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DAINTY InSHES.
A- Cloud Stuffing.—Two cupfuls of.
ertonlas, two ounces of chopped suet,
a tala!eigssonful of finelyachopped
parsley, pepper and salt, and ball
-a teaspoonful of herbs, Moisten all
with milk and work into balls, or
use for •stuffing meat.
Molasses Wafres.—First melt one
*mice and a half uf butter with
ilsr•e.eounces 4-sf molasses, mix two
ounues.of finer with two ounces and
a half of ,sugar and it quarter of an
tame of ginger;• add this to the
butter and molasses; and beat well,
Cosease a baking sheet, and drop
the mixture ori to it in spoonful
fige inches apast. Bake for a quar-
ter of an hour, and place on a sieve
till perfectly culd,
4Inty Rolls.—Take one pound of
-116ur and add a teaspoonful of bak-
ing -powder, one teaspoonful of salt,
two ounces of good beef dripping or
lard. Mix all withosour milk and
make up into twists or rolls.When
.half cooked, 'brush over with a little
milk to give a glaze.
Use, for Stale Bread.—Cut the
bread into very stale slices, place
on a baking sheet, sprinkle each
slightly with salted water, and
stand in the .front of the fire to dry.
'Then :place in the oven till a light
golden color and crisp. Use these
for cheese instead of biscuits, and
• they are cheaper.
Meat Ragout.—A tempting dish is
made as follows from remains of any
joint. First slice the meat, then fry
a cupful of sliced unions in fat until
a light -brown. Add to this a cupful
of potatoes and .season all with salt
and curry powders Stew the mix-
ture fur a quarter of an hour, and
then add the sliced meat. Place all
in a deep dish, and sem..
Railway Pudding.—Breakfast.cup-
ful of flour, one ounce and a half of
lard, one egg, teaspoonful of bak-
ing -powder, two tablespoonfuls .tat
white sugar. a little milk, jam.
Work the butter into the flour, add
the sugar and baking -powder. Beat
up the egg with a little milk, and
-make all into a light dough. Pour
into a greased nicalish, and bake in
'.a shop oven fur three-quarters of
an hour, Tarn on to a sieve, cut irs
two, .spread with jam, and press
lightly together like a sandwierja.
• '5i.rt anger over, and serve.
A Workman's Pie.—Lino a pie -
dish with slices•of raw potato, then
at the bottom lay slices of onions,
, season with pepper and salt, adding
a few finely -crushed sage -leaves if
you choose. .Cover this pie with s a
lid of mashed potatoes, -for which a
little bacon dripping has been used,
• With pepper and salt to taste, When
the pie is cooked, put any gravy you
have in the centre. A pastry lid
ran be used instead of the potatoes
for a .crUst, and will answer the
same perpose.
Roiled Ginger Pudding.—For this
take -three-quarts:vs of a pound of
fleets lout ounces of shreckled suet,
a pinch of salt, one. ounce of brown
auger, a teaspoonful of ginger, a
teaspoonful of egg -powder, and
make all into. a light dough with
milk (for this any sour milk will do
nicely). Flour a wet cloth, place
the, dough into it, tie it up, leaving
plenty of seem for the pudding to
sWell.Plunge into fast boiling wa-
ter, and cook- fur at least twolusurs,
taktug great care that the water
boils, fad all the time, Those who.
cook by gas will find this a Very
easy padding to cook, for oncethe
water with .the pudding in it has.
boiled up, very little heat is needed
to keep an even temperature.
• NOVEL SANDWICHES.
- The great -desire for novelty in all
things does not even exempt the
hostess who is ever on the lookout
for the sand wich which is so now
that it has never been served.
As theirname is legion one should
imagine the quest not a difficult
one, but, alas! it is, for 't make a
sandwich dainty, pretty, tasty, and
not mussy, is an art not learned in
a day.
.celery, lettuce, Olives, peppers,
cress ave. to be, used they should be
allowed to 'Chill before using, To -
Mathes and fruit are also pared and
chilled.
Chicken livers, sweethreada,
chicken, or shellfish should he boil-
ed' and cooled before using. May -
mutable dressing is best made heavy
and putsb'be. cold.
