Abergavenny Chronicle

ANCIENT LIGHTS. I The candle is in appearance a primitive I affair, yet there is little douht that its pre- decessor was the lamp. Old Egyptian tomos, which have unlocked many mysteries, httd ) lamps, and through them evidence of ancient burial customs. Lamps played a I part in the solemn feasts of the Egyptians, who on such occasions placed them before their houses, burning them throughout the ¡ flight. Herodotus, in one of his numerous I references to Xerxes, refers to the hour of -lamp lighting, and there is abundant evi- I dence of the use of lamps among the ancient I Greeks. Lamps, indeed, are pictured upon some of their oldest vases, indicating the symbolic si?ninca.nce which attached to I hem,

Mr. Fred W. Jackson, the well-known I Lancashire landscape and portrait painter, has died, aged fifty-eight. I For the year ending March pay for the Army will amount to t112,000,000, and for I the Navy £ 13,000,000. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., has given £ 5,000 for the erection of a children's hospital for Kidderminster.

I OTHER MEN'S MINDS. j "*■ The house-spa.rrow is a feathered U-boat. j I -M.. R. E. PGOTHEHO, M.P. I A GIRL IX A THOUSAND. I It is refreshing to find a girl who caa appreciate the humour of things without, making a noise like a clucking1 ken.-Ms. HYLTON CLSAVEE. I GERMANY'S HOPELESS TASK. I I If Germany thinks to end the war by sub- marines she has undertaken a task aa hape- less ae stemming the tide or making water flow uphill.-LoRD STKATHCLTDK. I IGNORANT M.P.s. The ignorance of history demonstrated in the House of Commons is abyamaa.-Iolm I BURNHAM. I ONBE BIT- J We must treat Germany and Austria j after the war as eemu-civilised. and not to be trusted.—PROFESSOR HOLDSWOBTH- I SENT BACK. I I knew of a case in which a man. wounded I eight times, has been sent back to the Front.—Ma. J. M. Hoooit, M.P. I ROUMANIAN HARD TIMES. I During the last six months in Roumania the days have been meatlews days for rich I and poor alike,—Da. NICHOLAS LUFU. I FRUIT A NECESSITY. I Fruit is not merely a luxury, but a neces. I sity for the bealOi of the nation.—Ma. II PEOTEERO. IMPORTANCE OF NEWSPAPERS, I Newspapers are an important part of the I Government machine in times hke these.- LORD BCESHAH. THE WINNING SIDE. I No matter who falls out of the struggle, the incoming of America will bring this war I to a victorious and favourable end-MK. B HFOüIt. GENTLEMEN AND HEROES. I The men who went into the Army. inclu- 1 ding the supposed dregs of the population, I have behaved like gentlemen and heroes.- BRIGADIEBJ&ENERAL MENDS. I PLENTY OF MUNITIONS. J Our reserves of ammunition are so enor- mous that we can faoe the necessary reduc- tion, foroed upon us by the limitations of material, withmit fear as to its military effect.—MB. KELLAWAY, M.P. THE GERMAN WORKERS. I I do not believe the Germau workers are going to rise to the occasion. You are ap- I pealing to deaf ears.-MR, H. M. HYNDMAIT. JUST A DEMOCRAT. I It is no use pretending that by caUing oneself a democrat one becomes either a Christian or an unselfish man. MB. BIRRELL. WILD BEASTS OF THE SEA. I Germany's naval men have lost their man- I Yiness, and have descended to the tactics of R-ild beasts. STAFF-P AYMASTKA COLLINO- WOOD. AN ABSURD CATCHWORD. I We have been deluded by the absurd catchword that the voice of the people ia Ih,, voice of God, which it never has been and never will be —DEAN INGE. I ALWAYS ACTING. I There is the danger in an actor's life of becoming unreal in his relation to the out- side world; to act a part always, and not to be true and sincere.—BISHOP 011 WILLKSDBH, I GROW FOOD I The next 60 or 100 days on allotmentsI may decide the fate of our Empire.—Da. HORNE (Board of Agriculture). NOT SO VERY LONG. I You have only to wait and see it through. I am no optimist, but I don't think you wiU have to wait so very long.Sm MARK SYKES. THE PROBLEM. I The problem to-day is not the problem or reconstruction, not the problem as to the rights of different classes of society. The problem that must be settled at once is the problem how to end the war satisfactorily for the democracies of Eur-ope.-Mit. RAM- SAY MACDONALD, M.P. RECONSTRUCTION. I The splendid patriotism and the power of organisation of the British people as a whole inspire the confident- belief that we shall overcome the difficulties of demobilisation, and reorganise our industrial life in as efficient a manner as we have organised for war ._MR. EDGAR CRAUMOND. TO EACH HIS PART. I Until the war is over everyone of us must 1 be prepared to play his part in the national life, and in the output of national energy. --Sm AUCKLAND GZDDES. AIRMEN OF THE EMPIRE. I Flying men are recruited from all parts of the Empire, and the comradeship of the air has spun one more strand in the invisible but unbreakable thread which unites the citizens of the Empire in the defence of civilisation.—MAJOR BAIRD, M.P. THE AIRMAN'S EYES. I The aviator must Irave true binocular vision, and there must be rapid reaction be. tween eight and action. There are many people going about the world who are un- aware that they use only one eye. No man can be allowed to join the Air Force unless he has proper binocular Tision.-Sia WATSON CHETNE, M.P. SUBMISSION TO DLSCIPLINE. I One of the outstanding features in thia I campaign has been the willingness with which the men in the country have sub- mitted themselves to what have been called t the rigours of military discipline.—Ms. I MACPHERSON, M.P. } I THE WAR-MAKERS. I It is horrible to think that such persona M the Kaiser, the late Emperor of Austria, or the ex-Tjar of Russia should be able by pressing a button to bring hell upon Europe. —MR. BIRRELL. A FREE EMPIRE. I The federation of communities called the ¡ Ðritish Empire, with all its faults, is a I federation of democracies, each of which ia I free at any time to go its own way.-MR. G. X Barnes, M.P. A PATRIOTIC EXAMPLE. I I have dono what I have done in the in- terests of my countrymen, and I trust that nothing will ever persuade me to do other. wide.—GENERAL SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON.

