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RcfIpof and Other Veltieblo Information
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WUPS,
White 1ttoui>taih Sohl ---To one
'-• level teelcupftti of cold cooked rico
acid one ounce of dry grated cheese,
one cupful of vegetable stock
!(liquor remaining from cooking
,peas, cabbage,• etc), one, and one-
half pints of hot milk, one level
teaspoon each of salt and pepper.'.
Put these ingredients into a sauce
pan. Stir over the fire until it
boils, then remove and pour lite
:soup plates. Beat the white of ono
.egg until stiff, salt lightly; with
a teaspoo:m dispose the egg 111little
mounds on the surface of ,the soup,
Serve with cone-shaped wafers.
Vegetable Mulligatawny, — One
quart of vegetables of all kinds cut
altto pieces. Cook until tender in
three pints of boiling water. Pass
through,a. sieve and return to sauce
pan- ' with one tablespoonful of .rice
flour, one tablespoonful of curry
paste,, the same of ground.: nuts,
,juice of,haif•a lemon, a teaspoo;tful
`of salt, and half a teaspoonful • of
pepper. Cook Mr twenty minutes,
• rain•- n r
w,
' all 'til se se wit . sted
-to
wafer
e. a
• wa s.
Soup a la Garden.—Ono cupful
of white meat of chicken, six chap-
ped mushrooms, one tabiespon of
minced parsley, one carrot chopped
fine, two pints of boiling water,
Cook until water is reduced to a
pint. Rub through a sieve. Add
one pint of milk, two teaspoons of
flour rubbed into half a cupful of
-cream, ..a . saltspoon of salt, and a
half teaspoon of pepper. Return
to the fire, reheat, and serve. Good.
served cold.
Fruit Bouillon.—Peel three ap-
ples and core; add to them one-half
cupful of seeded raisins, six chop-
ped figs, the same of apricots, one-
half capful of -ground nuts. Pour
over one, pint of boiling water and
let simmer over the fire for forty
minutes. Remove from fire and rub
-through a' sieve. To the liquor add
one cupful of fruit juice, juice of
two oranges- and one lemon, one
pint of water. Chill and pour into
long stemmed glasses. Whip one
eepfil of cream and with a lea-;
' spoon dispose in the chilled fruit
;bouillon. Serve with graham
Wafers.
Potato Whisk Soup.—Boil -three
medium sized potatoes until done.
Mash fine, add a teaspoon each of
salt and white pepper, a tablespoon
of butter, three cups of milk, one
and ono -half cups of boiling water.
Place on fire and let come to boil
before removing from fire, stir in
the neaten whites of two eggs, and
nerve at once with crisp salt crack -
era,
Yellow Tomato B0ullion.—To one
quart of cooked yellow tomatoes,
add one-half teaspoon of baking
socla and place over the fire; beat
the yolk of one egg and add to a
pint £0 milk; into this mixture stir
one pint of boiling water ; mix well
with the boiling tomatoes and re-
move from the fire. Add one-half
, teaspoon of celery salt, a pinch of
salt, and blaok pepper and serve
hot.
FRUIT RECIPES.
Fruit Salad,—Cut in .small pieces
sis
oranges: Mix with half' a can
of sliced pineapple diced. Add a
dozen marshmallows cut into bits,
then add broken English walnuts.
Mix well. ' On each salad plate
place a lettuce leaf and some of
the salad. Dot over: with mayon-
naise dressing. This is delicious
besides being a beautifii] decoration
in color for the table.
,• Grape Juice.—To make it just like
that you buy in the drug store, pick
the grapes from the stems, wash
therm ancl put in a granite kettle
(tin discolors it). Heat until the
juice flown, then strain through a
heavy cloth. Add as much water
as there is juice, and to ovary quart
of this a cupful- of sugar. Bring
to boil and bottle.
Brown Raisin Bread,—One cup
corn meal, one cup rye meal, one
eup whole wheat flour; sift to
gather, their acid one teaspoonful
salt, two teaspoonfuls melted but-
ter; add to this one and three-quar-
ters cups water, three-quarter cup
niolasscs, two and a half teaspoon-
fuls of soda, one cup raisins; steam
for four hours.
Ginger Pears. --Peel, core, find
tut in ver'y thin slices, )?or eight
pounds of sliced fruit put into the
kettle the juice of five lemons, ono
cup water, seven pounds sugar,
one-half pound ginger root out find
scraped in titin slices. Let .sugar
dissolve before adding fruit. Cut
peel of lemon iim long, thin slices.
