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Eggs for Hot Pays.
Nature is a pretty good judge of
what is the best for us, and so when
the really ha weather comes we gen-
erally feel a distaste for meat or
other heavy foods, and naturally turn
to the lighter dishes; at the same time
it is very poor policy not to look after
their nutritious qualities, for extreme
heat is likely to lower our vitality
anyhow.
Under these circumstances eggs
come to the rescue, and we turn with
pleasure and relief to some more novel
Ways of serving them uian the inces-
sant boiled, fried, poached and. scram-
bled. The following recipes will give
enough variety to add a zest to the
food and stimulate the jaded appet-
ite:
Creamed Eggs.—Use little fireproof
pans for this, and proceed as before,
but pour a tablespoonful of cream
over each egg. If a more substantial
dish is needed, boil some rice in
stock, season ib well, and half fill the
pan with it before adding the egg and
cream.
Creamed Eggs and Potato.—Place a
layer of smoothly mashed and well -
seasoned potatoes in the dish or lit-
tle pans (previously greased), and.
then an egg on the top as before.
Creamed Eggs With Fish.—If you
have any remnants of cooked fish,
flake them carefully free of skin and
bone, add salt and pepper and mix
with some white sauce and add a lit-
tle mashed potato. Line some little
greased pans with this, add an egg as
before, and pub into the oven, to set.
Fricasse of Eggs.—Boil the neces-
sary number of eggs hard and cut in
half. Remove the yolk, and add to
it any tiny remnants of finely minced
meat, a few bread crumbs, salt, pep-
per, a very little &hopped parsley
and grated lemon rind. Stuff the
eggs with this and put the remainder
aside. Make sufficient white sauce
(using half milk and half stock or
serve in a wall of savary rice or
spread on boiled macaroni.
Tested Recipes.
Peanut Man.—Put a thin layer of
freshly cooked rice into a shallow balc-
ing dish. Sprinkle it with salt and
dots of butter. Top it with a layer
of finely ground peanuts, then add an-
other layer of rice, then one af pea -
mats, and so on until the dish is full
Bake it twenty minutes and serve it
with tomato sauce.
Cheese and Rice Croquettes.—Add
one-half of a cupful of grated cheese
to a pint of boiled rice; season it with
cayenne and salt, and add a well -beat-
en egg. and enough cream saace bo
make the mass properly moist. Mix
it well; form it into small rolls or
balls; roll it in bread crumbs wet with
egg, and fry it in deep, hot fat.
Apple Syrup Custard.—One-quarter
of a cupful of apple syrup, one and
three-quarters cupfuls of milk, two
eggs, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of
salt, one-half of a teaspoonful of van-
illa, two tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Beat the eggs just enough to mix the
whites and the yolks. Add the oth-
er ingredients, and bake the custard in
cups for fifty minutes in a slow oven.
If you bake it in one dish, use three
eggs.
Potato Turnovers.—This is a good
way to serve meat and potatoes. Boil
and mash enough potatoes to fill a
pint measure. Add, one well -beaten
egg, sufficient salt and pepper, and
one tablespoonful of flour. Turn bhe
mass on a well -floured board, roll it
out carefully, and cut it into disks
the size of a saucer. On each disk
place a large spoonful of cold meat
chopped very fine and highly season-
ed. Turn the potato dough on itself
and pinch the edge together as if
making an ordinary turnover. fut
the turnover on a flat greased pan,
brown them in a hot oven, and serve
them with brown or tomato sauce.
Cauliflower With Cheese Cream
water). Grease the bottom of a cas- Dressing.—Wash a fresh cauliflower
or as many heads as you need. Boil
water in the kettle in which the vege-
tables is bo be cooked, salt it well and
add the cauliflower while the water i's
boiling. Cook it until it is tender.
To prepare the dressing, heat one cup-
ful of sweet milk in a double boiler;
serole, put in the eggs, stir the re-
mainder of the stuffing into the sauce
and pour over the eggs. Make very
hot in the oven, and serve boiled rice
in another casserole. A very little
bacon cut into dise improves this dish.
