The Brussels Post, 1912-6-13, Page 3•
"nese.—
TASTY DISHES.
Cheem, Omelette.—Three eggs,
one-half teaspoon salt, one-half
tablespoon flour, few grains papri-
ka, one-fialf cup milk, eme-holf eup
grated chem. Separate eggs, add
salt, paprika, cheese, flour and milk
to yolks, Beat well. Whip whites
stiff, fold in, yolk mixture, turn in-
to warns omelette pan containing
one teaspoon of melted butter, and
lift occasionally on the edges so
that the uncooked portion may pre-
cipitate. When browned on the
bottom, set in the oven till top is
firin, mit at right angles to the han-
dle, fold and serve on a hot platter.
Pan Broiled Steek.—Wipe stealc
with a damp oioth. Heat a frying
pan smoking hot, place steak in it
and turn at once, so that it can be
seared all over. Turn every few
seconds until done—five minutes for
steak 1j incites thick when desired
ram, and seven minutes when well
done: Sprinkle with salt and pep-
per, spread with bits of butter and
set Moven, to become hot. Serve at
once.
Lima, Bean Salad,—One and a
half cups cooked lima beans, one-
half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons
olive oil, one-eighth teaspoon pep-
per, ane tablespoon vinegar, let -
tam, one teaspoon horse -radish,
boiled dressing, one tablespoon
'reed uls, two tablespoons- minced pi-
mentoes. Mix pimentoes with
beans. Combine vinegar,
horseradish, ketchup, salt and pap -
per; add to, beans, turning over till
well blended, and let stand at least
thirty minutes in a cool place, then
add a little boiled dressing, place
on lettuce and serve.
Strawberry Mousse. — One egg
white, one-half cup of double
cream, six tablespoons sugar, one-
half cup fruit juice and pulp. Beat
white of egg until still and gradual-
ly beat in sugar. Beat cream and
fruit juice until solid to bottom of
bowl. Combine the two. Pour into
mould wet M cold water, seal and
let stand three or four hours pocked
in equal measures of ice and salt.
Baked Ham.—Two pounds ham
cut 3 inches thick, one-half cup
grape juice, one cup boiling water,
two cloves, 1 -inch stick cinnamen.
Freshen horn for two hours in cold
water. DraM, place in baking dish
with other ingredients, cover and
bake gently till tender—aboub one
and one-half hours. Remove from
liquid, add to it two tablospoons
chopped raisins and thicken with
one-half tablespoon arrowroot dis-
eolved in a little cold water.
Parsnip Cakes.—Wash parsnips
and cook forty-five minutes in boil-
ing salted water. DraM, plunge in
cold water, when skins will alip off
eesily. Mash, season with butter,
salt and pepper; shape in small flat
round cakes, roll in flour and fry on
a griddle.
Maize Croquettes Monchtmin.—
One cup of corn, one teaspoon salt,
two teaspoons green pepper minced,
few grams pepper, two teaspoons
parsley minced, two tablespoons
butter, three tablespoons pastry
flour, Remove oore and seeds from
pepper and mince. Let boil two
minutes, draM and add to corn with
seasonings. Heat mixture to a boil-
ing point and thicken with the but-
ter turd flour rubbed together. The
exact amount of flour varies with
the wetness of the corn, Let chill
and form into balls, roll in crumbs,
egg and ,crumbs, and fry a golden
brown in fat hot enough to brown
a bit of bread in forty cont'.
Coffee Cake.—One-third of a yeast
cake, ono egg, two tablespoons
lukewarm water, about one and
one-half cups flour, one-half cup
scalded milk, paste made of two
tablespoons of water and one-half
tete:peon cornstarch boiled toge-
ther, two tablespoons butter, one
dozen blanched almonds, two. "table).
meows sugar, one-fourth teaspoon
salt, one-half teaspoon cinnamon.
Melt the butter in. the milk, add su-
gar and salt; when lukewarm add
the yeast dissolved in the warm wa-
ter, and the 'egg,. stir in flour
enough to make a staff batter. Let
rise. Spread e•moothly in a bubter-
ed pan and let rise; then bake half
an hour. Make a moked paste with
cornstarch ancl hot water, spread
over the top of cake, sprinkle with
,almen.cre out in thin slices and su-
gar mixed with cinnamon; then
brown.
