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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-4-21, Page 3saweseeseeere 4,‘ ? . • ,! 110ntg Jack Simason 4: t follt l)[imilioll „3„ like meat now, dad - dads' Siinpson smiled wearily at the question of his little daughter, Beatrice, and she prattled on with- out waiting fOr azi answer, 'Cause you never hove any, you know; and there's hardly ever a•nythin' in the cupboard Dow. 1 wants some milk for supper; pleese, mamma, let nee aave B0010 milk," "No, no, deerie," said Mrs. Simp- son, a very young and handsome - looking mother; "here, have this piece of bread and a drink of water. Come, there's a good girl; I must take you off to bed now." • Dearie was put to bed, and when they were left alone in the kitthen. together dearie's father and mother looked earnestly into each other's eyes:. Then dearie's father pushed a • large knife across the table and held out both his hands. , “Cot 'em off !" he said, hoarsely; "nobody wants 'em. There's noth- ing for em to do. Cut 'ere off!" "Don't, Jack, don't," she pleaded; "work will come and we shall pull round all right. For Inea'sake, do nothing desperate Jack. Don't give up hope; you will get work." "And where Waal], I get work ?" he retorted, bitterly. "They have done with me at Fairlow's, and I've -tried and tried -Heaven knows how I've tried ! lend I'm getting tired of be- ing told there's nothing for me; I'm tired of seeing you getting paler and thinner" -she" moved closer to him and ran her fingers through his thick brown hair -"and I'm tired of hearing our little girl ask for things, little bits o' things, we can't give to her. Something will have to be done." He clenched his fist savage- ly. "Something will have to be dont quickly. I can't understand Hodder; he plays me on and off, half promises, and thee says he can't start anyone ton weeks. And, he smiles when he says it. Smiles just like he did' when he gave me a weeks notices' with profound regrets, as he put it, at Fairlow's having no fur- ther use for my services. I hate him when I think of it. Only yesterday I begged of him to 'find me some- thing to do, if only for, the sake of you and the little 'un. I -Te shook his head and said be was sorry, and smiled ! Sometimes I think -why, what's the matter, Jess ?" "Nothing, dear; why do you ask?" "Your cheeks -they are red as pop- pies. They remind me of the old days. Ah, Jess, dear, wh,at a sad mistake you made to marry a mere worlarian." , Win very sad mistake indeed," she said, as she contradicted the words with it kiss. • "You might have been Ifri. Who - knows -who," he went on, half ser- ious, half chaffing. "I'd rather be Mrs. I -know -who," - she answered, returning his fond look with interest; and then, timidly "Sack, dear, I can't bear to see you looking so wild and reckless as you did a short time ago. A little patience will surely bring us into the sunshine again. Think how you have striven, with my poor influence to lift yourself out of the rut. Why here's Mr. Bernaby to see you. I wonder if he brings good news," But Mr. Bernaby was in no hurry to disclose news of any kind whilst she was present, so she left them for a while to themselves. Her doper- ture was evidently anrclief to the visitor. He nervously placed four shillings on the corner of the table and said that he was sorry be would not be bringing any more relief from the club. It had been stopped at the last meeting. Couldn't say as to how his mates had voted against the small weekly subscription they had been giving. Couldn't tiny that lie liked the job of carrying such dis- agreeable news. Could say as liow they NIrCiS all sorry, andthat they hoped . he would sooh get another place. Could say as how it was no use trying Hodder. Could also say as how Hodder- was slow, but he was sure and he was cunning, and surely Jack Simpson had not for- gotten that he, 'a mere sub -foreman, Ind carried of the lovely Jessie Re- ville from under his very manager's nose. Could say as how it was a very nasty, raw evening for anyone to be out, and that he wished him a very -good -night. And so, when she came in, she , found Sack still brooding over his wrongs, with a new light illuminat- ing their cause, and wandering near- ea- and nearer tewards the abyss of despair. '-"Jess," he said, eagerly, "Iremember you telling me that Hodder paid you some attentions be- fore we were mended. Did he ever I -▪ Ter cheeks turned into poppies ' again. "Yes," she said, "he asked emote, marry him. I told you all About it, but you made light of it then." n0,1 