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Syrup Pie.--rrwo eggs well beat-
en, two-thirds cep of sugar, two-
thirds eup ,of syrup (white is pre-
V ferable as it sones a more deli -
earthly colored pie), one tablespoon
of .buf'!•er and a pinch of salt. Beat
well together and bake between bwo
eruats.
Amber Tapioca. A delicious, ab-
traotiv', and simple dessert is
made by placing one cup maple :sy-
rup, three cape hot water, and one-
third eup of minute tapioca in up-
s per part of doulble boiler and eook-
ing over hot water until clear.
Serve cold with cream, either plain
or whipped.
Inccpeflsive Salad Dressing. -
The following is a good and inex-
pensive salad dressing which is easy
to prepare and so nice to always
:have on hand, Another good point
is it keeps well: One well beaten
egg, four tablespoons sugar, one
tablespoon flour, one-half a tea-
spoon mustard, a pinch of paprika,
of either red pepper, one-half tea-
spoon salt, half a cup of vinegar,
and one tablespoon of Ibudter. Put
in a double, boiler and cook until
ib thickens.
German ll'otslaw.-Take one-half
ghead of good size cabbage, cut like
:law (do not Chop) one-half of good
size onion, ,slice onion into table-
spoon of lard hot in the stew pot,
lot cook a few minutes (don't
brown), then add a cabbage, cover
with hot water, and let boil thirty
minutes, then add one-third teacup
vinegar, two tablespoon sugar, pep-
per, and salt to taste, cook until
tender, then add one teaspoon
white flour thickening, let boil few
minatee. You can use more vitae -
gar or sugar to your taste. Red
cabbage can be made same way.
Cotton. Cake.. -One -+half oup but-
ter, ono cup sugar, two eggs, one
teaspoon vanilla, ;three-quarters
eup sweet milk, one and three-
quarters cups flour, two teaspoons
baking powder, four tablespoons
cocoa. Cream butter, stir in sugar,
and add unbeaten eggs, and beat all
together until Dreamy. Sift cocoas
-baking powder, and flour together,
alternating with milk until batter
is stiff enough to drop from spoon.
Add vanilla. Bake in loaf iu mo-
derately hot oven for thirty fain
utes. Take for frosting two squares
sweet chocolate, melted, stirred
into one and one-half cups confec-
tioners' sugar. Add drops of hot
water until right consistency.
Cranberry and Apple Mound.
Cook equal parte of oranberries and
sliced tipples together in a very lit-
tle water, than press them through
a sieve, and measure. Add the
juice of a lemon to each two cup-
fuls, and allow one and one-half
cupfuls of sugar for each lemon.
Stir over the fire for a few minutes,
until the sugar is dissolved, then
simmer slowly for five minubea.
Take frost the fire and cool: Beat
the whites of two eggs to a stiff
froth, and gradually whisk one cup-
ful of powdered sugar into the mix-
ture. Beat all together until stiff;
turn into a web mold. Serve very
cold,
Pork Cake. -Here is a recipe
that has stood the test of years be-
cause of the "good keeping" quell.
• ties of the finished product. If the
cake has been kept for several
months, always place ib in the
bread jar for a few days before us-
ing it; you will .be surprised at the
result. Chop fine one pound of
salt pork, and pour over it one
cupful of boiling water. Adel two
cupfuls of sugar, one and one-half
cupfuls of molasses, ono oupful of
raisins, one oupful of currants, one-
half cupful of citron, one teaspoon-
ful each of allspice, cloves, cassia,
and nutmeg, six cupfuls of flour,
and three teaspoonfuls of halting -
powder, Jdix thoroughly, put in
bread tins, and bake slowly for two
hours. This receipt makes two.
loaves.
Pear Pudding. -Drain the amp
from a awn of pears• and reserve it
for the pudding sauce. Pour ono
cupful of boiling 'water over two
tableepoonfuls of earn -starch that
has boon moistened with a lathe
cold water. Cook it lentil it is
transparent, add two tablespoon-
uls of sugar, and fold in the beaten
whites of three eggs. Spread the
ouatard in a pudding mold,place
elle pears, cult into slices, in the
?entre,. and cover with the remain-
ing 'portion of the custard, Set it
en the ice. To make the sauce, add
to the syrulro drained from the
Ceara one: teaspoonful of 'lemon-
luice,_one teaspoonful of the syrup
from preserved ginger, and one-
quarter of a cupful of cream. Placer
the mixture over the -fire, and when
Ib ie hot add the beaten yolks of
two eggs. When the sauce eoa'ts
the spoon, retrieve it from the fire
and cool He Garnish with whipped
ereatn,
Elea Steak with Dressing......
