Exeter Advocate, 1906-1-4, Page 6^
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Irt au eastern magaziue a. writer is
giving aavice to womankind front o
=We' Point, ot view. 'This month he
ratees the always interesting question
matriraonao The writer offers the
wart but to raarry startling ad-
vice. "A, girls" he seys. "shoed('
never marry a fellow until she's get
another mains honest opinion of
Line" Ile dvises lier to look at
her floancee through the knowledge of
auother man before taking the final
step, and tells a tale to demonstrate
that a girl win often eee this
whieb before sb.e had never suspent
ed.
Calm reason impels the conviction
that in many iustances action Of this
kind would prevent matrimonial oh,
happiness, Men necessarily annw
more of the unfavorable tad) of their
tellows than do women. llot it is
hardly probable that any girl, if she
sought a man's opinion of her suit-
or, would drop him if the other reaa
assures her that lie was iniworthy.
action means the Subordination of
her own prepossessions to the opia
ions ot others, and woman ,has a, well
elcianefl prejudice against sabordinat •
ing her 'opinions of men to anythirg
The young girl, is not in tae habit of
seeking advice as to a young inau's
matrimonial eligibility until she has
seed that question_ for herself.
Then, if she seeks an, opinion of him,
she wants a favorable opinion, and
the more favorable it is the better
for everybody. . If the advice given
agrees with her own convictions she
will follow it. It it disagrees she will
disregard it, andprobably will for-
get its giver when invitations for
the wedding are. to be issued.
The kind of advice about mate-
mony that woman looks upou with
favor is the kind that confianas her
own opinions. In the matter of love
'she in -more 'positive in her opinions
than in any other. Her heart has
told her whether she wishes to enarry
a man long before she seeks advice
concerning hien, and all she wants
and will heed is confirmation and as-
surance. To give her disagreeable
opinions and advice under these eir-
cunestances, as an "honest man"•
would often have to de, would only
serve to rivet her own conclusions
--a lid incur her dislike. ..
—
The "honest man" who should ex-
ress unfavorable opinion of an-
ther "honest man" about to marry
iould have to stand trial after.
ards for ill-natured tattling, and
seweild never be free from the sue•
wYtf preionice and envy. Then.
/ her. It'a"ctay.--Mtsei" to find her
itinteena
e,„,,kir Bat tin,
catching 'Aortal& a New '-al Slle thin"
hinnanpatents he -.ale can Leal one,
-teener, who bas tree hard if she shall be
recuvered. I two and listen to the
. each may tell about the
•ee,....- - If she adopts this• expedient
• ehe may come to the conclusion thot
there are no honest men and that
Irea
,..• in he 'would best remain an old maid.
, .. •Tjah:ntis:ld way is the best—"for Adler
.
-
,
.
. for poorer, for better for worse, till
death us do part." It is all un-
reasoning; why attempt to reason
about love and matrimony with a
woman who has already made up her
,
--. are
BY THOUSANDS.
r—
The Hereros Were Almost Exterminated
by the Germans.
e. A terrible picture of the war against
• the Hereros in Gernem South-west AN-
„ Arr.. sTaiiiinWleaef-fire report of the head -
f quarters' staff which has been presented
col.ao the Reichstag.
It states that the Hereros in the turtle.
provinces of the colony have been
• a• rtually exterminated. They fled before
17„aa Kaiser's forces across the Omahehe
a'nesert, where they perished in thou-
rsands of hunger and thirst. Rendered
• desperate by their sufferings, they dug
• wilesein many places fifty and sixty feet
' op In the hope of diseavering water,
and. finding none, lay down and died
in the desert. Hundreds of bodies were
found Amon over the sand. In some
Instances the negroes in their despair
had huddled together to die, and thee!,
bodies were found In great heaps.
A splendid record is -ascribed to the
German troops, who madeprogress
against the enemy in the face of colossal
diftioulties. Many detachments had to
make forced marches of sixty miles over
roads including sand dunes above 500
feet high.
The comparatively small results
nehretteed. by operations extending over
two years are attributed to difficulties
tormected with transport operations
-conducted In districts several hundred
. miles away from the nearest railway.
