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A Tenderfoot's Wooing
By CLIVE PHILLIPPS VVOLLEY
(Author of "Gold, Gold In Cariboo," Etc.)
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CHAPTER XXXVI,--(Centel).
As he looked he heard the horses
stamping in the kitchen.
"Going, is he? I blanked if he
shall!" he Muttered, and without stop-
ping to think, he ran down into the
kitchen.
But the sight which met him there
staggered Jim Cornbe, so that he stood
gaping with his hoots still ihi hie
hand.
Anstruther in full hunting costume
-pink coat, immaculate leathers, top
hat, and gloves --turned and faced
, him.His horse, looking enOTITIOAS
alongside the weedy country heeds,
was standing as still as a, sheep in the
middle of the room, facing the win-
dow, rom which Anstruther had con-
trived to take the gashes.
"What in-"
"Going to bed, Jim?" asked Anstra-
thee easily, interrupting him and look-
ing with a grin at Combo's boots.
"Sorry to bother you, but before you
turn in you might pet those up again
for me," and he pointed to the sashes
t,
"Bu-"
."Say I'll be back soon. So long!"
and, before Combe had realized what
was happening, Anstruther swung cle-
verly into his saddle and put his horse
at the window.
Combo saw Anstruther touch the
gesat horse with his heel, heard his
"'Up, boy," as they came to the low
window sill, and then the beast
great quarters were gathered beneath
it and like a cat, or, to be more exact,
a well -broken Heythrop hunter, Rod-
dy -gore reared and popped over into
space..
The little cramped jump would neve
done more to ,anseab Combo than the
*eine buhk, but the man froth Picca-
dilly pat as if he was ina rocking -
chair.
So quietly had Anstrizther made this
Preparations, and the Indians' feint
had served him so well, that, with,
the single exception 'Of Jim Combo,
no one had any idea until they saw
him from the windows, trotting quiet-
ly towards the Indiana, who had just
returned to their lines; their horses
a trifle pumped by the wild gallop
they had indulged in.
Fen- a hundred yards he trotted
quietly; and then stopping unconcern-
edly, as if he had been at a meet in
Ids own country, he' turned and un-
covered to the laides, smiling and:
calling a message to them, the words
of which they could not catch.
Considering the probability of
volley, it was very gallant fooling, and
worthy of the good sportsman he
looked, and at any retie it was better
and more merciful to Kitty than a
tearful leave-taking. -
elherhaps he meant it so, but An-
stru ther was never one of those who
parade their good intentions.
Replacing his hat and 'waving his
band to them, he turned in his saddle,
and at a quiet trot rode steadily to-
wards • the Indian lines, the groat
horse reaching at his bit and showing
plainly how gond the turf felt under
his feeb after so many days an a
boarded floor.
"Great heavens! The boy has gone
main" cried Role. "Can no 'owe stop
Mm?"
"Boat let him play his own hand
now, Boss," greened Al, whose eyes
were 'beginning to- glitter with excite -
hint and widen -nineteen "He kuows
his long euit. None of us do. Maybe
he's going to play peace -maker."
This may have been the idea which
kept the Indians quiet, though that
amid hardly have been Al's reading
of the riddle, or the old man's thin
nostrils would not have been working
so nervoulsy, and though such an at-
tire as Anstzmther's would have been
in keeping with the traditions of old
time Hudeon Ban factorys when going
to a solemn Meeting, he carried no
white flag. or. other wilfully .mislead-
,
in eminent.
But he rode unarmed_ Except for
his horntbandled hutiting crop he car-
ie.
fi
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In
be
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to
say the colt was clar grit? He's
through tem, I tell you. Miss Kitty
look. Don't hut your eyes, lassie,
Your man's clear through 'em.'
And he was,
A boast coming at you is the hand -
est mark to hie A man in deadly
earnest is even harder,especially
when you don't expect him and cal-
culating upon this and timing his
dash to a moment, the man fru ittinic-
canilly had riddeneight over the near-
est group of Chilcotene,oing cnic k
est group of Chilcotens, knocking one
down with his horee, and breaking ma
Khelowna's head with his riding -crop
as he passed, and now he was going
"lickety brindle," as old Al would put
it, on the far side of the enemies'
lines, whilst they scrambled to their
horses instead of stopping to shoot,
So far he had done well, but in a
glance his friends realized that Ins
gallant effort had been -wasted. In-
stead of turning to hi Ei left and mak-
ing for the road, in which case he
would have had a clear course and
two hundred yards' start, he was
heading for Soda Creek as the crow
flies.
