HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-10-23, Page 3lb cold, beat hi one tablespoonful
of molted butter, three beaten ego,
a little salt and pepper, and tete
cupful of chopped veal, When
thoroughly anlxetls pour it into a
battered mold an. steam one hour
and a half, 'Turn out and nerve
]lot.
Mice and Celery Soup. --Cook one
Cupful of rine in three pints of
milk until very .tencler, Press
through a shove, 'Cook until ten-
der two heads a celery, and press
through a sieve. Add this to the
rice with a quant of stock, Seaeon
with salt and pepper and a dash of
Cayenne. Alice -water is the basis
of another delicious soup. To one
pint of rice -water add one pint of
the juice from canned tomatoes,
Add two small carrots and two
onion.) minced, and one tablespoon-
ful of minced green pepper. Cook
until the vegetables are very ten-
der. Then add ane -half cupful of
boiled rice, and one teaspoonful of
minced parsley. Season with salt,
pepper, and a dash of celery Balt.
Helpful Table for Cooking.
A little table of weights and
measures pasted in the front or
back of your cook book or on a
card which ,can be hung on the pan-
try wall or propped up on the pan-
try shelf when you are cooking is
e convenience and a safeguard
against mistakes. Icor kitchen
weights and measures are compli-
cated, and judgment as an asset in
cooking has little to commend it as
a substitute for accurate measur-
ing—some famous old cooks to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Liquid measures;
1 cupful equals half a pint, 2
equal a pint, and 4 a quart.
1 gill equals half a cupful, 2 equal
a cupful and 8 a quart.
32 liquid ounces equal a quart, 16
a pint, 8 a cupful. But liquid
ounces are not often used in re-
cipes. Gills take their place.
16 ounces equal a pound, 8 equal
half a pound, 4 equal a quarter of
a pound.
A table for flour and ground cof-
fee, of equal weight:
4 cupfuls equal a pound,
4 ounces equal a cupful, 1 ounce
equals a• quarter of a cupful.
4 tablespoonfuls equal an ounce,
or a quarter of a cupful.
2 ounces equal a gill.
1 gill is an eighth of a quart, or
;half a cupful. A gill, being a
measure, nota weight, is the same
in all things.
A table for granulated sugar,
butter; and milk:
2 oupfuls equal a pound.
8 ounces equal a cupful, 9 equal a
quarter of a cupful.
2 tablespoonfuls equal an ounce.
4 ounces equal a gill.
Two and a half cupfuls of pow-
dered sugar equal a pound.
Selected. Recipes.
Prune Whip. -•-stew one pound of
prunes until done, stone and beat
real hard (put through colander if
you do not care for the skins, but
it takes more time and is just as
goocl without), ane cup of sugar.
Beat the whites of two eggs stiff
and gradually .beat is in the
primes; serve plain or with whip-
ped cream.
Prune Cake.—Cream one cup•of
sugar, two-thirds cup of butter,
one cup of stewed prunes chopped
fine, three eggs, one teaspoon of
soda dissolved in four tablespoons
of sour milk, ane -half teaspoon of
nutmeg, one-half teaspoon of cin-
namon, one-half teaspoon of cloves,
one-half teaspoon allspice, one and
one-half cups of flour. Bake in two
layers,
Mullins.—Two cups lukewarm wa-
ter, two cups melted lard, ono -
third cup sugar, one teaspoon salt,
-two eggs, one yeast cake dissolved
in a little water as for bread. Flour
enough to make dough stiff enough
not to stick to fingers. These can
be made into muffins as soon as
mixed and set to raise while the
remainder of the dough can be set
away in cool place until needed.
'Bake twenty-five minutes, putting
in nulfi'ins as soon as you light the
oven.
Nut Bread.—Take four cups of
flour or 'three cups of white flour
and one of graham flour, one cup
of sugar four tablespoons of bak-
ing powder, one scant teaspoon of
salt, one cup of walnut meats,
'eoaraely chopped, one cup of milk,
one cup of water, and one egg well
beaten. Mix thoroughly in order
given, put in bread pans, and let
rise for half an hour, Bake in mo-
derate oven for one hour. This re-
cipe will make two loaves.
