The Brussels Post, 1912-4-4, Page 71
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CHOICE RECIPES,
stand till the tar is softened, when
it may be washed off with warm
water and soap.
'2o make savory hash boil pota-
toes with the skins on the day be-
fore using. When the meat is boiled
save some of the stock and put in
J/a whoa meat and potatoes aro maxed.
Metal teapots, if disused for somo
limo, give a musty flavor to the tea
when next used, This may be pre-
vented by placing a lump ..of sugar
in the teapot before putting it
away.
A few minutes' rest lying down.
in a darkened room, with closed
eyes and thinking of nothing, will
brighten up a woman who has been
hard at it during the morning
hours without a, break.
When the smell of frying pervades
the house, examine the outside and
bottom of the frying -pan, and you
will probably find that it is covered
with burnt fat, which smells direct-
ly it is at all hot.
To remove rust on nickel cover
spot with mutton tallow and allow
it to stand for five days, then rub
with finely powdered rotten stone.
Wash off with strong ammonia
water and then with clear water.
Turn your colander over eggs or
hominy or anything that spatters
while cooking. They will not steam
and will brown nicely and will net
Qy out and burn you. You can
raise the handle a little to turn.
To prevent the heel plates of.
ehildron's shoes wearing and cut-
ting through their rubbers, glue in
pieces of felt or thick flannel in the
heels where the wear comes, and
the rubbers will last three times
as long.
To all suffering from ringworm—
rub the part with vinegar that on-
ions have been pickled in. It has
never failed to euro the worst cas-
es, but must be rubbed with it sev-
eral times a day. The flavor of
the onions kills the germ.
A simple dessert and a most ex-
cellent ono is made with one cup
rich cream, one cup sugar, ono -half
cup strong coffee; have cream and
coffee chilled, add sugar, whip stiff.
Pour in mould, pack in snow, and
salt or ice for several hours.
To cool an oven while- baking
keep the door shut, put in the dam-
per of the oven flue, and, if the
oven is still too hot, remove one
of the rings of the hot plate. This
will reduce the temperature quick-
ly without admitting cold air to the
even.
When boiled bacon is to be Bat-
on hot its most suitable acoompani-
,ment is boiled .beans. They are
best boiled separately; it is impos-
sible to boil them together without
spoiling one of them. Parsley and
butter sauce should be served along
with the beans.
Neither salt fish nor mackerel
should ever be plunged into boil-
ing water or fish stock, the result
in the latter instance being that
the delicate skin would break,
.whilst in the case of highly salted
cod or other fish, the heat of the
water would not extract the salt
as would be the case if tepid water
were employed.
• 'Cabbage Salad.--lVfix two oupfuls
of chopped eabbage with a half or
one whole cupful of chopped celery,
just as one happens to have the
amount or desires a certain amount
of salad, Add ono teaspoonful of
finely chopped chives or a mere
suspicion df garlic. Mix with a
boiled or mayonnaise dressing, as
desired. Apple may be used iu
place of tho celery and cabbage,
and chopped beets make a most ex-
cellent salad to serve with fish.
Chicken Souffle.—Melt two table-
spoonfuls of butter, add two table-
spoonfuls of flour and stir over a
slow fire until mixed smooth and
thoroughly cooked. Add one cup-
ful of chicken stock and cook, stir-
ring until the, sauce thickens. Add
the yolks of ono raw egg, mix well,
take from the fire and add one cup-
ful of finely minced cooked chick-
en. Grease the small ramekin or
souffle oases and garnish, if de-
sired, with small button mush-
rooms, and slices of truffles. Mix
the whites of two eggs beaten to a
• stiff froth with the chicken, fill the
ramekins quickly and bake in a
moderately hot oven for twenty
minutes. Serve at once. This mix-
ture may be baked in a single bak-
ing dish, if desired, and should
then bake a little longer.
Beauregard Eggs.—Boil hard one
egg for each person to bo served
and make ono piece of toast for
each,, making allowance, of course,
for requests for more. For each
four eggs make two cupfuls of
cream sauce. Put this mixture on
the hot buttered toast and press
the yolks of the eggs over this.
