The Brussels Post, 1913-7-3, Page 3rl
Choice iteeipes.
Stuffed Datettadiemove the stones
from large dates. Fill space evith
a, mixture of cream cantly and
chopped nuts. hell in granulated
sugar.
➢l.areittnallow Chocolate.—Melte
a nicely flavored chocolate of cocoa
and place in each cup three marsh-
mallows; then fill with ehoculate,
which should be very hob,
Raspberry Whip.--\i%hip one cup-
ful of cream with the white of two
eggs. Add ono cupful of stewed
raspberries and three tablespoons
of powdered sugar. Serve very
cold.
Saute Parsnips.—Cut cold boiled
parsnips in two lengthwise. Dip in
beaten egg and breaderumbs.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and
saute in drippings until a nice
brown.
Cottage Cheese Salad.—Mateo
into balls some fresh cottage cheese
which has been mixed with cream
and a minced green pepper. Place
on leaves of lettuce and dress with
French dressing.
Cocoanut Toast.—Toast slices of
loaf cake and pour over it the milk
of a cocoanut, slightly thickened, to
which has been added some shredd-
ed cocoanut. Serve hot, with a grat-
ing of nutmeg over each slice.
Eggplant Cakes.—Boil the egg-
plant in hot water until tender.
Wash, then add a little sugar, one
beaten egg, seasoning, minced on-
ion, milk and flour enough to make
a stiff batter, form into cakes and
fry on both sides.
Banana Omelet.—Beat the yolks
of our eggs, add one-hal£ cupful
sugar and bread crumbs, mixed, a
pinch of salt and the mashed pulp
of three bananas. Into this stir
the stiffly beaten whites and cook
until nicely browned.
Baked Crcant Toast.—Toast slices
of stale bread, dip quickly in hob
salted water and lay on a platter.
Spread the toast with butter, then
pour over it some rich milk and
place in a bot oven. Garnish with
slices of crisp bacon and parsley.
Red Currant Salad. --Cut up ban-
anas in thin slices (just before need-
ed), combine with equal quantities
of currants which have been strip-
ped from their stems. Serve on
leaves of lettuce with a mayonnaise
dressing, and garnish with a few
currants ou the stem,
Onion Soup.—Slice half a dozen
anions and saute in butter until
brown. Add one quart of rich stock,
with salt and paper to taste. Place
bread croutons and a couple ,ef
tablespoonfuls of parmesan cheese
in the tureen. Strain the soup over
the ,bread and serve at once.
Asparagus Loaf.—Cut up cold as-
paragus to make two cupfuls. To
one cup of hot cream add pepper,
salt, onion juice, one tablespoonful
butter, one beaten egg and one cup
of cracker crumbs, Add the aspar-
agus and place in a well -buttered
baking dish. Bake one-half hour.
Serve iiot with asparagus sauce.
Celery Croquettes.—Mix together
one cupful hot mashed potatoes,
one cupful minced celery, two tea-
spoonfuls butter, two tablespoon-
fuls chopped nuts, and .salt and
pepper, Add sufficient milk to bind;
shape in croquettes dip in beaten
egg and breaderumbs and place in
a baking pan containing a little
melted butter, in the oven, Bak
until the croquettes begin to crack
and are a delicate brown,
Cootie Pudding.—Put ane cup of
fine breaderumbs in a quart of milk
and place on the stove, When thick
enol smooth stir in two tableepoons
butter, one scant cupful sugar and
two . tablespoonfuls cocoa, ' Take
from the fire and beat two minutes,
then add one teaspoonful vanilla
and the beaten yolks of four eggs.
Fold in•the beaten whites, pour in
a buttered baking dish, place in a
pan of water and bake three-quar-
ters of an hour. Servs hob with
hazd sauce, or cold whipped cream,
Corn Meal Crisps,—Seven-eighths
cupful corn meal, one cupful boil-
ing water, two and one-half tea-
spoonful, melted putter, one-half
teaspoonful salt. Add cern meal
gradually to boiling water and when
smooth add butter and salt. "W read
evenly on a 'buttered inverted pan.
to ono -eighth inch in thickness, us -
in along, broad -bladed
Be .a jcnrfe,
arin moderate oven until well
browned, Cut in two and one-half
inch squares, remove froth, pan and
serme at once, •
A Few Suggestions,
Knives nob in daily .use should be
well polished and buried in a box
of sawdust until required ler,lsase,
Keep a lampof camphor lit, the
drawer or closet where silver }s
kept; it is e material aid nl pre-
venting tarnieh.
