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t;'vhtte than, and certain now that the
Indian) had not pluck enough to rush
him all together, he whipped out his
six-eliooter and covered his mon.
Instantly the Indian's hand was
withdrawn and a change eame over
the five faces,
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upon the rifle, which they
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CHAPTER X.—(Cont'd),
He did not feel easy alma it. The
expedition of the posse had accom-
plished nothing unless it were to prove
that the Chilcotens had broken up
their camp and left the country, prob-
ably for an early winter hunt towards
Tette Lake, and in all the years that he
had lived -on the plains and in B.C. Jim
had never had any serious trouble
with Indians.
He had become so used to them in-
deed as peaeeful neighbors, that he
had almost forgotten the red stories
of which the plains used to be full;
legends of burnt ranches, or men and
women murdered across their own
thresholds, and brutally mutilated in
order that their long hair might trim,
a chief's robe. But those stories were
of Sioux and Apaches. He doubted
whether the Indiana of B. C. had ever
taken scalps until he remembered a
hideous dancing mash which hung in
the Boss's library that had tufts of
long soft hair round it, as to the origin
of which he had never hitherto trou-
bled.
.. Now everything seemed changed,
There was a terror abroad on the
ranch lands, not so much seen as felt,
and though he scoffed at presentiment,
The cattle had been disappearing as
they had never disappeared before;
there had been no friendly visits from
the Chilcotens as there used to be.
Whenever ha had met any of them,
even before the quarrel: in their camp,
they stud been sullen and silent, and
then there had been there appearance
of Davies' murderer and that unlucky
quarrel.
Jim would have liked it bettor if the
Indians had visited the ranch to de-
mand: comprensation for those broken
rifles, mid -would almost have been in-
clte:el to li,ten to their claims. but
they had made no sign.
.Tust then the roan snorted, and Jim
turned his head in the nick of time.'
The five figures which had passed
him ten minutes earlier' like shadows,
stood almost at his back, arrested in
their stealthy approach by his sudden
movement. He could see, though they
had pnuacrl, how the leading figure
gripped a short bludgeon which he.
carried, and he knew Davies' murderer I
and understood the look in that sullen
aninail 'face;' but though hie heart;
mined to give a jump and. then stand
• still, Combe did not attempt to rise I
or ,=bow any sign of surprise. t
ile understood why these five. had 1
ca pt up behind him through the misty
due n in this featu eless waste, but his
hand a my doer] over the revolver
which ,, .,�tered in the ln'eaet of
bis coat, anti he rolled leisurely over
sn as tl fare the five and bring his
left dhow across the rifle which he
bud taken from his saddle before pick-
ctine his horse_.
"Oh, Jim, Jiml You dear old Jim!
(h,» e nutr kly; wo want. you so badly,"
wee what he seemed to hear; though
ne the five :'ctuattecl silently round him
th y uttered no word.
Except for that bludgeon they were
Irmo of them armed, a curious thing
1;m th"ught for Indians who carry
riflest, t� wnsinen carry .walking
r, acs. mor was 1ta much less puzzled
whin 1n realized that these were the
-very . five, whose weapons he had
smashed against the pine trees. Rifles
were not as common than as they are
to -day amongst the Indians, but as one
of these was Khelowna, the chief, he
at and rate should have been able to
replace his broken weapon.
For what seemed like an hpur: the
five savage' figures crouched •upon:
their hams around Combe, like
wolves around a kill, their mouths
shut, their limbs motionless, only their
eyes alive, but those so vigilant that
they 'seemed to ' follow his verye
thoughts. It is his vigilance and
his eternal patience which enables the
Indian to win in his life long' battle
with the wild things around him. The
beasts' senses aro keener than those of
.his pursuers and he loves life, but the
tireless patience of the hunter' wears
down the patience of the hunted.
Jim felt the power of this watch -
ng silence. It was as if he were be-
ing m'6smerized. At last Inc broke it.
