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By $. P OI'1?I1NIT1;IAf.
(4opy?Gighted)
F' a SYNOPSIS; , The ambassador shrugged his shoal-�
The story, written in 1910, - begins !dere,
with Lady Anselman's luncheon -Party I shall not press roti, he said.
et the Ritz Hotel, London, Amoeg,tha ' I shall only put before you the alters,-
uests are Lord Romany,. a Cabinet alive. You are et :this present mo-
inister• Surgeon -Major Thomson, meat upon French 'soil, If you refuse
Chief In'speetor of Field Hospitals; his title mission which has been offered
• fiancee, Geraldine Conyers; her bre- to you, I shall detain you here until
fherfiancee, naval lieutenant, and old I have the means of sending you under
Olive Moreton; Csptain iron escort to Frame."
Graeae enephew of the hostess, home "Detain me? On what charge?"
h a wounded arm, Lieut. Conic" Pailieteen exclaimed angrily.
"On the charge of treason," was the
quiet reply. "I shall have you strip
ped and searched in this room, I shall
have your luggage and your room
receives- commission on a "mystery
ship and Major Thomson decodes a
secret message from the battlefield -
Lord Romsey receives a visitor and the
conversation reveal., the Cabinet Min- searc)ted at .the Milan Hotel. And now,
Min-
ister's secret dealings with Germany. Monsieur tPhe M las
Thomson calls ate Granet's apartments Once more than man was be'wilder-
rn ,discover whether he knows: any-
thing about Lord Romsey's visitott. ed, This time, however, it was be-
Granet denies any knowledge of the wilderinent of a different sort, He
so-called American chaplain. Gerald- thought for a moment steadfastly.
fee evades Thomson's pla for an info Who was there who could have betray -
mediate marriage. He expostulates ed him?
with Conyers for disclosing Admiralty "What is the nature of this deem -
plans to the .two girls and Granet. meet, monsieur, which you expect to
After a walk in the park with Gerald- find amongst my belongings?" he de-
ins, Granet returns to his room to find mantled,
"An authorized offer of peace from
Germany to the French people," the
to allow him to rejoin his regiment..ambassador answered slowly. "It is
Thomson lthe second attempt which has been
goes to the Front to Intro the
The first was torn into frag
view Granet's General and hao his meets before the face of the person
ubecpicions conilrmed. Granet motorek •
who had the effrontery to present it.
a bottle missing from a cupboard. He
warns his servant that a new hand has
entered the game. War Office refuses
two girls to Portsmouth to vest The second, 3Sonsieur Pailleton, is in
Conyers on the "Scorpion," and tried pour ),ro.ession. You may keep it if
to discover the ship's secret device. i you win. In Brazil you will find it of
That evening, because Thomson warns little use."
her that Granet is suspect, Geral-, Monsieur Pailleton folded his arms.
dine breaks their engagement. The! ei F h "h
fol:owing day Granet aids upon Mon-
sieur Guil!ot at the Milan Hotel end
give.; him a rlalutnent from the Kaiser
offering France a separate peace,.
After Granet'•s departure GuilIot,
where re real name es Pailleton, is sum-
moned to the French Embassy and
commended to convey a packet to
Brazil.
CHAPTER XIV.—(Coned.)
"It may be a little contrary to your
wishes. my friend," the ambassador
proceeded, "to find yourself 00 far
from the throb of our great struggle,
yet in these days we serve best who
obey. It is the with of those who
sand for France that you should take
th,t packet and board that stoanter"
Monsieur Pell:eon began in some
noreere t;i recover himself. He was
stili, however, bewildered.
"Mcn-,'eor," he protested, "I do net
unierr:and. This m•iseion to Brazil
of which you speak --it can have no
great importance. Carnot it be en-
trusted to some other messenger
"Ales! no, my dsir," ear was the
uncompromising reply. "It is you—
Mcnsieur Pail:ehon—whom the Presi-
dent desires to travel to Brazil." l
The eight was breaking in upon
Paillei,•au. He clenched his fists.
"I am to be got out of the way!" he'
exclaimed, The Pree:dent fears me.
politically, he fears my following!"
The ambassador drew himself a lit -1
tie more upright, a stiff, unbendmgi
figure, His words seemed suddenly to
become charged with more weight.
