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The Brussels Post, 1912-7-25, Page 3.. v.� i J1OU5 t1OLP • CHOICE RECIPES. Swiss Swlad,--Using mate left over from sinner. Equal anted potato, beans, chopped Lege er celery end cheese, grated or cut into sinal( cubes, Bull with mie,md onion, • Mar with oil and vinegar, Serve 1 erred or mayonnaise dies Geniis]) with beers. Eggs iii TIto uta Cups,—Ri .sl Ins from ore firm tome Scoop out the pulp. Season sine with salt and pepper. each cup brays; an egg; fill ten ato sauce male of the e yelp and to which grated ch hat, been Idled. Place in ba dish. cover vitli buttered cru and bake until ttmatoes are bat not broken. Gold Cakes.—One cup sugar, cup butter, half cup milk, two flour, four level teaspoons ba powder, one teaspoon orange tract, eight egg yolks. Cream ter and sugar ; add milk and ingredients alternately ; add beaten yolks last; beat well, T are nice iced with yellow is This mixture may be made int loaf or into layers. Uso one - the receipe if you want enough only one meal. Use the whites the eggs for angel eake. Floating Island,—Scald two c milk in double boiler, stir into two eggs into which one -hall cup sugar has been beaten. Stir . tinually until it forms a ereamy ousting in the spoon; flavor w vanilla. Strain into a serving d an dgarnish with steamed mer gue. Dot with jelly just bef serving. Any meringue mixtu dropped by spoonfuls on hot wa and garnish with steamed me or ten minutes, will answer. Se ice cold. Salad.—Chop cabbage fine. Pour over it the f lowing dressing and serve in ei made from hollowing out cook beets. Serve on plates garnish with pretty lettuce leaves. Dre ing--Scaicl one-half cup milk double boiler; add one-half to spoon cornstarch, mixed with a 1 ale water ; cook a few minutes ; th stir in two well -beaten egg yup and cook until thick and. cream add four tablespoonfuls t�ineg one tablespoonful of minced onio a bay leaf, salt and pepper. Po over cabbage while hot. Chi Place in beets just before serving Asparagus Salad.—For asparag salad only the tips should be use Cut the stalks about 4 inches length, boil till tender and set aw to get very cold. Arrange in bunches of about six stalks each. Bin each bunch with a half-inch-wi strip of pimento. Put a genero spoon/0 f cream mayonnaise o a leaf of lettuce and place a bene of asparagus on eaeh leaf. Rh barb salad is seasonable, and no widely known. Peel as many stalk of rhubarb as are needed. 'Out i very thin slices, combine with fresh ly grated o• desicated cocoanut -dress with French dressing, Sero on lettuce. Bean salad should b made from the yellow wax beans String the beans, boil in slightl .salted water until very tender When thoroughly chilled, arra' -on lettuce and pour over them a boiled dressing. Fruit Salad.—Peel three oranges • .and two large grapefruit, and, af- ter removing the seeds and tough -white membrane, cut the pulp in -small pieces. Skin and remove the seeds from one pound of white 'grapes. Chop one cupful of walnut :meats and one -halt cupful of Maras- -chino cherries, Mix 'all together with a little cream mayonnaise, Now take a medium-sized grape- fruit, cut in the form of a basket, remove the pulp and fin with cream mayonnaise dressing. Place in the center of the salad dish and tie a -gauze ribbon on the handle. Sur- round the basket with the fruit sal- ad, using lettuce leaves for a bor- der. Effective salad garnishes may be made of cheese balls, Mash a Neuf- chatel or cream cheese, adding a little sweet cream or olive oil, a pinch of salt, a dash of cayenne and a very little white pepper'; week until smooth, but not too soft. Take a email bell of this mixture, flatten and press between walnut meats, ne these balls may be rolled in the yolks of hard-boiled eggs which have been put through the ricer, 'or in chopped paisley, watercress, nuts or grated cheese; rials parts cab- Wier with sing. n, 0 toes. in- Into with eeser; kt, mbs sett, half cups king ex- but - dry vell- hey ing. o half for of ups it of con- ith ish ,in - ore re, ter mei or the oI- tps ed ed ss - in a- it - en ks y; .tr, 01' 11. us d. in ay cle tta n h u t 3 n e e ge HOUSEHOLD HINTS, The meat from a seven -pound fowl will make n quart, cut up, for salad, Two eggs to a pint of milk is the correct preporticn .for a baked ous- tat'd, Verdigris on metal can he gttick- ly'retnoved by rubbing with a soft rag dipped in ammonia. Feathers that have