1 1' gavel: All
I only a s 1 t o 1 0
If y g i' qi fent .1 3
• nc r
.e � os
'ked 1 a l � u
! n � 0 tY
'steeping omenpr garlic 1p t § vine -
Sar before inirng the dre m ,
f
there ere a few cold Malted
'lei Wash them l;rew With
7 i3, .}}.1
�nn. aced celery and use al ap filling for
"brown bread sandwiches;
Mint sauce sen be kept ler a Lintel
tint' in a ti;;htly cover d jar. T.,
notice it, eb',p a haudiel of freell?
mint leaves p•,uring 00 0 quarter of
a cupful of pug it aied a hell e cup-
ful of vinegar,
lloret c hanging up eh , hg's, care-
fully wipe oft the e10 ir ii,l', which
has been exl'usatd to the elements.
('old {trial veal and p.•a:t nixed
with French dl cseleg ala served
very cold on lettt,eo mak ei a deli-
eieue (Lsh. Homo like a tiny bit of
mint added to the trench dressing.
�siitlr lite frret appear:u ee of dan-
delions in the lawn, gather a, few of
the 'young anew, wash the n thor-
oughly, put them in a quilt en ice or
in a cool place so they will get crisp,
and then serve with a French dress-
ing,
A simple pudding sauce is made
by mixing an even te:tsl'oonful of
cornstarch with a cupful of granu-
lated sugar and then addieg a gen-
erous cupful of boiling water, a
small piece of batter aucl lemon
flavoring to taste.
If the curtain loops used fur drap-
ing back the white curtains need
laundering, slip them into a cheese-
cloth bag and then wash. In this
way the loops may be rubbed vigor-
ously with soap and water without
,injury. Rinse them in the bag.•They
may be hung up to thy in the bag.
Oftentimes it is inconvenient to
launder the curtains in the spring
on taking them from the windows,
but at any rate they should be
washed, andput away rough dry.
The dust and dirt will injure the
fabric if the curtains are packed
away soiled.
A tasty fruit dish for breakfast or
luncheon is served in orange skins.
Into each half of the orange put the
orange pulp mixed with a little
lemon juice and a little chopped
fresh mint. Serve very cold, top-
ping each basket with a sprig of
the mint.
The selecting of a suitable wed-
ding present is quite easy if you go
the right way about it. As a rule
the things that are useful are the
most acceptable. For instance, an
artistic lamp and lampshade always
make a gift that is appreciated, and
will serve as a lasting reminder of
your good wishes.
THE IRISH GUARDS.
Former Regiment Was Raised in
1662 by Duke of Ormond.
Considerable ignorance prevails
as to the regiment known as the
Irish Guards. They were raised in
1901, during the course of the Boer
War, as an appropriate compliment
on the part of the Queen to the sol-
dierly qualities of Irishmen, and as
a, graceful recognition of the valor
displayed by the Irish troops gen-
erally on the battlefields of South
Africa. The creation of a regiment
of Irish Guards is, after all, but a
tardy recognition of the claims of
Ireland to a share in the honor of
furnishing those regiments which
are,most closely assooiated with the
personal service of the, Sovereign,
and which have enjoyed for centur-
ies a traditional precedence in the
regimental roll. There are, as is
well-known, four distinct regiments
of Foot Guards—the Grenadier, the
Coldstream, the Scots, and the
Irish—all of which, except the
Irish, date their existence from the
Restoration. But it seems to have
been forgotten that, what has been
greeted as a belated innovation in
the case of the Irish Guards, is
really only a revival of a corps
which is coeval in antiquity with
the others, The former regiment of
Irish Guards was raised in 1002 by
James, Duke of Ormond, then Gov-
erns of Ireland, and on the same
conditions as the other regiments
of Guards; their first colonel was
the eldest son, Lord Richard But-
ler, created Earl of Arran, When
the new modelling of the Irish
Army on a Roman Catholic) basis
began, at the opening of the, reign
of James II„ it had its due effect
on the Irish Quards y and the regi-
ment 'afterwards betaine involved
in those far-reaching changes which
led to such startling results. To its
oreclit the regiment remained faith-
ful to James II., and, after .1690,
disappeared from the list of Wil -
liana III,'s Army, In the Marlbor-
ough wars it was present al Mal
plaquet, and later, tut Dettingcn
and Fontenot' ;p the cervico of
Franco, At the Revolution of 1793
it became the 92nd Regiment of the
Army of Franco, but refused to
serve under the Tricolor, and in
1704 again took eervice nndee the
British Crown es one of the regi-
ments of the Irish Brigade, ;After
7:..