"He has forgobten the canyon,"
groaned Jim Combe.
"He hainnelone no such thing," con-
tradicted Al. "That's what he's a-
playin' for."
Jim looked at the old man and
understood.
"He can't do it. No horse could,"
"He can. A buck couldn't. A horse
couldn't, but lee's a gelid to, Great
Scott! See that!"
Perhaps half a dozen Indians fol-
lowed directly in Anstruther's foot-
steps like a pack of hounds running
in view, but the main body of them
realizing their quarry's mistake,
making for the dip where the road
went through, to which they imagined
he 'must eventually come, if he would
cross the canyon.
For half annile the going was good,
firm, grass -covered cattle land, and
over this the red coat sailed, going
two lengths for every one covered by
his Pursuers. But beyond this for
several hundred yards the land was
boggy, and when Al spoke, Anstrut
thee slipped out of the saddle and ran
by his horse's side,whilst the Indians
seeing this, made desperate efforts to
overtake him, and played their horses
clean out.
Once through the little bog, he was
in the saddle again, cantering easily
until, to those watching him, he seem-
ed on the very brink of the canyon,
with the broken pine close on his
right.
Then he shook his horse together,
crammed his hat on his head., and
went at his death hands down.
To five people stikalive, there is
one second in their' past lives which
was more than a day long.
When it was over, a fair-haired girl
sank quietly to the ground, and for
the first time ht her life Mrs. Role did
not move to help, a sister in trouble.
She could not, Her great eyes were
wide with the hunger of seeing; her
little hands clenched and her parted
lips white; and when Al, speaking as
if he were in church, whispered: "I
take it all back about them Mids.
There ain't no flies on fox-hunting,"
the others burst into hysterical laugh-
ter which , was perilously near tears,
for the red -coat had cleared the can -
yob. -"helped it, by gam; jorreped it
clay!" as the old song says, and was
sailing away, a dim pirfic spot,
straight as the crow flies for Soda
Creek. ,
. .
Does the story wane finishing? Be -
ore Ansbruther had ridden for a cou-
ple of hours, a large posse of men
ame over a rise and were stertled by
he vision of a white-faced madman
iding across the Chileoten country In
he uniform of the Vale Hunt; more.
ver, the madman was so mad that he
add barely speak intelligibly, and he
ppeared to be swooning friSM pain,
sough 'on him was no . trace of a
vound... -
They bronght Win back with them
o the ranch, from which, ab their ap-
roach the Chilcoteus vanished like
Se midst's of morning, and it was
Iorseley, the leader of the posse, who,
month later, talking to Jim Cornbe
ver a pipe, said:- •
"Like will to like, Jim. She'd never
aim made a wife for you, old chap.
ou'll have to plug along same as we
1 -do until you find another Mrs,
olt-if the world holds one."
The End.
led nethinge and in this fashion, re- an
training his horse to the steadiest '
'et, he advanced with the utmost un -
monist° within Yards of the t
rendering Chilcotene without a shot , e
red or ti word spoken, whilst his • tt
:lends watched him with their hearts e
*Mt
At fifty yards from the Indian lines, e
a
nozen voices challenged him, but
e rode. on as if he had been deaf, et
'litent haste as withoat pause.
Then there was a clank of Winchee- I se
r 'Pumps, end a rifle Went up to a it
ctskinls shoulder. Before the butt I
uched flesh, in the hese second of ,
apace, Anstruther spoke to his horse
and,. touched him with his spurs, no
bhat the gallant beast, unused to such
trentment, sprang madly forward on
, w els its rider bent over
its ehoulder anile -ode it headlong- into er
the 'volley which belched CMS to meet ' 1m
War and Words:
England's sinteenth century war
with Spain was responsible for lev-
el new words being added to the
tguage, Embarge and contentment]
are two of them; while to the earn-
paigns in the low countries we are
indebted for such words as freebooter,
furlough, cashier, leagues, drill, on-
slaught, aconce and domineer.
hint,
"a1V-e 'ern bell! Oh, give 'eat hell!"
eereareed old Al. at the window, los-
ing' all control of himself, his ace
Won -king with excitement. "Didn't I
, • K • f•ASIF451,
If You v Not
Policy in the
You are not doing justice
to yourself or yoar
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46.