"Well," Inc said: "What do you
want, Khelowna?"
The chief shifted his seat a little.
"What you doing here?" he asked.
"Takings eultus coolie" (stroll),
"Too much cold wind. Cultus
coolie no good."
"`Then why are you out?"
."Indians got no grub. Got no guns
now. Indians very hungry. You got
any grub?" and he reached out his
hand like a cat that steals from the
table, his eye all the time upon Jinn,
and drew away the cartridge case
which had contained the sandwiches.
That was the first move In the game.
Until that day no Indians on the.
Risky lands would have dared openly
to take a white man's property from
ander his very eyes without leave, and
Jan when he saw the chief take his
cartridge case and search it, under-
stood that the old restraint was break-
ing down and that a change was in
the air. All the food had been eaten,
but the flask remained in the bag, and
this Khelowna opened, unscrewing the
top with clumsy fingers and sniffing at
the mouth. of it like a beast.
"No more flre water?" he asked.
"No, there wouln't have been any
for you anyway. Think I'm going to
Inc run in for giving Indians whis-
key?"
Khelowna laughed, and his
was like a wolf's snarl.
""Whiskey very good for I
Any water hese?"
"Plenty. Nothing but water
cursed hole,"
"You go get some," and th
held out the flask to Jim, but
the blood rose to his face at the
lence of the bidding, Jinn neither
red nor held out. his hand for theh,
laugh
Indians.
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"You go, I say, hyak (quickly),"
and the chief, who misinterpreted
Combe's silence, pushed the•flash al-
most into his face.
"Go to hell and get it yourself," the
cowboy replied and his` steady eyes
motKhelowna's without flinching.
For a moment the chief hesitated.
Then he threw down the flask with a
laugh, and the murderer under the
pretext of picking it up, edged a
thought nearer to Tim.
As, even •so, the Indian was not
near enough to strike or grip, him,
the watched man never moved, and
again the silence game of cat.and
mouse went on.
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friends. Six here, the vary best," and
be glanced at the revolver; in his hand.
Then he reached forward in his turn
and took back the empty cartridge bag
from between the chief's knees, and
the silver flash from the ground where
the lnurdorer had dropped it.
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m e t he looked o] d at the
flash, and then a grin -smile flickered
round his mouth, and looking IChe1-
owna squarely in the eyes he said, "I
thing you go and get me eome water,"
and as the chief hesitated, he tossed
ap the 'black muzzle of his revolver
and added "Get"
At that moment the. roan snorted,
and Jim's quick eye noticed that there
were only four Indlansr ound him..
Whilst he had been playing his game
with the old chief, .Kineeshaw had
slipped from the circle. In a flash
the white man was on his feet, and his
revolver shot was echoed by a sharp
cry of pain.
"Come back," he roared. "'Canoe
shaw; leave the knife there," and then
dropping the muzzle so that it looked
Khelowna straight between the eyes,'
he added, "You next if you move."
"Now get,', he said, as 'Kineesh
came back, "1 want that horse and
want. you out of this blanket quid
Hump it. March,"wild for the seven
time In a week Inc drove the five red-
skins before,that deadly little weapon
which has done so much in the States
towards the equality of man.
Sol t d R'
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Ripe Olive "Salad. -Stone and halves
one pint of ripe olives. Have ready
six white onions,, cut in rings and
crisping in cold water. Drain onions,
toss in .French dressing, arrange on
lettuce loaves with olives: and serve
with either French or boiled dressing.
Baked Eggplant.—Peel plant.and
boil it whole in salted water until
tender enough. to pierce with silver
fork. Drain and mash, adding but-
ter, salt and pepper, tend, two tabia-
soon
p breadcrumbs and one teaspoon
grated onion. When cool beat one
egg into mixture, put In baking pan,
cover top with breadcrumbs and bits
of butter and bake about one-half hour
in oven hot enough to brown crumbs.
