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We are beginning to Warn the roe
on roe Making Adalira' Beatty COM -
Meader of the Grand Fleet, and Ad
Vaal Jellicoe First Sea Lord. Since
the change Was made the ole colentrY
newsPapere get that it . %lee
made becauee of eliseatiefaction !tit
the Admiralty ticarel, and the theirs
to have. a Man freeh from the Ilea at
Its heath -There lute been an agnatien
of tkie kind going on for some Cale,
Some weeks ago in the Howe of
Lortle, Lord Bereeferd, Fighting Char"
ley, speaking of the Gertnan embitter-
inee, declared that he was convinced
that the Unger the war lasted the
more sericite would the eubmarine
menace become unicee more vigorous.
and energetic action was taken to
etop it. With thie object, he sug-
geeted that the Board of Admiralty
ahould be strengtheued by the intro-
ductiou of new blood in tlie shape at
younger men, freeh from the sea, who
had distinguished therneelves in the
war, and had practical experience of
the way in which it could be best car-
ried on. Further, he suggested that no
coaling facilitiee at any port belong-
ing to the Allies should be given to
Germans for two years after the war,
and another year should be added •for
every month' that they continued their
piracy, A new department eliould be
formal at the Admiralty to deal with
submarines, .with an admiral straight
from the aea • to central it. Why
should not Greece also be held reepon-
sible for allowing her harbors to be
used as submarine bases? A blockade
had onl3e to be threatened, and the
thing would be'stopped. It ehould be
publicly stated. that adequate cement-
eation would have to be paid for !WS -
es inflicted cu shipping by illegal me-
thods of warfare. Lastly, the blockade
ehould be tightened by every means in
our power. Ie wanted to see the pol-
1 icy of the Government reversed, We
should have a fighting policy instead
of a defensive policy. We were taking
far too great care of •our fleet, saki
his lordship. It bad been stated in high
quarters that if we lost any ships of
the Grand Fleet it would affect our
credit with our Allies. Let us go back
to our old traditions. Give the Fleet a
free hand, and put young men in the
pheitiOnee of adminestration as well
as in the executive.
The Earl of -Lytton emphatically re-
pudiated the suggestion that the policy
of the Board with regard to naval
strategy was no longer governed by
the desire to seek out and destroy the
shipof the enemy. He said: '
The German aim to reduce the super-
iority of our fleet had failed. Relatively
the strength of ouenavy to that of Ger-
many was greater now than. at ,the
outbreak of war, and no naval oper
ation devised by the war etaff or the
leaders of the fleet had failed because
of the action of the German navy. In
the last two yeare we had transported
across tne ens over 7,000,000 persons,
effective and non -effective, for purely
military purposes, During tive e:ame
time 1,250,000 horses and mules had
been transported, and 7,000,000 tore cf
supplies and ammunition. No danger
from submarines had ever intimidated
our merchantmen, while the actual de-
struction of Britieh merehant shipping
by submarines amounted only to a lit-
tle over 21ge per cent. of the total grose
tonnage of merchant ships of 1,000
tend and over.
However, ft looks as if the Govern-
ment had thought well of Lord Beres-
ford' e suggestion .to make one who
had been at the sea front head of
the Board, and the choice of Admiral
Jellicoe was the result. He at least
the situation on the seasand this may
will have first hand information as to
*help him to deaf more intelligently
with the situation.
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He Woks up quickly, then tights=
the sail.
"And Lady Blyte?"
"Ali, yes," she says, smiling faintly,
"Suck a made dame! She received
me like a dachess—black satin and
point lace, and a long white liana held
out so"—and she bolds out her hand.
"I beg your pardon! 1 ought not to
have let go that"—the tiller. "It was
a treat to see her presiding at lunch-
eon; it was as if she was bestowing a
favor on the knives and forks by using
them. leut I liked her, though 1 am
afraid she didn't think much of me.
I lilted lier because ehe MS so
proud of her son, Sir Fred-
eric—she worships hien! She told
me he was the best tem a woman ever
had, and the clevereet, she added."
"And Sir Frederic?"
Signe laughs happily.