"Monsieur Paildebon," he said, "the'
only thing that France fears is
treacheryee
Pailleton gripped at the back of hist
chair. The room for a moment swam
before hes eyes. j
"Is this an insult, Monsieur I'Am-
basrador?" he denvende
"Take it as an insult if do your
heart there is no shadow of treachery
towards the France that is to -day, to-
wards the cause of the Allies as it is
to -day," . was the stern answer.
"I refuse toaceept this extraordin-
ary mission," Palleton declared, ris-
ing to his feet. You can send whom
you will to Brazil. I have greater
affairs before Pie,'
am a renc men, a proclaimed
"What I may do, I do for France."
"You refuse, my mission, then?"
"I refuse it."
The ambassador struck a bell upon
;his table. One of his secretaries
:promptly appeared.
"Send Colonel Defarge to me at
once," his chief ordered.
There was a brief pause. The am-
bassador was busy writing et his table.
Pailleton, who was breathing heavily,
said nothing. Presently an officer in
French uniform entered.
"Monsieur le Colonel," the ambas-
sador said, stretching out his hand to-
wards' Pailleton, "you will accept the
chzrg-e of this man, whom you will
consider under arrest. I take the full
responsibility for this proceeding. You
will conduct him to your rooms here
and you will search him. Any docu-
ment found in his possession you will
bring to me- When you have finished,
let me know and I will give you an
authority to proceed to his apart-
ments in the Milan Hotel, You under-
stand?"
"Certainly, my chief."
The officer saluted and moved to-
' ward Pailleton,
"You will come quietly, monsieur, is
it not so?" he asked,
Pailleton waved him away. He
turned to the ambassador.
"Monsieur," he decider], "I will go
bo Brazil."
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'21
CHAPTER XV.
TWO MORE GERMAN �SUBMAR
INES SUNK WITH ALL
HANDS
The Admiralty report that they re-
ceived lest night a message from
Commander Conyers of the destroyer
"Scorpion;" announcing he ens de-
stroyed German submarines U 22 and
27, with all hands.
"Well, I'm damned!" the Admiral
exclaimed, as he ]aid down the news-
paper a few mornings later. "Ralph's
done it this time, and no misbake,"
Geraldine looked over his shoulder,
her cheeks aglow.
"I knew at seven o'clock," she de-
clared. "Harris brought me bhe paper
up. They are all so excited about it
in the kiteben. You'd just gone out
in the Park."
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Geraleino'left her place et once and
bac tee.
't°i d intothe library, .She took
up the receiver.
"Is that you, Captain Granet?" she
asks.. .
"I felt that I niu,t ring you up," he
declared, "t0 congratulate you, Miss
Conyers, upon your brother's ertpleit.
I have had half a dozen soldier fellows
in already telein,ornieg to talk about
it, and we're simply mead with euni-
os'tty. Do you think we shall be told
soon how it was eerie?"
"Father's going down to the Admir-
alty to try end.fied out," Geraldine
replied, !`Ralph doesn't rely a word
exeept that he .sunk them. We've had
• wireless from 'him .this morning.,,
"It really doesn't atter much, does,
rt, Granet went on, "so long as we get
rid of the brutes, I was perfectly cer- 1
tarn, when we were flown: at Poets1
mouth, that your brother had some-
thing up hie s4erevo- Deas give one a
thrill, doesn't it, when one's ashore'
and doing nothing, to read of things
like this?"
You'i•I soon be et work again," she
told him encouragingly.
"I don't know;' he sighed, "They
talk shout giving me a home job and
I don't think I could stick it. Aro you
wiallcing in the Park this morning,
Miss Conyers?"
She hesitated for a moment,
"No, I awn playing golf at Ranee
legh "
Might I call this afternoon?"
"If you like," she assented. "After
four o'clock, though, because I am
staying cut to lunch"
"Thank you so much," he replied
gratefully.
She set down the receiver again and
went ,track to the (breakfast -room.
"Captain Granet just wanted to con-
gratulate us all," she announced. "and
to know if he could' Dome in to tea this
afternoon,"
"Better ask him to dinner, my
dear," the Admiral suggested hospi-
tably. "He's a Sine young fallow,
Granet. Very thoughtful of him to
ring us up."
Lady Conyers made no comment,
'Geraldine was bending over her plate.
