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Many Uses for Peppers.
When we say peppers, do we think
of the green shiny pod as a possibility
for delicious pickles, used only ab one
season of the year, or do we think of
a vegetable which can appear on our
tables more frequently?
It is from the hot countries, par-
ticularly Italy and Mexico, that the
more northern housewife is learning
their possibilities. In the first place,
all members of the pepper family are
distinguished by excellent stomachic
qualitiee and natural pungency, which
is good for increasing the flow of gas-
tric juice and in general, "toning up."
Another point in favor of the pep-
per is that it can be used both raw or.
cooked. As an addition to salad, it is
constantly growing in favor, owing
not only to its delicate flavor, but its
attractive color and the possibilities
which it presents to the salad -maker's
knife or scissors. Many an other-
wise unattractive salad can be made
different by the addition of strips, sec-
tions or chopped pieces of pepper.
Pepper combines well with sweat
fruits, such as oranges or pineapple,
and also with cabbage and tomato.
As a container for other salads, the
pepper pod takes rank with the toma-
to cup. The lower end may be cut off
neatly, the edges decorated, and this
cup be filled with other mixtures in
which the pepper pod itself need not
be eaten.
In cooked dishes there are many
ways of using left -over peppers.
There is no limit to the number of
stuffed dishes which can be made. For
all of these it is better to parboiic the
pepper in boiling water for two or
three minutes after having removed
the seeds and stem,
The pod may be filled with mixtures
of cooked rice, breadcrumhs, ham,
cold mutton, tomatoes, etc. The pep-
pers should then be laid in a casserole
or baking dish, partially covered with
stock, tomato sauce or enough butter
to make a slight juice, so that when
baked the dish will be not too dry.
Another mode of using peppers is bo
slice and fry them as an accompani-
ment to steak, or the peppers may be
fried and- then creamed, A most de-
licate flavor is given to ordinary vege-
table soups by adding a few strips of
green pepper.
Some one has said there is nothing
the matter with the flavor of any one
stew. The trouble isthat all stews
generally "taste alike."- This' cannot•
be said of the stew, hash or other
"made dish" in which pepper is the
flavor, for a combination of pepper
and tomato will make even the most
ordinary leftovers appetizing,
Chili Con Carne.—Two pounds low-
er round steak, three green sweet pep-
perpods, three cups of red kidney
beans, one clove of garlic, butter, salt
flour, one pint of strained tomato
stock. Remove stem and seeds from
peppers and cut into thin cross-sec-
tions. Cut steak in inch pieces and
saute in butter, Dust with flour, then
add the tomato stock and the peppers.
Simmer about two hours or until the
meat is very tender, adding more wa-
ter if necessary. When done, be
meat and sauce should blend together.
and the whole be well seasoned and
served hot. The cooked kidney beans
are added about the last half hour in
order to blend thoroughly with the
gravy, but each bean should be sepa-
rate.
Stuffed Baked Peppers.—Six green
sweet poppers, ono cup strained toma-
to sauce, half cup boiled rice, two
tablespoonfuls of butter, one table-
spoonful of chopped onion, half tea-
spoonful salt, two-thirds cupful moist
bread crumbs, half cupful of cold
minced meat, half cup of mushrooms,
paprika. 'Cut stem from peppers, re-
move seeds and parboil five minutes
in a quart of water to which has been
added one-eighth teaspoonful baking
soda. Melt butter and saute onion.
Add tomato sauce, rico and bread
crumbs, meat, mushrooms, Season
with salt and paprika, stuff pepper•
cases and set upright in baking dish.
Cover with buttered crumbs. Add
remaining half-eup of tomato sauce
with a little water and pour around
base. Bake slowly, basting with
sauce, for 80 minutes.
Things Good to Eat.
Giblet Sandwich.—If , there are
chicken giblets left over grind them
to a coarse paste with a neat chop-
per and season with mayonnaise.
Spread between buttered whole wheat
bread for unusual and delicious sand.
wichos..
