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Simmer Vegetables.
Ureen Pea Souffle.—Cook a pint
of shelled peas until, tender or nee
an equal amount left over from a
meal. Mash them with two table-
spoons melted butter and add to
three eggs beaten light with a pint! it with salt and pepper, acid the
of milk. Season to taste with salt I corn, fold the omelet over it and
slip the whole on to a liot plate,
.household Ilints.
If bread crumbs are sauted in
batter until brown and crisp, they
make an excellent garnish for
meats or vegetables.
Sliced cucumbers make a fascin-
ating garnish for salad orother
dishes. .Out• the slices half an inch
thick and then pare them round
and round as you would an apple.
Pull them out spiral shape.
.A cucumber parboiled and press-
ed through a sieve, added to may-
onaise, gives the dressing a deli-
cious flavor when served with fish.
Color the mayonnaise green with
some vegetable coloring natter.
With plenty of cherries at hand,
make some cherry vinegar to use
for flavoring salad dressings. To a
quart of cider vinegar add a pint
of crushed sour cherries. Keep in
a crock.. At the end of a month
strain and bottle,
Sliced peaches served in halves
of cantaloup make a delicious liot
weather 'dessert. A little candied
ginger added to the peaches -gives
a piquancy.
In baking pies it is well to have
the oven very hot at first; this
will bake the undercrnst; then re-
duce the heat after three or four
minutes. Pies, like cakes, are best
cooled on a wire rack.
If a cake is made with butter it
is 'well to dust the cakeover with
flour before icing.
A cupful of liquid yeast is equive
alent to a half a compressed yeast
cake or a while dry yeast cake.
Pocket handkerchiefs and laces
will whiten if soaked overnight in
a bath of toilet carbolic: soap.
,- When fryingmush it improves
the crispness if the mush is dipped
in white of an egg before frying.
A few minced dates added to.
fudge as it comes from the stove
will make a novel and dainty con-
fection. •
The tops of bureaus will keep in
good condition longer if a piece of
blotting paper is placed under the
rover. •
A housewife who was puzzled to
know how she could put fruit in
the refrigerator and not have it
scent the batter and milk by the
side of it caught the idea of empty-
ing out the baskets into glass cans
and putting on the tops.
In making souffles or timbales of
fish, it is wise �'ed the'fish and
then peer; the meat onsets le ee
abase sieve; the dish will be the
smoother for the extra trouble.
There is economy in buying some
of the household supplies in bulk
bluing, soap and starch, for in-
stance, will all keep. Soap really
improves with age.
For thickening purposes it well
to remember that cornstarch thick-
ens twice as much as white flour,
and browned flour about half as
much as white flour.
of two eggs, two tablespoons melted
butter and one tablespoon pow-
dered Sugar, salt to tasire, and the
whites which should have been eeProfile of Princess
whipped to a stiff froth, Turn into
a buttered pudding dish and bake Patricia, Daughter' of the
for half: an hour covered; uncover be/eel
and Duchess of
and brown, Send to table at once
before the pudcliug falls. Connaught—This Is Her
Green Corn Omelet.—Beat four Most Recent Picture, and
eggs light, stir into them three
tablespoons milk and a teaspoon
melted butter and turn into an
omelet pan. Have ready a cupful
of cupful of boiled corn cut from
the cob and kept very hot and when
the omelet is ready to fold sprinkle
and. pepper and after beating hard
bake in a well greased pudding
dish, keeping this covered for twen-
ty minutes, then uncovering long
enough to brown well. Serve in
the dish in which it 'vas cooked as
soon as possible after taking ..it
from the oven.
Green Pea Pancakes.—Mash a
pint of boiled shelled peas while
hot, with salt and pepper to taste,
and a tablespoon of melted butter,
Beat in a cup of milk, two beaten
eggs, and five tablespoons 'of flour
which you ,have sifted with a tea-
spoon of baking powder, whip well
and bake on a griddle as you would
pancakes of any kind. A soap stone
griddle is the best always.