Tour boys under twelve, who belonged to < a gang and had been "sworn in on a > Prayer-book, were charged at Harrogate with having stolen cigarette cases; their « ca ptain" was ordered six strokes of the birch, their lieutenant five strokes, and their "lance-corporal four strokes. It cost E489,075 to keep up our light- houses last year.

I IN LIGHTER VEIN I am I THOMAS JAY. I ILLUSTRATED BY J. H. LUNIf. I t It will not be the fault of the tailors il mere man is not able shortly to array him. self like Solomon in all his glory. The Tailors' Convention in Chicago wound up their proceedings with a ball, in which they showed how beautifully they could be at tired, and how we could be dressed if we really desired so to be. One gentleman was wearing a Cambridge Cheviot with bright satin revers and blaok polished buttons, very close-fitting trousers with two rows of b l w.& zig-za black zig-zagged braid, a plain black silk waistcoat with white buttons. Another wore a mauve suit with the seams of the trousers braided with scarlet braid. Both suits must have been beautiful, and I should like to have a gross or so for use. We havo long regretted our inability to attract the eye of the damsel. Hitherto we had not put this down to the fact that the architecture of our face was rather too l much of Ihe Early Norman, but now we PRESSED TO KILL. know that it ia the clothes. I feel convinced that if I were to turn up with a mauve suit and those scarlet braids down the ,trouser seam I should at last succeed in at- tracting the gaze of that hash-laden nymph, who is now so success- ful in looki through us and over us. Inci- dentally r ou g h hands may catch us by the collar and lead us away to some nice quiet place, with the gardens neatly laid out, and where our evenings out would be strictly curtailed. There was quite a crowd of us. There were men and. boya and girls and women, and nobody cheered when I strolled up in 1 my well-known cavalier stride with over- arm swinit. There was a woman with a baby, a girl with a partly-used acid drop, a boy with a few lengths of banana, a young man with a bunch of chilblains in his left hand. But it was of Marmaduke I was thinking. Marmaduke bore the look of one who had trudged through life raising a family in om hand and a mortgage in the other. He was very stout, with a square face and suitcase t. match. At first I thought he. had been stung, but he said that it was merely stoutness, a fact which was borne out by the way hia waistcoat fitted him in a sort, of trellis-work pattern between the buttons. Aa a matter of fact, as I figured it out, his waistcoat either did not fit him at all or it fitted him too soon. He started tA talk about the war, and I got ready for him. I at once made up my nind that if he started to show me how it was or should be carried on, I would step back a few paoes, take a running jump, hurl my. self upon him, and tic his double chin in a reef-knot, after which I would send for his folks, It was the food question that troubled him most. "Not that I am a particular or a greedy sort of man," he said, "but when I desire food I like it good and plenty." When he entered a restaurant he objected strongly if the waiter waved the menu at I hinfe because he knew the werds and music, and if he had hie Jew's-harp with him he could play her. Give him a chicken like mother used to rear. A whole chicken, not a cold-storage corpse stuffed by a taxider- mist, or one that needed a scaffolding erected round it. A real chicken, and not one of those painted and varnished things with a double yolk and insistiug on doing a song and dance. Give him a good chicken, some cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, with scalloped oysters and a few green peas. r That with a little salad would suit him nicely. The salad of lettuce and granulated sugar and a little vinegar. He was particu- lar about his salad, though he knew some who had chewing tobacco in the salad course. For dessert he was not particular. Not he. Just a few sliced oranges and some grated cocoanut, with custard and reefs of sponge cake. If that wasn't to be had he could manage very well with plum-pudding. Not the annual plum-pudding, but one that is a food and not a missile. A good British plum-pudding, which, like the Britisher, always did its best work when it was down. He wasn't particular about table decoration, so long as there waa a moustache-cup to save his cream separators from getting mussy. Let there be a cruet at one end and a cake-basket at the other with a few odds and ends. He hated the words "table d'hote." They were the most commonplace and ends. T,-he ?n7lish language, except per- word.s in th 0 haps "Not guilty." He objected to the British oook, who only knew three staple vegetables, namely, boiled potatoes, boiled turnips, and a second helping of potatoes. Where he came from they were real cooks. They did not care about cookery books, be- cause they cooked by ear. He would finish up his little snack with cheese. Not the embossed Swiss cheese which looked like the misspent life of a crochet pattern, but real cheese, that was solid cheese, and not runny so that you could drink it. Give him that little meal and they could keep all their vegetarian diets, for to him the word vegetarian was not worth the air into which it was breathed. He liked the meal as indicated, before which he could sit with poised weapons and eat away until the pressure of his waistcoat stopped his watch, his vest flew open like an engine- house door, and his stomach sat back and contem- plated sitting on him. He was not a gre-ody sort of fellow, as we cou l d s o e- though we IN THE QUEUS. I couldnt-he just merely liked hia mealg regular, and after such a meal he would just have a little food and a few items from the band music. It was just then that the policeman told him it was his turn. He dashed into the shop, and his worldly por. tion was just half a pound of margarine. Thus did the Twentieth Century jump up and law the gourmet on the point of the jaw.

THE FIRST SUBMARINE. The submarine is by no means so modern aa invention as many people imagine. There are records of a submarine being navigated from Westminster to Greenwich in the seventeenth century. Its inventor and navi- gator, a Dutchman, named Cornelius Drabel, enjoyed the patronage of James I.. who waa himself with difficulty dissuaded from taking part m a submarine voyage. The boat, we read, was so constructed that "a person could see under the surface of the water, and without candlelight, a8 much as he needed to read in the Bible or any other book." ♦ •

Two Portuguese sailors, detected in smug- gling heveli gallons of wine into the Bristol Channel, poured it on the ship's forecastle floor, and wero fined double the value and the duty. I Though fifty-threo women applied for a situation under the London County Council as organiser of womon's technical classes at £ 300 a year, rising to t400, none of the candidates were deemed worthy of the ap- pointment.

