one- quarter of the mixture on a board, adding flour to prevent sticking; roll thin and bake in moderate oven, These took well cut into heart or fancy shapes. Scotch Woodcock.—Six hard-boiled eggs coarsely chopped, two table- spoonfuls of Nutter, one tablespoon- ful of flour, one tablespoonful of anchovy paste, half pint of milk, 1)111011 of cayenne. Cook butter anti flour together until they bubble, add milk and stir until smooth. Put in the anchovy paste and cayenne andl one minute later the eggs, Simmer three elements and serve on toast. Brown Apple Pudding,—Put a layer of apple sauce in bottom of pang sweeten and season with a little nut- meg. Put in a lamer of bread crumbs then another of apple sa'ac5 and cin- namon, and then bread crumbs till the pan is full. Use plenty of sugar, and bake. To be eaten with cream.. Curing Dried Beel—A tested recipe for curing dried beef is as follows: For every 2(1 Ibn, of beef mix thor- oughly 1 pint fine salt, 1 teaspoon saltpeter and 3. 1b brown sugar. Divide this into three equal parts and rub well into the beef on three successive days. Let it lie in the brine it makes, turning over every day. In a week ft is ready to hang up. Hang it in a dry place, only - until it is through dripping, then re- move to a tool place, if possible, where it will not freeze. The cellar - way will answer if nothing better is available. It molds on the outside in warm weather, but is easily trim- med off and the inside is just rigut. On the approach of spring put a c1or,e muslin paper bag over it. A New Confection—Boil together 2 cups gr'anuletecl sugar, half alp sweet- cream and 3 teaspoon butter until the mixture will harden when stirred on a cold dish. have ready 2 cups mixed and finely chopped raisins, citron and at least three varieties of nuts. Stir into the hot mixture, and stir until still. L1110 a• baking powder can with waxed paper and press the mixture into it, Let stand over night in a ' cold place. turn out of the can and cut into thin sheet, rolling each in powdered sugar, possible is afforded. vl'Ifl DON'T TOT-. Why don't you a11811'e0 your friend's when it Made its gai0ll move around letter nt once? it will hate. double Liao Yang 11)1(1 sought to cut oil'! ' value if written promptly, null will leonropatkhl's retreat. We found take no more time 110W than by anti ourselves hetet up by 1170 flussituns on by Why don't you make the promised visit to that invalid? S110. is look- - ing for you day after day, and hope f deferred makes the heart sick, Why don't you send away that lit- tle gift you've been planning to send? Mere kind iatcntions never accom- plish ally good. Why don't you speak out the e1- eouragiug words that you have in your thoughts? Unless you express them they aro of no use to others. Why, don't you try to share the burden of that sorrowful one who Worits beside you? Is it because you are growing selfish? Why don't you take more pains to he Self-sacrificing and loving in the everyday home life? Time is rapid- ly passing. Your dear ones will not Ibe with you always, Why don't you create around you an atmosphere of happiness and helpfulness, so that all who come in touch with you may be made bet- ter'? Is not this possible? IN BUYING BLi1NIi31TS. In buying wool blankets, get the best neekes, but not too heavy, -Be- fo'e Using at all, cut apart and bind the raw edges to correspond with the upper ones; then follow the Eng- lish housekeeper's custom of covering the end of the blanket or comforter that conies next the face of the sleeper with a strip of thin muslin or cheese cloth, which can 11e readily replaced when soiled, A wool blan- ket is never improved by Washing, and should be kept as inmlacelate as possible. Dry cleansing is the only proper way to renovate a wool blan- ket. Those with cotton harp stand washing much better, 131(115 AN1'1 BEDDING. It is not so generally known, but this is the approved time for buying new or renovating old inaftr s ses as wo11 as linens. In buying n0W mat- tresses, those made from. pure South American hair are the best. This is taken from the manes and tails of from theft position. Sometimes dy- wild horses, is then rolled, steamednamlte has to he used to blow up and curled. The second best quality, is made with an admixture of pigs - hair with horsehair. 'Phis is cheaper but is not as springy and does 1101 last as long. Jute is made from the moss that comes front southern trees. 