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OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR,
CHAPTER I.—(Cont'd).
"So it's hey for Glasgow to -mor-
row?" remarked Tim WLaren, as,
fathful to his role of clown, he grin-
ned within the frame of his woolly
whiskers. John nodded without turn-
ing, "Yell be corning back a regular
stiudant in spring, no doubt, eh? not
knowing a double -handed hammer
from a single, hi, hit"
"I don't think. so," said John, with
his slow smile, while Willie Robson
solemnly gaped.
No need for enforced gravity now;
merely to look upon a magi who was
so soon to look upon Glasgow bred
awe, automatically, as it were. -
Adam, sitting doubled up, with
grimy elbows on knees, and cheeks
pressed between two broad fists, spoke
protestingly:
"Strikes me you might have put it
off till next week. Would save me
having that gawk, Davy, as best man.
It's the usual thing to come to wed-
dings, not to run away from them.
Doesn't seem eousinly, somehow.
What's eight days over the books,
after all?"?
"Even one day is much when one
has wasted ten years," said John, his
wide brown eyes following the move-
ments of a couple of men still linger-
ing on one of the terraces of the cliff,
and now, in answere to a second shrill
summons of the whistle, running to
shelter.
"But two sheep, John—think of
that!" urged Adam, warming up to
his subject. "We've reckoned, Jean
and I, that one would go round just a
bit tightly, so to say. No end of
mutton -chops, my lad, I tell you; and
the cake ordered from Oban, and the
whiskey—"
A dull explosion covered the next
words, preceded by a small puff of
smoke, followed by a spurt of slate
r _
ed Tim M`Laren "I'd be sorry to
miss seeing you there. Not that
there's any over -great hurry about it
either," he .added jauntily, remember-
ing that this acknowledgment of ago
was, Under the eifehmsta3nces, inipgt-
itio. "Let it be within the next ten
years, and it'll do richly."
As the three pairs of oyes once nioro
fixed themselves upon the figure in the
white duck trousers it was not .hard
to guess that, mentally, he was being
put into clerical black Not one of
them doubted that that priestly garb
was safely' hanging in the w'ard'robe
of the future. Keen workman though.
he was, even the dullest among them
vaguely felt that there was something
else beside the workman in John. To
picture that long, narrow figure in a
white surpiace retluired no great effort
of the imagination.
Lest the "white surplice" should
startle in this locality, let it be briefly
interpolatedthat here too the "Mas-
sacre"—that crowning sin of the
House of Qrange—had played its part,
by riveting the descendants of its vis••
tiros to the church of the Stuarts. For
ja centuries past Ardloch and its district .,
had formed one of those Episoepalian
islands which have successfully with-
stood the Presbyterian ocean.
Saha's plan was generally approved
of, and yet between him and his well-
wishers there existed a complete mis-
understanding. They knew that for
years past he had been laying shilling
beside shilling, in order to react ,the
sum whieh would make stud s
y possible,..
and saw therein nothing but a very
pieces, whirling about the cliff like a
flock of startled birds. Within
the same half -minute another puff
from another point—another detona-
tion. Like a dull cannonade they
followed upon each other. The four
men in the bothy cowered with craned
necks, silently watching the familiar
sight, whose interest never staled.
Upon one or two distant levels out-
side the blasting area the men stand
in groups, fascinated spectators. The
air began to smell of gun -powder,
"That's ours!" said Willie Robson
presently, in an accent which teemed
of the pride of possession. •
Even after the cannonade was still,
the men remained cowering . and
cramped, waiting for the releasing
whistle, which would not sound until
a margin of some minutes had allow-
ed for a possibly forgotten blast.
"To comeback to the sheep and the
whiskey," observed Adam, with fine
tenacity, "you haven't told us yet what
harm it would do you to stop a week
longer."
John turned his face towards his
cousin, a whimsical smile brightening
its seriousness.
"No harm, perhaps; but no good,
Adam, neither to you nor to
roomful of people always .strikes me
stupid, as you well know."
"And how about a churchful of peo-
ple, eh? "quavered Tim. "You'll have
to be trampling on th
prsnflees
of yours when once you get into the
pulpit."
"Will I get into, it?" mused John,
with wistful eyes.
"As sure as we're all sitting here
growing as stiff' as salted herrings," i
asserted Adam gruffly, yet with aaide-
long look at his cousin, which showed
no want of faith in him.
"You'll hurry up about it, eh?" uig-
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on his right hand ......
"I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat;
1 was thirsty, and ye gave ane
naked, and ye clothed me......."
Then shall they answer him, saying
"Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and
fed thee?' or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
....or naked, and clothed thee?"
And theKing shall answer.....;.
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
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praiseworthy ambition which others
before him hadcherished either suc-
cessfully or otherwise—siiice the
Church is, after a11, the most attain-
able of the rungs in the social ladder.
To a man they approved of his plan
of "bettering" himself, without ever
guessing that his own idea of "better-
ment" bore no resemblance to theirs.
So careful had Highland shyness been
of keeping its own counsel that not
even his daily companions guessed
that they had a fanatic in their midst.