HUMOUR OF THE WEEK. I QUEUES AS BEAUTIFIER8. I I. A doctor has said that queues are beno p ficial to women's appearance, which may ac- count for their vogue as a matrimonial agency. Certainly (says the "Lady's Pic. torial") those women who went from one queue to another gathering a food hoard showed an unsurpassable cheek. "CATTY" MEN. I Speaking at a meeting' of Government cierks, Miss A. Esplin, Director of Train- ing Section, Ministry of Munitions, said:- F, Some women are more feminine than others," She said, "but women are not more catty' than men. I am working with a type of man I have not worked with before, and I have found that there are Tom cata who can scratch." WHY NOT? ] Mr. J. H. Whitley, the Chairman of Com- mittees in the House of Commons, made a happy suggestion in a speech at a private lunch at which he was speaking recently (says the "Daily News "). "Why," he asked, "not have a ration for spmeheal It would give me the greatest pleasure to be able to say, Order! Order! The hon. mem- ber has exhausted his coupon.' A GOOD DADGE. A number of soldiers at the Front were arguing about different badges, when one said: "Which do you reckon is the best badge in the Ar 9, Old Contemptible: "Well, I think that silver one they have at homo wants some beating HER COMPLAINT. Farmer's Wife: "I've been expecting a packet of medicine by post for a week, and haven't r?eived it yet." Post Office Clerk: Yes, madam. Please fill in this form and state the nature of your complaint. Farmer's Wife: "Well, if you must know, it's indigestion," "NAGGIS." Now that we are officially enjoined to con- sume the flesh of equines, no doubt many an old cab-horse will be turned into "fare." By the way, a more attractive name for horseflesh is ask ed for. Why not call it "naaPl f-is" (asks 4 Caseell's Saturday Jour- nal. ). WILL SHE? We have received a poem from a young man entitled, "I Wonder if She'll Miss Me Sometimes. We can only say that if she does she never ought to be trusted with firearms again. TOO BAD. "I wish I had a baby brother to wheel in my go-cart, mamma," said small Elsie. "My dolls are always getting broke when it tips over."—"Chicago Daily News." OF COURSE. Manufacturer: Shall we raise the price or shorten the weight His Partnerc "Why not do both?"— "Life." WHAT IT STANDS FOR. I The other day a teacher was giving the small boys a lesson on the alphabet. "A stands for acorn," began the teacher, "B stands for butter," and so on. All went well until they got to the letter Q. "Now. boys," remarked the teacher, what does Q stand for "Please, ma am," replied a small boy at the back of the class, "for margarine!" I PICKINGS FROM "PUNCH." I The "Berliner Hlustirte Zeitung" com- plains that there are on sale in Germany "pitteons embellished with the likeness of Hindenburg. For ourselves, though we are not often in accord with German taste, we regard this idea as a very happy thought. It is thought likely that the great push about to be undertaken by the Germans ia nothing more nor less than the sudden blow which they have been threatening to make since 1915. A defendant oharged at Bristol Assizes with bigamy, pleaded that he had no recol- lection of his second marriage. Surely he could have made a note of it on his cuff. EVERYONE A Fooo CONTROLLER. I First Lady (in tramcar after two hours in the queue): "Did yer see that food-'og in the check coat and skirt wiv a 'alf-pound of margarine in each pocket?" Second Lady "Why, yes-I pinched one." First Lady: "So did I!" "By next spring," says "The Sydney Telegraph," "as far as Russia is concerned, things may 00 better or they may be worse." Upon reading this a well-known Fleet-street war critic was heard to gnash his teeth with envy. "The consumption of both wine and whisky is, of eour.se, still greater than the supply."—Evening Paper. Another case of "dilution." QUIPS FROM "LONDON OPINION." I Perhaps the reason that silly rumours spread so rapidly nowadays is that we have so little else to "spread." Eight nurserymen working in hot-houses have got nine months' exemption. Strange! One would think they were bound to be "forced." Instruments at Heidelburg last week re- corded a violent earthquake in the distance. They may have been merely registering the beginning of our allotment season. A young couple who have just married met first while waiting for margarine. If this gees on, we shall have to call the little god Queue-pid Sir George Wills points out that a shert- age of tobacco may lead to increased food consumption. But we fear our Controllers are too short-sighted to take that bird's- eye view of the tonnage question. High-legged boota may still be worn if fit for agricultural purposes. And, of course, they all protect the calves. In Canada they contemplate eatirg seals. Well, seals usually give the finishing touch to well and truly executed deeds.

