The Brussels Post, 1912-9-26, Page 2JiOU$EtIOLP
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GRAPE DELICACIES.
'Grape Catsup,—Stew five pounds
of grapes, stemmed and washed,
midi soft enough to rub through a
colander, leaving out skins and
seeds• . To the strained pulp add
one pint vinegar, two pounds sugar,
one-half teaspoon salt and one
tablespoonful each of pepper, all-
spice, cloves and cinnamon. Boil
until thick, bottle and seal.
Grape Preserves.—Remove the
skins, place them in one pan and
the pulp in another. Cook pulp un-
til soft, then run it through a col-
ander to remove the seeds. Add the
skins to the strained pulp, measure
and put in the same amount of
sugar. Boil until it will nearly stay
nn .the spoon when the spoon is
turned upside down. Preserves
aro not bitter or stringy when made
this way.
Spiced Grapes.—Five pounds of
fruit, four pounds brown sugar, one
pint vinegar, one tablespoonful
each cloves and allspice, and a lit-
tle pepper. Cook slowly three or
four hours.
Grape yam.—Stew the grapes in
a little water and press them
through a colander, adding more
water to get the pulp through. Boil
fifteen or twenty minutes before
adding sugar. Measure pulp before
putting it on to boil and allow
about three-fourths of a cup of su-
gar to each cup of pulp. Boil half
an hour longer, stirring all the
time.
Grape Wine.—One gallon of wa-
ter to one gallon of grapes. Crush
well. Let stand one week without
stirring. Then draw off the liquor.
To every gallon of wine acid three
pounds of sugar. Put in a vessel,
but do not fasten it at the bung
until it is done hissing. When it
has stopped working fasten it up
and let it stand two, months. It
will then draw off clear. Bottle,
cork and seal. Keep in a clry cel-
lar.
Grape Pickles.—Grapes must be
underripe and firm, and are better
if but slightly turned. Pick from
the stem and pack into fruit jars,
being careful not to break the skins.
Make a syrup of one quart vine-
gar, eight cups sugar, one level tea-
spoon whole cloves and a heaping
teaspoon broken cinnamon tied in
a little bag. Bring to the boiling
point, cool partially and turn over
the grapes. Seal and keep in a
dark, cool place. This amount of
spiced vinegar
pis enough h
of g for seven
pounds of grapes.
Green Grape Preserves. — Cut
omen six pounds .' _P . a $
and remove the seeds with a sharp
knife. Weigh the fruit and use equal
quantities of sugar. Put grapes
into a kettle, with just enough
water to cover ; bring to a boil,
skim, then sprinkle over the grapes
the quantity of sugar allowed.
Bring to a boil again, pressing
grapes under the syrup, but use
care to keep them unbroken. Add
more sugar, cooking five minutes.
Repeat the process until all the
sugar has been used. As soon as
the syrup jellies, turn into small
jars. When cold the grapes should
show distinct in the clear jelly.
NEW PINEAPPLE RECIPES.
Pineapple Filling f• e Cakes. —
, Half a pint of grated pineapple,
one tablespoonful of orange juice,
two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice
and some icing sugar ; mix together
the pineapple, lemon and orange
juice and enough icing sugar to
make it if consistency to spread.
Pineapple Canape.—Melt two
tablespoonfuls of butter, add one
pint of shredded pineapple and
cook for 10 minutes; told sugar and
lemon juice to taste and serve on
slices of fried bread or sponge cake;
garnish with cream,
Pineapple Water Ice.—Having
pared and sliced a sufficient num-
ber of pineapples, out the slices in-
to small pieces, put them into a
deep dish, sprinkle sugar over them
and let them stand several hours in
a cool place. Secure as much pine-
apple juice as possible by squeez-
ing the pieces through a sieve ; to
each pint of juice allow one pint
of clarified syrup ; mix together
while the syrup is warm; freeze in
the usual manner.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
tau de cologne will remove
Candie grease.
Overdone. food is almost worse
than underdone,
Use the ironing fie for prepar-
ingstook for soups or baking ped -
dings.
A charming nursery screen can
bo covered with the prints that the
small child loves best.
To take machine oil out of white
materials, dip the spot into cold
water while it is fresh.
Slight scratches on mahogany
furniture can be removed by rub-
bing with a bit of pecan meat.