grown grimy can be given a bath in alcohol, at - ter which they are shaken until dry, The beaten yolk of an egg added to any oream soup just before it is served will improve its flavor. A roast of veal will be greatly improved if it is larded; this pre- vents its being dry and tasteless when cooked, If a cane or willow chair or table has dried out and become tighten- ed, wet it with salt water and dry it in the sun. Wash dishes used in preparing foods Lor a meal while the foods are cooking, and thus learn to get dish- washing simplified. To clean a copper kettle rub its surface with lemon skin and salt. Wipe the Surface quickly and rub with a dry chamois skin. A soft rag moistened with lemon juice and then dipped insilver whiting will be found excellent for cleaning piano keys. Fruit stains may be removed by holding the stained portion over a bowl and pouring boiling water through the material. A plain cloth dipped in hot water and then in a saucer of bran will clean white paint and not injure it. The bran acts like soap on the paint, If rice is cooked in water it will absorb about three times its mea- sure. If it is cooked in milk at least half as much mort liquid will be necessary. If seams are pressed over a broomstick or any rounded edge, with care in keeping them straight, there will be no shining streak to mark their Iength. Often amachine needle which has a turned or blunted point may be made as good as ever by rubbing it back and forth a .few times on a whetstone. In cleaning woollen clothes in winter time take them out of doors, throw dry snow over them and then brush it off. This not only removes dust, but lint. Always empty out any water left before filling the kettle. Very fre- quently the flat taste of tea is caused by using water that has al- ready been boiled. A tablespoonful of olive oil and another of molasses added to the griddle cake batter is worth while trying. This keeps the cakes from sticking and also aids in browning. Kerosene rubbed on with a eoft cloth will clean zinc perfectly. Kero- sene or gasoline applied with a cloth will also remove all grease marks from porcelain basins and bathtubs. Rinse well with very hot water, If you want to out hard butter into squares, and find you cannot do it without crumbling, fold a piece of waxed paper in which the butter was wrappecl around the blade of the knife. You can then make a perfectly 'meth cut. Fen washing colored ribbons make a strong lather of fine white soap and sold water ; wash the ribbons in this lather, allowing it to be I Ir quite cold ; rinse in clean water several times, Isiways having the water a litle soapy, and when near- ly dry iron between titin pieces of muslin, RUBBER INDUSTRY HORRORS BRITISH COl'PANY IS INVOLV,. ED iI'f PER U. Terrible Atrocities Revealed as He. EMU of Jntluir'ies by u Commissioner. No scandal foe many years has attracted se much attention in philanthropic and diplumatio circles in England as the Putumuyo atroci- ties, writes a London correspon- dent. They have been at last fully revealed to the public by the report of Sir Roger Casement, H,M, Con- sul -General at Rio de Janeiro since 1909, who was sent by the British Government to the Amazon district of South America to investigate cer- tain terrible stories which had leaked out as to the way in which an English rubber company employ- ing British eubjects, negroes from Barbadoes, had (leen carrying out the work of collecting rubber, Sir Roger Casement is a man of very great experience, having acted as Consul both in Portugal' and Brazil at different periods of his life. It was he who specially inves- tigated for the British Government the alleged rubber collecting atroci- ties in the Congo a few years ago. ISOLATED DISTRICT, The territory of Putumayo lies on the north bank of the Amazon River, well up in the higher reaches, and therefore east of the Andes, an the other' side of which lies the main territory of Peru, the domi- nant power, with its capital at Lima on the Pacific side. Although thus separated by only some 400 to 500 miles, as a bird flies, from -the capi- tal, travellers from Lima have to journey north via Panama and thence south-east to the mouth of the Amazon and then west up the river to Iquitos, the nearest town of importance and the head adminis- trative centre of the district. The authority of Peru is at the best shadowy. Claims are certainly put forward in no doubtful fashion by