Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

rv VICTORY IN SIGHT, t Thanks to cheap food, regular wages, and to trade unions, tuberculosis has been diminished to an extent that warrants me in saying, as Minister of Public Health that twenty-five years hence consumption will be as little known as typhus and typhoid are to- day.-MR. JOHN BURNS, M.P.

LION CUBS. There was a time when the Colonies were looked upon as something to keep clear of, but happily that idea is past, and now it is being realised that England has these young nations growing up and developing into man- hood, prepared to take their share in the work of the Empire.—THE HON. W. HALL- JONES.

PARTIAL COMPENSATION. should deprecate,any system which would present the women teachers marrying early in life but it is a dead loss to., the authori- ties:when they leave school to enrich some home, and they thus impoverish the educa- tional system. The only advantage is that the children of women teachers are invari- ably the best disciplined and the best taught scholars that pass through the schools' Slit. W. RUNCIMAN, M.P.

IRELAND AND THE-BUDGET., „ The Governmenta never think of Ireland when arranging their taxation. They think because they hold out the will-o'-the-wisp of Home Rule they are free to bring in any kind of taxation they like. All I know is that jvhen this Government go out of office Ire- land will not have Home Rule but two mil- lions of extra taxation. If this Budget passes I do not believe there will be a voice raised in any quarter of Ireland for the main- tenance of law and order in future, and I certainly will not raise mine, for I believe the Government has absolutely and shamefully broken faith with Ireland.-M-u. REALr, m.p.1 ■■■/■v -¡

THE NOBLE ART. The printer is the invisible friend of all who haye written, all who have, read. The printing press is the source of the life-blood of the civilised world. Stop its "pulsations, and collapse, social, commercial, and politi- cal, must inevitably follow. The noble art of printing has been the generous, giver oi knowledge, religious, scientific, and artistic. It has been the instrument of truth, liberty, and freedom, and it has added to life com- fort, recreation, and .refinements—His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,,

THE UNEARNED INCREMENT.. I «• I confess I cannot bring myself—anxious as I am in this and in other matters to put myself at the standpoint of our critics-iI cannot 14-ing. myself even in imagination to conceive that it is unjust that where, an owner of land is fortunate enough to secure through no exertion of his own and no ex- penditure of capital of his own,, simply 1 through the operation of social and economic influences, added value to his land, that the community should not be entitled to take part of the added value which, he has reaped. __M». AsiJUITH.

IRISH M.P. DEAD. Mr. P. A. McHugh, M.P. for North Sligo, died oil Monday in a Dublin private hospital. He recently returned from London in, bài:1 health. The son of a tenant farmer in County Leitrim, where he was born on September 29, 1858, Mr. P. A. McHugh was educated for; the Roman Catholic ministry. He aban-' doned his original intention of taking orders however, and decided on journalism as a career. In 1879 he went to Paris, where he stayed for a year. Returning to Ireland, he threw himself with characteristic vigour into: the Nationalist cause, and started a news-' paper called. "The Sligo Champion." The; vehemence of his attacks in this paper on the .English system oi government led on one 0 in occasion to his imprisonment. Mr. McHugh, who was a popular member of his party, was Mayor of. Sligo on no fewer than eight occasions. ,N

Among the awards of the Carnegie Hero Fund trustees at Dunfermline are £ 4 a month to the widow of James Williams, who was drowned in trying to save children at Bedlinog, Glamorgan; X,5 to Charles Price for trying to save Williams; and X2 10s. a month to Mrs. F. Davies, Edgbaston, Birmingham, for the heroism of her husband, who wag killed in try- ing to stop a runaway horse.; It was reported at a meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Primrofee League, over which Lord Hyde presided, that several of the juvenile branches had identified themselves with the Boy Scouts movement. The Nore contingent of the Home Fleet of battleships and cruisers arrived at Sheerness after completing exercises in Scottish waters. They are ordered to give leave to the crews before assembling for the naval review and naval manoeuvres.

