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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-11-23, Page 7a rettereal of the tteralatteenent, ell the are ewitehed Oft witen tile but- • ton Is operated After clerk. k PA. PLEA VCR' CRAM CHILDREN. Whee a chila is irritable mut,' con- trar$ ann see= to be hinating for trontile, the mother inecnild etmaider a little before resortiag to Amin) mea- eareee -In nine 'name -OittenfeteSetbo little ime eltber hungry or ailing. A owell child that halt ,pleatl of eleep end geod„ neurieniug food will generally be good-natared a•nd traoteble. We knew • ale:girl whit sontetimes troubl- id get up ;In the morniag so help- ly irritable as to disturb the whole ed with indigestion. At sueb tiaTies isbe honaeholn. Her olothea *Mad init go on rightithee were too tight or too lowie and hed blenches in /the mama; etwgiuge weald wrinkle and her oboes wauld.' not button, and ahe would storm at them all pea ore and fairly revel misere, Neverthelees, her mother did not at once proneunce her a naughty girl and deal with her , ac- cordingle, , She watched her closely, And! saW that after a good breakfast,. wbieh she ate eagerly, her good humor returned, and the ovorktatos dif- .• Malty ivnich bad blooken her path Were ea so many grains of sand. After that when girlie g_ot up "out of the wreng side of the bad," as the . Wing Is, her mother would either help her to dress quickly. talking to her enoenragingly the while, • or, if breakfaat was not readye she would bring nor a cup of hot milk to drink nefore, dressing. it was eurprising to pee how completely a little nourish, _eat. would blear the trouble out cif little girl's world. For she wag ot intentionally illnatured, She was eiroply faint and nerveless end dis- colvaged, with insufficient force for the efforts she had to make; Her food ' had not been properly assimilated the day before, and her whole system was in a state of semi -starvation. Tne same little girl used sometimes knoetne luinie from school with a ver$ , 01,0114 face and throw her books down .apgrily. The teacher Wee cross, she Woad complain; she couldn't die her ems andshe didn't1 see why they -put words into the geography that nobody could ever pronounce; .her seatmate • was the hatefulest girl in the whole •achool and she wasn't going to sit with Auer another day, end go on. Her mother would quietly open the stove drafts end.start a bright fire. Then she would make • a little hot twist or fix up a shredded wheat bisauit with cream' and- sugar, or anything else she happened to have .thet girlie liked, And then she would say, "Guess -you -Lee hungry, girlie; have a little lunch; , now; sapper's a long .Way • off, yet." And the girlie' would eat and the irri- Atkin would fade. gradually :out of .her face, and by and by she would be saying; "I had my lessons all perfect toolaY, aid I've been up head tbe most times of anyeody. Oh, mamma,. we • had great fun at recess this afternaon throwing snowballs at each other -just left ones, Yell know. My seatme. gave me half of a great, big anple bad. She's the most genetous girl in school, *Bout .every day she: gives me eomething. May I take oneeof these A to har-forstorrowt" - "ar, HOW TO COOK) CABBAGE. 'Until within A fe* years I shared the.general,betief. that cookea canbage *as exeeedingly indigestible, and that' anions who was oarefut of nis stomiion would refuse to eat it writes a tore' respondent. I read a bOok in which the etatement was mede that, the trouble was tne way in :Which cabbage Was °poked and .aireetions Were given tar • coOking. I finlowed them eloeely and . . the whole faulty net only pronounced the dish excellent, but said that' it di- gested perfectly. ' . Since then we .have had cooken cab - nage very frequently on.our table, and always find it good. and healthful a$ ,.*:$11. Perhaps some of ouie readers • may like to try it.. Cut an ordinary sized cabbage into eight equal parts, remove the stalk., Waite the cabbage and drain. Put four or five 'quarts ot water into a kettle. When it is boil- ing rapidly add a level tablespoonful of salt and one-fourth of a leyel teaspoon- , tut of soda, putt in the cabbege e have a hot fire so it will boil op as quickly as possible, then. take off 'the cover and leave it 'off. Every. few ran:lutes push the cabbage down Muter the wa- ter, which/must be kept boiling rapid- ly: In twenty-five or thirty minutes it should be tender ; place in a colander and• press with a small plate till the water is all squeezed out. Put a teacuphil of oream in the kettic, if you have it, if not Use milk and a little butter ; return the cab- bage id the kettle; the moment it boils up tarn het° a hot dish. ...— BONE MANURE AS PLANT FOOD: • Into the bottom of an old barrel put a layer of untouched wood ashes..Place a layer of bones on the ashes, fill-, nig the barrel With alternate layers• of bones and ashes, having the top layer a thick 'one of ashes. Pour on water, or better, use urine, just enough, to keep them, wet, but do not allow to leach one drop. In the course of time the bonea will heat alld crum- ble at the touch. When auffictently softened, dump them Out on a heap of dry loam, pulverize and mix all up Until it is so well incorporated with „,theelcant 'that it cant be easily handled. ne"'Xiep the barrel under cover and off the groitnd. For a few plants one oan use a small box, a nail keg, or anything available. It need not be a barrel to get good relate. nor is it essential thab the vessel be full, but if one has the bones and the ashes they can hard- ty senile a better fertilizer for gar - .den vegetablea or for flowers. The following, When well mizeed, maked ex - *delimit guano: Dried muck 8 bushels, hen manure 2 bushels, ashes 1 bushel, plainer 1 1-2 butthela, A while before (ming, radeten the heap with' water .or urine and cover with an old cloth. POTATO PIE, No 1: Stir 4 beaten egga into 1 eilii.t warm Mashed potatoes, add 1 1-2 •oupe sugar, 1 cup butter and 1-2 dip milk. 