"Sir Frederic was more the Great
than the other evening; he was on bis
ONIeV, territory, you see. But he was
very kind—oh, moat kind. He showed
me everything. He was as neat as
13lyte Park—'painfully neat,' as Hood
says. I quite felt for him, his collar
was so high and stiff. But he was
very kind! He took a great deal of
trouble. I admired a ruined old tower
--part of an abbey, Lady Blyto said
it was—and he had the horses put
to the landau and drove us to it,
though it was barely a mile from the
house. Such a -quaint old man—a deaf
old man—keeps the keys, We went
to the top, and we Could see Northwell
Grange quite plainly."
f`The poor Grange!" murmurs Hee-
tor Warren, in pleasant mimicry of
tlio tone she had used.
She nods,
"Yes, the poor Grange. And I
couldn't help wishing that it was—not
quite so neat, but as much cared for
as Blyte Park. Lord Delemare must
bo a very foolish man."
He nods gravely.
"Yes, he always was a fool. But
Sir Frederic?"
"Oh, I think that is all. Excepting
that he took me round the hothouses,
.and picked a huge bunch of flowers,
as he said he 'would."
"You left them in the hall, and they
would have died if Mary hada't put
them in water," breaks in Archie, re-
proachfully.
Signe colors, then she laughs apolo-
getically.
"It was very ungrateful. Yes; Sit
Frederic was most good-natured. I
almost felt inclined to agree with his
mother that he was the best -tempered
tnan in the world."
aze.''Alrnost?" says the grave, musical
voice.
Signe colors and laughs.
"Yes; it %is a great shame, but I
could not lielp fancying—you know
what slight things one judges by? -1
that, if -Sir Ft:Wei° had not every -
thin -g' lie own way, be would not be
quite so' good-naturea."
• Ho looks .up at her and nods.
"I understand," lie says. "I had a
horse once -1 mean no disrespect to
Sir Frederic; comparisons are odious
was as beautiful and easy-going
a creature as a man might wish to
Possess, so long as it has its own way.
But the moment yoie wanted to go a
road he didn't like, it would be trans-
formed. We fought it out one day*'
nle
early killed me, but I conqueeel.
1 think Sir Frederic would"be like my
poor horse if he were crossed."
Lightly spoken, in the quietest,
easiest tones, and yet the words clung
eto Signa, and were recalled at a
critical moment in her future.
He laughs.
"Luckily there is no one to cross
Sir Frederic," she says; "they are his
abject slaves, even his mother. Poor
Lady Blyte! I think sho is the proud-
est person. I have ever met. She
showed me their family tree; I didn't
understand it, but it made out, I
think, that they were descended from
Noah."
He leans back, las arms resting on
the seat upon with% she its, and,looks
at her, revelling in her hanuinees.
The English Language.
A weather vane is never vain
And has no vein of humor;
A window pane is free from pain,
No roomer free from rumor.
A strait is very seidonl straight,
A knight is eeldom dark;
Yoe see no tier beside a bier,
No bark Upon a barque.
Shad roe could never row a boat;
A Dane might deign to row one;
A toat was never known to quote
A bough will bow to no one.
A boy elite threw right through
door
A ceitt that Rent him seeking.
And while they talked the Matter o'er
ehowed hie Ogee by peeking
A ruler reigns in rain or chine,
With reign held tight or loose;
One May be nine and not benign,
A mite might still redeee.
A Monkey climbe in tropic climes
And people think he'e funny,
And 1 have made these money rhyme
Becauge I knead the money,
—William Kirk.
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Out of the Mouths of Babies.
Little Fred—I've been awful sick,
Little Harry ---le hat was the matter?
Little Fred—I had. brain fever—
right in my head, too—the worst place
any one could have it,
"Sohnny," said the miniater to vi
bright little fellow of six, "do you
know the ten commandments?"
"Not very well," replied tba Atoung-
‘,1 just kuuw 'put by eight."
Small Nellie had been to an "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" matinee. After the show
was over she said: 'Mamma, does lit-
tle Eva, play again to -night?"
"We, dear, I suppose so," reviled
the mother.
"Won," continue.] Nellie, after a mo-
mett's thought. "I don't tee how she
can die and go to heaven at 4 o'elook
and get back in time to die again et
'
Sonic people are se afraid they'll
miss eolnething that, they never Make
it bit.
"But she was very lust," goes on
Signe; "she admitted that the Dela-
laeres wore. a little older."
"That was very kind," he says, with
Indolent carelessness.
"Yes, but she made up for her
4admission by declaring that Lord
Delamere ought not to be permitted to
live," and she laughs. "Am I steering
eroperly? I don't understand it in the
least."
"Quite properly—admirably," ho
says. "Poor Delainere. And slid she
give her reasons?" .
