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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-2-20, Page 34. r,. riOUSE1110LP `�varVacr Scotch Cakes and Cookies. Something new in the way of "tea and things" was discovered the other day at a Sooteh tearoom in Toronto, where scones and genu- ine Edinburgh shortbrxcl were be- ing served. There were oat cakes, too, and Pitcaithly bannocks as well, "The scone has all the virtue of the toasted English muffin as a tea accessory," explained the Scotch lass who makes these breads. "And, in addition, it isn't so likely to be - soggy. The muffin has yeast in it, but the. scone is made without, as you will see from my recipe which I brought frum Dunfermline ; One coffee cup of flour, one-quarter tea- spoen of salt, one-quarter teaspoon of cream of tartar, one-half tea- spoon of soda (small), one teaspoon of sugar. Mix all the dry ingredients to- gether and then stir in enough but- termilk (about three-quarters of a coffee cup) to make a soft dough. Turn this out on a well -floured board and roll lightly to about one- quarter inch in thickness. Cut this in eight, pie -fashion, and put on a hot griddle. Do not grease the griddle. Bake until brown on one side, then burn over and bake on the other. Turn only once. The Scotch shortcake is really a cake, It looks like pie crust, but is not so rich and is sweeter. I •cut the dough with a knife into tri- angles, because I think it rises bet- ter than when it is shaped with a cutter. In the large pastry shop in Edinburgh they roll the dough much thinner and cut into small, round shapes. They are called there "petticoat tails." You see, when Mary Stuart came back from France she brought a number of the French people with her and they called these little cakes "pe- . tits gateaux." The Scotch people thought they said "petticoat tails," and so they have been known ever since. Another variety of shortbread is the Pitcaithly Bannock-. I suppose the lady of Pitcaithly Castle, in Perth, originated them, as all the great ladies in early times made their own cakes. This is simply .the shortbread with nuts and any other good thing you may happen to have on hand stirred through it. To make the ordinary shortbread take seven ounces of flour, one ounce of rice flour, five ounces of butter, and two ounces of castor sugar. Work all of this together with the bands until it is soft anal the butter is well worked in. Make it into a round cake about one-half inch thick; pinch the edges together and prick it all over with a fork. This keeps it from rising. Put it on a greased paper on a fiat tin and bake in a slow oven until it is a . pale brown. One hour or more is not too long to bake. In addition to these two cakes the Scotch use gingerbread for their tea, but instead of being in high squares as we make it, it is in small individual shapes like a muffin, and much easier to handle, as the whole surface is firm, Oatmeal when baked to a crisp gives the taste of nuts to a cake, and'.theee oat Oakes aro a delicious bit, and yet not too rich. An ofd 'Scotch recipe for oat oaks is this: Put 21-2 handfuls of fine oatmeal in a bowl, with a teaspoon of sugar and a little salt. Pour over tbis one-quarter pint of boiling water in which one ounce of butter or dripping has . been melted. Mix well with a spoon, then turnout on a board and knead with the hands into a round shape. Take the roll. ing pin and roll out very thin, tak- ing care toust the pini Well with meal to keep it from sticking. Pinch'. it around the edges .with fingers and thumb and cut it in four pieces. Have the griddle nice and hot, then bring it to the edge of the board and slip the cake on 'it. Fire on one side dntil edges begin . to curl up; then toast the other side in front of the fire. An hour or two in a moderately hot oven makes them dry and crisp. • .Luncheon Dainties. A new sandwich to serve with af- ternoon tea is two alien of hot 'crisp toast, dipped on one ride in melted butter and filled with iced raw oysters, sprinkled with lepton. stew the oysters untilthey curd' 'A variation of this filling is to slightly, remove the eye, chop res - thee'coarsely with a silver knife Arid mix with mayonnaise. • Another good toast mixture has the t•. .t prepared in the same way and filled with finely scrambled egg, sprinkled with finely chopped crisp bacon, Both of these sandwiches must be eaten immediately or they ill's nob good. Instead of serving