~ 'see le Sesion Beage S55 % ale * Reeipes and Other Valuable Information 'Particular Iaverest to Women Folks, = Cost Sponge Cake.--Two beaten separately ; one cupful granulated sugar; -- three- ths cupful hot water or milk; -half teaspoon lemon extract; cupful flour; one and one-half poonfuls baking powder; one- arter "teaspoonful salt. Process: Beat yolks of eggs until thick and light, add half the sugar gradually, beating constantly; add water or milk, and gradually remaining sug- ar. Beat mixture three minutes; add extract, whites of eggs beaten until stiff; mix and sift flour, bak- ig ponder and salt, then cut and fold into first mixture. Butter and flour a shallow cake pan, turn in ixture, spread evenly and bake in -@ moderate oven twenty-five minu- tes. General Directions for Making Cake.--Thin cakes require a hotter oven than those baked in thick loaves. If the oven be not hot enough at first or be cooled too sud- denly during the baking the cake will not be light. Mix cake in an earthen bowl and never in a_ tin pan. Use a wooden spoon, as iron spoons discolor the hand and the mixture, Coarse granulated sugar makes heavy cake, with a hard and sticky crust. Line your cake tins with paper to prevent burning the bottom and edges and to aid in re- moving the cakes from the pans. Lay the paper over the outside of the pan and crease it around the edge of the bottom. Allow it large enough to come above the edge of the pan. Break each egg on the edge of the cup just enough to crack _ the middle of the shell, so the white will flow out, but not hard enough to break into the yolk. Let the white run into the cup and keep the yolk in the half shell until all the white is drained off. Be careful not to break the yolk, as the small- est portion of it in the whites will - prevent them from frothing. Never stop beating the whites until they _ are stitf and dry, as it is impossible to have them light if they become liquid again, _ Mother's Cake.--One scant cup of butter, one and one-half cups sug- ar, three eggs beaten separately, one teaspoonful lemon or vanilla, one salt-spoonful mace, one-half cup milk, three cups flour, one tea- spoonful cream of tartar, and one- half teaspoonful soda, or threé lev- el teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually then the yolks of the eggs, then the flavoring; reserve a quarter of a cup of flour lest the cake be too stiff if all be used; put the soda and cream of tartar into the remainder of the flour; add the milk and flour alternately a little at a time, and lastly the whites, which have been beaten stiff and dry. Bake from forty to fifty min- utes in a moderate oven. Add one cup of currants and you have a nice currant cake, or half a cup of dates cut fine nd flavored, and you have a date cake. Color one cupful of the _ dough with spices, cinnamon, all- spice, and mace, or with grated _ chocolate and you have a Leopard cake. By using a cupful of butter it is the same as White Mountain Cake. Loaf Cake.--One cupful butter, creamed with two cupfuls of sugar; add four beaten yolks of eggs; one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in one cupful of sweet milk; two tea- aa cream of tartar, mixed in three cupfuls of flour; flavor with _ vanilla and a teaspoonful of mace; lastly add the beaten whites of eggs; beat well before you put in the whites of eggs; add one cupful _ of chopped nuts if you wish. This is excellent and will make two loaves, ' Filled Sponge Cake.--Bake a _ Sponge cake in a round loaf pan and put it aside for a day or two. After _ that time cut off the top crust and _ take out the soft part on the inside and mix it up with chopped nuts and whipped cream. Put back in crust and cover with top crust. Cut in slices and serve as dessert. ' SANDWICHES. Ribbon Sandwiches.--Butter six thin slices of bread on both sides; spread layers of deviled ham, gue, or chicken between; then ire pile closely, and lice downward, making thin, rib- on lik: sandwiches. Another-- Put white and brown bread togeth- er alternately, as above, using a filling of cream creese and chopped nuts or olives, 3 = ee Japanese Sandwiches.