Fluffy Muffins.—One teacup boil-
ed and mashed potatoes, one cup
warm milk (scalded), one-half con-
pressed yeast cake, one tablespoon
lard, one tablespoon sugar, one
teaspoon salt. 'Set at 11 o'clock;
making as stiff as can be stirred
with a spoon. Let rise. At 4
o'clock pour upon a well floured
board, sprinkle plentifully with
flour, and roll out one-half inch
thick, place in pane one inch apart.
Let rise until dinner time. Bake
twelve minutes in hot oven.
Canned Red Peppers.—Wash one
peck of red peppers and cut a slice
from the stem end of each. Remove
the seeds, cut the peppers in thin
sfrips, cover them with boiling wa-
ter, Yet them stand two minutes,
drain, and plunge them into ico-
water. Again drain, and pack
them solidly in glass jars. Boil
one quart of vinegar and two cup-
fuls of sugar fifteen minutes. Pour
the mixture over the peppers and
keep the jars in a cool place,
Cinnamon Crackers.—When the
cake has given out, anal there is
no time to make more, here is a de-
licious substitute to serve with des-
sert. Butter a number of small,
round, unsweetened crackers, mix
•thoroughly equal parts of ground
cinnamon alyd granulated sugar,
cover the buttered crackers with
this, mixture, and put them in a
hob oven to brown. Serve them
Cold. The flavor of the cinnamon
is particularly pleasant when the
crackers are eaten with chocolate
desserts.
Vegetable Pudding.—(Sometimes
palled Carrot Pudding.)—Pub one
cupful of finely chopped raisins in
a mixing dish. Mix with these one
cupful of flour. Add one cupful of
brown sugar, one cupful of suet,
chopped fine, one-half teaspoonful
each of cloves; cinnamon, and all-
spice, 'the juice and grated rind of
one lemon, salt, citron, if desired,
one cupful of grated carrot, and
one cupful of grated potato (which
has one teaspoonful of soda mixed
with it). Mix all thoroughly, and
steam for three hours. Serve with
hard or soft sauce, or both.
Oatmeal Biscuits.—Oatmeal bis-
cuits will keep, in an air -tight box,
for weeks. They are relished by
the convalescent, and are excellent
for afternoon tea. Make thein as
follows; Mix together 'three -quer -
tees of a pound of pin -head oak
meal, one-quarter of a pound of
flour, one teaspoon of baking pow-
der, a .little salt, and a large tea-
spoonful of sugar. (If preferred
the sugar may be ornit'ted.) Add
three ounces of shortening, rubbing
it in weill and ]nix the whole with
a little .milk into a stiff paste, ]toll
out thin, out into squares or
rounds, put on a baking sheen in
a moderate oven, and bake until a
light brown,
Dundee, ICaggis.---Soak ene eup-
ful'of rolled] oats overnight with
enough water to cover. In bbo
morning add one cupful of veal
broth -•-skimmed and strained, Put
into the double boiler with a little
salt, anal cook ono hour. Take eno
quart of silks acid one cupful of
brad -crumbs, and soak for hall an
hour; add tins mixture tothe roll-
ed oasts and cook half an houe.
longer,, stirring often, Then turn
the nl;ftare into a bowl. When it
IBMs to 1[ousewives.
To test a cake to see if it is thor-
oughly baked use a skewer.
French chalk will clean a slightly
soiled white chip hat.
Peach stains- are removed -with a
weak solution of chloride of lime.
An ounce of flour equals four
level tablespoonfuls.
A tablespoonful of extract will
flavor a quart of any mixture.
Potatoes should boil slowly to
prevent the skins from curling off.
Polish windows with paper in-
stead of cloth to avoid lint and
streaks.
Thick blotting paper under doilies
will prevent hot dishes from mark-
ing the table.
To kill burdock, cut off close to
the ground and pour a little gaso-
line on the roots.
If shoe polish has become dry
from standing too long, moisten it
with a little turpentine.
A tablespoonful of water or milk
should be allowed for each egg in
making an omelet.
A piece of fungus, broken from
an old tree, is a splendid buffer for
mahogany furniture.
Blotting paper saturated with
turpentine may be placed in draw-
ers to keep away moths.
Allow two level teaspoorefuds of
baking powder to each cup of flour
when no eggs are used.
A scratch on polished .furniture
can be almost obliterated by rub-
bing vigorously with linseed ail.