Carrot Soup.—Cut small onion and
pound• of carrots' into small pieces.
Melt two tablespoons -butter in sauce-
pan and cook carrots in it, with
onions, for about five minutes. < And
two large cups boiling water, and sim-
mer slowly until carrots are tender
enough to rub through fins sieve.
After putting through sieve, return
to flre, adcl two tablespoons flour mix-
ed with a little off carrot liquid, cook
well and add two cups milk. Season
with' salt and pepper and serve with
croutons,
Ricd and Spinach.—While spinach is
cooking boil dice in milk and season.
uw, Add beaten egg and one teaspoon'sour
,• cream to enough rice to hold it well
le together, and season with salt and
d pepper. Place rice and spinach al -
CHAPTER. YL
"You think you heap srvvy Indians.
You Ilam fool. I fix you plenty."
As they made for their horses, Kin
-
eeshnw shook his bleeding hand at
Combe, and that was his last message.
Iia;knew that at a hundred yards a re-
volver' was practically useless, and
though when Jim picked up the W:'n-
.chester the five hurried to horse and
.galloped swiftly away, at the clank of
its pump,he almost wished that he had
fired,
"As well now as later," he mused,
"and it has got to come. It is pretty
near a blood fused between us now.
If they'd had a gun amongst them I'd
have let them have it."
As he tightened the cinches of the
roan, it worried him to remember that
these five red devils had ridden'off in
the direction of the Risky 'Ranch
They meant mischief, of that he fel
sure, but after all they were onl
five, Indians and unarmed, and he h
left more than .that on the ranch
white, and well armed.
It was his business to go and fete
the doctor, That was what iICtt
wanted him to do, so he swung hint
self into the saddle, and rode steadiI
east.
Twice that morning he saw Indians,
in small bands, but on both occasions
he thought that Inc had been seen be•
fore Inc saw them, and was uncertain
of the direction'in which they were
heading, and once, just before reach-
ing the Fraser, he came across a
large camp of Chilcotens, just .prepar-
ing to move.
To his questions they replied that
they were en route to Tette Lake, Inc'
they struck him as unfriendly, and Iy-
ing for some set purpose.
If such things had' ever happened in
B.C..he. would. have suspected that an
Indian rising was on foot, but that was
practically impossible, and Jim die.
missed the idea as born of fatigue and
an empty stomach.
And then he heard the voice of the
Fraser, and presently came over grey
bluffs to -that great river. It is never
a pretty river, no, not even in spring•
time, when the patches of white flow -
ening olali bushes do their best for it.
Grand as it is at times, and at Hell's
Gate and ether places, picturesque, a
show for the C. P, R, and a pleasing
horrors for tourists who ride safely
along its prompitous banks In a lux-
unious Pullman car, its waters are
too turbid, and its strangely shaped
mud cliff's, too, a girdly colored with
mineral matter, to Inc mor e than
grotesque and uncanny. At the
crossing where Jinn struck it, the rixer.
was ccrtninly not looking its best.
Like the
whole country it seemed in
evil mood. The river had already
felt the first'touch of winter; ern'
lake
so ice were e e Chic t i
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c its t dun -
colored water .% grinding against one
another, and rendering a crossing a
matter I Uf some difficulty.
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However, the ferry man made light
of it
ornately in layers in shallow, butter-
ed baking dish or casserole, moisten
whole with a little spinach water or
vegetable stock by pouring it over
top, cover with bread crumbs, dot with
butter and brown in over.
