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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-08-10, Page 6— RE A Tenderfoot's Wooing By CLIVE PHILLIPPS VVOLLEY (Author of "Gold, Gold In Cariboo," Etc.) — Eiv?? 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 fi In be PC 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 _eanneen-areeen. Meeneeneree_ „.stient 46. Nine 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 jo? 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.," Preserved R spberries will keep their natural color if you use the pare cane sugar which dissolves at once. Order by name in original packages. 2 end enalons 10 and 204b bags PRESERVING see:Penni FREE Sena red bell trethemeek cm from a beg or ecetort to Atlantic Sun= ReitnerZes 1,11. rowcz Ulan, rannk,orct de :yenneenen ;La