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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1916-08-17, Page 2- 11 01 .T.enderfOot s Woom • F.Iy.cl-IVE WOLILEY, (Author Of 4%01(4 Geld In De:Abate" Etes) ' CITAP)ER XXXVI.-7-(Cont'd), As he looked he heard the bor atalnping inthe kitchen. "OehtZ in he? I blenked slialliPtlitineuttered, and without stop - Plug to think, be ran deWnbate the kitchen. Bab thesight which Met there litaggered JIM Combe, .o that be Stood • Ming with Itis beats still tick Ills band. Anatritther in full bunting eriebeMe. Pink coat, inneouieto leethets, top ° • 10, and, gloves, --turned end faced. him. Hie horse, looking eaormous alongside the weedy country breds•, was standing as. still as asheep in the !Biddle of the reewlacing the ',win- • Ow, rein whiela Anstruther bad cone triv;i1 to take the tiashee. ' • "What : ••• • "Going to bed, IMO!' asite4 Anstru. titer opoily„ interrupting him and look - ng with a grin at Casaba's 'boats. • "SOOT to bother you, but beforeyou turn in You, 'might put thee up again fel' Mel and he poioted bo theauslies. 4• ‘.$13Y. XII be back soon. So lengl" , and, before Combo had. realized what. .., wise happening, AnStruther swung cle- verly into hs saddle' and Put hiS horse at the window. Combo saw Anstrutlier bough the. great Ilene with his heel, 'heard his "VP, boY,' as they came to the low 'Window 014 and "then the • great quarters' Were gathered beneath ' it and like a cat, o; to be mere exact, • a Veil -broken. Beythrop. hunter, Bed- • .sdaregore reared liftls sitipPed. ever Ihte spaee • .•. . • The little cramped jinnn wonitct nave • done more to unseat 'Combe than the, worst buck; but the maxi from Picca- dilly .Set as if he Was, itt: a roelting- , chair. • Saguia* had A:nstruther made, b 'preparations; and, the Indians' fel had served him so- well, that, wit the . single exception, of litn -Gina no one had any idea petit WO eta him Awn the windows, trotting cede IY towards the 111.004 Who had jus returned to their lines, 'their, horse a trifle pnmped by • the • Wild ; gallo they had indulged in. `-t Per a hundred 'yardshe trette . quietly, and then stopping nneoacern edly, 14: if he had been at ,a meet his ovva country, he turned and un 'covered to the laidea, trailing an calling" a ,message to them, the word of which they-could-nettatb., Considering ,the probability, Of volley, it was verygallazd foolingean .weetby of the good sepertsmen h looked, and- at any rate it Was better ' and mere merciful to Icittysaban. .4 tearful' leave-taking,( ° • • PO:baps hp meant it, so, but ...An1 struther 'was never \ one of those Who parade•01-* gaed iptentions.. • ,Replacing, his hat and waving his hand to thorn,- he tented in his heti*, end 'at aquiet trot rode, steadily waris Alta Indian Bees, the :great horse 'reaching at his. bit and showing bow goad 'the turf felt under his feet after so many days.. 'on a -bearded .floor. • "Great heavens! • The bey has gone Mad!" cried Relit,"Can no one stop 'hint ?"• • . "pent let bim play his OWehand • now, Boss," growled A1, whose' eyes WOre,b,Oginning to glitter with ecite- ', molt and understanitne. "He knows his long suit, • None of .'us- do. Maybe he'sgoing to play'noace-malter." • Tbist May have beenthe idea which kept the 'Indians quiets though that.. • Cotald. Inually have been Al's reading - Of the riddle, or the oitl man's thin mist/rile would not 'Mee been Working so nervoutsy, and though such an at - tiro ;IS Apstruther's would have been in. keeping with the traditions "6f old,. time Iludsen Bay facterys when, going . to is solemn meeting, he carried no• whiteflag or other.Wilfully mislead? ing drithlem. •• , • But harode nniirmed. ;Except for 1 his horn-landied /meth* crop, hp Cars I rie teay tic colt was der He's 408 through 'eni, 1 ten yea. 3Ilee IOWA iGtOlt5. Watt 414 tyoUr eyes, i Your mu* clear threugla MA he was.. • , . A .heat coming at you is the. herds est natrb to bit. A man in deadly earnest is even harder, . esnetaany when you don't expect,11Ina and cal-. 