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Gillette Safety Razor Co. of Cala' a, Limited 219 Office and Factory s Gillette Building, MONTREAL. 4V11lIli�Mll�U T The Bride's Dame Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser CHAPTER VII.—(Cont'd). His good spirits lasted all the way to Seabridge, and, the schooner berthed, he went cheerfully off home. Ib was early afternoon when he arrived, and, Captain Barber being out, he had a comfortable tete a tete with Mrs. Church, in which he was able to dilate pretty largely upon the injury to his foot. Captain Bar- ber did not return until the tea was set, and then shaking hands with his nephew, took a seat opposite, and in a manner more than unusually boist- erous, kept up a long conversation. It was a matter of surprise to Flow- er that, though the talk was by no means of a sorrowful nature Mrs. Church on three separate occasions FAMINE IN BUDAPEST. Food in Hungary is Now Non -Existent. The Hungarian Government, fright- ened by the spectre of famine, is seek- ing to appoint a food dictator, but can find nobody to undertake the job and dictate with regard to food whieh 1 cor- respondent. ' s Swiss rete a no existence, w has respondent. He says the commonest sight in Budapest is that of little Crowds, mainly women, who wait wearily outside the shops for food which they cannot get. Mr. Tabody, in the Pesti Napolo, tells that "women have to stand one or two hours to get a few potatoes; from two to three hours if they want a bit of sausage, from three to four hours for a quarter of a pound of sugar and from four to five hours for a bit of lard or fat. A woman who wants to get something to eat for her children every day must spend at least five or six hours waiting in the queues." People in Budapest are tired of 4 ber, sharply; "don't I tell you your banns are up ? You're to be asked in church first time next Sunday. You'll both live with Inc as agreed, and I'm going to make over three o' the cot- tages to you and a half-share in the ship. The rest you'll have to wait for, Why don't you look 'cheerful? You. ought to." "I'm cheerful enough," said Flower, recovering himself. "I'm thinking of you.,, "Me?" said his uncle, "You and Mrs. Church," said his nephew. `hyo far as I can see, you've committed yourself." "I can manage," said Uncle Barber. "I've always been master in my own house. Now you'd better step round the table d left the room and see the bride that is to be." Lose from e t a e an with her handkerchief to her eyes. At "Well, you be careful," said his nep- such times his uncle's ideas forsook him, and he broke off not only in the middle of a sentence, but .even in the hew, warningly. "Pm coming, too," said Captain Barber, with some haste; "there's no middle of a word. At the third time need to stay and wait for trouble. Flower caught his eye, and with a When you go into the house, come dump jerk of his head toward the back as though you'd forgotten some door inquired what it all meant. thing, and sing out to Incthat you q your watch, I shall come up on deck in a frightened whisper. "Hush! 'er to hear, mind." and stand on the side of the ship to Don't take no notice of it. Not a word." CHAPTER VIII. "What is it?" persisted Flower. The bewildered master of the Foam Captain Barber gave a hurried spent the remainder 'of the time at mouth, put it down again and regard - glance towards the door and then Seabridge in a species of waking ed him open-mouthed. leaned over the table. "Broken nightmare. "My foot," continued the skipper, 'art," he whispered, sorrowfully.. A grey-haired dressmaker and a in surprisingly even tones, consider - Flower whistled, and, full of the vi- small apprentice sat in the Banks' ing his subject, "will then give way sions which this communication open-, best parlor, and from a chaos of brown and I shall fall overboard," ed -up, neglected to join in the arts -paper patterns stuck over with pins a The mate was about to speak, but ficial mirth which his uncle was en-, silk dress of surprising beauty began the skipper gazing in a rapt manner deavoring..to provoke upon the house- slowly to emerge. As a great con- before him, waved him into silence. keeper's return. Finally he worked cession Flower was allowed to feed "You will alarm the crew and pitch up a little. mirth on his own account,' the material, and to even rub it be- a life -belt overboard," he continued; and after glancing from his uncle to tween his finger and thumb in imita- „you will then back sails and lower the housekeeper, and from the house- tion of Captain Barber, who was so the boat." keeper back to his unele again, smoth- prone to the exercise that a small "You'd better take the lifebelt with ere'd his face in his handkerchief and piece was cut for his especial delecta- you, hadn't you ?" inquired the mate, rushed from the room. i tion. A color of unwoeted softness anxiously. "Bit on a bad tooth," he said, un- glowed in the cheek of Elizabeth, and "I shall be picked up by a Nor - truthfully, when he came back. an air of engaging timidity tempered wegian barque, bound for China," con - Captain. Barber eyed him fiercely, her, intercourse with Flower, who had timed the skipper, ignoring the inter - bub Mrs. Church regarded him with to run the gaunlet of much friendly ruption• "I shall be away at least six WANTED FOR THE VY Two thousand Canadians aro wanted for the Royal Naval