Short Bread. --Sift one cup of flour
and a quarter cup of sugar over half
cup of butter, Work with the fingers
until smooth, Pack in pans to three.
fourth's of an inch depth, mark in
Wares and bake the short bread in a
slow oven until light brown. This is
not as easy as it looks,
Boiled Apple Pufets.—Three eggs,
one phut of milk, a little salt, suf-
ficient flour to thicken as waffle batter,
one and a half teaspoonfuls of baking
powder: Fill teacups with alternate
are done, brush over with beater egg,
Brown in the oven. When done slip
a knife under them and slide them
upon a hot platter. Garnish with
parsley and serve immediately,
Casserole of Duck.—Onefive-pound'
duck, one cup mushroom caps, one-
half can peas, one-half teaspoon on-
ion juice, one teaspoon dry powdered
mint, ono quart well -seasoned soup
stock, flour and drippings. Singe,
clean and disjoint duck. Roll each
piece well in hour and brown quickly
in beef drippings. Pack in layers in
very large casserole, alternating
with' mushrooms and peas, mixed, and
cover with soup stock containing on -
len juice and mint. Bake slowly for
three hours in moderately hot oven.
Add more salt and pepper, if liked,
Hauth'With Brown Gravy.—Mince an
onion or two and fry well. Have the
meat cut in small pieces and turn this
into the frying pan when the onion is
brown, turning frequently with a
fork until the meat, too, is cooked
through and well browned. Then
sprinkle meat and onion with flour,
stirring until the flour browns. Add
enough water to make a smooth, thick
gravy. Let bubble up and serve pip-
ing hot on triangles of toast. The
flavor may be varied by adding at the
last moment a dash of Chili or Wor-
cester sauce or catsup, or a little cel-
ery seed.
Pie—Gold and Silver.—For the sil-
ver part take a large white potato,
peel and grate it into a deep plate.
Add the juice and grated rind of a
lemon, the beaten white of an egg, a
cup of white sugar and a cup of cold
water. Stir well together and bake
in a single crust in a dish deep en-
ough to hold twice the quantity of the
silver part. Make a custard of one
cup o1' milk, teaspoon of cornstarch,
one egg, sugar to taste and flovor with
grated nutmeg or sherry wine. Pour
over the silver layer and return to the
oven and cook until set. When done
you may finish with a meringue if you
wish or serve without.
Things Worth Remembering.
Do not allow fish to stand in water.
Very good fish chowder is made with
haddock.
When the top of the stove is red
hot, the oven is not hot.
Put a little ammonnia in the warm
water used to wash paint.
New sbockings should always be
washed before being worn
The best fish for baking are cod-
fish, haddock and pollock.
If the closet where you hang tins
and cooking utensils is badly lighted,
try painting the hooks and nails white.
Chamois leathers should be washed
in tepid water and dried with the soap
in them; they will then be nice and
soft.
Camphor will remove fruit stains
from bable linen, Before the linen
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
OCTOBER 22,
Lesson IV,—Paul's Defense Before
Agrippa—Acts 26. Gilden Improvement in Autos.
TextActe 26. 19. "Few people who buy automobiles
Verse 1. Herod Agrippa II was the realize how modern efficiency and
last of the Herods and (which is say- science have veritably revolutionized!
ing libtle) the best of them. His title the materials entering into the units I
of king meant about as much as that of to -day's motorcars;' says a well-,
of nawab or rajah in India: he held it known manufacturer,
during good behavior. We have four "Before the advent of the motorcars
generatione in the New Testament--, onl bile common maker or the manu-1
Herod "the Great" (Matt. 2, 1), his facturer of armor plate knew anything
son Antipas (Mark 6. 14), his nephew about steel. It is a remarkable fact,
Agrippa I (Acts 12. 1), his son here. that the $8,000 or $10,000 automobiles
Stretched forth his hand—Compare of fifteen years age (made with axles
Acts 13, 16 and Acts 21. 40. and shafts which were guaranteed bo
24, Loud voice—The tone suggests stand the strain) were made then of
impatient interruption; Festus was gun, battleship or tool steel. This
afraid they were to have a theologi- sort of steel evolved from the chemical
cal lecture. Mad—Perhaps enthuse laboratory, and what is more natural
iasm or franaticism is nearer the idea than that the chemical laboratory is
than "madness." Festus is immedi- now a -component part of the automo-
ately conscious of rudeness to a man bile industry?
who he obviously respected, and he _ "Through the working -a of science
Turned Down at Home She Succeeds
In England.