'ctilating uPoo this and timing, ids dash to a moment, the men fru salsias Carlilly bad ridden right over the near- est group. of Vhlicetees,oing cnh k. est group at Obilcatens", knocking one. down with his horse, and break -tog val Rhelowna's heah with:his 'riding...crop as he passed, and „now be, was going "lielsety brindle," as old 'Al Wouldput it, .on the. far side .of the, enemies' lines.. whilst they scrambled to 'their bones instead of stepping to shoot. • So far he had done riven; but in glance his friends, realized that 'his gallant effort had been wasted, inegaloGrf. trezlitiorifil,t4labiws hi!ietht4 a'ratisenlat .would • have had . alclear caiirea and two hundred ylircle?.. start, he was heading for Soda Creek as the erow • . 9.1e, has fOrgoPten ' the , canyon.' .gronned Jim Combe. • ' bain't done no such thing,"' con- tradicted Al. "That's what he's . a- Playin' for." alim looked at the olds man and understood. • Me can't dot it. No horse could," • "He can. A beck couldn't:Viers° couldn't,- but higesa tor-. Gre Scott! Sea that!" • Perhaps half a dozen Indians fol- lowed flirecti$r in Anstruther's foga:* Stens like a peek of hounds running in view, but the' Main body of them realizing their quarry's mistake, is making for the dip where the root ab want through, to which they imagine h he must eventually come, if he weak] e, •cross the canyon. For half a mile the going was geed, - t_ firm, grass;covered cattle land, and over this the red 'coat sailed, going two lengths for every ores cOvered by • his Posner& ' But beyondP. this for *avant hundred yards the land :was boggy, and when Al s spoke, Anstrat- “ ther sliPped.out of the *addle and ra itby his horse's side,•whilst the Indian , seeing this, made desperate efforts ,to 4 ovekbake him, and pIayed their horse clean. out. ._10nce,through4he-litile bog -TIM -v -4v 4 in •the Saddle again; cantering easil until, to those watching him,- he ieein ed On the *017 brink of the canyon •, - 'with the broken pine close on hi , right. • .•, • - . 'Then -hit -AAA his horse together, 'cfainrned hie hat On his head, and .went Int his , death. hands 'down. ' iast lives which p tTo five peoPIK1 therels one Second in t . • was more than a day tong. : •- •.Whea it was over, &fair-haired 'girl seek .quietly-sto the ground; and for the first time in her life Mrs. Bolt did not 'Move. to help a sister in trouble. She could not Her great, eyes *Ore swide • with- the -hunger' of seeing; her hands _blenched and her perted lips white; ,and when Al, .speaking zit if he were in church, whispered; -"I take itz nIF 'back about them duds. There ain't no flies on fox-hunting," theothers burst into hysterical laugh - tee, which was perilously near tears, for •the red, coat had .eleared the can - yen, • 'Implied it, by gain; jomped it Oar!' as the old -song *Lys', and was sailing away, a dim • pinkspot, straight is the, crow .flies :for -Soda Creek. -• . • ... • • • Does the story want finishing? Be, - fore .Ansernther had ridden for a eau - plot of hours, a large posse of -men came over a rise and were startled by the srigion "ot.'11' white-faced madman riding 'aeress- the Chilcoten country la the uniferm.of the Vale Hunt; more. - I it .TIIeScc.LQf Flaky Pie Crust. te. In on; ROws;7•Jt.lx-Iv1111 a' TA elettecres.-.4tottrzn4z:'.,-..tevegeFzes), ast-ersers teetteae tite4 y4e, Vett ttzzertzwt 4,7)4b 2m14.p tv cr4ttg),Fasktr,tiC4cr,4..lv Alto e.sercese fan 1110,4 ovea?ihea aiScafmkiNtalt • • •Sisestl aFestt • EN comb s GO AND TIMMY )ERS' NEViTSPAPER ' CO'S: TRASiT'S TligN ' • . *ineteei el ell wheat. fitt-r.ti. Ire tits • . gad sreve it. Col assesteart agNSPITS v1:1" . emelt; A:a to to tow ratinulestt tigco fer cwif c c'13 now resise epos epos:sea sad .cereifea" thee ierateas • IHE COO PACU CO. tillill0 •neeraesie .coistetroit. easeseirette, :site roar waxiA2,. • apoleOu end. WellinA, at Could tett • Egffa fel' /kat Days. It'Points Out., Nature is a pretty; geed. jadge of. .inPwkeelit;bteellain:4484 raTerelftretria:of**iCtiXobtr „ Each -Other at Waterloo, twhheant taytlibet9htets7te4ftebritrsse,omarietewbowgbeerta. .b:10,1,,s; jardolil. iiyt lit! ibureclaedepc,rumbothfstrt avith In SPCaing.Of the terrible conflict *rally feel ti distaste for meat or at Verduns the' Lille Erieg.seeitinag,' a ct$ter la *Apple Syrup Custard.—One-quarter --eavY f90(10, end lhattirally turn Of a cupful of apple Wrath elle and newspaper which is edited and nub- to the righter -dishgti; set the saoe time, tiareequarters cupfuls of milk, two lished by German eeldiere ha Li ie., he_ it itti Very pair policy not to look,niter eggs, ene.quarter . of a 0451)00d -4A Of hind the Germ= front, has the fel- thenamotritious qualities, for..25.trome snit, one-half of a teaspoonful of. Van:, !IturOWyingag:twierte:ZeCeoln:to,dpntsayi: inalte comparing the hotheads of 4 eons It;tie;tivtisv. likely,xt.otbelocum:ei,rapai•ou.nthy ia.:•i,tnacio.gli4:,, ill, etriElhleas•alat:t.eztiraceedoritlish,e. jineuynssaol:icko,:asnilf:e!ehtsted.td°elfratnit:fr:atiilne.,!.. the. pehljeatiea VlseaSin'e and relief to some MOre 1.10vol, Under' theSe t cir st ces t. e s . .