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THROUGH TIM' DARK SHADOWS
Or The Sunlight of Love
CHAPTER IL—(Cont'd).
"Jasper!" she almost shouted.
"You'll drive me mad! Why don't
you speak out and say' what you
mean? 'What's the matter with Ad -
den? What does he want? Aren't
there a hundred men who'd be glad to
furnish a house for me as I like? And
can't I even eat what I choose with-
out Adrion Leroy's delicate nose be-
ing burned up in disepproval?"
"You can go to the deuce, if you
like, my dear,". declared Jasper wins
a calm smile. "I merely warn you
that you are on the way to finding
yourself in the street, if I may be
allowed to speak out. Have another
cigarette, anti spray some patchouli
about . the room. There are more
geese than one, as you say; and, after
. all, it is hard if you can't indulge in
onions in your oevnToom at one o'clock
• in the morning." •
Goaded almost to desperation by
the sneering sareasm of Vermont's
nrords, the woman threw down her,
fork, thereby smashing a champagne
glass, and thrust; her angry, flushed
countenance close to his.
"What's your game?" she hissed.
"Are you playing with me and Ad-
rien? Are you getting, him against
rile?. I know your artful tricks; but
dent yen play 'ern on me, Jasper!
What are pm doing up at the Castle
so often? -Making yourself pleasant
to old Lord Barminster's niece there,
IT be, bound. neaps she ain't fond
Of scent or a pork chop or bwo, and
she can have real statues of she likes.
You don't remind him of that, do you?
Oh, no, of course not! 13ut you mind
your skin, Jasper, for you can't play
fast and loose with me. Shuffle him
on to the Constance girl, and I'll
snake you, pay for it. / know some-
thing you woulchgt like my lord to
hear about; so, if you don't want me
to open ney mouth and eplit on your
litble games, don't you play me any
of your tricks that's all, or go
straight to Aciriee and tell him all!"
She stopped, out of breath'and
Jasper Vermont, springing to his feet,
glared down at her in impotent fury.
But she only laughed at his angry
face.
"Oh, no, you wouldn't like Ada:ien to
know how you foaled poor
though it is over twenty years ago. I
haven't forgotten, if you have, how
you took her over to Paris while I was
away on my first tour, and went
through some form of marriage with
her. You wouldn't like him to know
how you told her what you'd done,
when *ere WaS no longer need to
keep it dark from your father, and of
the attack of brain fever it brought
on, poor dear! You were a nice brae
to her, you were, Jasper Vermont;
and it's a lucky thing for you and her
too that when he recovered her mem-
ory had gone, and she forgot yoi as
well as the '
Jasper stirred uneasily. -
-"I didn't think she wmald have car-
ed so much," he said. "Besides,
she's all right now; she only forgets
those few years."
"Lucky thing for you," repeated
Ada dryly.
"What have you done with • the
child?" Ife asked suddenly.
His companion's face lighted up
with 'malicious 'triumph. .
"I've pat her Where you can't find
her, anyhow," she said. "You
sha'n't break her heerb, as you did
her mother's."
"Oh, nonsense, Ada!" said Ver-
mont contemptuously. "Don't begin
to rant—you're not on the stage now.
I kept all my promises to you, at any
rate. 1 got you en at the Rockingham I
and I introduced yoe to Leroy; and if '
you had only played your cards pro-
perly you would have hooked him by
this time. As it is, he'll marry his
cousin, if you're not caveful,"
"If he dem, it'll be your fardie" she
enarloch- "Arid ITI tell Achim all,
and how- you're fooling him in other
ways as evell."
Jasper sprang across the room, his
face working with anger. There was ,
sbinething so deadly in the light of his I
dark eyes, such murderous hate in '
every line -of hiefece, that. the woman I
shrank back and uttered a cry of fear, i
instinceively glancing at a knife which
lay on the table close to Jasper's oth-
er hand.
How far Vermonlis anger might
hallo carrion hiin she clid not know,
, for, to her intense relief, the door s
opened and Adrien Leroy hirriself en- 1
tered the room. He gezed in surprisehi
at the two acermants, and in an in- s
stant Jasper had regained his self -
11
f
a
es
he exclaimed. "I did not expect
you so soon."
Leroy did not seem to notice her,
but looked round the room with evid-
ent displeasure. Tete table, with its
remains of supperMhe stained cloth;
above all, the undesirable odor of
food and stale tobacco; all seemed to
fill him with disgust. Gently, but
firmly, he put Ada from him.
