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With the Cribbage.
S631d1144 Co'dela w Dressing. —
One egg, o1 up of sugar, one
tablespuoe of hour, one-half tea -
Spoon of mustard, one-half teaspoon
salt, clash et red pepper, one-half•
cup each of water and vinegar. Put
together in order given, 'beating
the egg a little, then cook until it
thickens, then cool. This makes
enough dressing for two or three
small eablbages, and one expert
manager multiplies it by twenty-
four to make enough to dress a
popular cabbage relish for 200 peo-
ple. Iib is a smooth and piquant
dressing.
Easy Coltislew Dressing. — Mesh
the yolk of a hard •boiled egg with
a quarter of a teaspoon of mustard,
one tablespoon of sugar, and half a
teaspoon of salt. 'When thoroughly
mixed add enough vinegar to make
it as :thin as desired. Several
spoonfuls of milk or cream may be
aidecl to it. It is a pretbty, 'sweet,
and agreeable dressing for a small
amount al cabbage. The .above
amount is enough .for half a cab-
bage.
Cabbage Salad.—There is. no sal-
ad dressing for cabbage that is finer
than sour cream whipped up and
seasoned with lemon juice or vine-
gar, salt, and pepper to :taste, The
strict• vegetarian uses the lemon
juice always. A little shaved onion
with a cabbage, one little one or
several new ones, also seasons the
salad well without being noticeable
in an independent way. Some poo-
ple like a salad or slaw seasoned
instead with a half teaspoon of cel-
ery seed. The cabbage must always
be crisp, and if well crisped alter it
has the finest flavor if scalded and
then crisped in icewater. Shave it
as finely as possible, .put it in a deep
bowl with the onion if that is used,
then pour immediately into a col-
ander with fine holes and then put
into icewater to crisp, leaving for
at least an hour. A little sugar
may be sprinkled on ib before
adding a dressing. Radish flowers
make about the ,prettiest decoration
for cabbage salad, ;butt beet slices
cot out in fancy shapes may be used
and slices or shreds of •green or red
pepper in season also are in favor.
basin of wrnrtn water will give all
that is needed.
Sheets of tinfoil placed under
doilies upon which glasses, pitchers
or vases of water are set will pre-
vent the dampness from soaking
blu•ough and staining polished
tattles,
When baking bread or using the
oven for other .purposes, remember
that ib is an economy of fuel if vege-
talbles are cooked in covered dishes,
in the oven at the same time,
]:fain spots 00 cloth need nob be
regarded 'hopelessly. Wipe ofd: the
waw of the nap with a silk hand-
lcerehieI or very soft ?brush. If this
be done quickly, no marks will re-
main.
Both vinegar and lemon juice
have a remarkable action on the
fibre of beef, and if a piece of steak
is allowed to remain for several
Hours covered, with either, ib will
lose much of its toughness.
Should an extra polish be requir-
ed on an old grate, firsb rub the
bars with a :piece of lemon, after
which they will take ?black lead bet-
ter and polish more easily.
Allow ewhbage water to get quite
cold before pouring out, You will
find it will leave no unpleasant
smell behind, as it does when it is
poured away hot.
Brown boots and •shoes that have
stains and spots on them may be
renovated by rubbing them with a
piece of flannel dipped in methy-
labed spirits, leaving them to dry
before polishing.
Lettuce, parsley and .all other
green things may be kept delicious-
ly fresh if first washed in cold wa-
ter, shaken and alien packed in a
tin pail that has .e. very tight cover,
so that the air may nab penetrate
to them, and set in a cool place.
If you choose young, tender flekl
corn can it exactly as you can
sweet corn, and add enough sugar
in the preparation of the table to
season it, you will find ib equal to
sweet corn. When eooking field
corn for the table add a teaspoon-
ful of sugar to the kettle in which
the corn is boiling and yon cannot
tell it from sugar corn.
Vegetables with a strong flavor,
like cabbage, onions and turnips,
should. be cooked in a large amount
of water and kept :boiling rapidly.
'Such vegetables will improve with
the addition o'f a bit of soda. The
soda helps to soften the fibre of
these vegetables, and when the wa-
ter is to be. all poured off no appre-
ciwble trace of the soda remains.