10xclesior is better and more reliable than anything except the hair. Cotton either side of the ex- eelsior is comfortable, but far from sanitary, ns cotton is a strong ab- 50rbenl and holds the exhalat-i'nes from the body. For this same reas- on neither cotton peels nor cotton NEWS IN THE WILDERNESS. Lumber -Camps Are ?Tow Connected By Telephone. The telephone is now extensively used in the lumbering business. The result of thus bringing science into the wilderness will I.robably be that soon, from certain points of view, there will bo no wilderness at all. The Electrical 'Review says that throughout the forests from St. John to Vancouver lumber -camps are now connected by telephone, which also unites the sawmills or woodpulp works of frontier towns and large Cities. Years ago it was the custom of the lumber interest to nitthstain a force of couriers, hardy men, who would travel twenty -Ove miles a day through the wilderness by rough for- est paths. • Now, at stated hours, the mill calls each camp in turn, to receive reports and give instructions to the foreman. Letters are read to lumbermen snowed in the forest fifty or a 'hundred miles away. Then answers are dictated to the steno- grapher at the office, who writes out his notes and malls thelu, One of the difitculties in logging is the formation of the "jam," a col- lection of logs at some narrow place i11 a turbelont stream. Other logs floating(101011 the. river it l n - e t tet P selves up at the obstructed oust P and i1 'moires great labor attended by actual peril, to remove the logs the "pack" and of rotn'sc much lum- ber is destroyed in the explosion. Now wbencver a ,1ant begins to fern one of the 31031 who patrol the river hank gives notice by telephone to the 1117.11 up the river to stop the further flow of Iclgs at taint places, called "trips"; and it Is an easy matter to break e, small ,jam by summoning 71.011 from points farther down the streaiil. ' - Tho human side_ of life 18 also made warmer and more Vivid by this blankets are anvisab'le, furless light inmate of communication 111 the wile g (1231x)0(31• A lumberman at IToquianl, enough to be, frequently 1a1l?l00red. A mattress slnend always have a 123('5 rgtml, woos crippled for three battoled cover to keep out the Hull' years by an accident in in t11e forest, from the b011(1111g and dust from the floor, and yet. with the best of colo mattresses shouldbe taken apart and thoroughly (evened once in three or four years if they be on a bel that is 1>00lpled every eight, Ti, is no longer considered a recom- mendation to sweet slimmer to know that 'tiyis is the, bed Grandpa ,Tinos died in. (band Aunt Penelope had her ;11100110 in, or that ali. the child- ren have occupied it. in '1urt1,' unless one is reasonably sure that it has been eel fumigated and thoroughly packed apart and Cleansed in the 9nt0rinl. "old -times" Selrtfm emir u 1• 11 vac() "Mould ltl Cll tnoice in,h e t Matter of a inattress, Tim bell in It spare x0013) that is 0)1T,y necaelonalll' slept in may not meed malting over ottenor.• than once In ten or twelve years, The intone( and dm';ng his recovery ho director; a logging 1)331rte58 of half a million dollars a ,year from lois sick -room boy the use of the telephone. One day, when a party Was coming down the west. branch of the I'eob- 80ot, 111 the welds of Maine, they were sur7rrteed at seeing the guides turn their canoes to the bank, "1171at's the 'latter?" asked toms of the travellers, „We're going to order your imp. pore' was the a115tver, One of the men opened a small box of a hlnnberman'5 telephone et the sidef o tree t a Q0 a lr spoke Ica t 0 n a came), .r 1, 71)1108 nhway, 9a in r y that the ar W011111 11711770 nt night, aria giving di rections,for supper, Ton hours later the 'Weary touriets eerived at the Spot where their enIconic reed their Suppe' were ready. tree fortified hills, and our troops at once set out to attack the central defence. CAN WE LIVIe TII1l0UGI3 IT'? nix batteries of Japanese artillery, standing out bodily on a ridge of the valley, engaged the Russians an the ]rills, The heavens seemed civ-' eyed with bursting shells as with rt curtain. The Russians fired thou- sands of rounds in reply, When the full chorus of artillery began, and each 800011(1 had its rack- ing explosion, we held our breath. Taut nerl'(s and ()lectt•Ilied blains e pictured the scene in front, - "My Oo'll 111y (God!" buret