"Jasper," he said, burning, to Ver-
mont, "you know why I came. Give
Miss Lester the deeds of the Casket
Theatre. I am tired and am going
'home."
With a courteous good -night to Ada,
who, without attempting to thank
him for his gift, stood scowling and
sullen, he passed out of the room;
while Vermont leaned back against the
table with folded arms and his in-
evitable, but significant,, smile on his
lace.
_ CHAPTER III.
The night was bitterly cold; but,
disdaining a taxi for so short a dis-
tance,Leroy buttoned up his coati and
strode' swiftly along towards his
chambers in jermyn Court, W. As
he turned the corner of the square,
he stumbled sharply over the -slight
figure of a girl, crouched near one of
the demi-steps; and, with his habitual
courtesy, he stopped to see if any
harm had been done.
"Have I hurt you?" he asked gent-
ly, placing his hand on her shoulder.
At his touch the girl started up
with a cry of distress; and, as the
shawl fell back from her head, Le-
roy was almost startled by the vivid
freshness of her beauty.
"Oh," she exclaimed in terrified ac-
cents, "I wasn't doing any harm! I
will move was only resting."
Then, as she saw the kindly face
looking into hers, she subsided into
silence,
She was quite young, not more than
about sixteen, and so slenderly fore -
ed as to appear alenosb a child. Her
features were clear-cut as a ,cameo
and she had a slightly foreign air.
Her eyes were brown, but as the light
of the gas -lamp fell full on her up-
turned face, they showed s9 dark
and velvety as almose to appear black,
while masses of dark hair clustered in
heavy waves round ber forehead.
Unconsciously Leroy raised his hat
as he repeated his question. She
shook her head at him as he bent over
her, but made no reply.
"How is it , ou al,e mit
night as this?" he asked„"Have you
no home? Wheredo you live?"
"Cracknell Court, Soho," she re-
plied, i
n tones singularly free from
any trace of Cockney accent.
"With your parents?" queried
Leroy, feeling for some money.
"No," said the girl, he red lips
quivering for a moment. "Haven't
got any—only Johann and Martha—
and they don't care."
"Who is Johann?" said Leroy, with
an encouraging smile.
"I don't know," she answered list-
lessly. "He's Johann Wilfer, that's
all."
"Why have you run away, then?"
"Johann came home drunk and
beat me—so I ram out."
She pushed back her ragged shawl
and held up her arm, on which bruises
showed up cruelly distinct. Leroy
uttered an exclamation of anger.
"You poor child!" he said almost
tenderly. "What can 1 do for you?
If I give you money--"
"Johann will take it and make me
beg for more," she interrupted; and
Leroy withdrew his hand from his
pocket), fearing this to be but too -true.
"Wil you go home, if I take you?"
he began.
The girl shook her head, and drag-
ged the old shawl closer round her
shivering body.
."Not till morning," she said de-
cidedly. "I shall be all right then."
"tut you'll freeze to death here!"
She laughed harshly.
"I wish I was dead," she said, with
an earnestness thab made Leroy's
heart ache, as he thought of her ex-
treme youth and saw the bitter de-
spair in the great, dark eyes.
He drew himself_ up sharply as
he had decided on his course of
action.
"I cannot leave you h‘re," he said
quietly, "and money is of no use to
you to -night. Will you come with
me?" He held out his hand as he
poke, and, without a word, the girl
wee wearily and laid her own cold one
n his. They pvoceeded thus, in
ilence, for the length of the square;
nit Leroy soon sahh that), whether
row ,cold or from hungene the girl's
tees were growing feebler mid more
ncertain. Without further ado, he
icked hey up in his arms, wrapping
ex• sbawl more w,arinly round her. ,
"We are nearly therm" he said re-
esuringly, "and you are as light as a
°ether."
She lay back, perfecbly content, her
lead pressed against hie, broad shoun
ler, her dark eyes closed trustfully.
Adrian Lero.y Married ,on, for the
wind cut with the force bf a knife;
ut his face was very thoughtful as he
nproached his chambers.
"What else can I do?" he asked
control. He did not releaae Acla's
wrist, but, smoothing his scowl into a
sleek smile, he said• with a careless
laugh:
"No, Ada, your arm is as sliin as
ever. The bracelet will just fit you."