Mrs. Kathryn M. Stanton, aglow
with the triumph of selling the centri-
fugal gun for which she stood spon-
sor, to the British Government, has
returned to the United States:
The new weapon which she sold to
Great Britain is operated without
powder and is noiseless as well as
smokeless. It hurls missiles with
deadly aim, the missiles may be any-
thing from an egg to a lump of dyna-
mite. There is no barrel to the gun
and It may be operated by any un-
trained man or woman. It is simple
of construction and all of its parts can
be made at any machine shop with a
cost of less than one-tenth of the
Price of a weapon using explosives.
Mrs. Stanton financed the building of
the model and personally superintend-
ed the making of the gun. The wee-
pon was tried out at Sandy Hook and
the officers present acclaimed ft as
the weapon of future warfare. The
United States did not care `o pur-
chase
unchase the invention, so Mrs. Stanton
eold to Great Britain. This is tete
second invention in a short time that
was turned down by the United States
goes into the wash, go over the spot and later acoepted by Great Britton.
with camphor. While Mra Stanton was abroad tier
If the hair is dry and brittle, give husband died unknown to her. The
it a good applicablon of vaseline or glad tidings she expected to convey
pure olive oil on the scalp the night to him were hushed on her lips when
her sister broke the sad news to her.
before shampooing.
A wringerthat is stained from --`
hastens to add that it was great learn- in the laboratory the cheapest car now
ing that was tanning his head. Luke's on the market has better steel used in
report of Paul's defense is, of course, its construction that that used fifteen
only a brief summary of a speech that years ago in making the rich man's
may have lasted an hour; Paul doubt - ,car No motorcar of to day is built
of one kind of steel, but many kinds
are utilized.
wringing colored clothes can be HAVE LOST ALL CHANCE.
cleaned by rubbing the rollers with
a cloth saturated in paraffin. Conclusion of Danish Expert Regard -
Cold 'mashed potatoes from yestere ing Central Empires.
day's dinner make very nice cro- The military correspondent of the
quettes by the adding of one egg.
Shape them, roll them in crumbs and
fry in fat,
A serviceable way to serve cold
boiled potatoes is to put them through
the sieve. Season them with butter
and salt; form into cones and brown
in oven. chances of winning the war.
If a boot or shoe pinches, damp a The Central Powers, •he says, have
sponge with very hot water and hold it everywhere had to leave the initia-
over the part that hurts. The eath- tive in the hands of the allies, and
t
Christiana Morgenblad, ;Captain Nor-
regaard, whose work as a military heard of this conversation ultimately
critic during the war has been high- from one of the assessors.
ly appreciated, expresses the opinion
that the developments since the be-
ginning of the allies' offensive •prove }VITEN BUCCANEERS REIGNED.
that the Central Powers have lost all
less quoted law and prophets largely
shafts is subjected to a specific heat
treatment determined through exhaus-
tive taste,
"Likewise each different kind or
steel, depending, of course, upon what
funeton each is to serve, requires a
definite heat treatment, and finally the
fitness of each to serve its purpose
may be detected by some of the scien-
tific instruments, such as Bimnell,
Riekle and many other machines.
Microphotography also plays on im-
portant part in the selection and in-
spection of materials.
"After this isdetermined, scientific
instruments insure a uniform steel,
thus preventing the use of metal which
is not of the proper composition or is
too hard or too soft. In the case of
the steering and braking mechanism,
this is a great factor in preventing
serious accidents.