CURIOUS CONSTANTINOPLE. I There is a superabundance of post-offices— 6ut no postmen in Constantinople. No let- ters are delivered. Each European Power hn.s--or had-ita own post-office. Three Sun- days a week are observed—Friday by the Turks, Saturday by the Jews, and Sunday by the Christians. And three distinct calen- dars are used. But the inconvenience of using three different calendars is slight com- pared with the bewildering method mostly used in computing the hours of the day. A watch which kept correct time on the shores of the Golden Horn would be, some- what paradoxically, rather an erratic time- keeper according to the standard laid down by Greenwich. For as twelve o'clock jq reckoned always to fall at the exact moment of sunset, one's watch has to gain or lose a few minutes every day, according to the season of the year.

I IN THE POULTRY YARD. 0 I Bt COCKCROW. I I CARE OF A SITTING HEN. I ifrom now onward until the end of April poultry-keepers will be busy, for the hatch- in season has begun. It is a well-known thing that birds hatched in the months of March and April are the best. These birds are full grown and ready for laying when the winter begins, and it is at that time that one most requires eggs, for they bring in much better prices. The hatchings this year will bo very considerably less than those of former years, and, indeed, poultry-keepers have been officially advised to hatch only just as many as they can pro- vide the food for. Nevertheless, there will be some hatching, and our notes this week will be considered appropriate, for they will be mainly devoted to the care of a sitting hen. I The first thing fo& you to remember is I that a sitting hen must be handled gently. I THINGS To REMEMBER. quietly, and regularly. Un- leaa you carry these three thinga out strictly you are likely to suffer a great dis- appointment. That the hen must be handled gently and quietly is easily under- stood, for if picked up in a rough and heavy manner the eggs under her are apt to get broken, and that means that your owp and the bird's work has all been in vain. It is essential that the bird be only shifted at regular intervals. There are some poultry-keepers who do not observe this rule, and very often they have regretted the fact. Each morning, at the same time, remove the hen from the nest. It will not be long before she becomes used to the time of moving, and wiil be ready to leave when she sees you. During the last few days of the incubation, however, she will most probably sit very close, and, in that case, she must be lifted off quietly and gently. Te lift a sitter it needs great care, for the eggs, with the slightest knock, will I LIFTING I A SITTBR. break or crack. The proper way to lift the sitter is to place one hand on each side of the bird, with the thumbs above her wings. resting on her lxxly. In this way she can be lifted out without the fear of her feet kicking against the eggs. If, however, you have the bad luck to get an egg, or a few eg-gs. broken, the resultant imfas should be at once cleared away. If other eggs get covered or soiled with the yolks of those broken they should be carefully sponged over with tepid water. Clean straw must be placed in the nest. After the first few days have passed the egga are not so liable to break,, as the shells get harder as time goeis on. It is a common practice among poultry- keepers to leave a bird to come off the nest DO'T EXCITE A SITTER. when she likes. They simply open the door and leave the hen to please her- self, becauao then the lia- bility of the eggs getting broken is greatly reduced. Of course, thia is true, but it means that the hen does not come off at the same time each day. It is best, however, to lift them off from the first day they begin to sit. The hen then gets used to you, and even thoeo that have wild temperament, if handled gently and carefully, become used to being lifted off. Do not