He relaxed his grip as he spoke and
turned to Leroy. "Ada has bet me
that the new bracelet you bought hor
Is too small, Advien,' lie expainecl
glibly. "She thought she was getting
stouts"
Adrien nolded indifferently; while
Ada, with a little cry of relief, ran
towards him.
"Adrien, lion good of you to come!"
.!,hglie is sueh an innocent
child. Ceti I take her to my Immo
without *nue, to her pone shred of
reputation? Yet no housee are open:
at this hour, and I cannot hand her
over bo that drunken brute, There's
no help for it!"
It evidently never Occurred to him
to turn back and deliver her into the
charge of Miss Lester, Indeed, he
thought that would have been greater
cruelty than to have left her in the
'streets.
'Having reached he block of build-
ings in which were his own rooms,
Adrien walked up the stairs and
opened a door on the first floor. In
the hall a light was burning, held by a
statuette of white marble; and Leroy,
after gently setting bite girl down on
her feet, led her into his study.
The room in which she found her-
self was not lofty, but the ceiling was
exquisitely painted, while from the
four corners hung electric lights
'nee* delicate shades. The furniture
was rich in color, and solid as befitted
room, while on the walls
were a few rare engravings. A cou-
ple of gun gases in one corner and a
veritable stock of fishing implements
in another *owed that Leroy was not
unaccustomed to spert; it was one of
his man Novgate's complaints that he
was not allowed to pack them away,
bub must leave them there, close at
hand, just as Leroy might want them.
It was not these, however, that held
the girl's atbention so fivedly, but the
cut Venetian glass on the Inlaid cab-
inete and the gold ornaments on the
carved Florentine mantel.
* (To be oonbinued).
.111EN YOUR FOOT SLEEPS.
Due to a Mechanical Obstruction of
. the Great Sciatic Nerve.
There is hardly a man or woman
who has not experienced the strange
feeling of having his or her foot
asleep. The fesvest of them really
know what is taking place. Though
the pain is a strange one, the cause
is explained readily.
The strangeness of the "foot going
to sleep" is due to a mechanical ob-
struction of the great sciatic nerve.
When we sit for a long time with our
legs crossed or with the back of the
thigh pressing mean the edge of a
chair the sciatic nerve is squeezed.
The sciatic nerve is the largest in
the body. It springs from the small
of the back and supplies nearly the
whole of the nerves of the leg and
foot. The sciatic, like all other
nerves, is really a great bundle of
nerve.fibres, each of which has its
own sheath.
The whole nerve is elastic, and pres-
sure on it will flatten it, as a rubber
hose is flattened by pressure. The
nerve fibres are like bundles of
thread, but finer, They run longitud-
inally, each thread having its eliding
'somewhere in a muscle or 111 the skin
d paesmng without branching
communicating with the other
threads with which it is wrapped up,
straight to its nucleus in some nerve
ccntre af the bvain or spimial cord.
How these nerves carry sensation is
not known, but the operation is simi-
lar to that of messages passing bY
electricity over a telegraph Wire. If
a nerve fibre be cut it no longer car-
ries sensation. Sensation can also be
cut off by compressing a nerve, for
the nerve matter that does the work
is soft aed the sheathes that inclose
it are firm but elastic. Pressure at
one point on a nerve is similar in its
results to pressure 00 a Tubber hose
through which water is passing. In
the latter case the flow of water is
stopped; in the former the soft nerve
matter within the sheath is pushed
apart, so that the continuity is actu-
ally beoken, and the messages can no
longer pass to or fro over it.
When the pressune on the nerve is
released the soft chntents of the
sheath gradually return to their
place.
STRANGE' FOSTER -MOTHERS.
French Cat Hatched Out a Brood of
Chickens.
A cat which belonged to an hotel
in a well-known seaside resort was
rearing four kittens, when ono of the
servants, going to look at the new ar-
rivals, was surprised to find a rat
%tickling with the kittens, the cat
nursingethe rodent with as much soli-
citude as if it had been its own kit-
ten.
The old saying that "they do things
better in France" seems to apply to
their cats, for some time ago the re-
port came that a French feline had
actually hatched out a brood of chick-
ens, the eggs having been abandoned
by the hen. The eat had a litter of
kittens about the same time that
the eggs hatched out, and she brought
the two families up together to the
best of her ability.
