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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-07-06, Page 6A Tenderfoot's Wooing Ey CLIVE Pi-lit-LIPPe V/OLLEY (Author of "Go(d, Gold In Cariboo," Etc.) CHAPTER XXI.--(Contal ) "Thnt big one like a Scotch fir be - "Look out, Rolt," he cried, "They i 1 "All by its lone On a bluff, With that's it. We've got to make for cain't hold it! It's got away I them! they cain't stopit, they're our that.„ yond their camp?" meat, sure," and he stood up reckless- 1 "But we should have to go through ly to get a better chance witlehis rifle. the. whole lot of them to get to it." tresterand faster came the log, aml i "Thetas so but it's the e only way as again a hand showed, and this time an , „ley it won't expect no, end it's the arm and ehoulder with it, and the old ; i short cut to supper. Are you scared man fired, but the am, broken at the I to try it? Maybe the folk at the. wrist, had fallen behind the . log, be- 1 ranch wa,ht. US as bad as I want my fore his bullet chipped the bark of it. tucker." "Bully, for you Reit, I take it all 1 r "You choose your time and I'll fol - back about them sitters." But Rola 00e,a, did not even smile. Hie lies were. 1 " "'Tenn% do to bunch up, that's the thin now and set, and his eyes were trouble. We'll have to split like, a 'glued to that log, whilst he held his rifle as men hold, their guns at the pigeon traps at Harlingham. If the Covering partly in the timer had •been able to hit a hEiystack at seven hundred yards ,the fate of AI and Rolt would have been: sealed for in the excitement of the moment both tchalco, Al?" he said, angrily. men stood up, every thought •intent ',All right; I guese you ain't, if it upon their pray, utterly regardless of comes.to that; but keep your hair on the leaden bees which hummed harm- as long as they'll let you, Mine fells lessly past them. almighty loose, I can tell you," anid * And then the expected happened, then silence fell upon them as they Four men however (lenient cannot waited, whilst the dark came quickly, . hold. a green pine tree from behind as it does in northern lands. First the when it begins to roll, and realizing bar of brown cloud turned to fiery ibis, one _of the Ineians let go and crim' eon then the crimson died to bolted back towards the timber. He erange,hat faded, and for a space the fell with Rolt's bullet between his pines came put hard and clear cut shouldoes and Al's through his thigh against a pale green sky, and then the . before he had gone a dozen Paces. light faded and an owl hooted. The others held on for one mare "That's the signal. They're going brathieg space and then the log broke back," whispered Al. "Are you clean away airorn them. rolling mer- reedy?" and his voice had a shake in rily down the hill, whilst three miser- it. Even he was excited at last. able devils \veinier hi the sage brush Before Reit could reply the old man in the vain hope of hiding from the was on his feet. white men's withering coney. One "Come on," he cried, and then, as wretch ran perhaps for fifty yards he tea:1 them afterwards .at the ranch, . with are arm swinging helplessly from ere, blessed If I didn't think a was his shoulder, as he ran, and they standing still." saw him wince and stumble as a sec- "Though he had grown too heavy ondibullet touched'him. for running long distance, Rolt had "Outer to me Boss," shouted Al, in his time been a famous university pumping up another cartralge "brill to sprinter, and the long strain of wait- . you," -he added, regretfully, before.he could fire again as his fellow -creature • collapsed in a heap and lay still -Men fighting for their lives have no sentiment, and perhaps Al never had much at any time. The sighteef blood had roused all hie, fighting instincts, • and for he moment he was as eeckleets . aS he was pitileas. e "Oh shoot, and be blanked!" he cried as half's dozen bullets hummed past him. "It's our turn now. Pull them other traps, cain't you." band of prairie chicken, and I'm sear- ed as you'll lose your away." Rolt kn,ew•alest in the darkness as this was only tco probable, but there were other lives Mo be considered, more percious to him than his own. 