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A Tenderfoot's Wooing
By CLIVE PHILLIPPS WOLLEY
(Author of "Gold, Gold in Cariboo," Etc.)
CHAPTER ,X.V II.—(Cont'd. )
At once her revolver rang out, shot
after shot, Until every chamber Was
empty. It mattered little whether
she hit or missed, The main thing
was to recall the men, and almost be-
fore she had ceased firing a horse's
hoofs thundered through the corrals,
and a voice hailed her.
"That you shooting, Polly? Take
care. Don't shoot any more," and
then for a moment there was bedlam
in the darkness outside, horses gal-
loping amongst the buildings, and
men running, and twice the sharp me-
tallic ring of a rifle.
After that the main body of gallop,-
leg
allop-ing hoofs seemed to recede towards
the hills, but the Boss and old Al. rode
up to the house.
'Open the door and give me a lan-
tern, my girl. They have allgone, I
think, except -two, and they won't do
any more harm."
There was ahardness in the Boss's
voice, which Mary Rolt had . never
heard before in all the years she had
known him, but then she•had never
seen him before in the light of his
blazing stacks.
"Did you see anyone when you
fired," he ,asked, as soon as she had
let him in.
"I think so, but I sin not certain.
Oh, Dick, I have not killed anyone,
bane I?" she cried, breaking down
suddenly, and clinging to him. '
"Steady, there; steady, little wo-
man. 'Keep your nerve a bit Ionger.
You are doing splendidly. No, you
have not hit any one, more's the pity.
Where did you think you saw them?"
"Ovet there by the store -house."
"Ahl But they could not got in in
the time. Lucky we tumbled to their
game. Just go and look at the house,
Al,' touching hie arm and whispering,
"say nothing if the inissus has shot
straight."
The old man, nodded and went out.
In a couple of minutes he was back
again for the lantern. When he re-
turned again he bonded the Boss a
key,
"I thought as you alias 'kept that
yourself, Boss."
"Where did you find it?"
"In the door of the store house.".
Rolt looked down at it for a mo-
ment. "The old devil," he muttered.
"Jest so, But how did he come to
get it?"
"Old Mary must have stolen it from t
my,room when she came begging this t
afternoon." t
"Guess so. Women had ought to do
their own chores. I sin t got no rise
for. Injins round a ranch. They've
got all the rifles."
"What ?"
'All them spare rifles and three or
the returning hoofs-, and before long
about half of the' men of the ranch
reined up their lathering horses in
front of the mess house.
"Did you get any of ."em ?" asked Al.
"Devil a hoof."
qui
"Youck'
got sick of.the hunt mighty
"Yes," drawled one of the boys. "I
ain't almighty` stuck on night huntin'.
Once you're over the hog's back it's
darker nor the ways of a provincial
politician. It's so blanked dark it
fairly drowns you after that glare;'
and he looked towards the blazing
stacks. "The Injins kinder sunk out
of sight in it."
"We shall have to send some one to
warn the Faireloughs."
"That's done, Boss. I sent Dan.
He's up half way to Grouse Creek by
now if the Injines haven't got him."
"Thank you, Al. I think two of you
had better come in and sleep in the
house to -night, just to reassure the
ladies. The rest of you had better
seleep with your horses, and there will
have to be a couple on the look out
all night. They might try tis rush
us."
"Not whilst them illuminations is
turned on,' said Al. I guess you can
sleep solid to -night. When it's dark
it will be different. But I'll see to
the look -outs, Boss, when we've put
them two out of sight," and he point-
ed to where something lay in the sha-
dow oft he stables.
"It was a pity as it was' Kinee-
shaw," he added. "There'll be no let
up now until they, wipe us out or some
one lets daylight into old IChelowna.
He thought a heap of Kineeshaw."
CHAPTER XVIII.
That night the watchers watched in.
vain. " The three and twenty stacks.
of good hay which should have been
turned into beef at thirty or forty
dollars a head, flared up and then died
down into clear red heaps of fire, and
in the white day light were nothing
bat grey spots on the home meadow.
They had been licked up as clean as
the inlet was by the sun, and left lit-
tle more trace than the Indians who
had lighted then',
These had vanished utterly.
Two spots of fresh turned earth,
outside the corrals, might sugest the
recent presence of the Chilcotens to
those who knew what lay below, but
hese and the charred railings where
he stacks had stood were all the
races they had left.