Colombia, and in a lesser degree by Ecuador. Up till recently Bra- zil was also a claimant, WHEN HORROI3.5 BEGAN. In the district of Putumayo dwelt a number of Indian tribes, docile, trustful, responsive to good treat- ment and uncorrupted until in 1896 a rubber- monopoly seemed a con- cession, when slavery was Inaugur- ated. IL is stated that the crimes of the Congo were as child's play to the atrocities which followed. Then the concession for collecting the rubber was soil to the Peru- vian Amazon Company, a, British trading Concern of achnitted stand- ing and high morals, but, as it was afterwards funnel, of astounding ignorance as to what was certainly and would most unquestionably continue to be, the result of em loying semi -white savages and full pdeeded negroes in the prosecution of trading methods in which they were paid on commission and by re- sults. TERRIBLE FLOGGINGS, Adults were flogged because of their own shortcomings in rubber collection, and parents for those of their little children, who were forced to stand by while the mothers were practically beaten to death. Men and women for defaulting in quantity or attempting to escape were suspended by the arms twisted behind their backs and tied together ate hr' t wrists, to s . and they were then in this agonizing 6 pOaI flan and with their feet well above the ground scourged on their nether limbs, and lower back. If two iron holder's are fastened to a tape long enough to slip about the neck and hang to convenient length at either side, there will be no excuse for using the apron or dreg or burning the fingers in open- ing the oven door or handling hot pots and pans. Cocoanut matting, may be cleaned with a large coarse cloth dipped in salt andat ' w er and then 1 n r ebbed dry. When gilt frames or moulding of rooms have specks or dirt from flies and other causes upon them, they may be cleaned with white of egg applied with a cannel's hair brash, CARRYING THE MATT.S. Primitive Methods Are Used in Some Countries. Our own service of mails is well organized. There is little doubt in the mind of the average person that when he posts a letter it will reach its destination, • But in other lands he might well fear for its safety: In Russia, for instance, ally letter or parcel that is regarded with suspicion is imine diately opened and its contents noted. A clever machine gums it am up again, so that the recipient does, bee not know that it has been tampered T with.` sta In t a l aril h p the mails are carried + ma in sledges, drawn by reindeo'e. In • the the wilds of the Caimans the post- too man holds -a post of danger. Het of must be protected against brigands anon and against the weather, for he of - 'sore ten has to climb mountains over cps 12,000 feet high. they Asiatic Russia, w'hieh is apt to be the/ marshy, has the buffalo post; and, of tonne. the prognose made is very oleo. 131tffaloes, are more powerful than oxen, and they are also Used in age Sihm'ia for eea'r,yinrt the mail. frog BURNED AT STAKE. But these were trifles. It was no uneommoa practice to pour kero- sene oil on men and women and then set fire to them, to burn men at the stake, to dash out the brains of children, to hack off both arms and both legs f Indians, leaving them to slow death on the path- ways. One chief who refused to be- tray the refuge of his followers was so treated. It was a favorite prac- tice to cut off the ears of living per- sons; in one case a man's ears were crit off and his wife was. burned be- fore his eyes. So fiendish was the temper of the jailers that once when four Indians were hung up with their arms twisted 'behind. their backs a boy went around and bit pieces out of all of thein' and then used himself by swinging them kward and forward, he slave gangs often were r vel They died in their long tet raider burdens as heavy as mselves. The chain gang officials k life merely for the amusement the thing, and one day ape man o killed 25 persons, shooting e, cutting, off the heade of oth- and hanging up the rest until Were choked with 'chains i mound r necks, WOMEN KILLED TOO. No regard whatever was paid to or sex. Women were killed as frog tts mon, A mother suck - her baby would be caught on A and beheaded with a e, The child's .brain Were illy (mocked out ageinsb a• tree. n they were tied up to trees and shot at. Sometimes they wero Other postmen in foreign ands ling are .tire swimming i' estman e f India, and the