The Admiral rose to hie feet. He was
much too excited to ,pursue the con-
versation.
"I shall walk down to the Admiral
ty and see if I can get hold of old
Wilcock," he continued, "If he won't
tell me .anything, I'll wring the old
beggar's neck."
The Admiral left the house a few
minutes later and Lady Conyers
walked arm in arm with her daughter
into the pleasant little morning -room
which looked out upon the Square,
The former parsed for a moment to
look at Thomson's photograph, which
stood upon one of the side tables.
Then she closed the door,
"Geraldine," she said, "I am not
very happy about you and Hugh."
"Why not, mother?" the girl asked,
out of the window.
"P,a,rhaps :bemuse I lice Hugh"
Lady Conyers went on quietly, "per-
' baps, too, because I am not sure that
you have done wisely. You haven't
given me any reason yet, have you, for
breaking your engagement?"
Geraldine was silent for a moment.
Then she name back and sat on the
rug at her mother's feet. She kept
her face, however•, a little turned away.
"It's so hard to put it into words,
mother," she said thoughtfully, "only
Hugh never seemed to give me any
of his' confidence. Of course, his is
very dull work, looking after hos0ii-
tals and that sort of thing, but stili,
I'd have liked to try and take an
interest in it. He must have seen ex-
citing things in Francs, but it is only
by the merest chance that one ever
realizes that he has been even near
the Front. He is so silent, so Se-
cretive."
Lady Conyers took up her lcnittdng,
"Some toren are like that, dear," she
remarked. "It is just temperamental.
Perhaps you haven't encouraged him
to talk."
'But I have,' Geraldine instated. "I
ave asked him no end of questions,
u before has has amewered any of
em properly, I find 'him trying to
sago th
"I want to know how it was done," e t
the Admiral speculated. "Can't have th
been ramming if he 'bagged two of eh
them, and they surely never came to
the surface voluntarily, with a de
strayer about,"
Geraldine glanced around the room
to be sure that they were alone.
"Don't you remember when Olive
and I were at Portsmouth?" she said.
"Ralph had been absolutely dumb
about it but he did just give us a hint
that he had a little surprise in store
for the submarines. There was some-
thing on deck, covered all up and
watched: by a sentry, and just before
we sat down to lunch, you know, we
were turned ofl and had to go to the
'Ship.' Ralph wouldn't tell us a word
,about it but I'm sure he's gat some
new contrivance on the 'Scorpion' for
fighting the submarines."
"There may be something in it,"
the Admiral admitted cheerfully. "I
noticed the Morning Post naval Pian
the other day made a very guarded
reference to some secret means of
dealing with these vermin."
Lady Conyers sailed into the xoom, a
telegram in her hand.
"A wireless from Ralph," she an-
nounced, "Listen."
Have sunk two of the brutes. More
to come, Love, Rai h.
They pored over the telegram and
the newspaper until the breakfast was
cold. The Admiral was like a boy
again.
' If we can get rid of these curses
of the sea," he said, erettling down at
last to hie bacon and eggs, "and get
those Germans to come out, the war
will be over months before any one
expected. I shall go down to the Ad-
miralty before breakfast and see if
they've ttpything to tell, Ralph gave
me a hint about the not scheme bet
ine never even mentioned anything
else."
The teleph ane rang in tite next roans
awl a servant summoned Geraldine.
plain Gran, t wisltea to spode to
Mina Gen, t�rs," he announced,
"Men don't like talking about the
- war, you know," Lady Conyers went
on. 'There was that aloe Major Tyn-
dale who was back from the Front the
Sen nt°r Care of the Feet,
T feet 1
t
The s 1 dbe well. ou, w l aged f
all tunes, bttt eapceaelly so in
weather when they arae most emis:it
So many timpurities are carried
through the pares of the feet, that
daily bath is real y a mees::'ty, If
tub bath is not convenient the. 1
can be sponged in a moment,
or at
waxm
ive,
off
the
the
thecocoa. Dissolve cocoa in a very small
sponging to be followed by a b
rub with o rough towel.