From the hog's back to the black
timber of the enclosing hills there
,,vas no sign of a camp fire, no hint of
a man's presence, and one by one the
touts sent out from the ranch came
ache with the .same story. The In -
Mils 'had been about a score in num-
er, sad were not now to be seen, nei-
ther had they left• and trail to say
which way they bad gone. The most
xperienced among the trackers guess -
d that they had scattered, and it was
I
ossible to say where they would re -
units. But Jim would be back, said
he men, and then they could make up
heir minds what to do. •
"But Jim did. not come. Though
they watched for him from hour to
ous; though oven an or ricer
n ordinary haste might have been
rick before the second night fell. The
ark came again, and with 'it no Jim
ombo.
Neither did morning bring him, and
was not until late afternoon on the
ourth day that t ro men walked slow -
y before their led horses into the
s
b
four dozen boxes of cartridges. I
should say, though some of them b
won't help em much. The rifles are
forty-fives, and half the cartridges
wove for your fifty hundred and ten, e
Guess we bustled cm a bit orthey e
wouldn't.have made such a fool break
as that,"
Whilst they were speaking Mary t
Reit had remained unnoticed with t
them, ,Now her husband saw her and
bade her run up stairs ,and tell the
other two that it was all over and' no h
harm done. i
When she had, gone master and b
Man faced each other for some min- tl
Cites in silence. C
"Can't save the stacks, Al?"
"That don't make mo odds. We've it
plenty left." •f
"1 suppose so, if we are lucky en-
ough
n ough to live to want it" c
"Oh, we shall. We'll pull through
all right, but I Wish the women folk v
were out of this, at Sody Creek or s
Victoria." h
"You think itis war, then ?" • si
"You bet it's we,', What did they t
want them rifle •for', Th.y only m
burned the stacks to get a s'h'ow at the n
store." e
There was no• enterer to` this, but'
the two ''listening heard the beat' of It
orals.
Kitty, whose impatience was de-
during her, saw them come. Jim was
Making, of course, and staring about
im as he slouched along without a
g'n of haste, without a shout to tell
hat he had corns. Surely never any
an 'walked as slowly as Jim Combs,
ever any man looked less like the
xpress messenger returned,
"He rocsn't recta in a hurry," said
itty, and there was a world of die -
Doctor' r' °t & "Puy To Strengthen
Eyeci6„Yht 50 per cent In One
Wee1}'a' 1s Time e In Many .dnstc? nce3
Free 1-'resct'lp,lo;r inn' can Tlar'o
rifled and Use at nerve.
Prrrrdlelphln -Tin, '1iu. you wear friirssesI
Are you a Vic lm of eye strain or other eye
weaknesses? If no, rot winbo glad to
know that ;wool:ding to 1)1' Lowls th•a'o 1s
real hope for you, Many -winos:, el es were
fnil/DI; sny Umv ir rye ked rht it eyes re-
storer( through the urine:1.10 of ilia won-
derful free proseri Minn Ono noon rays,
after trying it: ',n ,uua nlnnost blind;
C0111(1 riot s: -e to rear' at all, Now I Can'
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t,y 0'6 do not water any "tore. At night
tht v nnnid Pain rL•r.,,lCnllr; tewthey Leel:
ihm rill the time. It. Ives lilte a ohne'' to.
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filrlsa,.,';, but eller using tin,, presoilution
for fifteen dagt everything seems "ren:
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it Is be'foul's that thousands who „ear
grosser enll now dlse,, rd them in. a rrnon.
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It is sold- in Toronto
t, strengthen their eyes so ns to be spared
the trouble and eepenc of ever getting
glasses, -Ere troubles of many descrip-
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scription: Go 1.0 any entire ilrng store
trail, t et,o bottle, or Bon-Opto tablets, Drop
ono Ilnu-Opt.o tablet in a fourth of a glass
Of nater and allow to dissolve, With this
111,00 birdie the oyes two to four tines
Willy, you should notice your oyes clear
rip perr'eptibiy right from the start and la -
fin nurxttion will quickly disappear, Ill your
eyes .Ire bothering you, even n little, take
steps ho save then, more lneforn it is too
latt hinny hopelessly blind might hays
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Moto: Another pronhlaent rlr,sirtcn to 'Oren tire -above
article wan seedbed, odd; eo, eplo i n vary remarkable
r f Cly iibcomulteent Ingredients two well I"nobn to eminent
Cr ae6 r,n 1R and widely crreerlbed by then, The (e•
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Week's e,, to many iretancea orrefond the mons ILC,, l,e
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appointment, and bitterness in her.
tone. She expected every one to
show his excitement as she did hers.