• . _ , • the rescue' and We turn with cups for fiftv. inioutes in a steer oven.' . , . s'tlx twarair 0 ticbix.;14 htlitresstliQirFeaireLl "far arav ll.' ta:P'°4.::riliirotice:wint°61:1:30:1:we 1 : as . t: c 1 ref Serviil If you bake it in Mtn' dial., WM three . , . , sant balled; fried, poached and scram- 7Potato ; Tutruoyera,—This is a good so tragic and so destreattva Mo.+ it bled. The fellovdng_recipes will give way to . . to erye Meat and potatoei. Boil was believed that it: was! impossible. enough variety to add a'zest to the . that. anything worse mould, aCcur. Befl feed and stimulate the jaded at'Pet- 't -1 11 .0, '..t . ..paLIAMmisteueren7gtmpoqtaotone.eswetoi.44,m110 iiIn4 semethirig averse has occurred.. It be- itez •• .. " ' egg.; t sufficient salt and Pepper, and -gala Fehru,F7 21. and now-we.are in Creamed Rg s —ty 0 little firePrOef Titg “Aussmao Aim it).1.1.ND OIetheds Adopted 'by, the German Gave .ernmegit'in Discovering Thein In a recent issue of Pie Tagliche Rundechan there.ie a description Of a bureau 'lit Munich that is devoted to trachig ;the "missing.* The ladies • of • Munich take a large pert in this virbr •the success of which is tistified to l the, fact that over two • thonsaa .‘rnasszng" have ,beezi discovered, since the war began. , • • . The search for a wounded and miss. mg man is no light task. The ladie of the bereau -beim, in the course o their service, accumulated a vas amount Of military information. • FO eicornple, they must know where eac tnan's regiment fought on_exersesd Woo his.alasence Was discovered. I other cases they find where a regi ment's wounded were taken and Whe they have learned that they make in eairies in the neighboring hospitals which usually keep manifold indexe of the interned soldiers. Often doz d ens, of letters are written to foreign - 4 hospitals, camp • denunanders and priests before any clue is found. The tewn authorities are accustomed to: keep lists of t the prisoners in their own toten, so that the bureati is often able to tell people who have not Jilt - plied to -it a the Whereabouts of their yelatives. - • . Lieutenant IL of a Bavarian reserve regiment- had been missing since a cer- • tain battle in Plandets: Several mein-- ber's of his company testified that they - 8 bad seen the lieutenant's badY Iying • Pear a churchyard• wall; whereas oth- , ers thought that he pas weunded and in a French detention cainp—The*G • man war and 'field hospitals did not Y knit* anything aboet the 'milising mon: - There was a rumor that he had been s transferred to Corsica, but exinielna- s tion of the comas in. Co sic showed . that that was -not so. The search it the French and -English:field hospit- als lima also vain. Aftera time it Was heard that a Member of his company had mentioned his severely wounded lieutenant in a letter. Now the bureau began to hunt for the author of the letter and made inquiries at the camp from -which-it had cisme. -The .answer Was: "The man was probably here ,but hoe, now been transferred to some French Follewing up that chle"ientieng the diffeeent_island eampss the bureau received from' Camp C . the. answer that the man in question was in Cainp 13: On application there th'e answer came from- the commander 'of, Camp .B that the author of the let- -ter said that his lieutenant had fallen at 'Ypres, killed by a bullet in , • the. brain. • , • , September- 25th, • near ,Urbeis, fetirme,n were sent out on patrol day but none returned., The relatives of One of these Men came to the bureaus. Which made inquiry in all the French prison camps, but the name of the missing man was het. in any of •their. records. The governor general of Al- giers, to whom they next turned; in- vestigated the Algerian prison eamps the first vreek of June r• For three lens 'months this terrible: battle has been waged: on a, frinie of forty natter§ day and, night without any ces- eation„ • • The Battle istlitrateiloo. . • s onietablespeonfu1t. er. flour. " Turn the Raise for ems, and proceed as before, mass ea. a watessereas hood out •carefully, and cut it info-4am dish