course," he said, "and it nev- er onCd occurred to nee that it might have touched him seriously. Resides it is over flve yetios ago, and yet his lonely, morose nature would per- haps,never forget. Jets" -ho waved his arm vaguely round the'alraost emptyroono-"Jess,can this be a deliberate sclieme of revenge ?" She nodded her head, whispering, sure of it. I felt sure of it Noise the first," and his eyeei blazed up with the desire to strike back. "Revenge," he said slowly, "is a game for two. To blind I have been 1 I might have known. You knew, Jeee. You knew, arid yet you let mac go to him end plead air your Sake and the little 'tin. Knowing this, you let me go." - "Our need eVas so great," sho an- , Were& "And I," he Went on; ,"have en- trusted Wm with my one great hope -- e, secret even from. yeti, Jees.. I had an idea for a patent proems that might- be wort a thottsands to Voir., our motremity I' scudded It yesterday to Sefton Iiedder, And ought hie esiVice as, to it. being practicable, He thought it would . be no tufo; eein 1 ,Inight leave the drawings ler consideration, but felt pure they would be A failure. Of eourse, he thought the would be no use. 0, fool, fool, that I was!" She covered liei• leas with a cry of astonishment, "Your ring, your wedding 4111g, oe exneemed; "where is it'?" . "1 pawned it," • she replied; "we Must not starve. We must make a right of it. Don't thin% it end not hurt me to part with it, but it can mailer ntake no. difference. I pawned it two days ago and you have only lust noticed. Don't be angry with me, :fedi.. Leave go .my wrists; you hurt me." "What a seccess for him," be said, gravely, "to have already removed the ring. You. are right; We niuSt make a light Of ' it." • "Nothing wraps, and nothing des- Perate, Jack," she pleaded. "Wothing wrong, or desperate," he promised. 13ut there VMS ,an ex- pression ,in his eyes ehe had oever seen beanie, Later she .said to him: "Revenge Is not a. •gairie for two, deer. If it was it wonld go on and on without stopping. . It is not even sweet as they say it is. Prom- ise me you will attempt no harm to. Sefton Hodder, You look so queer, Jack, I am afraid -for' you'!" "I promise," he said. But. in, his heart he. knew he Heti. • * .*. * • • ' * * * , On the following night he wont out about eight o'clock. She kissed him in the, doorway and whispered again: "Nothing wrong, a,ad math- ing desperate, Jack," and be sol- emnly answered : "Nothing to be ashamed of; Jess." Yet a tempest of . violence raged within him as . he swung down the dark, lonely road. Wbat his actual purpose was he could not himself have told. One thing was uppermost M his mind -he must see Hodder at once. And with the four shillings that Bernaby had left he .had picked .up an ugly -looking, second-hand revoles- er. He fingered this in his pocket as he . went along. If it were not for the sake , of, Jess and the little :un he must not think of ale this roar and flame and clanging etir, ,. -How terrilled Jess Weald be if-,-- Ah, he be away new. togs of the prevailing winde ie Mine- trier and that ,gea ,air And coolnese. Bedrooms ee the Cant vide of 4 house are nearly alwaas bet in Mane mer And cold in, winter. Pet the kitchen on the ninth or w st s'do if you can; thus you have it cool in, - ' e ' summer. Plan, the porde se tbat.it hes a pretty outlook, gots the breeze, and is pot overlooked by the street and the eeighbors' windaws. , ,A, CONFUSION Or TO,1 6 b t ' ,, - ou ' - • 0.., House , — OVer 5000 Different Lang ,. the World. . For the past four montl coaveredhgaesa $beereirke, ocioniutrtel la- • 1- • • '' itaielecic)oln°g?lie SInrdlig13.11: foxti number of that voublicatio: ' . - with the giseetIon of laugt dialects. , There are, ht , over 5000distinct langual ereenfOt Men) 4. feet IN "'At° as a surrmlne. to 01 Britishers, who iniagine ti language is all but wave the whole .surface a the g while there are , this nun parate languages, a calcul , digy ,would be needed to conmute the nuinber of (lit lectss• in use. In Brazil sixty different vocabularies . .... . . '1.1 Ilexi'n° the Ualnaa la3 p into 70 diel 1 'broken u . 