"No," said Signe, bending over to
dip her hand in the water—no girl
ever sat in a boat without dipping her
,liand in the water. "No, but she in-
timated that he was everything that
wee bad and utterly useless."
".4.14" he says, lazily, "not quite
useless, seeing that, no doubt, he has
been upheld by her as a warning to
her son, Sir Frederic."
Signe. laughs.
"I never thoughof that. Where
• ere we going? That is the open sea,
levet it? How lovely it looks! May
we go over the bar?"
"If you like," he says, rising and
looking at the sky. "It's calm enough.
Put your helm to the right; that Is
it. You would soon learn to steer cr
boat. Now, Archie, mind the water;
W$ shall ship sonie spray here."
"All right," says Archie, who- IMO
been examining the contents of a
locker with all it boyel keen curiosity.
"Here are some biscuits here; I grip -
rose I can take one? Whitfield wOn't
mind."
"Oh, no," essente Heater Warren.
"Hold the tiller firmly now, please,
Sig—Mies Grenville," and hie hand
closes over hers. •
Signe, feels the strang thrttl un
throtigh her at his toueli, and the
telltale color spriegs to her face, but
lie is too occupied with the sails to
notice it.
With her galls blown out to the
ft:nett, the boat makes it dash for the
bar, rides ever the foaming MVO,
find glides into the open sea. The
windeee, summer breeze only—rufflee
flignIt's hair, red gold in the bright,
warm sunshine, and brings the color
to her clear, iale face; her heart
bounde within her; she Mole am if all
her life were compreeeed int& the Moe
Mont; ahe ItneWs that grand sense -
tier( Which teen have called hapPiteett.
Almost ellently they Sail en; Arehie
the repo whistle againat the Made.
wliclSigna, ell unconscious of dan-
ger, Wake extremely
Signa, lying Warn' “Ild COMfOrtabl8.
little gliefigob, as SILO gazes at the
calm, bet face, the thoughts that are
working in h1s alert braie. Ile are
not let the eaile down—the moment-
ary elacitealug of speed might owing
the boat round and i:apsize it, and
yet, as they are, any Mement the
etorin may be too much ter there and
overturn the boat; and as be Woke
through the veil of pelting rain at
the dark sky, he is thinking how he
shall manage to save them both if the
boat should turn over; aad a Ilene,
gnawing remorse takes peesessioa of
him at the thought that it is he who
le to blame for this half-hour of peril.
But there ie no sign of theee mental
throe e in hie face; calm and impasse
Ivo he eits, ready to Meet Signa's up.
turned gaze with a cheerful smile,
Meanwhile the boat is flying toward
St. Clare; but its speed brings hiln,
little consolation. They may be fly-
ing from the peril cif the raging open
sea, to the more deadily danger of
sunken rocks near shore. He knows
nothing of the approach to the island,
and must rely Up= his judgment un-
aided by knowledge. Hastly, Ile
scans the dark line of rocky shore and,
choosing—he has only a moment or
two in which to choose --a spot more
sheltered than the reat, puts down the
helm and drives the boat upon the
pebbly beach.
The shock sends Archie rolling over
With a peal of laughter, which Signa
echoes; the big sea falls rustling into
the boat, and Hector Warren, spring-
ing up to his waist in the water,
drage the boat on the top of the next
wave further on land, and with a
murmured "Thank Heaven!" holds
out his arms.
"Come quickly!" he says, or rather
shouts, for the wind howls like a wild
beast deprived of its prey; and Sig-
ne, mildly surprised, staggers to her
feet, only to fall again, but that he
takes. her in his arms and supports
her. It is no time for false deli.
eaoY, and without a word he lifts her
to the seat in the stern, and with a
"Hold tightly to me!" presses her to
his breast, and places her lightly on
the hore. Then he takes Archie in
.his arrasand drops him beside her,
and pointing to a sheltering rock for
them to fly to waits for the Assistance
of the next wave to drag the boat in-
to safety.
Fen the first time, Signe, looking at
the wind -lashed sea, sees what he has
brought them through, and under-
standstheir danger; and as she
watches the stalwart figure, drenched
to the skin, quietly approaching her,
a wild thrill of admiration of his phy-
sical strength and self-possession
sends the blood to her face.
After all, strength is the quality all
women most admire in mon; before it
they kneel, humble and vanquislied;
and as Signs looks up at him, that
vague, womanly reliance and ease fill
her heart and make her meek and
Beady to be as obedient as a child.