ski -in letter-owleer of �„ an t Aedes, 11i) o inn. does, the Ar Otte Ent the latter p rken� fine Cf svernreertt spociaily import and Norwegians, through several of them together, To amuse his friends a man would blindfold a girl rutd send her to walk away from the house. He would then shoot her dead. Live fires were lighted under the old peo- ple. A man would be asked Le blow down a rifle barrel for auutsentent innocently he would do it, and at once the trigger would be pulled and his head would be blown oft'. Families usually perished toge- ther. On Indian chief was buried alive in the presence of his wife and children; the wife was then be- headed and the children dismem- ber'ed and thrown on to the fire. Two hundred lashes a day was quite a common penalty, 'GREAT WORK DONE. Brief Summary of Fou' Consump- tive Institutions. Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium (for pay patients), . or oarly or incipi- ; eat ousel. Established 1896, 1Vlunkoka Free Hospital (for free patients). For early or incipient cases. Established 1902, His late Majesty .icing Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra were graciously Pleased to extent( their patronage Royal ught, , has ecome niter - x LIE'S "DICK" TO ALL. About a year ago a party of Brit- ish journalists traveling through British Columbia were entertained by Sir Richard McBride, as Premier of the Province. To those men with fixed traditions of a Prime Minis- ter's dignity, it was somewhat of a shook to find how very familiarly Sir Richard McBride. the Westerners treated their ruler, addressing him on the street quite frequently without more formality than would be given a village alder- man. However, the climax to the Englishmen's amazement was reach- ed during an automobile drive, The Premier had a tall colored chauf- feur whom he addressed as "Sam," Reaching a smooth section of road, the Premier leaned over the front seat and suggested a little more s'`i. 'Ler' bless yon, Dick, she's on the last notch now," responded the negro, with perfect equanimity. q, THE JAPANESE WRESTLERS. Contests Twice a Year in ToiEio— Beginning of the Mateh.. It is no light matter to be a Jap- anese wrestler, Iycmasa Tokugawa, attache of the Imperial Japanese Embassy, gave an outline of what wrestling meant to the Japanese, and mentioned incidentally that the art originated in Japan before the Christian era, says the London Standard, Mr. Tokugawa said that there are no fewer than 48 formulae by which wrestlers try to bring opponents to earth—a sort of catch as catch can with 48 Queensberry rules added, Wrestlers are naked, except for a narrow girdle, and consequently it is not easy to get a. "hold." The Japanese have at present 587 trained wrestlers in the service of the • Wrestling Association, and in June and January of every e year y t there are' great displays g s a -the 1 3 hall in Tokio. Beginning at sunrise, the matches continue until the evening, and it is not necessary for a fall to take place before a victory can be claimed. On the floc' of the amphitheatre is a square heap of earth three feet high and in that square is the wres- tling ring, twelve feet in ciroumfer- ence, surrounded by twelve straw bags. Let •a wrestler's knee touch the ground or the tip of his little finger go outside that ring and he has lost the match. Three are rigidly observed ranks among the wrestlers. All of them go under nicknames, which are be- stowed on them by their patrons or chosen by themselves. The highest elass is what may be interpreted as the "rope" men, To be raised to this dazzling dignity is a rare event. For 200 years there were only 16 men wile enjoyed the distinction, and the power to confer the title is . hold by an old Japanese family which is said to have been that which initiated the art, Altogether there are five grades of wrestlers, all gladiators, who are eager• to try their skill with men trained like themselves, They begin the matches by first washing their mouths in a bucket- ful of water by the side of the ring. No suggestion is made that thy bite each other; it is simply a Pecu- liar rule. Then they sit on their haunches, hands on the ground and watch each •other. If they feel con- fident they tinning at each other sud- denly and held on to the girldo or body, Taut if one does not wish to start the snatch and sees his oppon- ent reedy for the spring, he may rail "Not yet," and tee both go and wash their rano the again, "There are, therefore, marry mot yeas," remarked Mrs, Tokugawa put 10 .rows and a bullet sent dryly, to the above insLitutiurrs, His Highness the Duke of Gonna Governor-General of Canada been graciously pleased to b Ron. President National Sa km Association. Toronto Free Hospital for Con- sumptives (near Weston), For ad- vanced cases. Established 1904. King Edward Sanatorium (on the same grounds), so named by per- mission of late Xing Edward VIL For advanced cases. For patients who can pay in part. Established 1907. 