Scrambled Eggs With Rice.—Have
ready some boiled rice, alloWing half thicken it with a level tablespoonful of
a teacupful to each person. For
people allow two eggs, and cook them
very lightly, adding the rice and stir-
ring it well in with salt and pepper to
season. Servo very hot.
Eggs With Fried Itread.—This met-
hod of serving eggs and bacon is
economical; Cut some stale, bread in-
to cubes, allowing about half a cup-
ful ta each person, and to each serv-
ing of bread about eight little pieces
of bacon. Fry the bread and baoon
in hot fat in a frying pan, and break
the eggs in, stir and. cook until be-
ginning to set. Dust with salt and
pepper, and serve very hot.
Surprise Eggs.—Choose pobatoes all
of a size and bake them. Cut off a
piece lengthwise, and scoop out as
much potato as possible. Mas'h it
smooth and very moist with some
white sauce, salt and pepper. Line
the potatoes thickly with this. Break
an egg into each, cover with potato
and bake until the potato is lightly
browned.
CEOs Mollets.—Have ready boiling
water ,and put the eggs in, and keep
the water boiling for five minutes. At
once place the eggs in cold water and
leave them for 15 minutes. Then
shell very carefully. The object is
to cook the egg sufficiently to shell
them without the youks being hard.
Thus cooked, drain well and place
them in a casserole, and cover with
shrimp or tomato, onion or curry
sauce, and serve with plain boiled rice.
Poached Eggs With Onions.—Take
two or three onions, peel, and par-
boil them, slice, and fry until quite
brown, Fry some squares of bread,
spread the onions on these, and serve
a poached egg on each. By parboil-
ing the onion before frying the flavor
is rendered far more mild.
Little Egg Pies,—Have ready two
hard-boiled eggs chopped and half a
pint of white sauce well flavored.
Stir the egg into the sauce. Line the
required number of little fireproof
pipkies with mashed, potato, fill with
the sauce, cover with potato, rough up
with afork, aid bake until the. potato
is colored.
Birds' Net.—These are generallY
Made with sausage meat, but they are
cheaper if mashed potato is used.
Boll bunt eggs hard, and cover fairly
thickly with smoothly mashed and
well-seas/nage potato. Egg, cruurib,
and fry a golden brown. Cut in two
with a sharp knife, and servo very
hot,
Spanish Eggs.—Three-parts cook
three large, ripe tomatoes (bake them
Or boil therm, whichever is most con-
tenier t), rub through a sieve. Put 1
OZ. of dripping its a pan, add the tome,
o plap, Season with pepper and ealt,
'Add the eggs, stir over the flro
til tle eggs bogie to set, and servo
'Very het, on squares af buttered toast.
cornstarch dissolved in a little cold
milk; season it with salt, pepper and
butter; add _about one-eighth of a
pound of grated cheese. Pour the
seitace over the cooked cauliflower at
the last minute before you serve it,
after draining the water from the
vegetable, and serve it on hot buttered
toast.
Housghold Hints.
Lemons will keep fresh if stowed
in dry sand separately.
Tomato juice will remove ink stains
from the hands.
Never allow fresh meat to remain
in paper; it absorbs the juice.
A dish of cold water in the oven
will prevent cake from burning.
Dry flour applied with a newspaper
is an excellent and easy way bo clean
tinware.
Salt will remove the stain from
silver caused by egg when applied
dry with a soft cloth.
To get cake out of pan whole when
taken from the oven set it on a wet
cloth for five minutes.
Never keep vinegar or yeast in
stone crocks or jugs; their acid at-
tacks the glazing, which is said to be
poisonous.
Put a silvered spoon into the most
delicate glass and boiling hat liquid
can be poured into it without breaking
it.
A delicious salad is made of boiled
beets, scooped out, filled with sliced
vegetables and served on lettuce
leaves with French dressing.
Don't go on the theory that the
less you eat in the summer the cool-
er you will be. Eat moderately of
rather light but nourishing food.
Corn should always be cut from
the cob very carefullyelitting the
middle of each row•of kernels with a
sharp knife and scraping out the
War and Words.