HUMOUR OF THE WEEK A IæGAL BULL. The best legal bull is said to be that of a Colonial judge, who gave the following in- struction to an unusually garrulous and in- volved witness:— "Now, hold your tongue, sir, and give your evidence clearly." DEFINITION. OF A GENTLEMAN. "What do you mean by a gentleman?" asked Judge Willis at Greenwich of a wit- ness who had referred to a debtor as one. Witness: "Well, he lives in a big house, keeps a lot of servants, and does no work." BRAVE FIREMEN. "After burning fiercely for an hour and a- j half the firemen gained the upper hand."— "Globe." A SHORT CUT. A countryman who applied to a student to direct him the shortest way to the police- station received the following answer: "Just step into the jeweller's shop across the road, pick up a diamond bracelet, then walk straight out, and you will be 'there in a few minutes." HARNESS TWOULDN'T FIT. A lad was-standing with -his donkey and barrow selling vegetables: in a London street the other day, when a smartly-dressed young man came up and asked:— "I say, boy, would you like, to drive me to the Mansion, House7?." The boy thought for a moment and then replied:— "Yes, guv'nor'i but I don't think the 'arness would fit yer,1' OLD FRIENDS, An old Irishwoman was looking over a country church in company with two friends, who, having sprung from the neighbour- hood, knew personally the histories of the families whose memorials lined the walls, and they discoursed at so great a length upon this acquaintance that., she felt out in the cold. Suddenly her eye'caught the words "Anno Domini," in unusually large letters, on one ions. of' the inscriptions. "Anna Dommoney!" she: cried. "Begorra, an' is quid Anna buried here? Sure, an' I knew her very well whin she "was cook to the Lord Mayor av Dublin!" I i GOOD NEWS FOR INTENDING VISITORS.. From the report of a Ioca committee of the Y.M.C.A.:— "Very large numbers of visitors were then attracted to the place. many riding in daily from the surrounding districts; but, on the whole; vthe condition of these animals and the care taken of them was good." A MISSING SIXPENCE. I "If the working man bought a shilling's. worth, of twist he paid lOld. in taxes" and got 2 lid.- worth of tobacco, but if; the rich man bought an eighteenpenny cigar be only paid l £ d. in taxes and gotJOd. worth of tobacco." —"Daily" Dispatch." -to J. .} I ■ MVST WAIT ills TURN." ? A miner took his boots for repairs, but was not in a hurry, to pay for them. After a fçw weeics lizd elapsed the shoemaker called and asked for tka money. The miner's wie answered the door, and on being told;'by- the Shoemaker that he had called for the money for the boots, she shouted into the house and told her good man what was required. "What!" exclaimed the miner. "He paying. fortj-epairiHgu the boots! Tell himi it a, jtoA ttie fg-isn., WhyyI thq man that made them hasn't got paid yet I" I'HE' HOUSEMAIDS VIEW. Standing the other day on the grand stair- case of the British Museum, a gentleman heiird a i*eWrk tha:t certainly showed con- siderable ,powers Qf observation.' A country housemaid, after looking for Bojne time at ,tne architectural chef-d'oeuyreS, ecstatically reiliarked to her friend and com- panion, "Lor, 'Mary, what a lot of 'arth- Btonin' them, there steps would take 1" A STOUT FEE. A doctor who was attending a publican, ahd .tiad brought a jphysiciah to see him, told the wife that th<} fee woitld be "three g'uiheas." Aftei* the cohsultatioh, as the mojaey. was not forthcoming, he again men- tioned the fee, which was paid. j The doctors were leaving when the lady of Hie house asked what was to be done with the three glasses of stout, which they now saw With surprise on the ta^lq, and which she averred her doctor had oidered. She thouo-ht "three Guinness was the "ice perhaps. ° -"CJ. THE BITER BIT. "Cofne, come!" exclaimed the magistrate to the prisoner. "You claim that this! man I assaulted yorcyapjid that you did not even t attempt to defend yourself from1 his attack?" I "That's soT" chimed in the prisoner, with a complacent air. "How ,do you explain thecftbtl,,then,thun- dered jtiie^p. -that in three places he bears the markp of youjr teeth?" "Why," explained the prisoner -'blandly, c"e 'urt me, 'e was a-poundin' of me that I; .'ad to 'ave something to bit& on,; or I couldn't 'a' stood it I" v „ 'l "*» • WOKE HIM UP. "Fare." R »X= The";Ss'élt.<it. he'.ion:áü;l)Us( gave no heed. > [ "Fare, please," r 1 T- Still bbKvio^s. "By fthe ejacUlfttory term said the no reference to the/state of the e complexion of the admir- able blonde .you observe in the contiguous seat, nor even to the quality of service vouchsafedl by thisphilanthropic corporation. I I merely allude, in a manner perhaps lacking in delicacy, but. not in conciseness to the monetary obligation set up by your presence in," this conveyance,, and "suggest that, without contempering your celerity with enunciation, you liquidate." At this point the passenger emerged from his tfance. J CONVINCING THE JUDGE. During the. hearing of a case brought against a manufacturing company it was alleged that the vile odours of the chemicals used in the works had made the neighbour- hood untenantable, and seriously lessened the value of the property. Judge and jury were inclined to turn a deaf ear to the complaint. The company was rich and powerful, and "an alleged smell," as their counsel declared, "was too in- tangible a grievance to grasp." Then an opposing counsel went out and returned soon after with two glass retorts. "Here," said he, "are the offending subjects of our contention." He passed them to the judge, and then to the jury, who smilingly declared them pure and odourless. "But," said the counsel, "the company mixes ihem! He suddenly poured the con- tents of one of the retorts into the other, and the nauseous fumes of hydro-sulphuric acid or sulphuretted hydrogen filled the air and made the judge, jury, and spectators gasp for' breath. It was necessary to adjourn the court until the next day, when heavy damages were at once awarded to the plaintiffs.