Baked Oranges. --.Use thin-skinned
oranges, cutting 'off tops one-fourth
down, pulling out pitch and filling
cavities with four teaspoons sugar to
each orange. ' Put fruit in casserole,
Rll one-fourth full of water, cover and
bake until tender. Remove from oven
and make sauce of juices in pan by
stirring in two teaspoons cornstarch
to each cup of liquid, measured after
juice from tops or oranges has been
added. Put one-half teaspoon butter
on top of each orange, pour sauce over
them, and return to oven uncovered to
brown. Serve hot,
French Roast.—Three pounds round
steak, one cupful chopped onion and
celery, one cupful soft bread crumbs,
ono level teaspoonful poultry season-
ing, salt, popper and fat. Have steaks
cut one-half lnell thick and weighing
one and one-half pounds each. Divide
into six equal portions, rub with salt
and pepper, and cover with dressing
ad made of crumbs, vegetables and poul-
try seasoning. Roll each piece, tie
' securely, dredge with flour, and place
Yin kettle, with enough at to brown
them nicely on all sides. When
brown add boiling water amolst to
cover and simmer until tender, about'
"It's all right, sonny, for twenty
hours yet, and maybe for a Week after
that,but its conning, ;it's coming sure,
and if I was you I' wouldn't get on no
tear in Sody Creek as'll keep you
mot 'n•a wee;.. If you do, you may
have to wait there until you can walk
across. A week on bug juice ought to
do you, though cow punching does
seam to make man powerfully dry."
The ferryman was new to Corabou,:
aril did lint know ,Tint Combo, but he
spoke frtnn a lotus experience :n
,irise parts oft the North-West, %stere
plohlhu eon had mightily increased the
thirst of the people.
All right, ;ht, Gap, Everyone is a cttp-
, Lain 'Inct.cwnti anything big•get' than a
canoe 'I) Canada. "I'll see to that.
Yoe be on hand in awl"hour's time."
The man laughed good-naturedly,
"Sure," Inc said, "I will, bit yott
won't be. I never knowod anman yet
as didn't calculate to do his busi less
Olt half an Noor'., nor one as did it in a
day. Seems to ore thus here 'metro-
polis had :ought to be called Whiskey
Creek 'steed of Sody,"
Jim laughed at•the old joke. Thele
were many worse towns that; Soda
Creek, but of coarse there was wins-
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three hours. Fireless cooker Is good to
use with these steaks. When done,
thicken broth, add few drops of kitch-
en bouquet, strain over meat and send
to table garnished with parsley.
Orange Date Cake.— One-fourth
cup butter, one cup sugar, two eggs,
ane -fourth teaspoon soda, grated rind
of one-half orange, one-half cup
orange juice, one and one-half cups
pastry .flour, two• teaspoons baking
powder, one cup stoned and quartered
dates. Cream butter and sugar and
stir in grated orange rind and eggs
well beaten. Add soda to orange 1
juice, sift baking powder with flour
and mix dates with two extra table-
spoons flour. Add flour mixtures al-
ternately to butter with orange juice,
stir in dates and bake in two -layer
pans in moderate oven. Put together
with orange date Oiling., Sprinkle
one layer before baking with finely
chopped orange peel, and there will
be no need of icing cake.
. Orange date filling; Three-fourths
cup sugar, three -tablespoons flour,
grated rind one-half orange, three-
fourths cup orange juice, one table-
spoon lemon juice, one slightly beaten
egg, one-fourth cup chopped dates,
Mix in order given 'and cook ten min-
utes in double boiler, stinring con-
stantly. Cool before spreading.
Makes complete dessert without sauce.
Household Hints.
One teaspoonful of baking soda in
a pint of water makes a good wash
for plants covered with insects.
A silver spoon in a glass will tem-
per it so that hot liquids aqui s may be
turned in without danger of breaking
the glass..
Lineng a
rmeut id
hung
s should Inc with
the fullness do
1 »ward but w s with
panels the reverse plan should
used.
After potatoes have started sprout-
ing they are. less nutritious; the po-
tato puts all its strength into the
sprout,
• A cup of cool boiled rice added to
griddle cakes, muffins or waffles
makes them lighter and more easily
digested.
Watch cellars and bathrooms—both
have more to do with the health of a
family then almost any other part n?
the house.