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S The Secret a
419 Flaky Pie Crust I
In our ROCIPO B09 W h a
DI of °them:1°0es for maktkri-ggoltotiPi'elest.
But -we're going to tell you right
here how always to have the top
prti crust fine and Flaky -and how to have
Ii, under crust Sitit right, even when
Just use part
using fresh Fruit.
E. S
CORN STARCI;
Instead of all wheat flour., Try It, bi
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and t psrpo4v6ek f Eli sows t
grocer's,155 and write to 'our It aonreual
Office for copy of our new recipe,
book, "Desserts and Candles" that
os tells how. ,
THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED
10 MONTREAL, OAROINAL,
EIRANTFORO. '218 poor WILLTAM.
diraffilteliEZZATRIA
HOW THE "MISSING" ARE FOUND
Methods Adopted by the German Gov-
ernment in Discovering Them.
In a recent issue of Die Tagliche
Rundschau there is a description of ,a
bureau in Munich that is devoted to
tracing the "missing." The ladies of
Munich take a large part in this work,
the success of which is testified to by
the fact that over two thousand
"missing" have been disenvered since
the war began.
,The search for trwounded and miss-
ing man is no light task. The ladies
of the bureau have, in the course of
their service, accumulated a vast
amount of military information. For
example, they must know where each
man's regiment fought on every day
since his absence was discovered. In
other cases they find where a regi-
ment's wounded were taken and when
they have learned that they make in-
quiries in the neighboring hospitals,
which usually keep manifold indexes
of the interned soldiers. Often doz-
ens of letters are written to foreign
hospitals, camp cornnianders and
priests before any clue is found: The
town authorities are accustomed to
keep lists of the prisoners in their
own town, so that the bureau is often
able to tell people who have not ap-
plied to it of the whereabouts of their
relatives.
Lieutenant IL of a Bavarian reserve
regiment had been missing since a cer-
tain battle in Flanders. Several mem-
bers of his company testified that they
had seen the lieutenant's body lying
near a churchyard wall; wheteas oth-
ers thought that he was wounded and
in a French detention camp, The Ger-
Iman war and field hospitals did not
know anything about the missing man.
There was a manor that he. bad been
transferred to Corsica, but examina-
tion of the camps in Corsica showed
that that was not so. The search in
the French and English field hospit-
als was also -Vain. After a time it was
heerd that a member of his company
had mentioned his severely wounded
lieutenant in a letter. Now the bureau
began lei hunt for the author of the
letter and made inquiries at the cam
from which it had come. The anew
was: "The man was probably here, b
has now been transferred to som
French island." Following up th
clue among the different island camp
the bureau received from Camp
the answer that the than in questio
was in Camp B. On application ther
the answer came from the coremeinde
of Camp B that the author of the let
ter said that his lieutenant had falle
at Ypres, killed by a bullet in th
brain. .
On September 25th, near Urbeis
four men were sent out on patrol dub
but none returned. The relatives o
one of those men came to the bureau
which made inquiry in all the Prone
prison campe, but the name of th
missing man was not in any of thei
records. The governor general of Al
glen's; to whom they next turned; in
vestigatecl the Algerian prison camps
and one of the missing men was act
ually found in the camp at Ti z Ouzou
There he wes questioned, and answer
ed that he had seen two of his COM
rades on stretchers in a French hos
pital, which he named. According to
the statement of a certain captain who
WAS also taken to that hospital, they
died the next day, apparently without
having been , identified. The fourth
man in theipatrel' had received a
wound in the stomach, and died three
hours later in an ambulance on . the
way to a surgical station. The
French commandant who had aided in
the seaech asked that in return the
bureae look for three missing nourives
and the bureau was able to return the
favor, for it found two of the men in
a north -German prison camp and
learnen that the other had fallen in
BUILDING A BATTLESHIP.