6,000 patients have ben cared for in these institutions. This implies that an army of over 4,000 have been sent back to their families to help once more as bread -winners, 335 patients are now being cared for in the four institutions. 224 of these are in the Muskoka Free Hospital and the Toronto Free Hospital. 205 of this number do not pay a single cent towards the cost of maintenance. The others (19) pay from 52.00 to $4.00 a week to cover part cost of maintenance. One million dollars has been spent for the maintenance of pati- ents since the institutions were or- ganized, $317.000.00 in addition has been expended on capital account for building, equipment, etc. $179,000.00 paid out this year for the cost of maintenance, $15,000.00 recently expended in constrnotion of new sewage sys- tems, made necessary by the in- creased number of patients. A Laundry had to be built and equipped at a cost of over $4,000.00; other laundries refusing the work because of fear of infection. A school has been organized in Toronto Free Hospital—the first of the kind in a Sanatorium. More important still, How many lives have been saved through the educational work done to prevent the spread of infection, THEIR TREASURIES EMPTY. No Marc Strikes hi Great Britain This Year. Although the strike fever has not quitdis- trict, ri enTillett, away from he leaded of the London, England, riverside work- ers, has not been able to repeat the achievements attained last year at Liverpool with the aid of Tom Mann, The fiat has gone forth to the members of the trade unions that there must be no more strikes this year, and the rank and file of the members are glad to obey such in- structions, as the treasuries of even the most powerful organizations are seriously impoverished by the ex- pensive struggles of the last eigh teen months. Miners and railroad workers have .alike suffered, The generals of the industrial army have also instructed their fo•I- lowers to centre their attention on securing bigger Parliamentary re- presentation, and to this end the Boilermakers' Society have deter- mined to enforce compulsory contri- butions tons fr om thoi • i members fo political p teal purposes. As members of Parliament now receive $2,000 a year, the view of the Government is that such contributions .are no longer necessary. Significance is attached to the saner attitude of Labor as reflected in the new manifesto to trade unionists, as it amounts to an offi- cial repudiation of the methods of the syndicalist leaders who, in ef- fect, tell the workers theyean get all they want by paralyzing the trade of the country, Tom Mann is again preaching this doctrine in the industrial centres of Great Bri- tain, and others are echoing his arguments. But the British work- ingman in the mass is turning to the calmer efforts of improving his lot by orderly political procedure, • FISIUNG IN SEA OF GALILEE, Bible students 0153' be.int interested sled to know that there is etill good fish; ing in the sea of Galilee, Dr. Er- nest W. Gurney e b4" t r- es aratan who has praetised medicine in Galileo, made a special study of the fishes found there, and in a recent book says that he found forty-three var- iettes, twice as many as can be found in the British Tslc•.s. The fish- ermen are taxed a fifth of the value of the fish caught, the, revenue go- ing partly to the Sultan and partly to a Pasha in Damascus. INC'ONSIDET1 APE, If Emily mina te." "Yes, that's just like you, when you know how nervous I am when 1 hear a shat•„... .. 1 You can always depend an come Wen doing nothing at all tnnos, yon don't stop nagging me, , I shall shoot myself this very THE SUNDRY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 211. Lesson IV.--'I'he wheat and the tares, Mutt. 13. 24-30, 30.43. Gol- den Text, Mutt. 13. 