If the feet are sensitive and t.
bathe theme . M. a- solution of blearb
ate of soda and hot water; two'
epooufuls of soda to- n .earl of w
will be euffioieoob, A bath of this s
often relieves the'pain caused by t,.
and huniona Any attention gayety
nails or corns should fel ow the.
bath,
Lr casing for the feet, tut the n
In concave form or rtraight across,
cording to the shops of the toe,
any case avoid cutting the corn
the nails too short, or 'tithe skin of
toe wile be forced over the nail
further growth of the nail will fore
under the flesh, when inflammation
sure to follow, sometime& with seri
results. Sharp corners of the nails
should be rounded by means of a nail -
file,
table-
ater
oat
to
over the egg, which has been ten
with sugar and salt. Place in: double
boiler, trod cook until mixture coats
back of Speen. Strain, .cool, add' van
ilia, and freeze,
Cocoa ice cream --4 cups creast
(thin), 1 cup eegnr, % teaspoon telt,
1 tablespoon vanilla, 4 ibablespoons
risk amount of bailing water, add to Dream,
sugar, flavoring, and salt, Freeze,
yndm Chocolate sauce --1% squares chez.,
elate, 1 cup sugar, % cup water, '%
teaspoon Cream of tartar, 1-8 teaspoon
vanilla„ Boil eager, water, anti cream
of Millar to the consistency of thin
syrup, and pour over the melted choc-
olate. Cool slightly, and. adki•vaoilla,
Hot fudge . sauce -2' squares eh0e-
oliate, 2 cups water, % cup sugar, 2
steaspeons cornstarch, 1 tablespoon
butter, 2 tablespoons cold water, -1 tea-
epoon vanilla, 14 teaspoon salt. Mix
era of the grated chocolate, water, end sugar,
the and cook until the sugar es dissolved
and and the ehocolate melted. Then add
e it ,the eernstaach, which is dissolved Sn
is the coed water and the buttes, Boil
�,s three minutes, stirring constantly.
Add sugar, salt, and flavoring. nS'erve
while warm, or -cold, on ice dream.
Vanilla sauce -1 rap boiling water,
1 tablespoon •cornstarch, t cult sugar,
g n 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 tebleepoons but -
tad. tar Blend butter and cornstarch and
add to water. Add' sugar. Buil until
to it thickems, coot sliglitty, aix! add
'mina. Serve on chocolate ice cream.
Caramel sauce—Make the same as
vanilla sauce and, flavor with, caramel
syrup.
Caramel Syrup -1 cup sugar, 1 cup
boiling water. Caramelize auger, and
add to boiling water. Boll to a thick
syrup.
the
hot
ails
tec-
In
Pain and inflammation in the, lar
joint may indicate the formation of
bunion and should be carefully no
Bunions are usually caused by pr
sure, and relief comes by changing
shoes which fit more easily. To post-
pone or prevent the formation of a
bunion, grasp the big toe and work it
'round and 'round in a rotary motion
in order to loosen the joint; tide can
be followed by applications of iodine.
For bunions which have already de-
veloped use naedioated bunion plas-
ters. These give instant relief and in
time will effect a cure.
Soft corns form between the toes;
and unlless.absorbent cotton is.in eeQted
to prevent robbing, a second 'corn will
appear on the other toe. Dr. Gal-
braith, in her book on personal h
giene, recommends the application
bluestone in the treatment of
boots. The stone is moistened
in water, then -applied thoroughly
the corn and a hit of absorbent Ditto
placed between the toes. Stearate
zinc, which is a flee powcler, 13 Ela
recommended in the treatment of so
corns. Dust the powder freely on ab
sorbent eaten and place between th
toes.
When the skin splits between th
toes, apply chalk, the kind used for
writing upon blackboards. Procure
stick of the chalk, scrape off the auter
layer and throw this away. Scrap
the remaining chalk to a. fine powd
and dust this powder between the tors
The chalk has a drying effect whic
is very healing and gives quick relief
Ilford corns should be'pared or re
moved after the :bath, A solution o
one tahlesporoful of turpentine and
two tablespoonfuls of olive -oil, applied
night and morning, may assist in the
cure of the corn, If in caring
for the feet you should unfortunately
cut the flesh, bathe the wound at ono
with an antiseptic lotion. Forty parts
of listemine to one part of carbolic
acid is good for the purpose.
When excessive perspiration is Ines
ent apply the following powder, night
and morning: Salicylic acid, 105
grains'; powdered bora,cic acid, 350
grains; pure powdered talc, seven
ounces.