HENRY VIH 'S FAULT. f Before the Reformation women were much better off than for 200 years afterwards. They were deprived of the advantages of the education which they received under the con- ventual system, and, with all the good the Reformation did to these islands, he was afraid they must lay it at the door of Henry VIII. and of those who destroyed monasteries that, for the tinte, they checked the educa- tion of women.-MR. W. RUNCIMAN, M.P.

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. No consideration for the happy days when t)1e Chancellor of the Exchequer and I used to ,fight the present Opposition, and when we helped to put them out of office by calling them- Chinamen and denouncing them as Confupiansno consideration for those days- and I admit they were extremely happy and pleasant days—will prevent me from offering the strongest opposition to the ,whisky pro- posals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.— bir. W. REDMOND, M.P..

THE DRINK OF THE PEOPLE. I do not think spirit-drinking countries are worse intellectually, morally, and physi- cally than beer-drinking countries. Scot- land is still a spirit-drinking, country, but I do not think anyone will say it was worse in these respects than* England.—SIB 3, DEWAR, M.P.

FOR THOSE WHO FALL. give old age pensions to the aged who Passed their time, you give contributory France against unemployment to the ordi- d ry Worker, the private in the army of in- but there are those who drop down fa l Way before they reach old age, for no HJ. °f their own, whose case is equally and equally calls for the intervention attention of Parliament. We shall not j Ve rounded off our scheme of social re- 8 until we have added to old age pensions 01 to unemployment insurance some provi- on against thp invalidity of those workers to Whoni I have referred.-Mp.. ASQUITH.

UNITED WE STAND. If in the next forty years the expansion of Germany and of this country takes place at the same rate; us during the last generation it will be utterly impossible for us, if we trust only to the strength, found in these islands, to maintain that naval supremacy on which our existence as a great nation de- fends. It can be maintained in one way nly: by uniting our strength with that of tlle sister States whose power of expansion is ^limited, by becoming with them one nation j*? reality as well as in name, united not ,lftiply by the tie of sympathy but by the sof a common system.-Mp.. Bcnab M.P.

-0: t., A GREAT CHEMIST. Sir William Ramsay, the President of the Inter- national Congress of Chemists, is a scientist, whose fame has spread over the world. He has a long string of letters after his name and is a member of pretty well all scientific societies in Europe and America. He was associated with Lord Rayleigh in the discovery of argon. Sir William was born in Glasgow in 1852, and was educated at the Academy and University of his native citv, after- wards proceeding to I Tubingen University. He was twenty-one when he became tutorial as- sistant of Chemistry at Glasgow University, and from 1880 to 1887 1- he was .Professor of Chemistry at University College, Bristol, being also Principal of-the College < from 1881. Sir William has written many scientific books. J