When grease, or oil is spilled on
the carpet, spread fine meal over
t'he spot; ib will absorb the grease.
Tooth powder is excellent for
cleaning jewellery. Rub it on with
a nail brush and then rinse off with
scalding water. 000 .lbs. Most of the world's tobsee
To get the full nutriment from a 00 is grown by colored labor, but
to
potait should be cooked in the the frrfgatiosliats of. New South
skin, as valuable food salts lie
just inside the covering.
When you final ib difficult to re-
mote rusty screws or nails from
wood, try letting kerosene soak in-
to the wood around thein.
When the stove becomes soiled
with soot, try putting a .piers of.
zinc on the coals, The vapor pro-
duced will ,clean out the ,soot.
Salt thrown into the oven imme-
diately after something has been
burned will make the objectionable
in belling Pat 'rimy are delleloue'
wile]] served withlettuce hearts
and hang,
To preserve tubbere for fruit
Jere cover them with dry flour,
When wanted for use wipe off all
the flour carefully and they will be
ad pliable es when new,
GERM K ) dIICIIS.
G1.11lfAN Il "1 1. 01)
Government Will l'rosecnto for
Concealing Assets,
A Gorman tax expert has found
a curious and amusing loophole in
the new armament taxation bills,
by which a taxpayer, by reporting
a greater amount of property for
taxation than he possesses, may pay
less taxes than if •assessed on the
correct amount, The paradox is
due to the fact that the new mea-
sures combine a direct property
tax with a higher increment tax,
and can be taken advantage of only
by a taxpayer who has reason to
expect steady increase in the value
of his property.
If he discounts this and returns
his property next January at the
figure which he expects ib will reach
in 1917, when the increment tax be-
comes effective, he will, it is true,
pay a higher direct tax, but save
the amount of the increment tax,
which on moderate properties is 75
per cent, of the increase, as against
the direct tax'rate from 15 to 35 per
cent.
The Government, faced with the
possibility of this curious form of
tax dodging, has been forced to an-
nounce semi -officially. that 'persons
returning their property for assess-
ment at an excessive figurewill be
subjected to the same penalties of
imprisonment and fine as those re-
turning too .little.
Dr. Heinz Pothoff, of Dusseldorf,
who found this important loophole
in the law, illustrates it with the
following example;
A has property valued at $7,500.
which he increases each year
through savings and labor by $1,-
250. If he is assessed in 1914 for
$7,500 and in 1917 for $11,250, his
taxes will amount to 15 per cent.
of $7,500 and 75 per cent. of the in-
crease of $3,750, amounting to-
gether to $39.37. If, however, A
gives his property valuation in 1914
as $11,250, he will have to pay only
15 per cent of this during the next
•
three years, amounting to $14.37,
and no tax for the succeeding per-
iod, since there is no increment.
He therefore saves $25 by giving
the higher valuation.
The saving is relatively smaller
in the ease of large. properties. If
A has property .worth $37,500,
which he increases each 'year by
$9,500, his taxes for the six years
under a proper valuation' would
amount to $181.25. If he has his
property valued • in the beginning at
$42,500, his taxes will amount t0
only $150, showing a saving of
$31.25.
`TOBACCO CL]L411RE.
Government Irrigation Scheme In
Australia. •
New Australian industries are to
follow on the irrigation scheme of
the Government. Particulars are
given of recent experiments in to-
bacco growing in the Murrumbid-
gee irrigation area of Now South
Wales. A tobacco export was in-
duced to devote himself to growing
tobacco at Yanco, and to give ad-
vice and assistance to other set-
tlers
et
tlers on the area. The expert says
that the yield at Yanco is about
1,250 lbs. of dry leaf to the acre.
He adds that the lands of Murruns-
bidgee will later give 1,500 lbs. per
acre when better worked,
The dry leaf is worth from eigh-
teen to thirty-one cents per pound],
or from two hundred aced eighty
dollars to four hundred and seventy
dollars per acre. It takes but• six
months to produce the article ready
for market, A selector, with the
assistance of two members of his
family, could comfortably look af-
ter a ten acre allotment, which
would return him a minimum of
twenty-eight hundred dollar,: gross
for the sale of his crops, r it cur-
ing the leaf ileo grower will require
to expend seven hundred r •d fifty
dollars upon a building, while out-
side assistance required for plough-
ing, horse, sheep, etc., together
with maintenance of his family at
the area, is estimated at three bun -
ed dollars. V
The production of tobacco last
season at Y'anoo amounted to 10, -
Wales and Victoria are confidant.
that the industry will payhand-
eoinely, and atthe mane time give
good wages to Anglo-Saxons.