The Perspiration which is accom-
panied by an unpleasant odor 19 really
a disease known as "bromidrosis" and
is difficult to curd. The feet should
he .bathed. night and morning in water
containing salt or alum. The stock-
ings should be changed daily or even
twice a day,'and several mars of shoes
should be kept in use in order to sallow
each pair to be thoroughly aired and
dr
th
fo
yf measure of prettiness," After all, you
soft know, it takes pebite sixteen to wear
an severity with any degree of becoming
to nese
n I've known a frill to take ten.ysars
of from a woman%s age. Fullness is also
o l the friend of the nature woman,
ft especially if she is growling stouter.
- 'Dry a few soft folds to bide the awer-
e wand curve of the hips.
And there's the que°tion of color.
The smell wcanan need not worry her
Dressing Your Beat.
Of course you emelt' prettiness. If
I were wstiting a recipe for the older
woman's clothes, .it would Teed some-
thing like this: "Ingredients in equal
quantities, mixed well with a heaping
e head about it except, perhaps, to
a match the color of her eros or to act In exactly the same way as a
choose a shade that brings out the
Prism. or triangular piece or lass,
o lights in •her hair. But if yon are The continued; span of a rainbow is
er stout, or your hips amusedly large, or caused by billions of raindropsto sand
ting the sun's rays into colors, and
making a band or series of them.
h A double rainbow is not, as some
think, the shadow or reelection of the
f
first. Each rainbow is distinct, In
MMES
The 'Toronto H epltt1 for room..
shies, in afaltatlon with Tlelievue and
offers a tthreetye34'r4' eo t' a of Train-
ing ing to young women, having the re -
nu r d eduoalfon, and desirous of be -
earning ntn•ses. 'nth liosptrat has
ado2ited the eight,hour system, . The
pupils rsoeive untfprtns of the fleltool,
a monthly altow4 oo and travelling
expenses t end from o
rt 4e. otmNe York. 1r
or
or
further information - apply to rho
Superintendent.
carbonic acid gas, which, though form-
ing only 0.020 Per cent, of the atmos•
pliere, plays. alt importaut part in the
operations of Nature, and previdee the
weole of the vegetate° world with car-
bon its essential food,
21, however, M, Martel, the well-
known French Scientist, is right, we
need not worry about the nature et
the atmosphere 200,000 years from
now, for his •investigations into the
erosion and corrosion of the earth's
surface have led him to predict the
end of the human race in a few gene.
rations.
"The water level of the earth," M.
Martel tells us, "1s being lowered con-
tinually, and unless we can discover
how to prevent Ole the human race
will perish from lack of water` in a
few centuries," „
In direct contradiction Is the pro-
phecy of Sir Archibald Geilde. "De-
cay of the land is going on at such a
rate,' he said a few years ago, "that a
comparatively short period will auf-
floe to reduce most of the dry land to
the level of the sea, and bring about
a secohd deluge."
Those who believe that the earth is
flat have a theory equally fantastic.
They declare that the portion of the
world which we occupy to bounded by
great !ceft°lds, which form a barrier
between ns and vast oceans. The ice
barrier is being pressed continually by
these oceans, and our end will occur
when the enveloping waters burst
through and flood the land to its higli-
est peaks.
Another •idea is that the sun is a
bright light towards which the earth -
moth flits to its doom. As we circle
round and round it, we are supposed
to be decreasing the distance between
the two bodies, till 'eventually we shall
be so close that there will be no re
-
Meting the sun's attraction, Then It
w111 swallow us up:
Rainbow Revelations.
An: arched rainbow Is a pretty sight,
but It may be assumed that few of us
are learned in rainbow lore, here,
then,: are some interesting rainbow'
revelations.
To produce a rainbow there• roust
befalling rain, bright sun, and dark
clouds—he latter always opposite the
sun. The sun't rays are then divided
into colors by the raindrops, which
your .back broad, or your arms big,
watch out for slenderising shades.
