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Selected Recipes.
Oatmeal Bicap. -Two cups oat -
1, tela cups boiling water, let
•.ttantl two or three hours, add one
tablespoon shortening, half cup ino-
lasses, level tablespoon salt, two
cups white bread s1iunge, Add
white flour enough to knead hard.
Oatmeal Wafers. -- Two cups
brown sugar, two-thirds cup hut
water, half cup lard, four cups oat-
meal or two cups oatmeal and two
cups graham flour, one teaspoon
each soda, vanilla, and salt. Mix
stiff with flour • roll very thin.
Savory J?ish.—Toast rounds of
stale bread. Mix together any cold
fish (flaked) which yon happen to
have, a little cream and melted
butter. Place on the toast, sprinkle
• with parmesan cheese and place,in
oven until ib becomes very hot,
Egg Chops.—Chop several hard-
boiled eggs, add to them a stiff
white sauce which has been highly
seasoned and to which has been
added some minced parsley and a
few drops of onion juice. When the
mixture is cold, mold, dip in egg
and breadcrumbs and fry in deep
fat. Serve with hollandaise or to-
mato sauce.
Molasses Custards.—Beat the
yolks of four eggs with half a cup-
ful creamed butter, two scant tab-
lespoonfuls of:ilour and one tea-
spoonful cinnamon. Add to this
two cupfuls black molasses and one-
third cupful cider vinegar. Then
fold in the beaten whites of the
eggs. Bake until it sets, but do not
let it get overdone.
Orange 0C/dm—Four eggs, three
cups flour, half cup butter, two
small oranges or one largo one,
two teaspoons baking powder. Beat
the yolks well and put with the but-
ter and sugar, creamed; stir in the
juice of the orange and half the
grated peel, the water, flour, and
baking powder, and last of all the
whipped whites of the eggs. Bake
in a loaf and ice with orange frost-
ing.
Spring Soup.—+Cut one head of
lettuce and one onion in slices and
cook in tboiling water for a couple
of minutes. Drain and saute the
vegetables in one tablespoonful of
butter for five minutes. Then add
one-half cupful each of as many
vegetables as you have on hand-
asparagus tips, beans, peas, car-
rots, etc.; cover with stook and
boil until the vegetables are ten-
der, then add one quart of good
stock. Season to taste and serve.
Currant llluilins.—One cupful
milk, two cupfuls of flour, two tab-
lespoonfuls fat, one-fourth cupful
sugar, ono -half teaspoonful salt,
one teaspoonful baking powder,
one egg, one-half cupful currants.
Mix and sift dry materials togeth-
er, add milk, then beaten egg, and
melted fat. Stir in currants, which
have been washed and sprinkled
with a little flour. Bake in a mod-
erate oven about twenty minutes.
Braised Beef. Purchase a piece
of top round, rub well with salt
and pepper ; cut a small piece of
suet into pieces, with a couple of
onions. Put in a stewpan and fry
a light brown. Put in the meat and.
fry, turning frequently, until it is
well seared. Then 'add one pint of
boiling water, cover and cook slow-
ly two hours. Remove the meat,
strain the gravy, return it to the
saucepan, adding one can of toma-
toes. When boiling return the meat
to the kettle and cook until tender.
To serve, place the meat in the
center of the platter, polo the
gravy over it and arrange pota-
toes around it.
Spanish Beats. -One and a hall
pounds brown Mexican beans. Cook
half an hour in enough water to
cover them, Put inbo a frying pan
a good cup meat drippings or lard,
and when hot slice into ib two med-
ium sized onions and five sprigs of
garlic. Fry to a nice brown while
your beans are cooking. When the
latter have cooked half an hour
salt them to taste, put in a quarter
teaspoonful chili powder, and add
the onions, garlic, and fat. Let
them simmer—not boil hard—for
six hours, and as the water cooks
away add mare bringing it just to
the top of the beans, but not -above
this.
Quick Graham Bread.—Delicious
graben) bread, which requires but
two hours for the making; can be
made by the following rooerpb; Dis-
solve a yeast -cake, two tablespoon-
fuls of sugar and one-half teaspoons
ful of salt in one and one-half cup-
ful of warm water. Stir iu one-
quarter of a teaspoonful of soda,
then four and one-quarter oupfuls
of Graham flour,' which will make
the dough as 'stiff as can be stirred.
