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1)nin(y Dishes.
Drop ,t ookietr (dark).—One cup of
:brown sugar, ono -quarter cup short-
ening, one egg, one-half cup each
of hot water and mblesses, one, tea-
epooeful each of socia, baking pow-
der, ainnamon, cloves, and salt,
one-half teaspoonful of ground
nutmeg, all sifted thoroughly with
two and une:half cups of flour. Mix
well, drop in small spoonfuls upon
a greased tin, and bake in a quick
oven, This makes a small batch.
Drop cookies (white)—Two cups
of sugar, one cup of shortening, two
eggs beaten light, one cup of sour
milk,, one teaspoonful each of soda,
salt, baking powder—the latter well
mixed with the Tette cups of fleet:—
and grated nutmeg or any desired
flavoring. Mix well and drop in
small teaspoonfuls upon a greased
pan, Allow room t ospread,. Bake
in a quick oven.
liaiauu Puils.---Two eggs, six table-
spoons melted butter, eeio cupfuls
Your, one cup sweet milk, two table-
spoons sugar; two teaspoons bak-
ing powder, or, instead, one tea-
spoonful baking soda ,and two tea-
spoonfuls cream of tartar; one cup-
ful seeded raisins, chapped fine.
Steam half an hour in teacups. You
can put cherries or any kind of
canned fruit in the bottom of :the
teacups, and this seems to make
the puffs better flavored. Have
either hard or soft sauce to pour
over them.
Brown llett3•—Butter the inside of
a baking dish, cover the bottom with
a layer of tart apples, peeled and
sliced. Sprinkle this with sugar
and eiunamon or nutmeg and put
over it a layer of crumbs, strewing
it with bits of butter. Repeat the
layers of apple and crumbs until
the dish is full, making the tap
crumbs with an extra quantity of
butter. Cover the pudding dish,
• put it in the oven, and bake slowly
for twenty or thirty minutes; un-
oover, brown lightly; serve in the
dish in which it Was cooked, with.
...either hard or liquid sauce,
Baked Macaroni with Chipped
Reef—Break macaroni in one -inch
pieces; there shelled be three-
fourths cupful, Cook in boiling
salted water to cover until soft, the
time required being about twenty-
five minutes, Drain, and pour over glue writ be hard and make a gloss
ono quart of cold water to prevent hke new,
pieces adhering. Remove skin from A delicious fish au gratin is made
one-fourth pound of thinly sliced by buttering a pie dish and placing
smoked dried beef, and separate in in it as many fillets of white fish as
pieces. Cover with -hot water let will fill it without placing one on
To clean mirrors, clip a bit of raft
cloth kr, to alcohol azul rub lightly.
Mix cream cheese with chili sauce
and serve ou lettuce aphid fur a re-
lish,
if a faucet is clogged give it an
over -night soaking in a cup of ARE DOING.
viecgtar,
See that bread pans are well
greased before putting the loaves
into t1i m.
Beautiful old buttons can be de-
lightfully net Ler hatpins or other
trinkets.
Biscuits should alwaye be started
in a very hot oven.; it may cool a
little eater.
Washed potatoes beaten by an
egg beater will he deliciously fluffy
anal smooth,
8lale macaroons should be
pounded and used to flavor cus-
tards or. various puddings.
Hard boiled eggs shell much mare
smoothly if they are plunged into
cold water when they • are taken
from the fire; allow them to stand
in the cold water until thoroughly
cued,
To make chicken stock, cut an
average sized fowl into pieces and
cover with four quarts of cold
water. Bring this to a boiling
point and allow it to. gently simmer
for three hours.
Put all the pieces of laundry soap
in a can, add to them a couple of
tablespoonfuls of kerosene, fill two-
thirds full of soft water and boil
slowly. This is excellent to put in
the water in which the clothes are
soaked.
For very yellow or grimy clothes
a mixture of kerosene, clear limo
water and turpentine in equal
parts, shaken together until
creamy, then put one cupful of the
mixture in the boiler full of clothes
and let them boil for half an hour,
An unused doorway makes a
splendid bookcase in .a small room.
The door should be locked and
treated as the back of the case—
with burlap or picture matting,
Shelves can be set in the entire
door space ox the lower half.