Select a nice tlelek clank and haws
the ilutoher remove all skin and
score int on both sides, Ask for a
small .piece of suet. Ingredieets
for dressing: Two Cupfuls of soaked
bread crumbs, one small onion, enc
tablespoon of 'butter, one egg, one
quarter teaspoon of salt, a little
powdered sage, several ehal Ings of
pepper. Pour water on the stale
bread, When weft press dry in
both hands, then reject any heard
or' dark parts. Beat the egg well
and stir in, also the seasoning;
mince the onion, put in frying pan
with the butter, let it cools a little
but not, brown, adtl the bread, turn
a few times, then tatke from stove.
,tub the flank well 'Pith salt and
pepper, place dressing on, then roll
tightly, tie with white cord, cut
suet up finely, place in pan and lay
in the roast, cover_ and cook in
steady heat; it must be well done
but not dried out.
Household Hints.
Beans are the anost nutritious of
all vegetables.
Whiting said ammonia, are best
for cleaning nickel.
Potato water is good to remove
mud •stains from cloth.
A few chopped dates added to
apple sane° makes a very tasty disth.
Newspapers will give as brilliant
a finish to window glass as chamois.
In the pantry the robber band
will hold tight the covers of cereals
and cookie boxes.
When paring potatoes, do not
waste a clean pan; a newspaper
will hold' all the parings.
It is tetter to clean meat by wip-
ing it off with a wet cloth than to
let water run over it.
When mixing beeswax and tur-
pentine for floor polishing, add a
little spirits of ammonia.
When bacon comes from the mar-
ket a pair of sharp scissors will
quickly remove the rind.
To place ferns upon the window
sill means their death, as they can-
not stand a' cold draught.
Sliced oranges and shredded co-
coanut put into a dish in alternate
layers is a delicious dessert.
Always wear a white apron when
sewing on dark material, as this
relieves the strain on the eyes.
A good way to prepare cheese for
luncheon is to heat it slightly,
strain it, and mix it with/ cream or
butter.
Never put too many blooms in
any jar or vase, Flowers are much
prettier if loosely and simply ar-
ranged.
When a chicken is to be cut for
fricassee, tho disjointing • can be
guidkly accomplished with a pair of
stout scissors.
Nothing is so good for a sprain as
bathing with very hot water, to
whioh turpentine has been added,
an ounce to a quart.
To relieve the soreness of a pain-
ful soft corn, try binding it up each
night with baking soda moistened
with a little water.
To turn a boiledi pudding out of
its bag, hold it for a few minutes
in oold water, This will prevent its
sticking to the cloth.
A generous piece of newspaper
crumbled into ridges note as an ef-
ficient drain to all croquettes, frit-
ters, doughnutts, and bacon.
Weed ashes is an excellent thing
to clean kitchen utensils. Dampen
a cloth, dip it in the ashes, and
scour the pans and kettles.
Newspapers will make excellent
paddinge for the winter carpets,
and wake warm interlinings when
quilted between chintz for cover-
lets.
When running dates or figs
through the meat chopper add a
few drops of lemon juice to prevent
the fruit from clogging the chop-
per.
Copper oan easily be cleaned by
rubbing with a out lemon dipped in
table salt, then rinsing with clear
water and polishing with a soft dry
cloth.
Things that are good Io�. your
akin are all green vegetlfea, para
tioularlty spinach, onions, esoltalots,
eggs, andnearly all fresh fruit.
When baking pies, either fruit or
meat, place the pie an a tin with a
libtle cold water. It will save the
syrup or gravy from boiling out.
Mussed pieces of tissue paper aro
excellentto clean mirrors, First
rub the mimes with a damp cloth,
then polish with the paper.
If table eilver is placed in hot
soap -soda immediately after being
used and dried with a soft cloth,
much of the work of polishing will
Ibe saved.