Strowberry-Pineapple Sam.—Use
three quarts strawberries, two me-
dium sized eoineapplea eut into thin
slims, then cubed, Put the fruit
with Iwo pounds granulated sugar
in alternate layers in a granite pro-
s/or-ye kettle, end let Mand till juke
runs, Theo add the juice .of one
lemon end one orange. Cover the
peel of an orange with water and
heat slowly te boiling, he serape
off the white) cut into narrow strips
ond add to the other irtgredients
with two mere pound e Dugan
Cook all slowly until pine -apple is
tender and jelly forms,
CHEESE BETTER THAN MEAT.
The use of cheese its a food deem
back to very rernote ages. Cheese
fie reformat an ie the Book el Yea
sea lastly ate boo:se• 44 Sarner4 goft
of diet in the curly days of the Ave -
lab. kitigdorn, says Dr, O. S. Red-
mon,c1,
Until comparatively rent years
it has been used by the well-to-do
only as a savory a the end of n
ample meal, and by the lield labor-
ers in many of the agricultural dis-
tricts as the basis of their midday
dinner. But within the last twenty -
live years it lues been ecientifically
demonstrated as a, cheap and nutri-
tioas substitute for. meat.
Now an economic food may be de-
fined as one which yields the high-
est percentage of proteld er nitro-
genous constituents at the lowest;
price, and for the purpose, a tits
article it is proposed to compare
the relative claims of beef, the anose
generally used animal source, of
proteid, and of cheese, perhaps the
least so.
Comparing the relative economic
value of beef and cheese, Mathew
Williams ("Chemistry of • Cook-
ery") maintains that 1 pound of
average cheese contains as much
nutriment as 3 pounds of an ox or a
sheep as prepared for sale by the
butcher, or, in other words, a
cheese weighing 20 pounds supplies
as much nutriment as a sheep of 60
pounds, as ib hangs in the butcher's
shop
Estimated by the calory, or heat
standard, i.e., the amount of heat
required to raise 1 pound of waiter 4
degrees, Fahrenheit, the fuel value
of •cheese is 1.303, compared with
that of beef '.623, or rather more
than double.
Beef, therefore, is a dear food,
cheese a cheap one. Beef is also a
wasteful food—the non -edible por-
tions—bone, cartilage, sinew and
connective tissue. This is termed
unavoidable 'waste, and in ordinary
cuts of meat is estimated at about
15 per cent. There is also waste in
cookiug, especially roasting, but
the percentage is difficult to esti-
mate, and consists largely of water.
Cheese, on the other honcl, is
Probably the only article of food in
which there is practecally no waste,
except the thin outside eind, about
1 per cent. Again, ehoom is a
"purin free" eood, while beef is the
reverse. (Purine are certain nitro-
genous bodies which go to produce
in tho system uric acid, the baneful
factor in the causation of gout and
rheumatism).
Notwithstanding its high nutritive
value, it is a curious fact that cheese
does nob take the high place that it
merits as the chief factor in the
princiapl daily meal of our workers.
The rich designate it as vulgar be-
cause it is cheap; the poor "mkt
shoulder'' it because our education-
al authorities have hitherto ne-
glected their manifest duty to teach
all children domestic economy and
the food value and relative met of
all foocl stuffs, as is so thoroughly
done in Germany.
Yet in Switzerland cheese is the
national dish of the handy moun-
taineers, as the well-known "fon-
du," is the most toothsome and sat-
isfying meal that a healthy man can
desire. Some people say that,
though they like chees,e, yet they
can not eat it because it gives them
incligestien. While this may no
doubt b.e true in some eases, yeb for
the most part such should blame
themselves, and not the cheeae, be-
cause they do not suffitiently mas-
ticate it, and so allow it to pass into
the stomach in little lumps which
the gastric juice is unable to pene-
trate and dissolepealne, casein.
CAT G7-UARDED BODY.