Green Pea Crorynettes.—Boil the
peas tender in enough salted, water
just to cover them, put through the
vegetable press, heat to a paste
with a tablespoon butter and two
of floor, pepper and salt to taste,
set over the fire in a double boiler,
and when hot through add a well -
beaten egg and cook for one min-
ute. Set aside until the mixture is
stiff and cold, then -make into cro-
quettes. Roll these in beaten egg
and fine crumbs and let them stand
in a cold place or on the ice for
half an hour before frying them to
a delicate brown in deep fat. Drain
on brown paper in a colander be-
fore sending to table.
For any of these dishes peas
which are past their first youth and
are turning a little hard may be
used. Boil them until tender and
thenmash them well.
Green Peas with Carrots.—Boil
the peas until tender, and while
this is going on cook in another ves-
sel enough young carrots from
which you have rubbed and scraped
the skins to make as much of these
cut into, dice, as you have peas. Do
not dice them until they are boiled
tender, and when they are cut turn
them with the peas, the latter
drained of water, into a tablespoon
of butter, sprinkle with pepper and
salt, set the dish in the oven for
two minutes, and send to table. If
you wish yeti. may strew a little'
chopped parsley over them.
Creamed Carrots,—Boil ypur ear -
..rots until tender in salted Water,
rub off the skin with a rough cloth,
cut into inch lengths, and put them
into a white sauce -which you -have
made by>cooking together a table-
spoonful each of butter and flour
`Vuntil they bubble, pouring 'a•cup-
of milk upon them and stirring
until -smooth and thick. Leave th
carrots, in thje. fa_ regi'a� minutes,
season to taste and sere,\
Carrots. with ]Jotter.—Prepare
the carrots as directed in the pre-
ceding recipe, : but instead of serv-
ing them in white sauce, dress them
with butter; pepper, and salt and
a tablespoon of finely minced pare -
ley:
Creamed Young Beets. --Do not
cut off the bottom root, and leave
on. an inch or so of the steer above 1 If you are getting a new ram -
the beet to prevent bleeding. Cook' coat do not throw away the old
until tender, in boiling salted water, I one, but rip it up, wash the pastes
Rub the skins off,' remove the tops and fashion into a kitchen apron',
sleeve protectors, cases for sponges.
or in other ways.
Thin cotton blankets are most
practical for summer, because they
can be easily laundered. If hung
double over the line they 'will need
no ironing.
a
A few nasturtium stems minced
-
and used as a flavoring for a fish
sauce thickens and serve. or vegetable salad will be found
String Beans in Gravy. -Cut the pleasing.
strings from the beans carefully,
using a sharp knife and paring off
enough to make sure that there are
no strings left on, then cut into,
inch lengths and boil in salted wa-
ter until tender. Mix a tablespoon-
ful each of butter and browned
flour together in a saucepan, cook-
ing until they bubble, turn in a
cap of gray or of ,well seasoned
soup or stock. stir until smooth;
season with salt and pepper and a
few drops of onion juice: drain the
beans and let them lie in the
gravy for five minutes before send-
ing to table..‘
Green Corn Pancakes.—heat te-
gether a cup of milk, an eg.g, whip-
ped light 'before it goes into the
milk, a tablespoon of melted but-
ler, ,salt to taste, flour enough to
two cupfuls of
make a thin batter, Stir into it
cocut from the
I cob end after beat�rning hard bake
on a griddle an directed' in recipe
''for green pea pancakes.
Green COM Putltlieg ---Shave the.
ng ibe row
ears r•�7htt 7 t
s
eCll'n from the ,l 1 ,
1celnels
lengthwise if the corn
of
r have
,rd
•� 1. ahJ 1
1 1, You 11.
_ hard.
�abtt,capfuls of the kornel.t,
bat'in the whipped yolks
and tails of the beets, and shoe
them thin. Have ready in a double
boiler a cup' of cream or one of
to which you have added a tab)--
epoon of butter and put the beets in.
this. Rub together attablespoen
each of flour and butter, stir it in-
to the•cream, add pepper, salt, end,
a teaspoon sugar ; simmer until the
If UN GA WO MAN FREEST.
She Wants Vote, 3lowever, to Be.
,.
come Beal "Parent."