let the hen get excited as you go to lift her, for it is then that she is likely to damage the eggs. It has often been known for a hen to trample the whole sit- ting to pieces through excitement. Do not allow a sitting hen to stay off the nest too long, but, at the same time, TIKE OFF THE NEST. do not cut its time off tM I short. During the fi"7t weeks' sitting she should lea.ve the eggs for from I seven to ten minutes each morning. During the oocond week this time may be increased to from twelve to fifteeea minutes, and during the third week of incubation she may leave them for not more than twenty minutes. Needless to say, much depends upon the climatic conditions that prevail whilst the hen is sitting. If it is severely cold it is as well to allow them off just a little less than the times stated, and cer- tainly not longer than the minimums given. If, however, it is warm, it will do no harm to allow the hen to stay off a few minutes longer. A hen whilst it is sitting must be rigidly guarded against vermin, especially if the PROTECTION AGAINST VERMIN. weather is warm, for then the hen is most liable to I breed this pest. Sprinkle the nest with some reliable insect powder before the hen commences to sit. The bird also should be sprinkled with it: especially the under- parts. It will do no harm to use the powder ailv, whether you suspect vermin or not. If attacked with lica the hen cannot sit closely, for the pests will bo continually worrying her. A dust-bath should always be close at hand for a sitting hen when she leaves the nest. In this she can free herself of any vermin that she may possess. For those who are using sitting hens this season our notes this week should prove of use. I I The Board of Trade and Fisheries have I now completed arrangements for the distri- SITTINGS I OF EGGS. bution of sittiftgs of eggs of selected breeds of utility poultry through approved station holders in many of the counties of England and Wales. The Board have decided to continue this scheme, in spite of the scarcity of food and the re- duction of bird stocks that is likely to follow, because they have felt that present circumstances render it more than ever desira ble that every possible step should be taken to effect an improvement in the quality of poultry. It is to be understood, however, that no one should apply for eggs under the scheme who cannot see his way to rear the produce of the sittings on the basis that the supply of purchased food may be restricted to a maximum of one ounce per bird per day for selected birds. Replying to Mr. Will Crooks, who stated that the working class families were killing THE FOOD SUPPLY. off their fowls in conse- quence of the difficulty in I obtaining food to feed them on, Mr. Parker, in the House of Commons, said that he was aware of the general scarcity of cereals. It is, however, hoped that sufficient supplies will be available to enable h-? i birds hatched sinoe January 1, 1916, to rtoene a ration of dry food not exceeding one ounce a day. Hens will not give the best results on the low-class feeding-stuff at present available EGGS WITHOUT GRAIN. for them (says Mr. J. Wilson, of the Fellowship British Poultry Society, in the "Daily Mail"). But In- dian Runner ducks will flourish where a hen would starve, and, fur- ther, on a free rango will find at least half their own living and give good results on food that some fowls would refuse. As these birds are excellent "shell" producers, why not more duck-keepers? ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. I B. G.-Your Wyandottes were certainly I hatched at the right time, and should have been laying for some few weeks now. If you wrote me as to the feeding of the birda I should be able to answer your queries better. You have my sympathy. As a night feed, now that corn ia not available, you are recommended. to try a. gaod mixture-the best procurable—or damaged wheat. Write me again.