lemon with tea, have on the tray a Jae of grapefruit mitrtnalade--in a silver! holder or eryetal jam jar if you have an eye and pocketbook for effect. Put a teaspoonful of the marina- i Tlade into the tea -instead of the I moral slice of lemon. Queer, but geed, Orange marmalade is used in the same way; so is preserved ginger and brandied fruit. The latter must be chopped into quite small pieces if the fruit is whole. The Russians use preserves of all kinds in their tea, hut the manna - lades and conserves that have a slightly acid or pungent tang are less cloying. A sweet tont is made by cutting small squares of oblongs of toast. This is dipped into a mixture made from a pint of hot milk, into which has been stirred the grated rind of a lemon aucl four tableepoonfuls of sugar. Flavor with a dash of brandy. Dip the soaked toast in beaten egg .and fry quickly in hot hotter, or bake on a well-gfreased its fertility was dependent not on griddle. Sprinkle with powdered uncertain and scanty rainfall, as sugar and serve immediately. was the ease in Palestine, but on {Pips to housewives. Rust can be removed by boiling the garment in cream of -tartar water. It is much better to remove the as early as B. Q. 2200, since which skins from all fruit to be eaten by time the land of the Pharaohs hat chi]dreu. been again and again overrun by The fat from ham and sausage people principally of G`anaanitish is very good to use 'for warming descent, over potatoes. The account of Abram's decep. Rub the zinc-overed table with a tion, in seeking to safeguard him - cloth dipped in vinegar. It will self in Egypt by means of a clelib- keep it bright. erate falsehood regarding the iden- It is a convenience in travelling tity of-Sarrai, his wife, reflects in a to have a broad band of color paint- remarkable way the general leni- ed on your trunk. ency of Orientals toward thee prae- When planting lily bulbs, place ties of deception. The weakness in them 12 inches deep and la Abram's character at this point bulb a little sidewise to prevent must be judged in the light of the water from settling at the base general attitude of the early He - among the scales, causing decay. brews, in common with other Ori - Wash materials can he prevent- ente's, toward the moral gun - ed from fading by using one cup- tions involved. fol of salt to a gallon of water. Let Verse 1. And Abram went out of it boil and pour it over the goods Egypt --The fact is he was sent while hot. Let it stand about ten away with grave reproacher. by minutes and hang out to dry. D� not rinse. When linen has a stain from long standing, put a teaspoouful of sul- phur in a saucer, add a few drops less, because of the incident in of alcohol and ignite. Place a fun- which she had just played to prone nel over the flame, point upward; inent a part. wet the stained linen and hold it Lot -Compare note in Leeson for over the funnel. February 16. An excellent floor mop is made. by cutting the legs of about a dozen Into the South -The e:,uthern old stockings lengthwise and bind- part of Palestine, known as the ing them with a cora] in an old Negeb, a dry and almost barren Worn-out broom handle just above tableland affording only scant pas - the straws. When the stockings tin age for flocks and herds. are securely fastened on, immerse 2. Abram was very rich -He had the mop in kerosene oil, and you been rich even before journeying have a mop . to remove all the dust into Egypt, where his wealth had from the floors and the woodwork,been greatly augmented by gifts A candle can be made to fit any Deem the king, of whom it is said candlestick if you will soften the (Gen. 12. 16) that he dealt well wax by dipping it in hot water, with Abraham. Then push the candle into the can- 3. Beth -el -Compare not in les- dlestick. If it is too small, it will son for February 16. Abram slow - squeeze in ; if it is too largo, the ly retracts his steps northward .un - soft wax will spread and hold the til he comes unto the place where candle up. his tent had been at the beginning, A splendid way to improve the that is, shortly alter his arrival in appearance of the cook stove is to Palestine from Mesopotamia. . take the soap suds after washing 4. Called on the name of Jehovah clothes, and wash the stove all over -Referring to Abram's habitual with the ends. Then use stove custom of worshiping Jehovah. polish as usual. The suds can also 6, The land (the mountainous or be used on your sadirons. It helps rugged tableland of Ephraim) was greatly • toward making them not able to bear them -Not fertile smooth, or productive enough to sustain 4- the whole company of the come BURIAL OF SIlt JOHN MOORE. bined families, with their numerous flocks and herds. This was doubt - Author of "Greatest Ode in the less especially true after the Language" Obscure Irishman. period of famine through which the A literarycountry had just passed. (Compare mysstery of a hundred Gen. 12. 