Can- adian Volunteer Reserve towards manning the) new shipo of tho Imperial Royal Navy. • Immediate overseas service. Only talons of good character and good physique accepted. Pay $1.10 Minimum per day—Free ;Sit $20.00 per Month Separation Allowance Apply to the nearest Naval Recruit- Ing Station, or to the Dept. of tho I4aval Sorvico OTTAWA "Tell you presently,"- said his uncle, want me to come too—hard enough for grumbling about the prices of neces- saries. Within the last month they 1 Practically have again risen from fifty to one hundred per cent., but even the prices 1 I would not matter so much if only the ;food could be obtained. Budapest is ; like a town besieged, and the people will soon have to follow the example � of the Parisians in 1870 and eat rats nephew to do likewise. ; hands tivrth ham at the front door as he have ceased from troubling, anyway," and mice. The principal trouble is "You.'re the cause of it," saidlimped slowly off with Miss Banks and said the skipper, "and I have strong that the Prussians are taking away' Captain Barber, severely. I his uncle to go down to the schooner. hopes that Elizabeth '11 take Gibson. nearly everything, and what they "Me?" said Flower, in surprise. ; His foot was still very bad, so bad I shall stay away long enough to give leave is seized by the Austrians. "You know that little plan. I told, that he stumbled three times on the look at something in the water, when I shall suddenly hear a shout." The mate, who had a piece of dumpling on his fork, half -way to his compassionate interest, and, having criticism on the part of his fair neigh- months, perhaps more, according as things turn out." The mate pushed his scarcely tasted "What's it all about?" inquired Church's departure, desired by Cap- dinner from him, and got up from the table. It was quite evident to him Flower, as, tea finished, Catain Bar- tain Barber, had not been made by that the skipper's love affairs had ber carried his chair to bhe extreme the younger man. The housekeep- turned his brain. end of the garden and beckoned his er was still in possession, and shook "By the time I get back MatIida '11 got the conversation upon such a safe.bourn. subject, kept it there until the meal; Up to the time of sailing for Lon - was finished. I don again the allusion to Mrs. you of when you was down here? way to the quay, despite the assist- her a fair chance, 'anyway." "But s pose you get drowned before 1 The„Tmportant Question. - anything can pick you up!" suggest- ed the mate, feebly. 4 "Oh, papa, Jack says my love for , "Drowned?" repeated the skipper. him makes him feel strong enough 7 y "Why, you didn't think I was really to move mountains."' „ going overboard, did you ? I shall be "Yes, but'is he strong enough to I ve got a bad Fl , , back. locked up in my state -room." go bo work?" d tribute t c ventlonal (To be continued). said the other. His nephew nodded. "It came off," groaned Captain Bar- ber. "I've got news for you as'll make you dance for joy." "I've foot," said ower, ac . „paling. He shook hands with Captain Bar - "Never mind about your foot,"saidber and, as a o conventional - his 1 regarding him fixedly. ity, kissed Miss Banks. The last the "Your banns are up." two saw ofhim,he was standing atthe "Did you meet any nice men while Up! Up where?" gasped Flower. wheel waving his handkerchief. They ' you were away?" "Why—in the church," said the waved their own in return, and as the 1 "Yes, mother. Lots of them." other, staring at him. "Where do Foam drew rapidly away gave a final 1 "Lots of them! There aren't that you think? I got the old lady's con-- many in the whole world." sent - day before yesterday, and had ance afforded by the arm of his be- trothed. "Seems to be no power in it," he said, smiling faintly; "but I dare say it'll be all right by the time I get is unc e, eg g , Choice of Perils. Mother's Idea. t „ "This dog," said the fancier, "will British Plantation Rubber Is Saving Canada Millions Low Prices of Rubbers and Overshoes Due to Britain's Control of Situation Here in Canada many of us have fallen into the truly Anglo-Saxon habit of considering the " Mother of Parliaments " slow and a bit behind the times. The present price of rubber, when its cause is revealed,' affords one of the many proofs that such an opinion is away off the mark. Thanks to great rubber plantations established, in the face of criticism and ridicule, many years before in her tropical Dominions, Great Britain at the out- break of war held a firm and tightening grip on the world's supply of raw rubber—a grip reinforced by her dominating navy. Froin 60% in 1914, the production of these plantations has grown this year to 75%0 of the whole world's output, leaving only about half the requirements of the United States alone to come from all other sources. The result has been that the needs of the Allies, enormous though they are, have been plentifully sup- plied, while Germany has been reduced to registered snails and the," Deutschland " in desperate attempts to mitigate hdr rubber famine. Neutrals have been allowed all the rubber they want, at prices actually lower than *lyre the war, so long as they prevent any of it from reaching the enemy, while Canada and other parts of the Empire have an abundant supply at equally favorable Government regulated prices. In this foresight and generosity of the British Govern= Ment lies the reason