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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-4-3, Page 3i t 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, g' 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, .q. 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.