Mr. Ben Tilled, M.P., and Mr. C. H'I Liddell have been appointed members of the Sugar Commission in place of Mr. Hœry I Fountain and Mr. Austin Taylor. v

Stockings should not be washed with the other woollens, or they will be covered with whife lint when dry. New sponges should be soaked and well picked over before use, otherwise ithe skin may be scratched by small stones hidden iD them. A joint of meat may be kept eweet many daym longer than usual if wrapped in a fine cloth wrung out of vinegar and placed in draught of air. I A-good remedy for spraina will be found in the everyday onion. Cut into aliew, Gad bind OIl with an ordinary bandage. Try cleaning wrotight-iron articles with. cloth wetted with sweet oil, polish with clean dry aanaet. Torn a sew tin of boot poliah into a jar, mix to a cream with vinegar. Result: double quantity of polish of extra brihianicy. An ounce of alma added to the rinsing water or t. the starch will render muslin or cotton goods almost fireproof. The peel of 1emons should be myed and dzZ and plaoed aDMQ? the eu?ar to be used for cakea. This gives a slight flavour to tho sugar. Oiloans shooid be tightly corked, as para- ffin exposed to the air will not burn brightly ind will form a crust on the wick after being lighted. If you happen to have run out of boat polish, a few drops of lemon-juice rubbed briskly en to black or brown leather will I give it a brilliant polish. For removing dirty marks from light- coloured cloth, use & piece of india-rubber pencil-eraser. The spots disappear imme. I diately, [ I I USES or TINBOAB, I I Vinegar rubbed on discoloured stefelwork ) will ensure a quick, eaay clean. Vinegar and bran make an excellent poultice for all aches, pains, and bruises. Added to » rintviag-water, it will revive faded red and piak cotton fabrics.. I To CLKAN KNIVES. I Dip a dry ooM into a little slightly damped knife-polish and rub the knives This is a quicker and easier way of cleaning them than using a knifeboord. I FOB Hoars GARDENBRS. ) It is sot generally known that the stalks I of Jerusalem artichokes, after the vegetable haa boon dug, make most excellent supports for okryaanthomums j they aro almost the colour ef the plant itself, so are scarcely noticeable—and they are very strong. These stalks may also be varnished, and will then keep their colour and can be used for future oceaoie&s. I A. GAS JET HINT. I Every once in a while it ia necessary to use pincers to loosen or tighten, for instance, a gas jot, or an obstinate bolt. Take a piece of sandpaper the size of a stamp and place it between the jaws of the pincers, a.nd thna get a "strangle hold." The pin- oere will not slip and no scratches are Left. GREASE IN A CARPET. l Procmre a cake of pipeclay and soak in water until it is reduced to a thick paste. Spread this paste on the stained part of the carpet, and then hold in front of the fire. The heat will draw the grease out of the carpet into the pipeclay, which may then be I hruaked off. leaving the carpet quite clean again. GREASE REMOVER. A mixture that will remove grease from the fuest fabrics without injuring them is made with one quart of rain-water, 2oz. of ammonia, one teaspoonful of saltpetre, and loz. of shaving soap, cut up fine. This pre. paration should be kept constantly on hand. I USES CT SALT. I Salt will revive a dying fire. It will re- move stains on marble. Salt—coarse—is a good cleanser