'. Do nob knead it. This receipt
makes but ono loaf of bread, and
f should bo Out to rise in the pan
in whsoli it is "to be baked—about
an hour is usually long enough,
The pan . should be ane , and ane-
�alf inches aboyo the top of the
on h Were it is raised. Bake in
a hot oven, with decreasing heat,
Two -Crust Lesion Pic. -'.Chis pia
is similar tothe comrnort lemon pie
only in name. To make alae, dough
fors the crust, mix thorottgbly ons
oupful of'flour, a pinch el salt and
two heapintablespoonfuls of lard,
Add one tablespoonful of cold wat-
or. Line the pis pan or plate with
the crust. The ailing omelets of
half a lemon minded very fine, the.
juice of the remaining half, hall a
oupful of sugar, half a cupful of
water, pee large teaspoonful of
dark ,niolassee, and one tea poon-
fu of flour. The peculiar flavor of
falls pie can be obtained only by
mixing the ingredients in the cruet.
But in stirring them, great .care
must be taken not to break the
crust, which is unusually short
when made by this rule. Cover the
pie with the top crust, and bake it
in is quick oven,
Hints to housewives.
Shepherd's pie is minced lamb
nixed with its own gravy, seasoned
and placed in a baking dish with
a layer of mashed potato over it.
To make strawberry snow, beat
the whites of three eggs to a stiff
froth, then slowly boat in four
tablespoonfuls of crushed strawber-
ries.
Cut mats from discarded het wa-
ter bottles and place under flower
pots if you wish to protect the sur-
face the pots stand on:
A big vase, with a wet sponge in
it, kept near the piano, will give
the air the moisture required to
keep the piano in good condition.
If food should ever burn in an
aluminum cooking vessel, it should
be soaked in cold water and then
scraped off with a wooden spoon,
instead of a sharp knife.
When closing the house for a
short vacation, take precautions to
keep the moths out of the piano
felts. Use sandalwood sticks or a
piece of cotton saturated with oil
of camphor. Put this in the piano,
and the moths will not eat the felts.
At fruit -canning time one is apt
to have a little left over after fill-
ing the large jars, and sometimes
there is not enough to fill a pint
can. If all glasses, vaseline and
cold cream jars are saved they will
be found very handy for these odds
and ends.
When ironing have a number of
coat hangers upon which to put
shirtwaists or children's dresses.
This keeps them in much better
shape.
When a quick oven is wanted
and a fire has been running long
in the stove, open the oven door,
letting it remain open until it is
thoroughly cooled and filled- with
fresh air. Then close the door, and
when the fire is started the oven
will very quickly reheat.
A wood box in the kitchen should
not be too low. It is a good idea to
have the lower part of the box a
drawer, in which such things as
stove polish, etc., aro kept. If the
front of the box is made to 'let
down on hinges it can be cleaned
out more easily.
Five cents worth of tartar emetic,
mixed with an equal amount of
sugar, moistened and placed where
the ants are, will drive them away.
To protect comforters from soil,
cat stitch a strip of cheesecloth 12
inches wide on the torr of the com-
forter and embroider initials in the
middle strip,'
In peeling tomatoes, the flavor is
best retained by using a knife, If
they are scalded, the skin comes
off much easier, but the flavor, is
somewhat spoiled.
A convenient use for an old wash
boiler is to stand it on the back
porch, put into it all the waste pa-
per and trash to be burned, and
when full, set a match to it.
A good fruit filling for a cake . ie
made of one orange peeled and
cut fine, a can of pineapple and
three bananas sliced thin. Drain
and put between two layers of cake.
Vinegar will ]seep the hands
white and smooth and prevent
chapping when exposed to the cold
air after washing in hot and soapy
water. Before drying the hands
rub ahem over with a teaspoonful
of vinegar and the result will bo
satisfactory.
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STRANGE CURE FOR THEFT.
Surgeons Operate on Boy and Ile-
mono Part of Skull.
An operation which it is pre -
dieted will furnish additional proof
that criminal tendencies in the
young can be'oorrected by surgical
skillwas undertaken ab the West
Philadelphia Homoeopathic Hospi-
tal.