from the lips of a hardened fighter at my side. "Can a man be left alive?" Yet when the Russians matte mo- mentary pause, quick reply came. First one gun spoke, then 011100 a succession of flashes, and cur gun- ners, jumping out of the narrow pits they had dug for shelter places, poured out round upon round. The sun sank Whited the heavens. Suddenly a t•eniendells crackle. caused by thousands of infaner;y vol- ley firing, struck our ears, and the lines of spitting brightness showed that our infantry attack on the cen- tral hill had begun, Our soldiers. I who had been creeping clonal- through loserthrough the millet, rushed the vil- lage at the foot of the hill, and pre- pared to ascend. There were gullies up one side of the hill, through which they could creep, bat they were greeted with so heavy a Ore that even the feade8s Japanese sol- diers paused. A MAD 0LTAIICIE. Then tlheir.otilce.rs sprung up. One, with drawn sword, rustled where the Ming was thickest, shouting before he fell: "Now is the time to die for the Emperor!" Others took up the cry, and the whole body of mon 730000d forward. "What could we do?" the soldiers asked me aftel:weirrly, when telling Ina of their rush. "What could we do but follow when our 3Oicers led the way?" On the Russian side beating drum bade the men strum fast; on the Ja- panese, bugh,-calls encouraged , ad- vance. Shouts of exultation, of cm- cenragenent, of defiance, and of agony rent the air. A night attack has horrors all its own, and the horror's of many night attacks seemed concentrated here. The hillsides were already slippery with Inman blood, licit found th'e'me Selves hampered by the still forms of the dead lying around. In (feeds of heroism each 'side rivalled the other, but the Japanese, alert, ath- letic, courageous, were the stronger men, and, 1 afore dawn came they were masters of the hill. We held the hill all day, our sol- diers digging holes in the earth and crouching in there for shelter from the pouring shell fire. 'As darkness drew near, the sound of music swept across the valley. The Japanese looked up, and saw on the oppaolle hill mussed Hessian hands of musi- cians t s e cats as, cabled •111 hla 1 and it out 1 As dal Statement 58th A =' ; nual Report ASSETS Government, Municipal, and outer Bonds, Stocks, and De- bontiucs,.. ,,, .., Mortgages on Real Estate 817,249,744.96 4,500,711.29 Loans on Bonds, Stocks, Etc,,, 308,093.06 Loans on Policies 3,504,421.18' Real Estate owned (including Company's Buildires in To- ronto, ITaanilton, Montreal, Winnipeg, S1. John, N.B., and London, Eng.) 1,762,633.99 Premiums in Transit. and defer - fell (net) and interest *te- emed . ..... ...... ... .• . . 980,898.30 Other Assets 402,996.00 Cash on hand and 111 Banks,,, 290,099.62 029.074,599,00 LIABILITIES Reserve Fund Company's Stan- dard (11111 8% and 307.) $26,408,650.00 Death Claims 111 Course of Set- tlement, and Instalment Fund 237,445.28 Dividends to Policy -holders in Course of Payment 16,120,80 Reserve for Policies which may be revived 33,670.00 Other Liabilities - 2,280.98 Total Surplus on Policy -holders' Account, Company's Stan- dard 9.376,425,99 $29,074,599.00 RECEIPTS Premium and Annuity Income (net) $3,043,178.15 Interest, etc 1,204,851.50 Profits on: sale of Securities 52,361.63 84,300,391.23 PAYMENTS Death Claims (net),,, ,. $1,221,815,60 Matured Endowments (net)... 218,857.00 Dividends paid Polley -holders (including Bonus Addition paid with Death Clahns and with Matured Endowments) 207,781.12 Surrender Values paid Policy- holders 76,500.95 Paid Annuitants 23,597.01 Total paid to Policy -holders ..$1,748,551.68 Contnriission, Salaries, etc. 081,292.71 Taxes, Dividends, etc. , ., 320,126.80 Excess of Receipts over Pay- ments 1,550,420.09 84,300,391.28 Net Sulrlyleus over all Liabilities (Company's S1tandard).... $1,376,000 Net Srn'pins over an Liabilities (Government Standard) .. $4,326,000 GAINS IN 1904 Number of applications received Amount of Assurances applied for Policies issued Policies pald for Total business in force 1004 1008 Increase 7,221 6,863 358 $ 14,571,153 513,881,060 $ 689,193 13,043,503 12,635,032 408,471 11,211,721 10,122,180 1,089,582 101,805,944 95,631,110 6,274,834 The new business paid for hi 1904 was greater in amount than that of any previous year in the Company's history. A lull report of the annual meeting will appear In the Company's paper, "Lite Echoes. Russians