0 i ec neo ' there are latmareds; Australasia it is found inn cla,ssify the lingual complsile wailing. Generally the r . dial ects is in inverse proeiles the intellectual culture of Intl"' • Taking the total. of lang 5000, and assuming no ix. afty dialectical variation a, total of a erearter of nialeete is reached. . In 1 sion of tongues all Luanne. nen_ _ ' -' um-15E11S AND TEIc eases, and moods, tones dons strive for predomina modes of utterance dictat ferently modilied laryngo struggle ,fOr superiority, leets have now a toned crease, more especially an ized communities where th for traveling by railway t boat mix people up much was ever possible in the di when inter -communication cult. • Savage and partial: people, as well as those 1 more or less ina•ccessibt from freeintercourse with lows, still retain .their ai leets, but in nearly overs speech is becoming Ivor and it is every year less difficult for the natives of vince of the same couotry stand the speech of those , province. And just as dialects are so are languagesbecomin in number. French is dri all but one of the nanguai on its frontiers. English mastering Scotch, Welsh t as it has already extingu nish. In the Southern. T, manic dialects are retreati Italian. On the 'banles of the Ural-Ataic languages peering before Russian; Polish yields to Germane • islets of German speech il melt in Czech. And so 1 of speech goes on. steadile turally -until a century hc will probably be left very : than four world-wide long fight out their battle. I: Europe German, will reign English will lord it over American Contbeent, :fi and a large part of Africt will dominate South Arne: Russian or some Such Tit tan dialect will blend the eastern Europe and cc: . into lusgual harmony. will aeon The fernecee are empty and tlui beeleet, containing many tone sSf molten steel, ifi being carried. over to the mould. Sefton Hodder stellate, upon an iron box about three. feet from the ,g•round level, and is ready to give the final cirder to remove the backet-plug.. -Then suddenly he 'epics up at the chains above tied' shouts . with" .-'' horror, One of the side pivots "is ' bending, breaking, There is a wild shout from, tee men as they 'rush for the door, and that mighty cauldron et bissing, seethina stool terns over and rune like a aery lake., on the floor. Swift as scene bursting dam it darts its fiery way, fed deePer by the swinging bucket- Sefton Hodder, looking which - .way to. escapee Pauses a moment 00 long. Like 'a flash the metal aur- rounds the mould he is on and he stands, es it were, on an iron is- land amid a lake of white-hot run- ning steel. , Above the noise, and confusion he hems soineo•ne screen', ing' "Run for your lives." ' Bun? Yes, but how .can he cross this burning moat ? .The heat 15 terrific. He sees the steel foreleg a .in channel doevn to . number tiVe pit. which contains water. If it reaches there -the thought sots him shad- dering. Have they all escaped but him? The heat is scorching, suf- locating, and it will take bolero for this ma.ss of steel to cool and iset- hours: why, long before that he, will .be 1i terany baked alive. will none of them come to save him? No, no; they will not krisk the explosion lentil it is too let°. The growing fear of a :horrible • death overwhelms him, .and he screams with terror. Then someone dashes throughthe door, beats his way through the haude that try to stop him, runs "-nimbly up the foot -ladder and along the wide baulks that hold the rails • fee the crane. Look, he is clinging now to the chain. "Lower," he shouts, and lower he comes; down, down, until he swings as close to, that terrible liquid bed as the xnan he is tryiog to save, "Forward !" be roars, aad there is the click of. levers, .the hiss of steam, and the rattle of, the Ponderous . crane. • "Hold," .. he scremns, as he lurches forward, eeizes Hodder, and clings to him With 'wonderful strength. For a moment it seems as though . both must slip and crash to their dooin, and then, tightly clasped together, rescuer and rescued are swung clear of the burning lake, and on into Safety., And the last thing Sefton Hodder notes ere he sinks into un.- consciousness. Is a confused babel el voices., and above them all eomeOne lbudly, clamoring .far cheers. for - brave Tack Simpson . .. * • * • * la . * •, , For a week Jack, Simpson lay deli- rious-a, , week or great anxiety ind 'terrible' tension to has wife. Over and over again had ha gone through the • incidents' . Ofs that memorable night. in his wanderings sho learnt of the dark purpose he hadbrooded upon; how he hadseeo the awful Position Sefton Hodder : had been placed in;. how, at sight of a 'fellow- creature in such horrible danger, he had come to his normal senses, flung the pistol from him, and resolved to save the man who had schemed to wreck his happiness. • "Jose," he said, almost the first intelligent words he speke• as he clung to her , in recognition; "I didn't do it, Jess; thank Heaven, I didie't do it." e ' "Hush, dear," she said, "you nev- , er could have done it; your nature would not let you.