After defeating ineurgents, the troops
were repeatedly unable to follow up
their victories, °Wing to lack of sUppItee
and ammunition at the critleal Mordent.
It is noteworthy that the Germans
'a -adopted coneentration camps, Where
many thousands Of prisoners were in-
earcerated.
THE HEAT OF THE SUN,
"The sun's heat,” said the aStronOman
'Well, let us say that the value of the
eun's heat is 825,000,000. Now what pro-
• pertion of that value do you 'suppose
warms the earth? Only tWo cents'
Worth. All 'the rest, of the sun's he 18
wasted in space, Of the at3,009,00:1 the
' tenth only gets 'two cents, With coal 1
• can give you another idea of the sun's
• 'heat. Suppose that the earth Wee to
• contract to heat the sure Do you know
what tbit result vvOuld lie? All the C001
• upon the earth •would retitle° to intlini
',Orin the preterit solar heat for just one-
tenth of a iteelotid."
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•UNIVERSAL FAITH
It is Better to Have • Too Many G -ods
Than None at kl1
Though he be not far front every
thee of us, for in lam we live ancl
move and breve our being.—Acts anti,
27-28.
It takes a broad 'minded man of
profound • convictions to appreeiate
the truth in another mares creed.
Later interpreters have made Paul
You can give the feet and inches
and the angles of substantial things,
but in the spiritual world mathema-
tics fail. If any man gets any satis-
faction out of his exact delineation
of his God let him enjoy it for him-
self; but he most not force that out-
line on anether, sayingt "Acknow-
the champion of bigotry; the truth ledge this as the true and only re -
is he was so much the apostle of lib- Presentation. ot the deity; believe this
or be damned!" •
erality that he gave his life as a
witness to that which men then call-
ed heterodoxy. When he comes to
Mars hill ho talks to the teachers
there about the truth and the good
he finds in their religion.
The fact that these "heatheroo as
his people called them, were wor-
shipers of many gods is to him evi-
dence of the faith that underlies all
forrns of religion, the faith in the
divine. Men may diner as to defini-
tions of gods, but everywhere there
is this souse of the divine. It is bet-
ter to be a polytheist than ono who
thinks inly of a -god who, far off oa
his throne, neither knows nor cares
for his people; better have scores of
statues than believe your God is
yours alone.
There are many things eve can di-
vine that we cannot define. Yet mea
,have built their differenees, on their
definitions of the great spirit, Some
talk in terms of •specifications so
precise that one nanst conclude they
have held the contracts for the man-
ufacture of their gods. No one can
be absolutely sure that his picture of
the, Unseen is correct. Perhaps we
can now know no more of the
FATHER OF SPTRITS
than the weeds of the wayside may
know humanity. Tim terms of the
lower can never contain the truth of
• the higher.
But how little it matters what the
precise 'details of the picture may be
SO IMag as it grows better, nobler,
fairer, and more worthy of the wor-
ship and better fitted for the inspir-
ation of the race. Exact and ether
cut lines belong to chllclhoo'cl; larger
knowledge and growth make the lines
distinct, but ' the picture not less
real. You think less of the details
and more' of the imago on the mind.
Man's groat need is not precise in-
formation so muca as it is the pres-
ence of his God. To realize that this
being, whatever, however he may be
--and all language • fails when we
come to that which is without pre-
cedent or parallel with us—is not far
on, that he is the most real, inti-
mate', unvarying presence in life, that
none are nearer, so that it may be
truly said that in him we live, and
move, and have our being.
THIS IS THE ESSENTIAL THING.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTIeRNATIONAL LESSON,
.
AN. 7.
•
Lesson 1. The Shepherd's Find Iesus.
Golden Text, Luke 2. 1.I..
LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note—The textof, the Revised Ver-
sion is used as a basis for these
Word Studies.