Now,
e word as to the bread,
This is of the utmost importance;
the regular Sandwich loaf one day
old is ell right forsordinary use.,
Bread having a elose grain is the
most s a tisfactory
-' Nuts tadmeld be blanched and
chopped .or pound before they are
needle Fish pastes can be made
in the morning and are all the bet-
ter Inc seasoning through.
Nut Create' Bolls.— Pub three
tab] nepoan fitls of ground walnuts
into enough antic:tit brandy, to coop:
them ; add two teaspoothils of
powdevei sugar and a dash of .inita
nide; let stand several hourdrain
and add two sporinfuls of whipped
Cream, Nab 'Smooth. and spread
thiely on tine .alice tint -lobes been
prey/on:4y buttered and the crust
eta aft, ran carefully Alla 1 h with
white baby iibbon. Dip the eL
of the roll in Y711 iPPPLI P.Pefall, tit 'n
into powdered mos sea (trim a
spray of parrIey thrsugh the bow.
Fish Handwichess -Sardines, 1),(!l,
110.1Th Are the most popular, S:1 wo
will Lake tlitin first. Remove skin
and bones, make a paste by adding
the jaire of a lemon, +dive oit, the
juke of a small (mien, and salt and
peppes' iX) taste, Make is smooth
mixture and spreed thin, Lobster,
S111111114 and crab meat Owned very
fine may be used in the same way.
°Welton Livers and Cheese.—
Three chicken livers, six olives, the
juice, of an onion, one green pepper,
a few sprays of cress, and a An lk af
celery- Chop to a paste and add to
a, package of cream cheese, Work
well, add peppeo, salt and mayon-
naise with a spounful of whipped
cream.
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EGGS.
St -attuned Eggs.—alix equal parts
of ham and fine breaderumbs, sea-
son with salt, pepper and better,
adding milk to moisten until quite
soft, Half fill gem pans with this
mixture and break an egg carefully
upon the top of each, dust with
eel!: and pepper, powderederackers
over alt, .and bs.koseight minutes.
Serve immediately.
Egg Sandwiches, — After making
deviled eggs there is always some .of
the filling left, Spread this on a
lettuce leaf between thin slices of
bread and Ini•tber, with numerous
thin slices of sweet: pickle, and you
have a most clicellent sandwich.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To darken woodwork, paint it
with liquid ammonia.
Oysters which open easily are
stale, therefore, reject them.
When choosing apples take those.
that weigh heaviest, they will be the
best fruit.
If you wish the knives to keep
sharp, never put them into hot fat.
Hams, after curing and drying,
may be stored in dey oats in a
wooden chest.
A cleaxi collar should he dried be-
foresthe fire, till Stiff and the starch
will then last properly.
Eggs that are fresh have dull
shells. If you -wish to keep a new -
laid egg fresh.. rub Th over with oil
or pure glycerine.
-Rube perambulator hoods with a
good boot cream onee, a week. This
not only improves their appearance
but prevents their cracking. • - •
Delicate &ma, may be washed in
warm water to which a little Ful-
ler's earth has been added instead
of soap,
Swansclewn trimming may be
washed. Make. a lather of yellow
apes) and warm water, and knead
the clown in this, then rinse in cold
water with a little bine, in it,
Saucepans .should never be allow-
ed to get crusted with soot on the.
outside. Not only is a, dirty sauce-
pan of this kind unsightly, but it
dues,not heat nearly as quickly -as
a clean one.
Grease Eradieatur—Out np small
one ounce of soap. boil it in 11, quart
of soft water till dissolyed, then
,add half a teaspoonful of salt-
petre, and three tablespoonfuls of
ammonia,. Keep the bottle corked
• 0
LEAP Ygmt. BIERTIIDAYS,•
Thirteenth Century _Decree Says
- They Shall Occur February 25.