Strangely, an English bulldog did
almost exactly the same thing, ex-
cept that the dog did not do the
hatehieg. For some weeks this dog,
a champion earned Hampton Billy,
Mothered a brood of chicks and a
single kitten. They all slept in his
kennel,'hcCompanied him on his daily
walk, arid fed out of his trough. He
made no.onjection, bet, on the con -
teary, seemed to take it as a compli-
ment.
Bet surely one of the strangest fos-
ter -mothers for a litter of ,young
foxes is a foxhound, yet the thing .
has been tried and has succeeded sev-.
oral times: So far from showing
any ahimosity towards the little rey-
nerds, the hound, which had lost her
own pups, welcomed them cordially
and showed all a mother's love for
her unnatural children.
In India wolf -boys have occurred
Several theses, end the boys have been
seen running with the wolves through
the forest, end have occasionally been
captured'. They have always been
carried off by the wolves when little
babies, and, escaping the pack's teeth,
been adopted by some mother -wolf
who perhape had been accidentally
deprived of her young ones.
The tongue of a wagon says, never
a word, but it gets there ahead of the
'rest of the outfit. ,
The coat of a horse is the gift of
'nature, bet the coat of a donkey is
often the work of a Maher.
STRANGE SEIZURES
BY SHERIFFS
TRAINS CHAINED TO THE RAILS
WORKHOUSES "HELD IJP."
To Satisfy Jedgmente of the Courts
Some Strange Means
Are Adopted.
Sheriff's officers ji this country oc
casionally make strange seizures, as
evidenced by their 011C0 taking posses
Mien of a railwaysengine at Preston.
But only in America would they
go the length of holding up a whole
train. This happened in Norman
County, Oklahoma, where the Atchi-
son Railroad Company refused to pay
taxea claimed by the local authorities,
says London Answers.
The Gentle Tax -Gatherer.
At the head of an armed company
of police, the sheriff stopped a pas-
senger and two freight trains, and
placed them under arrest. He chain-
ed the locomotive to the rails, and
intimated that no traffic would be al
lowed to pass until his demand had
been met. .
This was, a sum of 67,000, alleged
to be due for sehool taxes liability
for which the railroad company dis-
puted. In the result the matter was
compromised, the drastic action of
the sheriff speedily bringing the dis-
pute to a head.
In much the same manner, a work-
house -ambulance, with its horse and
driver, was seized by the sheriff at
Rile:ash, in Ireland. The vehicle had
left the institution to call for a pa-
tient, when it wile pounced on by the
sheriff's officer and his merry Men,
and horse, driver, and all were con-
veyed to the local pound.
There it was detained until an of-
ficial from the workhouse arrived on
the scene and by payment of $50 re-
leased the ambulance, horse, and
driver. For *is amount a decree had
been obtained in the local court, but
„the unprecedented seizure amazed the
whole town.
But even that performance was
eclipsed on one occasion at Kenmure,
where the sheriff's men actually seiz-
ed the workhouse itself. A judgment
for $447.06 and $68.33 costs.had been
obtained against the guardians by a
Belfast firm of seed merchants.
A Confiscated Chapel.
This not having been satisfied, the
sheriff's men entered into possession
of the workhouse and the premises
theveunto belonging. There they re-
' mained until the matter was arrang-
ed, the townspeople meanwhile being
much amused at the workhouse be-
ing in possession of bailiffs.
A chapel has shared the stun fate.
Some time ago the warrant officer of
the Wandsworth County Court was
called on to take possession of such a
place in his district, This was at the
instance of the London, Chatham and
Dover Railway, to whom a debt was
owing.
To satisfy the judgment they car-
ried off the contents of the building,
which were sold by auction in dee
course. Included were the pews,
forms, preacher's platform, Bibles,
hymn -books, Communion -plate, tea -
services used for tea -meetings, and a
number of hauliers bearing more or
less interesting pictures.
Then Were was the sheriff's officer
who seized a balloon. The owner was
much clutglined at this action, for he
was relying on the balloon to lift him
beyond the reach of the sheriff's offi-
cers ancl court bailiffs. As the bal-
loon was worth a good deal more than
the amount for which it had been
csleaiim.
sed, the debtor raised enough
money among his friends to meet the
All About a Stick.
There was an amusing sequel to a'
no less amusing seizure at Wood
Green. A bailiff was summoned for
detaining a walking -stick under the
following circumstances: For several
days he had been endeavoring to en-
ter the complainant's house, but
found it too well barricaded.