Hospital gauze can be supplied at
home .at small expense. Ont the minster section of the Canadian
gauze into yard lengths; fold and Northern, Mackenzie da Mann are
roll it, then put the rolls in an old initiating several important power
towel and bake for two hours M a projects in the district,
moderate oven, taking care that it
does not scorch. Handy � for colds, William, Julian, suspected of con -
burns or cuts. nection with the robbery of Fuseee ilclatfi will Iast twice as Iong if & Bish'op's store, and dile resultant
treated with glue. Melt a little or -.murder of Constable Westaway a1;
dinary glue in a pint of water, let- Onion Bay, Nanaimo, has been cap -
ting it stand on the top of the oven tures.? en Lasqueti Island and
till dissolved. At night go over the brought to the city,
clean oilcloth with a flannel dipped Tenders_ will be called for by the
in the glue water; by morning the board of clirectars of the Royal
Columbian Hospital at New West-
minster, in the next two weeks for
the furnishing of the hospital now
being erected, It is estimated that
these will eost about $30,000.
IIEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT TILE WESTERN PEOPLE
Progress of the Great West Told
in a Few Pointed
Peragrnpiur,
The C,'P.R, is going to erect a
new station and asopare/be freight
sheds in Nanaimo,
A health inspector reports that
the month of February established
a record es regards freedom from
infectious disease in the municipal-
ity of South Vancouver,
A C.P.R. brakeman named Ed-
ward Marat, whose home is in
North Vancouver, fell under a mov-
ing.freight car in the C,P.R. yards
south of Pender and. was almost in-
stantly killed.
The suit of William Jamieson, a
mill hand, against the Adams River
Lumber Co„for $10,000 damages for
the loss of his right foot, has been
dismissed by a jury in the Supreme
Court.
Steel for the Canadian Northern
Pacific main line is now being deliv-
ered in. large consignments at Kam-
loops. An average of between
twenty and thirty tons are arriving
daily.
Vancouver, as a city, has been
summoned to appear et the Pint
Grey police mart to answer to the
serious charge of running an auto-
mobile without its tail light burn-
ing, one Sunday night on Shaugh-
nessy Heights.
Work has been started, on the
erection of another jam factory in
Mission City, and a new shingle
mill is being located en Horne Ave-
nue. Plans have been prepared for
the new post-offiee to be erected at
a cost of $40,000.
For the purpose cf providing fa-
eilities for the electrification of the
Yellow Head Pass to New West -
stand 'ten minutes and drain . , Ar-
range alternate layers ' of macaroni
and beef in buttered baking -dish,
baying two of each. Pour over
white sauce, cover with three -
:fourths cupful of buttered cracker -
crumbs, anal bake in a hot oven un.
til the crumbs arc brown. For the
white sauce melt four tablespoons
of butter, add three tablespoons of
flour, and stir until well blended;
then pour on gradually, while stir-
ring constantly, two cupfuls of
atiilk. I3ring to the boiling ,point,
and add one-half teaspoonful of salt
and one-eighth teaspoonful of pep-
per.
Cherry zlloss--Soak ono table-.
spoonful of granulated gelatin in
three tablespoonfuls of gild water
five minutes. Add one-fourth oup-
fu.l of boiling water, and as soon as
gelatin is dissolved add one and one-
half cupfuls ` of dark red canned
cherries (stoned and cut in halves)
anti one-half cupful of juice drained
from the canned cherries. When
mixture begins to thicken, add the
-whites of •two eggs, beaten until.
stiff, and a few grains of salt. Turn
into a mold first dipped in cold
water, and chill thoroughly. Re-
move from mold to serving -dish,
and surround with whipped cream
sweetened and flavored with vanil-
la, Sprinkle with Jordan almonds,
blanched, cut in shreds lengthwise,
and baked in,a slow oven,
Fig Custard.—Scald ane„quart of
milk, Mix two tablespooifule of
corn starch, three-fourths of cupful
of sugar, ,and one-fourth teaspoon-
ful of salt. Pour scalded milk
gradually, while stirring constant
ly, int.() mixture, and cook in dou-
ble boiler ten minutes, stirring con-
stantly until mixture thickens, and
afterwards occasionally, Add yolks
of three eggs, alightly beaten and
cook three minutes. Cut one -hal!