--Take any kind of left over fish, baked or boil- ed; pick out every hit of skin and bone and flake in small pieces; put into a saucepan with a little cream er milk to moisten, adding a little batter and dusting of pepper; work to a paste while it is heating; then cool and spread on thin slices of buttered bread. : 3 elly Sandwiches. -- Cut thin slices of warm fresh bread. Remove venly, spread with freshly grated cocoanut. Roll each slice separately and tie with baby ribbon. : Fruit. Sandwiches.--Take thin slices of raisin bread, butter them prepared as follows: One-half pound finely chopped figs, one- third cup sugar half cup of boiling water, and two tablespoons of lem- on juice. Mix and cook in a double boiler until thick enough to spread. TESTED RECIPES. Baked Apples.--Take as many ap- ples as there are people to be serv- ed, Peel and remove core. Fill with chopped hickory and English walnut meats. Sprinkle with white sugar. Put in oven and bake slow- ly, basting all the while with sir- up, made of one cup sugar, one- third cup water, cooked until in threads. Bake until apples are clear. Serve with whipped cream. Nut Graham Bread.--Three cups raham flour, one cup white flour, our teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt, one-third cup mol- asses, one-half cup brown sugar, two eggs, two cups milk, one cup seeded raisins, one cup chopped nuts. Mix quickly, let raise for twenty minutes. Bake one hour. COOKIES. Sweet Crackers.--One cup of sug: ar, one cup of lard, and two eggs creamed together. Five cents' worth of oil of lemon, also five cents'"worth of baking ammonia, dissolved in one pint of sweet mill overnight. Pound and knead about forty minutes. Work in as much flour as possible. Roll thin, cui in squares, and stick several times with a fork. Bake in quick cven. Half of the oil of lemon is enough for one baking. PALM HELP. I had a palm which became infest- ed with scales. After trying var- ious kinds of treatment for their) extermination I began washing it in suds made from soap. After three washings, at intervals of a few days| 4 tirely gone, the palm looking fresh and green and making new growth. Another bath of the same will keep it in fine condition.--J. U. D. VALUABLE HINTS. Apply a drop of oil to the door hinges to keep them from creaking. A cork soaked in oil makes a good substitute for a glass stopper. Canned or fresh rhubarb is a fine substitute for fruit for the pudding. Try a little baking soda and hot water when cleaning kitchen uten- sils. If your pancake batter is too thin try using stale bread crumbs as a thickener. Flowerpot stains may be removed from window sills with fine wood ashes. The neck of a baby's frock should never be starched, as it will chafe the tender skin. . A cupful of liquid yeast is equiv- alent to half a compressed yeast eake or a whole dry yeast cake. In selecting beef the pieces which are well mottled with fat will be found the richest and juciest. Scatter unslaked lime round the corners of the cellar; this will ab- sorb any damp and dispel insects. When leather armchairs look shabby they should be wiped with a soft cloth moistened with olive oil. Wooden breadboards are kept in better condition by rubbing them with sand than by simply using soap. Green blinds that have become faded may be renewed by rubbing them with a rag saturated with linseed oil. If fresh fish is to be kept over night, it should be salted and laid on an earthen dish, not placed on a board or shelf. Comforts and quilts should be dried in a good stiff breeze so they may be as light and fluffy as when new. You my discover that you have not potatoes enough to warm up. Just take some stale bread, as they blend perfectly. A few drops of lemon juice or vin- egar put in the water in which cauliflower is to be cooked will preserve its whiteness. A large clean marble boiled in milk, porridge, custards, sauce, will automatically do the stirring as the liquid boils, and so prevent burning. : _ The mica windows of coal stoves can easily be cleaned with a soft cloth dipped in vinegar and water. This should be done when putting the stove up. Da Japanese railroads use terra-cot- ta sleepers. _ They have women ticket agents in Australia. A | They who do not believe that character can be told from hand- writing have evidentiy never heard and fill them with the big filling} handwriting read aloud in a breach- of-promise suit. : ashes TE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUD t 5 : : INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 12. | Lesson XL. Elisha the Prophet Re- stores a Child to Life. 2 Kings 4,8-87. Golden Text, Rom. 6.23. Verse 8. A great woman--The prevailing idea of greatness was of a person who was independently rich (1 Sam, 25. 