The. Narrative of a Professional
Man.—Luke. the author of the third
gospel, wets a physician (Col. 4. 14)
of scholarly tastes and instincts. At
the tinie of his writing his narrative
of the lifo of Jesus (about A.D. 70
or a little later) there
ealready ex-
istd. in addition to the vast oral
traditions clustering about the name
of Jews and still fresh ie. the mem-
ory of the first generation after
Christ, several written accounts of
the words and evork of Jesus (Luke
1. 1). Two of these were doubtless
the gospels of Matthew and Mark,
the narrative of Mark being the older
of the two. There wore also, with-
out 'doubt, still many persons living
who had themselves been eyewitness-
es of • tbe ce-ents connected -with the
life of Jesus. 'Phis 'vast source of
writteneand oral material from which
to draw in constructing his narrative
Luke approached in the spirit and
with the method of a scholar, tree-
ing "the course of all things accur-
ately from tho first" (Luke 1. 3), be-
fore proceeding ttheo write. Concerning „„ea
Luke we know, apart from that 17. • °a/. ft is located about six
waich we are told and may infer miles front Jerusalem to the south.
concerning him from his writings 5, Betrothed to him—According to
(the gospel and the book of 'Acts), Oriental cutitom, the betrothal was
that he was for a time the compana
ion of Paul, being with the great
apostle at Rome when lie wrote his
epistles to the Colossians, to Tim-
othy, and to Philemon (comp. 'Col.
4; 2 tine. 4. 11; Phil. 24). From
these references we may infer that
he was a Gentile by birth, with
which agrees the Greek form of his
tame, Loulcas, though • this was
doubless derived from' the looger
Latin form Lumens. The 'character
snit language of the -gospel itself
bears out the inference that it was
intended not for a Jewish but for a
Gentile, though Christian, ctrele of
readers: It presents a chronological
account of the lifework of Jesus, as
•complete as the fratates available to
the author enabled him, to make, It
Is addressed to one Theophilus, who
nuey be eonsidere'cl representative of
the class which, the gospel was in-
tended to influence. The place if its
.writing it is not possible to deter-
mine. • •
•
Verso I. in those days—That is, in
the time when the events narrated irt
the preceding first ahapters were. I
tag place.
Not a •God we aro going to sco;
h ut a. God who is se close to us
that WO. do not and cannot live with-
oet him; that is tae faith that: men
need. Not some one to be criticis-
ed,• analyzed, or feared, but the ever
present - friend, the . underlying
strength, the unfailing protection,
the uuvarying inspiration, the great
fact .of spiritual life. How it would
simplify all living and all religion if
we but accepted that, the fact of the
eternal and spiritual in and about
us all.
• That would make all life. divine.
because no life is apart front the
divine. That would make the secret
of the better . life, the larger, freer
communication with the spirit so
near to us all. This makes prayer
as simple as breathing, as natural
as talkieg with the friend by your
side. This makes worship but the
outgoing of affection and praise. No
matter where you may be or how
directed it must reach him who is on
every side.
Never mind about definitions of
God; cultivate the life that finds
communion with the spiritual, the
best, the most pure, aud elevating,
and you shall find your God in all.
ViiilfEWPAilOgii****
HOME. ;
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DOMESTIC RECIPES.
SOMerset Crognettes.--Melt three table -
Spoonfuls of butter; rub into it -three
tablespoonfuls of finer; . then . add tevo-
thirds of e- cup of milk, stirring all the
Wlien the • boiling poitt
reached add one-half OP of grated
• cheese and the yolks of two eggs. When
the cheese is melted and the mixture is
smooth take from tae are and add one
Clip Of mild cheese out into Weill cubes.
Season with salt and cayenne, and
spread on a shallow pate to cool. Shoe
into round croquettes; dip into ego'•and
then into crumbs. Fry in deep. fatuntil
brown. Serve with the lettuce coarse
on 0. folded napkin.
Candied Popcorn.—Boil one cupful of
granulathd sugar, ohe tablespoonful of
butter, and three tablespoonfulof
water for five minutes, Then add to the
syrup three quarts of ninety popped corn.