serving in No,* America, and tlto
'Wes Indio l - wet disbanded in
t s It wee
17790, The regiment ' Wes an every
occasion remarkable fore ate con-
stancy, 11yal0i, ped Preachy 2• •qual-
ltres 'Which it yytll be ' foaled peeve
been inherited by its present gal
ant represeutatiyes,
;An optimist eve' that aitl Tihing5
are ore the beet; I thi he 'rue
thoao of lis wile ere next best hay -
elf t, o s1WW:
i`,Sontsylig'dealt lFAa play dram!
It'ssea tin, rsi t yea hake
sawdust regi” i' •lihert'11 geb
sleo en,wdusie dad 4'} fellerere the
aw, Suet eaw e'en-toath; t cord-
wood into stove lengths, You can
have all the sawdust you make»
OUR RING AND QUEEN AT THE GERMAN ROYAL WEDDI\G
The latest photograph of King George of England and his consort,
Queen Mary, at the wedding of the Kaiser's only daughter, Princess
Victoria Luise, to Prince, Ernst of Cumberland. The King, in honor
of the occasion, is dressed in the uniform of a German cuirassier. The
dress worn by the Queen is of cloth of geld with a long train of the
same material. Her Majesty wore a diamond tiara and ropes of
magnificent diamonds round the neck, with adiamond pendant com-
posed of two enormous stones.
IFIE SHAY SCHOOL 1ESSO
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 6.
Lesson I. The Child Bioses Saved
From Death. Exod. 1. 8-14, 22 to.
2. 10. Golden Text, Matt. 18. 5.
The Rook of Exodus begins with
a list of the sons of Jacob, followed
by a statement regarding the rapid
increase of the children of Israel,
which in turn gives rise to alarm on
the part of a new Pharaoh "who
knew not Joseph," •The building of
the store -cities, Pithom and Raam-
ses, upon which the new king has
set his heart, furnishes the oppor-
tunity for the exacting slave ser-
vice required of the Hebrews in the
hope of breaking their spirit and
reducing their numbers. This meth-
od proving futile, other means are
adopted, oulnunating in the' royal
decree for the wholesale destruc-
tion of male children among the He-
brews.
Verse 22. Pharaoh charged all
his people—His taskmasters and
overseers, those having general and
more immediate supervision over
the Hebrew colony.
Every son , cast into the
river—According to Jossphus, the
Israelites, during their severe per-
secution in Egypt, "clog canals and
and banked rivers, fortified cities
and built pyramids." The same
author, explains that the severe per-
secution was due to the prediction
of a soothsayer that an Israelite
child should bo born who would
bring disaster on Egypt and free
Israel,
1. A man of the house of Levi—
Amram by name (compare Exod. 0,
18, 20), The family of Levi had now
become a tribe,
A daughter of Levi—Joehebed, a
near kinswoman of her husband,
Amram,
2, A son--eb of a firstborn child,
since both a daughter, Miriam,
mentioned in Exod. 15: 20, 21, and
a son, Aaron, according to Exod,
7, 7, older by three years than
Moses, had already come to the
home.
Hid him three months -Hers was
a supreme effort' to save, the infant
son from death; Pharaoh's strict.
charge to his servants concerning
Hebrew infants being, "Every son
that is born yo eha11 cast into tbo
river, and every daughter ye shall
save alive" (]rood, 1, 22),.
An ark --The Egyptian word thus
translated , means, literally, chest
or casket,
Bulrushes—A word also of Egyp-
tian origin, ,designating the well-
known papyrus reed, cultivated so
extensively in the delta of the. Nile
in ancient -times; The papyrus is
no longer round in )igyplit, brit still
grows in Abyssinia, Neitla, and var-
{otts parts ofSicily, ]3y,tho ancients
1t was piet to maps a cls,,its" roots,
talksM t 1} fiber& and luheo all be
'lux b1e1 tr' h tis ranee li lht
a to rgrin g
s iffe uitab q o a navtgabin tiro
,shallows of the Nile were oonhstruct-
ed,
e word of. =certain mewl
1
ill..