is• needed, ben some ri•ce the size of a eancer; Op .each disk roll It Was only three kilometers in length h and this clecisive straggle, whieh over - ,,threw Napoleon, began a Tittle . dter 5 one 'o'clock in the 'afternoon and was decided at nine weleek that evening, The PrUSSiallS in that battle number- ed about 210,000 men, and at Verdun a we know positively that forty-five French divisions are engaged, making all 675,000 Men. ✓ "If „Napeleon's ..fainoue Guard or h Wellington's Men. or the Prussian Grenadiers • were. alive toaday,:ho n ey wee amazedat what we are _ doing! Vow. Vtrojild they • behave in the face of, all the big sinills failing everywhere?. "At that time, a hundred Years ago, ' the opposing armies s were so near each other that the two commanders—Napoleon and Welling- • ton—could . See each other distinctly. To -day the armies are sopietimes many Miles distant. • 'A decisive battle a 'century ago and now is ,very much like a little- wind- storm in a village compered to a ter- rific thunderstorm at sea. Only ' one thing eemains,the same-sthe fact that. a soldier has but one life to give for his 'country : But the soldier to -day must suffer pore," endure -snore and possess stronger nerves in sacrifieing his life than did the soldier in Nes poleon's time. At that time the battle oonsisted of 2,. Asalumber-of-Charges- lasting from a 'few retinutes,•to per- haps half an hour eaeh. Except • for these occasional attacks the troops rested outeide of the firing line. The muskets at that time tarried a dis- tance of ;50 meters and:thesguns 600 meters. Our field guns carry- a dis- tance et more than • thirty-five kilo- metersiand the rifles cover a ground of three and one -halt kilometers. In. other words, the troops to -day are un- der frightful fire, every minute of the day and aightsextendipg, like Verdun, over many months. • "And. even he who survives thee° terrible battles has died a thousand deaths. There isno rnotional exhil- aration• equal to'that infoxication the face of death which is experienced by the soldier when attacking in bat- tle to -day. He forgets everything for the time being, And there is nething mere terrible than to lie sleepless in trenches at night while the big shells • _explode over and. all around -you. "Why are we able to stand all dile? • Because we know that we meet. And why are we SO happy and rend? Be- cause it is a fine thin to live through' something like • this,. . and :because t will be a great thing to be able to say that we had a part in this great War." a- nothing, and . in this fashion • r, the inadiitan *as he mad that he ' id barely speak 'intelligibly, and be' eve cou aPP • though on him Wits -no trace of a ..steaming• his horse, to the . iteadiet „wound.. • ' • trot,ha advancedwith the 'utmost un -t. . They brought him back with Owns totteertt ' tO-. within .fify •yards of the to the ranch, from which, 'fi t their ap- wondering Chileotenal without a shot preach. Aba Chilcotens Vanished . like :fired or a Ward spoken, whilst his the midsts' of morning, and, it.. was Weeds. Watched him with their heirtsH , In their mouths. • 1 orseleY, the leader of the posse, tyho, 1 ii month later; talking to Jim: Combo At fiftY yards from thejnaian lieees t o a doien voices challenged him, but over a pipe, saidi"-•-• ' "Like will to like,',Iim. She'd nov.er he rode on as if lie had - been deaf, have made it wife ter you, old chap, '. Withoutsbitsto tie etaritlioat Pau'ae'.. ' I You'll have to pliig along seine ae•we • ,- Then tholes was clank or 'Winches- 'all de • until you fin:I' another Mrs•. tier peresitis find it rifle went up to a Itolt-sit the. world holds one.!' eared to be swooning from pain .:rodelein'ts shoulder. Befornthe butt I . , . . The End: , •toiiebe<l fIeh, In the lett second of • ssrece, Anatruther seek° to Ms 'horse •and toucbod him With hiss spdes; tio that the gallant beast, untieed to such War and W-ordo. ,. facet/melte -sprang* mostly forward on ' , England's sixteenth century war • the -it:Aso:to whila Its rider bent over with Spahr was responeible• for soy- ,, . , ta Shouldm. allit rOdo itsboadleng-Intesr end- new %Verde being added to the . the volley which belched outt to moot tangling°, Embers° 'and contrabrand "YE' ' - are two of them; while to - the cant - "Give 'ens, hall! Olf; give 'cm acne* paigne in the low 'countries we are sereatned ,old Al at the window, los- indcbtad