Stir quickly until all is evenly mixed,.
then remove from fire, and continue stir-
ring noted each grain is separated and
crystalized with candy,
• Creamed Salmon on Toast. ---Melt two
tablespoonfuls of butter, and add to 11
two tablespoonfuls, of flour, a seasoning
of salt and cayenne, and one pint of hot
milk. When sniooth and thick add to
it one cup of canned salmon which has
been freed from bones and skin, one cup
of finely chopped roasted peanuts, and
the whites of three irard-boiled eggs
chopped fine. Servo. hot on buttered
toast or in ramekins.
Plum •Pudding • Jelly.—Put half a box
of gelatine into a cup of cold water and
soak half .an hour; heat a pint of milk
In the double boiler, and when hot dis-
solve a cup of sitar in it and an dunce
and a half of melted cbocolate. Put a
heaping Cup of stoned raisins, a cup ef
washed currants, half a cup of sliced
citron, and a teaspoonful of cinnamon,
and one of °loves into a very little Warm
water on the 'stove, to soften and mel-
low. When the milk and chocolate are
well mixed, pour them over the gelatine
and strain into a bowl. As soon as it
begins to grow farm stir in the fruit and
put Into a mold. Turn out on a platter,
surround with whipped cream, and edge
with holly. "Ibis will look and taste
like a veritable plum puddhig.
Potatoes, Vienna Style.—Mash hot,
well -cooked and drained potatoes, and
season liberally with salt and butter.
Add a very little .cream or rich milk,
and beat until light and smooth. Two
or three beaten egg yolks may be added,
but are not a necessity. The mixture
together corresponding to a single needs to be dr' rather than moist.
volume or book. .Tho Greek verb Shape into portions similar to a Vienna
ginisetaer.nssimply to write down, to re- roll, having pointed h
ends. Score eac
three times, to. simulate the rolls, brush
2. 'When. Quirinius was governor of over with the yolk of an egg beaten and
Syria--Querinius is the Latin form diluted with a. little milk, and set into
of the mune, while Cyrenius (which the oven to become very hot, and brown
occurs • in the King James Version) the top-. Serve with any dish 'which
is the corresponding Greek form. Out- should be accompanied by mashed
side of our lesson narrative there is Potato -
no record of. this first governorship Round Steak Broiled.—Buy a round
and enrollment of Quiriniun - From steak the day before you wish to serve
Ocular history we know tbat ten it. Lay the steak in a deep plate and
years later (A. D. 6) Quirinlue was pour over it two-thirds of a. cup of salad
(probably a second thne) governor oil to which has been added one table -
of Syria, and that ho, during this spoonful of vinegar. 13e sure the oil and
second . achranistration, ordered a vinegar are well blended by beating.
similar enrollment. This second en_ Put the steak in the coldest part of the
rollment is also mentione'd. by Luke
refrigerator. Turn it several times dur-
(Acts 5. 37). Ing the next 24 hours. When you are
ready to Use it, off carefully all
3. To his own city—That is, to the scrape the oil, wipe the steak and broil it over
cater 0 birth..
a clear hot fire. This steak will be found
a. Nazareth—A small town situat" to be as tender and delicious as a much
ed in a high valley among the most more expensive cut.
southerly of the limestone hills of Rice and Cheese Puddings.—Pick over
the Lebanon range, on the northern and wash three-quarters of a cupful of
border of the plain of Esdraelon, in rice, rubbing vol1 to remove loose
the province of Galilee. stareb. Have ready a kettle containing
City -of David—The city in which three or four quarts of salted water.
David was born. Compare "his own When at a galloping boil drop in the
eity," verse 3, above.
rice drid keep at the same hard boil un-
Bethlehem—The name means liter- tit the rice feels tender when rubbed be-
tween thumb and fingers. Drain and
ally house of bread. The town is
one of the oldest in Palestine.
pour over it one cupful and a half of
It is
mentioned he Gen. 35. 16; Ruth 1.
cream sauce made with one tablespoon -
2; 1 sena 17, 12; min e, 2; and ful and a half each of butter and flour
and three-quarters of a pi of of milk.
other Old Testament passages, under
stand until lukewaritt, -then add salt
the name of "Ephrath" or "Ephra- Let
tball" (fruitful)HerRachel died to taste, two well -beaten eggs; and °ne-
(Gen. e 135. 16); here Ruth and Boaz
hall of a cupful of grated cheese. • Sprin-
.
dwelt (Poith 122eand here jesseEde with buttered crtunbs and bac for
. ; ,
father of David, Lived (1 Sam.
half an hour in a good oven.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
' • „
Caesar Augustus --The well-known
first 1102nsti effiperor,1 .(1. 63 to A.