The economic position of the
Hungarian women is far.in advance
al many of the other European
countries. A wife's inherited and
earned intone is her own, and not.
her hnsbniad's, When a wife dies
intestate her property is turned
ever to the children, if she has
any. if she is childless, it goes to
her relatives, and not t0 her hos-
band. Divorce laws apply equally
an men and 11'„men.
Two things of which tlitingarian
W,,nicn most bitterly complain are,
fust, that a woman may not: sign
her' name as a witness: eo any legal
document; anti, secondly, that else
is not the legal guardian of her own
.children unless her hns•band wo ap-
points her, There in the same cod.
plaint there' es in England that "n
mother be not a nal anti•". and the
doing away with tills onetime is r,na•
of the first things that will happen
\ellen Hungarian womeai get the
vote,
7s Interesting 'Because of
Her Probable Return
to Canada With Her
Parents.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 20.
Lesson III. liloses Called to Deliver
Israel. Exoil. 3. 1. to 4. 20.
Golden Text, Matt. 5. S.
Verse 1. Moses was keeping tlie.
flock—Tete habitual occupation of
Moses- in Midian. The flocks .re-
ferred to consisted, in all probabil-
ity, of sheep and goats.
Jethro, his father—Called also
Reuel (Exod. 2. 18).
The priest of Midan—The Midian-
ites were kindred people to the He-
brews 'and therefore doubtless also
worshippers of Jehovah, though,
from their situation and relations
to other surrounding peoples, it is
probable that their Jehovah -wor-
ship was early corrupted- and at
last superseded almost: entirely by
idolatry. •
To the back of the wilderness—
Beyond the desert wastes on the -
foothill slopes of the mountains.
The mountain of God
Herele—The names `cinlnai" and
"Horeb" are used practically in-
terchangeably in the Old Testa-
ment. An in our present passage,
so in 1 Kings 19. 8, the name
'Horeb" is ,used following the de-
signation "the mountain of God.
In this and subsequent lessons we
shall assume that Mount Sinai is
,Somewhere near the southern point.
of the peninsula between'the Gaff
of Akabah, and not' far from the
northern •end'of the Red Sea itself,
It has been suggested by some mod-
ern scholars that the mountain, the
?exact location of which has never
been determined, should rather be
sought farther to the northeast in
the hill country of Seir, north of
the Gulf of Akabah. The burden
of proof, however, lies with those
who question the traditional site,
which still has the support of many Egyptians used the word "god"
of the best Old Testament schol-
ars.
2. A bush—One of the shrubs on
the. mountainside.
Burned with fire—Had the ap-
pearance of being on fire, the di-
vine revelation taking the form of
this consuming and purifying ele-
ment.
4,_ -Moses, Moses—The repetition
of the call implies urgency. Thus
Jehovah speaks to the boy Sam-
uel, calling him twice by name (1
Sam, 3. 10),
5. Draw not nigh hither -Moses
is reminded of the natural unfit-
ness of man to abide in the imme-
diate presence ,of Jehovah, This
truth God patiently sought to teach
his people by such commands as
the ane given to Moses later in the printed and commented ripen, the
presence of the people near this remainder of the 'third once the
same mountain: "Ante than shale fleet twenty 'verses of the fourth
set bounds unto the peopleround chapl;e,r. :)his longer section of the
about, Take heed to yourselves,
that ye go not up into the mount,
or touch the border of it' (Exec'.
19, 12). The untutored mind and
heart easily' falls into an attitude
of irreverence.
Thy shoes—Sandals.
The place . , is holy ground
-- Seered--hallowed by themanifest
presence el God, Compare the
vinilal' eommaed given to Joshua:
Hid his face—An instinctive ac-
tion indicating reverence, So Eli-
jah on the same site (1 Kings 19.
13).
7. I have surely seen
heard . know—An accumu-
lation of anthropomorphic expres-
" JIJAT” ',flee GOVEILNlilibNT.
clow a War Correspondent nada a
]lig "Scoop."