- No on.e knows but us and the doctor that you were so cruelly tempted. And we are all to forget that. Let us start now and never refer to it again." "Daddy," cried Miss Beatrice Sim- pson refining to bis bedside, "why don't you get better? •There's such a lei of nice fings waiting for you." "Yes," said her mother, "and I have a letter to read when you are strong enough." . "If it is good news," he said, with a feeble smile, "I've the fatength of a giant new." "It is a long letter." she said, "and the doctor's . orders are strict. But its chief contents are that Fair- low's wish .to buy yo•ur new process and the price they offer is ne1,500. They also: wish to lsnove if you will undertake to ' pet it into operation and run it at their American works She onrwas o*ns Tim Tntlinn.0., /es In. building a house the average in- dividuza aboat the is inech more concerned Parlors, the recePtion ball and the dining -room than with the kitchen • which some one has 'mile(' the .heart of the house." Some of us have reeenections of the old-fashioned jcitchen "at grand- father's," that are more or less tinged with sentiment, but few want that. hind of a, kitchen In their ewe benison . The old-fashicined leitchen Was 11 really the 'family living -room, It was dining -room except on state occasions, washroom, cookroom, and the caller who ran in for a few min- utes' chat wee familiarly made at home whthe work wont on unin- terruptetily. The women who got the mealtra.veled limey extra m the course of the year because of the wide area, required for all these domestic processes. She generally had "sitters" whom she had to dodge, end was wont to occasionally express her sentiments about having somebody eternally "under her feet." • We don't live in the kitchen. as much as we used to. Even on, the Weise the last stronghold of the kit- 'ewe as n living room, there is a 'strong . tendency to .use the whole house and confine the kitchen to its ,:legitiroato purposes as a 'cook room. 'Women realize that a small, conven- tent kitchen is an economizer of time, travel and strength. In a kitchen twelve feet square thereis ample room for the neces- sary conveniences which the worker can reach with ease. The chief rea- son for a roomy kitahen-the 110Ce6- sity of getting away from a red-hot stove in summer, has been done away with by the almost universal use of tbe gasoline stove, which throws out little heat, 'and is out of commission within five minutes after it is put out. The kitchen should be on a level with the dining -room, its location should be carefully chosen.. Not so near the dining -room that its heat and odors enter that room, nor so near a bedroom that the building of .. fires or the Penni-ling of steak are disturbing. One of the important study of prevailing winds will often enable the builder to so Place tbe windows that a. current of air will carry the odors of cooking out of the house instead' of diffusing them through it. A kitchen should have opposite windows so arrangea as to be easily lowered from the top for just this purpose 'Plenty of light is indispensable in the • kitchen. In eddition to , the windows, light ie gained by making the walls light in color. 'On paint applied to the plaster on walls and ceiling is easily •cleaned, and is bet- ter thew kalsomined or papered walls. Paper is easily loosened by steam, and ii esed should be the oiled papet in tile pattern, which not, only looks well, but which, if revarnished after the first 'washing, can be cieaned several times. ,A wainscoting of Georgie. pine on the side walls to a height of four or five feet is better than mop -boards and plaster, especially where there are children. •For the floor, there is nothing better than pine covered with linoleum. The .hardwood floor is trying. to many women, because it is like,walking on pavement, pro- clueing. a jar on the spine which is tiring. Tbe 'linoleum is elastic and does away , with this jar. Though it is expensive it is durable, wears well, looks well, and is easily clean- ed. . The pattern of the genuisse lin- oleuna goes clear through the febric, end therefore does not wear off. The iron and zink sink has been eliminated front the up-towlate kit - chen, and ill its „ place stands the white 'enameled one, with an exten- . sion at one end, on which to place the dishes. when rinsed and wiped. With hot and cold water. to be had at, the turn 'of a faucet, or even from a reservoir an the stove within arm's: length dishwashing is made , easy. , • ,A, zinc