England's sixteenth century war
with Spain was responsible for sev-
eral new words being added to the
language. Embargo and contrabrand
are two of them; while to the cam-
paigns in the low countries we are
indebted for such words as freebooter,
furlough, cashier, leagues, drill, ori-
slaught, aconce and domineer,
Odd,
Fair Hostess (entertaining wounded
soldier) --And so one Jack Johnson
buried you, suid the next day dug you
up again and leaded you on bop of a
barn! Now, what Were your feelings?
Tommy—If believe nie,
ma'am I was never more surprised i
makes an excellent centre to all my 'life
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON.
AUGUST 13.
Lesson V11.—The Grace of Giving,
2 Cor. 9. Golden Text,— .
Acts 20, 35,
Verse 1, The Saints—"God's people,"
as we have paraphrased, in Jerusalem,
where irnproverished largely by the
famine (Acts 11. 28), which had oc-
casioned the former gift of the Gentile
Christians. But we must not forget
the consequenees of their experiment
in communism, undertaken in the en.
thuslasm of their conviction that the
advent would be speedily accoinplisla
ed, and provision for earthly needs ac-
cordingly was needless,
2. I glory, Paul was a very boastful
man—about other people's good deeds.
He kept these unstable Corinthians up
to the mark by committing them in ad-
vance, in talk with other Christians to
a generosity they hacl promised, from
which it is clear not a few of them
were in danger of receding. Mace-
donia—Including the far more gener-
ous and high-minded Philippians. Paul
used their generosity as an incentive
for the Corinthians in the previous
chapter. Stirred up—Paul uses a term
capable of a bad meaning, just as the
writer "to the Hebrews" daringly
epeaks of the "provocation of love."
(10, 24—see last week's note on 1 Cor.
13, 5). It is the one field in which
rivalry is a good thing, for love steri-
lizes all its microbes.
3. The brethren—Especially Titus
and "his brother" (so render 2 Cor. 8.
18), who from that verse appears to be
none, other than Luke. The notable
discovery of an inference from the
Greek, obvious when once pointed out,
incidentally shows us why Titus is not
named in the Acts. We must go to
the Epistles to see how important
these two brothers were, modestly
having suppressed their record where
we should have expected it to figure
largely.
5. Make up beforehand — Superin-
tending such arrangements for collec-
tion as Paul sketched in 1 Cor. 16.
Bounty, here and in verse 6, is, literal-
ly, blessing ; see note there. Extor-
tion—The word usually rendered
covetousness. Even though they had
promised this gift to a good work,
Paul was acutely sensitive to the pos-
sibility that by postponement and hur-
ried collection the money might be got
Ultimately by methods unworthy of the
high privilege of Christian giving. It
might come as an irksome duty, and
God would know those coins again,
even if they aid meet the need. Hence
the wise provision of the weekly gift,
a regular sacrifice hallowing the Lord's
day. John Wesley was wise as usual
when he ordained the penny a week l
6. Bountiful—Paul applies the
thought of Gal. 6. 7 to one more of its
many fielde. That large -handed bounty
is a "blessing" (see above) may be il-
lustrated by Shakespeare's great line
about mercy:
"It blesaeth him that gives and him
that takes,"
7. Giving is to be (1) calculated, not
merely impulsive ; (2) an act of
"cheerfulness," not of "grudging" (lit-
erally pain) ; (a) absolutely spon-
taneous, not enforced by any kind Of
pressure. God loveth—Quoted from
the Greek version of Prov. 22. 8,
where there Is nothing resembling it
in the ordinary Hebrew text, It is a
good illustration of Paul's regular use
of the Greek Bible. He does not call it
a quotation, and he knew the Hebrew
may well have remembered it was a
mistranslation. '
8. The figure cane up a flood of
divine bounty, which after satisfying
every need flows over into the mana
word, that of Luke 8, 11, which is ite
commentary. The lathe of your
righteousness --a reaniuleuenee of Doe,
10. lbt
irallty—As in Rom. 12. 8, The
noun is derived from the word Single
(as in "the single eYe"). The SUggoS'
thin is that niggardly giving is from
trying to look at two things at once,
poise:sal advantage as well as the
neighborei need, where the "single-
minded man can only see the latter.