'
Half of the Cost of a Hull (fees in
. , Labor.
Do you know how many houna la -
bar it takes to -Mend a modem: Mead-
e ought ? Probably yo it have seven'
given the matter a thought, er, it will
interest you to learn (Mit a hit battle-
ship entails about 7200,000 man-houre
or laboe equivalent to the work of ono
man working that time,
The -snaking of the turbine innehin.
cry .absorbs some 1410,000 :remelt cm re,
and the mountings of the big gene
can easily acquire two years' work,
While a single armor -plate may take
nearly theee months to finish,. None
Of these meoeesses can be unduly hur-
ried, as the very best work must be
put in, the least sageming making all
the difference between victory and de-
feat.
Between forty and fifty per cent, of
the cost of a Dreadnought's hull goes
In labor. Ourioeely, enough, far lesi
le spent on labor whtm constructing a
turbine engine than when making OAG
of the old reciprocating cylinder type.
Moth of the material be made by Ma-
thinery, leaving only 28 per cent. of
the coot fee Mane whereas 45 per amt.' t
wont in Wages Where the olden kind I
were it use.
BATTLES CENTURY
AGO AND TO -DAY
SOLDIERS' NEWSPAPER CON-
TRASTS THEN AND NOW.
Napoleon and Wellington Could See
Each Other at Waterloo,
. It Pointe Out.
In speaking of the terrible conflict
sit Verden, the Lille Kriegszeitung, a
newspaper which, is edited and ['pub-
lished by German soldiers in Lille, be-
hind the German front, has the fol-
lowing interesting comments to make
comparing the battlefielell of a cen-
tory ago with those of to -day.
"This terrible war -all previous
wars in history compared to it were
more child's play!" the 'publication
says. "The present war up to the
first of this year was so horrifying,.
so tragic and so destructive that it
was believed that it, was impossible
that anything worse coteld occur. But
something worse has occurred. It be-
gan February 21, and now we are in
the first week of June. For three
long' months this terrible battle has
been waged on a front of forty kilo-
meters day and night without any ces-
sation,
The Battle of Waterloo
was only three kilometers in length;
and this decisive struggle, which over-
threw Napoleon, began a little after
one o'clock in the afternoon and was
decided at nine o'clock that evening.
The Prussians in that battle number-
ed about 210,000 men, and at Verdun
we know positively that forty-five
French divisions are engaged, making
in all 675,000 men.
"If Napoleon's famous Guard or
Wellington's men or the Prussian
Grenadiers were alive to -day, how
they would be amazed at what we are
doing! How would they behave in
the face of all the big hells falling
everywhere?
"At that time, a hundred years ago,
by Belle -Alliance, the opposing armies
were so near each other that the two
commanders -Napoleon and Welling-
ton -could see each other distinctly.
To -day the armies aye sometimes
many miles distant.
'A decisive battle a century ago and
now is very much like a little wind-
storm in a village compared to a ter-
rific thunderstorm at sea. Only one
thing remains the same -the fact that
a soldier has but one life to give for
his country. Bizt the soldier to -day
must suffer more, endure more \and
possess stronger nerves in sacrifieing
his life than did the soldier in Na-
poleon's time. At that time the battle
consisted of
A Number of Chigges
lasting from a few minutes to per-
haps half an hour each. Except for
these occasional attacks the troops
rested outside of the firing line. The
muskets at that time carried a dis-
tance of 150 meters and the guns 600
meters. Our held guns carry a dis-
tance of more than thirty-five kilo-
meters, and the rifles cover a ground
of three and one-half kilometers. In
other words, the troops to -day are un-
der frightful fire eery minute of the
day and night, extending, like Verdun,
over many months.
"And even he who Sirryi'Ves these
terrible battles lute died a thousand
deaths. There is no emotional exhil-
aration equal to that intoxication in
the -face of death which is experienced
by the soldier when attacking in bat-
tle to -day. He forgets everything for
the time being. And there is nothing
more terrible than to lie sleepless in.
trenches at night while the big shells
explode over and all around you,
"Why are we able to stand all this?