Garnish with parsley and serve.
Meat Scallop—In this case left-
over pork is to bo used for the scal-
lop, and this means a different sea-
soning than would be used with
turkey. Meat scallops should not
be made all alike, for the material
one has on hand governs to a very
extensive degree what shall be.used
with the scallop. In this case roast
pork, apple sauce and a brown
gravy should be on hand to use.
Mix the meat with half the quan-
tity of breadorumbs and add what-
ever gravy was left over. Grease
the baking dish and fill with alter-
nate layera _ of moat and apple
sauce, having the meat layer -thick,
the apple sauce layer spread lightly
on it. If the scallop dons not seem
moist, add a little hot water or to-
mato juice. Cover the top with
greased breadorumbs and bake in
• amoderate oven for thirty minutes.
Scallops are better if baked in a
covered dish and the cover remov-
ed just long eneugh before serving
to brown the top. This keeps them
from getting too dry and hard.
Horseradish Sauce.—Mix four
tablespoonfuls of grated horserad-
isb with the same amount of Jibe
breadorumbs, one-half teaspooliful
of powdered sugar, two tablespoon-
fuls of not too strong vinegar, e
pinch of salt and a, little paprika.
Cook in a double boiler or over hot
water until thoroughly hot. Add
one-half cupful of hot cream and
cook until the mixture is thick
enough to serve with a spoon. The
sauce is served both hot and cold.
Cheese. Sauce.—Melo two table-
spoonfuls of butter, add two table-
spoonfulsof flour and stir until
smooth and thoroughly well cooked.
Add one cupful of white stock, if
possible; if it if not to be had, use
milk and cook until the sauce thick-
ens. Add the yolk of one egg,
three-fourths of a cup of eream and
one-fourth pound of soft cheese—e
well flavored cheese which will melt
in the sauce without lumping, A
soft Canadian, a gruyere or ohed-
dar cheese may be used, or some of
the potted clieeso. The cheese
.should be out inehavi
nb s and the
sauce should ld stand- over
hot water
until the cheese is entirely melted.
Serve hot.
Frozen Cream Cheese with Figs.
—Scald one cupful of cream, take
from the fire and add one cupful of
cream or cottage cheese. Mix well,
season and freeze. When ready to
serve in slices and serve with pre-
served figs in syrup, serving crack-
ers with this dessert just as they
would be served with cheese and
Serle-duc jelly. In place of serv-
ing the cheese plain . it may be
sweetened in the following manner ;
Scald one cupful of cream, add one
cupful of granulated sugar and stir
until dissolved; take them from the
fire, add one cupful of whipped.
cream, mix well and stand awa' to
cool; flavor slightly, with vanilla,
adding a pinch of salt, and begin to
freeze. As soon as the cream be-
gins to free add two cupfuls of
main cheese, previously beaten
smooth with a little cream. Finish
freezing, pack and let stand some
little time before serving. This
may be served with all setts of.
fruits that have a syrup with them,
such as preserved strawberries,
peaches, ole,
WORTH KNOWf1VG,
To remove tar marks rub a little
butter on the apola and allow it to th
RED CROSS SHIP FOR NAVY.
Plans Drawn Up for Floating Hos-
pital for British Tars.
The British Admiralty has now
complete plans drawn up for a spe-
cially built navy hospital ship,
which is to be ready in June, 1913.
The estimated cost is 8500,000.
Before this all hospital ships have
been
merely
merchant
ships P
s oom-
verted and have consequently suf-
fered from inevitable defects. The
new vessel will have accommodation
for 260 in peace and a permanent
staff of eight mediae' officers and
forty male nurses.
Built on yachtlike lines, she will
have a tonmage of 5,000. She will
be fitted with turbine engines, but
her speed will be limited to twelve
or fourteen knots an hour in order
to avoid vibration, on and
with
the
same object i
n view,
t
J rhoill
w be
fitted with the most recent anti -
vibration devices.