Gilbert Tangye,sa. London barris-
tot, whose wife gave.birth to a sOn
on February 99, has been looking
up Britishlaw and Precedent, With
the idea of aaeertaining whether the
fact that his offspring will have a
birthday only once in every four
years will affect his legal coming of
age or have any bearing on his
rights of citizenship or general le-
gal and - political status., Black -
stone's oommentaries, which Mr
Tangye consulted first, appeared to
hold that the boy would not attain
Inc majority until 1999, for the defi-
nition given was that Majority age
was attained "on thesday prepeding
the twenty-fiMa anniveretry of the
person's birth," But Mr. Tangye
(I -dyed deeper and in the -statutes
of King Henry III. ho found a law
that appeared to make it Clear sail-
ing Inc the, youngster, This sta-
tute, De Anne et Die Bisscxtili, was
made at Westminster in 1236. Heti
is King Henry's proclamation of it
Tie, King unto bis justices of the
Bench, greeting i '•
Know ye ,,, • ,, to take away
from henceforth all doubt and am-
biguitt that might, arise hereupon,
the day increasing in ,the Leap Year
TYPICAL HOMES 010 PENNSYLVANIA. MINERS.
The .strike of the coal miners of the United States lends interest to the above photo-
graph of miners' shanties outside the coal pits. Life has little pleasure for the men who Spend all of deo-
light underground. Scarcely it blade of grass is to be seen in parts of the coal mining regions.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY
•
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 14,
Lessen U.—The use of the Sabbath,
Mark 2. 23 to 36. Golden
Text, Mark 1. 27.
Verse 23. Through the grainfields
—Fences between adjoining grain -
fields were not known in Palestine.
Narrow footpaths led in different
directions through these fields.
Began, as they went, to pluck the
ears—Literally, began to make
their way, plucking. The strict
grammatical interpretation would
seem to suggest that the grain had
overgrown the path and that the
disciples plucked some ef the ears
as they made for themselves a. way
through the grain. Their action in
that case would have been tel
an any clay of the week. In the
light of the more explicit statement
of Matthew, however, the rendering
given in our lesson text is more in
harmony with the intended point of
the narrative which makes the of-
fense of the disciples consist in do-
ing on the Sabbath day that wind
itams not unlawful to di
o on othe
dvs•l-
24. The Pharisees said unto him—
As self-appointed guardians of the
law and of the traditions of the ol.
tiers the Pharisees were ever watch-
ful for an opportunity to find an
occasion for criticism and opposition
in the acts of Jesus and His dis-
ciples. The period of active upposi-
tion to his preaching had already
begun.
That which is nob lawful—In
Deut. 23. 25 certain permissible ac
lions bearing on the rights of a
person in his neighbor's grainfield
are indicated. The traditional in-
terpretation of this Deuteronomic
law had made 'the plucking of grain
with the hand equivalent to an act
of reaping. But reaping on the
Sabbath day was forbidden by the
law was recorded in 'Exec/. 34. 21.'
25, What David did—Compare 1
Sam. 21, 1-6. The case, which Jesus
cites was familiar to every Phari-
see and clearly illustrated how such
restrietive Sabbath regulations as
they were insisting •epon Must of
necessity give place to the higher
demands of necessity and onerey.
86. When Abiathar vse.s high priest
—The several Old Testament pas-
sages bearing on the point leave, 11
uncertain Whether Abiathar or Abi-
ineleeh was the actual incumbent of
the high priestly officeat this time.
Compare 1 Sam. 22. 11, 20 with
2 Sam. 8, 17 and 1 Chron, 18. 16.
The showbread—Thiaoconsisted of
twelve loavds of new Taked bread,
Which on every Sabbath day were
placed on the table of showbread
incense and permitted to remain for
the temple, sprinkled with in -
the entire week. The lneaning of
the law which is given in Lev. 24.
5-9 itt not explained in the Old TCS
fitment. It has been suggested by
some commentators that the show -
bread may have been 41, symbol of
the spiritual life of fellowship with
God. Others have supposed that it
indicated merely an acknowledg-
ment of Jehovah as Israel's pro -
Vides, and symbolized an offering
by the people of part ot their sub-
stance in token of this dependence
•on Jehovah.