At the close of tate Boor war of
1881, the London Standard pub- coal language o have always afforded
lishecl the nerve of the' signing of the g g gy
amusement tp those born to the
English tongue. F renals -English,
Dutch-English, "English as she ii
spoke" by the Portuguese, the
Ba:bu, the Chinaman, and into Ja-
panese have eaeli.in tarn provided
innocent delight, But it has been
in phraseology or grammar that tete
PIIONI'JI J ENGLISH,
Nen' Souroe of Diversion in Gtr--
,. P1158 TC1t-h00103,
The blunders of foreigners wrest-
ling with the dilicultioe of our ills -
treaty of peace some tune before
the government itself knew of it--
a
t—a circumstance that greatly puzzled
the officials. In "Oampangns of a
War Correspondent," the author,
the late Melton Prior, fella ]low the
feat was• accomplished,
The conference between the l spelling d the comedy usually lay;
lash and Boer leaders took place . errors and
a farmhouse at the base of Majuba P g pronunr:iation bave
Hill. While it was going- on a counted' for eom.prvrattvely little:
wall army of correspondents and Now comes an ingtti ing' En•,lis,h-
arrests earouanxly tnan
who has found a new •sonroe of
waiting for thmpecle newstside, .that theiouswar i divicesion in certain German text -
was over. `They were lounging and l,books,rn Which the pronunciation of
lying about on the 'graze with their l La ngiish words is painstakingly ex
horses saddled' and bridled, ready Planned in'parallel columns by ,what
to race to the telegraph office in the authors believe to be their pho-
camp, nekic equivalents, His discoveries
Captain Cropper, Gen, Sir Eye- are unique. He finds our common -
len Wood's aide-de-camp, and I eat form of salutation and response
were very good friends, and as he to be tine:
occasional) came out of the house Gird morning,'szorr, hau du ju
to have a utak, the -kept me inform- du7S'ank ju; aeric:uell,"
eel how matters were going inside. '. Should such a bewilderingly th-
Anotlter great friend of mind was less dialogue occur at the break -
e Cameron, aorresltoiicie of fast table,—say between a Briton
the SStandard.,was anxious -to do and his friend from Germany, -a
him a good turn, and it occurred to
simple order to the waiter is likely
me that now was, lay chance, so I f
said, NOnopper, you might let me to foll'ow :
know when they really are signing, "Giw eni szommszi'ng to iiht, ei
or going to sign." am hongri.. Bring a bihfstehk uisz
Then I said to Cameron "Look eggs fohr mi, .and a motion xchopp
here, odd chap, you get•your horse uisz potatohs fohr mei frond."
ready and send it round the corner The friends may later; if they be=
of that chill but be careful that the come szorrsti, order 'a "glasz of
other fellows don't easipeet any- b}rhl"' each, perhaps, accompanied
thing, for as :won as General wood by uonn ham .szanduitseh.
and Kruger begin to sign the terms Still later, they will naturally ro-
of peace Cropper is coming out to
quire -a. dinner,— "uisz wedsohata
tell me, and when you see me raise bels,=fmleas, indeed, they have
my helmet, that is the signal for betaken themselves to the element
that Britannia proverbially, rules,.
although it does not always respect
the British stomach more than oth-
ers. In that ease, one of them may
be driven ignominiously to bewail
himself thus: •
"Ei am szih-szikk. Ei most go
damn to mie kabbin. Kahl sze
tchiief atjuerd. Ei am • uerri ill.
Szend Rehr a fisischenu l"
But recovery from such illness is
rapid. After a few hours on shore,
the German is cheerfully on his way
to a newspaper office to advertise
his eervicos for hire, with no doubt
of eitherhis competence or success.
Probably his advertisement will.
read, thus
"tainted, a posischen asz ,oflisz
klork bei a jang man, dsohormen,
spihks inglisch, moderat 'sallari."
•
TAKE GOLD AS ,MEDICINE.