There will be two large operating
roma with two extensive prepare -
ion rooms adjoining, a special oph-
thalmic clerk room, a dental room,
a special laboratory for bacteriolo-
gical tests, an elaborately fitted X-
ray room, isolating wards and n
magnificently .equipped dispensary
by telephone.
The eots will lac made to swing
with the inotion of the ship, Ten
of the heels will he specially con-
structed with firmer bottoms and
somewhat larger than the others for
the use of patients with fractured'
thighs and other injuries which re-
quire, a specially stable bed.
She will be painted white outside
and 'reostly green inside, with one.
yellow funnel, Iter flags will be the
crass and the blue ensign, not the
Union Jack.
She will travel with the fleets to
varions 'seas in peace and war, as
the Maine does now, making fro -
(went journeys to the naval base
to disembark patients.
Before the plans were drawn tip
the Admiralty considered the re-
ports of medical ofiicors who spe-
cialty visited the United States hos-
pital ship Solace, and the :two Ja
panes° hospital ships which went
rough the Russo-Japanese war,
COAL DISTRICTS OF GREAT
BIIITAIN.
FIND NEW SERUM. .
That Will Greatly Reduce Death
Bate from, Tuberculosis.
A remarkable discovery that is
expected to rapidly cut down the
high mortality from pulmonary
tuberculosis and other ailments that
cause excessive hemorrhages has
been made by physicians at Belle-
vue Hospital. After months of ex-
perimental work they have, pro-
duced a eerurn which they declare
will prevent the occurrence, or al-
most immediately stop hemorr-
hages.
During the last few weeks the
new remedy Itis been used with al-
most invariable success on patients
at Bellevue. Most of these treated
were tubercular victims. It was
also used on several cases of inter-
nal hemorrhages and on a bay who
had bled for a week after two of his
teeth were ea-tracted.
The research work that led to the
discovery was based on the theory
that hemorrhages are caused by the
condition of the blood itself. When
one or more of the constituent parts
of the blood is lacking, or when cer-
tain constituents are present to an
abnormal percentage, the blood
breaks down ,bite capillaries and
hemorrhages follows, The task
which the physicians sat for them-
selves was to find and supply the
missing blood constituents.
They decided to get the blood
materials from fourteen horses that
were supplanted in the ambulance
service by motor vehicles. A pint
of blood was taken from each of the.
animals and treated, creating a col-
orless fluid. This fluid constitutes
the serum and supplies the missing
constituents that are, in most.
cases, required to prevent hemorr-
hages.
"Thus far the serum has been
successful in almost all cases," said
one of the Bellevue doctors. "In
fact, the failures were so few that
we consider the serum a complete
success. It is true, however, that
it has no effect whatever on some
persons."
Dr. Charles Norris directed the
research work and was assisted • by
Drs. C. W. Field and M. E. Hall.
They tested it on mice, rabbits and
other animals before it was used on
the hospital patients. Dr. Charles
F. Baxter, a house physician, and
Dr. L. B. MacKenzie, a visiting
physician in the tubercular service,
had charge of nearly all the cases
intered,
which the serum was adminis-
rt
The value o of theserum se um conn t
0
be overestimated," said a patholo-
gist connected with the Beard of
Health. "While it will not cure
tuberculosis, it will prolong the
lives of a large percentage of tuber-
cular patients, and give them a
chance to be cured.
"Thenew serum will also be of
great value in connection with
operations. By using it patients
will be ke
t fro
m bleeding pTofuse
-
ly,"—New York American.
SUCCESSFUL BONY -GRAFTING.
Parisian Surgeon Cites Two Cases
• of a Remarkable Nature.
Dr. Tuffier, one of the most prom-
inent surgeons in Paris. France, re-
ports that he was called upon to
treat the arm of a young man whose
elbow joint was affected by anky-
losis. The joint had boon removed,
as the entire arm was paralyzed,
The bone of another patient, a wo-
man, whose foot had beenempu-
toted, was used to replace the miss-
ing bone. The, young man after
thirteen months is now able to use
his arm.