A useful gift for anew baby that
will be sure to be appreciated by
baby's mother is a set of muslin
bonnet strings, with •a tiny gilt
safety pin attadhed tothe end of
each to pin it to the little hood un-
der the 'trimmings. Baby's )bonnet
strings have such a way of getting
stringy and ,wet alter a short time
of wear that these'are much dain-
tier than silk or satin Mies sewed to
the hood, as they can be put on
freshly done up, and look clean and
crisp. They are just strips of mus-
lin very daintily hemmed.
The Kaiser.
Marinated Red Cabbage. — Re-
move outer imperfect leaves, wash,
and cut up.a red cabbage fineas for
cold slaw. Put it into a safety glaz-
ed earthenware dish, powder with
fine salt, and leave it in a cool
place for two days, stirring it se-
veral times in order that the salt
may thoroughly penetrate the cab-
bage. It can be prepared in a
shouter time by using more salt.
Enough liquid may the drawn out,
if there is a considerable quantity
of owubbage, so that it will need to
be drained off, but ordinarily a
reasonable amount of salt will
simply make the cabbage sticky.
Next slice one onion or several into
the bottom of the earthenware dish,
tie up some whole pepper, a. 'clove
or two, and 'whatever spices you
choose in a bit of cheesecloth, then
cover the whole with either cold or
boiling vinegar and leave standing
for twenty-four hours, when it is
ready for use. The pickled and red
colored onion in this will be greatly
relished as an appetizer, so it is.
well to be generous with onion. It
may be served separately. Instead
of onion or with it may be added a
tiny bit of garlic.
German Endive.—lb is a great
pity to waste bbe green part of the
German er curdy endive or chicory,
since ib makes most excellent and
palatable greens of as .great value
medicinally as dandelions, to which
it is related. It is worth buying if
it is entirely green, without any
blanched centre. Three heads,
which may often' be secured for 10
cents, will sunnly 'both a saladfor
one meal and some greens for an-
other, or a cooked salad for from
four to six people. so it is much
more economical thanhead lettuce
and far more wholesome. Cook the
green part in plenty of water for
ben ox fifteen minutes, es until ten-
- der; drain, dhop in a chopping
bowl., then heat up with butter and
other seasoning's; or combine with
a little chipped meat, meat stock,
and seasoning's, and :bake in the
oven as a Port of loaf or spudding
(the Italian bucldno). Or after add-
ing .the Ibultter and seasoning and
cooking until these blend well with
the greens; pack into ?cups rinsed.
o.ub with cold water, and when cold
• pour out .and use as a salad,
• Useful !lints.
Leaving ham in •the water in
. ;wih'ich it ie boiled until ib is quite
cold? This will snake i'b juicy and.
tender.
Ham which iii ghb otherwise be
cogood Le often spoiled by 'being
oked in too sinsli an amount' of
water,
Flotvors wither quickly ]n the heat'
bub a ,small piece of camphor in the
w.aber will keep them fresh much
longer,
In washing delicate, laces never
e , .
ase stteroh, bub if a slighb stiffening
is desired two lumps Of sugar in a
Who is it thinks he knows it all?
That he will make all nations fall?
The Kaiser.
Who is it thinks that he has light 1
That he is "it" -!that might is
right?
The Kaiser.
Who is it sure will get a fall?
That will astound and confound. all?
The Kaiser.
And who will get a great 'surprise
When French and Brattish open his
eyes?
The Kaiser.
Because he 'thinks he knows it all,
Which surely tonnes before a fall—
Poor Kaiser.
Who is it thinks that God is Pleased
With murderous soul and mend dis-
easecl ?
The Kaiser..
Who has forgot of the Son of God;
Who sure will use his chastening
rod?
The Kaiser,
Who has forgot the Prince of Peace,
Who oam:e the burdened tbo release ?
The Kaiser. .
Oh, what a wrong concepbion he
Has got of God's great Majesty,
Poor Kaiser.
Water Cannon.