"Did you ever expect Jim to look as
if he hurried?" osked Mres Rolt, who
Was "leaning over the girl's shoulder
at the window. "Did' you want Jim
to boil up a gallop at the finish like
the driver of an Irish jaunting car?
Look at the horses,"
They indeed teld a tale of haste In
the past haste of 'which they were no
longer capable, and possibly any man
with a'view to effect might have
dragged his limbs as the horses drag-
ged theirs.
Jim only walked slowly and limped
a little, stopping to speak to one of
the boys; and to help him off -saddle
the roan, Then he walked quietly to
the house with the doctor, not stop-
ping to hear much of what old Al had
to tell him.'
But he managed to take in a great
deal in those quiet glances which Kit-
ty resented so much.
"Any one hurt?" were his first
words to Al, before the old man had
time to open his mouth.
"Two of them hurt badly," pointing
to the fresh earth."None of our
folk scratched."
"Didn't try to rush the ranch then?"
"Broke the store -house and got the
guns while we were at the stacks."
"Might have known that they would
try that. What did you all want to
go to the stacks for? Didn't calcul-
ate to blow them out, did you ?"
Al hung his head. It is dispiriting
when you have a great story to;,tell,
to have it understood and sentence
pronounced before you have had time
to open your lips.
"How many Injuns were there?"
"About fifteen, I guess."
"More than that," said the man who
had not been there;'but. he did not
stop . to argue or hear any more de-
tails. He remembered the two bands
which he had seen on his way to Soda
Creek, and he knew all that it was
vital to know, so he followed Prothe-
roe quietly to the house.
The doctor's report was a good ono
and soon made. When sober he was
a capable man, and Anstruther's in-
juries, however painful, were suffi-
ciently simple.
"A bundle of nerves, fine bred and
high strung," was Protheroe's com-
ment. "A steer who had had the
same smash up would have gone on
feeding. Three ribs broken, badly
shaken up, and bruised a bit, of
course; but the sibs have knit already.
You did the right thing, Mrs. Rolt,
These are your bandages.?"
"No, they are Jim's,"
"Of course. I ought to have known
Jim's packing; effective, but a trifle
severe, Here, let are loosen them a
little," and his deft fingers, which
were as delicate as a women's and as
strong as a man's, played about An-
struther with astonishing' rapidity.
That's better, isn't it?"
Anstruther sighed, "Yes, I can
move now, I think, without fainting."
"But you must not; at least, not
much. Jim was on the right track,
but he certainly did not give you mach
play. You don't drink much, do
you?"
"No; not.much."
"And you're not twenty-five. Lord'
Loecl, What could hurt a man who
doesn't tlrink and isn't twenty-five?
Your case was not worth the ride, but
perhaps we may have others," he add-
ed cheerfully, "now that old ]*lielowna
has broken out,"'
As soon as the doctor's insepction
was over, a council of war was held
in the dining -room, whilst Jim and
the doctor cut themselves vast chunks
from the boiled salted beef:on the
table. -
"Pity that the boys did not over-
haul some of them," said Jim,
"Yes, it would have saved a hull
lot of trouble," agreed Al, "we could
have given them their medicine right
there. Now we've got to take it to
them,"
"You think that we can't afford 'to
leave things as they are," asked Bolt.
"I don't think about it. I hain't
knowed Injuns since I grooved grass.
high for nothing. When Injuns stent
on a racket of this kind, they've got
to be wiped out or they'll come, back
like chickens to a doughnut. Ain't
that so, Jim?"
But Jim was busy eating and listen-
ing'. He was not much of a gas bag
any way, the men said. •
But at last even his appetite was
appeased, and he turned from the
men to the Boss.
"I'm afraid that it has got to be,
Rolt. These are more Indians out
than 'the boys think, and it's a vast
deal more serious than I like. I saw
two bands coming this way on my
Tide to Soda Creek. I met Khelowna
and I'm afraid he has raised the whole
country side."