D. l4e. whose autbortea (tended ever
Palestille etude twijace,nt
Item being at this tinui at • the
heigbt, of her evortaly glory.
the Werld should be enrolleel—
All the Roman world. it is probable
that Luke's nor:naive at tbis point
reflects the actual wording of the deo
eree, WhiCh e•OnVeyS to OS • 8. bit of'
the haughty ared boastful epirit
the great .world empiee. The ebroll-
ment7 We a taking; of the eenSUS. ft
did not necessarily involve a taxa-
tion, ft is- interesting to note the
significance of the word "enrolleal,",
There being no books cif the kind we
are used to, all writing wae on long
stripe of parchment or other ma-
terial, eacb long strip when rolled
,, • •
as binding as the marriage itself
(comp. Luke 1, 26-38).
7. Swaddling clothes — Swaadle
'means 'to wrap or wind; heuce, swad-
dling clothes woula be clothes wrap-
ped about an infant. • According to
the custom of the East, theee wore
wrapped tightly about the whole
body of the child, confining both
arms and legs. •
In a manger—the inn—The stables
of the khan or inn of Bethlehem were
according to an old and not impro-
bable tradition, a limestone grotto,
the manger itself being actually a
niche in a limestone cave.
8. Shepherds in the same counter
oelarobabler the shepherds attending
the sheep kept for 'imposes of sacri-
fice in the temple. The pastures
near Bethlehem were • the scone from
which David' had been summoned to
be anointed king • over Israel.
9, Angel—Literally, messenger,
• 11. Christ the • Lord—The word
"Christ" • means literally anointed;
hence, ns in the margin of the Revi-
sion, "anointed Lord."
• 13. A multitude of the heavenly
host—A large company of angels on
other , 8uperhuman beings whose
ilwelliog place teas heaven. Compare
Dan. 7, 10, "Ten thousand times ten.
thousand Aeon before him;" compare
alsce Ito". 5, 11, 12.
14. Pence among men in whom he
is well pleased—The promise is net
of absolute, utieversal peace, but of
constane potion to those evilest': Jives
are pleasing to God, To suck the
nrasettoe ol Christmas briugs joy.
The literal Greek as tranalated itt
the Margin of tile Itetrised Version is
simply Wiran of goon pleasure
Sainte ancient authorities, hoseever,
read pease, good pleasure atnong
men.
it. Nary kept Wale ertyitga--Not
fully underelandizig the Erignificairice
of all that transpired, fihe treasured
all incitients in her Memory, pendia,
ing them in her hettift
totaled. This white chloride of silver
act:Miles soluble in liquid animonia.
The linen should be removed (Illicitly
from tile ellieride of lime -solution
straight into One of anunonia, allowing
it to remain in the latter only feW
Monients. Tile article should then be
well rinsed in Olean water.
• For Brilliant Windowe.--Take a pad
of cotton rag soeked in glycerine and
rub the glass all over inside. Then take
a piece of Clean, dry rag .and lightly
polish the glass until the glycerine ie
invisible, but not entirely tabbed away,
• Do this when the glass is 'Orly warm
and dry, and You will get brilliant "l-
aws, no condensation, and a great say -
lug in the amount of cleaning.
Dees for Carbonate of Soda. --Always
keep carbonate of soda in the bouse—it
IS useful for so many purposes, For
tonne and scalds it is an excellent rem-
edy.. The surface of the burn should be
,coyered with it, either , dry • or just
damped. it relieves the pain caused by
the bites or stings of insects. A small
• saltspooniul in half a tumbler of water
will relieve heartburn .and indigestion,
and if taken with tepid water last thing
at night will frequeotly induce sleep in
Dishcloths msailist'st be washed after using
resptilaeisisa
if they are te be kept sweet and nice.