'Do you think I am a kid or a tehee. But the other traps were not pulled. Whilst the centre log was betraying its mestere, the two outside logs had come o a standstill, and so, in spite of Al's gibes and the bullets with which he made chips of them fly; they re mined, great black bars on the pra- irie, three hundeal yards from the berry patcb, whilst the November sun crawled down towards the hori- zon. Suddenly it dipped into a low ly:ng bar of cloud and the light failed so euddenly that Al noticed it. "We've got to hurry, 130es," he said sinking into his place by Ralts' side, and shaking a spray of • blood off his hold where a bullet had skinned it. "We Saint let them fellows stay there aft -r dark." "What an we goling to do to pre- vcet it? We have lost our horses." moderate second-class in town; "Thetis so, but if we stay here we'll moreover, he raconteurs, being for be roeeted as soon as ti's too dark to the most part authorities on whiskey allot They'll fire the bush on us have no .personal standard to judge srre." • by. They themselves hink them- ' "Woll, what is youre plan?" asked selves men. Theboys would call Peat, wearily. Ife was a brave man, them obsolete machines past forty and but the fight against such odds, as he fit only for wasting good fuel. now realized that they had against But Rolt's muscles had been kept them, seemed to him hopelesa hard by An ouadoor life and he Wha Only the boyish spirits .of such a still five years on the right side of dttre-evil as the old frontiersman forty, so that his feet seemed to de - could remain unbroken under such a your the distance and in spite of their strain efforts the shadowy figures of the In- a am t got no plan, he drawled, Islam grew plainer, until one turned 'at lepet no jilan, to speak of, but a to face the terror panting athie shoul- &Hefty° saying seems to me to come der,' He had hardly time to see the mighty beady: 'Do unto others the fierce white face. The earth ibeelf same as they'd ;e'o tint° you,' only do seemed to rise up and strike him, and . it. qeicker. Now those Johnnies are he knew im more. c-aculating to nigh us 05 goon as it Years after he WAS -known as Billy get, p:eod eine dark. We've got to Brokenja.w. He was more lucky than resh them first." •the big Chilcoten just ahead of him, "All right." The hand which struck the senses out "Mad on. • 'Taint time for the last of Billy, gripped and clawed 'at the act !rut, We've got to play this game nape of the next man's neck, For a eecemehme to Holo, with all the frills dozen pacei it seemed doubtful whe- as Menge to it. Fest there's slow ther white rage OT red terror would music from the orchestra, then the win in that race for life, but the claw. liehte grovre kinder dim and uncer- ing fingers bent t last and the Ine t,'n, then the ghost appears. See?", dian shock of black hair, beign coarse bolt did see, and he never save a ant strong as a horsois maim, the half-hour in his Ione, life no trying as grip of thecae fingers held, and the . that clueina which hi; and the other two men rolled over tegethea like fox three leen movehed, 1ik snrinters, and hognel in Ile final worry, waiting for the start, Whilst the. eil-ee There ais a particular scent to -day, lo,- ily nictionlees in front of them. not unlike the smell o dying sage and ono by ane the outlines of the brush which makes old man Rolt turn prierie grew indistinct, the separate seueamiele When he emells it, he tug had worked upon his nerves, until they were like coiled springs. When the release came he beunded forward as he had done when he was the first string for his alma meter, and passed Al as a motor -car passes a bus]. "To 'cm, boys," screamed Al. "Sock it to 'em! Give 'em hell!" and, yea ing like a fiend or an old Gree brave; he clashed after his leader. To their credit, in spite of his pace, Toma anti Al were not much farther behind Reit when he sprang at the log, than the second and third string's are behind the winner in the quarter, As Rolt reached the log a group of figures rose from the sage brush. They had already wormed their way through it for some fifty yards un- seen, but concealment being no longer possible, they rose now and van. "Fleet as an Indian," men say who do not know Indians. Those