MI unconscious that something
prompts her to take his cold, wet
hand and warm it against her cheek,
which his care and forethought have
kept warm and dry he begins to apol-
ogize and beg hor pardon.
"I ought not to have crossed the
bar," he says, full of remorse; "I am
afraid you are wet and cold. I am
very, very sorry "
Signe interrupts him with a ges-
ture almost of impatience.
munches Itis biscuit, Signa leans back
on her easy etishione, while Hector
Warren, coiled et her feet, his hand
almeet touching her drew, seems lost
in thought, though hie eyes are fixed
on the ;mile, and his mind on his task.
"If one could but sail On like thie
forever!" Wake Sigma
Ae the thought and desire float
across her mind, a spot of rain falls
on her face,
"What is that?" she aske—"spray?"
"No, rain," lie replies, and his dark
eyes Mu the sky. 'We are going to
have the shower Whitefield prophes-
ied. Let me put yotir.oil shin on."
"Oh! I don't think I shall want it,"
nays Signe,.
But he rises and puts it around her,
slowly, carefully, as if he were wrap-
ping up eomething very precious.
'Put it around your throat," he says,
and as he draws it round her, his fin-
gers touch her white, fair nook,
"There," he says, gently, with a long
breath, "you will be dry now. Archie,
come under this mackintosh of mine,"
and he covers him over, leaving oly a
Peep -hole,
"But you—what will you do?" de-
mands Signe. .
He laughs carelessly.
"What does it matter?" he says; "I
am ail right as long as you do not get
vet, and Archie. Everything is right;
you need not trouble to steer now,
I will do it."
"No!" says Signe, and her hand
closes over the tiller. "I will -do it. Un-
less you don't care to trust me."
He nods.
"Very well, but you mut not get
wet. Ah! Here it comes!"
It—meaning the storm—came in
pure earnest, Whitefield prophesied a
shower, but this is a ptorm. Hector
Warren looks at the black remises of
clouds that have appeared in a magi-
cal manner on the lately blue sky, and
he tells Signe to put the helm round.
As she does' so the sail swings to the
wind with a threatening whish, and
the boat leans over till the spray dash-
es in over the gunwale.
"Come here, he says to Signa;
quietly. "Lie down at the bottom of
the boat. I win take the tiller. I can-
not let you get wet."
Signs obeys, as she would the quiet
voice if it ordered her to walk over a
precipice. Tenderly he covers her With
the oil -skin, so arranging the cushion
that it makes an easy bed for her,
then he take the tiller and makee for
the bar.
But as he nears it his heart fails
him, not for himself, but for her and
the child. There is the possibility of
danger—the possibility only —but he
cannot risk it.
"Signe," he says, bending down.
She can scarcely hear his voice he
the howling of the wind and the pelt -
of the rain, and she draws her-
self nearer to him, so near that her
face almost rests against him. •
"Signe," he says, using her Chris-
tian name unconaciously, 'we cannot
cross the bar just yet. You are not
afraid?"
She laughs. Afraid! This strange joy
and happinees that fills her heart
leaves no room for fear.
"Ali right," he says, ',Keep tho oil-
skin round you"; and he bends down
aind draws it about her, his two hands
touching her face. "Do not be alarmed.
The storm will soon pass."
"I do not care," she says, and she
nestles down beeide him.
He -glances at Archie, quite protect-
ed by the tarpaulin, and still munch-
ing at the biscuit, and then he puts
the helm about and makes for the
open sea again. If this should be it
ehort shower, all is well; if noe—well,
he has his wits about him and knows
how to manage a boat. It is not a sim-
ple shower. The wind rises, the sky
grows black, He looks around keenly.
On the left of him is a rocky ieland
called St. Claire's. There le a rude,
rough kind of shelter there, but if he
goes there, there he must stay till the
storm abates.
Meanwhile, what will the rector and
Ills wife say?
He hesitates a moment, then he
looks down at the graceful fignre coil-
ed at his feet, and muttering, "Her
safety before anything," he makes for
St. Clare's.
CHAPTER X.
"I do not care!" says Signe, and it
Is true. She does not care, come storm
or sunshine, so that she may be there
with the cool, green waves rushing
past the boat, with the clouds flying
above her head, and the white sails
blown tight by the winds,
Is it only the keen, sweet, briny air,
and the swift motion that bring her so
much delight; that awaken the new-
born happiness In her heart? or has
the presence of Hector Warren any-
thing to de with it? Shee'does net;
ask herself; she le content tit
lie at ease, to feel that his stroll!!