4
Winter To 7'Se Severe.
Fanners say that'winter ivill he -
gin a month earlier this year and
will be very severe, because gray
squirrels aro aiseady building their
winter nests, The nests aro heavier
odes leas notiecaible, this eeasee and the leaves are be
There should be three ]hafts of ing knitted clew together. It has
50leeeee in the kitchen—alio for boon year.% since the squirrels have
dicing vegetables,. ono for .trite• made winter homes so early or have
ming fish, and one for general use. been storing up their •supply of nuts
Have yea tried cheeseballs .rolled and acorns so far in advance of the
in egg and bread crumbs and fried gest snow,
OH MOON LETIE
The Queen as a aoalety Loader,
It to salty b those who are in a positlatt
to know Mia tlie Queen, now that Priu.
CMN Marra lit hr nnelety le in shirt African judges - and 1 ,lice authori-
ep11rre to t,ot o hell piece en an 041 tutt
leader of slo�Ip,e, sty. It tdq well
µknpwn the 6 tilts, has been wif r,dad in the
excellentnwattpeu da Id that rtlleitrsl shade of course of a murder trial at Klaiber-
moot:wee wlnoh in tiro lteetmeng of her ley, Five native} cunvicte were in-
we
gave an aUpoaranea or etiirneta, dieted for the murder of a fellow -
we eh wan said to o duo to her very quiet
upbringing, Ilse now glVou Phar, to a Convict, named Jacob Mkaba, at
[sholoU15y kindiiness which is meetly what
le' required ill 10 eeelitl leader, Allthe IJutuitapan convict station. The.
world may apo that the outside of Beek -
scary was that Jacob had derided to
Ingham Pall this now Kiehl]
1s being prepared uppr
priately for t . departure,e, withdraw from the ' ,
Nineeite i but it may be ]tate generally known :that 0+
the inside of the palace has been entirely efoty, abdicating the ehieftain-
rodcoorated, and the ane white -and -gold chip and had persuaded others t0
walla and the Preach curtains of roes Wltlidranv also. For this anal for
color of the large drawing -rosins will
farm a ohnr,niug setting for the festivi- the fact that he was supposed to
ties some planned for Princess Diary and ried tales to ' tile station
her friends. One of the great features of ,lava Car
the coming months will be afternoon ,allnerintendent he wars sentencedto
dancing, for the Satter exercise ie still
HO('11'iTY MEMDER KILLED.
Sensational Evidenee at South. Af-
rietln Murder Trial.
A sensational story of a native
c(JUviete' secret s"ni ly, the facts as
f,o which are well l ,, vn to South
in the forefront of fashion even in 'rho death. He resisted endeavors to
social altitudes, and "thee descants" are get him into a Certain ce11, hut
the last word in entertainments. A young
girl gives a "tea" to her friends of bath eventually went, and was set upon
sexes and afterwards the floor le oleered-, and stabbed t0 death.
au easy matter now that parquet and
rugs 'ire so usual -end dancing goes on'
One of the accused was the eo-
will. dinnertime,
many such It
said
lithe pi acne. ere cit:ty's dootol', another a '`judge,"
A Gathering of queens. Ia third succeeded Jacob as chief,
No fewer than flue Queens will be pre -
sena
fourth belonged to an opposing
sent at the wedding of Prince Arthur of faction known as "The Scotch-
Canuauget and the Duchess of Fife at
St. James's palace noxi month, thews be-
ing Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, the
ltmpreee-Dowegar or lanais, the Queen of
Norway, and the ox -Queen of Portugal,
and this 1s believed to be the largoot nuns.
,eve of senbl d 01 SoV11relgns t n.
ever assembled on one occasion. Therekirig, Chief, judges, doctor and
will also be present two reigning dura• other officers,and hold secret
reigns and three heirs -apparent, the foo:� ri '•t to
mar .being king ueorgo and tl�aI e of Courts, sentence fellow-ce via a
mon," and the fifth was neutral.