• Ullio novel gas -explosion pump
than vvas dasoribted in Nature and
Science, Inas proved so suecessfwl
in England that the Egy'pltian gov-
ernment has just ordered ten with
which to drain I,nkn M•aretpibis•--t:he
name borne by a large part of ?blue
Nile Delta, near Alcxendate,. The
ten preeps]are able bo rause mg: bil-
lion imperial gallons of water a
distance ol twenty Beet daily, 'Pht
new pumping etagere will probably -
be tlie,•largest in the world, or, if
not, will naetaimdy become so, for
eight; more pumps will be added to
it later. 'Mose remarkable pumps
have no ;loving parts, snob ws pts -
toms oe impellers. Insbead, as charge
of gas is driven directly agates() the
warm', and to theme eb through the
discharge pipe. As the Engineer-
ing lloceed says, the new mine)
Warks much a•s tt cannon would
,reek if loaded with water instead
of with a prujecti;le,
Cathedral Wrecked by Kaiser's peri at 'Worts.
The interior el the Owthedral at Mons after the Germans had shelled
and captured the city.
TU' SUNBA1 SCHUOL STUDY
IN'T'ERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOVEMBER 1.
Lesson V. The Arrest and 'trial of
Jesus. Matt. 26. 47-68. Golden
Text, Isa. 53.7. •
Verse 57. Where the scribes and
the elders were gathered together
—The 'Sanhedrin did not meet at
night. But the scribes and elders
were not going to take any chances
on losing Jesus. As soon as they
send their officers to • apprehend
Jesusthey themselves go to •their
aseemibly place to hurry through as
quickly as possible hie condemna-
tion and execution. The world was
asleep. They could :act quietly
with no fear of the populace inter-
ceding in Jesus's !behalf.
58, Peter was more courageous
than the other disciples, but there
was a great deal of caution in his
courage. He followed hien afar off,
near enough to see where he was
taken, ,but far enough not to get
into any personal danger. He want-
ed to see the end. This doubtless
was an honest curiosity. He felt
that all was up with Jesus as soon
as the officers led him away by
force. There was nothing Peter
could do. He intended, however,
to see what was done to Jesus.
59. ,Souughb false ;witness — It 'was
evident to the leaders of the Jews
that they had no evidence against
Jesus. There' was none for his ar-
rest to say nothing of his execu-
tion. One would expeot to see the
chief .priests sitting quietly to hear
the evidence which the accusers .of
Jesus would have to present
against him ; for they were a court
Of law sitting as judges. However,
not only they, but the whole coun-
cil, sought ,false witness against
Jesus. Imagine these men stepping
down' from their high places and
without dignity going about among
the spectators trying to secure evi-
dence against Jesus. As they brib-
ed Judas to betray Jesus, they
would not stop ab paying for any
kind of incriminating evidence.
60, 61. They found it nob, though
many false 'witnesses came — None
were able to falsify plausibly.
Afterward, when the chief priests
and elders and all the council were
at their wits end to find some sort
of evidence against Jesus, casae two
and said, How long they had to be
labored with to trurm> up testimony
and what inducements were made
them we do nob know. But the
temptation to imagine The worab is
great.
61. This man said --The most the
two false 'witnesses could adduec
seas a suppoeed etabement, which
even the high priest and scribes
saw immediately was nob material
or relevant. They also saw„ doubt-
less, that the destruction of the
temple and ibs rebuilding in three
days 'had a spiritual as well as a
facbual interpretation, and that if
they pressed this testimony against
Jesus, and he shoubcl say he had re•
ference to the spiritual temple, he
would thereby make complete an-
swer to the charge and clear him-
self,
69. Jesus sew the .predicament of
the high priesb, :Che latter stood up,
Ho could not remain seated. He
must make something oiit of this
testimony or the crowd would see
his discomfiture. Answerest thou
nothing ?Little hope Was: to make
Jesus incriminate 'himself. What
is ib which these • witness against
thee1--He knew that the testimony
Will CH 'TWIN?
An Englishman Eulogizes the Irish
Peasant Lover,
adTephet Iiearaxeainn gisatlndradcutriosindly Nano
tonguet•ean equal his in varied and
pw,tureeque denumenciatlon of an
enemy; none can ;so irresistibly
wheedle a eweisbheart. True, the'
English of en earlier generation,
crude and tongue-tied lovers who
never kissed the Blarney stone,
were wont to proclaim the Irish-
man as fickle as he was fascinating.