Charles H, Jamison, 8 years old,.
was placed under the surgeon's
knife. Frequently in the last six
months the boy, apparently physi-
cally healthy, hoe been .examined
by medical experts to deteereine the
course of his seemingly uncontrol-
lable, leaning toward wrongdoing,.
especially theft. Several times he
VMS picked up by the police and
taken to the Hones of Detention:
Finally,
he earns under the care
of Dr, Tueller and Dr. Fox, who
enggasted that an ex -ray phoeo-
ra h o theo.' a
g p € boy's a he d bo taken.
This was done, and a portion of
bone compressing the brain was
discovered,, • An operation was thee
decided upon.,
A section of the forepart of the
skull two and onoe-half by one inohoe
was removed and evidence of a
compression wee djseovered,.
Tho pressure relieved, the eealp
was stitched, Nothing was placed
in the opening rade by the removal
of the one, It is believed thab
owing to the age of the child the
bone will grow and close the • space,
Ct is thought that the boy received
a blow an bite head in, Some mane
ser when an infant.
THE TRIUMPHS OF SCIENCE
t.11TIh'IC'I:1,L LIMBS USED BY
T1111 ANCIENTS.
They Knew How to Replace the
Arms and Legs That They
Had Lost.
Man is undoubtedly the superior
of the animal in many ways, but it
cannot be eon•cealcd that in some
things animals have considerable
advantages which we may well re-
gard with envious eyes. Take the
arab and the lobster (to mention
but a couple by the way of exam-
ple) for instance; should one of
these creatures ]rose a li nb as the
result of accident, attack or strife,
kindly Nature at once seta to work
to supply Mae indivi,aluel with a
fresh member, quite as good, if not
better, than its predecessor.
Man, on the contrary, has to rely
upon his wits to make good those
losses which result from bis wars,
etreet accidents, railway collisions.
and other dol ex machines tot which
he is exposed at; any minutes. Many
of the anarvellous artificial aids
now obtainable are regarded as es-
sential products of seders times,
but, as a matter of fact, appliances
of this kind are by no means mod-
ern. In the museum of the Royal
College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London, there is an artifi-
cial leg, made about 300 B.C., of
bronze, wood and iron. Again, who
has ,not hearth of the famous "iron
hand" made in Nuremhurg, Ger-
many, in 1504, for the German
knight, Getz von Berlichingen t
Among the old-time Indians ears,
noses and lips of plaster were quite
common, one of their ordinary pun-
ishments being to cut off these use-
ful parts of the huuman anatomy.
Greek and Roman veterans who
had Joet a lag or an arra in the
wars used to replace them by very
capable substitutes, and Plinius
speaks of a. Roman soldier who
(about 150 years B.C.) was famous
for his wooden hand with which he
was still able to fight as an able
swordsman. In 1604 the Duke of
Brunswick had to use an artificial
hand.
Iliad Movable Joints.
Artificial Jimb.s with movable
joints were also largely made by
the famous Ambraise Pare (1517 to
1590), the celebrated French sur-
geon known as "The Father of
French Surgery." He was surgeon
to Henry II. (1552), and also to
Francis II., Charles IX. and Beery
III. Be substituted the ligature
of arteries in the treatment of gun-
eliot wounds which, previously, had
to be cauterized with boiling oil.
Later on. Father Sebastin, a Car-
melite monk, was renowned Inc the
manufacture of movable arena and
hands. About the middle of the
14th century Farlcinelli, a Floren-
tine surgeon, mentions artificial
eye's of gold, silver and crystal
painted in different colors; he also
describes gold and silver ears which
were either tied; to the head with
strings, or else sown on the skin of
the scalp by the aid of gold and sil-
ver wire. Silver noses are spoken
of also as having been in use for a
long time.
Artificial arms, legs and hands
are fairly well known and need but
little description. Of the more
concealed members we may men-
tion artificial feet, which vary con-
siderably iu construction, material
and price, Atter what is known as
is Hey'e or a Ohopart's operation
(leaving the heel and a part of the
sole of the foot), the. main idea is
to make a presentable appearance
with a cork -filled boot.
More Complex Cases.