White hand is on the tiller; that she
is under his care and protection.
"If it could but last forever?" she
thinks, with it dreamy wistfulhess.
"If we could but sail on—on, away
from the rectoryortVay, from the past,
to some new land where all is light
and happiness?"
Occasionally oho looks up at the tail
figure seated 10 the stern, with one
hand grasping the tiller, and the oth-
er tending the sail sheet, looks up to
dark eyes, charged with it keen, wate
ehful expression utterly unlike the
tad, dreamy one she is atquainted
with. He seems so absorbed in his
work that she thinks he has forgotten
her presence; but once as she look*
she meets his eyes beat on her with
it Watehful tendernest thee thrills her
to the heart; but he seats nothing, on-
ly smiles the rare Mile and nods eri-
couragingly.
"Aro you not getting fearfully
wet?" she says, raising herself on her
elbow.
He shakee his head , though the
pelting rain must have saturated hire
long since, and motions to her to lie
dOwn again,
"It is of no conseeuenee," he eaye.
"nut you—yon Mat not Mtn% not
yet, See, there are some rain-drOpe
on your hair. ICeep the oll-skin round
your head, please. Archie, is he all
right?"
'I tim all right," sings out 'Arthie,
with hia mouth full of bistult. "Are
you going to St. Clare, Mr. Warren?"
It le a questimi net easily artswer-
ed, If Mortal man tan teke the boat
there, Hector Warren will do it; but
the storm is friereating every. min.
We, and he is running haitiwaY
against the wind—it wind that makes
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"I —I!" she says, and her voice
through him. "What do you think
of me? I have been lying wrapped
up in comfort, with no knowledge or
care of danger, while you -you are wet
through and must have known every -
moment!" and she lays her hand upon
his wet sleeves, humbly, remorsefully.
"I thought it was all fun, and was
I enjoying it, and all the time you
were fighting the wind and the waves,
What fools women are! And you are
'wet—wet through!'
He laughs carelessly.
"Which does. got matter in the
slightest," he says. "Now to fin.d a
place of shelter for you!" and he
looks round eagerly.
St. Clare is a wild, barren spot, un-
inhabited, save. by the sea -gulls, and
rarely visited excepting by some
chance eishermanain quest a eggs,
but Hector Warren is not discouraged
by the cheerless prospect. After a
ew minutes' search he finds it hollow
cavern. termed in the rocks, and hav-
ing ascertained that the floor is dry,
Ito comes back.
'"I have found a shelter, such as
it is," he says. "Come along."
The wind blows with such violence
that he has to hold a hand of each
of them on their way, and with a sigh
of relief he sets Archie down in a
corner, and makes a pile of dry bea.
weed into a couch for Signe..
"Stay!" he says, "let me take off
that oilskin; it must be awfully wet,"
and she obediently stands up. Gently,
tenderly, he.removes it, and the lithe,
graceful figure emerges, her dress
•somewhat crushed, hut dry.
"Are you sure you are not wet?" he
asks, anxiously. "Let me wipe your
dress," and he goes down on his knees
and wipes the edge of her frock with
his handkerchief, Signe. protesting all
the time, yet faintly.
"Now sit down and rest," he says,
"and I will go down to the bOat for
minute."
"But why?" says Signe, reproach-
fully. "Out in the rain again! It it
you who should met."
"I will Only be a minute," he says,
cheerfully.
"Viten, it you will go you must
wear this," she says, and she gives
him the oilskin, and holds hinl by
the sleeve until he takes it.
(To be continued.)
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Out of the Mouths of Babies.
Little Fred—I've been awful sick.
Little Harry—What Was the matter?
Little Fred—I had brain fever—
right in my head, too—the worst place
any one could have it.
"Johnny," said the minister to a
bright little fellow of six, "do you
know the ten commandmente?" '
"Not very well," replied the young-
ster. "I just know 'em by sight."
Small Nellie had been to ale "Unele
Tom's Cabin" matinee. After the show
was over she said: 'Mamma, does lit-
tle Eva play again to -night?"
"Yee, dear, I suppose so," replied
the mother.
"Well," continued Nellie, after a mo-
ment's thought. "I don't see -how she
can die and go to heaven at 4 o'clock
and get back in time to die again at
8.e
Millard,' Liniment Cures Garget in
Cows.