Dark color are less bulky and con-
spicuous, when made up, than light
shades. Navy blue is nearly always a one we see the sun -rays entering the
safe choice. It's one of the popular raindrops at the top, and reflecting the
cotton shades, too. When the o.d,er colors to the eye from the bottom. In
woman wears a becoming navy.blue the second rainbow the sun's
en-
crepei,rays or voile, cute may have sails- ter the drops at the bottom, and re -
fled feeling that itis the enuart 'tieing fleet the colics from rho top
o bo do. L°vely,browns and grays 00me And who has noticed that the
both in sulk an 1 Colors
d cottons, The older' of the second bow are, when compared
woman may even venture a medium with the first or primary bow, ail re -
green if it'a a soft shade. • versed? The cause of this 1s tho same f
_ I might be tempted to slay, don,tlll as that which makes the colors of the
wear figures and stripes, if it weren't .secondary bow weaker. To get rho
that I have just seen such pretty. latter there has been two reflections,— a
small -Slower -sprigged voiles and nor-: one more of the last thao is the case 1
mw-stritoed • gingham tissraes, The with a primary bow. Tho colors are,
small figures and ,pin stripes add so therefore, weakened.
little to conupicuosexess that it da An evening rainbow In the east is a a
among these that the older woman sign of fine weather. The rain -clouds, t
may satisfy her' desire for variety, which generally come to us on west 11
They are so cool, fresh, and summer- and south-west winds, ere passing
like that, with a supply of them on away. s
hand, ono wouldn't stop to trey the v
wearer of awning stripes, checker- e
board blocks, blamkeb plaids, and cab-
bage rosee.
A.
it
KING COAL'S TONE,
IS IN DANGER
THE OIL CONQUEST QF'
THE WORLD.
Newly Discovered Oilfields of
Northern Canada Are Most
Extelcwlve Yet Found.
Sixty years ago petroleum, or miner
al oil, was unknown except as a little -
used drug in a liniment; n0 one even
thought of burning it, or of employing
It to drive internal cmnbuation engines.
Now we are using it to d0 all the work.
whiob, was 03105 the sole Prerogative,
of coal;
Every part of the world is being ran-
sacked for oil. Already there are vast
oilflolds in the United •States, .Trini-
dad, Russia and Japan, not to speak of
the newly -discovered fleid5 of North-
ern Canada which are probably the
greatest in existence,
John D. Rockefeller began as.a poor
1y -paid clerk; thanks to oil rte is now
A multi-milliouairo,
Directly the news is beard that ail
has been fond in any district, a stam-
pede ensues, Men rush wildly to stake
claims. Great derr1cice are erected,
and the drills eat their way steadily
through earth, sand, rook, and 'shale.
Down goes the drill,' whilst day after
day men wait and ,hope and despair;
a thousand feet, two thousand feet --
still no result. Then suddenly there
comes a roaring, rushing mass of gas,"
whose first blast often destroys the
derrick. Por days tho gas may con-
tinue to -rush forth with a noise ao
deafening -that not a word can be board
two hundred yards from, the now well.
400,000 Gallons a Day.
Then, instead of gas, a mighty foun-
tain of oil shoots into the air. The
well must now be caupod; a top fitted
with a valvemustbo placed •aver the
bore tube so that the supply can be
regulated. The well may be .d giant,
giving 10,000 barrels -400,000 gallons
—a day, or it may be a, mere pigmy
supplying perhaps rive hundred bar-
rels. In any case, it will make its
owners 'rich got life, if there .is no mis-
hap.
There are two great •risks dreaded
by ori -seekers. The first le fire, the
second salt water. itlany a well has
been fired by carelessness, and once
It is alight nothing can put it out.
There are wells In America that have
Neon shooting torrents of flan ag oil
high into the air for years. Occaelon-
ally it happens that the oil is a mere
thin tower floating upon a subterran-
ean lake or salt -water. For the first
few days, or oven months, all goes
well; then suddenly the .spouting ell
changes to brine, and the workers
know that the well is dealt.
To -day everyone Is speaking of oil
as the fuel of the future, A tan of oil
costs about twenty dollars, but it does
twice the work of a ton of coal and
thus is cheaper. When the Aquitania'
was converted from a coal -burner to
an oil -burner, tanks were made to eon,
talo eight thousand tons of oil. Mlles
of piping lead from those: to the bun-
dred and more furnaces that boat her
bolters, On her first voyage 'across
the. Atlantle as an oil -fired ship she
made a speed nearly a knot an 'hour
aster then she bad done with coal.
Sailors Will Smile.