Through us --Paul is to have the privi-
lege of telling the recipients how much
that gift meant
12, Ministration of men who remem-
bered his coming "not to be ministered
unto, but to minister," Service—Greek
liturgy, word originally used of a
service to the state, but now beginning
to be applied to the service of God,
which colors its use here. Aboundeth
—"Overflows," again : its secondary
effect ts beyond its primary impor-
tance. Note what stress Paul lays on
the enrichment that comes from grati-
tude to God.
13, Proving—A. favorite word, also
rendered proof and probation. Thus
in Rom. 5. 4 it is the outcome of en-
durance and the producer of hope,
Obedience—The Corresponding verb
in 1 Cor. 15. 28 speaks of the subject-
ing of all things to Christ, Confession.
—Compare 1 Tim, 6. 12 ; Heb. 4, 14
Contribution—This rendering misses
the great feature of the word, fellow-
ship, sharing, A true gift brings,giver
and receiver to a common meal.
14. Grace, the same word as thanks
In verse 15. In this context the col-
location is hardly accidental. God's
free bounty—this is the essential idea
of grace—was evidenced by the Corin-
thian' generosity, which showed that
they" knew the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ" (2 Con 8. 9). It was
God's graoe, which never can stay in
a heart unless it is always flowing out
as fast as it comes. It pours out upon
God's people, and it rises back to God
in thankfulness for "his unspeakable
gift."
15. Unspeakable—The same sense of
the inadequacy of language breaks out
in Rom, 11. 33. Compare Eph. 3, 18,
19. Gift—"In the redemption of the
world through our Lord Jesus Christ."
It is the word of Eph, 2. 8, and Is
found in the Master's saying, "Freely
ye have received, freely give."
NO ARCTIC WARRIORS.
Armies Not Recruited From People
of Polar Regions.
How to Correct Failure of Lights,
Open circuits usually some from
broken wires or from loose or discon-
nected terminal wires at one or More
of the electrical units of the system.
In most connectors the wires are $ol&
ered when the system is fitted, and if
one of these become dislodged due t..0
the solder having become crystallized
or jarred loose, the wire does nob
take long to work its way entirely
free of the terminals. Often it is
hall to find such defects unless the
terminals are each carefully examined
with this thought in mind, says Motor
Age. There are many instances
where a connection looks to be all
right, but which in reality is no con-
nection at all when investigated close-
ly. Sometimes, when the connector
is all right, the fault lies in the bind-
ing post nut having worked, loose or
fallen off,with the result that the
terminal can move around on the pose,
causing a very poor contact, if any.
Do nob mistake simply a burned
out lamp filament for trouble in the
system. Too often the driver will
examine the bulb that does not ligh,li
and, failing to notice the broken fil-
ament, will cause himself a great
deal of troiuble tracing bhe connec-
tions throughout the system, when in
reality therel is nothing but the lamp
itself to blame. If you cannot see
plainiy whether the dark bulb is reit-
en or not, try a known good one, and
if that, too fails to light, it is time
to delve deeper into the wiring intrica-
cies.
One of the first points to look is
at the light switch to see if there are
any defective connections there. Then
examine the wires going out of the
socket, for this is a very common
point of open circuiting.
Watch the Battery.
Shaking of the wire due to con-
tinuous road work will often work the
wire end loose from the binding
screw, which is a none too perman-
ent connection, anyway, due to the
space limitations.
Battle history halts at the Arctic So far, we have devoted our atten-
Circle. Beyond that human life is so tion entirely to those troubles that
difficult -to; sustain that its. wilful waste come to the lighting system when
is unthinkable. The Lapps and Spa the engine is running. Having
moyeds of Arctic Russia, like the Es-
kimos of North America and Greentouched upon practically every pos-
land, are an often compelled in timst sibility that could cause this condi-
of dearth and famine to sacrifice their tion, we can now turn to the things
that might prevent the lights from
behaving properly when the engine is
not running.