Lot fruit and lemon cook slowly
for on hour, tineover, and put in
(are,
Crab Apple •Jelly.—\Vasil, the ap-
'ales, cut out blossom end and
stems only, cover in the kettle with
water, just cover well, boil till
all hi pieces, strain in a sack over
night, measure juice- and sugar'
oven)'; boil the juice twenty inns -
ultimo 'and put the sugar in the , co
Overt to heat, then add 'heated.
•
sugar Sind boil sot tnoi'e than nig)
:mina tea. Is fine and never,fails
Quince Jelly,•a-Boil' the pectin
•in water to covet' them until sof
then drain, don't squeeze, ad
•equal parts of sugar, and boil tint
ready to put in glasses;. will b
from twenty minutes to a half Mon
APPLE HINTS.
In these days of, high priced foo
the fresh green apple, fills a lon
felt -want; not only for the ptesen
need, but for the winter etoro. •
Where the spur green apple
plentiful, it is excellent econom
to eau for future use some of th
first green sauce which has bee
strained through the colander an
sweetened to taste, as no etlte
sauce' has quite the same flaw
This makes a.delight£ul relish. I
becomes a delicacy (called,;appl
whip) when mixed with whippe
cream and served in sherbet gra
sea.' • A. spoonful, of red_ raspberrie
or 'Other preserves on top of' cad
glass may add interest to this dish
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with cannedcferrl s cya.nborrice
and other fruits with good results
Theme aour apples make fine jelly
Many like to add a. little lerno
juice and peeling or a rose gerani
um leaf, as our grandmother. did
others prefer rhubarb, and all ar
good. Excellent jelly is made wit
one-third apple juice and two -third
pluns, or equal parts of each.
kbr• jelly, . do. not peal, but„was
thoroughly and -cut into quarters`0
halves with seeds and core left in
cover with water and let oorne to
boil. Strain the best part of juic
for jelly and the remaining Sul
and juice, after thorough cooking
put uurough the colander and mak
into marmalade or butter, - pain
lots of orange peel cut fine and
little juice. Lenton is fine used in
the same way.
The best marmalade, however, i
made when -none of the juice is pn
aside for jelly, but,extra juice ad
'dad to>the natural -sauce and -one
third sugar or more may, be used
,and eook;to a jelly-like ednkisteuey
The•above is as pod as orange mar
nealade. Others will prefer the le
men.
` A good butter is made of cooked
dried apricots by steaming the juice
and mashing the remainder, or tak
ing same through colander. One
pint of apricot juice, one of the
pulp, two of apple sauce, one heap-
ing pint of sugar, or more, if de-
sired, the rind of one lemon. Cook
until clear. And everybody knows
that good, old-fashioned apple but-
ter isn't slow. •
, Save: time he making apple sauce:
Don't peal the apples; cut them up
and boil them; then put 'through a
colander. The sauce is just as good
and it takes a. quarter of the time.
PEACH RECIPES.
Peach Shortcake.—Peach short-
cake, with almond and whipped
cream, snakes a rich baking pow-
der crust; roll out about a fourth
of an inch thick, cut with a cookie
cutter into rounds, butter half .of
these, and' place .the unbuttered
ones en top: Bake therm, splitthem
open, 'butter ;them, and fill and
eover each one with fresh peaches
cut in -slices' unci- sprinkled with
powdered sugar. Serve- hot, sur-
rounded by'. plenty of whipped
cream, sweetened and flavored with
almond extract and filled with
chopped almonds about one-half
cupful.
Peach Pudding.—Peel and stone
six large ripe peaches, fill the cen-
ters with Wiesbaden strawberries
or Maraschino cherries. Put them
on the ice to get cold. Make a cus-
tard of one cupful of milk with one-
fourth of a cupful of sugar, yolks
of three eggs and a tiny piece of
butter. When this is cold, flavor it
with maraschino or almond. Line
a dish with slices of sponge cake or
lady fingers; put in the peaches,
then the custard. Beat the whites
of the eggs stiff and then add them
to one-half of a cupful of cream
whipped stiff. Sweeten and flavor.
Cover the custard with a garnish
of cherries and serve cold.
HOUSEHOLD 1.1INTS.
An asbestos mat under the bread
pan will help the bread to rise nn
a cold night, as it will prevent the
bottom being chilled. The urdin-
ar,y stove mat,may be used.