10.) Sears ago is recalled by the special 7. A strife between .the herd centenary number, recently issued, -A mese natural occurrence of the Newry Telegraph, an Ulster pasturage for the herds was ac (Irelands) era -weekly. In ills pagee The Canaanite and the Peri oar April 19, 1817, under the simple _Two of the six or seven pe head. of Poeatry, appeared what often enumerated when Old T Byron called "the nest perfect ode meet corners characterize the Testa - in. the language" --"The Burial of of Palestine as it was before Sir John Moore." Byron, or Camp- Hebrews took possession. bell, or any of the others to wltorn other peoples usually menti this poem was variously ascribed, with these two aro the Amo would doubtless have been proud to • Till HUM SCHOOL USW INTERNA'l'iONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 28. Lesson VIII. - Abraham and Lot. Gen. 18. 1.18. Golden . Text, Prov. 10. 22. The portion of our narrative in- tervening •between this and the last lesson recounts a visit of Abram to Egypt and assigns as a rea- son fur Abram's sojourn in Egypt the prevalence of a famine in Pal- estine. Egypt was known in an- tiquity as a land of plenty, because the regular and unfailing overflow or the Nile. In times when famine visited surrounding regions Egypt belame a place of refuge for many and different peoples. Thus, prob- ably, the Hyksos came into Egypt Pharaoh for having sought to de- ceive the king. He, end his wife -His wife. is here specially mentioned, doubt - claire it. But e author was the the Hittite, the Barba, the J site, and sometimes the Girgashite. curate ofBallyelog, in Ty- (Compare Exod. 3. 8, 17; 23. 23. cone, Rev. Charles Wolfe, and the 2 34. 11 Deut. 20. 17 Josh, faire of ,the piece was but a post- 11 3; 12. 8; Judges 3, 6; Dent huinotus fame for him.. Not until 1; Josh. 3. 10; Neh, 9, 8.)' hie death of consumption in 1823 et the early ago oe thirty-two, did Canaanites and Perizzites are fee - the . authorship become knewn to nuently associated ,with each other the world, ' And Wolfe, who; wrote in the narratives e! Genesis and much other verse of merit, is re- Judges especially. From some of momhered only by that one poem these narratives it would seem that which sprang from the oo1urnns of the latter occupied a district about a provincial newspaper to universal Bethel and Shechem partioularly, recognition in 'the big world of let- but the probable derivation of the tsere.-London Clu'o acle, woi'd from perazi, meaning coue- • try folk or peasantay, makes it Very Cautions. seem probable that the name refers to the village population of A clerk was sent to call on Mr. Canaan, the tillers of the soil it C---, the meanest rich man in general, rather than to any par - the town, to try and induee hien to tioular tribe or race. For notes on Canaan and Canaanite see Text Studies for February 16, 8. Brethren -In the wider sense of kinsmen or relatives. 10, Lifted up his eyea-Surveyed the land. Plain+,of the Jordan --Or, circle. This is the specific name for the basinlike lower and broader 'portion of the Jordan valley beginniing about twenty-five miles north of the river mouth and including ap- parentl,y' the Dead Sea basin iteel!, as well as the small plain at the southern end. Sometimes the name What reform are you interest- is restricted more especially to the ed in now 7" aonthern portion of the larger anon "I'm advocating that people be! in the immediate ''`vicinity of the paid double for their work when Dead ,Sea The Jordan valley, purchase a burial plot in the new eemotery. In half an heti' he was back again, ."Couldn't get him 4" asked the manager. "No," sa]d the clerk, ".He admitted that the plots were fine ones; but he said that if he bought one he might not get, the value of 'his money in the. end." "Why," saticl the manager, there ss no fear of that; the man will die • some day, won't • he 1"„ "Yes," said rho <derlc, ' "but he says he might be lost at sea" Conimendable. patches of salt and barren soil; r but in seine parts, espeeially about Jericho (where anciently there were beautiful palm groves) and along the banks of the river it is extremely fertile, and produces ex- uberant vegetation; and the writhe, ib seenis, pie -Lured it as being still more fertile than it was in his ower day, `'befero Sodom and Gomorrab had been destroyed," (Compare Gen, 19. 