'Flavor with Vanilla and bake in ene crust. .1%ro 2: Beat together 2 tablespoons. -sugar, 1 of Cour and 8 eggs, add 1 a 'Small cup mashed potato, 1 entail cap =Shed potato. 1 small cup milk and I entail dip milk and bake in one must. Potato Cocoanut Pie: Ada to 1 large mashed potato', 1 cup sugar, 1 ` tablespoon butter, a little salt, 3. beat- - en- eggs, and a small cup of cocoanut aoaked in Mee pint of milk. Bake in one erten, and eover the top with frost -4 nig and cocoanut. . Sweet Potato Oxidant. Pie: One ilmt boilibg potatnee rubbed tnrotigh' • it celancier, 1 pint milk, I cup' sugar, 5 ones of 2 egga, a little salt and 4 110040(% lint I teaepoon lemon extract. Beat "al Well together, and bake in one Cruet . only, When baked, spread the top . With Meringue made with the Whites . of tene 2 eggs and 2 teinesposens White Sugar. . 01460r ENEMIES OF INSECTS. 1.e*P't V*841+1 $1041 Hon Make; 1 : I i i tilt lowtellmo und blosqulloot. AA a result of experimente with toad* and bats it bat. been demonstrate ed that a bowie, or even a community, -Call be rid of •varioutt troublenome in - Bootle including filet anit Mosquitoen Theca experimente were matio by. Prot. Cliaou F. Hodge, Prof. Hodge* fired experinnent watt with the toad. " I con- structdennt tonal pea lu my garden," ne -dad, " and in it, in a pan cif water 'installed a male and fenlale toad. To attract food for them I placed within the inolosure bits ot meat and boae. 1 The mate were an satisfactory as they were unexpeeted. The toads spent moat of the time tinting within reach- ing distance of the bait and killing the Wen attraoted by it. I watched one toad snap up eighty-six house flies in less than ten minutes. " One day, I gathered a quantity of rose into In a tin box and began to feed the bogs to A toad. At tiost I did not connt, but finding his appetite so geed I started to count. When I had coanted over eighty bugs and the toad ahowed no dims of wishing to conclude his meal I picked him UP. :Previous id my beginning to count he heti taken anywhere from ten to twenty buga. I found the toad eottally greedy Air rose beetlee, canker wenn% aqte,. caterpit, lars, raoths, June Lags, weevzle, finale and many other Meets. So, too, in a noune, a rocen may be cleared of cockroaches by leaving a toad in it over night, , , " A. aingla toaei may destroy over 2,000 worms, during the months of MaY, Jnne and July, and one oe these harmless creatures May well do a gar- dener service to the amount of *19.88 each aeastin, and yet he can raise 120.- 000 worth of toads at an expenae of not more than 20 centa, . " Farmers in England buy, them, pay- ing aa high as $24.a thousand, for use - in tneir.flower beds and gardens. For hotisehold purposes a small number of loans ociuld -be given homes in an aquarium. At night the toads could be let loose to kill bugs, while in the day they could kill flies. I have built a Bort of cage or wire screen a foot wide and two feet king, the top of which is kept open, It us only nitwits- dinneto put in two or three toads, pro- vide tbem with shelter, with a dish of water .Lti one corner, and then keep them supplied with bite of . raw meat and any other refuse matter caloun ated to attract flies," • "My attention was tuened to the bat through the &Alin moth, the in- sect to blame for most worm-eaten a1/-, Pies. In an orchard near my home I: foUnd nine of the grubs of this in- sect in a minute. Chancing to go to the orchard, hardly a mile away, I found only four of the grubs in an honr's search: There is all old been neap by in which live a colony Of be- tween seventy-five and 100 bats. The owner informed me that his apples were always free frem worms." • • ELECTRIC DELL SUIISTITUTE. A Substitute for 1111 eleettie bell hae *Oen deVised by a deaf couple. Not tinting able to hear the bell theMseivet and having tio servant, they have fit ad up tin arrangeriterit by meats of which wherr the' bUtton .,the front .door preseed, the electric all ,over the place light dp, and remain ,ed Until the batten is remise& ny SOME USES OF ALUMINUM. -one Comparative Cheapness Noir Makes Available r listny Purposes: • : • The principal wee& of aluminum are. too mnoy to be 'enumerated. The pror nerties of tlie Metal are sb • akin to those of copper and prima that, broad- ly speaking, aluminum, or one of its light alloys, should, to a large extent, renege both oopper'.and tin end aleo nickel MeGermaxi sifver. Such a 'change would be follimed by various advan- tageo tcr all concerned. Not only would there be a, considerabie reduction in the weight of' the articles, but they, would not tarnish ot turn black on exposure to int. The cest slioad be the same, itegot aetually lewer, inaemuch an, bulk for bulk. alumloium is' already elmaner ;that copper Or tin; and its 'price will colinnue teal! mile demand ineiremen • •One field, however, remains. which dapper in bound to maintain pe its °Wm, namely, the construetion of iso- lated electrical coadactors. Exnerf- mente have already. been made on a large scale with bare conductora of aluminium for telephones, with vac - featly 84k:feet:Sri results, its cenduc- tivity weight for weight, tieing double that of copper. But' when the mains iia,ve to be insaated copper Is apse- lutely unapproachable, on account of its grea,ter condietivity, volume for volume, which is 10* per, cent, of thet of aluminium. • Bedded the advantages set forth Owe, alinniaium is not poisonous, and la pre-eminently adapted for the man- ufacture of cooking utensils. .A steady demand for aluminum is springing up in various kinda of printing process- es. an Well as in lithography. The me- tal appeare to answer admirably for the construction of rollers used in calico printing, and when its surface is properly prepared it is also cap- able of replacing the ordinary litho - grannie stone. It ban eately be imag- ined that, instead of having cumbrous