Ake those of the King -Emperor, says The first thing to expect when they
Pearson's Weekly, are not recruited go out or get dim under these condi-
men are of such meagre status's and disaargeti through some cause of
intellect that a military training Is, causes. Besides short circuits, bat-
next to impossible—certaialy not a; beries can become Idischarged in a
thing to be persevered with M days of number of other ways, the most com-
a great canalmign. mon of which are the result of over -
The population of Arctic Russia, loading the starting or the lighting
both in Asia and in Europe, outside
the official and mercantile classes,
aged weaklings that this form of death
bas become a vague religious and
social principle with them.
The armies of the great white Czar,
in such distant places; indeed, the tionsisthatthebattemhas become
contains few elements which are
truly Slavonic, but in the minds of in-
sular Britons the reputation of Arctic
dwellers •pretalpe to all the people liv-
ing in Slyer's, whiolris always por-
trayed as a land of ice and snow and
unhealthy marshes
The Siberian battalions, which have
won so great a fame in the Russian
campaigns, are drawn mainly from
territory as near the equator as Great
Britain, It is undeniable that their
winters are terribly severe, but in the
hot Summer crops of the utmost value
can be sown, ripened and harvested.
It is not possible to lead a robust life
in the Siberia of military Russia.
The real natives of the Arctic can
endure fmarc
fold activities of good men. SuflIclen- hunger andatigue—can hin their awn fashion through hurricane
cy—The everyday use of the word and blizzard—but their value is rather
which in Phil. 4. 11 Paul has with the to the explorer of the hospitable North
than to the soldier. As hunters they
are wonderfully clever, yet they are
curiously formal In administering the
coup de grace.
They will apoliglze to the tierce
white bear which they have cornered
before advancing to a close attack
with bone -tipped arrows and spears, a
duel in which the odds seem decisively
on the bear destroying the man. They
are therefore not cowards in any
sense and few British sportsmen would
risk their lives against bear and wolf
and walrus protected only by futile
weapons and their own personal dex-
terity.
How goes the news of the war to
these Arctic dwellers 7 Most miasma -
sense content, common in the philoso-
phers,.
9. Quoted from Psa. 112. 9, which
establishes the familiar Jewish idea
that almsgiving establishes perpetual
merit. See note on last Sunday's les-
son, verse 3, for New Testament quail-
ficatimia He who told the young ruler
that it would save him—for it meant
the abandonment of his own besetting
sin—told also how limited was the "re-
ward" of almsgiving that was preceded
by "sounding brass" Instead of love
(Matt, 6. 2).
10, Seed to the sower and bread for
food—Quoted from Isa. 55, 10. Paul
turns it into a parable of spiritual bus- iy and slowly without a doubt •Tbere
bandry. Seed for sowing—A single are colonies In the frozen North which
system, the electrolyte being too low
in the cells, or the battery being loose
in its container, so that it can move
around and become damaged.
Current Leaks.
Another source of annoyance is
battery discharge due to lighting or
starting overloads. Naturally if
there is leakage of current due to a
short circuit somewhere, the genera-
tor and the entire system are callecl
upon to furnish more energy than
would be required, normally, and this
overloading results in battery dram-
age,Agood way bo tell if there is cur-
rent leakage is to note the position a
the indicator handon the ammeter
when he engine is not operating and
no lights are on. The hand should
point to zero, since no current is be-
ing demanded, nor any being put into
the battery. Unless the instrument
is out of calibration, if the hand indi-
e,ates that current is being used, then
it is time to look up leakage points.
To make sure if the ammeter is cor-
rectly calibrated disconnect one of
the battery terminals and see if the
hand then swings to zero; if it does
there is leakage. But if it remains
one sine or the other of the zero mark,
the trouble is in its calibration, and it
is well to remember how much it is
off, for future reference, in reading
the instrument.
Use Care in Starting,
Most all of us have gone along the
street at some time or other, and
heard a motor churn and churn under
the power of an electric starter with-
out any apparent results.
This is one of the most frequent
causes of storage battery trouble ac -
carding to a service representative
of the Willard Storage Battery Co.
