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The Brussels Post, 1914-2-26, Page 3(`•hobo Recipes. Spanish Pickle. -- Three dozen '.'large, ripe tomataea, two dozen, onion!,, one .and onsahalf dozen rod peppers; chop ane and raid twelve tbablospoons salt, twelve table- spoons brown sugar, seven cups good vinegar, six telespoons each cloves, allspice and cinnamon. Boil slowly three }sours. Pub in spices while boiling. Put in glass jars. Nut Loaf.—Grind one -ball pound walnuts or any outs desired coarse- ly in a vegetable chopper. Grind crackers or toasted bread, carro'ta and onions to taste; stir in beaten egg, dash cayenne popper, sea ficicnb milk or water to moisten the ,bread or smokers; add the outs and whole --wheat flour to mako a stiff batter; bake in molds in 0. moder- ately hob oven about twenty min- utes. Servo hot or odld in slices or squares garnished with parsley and lettuce. Orange and Pineapple Shortcake. --Sift; two cups flour, four table - b poons baking powder s;1sd one teaspoonful salt, rub in three tea- ' spoonfule butter, add milk to malice a soft dough to roll one-half inch " thick. Cut in twelve small cakes or two largo rounds. Put together with lower ones spread with butter and bake fifteen minutes in .. hot oven. Split, fill ,anal cover with ,fruit and then with whipped and sweetened cream and servo at once. Fruit should be mixed with a little sugar and placed where it will be warm, not hot. Spanish Steak. `i wo pounds of top round steak, rather more than two inehes thick. Leave on rim of suet. Plaoo in pan, add three- fourths cup water and baste every ten minutes for one-half hour, bak- ing in a moderate oven. Remove from oven, sprinkle with a salt - spoon of salt, one -•half saltspoon of pepper and cover with a layer of sliced onions; bake fifteen minutes longer; sprinkle with a salt -spoon salt, hon cover with layer of chop- ped tomatoes (the solid meats of a ran of tomhtoes will answer). Bake again fifteen minutea, sprinkle over it two tablespoons grated cheese and place in oven long enough for cheese to melt. There will be a thick gravy, deliciously flavored with onions and tomatoes and rho -steak will be very )tender. Washing Blankets. An easy method to wash blankets and have them as fluffy and ebtraot- ive an they were when new .is first to see that the boiler is full of hob water. A. paokage of borated soap powder is needed for every two pairs of blankets. Into the first laundry tub, pub not quite half a package of the soap powder, see that it is porfeotly dis- solved iu a little warm water, then half fill the tub with warm water, not hot water, immerse one pair of hlan.kets, pound and squeeze until the soapy water has thoroughly reached every inch of the surface. Now wring out the blankets. Two people can do this work so easily, one wringing in one direction and the other in the opposite. Never under any oirouanstance use a wringer, as doing go mats the fiber. Never nib soap on ,Uhe surface af- ter wringing them out; put in the second tab. This second tub. con- tains the remaining half of ,soap powder and is three parks full of warm water. Thorroughly rinse 'Ile blankets in this soapy water, wring out and bang up to dry, Leave ,them on the line for a whole day and air again the second day before 'using them on the beds. 1I one acl- heres faithfully to this plan the re- stilt will be all that most careful !housewife can desire. Hints for lIonsewives. Use cotton thread in mending kid gloves. Most salt fish should be soaked Overnight. Don't espeob to have good Bake without fresh eggs. A' wooden. apoon is bast for creaming butter and sugar. 'Corned beef should always be us - eel': n atter it is corned, • d so•o f For taking out bloodstaials, no- thing as'beiter'than ammonia. Never molt shortening : for: Oakes est eci es,. Hanle..., the �><'ecipe •so sp & Nel c slm the oven door when You have a sake in •rho oven. There is greater varier in salb g. Y and cured fish than in meats. Never try to bake a dolaaaf;c-cake with ether things in the oven. Parsley and celery are an im- prevenient, added, to lamb stew. Animal el <aolcera coasted with icing are good for children's patties, Dee the same lrind of fat for greasing cake tins ne that used the oako:• When beating whites of eggs., keep them well in the centre of ;the Keep "lrancls •end feet iwarm, and the rest of the body will look out ]s 1 for iberlf. .Aggress wall papers ahonlol never bo allowed in any room ;they etre ,unreetful and ugly. A shallow box