and heavy titones, which can be print- ed only on special slow -running "litho" machincia„ it ia far better and cheap- en to use thin sheets of a metal which caei be bent into a circular form and printed on rotary pressen Bicycles, electric light fittings, chains bridles, stirrups, surgical in- atrumente, keye, cigar casein pen and pencil holdere, toilet articles, plates and diahes, spoons, forks, frames, nanie plates; door furniture, hat and coat Pegs, boot treea, fire engine fittings, businees and visiting car& and photo- graphic cameras .are a feW of the things that are being daily made in aluminium by varlets firms. For motor cars there should be a lame field for aluminium. A furthen demand her ;the metal will be brought about by ite introductien into the mil- itary servicee. All parts of the sole dierei equipments have practically been made in aluminium, sueh ad meet tins, vrater bottlea, buttons, helmets, parte of rifles, carttidges cases, fit- tings for gutie, tents, horseehoes, port- able bridged, etc., and it is well known that continental armies, notably the GerMan army, are einpleying alum* Lawn on a large stale. _ NUTRITIOUS FOODS neer and Ego Meet Moo 1:giwn From Their Minh Pince. Prof. Atwater, who has devoted him- self to the atudy for a number of years, dealares that there is DO single perfeet food, the nearest approach to ittelng milk. No food, however, Mee tains the eseential constituents in right proportion's, and thus we have to not what we want by combining our noods. It will be a shock many thrifty housewives to learn that beef and eggs art) among the greeted of ail Mee di I t A in le dialler spent in wheat -float will yield touch nutriment as $30 spent On siTitibt of beef. Sugar ranks next IP wheat -flour econonsteal fond, fair a dollar's worth of finger eolitaing much nutriment an 10 wettit of milk, $12 Worth of eggs, or $40 worth of oysters. In propostion to their coot °ignore are almost the least nutritious of all foods. &Min and potatoes 11111 a close rase for the third place among veluable and eheap feeds, and the Malik pities is shared between fat, italt peat and oboes. tattle from sktintued MM. 811OULD TEE ZITL118 11,18E THEY WOULD MAKE SOUTH ARRIC4. RUN RED WITH. BLOOD. A Elm. nen rewerrel Trlee-Wlik the Melo. or the Wok itanitet Tiny Weald Ile it neraeltiable encionntstery er vefbr-p.malatlint flittlabasd. ShOuld the Zulue seize tne oppore ninny, offered by -the TrattliVatil War to strike ter freedom, England Wenld bane her hands full. Should the bold Baeutos join antis With tbeir fierce ciousids, South Attlee would hecoMe hot soil for the- British foot for meny long rizooths to cOme. Both of these uprisings are threaten. ed; both are greatly feared. The Za114 situation in porticular is watched with anxious eye. England for a whiles was overmatched in the last Zula war, ana victory was bought in the end with riyera of Engliah blood, Scarcely , any greater miefortune could come just now than an. uprising anon as. this, The Zulu is undountedly the beat Oa- th% fighter of South Africa. He is phyeically a splendid, savage-fieree, powerful and enduring, Add to this the mernory of a magnifieent east, the traditions and courage. of a race unwhinped except by white men, and by them only at fearful odds, anh you nano a worthy foeman.s The Zulus Yielded to the sway of England througla force indeect, but the fight they made then wee one to keep alive ethdeebtrorgg°148.4. better ending for renew- • SECRET OF ZULU POWER. ". The secret or the Zulu vowel:. lies, nest. in organization, and, second, in the tradition of viotory, Organization under the great chieftain Tshaka at the beginning of the present century gave them, their first superiority aver other savage tribes, and an unending seiles of victories for half a century or more produced a race of rare cour- age and warlike prowess. The storY ot it describes the Zulu of todaY. What fo• now knOwn as Zululand -a wild oountry, bounded on the north by • the Traiasvaal, on the south and west by Natal and on the east by the sea- - was then divided imong seieral savage tribecn.oe which the Zulus were one; of the weakest. The 'chief of a neighboring tribe, the Umtetwas, plotted the mur- der pf his iwo sons, one of whom hber-.! ever, escaped, end in his wanderings fell in with the pritiah, the organizae- tion of -whose foroes he noted with shrewd understanding. Atter his father'e death he returned to his tribe, Was made chief, and proceeded to or.. ganize his warriors into brigades, regi- ments and coMpanies, British fashion. and had remarkable success in wae- fere. ' • • . One of his lieutenants. was a youth of fierce and restless. energy. lie was the son of a conquered. chieftain and his name was Tshaka. He' itudied the. organization of the Ihnetetwa army zealously anti saw in it wonderful things not accomplished by, his wise . but mild chieftain. He made up his ndnd that same 'day his own chance would come. • Winning consideration, Tshaka was finally, as a reward, 'appointed tenet of the weak tribe of Zulus. Be organized them perfectly, and when the chief of the Umtetwas was. killed., in battle Tshaka announced, the independence of 'the Zulus and upheld it by throe, . . Thts done. Tshaka started in to make the Zulu power supreme..He attacked hie weaker neighbors find, and with every victory absorbed the young war- riors into hie own army and destroyed the old men, women and children. ln this 'way his own Harny grew maivell loously, and his conquered neighbors 1 st rocuperative power and eventually identity. ; TSIIA.KA'S STERh He divided his young watriors into regiments,. distinguishing each • regi - went by different colored shields, and eetabliehed with rewards a compete. tive spirit among' regiments. He train - them to advance and attack in solid formation, something new in nouth African savage warfare, and he deve- loped the close quarters .attack with the short stabbing assegai or spear, ao