for such wm•ds as freebooter, Ing ati• contfrol of himself his nee .furbitigh,. earthier, leagues, &ale on - working, with exeitdmont. . “Difin,t / -slaught, aconce and domineer.. -,..taztarianatorusemeassizakiroczenstramsoiturammamirezariz=ate;za=t „ If Von Have Not a Policy in the - 1 Yoti Aroilot doing jo4ite to oprsOlt or your family!, . and. one of the missing men was act- ually found in the camp at Tiz.Ouzou. There he Was questioned, and ansvver- ed that lie had seen two of his coin - rads on stretchers in a French hos-. pital, which he named. According •to the statement of a certain captainwho • was a so rta con to that hospital, they died the -next day,•apparently•without Laving lion...identified. The fourth man in the patrol had received a Wound- in the. stomach, and died thret6 hours later in an ambulance onthe way to a surgical station. • The French .colinnandant who had aided in the search asked that in return 'the .bureau look for thi•oe missing Zouaves and the bureau. was able to roturn the fayoro for it found two isf the men in north -German prison camp . and learned that the. other had -fallen in battle. • BUILDING A BATTLESHIP. Half sof the Coat et Mill Goes in Labor. ., • - you' knew bow many beta's' le- -bee. at -takes -to 'halt -ninedern'tfiefid-7 neeghtr .Probably you • have • notate given the rnatter a thought, so- it will interest you to learn that' a big battles ship entails about 7,200,000 man-hours orslaborsequiVident to the wOric of ono Man working that time, • .. The Peking of , the turbine mitehin- cry:theories some 1,850,000 man -boors, and the rentintingn of the ,•big gune den eanily acquire two Yenrie work, while .a slngie artnor-plata may talco nearly three niontho to finielt. 'Norte 1I -them -3 processes can he' unduly lair. ric4,. as the 'very best work must be Put' in, the ibeet .scatripiest making ell the difference betwoce victory at:dile- feat. . • • IIn labor. Curiously • enough, far less Between forty and fifty per ,cent. of the cent e't it Drenduought's hull, goes IS spent on labor when constructing a • turbine engine than When making one i of the old reciprocating cylinder typo. iMuch of the Material 10 Made by MA- chirtery, leaving only 28 per cent. of i the cost for labor, v'vhereaa 46 per dent. 1 wont in wages when the loldettsicled I were in u(1e. . I • TESTING FABRICS; ,The Houebwife 'Need Not Depend En- , tireiyon the Saleernan. ' 'There are many. •houseviivas •who always :depend • on the clei•les judg- ment on the quality of • material when buying.' She tinier realizes that there firettt, few simple tests whieli she could make at home and, would, prove ecot nomical. • Linen. is a material. Which is 'rather' ha difficult for some • people AO distin- guish from coton. The linen thread ,-, • is •flrmely and • smoothly twisted, breaks with a snap, is stronger. than butpour a tablespeonfel. of •cream over each egg. • jf a more sebetantial stock, season lb well, and -half fill the ;pan with . . with itbefore adding the egg and. • Crea•med Eggi and Potato.—Plece a layer cf. smoothly reaShed and well- easned potatoes in` the -dish of Ilia tle Pans (previously greased), and place a large spoonfulsaf cold meat chopped v'm, fine anifl highly seaeons ed. Tarn the potato. dough on itself, and pinch the edge together as if making an ordinary turnover.' a'Szta the turnover on a fiat graased. Pane brown them in a bet Oven, and serve them with brown or tomato sauee. then an egg ion the top as before. •Cauliflower With Cheese • Cream Creamed Eggs With Yieln—If . you Dressing.—Wash a fresh cauliflower have any 'rutin:Mts. of 'cooked fish,or as many -heads. as you need. Boil flake them carefully free of skin and.t water in the kettle in whieli the vege_ bone, add salt and pepper and 7---"n'tables is to be ceeked, f3a14..and with some white Sauce and, add a ht- add the cauliflower while the wu water is tle meshed Potato. • Line some little boilsiag, Cook: its until it is tender. greased mina witrthis, add an egg as, To prepare the dressing, heat one cup - before, and put into the oven to set., ful of sweet milk in a doubt° boiler; Fricasse of Egge.