In cases of higher amputation,
where an artificial ankle -joint is
needed; it may take the form of a
transitive red, working in a socket,
or of •two "rule -joints," one on
either side( of the stump ; the lateral
yielding of a foot is sometimes imi-
tated by side springs which yield to
lateral pressure. One of thr best
substitutes for the, real lent is a
curved sole (Beaufort), who a the
movement has ' a natural . �rpeer-
anoe, though the substitute '_self is
somewhat unsightly. The simplest
forst of artificial foot is a peg at
the end of a "bucket" whiolt holds
the stump. The centre of the arti-
ficial ankle• is often on the, ball and
socket joint principlo.
The artificial foot i,s eernetimes
extended by .ineane of catgut:
strings fastonnd at the back of the
knee,- with . flexible bans . ,passing
down over tlia eartace of the foot,
In Symo'a operation (amputation
below the knee); pressure ora be
borne on'the extremity of the
stump, and the foot can be made to
suit the purse and ocoupatiou of
the patient; in•temputwtions above
the lane the weight our bo beetle on,
the extremity or .by a loather
sheath. The .simplest forst of erti-
ficial hand ie. .a loather sheath laced
to the arm stump and so fitted {drat
a knife, fork or spoon can be screw-
tad into it, Other ]sands open and.
olose by hydraulic pressure; the
Beaufort hand is of wood, with a
movable thumb, Prices of artificial
limbs vary greatly 1 for instance, an
STREET COSTUME BY BRANDT,
PA1IIS.
A street cosume with skirt of blue
moire and waists ea blue and creme
brocade Bilk.
ordinary "box -leg," on which the
cripple kneels' with the stump
pointing to the rear, can be had for
about 15 shillings, while a jointed
mechanical leg may run up to as
much as 50 guineas.
The Mechanical Faee.
One of the greatest triumphs ever
reported in this curious industry,
however, is undoubtedly the mech-
anical face worn by a man whom
Dr. Delair (a French doctor) exhi-
bited recently to the members of
the French Medical Academy. Ow-
ing to the accidental discharge of
a fowling pisco the whole lower
portion of this man's face was de-
stroyed, and a portion of the
tongue seriously damaged, but by a
marvellous piece of mechanism the
patient; hates had his auppearanee re-
stored .to hien. The mechanism con -
slats of four iparts;'in the fireet place
of a silver -,grooved case, in which
the lower raw of artificial teeth are
fixed, attached to a tin device oon-
taining the upper teeth; there is
also 'a second part of. 'indurated
rubber and gold to hold the upper
front teeth, the -whole terminating
in two email horn -like pegs, shaped
so as to hook into the nostrils. The
third part consists al the chin and
lower lip, which are mead° of ape-
ciel soft rubber painted in flesh
tint, in to most deceptive manner.
The chin is also oovered by a false
beard, At the back of this portion
there aro several small screws
which pass through ]roles in the
tooth holders, and thus join the
chin and lip to the artificial upper
jaw and Malate. The fourth and
last pleases the upper lip and nose,
also made of flesh hinted soft rub-
ber and ooverad with a false mous-
tache. Thanks to this skillful con-
trivance the man is able to speak
and chew his foot, while at a short
distance it is imipossibles tie discern
that hi,, farce is not natural. The
different parts have to be unscrew-
ed onoe a day and well washed with,
water and soap.—Scientific Ameri-
can.
DEODANDS IN ENGLAND.
How King George Alight Secure
Automobiles Without Cost.
If ie evere customary or possible
for the Xing of Great Britain and
Ireland rigidly to exercise his royal
prerogatives.i
he would, in the
course of a few months, become the
owner of many vehicles, especially
motor ears, that traverse the
streets and roads of his kingdom,
since he is entitled to sail deo-
dands. A. deodand 'is "an article
which has proved the immediate
and ac,oidental ocasison of the
death of any reasonable cresbn e."
Tbis right was for hundreds of
years enforced as a means of swell-
ing the royal s oliequor, and le-
gally speaking, could still be en-
forced, If a man were killed by
being run over the vehicle' and its
contents, as well as the torso, bo-
t acnethe Ring's property, The
=Tiber of "reasonable eroaturos"
(and dogs might be included by
sono within title category), man
over by motors ha, England would
keep tlto Xing in automobiles until
he would he obliged to construct
many garages.