full of eand kept in the garret will he a great re- source for the children on rainy days. The attic is far better than the cellar for storing canned fruits, jellies seeds, roots, and so on. A glass 'measuring cup is partic- ularly good for measuring dry ma- terials, euoh as sugar or flour. Put a bit of gum camphor in the case when you put away silver, if you would have it stay bright. Be euro to .combine green foods with salt meats or fish, else the salt will be irritating to the system. In making oaken, meaniethe by packing solidly into a cup and levelling the top with a knife. In making beef stew. have the beef eat into small cubes, The best way to 'thicken it is with a few pods of okra. Cook fudge only five or six min- utes, and then beat until it is thick and Dreamy, if you would have ib satisfactory. Every child member of the family should be trained to hang up his coat by its 'banger. This saves the tearing out of armholes and similar catastrophes. In cold weather Sake 'special pains to dry the hands thoroughly, and ;you will save much di'scomfo'rt from chapping. If aluminum cooking vessels get scorched, do not .scrape them. Half fill with wartier, add a teaspoonful of soda and boil for 10 minutes, Eietratots for flavoring cakes should be used sparingly. If the cake is well made of the beat ma- terials, it requires very little flav- oring. THE RING WORKS HARD. Tolls Head of the Church Army His Views. King George the other day told Prebendiary Wilson Garble, the head of •the Church Army, that he was a great believer in hard work. The Icing amid: "I have to work hard myself and I think it is good for people." His Majesty's remark was made during an audience granted to Mr. Carlile at Buckingham Peleeo. The King else expressed his strong disapproval of indiscrimi- nate charity, saying he considered voluntary agencies such as the Chureli Army far better able to help backsliders and unfortunate people baolc to good citizenship. Ass Mr. Carldl,o was entering the Palade ho was accosted by a former pickpocket who had been reclaimed by the Ohurch Army and seat a Dressage to the King saying he had lived honestly since the day of King Edward's coronation, whoa he bad stolenthirty-two watohes and purees. He now had, he said, $64.0 in the eavings bank. Mainly About Books. Many people who are fond of books—that is to say, who like reading tbhe,m--do not know any- thing about looking alter them Books should never be tightly pack- ed on a shelf, for ib causes the backs, in many eases, to crack and come off. When opening a new Crook for the finch time, bone back the covers only at frust. Then let the pages run through your fingers. This will prevent any injury to the new, and sometimes stiff; binding. Except for very preoioue volumes, glass cases should not be used. The ,stuffy air and look of ventila- tion in the glass-oovered bookcase oauses the growth of germs, insects and mould. There are several siml- plo ways of keeping books in good condition, One of the beat is to pisco on the shelves, behind the volume's, 'strips of flannel moistened with benzine, phenol., tobacco - juice, or turpentine, 'These strips only need renewing from titn,e to time, and will effectually prevent decay setting in amongst the large or small library ab the cost of a few pence and a little trouble. Dooliniug Crime. In 7850 it was oompubed that ono - fifteenth part of the population of the United Kingdom lived by crime. One -fifteenth part I It aannds almost incredible. Still,. the year 1856 was quite a long time ago, and since: then, 'thanks mainly to improved trade and educational facilites, the .prop,ortion has do- climed very oonsidencybly. Nowa-. days, in fact, despite an increasing birthrate, the number of persons a Convicted of crime allows decrease almost every sear',. This of course, is very* sabisfaotory, especially see- ing that, 'shwa •burs law has become much more lenient, the deterrent effects of punishment must be los- ing etaangtha During the reign of. Honey V.fII.