--;Boil the neces- thicken it with a level tablespoonful of .Cernststrch dissolved in • a little cold. milk; eeason it with salt, pepper and butter; ' add about one-eighth t of a' pound, of grated Cheese. Pope the satace over the 'cooked' cauliflower at the last minute before: you serve it, after draining the water from the VegetableSand serve it en hot bettered toast ••, sary number of eggs bard and cut in half. • Remove the yolk, ahd add. to •it any tiny remnants Of finely minced meat,- a few bread cruinbs, salt, peps per, et very little chopped parsley and grated lemon rind. .Stutf the eggs with this. and put the remainder aside. Make sufficient White sauce - (using half milli and half sixeck • or Water); Grease the bottom of a cas- 'senile, put in the eggs, stir the re- mainder of the stuffing ino the sauce and pour Over the eggs. Make- very hot in the oven, and .serve bailed rice in another casserole. A very little baeon cut into dise improves this dish. • Scrambled Eggs With •Rige.-sllave ready some boiled rice, allowing half 'a teacupful ' to ; each -person. For .people allow taw) eggs, and cook _theta, yery lightry-; adding the Ace and stir- ring it well in with salt and pepper to season. Serve very hot. _ • Eggs, With. Fided Bread.—This met- hod of serving. eggs and lemon is economical; Cut some stale bread in- to cubes, allowing about' half a cup- ful .to ea& person, and to each serv- ing of breed about . eight -little iieces •of bacon. Fry the bread and. bacon in het fat in a frying pan, and break the eggs in, stir and cook untilbe- ginning to . set. • Dust with salt and pepperted Serve very hot., - Surprise Eggs.—Choose poiratoes all of a size and bakathem. Cut off 'a piece lengthwise, and scoop otiLan eauefi potato as possible. ' Mash ,it smooth . and very moist with some White • sauce, salt and pepper. Line the, potatoes thickly with this. Breek an egg into eaan cover with potato and bake until the potato is lightly browned. . . • Muffs Mollets.-;-Have reedy boiling • Water; and put the 'eggs in, and keep the water boiling for flee minutes.At once place"the eggs. in cold water and leave them , for 15 minutes. , Then shell 'very carefully i , The object is to • cook the egg sufficiently to shell .thein without the. Youks; being heed• . Thus cooked, drairi ,welt and place them in a casserole, and cover vrith • shrimp' or tonieto, onion or •curry saace, and genre with plain boiled rice. • Poached..EggayVith Onions.—Take two or threeonions, peel, and par- boil» them, sliee, and fry until' quite brown: Fry some squares of bread, Spread "the onions on these, and serve a poached egg on each. • By parboil- ing the onion before frying the navel - is rendered tar more mild. , Little Egg Pies. --Haire ready two Household Hints. • ••Lemoris will keep fresh 'if stowed in dry sand separatety. Tomato juice will remove ink stains from the hands. • Never allow,' fresh meat to remain in paper; it absorbs the -juice. A dish of cold water in the oven• •will prevent cake from burning. " Dry flour" atiPlied with a peivspaper an excellent' and easy way to clean tinware. •• • • Salt will remove the stain froth silver' caused by: egg when • applied dry witha s'oft;cloth... -cloth for five minutes.. ; stone crocks or jugs. their acid at • keen vinegar or 'yeast in token from the oven set it on e wet can be poured into. it without beaking it. . ptacoilscosntotes.gia. Which isssaidto he. delicate glass and boiling hot liquid Put a silvered einem into the most To get cake out, of pan whole w. ben • A --delicious salad is infide-orboi1ed. beets, s,cooped out, filled with sliced vegetables' and served, on lettuce leaves with 'Freneh dressing. , • Don't go en the •theory that the less you, eat in the summer the cools you will he. ' Eat moderately of -rather tight but nourishing food.. •Corn, should always be cut from the cob very carefully—slitting the • middle of each. row of kernels with a • share knife and • seraping g taut • the ° • liEDGEROW NOMADS. . Gipsjes Are Soul of Honor in Their .• - . Personal Relations. Quito a number of gipsies are 1h the armies et Europe, both as allies and enemies of 'Britain; for they are inter- national and know no .country' as their own; says Londo • Answers. Their: origin is a mystery, although .it is :certainthey hail from the'past. • 'It is generally thought they. come -from Egypts-henee their ijame-Lsbet it is !sy- nc, means certain. They ' have •been rd -boiled eggs chopped and half a thought to be the Ten Lost .Tribes t a white sauce . well flavored. als •eo and they certainly speak Of all r the egg -into the.eauce..