generally used among South Afritan tribes. Then he established inviolated law that any soldier returning from battle without assegai or ahleld, with a wound in the back, should be. execut- ed as a , coward. By another law young soldiers were forbidden wives until after long service, unless meantimes they earned them by distinguished bravery in tbe field. Absolute disoipline was inculcated. An expedition never .knew its destina- tion and purpose until far from, home, In attacking the first onslaught wait always in solid formation,* supported on either side by wings of skirmishers. Flank movements were a regular manoeuvre, and es effeotive in savage as in civilized warfare. It on easily be seen how the Zulus, under such a system, swept. all before them, The undisciplined eavages of the..plains and forests went down. like grain before the reaper. And every new tribe subjugated was ruthieesly amalgamated into the viotorious na. non. The Zulus swept the coast, subjugate. ed Natal and pushed their fierce, bloody sway far inland, The terror of their name passed far north and far Isouth. Nor was there limit to their ravages until the Dutch settled be Natal, Then began a aeries of fierce fights in which ' the white maa and the rifle finally triumphed and the Zulu power was Ibroken, or at least redueed to the point of non-interference with the movements of the Dutch and the Eng- lish, who Soon after • Sine:RMED OVER THE LAND, But while tatight to respedt the white man, the Zulu nUrsed his tradi- tions, his pride and his ferocity, It IWas a disgrace in his eyes to labon ex- cept in the prosectition of war. Under CeteWayo, the great Chief whose power England broke in a war in whioh she met several terrible reversts and bet hosts of ispiendid men, the Zulu was at heart the Zulu of the great Tshainits days. And this is the people who now threaten to avail of England's troublee to regain- their freedom. They are the same in apait and, are rich! in resent- meht, ror years they hav,3 their Wrongs, What they haVe lest in savage fierceness by a generation of i th Matched, say tecent writers, by their, gains in knowledge. They still re - Jain their terrible Stabbing' asiiegai, I but they have added the rifle, and are f reatoring the splendors of their pain, and if thiey rise can be counted a ter- rible foe. • Zululand to -day was bad popula- (Ion of about it hundred and eighty thouliand natives and twig than fifteen hUndred white*. The only oempatitin - of the nativee is the rising of Cattle. There are 8,000 &mare m116814 the. die. trict and the goVernment is a British proteotorate. The tiasutos, while by no means the peers In war of the Zulus, occupy a etrong position. * Basutoland Is bounded by Cape Colony, the Orange itree State and Natal. They WI, nie coursged the white natin, and thereftre only 600 Europeans in their entire tele ritory. The couti is a opiendid grain producer, a thei Basuto* are thrifty and risk. There are wild mount:tin distrksts It$1111 tint* Oil 11414d, *. MK ATTACK ON THE ARIVIOURED TRAIN AT KRAAIPAN, For hours tapt. Nesbitt and his men in charge of the armoured train which wawreclefd by the Boerg nea kraaipan, kept the enemy at hay. It was only when the Boers opened on them with shell that they surrendered. They woe once a wailike-power of some consequence, and in 1879 they stood off England in a war over dis- armament to a compromise by which the Cape Government nas dime paid them *90,000 a year toward the cost of government. They are in large measure self-gcen erning-of course, under British. dicta- tion -and enjoy a " considerable mew. sure of civilization. About fifty thou- sand out of n. population of two hun- dred and twenty thousand have been converted to Christianity. - ,, • AN ARMy CORPS. Aosnething About lioiv it Wormed and s led. • No* thee " army corps" are tieing raised soinething about their Cornpizsi.• tion will not be uninteresting. In the time of Frederick the Great armies were still of a size which enabled them to be overlooked dnd d d by me man, and the Prussians preserved this aystem mons ?r less tit the days of Jena.. Bet the French Revoultion bad in the meantime hrOught in Ito train a revolution in. the art of `war, and one of the finst steps takeil bY the leeetere, of the national armiea was the organization of small .tnixed div6 sions of •sll arras, whieh were first introduced in 1793. As: the strength of the armies increased and ag higher leadens became trained, these were formed into Army' Corps. of from two to four .diviiiions. The Army Corps, aisj a war emit, was hot formed in the year 1800, tv.ben General Moreau div- ided his army of the Rhine into corps d'arm.ees. During • the Napoleonic were the divisional and army cores Organization, introduced.by the Freno.n wan :gradually aaopted by p.11 Euro- pean Continental nations; but the Britieh army alone, down to 1815; con- tinued to hold ny the organization -In divisions as the ' ' HIGHEST TACTICAL UNIT. Napoleon, on. the othee hand, in the campaign of Waterloo,, divided his f?xpe of just under la3,000 men into "ix Army Corps. An termY Corps is eonimanded bY a genera' cifficer and consists of a staff, three divisions of infantry, and corps troops. In the present instance Genera Sir Redvers Buller will com- mand the 'Army Corps; 'and' the three divisions, will, lit all probability, be given to Lieutenant -General Lord Methuen and Major -Generals Sir Bran- ds Creivy and Sir William Gatabre. An Infantry Divieion consiats of a staff and twn brigades, with, be addition. as divisional troops, a squadron of „cav- alry, a brigade division of three field batteries, a 'clivieional reserve ammun- ition column, a. field oompany of En- gineere, a e,ompany of Army Service Corps, and a field hospital. An In- fantry brigade is commanded by a Major-General, and consists of astaff, four battalions of infantry, a detach,. 