who know them would back Oxford or Har- vard, Cambridge or Yale, to beat any Indian who ever drew the breath of the prairies into his lungs. The trou- ble is that most of the men who take back these stories of Indian prowess don't know anything about first-class athletes; don't know what it means to come to London the wonder of your country and fled yourself a very 'tree tops merged. into each other, sees. the ,,,l,14,, of en Indian's eyes, - came. '7117 might -tey to get bath the lreber." whispered Al, "and come on tegethee inter on. If they de thrill cer time te rash them. Do -emu nerd the eearlet pine?" thew work, • Doctor .Tells Stgthe land foel$ a neck bending hack until it packs.. CHAPTER, XXII. Reit a.nd did 1101 etay to look at Eyesight 6 pe r -eent .One 1 Aa• gme. cl"Pl"Yel `c) 9 eervent WaS that al'. the wealthy- London. architect,. lefie• Gran - "Come 'on," the old maxi ineieted, apd though the remaining Chaleateee had ecured too ' geed a stale te be caught hp, now, the two white "men pressed as closely upon their heels as they could. Before the Pursuers had eovexed half the distance the pm - sued had vanished into the tanbee, but Al held on steadily, straight into the Indians' lines. Through the first rank of the pines master and man passed unmolested, running swiftly but silently, until Role saw indistinctly a mob of men on his right, uncertain, it seemed, whe- ther 15 Tun to him or away from hiai, until Al called to them in the streuge clucking gutterals of their own lan- guage. ; The meaning of what Al sail Rolt could nob catch but heesaw the mob disperse,' relining apparentlyin the same general direction as himself, and he wondered even then at the marvellously true accent and ready wit which had for the moment de- ceived the Indians. For twenty yards' the bwo tore through the impending brush or blun- dered in the dark amongst logs and windfalls, then they emerged upon the main trail which led to Khelowna's camp. If they had had time to think, the smooth firmness of it would have suggested to them the numbers of an enemy who could wear such a trail in so sbort b time. As they ran pest what looked in he dark like a beus.b•lean to, a man leapt oub upon the path, and Al, who was now leading, repeated his cry. But the man was too near to be deceived and though Al was past him, the In- dian tried boldly to block Rolt's way. To Bah he was the full backf his boyhood's ;days. Without decreasing his pace he pretended to swerve, and then, as the man closed on him, turn- ed and ran right at him, titled the Indian's thin up with the butt of his open hand so that his head was shov- ed almost off his shoulders, and $o passed amongst the great dim pines which stood for goal posts, through a line of ,smouldering fires, seeing only the tall thin figure of the tireless run- ner in front. As they rap a horse whinnied, and Al, checking; for ; a minute, branched off the main trail. "Holy smoke!" he panted as, Rolt overhauled him. "That's their horse camp. Let's chance it, Boss. It's worth the risk," and he stole swiftly alpng through the bushes until they i opened out into a, narrow swamp, not an acre in extent all told. In it twenty or thirty homes had been pickebted, and as luck would have it not a man was in sight. ' e be Continued.) PIGEONS EMPLOYED AS SPIES. Cionti. Many Are Used by the French and German Armies. All the nations at present fighting use carrier pigeons, not only for car- rying messages'but also for taking photographs. In the equipment of all the German and French army tarps are to be found a number of wickee panniers containing pigeons, special men being told off to look after the birds. The messages which these birds car- ry me written on fine 'tissue paper, which is generally rolled round the leg and fastened there by means of a piece of silk or small rubber band. To thew how useful the French and German authorities regard these pige- ons, it has only to be stated that in rearm° no fewer than 15,000 are re- served for Goverement use, and 8000, according to official statistics, in Ger- many. British authorities, too, realize their usefulness --and danger--aurl have made it illegal for any German or other alien to prossess carrier