Another case is that of a young
man whose elbow had been destroy-
ed by tuberculosis. In this ease (14
months ago) Dr, Tuflier successfully
grafted cartilage preserved for five
clays from an operation on the leg
of another person.
Two mare municipal bowling
greens are being laid out at Etta -
pool.
Conceited people often seem a
harmless kine' of people, who, by
lin overweening self-respect, relieve
others from the ditty of respecting
them at all,
SOON AVERTS STRIKE.
Churchill's Mother Supports De-
mands of Men.
Mrs. Cornwallis West, who is the
moving spirit in the "Shakespeare's
England" exhibition, which is to be
the great London attraction this
summer, has taken precautions that
labor troubles shall not disturb the
steady progress of the structural
work at Earl's Court, London, Eng-
land,
The workmen had only been on
the scene a few days when a dis-
Mrs. Cornwallis West.
puts arose as to the employment
of union and non-union labor. Very
soon all the elements of a strike
were manifest. Mrs. West did not
wait for the contractors to adjust
the dispute. She came down to the
grounds and heard the workmen's
story from their own spokesmen,
with the result that she insisted up-
on the full trade union rate of
wages being pay to every man em-
ployed, whether laborer or me-
chanic.
The contractors pointed out to
her that such a stipulation was not
embodied in the agreement and
that if they were forced to pay the
higher scalp of wages it would seri-
ously interfere with their financial
calculations. She replied she was
not interested in their calculations,
but if they did not care about the
job they could clear out and do as
they pleased.
"I am preparing these grounds
for my exhibition and I don't want
them to be
a battlefield for labor
abor
disputes," was her autr
a
shot, as
she picked up her skirts and hur-
ried to her automobile. The con-
tractors capitulated on the spot.
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SERPENT SERUM.
Austrian's New Safeguards for Men
Against Snake Poison.
It is reported in the London Lan-
cet that th chief c of medical officer of
one of the Austrian army cors has
recently ordered the use of Cal-
mette's serum against serpent
bites, and a fairly large stock of it
has now been issued to each regi-
ment in the, south of the Empire.
The men and the madica) officers
are instructed in the use of it, and
regular inspections of the stock, as
well as lectures on the natural his-
tory of the poisonous kinds of ser
pests are provided for. In addition
to the serum the various appliances
necessary for its proper application
have been sup.pliecl to the army hos-
pitals. Hitherto much dependence
has been placed on the treatment of
such injuries by alcohol and the
application of permanganate of pat -
ash,
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KEEPING PEACEABLE.
"A man insults you when he of-
fers you a drink."
"Oh, for the matter of that, 1
think it worth while for ilio sake
of peace to swallow some insults,"
Over 170,000,000 pounds of tea are
exported annually from India to
the United Kingdom.
"What are veer politica 1" "I
don't dare toll. I'm the leader of
the best brass ,band in town and
am liable to get a good job from
either party...
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 7.
Lesson L—The appearances of the
rison Lord, 1. Cor. 15, 1.11.
Golden Text, Acts 2. 32,
Verse 1, Now --In the preceding
portions of the letter the apostle
has discussed in order certain ques-
tions of discipline, personal mor-
als, and the regulation of Chris
•
tian worship. He now proceeds to
discuss the central fact and doc-
trine of Christian faith,
Unto you, brethren—Paul is ad-
dressing the members of the recent-
ly organized church in Corinth, the
Grecian metropolis and most im-
portant trade center of the Penin-
sula.
The gospel—The glad tidings, the
message of hope and salvation.
Here the word refers more parti-
cularly to the doctrine of the'resur-
rection, which had been of central
importance in the preaching of the
apostle.
2. In vain—Or, without cause.
The classical meaning of th'e Greek
word used is hastily, or rashly, that
is, without due consideration.
3. That which also I received—
Paul had himself believed in Christ
on the testimony of others, accept-
ing the teaching of those who in-
troduced .him into the Christian
fellowship following his miracu-
lous conversion.