30. Verse 24. Another parable --One of a group of eight parables men- tioned in the introductory notes to our last lesson, which compare, Yoke 25. While men slept — At night. It should be noted that no particular men are designated, it being the stealthiness of the en- emy, rather than any negligence on the part of the men who slept, which this part of the parable em- phactizes. 20, When the blade sprang tap— When it grew tall and brought forth fruit. Resemblance to the grain was so close that it was not detected until the time when the ears of grain began to form, 27. Servants—Literally, bond -ser- vants, 28, An enemy Literally, a man that is an enemy. Wilt thou then that we go—eag- erness of men to judge their fellows is a common (Duman trait which even Christians do not escape. 99, Haply—Perchance, Root up the wheat with them— The similarity between the wheat and the tares noted above made this a real danger, but added to this the roots of the plants would be intertwined in the soil, and thus it would be almost impossible to re- move the one without uprooting the other, 30. Gather up first the tares—This would be impossible in actual prac- tice, in harvest fields with which we are familiar. In ancient times, how- ever, when the grain was all cut with a small hand sickle, and har- vesting was not so complicated or extensive a process as now, and a especially among people with whom h time counted for little, this separ- ation of the tares from the wheat at harvest time was not an impos- sibility. 36. In verses 31.35, which inter vene, are recorded two other par- ables whkh Jesus spoke in connec- tion with the one under eimeider4- tion, It was not until after he had finished speaking that Ire left the multitudes, and went into the horse, the house referred to being probably that of Peter, at Caper Daum. TOMMY WAS A. TERROR., Mafia His rather Buy Hint Deer olid Cigarettes, "Listen to those yelled '° Isn't it awful'? That's little seven-year-old Tommy Hance]] thrashing his father again,'' "I know, It's terrible the way Mr. Rance)) has to go but and get beer and cis^ -'sates for that young - sten. I3uhe refugee, Tommy gives him an awful beating with the tongs or anything else he can prat hvJd of." One would hardly think that the above could be a real conversation, but remarks like these have been heard more than once in the mean street in the town of 13ollington, Cheshire, England, whore until re- cently lived the youngster of seven who appear•& to be ono of the worst juvenile terrors on record. The de- tails that have just been given in the local policecourt regarding hie ill treatment of his father, an able-- bodied man of middle age, would have been unbelievable if there had not been plenty of evidence to corroborate them. As a result of the proceedings the young demon has been packed off to an industrial school, where they will probably sueoced in knocking some of the- de- vil out of him. Ironically enough, the first wit - nese to indorse young Haneell's claim to be a holy terror of the first water was the agent of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruel- ty to Children. The proper thing would have. been the representative of a society for the prevention of cruelty to fathers, for the witness declared that the boy had only to say to his sire, "Go and get me some beer and some cigarettes, or I'll give you a jolly good thrash- ing," to have his command carried out. When in bed, continued the agent, the boy had repeatedly kick- ed his father to such an extent that dry abscesses had formed on 'hie body. Then the persecuted parent went into the witness box. His full name is John Thomas Hancell, and he is cotton operative. He said that o had had to fetch beer when hies seven-year-old son requested it, be- -canto the boy had ]ed him such a life, and beat him with the scrub- bing brush, tongs and dolly -pegs, the latter being wooden arrange- ments used in washing clothes. Hancell declared that his offspring would not let him get Ante bed un- til he (the yettngster) had gone tel , sleep, and that the boy io u&utl " had kicked him out of bed. A girl, named Forrest, who lives across from the Hancells, said she had repeatedly heard the boy ill tieing his father. When anyone went 37. The Son of man—A title used to by Jesus frequently in referring to 41 himself, k 38. The field is the world—Prob- ably Jesus intended with the term world to designate actually the whole world, though some have tjtought that the interpretation of the parable requites