Remember that spring appetites
chane fresh shim;:, and the salads
tempt when heavier (nude repel:
Vegetable salads for luncheon are ad-
mirable on spr ung days.
To remove machine oil from ma-
terials in which the colors might run,
use cold water, to which has been add-
ed a teaspoonful of ammonia. Then
wash with soap.
One can remove the odor of fresh
paint from a room by leaving there a
pail of water into which several
onions have been sliced. Hot, weak
tea is a good solution for cleaning
viumieheal paint.
The difficulty so often ex:pericuced'
m tutting soft, flimsy goods, such as
chiffon, soft silk, muslin, etc., is easily
vercome by pinning the material to
!ether and cutting both together.
Then the oven becomes too hot place
to basin Ixf cold. water ill it, but dr
not leave the door open. This an-
swers the purpose of cooling the oven.
and tato rising steam prevents the
food from burning.
Whenvfilling layer cake tins, spread
as much of the batter to the sides as
possible, leaving a slight depression in
the centre. When the calve is baked
it will be even, as the middle fills the
first thing.
A smoked beef's tongue le better to
be soaked over /might in cold water,
to the morning put it intoe kettle
full of .cold water, stand it over a
slow fireed er for four hours,
and m m e s
,
or untiln
ou ca pierce it with a fork,
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A delicate perfume will be given to
linen by putting a lump of orris root
into the boiler on washing days. An-
other and even more lasting method is
to put a Tokay bean in the drawer in
which the linen is laid.
A pretty sofa cushion is made of
green burlap embroidered in red
•poincettlas done in red yarn. The
only color to relieve the monotony of
the red and green is a little bunch of
French knots of yellow silk in the
centre of the flower.
If you find your butter hard atthe
psychological moment in cake -baking,
don't put it on the stove, or in a pan
of hot water. The outside will soften
and the ins'.de will remain hard. . The
best way to do the trick is to pour hob
water over the butter, and work it
with a spoon or fork- until it is like
velvet
The cellar of course, cannot. be.
thoroughly cleaned until the furnace
fire is allowed to go out for the sea-
son, but it can be cleared of all rub-
bish, !f rubbish has been allowed to ac-
cumulate there during the winter.
The cellar should be the most orderly
part of the house, partly because an
accumulation of rubbish there in-
creases
ncreases danger of fire and partly be-
cause the air from the cellar rises
through the house, carrying with it
dust or any other uncleanness.
WEALTHY ORGAN -GRINDERS.
Several Well -to -Do Italians Living in
England.
Instead of turning the handles of
more or less musical barrel -organs,
the men of the Italian colony in Lon-
don at•e back In their native land
grinding out death • from machine-
guns.
What few organs are seen in the
streets nowadays aro mostly worsted
by women and girls, the wives and
daughters of the Italian soldiers called
f
dl
to the colons when war broke out with
Austria last May.,
Even these, however, are fewer in
number than might be expected, the
truth of the matter being that the
palmy days of the hurdygurdy player
had passed away even before the war.
began. In fact, the business—if bud.
neseit can be called—had been on
the down -grade for some years, large.
ly owing to the advent of the gramo-
phone and other mechanical music.
producing machines,
In the old days it was very differ-
ent, There are several well-to-do
Italians' at present living in the Saf-
fron Hill district of London who trace
the beginnings of their fortunes to
the sudden burst of popularity' that
greeted the advent of the piano -organ,
twenty-five or thirty years ago.
Indeed, the very first man to travel
through England with one of the old-
fashioned barrel-organs—a native of
Piedmont named Carlo Ferrari—col-
ected quickly enough money to en-
able him to purchase (for about ten
thousand guineas) the title of count
in his own country.
THE CROWN PRINCE
IS BEING BEAMED
D
FAILURE AT VERDUN 'LAID ON
HIS SHOULDERS.
The Emperor, von. Deintlutg and Von
Hacseler Are Ais,
Criticized.