According to the scriptures — In
harmony with the Old Testament
prophecies. The apostle undoubt-
edly had in mind such passages as
Isaiah 53 and Psalm 16. 10, which
were interpreted by all of the
apostles as referring to Christ.
6. He appeared—Altogether ten
different post -resurrection annear-
ances of Jesus are mentioned in the
Now Testament, not including his
appearance to Saul on the road to
Damascus, and these may, perhaps.
be regarded as selected instances of
a still larger number.
To Cephas—That is, Peter. This
was the third recordedappearance,
the appearance to Mary of Mag-
lala and to other women who had
gone early to the sepulcher preced-
ng the appearance to Peter.
To the twelve—Really to the
company of ten apostles, Thomas
being absent. Again we must in-
sert the appearance of Jesus to
Cleopas and another disciple on the
road to Emmaus, which immediate
-
y preceded this first appearance to
he apostles at Jerusalem.
6, 7. To above five hundred—On a
mountain in Galilee. We cannot
with certainty determine the order
n which all of the recorded appear-
ances took place. Clearly the
apostle is not attempting either to
ive a' complete list or the exact
rder. If we endeavor to do both
we must insert after the first ap-
earanoe to all the apostles men-
tioned in verse '7; and after this
tho appearance to James. Also the
appearance to a small group of clis-
iples, including Peter, on the
hores of the Sea of Galilee, on
hich occasion he required of Peter
threefold assurance of loyalty and
love. The last appearance of Jesus
ecorded in the Gospels is his ap-
earance of Jesus recorded in the
Gospels in hie appearance to the
iscipies at Jerusalem, from whence
ho accompanied them to the Mount
f Olives and there departed from
tem ascending e dm in glory.
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8. To me also—The
apostle refers
es
his experience on the road to
amascus at the time of his con-
version. The list of post -ascension
evelations of Christ includes two
hers, those, namely, to Stephen
the time of his martyrdom, and
John on the isle of Patmos.
9. The least of the apostles—The
ost unworthy and not meet to be
shed such.
The church of God—From a per-
cuted company .
of troubl
P e makers
y
he followers of Jesus had risen in
to estimation of this man until he
cognized in them a company of
tie believers and the instrument
God's hand for the establishment
his kingdom upon earth.
10. I am what 1 am --That is in
e capacity of an apostle. Paul
ttributes his conversion and Ms
portunity of service alike to the
ace of God.
Vain—Or, void.
Labored more abundantly than
hey all -In his next letter to the
rinthians Paul enumerates the
als and tribulations through
ich he has passed for the sake of
Ch
• ; "In prisons more abund-
tly, in stripes above measure, in
aths oft. Of the Jews five times
oeived I forty stripes save one.
rice was- 1 beaten with rods, once
s 1 stoned, thrice 1 suffered' ship -
tick, a night and a dare have I
en in the deep; in journeyings
en, in perils of rivers, in perils
robbers, in perils from my coun-
men, in .perils from the Gen-
es, in perils in the city, in Per-
in the wilderness, in perils in
son, in perils among fa'se
etlsren; in .laho.r and travail, in
etchings often, in hunger and
rat, in fas,ga often, in coli'
nakedness."
1. So we preach: and so ye bo-
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rants the apostle in proeeerding
from the mere insistence upon the
fact of the resurrection of Jesus
an interpretation of its deeper
nifieance and bearing on the fab
and life of all Christians,
s,
•
'y• aFROM MERRY OLD E��OIAN
A NEW RACE OF PIGMIES.
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to NEWS 111 MAIL ABOUT JOHN
xg- BULL ANA ITIS PEOPLE.
th
Oeourrences in Tho Land That
Deigns Supremo Ini the Coto•
worcial World.
Sir Horace Regnalt, viee-presi-
dent of the firth of Maple & 0o„
n London, died on the 8th inst.
s Announcement was made - last
11 week that the King and Queen have
o abandoned their proposed visits -to
foreign Ccurts this year.