-0; l THE FIRST SEA LORD. Among the rumours to which the recent naval disputes have given rise is one of the approaching retirement of Sir John Fisher, which, it is said will take place on Trafalgar Day, in October next* Sir John Fisher has been First Sea Lord of the Admiralty since October 21, 1904, and he has made naval history during those very eventful five years. He had made a name as a naval adminis- trator before then, and they still talk at Ports- mouth of the way,, in which he set things to } rights when he was superintendent of the Dockyard there. A story of the period shows that an alteration was needed. A certain Lord of the Admiralty, it is said, lost his way and came upon a solitary workman gently and use- lessly tapping some old pig-iron bricks, who in answer to the ques- tion whether the Lords of the Admiralty were that way, replied, "Not I much, mate, seein' as I'm doing crow for 'em." "Crow?" queried the lost one, "What's that?" "It's wot I'm doin' of," replied the man. c- My mates are in the shed 'avin' a rest. When I sees someone as don't matter, I knock soft and easy. When I sees old Fisher, then I knocks hard!"

— 0 NOTABLE NAVAL CAREER. Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, who has been mentioned as the probable successor to Sir John Fisher in the event of the latter's retirement, is about six years younger than the present First Sea Lord. His last post was that of Comn'iH.nflpr- in-Chief on the China Station, his term ex- piring last year.. He entered the Navy in 1860, and became a captain in 1884, having been speci- ally promoted for his services in the Egyptian war of 1882, during which he saw much active service. He was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty from 1838 to 1901, Commander-in- Chief of the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa station from 1901 to 1904, and afterwards second in command of the Channel Fleet. Sir Arthur represented England at the Auti-Slavery Congress at Brussels in 1889.

Denmark's General Election, just concluded, turned on the question of the fortification of Copenhagen. The majority of the new Folk- thing are in favour of the proposal. The syndicate which has been -negotiating for a steamer service on the Thames has informed the L.C.C. Highways Committee that it is not in a position to make an offer. Sir Reginald Wingate, who is on a special mission in Somaliland, has lately been at Burao, the British advanced post. The date of his- de- parture from Berbera is not yet fixed.

When a man is content to act as a door- mat he will find the world ready and willing to use him as a door-mat.-REv. FATHEB STUABT.

ALL FOR ALL. The riebessity of drawing closer the bonds which unite together the different parts of the Empire is plainly a growing necessity. I do not think anybody can contemplate the world forces which are slowly shaping them- selves, in one or another quarter of the world without seeing that it is of vital necessity for, this Empire to' organise itself, to draw its different members closer together, and to taake it conscious of common needs, common destinies, aye, and of common perils.-Mn. BALFOUR.

HEADS AND TAILS. > I recognise that there are a number of in- telligent women at the head of the woman's franchise movement, and I would be the last to speak of them with disrespect; and I know that there are at the other end a number of howling dervishes whom I should be loth to' characterise in any other terms.—LORD CURZON.