Use cold milk to seek the °eke or
bread crumbs in for your pudding,'
if you wish it to be light.
Never allow a cooking utensil to
stand and dxy before washing. Put
cold water in it immediately.
1f windowe stick, rub a little mel-
ted lard on the sash acrd and be-
tween the frame and oaeing.
Never use a scraper to take
crumbs off the table cloth. A brush
will not roughen the surface of the
linen.
'A mixture of salt and lemon juice
will remove perspiration marks.
Then expose the blemish to the sun-
shine.
When plain white ].awn waists
are, worn around the neck and
sleeves they can often be made in-
to corset covers.
If your gloves get wet, dry then
in a cool place and rub a little olive
oil into the kid before putting them
on again.
To darn a rent in dark material,
ravel out and use some of the
thread of it instead of regular darn-
ing and sewing cotton.
If. you keep your clean kitchen
utensils in cupboards and drawers
you will find them always ready for
immediate use.
When the cake in the oven is
ready for a final browning throw
a handful of chips on the fire or
tuck in a newspaper.
If you wish to give a brass ar-
ticle a polish like new, heat it first,
then rub on a paste of hot salt and
lemon juice. Rub clear.
A good salad is made of stuffed
cucumbers, the filling made of diced
cucumbers and onions, or cabbage
and green pepper salad. Serve on
nasturtium leaves,
When stitching chiffon; or any
such material on the machine, use
the finest possible thread and put
a strip of thin paper under the
goods and stitch them together,
then tear away the paper when the
work is done,
JAM RULES.
Do not allow, tin, iron or pewter
to touch the jam, as any of these
are liable to spoil the color.
Everything employed in the jam
making must be scrupulously clean.
The sugar must be of the best.
The fruit must be gathered on a
dry day, any that is imperfect or
damaged being discarded. It should
be just ripe.
Tht jam should be boiled until on
dropping a little on a plat, if jel-
lies. Jam should be boiled fast to
preserve the color of the fruit and
kept well stirred.
All scum must be carefully re-
moved as it rises.
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11,000 HUMAN SKELETONS.
Mystery Surrounds the Origin of
These Bones.
The mysterious removal of 1,000
human skeletons from an ancient
crypt under the Parish Church at
Rothwell, Northamptonshire, Eng-
land, revives the question of the
es. Rothwe
origin of these
was once an importan .:.v •, but
never important enough to own so
many skeletons. Moreover, a large
proportion of them bear the marks
of wounds, but the theory that they
originated in some battle is nega-
tived by the fact that many of them
are those of women. Moreover no
battle has been fought near there
except the battle of Naseby, and
less than a thousand men were
killed in that fight. Even the an-
cient battles between the Danes
and the Saxons were all recorded,
and there is no story of such a bat-
tle as this, nor was there ever a
visitation from plague so far as is
known. The crypt itself is of un-
known age, and the mystery is fur-
ther increased by the fact that
when the bones were first discover-
ecl nearly two hundred years ago,
they were carefully arranged in
layers with the skulls on top, then
the legs, and then the arms. They
have now been removed and placed
in shelves—a sight well worth see-
ing by the curious tourist—Dundee
Advertiser..
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SUN TO REPLACE COAL.
Italian Scientist Offers Solution of
Future Fuel Problem.
The passibility of using the ener-
gy of the sun as a substitute for the
failing. coal supply was the subject
of an address by Prof. Giacomo
Cinmician, of Bologna, at the In-
ternational Ohemists' Congress,
The speaker said that since the
earth's supply of coal is limited, it
is net too soon to consider the pos-
sibilities of getting power from
other sources,
He outlined a plan of putting the
shin's rays to work by a chemical
process after the, manner of plants,
He said
"If we deed(' become able to
utilize the energy of the. sun in the
way I have described, the tropical
countries would become conquered
by civilization, which would in this
manner return to its birthplace.
"On the arid lands there will
spring up industrial colonies with -
mit smoke and without, sanoke-
etacke; forests of glass tubes will
arise everywhere; inside those will
take place the photo -chemical pros
theme that have hitherto been the
guarded secret of the plants, but
that will have been mastered by
human indusery, whichwill knew
how to make them bras even more
abundant frrrirt than nature ; for
nature is not in a hurry and man-
kind is,"
ON TRAIL OF THE MICROBE
DEAD ONES ARE USED TO DE-
STROY T11E LIVING.