The Ninevites are a native con-
vict secret society. The evidence
h t hoe showed that they have their own
Norway,.ntfd the
Wale and the Crown Primes of Sweden
and Norway, while the Duke of Saxe -
Coburg and Gotha 1e a reigningprince.
Lr many ways the royal gathering will
be a very notable one, and. they will me
aefcmble on the evening of the marriage
when the King and Queen • propose to give
a family' dinner party In their private
dining room at Bueltiughem Palace.
A French Scotland Yard.
I gather from conversation with an ex-
port attached to the department who hap.
lensto be in London just now that the
Pavia detective force la to be verycon-
siderably reorganized so that, it will 10
-
preach more nearly in the distribution
of its functions to Scotland Yard, Lon-
don. Various recommendations wore made
under this head by M. Lupine before his
recent retirement from the control of the
tome, but Ministerial and other changes
at the time iu France prevented their be•
ins carried ditto effect. One reform,
which may be expected 'greatly to facili-
tate Anglo-French oo-operation, when ne-
cessary, will be the drawing of a sharper
distinction behwoen the purely political
and ordinary criminal duties performed
by French deteotives. Leading detectives
of both nationalities have seen more of
coach other of late because of the pearl
'bebelieved aha
Le
rBecognizes ae may
well
s Lo learnt from each oth. have some-
thing
The Thracian Frontier.
Military men are keenly interested in
the statement that while nder the netiv
frontier eettlement the Turks are to re-
tain Adrlanople and Kirk Kilian) Mueta•
pita Pasha is to pees definitely to Bul-
garia. It ie thought that although the
Turks made no good neo of the latter—it
will be remembered that it was evacuated
romptly at thecommencement of the
late war—the Bulgarians may succeed in
turning their poeseesiou of it to very die-
tinot advantage, more especially if the
Turks show their usual prooraetinatlon
in restoring the fortifications and arma-
ment of Adrianople and Kirk Kilisse to
at least their former level of strength.
When the Bulgarians retired from Adrian-
ople they took with them all the beet
guns, and with these properly mounted
and manned Mustapha Pasha may rapid•
iv assume in the hands of Bulgaria it two.
fold importance as a nut bard to croak
and a well -situated frontier vantage
point in regard to pose £utero aHen-
sive operations. It almost goes 'without
saying that in war a place of which ono be able to propagate it. This means
Bide 114111 or does make little use may be that it will henceforth not be necee-
death, and issue the orders for the
execution of their sentences.
Judge Lange said that the Nine -
vibes originated in Pretoria convict
prison, anal were represented all
over the country. A native witness
said that nearly all the convicts in
fohanneshurg wero Ninevites. Se-
cret prison meetings decided on the
stabbings, and those appointed to
execute orders were liable to pun-
ishment if they failed. This wit-
ness said the rule was "once a
Ninevite, always a Ninevite."
One of the accused admitted
stabbing the deceaaed "under or-
ders from Pretoria," because it was
thought that it was through him
that two convicts had been shot at
the Cinderella Prison. If he (wit-
ness) had not killed Jacob, he
would undoubtedly have been killed
himself. Four of the accused were
sentenced to death.
SMALLPDX GERM FOUND.
Protozoan Sought by Microscopists
for Years Is Discovered.
The germ of smallpox, a proto-
zoan so infinitesimal that it has
passed through thb minutest filters
and escaped the trained gaze of
microscopists for decades, has been
finally discovered by Dr. Walter
Fornet, staff physician at the Kai-
ser Wilhelm Academy, Berlin, Ger-
many.
Dr. Fornet claims not only to
have discovered the germ, but to
of immense practical value to the
But the postulate is often disregarded,
and there are not a few who think that
our ready transfer of Heligoland to Ger-
a
Pasha is
be onie is anticipated by *ore
avho are convmcod that, notwithstanding
all pessimistic estimates of his present
sand iunforgettingt Bulger b10 tnwkingdan'
other attempt tc 0et.`ur0 Adrianople, this
time 'for keeps."
Scott Expedition Stamps.