#� 1
mewl-
ing sn the original, tlw) gh otle c
ally thought to mnev,h ss kind of Win -
men or mineral pitch
The flags tl}o river's brink-=
The word (ranslated lags" coin=
from the Egyptian tit ,
3a t a kind of
h
flowering water plant differing
from the' papyrus. The phrase
translated "the river's brink"
means, liberally, the lip of the river
—an Egyptian idiom.
4., His sister—Miriam, now about
thirteen years old. The first men-
tion of Miriam by name is in con-
nection with the acoount of Israel's
successful escape through the Red
Sea, after which she led a chorus of
women with timbrels and dancing
in honor of the escape of the Israel-
ites from their pursuers. Later in
the desert journey of the people
Miriam instigated an open rebellion
against Moses, which was followed
also by Aaron. Fee this rebellion
against God's, chosen leader she was
smitten with leprosy, from which
she was healed only ab the earnest
intercession of Moses, The death
and burial of Miriam at Kadesh is
referred to in Num, 20, 1 (compare
also Exod, 15. 20, 21; Num. 12. 1-
15).
5, The slaughter of Pharaoh—Pos-
sibly a daughter of Seti I, and if
so, then a sister of Rameses the
Great.
Came down to bathe at the river
—A not uncommon custom for wo-
men even of high rank, special
places being reserved for their
bathing along the river bank. The
Nile River, moreover, was regarded
by the Egyptians as a sacred
stream, and its waters as health -
giving,
Her maidens—Only women of
high rank would serve as maids to
the princess. Pictorial representa-
tions on Egyptian monuments an
Egyptian monuments are extant
showing aristocratic Egyptian ladies
attended by handmaidens.
Her handmaid—Referring to her
special personal attendant.
0. And she opened ib—The prin-
cess.
Had compassion on him—Promp-
ted to pity by her womanly in-
stincts, even though she - doubtless
knew the babe to be one of the He-
brews' children.
7. 'Shall I go and call thee a nuh'se
of. the Hebrew womeni—An offer
made, doubtless, according to the
implicit instruction of Miriam's
mother, who had apparently plan-
ned everything carefully before-
hand, selected the place and time
of exposing the babe, from a know-
ledge of the habits and character
of the princess,
8, •Called the child's mother—It
is hard to believe that the princess
did nob sleepeet the real situation
and the relation of both the oblig-
ing Hebrew maiden and the nurse
she proposed to call to the little
child, But having determined to
save the infant's life, elm Aske no
gticstions,
0, I will give thee thy wages—
The princess assists by her action
in allaying all suspicion,
10, The child grew--Jochebecl heel
saved her sen's life by a transfer
of her mother's right to him to the
daughter of Pharaoh, to whom She
delivers hire as soon as her services
es a nurse to the infant can ba die-
pensecl with, The statement of
Stephen (clots 7, 22) that "Noses
ec e learning
was instruct l in all tilt ki g
of the Egylitians" is in harmony
WI b the pltvlleges tune oducatlon.al
fr, yantaigos wile l he would fatnr-
�Yet the adopted clttk of
to 1 l
1Yt10•
e princess,
A holy iifs le the ycry gateof
heaven; l#ur let us all lonhember
that holiness does not` onsist
p it
doin g uncommon things but in do-
ing everything with purity of iteamit.
UTILIZING WOOF Zi'.! l 1'E.
Almost livery f'ar't of .the Tree Is
Now Creed for Some Purpose.
1', rh .p> the n litiiiteretfic.g•' .
va k pn„ ,rt. ase ihct r' r , 1;, tut of
weed products has arc:.cu iti the in-
ereasieg variety a:r esee i<> v hien
wartf.yeasee yeti lar' lent. !.lime,
in the 1+.r -,:y1.• ;IV c:,'4+a..r,t eftof
tJ,c vur±,ua weed -r,r mete a,t•:1 be
'Leaved thr u ht tin. elw-mills and
large wt. wiul,irte; indce=t i,'e,
right deem to the firm working
only ern ,unroll specializ'tt tierce.
It is now etam.ercially 1r,srible
to tedtu*a the fifty to t.ixly per cent,
waste f::rnt'rly left in the wornts by
the lumberme,t to no mare than
five per cent. by a. oumbis, ctian of
three well-clavelopccl chemical in-
dustries, namely, paper -snaking;
wood-diwtitlation (in a mollified
form), and the manufacture of
resin oily. Practically all the valu-
able constituents from the stum,pe,
taps, branches tend defective stems
which would otherwise be left to rot
in the forest, are thee converted
into useful commodities.