The iJmbs of 85 Out of 87 Patients
Are Saved in a London
Hospital.
English doctors are now engaged
upon tracking the• wily and criminal
microbe to its lair. The medical
man who takes up the latest meth-
ods in the treatment of diseases at-
tributable to microbes becomes, in
effect, a skilled detective. This ape -
cid medical police work is known
by the somewhat forbidding title of
"Vaccine Therapy," the develop-
ment of which Sir Almoth Wright
and his staff are pursuing with
much success in the inoculation de-
partment of St. Mary's Hospital,
Paddington, London, England.
This remarkable war on microbes,
in which the dead are used to help
in the destruction of the living, is
described in a report just issued by
the department, and it makes fasci-
nating reading. Having fourrcl the
central abode of the criminal mi-
crobe, the doctor hands over the
administration of capital punish-
ment to microbes of its own class,
for one of the principles in vaccine
therapy is that of killing living mi-
crobes by the use of dead ones of
their own variety. By inoculating a
patient suffering with inflammation
with asuitable number of dead mi-
crobes of the same, variety as those
found to be causing the inflamma-
tion, the natural opponents of mi-
crobic life in the blood are stimu-
lated into action and assist the
cure,
9,000 PATIENTS TREATED.
So remarkable have been the
cures obtained at St. Mary's Hospi-
tal that the number of patients un-
der treatment now runs into thou-
sands. Ducting the past two years
some 2,000 patients have been dealt
with, and 500 are still under treat-
ment. Two men who made pilgrim-
ages from Russia and Hungary re-
spectively, in the hope of deliver-
ance from their microbic oppres-
sors, and another wretchedly ill
with an exquisitely painful foot,
erossed the continent of America
and suffered torments in an Atlan-
tic steerage, rather than submit to
the loss of a limb without playing
the last card to save it. The rou-
tine work, together with some spe-
cial investigations, has required
during the two years the examine,
tblonion d. of some 20,000 specimens of
Experiments on those lines, with
the aid of a patent splint recently
introduced into England by Mr.
Gauvain, medical superintendent
to the Lord Mayor Treloar Crip-
ples' Hospital at Acton, h ro uUa q;*
Bested t cos ti evenapore
,ct•AR.TLING DEVELOPMENTS
the near future. Already eon-
samption of the glands, bones, and
skin is yielding to the treatment.
"It is not too much to hope," says
the governing body, in their report,
"that when treatment along these
lines is generally adopted, the 1
hunchback and high -booted cripple,
as a result of• tubercular disease,
will disappear from our streets.
"It is very satisfactory to record,
in connection with this form of tu-
berculosis, that of eighty-seven pa-
tients treated during these two
years, only two have eventually
suffered the lass of a limb despite
our efforts to save it, and that with
both these men we were heavily
handicapped by the circumstance
that the disease had already ex-
isted for several months and in-
volved most of the bones about the
ankle before the,y came under treat-
ment,"
Certain forms of heart disease
and child-bcd fever have been bene-
ficially treated by -inoculation, and
here again eventually complete
success is anticipated by the oper-
ators.
In describing the cure of tooth-
ache by the injection of dead mi-
crobes, the report states:
"There is a girl now in our
wards with hip disease who had
been much troubled by neuralgia
of long standing, Removal of the
worst teeth did not suffice to cure
the neuralgia, which was due, we
supposed, to microbic activity in
ether teeth not yet so grossly de-
cayed as to warrant their removal.
A microbe obtained from inside of
one of
THE REMOVED TEETH
was need for the preparation of a
vaccine, to inoculation of which the
nouralgia at once showed itself so
amenable that in a week or two it
had entirely gone."
The research towards the even-
tual mire of "hay fever" by inocu-
lation with anti -pollen substances
is also stated to be producing satis-
factory results. The seasonal char -
actor of this disease is apparently
the only hindrance.
"Scarcely ,yet," says the director
of the department, "has a due ap-
predation been obtained of the
Jeep part played by microbes on
the stage of our common life, their
striking role in the infeetious and
epidemic diseases blinding our
sense of their similar complicity in
such prosaic (alternative) maladies
as `indigestion,' rco.lds,' 'tooth-
ache,' 'bronchitis,' etc, Through-
out so large an area of human dis-
ease microbes are at work, and over
just each an area may our expecta-
tion of the success of vaccine ther-
apy legitimately extend, although
not without eortain limits,"
—g.