(To be continued,)
BERLIN PRICES DOUBLE.
Sonic Have Trebled Since War Start-
ed, Says "Yorweerts."
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A comparison by "t"ortvaerta" of
Berlin food prices in that city now!
and in March, 1911, shows they have
doubled and in many eases trebled
since the war started.
Potatoes cost 8 cents for a small
sack of Len neurit'„ as compared with
5 cent3 in, March 1914. Sausages,
which were 22 cones a pound, have
risen to 89 cents, while. the hr,sfratt
has nov to pay 72 cents a pound "for
ham and 4 cents for a herring which
cast her less than 2 cents before the
war, '-
1> lmost the greatest rise has been
in fats. Margarine has gone up from
16 cents to. 86 cents a pound ;butter
from 34 cents to 61 cents; Dutch
cheeses from 24 to 50 cents; flour is
one-third clearer, porridge costs twice
as much, and rye flour is 'half ' again
as dear. The most astonishing rise
is in cocoa, from 28 to 88 cents a
pound, while chocolate powder, has ris
en tram .24.to 54 cents. Coffee now
costs 56'cents instead of from 82 to
42 cents two years ago. -
Sugar is only about a cent dearer,
continuing to sell under 6 . cente a
pound. That is accounted for by the
fact that Germany, which forme'l
y
exported a large amount of beets,
can no longer do so.
You will like its
Fine Gran/fiat/on
Buy your sugar in these neat 2 or
5 -lb. cartons, which you can place
directly on your pantry shelves.
Just cut pig' ties corner and pour
• out the sugar, as you need it.
L' yl he S
comes also in 10 and 20 -lb bags for house.
wives who like tobuy in larger quantities
land 5 -lb Cartons
"The .All -Purpose Sugar" 10 and 20 -lb Bags
6sl
feta:
Pure Cane
ExtreQualf+y,
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Dainty Dishes.
Rhubarb Cream Pie. -Stew rhubarbb
as for sauce and sweeten. To this
add a little cprnetareh made into
paste with cold. water, and beaten
yolks of one or two eggs, Bake in
one crust and use whites of eggs for
meringue. '
Tomato Tapioca Soup. -To one pint
of strained tomatoes add one-half
tablespoon extract -of beef, one ounce
butter, two tablespoons minute tap-
ioca, oneeand one-half pints hot' water,
salt 'and pepper to taste, and boil for
fifteen minutes, Serve with fried
bread or toast:
Harvard Salnd.—Scoop out center's
of small tomatoes and fill with follow-
ing mixture: Three tablespoons
creamed cheese, one tablespoon minc-
ed parsley, chopped mushrooms to
taste, catsup, salt' and pepper, six
chopped olives -all moistened with
French dressing, Serve on bed of
cress,
Rice and Tomatoes,—Butter baking
dish, put in layer of boiled rice, dust
with salt and pepper and dot with tiny
bits of butter. Add layer of canned
or fresh tomatoes and season with
salt, pepper and butter. Proceed in
this manner until the dish is almost
full. Make last layer of rice. Pour
one cup of tomato liquor over all and
bake in a hot oven twenty or thirty
minutes.
Scalloped Eggs.—Boil six eggs un-
til bard. Have ready three-fourths
cup buttered cracker crumbs and one
pint white sauce. Sprinkle bottom
of buttered baking dish with crumbs.
Cover with one-half of eggs, chopped
fine. Cover eggs with sauce and
sauce with meat. Repeat and cover
top with crumbs. Bake until crumbs
are brown. Ham, chicken, sausage
or veal may be used,
Bacon Roll Stuffed With Chicken or
Turkey.—Spread thin slices very cold
bacon with minced thicken or turkey
mixed with the left -over gravy. Mix
a little cream and dust with finely
minced green pepper or parsley. Roll
and fasten with wooden swekers, dip
in batter and fry in deep fat. To
make the batter beat two eggs, add
one-half cupful of tepid water. Add
slowly to one cupful bread flour sifted
with one-fourth teaspoonful salt. Bent
well and add one teaspoonful olive oil.
Creamed Potatoes.—Peel enough pot-
atoes to make three cupfuls, cut into
small cubes, Mix in one tablespoon-
fuI of butter, one of flour, salt and
pepper to taste, and one tablespoonful
of parsley. Cover potatoes with
boiling water, adding a teaspoonful
of salt; boil until just done, but not
broken. Heat milk in double boiler,
tub flour smooth, do same with butter.Pour on some of the hot milk, then
add to milk and boil until thickened.