111lint of infantry with two machine- guns,. a, company of Army Service Corps, a bearer company, and a field hospital: A DIFFICULT DUTY in onenection with the, present emen. gericy is.that connected with the trans- port of the force to South Africa, which is managedaby the Transport Depart- ment of the Admiralty. Somendea of the amount of tonnage required may be gathered frOm the fact that it took 47 steal:nem, with a gross tonnage of 140,000 to convey 0,148 men and 5,008 homes to Egynt in 1882; 'while to con- vey 8,436 Men and 1,851 hems to the Cape in 1879 required 18 ateametewith it tonnage of 55,000. When troops are embarked or when military, stores are loaded on bead ships the reeponsi- bility of the Navy begins at the wa- ter line, I.e., the Military attthorities are responsible for bringing the troops on stores to the water's edge, but the repreeentativen of the Navy Transport Department ate responsible' for con- veying them to the vessels and stow- ing them oh board ship. The arrange, meats for bringing the troees and stores to and from the water's edge etre carried out under military staff officem or embarkation and &sem- barication officers. BICYCLE MUSIC BOXES. Mune beams far bicycles ars now mairefaCtUred by a firm in Hamburg. The round, boxed/aped apparatus, which is Said to give the sound of a better -class accordion:, is attached in trent to the lower part of the handle bar and connected with the front Wiled in such m.anner that the revo- lution of tine wheel caused the MUSIC to play. ' ADULTERATE IT TnntsErivts. A process hat bean invented and patented in`Brazil for `preparing cot. fee in tabloids by a ardent of com- piretieion. It is arinied that not only will there be less expense in export- ing coffee in tide form, but that the customer Wilt be more certain of thus receiving for his nee the pure, nn., del adulterated ar e. ; PROVINCE IN MINIATURE, - r --- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PRINCE . EDWARD ISLAND. . ; ••••••• Very Radical In lis LenDlation7Wery. thing Done on 80101 80110 Trra I lig to Liquor Prohibited, The_ Dominion of Canada is net a great nation as yet and its population is smell, but even now there are with* in its borders' different sets of people who aro gradually •beocinabig dissimiler in inclination and somewhat different in sympathies. The mime genera prin- ciple may act, the same Mether oune tky inspire loyatty and entiennasM, bot environment works by measures Mail, es well as measures lar,ge, alba the people who watch Ine waters of one oce•an are daily becoming More unlike the fellow-conntrymee wno are born ann live andt die within the eound of another ocean, While One cootinent only lies between, writes a ' corres- pondent. do not intend at the present time 'to develop an idea of difference, nor to trace the effect of working tif en- vironment even in a malt way, inter - .eating as swill a study would be, but 'in a few words t wish to make ehort references to •that Province . by the den, the: smallest of them,all! the leatilt. known, the PeoVinee of epleedid: tenni-- don and renownea for romantic beauty -the Province Of Prince °Edward Is-. land: i de not spaci.k with any; greet authority,. aod the, information whi?b may be contained.in these lines is that derived by an, Outsider who 'looks on froth afar off; at' the woekings of our .13Ystein of .Peneeat Goverment aone in A 130011,IOF GREAT iNTEREST has' been published, or has just come to hand, which throwe some. lighton that which is done tn Legislative Halls in Prince, Edwarn Island.. It :is the nets of tee teenerat 'Assembly o'f Prince Edward Island, and continua the eon- . gained. tefleotiona On the adminiatrat- era en their latest oppertuoity to make . lau-s Icir a province which bas powera and Privileges, even as Our, otyti, irut Is big enough to form three moderate- sized colonies. . The first matter to be noticed le the .cheapness of everithing in connection with, theeLegislature or the Province. The. eatery cif the Cabinet alinbiters .and there are but three -is 01,200 each, The seesional allowance for membere of Parliament is auto. In alt the Legie Lathe, service there is the same thing noticeable on the pay ron. , The entire expenditure amounts to $20.4790, being *2.76 per head. In On- tarib the rate ot :expenditure of the .Province per head is *1.32. This is not so very unfavoranle to the Province of Prince Edward: Island, when it is remembered that the Province has oo municipal system, and the Local Governm•ent must be respottsible for that form ot expenditure. But the receipts do not meet the ex- penditures. Thie is tbe case even though about 12 per cent, ot the rev- enues are raised by what we would .0.11 DIRECT TAXATION. There is a, land tax which brings, in $30,084, It is a tax on all land of two on the dollar. The income tax 45,558, the commercial tra- velers' tax,- $4,860, and the incorpor- ated etempanies' tax, *4,275. ' SD they have direct taxation in rhe island by the sea, out so have we In the premier province if we eonsidee, municipal organizations. It all seems' to be pretty much on the County Coma - oil plan. It a case of everything in miniature, and the edticational insti- tution is something; similar to a Pro- vincial High School, and the grad- uates therefromi are admitted as ma- triculants to universities in other pro- vinces.. They have some advanced laws in Prince Edward, Island. In temperance legislation they are quite radical, The regulations in this regard are more radical than in any other part of the Dominion. Treating is forbidden by law. The regulation affeeting thia practice reads as follows: Len tio ho hall atintou I treat or give any person any liquon in any tavern or place where liquor is sold, shall be guilty of an offence against this Aot, and liable, on sem. mars conviction before the atipendiary megistrate, to a penalty of not testi than two dollars, nor mote than five dollen, besides coke, and In defeat of payment therecif, tO be imprisoned in the ttommon jail for