• Line the non-ittnnany as Gentiles.: uired number Of tittle fireproof • Gipsies are regarded as a raziesince kins With .mashed potato, fill With wherever they go, as pariahsand out - sauce; coverWith potato, rough up I casts, but in their personal relations h armee and bake -untlithe potato they. two taut of honor, and a gipsy . • is eomay be- trusted to keep his plighted 1 lored. de with sausage meat, but they ere • tan proud hale' •Nestse .—These are ' 'word and togenerally - stand by his friend: They possess a certain lofty pride, a eeit.:- code of honor .which a fitter if mashed potato IS usedeasy' would rather die than lower. I theeggs ha't d,. and cover falrli - Datightere are. more ' useful than ckly • pith sinoothla Mashed 1 one petite. Egg,: crumb, and. Pens in glesylanct . and the parents i often put obstacles in tbe w.ay of the try a golden broiVn. -Cut in two :girls taking Om aeon of their choices h ai sharp , knife, and serve 'very] Thus elopements are eoirimon . and _ • . " I easy.' Theresare re windoWesto.c C dripping in a pen, add thats.ossr4utie'l..,1 mulish- -E-gglees-Three-Pertk eoefe out of and no ladders to scale's - e large, ripe toniatoes (bake thent Probably the enstom of destroying boil them,. whichever is nrost conl, I eV' etything that belonged to a" dead - Mit), rub through it Sieve:, gipsy is dying out, as it is a Very ex - petunia custom, but it is still "-done lup, oests.on with pepper and salt, with the bir,ger femllies who are the the *eggs, We over the• fire .1.1n-. nail" he eggs begin to set, 'and 'nerVe of.the Ittimarty people, . hot on squares of buttered toast. . , , • 'makes an excelleht centre 14 e vo in a wall of, savory rice . or spread -ea boiled macaroni. •,• Gen. Haig Believes War WillBe De- cided oit Western Front. , Senator Henry I3erenger, Who has returned to Paris from a Visit to the • British field headquarters, quotes Gen. mSiurstD°Imligploctsse:tiahtniteaca: tlisaart il.gi: r. elitIg Velicl as we shitll have paid` for it.'"" The. French Senator deseribes ' Sir Delights Haig . as a commander who leaVea nothing to clianee, and nays that the British .cemmander Iv:Moves- • that the war will bo decided on the western battlefields. , "The toehnical .ekill of the liritioli general htailr Said the •Senator, la • on an equality ,with the, beroftfin of the Dritish treenail' , req cotton thread, but does not burn as PiP quickly. These tests ntay be made by ithe taking two or three warp threads wit (threads runnin • terial) of the , material which , is to be tested. • ' •.Cotton threads appear fuzzy: They. are not as firmlY , twisted' as ifnen Celle when thread. is 'broken the ods are Boi • fuzes, and burn quickly. The oil test; thi Is a- good Way to distinguish between. a .cotton and linen. Place to sarriPle the mato-tint to pe lesteci on.a- .plece wet of glass, 'aplyt 'some ellS let it• stand for five .mbrutes, and hold up to the het. light, ....:Itstbessainplase.ppeites• Parent. it 18 linens' otherwise it Is eot-; Mire tem • 'Artificial •nille is 'often sold for true.' voni Silk. 'rho true tAllic thread le smooth,„,,,„ lief) n 'high lustre, is tightly twisted.' 1”" ranch stronger-thatrtha artificial, and to p Whenburned there Is a mall ball ots, Add est ...left on a residue. Artificial silk 'tit t is nothing but -couple Tt hen a high 1 eery Lustre and reitenibliih ,truo silk, • but; This when tested'it giros the sante results ' t • • as cotton does. Woolen material Jo often :told for pure wool when one:Sian' ormore of It is eaten, When testinga piece •of material always teat both warp and woof threads,- because the matorral is afit to be wee' one way and cotton the other, Telco two threads of ma. terlal and burn. • If an' odor of burn, leg hair le preducialsand a emelt ball of ashee tamente on tito end ot the threads, it is wool. Make the same test with °onto ,ovmool threads, ' • Tho thread »Or Ore is lOosi3lY wovbn Mid soft and fuzzy in appettreneo. Theo teeth Aro Simple And Can be mad° by' anyone, When buying Mi! toilet it is host to ask ,„for rumple, take it home, and Derv** these tests, th order to be sure that ono is getting what he is buying, • Alta Wit() Wiriliettik114.1V48; ' Yerione Reaseno Why Soule Alen Risk! Their Lives. &Idlers lionietintee weleozzie war agt u meen's of l'eleaSO from alife remorse, .despair, or some other feet'', ing has made intolerable to them, A reinarkable instance woo that leting officer. Seine Om before, the, present war broke out, ho waS ond