It is regarded se. an ominous fact
in connection with the battle of Ver-
dun that the German army and the
German people already ere beginning
to place responsibility for its under-
taking. This much is distinctly stat-
ed by prisoners in the hands of the
French, and is being more and more
openly shown in the German newe-
papers.
On the shoulders of the Crown
Prince is being laid the chief burden.
The :others who with him are regard-
ed as sharing, the responsibility have
now been narrowed down to 'three.
One of these is the Kaiser, and the
others are General Count 'Gottlieb
Von Haeseler and General Berthold
Von Deimling.
Most significant of all ie the fele
that the Germans •are hinting that
the presence of Emperor William' at
a groat military undertaking has
heretoforenotbeen fraught with
happy consequences.
The history' of 'the- Verdun -enter-
prise is now regarded as clearly de-
fined by the Paris newspapers. it
was preceded by two councils of
war.
When it was first decided by the
Kaiser and- some of.his closest ad-
visers that an attack on Verdun, un-
dertaken by methods which had prov.
ed successful in Russia and in Serbia
would be successful, the co-operation
of Field Marshals Von Hindenburg
and Von Mackensen was sought.
• Berlin War Council.
For this purpose they were sum-
moned to Berlin, where they were
met by the Kaiser, the Crown Princes
of Germany, Bavaria and Wuerttem-
berg, and Generals Von Haeseler
and Von Deimling. When the mat.
ter was laid before them, bout the
great German 'leaders, who had Prov-
( ed their worth in the eastern field
!of the war, opposed a grand assault
on the French stronghold, and ex-
plained the radical difference be-
tween conditions on that front and
those which had made success pos-
sible in other regions,
As both field marshals had already
objected to taking part in tho opera-
tions in Prance and Flanders unless
they had an entirely free hand and
complete liberty from interference
on. the part of the Crown Prince, it
is believed their advice did not make
a due impression- on the Kaiser and
his eldest son, They returned to
Verdun to study the situation once
more.
There a new council was held, at
which the chiefs of the Imperial fam-
ily and Generals Von Haeseler and
Von Deimling took part. The deci-
sion -which they reached was that
the. capture of Verdun was feasible
and that for many reasons it was
imperative.
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WINNIN0O Mosree.AL
COST OF LIVING IN ENGLAND.
Has Suffered 'Less From War,Thanl
Enemy Countries.
The people of England claim to have
suffered less from the increased cotof living brought on by the war than
have the people of any other coun
tales, although admitting that prices
-fent of foodetuffs
are
higherno
w
tha
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theyhave been in the memory of the
present generation.
The retail rise for January wa$
13' per cent.,, according to the Board+
of Trade Labor Gazette, which pointe]
out that, the upward trend has been'
in flour and bread, six per cent, anal
in fish and granulated sugar, five peri
erne.
Bread has reached 91/4, pence, or'
about 18 cents for the quartern loaf
(four pounds), higher than it ever
has been in modern times.
The increase in the cost of food
comparing February 1. last with a
year ago, has been: Fish, 50 per cent.;
meat, 26 per cent.; bacon, bread, su-
gar, milk,, and cheese, 20 per cent; ben,
28 per cent.; flour and eggs, 17 per
cent.; butter, 18 per cent; potatoes,
7 per cent.; margarine, 6 per cent;
Other countries have been hit harde
er, according to the Gazette, which
increases upon pre-war prices: Un-
ited Kingdom, 47 per cent.; Berlin,
88.4 per cent.; Vienna, 112.9 per cent.
Attention is called to the fact that.
Germany allows only a limited sale
ab a legal maximum price of what
are ordinary every -day articles of
diet. This, the Gazette points out,
applies to bread, butter, flour, pork
and milk. It says that in Vienna the
end of the year brought an easing of
some of the advances, partly explain.
ed by the fact that in December maxi.
mum retail charges came into opera
tion for the first time in respect to
bacon and hog's fab.