CONTRASTS IN ICELND,
A Curious Land of Fire and Ice, of
Voloanoes and Glaciers.
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"How is Dr. Won -amt. as it physie
chin?" "Best ever. When you get
exhausted over bridge he preecribes
dancing as a rest cure."—Pittsburg
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ther Gooie rhymes, throwing out a
reader series because of thee() dittied
In them. Ex-GOvernor Hall and other
prominent members, who are planta-
tion born and reared, thought they
belittled the farmer. Superintendent
of Education Harris and other mem-
bers of the board fought valiantly for
the rliymee, but Were outvoted.
Iceland is known as a "land of con-
trasts." The land of Iceland boasts
in comparatively small compass fire
and ice, volcanoes, glaciers and gey-
sers. There is magnificent scenery
in its desolate plateaus. It has
more than 100 volcanoes, of which the
largest is Hecia, 5,100 feet high. There
are thousands of craters in Iceland,
the chief among them being Askya,
with an area of thirty-four . square
miles.
Of glaciers there are more than 120,
with aggregate areas, of about 5,200
square miles, • The largest is 'Venice.
Not far from Hecia is the so-called
geyser region, where there are many
hot springs. The Great Geyser is six-
ty feet in diameter. One geyser was
found to have water at a temperature
of 262 degrees F., which makes it pos-
sibly the hottest spring in the world.
One-eighth of Iceland is glacier hid-
den, and there are ice clad mountain
domes, of which the highest is °recta-
jokull, 6,424 feet,
There are not many settlements in
Iceland. The capital is Reykjavik,
with a population ot 11,000, and after
that the two chief towns are Aku-
reyi, 2,089, and isatiord, 1,859 inhabi-
tants. The people of Iceland are de-
scribed as unusually intelligent, and
one authority states that "perhaps in
no other couutry of Europe are so
many books in proportion to the pop-
ulation printed and sold as in Ice-
lanw."
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Every day tome new converts to
that great army of men and women
who rejoice in new-found health that
came to them through the use of thate
Wonderful blood -renewing prepara-
then called "FERROZONE." Very
simple hew it acts. Aft you have to do
is take two email chocolate -coated tab-
lets with it sip of water at the creme
of each meal.
Ferrozcne is a marvel. It contains
just What thin blood lacke—lote of
Iron, but mark you, the kind of iron
your blood is able to absorb. Ferro -
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Makeit eic'h, red and nourishing.
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Of course digestion must be im-
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That tired feeling is replaced by the
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because it supplies more nutriment
than you can get in any other way,
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COOKING IN A HOLE.
A Forest Ranger's Method of Pre-
paring Baked Chicken.
One summer day, while laboriously
picking a sage hen, a Moray forest
ranger approached, smiling, and Offer-
ed to show me an easier way.
He lifted a bird as yet untouched by
my hands and deftly eleaned but did
not pick it Then' he tatted some dirt
from the ground into a big mixing pan
ball filled with water. With those in.
gredients he mixed a paste of soft
mud. Now he cuts a slab of bacon,
'which he placed Inside the lien, with
a goodesprinkling of salt and pepper,
at last stuffing feathers into the open-
ing to keep the meat 'dean. This done,
he covered the chickeii with the mud
Paste.
- Now he dug a hole deep enough to
put the bird in. In the hole he built a
fire and waited until there was a thick
coating of coals on .the sides and bot-
tom. -Next he carefully placed the
mud -coated chicken on top. All this
he covered with shovels of dirt until
the hole was airtight. Now he turned
to me and said: "It will be cooked in
cue hour from now."
„ .With that he went his way.
At the end of tho hour ne came
again and, throwing back the soil,
drew forth the chicken, quickly skin-
ned it and laid before us a eelicately
trowned chicken with a wholesome
odor about it.—Outiag.
mars FOR THE CURIOUS.
Texas is devoting—130,000 acres to
peanut culture
Dickinson College, Collide, Pa., Is
132 years eld this year.
The United States last year produc-
ed 1,731 tons of asbestos.
Experts have listed more than 10,-
000 varieties of orchids.
A Water.cooled motorcycle engine
has been invented by an Engliehmen.
grl'arihth,
Theixstate capitals of Australia
have been connected by wireless tele -
Each of the 30,000,000 workere itt
the tatted States 10sete on the aver-
age, OM nine days every year on
account of sickness.
The average Ituselan wheat yield is
only 10 busheIa to the here.