24-28.) Like the garden of Johovah-The garden of liden. Like the land of Egypt - The typo and ideal of fertility, 12. The cities of the Plain -Five in number, including Sodom, Go- morrah, Admah, Zebourn and Zoar, (Compare Gen. 14. 2.) tF' MoMASTER'S PEAT. Canadians visiting London re- cently have been more than usu- ally interested in the debates in the House of Commons, They find many differeuoos in comparing the Mother of Parliaments with the House of Ottawa; differences which are more marked than, say, five years ago. An Ottawa man, who has been a frequent visitor to the gallery during the Home Rule de- bate, remarked upon the great changes at Westminster. The long- winded speech has disappeared, mainly owing to the accelerated rate at which legislation is passed. "It requires a great deal of men- tal agility to make speeehes under the operation of the guillotine," he said. "There -is no time for hesi- tation when a member knows that he has only two minutes in which to present his case. `"rhe other evening there SURVIVORS OF THE TITANIC CLAIMS AMOUNT IN THE AG- GREGATE TO $11,000.1100. Many Familiar Narmw are Missing Prom List o1' .11elrs of the Ti tank. Claims for more than $6,000,000 have been filed with Commissioner Gilohritt of New York against the Oceanic Steam. Navigation Com- pany. Limited, as a result of the loess of the Titanic. The chance of any substantial mems being recov- ered upon them de; ends on the ap- plication of the Brit.ieh or the Am- erican Admiralty law to the case. If the British la.w prevails $75 per gross ton will be recoverable for proportionate distribution, whicb will amount to about $t',000,000. 1i the company succeeds in apply- ing the American law of limitation there will be but a little more than $97,000. The claims fall into three classes --for deaths, for personal injuries and for loss of property. The death alaians amount already to $4,739,- 000, while the claims for personal injury run up to about $55,000, and for lose to pesporty to more than $1,3$2,423, almost all of which are based on the der•truotion of person- al baggage. N t the least inter^sting part of the list of c]aims le the number of names which are.. m .trig from et. The heirs of John Itteet, Astor, Mr. were and Mrs. I :dor Straus, Be,rjanrin Guggenheim, Charles Melville Hays, W. -T. Stead, and George D. Widener, hays net made any claim an the ate:rnmhin company for the s loss either of their relatives or the property they happened to have with them. 81r. Donald lilellaster, 11I.P. two minutes before the guillotine fell, which Mr. Donald McMaster profitably utilized to speak on the motion that the judges in Ireland should be appointed by the King, and not by the Lord Lieutenant and his local advisers. To a Cana- dian .his contribution to the debate, which presented a Canadian point of view, was interesting, but more interesting still was the .fact that he tumbled out about 400 words in two minutes, presenting in this brief space a complete analysis of the principle he advanced. It re- quires a steady mind to do that when you know that the clock is ticking against you." tN PARIS LIVING DEAR. Even Cabbies are Becoming Drily More Extra•vngtant. On all hands one bears complaints that life in Paris (Finance) is grow- ing daily dearer. Perhapsa it is not only that prices are going up, but that people are becoming more ex- travagaM. For instance, the state has decided to abolish the hale - penny cigar. black and gnarled and strong, which the cabmen used to puff with obvions satisfaction to themselves, if not to their fares, le is true that it is torr repl.aoe it by a slimmer and sleeker cigar at the same pirice,'aatcl, no doubt, of the same quality. of 'tobacco; bust it is probable that the now halfpenny cigar will prove, lite its predeces- sor, a drug on the market, the fact being that no one smokes halfpenny cigars now. The cabby, after din- ner in his little reseaura.nt, enllds for a Havana, whish may oast him anything from fiveponce upwards. Yet not so many years ago ,there were only two or