covered table or shelf is . a convenience the housekeeper will ap- preciete, especially if it' is provided with drawers for apices, utensils, towels, etc. A marble slab for use in pastry -Making is something the cook seldom gets, but which she rece kons as indispensable after she has once. used it. Tbe height of the stove, the sink and the table should be adjusted to the height of the woman who is to worn at them. Backaches aro bought on by working over a table or stove that is too low. A high stool on which tho worker may sit at her ' table or sink and be raised high enough above either to work with ease is a convenience Worth more than the rocking-dmir that newspapers writers insist upon as essential to the cook's 'comfort. . In cool weather a cooling -box out- side a window will save Many trips doivn cellar, This is only a box fit- ted into the lower sashon the out side of a window, with a shelf or two in it inaceded. The lower sash is raised tO :put things in. . then low- dad. Holes: in the back and cover- ed with mosquito net serve for von- tilt:tier', 'or the whole back of the box may be made of wire •netting. Iron pts and ' kettles, copper tea- kettles,. and other heavy and cum- bersaime utensils should be replaced by granite and agate Ware. There is no sense in lilting pounde, daily, where ousitee evould sitiffice. A drop shelf against the wall ie bandy. . Hieged to the Wall and furnished . With a secure prop, it , comes In Ploy' ninny theses. ' If a woodbox is noceseary have it fitted into the wall between kitchen and Woodshed, with hinged covers oft each side eso it dui be filled from , the Outeide, A lot of dirt and la'. obviated; . , . Sonsething often (almost' tinivereal- .,,, 0,...kin the.. nituinieg of a . 1 . . boula is to locate. the bedreeme and their windoWs so its t� take '11.11Vittl-. . , BoBmsTic RECIPES, . Two Sauces -Custard sauce -A half pint milk; one egg; one-guerter cep sugar. Set over illa and stir, • till cho thins, colat, sainewnninn sugar, three tablespoonfuls butter and two of flour; one pint of boiling , water and half a square of nieltea sweet • Chocolate. Cook till thick. poundoftato thin boil gently for te t ' t • yen y name es, draie and chop fine. Put a gill of milk in a double boiler; rub together ono tablespoonful of butter and two of flour; stir into the railk and when a thick Panto is formed add the liver, Cook in double boiler for at least ten minutes. Add one table- spoonful chopped parsley; one tea- el:Patentee salt; .oae-quarter teaspoon- ful pepper; one teaspoonful onion juice. When cold, form into balls, dip in egg and bread crumbs and, fry in hot fat. . , One Egg Cookies. -One cup, eaeb, of spur milk and shortening; one and one-half cups sugar; one-half cup water; one egg; One level tablespoon saleratus; two •heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted in with some of the flour. Flavor with cinnamon or nutmeg and add a pinch of salt. Kix as soft as they can be rolled out. Lovely Layer Cake. -An expert in cookery gives the following recipe, with careful directions as to. mixing, which aro as necessary to success as are the ingredients : Cream a quaio ter of a cup of butter, add gradual- ly one cup of sugar, then two well beaten eggs, half a cup. of milk, and one and two-thirds. cups of flour sifted ;with two and a half teaspoons of baking powder. In cold weather soften the butter and warm the bowl before beginning to mix cake. lia,ve the flour sifted and xneasured, butter the cake tins with a bristle brush, and sift over their greased surface a nem of flour to keep the cako from sticking. Put the soften- ed butter in the warm bowl ctn.d beat with the slitted spoon until it is creamy; this allows a perfect blond- ing with the sugar, which should be added while you beat constantly. When the butter and sugar is white and creansy,• sift in a few spoonfuls of our, then add the eggs and beat energetically. ,Pour iia the milk, sift the flour and baking powder. Put the batter immediately into the oiled this, scraping every 'particle from the bowl with a palette knife and before setting the cake in the oven level it slightly, making it somewhat higher at the sides than in the centre. This makes a cake level, as it is always sure to rise a little higher in the center. Never scrape batter from the knife on the edge of the pan; if you do, the cake will not rise on that side. In fit- teen or esventy minutes"- the cake should be perfectly baked, -- --No, no, that. „Blithe must have his draw- ings back at any • cost. He almost felt elated at the task