The utilization of mill waste is
being made increasingly po'esible by
the developing markets for odd and
short lengths in lumber instead of a
few assorted sizes. Many saw -mills
use their waste products in the
manufacture of laths, mouldings,
pickets, roller -blinds and paving -
blocks. The manufacture of wood-
pulp from the small waste -wood
now being fed to the burner is aloe
a commercial possibility. Even
saw -dust has its uses, and in coun-
tries where more intensive utiliza-
tion prevails it is being successfully
manufactured into a variety of pro-
ducts. Several plants have been
erected in this country for ita man-
ufacture into, ethyl (or grain) alco-
hol, sugar and briquets for fuel.
The bulletin now being issued by
the Forestry Branch, Ottawa, on
The Weed -Using Industries of On-
tario, throws considerable light on
the utilization of wood -waste. Sash
and door factories sell or use their
short ends and trimmings for the
manufacture of boxes, baskets,
bobbins, butter -moulds, insulator
pins, novelties, skewers, spindles,
spools, stakes and wooden -ware.
They bale their common sawdust
and sell it for floor covering, for the
manufacture of composition novel:
ties, and for cleaning screws. They
sell shavings for bedding, packing,
and for drying wet land. Hickory
and other hardwood dust is sold for
smoking meats. In fact, just as the
part: packers boast of using all a
pig but the "squeal," so wood man-
ufacturers will soon be able to boast
of using all the weed but the bark—
and even that, in the oase of same
woods, such as hemlock, is of con-
siderable value.
3
VOTARY OFFERED HIS HAND.
lath= Peasant Says Rama Will
Look After Him.
As an example of the triumph of
religious ecstasy over bodily tor-
m•ent it would be hard to beat the
following story:
In the central provinces of India
an illiterate peasant named Lach-
man abandoned field labor for the
ascetic life. One morning he ap-
peared before the head priest of a
temple where he was accustomed
to worship, saying that he had eut
off his left hand aa a. votive offering
to the god. Evidence of the truth
of his assertion was there in the
stump of the arm, which was bleed-
ing profusely. A ligature was ap
plied, the police were infoemed,
and Lachman was taken to the dis-
pensary, where the civil surgeon
operated.
The hand had apparently been
hacked off by three rough strokes.
The man .said that he felt no pain
and feared no harm; Rama would
look after him for the rest of his
days. Ho refused chloroform for
the oueration; he was euro it would
cause no pain, for he had felt none
when he out off his hand. He re-
mained quiet and looked on calmly,.
while the civil surgeon was at work,
and similarly during a second o'p-
ereetion, rendered necesseey by the
hemorrhage. On the following
morning he appeared, pleased amd
cheerful, Declined to attend daily
for dressing, and departed ori lis
way in sera= emendate -co,
r
Bismarek's "Mot."
As might be expected of a man of
iron, Bismarck's wit was of the
slodi'e-hammer sort, In 1862, ao-
ccrclhng to "Intimate Memoirs of
Napoleon XII," by Baron d'Ambos,
the wont to Paris as Prussian ambas-
sador,
fox have never hoard is German
speak French as you do," compli-
mented the emperor on the coca -
elan of their! first meeting,
"Thanks, sire," returned Bite,
manic, "I have never heard a
Frenchman spoalt French ria you
do,"
Tho emperor spoke with a Pe!':.
eeptible (srn hill 11e9allt,
1 -..
Nell' trousers and coats will be
skintight thin fall 04 stents 1 is
'taro likely to, have erownp tp'o illeh}os
hight,, says a fashion note, tijlfrat
awful things the women are wear-
ing this yeas --•term'(~ they
iZ�E1 E� Gid THE BALK'H OR
02/TAUT!' OF fit'LliARIANS
WAS UNPRECEDENTED.
NTED.
Total las Appalling When the More
tidily Among Allies Is
Added.
A standing example of "how not
to intake war" is afforded by Bul-
garia, says a military critic, who
signs lhbnself "Chaseeur," be
Blackwood'& Edinburgh Magazine,.