011 furnaces need 110 cleaning out
nd no etoking, All that is necessary
s to regulate the valves that control
the oil. supply, The whole filthy bust -
ma at coaling ship Is done away with,
t the quayside oil Is pumped into the
anks through big flexible tepee. To
11 a liner's bunkers with coal takes
at least four days; she can take'In n
apply of oil suflioient for a. double
eyego across the Atlantic in six or
ight hours.
011 is cheaper, cleaner, and more
esily handled than coal. It takes up
ess room and saves labor, There can
b° no doubt tent Queen 011 will soon
ebare King Coal's throng.
led before being worn again. Po
e treatment of bromidrosis try the
ollowing formula, to be dusted in the
Des night and morning: Salicylic
id, ono drain; boric acid, four drams;
enthol, thirty 'gralere; oucalyptoi,
irty minims; French chalk, four
ncos. Rub into a fine powder in a
attar (this should be done by a
pharntacist), Many feel the need of
foot powder, and the above formula
excellent for the purpose.
Minard's Liniment for Burns,: etc.
Good Fruit.
Ther. Is ponvething else about this Healey spent al) hie ti
Poi seasons fabrics that ought to please about lits health. Ile was always 111,
the al,dsr woman: it's Lee softness of and usually when anyone went to see
weeny of them. If you aro older, be him he was in bed.wlth a headache, or
rheunteism, or something else.
One day Kealey was totter•ng miser-
ably down the road, when he fell in
with a burly friend of his named Jen-
kins.
"Jenkins" he clad, "I'd give any-
thing to be strong and healthy like
you. What dp you. live on?"
"I live on fruit," answered Jenkins,
"Fruit, eh?" said Healey eagerly.
"That sounds good. I'll have to try 1t.
eVlrat kind of fruit, Jenkins?"
"The fruit of labor," Jenkins re,
piled significantly.
Not Fit for Company.
Jane—"Please, ma'am, I've broken
something."
Mistress --"Well, Jane, wheat is it?"
Jana (oryin0)--"Int very sorry. e
'couldn't help it."
, Mistress --"Don't be silly, Jane;
tell ane what it is."
done—"0h, ma'am the cucumber
4005 crooked, and seeing yea had com-
pany I tried to band it straight."
It is well enough to the -happy, but
it is far better te. live that; way,
ma talldag 1
other day with a V.C. and goodness all
knows what. Not a word would he tie
say about any one of the fights, and m
he is cheery enough in a general way, th
isn't he, arnd fond of talking ?" ou
"Even then," Geraldine protested
"Ilugh's work Is different. I ea
undet'aband why he doesn't like to tall
about the wounded and that sort o
thing, but he must have had som
interesting advantures."
"I don't think," Lady Conyers said
"the very nicest men, balk about the!
adventures"
Geraldine matte a little grimace,
"Hugh doesn't talk about anything,'
she complained. "He goes about look
ing as though he bad the cares of the
world upon his shouldere, and then be
has the --well, the cheek, I pall it, to
lecture me about Captain Granet. He
d'ees talk about Captain Granet in the
most absurd, manner, you know,
mother."
"He may have his reasons," Lady
Conyers observed,
Geraldine turned her head and look-
ed at her mother,
"Now what reasons could he have
fee not liking Qap_tain Granet and sus-
pecting hien of all manner of ridicte-
lous tillage?" she asked. "Did you
ever know a more harmless, ingenu-
ous, delightful young man in your
life?"
"Perhapo it is beenuee you find him
all these 'things.," Lady Conyers tug-
gated, "that 1lugh doesn't like him."
"Of course, if he is going to be Jeal-
ous about, nothing 101 all
"Is it nothing at ail?"
(Io be continutil,)
Minard's Liniment for "Dandruff,
Seasonably) Dishes.
There are many •other frozen des-
serts, but none of them contain so
much nourishment as does the ice
cream which contains milk, cream, and
sometimes eggs. There is water lee
made by freezing the juice of stewed
fruit sweetened with sugar; when this
is frozen to a mush -like consistency it
is cal --'led frappe. They are •appetizers.