before him. It would be an easier fight, surely, than the fight of the past .few Weeks, the fight with those sestet leaders to extremes -hunger and cold and des- pair. • Fairlow's huge foundry, standing in the valley before him, shines out ina glow of its own making -smoke. and name and roaming turnaces arid towering chimneys.He Inc, heard they aro to .cast the stern frome of .a great ship between half -pat nine and ten. e That will mean • Hodder superintending, so that he must be on the works • until . a late hour. "Nothing to be ashatned of, Jess,"• he had said. But deep in his heart he knew that he had lied.. . , II. . Knowing the piece intimately, it was an ,easy matter for Jack Shim- son to slip past the time -house and. into the great, works of Fairlow's. The night' was. almost pitch dark, hut he knew his way and never fel- tared. On past the dark, closed warehouses and pattern -shops, over the bridge and down the railway, past huge stacks Of coal and iron; now over a waste piece of ground scattered with giant cog -wheels, ships' anchors; old boilers, cylinders and the like. Hist -someone Is coming this 'way. He dives under a waggon, Jumps p., law wall, and finds himself ' beside . , the casting -shop, which seems to re- vel in the hum and throb and glow of the night's work. About twelve feet frosn the ground there are large gaps with iron bars across to take the place of windows. He climhe upon a heap of scrap -metal and peers through one of these. It is a fam- scene to him -the haw shop with its earthen floor littered with moulding -boxes and , tools .. and strange machines. ' - Hero men are busy sheping- the pliable ' clay into many fantastic shapes; there; fierce, rough-buift fires are' baking them, dry in readinees to receive the inotteri steel. There is the duel thtid of hanamerssfalling ,on sand and dirt, and the shriller rat- tie of metals in conflict where the castings are being • cleaned. In the centre of the shop a vast pit shows, the upper moulded portions of the ,stern for, a mighty ship. At the far end the furnaces roar like faxen- ,ous beast e as they are fed by ton , after ton of raw ores and metals by men stripped to the waist. . Further on, across a platform, above and pest the furnaces, is the office of the manager, Sefton Hod- der. He has just come out, across the platform and down the gang- way. He puts on a pair ..pf blue glasses and looks into 'these roaring furnaces; then blows a whistle, A monstrous overhead, crane rattles. along Just under the roof and lowers, an enormous bueketeshapece cauldron beneath- the level .of the fuenaeo tap Another whistle, scarcely. heard above the thud • of hammers. and . a stream of molten steel is rushing in- to that gigantic bucket. , A dozeu workmen . prepare with long •iron bars to. Steady . it. None of, that white-hot liquia m muststreaesea,pe and strike anything danip, or else— Sefton Hodder, sharply outlined against tbe . blinding glare of the molten steel, smiles griany ail the sparks falls in ' brilliant shower s round him, and little thinks that at the Motneet he toeing a' viVid human target. :For 'Jade Simpson, black hatred in his heart, is glancing along the 'barrel of his revolver„ with his finger trembling on the trigger and his soul trembling en the verge of ••• that awful precipice, murder I An. enema uncontrollable passion to end things then and there , takes posseseicie Of him. ',Still, bet- te to :Walt ao little while, and ellen --the top entrance, and face to face in, his office. •The drawings tee thern Who cal geese What card Hodder a Will Olen Whet! faced ,with clinion? 11100 to conie armed, anowaysa ' Aid , it the 'pieta bas % to' be need,' 'WhY'!. Warta a feeble spark it WM be atainet HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. — out of t he Nutmegs should be kept of children. They are a dead - reach , . 'son as dangerous as carbolic ly poi ., . . a. Curiously, many acid or animoni ! children seem, fond of them. A case ----• /9 021 record where an 8 -year-old boy -'. . t • after chewing died in great agony two nutmegs. ave . curiously ab - Children often h . , normal appetites,. as witness the . of thschoolgirl f chalk e orfect eradvinlg tpencils.Thi that Thingsare anl t8 a; e should be rarefully kept de e .erious .We out of their way. A child old enough to know better once ate s 0 nch camphor gum ("because it felt nl--- - ,, that she was made very ill and ellfunny in her teeth, she explain-iliar - • • d' lin cl the odor of has ever since is se comulior. -- - • i E ual parts of ammonia. and sp r - flof t