a limitation of the father's assistance, she sake,, se boy locked the door, took the ey out of the leek, and so prevent thein from getting in. She said at the Ianguage the boy used was awful that she would not like to repeat it. A next-door neighbor of e Hancells, Ellen Wood, agreed at the youthful Thomas used fear - 1 Ianguage and said that he was t fit to be at large. She said that oncell senior. dared not do any- ing else than bring the beer and arches whenever his seven -year - 1 prodigy demanded that he see m up, eel th s0 th th the word to that part of the world fat included in the kingdom which he H was to establish. Such a limitation, however, seems wholly unwarrant- gig ed. In interpreting the parable we o] must remember that it is not intend- ,e ed that the details of any of Christ's parables should be forced further than Jesus himself carried the in- terpretation. Each parable empha- sizes one main thought or teaching and any endeavor to interpret de- tails of the figurative language leads into difficulty, The sons of the kingdom—All be- lieving g ipe dts c 1 s . 39. The endf o the world—Margin, the consummation of the age, 41. All things that cause stumb- ling, and them th:st tin iniquity-- Mt Not persons only, but things also • I that are- evil and a hindrance to I lis the final cousnmmation of God's e plans shall be removed. for 43, The righteois shine forth as tyro the Jesus doubtless ;had to i t mind the e� prophecy of Daniel: "And: they that i i'e wise shall shine as; cion the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righte- ousness, as the stars for ever and ever," - FRANCE IS WORRIED. Health Laws Neglceted Cause Loss in Population. At the moment when France is perturbed by her decreasing popu- lation a communication by Professor Gha ntem.. ose is i s e• uof cvn derabl . r- terest. The professor is a member of the Academy of Medicine. and In- spector -General of Hygiene at the nistry of the Interior, n an official report which he &s- ad to draw rap he declares that re the laws of health properly en - red in France some 250,000 lives old be saved, e severely condemns what he ms tite incoherence and insuffi- cy of French legislation on this subject, and the evil is rendered graver hy'the absence of adequate administration: The French pnblio, it is declared, are notoriously care- less in following the instructions issued for the safeguarding of the public health, although 'a serious epidemic may result from such Deg- ]igenee; In municipal areas the enforce- ment of sanitary regulations is in the hands of the mayor. This is a mistake, considers the professor, for the mayor is dependent for .eleo- tion on the good -will of the citizens, and, .as has heesmoved .before now, will nothesitate c, top plaeeinter- ests p of himself or l,is party before the health of the people, Streets may be filthy, heu.ses in an unsanitary condition, but the mayor will ahttt his eyes to all these things if the enforcement of the law would be likelt'to cause annoy- ance or � expense e to so r p mo influential e tial oitizein. Professor Chantemesse says that given sound hygienie laws and their rigid enforcement, there is no res son why fire death rate in Fraises, el be higher than, for instance, .Se i. and uavan countries, IRELAND 18 PROSPEROUS. Increase in Vehutte of Ranking and Railway Ilueioess, That TreIand's hopes of regenera- tion are well based is proved by the latest returns et the Irish Depart- ment of Agriculture, There has been a steady increase in banking end railway prosperity for twenty rears. To 1892 there was 5178,000,on0 deposited in joint ttoak hanks, while the latr'at annual re- i:urne show the 'deposits have antminted t,1, $285,000,000. To the Peat-Oifiee Sevings Banks last year there was -860.000,000 on deposit, or over $40,000.000 more than in 1892, Since T)ecemher, tear- official reports slate that the depos- its have advanced still more r epid- ly, and the development of activity in egricuitnra] districts since the passing of the iniad pmrchase tete ! shoo] in the has astonished the opponents of that legislation beyond measrn•n. Ireland is emwhntienlly on the up- ward grade to -day. The good opinion „yen have et yourself will not pass you through the pearly gated, Murder by poisoning in England. was at one time punishable by boil- ing to death. The popularity of a homolygirl`- niay depend on the sunt her father can write a cheek lot.