of irons. Used in water or other fluid, salt retards the boiling. Mixed with soda it is a remedy for bee stings. Salt apd water makes an excellent throat gargle. Salt and hot water will thaw a frozen drain- j pipe. Salt will remove tea stains from deli- cate china cups. Spread in blackbeetle haunts it will kill the pests. SOME USEFUL RECIPES. I VEGETABLE TOAD-IN-THE-HOI.B. Grease small piedishes and put into them equal parts of tomatoes (tinned) and mushrooms. Make a batter, with dried eggs, as for Yorkshire puddingy and pour over. Bake until golden brown. FISH Soup.ifter boiling fish, save one quart of the water, and when the fish comes from the table, put in head, bones, and skin. one clove, pepper and salt to taste, and simmer till reduced to a pint; then strain. Return the liquor to the saucepan, add half a pint of new milk, a little grated onion, and thicken with a tablespoonful of flour rubbed smooth with a little cold milk. Boil gently for a few minutes to cook the flour, and serve very hot. CAKE FOR CHILDREN.—Take one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of clarified dripping, and cream them together in a basin; add one well-beaten egg, one teaspoonful of bak- ing soda mixed with one cupful of sour milk; then add one teaspoonful each of powdered cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and salt, sift in two cupfuls of flour. Bake in a moderate oven until ready. This cake will beep a long time. POTATO SAVOURIES.—Take cold boiled potatoes, mash them perfectly smooth, mix in sufficient flour to roll out, and cut into squares. Soak some breadcrumbs in water, squeeze dry, add a little chopped sage and onions (previously soaked in boiling water), and parsley, season to taste, and mix to- gether. Put a spoonful into each square of paste, fold over as for sausage-rolls, and fry in boiling fat until a nice brown on both sides. Drain, and serve with brown gravy. These are very delicious, and most economi- cal. RHUBARB AND EHEAD PUDDING.—This is an excellent way to serve rhubarb and use up any stale bits of bread one may have in the bread pan. Grease a piedish thickly, and put in a layer of bread crumbled, then put in a layer of rhubarb washed and cut into one-inch lengths, sprinkling a little brown sugar on the fruit. Fill the dish with alternate layers of bread and fruit, let- ting the last layer be of bread. Put a few pieces of dripping or margarine on the top, and bake for about forty-five minutes. ORANGE HONEY.—Now that oranges are more plentiful and rather cheaper, the fol- lowing is well worth making to supplement the butter or margarine ration, or to supply the want of either. Put into a stone jam jar the juice of two oranges and tho finely- minced rind of one; half a teacupful of sugar, one dessertspoonful of butter, and one egg well beaten. Stand the jar in a saucepan of boiling water, and cook until the mixture thickens, and is of the consist- ency of ordinary honey; do not let it boil. Be quite sure the water is only half-way up the jar, so that none will boil into the mix- ture. When cold pot and tie down in the ordinary way.

At the age of 101 and 104 respectively, the deaths have occurred of Mr. Francis Scally and Mr. John Doolan, two well-known Ros- common stock breeders. Owing to difficulty in obtaining furniture through the usual channels Lewishafli Guar- dians have arranged to purchaae articles at an auction sale.