Pound of lige in_emall pleases, put in
doable boiler, and add one-fourth
cupful of boiling water, one-fourth
cupful of sugar, and one, tablespoon-
fel cof lemon -juice, and cook •uhtul
figs are soft. Combine custard and
fig mixtures, cool, and turn into a
serving -dish. Beet whites o:f them
eggs until stiff, and add gradually,
while bcati.» g constantly, three
tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar;
then add one-half tablespoonful of
lemon -juice, Pile by spoonfuls over
the pudding.
Rouseholtl llknts,
A little minced hams added to the'
omelet makes a savory change,
I)ip the knife in belling water be.
fore ....teeing hot bread with jt.
Cold inacaroui ati gratin may be
made into delicious croquettes,
For layer
'cakes the t oven on should
le hotter than forInc loaf cake.
the other. Sprinkle the fish with
salt, Pepper and , nutmeg; then
squeeze lemon juice over it, cover
with butter and bake in a quick
oven. Sprinkle parsley over the
fish when served,
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INSTALLLNG AFRICAN ICCNG.
Quite a Contrast to the Coronation
of a British .Monarch.
The customs of savage peoples
male up in curioue,,pioturosqueness
what they lack in dignity. ' Can -
trash, Inc instance, the ceremonial
that Mr. Robert H. Milligan des-
cribes in "The Fetish Folk of West
Africa" with the Coronation of a
British king,
The king weir chosen: from among
the people by the elders, and he
was selected for his wisdom. The
ceremonies of. his enthronement
were such that , he required not only
wiedosn, but also courage, physical
strength, and a zuperb digestion.
The man's fleet intimation that he
bad been chosen by Cie elders was
an onrush of the entire tribe—not
to da him honor, but to abuse -and
ipsult him in every possible way
They would hurl opprobieus
t}seta at him, curse hint, spit upon
hiut,•;pelt him with mud, and, heat
hire, Fee, they said, .from this time
on ho could clan all these :things to
tlteixi; and they would be powerless
to retaliate, It was their last
chance] .
They also reminded him of all hie
failings in graphic and minute par.-
tieu,laars :[f the king Survived this
treatment, he wee then taken to alto
former . Irfug-'s house, where he was
solemnly invested with ;the ineignit
of the kingly office in the ichape of.
a silk hat. No one except the sting
was ;permitted to wear a silk hat,
Following the inauguration cero-
many, the ;people came and bowed
before the new icing in Jtumialo sub
m.iesion, while ' they praised hint ne
enthusiastically es they had before
reviled him, Then 110 was fed tied.
feted forInc a week, during which time
ire ivas not permitted to leave hie
house, bust had to receive. poets
from, .a,ll ,parte:oE hie dominions end
eat with thein all, These, sermon-
lee ended, he turned to the eempary
atively easy and oomanon-place du-
ties of bis kingly office, This aus
tom, like many others, has p,ussed
?away under the influence of civile
'&tion.
Through a man with reettey be
bad egg, people seldom taste of-
fence until he, i;z broke,
It
takes mast of us longo.r to
make -un our urinals
ma t t s to do tarn
1 t a g
than it does to dolt,
With the idea of a greater North
Vancouver, the Board of Trade has
taken preliminary ,steps forInc the ex-
tension of the eity of North Van-
couver by th Making in of the en-
tire district lying between the
Cap:nauo and Lynn rivers.
The first grain elevator to he es-
tablished in New Westminster, that
of the 13. C. Grain Growers" Agen-
cy of British Calumbia at the cosi
nee of Royal Avenue and Columbus
Street, has been placed in opera-
tion. foeInc the fleet time.
Recovering from an operation foe
appendicitis, ,Hon. Price Wilson,
Minister of Finance, of British Col-
umbia, is reported to be resting
quietly at the General Hospital,
Vancotiver, and hope is entertained
Inc a rapid return to good health.
As the result of representations
made to the provincial Government
et New Westminster by Mr. Thos.
Gifford, M.L.A.. the Government
hes agreed to light the southern
petition of the Fraser River bridge
and the epproadhos thereto.
The spring has started in earnest
at Nelson, B.C.. Most of the snow
has gene. In the Pen d'Or valley,
which is noted furInc its genial cli
mate, wild strawberries Deo bloom-
ing and flowers are in blossom in
other sheltered valleys. The lake
at Nelson is free from ice .and beets
ing has begun Robins and other
song birds have arrived.