NATURE NOTES. Ii THE TERRIBLE TSE-TSE. The most terrible scourge of Africa at the present moment is the sleeping sickness, which is conveyed to man by the tse-tse fly, and yet. up to quite a recent date man was considered immune from the attacks of this poisonous pest. The tse-tse fly is somewhat- erratic in his choice of victims. All wild animals are proof against its attacks, to- gether with the mule, ass, and goat, but to those invaluable beasts of burden, the horse and the ox, a bite from the tse-tse spells death. The tse-tse is possessed of abnor- mally sharp sight. It perches on top of a bush or other commanding elevation, and directly it descries its quarry it swoops down upon it with the swiftness of a hawk. The] THE TSE-TSE FLF. distance at which the horned cattle of Africa can hear this deadly little foe of tireirs is tremendous, and to the greenhorn seems almost incredible. Still, hear it they do, and when they recognise the buzzing of their dfeaded enemy they quake in abject terror, i" as well they might, for the poison contained in the glands at the base of the*' tse-tse's toxin- needle is so subtle that three or four flies are quite sufficient to kill an adult ox. TREE-FROG'S NE,ST. ■ CRV. In Brazil a species of tree-frog constructs in the water a curious nest, or fortifications, to protect its eggs and young from the attacks of fish. Starting at the bottom of a pond, the mother frog erects a cirçular, tube-like wall of mud, which at the top pro- jects above the surface of the water. In the water thus enclosed the eggs are laid, and when they have hatched out, the/ frog's young are secure from enemies until they- ara-Able to take care of themselves. IN A "BEE-LINE." Bees can fly very fast, and for a long time, without taking any rest. They can see a great distance, and when they are away from their hives they fly up in the air, ndJook for the direction of their habitations. Then they fly towards them in a straight line with great velocity. Because Of their direct way of travelling, the term "bee-line" has be- come an expression signifying the shortest possible distance between, two points. THE TRAGEDY OF TIIE HIVES, "J The month of the great tragedy of the bee- hives—the massacre of the drones. Too long have these splendid creatures feasted them- selves at the honey-cells, and obstructed the toil of the workers. They will awake one July morning to find the spirit of the hive turned to anger against them. Each one finds himself attacked-wings, legs, and antennae are bitten off; before another morn- ing not one of the splendid idle race is left alive. It is the last great event of the bee's lives. Soon the little people of the hives will begin to cease their labours, and gather themselves for their long winter sleep. { j ANTS AND, TH^R.I^STS. ■ r:;1, :p;x ST ir The BMst remarkable phenomenon cori- nected with ant-life is the nest. These some- times are six feet high, made of pine needles, bits of twigs and leaves, and in warm weather swarm with millions of the inhabi- tants on the outside. At night or in cold weather all life seems gone. The holes through which the ants pass are shut. All the community has retired to the inside, and the doors have been closed up not only to keep thieves and enemies out, but also that they may be all thetwarmer. The nest is not built in the hill, but often runs three feet or more deep into the earth. The lower Ii CARBYlN'tr EGGS SUSTKY SIDE' OF TIIE NEST. part is the principal part of the nest the upper portion being;-however, about ten de- grees warmer than the other. As the temperature in the hill changes with the position of the sun, the young are carried from one place to the other to obtain all pos- sible heat. So the workers are kept busy all day. The eggs must sometimes be taken up, and the larva) ,and puppae taken down, and then thq eggs, must be taken down and the ychmg tap,. f INSECT THIEVES. There is a species of large black ânti which steals rubber from Para trees after they are tapped. Bees also have a great liking for indiarubber, and some of these industrious insects found in South America actually cut the bark of trees that produce resinous sub- stances in order to cause a flow of the sap. The gum is employed by the bees as a ready- made wax for their nests. PLANTS AS BAROMETERS. The commonest, and one of the most reli- able natural barometers ,is the ordinary dandelion., This weed is to be found in1 flower in early April, and continues so more or less all the year. It is when one of its blooms has seeded* and it is in that fluffy, feathery condition known to children as fa "clock," that it is valuable as a barometer. As long as the weather is fir.e, and likely to continue so, its fluffy ball is expanded to the full, but as sure as ever rain is approaching, it shuts up just like an umbrella. The "fingers" of which the leaves of the horse chestnut tree are made up keep flat and fap- like as long as fine weather is likely to con- tinue. With the coming of, rain, however, Ihey droop, as if to offer less resistance to the weather. The common garden convolvulus is an excellent shower prophet. It would seem as if its delicate blossoms are unable to with- stand the weight of a lot of raindrops, -for upon the approach of a rain cloud it crumbles up quite suddenly, sometimes within the space of half an hour, and keeps in that condition until the bad weather has passed over and the sun is shining again