a(d1'anoed 011 0o4i' 103011(1 line they met them with a steady tire. Line after lino of Russians fell, a9 though the Angel of Death had drawn a straight furrow, ' The gr•oun5(1 became, and immanent! for many days after, literally soaked with blood. NOW men were Ilrirg at one anther within a few ve'rcls: now rifle -stocks did work mole dead- ly than tentless; In the cent the Hessians fro -took the hill, but they could not hold it, for their envy Was retiring all along the rest of the line; A few hours later T stood on the bill. The sickly smell of the dead was in the air. Blood WAS every- where, Li the, valleys 11010W, thdrk nauseatitig smoke was pouring Op from the points Whore 1110 :iapunese were htapin'_ their owe dead and TEE CZAR, OF RUSSIA. The Spectre of Assassination Is Always Before Hine. Does anybody in this, country ev00 try to realize to himself the environ- ment in which the Czar has to do his work? asks T. P. O'Connor, .'!'here isn't ,a step he takes, on ovens. the grounds of his owl palaces, where he may eat expect to see ris- ine before him the hideous spectre' of sudden anldi painful death by an explosion through the solid ground. ?'here is not• a man around or be- side 111131 who may not be a member of 0110 of the societies that have sworn' to' kill him. There is not mint.sL.. a er or official who may not ut be a member of that other and even more formidable conspleacy which is even dose!. to Riau—tile coepfracy of the bureaucrats Who feel that their power is trembling in the ban force, and who would ruttier mueder a Czar than submit to one who de- throned them from power, wealth, not be; whether it be a fact or not, the Mae cannot well tell; it is suf- ficient for hint that thus in his very bedroom—the room in which Ire has to try and get his sleep—there stands the ghastly spectre of assets- 51>151ion. To ask for coolness of head, for steadiness of nerve, for tenacity of Purpose, in such'au cuvironmene, is to ask that the Czar should he ono of those giants of -lean --a. Caesar, a C'homwcll, a' Napodcot--who are thrown up just once 01' 80 111 a cen- tury in the history of mankind. And the poor lion Czar is not a Caesar o' a Cromwell or a Napoleon. Ila is simply a small, low -sized, delicate little man, With soft blue eyes, and a ragged eel and tow -colored r "go cd boa d and 6 a small, t<'ea)c mouth; it is almost tleantingly and defiantly, the Russian as pitiful as seeing a child face to National Antlenl, The Japanese fuming diem. As T gazed at 111e' ince with the Opel ,jaws of a tiger, heard undistmnyed. They had no lines of dead T renlierd that this as to see this del loath wouldin.q face bands, but they 05'401311)1011 thel• -tires the culmin1t lou ofthe horrors to face with revelation, buglers, and, with equal dtlflence, of war, +---_ played hack a .Iapanese national 0 air. GREAT WAS DIERAi,LI. (SING FOR HEALTH. Darkness fell, The Japanese sol- Palmerston was only a jingo. pillage --all the other rine things of Statistics have disclosed that s' 1 1 dices crept'. from their gullies and o at 1 a- lined the trenehee round the hill. Disetteli was a true imperialist, fes- life which they and theirs now entry, cal artistes are usually long lived, Suddenly, right from the groltnel imcinatecl no less than Napoleon by 0110 of the things I react with poig- and that brass instrument players, mediately in front of their 011(1trenehes visions of Oriental empire. 1t was Anent interest within the Teat few who bring thole lungs and chests lights flashed out. The soldiers Disraeli who bought "overnight" tie days in the papers Wee a descrip- into unusual activity, rarely have jumped to Emir feet to lire cl'ow'n- controlling in'tl'reee in the Sura t1011 01' a 000110—I l'ou't 1cn011 haat consumptive victims terming them. wards, As limy rose, bombs were Caliol, which hies given Egypt to it ever took place—between the Ceur No matterhow thin or tweak the thrown at three, exploding with dicot 11111ain and made her 1ni1•lrees and the Grand Dek(s. With tears voice, young people should .be on- trowhorrible effect wherever they touch- of the Ole(lite'rrnnean, It tva8 Pis- in 1111 eyes, despair in his face, the commend to includ'ge in singing. :T'h'ere y rarali 31110 checked 1110 Russian 111- Czar 1)0e0)ght his uncles and con- can be no happier medicine, Physi- ed, The Russian pioneers, t3 throwing fluence in Af hanistan and nmee stns --those WV110 are nearest