Sherbet is water ico o which 6olladin
or beaten egg white has been adtledf
while parfait is plain ice cream, flav-
ored as desired, into which whipped
cream has been folded,
Neapolitan ice cream --2 cups milk,
1 cup areae, ed teaspoon salt, 6 egg
yolks, 1 cup sugar, j; tablespoon van-
illa. Stell milkand )your slowly on
the egg yolks, wiucit have been beaten
ith the toggnr, stirring militantly so
the egf'e wll1 not clink, hilt blend with.
the hot milk. I'Iare"in a double boiler,
and cook until this tnixbere scats the
spoon, Strom ten a hew], Thief, add
(ream, salt 0111 vanilla, alt•! freeze.
Thr children's ire ere, rn--:8 conn'
whet, milk, 1 egg c.r 2 e; -r• yr•llca.
teaspoon rx.'t 1 t11113c011
sup etagere. Rntid milk, and pour it,
sure there is crepe de tehine, Canton
crepe, or cotton crepe on war shop-
ping lint,
The End of the World Pr'olz-
lem Puzzles Professors.
Mine. Curio, the discoverer of radi-
um, believes that the earth; instead of
cooling, is steadily getting hotter as
the result of its eters of mato-active
substances, and i. French colleague
has calculated that it the mase of the
earth rontalns two parts of radium
in every billion, this would increase
the temperature of the interior by
1,800 degrees centigrade in a hundred
Years.
Very little of this heat can 0eaap0
through the earth's solid crust, so one.
day or other there will be an expire
s1on--radium will blow the earth up,
This is a new addition to the long list
of ways in which the end of the world
will arrive,
The most popular teem seems to
be hat a comet will bump into u0 and
bel a us to destruction. As a matter
of fact, although some comets occupy
more space than the, sun, and possess.
tails which stream for millions of
miles behind them, they are exceed-
ingly light in composition, A collision
with a cornet, even if It occurred,.
Would not b0 attended with ':fatal re-
sults.
On the other band, Profeesei Feel-
ors Petrie, 1110 t m1210`11 I (typt rlogie1,_
lir"p111 .n; 11, 1 ;le• eel if the world
will rr,mr : br.t, . 24',),(1s) Dar:; hew,
be re n 13 Y r "dere
1110 abuor.l'tu.c 10 IL,. 1.1, 1 iron., 0,0.
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.6.D care of an types; all cora sold tub.
Pun
to aellvory up to sou ea, .00 tact
run of. soma distance 11. you wiuh, tipp ed
a'or.l, order- as, purohnsod. or Ooihata
p Lr. rafundt'd , •
I1tNt'i tQchanlo of your 0408 8230(0.
to took .them 005r, or aslt its . td
Y to city ropreserttntive foY'
et,apMt;un, 'Cory Iitrgo stook al wan' on
Nitta.
ft, .•• !s levee Car Market
500 0on6•e 3:.Dt,
Many Plants Aid Industry,
01 the forty-two hundred species of
plants gathered in various parts of
Europe 420 have a fragrance that is
leasing and enter largely into the
enufacturs of perfumery, soaps and
Powders, There aro more species of
white flowers than et any other ogler
gathered, The number is 1,124, and 01
these 187 have an aggrecable scent,
Next le order entire yellow blossoms
with 961, ,Seventy-flvo of them bong
sss'setly pertumed, 'lied flowers elute
ler 828, of which eighty-four aro frag-
rant, The blue flowers are of 594
varieties, but from only thirty-four of
them can sweet entailing extrants be
obtalnea. There .ore Ha different
blossoms of y!o(et hue, thirteen of
which aro pleasantly odoriferous,
As Ihelr several colors cannot be
drainell from the flowers Intl used
eoln34prclally, as le their frogrenoe,
loan) is cotnlielred to leek elsowhate
>00 hid naillis anti dyes. Tho nrtlar
have neons to'knoly so writ► as kltli(�
Qrlf hates 230010 matter attppli°d by (110
t iafsti, 170031 this tisk we also gat
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russlan'iilite Is stale fry fusing
horses' Iinofs and other. 300±9415 animal
fliatter with !111pnt'S poies5leln carte),
nate. Tnrkoy' red ie made from the
madder plant, welch grows In nedial
yellow comes from the 4:tm01,
Carmine, minuon, aearlet and 0rini-
gsonatubogo lalca are among tits fine colors ter -
Malted by the °ocltlneai 1nsect0, Tho
Yellow sap of tree 01 10tH lntpduoes.