A back rest for an invalid, which
will be found comfortable for one
confined to bed, is made of a wide
board, well padded, and slipped in-
to a cretonne pillow' ease.
A safe paint cleaner is as follows :
Two'quoa'ts of hot water, two table-
spoonfuls of turpentine. and one
pint 'of: skimmed milk,' with soap
enough to make a weals Buds.
Coarse sandpaper should be kept
in the kitchen and used for scrub-
Vita- kettles that are burned and
tor removing anything that has
atnck to the pan-in•the process of
It elteektt bleeding wounds, and lox
bleeding of the heath .or tongue
wash in *old water in wlrjolt Blain
]lags been dissolved is very effeotitro,
Paint must net he scrubbed with
aandsoap, or It will bo worn off,
Wipe off with a cloth dipped i'
thick suds of white 505,1) and rinse
With a clean cloth wrung from hot
atwer.
Dishes which contained eggs, or
pastry or dough should be washed
in cold water, since by washing
them in hot wafer the adhesive sub-
stance is eooked and thus harden.
ed, •
In sprinkling 'table linen ago a
large salt shaker, and its the writer
put a little cold starch---abuut a
tablespoonful to a quart of water,
The linen will iron with about, the
same stiffness as when new.
Glass is an ideal eliciting for a
kitchen closet, as it can be leapt
Olean so easily. If this is too costly
paint the shelves white and give a
coat of enamel. This is easily
eorubbed and does away with the
necessity of papers.
To whiten ' handkerchiefs which
]lave' heeome is bad color through
careless washing soak them for a
night in a solution of pipe -clay and.
warm water, -and •boil 'then next
day in tlie usual way, and they will
come but looking beautifully. white.
"In '& oking vegetables all those
grown underground should - be
cooked 'in cold water, adding the
salt befolo they,ere clone, and
they
,sliotild be keptvered :w-htle eoek
ing. All of the fresh or green vege-
tables ahouki be put on in boiling
water and left uncovered so that
they keep their color. •
A. rice dish that children like is
prepared by cooking a scant cup-
ful of rice in three cupfuls of water
for 20 minutes, then adding half a
cupful of raisins, a cupful of milk-
and
ilkand a tablespoonful of butter: Adel
also a little sugar'to'suit the taste
and a pinch of salt. Stir well and
cook a little longer, until thick.
Water that fresh vegetables have
been cooked in may be added to the
stook pot for 'flavor. All bones,
stale bread and left -over meat
scraps may also be used in the stock
pot, which at this season should be
strained off twice a week, the liquid
cooled and the grease strained off.
Then it is ready for the foundation
of soups or gravies of all kinds.
THEND
SU AY SCHOOL STUDY
IN'rIi LESSi)N
SEPT. 10. ,
Lesson SCI.—Daniel and his com-
panions, Dan. 1. 8-20. Golden
Text„ Rom. 14. 21.
Verse 8.. Daniel—In the reign of
Jehoiakim,' king of Judah (B.O.
603), Nebuchadnezzar, king of
:13abyloii,, <besieged•,Je.rusalem, and
took with him to Babylon certain
sacred vessels of the temple and
some Jewiah captives. Among the
latter were Daniel and his three
companions, Hannaniah, Mishael,
and Azarial: They were chosen,
with others of singular beauty and
intelligence, to be trained in the
service of the king. Doubtless they
were not more than fourteen years
of age (compare Isa. 39. 7).
He would not defile himself with
the king's dainties -The provision
had been made- that the Hebrew
children should for-threeyears: be
fed. upon the food and wine which
came from the king's table. • This
was considered a great .honor. The
delicacies were of course the finest.
At the end of three years of such
living, the "children" were -to
"stand before the king." The de-
filement of this diet would be strict-
ly ceremonial. The Jews, especi-
ally in later times, laid great stress
upon dietary laws. In this ease
the sheat might be that. of animals
improperly killed, or of animals
prohibited as food (Lieut. 12; Lev.
11),, Then the meat and wine might
have been consecrated to heathen
deities, and partaking of them
would be equivalent to a reoogni••
tion of these deities, Antiochus
Lp.iphanes sought to force the Jews
to eat unclean food in this way.
9. Macre Daniel to find kindness
-Like Joseph in Egypt, be had
kindled an affection for himself in
Ile heart of his captors. He had
but to make his request, and the
prince of the eunuchs looked fav-
orably upon it.