alta. ' 1p away 111351• 11101 for 111011 father- B t crafts are agreed that singing is a laird, had'CS+awlecl up right unite the the reca31, expedition' i0 Tibet pose dearest to hIn—to avow the truth great bele totvarde the prevention, 1re1ch7s with infinite Cure, end hail. :Able. It W08 Disraeli Who broke with regard to the accident the Cure, or nenello•ration of lung cis- hurled heart grel)1)10 into the ea- the power of the 'Lulus, annexed the other day when the Wa16t's of the oases, and much good, It is said, is panoSe line, 19•ansvnal, and laid the foundation Nava were being blessed; and when, being clone in elementary schools by ' Tho Japnnesa frost tt'tt9 , shaken; for the present ,South Africa, It as Ivo know, the windows of,thn Win- compelling all young (.011010)8 to 111then came the pouring 2111'ranks of the was Disraeli tvho tinned 'Russia track ter Palate Were smashed by the bole join in, singing lessons. , 713 ion Storming party, anti. a from ' Constenbiioplc and thereby lets from one of the cannon. The hand -lo -panel ('it on the hill foi- drove her through Manchuria, to Poor Czar wanted to know the real JAPAN SAVr's ¶IOLI)T.I111t5, lowed, lavting' for srven h0tu's. Port Arthur', Tt was Disraeli Whn truth; above the he wanted to know A 1011MA) OP moan convened the Berlin' Congress, in Whether oven the office's of his The fact that out of 24,600 s'icic tvhecit can be found one of the 1nOn- household were among his enemies, in Japanese field hospitals from Tiley Pen tails io convey the sliglitest elites that tinnily brought, about the and whether he had to watch them to December last (tale 40 d'icrlshould 3nnpr•essron of the horrors of that eregene, War in t110 11(a,e't.. Judged last they should ho carrying behind be of more interest to the eishotild time, An examination of the twee by the single 8iandttrd of matelnl their well -braided and brilliant unf- nations of the earth than. an other pons and dlvss left on the field the the ?%art of 13eacone31,,1,3 was forms and obsequious ails the bonen y might c`r0 something. "Vein were the greatest cenei.ructive Bri'tislt to blow in the dagger to Wound? development w of the war in the East, A eaten which can eliminate lose rifles splintered at the magazine- statemnn of hie generation --411 feet It ie shirt bleat at this very moment b cic c ase in midi e m)ai ens ns that ease 101Me the raldierhad bean ellen:,Pitt—N w Y rk World, the Czar ut stnrtly lirt ds 'n the i1 M u'fa need not nttesoctilly raised 8hot as he also Ills weapon a , to Ic POuc et of 3 9 ) hi" coat env even under P 0 el .dor leave more sold zr i' yrs than ite admirevr-Or . Hera re others wvithh � s atter ',Eliza, yon told ma you wore a his pithily, letters threatening 115- earn to begin With, ed '10111s, stere bent bayonets, f•iti- good cook; anr(I now I thin you cant sneetna4A0)1 ?Of 0013340 11 is Saicl Med bats, d'rnn19 with holes through even make bread," ' "N0; mum, by Liberals Dint thee° letters are —" and eerese therm, s1IoWing tonere bell- Whore I lived before 7 tome here theyland 1100 h the Police n'1 lib Oil. T111R11, 1 i P I tend just es ac gone. 1 6 taaa alwwa'ts able to bti1 their men W1 , a v Alr lett+ t fr1 hienin' hire into Meet g o Astra s be on time—and v The Ja )allose rallies and en tin ' '+' g , 1 1 y l will l , e bread moan 1 f 111 a fi i 'rime t)'' feeler l'e'C,61t1 131 li'Aay er May 11a03> to wait 101'..11123 t5trer f6i0Wv ' 'EFFECTS OF SOLAR SPOTS MAGNETIC STREA3IS !EAOH TEE EARTIT. Discovery of Mr. E. Walter Maunder, a Greenwich Astronomer, At a re0en1 meeting of the Mit- Astronomer. fall Astronomical Assoeiatiol, Mr. L. Walter Maunder, of U1'eenwleh 011- sel•vatory described a discovery he has made with regard to the relation ' between sun spots and magnetic disturbanecs on the earth which pro- mises greatly to advance our know- ledge of the nty510r•i0318 interior of the sun and to help in tho settlement of other obscut•o points 111 501ar phy- s1(S, "Magnetic storm" is a sudden dis• turbanco in that mysterious flow of influence round 1110 surface of out globe which calyses the a'naiiiler's compass to point north and south. Sometimes the needles all over the world seem to receive a sudden. twitch or Jerk, which sats 1110111 os- cillating violently, and for hours, or even days, they behave in a most hysterical 108111011, and swing about as if they are marl before settling down and poiul.in1 to the north again. These