-38 years -,-no fewer than 72,000 orimmals were exeeu•b od Yet five million persons is all outside eetianato of, the entire popu- lation of England and Wales at that time, During the ten years 1820.1830,- 707 erfninals were meted in England alone. Nowadays, one year rarely sees mere than fif- teen aueb tragedies. DIST1NCTI1'L BLOUSES. The one on. the left is of wine -colored satin relieved with black; on the right, of navy blue moire with detachable chelmsette. MOST SUCCESSFUL BEGGAR NEW LORD ICNTJTSPORD AN UNI( UE CHARACTER. He Goes About Among the Rich of London Raining Money for Hospitals. Sydney Holland, who, through his father's death has just become Viscount Knutsford, is a. grandson of that Sir Henry Holland who married a daughter of Sydney Smith, the famous wit. Ho owed the handle of his name to the bar- onetcy besbo•we'c1 upon him by Queen Victoria, in return for his serviees to her as her principal physician, and his eldest son after filling the offices of Minister of Ed- ueation, and of Secretary of State for the Colonies, was raised by her to the peerage as Baron and Vis - ,count Knutsford in the County of Chester, The new Lord Knutsford is the moat persistent beggar in London, and it has been suggested that he should on sueceedin•g to the House of Lards transform the motto of his house into the shorter and more appropriate phrase, "How mutt I" as indicative of his methods of per - ,Suasion. It is only fair to say that ho does not beg for himself, but for the great hospitals of the metropolis, and several of them, notably the London .Hospital and that of Pop- lar, have not only been extrioabted Pram heavy debt and tplaoed on an excellent financial footing, but have been wonderfully enlarged, im- proved and brought up to date through the millions of dollars which he has managed to collect for them. Nothing for Himself. Known all over Europe as the greatest expert in existence on hos- pital finance and administration, all his work for these institutions has been done without the slightest, remuneration, and with the sole object of relieving sufferiug. He never loses an opportunity to promote liberality towards the hos- pitals in which he is interested. On ono occasion he struck up an ac- quaintance on an omnibus in the city with a couple of Americans from, one of the Western Sta•tcs. "Whore , aro you going 2" he asked. "To the Tower of London," was the answer, "Why, that is a second-rate af- fair ffair compare(' with the Poplar 1- os-. pita, You canal leave England without seeing it. Come nlong with me and I will show you over.„They wenn over it. -They did not seem, particularly pleased at ' the alteration of their morning'% pro- gramme. But they never said a word tall he led them up to the col- leating box. They dropped thereiu a •sovereign apiece. Then the storm broke. )'Sir,” said the elder, "you ].lave in you the primary instinots of a bunco -sheerer," • while the other, after gazing at, Holland a minute, exclaimed with a sort of jealous approbation, "Say, young. fellow, you ' could make your for- tune out West --that is, if they didn't shoot you first," 1,alrY er and Financier.. The new Lord Knutsfordi is a lawyer by profession, but n finan- cier by preference, and a very euO- ceoo£ul ons at that, icor when he joined the board of directors of the East and West India Docks Com- pany in oin-pany-in London ib was in the hands of a reeciver, with liabilities for interest Mono of. near a million dol - hire .e year, and virtu•a17,y no in- come. Thanks mainly to his efforts, it is today a prosperous ooncern with all, the liabihitioa discharged, and paying ordinary shareholders an average dividend of five per eell1, This has made a name for miler in the city. Lord tinubsfoi'cl is married to Lady Mary Ashburnham, youngest sister of the present Earl of Ash- burnham, and, ;like his grandfather, fiiir Henry Holland, is no.'stranger on this side of the Atlantic,. having been a guest ou several occasions of the late 1, Pierpont Morgan. yb T'ilif OLID Cl7NA.111D 11UJLDING. Built By the i otuitter of That Gu!eut Stetunship Line. There i•s cm: sidorable historic signilice nce in the circiunmtalice that the C.P.R. has just taken for ,tet, the advertisement does not address the winter months the cad Cunard Rin `i`e )man oY1egonl tib racterlsbetw on the erected by the fanntter of 1s and 25 years of r. Ke" that the . army Coffers "awed vvarresgood food and the C'ttnatcl lu411, .fiamttel (Timone opportunities, for sports and harts, wire wasine- 0 Bu rms. man and genres" who merle his name Encase in the shipping and tltereantils world. It With it) Halifax •th•it• he brought bis fleet ,ships; it was in the old airs Our London iL,e tel ming name; rtabor'er's The ifing has put himself at the head of a now movelnent`ior the uplift 5, agricultural labor, whose poor outlook here hue led to se large a rural emlgra- tlon to Canada In recent years. Ail who are empioved on ;the royal farm In Norfolk and elsewhere ere now assured a minimum iva.tt