10. So would ye endanger my
head—The king would be greatly
displeased if the youths appdarecl
before bin unlit because of insuf-
ficient nourishment, It was time
business of the eunuch to make
them thrive' physically as well as
mentally.
11, Then said Daniel to the
steward --He was certain that the
objection on the part of the eunuch
arose only from his dread of the
king's displeasure. 5o he turns to
the subordinate officer, who acted
as a sort of guardian of the Jewish
youths.
1),iniel, Hananiali—Upon enter-
ing time Babylonian court they had
beep given memos less suggestive of
their Jewish connections and wor-
ship. ToDaniel, whose name sig-
nifiede"'Gad• is -my judge," was giro.
n rho name Beltesliazzar, nearing bit
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Always keep alum in .the house. ,
(`»a.,Xel1ovah ie gl'aoiouaJ ) was oat
Shadraeh ("The commend
Aku'"?. Mlehael ("'Who Is
'God is 9") was called Meal)
("Who is what Ako is 9"), Azar
("Jehovall hi* helper") was cal
Abednogo ("Servant of Nebo
This praetiee of giving a new ea
to a person entering the service
a foreign land was eurtonun'
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12. Provo thy sors'ants
days—This was a, • kind'. of my
Persian week, a sufikeiently 1
time to test the results of the p
posed ,:lief.
Pulse ---Vegetable food in gene
is meant, besides dates, Paler
and otihee fruits,
16; Their' cottntenitncee elven
fairer—They were••�alsu fatter
floslt, an expression used of cat
(Gen, 41, 2).- It has often been
marked that monks and others
fast £fequeintly have a clearer s
and livelier health,
10. Toole away their dainties
The Hebrew implies that the tr
mein became habitual.
17. God gave them knowledg
They .continued to flourish int
lectually as well as physical
Compare verse 4. No techni
knowledge is intended. They
came sagacious, versed in -.en
knowledge as was prevalent at t
time. As , a general forecast
what is to` follow in the book, it
further stated that Daniel had u
clerstanding in all dreams and v
ions. ..The . Ghaldeans attrac
great tmpiii'tanee te•thene, but; iz
Moses and Joseph before him, t
youth, though in an alien land, e
celled his 'teachers in their o
field.
18. Brought them in—As verse
shows, the "them" refers to all
Hebrew youths mentioned in ver
3' and 4.
19. The king communed wi
them—Be tested them by famili
conversation. Among them all w
found none like the four faithf
lads who had renounced the lu
'tries of the court because of reli
ions scruples. They were to fa
severer trials, but their ateadfas
nese at this critical period of th
lives proved them of good mettl
besides being a most excellent p
paration for what was to bef
them. Their escape from the co
mon corruptions of Oriental sou
life was remarkable. Their bei;
selected to stand before the ki
signified that they were to beco
his. personal attendants. This w
naturally a position of honor a
influence.
20. Magicians—The Word is
Egyptian origin, and was probe,
ly taken front Genesis and Exodu
where it was frequently Used, an
refers to those who interpr
dreams and work magic. Anyon
who was aoquainted with the o
cult arts was regarded as a mag
elan. The Babylonians were wort
renowned in their skill as encha
ters, or devotees of magic art.
21. Continued even unto the fir
year of king Cyrus—The date woo
be B. C. 538, or seventy years afte
this event, making Daniel an o
man. As a matter of fact, he
mentioned (Dan. 10. 1) as bein
alive in the third year of the reig
of Cyrus. What is meant here
probably, is that he oontiau.ed fo
all those years in the character o
man of great wisdom in the cit
f Babylon. Amid seductions an
pitfalls of a position of influent
in a heathen court, he did not fal
ter or flinch.