a period of wit testi thani 10( days, and not more thnn daYs. THE HOURS OF SALE are very limited; too. The bars olose on Saturday at 0 p.m., and stay closed until 8 ant., Monday morning. They also are closed on every Dominion and Provincial holiday.. Charlottetown is the only place: where liquor is sold on • Tuesdays or Fridays after 7 p.m., un- til 8 a.m., [of the following day. No encouragement is given to the sale of liquor, Incorporated companies are•taxed moderately at from 050 to 8100, but breweries' are taxed MO. Travellers who come into the Province pay 020, unless they are travelling for liquor bows, when they are called upon to pay goo. The law provides for n Saturday - o y or t e employes of any company which receives aid . in any form from the Government. The list of holidays is line the Ontario list, save that in. Prince' Edward Island Easter Monday is kept instead of Good V•rTulaheYs.ohnol age is from eight to four- teen, end there is a truancy officer in thee:nay town on the Island, who en- forces the regulation. There is a close corporation among doctors: This and many other regula- tions 'show that the Islanders are ntuoht as we. are in advance in some points and bellied us in others in leg- iBlaWtelen it come; tatatistios the pon- ulation of the Province is. 1109,478, of which' 13 per cent, is urban,. and 78 rural, There are 54.4 persons to the square raile, which means settlement tWico as donee as in any other prov- ince. There are 49,000 Scotch, 25,000 Irish, 21,000 Daglish, 12,000 French. There are 47,000 Roman Catholioa ; 33,- 000 Presbiterians, 13,500 Methodists, 6,700 Anglicans, 6,200 Baptists, There aze 266 churches and 122 clergymen. There are SOO Indians on tbe Island. Teachers are paid by the Province, but Alla salaries may be suppleinented by local assessment; There are 468 schools, 470 districts, 581' teachers and 21,850 pupils. . . The annual value of the agricultur- al products is fixed: at $7,400,000. • COFFEE DRIKICE:1S, . suppeeted in the if•et of the Stimulant 1,1 Lade Authorities. The question of coffee drinking being injurious is agitated for every now and again; then the agitation subeides, and people go on drinking it. According to the best authorities, coffee, taken in moderation lei not only harmleaa, hut highly beneficial: Its value es a titnylant has always been • recognized, and the fact that it is so highly prized ae a beverage, if there were no other remon would go far to , prove that it has a powerful influence on the nervous aystem, The action imparted to the nerves, however, is natural and healthne and habitual coffee drinkers generally en- joy good health and live to a good pld ,otgi3,* Or brain worker* its value cannot be overeotimated. Itenas beea called the ".mental beverage,e and, unlike al- cohol, the gentle exhilaration it pro- duces la not followed by any harmful reaction. It causes contentment ef mind, allay!. himger and bodily weak= woneserk,. and increases the capacity for ; The mental exhilaration alia physi.. cal activity it causes explains the fond - nese for it which has been shown by 00 nnany scientists, poets, scholars and othens devoted -To thoirght. Its effect on the imagination is reMarkable, without causing any aubsequent de- preetsion, as in the ease of narcOtics. Balza°, the great French novelistede- cIared that he cOuld not have written the* " Comedie Romaine." without in; - ad. " .e. MICROBE OF RUM. Only Meeelill Tient Can Live in Ninety Per Cent. di, *numb!. A new luoillus has just been discove ere.d by a noted German &tauten and his wife. It is called Coleothrix Meth - vitas, and was found by Prof. and nab \ Guiana. It ruined the rum, and Veley in rum expotredirom Brie the most interesting feature of the discovern1 iis that this is the first bac- illus found that can live in a fluid Of 70 per cent. alcohol. It ia also Pe- culiar in flouriehing beet in the sun- ehine, which is death to most bac- teria. Darkness stops the growth of this epocies, and 90' per sent, of alcohol is needed to kill it. Even dry.ing sloes not kill it, so this Is one of the Most dan- gerkAlis of the bacilli. It is supposed that it was due eith- to th 1 anti f th b ttles into which the rum wen put or to the °eternal augar Used in coloring the dun. The spoiling of the rum la only one of the effecte of this little crea- ture tor it causes severe intestinal troubles in those who happen to par- take of the liquid in .which it has found a home. The antitoxin for the Coleo- etthheyiettizlig trie;t1 tttebebpscuover- ill d la th• e first ste9 tow:rd overcoming it. Every man tvould feel more content. ed if he thought hie wife was; every woman would if she thought her hue. band was less so. ilo:potown Britigo Over the Orange River on the Copt Colony &order. TOMMY MINS" CLOTHO« 11.11,44.1 MOW Thhtede Me Wane are 11144. Grose Eranery et illialleot , TOR DOINGS OF THE =WOK PRO. "The equipment of few m pug Bung= By NAIL OtD thouliandteof men, is not at all *strain and 1,200, women Who compose the the other day. 01 course, the 800 men toltiviloorriwYromoColuor oileobtarviLidrihtited representatIve. who walked round it reueec. staff are fairly buoy; but the enorm- at Mollie°, write* a London Touider Med at ,nea Kew -eateresineg owagy. lapon the BrItlitti army clothing factory gorerd *me seinen TAblig moo ha tho "Betv"s6sore.tue en& of' the year theY eX. WWI* Due quantity of military clothes in pact ntorhatovies 'opahdonezicoventrpnaoQuinleation he- pedition comparatively simple work. stock make the fitting out of any ex- • The Rev. John Poulineine preannent fa Is only when war actually cam- etniginfettinnal miniater, nied at Aber - A stain-glatet wlndow, In MentorY mimes that the resourcee of the big :ear tIgh,:v.eaw. eett.klIsell.neu".:41.:wthal: oa gn : building are taxed to the utmost to stroyed or 'lot. And even then the replace articles that nave been de - veiled in St. James' chunk Clorkell. alt. abler difficulty is pot la supplyinn the ipwarolostieue,erseeoczotf4lyp.atoinsainr mr. a. itiohmond, 'goods, but in packing them for tram- Mr. Herkomer, ILA., bas been elected • le at the Academy . All cloth that comes into the &dory R.A. resignea, Vile foundation atone Of a free it- , Is passed at the roil oo to an over- hi;:r Ilia jestyto 64 , . 