Flew at an Intruder Front Shoul-
der of the Corpse.
An astonishing tale of a cob's
fidelity and sorrow—since cats are
supposed to be less devoted to peo-
ple than dogs—was told at a Choi -
ma (England) in:quest.
The inquest was Wel on the body
of Sarah Ann Turnroe, aged seven-
ty, the widow of an artist, of Ger-
trude Street, Chelsea, who was
found dead in 'bed with the cat on
her sheulder. lefts. Turnroe aps
petered to be asleep, and when a
boy touched her the cat flew at him.
Reared from kitteehood by Mrs,
Turnroe, the oat—by name Minnie
—had been her closest companion
for fifteen years. By her hist vigil
Minnie showed that cats can be as
faithful and loving as dogs. But
the death of her mistress proved
the death of tho me. The cat foe
clays was inconsolable, and had to
be drowned as the most humane
way to end its grief.
At the inquest Mrs. Griffiths, at
whose house Mrs. Turnroe lived,
stated that when her little boy took
Mrs. Turnree an early morning cup
of ton the cat was sitting on her
shoulder. Seeing the, boy, Minnie
was rowed to such an extraordi-
nary fury in its attempts to pro -
vent his approach to her deadenis-
trees that she flow at the boy,
knocking the teocepout of his hand.
The cat was all 'black except for
a white mach on her chest. She
showed distress whenever Mts.
Turnroe went away for the day or
two, calling dismally for the day to -
gallon Mr Turnroe died a, ,year
age and the eat then visibly grieved
and, moped for his death.
When a doctor was called in to
me the tread body of Mre. Turnroe
the ent was etill on the bed—at the
time at the feet of its misbress,
Later in the clay the body of Mrs.
Ture.roe was removed to a shall.
Then the.grief of tho eel) wee piti-
Plea aseictaaaee *easy evetWaleae waggle el, ,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LES 0 N,
JUNE 16.
447
Lesson XL Christ's Witness to
John the Baptist. Matt. 11. 249,
Golden Text, Luke 7. 28.
Verso 2, Verse 1, which is not a
pare a our lesson pa,esage, reads,
"And it cerise to pass when Josue
had finished eomanding his twelve
disciples, he departed thence to
teach and preach in their cities.",
Following the best harmonies of the
Gospels we must insert atthis poinu
in the narrative the incidents of the
healing of tho centurion's servant
and the raising of the widow's can
at Nain (Luke 7. 1-17). Both inci-
dents belong to the preaching tour
referred to in the verse just quetecl.
News of the marvelous works of
the Christi; reaoh,ed John the Bap-
tist in his prison at Maohaerus, on
the upper end of the Dead Sea,
where an imposing castle served the
double purpose of palace and dun-
geon.
3. Art thou he "—The uncertain-
ty in the mind of the Baptist was
real, not affected. Still it was not
anevidence, of disbelief, but rather
of a troubled uncertainty born of
disappointment and prison hard-
abips.
4. The things which yc hear and
see—The marvelous authoritative
teaching concerning the kingdom
and the words of healing and bene-
ficence performed.
5. The poor have good tidings
preached to thern—Jeaus every-
where lays as much stress upon his
teachings as upon his miracles.
13. And all the prophets and the
law—Those of the Old Testarnertb,
14. This is Elijah, that is to come
The prophet*, referred to is that of
Mal, 4. 6, "Bcioid 1 will amid you
Elijah else prophet before the great
and terrible day of Jehovah come."
Jesus hints that his hearers may be
unwilling to believe hia statement
concerning John, Their unbelief
Would be natural in view of John's
present imprisonment and humilia-
tion, and mere particularly in view
of the fact that they expected
personal return of Elijah and. not
the emeing of another prophet of
similar authority,
com-
prehend 10 Ears to hear—Power to 16, This generation—The Mari -
ems and seribes who aro pleased
with neither John nor himself.
Then are compared with children
in the streets playing at waddings
and funerals, and quarreling with
each other as they play.