three places in. Paris where civets costing more than fivepence each could be bought loose. Now there is not the small- est shop in the poorest quau•ster where the passerby cannot purchase. act expensive Havana. It is a sign of the times, and perhaps ie .rather disquiebiug one. Kt Makes Handy Ruler. Those who find fregnest nue for blotto and ruler will find the fol- lowing a helps Saedet,P er tho on- dar side of ,tiro ruler, aiici pasta a strip of blotter along its whole length; but the blotrber should nab be quite as wide as the rulere un. leas the ruler has a strip of wire or tin with that, edge outward, Than, clo ing op ant of books, all that is nooceerery is to make the entry, demi, the red lines, move the ruler np, end blot thein with the strip he dant „feel like working" ones a sea botbomn, tentaiea la14e, netarlscd to the ruler. Harris Death Claim $1,000.000. The 'pewet claim is made by Mrs. Henry B. Harris, widow of the there:ekal man. She is seeking $1,000.000 compensation for the drowning of her husband, 52, 070 for the less of her own personal property, and 54,625 for the loss of her husband s baggage. The value she places ,en her own belongings is caused by the number of jewels which she had with her. Among them way, a string of •pearls of the value of $10,000, and a diamond necklace worth 54,200. Then there was a diamond and onyx bar pin, with five -carat atones in the centre, which oast 51,000, and a braoelet with circles of diamonds, for which she asks $750. H•er wardrobe was contained in five trunks, the con- tents of which is valued at $10,000. Two other large death claims are put in for Howard B. Case, man- aging director of the Vacuum Oi1 Company, by has widow, Mitis. Eliz- abeth C. Case, and for Jacques Futrello by his widow, Mas. May Futrelle. Each of them ask $300,- 000. Claims foe the loss of the per- sonal- effects of Major Archibald Bubt are put in by Lewis Ford Butt el Augusta, Ge., who values hie se- ven trunks art $1,000, and Mrs. Marian L. M. Thayer asks $14,910.- 50 for the baggage of John B. Thayer, but no money is asked as oompensaation for the lose of either of them, Unusual Claim for 'Ueda. Mr. Porta.leippi was one ee those who kat personal property of an unusual description. Among his ef- fects, which lee valued at $17,594, was a picture of Garibaldi, signed by him when he presented it to Mr. Por+taluppi's grandfather. This he askst $8,000 for, and most el the re.4t of the property he lost was made up of original designs for monuments, -bombe and mausoleums, William E. Carter, of Philadel- phia, feat among other thiegs an automobile of the value of $5,000 and two dogs, one of which wogs worth $100 and the other twice ars much, and Eugene Daley who hails feam Brooklyn, put in a claim for a set of bagpipes which could not be bought for lees than $50. In the great mauls of claims i'b is earner how the, extremes meet. H. Bjornetrou Steffatnsirn of,the Ho- tel Gotham wants $100,000 to com- pensate him for the sinlriog of an oil painting by .131oi del, entitled "La Circnsrenno au Bain, while Miss Mere McGovern seeks $50 from the ,steamship comp/an-to pay for. two Well oroehet collars waist out to her frosn Ireland by her mo- ther, . Sonic Nice Calculations. A olefin fee 5177,352.75 for jewels and wearing apparel is pat .in by Mre. Charlotte M, Camden. of Gor- innmtown, Penn. She, had taken a cabin freso Cherbourg, and had fourteen trunks. The inventory of her goods covers twelve typewritten pages, and among the items aro a cake of soap worth 51.75; a ring, with a Burma ruby and two dirt, rnonde, $14,0001 " "i' 1c diamond of 6 7-1(i sacra+ts, worth 20,000j a pen dant, with it large drama nd, worth 518,000. Zhou site hada a Worth con, for w'hioh she asks $900; a box of lace and pelts, $700; a white petticoat, $011, and eighey-four pairs of giovas and thirty -thew padre. of shoos, 1 hei 001111t0 6.4 of Itcttltes had with her on the voyaga property +af the value of only Jh.tee, of which her jewel.. amounted Po £1,7(15, while tu bur maid, RI -Iberia Maiorri, would be rec"rnpensel eufhci•ent:ly for her wardrobe by the payment of $406. An tumoral clainr is made by Mee, Catharine llarbeck of Toledo, 'Ohio, Der husband was drowned, and, besides asking $25,000 for his death, she claims• $55,423.34 for his belongings. For Lost. Titanic Cargo, Few claims are made ort behalf of the cargo carried in the Titania, Thus Popper, Cray & Co., of New York, ask $853.23 on