• Mr. George Grossmith, the fam-
e ons entertainer, who, like Mr. pur-
ee ward Lely, had a leading part in
C• Gilbert & Suliivan'e operas, died on
e the 2nd inst,
If less is spent on liquor more. will
d be spent on necessaries, -which give
ten times the employment that li..
• quer gives. — Sir John Brunner, ;
f M.P.
The late Dr. 0. A. Lea, Hull,
an
- • who left £195,588, bequeathed)
-' £170,000 to charities, and instructed
his trustees to cancel all his medical
book debts.
Controversy by Canadians as to
the use of the Ross rifle at Birley
has been removed by action on the
- part of the Council of the National
Rifle Association.
A fire broke out at the premises
of C. B. Webb, salvage merchants
of Yea street, Bow Common Lane,
London, resulting in damage esti-
mated at £10,000.
King George has conferred the
coveted Order of Merit, which is
granted only to the moat eminent
persona in any walk of life, on Sir
Je,seph Thomson, the great scien-
tist.
Josh Taylor, the golf professional,
says he has heard uttered by golfers
with all solemnity such exclama-
tions as "Great Caesar's under -gar-
ments l" "Great Caesar's Ghost in
tights!" and "Fifty Thousand Blue
Mutes 1"
A well-known public figure has
been removed from Windsor by the
death on the 8th inst., aged 80
years, of Mr. Philip Lovegrove,
solicitor. He was formerly Town
Clerk, and for over 30 years Magis-
trates' clerk to Windsor and Slough
Benches.
The Dickens library at the Lon-
don Guild Hall has just received
one of the most remarkable. gifts in,
its history. An engine -driver living
at Sheffield has forwarded the origi-
nal paper -cover parts of "The Mys-
tery of Edwin Drood," having pick-
ed them up, so he explains, for 4s.
John Marshall, an Alfreton
miner, who was the first man in
England to come out on strike, has
been engaged to appear at several
London music halls at a salary of
£20 a week. He will appear in his
pit clothes, with his safety lamp .and
pick, and will address the audience
on the coal strike.
A run occurred on the Leicester
Savings Bank, in which over 40,000
depositors, chiefly belonging to the
working class have savings invested.
1t was believed to be the result of a
hoax. All the bank deposits are in
the hands of the Government, whose
certificate for over £800,000 is held
by the bank trustees. The run did
not prove serious.
The Earl of Selborne, speaking at
Shepherd's Bush, said modern Rad-
icalism was frankly revolutionary
and allied to Socialism. It would
be said that all members of the
arty had'nota r'
party
cued of the ut-
terances
terances of the, extreme exponents
of Radicalism. This was true, but
it was also true that they had been
careful not to express their disap-
proval openly.
Lady Eileen Butler, the bride of
Lord Stafford, will be attended by
a retinue of fourteen pink -clad
bridesmaids when she marries the
Duke of Sutherland's heir at St;
Peter's Church, Eaton Square,
London on April 11 h. r
t Her wedding
g
gown is to be, of whitei e
satin. Th
reception by the bride's mother,
Lady Lanesborough, will be held at
Grosvenor House, which the Duke
and Duchess of Westminster have
ent for the occasion. Part of the
xoneymoon is to be spent at Dun -
robin Castle.
4'
NURSING BOTTLES.
Aceording to recentdiscoveries it
appears that nursing bottles were
used even in prehistoric times. This
s true at least for the age of polish -
d stone, inasmuch as a French
rcheeolegist, 'M, Nicaise, when ex -
losing anoolithic funerary deposit,
fotund it small clay nursing bottle,
nd this was quite intact. This is
of the only specimen of:the kind
vbieh comes from ,the early stages.
mong others are the specimens
A,.
in the Gaulish burial places
f Jonchery and more recently in
he Gallo -:Roman arena of Paris.