Ile is referring to the leas of life
revealed in the official rotarus re-
cently issued at Sufi•&, showing that
330 officers and 20,711 Wren were
killed; 050 officers and 52,010 hien
were wounded; 3,103 ol$cers and
men are miesing. Of Bulgaria's
population of 2,200,000, 'ono male in
every 25 =tee thus be dead, wound-
ed, or missing. The same percen-
tage of males in the United King-
dom would bo about -920,000; in the
United States it would mount to
2,000,000. Speaking of Bulgaria's
reckless valor and incautious expo-
sure of her battalions, She cites the
foto of two Sofia infantry regi-
ments :—
Regiments Disappear.
"These two units had comprised,
during the original mobilization,
almost the entire literati of the
capital. The very architect respon-
sibhe for the most modern of the
buildings had marched away with a
rifle on his shoulder. Judges, mag-
istrates, lawyers, actors, shop-
keepers, seized in the great tenta-
cles of universal oonsoription, had
been spirited away to the field of
battle. What had been their for-
tune? There is a cruel fate in; war,
which may spare one unit and pros-
oribe another, The Sofia regiments
found the latter fate, Ex'terminae•
*ion was their role in their coun-
try's victories. In the early bat-
tles of the war they marched with
the `valor of ignorance' upon the
enemy, and paid the price, They
were recruited again to service
strength. The boys from the ly-
ceum and the apprentices from the
works were hastened a year before
their time into the barrack square,
and after three months' training
were drafted to the front. Again a
cruel fate lay in Store for them.
'.Clio lions from behind T'chataldja
crept out under cover of the night
mists, and for a second time the
literati of, Sofia, we're practically
annihilated."
An editorial in the Evening Stan-
dard (London) contains the stant-
ling statement that waste of life in
the Bulger lines made the mortality
of this war, considering its dura-
tion, unprecedented in the world's
annals, and we read:
Bulgaria Lost 30,000 Men.
"It is not surprising to learnt that
the Bulgarians have lost 80,000 m'eo
killed in the war. It was obvious
from the first that their reckless
gallantly would result in heavy
losses. The Turks 'fought like
lions' before .Adrianople, and,
shockingly led as they were at Kirk-
Kilisseh, on October 23, and a week
later at Lule Burgas, they still
managed to inflict heavy losses on
their dauntless foes, who advanced
in serried ranks against the fire of
shrapnel. Tho attacking side al-
ways suffers mast ;severely, as the
Japanese found to their cost, and
to the 16,000 men put hors de com-
bat in the final assault on Adrian-
ople must be added the terrible
struggle ler the possession of that
Spion Kop in the Tehataldja lines
on March 28 and 29, when the Bul-
garians were finally driven off
through the rain and mist, leaving
1,000 dead behind them, Our Own
losses in the Boer War were noth-
ing like so heavy as those of Icing
Ferdinand's troops in thio cam-
paign, and the total will indeed be
appalling when to these figures are
added the tcr•ribho mortality among
the Montenegrins in those attacks
on Mt. Tarabosh, and the, Servian
losses, whiolr in the taking of Pris-
tina alone were, officially declared
to be 'extraordinarily large.' The
Russians in the whole of the Man-
churian campaign scarcely lost
more men killed,"
FOES OF GROG WIN POINP.
British Sailor Must Look for
' "Three 'Water" In future.
"Three Water" is not yet abol-
ished in the British navy, but times
who wvanb it will have to ask for it,
instead of asking for iia, money
allowance, Every man. in he see,
vice above 20 is 'entitled daily to a
pint of grog, whiolr is rum diluted
with three times its bulk of water,
This: judicious mixture le served out
to the men after their dinner, It is
now proposed ] l Berl fo abolish the ration
a-htoge,bhei• and make, the blue-
jacket a teetotaller evilly nilly While
114,,J4 en board phisy,
tel hrtw9 ovfgt'name oonstitnted,
tbie ah111tiay tll'tplc e, {1ip,ll.avy ilt lr'f^
dor to fester the tl'ads' of the 'West
Tndies, Admira•1 Vernon, fleet is-
Sued. 1't rc'gcl ' tltabed to *I Miler's
company; acid ii; is front his nick.
name Old Grogan' that the mixture
takes its mune of ffgrcog,"
WINK
GREAT HANDLER RELEASED
NICHOL,4S SATIN, NOTORIOUS
THROUGHOUT WORLD,
Jells Stories of •Pigkting at Plena '
and in Cuba—Was Married
In Canada.'