9N
What's become of the old-fash-
ioned gentle rain steam drat jest
watered the flowers without trying
to beat them to death? You know
the 'sort we mean. The kind elle
always insisted on you carrying the
fern out to get the benefit of,
NEWS OF TUE MIOOEE WEST
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND Bill+
TISII COLUMBIA,
Items From Provinces Where Mane
Ontario Boys and Girls Aro
"Making Good."
Edinton:tem will have a Trow $110,-
000 market building ready for use
by fall.
Medicine Hat expects tee have a
school attendance of 1,500 by next
fall.
The two public libraries of Ed -
menton will spend over $80,000 dur-
ing 1913-14.
A miniature cyclone struck the
town of Raymond, Alta., and
wrecked several. buildings.
The, corner stone of a new hospi-
tal, to cost $250,000 and have 90
beds, was laid by the Mayor at Ed-
monton.
In the first twelve days of June
building permits. to the value of
$60,000 were issued at Medicine
Eat.
As the result of a gopher ]runt in
Camrose district, 5,541 gophers
were killed by boys,, who worked
for prizes.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, with 5,000
delegates, will meet in Calgary in
1914.
Calgary bricklayers had a dis-
pute with the employers. The men
were getting 67 cents an hour and
wanted 75 cents.
Property owners of Edmonton are
protesting against tho sign eye-
sores winch are said be spoil the
beauty spats in that city.
Four hundred hoaneseeking Min-
nesota farmers, with their families,
will establish in Alberta this sum-
mer. This is only one party.
Farmers of Southern Alberta are
after land leases on the Blood Re-
serve, and applications at Leth-
bridge now reach a total of 150,000
acres
A new Hudson's Bay department
storey with a salary list of hall a
million yearly, will be opened in
Calgary at the end of July.
Business men of Saskatoon, to
the number of 75, chartered a spe-
cial train of eight cars for a busi-
ness trip through Saskatchewan
and Alberta.
The Manitou Hotel at Watrous,
Sask., was closed for a time owing
to a strange gentleman coming into
town and putting up at the hotel.
He had the smallpox.
Dr. Lambourne, of Chicago, who
owned much lancli in the district
around Moose Jaw, was laylled
when a fiery horse fell on him. His
body was shipped to Chicago for in-
terment.
In Macleod, Alta., they are build-
ing a $65,000 filbrabion, plant, a
$100,000 municipal building, a $50,-
000 land titles office, and a 75,000
poet office is expected in the near
future.
Calgary •retail clerks ask the pas-
tors of that city to co-operate with
them in securing an earlier closing
by-law. They want six o'clock on
week days, except Saturday, and 1
p.m. on Wednesday.
A university stirdenb named Cun-
der Brock, who works from philan-
thropic reasons, has been granted
the use of a school room. in Edmon-
ton for the purpose of teaching
English to Scandinavian immi-
grants.
An Edmonton woman, who had
just paid her husband's eighth fine
for drunkenness in that city, said
that in the old country he hall hard-
ly touched liquor at sill, but in
Canada hes seemed to have a mania
for it,
In one day at Gleichen, Alta.,
the ,Stobbart stock yards shipped
1,000 head of horses to the eastern
markets. The shipment *nada a full
train load of 45 cars, and, the full
pride realized was over $130,000.
In one week cluing June, 1,300
Americans crossed the border and
passed through Winnipeg on their
way into the Canadian West. They
had in bheir possoesion capital
possessing amounting to $213,000,
and effects worth $16,000.
Ro•berb Creasy, of Moose Jaw,
was given a curious sentence re-
cently. It was a ease of the un-
written law. Creasy,bit a man caw
the head with an axe and nearly
killed him. The court fined Creasy
$25 without oasts or two years in
jail, Then he . was given three
menthe in which to raise the fine.
Two buffaloes were shipped from
the Canadian Government Park at
'Wainwright,Sask., to. tho zoologa
dal gardens in Phoenix Park, Du•b.
lin, Irelanidi, They were sent at the
romliest of 3, L, Broadbent, of Cal-
gary, a naitive of Dublin, who
thought a gift of bison from Canada
might peeve a good advertisement
for this country,
9t
What an absurd thing it is to
pass over the valuable parts of a
man and fix our attention on hie
infirerities,
13eggar--•"Can't I got the ntis-
ses s ear for a moment] Servant
_.._"I don't think youean get her
ear; but I'm sure it you wait until
she comes downstairs.yon can 4;dt`
a piece of her mind,"
TUE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FROM BONNIE SCOTT -ANO
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 111.