"The final analyse conclusively
shows that modern science has exert-
ed a potent influence in creating bet-
ter and still better motorcars at a
much cheaper price than was formerly
thought possible."
to prove his great thesis. This pro-' Don'ts For Touring.
duced on Festus the impression that "It would be entire' impracticable
Don t y
Paul was "a great man of letters," as to construct the modern motorcar of
the Greek for much learning literally one kind of steel, hence the men as -
suggests. ! signed to this task in the chemical lab -1
20, Paul's appeal to the notoriety oratory conduct a series of exhaustive
of the facts is made to Agrippa, since testa to finally determine what is best(
Festus was a newcomer. In John 18. for some specific use. The addition!
20 Jesus similarly emphasized the pub -
of such elements as carbon, man-!
licity of his work. It was he himself ganese, nickel, chromium, tungsten
who determined the publicity of his and vana.nium are the discoveries of i
last act. His enemies wanted to kill him the chemical laboratory. These ele-
"in a corner" (Matt. 26. 5) : he forced meats are added for various purposes,'
them to do it in the sight of the sun. such oxo hardening, toughening and
27. Agrippa was a professed Jew,' increasing the resistence of the steel.'
and through his great-grandmother Carbon steel used in motorcar cam -
the ill-fated Mariamne, had Maccabean ,
blood in his veins. Paul had that ! - ___- - -- -- -
within him that "believes all things"! 6SliF1?iPa$'6'49t$1ft fl4 (' 71
(Cor. 13. 7), and he gave Agrippa!
credit for a seriousness foreign to his
nature.
28. It is very doubtful whether the I
Greek of this verse is capable of; _,„-
translation. The acceptance of aI
very slight change found in one impar-' ZEST IN THE WORK OF SUB-
ject manuscript, or an equivalent con- MARINE CHASERS.
jecture by Dr. Hort, gives the sense
OF
tent 1
adopted in the paraphrase, "thou per. ..—
suadest thyself, art confident." A;
Christian—The familiarity of the term' They Kill Much More Often Than
—see lesson stady note for May 7-1 They Capture—Some
—makes it difficult for us to realize Surprises.
what it meant as a new word. 'Christ-
man" above attempts to suggest this.
The Authorized Version makes Agrip-,
pa speak seriously, but the whole sen-
tence is incapable of such meaning.I
Paul's answer alone is enough to
show that the king was not a hope-
ful convert; what a different ring
such a hope would have brought into
his voicel
29. I would to God—Literally, "I
could pray to God"; but the verb is not
the deeper compound that is used of
Christian prayer. It appears ink
Acts 27. 29, and is the ordinary word'
for prayer in pagan vernacular. If.
Paul had cherished real hope of Agrip-
pa, he would have used the stronger
verb and in the indicative, "I do pray."
With much (trouble) With a tithe of
the encouragement the old version of
Agrippe's remark implied, Paul would
have eagerly pleaded all day 1
30. Bernice—Agrippa's sister, a
noted beauty who changed husbands
with some freedom.
31. We have to assume that Luke
overcrowd our car,
Don't load up with supplies you will
not need.
Don't start with a car that is not in
first-class running condition.
Don't try to do the impossible.
Don't race with locomotives.
Don't fail to :take an extra tire or
two along.
Don't disregard local regulations,
even if they seem unreasonable.
Don't neglect to prepare for rain
and cold.
Don't forget safety first, last and
always.
FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT "FIE WESTERN PEOPLE,
ARE DOING.
er will expend and so afford relief. even if they regain the ins iative
People who feel the cold very much locally they cannot accomplish now from the fact that the harbor on the
should see that their beds are pro- what was too much for thein in 1915, south side of •the island, on whose
vided with ample covers and a bob -when their military power was at its tondos the town of Charlotte Amalie
water bottle before attempting to zenith, and when the allies were in is located, is one of the finest in all
sloop. every respect less well prepared and tropical America. From the days of
Put white washable skirts on to
their stiff inside belts by means of a
strip of snappers and there will be
no belts crumpled and ruined in the
washing.
Almost any cereal is good with
dates stirred into it and the, whole
served with cream. The dates should
first be well washed, dried and chop.
ped.
