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By GERTP.T.UDE ROBINSON.
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ICOLONEL BECOMES CONSTABLE.
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Everybody has heard of the English-
' man who went iuto the war a private
soldier andecaine out a. Brigadier Gen-
eral. A. ease even more remarkable.
however, is reported from Cardiff,
Wales, and has created something
PART Ii,
"I am carrying some jelly to old S
Al dam Turner ott the Pole '•
road. She used to teach the Birch'
Pent school, yo,t . know. She taught
my mother a•,d she taught ine; but
revi ehe is old.. The P a •ler M:,1
people gave her the ground for her
little home, and the Helping Band:
looks out for her as mueh as it can,
it ear.'t do much because she is very
proud. But she does love my mother's
jelly, and she likes to have me read:
the Psalms to her on Sunday after-
noons. She taught me to read, you
see,"
"And you read to her every Sundae.
afternoon?" said florae, ti „
fully.
''Yes; I da it instead of ping to
.Shinday school. Mother thinks it is`
better for me." They NNalited ^ri in i
cher e through the pine woods that,
horde: real the grass-ere..road.
Presently. at a turn, Eloise took the
basket anal book from his hand.
-We are almost there. That is,
:Madam's v:ottage under the big pine'
yonder. Thank you for carrying my
basket, anal for the gentians."
Thus dismissed Horace Ludlow
turned "leek a few paces into the
woods and at down dazedly on a h tui- men in the Birch Point shipyard.
der. IIe could hear the girl's curious- The wounded man was pathetically
ly singing voice. She was reeding the! glad to see some one who established
Psalms to her old schoolinieai•e e. A! a link with home. Half -delirious, he
Ludlow," she said. "We will take
them to our old 'friend, Madam Turn-
er." And Madr m Cheney swept on,'
leaving the man standing foolishly;
on the bridge behind them. Eloise,'
without a backward glance, trailed in
her mother's wake.
"The poor little thing," Horace mut-1
tered to himself. She hasn't any t
spirit of her own. She wanted to:
speak t•o me!" His eyes fell upon{{
something reel Iying en the bridge.!
It was the: littie copy of the Psalms
frim which Eloise read to the old
schoolmistress. He picked it up and
slipped. it in his pocket.
The next week Horace Ludlow 'eft!
is'a -ht- c Birch Point. He carried a dead hope
in his heart, and a little red psalm.
book, frail remembrance of that futile
aspiration. in his pocket.
Five years later, Horace Ludlow,
brownel and matured, and valued
poi trier of a thriving lumber company*,
found a wounded lumberman in a tract
of forest he was estimating. Horaee'
took the mar, to his eamp andidoetored
hint with the skill of a woodsman.
After he had bound up the crushed
foot on which the poor chap had been
hobbling for weary miles, he recog-
nized him as one of his fellow work -
more than local stir --though Cardiff
itself appears to have taken the mat-
ter with entire calmness.
Before the war Arthur Ritchings
was a police constable in the town. He
enlisted In the army In 1914 and
served in the ranks in that first criti-
cal year and the two years following.
In November, 1917. he was promoted
.Second Lieutenant on the field, by
February, 1918, lie was a Captain, a
little later he was a Major, and the
end of the war found him a Lieutenant
Colonel, In that time` he had been six
times wounded, he had won the de-
coration of Chevalier of the Legion of
Honor, the Croix de Guerre with
palms, and the Military Cross, having
been mentioned three times in des -
Drying Fruit •• and Vegetables.
It has been estimated by reliable
authorities that from one-fourth to
one-half of all perishable crops raised!
in this country before the war were!
allowed to go to waste, Throu,.h at -i
tention to modern methods of pres-.
ervation (drying, canning, storing andP
salting) the percentage of foods;
formerly: allowed' to go to "waste has'
been greatly reduced.
Of the four methods of preservation
—drying, canning, storing and salt-,
ing—widely recommended for use dura
ing the past few seasons, the first b
All' grades.. Write for prices.
TORONTO •$ALT WORKS •
G. J. CLIFF . TORONTO
A drier of the given dimensions wilt
three-eighths ,ineh 'cube's, blanched
two m,inutos in boiling, water, dipped The frames of the trays are made•
i water,spread from one to one of one -inch strips on wHich is tacked
in cold spr a alvanized semen wire, which fortes
and one-fourth inches deep on trays gthe bottoms of the trap. Each tray -
and dried at a temperature of 120 deg. is' 21 x 15 inches, peaky
ing it three
to 170 deg, t'," From silt to eight inches less in length than the drier,
hours' t'me is required for drying at ,rho lowest tray when placed in the•..
this temperature. drier is pushed to the back, leaving'
Cauliflower -!-Heeds of cauliflower the three-inch space in front. The•
must be washed, separated into parts t next tray is placed even with the front,
or branches, cut one-fourth inch thickleaving a three-inch space in the back,
by means of a sharp knife or rotary' The other trays alternate in the same•
slicer, blanched three minutes in boil -i way. This permits the heated air to,
ing water, eold-dipped and dried in: pass around and over the trays,.