Because we know that we most. And
why are we so happy and proud? Be-
cause ibis a fine thing to live through
something like this, and because t
will be a great thing to be able to say
that we had a part in this great war."
TESTING FABRICS.
The Housewife Meted Not Depend' En.
• tirely on the Salesman.
' There are many housewives who
always depend on. the clerk's judg.
meat on the quality ..of material when
buying. She never realizes that there
are a few simple tests which she could
melee et home and would prove eco-
nomical. .
Linea is a, material which Is rather
difficult for some neople to distIn-
guleh from colon, The linen threed et
Is fi rMely and smcio thly twisted, ,
breaks wtth a snap, is stronger than a re.
cotten thread, but does not burn as Pe
quickly. These tests testy be made by tie
taking two or three warp threads wi
(threads running. "crossways of ma,- es
terial) of the material which is tolbe
Meted. .
cotton three Is anneal- fuzzy. They m
are not, as firmly twisted he linen ; eh
mime thread Is broken the ends ere Bo
fuzzy and been duickly. The oil test th
Is a good way to distinguish between we
co .ton and linen. 1 lace a :wimple of ee
the eime :I at to be i es ted on a piece _;
of Matte, a ply nem o nil, let it stand -
et Ivo millittem end hold up to the, 0
lige t. If Inn me in p lo .appoters Maus -
tweet II le !Mom of herwlee it is cot- int
toil,
Or
A el I fl ele I lilt Ili 011 on mold roe Mee •
vet
elle, The into Mlle ilineed is emooth,
bee a MO luelre, le lightly Indeled, o, '
:Hindi Wronger num the artificial, and co
w lien here ed ill ere le n email ball ol Ad
nell Ion Mt It riiiiithitt, Artlacial silk til
fe maliltig but calten. It has a. high yet.
Risen n tin resemble:, Into Mlle but mee,
when Meted It gime: the same results
see -
as Cotton noes,
Woolen material Is ,ofteu sold for sPr
Pure wool 'when one-helf or more of '
It Is Ooton, Wean test -lag e piece of
,,
materiel always Wet both veep and a
woof threads, because the 1 aterial is , r
ant to be wool ono way and cotton Tre
the other. Take two threads of ma- Illg
teriel and burn, If an odor of burn- Met
lug hair lit produced and a small ball of
of ashes appears on the ond of the, 0th
threads-, it is wool. Make, the sante e.t.t
teet with some wool threads. The 13„,,s,,
tbread or fibre is loosely woven and ''et
soft and fuzzy in ap earance. wibl
Rimers toots aro s mina and can be C
nada by anyone. When buying ma,
Grim it is best to ask for a sample,
she it home, and perform these tests,
n order to be sum's that 011G le gettlag
la t
&a*
artier
Eggs for Hot Days.
Nature is a pretby.goocl eedge of
what is the best for us, end so when
the really hot weather comes we gen-
erally feel a distaste for meat or
other heevn foods, and naturally turn
to the lighter dishes; at the seine time
it is very poor policy not to look after
their nutritious qualities, for extreme
heat is likely I,./o lower our vitality
anyhow.
Under these circumstances eggs
come to the rescue, and we turn wi
pleasure and relief to some more no
Ways of serving them ellen the inc
sant boiled, fried, poached and scram-
bled. The following recipes will give
enough variety to add a- zest to the
food and stimulate the -jaded appet-
ite:
Creamed Eggs. -Use little drape
pans for this, and proceed as befo
but pour a tablespoonful ef ere
over each egg. If a more substant
dish is needed, boil some rice
stock, season it, well, and half fill t
pan with it before adding the egg
make the mass properly moist. Mix
it well; easzph it into small rolls oil
balls; roll it in bread crumbs wet with
egg, and fry it in deep, hot fat.
Apple Syrnp Custard. -One-quarter
of a cupful of apple syrup, one and
three-quarters cupfuls of milk, two
eggs,l, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of
salt, one-half of a teaspoonful of van-
illa, two tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Beat the eggs just enough to mix the
whites and the Yolks. Add the oth-
th er ingredients, and bane the dastard in
-r caps cups for tlfty minutes in a slow oven,
ete If you bake it in one dish, use three
eggs.