account: of a shipment of Roquefort eheessa and the Kny-Scheerer Company of New York puts in a einem for 542 on ac- count of a package of silkworm gut. Several ixusuranc+e concerna are trying to get recompense for their losses. Thus the Inch+mn•ity Mutual Marine Assuramoe Com- pany would like to collect $9.924, and the Merchants' Marino Insur- ance Company, which had issued twenty-six different shipments, is asking for $182,000. (Inc of the most unusual of the claims on ac- count of goods which were lost is contained in a letter from Mayer & Muller of Berlin to Commiesioner Gilchrist, in which the claim is made for $16.60 for oettain hooka and periodicals which had been serif in the mails carried by the Titanic. IBi;l'TER ROADS volt ONTARIO, A Convention Will Meet in Toronto to Discuss the Plan. A great deal oe interest ie being aroused throughout the Province in the probable outeenie of the con- ference on Goad Roads to he held in Toronto at the end of this month. The agitation for road improve- ment in Ontario and particularly for a connected system of inter- WOl'L13 END 1DF:ATII AGONY. Maelorlleek ('ritieizes Doctors jeer Prolonging Lives. In a remarkable book on decile,. published in Paris recently, Prof, Maurice Maeterlinck attacks medi- nal aacienoe for its efforts to piolrng the life of a pestis" doomed to det"our. AL1 our knowledge," lie says, "only renders the death of human beings more painful than that of animals, who know nothing, Doe - tors say in the present state of ecienoe that there is never a cer- tainty of death with a few exeep- tions. Not to maintain life habil the beet limits, even at the price of insupportable agony, is perhaps to kill. The present idea is that qhs worst tortures are not in vain if a partial exystenoe is prolonged a few days, To cheat death one hour is , regarded as worth a life of pain," M. Maeterlinck acids that the doc- tors, however. urn c ,ruing to agree- ment on the a.iv..,ability, when the -re is no longer a chance of sav- ing life, of softening pain in the last moments, "It is not death," he says, "that attacks life, but life that outrage- ously resists death. Perhaps one day medical •soienee will allow death to come surely and silently when Wes course is run. "All the, terrible agony we im.• pute to the last fatal moment," he says, "does not naturally belong to death. This eupremre suffering is lengthened in proportion to the ad- vance of soience, .All doctors be- lieve that. it is their first duty to prolong as far as possible the meet atrocious convulsions a the death agony. Who, at a deathbed, bas nob wished to throw himself at the doctor's feet and demand mercy for the dying, without daring to do so The doctors are so convinced of their duty that pity and reason are urban and market town highways blinded in fulfillment of the highest has been steadily growing until in au•d most revered law of the human conformity with this feeling the eonecience." announcement has now been made '3 that such a scheme of ruaclways TILE EMPEROR'S STAR, w51I shortly be narked out and - Row 11 Cance to Be Put Above The (Toss. constructed by the gevermncrrt.1 � This announcement gives a great deal of importance to the coming eonvention, for it is expected that the lines of procedure discussed, there will have no little bearing on the development of the provincial system of roadways which the next few years will see established. Not only will the proposal of a road system throughout the Prov- ince be discussed, but the officers of the Ontario Good Roads Associa- tion, under whose auspices the con- vention is being held, announce that speakers will be present from the United -States and various Provinc- es in the Dominion who will tell of what is being done elsewhere, Premier Gerin of Quebec will be in Toronto for the occasion; and Highway Commissioner Taylor from British Columbia, and from the United States the Hon, L. D. Page, Director of the U. S. Depart- ment of Highways, and Col Saw- yer, of the Massachusetts Highway Board, From the Ontario Govern- ment the Hon. Dr. Reaume, Min- ister of Public Works, will be pre- sent, and others who will give ad- dresses on the roadway problem are Sir Edmund Walker, President of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and Mr. W. A. McLean, Provincial Highways Engineer. On all sides there are indications that Ontario is on the verge of a new era of road construction. The people of the province have decided