Natives of India Rave Strange
Uses for Much Loved Metal.
cions; which furnish the only means you to gallop into camp, and send
of stating in words intelligible to the news off.
men the attributes of God, espe Shortly afterward Cropper camle
cially his love and tenderness. oats, and carelessly whispered to
Taskmasters—subordinate over- me, Its all over; Prior; they. have
seers or bosses signed," I simply had to give the
8. A good- apd •e, large, , pre -arranged signal to Cameron,
flowing with millc':and honey—The and; he was off like a shot at a. full
soil of: Palestine in many places is gallop for the telegraph office::
exceedingly rich and _ productive. It must have been twenty min -
Its mountain sides and numerous utee of half an hour later that the
other tracts, especially eastward of general came out on'the veranda,
and calling the members of the
the Jordan, -were in 'former times press round frim, said, "Gentle-
men, wooded. ^Ets'valleys aboundedmen, I have pleasure in announcing
in luxuriant -herbage. Grains and .to yon that President Kruger and
fruits were cultivated in abund- the other delegates representing
anee, and countless flocks and the Boer nation, and myself have
herds may still be ' seen moving signed the -terms of peace, but I
slowly hither and thither over•itswarn You than the wire to England
long -neglected fields. Palestine is closed to all communication until
proper ewes very small compared my despatch has gone."
with states and countries with I could not help ainilfing to my -
which we are familiar. In its most self, for I knew well enough that
prosperous clays the United King- Cameron's news was already on the
dem embraced an area of from fifty way to England,
to sixty' thousand square miles, or r_ q,
approximately the size of• England
and Wales, Story of the Thistle.
Canaanite, Hittite, Amorite, Per- . The Order of the Thistle, of which
izzite, Hivite, and Jebusite—The Lord Haldane, lord high chancel -
inhabitants of Palestine. Usually, lor'of Greet Brrzain, is to be made
as in Gen. 16,ten peoples, or na- a knight, dates only from the last
tions, are enumerated, of which day . of 1703. " Centuries earlier,
only five are here given. The Hi- however, the thistle was tthe nation -
vibes are not Mentioned -in the al.badge of Scotland, and the ori -
other lists. gin of its emblematic nee is as-
11. Who am I7—Onoe Moses had cribed by tradition to the; Daniell
been -a• prineeein Egypt.. Now for invasion of Seotland. ,The invaders
forty years he had been a lonely planned" a night attack, and march -
shepherd of the wilderness. ing barefoot, had contrived to creep
That I should go unto Pharaoh— close up to- the Soottieh forces un -
The years of desert seolusion had observed, when one of them stepped
a. z•
brought in leloetesa,dical change on a thistle and uttered a cry of
of character, and had brought with pain. The alarm was given, and
them the spirit of true humility, the attack failed. Out -of gratitude
quite different from the impulsive-: the thistle was adopted as the in -
nese and .ardor which he had exhi- "signia of Scotland.
bited in earlier years.
13. What is thy name l—The Ancient Roman Theatre.
generically, having as special name
for each particular deity, such es
Ammon, Ra, .Menta, Osiris. With
this feet Moses was certainly ac-
quainted, and he seems' to antici-
pate that when he brings to• - the
Hehrenve a message from the God
of their father a they may oonclude
that he, too, had a proper name,
and may wish to know that name.
14, I Arlt THAT I AM-Margi,p,
"I AM BECAUSE I AM," or "I
AM WHO AM," or "rI WILL BE
THAT I WILL 13E " The,idea, ex -
imaged by all these renderings of
the Hebrew original is thab of per -
feel:, 11neonclitloned, independent
ext e -bene.
The assigned lesson passage in-
cludes, in addition to the verses
narrative contains further' details
concerning Moses's consciousness
of his cram unfitness to undertake
the important task about to be laic)
upon hire and the promises and
sins l y which he was finally per-
suaded to undertake the mission.
The entire passageslionld be rend
in preparal:lcm for class discussion,
4. ff ... .
Thee only way to shine even in this
"Put riff the shoe from off thy foot; -false warm, ' wrote Bryant, is to be
for the place evliereen them stand -
'est is hely" (Josh, 5. 15),
8. 11 other --Ancestor,
The God of Abraham ,
fsat,
a. and , . Jacob -- Who
.: iall'
e
had revealed *melt q e
ec
p
y to
these chosen men, Jesus, in an
nr unnent with the Pharisees' con -
arming immortality, quotes this
verse. (compare Matt. 22. 32), '
modest and lmassurning.