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CANADA'S •71T Mi3EIl CUT.• -
White fine Gradually Yielding to
Spruce and B. ('. Woods,
Interesting statistical e0mpari-
sons may he spade from the 1910
limber report,.prepared by the
Dominion Forestry Department. Of
the tweney-six native species of
woad which' together were cut in
1910 to the extent -of four billion
nine hundred million board feet,
worth over seventy-seven million
dollars, the first nine were conifer-
ous or soft woods. Spruce was the
most important, alone forming over
ont-quarter of the total eut. Spruce
and white pine together formed
barely one-half of the 1910 cut,
while in the year previous these two
species made up nearly three-fifths
of time total. The decrease in pro-
portion is due not to a smaller cut
of the two species, but to a very
great increase in the amount of
dough's fir, hemlock, cedar and yel-
low pine produced in British Colum-
bia. One quarter of the 1909 eut
was formed of these four species,
while in 1910 the total cut of the
four was increased by 70 per cent,
White pine lumber is undergoing
a gradual evolution in its import -
mice to the lumber industry. Up
to three years ago white pine stood
at the top :of the list, when it was
supplanted by spruce, although the
actual cut of the former had not de-
creased. The prediction of last
year that white pine had nearly
reached its maximum cut has prov-
en true this year, the 1909 cut being
decreased by 4 per cent., or forty-
two million feet, Yellow pine in -
(moused in its cul, nearly 00 per cent.
in British Columbia during. one.
near. This increase of over one
hundred and fifty muillion feet was
sufficient to raise it teem fourteenth
place in rho species table to sixth
niece in irnpartanee, thus surprise-
ing in one year red pine, becch,,
snie and the four most import -
`1301, protect his life." Hananiah ant hardwoods.
IF)41
lr3y Malcolm Muoilly'
""It' the doctor?"
"itlel"
Ql lire, Qurnoy tried to lift her+
%telt Up on One elbow in bed, as nuug
;Pr, i'homaa, by far the Mogi an
telother'il bo OM tp•morrow and
i n1111 now to limpet he day,
t'
When you 'wilt!" elle saidi
�1 hen tht'ee weeks to -day?" lie aelp'
bd ,lie voice atilt glade
"Yee:"
'c'hor'e was a pease,
°Bessie!"
Well?"
' °' Aren't you glad, dear?"
'"()f °casae 1 slut'`
most popular nun urea lu Brea fie tools her in ifs arms and Ic1eaed;
tune, mato with her mon, John, into her,;
the si*k'roole, She 'Wee vert 111, poor Tho 0
lady, butt ho ohs r young o o'd ct*h had, boon to see Mia.,.
o y Y u r;; d of i al -Harney oil the eve of her weddings
Ways awned to bring with hire a new day, and attar eaylnit od-hyo to hie;
isenee of life's atrongth,
"And M • patient he had take11 John out with
how a re. Outlay?" he raked, im into rho Street, His Moe wee
goingovot to tate bed, aarioue, 4114 .Jo11n noticed it, 1
"Finel "Nothing wrong, doctor?"
Theta good, thee good! he oat, The deetor
"theta nl'ned,
.claimed, that s- how I want you to "Look here, John," he ward, "you've
il000k�at thlege; wall soon have You up! got to know it, end you must take it'.
then!" ' well, Your mother will never woo
l The old lady laughed whrilly, agarol aho Sa blind for life!"
• "Oh! but it's not you, doctor, it it ''Doctor!"
dear John, there," uh ,
The dootor turned to John,rn ac worry„ heart You muasa tl
: take St more tot heart than you can'
What's this?" • help. INs part of tho scheme and,
1 "It's the news he hast" answered! you haven verything to bet hankfu
Mia, Gurney, for,, in that your mother is still with
"Tile newel," i "
"Test I'm saying the news. lt'e you."
i d ptother b
put new life foto moo id hoses; Dr,; „- „ rat otter otherwleef" :
Thomas, 1e'a promised his old moth; Inog-cart, —the doctor got fnto�
hie dog -cart, "She's a different wo-'
or that, as soon as I'm up and about, man but, mind you, John, no shooksll
he'll marry you Bessie Deane.'" Qood byes" y1
'Why, John!" the doctor cried,:. John was 3uat entoiiag hie ;rause
'this is vood newel! i whoa aw stall boy oaught him by' the)'
Ayt iti h good news, the finest that, sissys.
could bei" the' mother rattled on, "Mays Deane told me to give yod
"It's no good that I already feel better, this;'
today, My doctor,
Johnjust'one 0.lassto John took the,Droffered letter wi
dear men; doctor, who wants' a lase to a shaking hand;things had got na
look after !
e him and'bull him
a all men
y
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Otter with Bessie, need fuer him bol. some need_it. more e• !°, and he dreaded to
'' kcal l bitter, - than- others=theyKre'- the �S9sb menti - Bfand! g` rho •rdeti' is o en
And yon Bessle's tiles weetest lase; isa p ed i
the beet In Breamtune," —his mother was indoors with Jean
"She Mi" John eagerly assented•; and he did not want them to 6eb is nti
and the doctor nodded his agreement. read the missive.