First wash in a lather of soap and water,
then rinse in clean hot water, and bang
out to day. One 01 the nicest kinds of
dishcloths is Made of tainted soft cot-
ton, which will wash again and again
and look as good as new.
• A great deal can be done to preserve
• a- carpet, even in the simple matter of
layin it. Care should be taken that the
'floor is, perfe,ctly dryabeforehand, as the
common error of laying it in a hurry a
short time after the floor has been
scrubbed.is often the ultimate cause of
moth. It is, besides, a wise precaution
to sprinkle the floor with insect powder:
Once the damage is done, however, the
best way of erradicating moth is as fol-
lows: Wring out a cloth in • bot water,
lay it on the carpet, and go over it with
a hot iron. This will destroy the eggs,
and if done on a fine day with a good
wind blowing, the carpet will soon dry,
provided .the doorsand windows ate
leftTaNbvliedeLionpeen.
n.—Table linen to look well
should always be sprinkled .and riffied
for at least ten hours before Itis ironed.
If good linen, it will not need any starch.
A cloth to look well should not be folded
With too many creases. One through
the centre lengthwise and
itlilielneavfooldthede
once again the same way w
cloth without any cross creases. When
dry, roll the Cloths, but do not fold.
PLANS FOR THE NAVY.
Manteuvres in 1906 to Presume on Co-
•- Operation of Jap Fleet. •
The British naval menceuvres •for
1906 will be based on a principle quite
new in naval annals, and will be on a
fuller scale than the postponed . pro-
gramme of this year. The Japanese
fleet will theoretically form part of the
seirame, which will test the strategic and
tactical value of the new distribution
of warships. It will be supposed that
strained relations exist and the British
and Japanese . navies will be on the
watch all over the world. The sea fron-
tiers of all our possessions•consequent-
1,y.isei:sill1 come into the scheme. As soon
as war has broken out. the treserve da
•will be mobilized, euul the con-
ditions that might occur with a naval
combination operating against Great
Britain will then be rehearsed simul-
taneously by the various divisions, the
operations being part cif one great war
plan. A "skeleton" army of cruisers
with adtnirals in command will be
kept on the alert for weeks against
this force. Tad, ability, and intuitive
judgment will be demanded of the vari-
ous commanders -in -chief, and the
scheme will be the most searching test
of efficiency devised.
Comb Case.—Take twe pieces of linen
• 9 inches long and 2% wide and button-
hole them together in scallops with wash
silk or linen floss. Leave one end open
and buttonhole the end of the upper
piece and the under one hem neatly.
Before you put the tvvo together to but-
tonhole them embroider a spray of
forget-me-nots, deletes or holly on. one
piece and use that for the top. This
makes a nice case for the comb when
you wish to carry it in handbag or suit
case
Mnding Brolcoo Glass.—If you happen
i0 break a glass or valuable glass orna-
ment, it can be effectually and easily
mended in the following way: Melt a
litbla isinglass in spirits of wine, add a,
=eaquantity of water; warm the mix-
ture gently over a moderate are. When
mixed by thoroughly melting it • will
form a perfectly transparent glue -which
Will unite glass so nicely and firmly
that the joint will scarcely be noticed
by the Most criacel eye • •
Staining New Floors --First brush
over with a fairly weak solution of glue
arid Water. Whal the floor is quite dry
take two ounces of permanganate of
potash and dissolve in half a gallon of
bailing water. Brush this over the part
to be stained. If not quite dark enough
give a seilond coat. Let it dry again and
polish With beeswax and turpentine.
Cleaning Tinware—A.01de sheald never
be employed' to clean tinware, because
they attack the metal and • remove it
from the iron of which it forms a thin
coat. We refer to articlee made of tin
plate, Which consist of ikon covered with
tin. flub the artiele first with rotten -
stone arid Meet all, then tinish With
Whiting and a pieCe of soft leather.