Potato Turnovers. -This is a good
way to serve meat and.potaemes. Boilamid mash enough potatoes to fill a
pine measure. Add one well -beaten
egg, sufficient salt and, pepper, and
one tablespoonful of flour. Turn the
re, , mass on a well -floured betted, roll it
out carefully, and cut it into disks
tat the size of a saucer. On each disk
nti place a large spoonful of cold meat
nee chopped very fine and highly season-
ed. Turn the potato dough on itself
and pinch the edge together as if
eel making an ordinary turnover. Wet
.11." the turnover on a flat greased pan,
I"; brown them in a hot oven, and serve
anla them with brown Or tomato sauce.
Cauliflower With Cheese Cream
ou Dressing. --Wash a fresh cauliflower
sh, or as many heads as you need. Boil
red water in the kettle in Which the vege-
ix tables is to be cooked, salt it well and
it- add the cauliflower while the water is
le boiling. Cook it until it is tender.
as To prepare the dressing, heat one cup -
t. ful of sweet milk in a double boiler;
$- thicken it with a level tablespoonful of
in cornstarch dissolved in a little cold
to
ed
cream,
Creamed Eggs and Potato.-Plac
layer of smoothly mashed and we
seasoned potatoes in the dish or I
tle pans (peeviouely greased),
then an egg on the top in before.
tiearned Eggs With y
have any remnants of cooked fi
flake them carefully free of skin a
bone, add salt' and pepper and m
with some.white sauce and add a 1
tie mashed potato. Line some litt
greased pans with this, add an egg
before, and pub into the oven to ee
Ifericasse of Eggs. -Boil the neee
sary number of eggs hard and cut
half. Remove the yolk, and add
it any tiny remnants of finely mine
meat, a few bread crumbs, salt, pep-
per, a very little chopped parsley
and grated leman. rind. Stuff the
egg,* with this and put the rental/Icier
asiBe. Make sufficie'nt white sauce
(using half milk and half stock or
water)eee Grease the bottom of a cas-
serole put in the eggs stir the re-
mainder of the stuffing into the sauce
and pour over the eggs. Make very
hot in the oven, and serve boiled Tice
in another casserole. A very little
bacon cut into dise improves this dish.
Scrambled Eggs With Rice. -Have
ready some boiled rice', allowing half
a teacupful to each person. For
people allow two eggs, and cook them
very lightly, adding the rice and stir-
ring it well in with salt etc' pepper to
season. Serve very hot.
Eggs With Fried laread.-This met-
hod of serving eggs and bacon is
economical; Cut some stele laread in
to cubes, allowing about half a cup-
ful to. each person, mei to each serve
ipg of bread about night little pieces
of bacon. Fry bheri bread and bacon
in hot fat in a frying pan, and break
the eggs in, stir and cookuntil be-
ginning to set.- Dust with salt and
pepper, and serve very hot.
' Surprise Eggs. -Choose potatoes all
of a size and balce them. CO off a
piece lengthwise, and scoop out as
much potato as possible. Mash it
smooth and very moist with some
white sauce, salt and pepper. Line
the Potatoes thickly With this. Break
an egg into each, cover with potato
and bake until the potato is lightly
browned. -
CEufs Mollets.-Have ready boiling
water and put the eggs in, and keep
the water boiling for five minutes, At
onto place the eggs Inc cold water and
leave them for 1.5 minutes. Than
shell very carefully. The object is
to cook the egg sufficiently to shell
them without the yealcs being hard.
Thus cooked, drain well and place
them in a caseerele, and cover with
shrimp or tomato, onion or celery
sauce, and-eerve with plain boiled rice.
Poached Eggs With Onions. -Take
two or three onions; peel, and par-
boil them, slice, and fry until quite
brown. Fry some squares of bread,
spread the onions on these, and serve
a poached egg on each. By parboil-
ing the onion before frying the flavor
is rendered far more mild.