SMUGGLIIRS RILL ELEPHANTS
Laws for Protection of the Beasts
Constantly Violated.
Ivory smuggling in looked upon
as a very serious crime in British
East Africa, and this ie only as it
should be, for, in order to obtain
the ivory, the traders have to kill
great numbers of elephants. The
game preservation laws, particular-
ly as regards elephants, says the
Wide World Magazine, are most se-
vere, and woe betide the man who
is caught breaking bhe game regu-
lations or in possession of illicit
spoils of the chase.
The smuggling of ivory, there-
fore, is treated in the same manner
as .smuggling genas and clothing in-
to the United States, illicit dia-
mond buying in South Africa, or
other forms of smuggling in Eng-
land, The rigid laws, however, do
not prevent the Arabs and Indians
from indulging in an illegal track
in ivory on 51. Large scale, Many a
caravan of huge elephant tusks is
brought miles and milers from the
interior of Central Africa to Mom-
basa, and there surreptitiously
smuggled out of the• country in
dhows dr Arab sailing boats.
It is the keen desire of every po-
lice and administrative official of
the British East African Govern-
ment to capture one of these ivory
caravans, but, despite their efforts,
many a oonsignment escapes their
eagle eyes and finds its way to the
markets of Zanzibar and Bombay.
TAR HELD BABY A PRISONER.
Lost on a Roof for Sixty Hours,
Child is Held by Tar.
A remarkable stow of the loss
and ,recovery of a child from one of
the small streets on the riverside
at Southwark is reported in the
"South London Press," of London,
England.
The eighteen -months -old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Evans, who-wn.5 miss-
ed on Sunday afternoon by his
parents, was found on Monday on
the roof of model dwellings, which
is used as a drying -ground.
He was lying on his side, and
was held a prisoner owing to his
frock, pinafore and hair having be-
come embedded in a coat of tar
which had been softened by the heat
of the sun. The child was discov-
ered in this position by a neighbor,
who went to the roof to hang out
some clothes on Monday morning,
and besides being in a very ex-
hausted state from want of feed,
the child wars severely blistered
through exposure to the tropical
heelerr - - -.
The chilcl had been lost for two
nights and a clay, during which the
police had made every effort to find
it, even to the extent of dragging
the Thames in the vicinity.
Under the care of the medical
staff at a local hospital the bay is
now making satisfactory progress.
DIE DUCHESS 01' SUTIU±R-
LA%'D,
Now in Canada, who declares
that wives should be able to keep
house properly,
EGGSHELLS PROLONG LIFE.
Also Claimed "Quinine Eggs" Are
Benefield.
Eggs are most useful articles.
Some German scientists are pra-
elaimi.ng that an eggshell cliet
brcede centenarians. In France
they have discovered another virtue
in them. Aoeording to a paper read
by Dr. A•mat before the Societe
Therapeutique, the membrane cov-
ering a new -laid egg forms an ex-
cellent fertilizer .far human skin,
When a patient comes eo him with a
had wound, he washes ib, covers it
with tiny layers of egg membrane,
and bandages it up. In four oe five
days the wound is healed and a
fresh patch of skin has grows.
Another Frenchman—a chemist✓
closes his chickens with quinine and
other drugs in frequent demand,
and sells their eggs at prices rang-
ing from 6 frame a dozen. These
are sold to people who object to
taking their medicine neat;, and aro
assured by the enterprising chem-
ist that the doctored eggs will do
them all the good they require.
INTERESTING OBS1l1 VAT10NS.
Effects of Summer Ileat on Infants
and Older Children..
A series of extremely interesting
observations have been made by
Schlesinger of Vienna on the ef-
fccts of •summer heat an infants and
other children in some of the vari-
ous districts of Germany, mere par-
ticularly in Strasburg. The abnor-
mally high mortality among infants
during an.extraordinary hot sum-
mer occasioned the study.