There is a ventilator at the top,
hold eight trays.
layers from three-fourths to, one' inch;
patches and having proved himself a worthy of special consideration. The deep at a temperature of 105 deg. to
gallant soldier -and able officer
-
system of drying, or dehydration, is 150 deg. F.
Not long ago Lieut, -Col. Ritchings especially applicable to those crops! Peas ---Peas should be shelled,
left the army—the war being fought which can not be stored satisfactorily:, blanched from one to one and one-half
and won—and quietly resumed his as well as those which are difficult tb minutes in vigorously boiling water,
Place as a common policeman pound- can, particularly on a small scale. cold -dipped and dried in layers. from
Parting.
Let this good-bye of our ---this last
good-bye—
Be still and splendid like a forest.
t tree;
ing a beat in Cardiff. The Chairman There are two methods orsterns of
y three-fourths to one inch deep at ap- Or like the heads of Silence holding -
of the Municipal Bench made a pallet drying suited to the handling of sur- proximately the same temperature a s
of saying he was glad to see him beck,,plus produce from the average farm, that given for string beans, The blue and burning corners of the
and even went so far as to congratu-'The first of these systems includes the Pumpkins and Winter Squash--- sea.
late Constable Ritchings publicly up• operation of the majority of cook -stove nese'
s handled lir thesame w s
on his military record. In fact, it drying contrivances the most satis- Tee, ay a c Let there be one deep look within our
seems there was a sort of ceremony y g summer squash, give a satisfactory
factory of which is a set of cloth or
welcome. screen -bottom trays arranged horizon -
So the Lieutenant Colonel with four tl
kite en range, e
product,
Summer Squash—This should he
eyes,
Built of the wonderment of these
heeled cut into three-eighths inch past years;
second system comprises the operation ' Too vast a thing of beauty to be lost
1 one-half ache be blanched
of fan -equipped commercial driers, or
slices ori cubes, enc a In quivering lips and burning ioada•
dehydrators, which may "be had in for three minutes in boiling seater, of tears
sizes oda ted for farm use. Driers of cold -dipped and dried in from one-
etran�,e smarting €ensatien stung the, baboled ceaselessly of Happenings in took to take charge once more of p half thugs -fourths izieh layers at Beek to the clxaas of the world, we go•
man's eyes. S'sramefaced, he stole: his home town, from which, he had casual drunks and clisarderlies in that talc orpa slightlytcinclin d nsist tunnelhorizon-
or a temperature of 110 deg. to 100 deg, Shining with one sweet secret no
farther into the woods. i been absent but a few months. Pres- busy 'Welsh mining town. I�' one lwows,
cabinet rimed with a steam coil or a Sweet Corn—Sweet corn should he Crutches of dreams to help us on our
An hour later lee seas.- her corns out sully he mentioned the Cheney s, Somebody wrote an indignant letter hat -air furnace at one end and a large
of the eattage and tart home end. ` Madam Cheney, it seems, had been. to a London paper about it, otherwiseanaer.rayscon- husked, sulked, blanched for from five path,
He :satched the swaying fiowt.r-lake Very ill, She thought she was dying apparently the incident would have to ninst f a roduce are placed to eight minutes in boiling water, cut From snow to tender petaling of the
figure until she had passed eh ou �h and made Eloise promise to marry a, passed If not unnoticed, at least as not g prepared P P and scraped from the cob and dried rose,
the woods and was nearly home. Ile' young sea -captain who had spent the,' mare than ordinarily noticeable, As in the cabinet cochamber through in layers from one-half to three-
] which is drawn a current of heated err. Sa in our places we lift high our heads
did not knewthat elle had left her oil bine between cruises for the past few' consequence the Witch, Committee of fourths inch deep at a temperature g ,
p As the heated air becomes moisture- 7 hat none may And within our calm.