pigeons during the war, for -undoubtedly many messages from spies, especially during the early days of the war, were sent to Germany by this means. These messages of from 200 to 300 words can easily be carried from the East coast to parts of Germany in a day, During the siege of Paris in 1870, when 3683 birds were sent out of the doomed city, one bird succeeded in carrying to the _outside world on one trip no fewer than 40,000 messages. This extraordinary feat was accom- plished by Means of microphotogra- phy, the messages being first printed in ordinary type and theti photo- graphed. The photographs wen re- duced many hundred times on to films of 'Collodion, eath of which, about two inches square, contained 50,000 words, Sixteen of these films rolled up in a quill 'weighed only one -twenty-fifth part of an ounce. FORTUNES FOR SERVANTS. Some Large Sums Bequeathed 13y • Employers. The recent legacy of 220,000 to her maid by the Dowager Countess ef Wil. ton is not by any means the biggest sum left to a servant, even in eacenb years, says a London paper, In 19 I 1, " • - pi e 0 13 .1c• ehemeh'e lady Mae Anna Pilgrim, left her enitre mane while in 1 906 El Mio COh(l11 e ft her ex footman 0 sum of' (1110,000. One of the mont (.1.1110U3 bequests was that made by the let, Telt.. Alexander Fleming, a member of the famous fitin of 'William Baird, the Scottish ironmastere. When he died in 19(11) he left a :urn of 110,000 to a Scoleieh piper who had whiled away the mil- lionairae hours of filmes by playing the hagpjpes in his bedroom, Per - belie the mo:e; g•enerous bequest of an ,4 Free rrereeription Von elm rfave Filled and eiee at amine Philadelphia, Pa. Do you wear glasses ? ,A.re you a virtini eea etrain or Other eye svonknesses 3 1 r no. 11P1 . will be glad le know that aneording 1 o Dr. Lewis mere lu hal hope for you. Many whore: eyes wsre fan; ng say they have liartlfdr eyes 0 - al Brod I hreugh the prinniple of this won- derful Yea 1/0,51101/11011. 0110 emu gays, alter trying 111 I was almost bIlati; anuld 11,1 000 to FORR at sn, ?Tow 1 11313 read everything without ony glasses and r yes do not water any more. At 11101 tteY Woula nom lissudrully; now thew feel am: all the Univit tvas like a miracle to nee" A indy who usdl it nuye: eTtio at; .nueeeiere seemed hazy with or wIttione; glass". 3. hr. 3, fter utIng this prescription for fifteen ..ntyl. everything seems dear. 1 een even rend line prin3, without glassen." It le believed that thousands who gear glasses Call 1101discard thoto in a reason- able time toad 045313n-ndos more will ho able to strengthen their eyes so as to he spared dm trouble mei expellee of ever getting kaasses. •Plye trembles of many doscrip. Mons tnay be wonderfully benefitedby fol- io -mug tho 01m540 miles,, Here is the pro- scription : (40 10 any active drug store end got n bottle of 1300-Opto tablets, Draft Ono tal3lot In a fourth of a glees oC water and 51105 to tttEisolvo. With thin lIlulO bathe the eyes two to four Unice thiny. roe aeome eoleoe your eyes clone 00 nercoptIbly rigSt from tho start ancl in. flanunatlen will quickly disappear94 aaer eyes eve bothering you, even ft little, take rtemi to save them now before it fa too into. Many hopelessly blind might have born saved if they had eared for their eye!! time.. , Nowt Anteolmr nroneincell Physlelan the tarmie ortlF10. Rai lonolutel, . ”noneOnlo lo A.C1,), tosoorkoblo remedy. Ito oonitlluctel nartellenes nig well known io minted bbo.Poolonnnl nod seadel broscrflo.ol by thorn. Thei rebentanoe curcro.noorantee'llt to AlresonthOn oyesbilet 10 531coot, In F110, 2t."1::`nroP:TitT,VLIT,,I,IgfVeinir9„77,;•.1,14°,4. Preortraflotool (cob obnold onllmn1 0Buloi dye, fneollY -"I"`• 03 18 sold in 'l'oronto by Valuta', nreg Cs. pole When he, ;died he left the whole of his IltlahlOSS, worth some 1200,000 ase going 001100111,' to his .assistant, Mr. Pelly. The .Alen of Charity. "Sweet charity is always gratefully teceived." "I don't know about that. Once in London 1 SaW a lovely leely throw a peney to a 'street begger—" "And wasn'the pletteed?" "Well, he wasn't so very pleased. You tee, it was one of those English pennies inal it hit him in the eye." Eveey mail expecte to be great some day, but a toe of them keep put. Ong if off, aelaireal eee,..eseee4e. 