Rubber bands are inexpensive
and are of great usF ' 'rreparing
lunches to fasten the •&e ed paper
around sandwiches, cakes, fruit: I
ebe,
Explained at Last,
"Now they claimethab the human
'body contains sulphur,'
"In what amount!"
"Oh, in varying quaritities,"
"Well, that may a000unt for
cow° girls making bettor matches
than othotts,"
$pcelallziug._
The Cl tabomor- s thin all wool or
o t +x a
is ib cotton mixed? '
The Clerk (with offended 'dignity)
-,T am here to .sell goods, madam:.
-noae
eliathorn
not to g .
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it SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOVEMBER 80.
Lessau IX. -Crossing the Jordan.
Joh. 3. 147. Golden ',`ext,
Isa. 41.10. •
'Verse 7, Magnify thee -Honor
thea by special recognition ef thy
ofiioe and leadership among the
people.
8. The priests that bear the ark -
The law especially provided that
no other persons should carry or
even touch Rile sacred emblem of
Jehovah's presence.
9. And Joshua said -Verses 9-13
contain the substance of a solemn
address to the assembled people,
in which Joshua explains more fully
what has already been concisely
stated in verses 7 and 8.
Jehovah your God -The Hebrews
seem to have Dome but gradually
to a clear recognition of the fact
that Jehovah was the Good of other
nations as well las of the Jews.
1 While they did not recognize the
I idols of the surrounding nations,
or even the deities of Egypt and
later of Assyria, as true gods, still,
they did not seem to recognize
either that Jehovah was concerned
about the welfare and salvation of
other peoples and nations besides
themselves.
10. The living God -A title ap-
plied to Jehovah to indicate the
outstanding difference •between him
and the idols of the heathen round
about (compare Deut. 5. 26).
Canaanite -Literally, "lowland -
or," properly so oalled.because or-
is nal'ly occupying the low coast
border along the Mediterranean
Sea, the valley of Ladraelon, and
portions of the valley of the Jor-
dan.
Hittite - •Oompare Lesson Text
Studies for October 19 and Nevem-
bre 23.
Hivite--A people sometimes omit-
ted in the enumeration of the na-
tions originally inhabiting Pales-
tine. They are mentioned, how-
ever, in connection with Joseph's
return to Canaan (Gen, 34. 2). They
seem to have boon a peaceful and
commercial people, dwelling at the
foot of Mount Hermon, in the rand
of Mizpah (Josh. 11. 3), and in the
valleys of Lebanon (Judg. 3. 3; 2
Sam. 24. 7).
Perizzite-A people of oentral
Palestine; or more probably, as
1.same think, simply the peasants or
laboring people of the land -from
perazi, meaning "country -folic" or
"rustic$."
Girgashite - Supposed to have
been a larger family or subdivision
of the Hivites, 'since omitted in nine
out of ten places in which the orig-
1 inal nations of Canaan aro enumer-
ated, while in the tenth ennumera
tion they are mentioned and the
73ivite•s omitted Their home seems
to have been that part of Palestine
, lying just east of the Sea of Galilee.
I Asnorite - Meaning, literally,
"mountaineer." The Amoribes, ac-
t oording ie. Gen. 14. 7, occupied the
(barren hill country west of the
Dead Sea. They seem later to have
crossed the Jordon to the eastward,
I and to have occupied the country
"beyond Jordan" from Arnon to
the Ja'bibok.
Jebepete-A powerful mountain
tribe obupying the strong fortress
of Jebus (Jerusalem). They axe
uniformly mentioned last in the
enumerations of the original in-
habitants of Palestine.
11. The Lord of all the earth A
signifi•eant' title of the Most High
at a time when the conquest of the
land was about to be undertaken.
12. Twelve men -One . from each
tribe.
13. The waters of the Jordan shall
be cut off . . . they shall stand in
one heap -Compare note on verse
16 below.,
14. When the people removed
from their tants, to pass over the
Jordan -On the tenth day of Nisan
(or Abib), eorrespondinp to our
month April -May.
15. The brink of the water -At
this time far beck free the usual
channel of the stream.