or h0. shllhn;r5 woeitIY, plus Saturday halt -holiday, plus esntitluity of em nleynhcn L. plus security of tonere of cottages. Thin tneane a rise varying from i to 3 shit - tinge weekly, The Xing has also, by reductions in rent, Induced his tenants '10 offer equal terms to their JaburnS Coats Family Foresees Are BIS. The rOmantle pareer or the 'Coats family, the thread. srrtlliuiiairos; has been running to its ernd wIen the death of no fewer than hie nIe111051.8 during. the last two years. l:a,•n meutber has lea at large fortune through which the British exchequer has been enriched by a total or some 90. Uu0,ua,U, Tho death of Jetties Coats in ilaroh, 1012, left a fortune of nearly 5-,008,- 000 without any nretisian5 Por . s dis- posltion;six months. later Archibald Coats passed away lea% ung It sum of nearly $7.000,000; -ln January,- 1913,. Sir James Coats died- leaving nearly $9- 000,000; and in. a few weeks later P. M. Coats, a son of Slr James died leav- TUE SUNDAY SCHOOL STORY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 1. Lesson IX. Trusting in Riches and Trustingin God,. Luke 12. 13.31. Golden Text, Luke 12.31. Verse 13, The' multibude -- The Crowd .whish had collected while Jesus was denouncing the Phari- sees (Luke 11. 83),. ]aid• ---The man does not ask Jesus to arbitrate, but :to give a decision in his own favor and command the brother to divide, Divide the inheritance—Accord- ing to law ons third of the pro- perty should go to the younger and two thirds to the older eon (Dent. !ng $1,000,000, 21 17) Peter Coats In September last, left tin- 1h.. aYLan—A .severe form of ad other fortune of $18,000,000, slaking the total fortune of the deceased over 01085. Lt ifnpriees dlsapprobatio-n, $40,000,000. None of the Coats lett tent- C ' ye,ml 2. 1' b, zoo to charity. -but during their life-, time they hadbeengenerous specs, i 8600 -mads me u judge t)1' a divi-. war oven Takes to Advertising. .der over You 1 --It was -the office of The War Office, likesomeotter ,9rit- The fifth death winch was that oft lab institutions, has at last realized the vee 9Dlirvs to settee matters of dis- advantage of newspaper puoneity. UL' pure, 600 ]'na•b''eal 1verS appointed course, there has always been auierua- ing of a sort in connection syph oer na- UPC tans purpose. Jesusaostaans sal and military forces, but it .has been tram inberieutig with their dtrtiets. badly done Old fashioned colored pie - tures depicting the delights of military (q-Nnipare Jelin 18, 36.) life have been hung outside prisons. re- cruiting quarters and the luxe, !nines- lo, Uoveto'usnesa—That is, "'the sibae,:obsolete pictures, whose lifelike -greed desire ,to nave: more." Jesus nee5 if they ever had any having long. since vanUthetl. •- 10.143WWhat was at the .root of the But •all ants 1s to be altered and the least progressive of 'the Government hall, s request and he bakes ocoa- departnients bus, to the amazernent of a1vr1 to warn '6170 whole multitude, lee public., made a notable stet) forward. The front page of the Daily Mail the against•this sial,. so common and so• other day bore interesting testimony to suutie. the fel* that the War Orrice is no long- er living inthe past with the ideas of n Man's hie consistett-11 not in a prohistorlr ages-' Its plan of advertlsf 811•a autindain e in the things which Ing the attractions and conditions service in tete British army is a -new de -'- -lie passasseta—'Prue' hie 15 soTke=- :nate:e for which- everything can be •wun apart from ossessions and said $' apart P , "Coy t i., r. novelty and it will be 1L le lla-G enrichte by material. gaitt. lnteeesting to know what the ripe, retir- ed eulunels, colonels who do not love creche as. this garb may be apex novelties, will think or -1t. But. after preaslan: of awn oarneet life. In addition to the page advertise - meets in the htewspapers .the War Of- lice is issuing au attractive little book culled '"rhe Army and What It Offers." Lest Oifioor of Light Brigade. Fir George Wombwell, the met sur - he bent over his task, There IS at vtting un'ieer in the charge of the Light Brigade at tialaclasa who Jird Oct. 10, new clay and new method:•`, anal a aged s0, left estate of the gross vale or 81,027, . The testator left the saddle, bridle, pistols and holster formerly belonging to Julie, Lord itelusyse pf lYorhtby, and Liv tradition used by Oliver Cromwell, the tapestry,statuary, three linippen- dale Iuel hug t,l t ,t's, certain furniture, the 18151. and books in his iibary, two water -colors of Yorkshire scenes and the h',mconbet•g plate to devolve as heir - degree of expansiun ni which he could -not have dreamt. The ship-. ping business has increased a hun- dredfold during .tete last half cen- tury. The stress and stvai.n of Iiie are indicated by the speed demand- ed on land and sea—speed which the old founder could not have foreseen hi hie 'most prescient mo- ment. The old house (or officea) is a three-storey building of stone with the quaint old w endows hint- ing a quiet and sedate world which minded its burliness anti did not bo- ther looking out at hobble skirts. TIM name is cut on the old build- ing-'tS. Cunard"—offering a me- meuto of the palet full of interest, as snggestiag at once the email be- ginnings of • a ga'eat business to tvhich he devoted his energy and genius and the amazing develop- ment of that business, keeping pace with modern demand, by the O.P.R. Baron de Forest. An hereditary baron of erne Aus- trian Empire and ono of the beat known men of the British aristo- craoy, who offers to buy the Earl of Derby's Bootle estate at the tat- ter's valuation of $7,500,000. 1, Nothing New. That 'tbero is nothing new under the sun receives fresh proof-evory clay from the work of scientists. Mr, W. • H, Cadman has recently discovered that the Egyptians in- cubated chickens .to the number of one hundred and.:twenty millions a. year. He has, 'further:, found out how they did' it, They had no oils stoves er gas or electrically -heated inaubabo•ri, but used ovens which worked mach better, tloegh they required a little more attending to. Each oven was made to held seven' thousand eggs, and the fuel tiled was chopped straw, until the fast ten da s when the hitatchin g energy days, g gb was supplied by the chickens them- selves,. Ono of the commonest et' roes of themon using our modern incubators i's to employ far too lunch heat, espeeoaldy towards the end of the period, It aeons, thore- fore, that we n1q•y learn tot only how to do things but, also, how not to do thea, from the Egyptians of five thousand years ago, Tho fact that they used straw thews that they wore meet c�aoefnl to avoid intense lieoit lit any stage in the pi'cce'edingt. Hams. Ile directed that his remains should be burled at Coxwolde without a leaden coffin and that no hearse or coaches should be used athisfuneral; his body being borne by tenants or laborers on his estate. C. P, Aittle's Memory Amazing, The death of O. 1', Little deprives the journalistic world of -Its "society report- er" in excelsls. Mr, Little—"the great Little" he was culled among his fellows —was famous in his emit. for his re inimitable memory- for names. You would see him, for instance, sitting In one of tate cotetedchairs en the most exclusive lawn in the world at Coves, apparently 1101 "taking particular notice" as they say, but all tile sante reemoriz- Lug names with great accuracy. This faculty is quite essential to the pootety reporter, who has to do his work without a notebook. To show a note- book in the Royal Yacht Squadron clubhouse would be fatal. Society re- porters must not be known as Journal- ists. Always a small and specialized class, society reporters are fewer than over since 1t became common for am- bitious persons in society to employ social secretaries." These persons aro usually women, and are engaged to keep the newspapers informed of the doings of their employers, Queen Mary's r'Vnderetudyd' The Queen, like the stars of 0 Thes- Mfan company, is obliged to - have an underettrdl" one who le, of course, a personage of some importance, to repre- sent her at social affairs which she cannot personally attend, The choice occasionally falls upon a lady in walt- ing, often Lad,' Bertha Dawkins, but more .usually if the Queen has to•bere- presented it Isby her own private sec- retary, 151'. Wallington, a' pleasant and tactful sttbstitute, - as well may be, for naturallyenough the Queen's absence is felt ae a great disappointment Etiquette requires that when the Icing and Queen are represented their substi- tutes shall' be )received with almost its mime. Ceremonial as the sovereigns ie. Brougnt Ioroh plentifully — There was no .suggestion Rhes tale plan's wealth was unjustly acquir- ed. He is, indeed, to hie comntead- ed for having managed his farm so well. 17-19. Note how the man refers to fruits, my barns, my grain, my goods, and my soul. lie seems to Seel that. he has no obligation , to anyone but himself. There is' no recognition of. the work of the ser- vaulrts who prepared the gronrid, nor of God, who gave the increase. 