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THE LURE OF THE HIGHLANDS.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDANT.}
PICKLES FROM THE GARDEN
SOME USEFUL HOME RECIPES.
Home-made pickles are always appre ciated, and pickling an excellent method of preserving surplus, garden
Edismutan, Auguse Sthe The holiday” traffic by rail between Lon- | produco, don and the Highlands is by far the great-
-MIXED "PICKLES. est since the War, and the Northern may be made with any vegetable used high roads are swarming with motor cars, for pickling, such as cauliflowers, marrows, French beans, onions, green tomatoes, by far umbers going by road
carrots, or capsicums. the greatest for several years. Taking ore clay as an instance, the Feast of St. Lubbock-four hundred and sixty sleep ing berths were reserved from Euston alone for Scotland, and 2,000. seats res served this constituting the biggest number remembered for a great many Jears. Between 7.20 p.m. and midnight 17 Scottish expresses were run, and the 7.90 train, which makes the longest run of any train in Britain without stopping
To each gib, of vegetables allow a pro- portion of I dozen onions, & chillies, Joz of turmeric, 1oz. of ginger, 4oz. of suge 1 quart of vinegar.(PAGE
Prepare the vegetables as for boiling: string and alleg the beans, break off the cauliflower sprigs, peel the raAITOWS, PU move the seeds, and cut the marrow into cubes; slice, the tomatoes, peel and slien the carrots, wipe the chillies or capsicums, and use them whole. Bruise the ginger
at any station-running 290 miles between well. Put the vegetables on large dishes Crewe and Perth-was run in six por- and sprinkle salt thickly over them tions. This is the record fur one railway Leave them all night, then drain them torough a clean cloth. Peel and alice" the on one day only.
Those who have been studying the onions and put them into a pan with the grouse prospects in the North are not vinegar, ginger, chillies, turmeric and confident of exceptionally good sport. sugar, bring to the hoil, then add the The winter was too long and wet and the other vegetables and boil for twenty spring,too ungenial for the young birds, minutes. When cold, put the vegetables The Twelfth is ons Wednesday, and into bottles, divide the chillies among at least a dozen Americans at the Savoy them, and see that they are thoroughly covered with vinegar. Cork the bottles Hotel will go north on the Monday, shoot and cover them with paraffin wax or on the Wednesday and Thursday, and sail sealing wax, and store in a dry, cool back on the Saturday. Last year several
place." Americans had their own bags frozen, in blocks of ice and took then back with them::
TO PICKLE FRENCH BEANS. The beans must be perfectly sound and Such has been the demand for moors Iresh. String and slice them, then put that lettings now-a-days take place, espe-them into a pan of boiling water to which cially in the case of the tip-top shoots, 6oz. of salt has been added to each quart much earlier than formerly, and the of water. Simmer "the beans for one sportsman who leaves the selection of his minute in this brine, then drain them. shooting until June and July finds him- and dry them on trays in the sun or in a self with a very limited choice. This year cool oven. Put the beans, when dry, into has proved no excrption, and it looks bottles and pour over 4 cold pickling as if few properties will remain untenant vinegar. Cork the bottles and cover with
The letting of deer forests, too, has bladder or wax.
The pickling vinegar is made by bail- been up to the average, though the high prices demanded, now-a-days keep many ing toz of chillies, joz, of long peppers, ardent deer-stalkers away. And rentals oz. of whole ginger, Joz of mustard are not likely to fall as long as the Ame seed, oz of peppercorns and & cloves in rican sportsman, with his coffers full of cach gallon of vinegar required. Bruise dollars. is ready to pay whatever sum the ginger and wash the mustard seeds may be asked. This is probably the in a little vinegar and dry them in the oven. Tie all these spices in a muslin largest factor in keeping up prices,
The King, who known far beyond bag or in several small bags (one for each the confiues of his Empire for the bottle) and boil them for about 10 minutes "straight powder" that he burns, on the vinegar. Divide the spices thong matter what game is astir will again obtain his Deeside sport on the Balmoral
the bottles.
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in a week or two. Glaxo is the food that has been used in aix Royal Nurseries, where Court Physicians sce that Royal Babies have the best..
Give your baby Glaxo to build firm flesh and plenty of bone and suund good health. F
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and Fallo de sport Deerstalking already had a marked effect in the sourAKTINS
for which the King shows an even greater which it has given to inquiries on the fondness than grouse shooting, is providnatt of other Continental firms. The ed for His Majesty in the Balmoral development, consequent upon the in corries, which in the past haar produced mauy fine heads.
LATE ME. JOHN BELL-IRVING.
position of the silk duties, has obtained wide publicity on the Continent, particu
arly in Switzerland, und Sir Samuel Chapman, M.P., who played a promin- The late Mr. John Bell Irving, was ent part in bringing the Swiss firm to the seventeenth laird of Whitehill, nad Dunfermline, has been literally inundated a descendant" of the famous "Jock o' with letters, not only from other silk Milk mentioned in one of Sir Walter manufacturers in various European coun- Scott's novels. He succeeded to the estate tries, but also from members of Parlia of Milkbank on the death of his elder ment, who point out the facilities which their own constituencies afford for the brother twenty years ago. He served in establishment of silk factorice. an accountant's office in London, before Samuel Chapman will go to the Continent Le proceeded to China, to join the firm with the concrete assurance of manufde of Jardine, Matheson & Co. On his returers in Fifeshire, Perthshire, Forfar- turn to this country he took a great in shire, and the Borders that they are terest in foxhunting, otter bunting, and botany. He is survived by Mrs. Bell Irving, one son, Capt. J. Bell Irving, and two daughters,
THE SCARCITY OF HOUBES.