For the Jordan overfloweith all
its -banks all• the time of harvest -
In the low semitropical valley of
the Jordan the harvest comes
earlier than on the higher plains
to the east and west of the valley.
The first ingathering of the harvest
season had already begun, While
at the same eeason the melting of
the snow on Hermon and Lebanon
caused the Barrow Channel of the
river to be filled to overflowing,
transforming the sj seam into .a
middy, swollen, and turbid flood,
10, The waters whioh came down
frotft .above stood, and rose up in
one heap, a greab way off -Tho
wording ef our narrative strongly
suggests a landslide, whioh tempo.r-
arily obstructed the narrow chan-
nel and damned the waters of the
river until these again brake away
the 'barrier and cable Milling
down with even, greater force than
before (compare Josh, 4. 18).
At Ad'ais-Tho nanee sigeifies, lit-
orally, red smiths and has been
thought to loud support to the eu'g-
gestion of a landahcle as the ex-
planation of the unusual phenom-
ena which eiearly tools place higher
up in the Jordan valley where the
clay banks ahnoeb overhang the
river.
Beside Zarethan•-A city suppus-
cd by acme to have been near the
mouth of the Jabbok, near Succoth
(1 Kings, s, 46), It has been iden-
tified by others with an. ancient
site some seventeen miles north
of Jerieho, where scop cliffs con-
fine the stream within its narrow
limits, almost, as it wore, throwing
a barrier across ibe path.
Wholly out off -Flooded away en-
tirely, leaving the channel empty.
IHOTJSEMAIDS ALL!
Virtues of Housework Described
by a"Medloal Masa.
Silt RUFrS ISAACS.
Itourtuttie Career of the New Lord
Chief 'entice.
The office of Lod Chief Justice of
'England is one of the moat irnpor-
tont in the Sate. ib is also ane of
the oldest. it has, with rare ex-
emptions'
been filled by man of
ra great ability, Next to the Chancel -
o hip, it s the ehisf prize which a.
lawyer can obtain,
The appointment of Sir Rufus.
Isaacs to succeed Lord Alverstone
as Lord Chief Justice of England at;
the age of 63 had been anticipated
for soma time by the Isar, where -he
is universally popular, and on sev-
eral occasions lately its most prom, -
inept members have. taken pains to
show in public that ib would be to
their satisfaction.
It is the eulnnination of a career
whioh has hadeesseveral aspects to
which the epi'b?tet "romantic" is
"'Gino your housemaid a fort- unusually applicable. A spirit of
night's holiday and do her worlc," advonlure, which has-baegt tttaned
is my oonetant ,presoription to well- rather than onushed by maturity of.
to-do ladies who Dome to me set- experience, red him as a boy to
fering from nerves, liver, or other Jeave the home of his fateer, a m°r-
di�sorders due to living too fast and chant in London, ands go to.sea. At
too well, writes a medical man in the and of such a period of hard
Londoal. Answers °,zips as 1alls to the hat of ,,ads wlio
Naturally the patient looks sur- dare to servo before the mast, he
prised, and may advice is not al- ag•ein took hiss: fortunes en hiss hand,
ways meant to be taken too liter- acid c, n"e rho nncortatinby of . the
ally. It usually ends in the pa- stock exchange in preference to the
tient taking a course at a certain certainty of the solid business oaJJi-
London school, which for •prafes- iilg which .awaited him through the
sionai reasons I must not a<tver_ influence of his family in the city.
tile. Here the pupils, who range A. Great Advocate.
from young girls to elderly wemeo, Fortune was no ankind to him
and attend daily, do all the house- as a broker, and, at the age of 24,
work of the place, and are systema- his levo of adventure still unsub-
tically and soientifioally instructed decd, ho was only dissuaded From
i.n .scrubbing, sweeping, polishing emigrating to America by the em-
end dusting. And with enormous
benefit to themselves.
In some establishments a, house-
maid is a necessity, but in many
she is a luxury, and ,the mistress
would be ever so much better in
body and mind if •she took broom
and duster in hand instead of idling
away her thus. Ho•usemaide, as a
Class, are singularly healthy, well-
developed girls. Of oourse, only
well-to-do persons can afford to
keep a housemaid, and their domes-
tics are, or certainly should be,
well and plentifully fed. The chief
reason, however, of the average
housemaid's blear complexion, up-
right oa•rri.age, and lissom frame is
the healthful nature of her work.