2), and who haa the power that goes so frequently with wealth. This same Shunem was made famous as the abode of the beautiful maiden who is the heroine of Solomon's Song, and who may be __ identified with Abishag, the nurse © of David's old age. Thus Shunam- mite seems to have been an heir- ess, who, with her husband, owned much of the property about the vil- lage. Her hospitality must have been welcome to the prophet in his wearisome tours among the pro- phetic schools. 9. This was a holy man--It seems unlikely that Elijah would have availed himself of such comforts as were offered in this luxurious home, but the impression made by ilisha was not diminished because he had an eminently social nature and gave it free play. At any rate, the pro- posal made to her husband by the woman (10) was not unusual, even in a land ovérflowing with hospit- ality. The little chamber, built with walls, above the roof, so as to give easy and private access from the outside (and furnished after the style of Oriental rooms), must have afforded the prophet many hours of refreshment. --o 12. Gehazi--Throughout his long} public career Elisha was attended by his servant, who ocupied much the same position as he himself held in relation to Elijah. She stood before him--It is dif- ficult for us to imagine the rever- ence with which she would come in- to the presence of one whom or the reserve which Elisha, in the dignity of his position, would ex- ercise, so downtrodden was the con- dition of womankind in those days | (compare Jesus and the Samaritan woman, John 4. 27). So Ehsha speaks to her through: his mouth- piece, Gehazi (13), and, careful not 1 find tl 1 1 t | to offend his benefactor by any sug- apart, nd the scales almost en-| gestion of money equivalent for her pains, he proposes that he might give expression to his grati- tude by speaking a word in her be- half to the king, or using his court influence with the captain of the host. But, dwelling as she did, among her own friends, she felt no| need of royal or military protec-) tion. recalled on Gehazi's that the great sorrow of her was, that she had no child, and was growing old (14, 15). 16. Do not lie--The promise that in the spring of the year following she should have a child her very own was too good to be believed on light evidence. 19. My head--It is likely the child had suffered from sunstroke. 21. Laid him on the bed of the man of God--What Elisha had al- ready done for her was sufficient to make her believe in his power to do even greater things. 23. Wilt thou go to-day ?--The husband is not thinking of the dead child, but of some religious festival connected with the new moon or the sabbath, over which the prophet might be called upon to preside Nevertheless, upon her assuring him that all was well, he has the ass prepared (24). The servant would attend her for protection, running by her side the entire six- teen miles to Carmen. 25. The man of God saw her-- From his retreat in the hills he could look down the road and see her while she was yet afar off. He at once divined that something was amiss. But the woman not relin- quishing the hope which she cher- ished, out of an anxious heart ex- claimed, It is well (26). 27. Thrust her away--Gehazi con- sidered in a breach of etiquette, but his master saw that she acted in great extremity, and put his ser- vant aside, 29. He said to Gahazi--He did not need to hear the words which the woman seemed reluctant to speak, that her son was dead. He bade his servant gather up the loose folds of his garment, and to pause for no salutations, lest his progress should be impeded. But the moth- er is not satisfied to have the staff and its master separated, for where he is there is power. So with the woman, Elisha follows his servant, who meets them on the way with the news that the child has not re- vived. : 32. The child was dead--There is left no such doubt in this story as in some others in the Bible, as to whether the person was actually dead. 33-35.