BALLOONISTS' ADVENTURES, Captain Bidmead, a parachutist, of Lon- don, should have made a descent at North- ampton on Monday, but he was last seen disappearing into the clouds., under his balloon, his parachute having fallen to the ground. Thousands of people, including, Captain Bidmead's wife, were present to, witness the performance. The balloon had only risen a few feet when the parachute fell, but Cap- tain Bidmead held on to the ring under his balloon and was quickly carried out of sight. Later it was stated that Captain Bidmead descended safely. Mr. A. M. Singer had several adventures on his first cross-Channel trip by balloon, which he described on his return.. He left Battersea on Saturday afternoon with two companions, but one descended at Sittingbourne. The balloon then rose to about 8,000ft. and passed over Dover,, but after two hours above the clouds dropped till the trail-rope touched the sea. Ballast was thrown out, and about 8.30 an attempt was made to land near Dunkirk. The wind swept the balloon back to the I sea, and as all the ballast was gone- the two aeronauts had to throw out their coats, luncheon basket, and tsome bottles of cham- pagne. This sent them up again, and after three hours, hearing a dog bark, they des- cended to find themselves in a field about ten miles from Ostend. Mr. Arthur Seymour intends to attempt to fly across the Channel in a Voisin aeroplane.' Major Hill, son of Lord Arthur Hill, is superintending the arrangements, and, the motor-boat Bellissima is to follow the aero- plane. The Bellissima is said to be the fastest motor-boat afloat.

STRANGE BIGAMY CHARGE. An extraordinary case came before Mr. Paul Taylor at the Marylebone Police-court on Monday. In the dock was a young woman of 25 years, named Alice Maud King, or Bar- well, a cook, who was charged with marrying George Ernest Barwell, a milkman, at St. Thomas's Church, Kensal Town, on January 1, 1907, her lawful husband, James King, being then and now alive. King, who, is 62 years of age, was also before the court charged with aiding and abetting her in com- mitting the offence. It was stated that on June 17, 1903, the accuStd, was married at St. Pancras Registry Office. About two years- later the young wonian, made the, acquaintance of, George Barwell, a milkman, and according to Bar- well she represented herself as a widow. After a- courtship he married her in the pre- I sence of several of ,her relatives. About three months -ago, however, he discovered that she, had already been married to the man King. As a matter, of fact,, he said, King was present g.t the ^churela^ when the ceremony took place. The female prisoner caused a.¡ issation when she explaineid that her companion in the dock, her supposed husband, was in fact her uncle, and that he went through the form of marriage with her in order to, save her reputation. King said he married the woman, to give her an honourable name after he had been betrayed by another. He knew it was not legal to marry his sister's child. Mr. Paul Taylor, on learning that there was no reason to disbelieve that the accused were uncle and niece, said they came within the prohibited degree and were incapable 'of tnarrying. The charge would therefore be dismissed.

DEATH OF LABOUR PREMIER. Mr. Thomas Price, the Labour Premier of South Australia,, died in Adelaide on Mon- <lay., He. had been in ill-health since his return to Australia after his visit to England last year. Mr. Price was a man of the people. He was Born in Denbighshire in 1852, but grew up in Liverpool, where he derived his educa- tion from a penny school and night classes. He was by profession a stonemason. At the age of twenty-five he fell ill from lurig trouble, which -necessitated a change of climate. He emigrated to Australia with his wife, and worked as a navvy in Adelaide. It was one of his boasts that he helped to build the Parliament House in which he afterwards sat as Premier. It was not until 1891 that -he took seriously to politics. Two years later he was elected a member of the South Australian Parlia- ment. He was appointed leader of the South Australian Labour Party in 1901, and be- came Premier in 1905. Mr." Price was a strong advocate and sup- porter of the Australian Federation, and his death will be a serious loss to Commonwealth politics.

EXCITING RIVER SCENE. K R A party of three Londoners' were boating at East Molesey on the Mole, a tributary of the Thames, on Monday, when in some way they were upset in sixteen feet of waier. s The accident occurred opposite the river- side lawn of the King's Arms Hotel, and a young man named William Barnes, of Mort- 9 lake, who saw, the three occupants struggling in the water, dived in, and first rescued Alfred Channon, an elderly man of Richard- street, Islington, who had become entangled in the river weeds. Returning Barnes held up Mrs. Maria i Roberts, aged 20, until Constables Thomas and Taylor, who had been attracted to the spot by hearing cries for help, plunged in the v^ter and assisted in bringing her ashore. The third occupant of the boat, a twelve year old girl named Sophie Greesch, of Sabcf- lands-street, Holborn, who learnt swimming at school, was able to swim ashore.

