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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-7-8, Page 7usewifts Cdornet Taking Care of Grocery Stock. With the advent of warmer wen- ther, when foodstuffe are likely to spoil quickly unless they reeelv,,e pro- per attention, many housekeepers will be interested in hints per the care of grocery stock recentl'issued by a wholesale grocers' excha ge to retail sons; use Much advice patrons; beta rh oi""rife quite as applicable to the home as to the store. • . All housekeepers understand the perishable character of eggs, butter, meat, fruit, etc., and the care neces- sary for their prevention; but many do not realize that groceries general- ly can deteriorate greatly through so simple an error as storage in the wrong place. Canned goods are the least perish- able of groceries. All that is neces- sary is to place them where they will be free from dampness and where the'air will circulate among the cans. Housewives are advised to buy cereals in package form and never more than a month's supply at a time. Two weeks' supply is better, 6111 cereals should ke kept in a cool, Had Family Prayers Every Day for the beads slip off, and much time wasted, If mahogany furniture looks cloudy put a little olive oil on a . soft cloth and rub it vigorously. This will give the furniture a beautiful soft polish. . Try coring large, solid apples and filling the cavities with bits of figs; stoned dates or any other fruit and see how delightfully flavored the ap- ples will be. The lower step of the back stairs may bo made into a handy tool box, having the top of the step put on a hinge like a lid, Everyone who uses the stairs, however, must be cafe- ful. To make a syrup for fruit bever- ages add three-quarters cup of sugar to three-quarters cup of boiling wa- ter, stir till dissolved, then boil 12 minutes without stirring, cool • and bottle. 3 LORD ROBERTS'S LETTER. dry place. They should not, be placed' near stoves or steam pipes -if these are in use. Dampness, too, must be avoided. As roasted coffee loses much of its flavor after being exposed to the air, the use of an air -tight receptacle is as necessary as in the case of ground coffee. Raisins and currants in.fact, all dried fruits lose much of their moisture when exposed to the air, becoming dry and hard. It is re- commended that these fruits, as well as figs, dates, candied fruit, cocoa and chocolate/be kept in a cool place and away from strong sunlight. 'Nuts in the shell demand a cool spot. Shelled nuts ate - extremely per- ishable. If exposed directly to the sun, the heat will draw out the oil and the nuts will become rancid. They must be kept almost air -tight. Olives need coolness, and olive oil must be protected against strong light and heat. Peanut butter should be kept away from the sun. When left on a shelf for some time the oil often separates from the mass of butter. When this occurs the jar. should be turned upside down, and the butter then will absorb the oil again. Pickles should be covered to keep, out a tiny insect called the vinegar fly. This fly willdeposit its ' eggs amongst pickles, causing a noticeable worminess in a few days. Tea deteriorates in either a heated or a damp place, through evaporation or absorption of moisture; therefore a cool place of even temperature should be selected for the tea caddy. Spices, having a tendency to weak- en with age, should be purchased in small quantities. Sugar will keep well in a dry place. It absorbs moisture quickly, and when this is dried out the sugar becomes very hard and lumpy -which is incon- venient and troublesome. Hintsforthe Housekeeper. Salt in whitewash makes it stick. Don't buy cheap bedding or your money will be wasted. Lemon juice is a powerful germi- cide, and rich in organic salts. Many vegetables can be canned as. easily as fruits for winter use. The good .housewife plans to les- sen her work during the summer time. The hea'y heads of cabbage are always the more solid and of finer texture. - Peas, beans and lentils are the most nutritious of alI vegetable sub- stances.