--Notice the earnest © solic- itude displayed by Elisha. He not only prayed, but used every means within his power to bring back the breath of life. This was the order followed by Elijah at Zarephath, and is the true method of approach- ing God in everything we seek from him. oe Soe she | considered a representative of God, | So she went away, only to be} suggestion | life _ 86, ake up thy son--In the tense- fess Of the situation the indirect address, through his servant, is laid aside. Humanity is a far larg- er consideration than conyention- ality. e "ee fae 37. Fell at his feet--She was too overwhelmed with sernotion and | gratitude to speak. We are left to imagine what the return journey must have been, Da PROVIDING FOR WORKPEOPLE -- Invalidity Insurance Will Not Con- flict With Old Age Pensions. The English people are beginning to realize the vast importance of the British Government's scheme of invalidity insurance, which is now being eagerly dscussed in every factory and workshop, mine and quarry, in the servants hall of Lon- don mansions, and humble farm kit- chens. .The invalidity insurance, as proposed by the Government, is quite a thing apart from old age pensions and unemployment insur- ance. There is no idea of changing the basis of old age pensions as at present administered. Invalidity insurance is an extension only. Old age pensions of $1,25 a week will still be granted on a non-contribu- tory basis to qualified persons over the age of seventy. For this reason the insurance scheme will come to an end at seventy, and there will be ro over-lapping. Contributions to invalidity insurance will begin at an age not lower than sixteen years and not higher than eighteen years. Again, invalidity ifSurance is quite distinct from unemployment insur- ance as outlined by the Board of Trade. Unemployment insurance is intended for men and women who are able and willing to work but cannot find a job. Invalidity in- surance is meant for men and wo- men who are debarred from work- ing through continued ill-health. Unemployment insuranee will be compulsory only for the building, ship-building and engineering trades--that is, for two and a half million workers. Invalidity insur- ance will be compulsory and univer- of sixteen or eighteen and seventy whose income is less than $8U0 a year. Unemployment» insurance supplements the work of trade un- | 1ons ; invalidity insurance supple- }ments the work of friendly societ- jies.. The details of the invalidity | Insurance are still secret. On Nov- j ember 4th Mr. Lloyd George hand- | ed a draft of it to Mr. Barnes, the ' Grand Master of the Unity of Oddfellows. The docu- ments were, however, communicat- }ed on Cabinet terms, and Mr. | Barnes was forbidden to make them | public. Contributions to the scheme | will, as in the case of unemploy- ment insurance, be derived from | the worker, the "state and the em- ployer. The amount of the combin- ed contribution is unknown and the proportions to be paid by the three parties respectively is also not known. Conjecture has set one- | half for the employer, and one-half for the state. Cy WHO WAS BOSS? Once on a time, runs a modern fable, a youth about to embark on \the sea of matrimony, went to his father and said :-- : '"'Father, who should be boss, I or my wife?' | The old man smiled and said :-- "Here are one hundred hens and a team of horses! Hitch up the horses, put the hens into the wag- on, and wherever you find a man and his wife dwelling stop and make inquiry as to who is the boss. Wher- ever you find a woman running things, leave a hen. If you come to a place where a man is in con- trol, give him one of the horses." After ninety-nine hens had been disposed of, he came to a house and made the usual inquiry. "'T'm boss o' this farm," said the man. So the wife was called, and she affirmed her husband's assertion. "Take whichever horse you want," was the »oy's reply. So the husband replied, take the bay." But the wife did not tike the bay horse, and called her husband aside and talked to him. He returned and said :-- "T believe I'll horse."' "Not much," said the young man. "You get a hen." ort take the grey Ke. FACT AND FANCY. Tight lacing goes with loose hab- its. Greece, thanks to her has the most centenarians. The only time a real financier tak es his wife into his confidece is to tell her when he isn't making any money. | ; Many a millionaire is the archi- 'tect of his son-in-laws's fortune. "Dear," comes from the old Eng- lish "deore,'? meaning "distin- guished." oes: Bae It is important at this season to remember that no one can arrest the flight of time. 