Nicholas Savin, the notorious
Russian adventurer who calls him-
self Count Nicholas do Tnulouete-
Lautrec, has been released from
priseen in Itiga.by the Czar's niami
facto of March 6, writes a Moscow
correspondent. When the Count
eame out of prison he had only
three roubles in bis pocket. He
has earned 5,000 roubles so far, it
Moscow newspaper is publishing his
diary and a clnematograph firm has
paid him 01,500 for films illustrat-
ing his life, In Russia he is the
man of the hour.
Ho is known teethe police all oyer
Europe and America as an exceed-
ingly neaompiished .swindler, who
speaks half a dozen languages, and
whose specialty is the passing off an
the guileless of forged bonds and
securities.
He accounts for all the records of
charges and convictions against
him in various parts of the globe in
two ingenious ways.
Either they wore crimes oom-
mitted by a cousin who is remark-
ably like him, or he says they were
charges trumped up against him by
the Russian secret police in ardor
to get rid of a dangerous Nihilist.
His Story of War.
A000rding to his own story, he
took part in the Russo-Turkish war
of 1877 and was severely wounded
at Plevtra, There is some ground
for doubting this account, for he
received no medal and no wound
pension. All that is known is that.
in 1878 he gave up his commission.
When Savin was on trial at Pau
in 1008 for swindling he told the
same stony of being wounded; at
Plevna as well as at Santiago de
Cuba, The French court ordered
the prison doctor to examine his
"wounds." Tho do,otcr reported
that there certainly were scars
visible, but they were received in
battles other than those of war.
After'a thrilling escape from the
French gendarmerie he fled to the
Balkans, where he enlivened pro-
ceedings by presenting himself as a
candidate for the Bulgarian throne.
His &themes, however, were frust-
traced by a Moscow barber, to
whom he owed money, and who,
happening to be in Constantinople
at the dame time, gave information
to the Russian Embassy as to Sa,-
vin's identity.
In Desolate Narim.
The luckless adventurer was sent
to Narim, a desolate convict settle-
ment in Siberia, but within three
months he succeeded in escaping.
Afterward he lived in. Chloagoy
where he worked as a ear conductor
and was naturalized as an Ameri-
can citizen. He was married in
Canada, and arrested and sen-
tenced* there for dealing in forged
bonds in 1900, and has since been
arrested in New York, Liebon, Fin-
land and Pau. He tells wonderful
stories of escapes from Siberia, and
is, in faot,'the moat brilliant artist
in modern fiction,
'n—
FLOWERY PIIRASES BARRED.
Germans Don't Like "Much Es:
teemed Sir" Any More.
Business men on the European
Continent aro apparently becoming
impatient of the elaborate phrases
of courtesy with which their corres-
pondence is adorned. Some Ger-
man firms now stick on their letters
an oblong blue stamp on which is
printed a request to their eorres-
pendants to discontinue the use of
r•:uch civilities as "much estceanred
Air," "most humble," "honoeed;"
"with grcate-b respect" and other
flowery phrases. The reform will
be welcomed by English oorr'espon-
dents whose German, is not as faa,-
cilo as it might be. To -hammer
away with the aid of a dictionary
at a dozen words only to find that
they mean "we most roeajhcMtfiilly ,
beg of you, most honored sur, to be
good enough to" is not.co¢hducivs
to a businesslike frame of miner,
Nevertheless one must regret the
threatened disappearaues of aucli
delightfully expheseive and pictur-
esque gheetiuge as "Hochaehtunge-
ve•Il" and "Veuillez agrees meg
saltations empresses," besides
Which our own "Yours faithfully"
appoara cold,
Queer Things Up at Auction,
Everything, it ie said, comets into
the a i tion room ' sooner or later,
end ilio list of curiosities that have
been sold in London in the past is
curious, A:iucuig thorn have been'
046 ti Nelson's and Wollington'n
t1t'e head of D reruviap In-.;
radian, a human •skull no bigger t •at
b1 .11;( flay e .1 ar£ roti ,
3Y 11,
bne interior' O� 'e.Clof5�
d
r7
i'aul'a" ilat, a cur'iou's grodafy, hoer
reran 1itsttelgaar at fetched 44196,
nand the blue, ell�tdrvosb wltiahh C.hian144
I, 'Pore aat7)hs oyceothtian, wltioh tya�
purchased for 411,000,