frhad earlier than IP tial in the inane' years in Birch Point. He had,. it seems,! Cardiff, equivalent to our Police Cam- 1 idea it is removed and replaced by f 110 de to 140 de F An oc-
eent hope that he might be 'u'u i:g bestowed many entirely unrequitted missioner,. took the ex -Lieutenant the fan, thus reducing the time ord-
fctr icer at the t,.r' of tete *,.tai. ' attentions on Eloise. Eloise had stead-, Colonel off his beat, and gave hint the inarily required for drying by about
It '. 15 ten ;lit tie e Horece Lad- ily di.seouraged the young skipper,, Job of training the police awkward one-half.
low sats. E:eiso creat.. for h ' wasaway. without being able to give any de-; squad of recruits in the proper bear. hof all kinds of
o g' g' clear eyes
` casional stirring of the corn on the The secret that two travelers leave re,.
turned,
And cast away their key to Paradise.
f Binh Poi*- marl:deg telt limber, ber• finite reason for her inabilit • to care: mg and behavior of a constable The products can to prevent them from spoiling when -^Archibald Sullivan.
from
trays tends tc shorten the drying
period.
All products should be dried enough
be
,.. c t , a ,g u. , . t
from a pine timber reserve some &lee for hint, but she was also unable to Lord Mayor when Pressed for' info*- dried satisfactorily. In fact, little or held under ordinary storage. Dried
disteet. On the way homes. from the refuse the request of her dying; oration whether tliere was any in n- no attempt should be made to dry or, dehydrated apples tarry approxi-. Minaxa'> r,snimout caret Dsphtheria,
great r ..tion. of appointing the distinguished those crops which keep well' in ordin- mately twenty-five per cent. moisture,.
woods he found a ,.rea„ clump a, mother. She accepted the captain,gThera are approximately 30,904
velvety -bream asters, So irresistibly' formally. at her mother's bedside, and officer to a higher and more respons- iany storage, unless through drying the However, a product which has less
crop can be marketed to better ad- moisture will keepto better advan- autos and 8,000 trucks' in Toronto,
dial they remind him cf the yeang, then, l+ladmn Chetrey got well'. ibis position on tlto farce went to the
girl's eyes, that al ticst against h s 3Tadani ('honey, nevertheless, held, length of aehnitting that lie thought he ;vantage, In all cases an attempt tags. When thoroughly dried, the
will he gathered them avid carried Eloise to her promise. The girl at' might say all the members of the; should be made to secure afirst-class slices of apples or vegetables should
them to Eloise that rrirrht, last. consented to set a day for the Watch Committee were sympathetic he had
a product from each kind of produce approach a. brittle stage. In general,
At the door of the great colonnaded wedding; it Nva, exactly one week dis-I with this idea, and that he had no handledd goods quality pro- - the quality of the product is not affeet-
housein provided
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more thorough d
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Cull fruits or vegetables give a cull it is not allowed to scorch duringthe
with emphasis, but the same prole-� When at last his patient NNras asleep, I carred Colonel or Constalale Ritchings �
tion chance that had grated his form-; Horace Ludlow opened the trunk in wnuId be given a chance such its he Product --that is, one of inferior qual- drying process.
deserved. , ityr. All produce should be thorough-
It, was also said In authoritative : ly and carefully prepared.
quarters (to quote the British press 1Temperature best suited for drying
account)" varies that Lieut. -Col. Ritchings between 110 deg. and 170 deg.
himself "recognized, as every right- i P. In the commercial drying plants,
"I wish to see Miss Cheney," ! and little there was likely to be For. thinking man would, that lie had a produce is ordinarily entered at the a hand grist -mill, The meal may be
] th •- I .h
er encounters with Eloise did not at -a the corner of his tent and took from'
tend him now. The stately woman! it a little red psalm book. Between'
who opened the door bore scant re-! its leaves lay a sprig of heartsease.:
semblance to the maiden of his Little heartsease it had brought him
dreams he refiectetii as 11e fi
d it iiiefully'I
Many vegetables which adapt them-
selves for use in the form of vegetable
meals, such as pumpkins, tomatoes.
and peas, may be dried to a brittle
stage and ground immediately through
•
ace announcer, ager Nv o gave rt to r.;m ix sue
"My daughter? There was a gent- i married the man for whom she had l
ly surprised lift to the voice in which , been induced to set the wedding day,
Madam Cheney responded. "But it Ile remembered the man distinctly as
isn't necessary. You have brought a young renegade he had known in
m
soe flowers for the • church, I see.! St. John's years before. There were
I will attend to them." itrumorsthat the man had a wife in a
All of Horace Ludlow's assurance Brazilian port,
wilted. The promptness with which Was it hie duty to interfere and
his asters were whisked into the save Eloise—to save any girl—from
house and he himself bowed down the such a marriage? All the old desire
step; assured' him that if Eloise did which he thought had been quelled in
not realize the meaning of his atten-i the past surged back into his con -
tions, her mother did, and far from ceiousness with stinging force. It was
approvingly. 'incredible that her mother should be
The next Sunday afternoon, Horate ; willing to sacrifice Eloise to an ignoble
Ludlow walked on Ed
gecomb Bridge., man. Surely, Madam Cheney was ig-
This time he was equipped with a tiny norant of the ,man's character.