invisible "storms" 0r 0011tn101iolu have nothing to do with the weather, which may be fair or foul, but sometimes they make tele- graphic communication impossible, and even (Meet our electric cars and lighting. Occasionally a brilliant display of the aurora borealis shows that something unusual is occurring in the heavens. EFFECT OF SUN SPOTS. Por long it has been more titan suspected that 8111 spots have some- thing to do with magnetic storms, but no one could quite trace the connection. Sometimes we had big sun spots and no magnetic storms, sometimes v'3cove'sa. Lord Kelvin a dozen years ago said what looked like the last word on the subject. Ile declared that thyro could be no - causal relation between tho two phe- nomena. Reasoning a priori, We pointed out that as any magnetic in- fluence from the sun must in the nature of things radiate in all dire( - tions like light and heat, the influ- ence of the sun spots on thelnagneLlc noodle hero might wax and wane, brit could not arrive with the sudden twitch characteristic of the n)agne tic "91200111," In substance Mr. Maunder's theory is that the force which suddenly agi- tates the earth is not a radiation at all, 'but a stream of attenuated mat- ter like a comet's tail, or of electri- cally charged particles, shot out from. the sun spot like a geyser or the wale• from a 11I'ernan's hose. Fly- ing upward from the surface of the spinning sun, this "stream" rushes out into space in the form of a great Catherine 1011001, or invisible watch - spring spiral. When the stream hap- pens to sritte the earth, then we see the aerial fireworks in the upper oTi• overhanging the 1)010 of this earth - magnet of ours, and our compasses. anti telegraph nee(1108 jump with l x- citonlelt. 'Puns Loris OColvin's reas- oning is Correct, hill•does not a1Piy to the present set of phenomena. • IN REGULAR PERIODS. We have given Mr, is'fau'dor's con -- elusion; now for his method. 13e carefully- marked out the time of hundreds of magnetic storms, and found that, some corresponded with big 61171 some, and some Llid not. In vain 11e Wee to find a correspondence with the faculao, or flecks of boiling 11re on the sun's surface, and with the "prominences." At last he no- ticed that there Was frequently a. series of magnetic storms at inter- vals of 27 1-8 days. Sometimes there Was no storm at the end at this period, but the storm was re- peated after exactly two or three of such intervals. Now, this tine -27 1-8 clays—is just the time taken for- a ora point on the sun to go once round arra• appear opposite the earth again. It is the rotation period of tho sun. as viewed from our 111OViltg planet. In this remarkable discovery Mr. Moneta found explanations of many ditfleulties. The storm arrives gen- erally about 26 -hours after the stinn spot points fairly and squarly at us.. Presumably that is tho time taken by the stream of uprushing particlos to reach Uhls planet, ' But though the storm cones again and again after the 91111 spot vanishes, 11) is gen- erally just at the time when' the place, where the sun spot }va9 is passing us. The on spot has gone, but the. stream of magnetic ' commotion is. still flying It from 110 same point on the sun's surface, More than this, and still snore 1.0 - markable, '11ere aro certain favor- ites points on the slap for these sun spats and the melodic streams which' Continue after they have van- ished. A point on the 2221111 degree' of tho sun's longitude is a centre of such disturbances, and magnetic 0t0rms constantly arrive when title point faces the earth. Thi9 fact points to definite permanent struc- ture in the sen.' 1t' cannot bo merely a chinning 11111911 of lire if it leas vol- canic ragiols 30111011 110053' 0143>nga. their situation, 11:U•, Maunder concluded this most interesting and suggestive lecture by 811otwing eclipse photographs _by Mrs.Maunder and others, le which, the lotlg rays el, the sun's corona.' and the ootswooping leaves of dight from whose crest they appeared to be flung off, wore Certainly analogous to tho "'Stream lines" of mag110110 force or particles which he suggests as the origin of torresteiOl disturbance. 1ITSTAK111S WILL HAPPEN. The boss—You say y0o saw him and pointed out to him that he had collected from us nearly double the amount of 1115 bi11? The clerk—Yes., sir, no 5311(1' it was an mteusablo tnistal(0. 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