'We can all, how- climate, ever, stop a minute. _ oe There are no less than 5,000 var- ieties of cider apples grown in Normandy. é oe i has recently purchased 35 lots sal for all persons between the ages | Manchester | NaHS FROM SUNSET COAST WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE ARE DOING. --_-- rt Progress of the Great West Told In a Few Pointed Items. There were 820 deaths in Vancou- ver last year. Nearly-eight feet of snow have fallen in Rossland this winter. The new $75,000 convent building in Kamloops, B.C., is about com- pleted. The new Inland Hospital, to be built this year in Kamloops, will cost $125,000. Mg ES The mayor of Vancouver is paid $5,000 a year and the aldermen $500 each. In the spring a salmon cannery and box factory will be started at Stewart, B.U. Calgary real estate men are preparing for an influx of farmers during March and April. Four feet of solid ore has been struck at the 1,050 foot level of the Rambler mine in the Slocan. Vancouver citizens are indignant because compulsory vaccination has been forced upon them. Last year there were 538 cases before the police court in Revel- stoke. The fines amounted to $4,000 Not for many winters has there been so much snow on the Saskat- chewan prairies as is the case at present, David Oppenheimer is to be hon- ored by a memorial in Vancouver. He was one of the first mayors of that. city. The B.C. Government has con- sented to the appointment of a com- mission to enquire into the high price of coal. A syndicate of Vancouver people in the west end of New Westminster for $75,000. Two men, who pleaded guilty in Medicine Hat to cattle-stealing, were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Winnipeg Ministerial Association has unanimously elected Rabbi J. K. Levin, a Jewish clergyman, to membership. Appalling stories of inadequacy of the medical provision for labor- ing men on G.T.P. construction work west of Edmonton are told. "Tt will take a small army of men busy this coming summer building new churches in this city," says the Morning Albertan, Calgary. In a recent excursion from Medi- cine Hat down into Montana, there were 100-men.in the party and one out of every three was a real es- tate agent. Tom Flynn died in Rossland last month aged 71 years. Three months ago he paid the Deminion Govern- ment $4,250 for an annuity of $50 a month, Over 200 farmers young and old, attended the class of instruction on agricultural subjects held hy the provincial government at Strath- more last week. On Kootenay Lake the pregressive ranchers are devoting their ener- gies to placing the recently formed Kootenay Fruit Growers Union, Limited, on a sound financial foot- ing. The entire province of Saskatche- wan is living from hand to mouth as regards fuel, and one more sey- ere storm will put the entire pro- vince right up against it for fuel. There are several sulphur springs in that part of British Columbia known as the Pemberton Meadows. Just after the £an Francisco'earth- quake they stopped flowing for three months. Slack work is advertised by the miners' unions in three different mining districts of Alberta, the Royal collieries at Le*hbridge, Coal Creek, in the Crow's Nest Pass, and Bankhead. Operations at the Vancouver- Prince Rupert Meat Packing Com- pany's abbatoir, at Sapnerton, are now in steady progress. About 40 head of cattle and from 80 to 100 hogs are despatched daily. ™ 5 A LONG CREDIT. The motto of the Highland host that battled for the Stuart cause, which bonnie Prince Charlie head- ed, apparently was that heaven helps those who helps themselves liberally. They levied toll on the hen-roost, stable, and according to the author of a recent delightful book, entitled "The Land of Ro- mance," even on the pockets of the Covenanters. At Swarthholm a party of these marauders overhauled the house of a tailor, and when one of them w. about to cet up a web of homespun that had takeo his fancy, the good- wife earnestly remonstrated. "A day'll come when ye'll ha' tae pay for that," she solemnly as- sured him. Scissors in hand, Donald paused. |"'An' when will she pe hafing to do that?' he asked. "'At the Last Day," said she. ""An' that will pe a fery goot lone }credit," the robber coolly returned. "She