But that ancient calumny scarcely
survives to -day; it is an English-
man, Mr. E. K. Oakley, who in a
recent article an "Irish Court
ships,' eulogizes appreciatingly the
superiority of the Irish peasant
lover, with his play of wit and fan-
cy, in comparison with the stolid
stupidity of the English rustic
wooer, or the cheap sophistication
of the cockney'Arry and'Arriet.
Even in the disconcerting mo-
ment of rejection, the Irishman re-
tires with grace --sometimes with a
grace that terns defeat to victory.
Through a hawthorn hedge in May,
Mr. Oakley had 'the eavesdropper's
guilty pleasure of overhearing an
idyl in the lane on the farther side.
Maureen had evidently just said ne
to Shaun.
"(Visine, thin, if it must be it
must, and if ye won't ye won't," he
mourned, "'but, och, Maureen
+acushla, why wasn't ye born twins,
so that I cud have bad the half of
ye?" •
"And if it's twine I was, ye cud
that," conceded Maureen, sympa-
thetically, "for river wud the one
of me be giving ye the go-by, ex-
eipt for Ti'msy Flaherty that's com-
ing back the week with expecta-
tions, as well ye know." -
"Tahrue for ye, thin, it's on'y the
half of twins ye are 1" sighed
Shaun. "'Twos by the will of
hivin, and ye'd nothin' to do wid
the mabther; but, Maureen, asthore,
tis
yersilf and not hivin has the
deciding which twin ye'll be.L'ave
Timsy expict his expictations fr'sn
tether wan, and thin Pave yersilf
spake a worrd to me, wid the sound
there'd be in it if Timsy was out of
it intirely."
"It wid still be no,"protested
Maureen, but not very strenuously.
"No, l'ave it be, and as many
more noes of the same pattherzn as
ye can lay yer •swate tongue to,"
agreed Shaun, "for 'tis 'a man wid
square ears on him wud 'be .able to
be sure they was not yes. I am
roti"
His ingenuity and persistency had
their reward, and the eavesdreipper
escaped during the ecstatic flurry
consequent upon Maureen's surren-
der.
"I could not regret the experi-
ence," Mr. Oakley concludes, "but
I felt myself treated not quite fair-
ly by a fate that confided so much,
yet withheld the rest. I never
learned how complaisant or other-
wise Shaun's rival proved in the
matter of transferring his `expiota-
tione' to the non-existent twin.
Poor Timsy 1"
was worthless. His question, 'how-
ever, might lead the onlookers to
place some weight upon the charge
made against Jesus.
03. But Jesus held his peace —
There was no reason why Jesus
should speak, The high ,priest knew
this as well. as Jesus, He, there-
fore, turns to Jesus with a question
which had nothing whatever to do
with tale testimony of the false wit-
ness. I adjure: thee by the living
God It was not lawful for the Jew
to take an oath, But the extremity
of the 'high priest was great. That
thou tell us -whebher thou art the
'Christ, the Son of God It was on
this charge that Jesus was, to be
executed. As no testimony could
be trumped up on this point, the
high priest himself takes the in-
itiative
64. Thou 'hast said --These words
indicate an affirmation of the high
priesb's question ej ..T,het;e was no
need for Jests to'say anybhing fur-
ther. B'u't lie did not want to leave
anyone in doubt as to his claims.
Therefore he adds, nevertheless (al-
though you have stated the fact) I
(also) say'unto you, Henceforth ye
shall see (me) the' Son of znan sitting
at the right hand of Power, and
coming on the clouds of heaven.
65. (tent his garments—The plu-
ral is used in the original text be-
cause •according to the eabbinical
rule all of the garments, the nether
as well as the upper, were to be
torn. This was the proper sign fax
holy men to show that they were
shocked at (blasphemy. He habh
spoken blasphemy—Note now that
the evidence which is to .be used
against Jesus comes from the mis-
interpretation by the high priest
of the 'words Jesus spoke. Well
might he say, What further need
have we of witnesses? 'These words
indicate that all of the false wit
nesses, even the two who caane at
last, could bring nothing valid
against Jesus.. There was still fur-
ther need of witnesses. But now
that there was opportunity bo mis-
construe Jesus's words and turn
them back upon himself, the leaders
could discontinue their •search for
witnesses. What a relief this must
have been for them l
66. What think ye? -01 course
the high -priest would 'turn to the
crowd. He would play upon the
sympabhiee, and arouse the pre-
judices of the onlookers. But one
is warr.aeted in asking; Was' the
crowd or bhe :Sanhedrin to try and
condemn Jesus? They answered
and said, He is worthy of death —
The high priest could safely eountt
on the crowd, He had humored ib
and touched its vanity by his direct
question. The penalt of blasphemy
was death (Lev. 24. 16) and also of
being a false prophet (Dent. 18.90).