27. Tho sabbath was made for
man—Instituted for man's physical
and spiritual benefit, This day, al
est was to be not a taskmaster but
servant contributing to the high-
s% -welfare cit the individual,
28. Son 9f man—An exptessioe
sett in both 9111 and New Testa:
tents with quite a variety of mean-
ngs, especially in the Old Testa'
tent Used with th"a article it be-
oines a designation of the Christ,
ad as such is confined in the New
eitament to the Gospels and the
etas where, with one eiceeption,
eis 7. 56, ib is used by Christ him -
10 speaking of himself, It is
ere perhaps best interp.seted to
ein that Segue is the typical man,
to repvesentative of mankind in
is &tap& towarni established tra-
itions as well as toward the Saba
shall be accounted 'fou ape year, so a,
Ithat because of that clay none shall a
be impleaded, hot it shall be taken
and reckoned of the same month u
wherein it greiveth, and that clay, I,
and the day TIP X t going befose, shall
be accounted for ono clay, and
therefore wo do commend you, that c
from henceforth you do eause this a
to be published afore yon arid T
served, A
Witness Myself
A
Ab Westminster,
While this langnage is tallier am- 11
biguous, Mr. Tangye toys that it is In
plain to hitit as a fawyer that it 11
moans that his ,son.',1 birtlidayS Will
°coati legally on. February 28 an d
bath,
three years out of every four,
3. 1. Entered again into the syna_
gogue—All three r of the synoptic
Gospels mord t1'u ineident which
follows in connection with the
plucking of the ears of grain. The
order thus observed by the several
evangelists does not necessarily
represent the chritiological order in
which the et-entsf,themselves occur-
red, The purpose of the Gespel
writers to show how Jesus himself
regarded the Sabbath law and
what liberty he asserted in its in-
terpretation is a sufficient season
for presenting together the two in-
eidents bearing un the same clues.
tion.
Who had his hand withered—AP-
parentty the result of some injury
or disease.
2. They watched him—The scribes
and Pharisees, who were on the
lookout for additional grounds on
which they might accuse
3. Stand forth—Jesus recognized
his opponents among those present
and boldly accepted their unex-
pressed challenge to disregard their
narrow Sabbath restrictions for the
sake of helping this unfortunate
man.
4. .Is it lawfall—Jesus has as -
stoned the aggr9ssive in his conflict
with his opponents, and places them
on the defensife by submitting a
higher principla,of right and wrong
than that.on which their petty rules
were based. According to Mat-.
thew's account the Pharisees were
the ones who took the initiative in
the 'aontroversy.
5. Grieved at the hardening of
their heart—The deliberate way in
which they • shut themselves up
against every feeling of sympathy
for the unfortunate Man.
And his hard was restored The
courage and faith \Alois the man
himself MePitos4att id i4he14nA• the
command of Beaus 3oau tut t-ing presence
of suoli im, hostile comkpcpy tat. ivaties
were rewarded by the oemplets and
permanent cure or his inDrelltv,
6, The Herctilaits-sTbs tsguiticaI
partisans of Hood Anttess and
therefore of netessity layorieg the
Roman government. Between the
Herodians and the Vhatisseal there
could bo no el:atm-el or &ell veva;
thy. They took oolinsel with mach
other only in joint opposition
agaiust Jesus, who, by his steadily
increasing popularity with the com-
mon people, seemed to threaten ilia
teresta which they had at stake 'bv
underunning their influence with
the people. Hence they proceeded
at once to plan how they might Cie-
stroy,shim.
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C OthR PHOTOGRAPHY.
— '
Mierospeetra Pieces is the Work of
Two Brothers.
Anew method of color photo-
graphy, embodying extraordinary
brilliant results, has just been de-
monstrated before the Royal Pho-
tographic Society, The peculiarity
of the method is that no special color
plates are necessary, nor is there
any introduction of artificial color
screens or colored particles, A
plain negative, as in ordinary pho-
tography, is taken and a lantern
slide is made front it, and by purely
optical means, using a grating and
a, prism, the picture in natural col-
ors is faithfully reorodeeed. '
The osmosis is the work- of two
brothers, Ernest and Julius Rhein -
berg, and is called thu microspectra
method of eolor-photography • by
prismatic dispersion, The method
.necessitates' .a apeeial and costly
camera, and is therefore pat for-
ward Inc its scientific: interests and
not: as a eonnnescial propositicin. It
lotus upon the nse of a grating, or
line ,screen. which splits np into int.
mense numbers of tiny speetta, ono
hundred to the inch, and each one
complete. The grating is used in
making the negative,' and ',tater,
when placed behind a positive, When
made from the negative, it onablek
black and white pictures to appear
in the exact 'color of nature.