Articles made %vhelly of tiri should be
cleaned ift the same manner. In te dry
atmosphere planished tinware will re-
main bright fer a long period, but will
soon becOme tarnished in moist air.
To Extract Marking hike—Take the
piece of marked linen and immerse it in
a solution of chloride of lime. In a freer
Moments the eharacters will be seen to
pose fronl bleck to white, owing to a
new preparation of silver hoeing been
HE GOT EVEN.
. ,
Be Was a Gentleman, However, and
• Will Not Tell.
"Cmirtesy always pays; discourtesy
never does,", said a famous French-
woman. "Let The tell you a story of an
ed. a compartmeat
aciurawl hwapaiatleenninog:—
aau pi
in a railway carriage with one man, a
stranger. They Were extremely rude to
this man. In whispers that he •
ceuld
overhear they criticized. Iris costume, his
figure and his manner. He, to be re -
enveloped
ve,iargilead,•bdlaidakanessiang year tttliOnini
the car, and under 'cover of the darkness
the man kissed the back of his hand
loudly and repeatedly. Than. when the
train entered the light, again he looked
from ene woman to the other with
noes of suspicion.
sig,,artflecympatxashnarileag.ad
• "'Was it you be kissed?'
"'No. Of course not. Was it you?" •
. "And neither lady would tielieve the,
other's denial, and each in her inmost
heart, believed the other had eneouraged
the kiss. • The man looked cool and com-
placent. When filially he rose to go to
said, lifting his hat with a joeular air:
" gave no fear, tadies1 shtll neeer
tell wbich of you it was.'"
• A HOME-MADE ISLAND.
Whale Mend, the large gunnery es-
tablishment for training seamen of the
Trayal Navy, is net a natural i,siand.
Years ago it was only a mud bank,
which .was uncovered by water at low
tide When the authorities commenc-
d to make the docks in Portsmouth,
the earth from the excavations was de -
/melted front barges upon this mud
Lank, until a annuli island was form.
td, showing' at high water about the
&MC of a whale's back (henee its narnta.
As the work proceeded the island grew
rapidly, and a few years later a railway
was constructed on piles front' the dock-
yard works to the island, aild the earth
was deposited much More quickly than
when barges Were Used. In 1860 Allis
!fatted had been made so large that the
Admiralty decided to lay it out as a
drill ground, A small pier was erected
end a house was built for a Warrant of-
ficer to live in and aet as caretaker of
the Island. At the peesent time the Is-
land is about thirty-seven acre e in area
and provides aecomModation for over
1,800 men. a
A dressmaker may het, have a graee-
fill form, but site alevaiTe krories how
to make up nw it.
FROM ERIN'S GRUA ISLE
NEWS BY NAIL FROM
IRELAND'S SHORES,
—ea
Happenings 'in the Emerald Isle
of Interest to Irish -
Canadians.
The death toon place suddenly aA
his residence, County Donegal, of' the
Dean of Replan), Very Rev. Joseph
Potter.- He was known throughout
the north-west of Ireland as an ener-
getic ehurcbmait and o populan.
P.releaarad•rclie.a•
tli occurred, after a short
At his residence, Bessie.),
street. Clones, of Mr, Fronde Hob,
son, at the age of 75. Deceated
was a moat respected reeident ol
Moues, and enjoyed the esteem of ell
• who knew him. •
• Tho Royal Humane Society boa
awarded itstestineonral to Jona
Scott, Victoria road, Baneor, Coun-
ty Down, for his gallant plunge froni
the , pier • there into sixteen feet 01
water, in August, when lie rescued a
girl who had accidentally fallen ire
Recently two young men mulled
Cafferky and 'fighe lost their lives in
Broadhaven Bay. A number of
"curraghs" were engaged in bend -
line fishing-, and • one of thesein
which were five occupants, ancludings
Cafferky and Tighe, got too close to
a 'Weaker and was -swamped. .