• Little bits of left -over rice added to the griddle cakes will make them delicious. If the aluminum cooking utensils turn black, try boiling tomato par- ings in them and they will brighten. Ahvays choose a thin fish for broiling. The best are mackerel, bluefish, bass, trout, and fresh her- ring. Add 'a teaspoon of lard to the bat- ' Fifty-nine Years. When Lord Roberts, field marshal of the British army, died suddenly in Prance during his visit to the allied forces there, all England felt the shock of a great loss. Lord Roberts Wes an..old man, -he Wes long, since beyond the age for active service, - but he was of those who make the great moral bulwark of a country; the "whole empire missed him. At the session of the House of Lords when his fellow peers made public. recognition of Lord Roberts's services to his country, many fine tributes were paid to his memory, but one of the most significant was eetually in his own words -it was a part of the last letter that he himself had written to Lord Curzon of Kedle- ston. What do you suppose was the theme of the letter? Military poli- cies? Matters of state? The pro- gress of the terrible world struggle? The proper terms on which peace might be made? Here is the extract that Lord Cur- zon read in the House of Lords: "We have had family prayers for fifty-five year. Our chief reason is that. they bring the household toge- ther as nothing else can. It ensures servants and others • who may be in the house joining in prayers, which, for' one reason *,another, they may have omitted to say by themselves.. Since the war began we usually read a prayer like the inclosed, and when anything important has occurred,' I tell those present about it. In this way I have found that the servants take a great interest in what is going on in France. We have never given any orders about prayers.- Atten- dance is quite optional, but as a rule, all the servants, men and women, come regularly on hearing the bell ring." We hear it said constantly in these days .that there is no time for family prayers, yet this man, whose time was at least as fully occupied as that of anyone who could be named, 'and who carried all hislife burdens and responsibilities much greater than those of an ordinary, man, found the time for family prayers regularly every day for fifty-five years. We may be very sure that there are other reasons than lack of time for our peayerless homes. FROM SUNSET • COAST MUT 'i'IIii WESTERN I'I'lOPx E ARE ROIEG. ?mgr's, of the Gr'ent Wcat 'J'old In a Few Pointed Parilginplis, Dairymen of Creston have started an export business of some promise. Reports are arriving of, a new gold find near Klaskine Sound'on the. coast, - Eight men of the Daily News, Nel- son are in the Canadian war con- tingents. Lee Git, Chinaman, was given two years at Vancouver for burglary in a drug store. Kamloops has become a centre ,in the horse industry; many army re mounts go from there. The "second unit of the North Arm jetty at. New Westminster has been started, it will cost 400,000, • The tide of visitors going to San Francisco Exposition is flowing steadily through Vancouver. Ali Foot, Chinese, went to jail at Victoria for three months for sup- plying an Indian with drink. Owners of `electric sign advertise- ments in Vancouver must keep them lighted from dusk till 10 o'clock. 'Three hundred interned Germans and Austrians at Vernon will be sent to do roadwork near Arrow Lakes. Vancouver City has an overdraft of $1,500,000 and the bankers want bet- ter satisfaction on expenditures. Fire which threatened to wipe out Hope destroyed many newer frame built stores and did $35,000 damage. Steamboat traffic on the .Yukon opened at the end of May with the promise of greater business this year. Long Yne, one of the victims" of the defunct Bank of Vancouver, who was saving • to get back to China, suicided. Through tickets to Europe are now sold on the Pacific coast for all -water trips, via the Panama (lanai. The B.C. Consumers' League says $50,000 are sent out of the province daily that could be spent within its borders. The provincial government is try- ing to replace all enemy -alien miners. interned from Nanaimo, with British unemployed. Victoria Board of Trade wants the. Dominion to order the marking of each egg imported, with the country of 'its origin. Richmond has an organization called "Sister Susies" that will , pro- vide- depaiting soldiers with shirts and necessities. - Mayor Mitchell of New York visit- ed Victoria and Vancouver, Banff and Lake Louise on his ,way back home from San Francisco. The Trades and Labor Council of Victoria has established a register of mechanics ready to go to Britain to make war munitions. The British Columbia Government will employ relay gangs of unemploy- ed on a roadway in Burnaby; mar- ried men only will be aided. Prince George city council endorsed a site for the railway depot at the foot of George Street, the first action of the first council. When the Canadian -Australian liner Niagara came into Victoriaon her last trip she brought dozens of honeymooners from the Antipodes. The B.C. Government is trying to get the people to buy Victoria Island strawberries in preference to those imported from the United States. Soldiers of Fernie sought a lost Child at •Cbal Creek and after 'hours he was fou d asleep at the head of a mine; he '•vas the two-year-old son of William- rlett. S. Lyon k> ticked down a woma'h with his auto'ion a Vancouver street, She was unhurt and when picked up apologized to the autoist, saying it was her own fault. -1• Origin of the Victoria Cross. BIGGEST HOSPITAL. • .Accommodation Provided for at Least 1,650 Patients. In ordinary times the opening of London's biggest hospital would have been attended by some 'flourish of trumpets, says the London Chronicle, but in these days of war the new King George Hospital at Waterloo, which has more beds _under one roof than any similar institution in the United Kingdom, takes up its work without any fuss whatever. Yesterday (June 10) it reecived its first batch of wounded from the front, and by the end of the xveek 200 men ter before frying the cakes, and it will be under treatment there; but in will not be necessary to grease the its modesty the hospital shuns any griddle. In packing clothes it is most satis- factory to put the hats in big hat- boxes or a hat trunk, and send them by themselves. Before stoning raisins pour hot water on them for two or three min- utes; a simple squeeze will then eject the stones. Old hair brushes which have be- come soft can be made etuite hard and flrm by dipping them in a strong ablution of alum. Always take time to pen properly. the paper boxes in which crackers, etc., come. Otherwise moisture will get in and injure the food. If you find the luncheon you have provided meagre, add to it a glass of milk for each person, and you have provided much more nutriment. Fruit or vegetables which have a short season should be served sim- ply; corn and tomatoes should be Prepared in as many forme as, pos- sible. Bead work can be done much more quiekly if the needle' is dipped in wa- ter constantly. If the needle air-dry •mil, s of wire, notice, and "The Daily Chronicle" was told yesterday that by War Office in- structions no 'information whatever was available for, press. or public. But as appeals are being made through the press to the public for gifts for the furnishing of the hospi- tal and the welfare of ,the inmates, some little interest may pe permitted, The hospital occupies the building in Stamford street which was being erected for the Government Station- ery Office, and its six floors when fully equipped will accommodate 1,650 patients. At present only the fourth and fifth floors, are in use, but the completion of the other is being mashed forward with all speed. Two operating theatres are to•. be provided on each floor; there are to be recreation rooms- and a roof gar- den, and some idea of the size of the building can be realized by the fact, which has leaked out, that 205 tons of asbestos sheeting have been 'used in partitions, together with over 46,000 square feet of glass, and that the 3,360 electric lamps have utilized 55. { ( VEER MARIIIA,GI ,CUSTOMS In Many Lands Ceremonial of Wed* ding Sees a Little Odd. In Siam all the guests must bring presents. Presents are exchanged between- the bride and bridegroom 00 the even- ing before an Armenian wedding Swedish brides used to receive from their friends a pig, sheep or cow, and from the bridegroom a colt, dog, cat Or goose, The mustom of sticking coins on. the bridegroom's forehead is coin• mon to several Eastern races, among others . to the Tureemans and Moore of West • I3arbary. Among the .early Germans money was given to the bride's relatives on the wedding day, but this usage was not followed if the marriage happen- ed to be an unequal one. Every guest at a Norwegian wed- ding used to bring the bride a pre- sent. In many parts a keg of butter was the usual gift, and if the mar- riage took place in winter, salted or frozen meat was offered. With modern Arabians the bride- groom makes the bride presents, which are sent a day or two before the nuptials. As soon as the bride reaches the bridegroom's house she makes him presents of household furniture, a spear and a tent. In Persia the bridegroom is obliged to give a certain sum of money in addition to . other presents. If he is in moderate circumstances he gives his bride two complete dresses, a ring and a mirror. He also suplies