ntine will take' paint out itfs 1 thu'rPe 210 matter how dry and le el et Inge - be. Saturate the. spot save i tra e d then wash out in. several es an .. soapsuds. he first fine days b y gieeo Improve t . , he bedding a good airing on She es blan e s .an Ilinnge t Th purifi k t d ----- e"slin ththe Drst quilts, raising e pile on . enlivening the cotton in the rend enli latter - ' ,, e • One of the spning jobs" the house n no wife dreads is the frying an pa. ing down of the sansage and hams tion To avoid inennei consump . tor n------. t th h fn in this having to itrea o ofabesa, cot- manner Mate covers • ton, sewing 1 h s into them ewhitewash the out - tightly, andthenl cellar or a nide' .,Hung n aticoo from granary, they am ,t11,'Y tlarK sale m "Les, , JAPAN'S WAR TC — Remarkable Appliaoces : mg in the • 'Dark It is evident that the are making uso of every m trivance in existence to e efficiency in their arx113r• have heard how Ade utilized wireless telegraph . eral occasions, and pal -tit le bombardment the terrible , inflicted on Port Arthur 10. We now learn that 1 ese navy is equipped with able system. of ' sound which has already been e use. ' 'This apparatus was fur thens. by len, C. E. Xeleva: engineer of London, evh• plied the public with the details 1 tb i v i n ' .o . le ent o . The system enables a sle .• safely on its . objective darkness, dense foe-, c seen', and it has been us preaching Port Arthur these ' conditions. Any unseen object or N be safely reached (or as . _ i darkness .by the use of th, which measures sound am to the listener the. distar whistle, • siren, beat of a roll of water on a beads, ' direction in which the sou The navigator is called ceiver by a bell, which rt receipt of sounds which, aided ear, would be that .special watch is set goil ringing of . the instrument soon ae the Sound becon in the machine the watch and the distance is sbov calculation. . By this .mee sel can steal away with 3 without giviiig warning. 'rho system is based or city of sound carried by ziao waves. • ' ---4-_-_-_„- _, _ . E6, aover .—"I hoes no ea s i _ • al I -neon, that you, of oil • seem to put Your whole 11 , 3 - i into your work; that no too seutll to escape erc tion 110 'were to, atten , ., „ use you to repine " I ea. , ,, , . , , • fully) :- lies, ger. ' t: "And. so, Mr. Theisen, I to discharge nou at on stash chaps as you that g, etert rival establishmente wholth hive got the e -• pat,". ' at. a salary of --o" paused. "Don't kill me with kindness," he said. "Big boats go to 'Merica," inter- ruptecl Miss Beatrice, with the usual alertness Of young eyes and young , ears. . • . . "The letter," went on Mrs. SimP- son,, "is signed by Sefton Hodder. He deeply regrets, and is full of gi•atitudo to you for so nobly seising his life. He says you would have been justified in leaving. him to his fate, and he can never suificieetly re- ward you." • ' • . "Poor Hodder. For a moment, .Tess, forjust the flash of a moment, I leapt with exultation , when I saw him' doomed ; my mind swung 'like a pendulum between , eall and good; thou -but there, we ailhave a glor- ioes impulse sometimes i And to think, Jess. , that this means a new start for us -a feesh: start im a :new country." . , . •• ' . . They were silent for :a, moment, and then they laughed quietly to. gether., Miss Beatrice as holding the kitten up by its paws in, the .. corner, and saying : "'Tend to in.e, puss, 'cause you are ' going to 'Mori- ea, you know, You will have to cross the sea in a big,. big boats Now, ho.w long, link you, will it take to pack our Pings: lf,-.Tooridon Tit-T3its. ' ii, ALL THE SAME TO and. • • as: nia.n called upon a lawyer the other day and. announced that "his rich brother had drawn up a will. that -s-' and died, and "Ah ! I see." interrupted the law- yer; "and you watt me to get it set aide? 'Very well, sir; we'll plead insanity,"• ,. . ' ' "Oh, no -he wasn't insane. . Iou, see, the will leaves everything to-' "To his .secohd wife, or same cher- Ito or college. Have no fear, my- dear sir. I can do the business • dtieflu- nicely. We'll. plead un ie once, ' . "But I inatienced himmyself." "Ah i that alters the case Some - What; but I'll , prove to the jury, that ea- 0.g he was afflicted ,with soften g . the brain." ,i , "No, pray don't do that ! "But I must, and shall, invalidate the 'Will," • "Then I shall have to fled a. law- yer Who can' t for it's drawn up in my faVor. and I want to beat the other heirs," . "Ah 1 certainly. That entirely al- tern tile. cite°. 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