Denominational college buildings
to be erected at Point Grey in con-
nection with the provkneial univer-
sity will entail an expenditure of
$500,000, and if the intentions of
through, the architects who drew
OW plans for the provincial build-
ings will be a•slccd to make a start
at once and prepare plans for these
additional structures,
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VALUE OP PEACE PENS,
They invariably Feteli Iligh filar.
ket Prices..
It is interesting to know that
when it became public property
that peace had been proclaimed be-
tween Russia and Japan, pen maim -
falterers in alt parts of the world
sent supplies of their pens to those
engaged in drawing up the treaty,
hoping that the document would be
completed by the agency of their
wares, In order to avoid any un-
fair discrimination between the
penmakers, it was eventually de-
cided to use quill pens for the sign-
ing of the treaty, says London Tit -
Bits.
It was a quill pen that was used
by the Spanish oommissioners when
they put their signatures to the
treaty of peace drawn up after hos-
tilities had eeased between the
United States and Spain. This par-
ticular pen., by the way, sold fur
£25 some time afterwards,
The pen used by the plenipoten-
tiaries in signing the memorable
Treaty of Paris fell into the hands
of the ex -Empress Eugenie. Apart
from its historical interest, this pen
is of considerable value, for it is
mounted in solid gold and encrust-
ed With diamonds.
The home secretary occasionally
receives ant application from a relic -
hunter Inc the pen with which he
has signed the actual order of a re-
prieve, When Viscount Llandaff
was home secretary, . during the
reign of the late Queen Victoria,
he reccive•cl several hundred such
applications.
Queen Victoria always retained
possession of the pens that were
used to .set aside death sentences.
Qne of these pens, which was stud-
ded with jewels and worth several
pounds, was presented by Her Ma-
jesty to Mme. Albani, the great
vocalist.
Mme. Patti received a "reprieve
pen” from the ex -Queen Isabella of
Spain, and Inc many years the diva
wcaent,rried it with her wherever she
Pens which have been used by
famous authors often fetch high
prices when put up for sale by auo-
tion, Charles Dickens used a quill
peri to write part of "Hard Times,"
"Little Dcrrit," and "Bleak
House at the Villa Les Month
neaux, and this was sold some time
ago for £3 10s.
SCIENCE AMONG SAVAGES.
Tribes That Get Fire Front Cozn-
Pressed Air.
Whilst lecturing on .atoms at the
Royal Inetituticn, Landon, Sir Jo-
seph Thomson alluded to an extra-
ordinary method Inc•obtaining fire
that was practised by at least two
savage tribes—w method in which
compressed ail' was used.
Sir Joseph had just been explain-
ing how intenee cold could be pro-
duced by compressing it. "It is
one of the Most extraordinary
things in connection with the habits
of. savage races," he continued,
"blest at lease two tribes use this
method to get fire. It is an ex-
tremely difficult problem to know
how over they got hold of the idea.
I am quite sure they did not obtain
it from lectures on physics; so it
mast have come from some kind of
practical experience."
Even with special apparatus it
was not easy to accomplish the. feet
m a laboratory. One could easily
understand how men had diseover-
ed that branches cobbler together
sometimes caught fire. This would
give the idea of rubbing sticks to-
gether, but ,so highly complex an
operation as making fire by com-
pressing air could hardly have been
copied front any phenomenon.
The only thing he could think of
Me that these tribes must have,
been accustomed bo shoot their ars
rows from blow pipes, . If one of
these wooden tubos got obstructed,
it was conceivable thee vigorous ef-
forts to dislodge elm obstruction
the committee in charge are carried would cause the blowpipe, or tonne
pert of its to take fire.
REVENGE IS SWEET.