Tho results of the method wore
prejeetod On an ellInSillein screen
and snare declared le bo lialstirpagg-
ed in fidelity of color rendering by
airmailed in vogue at present. Its
ability to render tho flex:tare or dig,
tindilie Sheen on stuck arbielefi as
silk, china or glass, Is remarkable,
NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE
ARE DOING.
Progress of the Great West Told
Ln a- Pew Roluted
Items.
Two to three thousand acres of
potatoes will be planted in Delta
this year,
Besides the' local product, Van-
couver uses a carload of U. S. cold
storage eggs daily.
About half the bakeries in Re
gina were found recently to be
sending out short -weight bread.
Dr. Wilfrid Grenfell, who was re-
cently dined by the Medical Asso-
eiation of Vancouver, was presesita
ed with a purse of gold at the end
of the dinner.
.An epidemic of glanders has
broken out in Victoria, and a num-
ber of valuable horses have been
destroyed.
New Westminster's publicity
bureau has induced between 1,000
and 1,500 immigrants to settle in
that city and vicinity.
Cadets from the King Edward
High school of Vancouver will start
on FL tit) to Australia in July.
A Vancouver man was fined $20
and costs for shooting clucks be-
tween an hour after sunset and an
hour before sunrise.
*ithin the past few -weeks eight
new branches of the Provincial
Poultry Association have been
formed in British Columbia..
It is proposed to establish in Al-
berta large interior elevators in
which the farmers may store their
grain and obtain advances on it
from banks.
The city of Vancouver will have
the boulevards improved and a num-
her of trees planted this spring.
Colin Fraser, the veteran Inc
trader of the Northwest, has se-
cured this season six silver fax
Skins and 250 marten skins'which
arrived in Edmonton the other day.
The health detlartment of Moose
Jaw, Sask., is carrying on a vigor-
ous campaign against overcrowding
of rooming houses.
Traffic has been resumed at Saska-
teon over the Canadian Northern
bridge, the span of which was re-
placed.
Five demonstration o rcharas
which will he cultivated to find out
the best varieties of fruit for the
Kootenly district have been allot-
ted by the B. 0. Department of
Agriculture,
A census of Greater Edmonton is
to be taken within the next two
months,
More than $5,000,000 is to be
spent on .schools in British Colum-
bia this year.
f Areal t, BMe 1: t. saved a
12-year
l»m
eidt giri
her,
aged eight, from drowning by plung-
ing into a stream after hint.
Vancouver pioneers will hold a
big reunion on tki,e i3th June.
A fine new Miblic hall has jest
been opened at Burton,
, Many cases of measles arm. seposta
ed- among the school children of
Vancouver, •
A substantial grant toward the
Westminster road paving project
has been promised by the Provinci-
al Minister of Works.
The provincial government bas
assured the citizens of Grand Posits
that stops will be taken almost im-
mediately for the replacing of the
Copper bridge of that citY.
Edmonds, the municipal capital
of Bitrnaby, contemplates incerpor-
ration as at city.
Tho first electric sign and the first
artificial tem in the Nicola district
have been provided by the Nicola
Valley moat market ab Merritt.
0111(.11 1.0a* their 114/1)03
when they Itiatrila--:and Wiest men
lose theividentity,
Things tonattimos carne .to the
SutInho waits—after be no longer
wants thein.
Those Cut are Itopt to be Buried
• With Their Owners.
Experts is ths 'human hair trade
in Ifongliorig say that if buyers o/
human hair In the United States
expect a great oversupply as a re -
stilt of queue cutting in•China they
are, likely to be disappointed. In-
stead Of an oversupply the ehanges
now going on wee milling off, the
chief sources el supply in China,
and there IS likely ,soini to be is de -
aided
ontflerallrlyegto"t'lley, gene sal impression. the queues when cut are not
sold. This is an absolute rule, mo
far as South China, is concerned,
says Consular and Trade. Reports,
and it is the custom all over those
portions of China from whieh the
writer has been able to secure
data on ibis subject. The
queues, when cut, are preserve,c1,
according to general statement, for
burial with the owner.