19. Eating and drinking—Not
subjecting himself to the asceticism
which John had practised,
Wisdom is justified by her works
—The superiority of the religion of
John and Jesus is proved by the
lives of their disciples,
EXCELLENT FATHER.
Sluiniverker—"What a well-bal-
anced little boy he is !
Burglar's Wife—"And he comes
by it natural, ma'am! His poor fa-
ther always got his sentence re-
duced owing to geed behavior !"
Tom—"Why so melancholy, old
man 1" Sack—"Miss Jones reject-
ed me last nighb." Tom—"Well,
brace tsp. There aro others,"
Jack—"Yes, of course; but some-
how I can't help feeling sorry for
the poor girl."
DEATH IN SNUFF -BOL
Tinfoil Impregnated Contents and
Woman Died.
A remarkable story of the fatal
effects of taking muff that has been
packed in "tinsfoil" was reported a
few days ago to one of the leading
Swiss medical journals by Dr, E.
Stadler. A woman, 33 years of age,
saw him in May, 1910, who showed
many aymptores of lead poisoning.
After various relapses she died at
tho and of last Never:alien It was
only after her death that the doc-
tor discovered the habit that had
led to her death. She had undoubt-
edly died of lead poisoning; every
symptom was there, and the post-
mortem confirmed the doctor's sus-
picious.
Afterwards it was discovered that
the woman had during the post few
years been a great snuff -taken Her
habit was to buy the snuff in peck-
ets enclosed in tin -foil. Alter open -
lag a packet,eho would have a pitch
or two, squeeze it up, and put it in
her pocket, then feel for it every
now and then and again take ae-
other pinch. The tin -foil evidently
got mixed up with the snuff, of
which she took about ten grams
daily.
Analyses of similar packets have
now been made, and have shown
that the moist alkaline snuff has a
chemical action on the foil. The
foil contained 89.9 per cent. of lead,
and the snuff contained on an aver-
age 3%. per cent, of lead, Sha
must, therefore, have taken into
her nostrils 175 milligrammes of
lead daily. Ont of this it was only
necessary for her to absorb eight or
ten milligrammes te• have produced
all the symptoms observed.
Splendid Barn and Stables at the Provincial Prison Farm at Guelph.
W.Magrd.
Dormitory and Dining Hall at Provincial Prison Farm, Guelph.
6. No occasion of stumbling—No
cause for the faltering of faith.
7, 8. What went ye out in the
wilderness to beholcie—We are per-
mitted in the passage which follows
to see John through the eyes sef Je-
sus. • To him 'the great forerunner
of the Kingdom was no -mere reed
shaken with the wind, nor yet an
ordinary herald of royalty clothed
in eat raiment, bub a prophet of
righteousness.
9. Some translationa of this verse
read, But what went ye out to see/
a prophet?
10. 11a, of whom it is written—In
Mal. 3. 1, which reads : "Behold, I
wend my messenger, ands he shall
prepare the way before use; and the
Lord, whom ye seek; will suddenly
cense to his temple; and the mes-
senger of the covenant, whom ye
desire, behokl, he °moth, saith
Jehovah of hosts." In Malachi it
is thus Jehovah himself who speaks
01 1114 own coining, This direct
speech in the fist person all of the
evangelists change Into an adclrees
of Jehovah to the Messiah (compare
Mark 1. 2''Luke 1. 76; 7. 27), which
suggests abet perhaps they are
quoting not directly from Mole,chi,
but from some common paraphrase
in which the change liael already
been made.
11. There hath not arisen it
greater than John the Baptist --
None greater under the old disp,ens
skiers, a represenbative of which
the Baptist must be eonsidered,
Greater than he—Greater in estivilege, because a member of the
Iffingclete, and as Raeh ender the
new dispensatioe,
12. From the days of Sohn --
Shim he began to preach repen-
tance,
auffereth violenee — The eeger
crowding of repentant sinners into
the Kingdom. Jeans gives John
full credit for the remarkable ins
fluence sof ,bie preaching,
GOT MANY COSTLY GEMS.
Rome Stirred by Robbery of the
Bambino ai San Gaetona.