why rubber alone, of all the great staples, has not gone up in price—why rubber boots, rubbers and overshoes are alt inescpensive as ever, While leather eather shoes are costing several dollars a pair more. Wearingrubbers or over- shoes through this winter to protect these expensive shoes, shoes to replace them 15 more thanp or rubber farm ppractical" teful atriotism for in thus sav n leather. ra t g Yt---it is p , t ri g secure theabsolutely r theGovernmentto s c •ot�a make it easier Po at this alarmin scarcemat 1 . . er, tor: necessary supplies $' Y our holdiers, Both Thrift and Patriotism Poini to Rubbers'!, 06 em put up at once. "Is she dead, then ?" inquired his nephew, in a voice the hollowness of which befitted the question. "How the devil could she be?" re- suppose that doesn't suggest anything turned his uncle, staring at him. to you?" "No, I didn't think of that," said The mate shook his head. Flower; "of course, she couldn't give "Can you see any way out of it?" her consent,could she—not if she was inquired the other. "What would dead, I mean." Captain Barber drew his chair back and looked at him. "His joy has turned his brain," he said, with con- ble about anything else." viction. "And lose thirteen cottages and this "No, it's my foot," said Flower, ship, and my berth into the bargain," rallying. "I've had no sleep with ib. said the skipper. "Now you try and I'm delighted! Delighted! After all think of some other way, and if you these years." haven't thought of it by dinner -time, "You owe it to me," said his uncle, I'll tell you what I'm going to do." with a satisfied air. "I generally see No other scheme having suggested my way clear to what I want, and . itself to bhe mate by 'the time that generally get it, too. I've played Mrs. I meal arrived, he prepared to play the Banks and Mrs. Church again one an- part of listener. The skipper, after, other without their knowing it. Both ' carefully closingboth the door and the 'sapless in my hands, they was." 1 skylight, prepared to speak. farewell and departed. "What's the game with the foot?" inquired the mate, in a low voice. "Tell you by and bye," said the skip- per; "it's far from well, but even if it wasn't I should pretend it was bad. I you do if you were in my place . "Marry the girl I wanted to marry, said the mate, sturdily, "and not trots - protect you from burglars." "Yes. But I'd rather take my chance with a burglar than with the dog." "But what's the matter with Mrs.; "I'm in a desperate fix Jack that Church ?" said his depressed nephew.; you'll admit," he said, by way of pre - "Oh, that's the worst of it," and; paration. Uncle Barber, shaking his head.. The mate cordially agreed with:him. "While I was in play, that pore wo- "There's Poppy down at Poplar, man musb have thought I was in Matilda at Chelsea, and Elizabeth at earnest. She don't say nothing. Not Seabridge," continued Flower, in - a word, and the efforts she makes to dicating various points on the table control her feelings is noble." Iwith his finger as he spoke. "Some - "Have -you told her she has got to i men would give up in despair, but go then?" inquired Flower. I I've thought of a -way out of it. I've Captain Barber shook his head. never got into a corner I couldn't "Mrs. Banks saved me that trouble," I get out of yet." he said, grimly. "You want a little help, though, "But she can't take notice from sometimes," said Flower. Mrs. Banks," said Flower; "it'll have - "All part ,of my plans," rejoined to come from you." Flower, airily. "If it hadn't been for "All in good time," said Captain • my uncle's interference I should have Barber, wiping his face. "As I've been all right. A Man's no business done: all this for you, I was going to to be so officious. As it is, I've got •let you tell her." I to cl "Something decided." "Mel" said Flower, with emphasis. If I were you," interrupted Fraser "Certainly," said Captain Barber "I should go to Captain -Barber' an d. .with. more emphasis still. "Just get tell him straight and plain how the her to yourself on the quiet and that thing stands, You needn't mention lude to it casual . Then after that anything about Miss Tipping. Tell in- I'metX that • n th . ria y the other the a t inbo I mhim when u ' et'w n bring the subject up • m room. As it'sToo forou to makey and your wife, you might fix the date That'll the hest wa� r kt 11 be . � fox er to g o. hy to do it."- •- "Xt seems to me it is rather hard on her," said his nephew, co npassionate- ly; "perhaps we had better wait a lit- tle longer." "Certainly net," said Captain Bar-- A pian may wake his first baby just to see it laugh, but he never disturbs the peaceful slumbers of the second. best in be r her. It 11 tensa to' mar y the longi sun, and fairer to Miss sl y Tell r 100." "You dont lknow,my • uncle as well as I do," retorted the skipper, "lie's ,as obstinate an old fool as ever breath- 'ed. If I did as you say I should lose everything. Now, I'll tell you what I'm going to do; To -night, during .• Dog Is Globe Trotter. tter. Mitch, a Scotch terrier, was rescued from the sea three years ago by Capt. Haines of the steamship Somerset. Since then the dog has been around the world twice, through the war zone and the shadow of the revolutions of Mexico and Haiyti. 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Have the stables ready for them, and keep them hi during' cold or wet nights especially.