Little Egg Pies. -Have ready two
heed -boiled eggs chopped end half a
pine of white sauce well flavored,
ir the egg into the sauce. Line the
quired number of little fireproof
pleas with mashed potato, fill with
e sauce, cover with potato, couple up
eh a fork, and bake until the potato
colored.
Birds' Nests. -These are generally
ache with sausage meat, but they are
caper if mashed potato is 'used,
il the eggs hard, and cover fairly
ickly with 'smoothly mashed and
II -seasoned potato. Egg, crumb,
d fry a golden brown. Cut in two
th a sharp knife, and serve very
t.
Spanish Eggs.-Theee-pares cook
ne largo, ripe tomatoes (bake them
boil them, whichever is most con -
Pont), reb through a sieve. Put 1
of, dripping in a pan, add the tomn,
plup, season with pepper and salt,
d the eggs, stir over the fere un -
the one begirt. to sot, and serve
Y hot on•equares of buttered •toest.
s makes an excellent centre to
vo in well of savory , rice • or
elm 'on boiled macaroni.
'Rested Recipes, ,
mut Filet:en-Pub a thin layer of
shly cooked rice hit° a shallow bak-
emh. Serflike° it With salt aro,
of 'butter.' Top it with a layer
finely grannie peanuts, then add'ate-
er layer of rice, then one of Pea-
k, and 80 001 Urth, the dish' is fell
e it twenty minute's ,hed serve) it
tomato saude.
heese and Rice Croquetten-Add
one-half of a cupful of grated chew*
to e pint of boiled rice.; season it With
cayenne and salt, and add a -well -beat-
en egg and enough cream SAtilee to
ler a Is belying,
milk; season it with salt pepper an
butter; add about- one-eighth of a
pound of grated cheese. Pour the
seem over the cooked cauliflower at
elle last minute before you serve it,
after draining • the water from the
vegetable, and serve it on hot buttered
toast
Household Hints.
MEN WHO WELCOME WAR:
Various Reasone Why nome Men 'tisk)
Their Liven
Soldiere sometimes welcome war acil
a means of releaee trout a life which
remorse, despair, or some other feel-,
ing has made Intolerable to them,
A remarkable instanee was that of
a young offices'. Some time beloreil
the present war broke out, he Wild otitt
'day explaining the triechanisns of tA
loaded gun to his sister, In doing so,
he accidentally exploded the charge
by which the poor girl was meet:illy,
wounded. Henceforth his sole ambi...
tion was to die, and When :war brolco
out he joyfully responded to the call
to arms. Before he had been long at,
the Front his wish was gratified.
Then there was the case of the son,
of a country solicitor. While epee'
ployed in his father's office, he
ab-
econded with a large gam of money.'
This disgrace preyed so much upon'
his father's mind that he fell ill and,
died. When the prodigal returned-(
as prodigals invariably do -he found`,
the home sold up, and his mother andi
sisters dependent on charity.
For the first time he realized the,
enormity of his wrongdoing, and join-
ed the Army, with the deterininationi
to take the first possible chance of eme.
service in the field. He went with hie
regiment to France, and there distin-
guished himself by a number of dare
ing exploits before he was himself
-
A singular story is told of a certain
brave officer who died fighting like a
lion in the ill-starred Dardanelles
campaign. Married only a couple of
years, his wife developed a scepticism
as to his valor, which WAS peculiarly
mortifying to him. Tellihg her she
d would some day have reason to be
sorry for it, he went out to'
resolied to undertake any task that
presented the maximum of danger. If
his widow still entertains any doelet
as to his gallantry, it certainly is not
shared by the deceased officer's com-
rades -in -arms.
Through unrequited love'a lion-
hearted Scotsman gave up his life in
Flanders. Of good parentage and
considerable means, he was at first re-
garded by the damsel as an ideal suit-
or. When, however, he lost most of
his fortune, she demanded to be re-
leased from her engagement. This
caused him to give up all hope, and
when he crossed over to the seat of
war he had made up his mind never
to come back,
Lemons will keep fresh if stowed
in dry sand separately.
Tomato juice will remove ink stains
from the hands.
Never 'now fresh meat to remain
in paper; it absorbs the juice.
A dish of cold water in the oven
will prevent cake from burning.