On comparison of various dis-
tricts, all having the, some climatic
conditions, ,the milk supply and
general care of infants being also
practically identical, it was found
that in one district the mortality
was higher than in the others. In
this dietrict the houses were tightly
peeked, with but little open spaee
between, In such places the air
does not cool off at night during the
summer, the temperature in one
place remaining practically con-
stantly about 30 C.
A study of the effects of heat on
260 soheol children, between, the
ages of .six and ten, was inacle, and
it was found 'that 30 per ceavt. lost
appreciably in weight from May to
August; in 5 per cent, this loss was
extreme. The cause of this was the
heat stagnation during an extreme-
ly warm season, the children being
confined in warm schoolrooms with
a high humidity over long periods
during the day. In these children
the effects were restlessness, lassi-
tude, headache, nose bleed and
similar symptoms. With shorter
hours, and a vacation extending
over seven weeks, the heat remain-
ing the same, all the. children re-
gained their previous weight and
most of them added to their former
Weight.
The treatment and care of infants
during the summer should not be
confined to the ordinary treatment
of definite cliseases, but should be
directed especially toward offset-
ting 'the effects of the heat, says
The Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association. Less food should
be given, than in cool weather ; plen-
ty of water, however, is desirable.
Children should wear little and
loose clothing, and frequent cool
a-nel tepid bathe should be given.
Heat stagnation should be avoided
so far as possible.
SCHOOL DANGERS.
Pupils Advised Not to "Suck" Pen.
oils and Not to "Swap" Gum.
With the opening of Chicago's
public schools for the enrollment of
new pupils the city Health Depart-
ment came to the fore with advice,
"how to be happy in echoer]."
Extracts from. the Health Depart-
ment axioms are:—
Fresh air makes the mind bright
and makes learning easy.
--3Depe f' shales_ out the sunshine
teacher. Flood Hi; room with sun-
shine; it's God's best germ des-
troyer.
Never put pens or pencils in your
mouth. The last mouth ;they were
in may have been an infected one.
For the same reason never
"swap" candy. chewing gum or ap-
ples. It's dirty and a dangerous
thing to do.
Keep clean; soap is your good
friend. Treat your etomach right.
Eat very little candy and what little
you do eat be sure that it is pure.
Don't run to school, especially af-
ter eating. Stant early, so that you
will not be obliged to run.
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CURSED ROYAL HOUSE.
Cumberland Prince's Death Re-
vives Ohl Story.
Superstitious folk in Germany
are attributing the tragic death of
Prince George ,of Cumberland to
the far-reaching effects of a curse,
says the London Chronicle. His
great-grandfather had a Swiss valet
who, in 1810, was found dead under
suspie+fous circumstances, and many
people suspected his master of mur-
dering him.
Mme. Sellis, the valet's mother,
was so convinced that this was the
case that •she journeyed from Swit-
zerland to London, confronted the
Duke of Cumberland in Pall Mall
and cursed him .and his children to
the fourth generation. Nine years
later the Duke's only eon came into
the world stone blind.
His son, in turn, the present
Duke, was born without a nose, and
has to wear an artificial one. And
now Prince George has been killed
shortly after making a marvellous
recovery from an illness which had
crippled him for years,
NIGHT BANK FOR LONDON.
Iristit:ution Will Be Welcome to
Houses of Entertainment.
An all-night bank is to be estab
hished in London, Rnglend, in a
short time. A company has already
been registered, and the scheme has
mat with strong encouragement
from business men.
The new institution will be espe-
cially welcomed by houses of enter-
tainment of all sent's, which et the
present time arc compelled to keep
their nightly tslrin:gs under strong
guard until the banks open the
next day.
The eighteen hours during which
it is impossible in London Co either
deposit oe withdraw money often
form a very awkward period for
people who either have too much or
too lith]. money . for thole comfort
metil,the next day.
JIIE SUNDAY -SCHOOL STUDY
YNT1111NAT10NAL LESSON,
SEPT. PO.
Lesson XI J,—Beeiew. Golden
Text, John 0. 03.
PRACTICAL LESSONS.
Lesson I,—On a day of sunshine
I went into a room absolutely dark.
The occupant had drawn the cur-
tains down tight. Christ was the
light of the world, but he could not
bring light to those who loved
darkness,
Lessen II.—The Word is a living
seed. Plant it amid favoring con-
ditions and you have the miracle of
spiritual life, just as when you
plant a seed you have the miracle
of plant life.