Lesson II. Moses Prepared for IN
Work. Exod. 2.1145. Golden
Text, Matt. 5, G,
Our lesson passage for to -day fol-
lows immediately upon that of last
Sunday without any intervening
events. It records what may be
considered as n first unsuccessful
attempt of Moses to champion the
cause of his fellow countrymen and
to deliver them from the oppres-
sion of their taskmasters.
Verse 11. He went out unto his
brethren—The verb in the original
is emphatic, as though the intended
meaning were that Moses bac] de-
liberately quit the royal court, hav-
ing decided henceforth to live with
his own people, the Hebrews,
12. Looked this way and that way
—.Well aware of the fact thab the
action to which the inclination of
his heart was prompting him was
wrong.
Smote the Egyptian—And killed
hixo.
13. The second day—Actually, the
following day.
Thy fellow—Neighbor.
14. Who made thea a prince and
a judge over us 4—The royal train
-
Mg which Moses was doubtless
known to have received, together
with the wrongful sot of which he
had been guilty. made the Hebrews
auspicious of his sincerity of pur-
pose in taking their part, Thus
the first great opportunity which
Moses might have had for quietly
aiding his brethren and making
their burdens Iighter was forfeited,.
15. 'Sought to slay Moses—Deter-
mined to put him to death, being
prevented from so doing only by
the sudden disappearance of Moses.
The land of Milian—The Midian-
ites being nomads, any reference to
the land in which they dwelt is of
necessity somewhat vague, since
they occupied different and -widely
separated localities at different
times. Their principal settlements
appear, however, to have been on
the eastern side of the gulf of Aka
bah, extending from there north-
ward as far as the land of Moab,
and eastward into the Sinaitio pen-
insula,.
16. Priest of Milian—Compare
comment on Reuel, verse 18, be-
low.
17. Moses stood up and helped
them—Took their part against the
disobliging shepherds and watered
their flock.
18. Reuel—Elsewhere called Jeth-
ro (Exod. 3. 1; 4, 18; 18. 1), though
the name Reuel occurs also in Num-
bers 10. 29. This apparent incon-
sistency is explainable on the basis
of various earlier narratives which
in our book of Exodus have been
combined into a single continuous
story.
19. An Egyptian—Judging from
his dress and speech, they could
come to no other conclusion,
20. Eat bread—The unfailing sign
of Oriental hospitality is the prof-
fered meal.
21. Content to dwell with the
man—The Bible narrative divides
the life of Moses into three equal
periods of forty years each. Ac-
cording to Acts. 7. 23 the first forty
years were spent in Egypt; Exod.
7. 7 makes his stay in Midian of like
duration; while the last fort- years
of his life were, according to Deut,
34. 7, spent in the wilderness, fol-
lowing �the Exodus.
22, •Clerahom—The name is appar-
ently derived from the Hebrew ger,
meaning a sojourner, and sham,
meaning "there." The incident
shows thab the heart of Moses was
with his countrymen in Egypt. In
Exod. 18. 4 and 1 Chron. 28. 16, 17
another son of Moses Eliezer, le
mentioned.
5
Unwanted Floods.
A short time ago, in Now Or-
leans, many huge tanks of molasses
burst, and the sticky flood swept
all over the low -Is -bag portions of
the city. Hundreds of people nar-
rowly escaped drowning, whore
they were half buried in the molas-
ses. In London once a flood of beer
broke loose from a brewery, and
9,000 gallons rushed Tread -long. down
the streets, drowning many pee-
plo.. In Glasgow, in 1905, over
100,000 gallons of whisky flowed
through the streets, wreeking
buildings and engulfing men and
horses. Still more exciting was the
flood of champagne, which occur-
red in. April, 1911, at Epernay, in
France. it iInaof gallons of this
costly wine were turned into the
streele by strikers.
•I
Bury Goid In India.
Thera is buried in India by the
natives of that country every year
a suns of gold which is equal to. the
amount taken yearly out of the
mines in South Africa, The amount
of gold, jewels and emotions staves
which lid buried in India is practi.
calls' incalculatble•
There are some few people in the
iv.,a.le t,r, whom it would be a plea-
sure write ail obituary. . it I" "it's cheapen than 4 futr er•al:"•
NOTES OE INTEREST lartO18111E1
BANKS AND BRAES.