wass going to pe only tak'asjvell. that accounts for it; I have a coat, but now she will pe takin' [a waistcoat as well." f SHG AD SHOU GREAT BRITAIN'S SUPREM acy IN THE INDUSTRY, ee k Leads World in Construction of Vessels and Trade Shows Increase. : The annual report published by Lloyd's Register of Shipping and Shipbuilding in 1910 gives the fol- lowing interesting figures: Tonnage of merchant ships launched in the United Kingdom during three years: 929,669 991,066 1,143,169 Countries for whose use the 500 vessels (1,143,169 tons) launched in the United ingdom to 1910 were destined : Britain 861 ships, 919,706 tons Brit'h C'l'n's 89 ships, 43,507 tons Norway 12 ships, 34,038 tons Germany .... 5 ships, 26,507 tons Sweden 5 ships, 20,247 tons and smaller tonnages for other countries. Warships launched in the United Kingdom during 1910: British 43 ships, 133,525 tons Foreign 2 ships, 1,120 tons Countries for whose use are in- tended the 122 warships in all the shipbuilding ports in the world: British 43 ships, 133,525 tons German ships, 49,024 tons USA. ships, 30,287 tons French ships, 24,063 tons Japanese .... 3 ships, 23,100 tons no othet country having added so much as 20,000 to its naval ton- nage. . Combining mercantile and naval shipbuilding in United Kingdom) ports and abroad, we have these remarkable figures concerning this "ruined industry"' : Launched in 1910 in the United Kingdom, 545 ships, 1,277,814 tons; Yaunched in 1910 in all the rest of the world, 854 ships, only 990,893 tons. Of the last uamea the United States built 361,000 tons; Germany, 210,000; France, 105,000 tons; Hol- land 71,000 tons; no other country turning out so much as 60,000 ton- nage. : The United Kingdom gain in out- put as compared with figures ab- road is shown by comparing our first table with the subjoined Tonnage of merchant ships launched in all the world except the United Kingdom, during three years: 1909 610,991 | . 814,684 | Thus the rest of the world has de- | creased its output almost half as! much as the United Kingdom ,has increased its output. Even the gain on balance as af- fected by vessels being lost as sea} or broken up, the United Kingdom} has an advantage over tne rest of the world. Tonnage of merchant ships lost or | broken up, thus reducing the total tonnage of the mercantile marine: Foreign and Colonial. Ships. Tous. 602 518,000 666 578,000 587 516,000 British Isles. Ships. Tons. FOUG 0 5 198 291,000 1909 ....-201 361,000 1910 202 358,000 ¥ Do DIGNA OSMAN STILL ALIVE. Dervish Leader Now at Wady Halfa is Eighty Years of Age. The Emir Osman Abu Bakr Dig- na, once notorious in the Seudan as Osman Digna, who since Decem- ber, 1908 has been interned at Wa dy Halfa is now an old man _ of| eighty years of age. Licutenant-| Governor Wingate (Sirdar of the} Egyptian army) contributes some facts relating to "Osman the Ug- ly," who in the troublous times in the Soudan had as many reported deaths as the Mad Mullah. Osman, prior to Mahdism, was a succes:iut slave-trader between the Soudaa and the Arabian coasts. Owing to his persecution by the old Egyptian Government for carrying on this trade, he seized the opportunity of the Dervish revolt to join the Mahdi in 1883, and proved to be his most zealous adherent and capable lecu- tenant. He was entrusted with the propagation of Mahdism in_ the Eastern Soudan, and this region he rapidly overran and conanered, Os- man was present at the battle of Omdurman and at the Khalifa': de feat and death of Gedid in 1899. He escaped after the conflict, and after a long march on foot was cap- tured in the Warriba Hills, ninety miles west of Suakim, by Captafi Burges, at the head of a civil pat- rol, in January, 1900. Osman was then deported to Rosetta, in Egypt, to join the other Dervish prisoners, and remained there to the end of 1902, when he was transferred to the Damietta prison, and in Dec- ember, 1908, was sent in turn to Wady Halfa, where he now is. He--"Ah, Miss aura, and what have you been doing to-day ?" She --'Oh, I've been reading Tenny- son." He--"Are you fond of Ten- nyson 7'? She--"Fond of him! Why. I simply devour him!'