New Orleans demands heavy 10 -
&meaty bond from Puy drivers.
Only two marriage Peensee wee() Is
-
Sued to grooms of Montpelier, Vt., fl
olty ef about 8,000, during the month
of Stine. More weddings than two
took plaee in the city &Irina Suns,
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Spanking does not cure children of
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cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum-
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send free to ,any mother her suceess-
ful home treatment, with full instruc-
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day if your children trouble you in
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ment aleo cures adelts and aged peo-
ple troubled with urine difficulties by
day or night.
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am Hallam aunding, Toronto.
etory show?" "Please, sir," came from
a little giri.in the trent row, "it shove
how many children two she bears can
hold!"
"Patience and pereeveranco will ac.
complish all thinge," was a favorite
(saying of an old miller, He made thia
remark on it train one day ea the way
to market, when a pompous indivicluai
In the corner turned to him crosslY
and said; "Nousenee, sir, I can tell
you a great many things Which neith-
er patience nor perseverance can ac-
complish." "Perhaps you can," %said
the miller, "but I have never yet
come acmes one thing." "Well, then.
tell you one. Will patience and
Perseverance ever enable you to carry
water in a eieve?" "Certainly." "I
"I would like to know how?" "Simply
by waiting patiently for the water to
freeze."
Mr. Goodfellow had dined out six
nightin succession. On the seventh
ho turned up at home for the evening
meal. When he was seated Mrs. Good-
fellow rose In her seat, and, address-
ing the other oecupants of the table,
said; "Children, we have with tes to-
night a guest of whom you have all
hoard, even if you do not pereonallY
know him. He is a man who has a re-
putation for conviviality and cheer in
every 'elub and cafe in the city, and
this evening we are to have the honor
and pleasure of being numbered am-
ong the admirers of his brilliant and
entertaining qualities. Therefore, it Is
"You are not the boy who usually
caddies for me?.!' "No, sir; I to,seed
up wif 'im for yer." "And you won?"
"No; I lost."
Benevolent Gentleman—Johnny, my
boy, I am Garry to see that you have
a black eye. Johnny (ungraciauslY).—
You go home and be sorry for your
own little -boy. Heei got two!
Court (to prosecutor)—Then you re-
cognize the handkerchief as the one
which eves. stolen? Prosecutor—Yee,
your honor, Court—And yet it ien't
the only handkerchief of that sort in
the world. See, this one I have in my
pocket is exactly like it." Prosecutor
—Very likely, your honor, there were
two stolen.
Witneee the answer to queetion put
by badgering counsel—it was a mau
with one eye named Wilkine. 13, C.—
Oh, indeed! And what was the name
of his other eye? Witnee.s—Well,"and
how would you put it? B. C.—Why, a
man named Wilkins 'with one eye, of
course. Witness—Wilkins with one 1?
Spell it! Laughter in court.
A farmer, who wale an inspector of a
school in 'Yorkshire, once asked a Waste
of small boys the meaning of the word
"nought." All was quiet for a few
minutes, then suddenly a little hand
went up. "Well," asked the farmer,
"what is the answer?" "Nought is
what Yorkshire famine give for bold-
ing their horses' header was the un-
expected respOnse.
A visitor to a Sunday school was
naked to address a few remarks to the
children. He took the familiar theme
of the ehildren who Mocked' Elisha sea
his journey to Bethel—how the young
ones taunted the prophet, an.d how
they were punished when two she
bears came out of the woode and ate
forty -and -two of them. "And now,
children," said he, "what does this
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Kidney Disease
Mr. dolin B. Pmnfrey, Partner.
Viceroy, &telt, Was twice operated
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Worse and caused excruciating pain.
no new states positively that he hes
been mired by Br. Chase's ididner-
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Tales farther proof that na
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As she stood outside the little coun-
try inn two great tears shone in her
innocent eyes, tears so large that -the
passing cyclist saw them. Beauty in
dietreee caused him to dismount and
ask if he could be of any aseistance
"I'm afraid not, thank your replied
the dameel sorrowfully, as she pointed
Lo an automatic chodolate machine at-
taehed to the wall of the inn. "I've
just put a penny in that thing, and
nothing has come out." "That's soon
remedied!" said the young man conefidently. He elipped a coin into- the
slot, and then another and another.
After the sixth lie muttered angrily,
raised his cap, and pedalled wildly
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peeped round the door. "Any luck?"
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"That's the tenth. I've netted three
bob since dinnertime."