Sir
BADIOL &'STEEL
Sure and certain for all Female complaints.Every lady should: keep a box in the house.
Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietor:
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OVER HALF A CENTURY REPUTATION PILLS FOR THE
DR. LE CLERG'S DYEK KIDNEYS
INVALUATE for 'Truthsatu of theon_Exit:KTARY OSSANI, CHATEL, Rastane, Norr, Bastrazds, Prima 30.. lending, Orusted, or Push Fros D2 DULICHed. Co.Eleverstops BAN.WALondon
DALE CLERC'S IZL PERENT DALE CLERCSATLENIA. Pros
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ready to consider proposals to convert their factories for the manufacture f silk. Most of these overtures have beer made, as is natural owing to the state of their rospective industries, by linen and jute manufacturers The high cost of the The quest for houses is as eager and raw material in the jute industry, coupled
as it is at the present time with the re-f futil on the Borders as elsewhere in luctance of Calcutta, to sell, owing to the Scotland, and, unfortunately, the efforts serious, depletion of stocks which has of local authorities to hasten the provi-taken place in India, bas hampered the sion of more accommodation are not refute trads in this country for some time. ceiving the encouragement they ought to The linen trade for long has been at a get. Workers find it slmost hope- very low ebb, owing to the changed con- To qualify for membership of the ex- less to obtain a house. An inciden:ditions of the rearket and the loss of clusive. Caterpillar Club, probably the American trade, which was formerly cue most unusual organisation in the United related to, me some time 180 one of the principal actors,
of the principal markets for the finer
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linens. One of the offers, however, which States, men must have been forced to leap of the con has now been made comics from a Grm in parachutes from balloons, dirigibles ar petition, for borres which happen to come of flour millers. During his tour, Sir aeroplanes as a last resorts into the market. In one of our Border Samuel Chapman hopes to be able As jumps for mere pleasure or thrills towns, where there are a large number to use his influence to extend still far do not count, there are at present only of self-contained cottages, owned mostly tner activities which have been starts ten members.
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Vladivostock VEL Nicolajewak
by the occupiers, an old lady lay dying, ed in Dunfermline, where a number Une day as a friend, who had been visit of Swrse silk specialists are at present on that some caterpillars float to the ground The club gets its name from the fact ing, was leaving the house he noticed a gaged in putting the new industry on a woman loitering about the street. Short proper basis. It is known that a frm of suspended by a fine thread like a spider's ly afterwards the purpose of her vigil was silk manufacturers registered a company web, says the New York correspondent revealed. Meeting my informant in the perset House last week for the pur- of the Central Vélen, dam vicinity of the house at a later hour in country, and Sir Samuel Chapman intends forces of the United States.
pose of opening up centres of trade in this
All the members are connected with the the same day, she exclaimed:Mrs to endeavour to bring arguments to bear maun be deid." "How do you know upon them which will induce them to con
The members of the Caterpillar Club was the query. Because the blinds are sider Scotland as a possible field for their have been saved from almost certain doon. I wonder, she proceeded, has activities: So far, Sir Samuel Chapman death by trusting to parachutes when has the letting of the hoose, for Ave bad has received over 140 letters from up something went wrong in mid-air. ma eye on it. My friend was able to proximately 20 districts in Scotland, ask The first to qualify for membership is give the tamer of the factor for the prosidered by their owners to be capable of 7000 feet over McCook Field, Dayton, ing him to see factories which are con-Lieutenant, H. H. Harris, who dropped perty, adding that as it was near his conversion. This fact is sufficient to call Ohio, in 1923 He was testing a new type usual dinner hour he might not be found attention to the changes which have of pursuit neroplane which went to pieces Manila Baguio at his office. The woman hurried off to taken place in recent years in some of the air through excessive vibration. interview the factor, and my informant the principal industries of the country.
There is no doubt that the linen industry He landed in a grape arbour, uninjured.
bas suffered considerably from the control
went home. He had just entered his house when a man came rushing up to the open door; and, seeing my friend, breath lessly blurted out: "I hear Mis deid. A wonder what has the letting her hoose? The required information was given, with the addition as to the agent's dining habits, and the mua at influence. once made for the office, only to find, the A POET TEAMPUN factor gone. The woman, who had watch
The death is announced of Boger. Quin,
of raw flax by the Soviets, which has led
* 10,000 FEET LEAP, price. The arbitrary fluctuations in the J. T. Johnson, who, while flying from to negotiations aimed at stabilising the The latest member of the club is Lieut cast of the raw material have, in the past, Detroit to New York, had trouble, over- been a source of concern, while the short- ago of supply has also had a cramping Fenrisivania. Oit leaked from the motor as he was passing over mountains above the clouds. He climbed in order to glide further after the motor became disabled,
the drawing of this blinds with a widely known as the Tran Poet and at 10,000 fent the motor froze. It keener intuition of the factor's intentions, Born in Dumfries and educated at the not sufficient to carry him, beyond the was evident that bis gliding radius was went straight to his private residence, Academy there, for some time he was mountains, and he jumped, as he could and secured the tenary of the house...
THE BILK BOOM
railway clerk, but the nomad life had
grent charins for him, and he took to the not save the "plane. roud as a tram. In the summer he spent He floated into the top of an apple tree, The adjaisition of a linen factory at his time wandering amongst the fills of and was uninjured beyond a few Dunfermline by Micere, Greiner & Com Galloway and Carrick, the autumn in the scratches. His maschine burst into. Bames pany, who intend to convert the factory Borderland. He wrote a large number of when it crashed. Lieutenant. "Johnson's for the purpose of silk manufacture, hasi poems, many of them printed, curiously leap was one of the greatest on record,
⠀⠀ (Contimused on next Column); ka enough, in a London weekly magazine. And it was his first parachute jump.
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