the. furniture, carpets, mats, culinary utensils and other necessaries for their home. With the Celestials the family of the bridegroom makes presents to the family of the .bride of various articles a few days before the day fixed for the marriage. The presents generally consist of food, a cock and hen, the leg and foot of a pig, the leg of a goat, eight small cakes of bread, eight torches, three pairs of large red candles, a quantity of vermicelli and several bunches of firecrackers. d• The King's Adviser. It was the fifth Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for ,War, with whom the idea of the Victoria Cross originated. The Duke referred to the matter hi a letter to the Prince. Con- sort in January, 1855, but before the decoration had been instituted by Royal Warrant popular clamor had driven the . Duke from office, and it was Lord Panmure who submitted the first specimens of the Cross for approval by Queen Victoria. Her Majesty noted that the words of the original motto, "For the Brave," might lead people to infer that only those soldiers and sailors were brave who received the Cross, and she sug- gested the present words, `For Val- our," instead. The Queen also thought that the wearers of the Vic- toria Cross might be allowed to bear some distinctive mark after their names, "V,C." Her Majesty thought would not do. "K.G." meant a Knight of the Garter, and "M.P." a member of Parliament, a person be- ing designated, but one could not be called "a Victoria dross." "D.V.C." ("decorated with Victoria Cross"), or B.V.C." ("bearer el Victoria Cross.") might do. "The Queen thinks the last best." Posterity has thought V.C. better still, Romantic Guest. "Delightfully sylvan scene," gush- ed the artist. "Aid yon fair nymph -is she hunting feu „arbutus or the anemone?" "For potato bugs," explained the fernier briefly. King Charles XII. of Sweden, who came to the throne at the early age of fifteen, went out riding one time in company with his cousin, the Duke of Holstein, and a few other gentle- man of the court. On the way they came upon a pile of timber standing by the roadside: The Duke of Hol- stein suggested to the King that the company try their skill by riding over the pile on their horses. Charles as- sented, and insisted on being the first to go over. But just as he was about to dig his spurs' into his horse, tells Das Buch fur Alle, Count Wacht- meister seized the bridle and said to the King, "Dont you .try to ride over that!" The Duke of Holstein became an- gry. "How dare you cross the wish of the King!" he exclaimed. Calmly Wachtmeister answered, "Say what you will, my King shall not do it." Holstein the reined up to him and replied wrathfully, "You do not seem to know with whom you are speak- ing." "Oh, yes," said the other, laughing scornfully, "I am speaking with the Duke of Holstein. But will you kind- ly recall that you are , addressing Count Wachtmeister, the Royal Ad- viser. And as I said before, my King shall not: break his neck by such a wild and dangerous- jump. Perhaps you were thinking of becoming the King of Sweden in that event. But you won't so long as Hans Wache- meister lives." Just then th eyoung King, who was standing by listening to the discus- sion, rode up to his adviser, and tap, ping him on the shoulder approving- ly, said to the company, "No, gentle- men, I guess we won't jump that pile. It is a bit dangerous." And with that they continued on their way in si- lence.. M . Core of Milk Bottles and Utensils. Milk bottles are made for milk, and not to hold sundry other foods. As soon as the milk bottle is empty it should be rinsed with lukewarm water until it is clean, and then set bottom - side -up to drain. Bottles should never be returned in a dirty or filthy condi- tion. All utensils with which milk comes in contact should be rinsed, washed, and scalded every time they are used. When cleaning these uten- sils do not wash them in dish water or wipe with ordinary dish .towels. First, rinse them and then boil in clear water and set away unwiped. If the receptacles are hot, they will soon become dry without wiping. When a baby is bottle-fed, every time the feeding bottle and nipple are used they should be rinsed in luke- warm water, washed in hot water to which a small amount of washing soda has been added, and then scalded. Never use a rubber tube between the bottle and nipple. BRIG.-GOONERAI, I1. 