Captain Scott before his departure from
New Zealand was appointed Pootmneter
of the Britieh Anterotic, an oBeO pre.
cloudly held by Bir Ernest Shackleton,
The Terra Nova carried with her to the
South 5800 worth of the ordinary penny
animus of Now Zealand overprinted with
the words "Victoria Land" in black capi-
tals. At the poet office which the oxpedi•
Mon established at Cape Evans, 24 speci-
mens of the penny and halfpenny iseuoe
pwere supplied
dY to aaoh member of the
11aaex-
kepti f party,
re do careful
that
every stamp used can now be accounted
for, Their number ie extremely small,
and among the lucky collectors who re•
sewed copies direct from the Antarctic
are the Iding and Mr. Churchill, There
are no fewer than 800 of the ha feenue
stamps loft, and a larger utimber of the
more commonly need penny Valli), and
these aro sold to phila'eltete and others
interested et not less than 28 shillings
each for rho former and Ave shillings for
the latter. Each stamp fie a guarantee of
Ito genuineness will be acoompanied by a
oort1ttcate and no yepriute have boon or
will be made.
Loudon, Oct, 1, 1913.
4
RED HAIR TO BE STYLE.
:Cashion Will Benefit Those of
Melina Locks, Says Expert.
Every red-haired woman will re-
ceive a good start in the race with
fashion this winter. The vogue of
the red fox fur is assured, and it is
the henna -haired woman' who will
wearthese. striking skins with the
moat tolling effect,
According to a fashion expert
quite a new charaoter will be creat-
ed by the red fox girl this season,
"She will Wear : white clothes," he
said, "with a stole and muff of red
fox, Iter hair will be a deep red-
dish brown, and her complexion
will be delicately tinted to a wild
rose pink, A rope of amber beads
---arid what rno•o gorgeous effect
could be'eh tained 1"
Tho feet that red hail: will be the
fashion was confirmed by M. Jules
Szollosy, court hairdresser, of Har-
riet Street, S.W„ London, Eng-
iand. "Red hair will sweep the.
eontttry," he said. "It will be the
rage. With the prevailing pope-
larity of the red fox fur, henna -is
the one ahedc that, will look really
well this winter,
"Nalurally,'the greatest discre-
tion will have to be used ill the
nary to inoculate a calf or cow with
smallpox virus in order to procure
lymph for vaccination, and conse-
quently that a pure culture can be
obtained. The lymph won by pre-
sent methods contains numerous
bacteria which must be extermi-
nated before ib can be used for
vaccination, What further Dr. For -
net's discoverr,'� may mean cannot
yet be told, bait opens the way for
experiments along hitherto un-
known linos in the treatment of
Smallpox,
Apart from the possibility that
Dr. Fornet's discovery may result
in new .methods of treating small-
pox, it is important that it will
make possible the preparation of a
pure vaccine virus which may
lessen the ill results sometimes fol-
lowing vaccination, and thus de-
prive the German anti-vaccination-
iste, whose nuunber is already very
considerable and steadily increas-
ing, of much ammunition. The
Gorman law requires the vaccina-
tion of all children in their first
year and again in the twelfth, and
is very rigorously enforced.
5
A title is told of four old Lan-
cashire men who •paid their first
visib to Paris. In a smart restaur-
ant they demanded "something we
can't get in England." The garcon
promised to devise a collation ex-
quisite ---all French, Then he walk-
ed to the speaking tube and shouted
down in what, to his bearers, seem-
ed like excellent English; "Cat
soup!" Before he could turn
round the four guests, who were
seated near the door, were hurry-
ing down the boulevard, Not till
they arrived in their native shire
did they find that "cat soup" was
Parisian for gttatre sou:pes.
Tommy, after going to bed, be-
came -very,thirsty, or thought he
did. Ho called out "Ma, I want
a drink." The mother's voice an-
swered back, `Tommy, you go to
sleep," Tommy grunted, turned
over and was silent for ten minutes.
Then again, "Ma, I want a drink."
"Tommy, you go right to sleep,"
was the replay, Intense silence
again ler ten minutes. Then, ".day,
ma, T want a drink," "Tommy, 11
you don't go right to sleep I'll cotyle
and spank you," More silence, this
time for about two minutes. And
then, "iSay, ma, when yea come to
mabter of compleirione. Cotffui•es spank me ]won't you bring me a
will be worn higher and higher." drink l's
HE SUNDAY SCHDU1. LESSON
INTls1(N,1TIONAL LJiSSO.N,
. OC?`POJUiR 20.