to build roads, and it will be one of the big problems of the coming con- vention to voice the feeling of the people as to how the work should be carried out. Counties, townships, cities, towns and villages will all be represented. The problem of bringing producer and eorisumer together is of equal interest to all. With. bread, meat, vegetables and dairy produce dear- er by far in C'anadiad cities than in the most expensive parts of such old country cities as London, the question presents itself as to what makes the difference, and the logi- cal answer is the absence of geed roads, So, too, the migration of the younger generation from the farms prompts the question as to what is wrong there, and again the answer is the absence of good roads,_ which would increase the social, educational and other urban advantages within the reach of those living in the country. What the coming convention, whose sessions will last during February 26, 27 and 28, can do to help solve these problems retrains to be seen, but it is certain that with the large representation assur- ed and the many leaders who will deal with the questions brought up elie.00nference will be fa meinnrable one. Stranger ---What's the fightaboutl Native -,-The feller on top is Hank Hill wt married the widder Strong, an' th' other's Joel Soaks, wot in-, terdooced him to her. She ---Oh, Jack, 'in awfully - glad you proposed. He -Then ou ao- eept meShe-Will no; but, you see, your proposal .puts me even with ititty Cobb, who had the most cf rem• eiri in our est, Emperor William is the busiest magi in Germany. He revises or approves all decisions in public matters, supervises all art and architecture. and lectures every- body. In illustration of the defer- ence paid to his. wishes in even the smallest details, they tell in Ber- lin; writes Mr, Samuel G. Blythe in Everybody's Magazine, the atony of the star above the cross on the spire of the Emperor William Mem- orial Church. Of course the Kaiser insisted on revising the plans of the church. The architect brought the :plans to him, and the Kaiser scratched out what he did not like, and made such additions ora he fancied before,. he gave thein the irnperial 0.E. - The church was built, There was. to be a big gilt cross on the spire,. and it appeared in its proper place. But, much to the general astanish- ment, when the erns was put up, a large, many -pointed star was raised above it on a heavy rod.. The Berliners could not uader.stand the star. They inquired. The architect said the Kaiser had added the star to the plans. The plans were examined. Then it was found that in revising them the Kaiser had let fall a drop of ink from his pen, which hit the pa- per josh shove the cross. They archi- tect studied a long time over this blot of ink. There oculd be no ap- peal, no inquiries. He finally dee ceded that the blot of ink signified a star above the cross, and he put the star there, making it oorre•s- pond as nearly as possible with the outline of the, blot. The star is still there, ete DO PLANTS REALLY FEEL'? Their habits Suggest Almost Ru- men Sensitiveness. These fortunate children who live in the country where the pitcher plant or fly catcher can be found have a plaything which never loses charm. Unwary insects seeking to enter the pitcher seldom reach the outer air again, for the lid of the pitcher closes and remains so till the insect dies. Then it uncloses so that the insect may become food for it. Not alone does the sun flow- er turn her face to meet the shin ing rays of the sun inself, almost every flower will turn to the sun- sot side of the garden bed, and last year we' had is regiment of purple asters, every one facing east for the afternoon sun ie almost entire- ly cut off from the homepatch. Plants digest and assimilate food' with as much effectiveness as do humans, and if overfed or stimu- lated, die. The respiration of plants has tong been taught,' and flu for unary years e "energy"' of plants has been experimented with. New comes along a 'scientist who declares, they are eusste tibio of be- ing treated with chloroform. The tricks evhieh Burbank plays with fruits and flowers seem armost too wonderful to be true; a Stoneiless tum and spineless b act}r being just mervel he sees off by the j to way, while pursuing sorbs 5 studoe, a That plants have sensations -- hopes, fc+are; that they suffer agony in being torn from the parvenu stem is firmly' believed by many people.