The faithful who attend the
Church of Sant Andrea della. Valle,
in the Corse Vittoria, Emmanuele,
Rome, are snitch concerned over a
gross ant of Sacrilege. A famous
statue, known as the Bambino di
San Gaetana, luts been despoiled
by conscienceless marauders of all
the jewels which had been Dissented
isa it by grateful devotees. Miracu-
lous virtue wa,s attributed to the
"bambino," Many people whose
devout prayers murmured before
the holy image had received the
desired answer, testified their gra-
titude for the spiritual or temporal
blessing received by presenting
gifts to adorn the statue.
The full value of these donations
is mob amairately known,
but it is
estimated to be between 94,000 and
95,000. An ineoen,plete list of the
jewels with which th,e statue was
adorned is given by the "Messag-
gem " and comprises a crown oe
gold set with brilliants and rubies,
pearl nockloce, gold star set vvith
large diamonds, gold belt with em-
erald clasp, gold snake -aliened
clasp with turquoises, twelve gold
bracelets sot with precious stones,
five °hakes of pure gold with many
gold medallions, twenty geld lingo
set with pearls, diamonde, and
other josvels.
It is presumed that the thieves
hid themselves In the church after
the evening 'service, which was con-
tinued to a late hour, and macro
'their eeeapo in the morning, when
the chureh was opened, 8,s the doors
show no signs of having, beenforoasi,
fcreed, and the windows arc Intact.
She—Mr, Dubb is always telling
what he is going to do, Hos-Well,
if lie ,ditin't he'd have nothing to
tell,
PRESERVING TIMBER.
Few people realize that timber
will last longer than metal. The
average life of a steel bridge is fifty
years, yet elm piles supporting the
foundation of London Bridge wore
found to be in good condition after
a lapse of 800 years. Wood that
has to stand for a very considerable' Govan, Patrick, Pollocks,haw,s, and
time such as piles, is now oreo- sixteen smaller suburbwithin the
city administration.
But even now the pinnacle gained
is Hi precarious one. Birmingham,
with its surroundings, comes close
behind. Calcutta and Bombay have
more inhabitants, though their
skins are colored, so, perhaps, they
count at a lower ratio, while if
Manchester incorporates Salford
and her other offshoots, she will
beat all competitors outside Ione
don. But for the moment Glasgow
is saeisfied, and so are the Parlia-
mentary lawyers who adjust these
matters before the Rouse of Come
mons select committee for hand-
some fees.
NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT TUE WESTERN PEOPLE.
LEE DOINQ.
Progress of the Great West Told
In a Few Pointed
Items.
Wainwright will have les first fall
fair on Sept, 17.
Raymond pool room proprietors
will pay. a license fee of 92000 this
year.
Coronation has let the contract
for a town. well 500 feet deep if ne-
cessary,
]Iight car loads ef. '
ef-
!ets have been unloaded at Botha,
I so far this year,
Thirty thousand dollars will be
spent on a new ;school building and
equipment at Olds this year.
The U.N.R. is building a large
four -pen stock yard at Camrose for
the convenience of ahippers.
Dayale.nd Agricultural Society
faces a deficit of 91,000, but is phas-
ing the best fall fair over for 1912.
Coronation is asking the interior to 1,900 feet in height are all of
department to establish a sub- limestone whereas on the east side)
town.
agency of Dominion lands in. -that of the lake, the formation is entirely
Eight dollars a head is the pre- sandstone of exquisite hum, The
abundonce of water an this side as
veiling price for dairy cows at auc-
com cured with the other is very
tion sales in the Didsbury district P
this spring. striking too,
'About ton miles from Engedi
There. were 83 towns in Alberta
Ogile M11ut lies the peerless natural fortress of
I after the new vi1, bMed-
WONDERS OJf THE DEAD SEA..
Motor Boat Exploration by Mamie
bers of Colony 10 Jerusalem.
An interesting trip around the
Dead Sea was made in a motor boat
by Jacob E, Spaffeed, a member of
the American colony in Jerusalem,
says the Geographical journal.