20. God said unto him -This is but a story ,and not history. It is unnecessary, therefore, to inquire how God spoke to the man. Is thy soul required --Literally, "They are demanding thy soul of then," perhaps a vague reference to the heavenly powers. The Greek word translated "soul" also means "life," The things which thou hast pre- pared, whose ,,,hall' they be 7 Pos sessions cannot purchase life. Not even this man's soul was his own to (Repose of. What are his pos- session's w'orta1 to hiw4 (Compare Ecce, 2. 18-23.) 21. Jesus closes the parable by reminding hie listeners that a like experience will come to any man who mimeses wealth for himself without reference to God, who be- stows ib Rich aboward God—Rich in the things which are pleasing to him, THE QUEER CUSTOMS OF ETON Maley Still in Vogue at the Great English Sehool. Prince Henry, third 600 of his Britannic rnajesty, is a pupil at Leon, Ib is the. first time in the themselves, the host or hostess nicely history 'o1:that institution that the' Ing' and remaining with . the gentleman. or lady deputy as .long as. they remain son of a reigning king has entered n the -1110 01 T111s means only a. short. time, but the names of those invited to Meet the royal 'understudy have to. be. -submitted beforehand exactly as In the case of royalty, There is not Musa such a formal sys- tem of -etiquette nowadays at court as. in the days of Queen Victoria, but there is an el011 more emphatic desire for dlg- hien, Eevtarkabie DOS. Vic, a mongrel .terrier, ie credited: with marvellous'powers,. Although he is quite a duffer at the. Orditlary :pet doggy tricks, such as "sitting Uhl' "begging" or extending a Ihnp paw, be has the extraordinary faculty of being. able to spell the namesof streets and do smallarithmetic sums, stroll as ad- ding, subtraction and multiplication. Vic belongs 10 '81,, O, 1.1. Leigh, 'a 5001110 artist at the Nattingham Theatre Royal, and he declares that to him Vie's ertcta are inexplicable and uncamly. Be has owned Vio etncu a nnuppy, and the 110g is 110%y nine years old. He has hover attempted to, train him,in -the slightest .degree, Pet in simplarilh- 1n0t10 and Spelling Vie novor slakes' a Mistatl;o, • Pregnantly in banes ho tin- stvarequestions for any stranger. It: ;vie is salvia to add any two figures he barks the total. Ile spells any word or manic by borking the number of letters, !f shown a picture of any animal he will •Spell its name correctly. The va- gitrles. of the English language leave no difficulties for Vie.. df. never - spells. elephant with an "f. 13y warring the name plate he can :poll the urate of any street, adding 5101 1)a1.1t5 fol' "street" and four for "Toad." via is Tone of looking through' nlobUre books and barite four )tines le be thrtdrs ono gond,,but if bad hasa'ver.v' emPhttt- le, ejaculation read, Mr. Leigh.. says Ile enn give n0 ex- olana11on of the dog's extraordinary Powers, Louden, Web, 6; 191.4, If a onsite swallows to bone er ob- Jeot like a button, snake him bend hie head as low ms possible and slap lni'in hard between the slink -ter - blades, A 1hlree.minute pudding sante) is made of ono cupof areas three - quartette oup light 'brown sinal' rind q. p g 1 hone tes,epoon vanillas, Stir till boil- ug1161e it. Whether or not the young p1i1100 will have to "fag" for his senior, there is no precedent to decide. 'Vilma are, however, 'a multitude of •austoms at Eton to which the prince must, no doubt, conform," says an English newspaper. "Hirsh as to '(loess, His royal highness must on no )account walk on the street, :over the bridge', in brown boots . and celored steckiegs, or wibhonb his high hat. He must no- vex fasten the bottom button of his waistcoat, If he wears .e made-up tile, its will runs the Trisk of having it torn from his neck. If he oarriea Ina umbrella, rolled up, be wdll commit a drelld'.fitl solecism. He ,will bavo to be particular about ]cis gait,—a bowed head: and rounded shoulders ,are t•110 thing, -and he hush invariably 'thrust his hands deep into leis packets. "Ire must. never walk on the left- hand side of High Street,, and leis facial ekpi•eission out of Shoal should be bored, but not ton bored:; a, little languid, perhaps, but, with the air of'trying to make the best of life, The expression, in its judi olous mingling 01 youthful zest and worldly wisdom, may be diffactrlt to catch, but the king's son will ate- coniplish it eventually with the help of a