67. Then did they spit in his face
-How often are prisoners treated
with indignity! Buffet hinn—:Stiiuek
him onthe neck with the hollow of
the hand to make a noise. :Smote
him means they strnck hien in the
face. The leaders of the church
doubtless felt safe when they had
the crowd with ?them. They were
perfectly ready, it seems, to let
Jesus he subjected to all sorts of
raillery and indignity.
3i
Willis—"Pnbting a pin in apes••
son's chair is an old jukce•" Wal-
latce-•-"Yes; 'blit it hasn't lost: its
point yet !"
i' another tallcin
Walter found his utem g
to. a, portly •lady, ,, Walter, said
Ma, his a, "this is your ,great aunt.
"Yes," said. Walter, looking at:bhe
lady's ample proportions, "elle
looks like ib I"
GENERAL PAU'S 1lot'ND.
Letter Ile Wrote Ills Mother When
Ile Lori (held 'itr_1876.
(len, Paul Gerald Pau, here of
the second capture of Mulhausen,
whose 'ar'nry Inas boine mut of the
biggest parte in the war, lose h]s
right arm in the battle of Worth in
1870. His announcement of the
feet to his rotifer, a few days after
the battle, is ern -gained in the fol-
lowing letter, wlibh has jest been
made .pule,&•' :
"My good mother : As I' don't
know if any of "the letters that I.
have written to you have arrived,
or, rather, since I have strong rear
sons for believing that none of them
have reached you, while this time,
1 may hope that you will be able to
zee my autograph, I em going to re-
late my adventures a1 length.
"Fft st of all, the originality of
the preceding r even lines must ]cad
you to think that they were traced
by a loot instead of a hand. Unde-
ceive yourself and laugh neither att
the first efforts of an unpractised
hand, nor at the style. Besides the
fact ?that I speak almost exclusively
German just now, I swear that ele-
gant phrases don't flew easily when
it takes five minutes tc ,brace a ,line.
"But I am forgetting th'it I
haven't told you the main thing.
I azo wounded, but you see not dan-
gerously. It was the 6th of August
in the battle. of Worth. I had had
up to that time the luck not to be
!touched; in the midst of a rain of
iron and lead, when a shell smashed
a tree near me, 'and a splinter
sbruek me on the right hand and
put two fingers hors de combat. An
hour afterwards I regretted much
the loss of the above-mentioned
digits because a Bavarian bullet
fractured the same hand and lodged
itself between the taw bones of my
wrist, frown which I delicately ex-
tracted it. I was then ordered to
the ambulance, and it 'was while I
dragged myself along iv that direc-
tion, obliged to pass under the fire
of the Prussian batteries, that I
received a fragment of a shell in
my right thigh.
"Unnecessary for me to tell you
that all is quite well with me. It is
true that they had to amputate my
wrist, b nt the operation was Highly
suocessful. How could it be other-
wise? I azo with the. best folk in
the world; nursed like a 'child off
the family; visits, sack more affec-
tionabe than the last, I don't lack.
"Enough of ;myself. I needn't
tell you that I 'anie'nxious for both
our poor Lorraine and our poor
France. Shall I be a long while
before I can fly towards Nancy,
`trailing a wing and dragging a
foot?' It is Lafontaine who gives
the answer.
"In 'the maamtim;e a thousand
kisses. and hoping to see you soon.
"GERALD:"
CITY OF SAD WOMEN.
•
War Supreme Test of Women's
Affection.
Berlin is a city, of staddened wo-
men, rich and poor, young and old,
all know the great sorrow of war.