* He -- 'Ah, so often heard him spoken of as a puet. Laura "ates s Areutzersteim Ne | "fidelkommis," i.e family of its owner, C 1 Wilezek, and its conten made heirlooms, writes the Vienna -- correspondent of the London Stan- dard. This is news which should gladden the hearts of all antiquar- lans, as it means that the unexar pled collections of antique fu ture, weapons, and objects of a in the Middle Ages will be kept to gether in their present setting for all time. Kreutzenstein is, no doubt, thi most complete genuine specime a mediaeval castle in existence When the present owner inherited it as a young man it was a ruin, but Count Wilczek has devoted a large fortune to restoring the build-_ ings and furnishing them through- out down to the minutest detail with furniture and household ar- ticles of the Middle Ages, which he has spent a lifetime in collect- ing. The castle lies on a hill over- looking the Danube, wituin a drive of Vienna, and is one of the first -- sights which all distinguished visit- ors to the capital, such as in recent © years, King Edward, Emperor Wil- liam, #nd ex-President Roosevelt have been taken to see. ae A "'fideikommis" is stricter than -- its English equivalent as it cannot be cut off like an entail. An estate can, however, now be tied up in this way only by a special act of the Austrian Parliament, which the lower house is nowadays very un- willing to pass; on. created for fifteen years. This dif- ficulty was got over in this case by the legal advice of a so-called.ex- change. Part of Count Wilezek's | estates is already subject to "fidei- kommis," and he was permitted by the judicial authorities to bring Kreutzenstein under the entail in the place of land in Silesia, which was thereby released. oe i A CAT'S DAILY SWIM. Feline That Crosses the Eyery Day. A cat that swims across the Thames River every evening and -- swims back again next morning is something in the nature of a novel- | ty, but the people of Deptford claims that they possess such an an- imal. The feline to which such re- markable feats are attributed be- longs to the ferryboatman who us--- ed to ply between the landings of the shipyards of Messrs Robert Thompson, on the Southwick side, and Messrs, Laing on the Pxpttil side, This man had up to about a fortnight ago ferried a small boat acress the river and on many oc- casions the cat, which had appar- ently discovered "pastures new" at Southwick, accompanied him in his % boat each evening, and returned by the first ferry the next morning. Sometimes, however, the cat would travel so far in the boat, and then of its free will would leap over- board and finish the journey with a beautiful paw-over-paw stroke. On the cessation of the ferry ser- vice people thought that the cat would check its roving disposition and remain on its own side of the river, but evidently pussy found that the rats and mice on the Dept- ford side were not to be compared with those at Southwick, for every night, with a beautifully graceful jump it takes the water and swims across the river, returning first -- thing in the morning with a con- tented and self-satisfied smirk. But Deptford is not the only place on the Thames that can boast of a clever cat. Harry Milham, one of the most popular boating men on -- the river, has a cat at his well- known boat-house at Strawberry -- Vale, between Twickenham and Teddington, which is a feline mar- vel. In the summer it may fre- quently be seen perched on the bow © of a boat gazing into the water. All © at once it will make a dive into the -- river and, swift as lightning, bring to the surface a small fish, which it. proceeds to devour with evidel satisfaction. Milham has had cat from the days of its kittenhood, and believes it is the cleverest cat on the Thames. River 3 Ut he BRITAIN'S AIR SCOUT. Naval Monster of the Skies Nearing Completion, New Britain's naval airship No. 1, which has been under construction for more than twelve months ¢ Cavendish dock, is ngw approach- ing completion, but nobody éan say when the huge vessel will launched. pid The construction of the first nav al Dreadnought of the air has be veiled in the same profound offic secrecy as was that of the firs Dreadnought of the sea. es Nobody, unless he be a nay man directly connected with | work, is allowed to approach in twenty yards of the enormouw shed in which the airship is. built. pes: Her length is 516 feet, her eter 48 feet, her gas capacity der motors and tkree s structed propellers wil a _ | through the air a+ 50 miles an s 000 cubic feet, and her eight. cylin-