Lesson III. — Spiritual growth,
our Lord tells us, is like plant
growth—first the blade, and then
the ear, and then the full corn in
the ear. The blade may he very
small and the harvest very great.
Lesson IV.—Like the disciples we
would put an end to wrong -doing,
here and now. But in trying to
root out wicked members of church
and Sunday school we may do more
harm than good, "like striking a
heavy blow at a fly on a Venetian
vase."
Lessen V.—"Put God first" is a
fine motto. When the sun was put
in the center of our system the
astronomers were able to bring or-
der out of chaos. They would have;
stayed in the Clark forever if they'
had insisted that the heavenly bod-
ies move around the earth. "Befit
ye first the kingdom of heaven!"
said the Master. '
Lesson VI.—Our hope lies not in
the absence, of storm, but he the
presence of Christ who is able to
control the tumult—not only that
of wind and wave but that of trou-
bled soul and mind.
Lesson VII.—Jesus in restoring
the daughter of Jairus to life
proved that the son/ does not die
with the body. Death does not end
Lesson VdIL—If people should
think to put out fire by tearing
down the firebell we should call
them exceedingly foolish, When
the people of Nazareth rejected
Jesus they were rejecting their
Physician, their Deliverer, their
Joy -Bringer.
Lesson IX.—John's success lay in
the fact that he preserved his man-
hood untarnished amid great temp-
tation. No man's life is a failure
who is himself a moral success.
Lesson X.—Christ always uses
men to reach other men. He sent
a>t. este seep. r,si not twelve an-
gels: The children O'neeael were
brought out of Egypt by a 'main'—
Moses. In military hospitals it
has been found that the best nurses
aro soldiers who had been wound-
ed.
Lesson XI.—Capernaum had a
great advantage in Christ's person-
al teaching and miracles. We are
responsible for our advantages. We
expect the steamship to cross the
sea faster than a sailing vessel,
Have we not had greater religious
advantages than Capernaum?
Lesson XII.—Jesus conferred a
great privilege on the disciples in
making them the agents of his
bounty when the five thousand were
feel. He could have rained manna
from heaven, or summoned angels
to help, but he chose a lad with his
lunch, and his twelve disciples.
MOON IS NOT ROUND.
Pictures 'Paten During Eclipse of
Sun Prove It Oval.
That the moon is not rotund, but
oval, is the con•chision reached by
Prof. Castadilobo, of Coimbra Uni-
versity, Portugal, the report of
whose observations during the re-
cent total eclipse of the sun was
react before the Leadenly of
Sciences.
He took cinematograph pictures
of the whole el the eclipse, and was
rewarded in finding from the films
that at the 'time of the maximum
obscuration the moony while oom-
pletely blotting out the ,stn at top
and bottom, d]<1 not quite cover ib
on the. right and left.
From this he concludes that the
satellite, like tdle earth, is not a
sphere. The difference between die
greatest and least,breaclth is, how-
ever, es,timatad by 'frim at less than
three miles.
When Sir Thomas Lipton was a
small boy in Scotland he dropped
into a church one Sunday morning
and was put by himself in s pew
directly r+i front of the ministcfr,
who preached a• seinen on the text
"Am I my brother's keeper?"' The
parson, who was neueuelly el•o 1
quant, tlked on- thii theme for
about forty minutes, and finally
worked up to the climax of his re-
marks, He kept his gaze fixed &-
reedy on the little Lipton, who be-
gan to fidget and look very self-
eonecious. At last, after an over.
whelming outpouring of long
words, the minister, his eyes blaz-
ing, made a quick gesture nee
shouted at the boy : "Am I my bro-
ther's, keeper 1" Lipton could
stand the; strain no longer, and re-
plied in a meek voice 1 --"No, sir."
MEN LMLO MAKE EA
NOBLEMEN DRAW l\
TIES FROM T1111
Duke of 'Helmond Po
Every Year and
Sorviee.
To the big crowed people in
England who are,sraid lavishly by
'the ,state for dove nothing, a dis-
tinguished s.cldieiwr ha.s just been
made, weeks./ London. oorrespon-
cent. The eic]cy man is the Rt;
Hon, lirill&tn Snowden, Baron
Robson., G.C.G., who, atter• eerv-
ing for just ;tvo ,years as one of Rio
Majesty', julge,s—fifteen years bes
ing the arra] term—has just re-
ceived a maiden of 818,350 per an-
num for lie.