Edith D,onnerberg Duntaew, who
has just .arrived in Washington
from that •.brioken city, said: "Be -
fors I escaped from Berlin I saw
sights that will stay in m.1' heart
forever. The city is full of women
who force their lips to a patriotism
their souls reject. I have seen
scores of girls who monied ?their
soldier sweethearts tem minutes af-
ter the first call to war, and found
(their naives in the list of killed
within a week thereafter. Some-
thing sadder still is when the
soldier - sweetheart -husband e'omtes
black from the battlefield maimed,
and crushed. 041, these are the.ter-
rible testa! I have watched holspi-
rtal scenes, dramatic enough, hagse
enough, to build a hundred play
houses upon, I have seen girls
rush out, bring back a priest and
go through her marriage ceremony
right there, while. the poor, shat-
tered creature on the cot wspb, half
in protest at the sweetheart's sac-
rifice, half in grateful joy." And
she continued slowly, "I have seen.
the other side; when the girl could'
not when >
accept her gruel fate; 'her.
P fete;
spoil:, crumpled under the test;
when she turned away from the
maimed form, unable to endure
what fate required of her. War is
wouuan's supren Best ?test in every
way. I patsy the woanen of Aineeiioa
may never bo -called upon to endure
such anguish as their ,sisters cif Eu-
rope are bearing tto-clay,,r
d,
Raev'potato juice as a cleaner? It
will remove stains from the hands
and also .from woollen :fabrics.
7't was s raininghard one Sunday,
and the little boy asked ;his mother
if they weren't going to Sundae:
School. ".No, not to -day, dear,'
she answered ; "it's too muddy and
it's raining too hard." "Well,
mamma," wild the little Puritan,
"1t was raining yesterday and we
word to• the circus., The mother
immediately 'made preparations to
go.
.d.
WOUND S OFTEN TRIVIAL.
Many Soldier. Who Are Shot Re-
cover in u Short; Time.
NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT THE SVESTERN PEOPLE
ARE DO IN
Progress. sI_tho (]reit! Mat. Toll?
in a Few Pointed
l'aragrailhs•
Victoria may r'eduoe its staff of
civic. employes.
An American Aid Society has
been organized in Victoria to ,aosist
in the alleviation of war. distress.
An incsndiarist was the cause of
a fire which 'destroyed eleven houses
at ]vlichel, B.C., a week ago,
Appledale, B.C., reed/ten have
asked the Government to int'esti-
gape food prices that are 'being
cl?n.rged.
W. J. Taylor, KC, of Victoria, -
•
preserrted eaghteeii thorourglnlbred
saddle horses to the British Colum-
bia cavalry.
Athletic clubs in Vancouver are
forming companies from their mem-
benships for the "Home Guard"
regiment.
A company of 92 young Britis:hters
from various parts of the Western
States have enlieted with a Victoria
regiment. •
Vancouver Inas placed itself on a
sound financial Sooting again by the
prompt payment of nearly $9,s00,-
000 in taxes.
As the New Westminster City
Council is unable to render finan-
cial aid, 'the local Y.M.'O.A. will
have to elo:ee its doors.
Each suiburb of Vancouver is
forming a battalion of soldiers and
all will unite as the Vancouver Vol-
unteer Reserves.
A Japanese ?bythe name of Kongi
Takaki, attempted to commit hari-
kari in the Btudhi'et Temple in Van-
couver last week.
The pulmotor as a means of life-
saving has just been introduced to
Victoria through the Furthest: of
one by the local fire brigade.
Fifty trained cavalrymen from
Vancouver may form the first act-
ual squad of 'Canadian soldiers to
go to London and reach the front.
Victoria has not decided union her •
plans for raising a relief or patriotic
fund yet, The Mayor announced
that action will be taken shortly.
Memlbees of the Victoria Po'l'ice
Force have offered to .contribute
one day's pay per month to the
pfund for supporting 'soldiers' de -
The
The Grand Trunk Pacific steamer
Prince Albeit has been salvaged
from the rooks outside Prince Ru-
pert, after many •unsueceslsful at-
tempts.
Victoria lsotelkeepens Have raised
the price of liquor, but not nearly
to the point they were expected to.
Prices are now double of 'those in
Ontario.
It is .proposed to establish a mili-
tary prison at Nanaimo far the cus-
tody of prisoners of war, of whom
Vancouver Police' have seventeenal-
ready.
The Harrison liner, Clown of Se-
ville, in dock at Vancouver, made
a :record Alf sailing from Glasgow ,to
Portland, Ore., ground 'Oape Horn,
in sixty-five days.