'DJ g The Seret of Flaky Pie Crust ‘1 3 Ira in 001' Recipe Book -with a lot of other recipes for maktng goad Pies. hit -we're going to tell you right hare how 0310)> to have the toB crust fine and flaky -and how to have . ti.o under crest lost right, even when using fresh fruit. Just uso part 0 11 TARC instead of all who'd flour. Try it, and grove Go). package of BENSON'S 05 10310 Moor's, and write to our Montreal Office, for copy of our nev.r redo. book, 'Desserts and Candies'' that ky tells how. r691 THE CANADA STARCH CD, LIMITED , CARDIN 1., MONTREAL, 20531T0000, 215 215 _ FORT WILLI:M. kkgr•Ferda074240142dela QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN. The Spaniards Have Overcome Their Dislike for Her. Victoria Ena was born an English Princess, was brought up in the strict- est simplicity, and when she became the Queen of Alfonso XIII. she ,car- ried that wholesome freshness and freedom of thought and action to which she had been accustomed all her life straight into the heart of ul- tra conservative, haughty Spain,_ 00 course, her behavior to the Spaniards was almost, unseemly, and they didn't mind saying so, behind closed doors. They were positively shocked, and they could not under- stand how their proud King could bring home such a bride as that. At last, one or two of the King's intimates told him frankly of the surprise of his people at Queen Ena's eccentricities, to use a mild term. His frierids' complaints fell on deaf ears. "Wait! and see what they will say in a year or two. Meanwhile Victoria Ena was pro- fiting by the lessons given her in in- ternational diplomacy by that wise and tactful uncle of hers, the late King Edward VII., of England. She was not his niece for nothing, and the, end certainly justified the means for Victoria came out with flying col- ors. Spain to -day speaks with par- donable pride of her as the most pop- ular queen it ever had. Victoria has the gifb of wearing her clothes well. Madrid was mightily proud of this, and rd,ther ungracious- ly, some thought, gave her the sobri- quet of "The Peacock," on account of her exquisite taste. Spain was considerably upset when the queen insisted upon having Eng- lish nurses and pleasicians. Bub have them she did. The ancient Spanish royal nursery, with its dark, sombre grandeur and out-of-date equipment had to go. Victoria had the whole suite done over in white,. -white furni- ture, white walls, and bright hang- ings. The Queen of Spain is not a bril- liant woman, nor does she pretend to be. She is beautiful and kind and gracious. Above all, she is a splen- did mother. Every minute she can spare hom presiding over stupid State functions is given to these blessed babies; she has six now. There is one reform that Queen Ena has brought about in Spain, and that is the brutal sport of bull -fight- ing. At first she attended them, but later she could not summon the strength to do so, and when she refused to lend her presence it was noticed that the King's box at the ring was also empty. That settled the matter, at least for Madrir. It was not long be- . niany other cities followed suit, never to resin it during the reign of this queen, no matter h.)* strong the desire may be. Paid to Smoke. Manager—"I caught that fellow smoking on the job out there and fired him. I gave him his four days' pay and told him to clear out." Owner—"Goad heavens that lellow was only looking for a =MEM • 20005 Pare Cane aiMalalalE1 Tam Gram, -etttrnt taaaaa tea OnzilllY 2 and 54b. Cartons 10 and 204b. Bags Don't buy sugar by the"quarter'sworth" or dollar s worth when you eau buy antic S tsr r in these full weigb original packages, con- taining thefffine "granu- lation every housewife likes. "The All -Purpose Sugar" . zesewle Sire wherry Recipes. Strawberry Seedwiches.—These are delightful roe afteenoon teas, Fine French bre;e 1 or bender baking powder biscuit eervee as the binding for large sweet 'berries sliced and sprinkled with eager. Sometimes a spoonful of whipped cream is added to the bereies. Strawberry Salad.