Then het urned to his patient: Dear John," it ran,—"I don't aa!
"That's right, Mrs. Gurney; but we you to forgive me, I don't expect that
must still be very careful. Let me'. you can, and I know that I do met dei
have a look at the eyes!" serve It. I am so sorry. You have
'They'i"e all right, doctor!" been quite right; for the last two!
"Yes! I'm surer hey are! But I'll months there has been something be+
met have• 0,. look!"
of th it
tween us, and that—oh, John! for
'Downstairs, some ten minutes later,; give mel—lies been that', love ani
the doctor shook John very warmly other map, The only good thing
11
by hie hand, have done is to leave Breamtune with
"Well done, well done, John!" ho him to -day and saved you from mar;
was saying. 'You've done more than, rying me, He is Charlee'Lugge• We
all the doctors in the world could do. are to be married in Glasgow to -day;
After all, a son'se love la a very good. and he begs you to forgive us. Dear
medicine for his mother. The old John, I am sorry, I am sorry, I am
lady's far, far better; your marriage. sorry! My chief fault is that I have
will give her another good five' been too much of a coward to telt)
Years—" you, for no woman can help her love,
"It will?" John cried, tears In his
I am so, so sorry!"
eyes. 1 The letter dropped from John's:
"Certainly; but—" '1 hand, and fluttered to the ground. He;
"But?" stood for a moment as still as death;
"Well, as I said, wem ust be very' Juat as pale. He was thinking, not of
careful indeed. The eyes are not so: Bessie, for she had .killed his lova for
well;: I'in only frightened—" ' her.. but of his mother! i
"You don't mean she'll be blind, doe- Tho doctor's words: "John, no,
for?" • shocks! One must always keep face.
' The other hesitated. ! to face with a weak heart; a moment's
That, of course, is the- dnager; neglect may mean,the end: •
'John. I wanted your mother to wear. Indoors he found Jean. His mother
glasses five years ago, •but, like so was resting. To his surprise, Jean
many old .people she was terribly came quickly to him,
proud of her 'wonderful eyesight,' and "I know all about it, John!" The
now she's paying the penalty. There's 'girt had caught his arm, her voice
another thing: she must have abate was broken with grief. 1
lately no excitement." John looked down into her tearful
"I'll be very sure of that!" 1' face; he had never realized how
"Yes, do! Her heart is still week, beautlful Jean was—as pretty -as Bes:
and to be quite frank, any great shock ;ale, every bit."
would mean the end. You must keep ' "Cheer up! We'll Just have to dd
-her mind easy, happy, and at peace," our beet!"
—he held out a hand. "I'm sure you'll. "But motheri You know what the
do it, John!" . doctor said, Jahn. It would kill her;'
• "Why, of course I will!" , Ile said so. She couldn't stand it. The
"And good luck to you, John. I'm ,disappointment would be terrible."
sure that I hope you will be very hap-, "But it couldn't! I wouldn't let it!
py!" I—I—" ire stroke off, and, throwing
"Thank you!" '' himself itito "a chair, buried his head
The .doctor looked up sharply atl In his halide,, Then Jean laid a gentle
John's tone; the young man's fachand on lobo's 'Shoulder. -
was very grave Por that oC a happye "John," she whispered, "it would
lover. A thought crossed the doctor's kill her!"
mind.'"Ay!" he exclaimed, looking up.
"It wasn't an excuse, John?" he'''Ansi why remind me of it?"
asked. "There's a way,"
"A way? What way?"
"She need not know, John; she need
not be told. I'm very like Bessie, my
voice—"
"Au exeuee?in"
"You aro gog to be married soon?"
"Yes, yea,' John replied. And \..tb;
this he showed the doctor out into hie:
trap. He jumped with a cry from his
John, as a matter of fact, was sorely' chair.
"troubled;' for the first time in hie life "1Vhat d'you mean, lass? What mad-
=-he had -known her -many years—Bea. • nese is this?"
}tie and Ile had quarrelled. 'To him it! - "Jobn—Jobn," sko cried, "you under -
had seemed the most joyous, the moat *'land! Don't make it so hard for
natural thing' in the world that hal me!"