large mirror." "Yes,'' Geld the young wife proud- l.y, "father always gives ,soniet•hing expensive when -'11e• ntalt.es pre - acute." "So I d:isoovared when he gave you away :" rejoined the yoully husband, NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST WIUAT TIRE WESTERN PEOPLO AMU DMG. Progress of the Great West Told is a Few Pointed Paragraphs. The municipal finances of Priueo Rupert, B.C,, are deelared by tete Mayor to be an excellent shape. "Beginning with a deficit of $30,- 000,' ate said, "we spent half11, mil- lion il-lion last year and wound up with a surplus of $186,000." The policy of Victoria rounded • up an opiumr joint iu 'thee) city, and captured 19 Chinese smokers, be- sides oonfiacwting enough pipets and paraphernalia deo load a wagon, The Celestials were all fined- $10 anti costs each, or a month in jail. The Grand Trunk Pacifies dock, to bo built at Prince Rupert, B.O., wbieh will be oomplcted ins year, will represent an outlay of about $8,000,000, and the now Grand Trunk Pacific Hotel, whish has been started, will cost $,2,000,Q00 - It hill be 15 otori,es high. The Ward VIII. „Ratepayers' Ag - satiation, of Vancouver, had a mo- tion up before it which a member declared contrary to. the constitu- tion. This was doubted, and then, on Looking for the constitution,. was found that no copy of it was 1n existence, or tart lease) could not be found. Sailormen of Vancouver vigorous- ly deny the allegation that the O.P.R. could mot secure enough white sailors to man ,their liners if they wanted to, The secretary pf the Vancouver Sailors' Home, in, letters to the press, staad he knew of many oases where good white men had been sent ashore fa, slake room for men who were nod, efficient. A large wild animal, thought to have been a cougar, terrorized North Vancouver. One night it killed a pet collie dog on Lloyd Avenue, and the :next night .re- turned and carried off the house oat. It was thought the large quantity ' of snow and sxtreane oodcl had driven the cougar to the city for its, food supply. A Vancouver maxi named Chris- tie, w110 wa0.conviebed of "tap- ping" B.C.E.L, wires, so that all the current he used was not regis- tered through the meter, was fined $600, or in default six months' im- prisonment, He pleaded guilty to the charge. A man maned Caton, and his svife, who live at Yellow Point,' were ooanpelled to go to Victoria to answer', a charge of being concerned in an auto accident without notify- ing the police. They travelled 75 miles by auto and then proved that they were not mixed up 1n the acci- dent est all, and had no knowledge of it. Mr. Outten, under the law, has no means of recompense for either time or. money .lost. FLYING FOXES. After Preying Upon Fruit Gardens They Fly to a 'Free and Rost. Persons who have lived) in India are familiar with the long strings of flying foxes which often can be seen wending their way in single file from their sleeping pl.soes in re- mote trees to the fruit gardens upon whioh they prey. These cur- ious creatures ,sways a, writer in the Wide World Magazine, some'tmes measure as much ,as four feet across the, wings, and have redklieli brown fur and mole oo•lored wings. .After their nocturnal depredations 'they fly away with the 'dawn to a tree in some isolated place, and there cost 'during the day, hanging heads clown ward from the boughs in the makn- her of bats, olatching the branch with their • feat. As the flying foxes gather on the tree selected there is a tremendous commotion, for each newcomer is slgoatotisly driven off from one place after another until ho even- tually manages to obtain a perch for himself. Those on the tree meanwhile keep up an incessant wrangling, each endeavoring to. get the highest and best plane to rest on. Sometlnes many hundreds of these destructive creatures may be seen hanging irons the branches of a large tree, Whon opportunity of - fens, they are often shot, and some of the n t h ivos consider their flesh a delicacy, though it, hardly spppas to1s"ttrapeens, When ,the foxes 1 abash their flight in the oarly hotilu i h r of the morning they fuent1' � J swoop dotsvn into any water which is bendy, and when on iihe wing do rat fly in flocks, but follow each other in single file, flying lvibh a ar tarred} sweep ` of petrol -Mr 'show, .res d 1 1 p the wing, ' Actual Test Desired. Gibbs—There's Duo rtheg ld 'Hite ve•r;y trawl.: ate, flied 0lrt about laaaclf. 1)ibll q--wWhe t. as 't.ha t 1 • Gi:bbs.-•Whether cif not I mild ettind ,caseper'ity, •