—One quart straw berrtee, 3 tablespoonfulis olive oil, dash of sale, 2 tablespoonfuls honey, lea tablespoonfuls lemon juice, let- tuce. Wash and hull berries; cut in halves, lengthwise. Make a dressing by beating the honey, oil, lemon juice and salt together until frothy; pone over the, berries and let stand thirty minutes in a cold Made. DraM ar- range aai lettuce leaves and serve at once. Strawberry Roll.—Make a rich bis- cuit crust, then roll out the dough to about a quarber of an inch in thick- ness. Spread thickly with berries, dredge lightly with flour and a lit- tle sugar; roll up, soistening the edges to keep them together, and tie in a cheese cloth. Lay on a plate and set in a steamer. Steam two and a half hours for a medium-sized roll, then serve with sweetened cream Or hard sauce. Strawberry Shortcake for Five.— A large cupful of flour, two teaspoorts of baking powder, a teaspoonful of lard and ono of butter. Mix with cote milk, mold into two largrhiscuits and bake in quick oven. Split through center and butter and pour over same one box of strawberries which have lieen mashed with one and one-half cupfuls sugar. Serve with whipped cream OT ice cream. Strawberry Sunshine Preserves.— Select nice red, firm berries; wash and drain. To every quart of ber- ries have ready a syrup made of two cups of sugar and one-half cup of wat- er. When syrup has boiled five min- utes arid berries and boa exactly ten minutes, no longer, and then skim out berries, placing them on a platter. Boll the juice twenty minutes, removing the scum. Then pour the juice over the berries and place in the sunshine. Cover platter or dish with a piece of glass. One day usually suffices to reduce to proper consistency—which should be a jelly-like state. Reheat and then seal, or place in jelly glasses and cover with parraffin. This makes O very delicious preserve. Inexpensive Cakes. Currant Cake.—One pound of house- hold flour, one-half margarine, one- half pound of sugar, one-half pound of currants, half a pint of milk, one tea- spoonful ef carbonate of soda. Mix all the dry ingredients together. Place the margarine in a basin a little way from the fire until it gets soft, beat it up with a fork until it is like cneam; mix a good teaspoonful of carbonate of soda in two teaspoonfuls of milk, set aside until you have mixed with a knife the flour etc., with margarine and milk'than pour in the milk and soda; beat well until thoroughly mix- ed, place in a greased tin, leaving plenty of room to rise, bake slowly for half an haute hen in a hotter oven for one hour. Date Cake.—One pound of household flour, one-half pound of dates, six ounces of margarine, a tablespoonful of vinegar, milk (less than a quarter ole pint), one-quarber pound of sugar mixed spice, carbonate of soda. Rub all the dry ingredients well together, melt the carbonate of soda in the milk, and add o the mixtme, then add the vinegar, beat all well together and bake for one and a half hours in a moderate oven. Date and Currant Cake.—Ohe pound of flour, one-half yelled curranin, one - of flour, one-half pound currants, one - of granulated sugar, six ounces of margarine, one teaspoonful of car- bonate 04 soda, ono lane teaspoonful of marmalade milk as required. Beat the butter and sugar together, add he flour, then the other ingredients. Die - sieve the soda in the mills and add to the above. Mix all to a etiffith batter Bake two hours in a fairly hot oven. Keep two days. - Ginger Cake.—Three-quarters pound of flour, blume-quarters pound of syrup one-quarter pound of lard, two tea. spoonful of spice, elittle caeclied peel, one teaspoonful af groural ginger, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, a little milk. Mix ell dry ingrediente eogether, then add enough warm mille to melee a stiff dough. Bake tine and 0 quaxter hours in a moderate oven. Currant Cake. ---One pound of flour, one-half pound of currants, six ounces of seem, 510 ounces of maigai ine, twn ouncee of mixed peel, ene teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, one teaspoonful cf r ewdercd sugar, one tettepoonful of mixed spice, one cup of mifie Melt the margarine in.the milk, but do not lot it hall; add to the dry ingrer;ients, which ;Mould be well mixed, 13elto, three hours in a moderate. oven. Household Hints. fr potato peeliegs are dried, they will