Hensemaiding exercises every
mu•eole of the body, without unduly
fatiguing them. The bending and
etretohing movements involved in
ecrubbing, sweeping and dusbinig
are extremely beneficial to the vi-
tal organs., ,and quite equal to any
cause of Swedish drill or physical
oulture.
Inevitably, someone will whisper
"Housemaid'e kneel" This ail-
ment, whioh is an inflammation of
the sac between the knee -pan and
the skin, is not a necessary oonse-
quenoe of a houseanaid's work. It
is not, as many imagine, due to
constant kneeling on a hoard sur- influence. Called to the Bar by the
face, but is caused by kneeeliug on a Middle Temple in 1887, his experi-
damp floor, So long as a house- once of life, especially, of life in the
m.aid is careful always to have a
mat or pad between her knees and
a damp floor, she need never suffer
from fiche troublesome ailment
named .after her. Women who suf-
fer from boredom, want of exer-
-ciao, mental strain or worry, will
find physical salvation in: the house-
maids' gloves and dust -pan.
Being your own housemaid gives
you an increased interest in your
home, teaches you to take a pride
in it, and there are intereating
problesne to be solved. There is a
right and a wrong way of laying
and cleaning out, a fire, of sweep-
ing, dusting, sated scrubbing, of pal-
ishing this or that, and in learning
to do things in the quickest and
moat efficient way you will be taken
out of yourself, and your mental
faculties stimulated.
Housemaids, as a eines, are fax
above the average woman who has
to work for her' living, in health,
physique, and contentment. Hos-
pital authorities are eometamies
blamed for making mese-prebe-
tioners wield the eerubbing-brush
and broom. Apart froan the fact
that it is ,absolutely necessary that
a nurse should be abie, to keep a
ward or a private patienbe' 1•oorn
clean and sweet, the authorities.
well know that for getting a girl
"fit," for steadying' bet nerves, and
training her muscles, there is noth-
ing dike a regular course of house-
maiiding.
treaties of hes mother. It was then
that he revolved to study law, and
thea to embark upon yet another
career, which is risky enough for
those who enter the courts without
lit. Hon. Sir Rufus Isaacs, Lord
Chief Justice of Great Britain.
Millinery Too Expensive.
Spealdnng to a Chinese gentleman,
an. Dngli,shman 'waked him if the
Chinese ladies will emulate the
men and go in for western head-
mar, In reply, he beamed a ,smile
eet chifdli] and blanch, Pressed
for something more definite, he re-
meeked. Did you net know that
it is a well-known fact among the
Chinese that the reason so mealy
l8uropeani husbands look halvasscd,
and owe -ridden 'and the further
a'eason why ,50 nnany of your young
mon rafq'cuin frofn marriage is this
verya cestioli of nrallincary 1 Lndiee'
hate 0085 HO Meeh that they spell
ruin, and so we Chinese have told
our womenfolk that wo absolutely
fbi bid then] to follow weeteitn fash-
{OM lh t la regard, whatever they
may ado in .other diroetians,"
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city, his keen intelligence, and his
amiable character scion brought sue-
oese. Work tame to hum for which
his knowledge and abilities fitted
him pre-eminently, and his hand-
ling of commercial and financial
cases earned him quickly a wide-
spread reputation.
"Sir Rufus Isaacs is justly popu-
lar at the Bar, not only as a great
advocate and probably the ablest
eroas-examiner of our tiano, but as
one fastidiously honorable in his
professional work, and oonapicu-
ously free from rtes reproach of
ever taking an unfair advantage,"
said the London Chronicle after his
appointment,
"Do Right to A11."
When the new Lord Chief Justice
made his first appearance in his
court on Tuesday he took two
oaths.
Holding sip the Testasuent, Sir
Rufus read out in a clear voice the
words of the two oaths of *Mee,
whioh were as follows:
"I, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, swear
by Almighty God that I will be
faithful and bear true allegiance to
His Majesty Icing George 'if., his
heirs, and sueoessors according to
law;"
"I, Bufus Daniel Thanes, swear by
Almighty God that I will .well and
truly •serve our Sovereign Lord
King George V. in the office of. Lord
Chief. Justice of England, and I
will do right to all manner of poo-
plo after the laws and usages: of
this realan, without fear or favor,
afieotiost or ell wi•11,"
Ship Called Iron, Duke.