To remove fruit stains from cloths
and napkins apply powdered starch
and leave for several hours until the
mark has been absorbed by the starch,
When you get anything in your eye
do not rub it, but if possible plunge
the eye into water, winking when the
eye is full. The speck will probably
float out.
Sliced oranges and grated cocoanut
make a very good Winter dessert. A i the mother, in great alarm, not
layer of oranges and a layer of cocoa- Joseph E. Newton, Josephine New -
nut, and so on until the dish is full,. ton; it's not that kind of a baby."
ending with the eoeoanut; add en - -----•,e
ough augur to sweetest and it is ready Waste of Cash.
to serve.
St, Thomas, West Indies, Was Once
Headquarters.
The importance of the island of St.
Thomas, Danish West Indies, arises
organized than they are now.
Captain Norregaard, however,
points out that immense difficulties
still confront the allies, and doubts
the buccaneers its strategic advant-
age has been realized, for when the
Spanish Main Wes the happy hunt-
ing ground of the gentlemen of the
their abilities to expel the Central black flag this harbor was their head-
quarters.
Behind its outer hills the pirate
craft found shelter from the open sea,
h and were well screened from the
sight of passing ships until the mo-
ntent came to pounce down upon
them. Lr more recent times it has
played the tole of safe harbor for the
It was at the baptismal font, and thousands of vessels bound from Eu -
the minister had the baby in his arms, rope to Panama and surrounding
"What is the name?" he asked of the territory, or vias versa.
mother, "Josephine Newton." "Joseph 'l
E. Newton, 7 baptize thee in the name The bridesmaids once led the bride-
---»" "No, no," hurriedly whispered
groom to the church, and the bridge -
groom's men led the bride.
Powers from the occupied territory
by military means alone within a
reasonable time. Still, military pres-
sure is not the only means which t e
allies can apply to crush their oppon-
ents.
Not That Sort.
"My wife is afflicted with a wasting
disease."
I1'takes all sorts of people to make "Wasting disease?"
a world, but every one imagines his "yes,„she has a bad rase of shop-
layers of batter and apples, chopped kind ought to be in the majority; ping habit,”
fine, Stearn one hour. Serve liot
with slavered cream and sugar, "Penny ;weddings," formerly so
en mashedpotatoes and while hot were thwhere` Inc guests were each If altout debt you think it bit
ose
shape into balls' the size of an egg, This paradox you'll find,
Have a bin shoot well buttered and
place the belle on it. As 80011 08 nil
Odd.
Pointe Pulfe,--Prepare lightly -heat- popular in cellon parts of Scotland,
charged the sum of one Pe%iiiy -aqui-
'veleet to the present shilling --for the
1 privilege of being present,
The faatrn• you run into it
The mlu'e you get behind.
It isn't every man that can be
thrown on his own resources without
hurting himself.
It takes two to make a quarrel, and
some of us are always looking for the
other fellow.
You never can teit, Many a titan
'toasts of hie will power when he
really means his won't power.
Many a girl who loves a man for
his money is too modest to mention it
to him.
Generally speaking, official names
are frigidly unimaginative concep-
tions. Only those who know the navy
from stem to stern can tell front its
title what special duty any particular
unit of our fleet is entrusted with.
Jack holds in small esteem this
sonorous indefiniteness in nomencla-1
ture and corrects its shortcomings by
giving to various bits of seapower
the designations which he deems 1
most befitting them. And he has an
infallible knack of "making the label
describe the contents of the can." For
example, the craft employed in seek -
tions" are coming. All the same one
cannot expect the people w
flocking around UC 5 to believe that
submarines are taken in a hair spring,
or coaxed into captivity with lumps
of sugars
No Aimless Wandering.
When tracking down U-boats the
"hunting dogs" work perspicaciously.
Anyone unfamiliar with their meth-
ods, who watched them beating over
a patch of grey and apparently empty
sea, might think they were nosing
about rather aimlessly, when the truth
would be that they were hot upon
scent. This much can be said for
them; once they do pick up a scent
they seldom fail to kill, and they kill
more often than they capture, as one
would expect from the nature of their
hunting. Perhaps one may be per-
mitted also to say that they do not do
much aimless wandering, and that
once an enemy submarine puts fairly
to sea it has very small chance of get-
ting beck to its harbor again.