melee a quick .five. You cell got more juice from a lem- e n that is heated than from a cold 15111051 Whntever frnit ie in eemem should ho mnde the most of, especinily for desserts, ' The hone thould be Ica; in the roast, it will keep the juice in aml add flavor and sweetness. The bloseom buds of rhubarb are said to =lee good greens stewed spinach, UPO Cold Milk to soak the bi•ead or oake in for pudding; the pudding will be more light. • To hurry the cookleg of anything n a double boiler, add halt to the WiltOr al the outer boiler, Any coOking. that is done in ves- aele thet are not thorooghly clean is Poisonons to the eyetem ;$ IC meshes ate ironed wee, they will be •emeoth; if 110ne3 dry, they will heee13 rough appearance. , A good sweet sandwich made of ose3.113 banana cream spreael between thin slices of sponge fingee calce. Never allow 011111137 toaese mire- • Mg bottle with a tube attached to it —the tube can aever be cleaned, Grapes axe much more delicious if they are allowed to lie in ite water at least five minutes before -servile - When hambrirg steak seems dry put two or throe tablespoonfuls of fresh cream and a few breedcrumbe in with it. Remove fruit stains by pouring boil- ing water over the stained surface, having it fall feom a distance of thea f eet. When warming a steamed pudding put it in a celander and stand it tot the steamer, This will make pudding, or cake delightfully light. Patent leather shoes should be yap - cal off with a cloth when they are re- moved and then alittle olive oil should be rubbed into them. Sifted wood athes will clean tie., agate or cockery ware,. Dampen a cloth and apply the wood ashes by rubbing it on the stained places. Time is saved by. cutting the dough for baking biscuits with a knife. The biscuits will be in pretty squares, and there will be no waste. ENGLAND"AWAKENING. Class Distinction Breaking Down, Writes Briton. • "We shall sec a great evolution after the war," writes an English- man to "The Minneapolis Journal." "The need of things we have left in the past to others will become a part of the curriculum of the future. Boys will have more attention given to the elaboration of things than are useful rather than merely orna- mental. England has wakened up to the need of doing things whieh were at one time thought beneath the etu- dent, forgetting that work is honor- able and a privilege not to be de- spised by any created being. "So the /ladies of our land are be- coming the workers on our farms, and are doing good and great work by these means in winning girls to the joy of service, thus filling many formerly empty livem with the plea- sure that, comes from being useful. It is wonderful what women are ac- complishing in all lines. "What do we think of the war? Why, there is only one thotight, that we shall win through, and come all the cleaner for its purification of thought; and action, for the new life it has created and the better sense of the proportionate value of things. There is an eagerness in all to qualify for being useful in the best sense of the word. "Now all this is going to tell in the futuee life of our nation, and with it comes the breaking up large- ly pf class distinctions. The work- man has looked at the higher classes and the clerles as ueeless. But when they have come together in the trenches, and have found those they despised doing so bravely and ably a mutual and lasting appreciation is seen sprieging up among them." STOPPED BY TWO "75's." French Lieutenaat Held (Ionians Back and Killed 400. How two French "75's" stopped, a German advance under difficult con- ditions Wag tOhl in London recently by H. Warner Allan in a despatch from the front He says; "The Arbonne, with all its cover, is a -difficult country for artillery, but, the French gunners there have ac- complished a number of feats of which they may well be proud. Theee is a point on one of the tree - hidden roads of the forest, which is shown, to the visitor as the scene , of the exploits of a certain artillery lieutenant. It is no distance from , the German lines, but on one occasion when the Crown Princeawas hammer- ing away at the French trenches' and his infantry had left their cover, this lieutenant brought, up two '75's' and set one of them on eithee side of the road. The was no time to link up his guns to the fronb trenches, but, with ale aid of a compass and a map, he blezed away at the line where he W115 convinced the Germane woOld try to pass. He knew the country well, and scarcely wasted a shell, sb- effi- cient were his map and compass. The German advance stopped suddenly, aml the next clay the French counted 400 bodice on the steep hilleido, for the majority of which those '76's' had been resp_onsible:',;. Never judge a men by his relatives instead or by his companions. Rela- tives are thrust upon birn, but com- panions am usually selected by him - Felt •••e'' ..-er,,,,,,BowooLs000rr; No,iadrui; I NI okDE, I N CANADA GE, MAN WAR t>AZE S/GN OF DECADENCt OPINION OF ONE OF THE GREAT: EST SCIENTISTS. This War Was Started by .the Gee) mans in a Spirit of Pure • Brigandage. DOHS thil3 war. mean that huraaniby has reached that crucial cycle of clea 4111Paata Ma' velopment which is likely to be fol- lowed by degeneration? The greatest of all archwologists, Flinders Petrie, says that is what' occurred in Egypt, in Greece, in Baby- lon and in Rome. After bhat they: died. Now one of the world's most emina ent modern scientists, Lieut. -Col. She Ronald Ross, whose name is potent, and his knowledge magic, hints that he believes this war to be the sign of Germany's decadence and. a warning,' not only to the other fighting nationsil but to the United States, that national habits must be changed, national as- pirations raised if they are not to suffer likewise. Sir Ronald's wonderfully brilliant career ranks him among the fore- most of efthe world's distinguished scientists. His best known service to human- ity was the discovery in 1397 of the part played by the mosquito in the transmission of malaria fever. This discovery has been as important to tropical countries as was the discov- ery that yellow fever can be transmit- ted only through the bite of the same insect, ,,mdern science," he said thought. fully, "has made it possible to con- duct a mighty war without the ac- companiment of epidemics, even though it be carried on among condi- eellee tions which twenty years ago would have caused frightful waves of sick- ness, which undoubtedly would have been responsible for more deaths than weapons so far have caused. German Decadence. "But that is merely the record of the medical work in the war. It cares for the fighting men efficiently and keeps them in condition to do good fighting. The surgical side, upon which, naturally, I am less informed, for I am a medical man rather than O surgeon, has done literal marvels. "Really neither the medical nor the surgical side of this war, however, is the aspect worthy of the most care- ful consideration. The psychological side is of really great imporbaece, and here we find a startling situation. "Thehuman race is millions of years old and has reached its present stage of progress through the gradual education of all ite faculties., all Ulla education having been supposed to bend away from barbarism and crudi- ties. War has been to part of this educational process in the past mak- ing men brave, perhaps making them self-sacrificing. "It may be that such waders tended to develop the individual along lines necessary to his best advancement, bue there can be found no excuse for thinking that 813011 El war of machinery and eubmergence of the individual RS 111>11 011I111 at present is beiug conducted by Ger- many against the Civilized world will have any such desirable effect.. "Flinders Petrie gatheved oviaerice to the effect that Egypt was af- fected by cycles of clecatlence iinproveent about every 1,500 yeaee. ,:id nd rn "A great natural law is b civilization. The fact that the Ger- mans marital this war without a real chalice of gaining by it ie proof, to my mind, of the; onset of their &cad- enc'eT "This war is unique. The old wars were either purely military or brought about by religious hails in conflict. The Thirty Years 11'110 and the Napoleonic ware grew out of human aspirations towerd li5unty, But this great struggle was otneted by the Germans in a spirit of the Purest brigandage." 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