Five hundred dollars. was 'voted '
by the Victoria Council to the Local
Council of Women for the purpose
of arranging work for unemployed
women and girls.
New Wesltsninster civic employes
are contributing 3 percent. of their
monthly salary to the War. Relief
Fuad. This will amount to about;
$300 a month.
The ?whaling season this year on
the Pacific coast has been much bet-
ter than last year. Two ships arriv-
ed at Queen 'Oharlobte I'slande with
oil from 123 mammals.
A professional gambler entered
Vancouver with $3,000, inte•adingto
increase his fortune. It took the lo-
cal talent of tains •city one week to.
relieve him of his cash.
Two Hindus were arrested in Vic-
toria, last week by the ,police for
leaving in their possession a bomb.
Much trouble 31 being experienced
with the Eaeit - Indians in British
Columbia..
Lord Kitchene,r walked into one
of the hospitals in London the other
dray eo visit the wounded soldiers
returned from ,the front. He stop-
ped by one anan'sl bed.
"Where iverne you hurt, my
man?" he -asked.
"Sabre cut, sir," said the chap
under covers, trying .to. 'salute. "On.
my leg, sir."
'Sorry," said Kitchener. "Hurry
up and get well."
The nurse spoke up,
"He lease bullet hole through his
shoulder, sir," said she. "He did-
e't say anything about ?bleat."
"Quite right," sand Kitchener.
"A bullet doesn't amount to mnuch.
I carried once myself for three
years."
A bullet 'doesn't amount to. much
in this war, either, Broadly speak-
ing, 31 either kills the man or puts
him on the 'lisb far a rather
short time. The same thing has
been reported in every modern war.
The slender., high power bullet of
to -day may not even 'take n man out
of the firing line,
"I know of one- man," said an
aa'my surgeon, "who, seas hit three
times in six days, Bash bullet out
through the flesh of an arm, and lee
just tied up the hole and kept up
with his company. He took part in
every subsequent engagement until
a ball passed rthrougth the bone of
his leg , Then :he had to go to the
real•."
"Amputation 1"
"Nola at all. The bullet drilled a
clean hole through on
leg hone.
He should be back on the firing lime
in :anohhea' muse (th "
Far more remarkable eases arc
continually being reported. One
main vvas shot through the back of
;the head and foug+hb on ,all day.
He had co idea Inc had' been so tseri-
curly wounded, When he reportbed
to, the surgeon at night lie compllain-
ed that his head ached The vast
majority el ,those in the hospitals in
England suffering from bullet
Wounds will be in battle again. be-
fore the war ice over: Only the ad-
-nor canes, :as a rule, are brought
here The others are tat, the front.
This is not elle ease with grap-
nel, and so far as one can aster-
tain the majority of .the wounds sus-
tainecl by B.rntrsh soldisi's'.'wirc
nnede by bursting •shells. .
should,
en a
No, Maud, dear ; we
scarcely call sitting down
:bent pin a standing juke.
tell. Many • a man
You never aan t
builds emetics in the air who. can't
raise the wind,
('OMPARED) WITH BOER WAR.
One %1'ns "Marching," Other Is
"Fighting" A.]1 the Time.
The difference between the ,South
African •war and ;tide is that one
was marching and elle other is
fighting," says a corporal of the
Coldstream Gua>.sds, who, t having
been in both, is now in West Haan
(London) Hospital,,
"I have seen more fighting in, two
g g
weeks this buns;"' he added, "than
I did in two years in. South Afrkas,
and when I went to. join my yogi-
nue•et there were scores of dead ly-
ing by the roadside."
"One terrible steno," ardded there por.a•1, "wast when after a; battle
we collected ;the .woundted-•Germacce
and our own—and put them in a
big farnn. hoose. '.lure German gun;
gelled the phos card we ; got our
wounded cont first, The place caught
fire, and it wars awfel to hear the
cries of bbe German hountded and
the ecreannin of the cattle close by.
e g put 1'G c 'calci nob tit a red af'oss
i
fleg up; we had pot gots one,"
Gentleman -Is there any son + on
p
the bill of fare? Wititeir••-'here
was,sir,. but I wiped it' off.