The chief supply has ,conae from
Chinese barber shops where, in the
course of shaving portions of the
heads of customers, considerable
long hair is accidentally removed.
Now that queues are eut, hOwever,
Chinese barbers have no more long
hair to dispose ef than barbers in
the United States, A contraction
Of the .supply in Hongkong already
is apparent, and but for -the hesia
tanoy *f foreign buyers to meet the
market here the prices for supplies
locally would have gone up. .As it
is, prices here areiremaining firm
in spite of an indisposition on the
part of foreign buyers to meet
them.
The declared value of exports of
human hair from Hongkong to the
United States in 1911 was $992,758,
as compared with $695,137 in 19W,
$397,559 in 1909, and $92,209 in
1908. Shipments from the Hong-
kong market in 1911 to all countries
were much larger in volume than
the year before. aggregating 1,759,-
833 pounds in contrast to about
1.200,000 pounds in 1910.
A great proportion of theship-
ments, however, was of low grade
hair, used for various purposes
other than for false hair—for ex-
ample, a new haireloth, mattress
filling and the like. It is doubtful
if the total value of the season's
shipments will exceed $900,000 gold,
as15cootopoaored with an aggregate of
$,o .1
a year age. There is
svery indication, however, tha,t
prices will range much higher for
1912.
BLAMES THE EA.T.HERS.
Why Cigarette Smokers Acquire
• Habit Early.
To tell a boy not to do what he
constantly :sees his father doing is
advice too absurd to need serious
consideration. .says a writer in the
Century Magazine. I have seen.
father sib in a room blue with to-
bacco smoke—a room in which all
the windows were shut—and advise
his boy not to smoke until he was
twenty-one.
I knew an opium smoker who had
two black and tan dogs which he
kept in the room with him while
smoking. After a time they became
so aocustomed to it that they exhi-
bited the same symptoms as the
smoker when deprived of it—run-
ning at the eyes, sneezing, excessive
nervousne,ss. They grew to look!
forward to his smoking as eagerly -c
as he did, and all through breathing
the same air.
. In a milder way a boy gets .some-
thing of the excitation of tobacco
and aermires a desire for it when he t
breathes atmosphere charged with p
his father's smoke, And besides the
same physical incentive, he has
something the dogs did not have— 1
intellectual curiosity to see whit' c
the sensation of smoking is lake.
FROM MERRY OLD ROLAND
NEWS BY MAIL A./30M JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE.
•
Occurrences in The Land That
Reigns iSueuipozT,iIevriourldt1.10 Com.
Great Britain in one year spends
nearly Z30,000,000 "on tobacco.
eGt.-eat Britain spends upwards of
245,001) coach year on secret mar-
yiGLinen was first made in England
In 1253, and only worn by the lux-
urious.
• There are' nearly 23,000 locomo-
tives employed on the various rail-
ways in the United Kingdom.
• The Duke of Sutherland is to sell
his estate of Sittenham, in York-
shire, which comprises 1900 ores.
Owing to subsidences at the
Thames Iron 'Works, Blackwell,
about 100 feet of the river front-
age fell into Bow Creek.
A Burton -on -Trent checkweigh-
man, who keeps an inn, dug a yard
deep in his field and found excellent
burping coal.
The gold reserve of the country
is not much more than 0 per cent.
of the total deposits in the banks
of the United Kingdom.
A Sheffield boy has sent a post-
card round the 'world in 112 days.
11 was despatched from point to
point over a distance of 30,000
mi/ PS.
Sir Ernest Clark, a chairman of
the Folk -Song Society, has made the
diseovery that the music of the
"Spar -Spangled Banner" is an
English composition.
Mrs. Esther Marior, who died at
Taunton at the age of 97, had the
unusual experience of nursing her
great -great-grandchild, five gener-
ations of the family being alive.
When 96 years old she was an at-
tendant at a Sunday School, and
was then said to be the oldest scho-
lar in the kingdom.
From a ton of Neweastic coal
may. be produced 10,000 cubic feet
of gas, 140 pounds of tar, about 1,-
500 pounds of coke and 20 to 25 gal-
lons of watery liquid.