Be'ita n'e next great battle ship
i,e iso be oalled the Iron Duke, after
tho Duke of Wellington, although
am the ame
tli,a�t, soldier mune ntuakn
in a isoundaboul stay, He, was 'never
so called until long after Waterloo,
An iron istoaauahip, as novelty at the
time, was built in the Mersey, and
named the Duke of Wellington, and
so the vessel came to 'be known as
the Iron Duke.-tiibo ±raecsltion bo -
in easy end obvious, It were the
dtt 'e union of • esolutdon and, phy-
e . e pe. -
�p :which an the popu-
]larseer y nv u�l
aa' namegfor the Me'rety pbuilt
gems* to fit hies lalco a pearled
sap:
Our London LaMar
Royal Fags,
It is well-known that democracy and
ci'tstacraey are eiitsti ixed our
pu'n, aohoole, krinosalotArtmnar of ( 0°
naught's letter in praise of ,,run has vat
some of hie old whom-fe,low'e ree4111ng.
his daye there, 01u3 'wonders whieli end et
them he had in mind. la his carper days.
he twee a fag" to young Astor, a fact
•whbtth predaeed - ire ,,n American news-
pa'por the startling Jrea:Lane "Vi+'loriu'e
Grandeon Je Aslsr'u Slave,' It Is said
that there was At. gevd deal of unconscious
literal trete 1n the statement, and al-
though a fag does not have a had time,
be le generally glad enough to he rid of
fagging, It is more likely that the life
at .4tbn Which Prince Arthur had in iwind
was that tato which he paaee4 as he wont
up to tate school, the life which made the
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha n
thong to be dedl4aed. %*hat arowa, baing
deal ned by him, passed to the young
Duke of Albany. He, too, though only in
the lower school, had begun to love Eton;
at least it would seem so, for when he
was told that he *would he taken awaY
from Eton to fife made a Grand Dake it
is said that he wept.
Shipping Scandal In Austria.
There 1. probably something else than a
]Here danfiely y of t'eernitte for vee :rune:
hien army hebind the uttltude of the Aus•
trian euthoritiee towards the agencies of
tho.0afradian PaciSs Ralhvay throughout
tfie aounwry. Since it established, under
a ooneeeedon from the Government, a
pteamahlp service between Trleote and-
• OanaNlan ports the German lines interest•
ed in the route have carried onun-
eeasing agitation against the oomipany
with the objeatof projudfciag it in pub-
lie favor, They have out passenger 'farce
on several occasions, and by the grant of
special privileges they have succeeded in
retaining the bulk of the emigrant traf-
fie. No man who has not yet done his
three years' military service is allowed
to leave the oountry, and the ahiening
companies are expected to keep a .keen
look -out for thoee who have managed to
evade the authorities at homeand who
have reached the coast. It is said here,.
however, that no diffiouluiee are experi-
enced on the German frontier, men being
allowed to pass without any inquiry what-
ever, The movement to the United Statee
and Canada this year has been uupreo'
dented, - and it is estimated that the
armies of the Dual Monarchy lack from
eighty to one hundred thousand soldiers,.
while not one of those who crossed the
Atlaotto responded to the summmoue ro-
Gently sent out to join the aoiore, Feral -
era in many parts of Austria and Hun-
gary are also complaining that no labor
is available. When, a few mouths ago,
the Auetrian .Council of Ministers present-
ad the draft of a new bill to the Minister
of War for a more drastic'regulationof
the - business, he expreeaed himself as
greatly displeased at the mildness of the
restrictions proposed. In - the meantime
the measure has been ..considerably
etreu.gthened, and was recently .introdno-
ed into the Reicheratlh. Official statistics
show that during a period of thirty-five
years 3,547.630 Austrian and Ifungariuu
subjects have gone to Canada, the United
States and South America.
Sir Beauchamp Duff's Now Appointment.