wooden basket in which a slender
maidernhair fern was growing. Eloise
also walked on Edgecomb Bridge, but
net alone! Madam Cheney aceompan-; What 'Boudoir" Means.
Reed her daug- hte on her errand of 1
mercy. Inspired by z. suddenresolve,!
Horace walked up to the pair and
offered his basket.
"May I give you these ferns, Miss!
Cheney?" he ventured -
Madam Cheney forestalled her
daughter. - "Thetk you, Mr,—eh—
(To be continued.)
"Boudoir" really means a "sulkery,"
for it is derived from the French word
meaning "to sulk." Thackeray had a
room in his house, upon the door of
which was a sign, "Mr. Sulkery!" and
whenever that door -was locked he was
never disturbed.
Two Mark Twain Stories
One evening, when a few friends
were at Charles Dudley Warner's, Mr.
Warner succeeded in getting Mr.
Clemens to tell the story of how he
announced to Judge Langdon that he
and Lily Langdon. were engaged to be
married. When he had settled him-
self to his Iiking, he preluded his story
by telling of his periodical visies to
the. Rochester house of the Langdons,
and proceeded to explain that at each
visit he proposed himself to Miss
Langdon as an anxious but undesir-
able suitor. On each occasion he was
gently declined, whereupon he would
say:
"I didn't suppose you would have
me. I wouldn't, if 1 were you! I don't
believe I should respect you as I do if
I thought you would ever marry me!"
But one day she did accept him, As
he told this part of the -story, says
Mrs. Candace Wheeler in Yesterdays
iu a Busy Life, the sweet humility and
surprise of the man seemed to envelop
him like a gainent. It was as if it
Were always a 'new astonishment that
his dream of this priceless creature
as his wife could ever be realized. -
That was the inner man; - but the
announcement of the engagement to
her father was Mark Twain, the inimit-
able, the one and only man of his
kind, His story proceeded. He found
the judge in his office, plainly im-
patient of this unexpected visit, After
some uncomfortable delay, lie burst
out: - -
S<, judge, , have you noticed any-
thing in particular between Livy and
me lately?" -
"No, sir! Certainly not," replied the
judge, somewhat flustered. -
"Well—look sharp—and you - will,"
drawled Mark. -
I remember, Mrs. Wheeler contin-
ues, that one afternoon, when we were
all gathered in the sitting, room, he
proposed to give ane one of his books,
asking which I would rather have. I
said, "Oh, any one," but Mrs. Clemens
chose for me the Prince and the Pau-
per, which: was evidently more to her
mind than some other of his books.
Mr: Clemens brought it from the book-
case, and 1 asked him to write some
sort of inscription so that it might go
ea my autograph collection. He car-
riecLit to a writing desk in a bay win
-
(low, and in the course of our chatting
it occurred' to Mrs. Clemens that he
had 'taken a long time in which to
write a sentence or a name:
"Why, .Samuel," said she, "aren't you
through with that? . You must be writ-
ing, a chapter."
"No," drawled Mr. Clemens, "but it
doesn't go, It doesn't sound lust right.
I will read it, and perhaps you can see
what Le the matter."
So he began to read: "To Mrs.
Wheeler, with as much affection as is
proper between two people whose re-
licts are yet alive."
Of course we looked at each other
with'a burst of laughter,
"What IS the matter with it?" said
Mr. - Clemens innocently. "Somehow
it doeui"t.sound right!'
moral obligation to return to the Car- end of the drier where the temper -stored, until needed for use, in paper
ature is lowest, preferably 110 deg. to cartons with close -fitting covers.