Season to taste, drain potatoes and
slide into hot mills: Let bubble up
once or twice. Then pour into hot
serving dish and sprinkle parsley over
them.
Strawberry Sponge Pudding: To
yolks of two eggs add two table-
spoons of cold water and beat until
very light, using egg beater. Add
two-thirds cup of sugar gradually,
still beating, and two tablespoons
lemon juice. Mix and sift one and
one-third cubs flour' with two tea-
spoons baking powder and one-fourth
teaspoon salt Combine inixtnres and.
cut and fold in whites of two eggs
beaten until stiff, Turn into butter-
ed mold,' adjust buttered cover and
steam one hour, never allowing water
to fall below boiling point. Wash
and hull one quart berries, cut into
quarters and put into bowl or' brush
lightly and sprinkle with one-half cup
sugar, Let'stand in warm place un-
til serving time, Remove pudding
to serving dish ant pour around pre-
pared strawberries. fl
Apple Sauce, Right and Wrong,
Judging from the results seen here
and there, one must come to the con -
elusion that there are many wrong
ways of making a simple dish of
apple sauce.
We may cook apples so that each
piece shall remain whole, but this is
not a true' sauce. For the latter the
more completely the apple goes to
pieces in the 'cooking the better—
that is, in the end it shoudl be per.
feet ,"mus" or puree.
Another advantage of sieving the
cooked apple is that it need be neith-
er pared nor cored, both the seed and
the skin adding flavor. It will not,
take as long to sieve the apples as to
pare and core them, so time is actual-
ly saved and additional flavor gained.
For plain apple sauce: Wash and
quarter fruit and just cover with
boiling water, whichhastens cook-
ing. Mash the fruit as, it softens and
stir so that the uncooked top will get
to the bottom, When all is soft put
through a strainer and sweeten to
taste. No two varieties of apples
require the same amount of sugar,
and in general too much is used. The
sauce may be cooked after it is sweet-
ened but if it is to be eaten at once
this is not necessary.
Household Hints.
Just try drying the wool blankets
on curtain stretchers if it is wished
to retain their usual length and width.
To remove tea or coffee stains pour
through the stained part boiled water
in which a little borax has been dis-
solved.
A piece of charcoal placed upon the
shelves of the refrigerator will absorb
any unpleasant odors and keep it
sweet smelling.
Window shades that have been
streaked can be cleaned by taking a
hard crust of bread and rubbing the
spots where the shade is streaked.
Wind wrapping twine into balls
when taken from parcels. It is fan
easy way to dispose of it and it will
be found useful in a great many ways.
When doing a little horns paper-
hanging the amateur will find the pa-
per much easier to hang if the paste
is applied to the wall instead of to the
paper'.
Burning the fingers can be avoided
by equipping the metal knobs on pot
stud kettle covers with good-sized
corks, wired on with bits of picture
wire.
Never place a good piece of furni-
ture very near -a fireplace or register.
The beat dries the wood and glue, of-
ten causing cracks where the parts
are joined together.
When sewing stiff material have a
piece of soap handy and occasionally
stick the needle into it. You will
find the needle will go - through much
easier and will not break.
-ue 'doe etl. utoxx eau. u as(oti semi
sert the poker at the bottom, and
raise gently, leaving the poker in the
fire for a few minutes. This causes
a draught•, and it makes the fire burn
brightly,
To remove creases from clothes
which have been packed away for
some time, hang in the bath -aeon,,
then turn on the.hot water tip. The
steam will entirely remove the
creases. Press afterwards.
When popping corn put in enough
corn to cover the bottom' of the wire
popper;then drench with water just
before placing over the fire. Every
grain wilt pap, and much more quickly
than without . the added moisture.
For mud stains on dresses dissolve
no little carbonate of soda in wetter an
with it wash the mud Stains. Another
plan is to rub the stains, with a 'cut
raw potato, afterward removing the
potato juice by.rubbing it with a
annol dipped in water.
To prevent dust' when cleaning
rugs, instead of sweeping with a
broom, use a carpet sweeper or' a
small vacuum cleaner, and then take
a cotton' cloth saturated with geeo
line and 'rub your rugs over. They
will loose like new, and be perfectly
free from lint.