The Colonel, ,.1.P, ---"Can't you peryttado him to get on at
bit taster, 4 ',I shall miss my train 1
, I
Th ,
The Cliaulfeul— m ��raid not, sir, lie's; the man YOU
fined forty dollars and costs for furious driving last .week l"•
SUIRI'IRISI+, RAPID 8,
explorers' Isxeitiu.g Experience' on
the Columbia sliver.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL..ESSOlti
Seated on e strung raft, with I' 1'1'hft13.TIONAIr LESSON,
their bags of provisions etrappcd
firmly clown, Prof, A. P. Coleman
and a friend started on a journey
down the Columbia River. They
had hardly wade a ,start, writes
I'rofessur Coleman. in "The Cana-
dian Rockies," before they regret-
ted their daring and heartily wished
themselves on land, The narrative interveningbe-
Our raft was revolving <•ud Inc tween the lesson far March 1and
end, and then a, great billow fell up- this one records the death and
on us sidewise, and the raft over- burial of Sarah and of Abraham
turned. There was a moment un- the betrothal and marriage of Isaac
dor water, snatched and tugged at and Rebekah, the birth of Esau and
by unseen fingers, while, I Mang to Jacob and the descendants of Ish-
the binding -rope ; and then I drag- mael. The longer passage assigned
god myself upon the upturned but- for to -day's study includes the ac -
tom of the raft, and saw Frank just count of 13saat's sale of his birth -
scrambling up on the opposite end, right to Jacob, Isaac's increasing
We had missed the island, and prosperity and the marriage of
were now far past it in the very Esta to two Hittite women, who
centre of the current, the raft were ''a grief of mind unto Isaac
plunging and revalving, while we and Rebekah," Then in the apen-
shifted constantly to face the den- ing verses of our lesson ehapter are
ger, One pitch followed another, given (1) the request of Isaac to his
the waves half -smothering us from oldest son to prepare Inc him a
time to time. And now, right meal preparatory to receiving the
ahead, was the worst point of all; solemn parental blessing and (2)
what the Ottawa raftemen call a the plotting of Rebekah to secure
"cellar," where the water sinks that blessing rather for her favor -
down. in front of a ledge of rock and 'ite, Jacob. The reading of the en -
flings itself back as a towering tire chapter is essential,
wave. A .strange sensation of sink- Verse tai. Jaeob went near unto
ing into the depths was followed by Isaac --to set at rest his father's gible a man has to belong to some
a deluge of water leaping and suspicions concerning his identity. rccugnized fighting force at the
trampling upon us, and then the Felt him --To discover whether time of his exploit, and to be re -
raft struck heavily, and was nearly his hands were indeed those of commended as having shown eon -
dragged from under us. The next Esau. Isaac was almost blind and s ieuoue •allantr • in the face of the
moment we were above .water no longer tr,'stedlhis sense of hear- p gallantry
enemy.
again, half -strangled, but alive, ing; but 1,i some senof touch was less
and we supposed osed that the These conditions have been he re -
1P peaks impaired, ly enforced ever since, with the re -
underneath the raft had struck and The hands of Esau --Hairy and stalt thatalthugh sixty-tmn
been torn frees their fastenings. rougher than Jacob's. Rebekah w'on the, V.C. oin ]6000, thewo tatail
The most violent part of the rap- had taken "garments of Esau her number of recipients since then, in -
ids was over, but we were flying elder son, and put them upon Jacob c:[udfng the original halt
straight Inc a jagged projecting her younger son; and she put the much aver flue hundred.clessNo,is iranne-
rack at a sharp bend in the river, skins of the kids of the goats npe 1 then, that, although theder,
Ifo we struck, the raft might go to his hand. and upon the smooth of der, a value of this bronze Maltese
pieces; so I braced myself and pre- his neck (vs. 15 and 18), is trifling., no gold on earth
pared to fend off with e pale that 23. So he blessed him—levet im- crass could buy it.
had ,caught in the binding -rope. 1 inediately, but after first
pastel_
nearly went overboard. as the pole Mg of the savory meal which Re- Where It Is Worn.
was wrenched aside, and just gran- bekali had prepared Inc the zees- Theis a certain other paints
ing the. rock, we shot araurid the sr24. about the .C. which help to make
bind like a projectile. 1 I am- -The Writer of the nee- it unique. Unlike various orders,
The •current now moderated, and rative dues nut pass judgment nor it is absolutely democratic. For
paddling with the pole, we grade- comment in any way upon the false- example, the Distinguished Service
ally drew to the right shore � 'emelt Ira':ci ; ]ro simply records the fact. Order can be won by an officer only,
eafghb cn ecce chute g bni 1t ane • Venison—The dish requested but the V.C. is open to all ranks.
we were scan moored to a stump. at f2 The smell el his raiment — -
snow water, and we were thud- 11 of the field blessed of Je-
hovahdering with the toll. Presently, as with vegetation and game.