The besieged debtor amused himself
by climbing out through an upper'
window and laughing defiance at the
baffiedeofficee. It was during one
such incident that the stick was cap-
tured, on hearing which the meals -
teethe dismissed the case.
A deputy sheriff at Fall River,
Mass., amongst the goods and chat,.
tels of ,an undertaker, took possession
of a coffin containing the remains of
O baby, entrusted to the undertalcer
1Grsiixrit.dearyllsnieenat.
delapsedwhen the mo-
ther succeeded in ttacing the coffin
to 'an auction sale room. After the
internment she commenced proceed-
ings against the deputy -sheriff to re-
cover $10,000 for illegal seizure.
A NEW WORLD IN THE WAR
Germans Don't Like the Terrible Brit.
ish Communiques.
M. Hanotaux eontribubed an article
to the Paris Figaro on the visit of the
delegates of the British Dominions to
nixie and its bearing on the history of
the world. , He shoWs how those free
wills, which, united, form the British
Empire, are to -day spontaneously
groaped together to save the. inde-
pence of the nations, the freedom of
the world.
The welter goes on to point out the
anxiety caused in Germany by the
terrible British communiques, which
Inake known the exact truth in con-
futation of the official German lies.
That, he says, is what was wanted in
reply to the Gerinan publicity cam-
paign, whieh has outmanoeuvred us
too long. Itis not enougli to say of
the British offensive that it is a new
army which has aricien. 11 15 really
the new world. France held on long
mimes to enable the representaiiives
of this new world to bring into play
their inexhaustible strength and re.
sources, as well as new methods.
These men are only beginning to
fight The Boches are going to get
to know them.
When a fool is angry he opexts his
mouth and closeaehie eyese
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Selected Recipes.
Pear Salad—For pear salad select
large, firm but perfectly ripe pears.
Peel them carefully and do not break
the stem. Cut a slice from the large
and take out the core. Stuff the
cavity with a mixture of cream
cheese and ground nuts. Replace the
slice, stand the pear on a lettuce leaf
and drop a' spoonful of mayonnaise 021
the top. Halve; of canned pears can
be used when freshfruitis not in the
market,
Johnny Cake.—To pne cup of but-
termilk and one of syfeet milk add one
teaspoonful of soda, orte of salt and a
tablespoonful of melted butter. Stir
in enough white cornmeal to make a
very thick batter. Spread about
half an inch thick in a, buttered bak-
ing tin and bake in aimoderately hot
oven until it has a crisp brown crust.
-Brushing the top with melted butter
improves the crust. Serve hot.
Snow Pudding—Moisten the con-
tents of one-half box gelatin in one-
half cup cold water. Add to it hot
syrup made of one-half pint water,
juice of two oranges, three-fourths
cup augar. Steele and let stand len-
til nearly cold and beginning to set.
Then add the beaten whites of two
eggs. Beat little more or until well
mixed, and then put it away to thick-
en. This is better when served wieh
whipped cream.
Peach Chutney.—To two pounds of
peaches, which have beeit peeled and
pits removed, add a half pint of vine-
gar, molt together until soft. Mix a
quarter of a pound each of whiM mus-
tard seed, chopped onions, raisins and
sugar, two ounces of scraped ginger
root aol 000 ouuce of rsd
When well mixed, add to the peaches
another half pint of vinegar. Cook
alt together fifteen minims. Place=
jars and seal,
Canned Rhubarb.—Thoroughlywash
stalks of rhubarb, dice and crush with
O potato masher until considerable
juice is extracted. Then fill well
sterilized cans with the rhubarb,
pressing down until the juice over-
flows, and seal, Add neither sugar
nor water and be sure that your cans
and covers are well sterilized. Rhu-
. barb canned in this way is just as
fresh and fine as if taken right from
the garden and can be used in the
same manner and fonthe same pur-
poses.
Corn' Relish.—Six ears corn, six
large cucumbers, six large onions, six
large green tomatoes, three red pep-
pers, one bunch celery, three table-
spoons ground mustard three cents'
worth of mustard seed, one quart
vinegar, one pound graulated sugar,
small. amount of salt. Cut all ingre-
dients up fine and boil fifteen minutes
and you will find that you have one of
the most delicious relishes made. Put
up in self sealers and same will keep
for any length of time.