Embroidery of very kind that has
been washed or cleaned with petrol.
rhouhel be ironed on the wrong' side to
throw the embroidery into relief.
There should be a soft pad of several
thickness of flannel, so that the em-
broidery can sink into it without be-
ing flattened. -
An improvement over boiled corn is
toasted corn. After boiling the ears
six minutes so as to cook them partial.
ly remove to n bread toaster and
place over hot coals, turning until
they they are browned evenly. The
delicious flavor thus imparted is well
worth the extra wort. of preparing.
If your white shoes have become
too dark and dirty looking to be clean -
Cd they can be turned. into smart look-
Mg brown shoes by rubbing them over
with a mixture of twenty chops of saf-
fron and: two tablespoonfuls of olive
oil, Two applications will be requir-
ed to make the color c'ar'e enough, '
A useful addition to the kitchen
Hint to
June Brides
Don'tcenfineyour nae
of rorNS0NB Ccrn
Starch to Slane Mango
and PuddinEs. T refs aro
any number of dishes that
will bo ill the better for a
bubo
Chicken Ci•oquettea—Creamed Sent
—Grappled end bleat Sauces gain
mostdelectable richness and smooth-
noes whoa made with BSNSON'S
Our recipe book is full of practical
suggestions— lots of good things,
easily prepared. Write tore copy
to our Montreal Office.
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table is a cross -baa' for hanging up
spoons and other utensils. Two ver-
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the table one at each end. The trans-
verse bar is fixed to these. This is
provided with hooks, and forms a
convenient rack, The hooks may
screwed to the edges of the table.
To wash woollen stockings so that
they will not shrink is quite easy.
First shred some yellow soap into a
small tin saucepan, Cover It with
cold Water, .and let boil slowly on the
stove till a jelly, Take some tepid
water' and, with the boiled soap make
a good lather, Wash the stockings
in this, rubbing well and using no
other soap. Rinse in tepid clear.
Water, wring out, and set 'iu the air
to dry quickly.
FEWER ACCIDENTS IN PARIS.
Street Mishaps Reduced With Dia-
. appearance of ,Busses.
The Prefecture of the Paris Police
has issued statistics of street accid-
ents in 1914 and 1015, from which
it appears that in 1914 there were 'Ph
killed, 20,135 wounded and 48,280
cases of material damages, a total of
68,492. For 1915 these figures, were
respectively 89, 16,268 and 28,889,
total 45,196,
The figures show that accidents
have decreased by one-third, the dim-
inution being due to the disappear-
ance of autobuses from the streets
and to the general decrease in the
number of vehicles.
After the first Zeppelin raid in
March, 1915, street lighting was de-
creased and when agitation was start-
ed to resume normal illumination one
argument was that the darkened
streets paused more fatalities and ac-
cidents than Zeppelins were likely to
cause. The second Zeppelin raid put
a sudden and complete stop to this
agitation, but official figures seem to
show that reduced illumination
meant also a reduced number of ac-
cidents.
In the last nine months of 1914;
with normal lighting, there were 59
killed, 14,851 injured and 33,162 ma-
terial damages, while in the corres-
ponding time in 1.915 the figures were
51, 12,853 and 22,542, each category
showing a decrease. Those statistics
of course do not prove that decreased
illumination is not so deadly as nor-
mal, for many fewer vehicles were on
the streets, owing to want of light,
and the normal life of Paris, which
used to continue till 3 am., closed
at 10 p.m.
Strangers on their first visit to
Paris often wonder how many per-
sons are killed in the streets. In
fact they rather seem to wonder that
any oriel escapes death or injury.
The foregoing figures give the deaths
and injuries due to tramcars, auto -
buses, automobiles, carriages' and
bicycles. If the figures for autom-
obiles alone are wanted they were in
1914, 36' killed and 7,958 injured; in
1915, 40 killed and 8.316 injured. The
automobile causes most, accidents,
then carriages and carte, then tram-
cars. Bicycles caused two deaths
each year.
SCIENCE FACTS.
Statistics show that there are fervor
suicides among miners than among
any other class of 'workers.
A combined coat -hanger and trou-
sers stretcher has been invented in
which the two parts are so connected
by lazy tongs that it can be folded
compactly. • 1
An electric lamp to be mounted on ;
the handle of a safety razor and take'
current from a light socket has been
patented by an Englishman to aid
shavers.