11. BIM - STALL, C. B., of the Canadian Divisional Staff In France, has been made a Com- panion of the Order of the Bath an recognition of his services. General Borstal]. was commander of the Royal Canadian Artillery at Quebec before the war, and was recently given the temporary rank of Brigadier -General. THE' SUNDAY SCHOOL ANTI -GERMAN RIOTS. Did Untold -Injury Not to the Ger- . mans, But the British People. Prof. A. V. Dicey, K.C:, the great authority on Constitutional Law, in a letter to the London Spectator, re- bukes the recent outbreak of mob law against, Germans in Great Britain. "The recent menace to the lives, and more often the destruction of the property, of Germans, or 'of persons who happen to bear German navies, read us one lesson," he says. "We must tolerate no more mob law. The. authors of .the recent riots are all of them fools. A few of them are thieves. Allow me to recapitulate the untold injury which these men have already inflicted upon the country: "(1) The rioters have comforted Germany. They have deprived Eng- land of that visible calmness which is the source of half her strength. Every German will now believe that England is panic-struck. "(2) The rioters have made it ap- pear, false though the impression be, that the Government, in guarding against the real danger to the coun- try which may arise from the acts of German criminals and traitors, is act- ing in obedience to the commands of the mob. "(3) The rioters, as the very stu- pidest o fthem must now perceive, keep at home for the preservation of order British soldiers who long to be employed in driving the enemies of humanity from France and Belgium. "(4) The rioters, or the best of them, dream that in wrecking the property and menacing the lives of Germans, they are doing a work of justice. No delusion is sillier or leads to more odious wrongdoing. A mob can never perform the duties of a judge; it ought never to be allow- ed to play the part of an executioner. "(5) The rioters will in their sober moments maintain that they have hurried on just legislation. This alle- gation is essentially futile. Hurry is never the companion or the servant of justice. The very argument, on which some apologists for popular violence may rely, throws a ground- less slur upon the Parliament of Eng- land." THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. The first duty of a man is still that of subduing fear. -Carlyle. - Some people seem to think that Death is the only reality in life. - Hare. • To strive with difficulties and to done. This also would draw the faith - 'conquer them is' the highest human ful followers of David to the support felicity. -Johnson. of Solomon and cut short any show A man may live in dreams and yet I of armea rebellion by Adonijah. Ab- be unprepared for-their_realization.- salom had used the trumpets when he R. L: Stevenson. was made king (2 Sam. 15. 10). They When it comes to the point really are mentioned again at the proclama- bad men are just as rare as really,tion of Jehu. (2 Kings 9. 13) ,end of good men. -Bernard Shaw. Joash (2 Kings 11. 14). It is a great step in the interprc- I 35. Prince over Israel - A title tation of life when we have discover -given by.Jehovah to those who were ed that all events are ultimately spiri- to lead his people (1 Sam. 9. 16; 10. rust.-Brierly. 1; 2.5 80; 2 Kings 20. 5; 2 .Chron. 11. Getting money is not all a man's 22). The greatest of all Jehovah's leaders was to be "Messiah," the Prince (Dan. 9. 25), or "the Anointed One." 36. Amen -That is, "so let it be," but only as Jehovah should say so too /see Jer. 28. 6). However Da- vid's servants might wish David's de- sire to be fulfilled, it could come to pass only as Jehovah willed. 37. Make his throne greater -This would please David, rather than dis- please him. (See verse 47; 1 Chron. 17. 11-27. For the fulfillment of this desire, 1 Kings 10; 2 Chron. 9.) II. The Anointing (Verses 38-40). INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 11. Lesson IL -Solomon Anointed King.. 1 Kings 1. 1 to 2. 12. .Golden Text: 1 Chron. 28, 9. I. Solomon Chosen to Be Ring (Verses 28-37), Verse 28. Call to. me Bath-sheba-, Bath-shoba, on the advice of Nathan, had gone in to David to tell him that he, David, had promised her that Sol- omon should be king (verses 11-14, 15-21; see also 1 Chron, 22. 9-18). 29. As Jehovah liveth-The com- mon form of oath among the Israel- ites (Judg. 8. 19; Ruth 3. 13; 1 Sam. 14. 80; 19. 6; 28. 10). The prophets looked upon it as the established form of oath (Jer. 4. 2; 5. 2; Hos. 4. 15). 