The late Duke of Fife owned
249,290 acres, from which be derived
over 1172,000 a year. His eldest;
daughters Princess Alexandra, will
thus inherit a large fortune.
The total number of e,leetors in
the United Kingdom who are on
the Parliamentary register now in
lone is 7,984,600. This is an in-
crea,se of 80,925 compared with 1911.
The first English newspaper was
the "English Mercury," issued in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It
was in the shape of a pamphlet. The
"Gazette of Venice" was the ori-
gi,enaiw..
liansodel of the modern news-
li
iabout the ninth century
that coal began to creep into .gen-
eral use. Then, owing to the de-
crease of the forest area in Eng-
land, it began to attract attention
as a substitute for wood and char-
coal, which were used as fuel.
Not many years ago a, strike was
regarded, even among Trade Union-
ists, as a discredited weapon. That
conviction was born of the fact that
rarely did a strike aehieVe its full
object, and still more rarely did it
secure anything that could not
have been attained by other and
ess drastic methods. In the old
lays the striker was satisfied if he
caused inconvenience to his own
employer, but DOW the field is witi-
er. The modern striker aims at
dislocating the entire industry of
he country, and the more /soma
letely lie succeeds the better he
s :13pelaeaysed.e
he1881 and 1901 thespopit-
ation of England increased 25.2 per
ent,, but the number of female, in-
door servants only 8,2 per cent.
Among female indoor servants in
the age group 15-30 there was actu-
ally between the same dates a de-
crease amounting to 7,3 per (mitt.,
while the ninnber of females living
at these agesdnereased by 28,1 per
cent. That is to say. in 1901 a far
smaller proportion of women were
employed in domestic service than
n 1981, and the deereassowas most;
larked at the ages when the new
ecruits should naturally be enter -
ng that occapation.
'ETRE 1)1111,1,4'A71'
'ming Prinee.s tire' ally Interesteil
i n Trials at Iluelain slia
The great event of the month itt
neki nalsaia Pala ce, so fat as the
oung princes are, conerrnAld, iis
.hen , fire practice takes place.
hey all seem to havo inherited
ting Edwastl's partiality for •a
laze, for it is very well known that
Tw.,1,1.;it1110,17i. tgreat fijncg,c)iefelnrretadowrill,1
drove off to it. •
The sons of King Cleosge SPA
captains" of the diffetent squad%
aervants who have been trained,
in the event; of anything mitaWard
t act as amateur firemen for the .
me hong. The King regards such
ractice t adlnirable training for
his$0.$ 45i opoirm ',Iiramtteb.
In order fo rooder the pester/mamma
realistic, it germane blaze is some-
,
times arronged in the gardens, to
the great satisfaction of the ehila
d rest,
THEFT TII BOUGH POVERTY.
• Penury of au A us( Han Nobleman
in the Public Service.
A Vienna (Austria) jury has just
asquitted Baron Joseph von Beckis
/Ile an spite of his confession of em-
bezzlement. The trial gave a sad
insight into the penury existing in n
the lower ranks of the civil service,
says the, correspondent of the Lon-
don Sfaedard.
The Baron, who helengs to an old
but decayed family, entered the
postal 'servite and married when sea 1
esiving only 213, ada day. His pay .
ultimately rose to :133 a week, but
the greater pa rt of 'it was pledged in
paying 'off the debts he had been 13
forced to hums earlier in order to 1
keep his .wife and family.
'Ho confessed in court how one
day when he had nothing to give his 1
four children to mit he forged b
entry itt rs savinga bank hook. and
once having given way to temptss,
Mon, repeated this till lie. had ems
bezzled 1120. always hoping that
relatives would help 1iii to repay.
The ecquitta I, for • w h ish there
were no grounds but sentiment, is
somewhat severely criticized in the 11
Vienna press, She newspapers 11
nointiq vut 010.4 fcrrns i dellar•
-
ons preeedent, Ulm being mt5
impeeitIllona bfehlbers of the nobila
it in the pnblitt service, and that
ibis partienlar Baron had brought
his poverty en himself by his ini-
re'videl t marital
tr
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