Love will often modify the misery
occasioned by her piano playing,
"What I want," said the young
man; "is to get, married acid have a
„ "Well,"
careful acct borne. 1Ve
peaceful, q
said the uncle,"sometimes ib works
oat: that way, once sometimes its
more like Joinin' a debatin'
eioty I"
Nearly 13,000 people could be ac
commedated in the ancient Roman
theatre at Dorchester,. England. It
was .carefully designed to prevent
the patrons having the sun in their
eyes. There were, in fact, "good-
views f.roin every seat in the.
ho.use." The theatre at Dorchester
was used comparatively recently
for a public spec•taole and in 1705
over. 10,000 spectators gathered
there to witness the burning alive
of a woman who had poisoned her
husband.
Increase in Tiatdc Unionists.
An increase in trade union mem-
bership of over 350,000 during the
year 1911 ire recorded .in the annual
report of the Registrar. -General of
friendly .societies in the British
Isles, The transport w elvers'
strike was largely 'responsible for
the great increase in membcrsllip,
twelve unions,- utast of them con-
nea±ed with transport trades, show-
ing an increase of over a quarter of
a million members. •
Then She .fined'.
Old Salt "Yes, mum them's
111en-O'-war,"
• Sweet 'Yung Thing: „How ititer-
esting!`And what reveille little ones
just in front?"
Old Salt:, Oh, them s hist tugs,
alum,"
,Sweet Young Thing: "Oh, yes,
,.
of scores{togs-of-nar. I've heard
of them,.,,,
gal Ito J leaSe.
Call A a
v.
Bir,—oneS says gieee er)lO
-
meet
to a largo member of mien,
,-o •r h
Dir -So he does t c people's
bill aolleetars,
Curious and interesting facts re-
garding India's passion for gold,
and the strange uses to which the
natives put tile precious metal, are
contained in a report issued by the
great bullion merchants, Messrs.
Samuel Montagu & Co, After men
tioniatg the fact that last year India
imported gold bars worth 247,135,-
000, as well as 018,324,000 in 'Sov-
ereigns, Messrs.. Montagu state
i. savings
s' .to the s
that, as: a contras); t g
of France•, which ace .utilized to
promote trade, those of India are
buried or hoarded. "At present
nearly all the gold dug from the
earth in South Africa is by a fresh
digging operation deposited again
beneath• the soil in South tl.sia.
"In India gold is put to uses nn -
usual among nations of the west,
Consumption of gold does not im-
ply in England the actual swallow-
ing of extremely thin gold for medi-
cinal purposes, though it is so taken
•im parts of India. A frequent form
of piety is to regild the domes of
religious buildings; such: opera-
tions can easily absorb 210,000 or
more. Sovereigns with a shield on
the obverse are in constant request.
A rajah- of recap tastes imported
some thousande to form a scan's to
each minute pane in the windows of
his palace." •
India occit 1.ties -the poeiaion: of r
creditor nation on an immense
scale; a fact which renders the sire
of its gold imports a Matter of
primary impenitence to the rest of.
the world. It seems assured that
these irn,porbe • last year were not
only a fresh record, b'ub will attain
a total not less than 28 per cent. of
the, world's eutp.w± This total, It
is states), ie. owing to the uninter-
rupted prosperity of the country,
following a succession of good mon-
soons.
Fact and Farley.
The kickerg •ets more exercise
than satisfft,otvon,
Ice keeps longeere stood on end,
When money talks nobody looks
bore•cl,
Tars, lilts hair, rh•n11c1 be. bmuiili:
eel now and then with a brad' incl
eoanb through elle summer.
A woman's face is ber fortune; a
mane cheers is his, •
A. soiclier oat in India asked a
native wouldn't he like to go .to
heaven, The native replied; "No,
sahib; heaven rte weal. 11'crelel rn-
thee he in India." The soldier Hien
said that heaven was better than
India, and the nnliveetgoin ronli::d
that if heaven lues better than In-
dia England would trace it.
FROM
BONNIE SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER
BANES AND BRAES.
What Is Going on In the Highlands
and Lowlands of Auld
, Scotia.
• The Highland Pipers' Society,.
Edinburgh, has a record member-
crop this year,,
Lord . Glanoonner 'has given a
donation of $5,000 to the Edinburgh
Royal hospital.
The ratepayers of Saltcoats have
decided that they are not in favor
of forming the burgh into wards.