'should go eagerly to his,sweethear0 Something of the girl's heroism,
to ask her to help him. Besides: something 01 her beautiful spirit came
Which, all that he asked was that she to him.
would marry him at once instead of, "You mean that you'll marry me,
waiting until the spring. • Jean, to save mother?"
It worried him that she should' "Yes; of course I do! You know
have demurred; that, at the best, her, that it will kill her. The doctor says
agreement had been a very grudging. so. And she'll never see again; the
one. Loving her as. he did, he could: doctor told me as much. We would bo
not appreciate a love which did not! 'going away to -morrow, and when we
grant a favor more easily than this. ; were back she would not recognize
"Ah, well!" he sighed. "Bessie ala my voice. The• #elk all would help
ways was a strange lass; that's her: us, and—"
fascination. The prettiest and strap-;' She hesitated, and John let the sa-
gest lass in Breamtune. It'll all come: lence stand. A thousand thoughts
right." ' I, were tushing iu a whirlwind stream
From thatd ay old Mrs. Gurney's: through his mind.
health speedily mended, save that, de. - "I'll try to be a good uhahand to
spite all Dr. Thomas's skill, her eyes' you, Jean," he said, presently, sealing
remained very weak. The doctor the bargain.
knew that all was hopeless with re-
geed to icor eyesight, but he told no' The next day they stood, man and
one. ' wife, in the sante room.
And each day Bessie Deaue and her' "You'll have to call me Bessie," the
sister Jean cane to see and cheer', girl was saying.
Mrs. Gurney. They were two sweeet' - "But you'll be ;pat nay Jean. And
lasses, as all Breamtune knew; and- 'some day," Ole young man stammered
while Bessie flitted iu for a monment, lamely, "you will learn to love me,
sprightly, ever merry and thought perhaps,'
less, her.twinspent long hours with "Perhaps," she said, In the way 'tee-
the invalid, reading to her, chatting' men have when they are•'1 reply in
with her—ever, it need scarcely bei love,
said, of John, her son,
With Johu matters had not mended; j VALOR UNAPPRd IA I l o
and, try as hoc mild; Chore was no "I love you!" he breathed with alt
hiding the fact that he and Bessie' time passion of the hero of a first-class
growing farther and farther
from onea pother; he could not tell eerier.
what was the matter. "Oh, John!" she murmured, as she
"llfother'll -be outt o'morrow," be nestled closer to hint.
told Bessie one evening, as he was . "Yes," he continued; "tilers Is nath- 1
seeing her back home, ' ing in all this wide world that 1 would
"tent glad of that!" ; not do for you, To be by ;veer side I
John was silent for a few momenta; avould swim me rougtatst sea, fight
he knew that Bessie had. understood my tray through the raging flames;
well what he had 'sweet to convey to and walk a bundred miles through the'
her, and it angered him that she .duet and heat!"
should thus Calmly ignore the natter- : "No, no, John!" she cried anxlomisly:
"Bessie!"! he exclaimed, catching;' "'Promise me you, will never do any
her arm rather roughly. "Wltat'e •pelt thing.
wrong with you, lass?" "Brit, dearest, why wenld c
"Nothing's trio nmatter; nothing that allow me thus to prove my ly a ani
1know oft" fidelity, should occasion artseOVe and
John conatdered; he knew the folly; ' "Suet think;` she affect "what twitat a`
of trying to draw ane answer teem an- horrible fright you'd took with 10515
obsihiata woman, clothes . all Wet. and faired azul
"Wen, dear," he continued scatty„ duotyl
EUROPEAN NOTES
Vivo hundred horses were sold thiel
week by the I.oedon German Omnibnti
Colnpauy,
9 1
The Duke of Argyll ie about to eel
the island of Time, inner gobridee, 80 -
square Filen in extent.
Lees Court; Faversham, Hent, ,the
resldence of Lor4 Sondes, which was
deetroyed by fire, le to be rebuilt. i
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The funeral tools thea at Tllford .of
Captain Henry Baochus, late R.A., a
Crimean veteran, who roan from the
ranks.
Alderman John Somerville, J.P„ eX
Mayor of Camberwell, died at Peck.
ham Rye, atter a long Illness, follow,
ing an operation.
The death, at the age of 81, is an-
pounced of the Rev. W. 3, Mall, rector
of St. Clement, Eastcheap, with St.
Martin-Orgars.
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Prebendary Whltefoord, vicar 0
Potterne, Wilts, died suddenly. He
was principal of Salisbury Theologi+
eel College for 28 years.