In this connection it should be re-
membered that a dog cannot snap up
a rat until the rat has come out of
its hole. Quaint tales are accumu-
Progress of the Great Nest Told
in a Few Pointed
Paragraphs.
Local wheat is selling on the Kam-
loops market at $40 per ton.
One death from infantile paralysis
was reported from Kamloops.
In South Vancouver sewer work-
men were granted an increase from
$2.50 to $3.
Mistaken for a deer, a logger was
shot and killed by a local sportsman
at New Westminster.
The Cameron -tenor Mills ship-
builders recently laid the keel for a
new reseal at Victoria.
Vancouver is shipping to Vladivo-
stock for the Russian Government
177,000 tons of steel rails.
Patrol boats have been withdrawn
from the Fraser river, indicating
that the salmon season is practically
over.
Chief of Police F. Wolfe Stevens,
of Port Alberni, has resigned to go
to the front with the Army Service,
Corps.
The twelve interned prisoners who
escaped from the Vernon internment
camp on the 2nd instant are still
at large.
Introduction of the municipal
water system at West Vancouver
has proved a real boon owing to the
dry summer.
It is expected that the new Gov-
ernment road between Port Alberni
and the Summit will be completed
within three weeks.
The Government telegraph service
between Port Alberni and Cameron
Lake is being improved with the in..
stallation of 150 new poles -
Thirty -two Austrians in the Cum,
berland mines were arrested at the
beginning of the week and placed in
the provincial jail to await intern-
ment.
Eleven ships, all told, are now on
order in Victoria and Vancouver as
a result of the ship -building legisla-
tion passed at the last session of
the Legislature.
Members of the fire department
of Vancouver have 4ecided to again
send Christmas hampers to former
members of the department who are
now on active service.
A .Kamloops soldier in a machine
gun section will go into action wear-
ing the charmed buckskin shirt of a
Sioux warrior chief, who was famous
In Indian wars in the United States.
In Vancouver a proprietor of a
candy store was fined $25 and costs •
upon being convicted of not keep-
ing his soda fountain clean. The pro-
secution was laid by the city health
department.
Another Creston citizen has given
up his life for the Empire in the
person of Roger Pickard, who left
here when the war commenced to
rejoin his regiment, a Leicestershire
corps, in which he had attained a
lieutenancy.
The man, Frank Scherle, upon
whose premises the tunnel came out
through which twelve alien prisoners
escaped from the Vernon alien in-
ternment camp was acquitted on
the charge of assisting these alien
enemies to escape.
NOT DRUNK, MERELY DEVOUT.
Welsh Town Crier's Queer Actions at
a Funeral.
1
• 'sting against the time when the full
Mg out enemy submarines are known
among bluejackets as "the hunting
dogs."
This is both terse and explanatory,'
since hunting is their job and they do
it in pack -like fashion. One of their
"catches" now lies alongside Temple
Pier, whither all London is craning
its neck to get a look at it.
There it lies ringing in the nimble
sixpences while the "hunting dogs"
continue their quest for more "game"
of similar kind. Now a word as to
the "dogs" themselves. One finds in
the "packs" quite a motley collection
of "breeds." These are heavy lumb-
ers which beat over the ground with
untiring persistency; pugnacious lit- l
tlo terriers which nose around the'
holes and when they have "found"
call up the bigger dogs to the "kill-
ing"; also greyhounds, keen of eye
and swift of movement, which pounce
with deadly spring upon any quarry
that may show itself in the open. But
whatever the "breed" till work hard,
and it is no secret that their hunting
has been remarkably successful.
The People's Debt.
Very little had been beard about
their doings, but, all the same, every
man, woman, and child in the United
Kingdom lies ender a great debt of
obligation to these toilers on the deep
who have done as much towards keep-
ing our tables well laden as any part
of. the fleet, and in some ways, per-
haps, more, As to the work of sub -
mashie hunting, one cannot gain much
idea of its exigencies front the little
sop that is being given to the curios-
ity of London.