Lesson IV. --The Sin of Moses Aird
Aaron. Num. 20. 1••13. Golden
Text, Pea. 19. 14.
Almost forty yeare have paesod
RITES NOT VEST, EATING
S('IENPIfST `TELLS HOW THEY
ARE PREPARED FOR FOOD.
Too Many Spices in Their Body -to
Solt the Tarstc 'of Cane
nibals; -
That Cannibals seldom eat white
Hine the events of our last lesson. captives and then without .partime-
Discouraged by the unfavorable re- lar west is the gist of a scientific
port of a majority of the spies, the report on the subject made by Dr.
children of Israel did nut attempt FIofman, formerly :t German Con -
immediately to enter Canaan, near sul in Africa and an authority on
the southern border of which they the subject of tribunal customs.
wore encamped at Kadesh. Their
lack of courage and faith in Jeho-
vah and their murmuring against
Jehovah bring upon them a pro-
longation of the desert hardships
and privations until a whole gener-
ation falls by the wayside and is the fleeh of white inert is not- be -
buried in the wilderness, Now, cause they fear the spirit of the
however, the days and years of re- white victint'or his powers of magio,
tribution and punishment are ashes sometimes been assumed, but
drawing to a close and the time it because they consider that it has
at hand when Israel shall again an unpleasant taste due to 'the use
move forward to the conquest of of sharp spioea and .condiments and
the land of promise. of ,salted dishes in the diet of the
Verse 1. The wilderness of Zin— Europeans.
In the immediate vicinity of Jia- Dr, Holman cites an article
desh and north of the wilderness printed several yeareagc in a jour -
of Paran. nal of Liberia, in which it was said
The first month—The month of that the cannibals in the Liberian -
territory eat a white man only
when he has fallen into their hands
alive. Then the victim is immersed
to the neck in a running brook and
held there by bands for two or
three days, on much the same prin-
ciple that an oyster is "floated" in
fresh water after being taken from
the beds. Dr. Hofman had con-
firmation of this from a. former can- -
nibal. -
Writing of the recent murder of
the German - American vlincralo-
gist, John Henry Warner, by- na:.-
tivee of New Guinea, Dr. Heitman
asserts that the ,abstention of can-
nibals in Africa and of Guinea from -
Nisan or Abib, corresponding to
our April.
2. Assembled themselves together
against Moses—Started .a mutiny
against their leaders.
3. 'Strove with Moses—A strife of
words and argument, abounding in
complaint.
When our brethren died—Under
the burden' of Egyptian slavery or
subsequently in the wilderness.
4. The assembly of Jehovah—
His chosen people and congrega-
tion. The implication of the ques-
tion is that it is a disgrace .for the
chosen people of Jehovah to be
subjected :to such wilderness hard-
ships.
6. This evil place—The place of
hardship and extreme physical dis-
comfort.
No place of seed . . vines .
pomegranates — The promise to
them had been that they should be
brought into a land overflowing
with milk and honey, symbols of
prodigal abundance.
Neither is there any water—clot
only is there about them no sign
of an abundance of seeds and fruits
for food; there is not even the in-
dispensable element of sustenance,
water to drink.
0. Fell on their faces—Utterly
discouraged and helpless,
The glory of Jehovah—The cloud,
representing the presence of Jeho-
vah.
8. Take the rod—The rod of
Aaron which had budded (Num.
17) and which was later kept "be-
fore Jehovah," that is, in the sanc-
tuary, as a testimony or evidence
of his power. Our narrative at
this point leaves the purpose of
the rod unexplained, though its
subsequent use is indicated in verse
11.
10. Gathered the assembly to-
gether—Fromthis point on, the
narrative as it stands is slightly
confusing. According to a plau-
sible rearrangement of the story
suggested by several eminent com-
mentators, Moses and Aaron were
at first bidden by Jehovah to speak
to the rock, which, being skeptical,
they hesitated about doing, asking
Jehovah, "Can we bring forth then
water out of this rock]" To these
words Jehovah replies, addressing
himself to Moses and Aaron with
the words, Hear now, ye rebels, at
the same time bidding them strike
the rock and afterward pronounc—
ing upon them the doom of exclu-
sion for their lack of confidence.