In circumnavigating the lake four
or five very fertile plains or ghors
were met with. "Them plean,s
writes Mr. Spofford, "naturally
bring to mind the eonneetion of the
Dead Sea with Sodom an,d Gomor-
rah, the 'cities of the plain,' that
were overthrown. They have been
variously placed on every side of the
sea.
"These plains and thesmall weds
at Engedi are the only palate where
life of any kind and water aro to be
found. Engedi, our firat stopping
piac,e, is the only epot on the, west
This evidently was a little paradise
in the time of Solomon and is free
quently mentioned ki the Old Testae
jn
rineea
"Theatcliffon
which form an almost enbroken
s the weat side of the
wall, excepting for the rugged tor-
rent beds, and which vary from 300
1 Mine Hat .and its cheap gas secured Masada (Sebbali), first fortified by
the industry.
Twenty men are at present em-
ployed on the can,struetion of the
new 945,000. federal building being
erected in Nelson.
The proposition to place all side-
walks constructed in future away
from the curb was endorsed by the
Regina cite, council.
A great many fish have been
caught this spring by the Indian fish
traps along the creeks that run into
Okanagan lake.
Wainwright Athletic Association
has just donated 9200 of its fund,s
for prizes at the town's first fall
fair in September.
A party of surveyors are at work
with a view to reporting an the
feasibility of draining the Hay
Lakes into. Bittern Lake.
Four thousand donors worth of
government seed grain will be
available for farmers in the Lloyd-
minster district this year.
By a unanimous vote Raymond
council decided to ask the provin-
cial government to prohibit pool
rooms within the town.
Considerable hay and grain is be-
ing planted at Okanagan Falls this
spring. At one ranch peas are be-
ing planted expressly for hog feed.
A large territory north of Carl-
sta,dt VMS burned over last week by
prairie fires, but no casualties or
loss of property have been report-
ed. One man, Peter Harrold, east
of Carlstadt, lost everything he had
from a prairie fire.
No less than fifteen new traction
engines have been unloaded from
the ears in Carlstadt this spring
and there are more on the way.
More than fifty big tractors, repre-
senting many different metres, are
at work breaking land in this dis-
trict at the present time.
'8
SECOND CITY IN THE EMPIRE
Parliamentary Committee Admits
Glasgow's Claim.
Glasgow is proud in the fact that
she is now really "the second city
in the Empire," with a population
of over a million. But it has cost
her eighteen days' hard fighting in
the committee rooms of the British
House of Commons, and an expen-
diture of 9250,000 on lawyers and
witnesses.
It has been achieved by extend-
ing the boundaries so aa to absorb
eote,c1, and the process is something
more than the mere daubing of a
preservative over the timber. Cre-
osote is really a heavy oil distilled
from conl-tar, The wood to be sub-
jected to the preservative is first
seaeoned in the ordinary way. It
is then placed in an enormous air-
tight steel drum, The air from this
drum is extracted, m that a vacu-
um is sweated, and the creosote is
then pumped into the chamber at
groat heab and preasure. Natural-
ly, the creme& liquid is literally
forced several inches into the wood ;
its ram, the pi:nesse inertia:me tho
weight of the wood by ten pounds
per cubic foot.
CATS USED BY SMUGGLERS.
Two men have been arre.etecl in
Vienna fOt smuggling saccharin in-
to Austria with the involuntary as-
eistonce of twenty performing. oots.
The cats arrived at the frontier in
a large cage, and after being in-
epeceed were paesed as bee* des-
tined far a Viennese ittemiceball, A
"LINKS or 171.P/RE."
A good deal of atitenbi:on is being
paid to the doings of the Kinfes
sons. The Prince of Wares' move-
ments in Paris arc chronicled with
unfailing regularity, and the fact
that Prince Albert accompanied
the Ring on Isis historic submarine
trip has been duly recorded.. Prince
Henry, his Majeety'e third son, is
'message was atterevards rezeivedi raw claiming the alteeteen of the
from tbe Garmanauthotiesiea navies public. He is said to be the natural
ing the Ausarian Ceeteseee teepee, student of the filanily, ;sad happy als -.
fors to examine the? ease elmely, ways when ivith booka ot mum.