Although it has come somewhat es a
surprise to the know-alle in the Service
clubs, the appointment of Sir Beauchamp
Duff to be the new Commander-in-C$ief in
India is an admirable one, and moans the
carrying out on economical but really ef-
flelent lines of Lord Kitohoncr's military
policy. Sir Beauchamp Duff was Chief of
Staff to Lord Kitchener, and is imbued
with his businesslike methods. The rule
of alternate British and Indian officers
will not be absolutely broken, because, as
General O'Moore Omagh retiree before has
limo, Sir Beauohnmp Duo takes over a
pontos of in
period. 'res appointment
will be well received in India, General
Duff has done admirable, 0 nnobstrusive
work, at the War Office during the last
four years. Ho has great charm of man•
nor, is well and widely read, and, though
smallin etetnre, looks the thorough sol-
dier that he ie.
The Question of Zanzibar.
Mea of standing in colonial circles in
London are not paying much attention
to the rumored ceesioa of Zanzibar to
Germany, and it is certain that any at-
tempt to oxoha.nge it for some other par-
ticu of African territory would be widely
resented. Zanzibar is, after nit the hie -
tonic commercial centre of East Africa, of
more importance in many ways than
Maioanny and ithhoBdth apdhvry l0u0ct-
antis, took dharge of it nearly 20 years
ago ;after refusing the first offer of lila do -
is
retuions by the Sultan in 1877. The plana
also not without etrategtc impotence
do the naval policy of the Indian Ocean,
and there are many who feel that thio is
emphatically not the time when Britain
can relax her holdon the ocean road to
India, particularly now that her Mediter-
ranean policy has been weakened. Apart
from rte commercial and political import-
ance. Zanzibar has a peewee. religious
interest for Britain, since it wasthere
that the Universities Mission that sprang
from Livingetone'e inspiration was first
succesofully founded --indeed, the Church
of Englund edifice there is built on the
cite of the old slave market, whioh was
the centre of East African trade with In•
dia, and it was from this island that
many of the Scottish mirsionartes to Csa-
tral Africa, of whom the greatest wee
Mackay, started for the interior. It ie
known, of course, that some revision .of
boundaries betweenBritain and Germany
in Africa is in contemplation, and tela
will involve very considerable interests
and the territory of a third Colonial
Power. These matters will involve very
oaretta handling and a reshaping of much
of Africa south of the equator, but the
time Is not yet ripe for toile matter to bo
settled.
Loudon, November i0, 1913.
SONIC SNAI(ES :PTIESE l
Found In Africa. --Have \Techs 40
Feel Long end 6 Feet Thick.
Some years ago Sir E. Ray Lan
kcster told us to be of good heart
while contemplating the gigantic
exI:ince reptiles of the pant, foe we.
had in rho existing 'sperm, whales,
the Great Boreal, and the whale-
bone ' whales, ereatu.res bigger than
an<' of them. That eomparison istill
holds true, but the Gentian expe-
diitioat in search of the Dinosaurs of
East Africa -'
the firstfossil re -
matins of which were found by Pre -
fosses. Ft•aasa six years ago, leas af-
forded us 'a glimpse of reptiles
much greater than any which are
now "restored" in mnsounia,
It is thought that the largest at-
tained almost. twie& idle length of
the Diplodoeus, oaf whiroli thol'e is, a
oast in the Natural History Mu-
seum at South Icensington, . and
whioh was 80 feet long,
The neck of this reptile, Gigen
tosarus, appease to • have beeM
least 15 feet longer theta, that al the
t ipiodoeus and a1 good deal thicker,
as ileo vertebrae 413'0 Nearly iwioe
ao high ea in rho Agee.deen mons -
tar, ,'Duna -witted .giants,!' Dr,
Heaanig oells fihenu, With necks
nearly 40 feet long and 0 feet think,
with length of legs exceeding any.
known; site,
HEWS OF THE MORE WEST
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND B111-
TISK COLTJIMIBIA.
Items from Provinocia Wheec Mani
Ontario Boys and Girls Aro
"Making Good."