Surprise Chocolate Cake.—One-half
cup butter, one cup sugar, thee egg
Yolks, one-half cup millc, two eggs
whites, one and one-half cups flour,
two and one-half teaspoons baking
powder, two squares chocolate (melt-
ed), and one-half teaspoon vanilla.
Cream butter, add sugar gradually,
Num egg yolk (well beaten), vanilla
and chocolate. Mix together flour
and baking powder. .Add alternate-
ly with milk to mixture.and lastly fold
in egg whites beaten striff. Bake in
round cake pan in moderate oven.
When thoroughly cold remove section
of top, leaving inch and half margin
around edge. Fill in with halved and
sweetened strawberries, and pile whip-
ped cream on top, or serve with sauce
of crushed berries.
Perfection Orange Marmalade.—
Bight largo, juicy, ripe oranges and
two 'elle, juicy lemons. Peel six of
the oranges and one lemon, rejecting
the peel down to the pulp on both ends
of remaining oranges and lemon.
Cross out, then slice thin, snaking
small pieces. Add six quarbs of cold
water arid let stand twenty-four
hours; then boil twenty minutes. Re-
move from the fire and let seand
twenty-four hones again, To each
quart of the liquid add a scant two-
thirds of a quart of granulated sug-
ar, and boil in that quantity, boiling
rapidly, until a soft jelly is formed
when cold. Remove all green scum
when boilingthe last time, and a
perfectly transparent, delicious mar-
malade is the result. Makes about
Owe dozen common jelly glossae full.
Use only granite ware to net or make
this marmalade in.
Mixed Fruit Marinalade.—This rich,
golden colored pceserve is excellent
from every point of view, It can be
made late in the season from odds and
ends of small quantifies of peaches,
pears, quinces and other fruit on hand.
Take equal quantities of peaches,
pears, apples and (minces that have
been pared, cored and cut fine, To
six poends of fvuit allow one pint of
water. Pub the quinces in firet and
lotecook gently until they become thin -
der. And the other trait and cook
all thomeghly and alonny without let -
Mug them burn, Take out and mash
well together. Clean the kettle, Ra-
tans bhe fruit to it, add one and ono -
half teacups of grannlated sugar
each pound of fruit, also the *veined
Juice of two lemons and two oranges.
Cook slowly for nearly two hours.
Put up* small jars and cover air
bight.
Things to Remember.
Rub rusty metal with turpentine.
aTSCkaohniuieytepslesineriegefkaeitmakes delicious crisp
smea. y be c anned- as web
Never wash windows when the sun
shines on them.
Soft flank (beef) fat fried out is
a good and inexpensive fat for frying.
Oranges; bananas and figs cut up
steogh.ther make a very decicious des -
rt
In making chicken salad be sure to
take out every atom of bone, gristle
and skin.
To keep lemon, put them in a jar
of clean white sand, so that they do
not touch.
:Good lard is much better than but-
ter for basting roasted meat and for
frying.
Use very little blueing in washing
laces, for the lace absorbs a great deal
01Pbeluel
ope who use tin cans for can-
ning should be careful never to put
vinegar in them.
, When buttons are taken from an old
dress they should be strung ou
string before putting them into the
button box.
When you make lemonade squeeze a
little orange -juice in it. You will
find that it takes less sugar and the
drink is better.
Screw small hooks inside some of
the cupboard doors—they are exceed-
ingly handy for hanging articles like
pot lids, corkscrews, etc.
Meat or fish intended to be fried
should first be wiped as dry as pos-
sible and 11 should not be very cold
before dipping into the tat.
If you want to wash your own hand-
kerchiefs and can't get them ironed
pull them into shape, fold and lay be-
tween papers and pub under a mat-
tress.
To keep spoons and forks bright,
after washing put them to stand a
minute or two in a jugful of vevy hot,
clean, soapy water with a dash of
ammonia.
Rub the stove over while hot with a
newspaper dipped in a little soot and
polish with another newspaper. This
removes all grease ited saves black -
lead.
Almost any cold vegetable is de-
licious in a salad, bub it should be
remembered that there should be two
parts of oil to one of vinegar in the
When you have not quite enough
news peas for pea soup, cut up a few
new potaboes, boil them with the peas
until tender and make the soup in the
usual way.
Stuffed eggplant is a delicious dish
which few people appreciate, and egg-
plant stewed like squash is another.
Both require a great deal of season- 1
•
easse,„
Grease spots on the pages of books
should be sprinkled with finely pow-
dered pipe clay, then a piece of tissue
paper laid over the pipe clay and the
page pressed with a warm iron. Rub
off with india rubber.