Howev4•, the nice 1lttle income
which the ex -lord of appeal will
draw h4meforth without working
for it wit be a comparatively trifl-
ing acldiion to the sum whicsh Bri-
tain paS every year in annuities.
and pe•siosus to fouls who, for the
most pit, have done nothing what-
ever ;ti deserve them. The major-
ity af'them get the money because,
thea; happen to bo the deseendan•ts.
of parsons who, long ago, were
awd'decl these annuities.
`f 1E RICHMOND SHILLING.
Among the biggest; of these per-
potual pensions is than received by
the Duke of Richmond and Gordon
(whose vast; estate in Sussex in-
cludes the Goodwood race course).
1`his nobleman's dip into the na-
tional money -bag amounts' to no
less than 895,000 a year. The origin
of this payment goes back to the
days of Queen Elizabeth, who re-
ceived a duty of one ehillisr•g on
every chaldron of coal shipped out
of the River Tyne and used in. Eng-
land. This duty was paid to her
successors until Charles II. gave it
away to the 'first Duke of Richmond.
He and his heirs got it for more
then a century until, in the time of
George III., it was commuted for
the present yearly sum, which is
known in the exchequer as the
"Richmond Shilling."
In the reign of Oharles II. a duty
on imported wine was handed over
to the first Duke of Grafton; Henry
Fitzroy. In the beginning of last
century the bearer of the title com-
muted this duty for a yearly pen -
aim of $40,000, and Me lucky snc-
ceeso•rs shill pocket this goodly in-
come, for which they have done
nothing.
About the most striking case,.
however, is that of Lord Nelson,
who gets $25,000 a Year from the•
nation just because hots the holder
of the Nelson title, despite the fact
that he is not directly descended
from the famous admiral, This.
'e u= -i esrnuit , i .assg bo "all and
every, dulls ,heirs male, to title
o,f Earl Nelson shall descend•"
As "ancient fees," too, the acme
of $340 and $100 ,yearly are paid
respeet•ively to the Duke of Norfolk
and the Duke of Ruslan.d though no
one can say accurately how they
arose, mor do ;those annuities keel'
any obligations whatsoever except
the pleasant one of pocketing them.
LAW COURTS ANNUITIES.
But it isnot only wearers of cor-
onets
oyon•ets who get paid for doing noth-
ing. The English law eoures alone
pay over $70,000 a year in annui-
ties, many of which ase for compen-
sation for abolisihed offioes, For in-
stanoe, when ,tate law courts were
removed from Westminster, two,
years or eo ago, ten or twelve
"laundresses" lost, or wore sup-
posed to have last, their work.
Some of them still: receive $500 a
year.
In the Chancery Division., a
"Prea.cher at Rolls" gets $500
eeery year though be never uttcre
a word of a sermon, just as a house-
keeper in the same division is. paid
$175 every twelve months far doing
no houseiteeping, her job having
beern done away with.
•I
CHEAPER FOOD IN SIGHT.
It is said that food should be
cheaper thio winter because of the
big harvest. Wheat, flour, coffee,
and engar have already, declined in.
price. F9•uits ore abundont and a.
big potato, crop is assured. The
president of the Cudahy Peeking.
Company of Chicago announces
that low prices •in meats, especially
in beef, ere coming noon, The er-
rival of the season of grass-fed cat-
tle will bring a heavy run of me<li
urn priced .cattle that will pull down.
prices with a ensile he sage. Pork
will fall in price about 10 per cent.
hn
January, and by noxa summer•
will be ahoart'pn'e-third of its pre-
ecnt,price.. Fond is the chief sonxee
of •c0.9t to the great" mayoaity or
t•elsers and these prospects of
lower priers, due to increased sup-
ply. ineenad of the operations of
any tariff law, are highly welcome,.
8.
To man it is said,, you clo oot live
for yourr-slf, If yon live for your -
:self you scall tome 'to milling. Be.
brave,.he just, be pure, he time. an
ward and deed; raro nob for your
enjoyment, rehire'not, for year life„
caro mile. for what is right. So,. ,.
sod nee + therwsso, it shall he well
with you. -.Fronde.