1 1 .4 etrOng light. Men stand on each, Ode head beam, and weund off against a brar rs re gn, vine at Y and museum as a memorial of nt it, aad if they see any flaw or hole, at weetca_sapereedare. the entire piece le sent back to the Alice Adams domestic servant at famacktoerrP tPhiernledxted tthhiengeliostlitiligiforit trial' charged with the manslaughter West firomwiele was committed tor . Machines do this, Mat •douhing it a ot her illegitimate ohild. * ' edge to edge longitudinally to half the et eae become known in Bannoutu , original width, and then measuring „ _ in each direction. li ne "Mgt:11:V slici)cit not ttitr gams:Wet _ boll:le:7d 11:018t:ohe°b?rnqahuzi:ebal istthiSse.r v aCiQubabbel et! • • Iit course of OM the pattern men get hold of It and wark The M. A. examination pun list of . the UniversitY of London, issued • re- " CIIAT,,E HIEROGLYPHICS. which Oinlineaeleenee, 0011ere and ba k cently, contains mile 18 names, but 8 Of there a,re those of women. and siageepleces. Then the cutting At Westminster a cab -runner named rnaelune operator takes 'some tweno. thicknesses, oh the top piece ot which Baneley was aentenced to four Months.' these lines ere visible, and ushes them hard, labor for two assaults on pea - under a band Haw t e fretwork principle. In less time than it takes to tell he bee out the whole into several, piles oft pieoes which ere ready te be sewn together, to cover Tommy Atkins, No fewer than fifty thick - news of flannel can be out into shirta tit once in this, waY. There is a ropm full of women, who tack, hem, and machineestitch gar. ments and fasten the. faciogs and braid. An inspector examines them carefully, and if faultless they are gent to the pressing room, where per- petually hot irons make everything smooth by a pressere of a hundred- weight or more, In other rooms caps khaki suits and helmet covers Ot the same' material are being turned out, so that now, at least one error ie being rectified, and our soldieee can cover up their white and easily seen head- dresses,. For storage or transit every- thing .ie peeked into bares or boxes The bales are squeezed by steam or •Itydraulio power into •sqUare, neat packages, reund which the covering canvas is then stitched. They don't make boots at 'Pimlico ; but men are at work examining every pair sent in' by the contractors, and rejecting those thab have any kind of fautt. Pitea descarded . footwear, with the flaws indicated ny chalk marke, are stacked down the centre of one of the rooms, but their 'number is infinitesimal compared with the boots that have been 'found up to sample. You. seem to • WALK FOR MILES , through piles ten feet high or More, and each)? stack only contains one size. LIT is no exaggeration to say that there are rciany hundreds of thousands of pairs of bootie in this vast store. They are; all in the natural brown state, but Tammy will have to black and polish them when they are aerved out to him. They range from sizes 2 for drummer boys and lads in the tailors' shops to sizes 14 and even 151 . There are huge knee boots for .the household cavalry, Wellingtons foe the cavalry ot the line, and canvas and leather shoes, very light and low-heel- ed, tor the army medical cerps men to do their running about in after the battle, The boots are usually packed in wooden eases. fifty pairs to a ease put into attire, and sent out as wanted. Side by.side with them are cases' each iontainung 200 pints of blaoking, Your way out ot 'the huge depot is through piles of bales and boxes containing everything the soldier can require in the way of clothes. The officials know everything the soldiers can require in a wire at oboe pick oat and send off the very things of which any com- mander is ill need. BEWARE OF THIRTY-SEVEN. More „People Die at That Aim• Thin al Any Other, nietteseven is a fatal 'age'. An examination. of the records of a re- gister ef deaths will show you that more people cud at that age thatn•at ann other after attaining, their major- ity. It is, moreover, a notoriously un- lucky age, more misfortunea overtak- ing the average man at or about 37 than at any other period of hia life. . • Thirty-seven has always been an un- PIO who refused to employ him to move their luggage. The death is annciunced, at the age of 67, of Mr. William Avey„ 4, P., 'who waa• highly respected in Redditele where he wag the prinoipal of a big business concerti. . *At Liverpool Catherine Levens waa sentenced. to death, far the murder of Mary Trae.o. -She threw, a lighted lamp, and Mary, Tracey and her hus- band both succumbed to burns. Sir E,.Bradford, has issued a notice to the effect that the Metropolitan police will prosecute. persons selling gunpowder or jireworks to ohildren, under .13 yeans of 'age. • As showing the widespreadinterest in golf, it. is stated that during the recent matches at Scarborough no less tban 69,000 words were telegraphed to the various newspapere ot the noun-. try. . . . .E. Pankes, M. P., aid Mrs. Parkes one afternoen recently enter- taine,c1 about 501) members of tile Cau- tral Divisional Liberal Unionist Coun. oil and their friends at a garden Party. " It' number of zebra -hybrids bred. by .professor Ewart, will, in accordance • wit& a suggestiOn in,ade by the Prince of Wales, be exhibited at next• yearn show of the Royal Agricultural So- ciety.. No photograph of the Queen does her the leant approach to justice, remarks the, Illestrated London News. The min- : . gled sweetness eon ititelleot of her , countenance cannot. be fixed by the etolid camera. The Duke of Westminster, sad to' he the richest nian in Great Britain, owns a. clook