we steed there, I on the raft and
The poem that fellows reflects not
Frank perched on the stump, a dis-
so much the personal history of
agreeable feeling'eame over us that Jacob as rife fortunes of the nation
without blankets, rifle, fz;ving-pan Israel, and these at a time when
or ase life would be shorn of its
Israel was already in possession of
comforts, the promised land, especially dur-
ing the prosperous days of David
something
black swaying in the wa- and Solomon.
ter under the raft, There were the 28, The dery of heaven—Of the ut-
packs, still enclosed in the water -
land
importance to crops in the
proof, barely held at one end by the land of sparse rainfall
strap! We blessed the honest lea- brethren—The deseendants of Isle
titer of that ancient shawl -strap, maxi and Esau, Ishmaelites and
and no longer felt like shipwrecked Eclomites, as well as other neigh -
mariners on a desert island. boring tribes, descended fronr Abra-
ham and leen Lot.
REAL DOGS OF WAR, "The vividness and consistency of
the early prophetic portraits of
military Experts see and Rear of Esau and Jacob favor a personal
Some Clever Airedales.
interpretation, but there. is much
evidence to show that they repre-
For the first time probably in the sent more than mere individuals.
history of the Royal , United Service . . Both Jacob and Esau are clear -
Institute a number of dogs wore in- ly types of the two nations which
traduced to an audience. They
were Airedale terriers, trained by
Major .Richardson, the breeder of
dogs for military and police pur-
poses: Major Richardson delivered
a lecture on "The Employment of
War Doge," and mentioued that he
had received a request from the
men of the Norfolk Regiment forInc
one of his dogs and had presented
it with one, which worked with the
soldiers through last summer's ma-
noeuvres. He had received a re-
port from the officer. of the company
to which the dog was attached, in
which he said;
"On three occasions I had tlieop-
portunity of using the dog on out -
peat duties at night. 'Rash time I
found. the presence of the clog babe
of the greatest value. He either
remained beside the sentry or went
with a petrol. His value) consists in
the fact that he can and does doted
the approach of human beings some
considerable time before the eye or
ear of the average man can distin-
guish anything.
"The result is that the sentry or
patrol is fully on the nlert, and it is
impossible for them to be either am
bushed or 'rushed.' The dog is no
expense, as he feeds o•n the remakes
of the men's dinner, He is never
allowed to ran loose in camp or
barracks and no one is allowed to
feed stint except the man in charge
of him: I am of opinion that it
would be a very valuable asset to
have four of Ohm doge nttachetl to
every infantry battalion fer service
in. the field.
'I hope at the next ' company
training to make more extensive
trials of his usefulness. I should
add that his method of indicating
the approach of anyone at night is
quite silent, It eonsists� of a low
growl and a stiffening of. his body
almost like a pointer." --London
Chroniiele:
In almost every ease (says an ex-
pert) ) stannmorera have chests nal' -
rower and lung capacity loss than
haemal.
APRIL 8,
Lennon 1.---Jtteoe azul Esau. --Gen.
2P, 2744; 27. late. (Seidel!
text, Ira. 3ti alts,
FOR VALOR ON OMTTLEFIGLD
VICTORIA ('110`8 AND ITS RE•
CORD OF BRAVE DEEDS.
'fetal Number of I1eefpients iR
Not Mizell Over. Ieive'
If Hotbed,
The Victoria Cress, which was
founded on January 23th, 1850, has
just pegged another birthday. The
V.C. came into being in this wise ;
At the close of the Crimean War it
was found that there was no meauis
of conferring distinction upon men
who had performed prodigies of
valor. beyond the usual medal to
which even non-combatants were
entitled, On the other hand, forInc
the eon.picttously breve among our
French allies of that period there
was the decorative of 'the Legion of
Honor, open to ail, irrespective of
rank, says London. Answers.
Queen Victoria, therefore, de-
cided to institute the Vittoria
Cross, and at an ever -memorable
-scene in Hyde Park she pinned the
new decoration to the breasts of
sixty-two naval and military recipi-
ents.
The conditions of the V,C. are
both severe and simple. To be ell -
a -' eau(v. 3). hand; not l c+uug tt or-
had
foot of a steep -cut bank, none clee,y but a decoration, the V.C. eli-
too soon, for the C"olumbia is large- The �o or of the huntsman's garb, ries no social rank or precedence.