Submarines are elusive things.
"Rousting" one out from a stretch of
open water somewhat resembles
searching for a needle 111 e. hayrick.
There is always the chance that one
may find the needle by sitting down
upon it unexpectedly, and • tiro sub-
marine may be discovered with sim-
ilarly unpleasant abruptness. When
this happens there follows a breezy
Nine for the finder. Underwater'
craft are stalked in strange ways
and with methodical persistency.
Those who go out after them have
much skill in the use of snare and gun,
and "work" the "dogs" which they un-
leash with the thoroughness of a
poacher overhauling ahandy covert.
No need to meth far your blue pencil
Mr. Censor. No "(tenetreet revela-
story of the anti -U-boat campaign
may be told. When it is, we shall
hear of submarines that fought sub-
marines, albeit not altogether de-
signedly, of others which bobbed up
confidently expecting only an easy
1 victim and found themselves grip-
ped in jaws that crushed them re-
lentlessly to death. Also, there will
, be tales of unwary boats, which came
unwisely and unwittingly to the sur-
face in the midst of British squad -
,rens, and thereafter only heaven was
left to help them. You must know
:that the submarine occasionally be-
haves like a mole bird creature and
blunders into places it were better to
have kept out of, and thereupon suf-
fers the usual fate of those who leap
before they look.
.s;.
THE VISION OF BIRDS.
They Can See a Speck a Mile Away,
It Is Said.
If our airmen possessed the vision sleety sober when through my repute -
of birds it would, perhaps, be well for tion as a musician I was asked to load
tis' the singing by the graveside. I was
Noe s one half the power of vammo'—certainly tie man—pos- subsequently complimented on the
givenision) manner I conducted the singing and
given to a bird,
It is said that the eagle can look i on the beauty of the melody I emit- ted.
straight at the sun. But this is hard "Yet some vicious, soulless lopes -
to decide, inasmuch as it seldom falls
to our lot to sen an eagle, ter declared the melody was inspired
Small birds however --which all can 1 by over -indulgence in whiskey -0
see—can notice a speck a mile away, j statement I dismiss with the contempt
Notice the "alarm" on a fine day the mighty lion hath for the crawling
among tiie birds in a locality. One slug' thousands o£ miles
minute all the choir is in full music.' I hhave travelled
Then suddenly a disturbance takes and visited strange places, mingling
place! Not a bird is seen, or heard with weird people; yet no finger of
in a minute, scorn has ever been directed aline."
,
.
At At last the human watcher sees a this pomtaboard member hi-
tiny speck in the sky. It comes near -1 teseupted:
"But the question is, were you
chunk at the funeral?"
"No, sir," answered ilrilliem; "I
was merely devout."
It has long been a belief that teat,
lieges ehdu,ld take place when the
William Williams, town crier of
Llanrwst, Wa1ee, accused of being
inebriated at the obsequies of a local
soldier, made this defence before the
Llanrwst Board of Guardians:
"I am innocent of the grave and
serious charge brought against Inc.
The funeral referred to, when the
vicious tongue of gossip spread its
poisonous rumor that I had indulged
in potent fluid, was a military inter-
ment, and as such appealed to the
latent militarism I had inhaled while
in the police force, but since sub-
dued,
"On this occasion I was exces-
er and nearer, it is noticed to be a
sparrowhawk.
The birds saw it long before the
watcher, Unerringly, too, they put it
down to be a hawk. Hence their al-
arm.
The self -admiration of some people moon is waxing and not waning.
proves that. there's 00 accounting for The month of May has universally
tastes, and from the earliest times been
Gilt frames may be revived by rub- deemed an unlucky month for num-
bing lightly with a sponge moistened 'logos.
with turpentine. • It is an old belief thnb the bride
From forty to fifty turtles are killed should stand very close to the bride -
for the minuet banquet of London's groom to prevent anyone tenting be.
Lord Mayor. tweet) them.