A RICH MAN REBUKED. The new principal of New College, Edin-. burgh, is Dr. Alexander Whyte, of whom some good stories are told. It is said that a Highland minister called on him on one occa- sion asking for financial assistance in his work. Dr. Whyte sent him on to a wealthy layman in the city. That gentleman was un- gracious and declined to give. His reception hurt the Highlander's feelings, and the rich man was addressed in a manner he did not like. "Whom do you take me for?" asked the gentleman. "A hell-deserving sinner, like myself," was the reply given without hesitation. Dr. Whyte, when the Highlander told him about it, remarked, "I've been wanting to say that to him for fifteen years! Here's a five-pound note for your work."

o: BACK FROM THE ANTARCTIC. Mr. Frank Wild, who was one of the scientists with Lieutenant Shackleton's Antarctic expedi- tion, is now in England with some others. Mr. II Wild was with the small party which penetrated ¡ furthest south," and he had his full share of the dangers and hardships which the expedition bad I to undergo. He had at least one narrow escape. We were crossing a glacier," he says, we had had a rough passage, having to cross crevasses and chasms olt. by t1:tt. and i 30ft. wide. It was very difficult to distinguish these at times. The other three had crossed I this particular crevasse in safety, dragging the sledge over with them. I was following behind, leading Socks' (his pony), who was pulling the second sledge. When he stepped on to the frozen snow bridge it gave way, and he fell, disappearing into the chasm beneath. I had the reins entwined round I my right wrist, and in I falling bocks jerked me clean over to the other side. The reins were pulled off, dragging my glove with it. I had my other arm over the side of the crevasse. It was all numbed, and I did not I know till some seconds after that I was free from the pony. I was glad 'Socks' went this way," said Mr. Wild, "fori should otherwise have had; I the job of killing him for meat. And as I had looked after him all the winter this was not at all a pleasant prospect"

"i o :o NEW SUFFRAGAN BisHoP. Finding himself unable to do all the work of his diocese, the Bishop of Chichester is to re- ceive the help of a Suffragan in the person of the Rev. Leonard Hedley Burrows, M.A., Vicar of Croydon, who has been appointed Bishop of Lewis. The new Bishop is fifty years of age. He graduated at Oxford in 1881, was ordained deacon in the same year, and priest in 1882. Most of his work has been done in the diocese of Winchester.' He was curate of Dorking, Vicar of Wrecclesham, and Vicar of Godalming before the Archbishop of Canterbury chose him in 1904 for Croydon, which is probably the hlost important benefice in the Archbishop's gift. Bishop Burrows is a personal friend of the Bishop of Chichester.