Here are some comparative re.
turns of increased percentage since
July, 1914:
United
Kingdom. Berlin, Vienna.
Beef.......50 70 206
Mutton ..,.. 86 69
Bacon . 32 154 a 800
Flour, house-
hold . 58
Flour, rye ,. ., 60
Flour, wheat . , , 28 81.
Bread . 51
Bread, rye .. , 42 75
Bread, wheat . 27
Butter 101 ].18
Margarine : . 10 . , 220
Milk . 30 36 51
Eggs . 70 285 214
Rice . 25 340 466
WAR EMPTYING THE PRISONS.
Eleven in England Closed, Nine
Others Nearly Vacant.
A reduction in the English prison
estimates for the coming year of
$500,000—or about 12 per cent. --and
the shutting up, in whole or part, of
a score of prisons: These are some
of the visible evidences of the endue -
tion of crime in England owing to the
Wttr.
Of the twenty prisons closed or in
process of closure, eleven have been
closed entirely, all being situated lin
towns of moderate size, like Chelms-
ford, Hereford, Stafford, St. Aibans,
Devizes, and so forth. Of four esters
a wing only has been given up. Ar-
rangements are now being made for
the total closing of Ave more.
It is true that not quite alt of the dl•
minution fn cnimivality can be omitt-
ed to the war, for the process hos
been going on since 1004, undoubtedly
as a result of the greater inlelligeuee
of British legislation.
In their last report the f omuuseion-
ers of Prtsons.necrihetl ten dt c reined in
criminality -
to three chief Calliea—
namely (I( the drafting into ibo army
of'a considorahle part of the section of
the .P Ptli
atiot from
which the crimin-
al
classes ordinarily come; (2) 1h,e
new demands for labor anti the greater
facilities for making a livlilloocl by
honest 8 moans;
and (2)the restriction
of the s albf
liquor. t •
0 q tot. Pxperts have
no doubt that it is the lost of these
three causes, which has beer( most % a
nfluential.
Aci uralVon Tir tits.—
n 1
Creator of the German Navy and
'father of the Giant Submarine.
' Man gets many shocks dueling his
I life, but the greatest of all comes to
him the first time his young daughter
advises him not to Inc silly."
key in it.
"i)o you know where I can find the
Hector?"
(To Be Continuecl).
Nine times out of ten .Dance For -
tine knows on whom site is smiling.
When all was ready, at the begin-
ning of the fourth week of February,
it was decided to start without any
flourish of trumpets, as a try -out,
it was thought, would show whether
there was a prospect of certainty in
the success of the venture, and, if
any failure should occur, the attack
not having been extravagantly adver-
tised, would not leave any unpleasant
impression on the German nation.
The first four days during which the
'french, following their great line of
tactics which had been manifested
from Inc beginning of the war, pre.
sented'a resilient front to the shock I
of the solid German body and, yield- .
ing a measure of ground for the pure
pose of their method of warfare, were
regarded by the Germans as promis-
ing an overwhelming success for their
massed phalanx attack. In this be-
lief the Kaiser's lack of judgment on.
military matters wan again disastrous
for the Germans.
FREE WOMEN OF ORIENT.
War Will Give Them Liberty, Says
• Sultan of Egypt.
"One of the greatest results of the
war to the Orient will be the complete
emancipation of women;' says the Sul-
tan of Egypt. "Orientals understand
toolite the ret pant little g a pa. woman piuys
in the world's progress.
"If we could end the ignorance of
our women and givethem-
rn a v a bailee
g
c
assert - the necly
to a , Ls all 'other
troublesome questions would succumb
to that healthy influence, and new i
generations would be raised in the
light of intelligent motherhood.
"We con never be wholly happy in
the Orient until we free women. from
the semi -slavery with which they are
treated by the Mohemmedan laws."
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r
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will make the scratches invisible and
prevent the surface from becoming
s more scratched.
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