Against this, when worn on the
breast the V.C, has precedence over
all other orders, decorations, and
medals, and is always placed first—
that is, on the right-hand side of the
tett breast.
The V.C. is the one decoration
that cannot be made forfeit by sen-
tence of a court-martial. A court-
martial may recommend the forfei-
ture of a V.C., but the Sovereign
alone has power to take it away,
and, so far as one knows, this right
has never been exercised.
While, in all probability, the V.C.
has never been undeservedly won;
everyone who merits it does not lie-
ceseerily get it. Why? Because zu
man must be .recommended for it.
Ile'may, for example, do something
to win the P.C. five times over,
when cut off from all eye -witnesses,
but he cannot recommend himself
for it.
Anyway, there is only one case on
record of an officer doing so. This
were regarded as their immediate came about during the Mata s:le
descendants. Esau's portrait is War of 1896, when a certain irregu-
true to the character of the Edo- lar 'officer sent in an application in
mites, hiving on the borders of triplicate, reeommendtng himself
Canaan, they largely retained their' Inc the coveted Cross. He did nee
early nomadic, roving habits, de- i get it.
pending for existence upon the Robbed by Death.
scanty products of the wilderness
and the plunder which they ex-
torted at stole from passing cara-
vans,"—Heares auad Crises of. Early
Hebrew History, p. 105.
30. Made an end of blessing --
The V.O. is the only decoration
that earries a pension with it. Ung
til Piper Findlater won his Cross on
the heights of Dargai this pension
was only a few pounds a year. , In -
ratified the solemn act of blessing valided out of the_Sertice on de-
.Brought
a close. count of his wounds, Piper Find -
31. He also made savory food-. later found himself reduced to ex-
Entu'ely unsuspecting the weans.tt'eme poverty, and accepted an of -
that had been perpetratect ttpum fer to appear on the music -hall
him. stage. The spectacle, however, of
33. Troubled very exceedingly --
In utter fear and astonishment,
He shall be blessed—The mere
utterance of the solemn parental
blessing, even though spoken under
misapprehension and obtained ' by
deeeptitnu, wss regarded as final
and irret•
acable.
5 hero .compelled to make a show of
himself in order to Cern his bread
aroused public indignation and
sympath
To-dayy, rite V,C, mean—onoors ex
ceptcd--is entitled to a pension of
not less than £10 and not more
than £50 a year, according to his
3d. The exesading gt'aftt Rnd bit- Circntnstanee9, the pension being
ter ctv of Esters was characteristic payable 1rvm the date of the award.
If a man Caere the V.C. mora
than once lee is entitled to a bar on
hie medal ribbon, which is dark
blue for the Navy, crh neon for the
Army, and to an extra £5 a year
pension for each additional aet of
gallantrym.
Postlutous V.C.'c are granted
to the next-of-kin of men who, have
earthed rho Cross, but died beforo
it could be officially awarded to
them. Thus Lord Roberts wcara
twa'tr.0'a—Alis own, won in the In-
dien Mutiny, and that of his eon,
who loet his life in winning it on the
Tugela•..
The V.C. has been won by a par-
son --the Rev. X. W, Atlanta i while
it is tiro. proud boast of the Royal
Army Medical Corps that they have
a higher poreentage of V,C.'s to
their credit than any other branoll
of the Services.
Ti want you
talrearagttictrinan
talk iiluetrtly start hen to talking
about his pat enemy,
of his ingenuous and impulsive na-
ture. The blessing given to Esau
at his earnest request follows in
verses 39 and 40. Like the blessing
given to Jacob, it reflects the for-
tunes of his later descendants after
they tare become a nation,
Napoleon held Him as Baby.
A man is living who was held in
the arms of Napoleon as a small
eltilds having survived two French
Emperors .and three Kings, lived
through the term of ten Presidents,
and witnessed two revolutions, one
coup d'etat, ami one civil war. M.
Pierre Schamel, aged 105, lives in
Neuilly, Paris, France, happy and
in geed health on thirty cents a day,
allowed him by the Poor Law anth-
orities. He haslived on milk slaw
he was sixty.
The - difference betweon, a hospi-
tat and e sanitarium nuts; ' lie from
$20 a week up.