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come tax was first ingecreed in Eng-
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at lincomes from $200 to $1,000 a year,
.wIth a tax of 10 per cent. on all in-
comes over $1,000. Addington reim-
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,return to power in 1803 Pitt contin-
ued the tax, and it was gradually in-
creased until 1815; when it was abro-
gated. Peel revived it, however, for
urely fiscal reasons in 1842, and, al-
though his original intention was to
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THE ANSWER.
Proudly the flag that protected our
fathers
Floats o'er the freemen of Brita.in. to-
day:
Waves o'er the battleship bulwarks of
Britain,
Holding the hordes of tho TwatOrt at
bar.
Proudly the fleet that ioretected our fath-
cra
Biding rnajest1.0 lit battle arraY;
Strains at the leash as It watts on tho
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Clear conies the call from the fleet or
old' England,
Clear let the onswer ring (wee the sett;
Deea cans to doep and the soul of the
Briton
Answers that Britons shall ever be free.
Proud lot the blood of the men of Tree
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Leap through the veins of Canedians to.
day;
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Eng' and,
Give uz our pittee in tho thick of the
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LONG WAita.
(Birmingham Age -Herald)
"Why do you Always take along a book
when 'you go nut motoring with Mr.
Glithers?"
"00", replied Mrs. anthers, "r reed
it while heet making repairs on the ear.
/ft feet, / keep up with all the leteat
teflon that way."
THE HO
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When in Hamilton do not fall
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Art Pottery C Glass and An-
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will be made welcome.
ROBERT JUNOR
62 KING ST. E. sOUT11 SIDE
Hamilton, Ont.
NOT HIS JOB.
"I'm not supposed to do that," said ho,
When an extra task he chanced to 'ea;
"That's not my job, and it's not my 0,
So I'll pass it by and leave it th
And the boss who gave him his Wet
pay
Lost more than his ivages oo him that
day.
"I'm not supposed to do that," he said; d
"That duty belongs to Jim or Fred."
So a little task that vas in his way
That ho -could have handled without de-
lay
Was left unfinished; the way was paved
For a heavy loss that he could have
saved.
And thne went on and ts 0 kept his place
But he never altered bin easy pace,
And folks remarked 04 a0V1 well he knew
The line of the tasks he err.c hired to do;
For never once was ht it,own to turn
His hand to things not of his concern.
But there in his foolish rut he stayed
And for all he did ho was fairly paid.
But he never was worth a dollar more
Than he got for his toll when the week
was o'er;
Fot he know too well when his work
was through
And he'd done all he vas hired to do.
If you want to grow la this world, young
man,
'You must do every day all the work you
can:
If you find a task, though it's not your
And it should be done, take care of it!
And you'll never conquer or rise if yott
Do only the things you're impposed to 80.
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—Edgar A. Guest in the -D.etrdi
Preto.
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The Arrow of St. Ednr
The legend of the death of St,
mund was curiously corrobrated a
a lapse of eight centuries. The sto
goes that the martyr was tied to e
tree and, as torture proved unavailing
to make him recant his faith, was shot
at with Danish arrows till his body
was covered with them. The tree at
Hoxne to which he was said to have
been bound and which was twenty
feet In circumference fell in 1848, and,
according to "The Black Letter Saints
of the Prayer Book," a piece of iron
like an arrow head Was found imbed-
ded in the wood.
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MinartPe Liniment Cures Distemper.
' Myth of the Doones.
How largely Mr. Blackmore drew
upon his imagination for the story of
"Lorna Doone" is made clear by F.
W. Rackwood in his book, "The Good
Old Times." There were, in feet no
Doones. The word was simply a lo-
cal bogy, a modified form of "Duke,"
a memory of the faroff times when
the viking invaders harried the land.
"The only vestige of actuality discov-
erable is a faint'tradition that it fugi-
tive froni the battle of Sedgemoor, to
escape the hangings of Judge Jeffreys,
appropriated the ruins of some wret-
ched huts in recesses of the Badg-
worthy glen, now the Toon valley.'
finding there a safe retreat in which
he reared a considerable family, which
managed to eke out a living by coin.
mitting petty depredations In the dis-
trict. The 'last of the Doones,' an
old man and his granddaughter, are
said to have perished in the snow dur-
•41.
uog the Winter of 1800."
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"A howling success' may be a. slang
phrase, and again it may be a baby
show,—'Wasb.ington Post.
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