Dry flour applied with a newspaper
is an exeellent and easy way to clean
tinware.
Salt will remove the stain from
silver caused by egg when applied
dry with a soft cloth.
To get cake mit of pan whole when
taken from the oven set it on a wet
cloth for ilve minutes.
Never keep vinegar or. yeast in
stone crocks or jugs. their acid at-
tacks the glAing, which is said to be
poisonous.
Put a silvered spoon into the most
delicate glass and boiling hot liquid
can be poured into it without breaking
it.
A delicious salad is made of boiled
beets, scooped out, filled with sliced
vegetables and served on lettuce
leaves with French dressing.
Don't go on the theory that the
less you eat in the summer the cool-
er you will be. Eat moderately Of
rather light but nourishing food.
Corn should always be mat- frozn
the cob very carefully -slitting the
middle of each row of kernels with a
sharp knife and scraping out the
Pulp.
HEDGEROW NOMADS,
Gipsies Are Soul of Honor in Their
Personal Relations.
Quite a number of gipsies are in the
armies of Europe, both as allies and
enemies of Britain, for they are inter-
national and know no countey as their
own, says London Answers. Their
origin is a mystery, although it is
certain they hail from the East, Ibis
generally thought they come from
Egypt -hence then, name -but it is by
no means centain. They have been
thought to be the Ten Lost Tribes
also, aud they certainly speak of all
non-Romaey as Gentiles.
Gipsies are regarded as a nuisance
wherever, they go, as pariahs and out -
mete, but in their personal relations
they are soul of honor, and a gipsy
may be trusted to keep his plighted
word and to stand, by his friend. They
possess a certain lofty pride, a cer-
tain proud code of honor which a
gipsy would rather clic them lower.
Daughters are more useful than
sons in gipsylancl and the parents
often put obstacles in the way of the
girls taking the man ef their choice.
Thus elopements are common mid
easy.. There are no windows to climb
out of and no ladder e to scale.
Probably ‚the custom of destroying
everything that belonged to a dead
gipsy is dying out, as it is a very ex-
pensive custom, bet it is still -done
with the bigger families who ae the
nobility of the Romany people.
LEAVES NOTHING TO CHANdie.
Gen. Haig Believes Wee Will Be De-
cided on Western Front.
Senator Henry 13erenger, who has
returned to Paris from ei visit to the
Bedell field headquarters, quotes Gen.
Sir Douglas Haig as saying: "We
must impose a peace that is really
valid as we shall have paid for it."
The French ,Senator describes Sir
Douglas Haig as a commander who
leaves nothing to chance, and says
that the British ootranander believes
that the war will be decided on the
nrestotn battlefieldn
"The technical skill of the Beitish
general staff," ;mid thea Senator, "Is
ole aim equality with the heeoisin, of
the British troops."
BLAME RAINFALL TO WAR,
Downpours Have Followed Heavy
Bombardments.
One of the phenomena which may or
may not be connected with the war,
but which is nevertheless causing
considerable dismission in England is
the abnormal rainfall.
It has been noted on many occa-
sions during the present war not only
in Great Britain but in other Euro'
peen countries, that although '' the
barometre indicates fair weather, sud-
den and very heavy rainfalls have oc-
curred at times when there has been
heavy cannonading at no great dis-
tance. The recent heavy firing on the
British front in Belgium and northern
France is believed to have affected
the weather in England.
Petrograd despatches received in
London recently stated that during
the heavy artellery fire along the east-
ern front rainkorms of unusual sever-
ity took place. The North Sea battle
was followed by a very heavy down-
Pouralso
According to one meterologist the
tremor set up by -heavy firing will, un-
der certain atmospheric conditions, af-
fect rain clouds at considerable dis-
tames causing a precipitation sooner
or severer than usual.
"Now, gentlemen, do you titink this
s or is not a case for operation?"
Mrs. Higbee -"I think you had bet-
ter go for the doctor Egbert. Louie
compains of pains in the head." Big.
bee -"I guess it's nothing serious. He
has had them before." Ms-, Higbee
-"Yes but never on, Saturday.,"
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will keep their natural
color if you use
the pare cane sugar which
dissolves at once. Order by
name in original packages.
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