HOME HINTS. ■ a When mixing starch, the addition of a fev drops of turpentine will give a fine gloss t" collars and cuffs. To set dye in black stockings put ra good handful of common salt in the washing water. Never serve greasy soup. If there is any fat on it when heat-ed, take it off by laying pieces of kitchen paper' osi the surface: this will quickly absorb the grease. Buy for. a few pence a fire-brick, about two inches thick. When the fire is burning briskly and the coals are aglow, lay the fiat brick on the top of the fire. The result will be that the brick will intercept the heat that would otherwise eiscape up the chimney, be- come hot, and throw the heat out into the room in a way that a fire without this simple device will not do. To skin sardines, dip each into boiling water, which will loosen the skin and permit of its easy removal. When bathing children it is a wise plan to remove all articles of clothing from the Iroom. The steam from the bath water makes | them damp, therefore unfit to wear, and children take cold so cjuickly. Prevention is ) always better than cure. One can mince a pound of suet in a few l minutes if the following method is adopted. Pick all the suet from the skin, then sprinkle with flour on a table or baking board, and roll flat. Lift the flattened pieces of suet c and rub between floured hands, and it. will be found to break down into powder. It is always difficult to train growing chil- dren to keep their toothbrushes in separate places. They will not realise how important this is. They early learn not to use anyone else's brush, but they have such a hard time finding their own. To avoid all this a mother should get a toothbrush holder that has grooves. Each child can choose his or her own groove, end will take a good deal of pains to keep the others out of it. In this way order and cleanliness will be taught. NEW PETTICOATS FOR OLD. Pretty petticoats are expensive, and those of washing material soon SGiJ, adding greatly to the laundry bill. Make a well-fitting foundation skirt, and edge the hem with a large pattern beading runner, such as ia used for threading ribbons through on under- linen. Put the same round the top of each flounce, then put one edge over the other, and thread them together with ribbon. This plan allows a good choice of flounces and saves washing, as they lose their freshness long before the rest of the skirt. LOVE AND COMPANIONSHIP. It is not the labour' and privations of their daily life which make the lot of some married women hard: It is the breaking through of all their dreams, the shattering of their ideals, that turns their lives into cinders, L ashes, and dust. A woman wants some recognition of these services more than hav- ing her board and clothes given to her; no matter if she live in a .-mansion <and her clothes are Paris confections. She wants iPve-' s^le wan^s companionship, she wants to reel that she is more in her husband's life than an oiler of the domestic wheels. To DRESS WELL. The best-dressed woman, is the one who Ipoks ahead and arranges her clothes months before she buys them. If she does this, she -LE, is never at a loss or put out by having to 1my Something she does not really want. The woman who would, dress well should make it her business to study advertisements, and find out where* she can best buy her clothes. She should keep a list of shops for special articles of her wardrobe, and make a rule of reading really first-rate fashion journals so as to be before the fashion rather than be- hind it—a precaution that will enable her to wear her clothes without alteration two or more .seasons instead of one LONC RBR BOOTS, SHORTER BILIS. {"So-and-so's boots or shoes are too short" is the constant complaint of mothers blessed with fast-growing boys, and. girls. Perhaps no_ one-else is rt-atly to slip into theki and finish them out, or very likely it is highly in- convenient to find cash for a new pair. Take the offending articles to a good shoemaker and he will lengthen them so neatly and nicely- that no one will be a bit the w-lser. Mothers mast remember that a child's foot often lengthens c-onsiderablv without gain- ing much, if at all, in breadth: 5 y i GOOD MANNERS FOR ChRLS. The. girl whose manners are pfeasing knows the value of little thing's. She is not satis- fied with omitting glaringi-udenoss; she is polite in trifles. She answers an invitation the day it is received, and does not change her mind later when something more attrac- tive turns up. She does not take attention as a matter of course, but expresses her gratitude of the smallest kindness by an appreciative word. She does not consider it good manners to be pleasant with the special friend'- and indifferent to the other members of the family. She is thoughtful of the feel- ings of old people and inferiors, and full of sweet little attentions to the sick and feebleoi

USEFUL RECIPES. -VEGETABLE SALAD.—Americans who are adepts at salad making serve as a summer luncheon dish a salad concocted in this- manner. Take equal portions of cut cucum- ber, celery, apple, and solid tomato, a few sMces of young onion, radish, and green pepper. Serve it with French dressing on a bed of mustard and cress. Send it to table with Whoiemeal bread and a compote- of any fresh sweet fruit. The blend of flavours Is excellent. STUFFED VEAL.-Have about four pounds of neck of veal, some slices of bacon, sweet herbs, breadcrumbs, pepper, salt, and grated lemon rind. Lay the veal on a board and re- move the bones. Cover it with slices of bacon, and strew with a mixture of bread- crumbs, herbs, pepper, salt, and lemon rird, Roll up the meat neatly and sew the flap. rie up securely and roast, basting it fre- gently with good dripping. Pour a little thick brown gravy over, and garnish with rashers of bacon. SHERBET.—This is a refreshing summer drink, and if you make it at home is not ex- pensive. Take fourteen ounces and a half of caster sugar, three ounces and a half of bi-carbonate of soda, twelve grains of pow- dered orange peel, twelve drops of essence of cedrat, four ounces of tartaric acid. The powders must be well mixed and then passed hrough a sieve till thoroughly blended. To Ase, put two teaspoonfuls of the sherbet into a. tumbler about three parts full of cole water. bTiiiTED CuCUMBERS.—Peel some cucum- bers, cut in halves lengthwise, and take out Vie ptilp: chop this fine, and mix with an equal quantity of chopped meat, preferably either veal or chicken, of light colour. Season with a tiny bit of minced onion, salt and pepper, and stuff the cucumbers. When each half is evenly full, put them together, roll in strips of clean cheese cloth, and simmer for twenty minutes in enough boiling water to cover them. Take off the cloth, dram, and serve whole on a hot dish; pour a little white sauce over each one at the last*.