Dundee School Board have ato-
eeptcd ebntraots amounting to $67,-
505 for reconstruction of 'Morgan
Academy,
idle.By an outbreak of fire in one of
the Broxburn Cil Company's mines,
about 100 men have been thrown -
Coach builders and men employ-.
ed in making bodies for motor• cars
in Dumfries have obtained an ad-
vance, in wages.
A nursing home .has been erected
in Musselburgh, in memory of
Nurse Christina Cameron, a native
of Ross .of Mu11.
The building of the foundations
of Blairgowice new Police Buildinga
in Croft Square, have tow been
commenced,
A ladies rifle club has been
formed in D,elbeattie, with Mrs.
Baxter as president and Miss P.
Scott as secretary and treasurer.
The death occurred at Edinburgh
of Mr. William Bratly, at the age
of 86 years. He was one of the
state trumpeters for Scotland,
Aberdeen is contemplating a.
tramway extension scheme for ser-
vices for the Footciee, Westburn,
Torry unci Midstock districts.
Linlithgow School Board arc,
faeed with a, deficiency to be made
up from the rates of $10,585, the
estimated, expenditure being $34,-
900.
The now liner Alatnia for the•
Cunard. Line's London. and South-
ampton ,Canadian service has been
launched at Scott's yard at Green-
ock.
The Aberdeen upholsterers, who -
have been on strike for month,
have agreed to.. aecept an offer or
an increase of %d per hour in.
wages.-
Operations
ages.-Operations in connection with the
restoration of Ayr Fort Castle aro
still proceeding and excavations
are being made in the vicinity of
the Tirven.
Duneon Town Council have pur-
chased Ailsa Cottage' and building
ground abutting in the West Bay
promenade from Mr. Walter Ma-
son, for $7,250.
The new Sunday service of trains
instituted_ by the Caledonian -Rail-
way company from Central Station
to Whitecraig's ,Station for Louken
Glen, has-been inaugurated,
Plans have been passed by Aber-
deen Town .Couueil for new build-
ings, for the Aberdeen Provincial
Committee for the Training of
Teachers, at a cost of $..0
fa,000.
Arbroath Town Council have.
.agreed that the intake ohaunel at,
Glenogil Reservoir shall be widen-
ed, the walls to be re -erected in
concrete and the bed to be pitched
for a distaneo of 12 yards:.
litre]) Your •Friendships. •
Do not allow your old friendships
to: lapse—too many of us 'do not
cherish our friendships while we
have 'them.. We eubject them to
strains.. We undervalue them as
we dr all 'things that we feel wo
own. We accept thein in a, spirit
of lethargy or worse, and when the
friend is finally driven from us, too
often ve put up as bitter plaint
about. ingratitude, There are a
great many things.' that a decent,
eon -respecting' friendship will not
stand, 11 we allow ourselves, feel-
ing sure of the devoted chum, to
assume the iutpleasant fault-finding
planner, why should wo expect any-
one to wish to sit opposite ne at
dinner and listen to one grumb-
li ngs 7 When friends depart—
friends that apparently cawed for
as— -it is because we have become
unbearable, although this may be
furthest) from our perceptions. They
have . sought more cheerful oore-
pany, and it is right they should do
ter:
11'airlal's Tannest Spot..
An English historion leas finally
decided on the loneliest, spot on
the etaath, Tristan a Acuma it is
0,3143 1, and it is an island hintdi•edds
and 'hundreds of miles away. from
1111 ncarmtneighbote. A tiny
'oasis.
111 a4 boundleae Ocean, no matter
which e'ay ,'ou ga. It is Joel.;;,, ivith
is solitary inounl;ain 1,000 feet high.
A suheplierdcomtnitnity lives there,
farmers, cattle rain, re, etc. In the
valley of (Inc island ate fertile fields
where potatoes are grown, and the
food of lite people' consists of beef,
fowls and 5sh.. Tem island fro:ntcrly
pro•ducecl'many fruits acid vegeta-
Wee, hitt they 'can no longer be
artier b
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t'•o;an,fo,llos
rail,., which escaped floor a shift, and
the �,eo le hate never been to
I p
riof them.
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