Wireless stations to be erected by
the United States navy in Hawaii and ,
the Philippines will be the most pow-
erful in the world, having a 4,700 -mile
radius.
To signal time to vessels in the bar-
ber Lisbon has erected two lights,
which are automatically illuminated I
five minutes before each hour and ex -1
tinguished at the hour.
The motion picture industry, which !
uses silver salts for sensitizing films,
Is estimated to consume 15,000,000
ounces of silver each year in the
-Unitech States alone. JJ
Russia it holding at Petrograd an
exposition featured by a competition'
of inventions anti appliances in the ,
manufacture of artificial limbs.
Driven by a small electric' motor, a
machine which takes up only about a ,
square foot ot_of desk room has been
invented that multiplies anis divides as
well as adds and subtracts.
Poor Man—"I've never been able to
save anything." Millionaire—"Then
you've saved yourself a lot of worry." i
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DIRT
FROM OLD SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER
BANKS AND BRAES.
What Is Going On in the Highland*,
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
For the past fifteen months'a sues
cessful V. A. D. hospital has bee
conducted in the Abbey Buildings a
Fort Augustus by the Scottish Re
Cross Soelety.
Mr. William Wilson who has beep
a member of the teaching profession
for over 50 years has intimated hill
resignation of Arbirlot Public Schools
neer Arbroath: `
Operations are now in progress ill
connection with the deepening and ere
tension of Dyemouth harUor, a hie '
whop completed will greatlyex edit
p _
the landing of the fish.
The strike of the jute workers int
Dundee still continues and no effort
has been made on either side to bring,'
the dispute to a close. Thirty thoud
and workers are affected, ;
The Red Cross Fund raised by the'
textile and drapery trade in Scot-'
land, it is expected, will provide at
least ten motor ambulances. -Over
£21,000 has been subscribed. ,
The Committee of Privy Council on
Education in Scotland have appointed:
Mr. A. 0. Curie, director of the Na''
tional Museum of Antiquities, Edina' •
burgh, to be director of the Royal
Scottish Museum.
The death has occurred in his 91st
year, of Mr. William Whyte, retired!
schoolmaster, at his residence, Dena
nistoun. He was one of the oldest'
Parochial schoolmasters in Scotland. %
The death of Mr. W. Weir Grieve,
the sheriff -clerk of Lanarkshire, hasl
removed one of the best-known of -t
fleials from the administration of the'
law in the County •Buildings, Glas-'
gow.
A party of 85 French and British'
members of the Franco -British Inter)
Parliamentary Committee recently vis-
ited Glasgow, where they were enter-'
tamed by the corporation and public
bodies.
A petition in which the Lord Pro-
vost is asked to call, a meeting of the
citizens of Glasgow to consider the •
question whether enemy aliens should'"`^
be allowed to teach and reside and
enemy alien professors teach, has
been opened for signatures on the
Glasgow Royal Exchange,
Owing to the rapid spread of lire
in a block of warehouses in Glasgow
a large number of girls were in clan-
ger, but managed to escape through
a covered passage, A porter and a
boy were cut off by the flames and
hauled through a window. The dam-
age was estimated at $60,000.
At the Convention of Royal Burghs
at Edinburgh it was stated that
great dissatisfaction is felt through-
out Scotland at the adtninistration of
the National Relief Fund. Glasgow
has subscribed $1,800,000 to the fund,
and only $30,000 has been returnee'
for distribution.
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Wouldn't Stant' for It.
In Cleveland they tell a story of a
boy who left school to work for a
small manufacturer. The boy was
dull, and his stupidity annoyed his
employer greatly. So, after a weole's
trial, he was clfscharged.
"Get your pay,” said the manufac-
turer to him on Saturday, "and let
that be the last of you. You're disc
charged."
It was therefore, with great sur-- 1. ----
prise that the manufacturer saw the
boy at work in his former plats on
Monday morning.
"What are you doing in this shop?"
demanded the manufacturer angrily.
'I discharged you Saturday!"
"Yes,, said the boy, "and don't you.
do it again. When I told my mother
she licked mc"
Maucl—"I see the old Colonel is
,,amiss' again,." Torn --"Indeed ' I
it his fighting days were over."
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