day explaning the inechunlein et It loaded gun to• ida Wider. livileing so he accidentally exploded the charge wbYonwnthlekall..1 t4111GinliTeltair Ps C°05ned(letli:lw% !hal), afaltahial•te? aautrmicao't esiaeb; WLis eurtAllr4, he tion was to dre; i.ind. when war broka., out he $oyfulir respondtxr M'the ,call.' to arme. ilefore he had been long at the Vrenthisi wish wee, gratified. • Thou there Watt, the ease of the sons • of a . country solicitor, ' While eM,, This al:space „preyed so mach twoR MS father's 'mind that he fell ill and died.. When the prodigal returned -- as prodigals invartably doss -he Veinal • the hone sold up; and lila mother andi ,- sisters dependent on charity:.' POP the first time he reallzecl the, enOrmity of ids Wrongdoing, and join-. ed the Army, with the ,deterniiritition. to take' the first' Possible chance of service in. the' fields Ho went with his • regiment to 1"ran4e, and there distin- guished 'himself by a 'number of dare itnfied.eicPlods before ite was himself killed. A singular story is told of a Certain • brevet officer who died fthting like a 'lion in •the ill-starred- -Dardanelles--- campaign. Married only a couple of years, his wife 'developed a .scepticdsm as to his valor, - which Was . peculiarly tnortifying t� him. Telling her she would some •day have reason to be sorry for its he went eet to Gallipoli, resolved to undertake any task that presented the maximum -of danger.' If his widow etill entertains any doubt as to his gallantry; it certainly is not. shared by the deceased officer's- com- redes-iii.arms.• Through ' unrequited lov,e, a lion- hearted 'Scotsman .gave up his life in Flanders. Of good parentage and considerable means, he Was at lint re- garded by tile damsel as on ideal 'suite or. When, however, he lost most Of his fortune, she deziearided to be re- leased from her engagement. This caused' him to give up, all hope, and when he' crossed over to the seat Of war he had made up his mind never to Comeback.. _ ' • ' BLAME RAINFALL TO WAIL • Downpours Have • FolloWed • Ileavir Boutbardments. • One of the phenomena which may or May not be connected with the wee, • but which is nevertheless causing • considerable discussion in England is , the abnormal It bas been noted on Many (seen- sions during the present War pot Only In Great Britain but in other Euro- .• pean coUntries, :that although • the barometre indicates fair Weather, suclt• " den and very haaVY rainfalls-havet-OC cuered at times when there has been • heavy cannonading at no great dis- tance. The receht 'heavy firing on the ' British frezitin Belgium and .northern France is believed to . have affected the weather in -England. : .• •, Petrograd despatches received 'in' _ '• London recently stated that , . the -heavy artillery fire along the east. • ern front rainstorms of unusual sever- • .. ity•tirok place.. The North Sea battle - was followed by a yery heaey down. our also. • • According t� one meterologist . tremor set .up -by heavy firing.will, 'un- • do certain atmospheric conditions; ef- fect rain clouds at considerable dis- . • tances causing a precipitation eooner or 'severer than usual. •• • • ' e "Now, gentlemen, do You think thie is Or is ziet it, &safer operation.?" , ••• Mrs. Higbee—"I think you had .bet. • ter go for the .doctor. Egberts, Lobi . comPains of Pains in:the head:". bee -s -"I geese it's nothing seriotis. He has had them before." Mrs. ifigbee . .__,e'Yes but never ,on Sattirdelty.:"- _ aszniisossimmiaw !sstes. "Seasatsa's reserved Raspberries wiU ,keep ir natural •color if you use LEAViS NOTHING TO CHANCE. • Teeted Itecipele: , • •Peentit a thin layer of feetthly cooked rice into a shallow halz- ing dish. Sprinlele it with halt and dote of butter. Ten it with it layer sit finely giound peanut:, them add an- other layer of rice, then one Of pea. nuts, and so on until the dish is full 13eilc0I twent,y minutes and serve If olbli tomato sauce:. . Cheese and Itice ctoiniettes,—Add one.hulf of a cupful of gritted cheese to a pint of belled riceyseasen •Mth cayenne and salt., and add a well -beat. On egg and enough crown att.'udO the pure cane stager Nvhiell dissobies at lance. Order by •name in.drigintd packages. • 2 And 54beattena 10 and 204f) baga . • rursimvfNc. X,ARELS FREE Send red bell trade'onerle • cutfront a linger carton to ' Atlautic,augar tellneiles Ltd. Vower,nuag.,itiontroiti 43' SIM.0.010, .11•11•11•11...