A covalnsiued gnmeat nt $40of,000 ailveand r-blaoconk`
foxes, n
signed to Prince Edward Island,
were brought to Victoria, B4O,,,
from Alaska,
At the Hastings sawmill, near
Victoria, a record was made when.
employes of the mill loaded 50,000
feet of lumber on awes, in en flour
and 55 minutes. •
It lovas been predioted that from
15,000 to 20,000 men will rush into
the Chisana gold diggings when the
trails are opened in the spring,
Tho total catch of whales during
the season just ended at Aberdeen,
B.C,, was 211, against 260 last
year. The total value of the catch
this year is estimated at $400,000.
The Vancouver exhibition will
last tan days %text year. The at-
tendance this year was 91,910,
against 90,800 last year. The wea-
ther this year spoiled the ateen-
danee,
The Canadian Northern Pacific
Railway began the construction of
the second bridge aioross the 'north
Thompson River above Kamloops.
It 'will be seven 80 -foot deck girder
spans.
The Grand Jury set Victoria said
the lock-up there was a disgrace
to any civilized community, and
would not be tolerated for ua mom-
ent in any other department of
civic management.
Owing to tariff changes in the
United States it is believed that
there will be a good market • there
for British Columbia potatoes,
which, in some inetanoes this year,
have sold as low as $i0 per ton.
The Vancouver Board of Trade
wants the British Columbia Legis-
lature to pass a daylight saving
bill, pushing the clock ahead one
hour from the first Sunday in April
till the last Sunday in Ootober.
The old seating schooner Favor-
ite, which has been in commission
for 50 years, and is now at Victoria
in a dilapidated condition, is to be
refitted and sent to the Panama-
Pacific Exposition 'as a marine curi-
osity.
The steamer Malcura brought
8,692 cases of frozen butter from
Australia to British Columbia; also
nearly 4,000 packages of frozen
meats.
The Grand Trunk Pacific now has
less than 240 miles of rail to lay be-
fore east meets west. Tho district
still under oonstruotion is from.,
Kidd station to Prince George, a
fairly level country, and it is be-
lieved that the 'golden spike will be
driven during the summer of 1914.
Owing to Chinese competition,
vegetable growers in the Fraser
Valley, B.C., say they may have to
give up the worlc. Gee- vegababee
grower inatanoed the fact that he
received only $2 for nine dozen cu-
cumbers, which did not pay. Other
vegetables were sold in paopostion.
A horrible affair happened at
Frontier, B.C. Harry K. White, a
settler, had been.miseed for epee
daye, and was finally found dead an
his cabin. The body was almost
unrecognizable, the man's dog,
which was ].coked in, the cabin With
him, having been living on his dead
body.
Gerald Willis Mulialy is the name
of the baby who won the prize at
the Victoria baby show in a field of
1,037 Babies, andis now 'entitled to
enter the baby e'how art the Patnama-
Pacific Exhibition, the first prize
Ms which is 825,000. Baby Mullaly';
father was born in Halifax and liS
mother in Quebec,
"Unless anion is it bona Wide tress ''s•
yeller within the meaning of the
terns, no hotelkeeper is required to
serve him with liquid refreshments,
whether his color be white, black or
yellow." This was the decision of
Judge MoInnea at Victoria, 33.0e- -"'
in. a case where a colored man sued
for damages because he had been
refused liquor at the bar of the
hotel Stratford,
fP .,
Winter Thet.
Winter is at hand. Agisain, there -
foe°, arises the old problems ---why
do we foul the cold very smith less
when 'the weather is dry and fine
than when it ie wee or muggyy! The
explantation JO very sim rle, Ary air
loaves the 'body free to regain nor
give sur rte natural host aaocording
to its needs, but anoist car catlee% a
leakage of bodily wal
tth v ieli-
yeltthe.s hat•° quite dnatdequyet oto pro-
vonL, and wahioh isl gircotly inoroaead
when a wiled as blowieg. Mercov, e
r,
whrn llete is Hach lenidy <bClot ,•'.
atmosphere, ggevhiaraiiomdote 'Hai
evaporate, and thepores of the Afrin
become±clogged. It i;s.thie whioh i1
apt to make people lei1hergio and
sleepy: To keep warm, ospeelnlly '
in cold weatlhcr, one must atttearl
to opera aplie1lte, asid hake 118'
*4k
mttcli
heti\' exereisc ata poaltlbbo,
Greasy and :browned cooking
dishes should he boiled With wash•
ing aoda in a big kettle or boiler,