He explained that very few motorists
seemed to realize the immense amount
of electrical power which is required
to turn a motor, and what a consid-
erable amount of driving at charg-
ing speed is necessary to restore same
amount of current to the battery.
A little care in operating the self -
Starter will obviate this trouble. The
driver should always make sure that
the starting switch is thrown before
attempting to operate the self-starter.
Sometimmes the gasoline tank is em-
pty and under such conditions no
amount of cranking would start the
motor.
The ignition button should always
be pressed in firmly and all wire con-
nect:dans should be tight. Occasion-
ally the gasoline mixture is too weak
and on most cars this can be adjust-
ed from the dash. The coil and dis-
tributor should be kept perfectly erg
in order for bhe current to reach the
spark plugs.
have not yet heard of the Russo-Jap-
anese War, and certainly have no
knowledge of the present war,
They are free from national duties
and taxation and their Intercourse,
even with fur traders of blood alien
to their own, is meagre indeed. There
are dialects spoken by those tribes
which have never been interpreted
and never reduced to writing, and
their ideas of the great world outside
the tundras and steppes are very
crude.
A generation may pass before the
story of the Grand Duke's great cam-
paign filters north, and even then it
will be incomprehensible to persons to
whom a crowd of even a hundred
human beings would be a marvel. Now
and again a stray whaler or exploring
ship comes within sight of the shore
camps and a little barter by means of
signs is carried on, but the inland
dwellers have not even this com-
munication with the outside world.
Housewife—"It seems to me that
your pint of milk is very small." Milk-
man—"My cows are a the small kind,
mum!"
In Great Britain there are 221 re-
formatory and industrial schools, and
the number of young persons and chil-
dren in these school& is about 25,000.
In one recent year 5,267 boys and 1,-
126 girls were admitted to such in-
stitution.
Stores From OrdnancosStation Being Loaded Onto Motor Trucks at Camp Border;
CURIONS FACTS.
Water rolls off cabbage -leaves be-
cause they are covered with a very
fine dust.
Dark clothes are the warmest be-
cause they attract more heat from the
sun.
Dusty shoes are always the hottest
because polished shoes throw off the
heat.
A negro has black eyes because that
color defends them from the strong
sunlight,.
The bubbles in a teacup follow the
spoon because it attracts them just as
a magnet attracts steel.
It is in the lungs that our blood be-
comes re(I. Before it gets there it is
of a dark purple color.
Plants grow quicker on bright
moonlight nights because such nights
produce dew, which Is very good for
plants.
A kettle "sings" because the air in
the water escapes by fits and starts,
and so makes the "singing" noise,
Animals are covered with fur, hair,
and feathers because those substances
prevent the heat of the body from es-
caping,
Hawks can see such a long way be-
cause they have a special eye muscle
by which they can alter their sight to
long distances.
A black man's skin does not scorch
or blister with the hot elan because
black absorbs the heat and takes it
beneath the skin.
HEATED GLOVES.
Electrically Heated for the Use of
Aviatore.
A British firm has recently intro-
duced electrically -heated gloves for
aviators. Cold hands and feet are
among the prime discomforts experi-
enced by airmen flying at great alti-
tudes, and it is obvious that numbed
hands in particular may lead to disas-
ter. Ordinary gloves, irrespective of
their thickness, are of little use, The
electrically -heated gloves, on the oth-
er hand, maintain the hands at a corn-
fellable tbmperature. As in the in -1
stance of the electrically -heated
gloves for automobile drivers, electri-
cal connection is made between small
brim discs on the glevos arid metal
place en the steering Wheel of air.
craft,
NEWS FROM ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
ULT. ANI) HIS PEOPLE.
Oc'cur'rences In the Lend That
Reigns Supreme 111 the C011e.
mere jai Woed.
Warwick prison has been closed ow-
ing to the diminution of crime in the
county.
A woman is now employed by the
iFinchley Council (North London) to
drive a water cart.
The ancient sun dial at Charing,
IKent, has been slightly shifted to
i make it tell summer time.
Birmingham children whose fathers
have been killed in the war are to
be sent into the country for a holi-
day.