worth. nearly a quarter of a minima of dollarse its gaeat value be- ing the tlawless diamonds with which many parts of it ia adorned.' At a (meeting of the Manchester City Council, it was stated that the total indebtedness of the city le over six- teen millions sterling, 'the assets ex- . ceeding total liabilities by Upwards of four millions andea quarter pounds. News has been received at the Royal Geographical Society that the section of the fampus mpandu tree nt. Chiltern- bos, which marked the place where Dr. Livingstone. died, has been Success- fully reanoved by Dr. Codrington, the Deputy Administrator of northern Rhodesia,'and will be sent to England for preservation. ' . • LINGUISTIC PRODIGIES, Learned. Men WhToo:anurser itrty Different" When one considers the•diffioulty of acquiring even a " nodding acquaint, ! twee" with two or three languaged, it seems alminit incredible that same men should: be a,ble to speak with all the fluency of a. native in 20, and even 50, strange tonguea. It le only a feve months since Dr. Gottlieb Leitner, the moat fa,mous linguist of this genera- tion, died at Bonn, in Germany. Dr. Leitner, who acted as Interpreter to an arinn in the Crimean War, could lucky age.. The greatest trials of some sPeak with equal facility ill no few - of oar, greatest rn overtook them at er than 50 langasualigies,snaantidvemoaneyirmoafnt.lie gashed in politica literature and art an IntimathlY more abstrueeEastern tongues he knevr 37, or tnereabo Mengf Men distin- died at 67. , • • But there hens been phenomenal lin- An the age eif 37 a great sorrow fie- gam in till ages, from the far-awan fell Aristotle -the death' of Plato, his days of ntithridates, Xing of Pontus, friend and teacher, with whom he had who could converse with the ;subjects etudied for nearly twenty years. This in each of then. 25 tongues; and trom sorrow plainly showed! its °fleets up- the dans of Cleopatra, who never used on his.fature life, and td it maY Ine an interpreter in her relations with attributed the eita tone of his later the world's Ambatisadors. Pico della writings. Mirancitlia, a learned Italian of the It was at. thw age of 87 that Mord fifteenth century was eloquegt in 22 Byron died of fever at Greece, Rape lenguagea, and rd. Fulgence Preenel betel, the glorn of Italian art,. dkid, at wao familutt with 20, and in the seven- tr. Ho fell siek a week before his teenth century Nicholas Schmid, a Ger- birthday of cold and fever, and died on _ man peaaant, translated the Loed's tnat dale, Good, Fridan. In himi the Prayer, into as many languages ae World, lost one of its greatest art- there are weeks in a.year. iste. The' greateet linguiet of all time, England lost her grentest compos- however, wag; Cardinal Mezzofanti, who err at the age of 37. Purcell, the most died half a 'century ago, Mezzotatiti's distinguished musiolan Britain produc- litigated° range wee Kb great that he ed, died Within a few days after tet- could have conVersed in a different tatting his 87th year, Pascal', too, tongue ever week for two yeara die1/411 an 87a but the list) could be ex-. out exhausting his vocabulary. In all etude(' indefinitely. • Thirty-seven is . he wan familiar with 114 languages certainly a fatal and an unlucky age. and dialects, and in most of them he could speak with such accuraity and purity of setent, that he might have FETE DAYS. • been, and often was miataken for a native. mom. Illollaad's November Standara CiVen Over litatrIntoolol Ariatro. The four Sundaye of November tire observed ad fete days Holland. They are knoWn by the carious names, Re - vie*". Decision, Purchase and Posses- sion, and all refer to matrimonial af- fairs. November in Holland being the month par eNeellence devoted to court- ship"and Marriage, prebably because the agriouitural occenations of the year are over, and pesinbly becanse the lorde at creation, from trite remote antis:ditty, have recognized the plette- antnese of having Wives to cook and eater .for theta during the long win- ter. , Oa Review Sunday everybody goes tO church, and after service there is a church parade in every village, when the youths and maidens gaze upon tech other, but forbear_ to epeak. On Decisioe, Sunday each baithelor Who is seeking wife approaches the maiden of his choice with a ceremoni- ous bow, and from Aer manner of re- sponding judges whether his aclvantea are aecepted. Purlutee Sunday, the consent of the parents sought if the suit halt proipered Miring the week. Not POO:elision Sunday, however, do the tWate, appear before the world as actual or prospeotive bride and grp0M. IA Persitt WIdOW weepa for Just two weeks after her husband's death, awl then she puts on her frills. flow. ors sad fluttunydiddles, With the, hope of eetahing a MOW One. NO FROGS' LEGS. lkinealant Word Them %VIM llorrot and nog Core tor Omen. flreiat citientities of Inaba and Mb+ eters are annually canned in Russia, yet oystets are in little favor, and frogs' legs ate) regarded with horror. Arwoman Who! sold great quanties of crabs, upon being asked for sctMe frogs' legs, rerdied that she "would not touch one of the horrid things for a ruble."' Wherever there is water in Russia the frogs abound id But% quantities that one it reminded of the noblemen of other days, who used to liana their dares out to beat the Marshes, no thitt tho Sleep 11.Ussians never eat. Maine, alt they say they test with rata, nor will they touoh or turtles, which , are found. greav quantities all over the eountry. Only the aristocrats eat kide nos, and then only those of the aheep or lamb. GOMM tesh le little emteem- ed, though the fat. 'reused for eulittarY perptiOkes. NOT ALL 111S FAULT. Her head reated bin shoulder, and her little hand Tay, confidingly hi Tel me now, Alfred, said the happy maiden, how you evet tante to pick me out air the girl you wanttsd to Marry. Mora, replied the ecstatic young man, In a gush of confidence, it was maw that, put me up to it. •