Unsuspected, he carried about wi,h
him his dream, having brought it out
of his very -boyhood. When it had
been born he could not himself have
said. Perhaps on some summer day,
as he drowsed among the heather to
the music of the bees and the murmur
of the nearest burn; perhaps on some
winter night, when the awfulness of
wave and blast had taken his soul
and shaken it free of the trammels of.
earthl-- ties. But it had been there
almost since he had begun to think
the thoughts of a man.
Or perhaps it had been born forth -
ex back yet. The angel, charged with
ushering human souls into Time, from
Eternity, does not always sing over
his work—or else sings to closed
ears. But once and again the song
lives, and is remembered as in a
dream, and sought after during a life-
time, as a haunting melody is sought.
Such men and such women always run
the risk of being a little ridiculous, as
the abnormal is ridiculous; and if, in
addition, they are shy, the opportun-
ities of misunderstanding between
them and their fellows are exception-
ally rich. -
If John M`Donnell was not consid-
ered "feckless," it was only because he
kept his own counsel; partly, also, be-
cause he could handle the double-
handed hammer as could few men in
the quarry.
He was going to appear unfaithful
to the quarry now, but only, so tosay,
through an excess' of faithfulness. By
dint of studying his fellow -workers,
he had arrived at his own conculsions
concerning their wants. To all but
the infirm and the incurably lazy
bread was assured -=laboriously earn-'
ed, and sometimes at the risk of life,
but fairly plentiful. Their bodies
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Indige5lioneelthe complete cs partial
failure of the digestive processes—fre-
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machinery of the body. You can't enjoy
the vigour and vitality of good health
unless your stomach, liver and bowels_
do their work regularly and efficiently.
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might be considered provided for—but
their souls ?
Even to pronounce the word in
public, outside a church, would in his
, present character, be a sort of moral
indecency, as he well knew; and there -
1 fore` it was that John M`Donnell had
determined to earn fee himself the
right of speaking both in and outside
church walls. Not that the pulpit
had ever stoop empty, but that the oc-
cupiers of it -strangers usually, if not I
to the country, then to the life of the
workmen -so seldom 'found the word:
that went to its goal. To John it,
had been torture to sit out nine out of
every ten sermons he had heard since
childhood. He had begun by re-
making thein in his own mind; he had
1 ended by resolving to stand one day in
that pulpit,.
How differently, living their daily
lives, being of their very bone, he
could speak to these toil -worn men!
He knew, where those others only
guessed or imagined. It requires
experience to teach how hard it is for
men ever tied to the elementary ma- ,
terial, ever at war with its laws, ever
in contact with stone and earth and
metal, and all the other brute physical, ._
facts, not to lose complete sight of the
side of life which is not physical,
which cannot either be cut or weighed,
or measured, or calculated. And no
one who has " not been in it himself
knows how depressing is the purely
physicallgroove.• To lift his fellow-
workersl. little way out of that
groove, such was John's ambition; for,
w••'i his big, unpractical soul he lov-
ed them all too well to look on content
at their, slavery. He felt himself as
distinctly called to this deliverance..of
his brethern as ever Catholic mission-
ary felt drawn .to he conversion of
savages.
(To be continued)) .
Rice As Potato Substitute.
Rice is really our best starchy food.
It contains also a small amount of
protein, a trace of fat, and; sorne min-
eral matter. Starchy foods supply
heat and . energy to ` the body, and are,
therefore, really more valuable than
meat, which produces muscle. It is
four time as nourishing as potatoes.
Most of us in the past have only
associated rice `with eggs, milk, raisins`
as the principal ingredient of pud-
dings. The' majority of Canadians
have still to learn the use of rice as a
vegetable which our American friends,
especially the Southerners, learned
long ago. It is the most -easily -digest-
ed of all the starchy foods. It is
readily absorbed and leaves little or no
waste in the intestines. All starches
in their final digested are converted
into sugar.
Rice is about the most abused of
all our foods in. the cooking: "Just
boil it," they say, but "just boiling"
may result in a delicious appearing
and tasting food or—a cross between
paste and porridge. Let no house-
keeper come out of the war days with-
out learning how rice grains may
quadruple themselves in the cooking.
and be the nourishing, delectable food
that doubtless they were resigned to
be.
Wast, the rice in several cold wa-
ters. Have ready •i la_go dish nearly
full of ; rapidly boiling water.
Sprinkle in the ` lice slowly so as not
to stop the boiling. 13osi 'rapidly
without the cover for twenty minutes.
If the :rice seems hard at the end of
that time boil ten minutes longer•. It
rnu5rt be dry and mealy, "like potatoes,
`not wet. Drain it in a colander and
pour over it there, quickly, a quart of
cold water. Place the colander on a
plate and toss the rice about with a
fork from the centre' to the sides.
,stand it on the back of the stove or
at the over. door, where heat will pass
through and dry it. Turn lYt at once
into a shallow dish or platter; tossing
it out with a fork, being careful not
to break the grains. ` If these direc-
tions are followed each grain will have
swollen to four times its natural size
and no two grain, will be: sticking
together. It should be as white as
snow.
A nourishing meal for school chil-
dren at noon is a plate of boiled rice
with a slice of bacon on top, followed
by apple.puddil_g. ,
Household Helps
It is a mistake to soak fowl of any
kind in water. It will destroy the
flavor.
The ironing board which is thickly
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Bone stock can be made from bones
alone, with vegetables to flavor.
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