19. Because ye. believed not in
me—Without some reconstruction
of the narrative as suggested above
there is in the story no clear evi-
dence either of unbelief or of dis-
obedience on the part of Moses and
.Aaron. Ile reconstruction sug-
gested may not be the best nor in
harmony with the original word-
ing. It docs, however, point out a
Possible rearrangement which
helps materially in clearing up the
very evident ambiguity of the nar-
rative as it stands.
Ye shall not bring this assembly
into the land—A severe penalty
for a wrong not fully explained in
our narrative (compare comments
on verse 10 above).
13. Waters of Meribab—Literal-
ly, of strife or contention. That
the place was in the immediate
vicinity of, if nob identical with,
IK.adeeh is clear from the fact that
the double name Meribah of Jia-
desh is frequently met with, as its
Nltin. 27. 14; Dent. 32.. 51, and
elsewhere.
Was sanctified) in them—In the
sense of revealing himself as holy.
De1010
ti on Tested.
"Are 3100 shire that young Man
loves you 1" asked the cautious mo-
ther, •
„Yes," replied Gwendolyn.
"Have you sung, played, reeked -
/end painted in water colors for
him 1"
ayes.,,
"'Tell, my child, if he stili de-
sires to marry yell, do not doubt
his affection."
Cannibalism Rampant.
The reported killing and eating ,of
Mr. Warner in Papua by the na-
tives has called attention to the
fact that cannibalism is by no
means stamped out in New Guinea.
Warner believed that radium could
be found in Papua. and fell a victim
to hie own zeal. It is reported
that his two native companions•es-
caped his horrible fate, the news
of which they brought to the coast.
At one time official circles be-
lieved that cannibalism was a thing
of the past in British New Guinea,
but clear evidence that it has per-
sisted into the present decade has
been provided by unimpeachable
witnesses. In a book published
last year, J. H. P. Murray, Lieu-
tenant -Governor and chief judicial
officer of Papua, has much to say
about the practice of ,cannibalism
among the natives in the island. He
writes about boiling springs which
not many years ago were made use
of for cooking any prisoners cap-
tured in the village warfare.
Describing the north-eastern
division of the island, Murray
quotes a native witness, who, tell-
ing of the eating of human bodies,
said: "We boil them; we cut them
up and boil them in a pot. We boil
babies, too ; we out them up like a
pig. We eat them cold or hot; we
eat the legs first. We eat them be-
cause they are like fish, We have
fish in the creeks and kangaroos in
the grass—bub men are our real.
food."
Peddled the Chinese.
Murray tells of the remark of a .
Fergusson Islander to a stranger
who wanted to buy betel nuts from
him ; "Why shoukl I sell you betel
nut; I am going to eat you." Which
he promptly did. He also writes of -
a crew of shipwrecked Chinese, who `
were eaten one by one, until the
captors, surfeited with the diet,
peddled those who were left around
the owed, selling them to the high-
est bidders. Wives who ventured.
to look around during the funerals
of their husbands were killed and
eaten. One native wlio was . con
seined in the killing of a neighbor-
ing chief and his two wives told of
the subsequent eating of the vic-
tims with the utmost unconcern.
He told of eating the hand of one
wife, but refused to touch the
other, as he had killed her, and it
was not the custom of his tribe to
eat one's own victim. The two wo-
men were singed first, then out up
into small pieces, mixed with sago,
cooked wrapped in leaves, and dis-
tributed to the visittws, including
their women and children,
The Demand For 'Tea. -
. The world's demand far cheap
and good tea is steadily advancing,
and at the present rate of expan-
sion Would, if the yield were con-
stant, necessitate the laying out of
300,000 acres in new gardens every
year. Owing to labor difficulties
this way' out is impracticable. The
planters of India and Ceylon have
thus far satiefaetorily soleted the
difficulty by increasing the yield by
bolter methods of cultivation and,
manuring. :Ely such incana the yield
per acre has in steno cases been
leeched. -
Rainmaking.
g
A dynamite charge of 4,500 ,
pounds failed to bring rain in a
Texas ctperiment. Nature slakes
more noise than that ill getting up
a thunder Onion, but uses cheaper
ammunition,