• At a meeting of tho Senate of ethe
Royal University it was decided to
confer 'degrees—a bachelorship and a
doctorate—in veterinary meciicinei
The Royal Univereity of Ireland is
the first in the United lelngdom • to
give official recbgnition to the mem-
bers of the veterinary profession. -
• Mr. John O'Donnell, 1LP., having
refused to find bail for his future
good behavior within the time specie
Bed, was arrested in his printing ofe
lice in Galway end -committed to
jail to undergo three months' im-
prisonment, the sentence imposed up-
on him for having recently delivered
a speech calculated to intimidate m
deter men front doing what they heel
a. legal right to do with grass land*
in the west of Ireland.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Flour Millers' Association of Ireland
was held in Dublin recently, when
the president, Mr. Perry Goodbodye
speaking of flour milling in Ireland
at the present time, said the industry
was in a good condition, and pros-
pects for• tb.e future were bright.
Already the Americans had been
beaten out of the market, but -the
confronted with unfair competition
from across the Channel.
It appears from the report just is -
rood by the fishery branch of the
Department of Agriculture and Tech*
nical Instruction,. on the sea and in- .
land alteries of Ireland, that the
quantity of aea fish landed On the
Trish coast tin 1901 was greater titan
that in any previous year. Prices,
however, wore not so • good as in
1903, so that the general result of
the year's working-0393,080—wae
about £,34,000 less than in 1903.
At Wexford, before Mr. M. A. En-.
nis; J.P., a young man named Law-
rence Leary, a native of Enniscorthye
*as brought op at the Petty Ses-
sions office charged with having ,aid-
ed and abetted a woman named Bat -a
ler in the alleged murder of her in-
fant. at Clohamon Bridge. • The woa
man is at present in prison on a
charge of larceny, and her son, a lad
of ten years, said lie saw his mothez
throw the child into the Slaney nt
Clohamon Bridge. Leary was re-
manded.
As the result of prolonged private
iuvestigations by the Dublin Castle
authorities Onto certain charges pre-
ferred against the Belfast Criminal
Investigation Department, tbe deci-
sion of the Inspector -General has beezt
announced. A district inspector. Who'
in the Royal Trish Constabulary,
ranks with a commissioned army -
°facer and a head constable, who
ranks with an English police super-
intendent, have been unfavorably,
commented on; one detective has been
ordered... to resume ordinary police,.
duties, and another has been trans.'
fetTed to a rural district.
RIFLE FACTORY FOR CHINN.
— -
Engineer GI the Chinese Government
• Now in England Arranging Plans.
As indicative of the awakening ot
China and the interest, which is taken
in matters of world poliey by the
Chinese, once so retiring, it is interest-
ing to note that a nephew of the Emper-
or of China and the Chief Engineer ot
the Chinese Government • are nos" in'
England making arrangements for the
construction of a great military rifle taco
tory in China. They spent some time
in the district of Birmingham inspecting
not only the factories where small arms
are made, but also the works which pro-
duce machinery for their nianufacture
They visited the Birmingham Small
Arms faetory, and were conduoted
through the Military section. An inter-
preter ceplained the mechanism to them,
• and they inspected it with great 'care,
making minute ingtdries as to the nature
and capacity of the various enntrivances.
It is Understood that the Chinese factory,
will be lergely furnished with
lllrming-
hani machinery; that Birmingham ex-
perts will superintend its equipment, ana
that large numbers of Birmingliain
mechanics will be engaged Co instruct
Chinese workmen in thelr trade. En.
tirely apart from the magnitude of the
operations the vieit Of Ulla particular
mission is important, as foreshadowing
large ordees by the Chinese Government
both in the military and naval 'depart-
ments of her services. Chtna 11 is.seld,
is ambitious to being her army and now
up to the level of the Japanese forces.
11 18 believed that her determiniltion to
manufaeture her own arms is attribute:I
to unteetunate experiences during the
China-la,panese war. She atcnetly
bought laege quantities of weapons in
England. They turned out to be °Iwo,
tete relics of the Franco Prussian war,
and the Chinese say that they were in
so Shocking a ceralition that it was !me
posSible to pour Water threugh some of
• the bareels.
Some folks rely upon nest amerce.
skins; others only deeide After nutter*
deliberation. The percentage of nria
tabu is 0 ual.
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