What is Going 00 in the Ilighlande
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
Nairn Games have been fixed for
Saturday, August 10th,
A white snare -ow has been seen
flying in the Cawdor district,
Nairnshire.
Three peraone were injured by a
oollision between a 'tramcar and a
van at Glasgow.
The Marquis.and Marchioness of
Aylesbury have ,taken Corow, Avie-
more, for the season.
(1, & R. Cousin, Allots, havo se-
cured the centred for the re -build-
ing of the Birnam hotel, Dunked.
The Earl of Dadlteith has been ap-
pointed president of the Middlesex
Cricket Club, Edinburgh.
Thirty-six children appeared in
one day before Baillie hose at the
Edinburgh Juvenile Police Court.
Near Crailing e large heron has
been daily seen hunting for rats
andother vermin on a largecoria
stack.
An interesting exhibitionn of
babies took place at Troon in con-
nection with the T. H. Walker
Nursing Scheme.
A Caanpbelltown golfer,,the other
day drove a ball into the pocket of
a player putting at the next hole,
210 yards away.
The booking office of the paseen-.
ger railway station ab Grange-
mouth has been broken into and a
sum of $20 stolen,
A dead whale about :thirty feet in
length was seen floating down the
North Channel at Portpatrick,
white with seagulls.
The master tailors in Edinburgh
have agreed that the time has come
for an increase in the price of
tailor-made clothes,
The death has occurred in Edin-
burgh of Peter Logan, who was for
half a century one of Kelso's most
prominent citizens.
The Admiralty have purchased
several acres of ground from. the
Cadboll estate, Invergoasdon, for
the erection of additional oil tanks,
Kilwinning is said to ba rejoicing
in the prospect of having a first-
class picture house and varisby
theatre erected at an early date.
Through an outbreak of fire at
Groenlawn Farm, Foulden, Bar.
wicks -hire, a sheer containing about
30 tons of etraw and hay was; de-
a.troyed.
Recent building and the introduc-
tion of electric lighting at three of
the schools will entail an advance,
of one cent in the Greenock school
rate.
Tain Town Council have acquired t
the property of Causewayend, part
of the ancient lands of Tain, air
which they paid the sum. of . over
$1,000.
There is an unusual shortage in
the rural dome•stio labor supply in
the north of Scotland, and anany
farmers' wives cannot get female
servants:
In Edinburgh and Leita a power-
ful syndicate is being formed for
the purpose of developing the plea-
sure steamer traffic on the Firth of
Forth.
Lord and Lady Hamilton, of. 'Nile
ziel, formally opened a new school
pavilion, which has been presented
to the )alziel School Board for de -
twelve children.
For the purpose of preserving the
humble birthplace of Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, the Carnegie Dunferm-
line Trustees are executing repairs
on the building.
For the financial year of the Glas-
gow Tramway Department, the an-
nual revenue for the flet time in
the History of the under^taldng ex-
seeded $5,000,000.
x
Monarchs in Mourning.
Periods of Court mourning are
apt to be ragarded with something
akin to alarm by people in the offi-
cial social world, ler Court mourn-
ing meane to them submission to
published rules and regulations,
from wlaich there is no appeal. In
most Eastern capitals white gar-' .
ments are the usual sign of mourn-
ing,, and purple is frequently in
Europe given preference to t black.
Mourning, of course, is strictly an-
forced in the Court of King George
V., also in that at Madrid and in
the Austrian Court. At the latter,
by the way, etiquette-is.exaggerwt-
e.d to an extreme. kb the Court of
Berlin,
where oeremony is regard-
ed as the -language of power, bsb
blackest of mourning is worn dur-
ing the day, but not hi the oveaiag, •
The Empress objects to black even-
ing freaks, acid insists on her ladies
wearing white' dresses, trinnned.
with black. nIn Denmark, also,
black is not allowed ; but the wives
of high offteials• and of noblemen
aro permaittod to wear a bigh-
peaked hoadadross when in moors-
ing.
"And you used to say you were
willing to rile for isle l" "So I am,"
"And yet you refuse me a new ,
dress!" ; ".But Look at the cost et
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