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Fifty ,iquar° yards of paving wore
displaced by the; burstin,;g� of a water
main in Queen Street, B.C., and the
road was flooded,
i * •
While clinching the last nail in the::
shoe -of - a • hor-se - which had' been
brought to be shod, Matthew Sim-.
,moods, of Ifield, -maser, fell back and
•died.
• • 5
The death has occurred at March-
ington Hail, near Uttoxeter, of Captain
'Northey Hopkins, one of the moat
;prominent expet'te on !gorse -breeding.
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, Under a new by-law made by the
(West Sussex County Council, road
llocomotives with two or more wagons,
-must be fitted with a communication
'cord.
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Mr, "Reggie" Day, who has charge
'of the German Emperor's Gradltz stud,
at a fee of £10,000 for three years,
'was married to Miss F. Davies at
Thornton Heath.
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' According to the official return
•made by the City Corporation to the
;London County Council, the present
'rateable value of the City is £5,672,-
1277, an increase of £153,056 since the„
Bast quinque::nia1 valuation.
• mi
Didlins ton Hall Norfolk, the seat of
;the late Lord Amherst of Hackney,
,was offered for sale by Messrs. Knight,
;Frank, and Rutley, but was withdrawn
;at £125,000.
. r •
Clyde shipbuilders have orders
booked for 15 large cargo shite, which
±will be begun as soon as the present
lock -out is ended. Other large ordera
:are expected.
• • •
,At an inquest at Lambeth in the caso
of Mrs. Jane Read, of Hollis Street,
Lambeth, it was stated death was due
to camphor poisoning, deceased hav-
ing drunk a poisonous lotion.
• • •
, A referendum taken by the Acton
District Coupes shows that 2,245 rate-
payers are In favor of handing over
the local electric works to the Metro-
* * *
The Home Secretary has intimated
that ho will not accede to the request
for an order expelling Mary Lemaitre,
an Englishwoman, w,.o married a
Frenchman. The woman is in the Es-
sex County Asylum at Brentwood,
* 1t r
It was stated at a Shoreditch in-
quest that th deceased, Albert Ed-
ward Bayfield, who was found dead on
the cabin floor in the sailing barge,01
which he was captain—preferred to
Bleep on the floor, so as to be ready in
case of a collision. '
• • *
The Marquis of Bute has promised
£5,260 to the Xing Edward Memorial
Fond for the Cardiff Infirmary, which
was founded by his grandfather and
erected on a site given by his father,
who also contributed large sums to the
building mud.
* • •
-At Preston, Thomas Cowers, a gar-
dener, of Walton -le -Dale, was present-
ed with a cheque for £5, torwarded:by
the trustees of the Carnegie Hero
Fund. He was shockingly burnt in
an attempt to extinguish the clothing
of a woman who was ablaze.
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In Dublin a jury awarded £1,100
damages to the Rev. Patrick Flynn,
C.C., of Glassau, near Athlone, who
sued the t=reat Souttteru and 'Western
Railway Company to reapet:t of per-
sonal injuries recetm'ed in the Tloacrea
railway accidsnl on July 10 last.
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As a thanksgiving memorial of his
thirty years' rectorate of Fitttt, the
Rev. W. Llewellyn Nicholas has under-
taken to erect at Ms own expense a
now elementary school near Filut. The
offer was gratefully accepted by the
hlintehii•e Education Authorities,
• • a
At llitohip, Harry Durraut I<cnip-
ton, an Aruiy reservist, was-sontencedj
to 0110 ntonth's hard labor for neglect-
ing his wife and child. Diming tlgcj
week following the birth o1 the ch0d,.
rhe mother had only one cup of 1ea;
one raw turnip, and two raw Carrois.
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\\'herr henry Clarice, of Cover:107i
was committed for trial for smashing
a plate -glass window at Nortbamptou.
11. was staled that prisoner wanted to
be leaked to till after 0hriei.mas, and
,mad carried halt a brick for over three"
tulles for the pnrpoae of breaking a,
window.
• • *
Thonmas Slater, n etcetera imssis;att ?.
who wae awarded LISO damages' t
atarytebone Courtly court, wan ai 4 to
have 'reed run over by a molcr-viie
weighing a` ton, bolouglug to Messrs:
Tudor Brothers, of Knightsbridge:
xdut for the , elastic coudition of hiss
ribs he Would l,e,ye been idlt°rL