The great vine at Hampton Court
Palace, which was planted in 1768,
is now bearing over 500 bunches of
grapes.
Berkshire villages have registered
1,108 women who are willing to work
on the land, and 595 are already em-
ployed.
Notts Education Committee has
decided to embark upon a large
scheme for the training of women for
farm work.
Sunday labor on the land was
strongly favored at a special meeting
, of the East Suffolk Agricultural Geni-
i mittee at Ipswich.
Nearly 100 men may be seen in
the morning at Ealing gardening on
"waste" ground placed at theirl dis-
posal during the war.
A cheque for $250,000 has been
sent to the Red Cross by the British
meat and allied trades. Large con-
tributions came from South America.
Damage amounting to several thou-
sands was caused by a fire that oc-
curred on the premises of W. J.
1 Smith & Co., wool spinners, Leices-
ter.
The Rev. G. F. Fisher, headmaster
of Repton, at the annual speech day
stated that the number of Old Rep-
tonians on active service is now
1,503.
Carl Theodore Menke, formerly
German Consul in Birmingham, was
charged at Birmingham Police Court
with trading with the enemy, bail be-
ing refused.
Potato crops in Berkshire, North
Hants, and Oxfordshire, will be un-
usually heavy this season, and the
high prices now charged will be con-
siderably reduced.
The Royal Jersey Agricultural So-
ciety have offered the Admiralty s
quantity of potatoes for the Grand
Fleet in appreciation of the protec-
tion of the navy.
After certain alterations the old
General Post Office, Carlisle, is to be
opened by the Liquor Control Board
as a "model public house." Beer will
be obtainable, but no spirits.
A conference is being arranged by
the Railway Clerks' Association to
consider measures for improving the
condition of women derive on rail-
ways, who number about 2,000.
Through the overheating of incu-
bators a fire occurred at Thornton
Heath on the premises of Mr. George
Matthews, a poultry breeder, some
2,000 chicks in incubators being de-
stroyed. •
By order of the Ministry of Muni-
tions the work of erecting new of-
fices for the Metropolitan Water
Board in Rosebery Avenue has been
stopped. The two ground floors had
already been completed and over 120
workmen were employed.
ABOUT PETROGRAD.
Capital of Russia Is a City Built for
Giants.
Travellers speak of Moscow as the
heart of Russia, the real Russian city,
and dismiss Petrograd as an imitation
of other European capitals, declares
John Reid, in the Metropolitan, but
to me Petrograd seems more charao-
teristically Russian, with its immense
facades of Government buildings and
barracks marching along as far as the.
eye can reach, broad stretts and
mighty open spaces. The great stone
quays along the Neva. the palaces.
cathedrals and imperial avenues paved
with cobbles, grew under the hands
of innumerable serfs chained in a
swamp by the will of a tyrant, and
were cemented with there blood; for
where Petrograd now sprawls for
miles and miles, a city buiit for giante,
was nothing but a feverish marsh a
hundred and fifty yeare ago. And
there, where no roads naturally lead,
the most desolate spot, the moat vul-
nerable and the most remote frorn any
n,ateralcentre of the Russian Empire,
Peter the Great had it whim to found
his capital. Twenty thousand slaves
a year for ten years were killed by
fever, cold and 'Mileage In the MAUI-
ing of Petrograd. Nine times the
Court nobles themselves conspired to
wheck the hated city and force the
Cburt to return to Moscow ; three
times they set fire to it, and three
times the Czar Ming them at the doors
of the palaces he had forced them to
build. A. powerful section of the Re-
actionary party has always agitated
for the restoration of Moscow as the
oapital, arid it ie only in the last twen-
ty years that the population of Petro-
grad has not been artificially kept up,
One by one the stairlents made their
diagnosis, and all of the came to the
conclusion that it was not.
gentlemen, yeti are 4,1I
wrong,' said the Wielder of the Weal- ,
pel, "end 3 shall operate toataerroW."
Trees Mut flowers make the COO-.
try healthy because theY feed Alt the
bad esthetic gas in the nir lied rehire,
the geed oxygen to it.
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