This svas done when the anillialo are There ie poseibly a deeper purpose
rived in Vienne, and a /ergo gnam- in this comprehensive education of
tity of saccharin was found core the young priecos than may tub firet
coaled undo) a false Mem of the
cage,
0—
l'atience—"She had en A hat that
be apparent, for it LI etatecl isa
Court, circles that the King intends
hie noses W become "Links of Em-
pire" by taking up positions Bind -
just suited her fete." Patrice — lar to that now held by the Duke
"Oh, was it se plain as theta" Of Connaught..
the Maccabe;es, then used as a pleas
of refuge by Herod. At the foot of
the table and can be seen the Ro-
man wall of aircumvallation a"d the
two Romaa camps on either side of
the small' ravine.
'The 'ortreee, which is 1,700 feet
above the sea ,hos steep sides at
about an angle, of 75 degrees and
cannot be approached, except from
a cennetting neck called the Ser-
pentine. A more inhospitable place
or one more disadvantageous to be-
siegers could not be imagined.
"Eight miles away is Sabel 'Ia-
.:Min, a mountain of rock salt rising
to a height of 500 feet. In this
mountain is a large cave which was
explored to the extent of about 200
yards, at which point a tapering
cylindrical e,haft, of about 20 feet in
diameter was discovered, piercing
the solid reek salt 80 feet high, as
though through polished marble,
evidently the effects of the raM.
"Great snow white stalactites
hung from the ceiling. The ap-
proach to this mountain preeents
most fantastic appearances of walls,
butteasees, parapets, projecting
towers, etc., caused by the stratifi-
cation and lay of the salt boulders.
"A little south of Masada, lies the
rich Ghorsel-lVlizra. Here and else,
where abound the apple of Sodom
described by josephus. '
FREE TO RISS ALL THE GIRLS.
For One Day the Thiel -Men of
Himgerford Are Dicky.
.
just when England m beginning .
to pride itself on its progress of
modernity, Hungerford, on the bor-
ders of Berkshire and Wiltshire,
,slips back into the oenturies bemuse
it is Hackney Tuesday..
Unless you have lived through
Hackney Tuesday you can have no,
conception of what ib raezen,s. It
needs ,strong nerves and a stronger
constitution thoroughly to enter in-
to the spirit of ancient thrice. At
eight o'clock the town crier'in 'grey
and searlet, with brass buttons,
comes out of the town hall and '
blows three notes on the ancient
horn given by John o' Gauntt and .
that is the signal for two Ural -men
to emerge from the constable's
house with staves tipped with flow-
ers—daffodils, primroses, and 'tu-
lips, surmounted by an orange. It "ne..._
is their business to go forth and •
kiss the damsels of the town, irre-
spective elf age or beauty, accord-
ing to custom.
Mr. Janos Blake and Mr. An-
thony Bowsher were the tutti-men
this year. Mr. Blake is sixty years
old, Mr. Bowsher is younger, but
both of them kissed vigorously from
eight o'clock until seven in the
evening, with a break for dinner,
Tradition decrees that they ehalt
bo liberal with oranges and porn
nies. Th•crefore, having kissed a
maid, they gave her an orange as te
solace, and they hurled oranges
among the crowd of urchins who fol-
lowed them about all day,
was a perfect orgy of kissing.
They knocked at doors, mid little,
-high-pitched shrieks floated out in-
to the street, showing how nobly
the tuttimen were doing. their
duty.
They went,to the workhouse ad
kiased all the old lediee, including
Ann Benson, who is ninety -eine
years o]d; they went to the laundry
with their floral genes, Up and
down for five railes they wandered
from home to house, kissing, kiss-
ing, kissing, entil, at the time of
the sunset there wore to more left
to kiss.
Meanwhile (hiring these ganga
en, the Rock -Tido Court hod beets
sitting, cloin'g the eetious imminent
of the year, appointing a tonstable,
povtreove, en ele-imater, end
What not, and at the end the entire
collrb adjourned to the Three Swane
for churchwarden pipes and heels
af emokieg punch.
Everyone agreed that "they Were
good old ticteX."