This latter relic of ancient babyhood
Iv
uncovered within a compare-
ively late peried,
�xc. —
fl,
Jamaica, , rssovc!'e4 its 1494, by
Columbus, was els` a1Iy ea110d
Xaymaca, meaning Land 4 oo+
rkl Water',""wi
He (ncrvoiusly)--What will i f .
other say oboe _ 1 gill 'rim we're
gaged 1 She,= -.He'll be dal"tghted,
ear, `Eta always has been,
Diminutive People Have Been Seen
In Dutch New Guinea.
Fresh and interesting informatio
regarding the habits and condition
of life of .a curious pigmy race wi
be sought by the new expedition t
Dutch New Guinea, which is not
being planned in London, England
This strange race of people wer
first seen by white men when t
recent expedition under Captain
G. Bawling penetrated into th
heart of the island.
Rawling's expedition comprise
six Englishmen and was sent out by
the British Ornithologists' Union
Their objective was a long range o
snowy mountains, called the Nas
sau range, but between them a
it lay 60 miles of absolutely unex
plored country, and of the most
difficult kind to negotiate. Dense
forest covered most of it, inter
sected with rivers which for one hal
of the year were torrents and the
other half nearly dried up river
beds.
The pigmies were first discovered
near the Kapare river, one of the
immense streams which, rising in
the Nassau mountains, make their
way down to the sea. The Japanese
soldiers who accompanied Rawling
as bearers spied a couple of the
little people one day in the hills,
The pigmies bolted at once, and an
exciting chase took place, which
ended in their being captured, and
Mee days later more were, surprised
and surrounded. They proved to be
sturdy men averaging about four
feet, eight inches high, and much
better developed than the tribes en-
countered in the plains. They were
also industrious, and decidedly
more intelligent. They had neatly
constructed huts, and after some
time it was discovered that they had
words in their language to denote
numerals up to ten, words entirely
lacking from the language of the
plainsmen. Although the most
strenuous search was made, only
solitary huts could be found.
Strangely enough, no children and
only ane woman, who was being
escorted to her new home from her
wedding, were seen.
PROBLEM OF AR1lIAMENTS.
German Military Expert Discusses
English Entente.
Among all the contributions to
the debate on an Angio -German
understanding, none are more in-
teresting than those of the naval
and military expert, Count Revent-
low. He has always shown an anti -
English attitude; therefore his mod-
erate expressions are the more
notable.
He lays down the principle that if
there is to be an agreement at all
it should be an understanding on
the breadest political basis. Ger-
many, he says, does not require
small colonial favors from England
at the expense of a third power.
England should not be allowed to
say "Germany does not want our
friendship, it only wants our coal-
ing stations,"
The root of the whole matter is
th general e er 1 3'
a of tree' relations
be-
g p
be-
tween the two lands, and an im-
provement is not possible without a
change in the direction of English
foreign policy. Recently England
has been following a policy harmful
to itself merely in order to combine
other powers against Germany,
English statesmen themselves say
that this is to be, changed, and their
intentions can he carried out "only
when they work for a kind of en-
tente rte or
general political r
o tree' t ettt
P 1 .
with Germany."
It is said that there are no points
on which such a treaty can be
based. But both Powers might
agree to enter into a political or 1
military action with third Powers 1
which aro directed against the
other. A declaration of neutrality
of this kind would give an excellent
opportunity of proving that the En-
tente Cordiale is, as both French
and English statesmen have always
asserted, of a purely peaceful na- t
ture. If this were once made clear, i
colonial questions in Africa and e
economic problems in other parts a
of the world could be discussed in a P
thoroughly friendly spirit. Of
course an arrangement dealing a
with various small points is of some n
use if a more general understanding u
cannot be reached. 13th it is not A
likely in itself to do much to re-
move. mutual suspicion. Behind the 0
.elitical question lies the problem t
of armaments, and without political
sympathy this final difficulty. wild
not be solved, 3 a1�, t
Incidentally. Count :Cteventlow
Naffs itt tl�e 1'10(0 "revelations" as
to planned atacks by Germanyor .
England oh eaoh other and ays
they merely reveal "ignorance and a
undignified intstrnst."
fa
l sensible woman is known by en
c acquaintances she cuts, - d.
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