30. As I aware into thee -Whether David had actually made such ad oath is not clear. In verse 13, Nathan tells Bath-sheba to say to David that he had so promised her, and in verse 17 Bath-sheba makes such a statement to David. But nowhere do we find David (except here in verse 80) mak- ing such a statement to Bath-sheba. At any rate, David, although stricken in years, was sufficiently self-possess- ed to see that the only thing to do was to crown Solomon king. 31. With her face to the earth -In verse 16 she bowed to David, as was usual in approaching the king; here she makes a deeper obeisance in re- cognition of the favor shown her by the king. In the tablets from Baby- lonia and Assyria - the ambassadors before a king are represented with their facesactually touching the ground. Live Forever -Oriental exaggera- tion (see Dan. 2. 4; 3. 9; 5. 10; 6. 21; Neh. 2. 3). Bath-sheba, however, im- plied that in Solomon and his succes- sion David would live forever. 32. Call to me -The priest, the prophet, and the captain of the body- guard were called' to show the people that the proceeding had the king's sanction, and that Solomon, not Ado- nijah, was the chosen successor. 33. The servants of your lord- Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was captain of the Cherethites and Pele- thites (2 Sam. 8. 18; see also 1 Kings 1. 38), who formed the royal body- guard (see also 2 Sam. 15. 18; 20. 6, 7). A large body of armed men, evidently, was to accompany the priest, the prophet, and Solomon. Mine own mule -Mules and horses seem to have been used by the Israel- ites for the first time in the reign of David. Mules were used especially by the king's household (see 2 Sam. 13. 29; 18. 9). To ride on the king's mule was a special mark of distinc- tion. For a similar Oriental custom see en. 41. 43; also 2 Kings 10. 16. Bring Him Down to Gihon-Gihon was probably in the valley of Jehosa- phat, on the southeast of Jerusalem (see Chron. 32. 30; 33. 14). The pool of Siloam was near by. In verse 9 we read that Adonijah chose En- Rogel (a pool of water) as his place of mustering. Each party could see the other from their respective meet- ing places. That a pool of water was chosen by each leads to the thought of purification as a part of the anoint- ing. 34. Anoint him there -For other instances of kinglyanointing see 1 Sam. 10. 1; 16. 13; 1 Kings 19. 16; 2 Kings 9. 3, 6; 2 Chron. 23.11; see also Jotham's parable, Judg. 9. 9. Blow ye the trumpet -To attract Adonijah's patry at En-Rogel so that they should understand what had been FROM OLD SCOTLAND business. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. -Dr. Johnston. Life never seems so clear and easy as when the heart is beating faster at the sight of some generous, self - risking deedGeo. Eliot. I do not say we ought to`be happier as we grow older, but we ought to be calmer, knowing better what life is, and looking forward to another, which we believe to be a reality, though we cannot tell what it means. --Jowett. Definition of a Term. "What is meant by the lap of lux- ury?" asked a teacher of a class of little girls. • "Please ma'am d know," exclaim- ed the smallest of the lot, holding up NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER RANKS AND T3RAE,S, What Is Going. All in the highlands and Lowlands 'of Auld Scotia, The Earl of Erroll,. Lord High Con- stable of Scotland, has been Appoint- ed a temporary brigadier -general. Alexandra Day has resulted in $11,. 250 being collected for the Glasgow Royal .Hospital for Sick Children. Motherwell has been prevailed upon to postpone the establishment of its. new police force until the end of the war. A dozen special constables have been recruited from the ranks of the Bo'ness Citizen Volunteer Training Corps. The tuberculosis reception -house at Rothesay to be under the joint man- agement of burgh and county, has been approved. The Master Bakers' Association of Glasgow at a meeting agreed to ad- vance the price of the 2 -pound loaf by half a cent. The Paisley and District Tram- ways Company have arranged to em- ploy women conductors in connec- tion with their tramway service. The warehouses of the Orchard Sugar Refinery, Greenock, have. been totally destroyed by fire. The dam- age is estimated at fully 5100,000. Two postwomen have been appoint- ed temporarily in Stirling to per- form the duties of men who have given their services to the army. Extreme difficulty has been had in Lumsden, in getting the crops worked this season, and several had dot a furrow drawn the first week in May. e:The Masonic Grand Lodge of Scot- land has resolved to present a motor ambulance to the Scottish branch of the