130 deg. F. Trays entered here are A home-made cook stove drier that.
shifted gradually toward a 'higher can be used on a wood or coal range
temperature (toward the steam coils) or a kerosene stove can be made easily
as drying progresses, and the produce and cheaply, Dimensions: Buse, 24
is finished off and removed at a temp-' x 16 inches; height, thirty-six inches.
erature of 150 deg. to 170 deg. F. A base six inches high is made of
In the drying of produce over the galvanized sheet iron. This base
kitchen range, an attempt should be slightly flares toward the bottom and
made to duplicate this temperature. has two small circular openings for
This can ordinarily be accomplished ventilation in each of the four sides.
by lowering the trays nearer to the On the base rests a box -like frame
top of the stove as drying progresses. made of strips of wood one or one
Apples—Apples dry best when peel-
ed, cored and sliced on hand -power or
belt -driven machines, because the
slices 'are of unciform thickness, and
such slices dry best; where a hand -
power or belt -driven machine is not
available, special effort must be made
to secure uniform slices, preferably
three -sixteenths of an inch in thick-
ness. After slicing, the prepared
fruits should be placed tin a four per
cent. salt solution for fifteen minutes.
Then rinse, spread one-half inch thick
on trays and dry as quickly as pos-
sible at a temperature of 110, deg. to
160 deg. F.
Beans -Beans for drying .should be
young, tender, and uniform in size.
After being washed and snipped, they
should be cut caiosswise into one-half
inch lengths, or run through a rotary
slicer, blanched for three minutes in
boiling water, cold -dipped and dried
in layers one inch deep at a temper-
ature of 120 deg. to 170 deg. F.
Carrots—Carrots should be washed,
peeled, or scraped free of outer akin,
cut into three -sixteenth inch slices, or
diff police force for the reason that
the ratepayers had been contributing
during his absence to the support of
his dependents at hone."
The Whale's Complicated Breathing
Apparatus.
An eminent naturalist says, con-
cerning the breathing apparatus of
the whale: "The windpipe does not
communicate with the mouth; a hole
is, as it were, bored right through the
back of the head. Engineers would do
well to copy the action of the valve of
the Whale's blowhole; a more perfect
piece of structure it is impossible to
imagine. Day and night, asleep• or
awake, the whale works its breathing
apparatus in such a manner that not a
drop of water ever gets down into the
lungs. Again, the whale must of
necessity stay a much longer period
under water than seals; this alone
might possibly drown it, inasmuch as
the lungs cannot have access to fresh
air, We find that this difficulty has
been anticipated and obviated by a
peculiar reservoir in -the venous sys-
tem, which reservoir is situated at
the back of the lungs." A
Keep the Weeds Down.
Weeds will grow where anything
else will grow. If they are not des-
troyed they will ruin any crop. Sur-
vival of the fittest is an inexorable-
law of nature, and the weed, being
propagated by natural methods, has
an immense' advantage in competition
with a cultivated crop.
Constant attention is the only reme-
dy. Once - the crop is sufficiently
above ground to be distinguishable,
cultivation of the soil to kill the
weeds should be `ontinued till the
crop is high enough to crowd the
weeds out. This cultivation is also
necessary for good growth as it per-
mits the soil to retain moisture during
dry weather and leaves the surface
in better condition to absorb rainfall.
Light.
An enthusiastic- admirer came rush-
ing up to Arnold Bennett, the English
author, at a reception in Chicago re-
cently. "0 Mr. Bennett," she cried,"I
am so delighted to meet you! You
have been e wonderful help to -me!"
"Indeed? In what.Way, might I ask?"
"Oh, that last book of yours!It
has taught me' to concentrate.
"To concentrate? - Well,well; that's
nice! Now tell me, what are you con-
centrating on?" ,
"Oh, on lots and lots of things!"
9
"If you will not grab ter yore. neigh-
bor's weeds,
In your own green garden you'll find
their seeds."
LEdmun,d Vanee Cooke.
i inara'a Liniment Cures Garet in Cow*
and one-half inches wide. The two
sides are braced with one and one-
quarter inch strips which serve as
cleats on which the trays in the drier
rest. These are placed three inches
apart.
The frame is covered with tin or
galvanized sheet iron, tacked to the
wooden strips of the frame. Thin
strips of wood may be used instead
of tin or sheet iron. The door is
fitted on small hinges and fastened
with a thumb -latch. 'It opens wide so
that the trays can be removed easily.
The bottom of the drier is made of
a piece of perforated galvanized- sheet
iron. Two inches above the bottom is
placed a solid sheet of galvanized iron
which is three inches less in length
and width than• the bottom. This
sheet rests on two wires fastened to
the sides of the drier. This prevents
the direct heat from corning in con-
tact with the prodiaet and serves as a
radiator to spread the heat mare
evenly. ' The first tray is placed three
inehes;above the radiator. The trays
rest on the cleats threeinehes apart.
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