Red Cross Soeiety, at a cost of $2,250. The Mediterranean list includes among the wounded Sub -Lieut. Lord Loughborough, R.N.V.R., armored car division, eldest son of the Earl of Roselyn. Captain William Russell, 1st bat- talion, 5th Royal Scots, only son of Mr. James Russell, Edinburgh, was killed in action on May 5, at the Dardanelles. Nearly 500 women in Aberdeen and district have enrolled themselves on the "war register" at the Aberdeen Labor Exchange, and others continue to conte forward. The course of the river Doon at Dalmellington Iron Works is now being altered to the extent of near- ly half a mile, to give space for emptying the slag. An interesting ceremony took place at Perth recently when two motor ambulances were presented to the Scottish branch of the British Red Cross Society. It is announced that the British Government intends to assume con- trol of public houses in munition areas, the Clyde district being one of the specified districts. Lord Provost Dunlop, in response to an appeal by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, has opened a fund in Glasgow for the relief of suffers by the Lusitania disaster. Motor vehicles are now utilized for the conveyance of the greater part of the mail traffic in Glasgow. The parcel collection throughout the city and suburbs are also made by motor Ni, At a special meeting of Greenock • Corporation it was decided to invite tenders for the erection of 150 dwell- ing houses to be built on the site in Roxborough Street acquired by them. One of the best-known Mutiny and Crimean veterans in the Highlands has passed away at Inverness in the person of Sergt. George Gunn, form- erly of the Royal Artillery, at the age of 80 years. There are now about 60 lady con- ductors on the Glasgow cars and, in addition, another 50 ladies are in training. It is stated that 50 addi- tional women will be trained each week until all the vacancies have been filled. At a quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, held in Edinburgh, a letter was intimated from the Masonic War Relief Com- mittee of the United States, offer- ing assistance to Freemasons and their families suffering owing to the ( 39. Horn of oil -For the composi- tion of the holy oil see Exod. 30. 23- 25. This was part of the regular If a case of typhoid fever, scarlet equipment' of the tabernacle (Exod. fever or diphtheria breaks out in theher hand. 31. 11; 39. 38). family, do not return any bottles to elven, what is it, dear?" enquired Out of the tent - Or tabernacle, the,:'milkman except with the know- the teacher, kindly. made by David for the ark of -the ledge of the attending physician,and "It's when the cat steals into the covenant on Mount Zion (2 Sam. 6. ander the conditions prescribed by larder and licks the cream off the 17)'. him. milk," responded the little one. 40. Piped with pipes -Instruments & And the teacher, on, reflection, used on one occasion by a company of Music in the Barn. wasn'tq uite sure that her pupil was prophets (1 Sam. 10,' 5,). The music They claim that animals like mirth, wrong. And likewise merriment, That melody has lots of worth In keeping them content. They say that music cheers a cow, We promptly took the cue, 1'ut in a gramophone, and now Our milk is never blue, How He Got the Joh. "Why did yon leave the last.pinoe Very Peculiar. you had ? ", "I didn'tleave it, I was fired," "Anything peculiar about the ac - "That so? Then I'll hire you. I cident?" think it would be a joy to have a "Yes, indeed. Each auto driver man as honest as you around hero." admits that he was to blame." of the prophets was especially appro- priate to usher in the reign of Solo- mon. war. Mr. Thomas Lugton, curator of the People's Palace, Glasgow, has died in the Royal Infirnmaxy, as the result of having been knocked down by a tramway car, while crossing Duke Street on April 30th. Mr. Lugton, who was 60 years of age, was born in Kelso. 4+ Cause for Congratulation. Employer -Mr. Quill, when you came in this morning I detected the odor of liquor about you. Clerk -That's fine, sir! Shows how very much better your cold is, sir. A farmer wrote to the editor of an agricultural ,paper as follows: -"I have a horse that has been afflicted for the past year with periodical fits • of dizziness. Please let me know what I should do with him, as he, seems to get worse instead of better. I am afraid he will be unfit for work if something is not done soon," . In the next issue this answer appeared: .. "When the nag is looking alt right, sell him to some one."