To rid °ternaries of the parasites
which affecl, them, place a clean white
cloth over the cage at night In the
morning it will be covered with very
minute, rod spots, almost invisible
without a microscope,- which are the
vermin 00 annoying and fatal to binds.
Burn the cloth and repeat if necessary.
MU& IN LITTLE.
PatienCe is the virtue that is made
of necessity.
Pretence is never natural, for Na-
ture never pretends.
by quenching a thirst for knowledge.
Water on the brain is never caused
they cannot believe their Own eyes.
Most peeople wear glasses because
It is a mistake to imagine that Op- ,
portunity will waste tine looking for
the knocker. i
Sympathy is all right in its proper ,
place, but it's a poor substitute for a I
seealt-and-kidney pudding -when you
are hungry. •
TIME FOR USE OF ,
MOUNTED TROOPS
FRENCH HORSEMEN ON WEST.),
ERN FRONT.
General de Lacroix Points the Means
tages of Employing
Cavalry.
"The ,hour -for the cavalry will
come one of theao days In France,
It has come on the banks ot the retitle'
and the Stripa," declared General del
Lacroix, a military critic, inethe rarisr
Temps. •
"I am revealing no secret," he adds)
"In saying that measures recently limier,
been taken to provide for the use og
French cavalry on the western front.
The units of foot soldiers destined to,
serve as support for our troops ore
horseback have been reinforced),
brought up to fall strength and power.,
fully armed—forming, in fact, a select
corps fitted for the most daring ex.
peditions. The proportion of raltraill
leuees and automatic guns has been,
very largely increased, and our horses
men are to -day broken to the use 01
these weapons, from whice they are
fidrdaesviileitjh addetional strength and cow;
Capture Prisoners.
It is to the action of cavalry *ail
General de Lacroix attributes the
large number of prisoners captured OD
the Ruselan front. Ilo thinks it cons
tribute(' to the lightning -like rapidity
of General Brusiloff's operations and
to the extent pf the results achieved.
If tete Russian offensive bad been ree
striated to the use of the other arms'
of the service the pursuit of the Tem,
tons and th.e complete accomplIsliment
of a victory would be neeessarilg
limited. At so* times the attacking,
Infantry, exbausted by the effort it 6s
made, must call upon fresh troops,
necessarily remote from the positions:
won. Artillery cannot be thrust for -I
ward without being supported by other,
troops, and, although modern guns or
lung range can pursue with their firel
a retreating enemy for a long timeS
they are, on the otterhand, muchri;
slower to be moved to my positiong
when the foe is out of range.
Put Finishing Touch.
"Cavalry then, together with bombe
dropping air craft," says General de
Lacroix, "constitute the indespensable
element for putting the finishing
touches to a victory. Alone, It may be
used to follow up the enemy, to dog
bis heels and to increase the depress
sion of his spirit and the disorganize.
Mon of his equipment. A retreating
body knows that *e opposing Infant.
ry is marching no taster than itselt
and that it will soon be out of reach of es
artillery attacks. But when its ranks
are invaded and its men sabred and
dispersed by a cloud of horsemen des -
°ending with the enthusiasm of vin.
tor' it knows that is hopelessly lost
and that it cannot escape disaster."
Imitate Russian Tactics.
To the objection that the nature of
the ground 10 France differs from that.
In RUSSIEC, being more broken and or-
fering less facility for cavalry raids
than the Gentian platen, General de
Lacroix replies that the network of
roads is much better in France tban
In Russia, (aid that batteries, sultan-
leuses and automobile gene can be
moved much more eaelly, adding the
power of gun fire to that of cold steel.
These aids, he says, are becoming
more and more important In ea*
operations, and it is ensential that each
cavalry unit be provided with them.
"Infantry milts transported iis auto-
mobiles, peetectly trained a.nd remitter
with their duties," he declares,
"ought to aid wins their offensIve along
the principal routes of approach, break
down obstaeles and attack rear-guerds
at close quarters, while cavalry squad.
rens, turning around impediments in
order to reach the vital parts of the
enemy, would dash into the midst of
the dlsorganieed troops, causing die.
order and panic."
Conditional Forgiveness.
Harry and James, brothers, ever° in
their playroom for a little recreation
after supper. Harry hit James, and
in the midst of the quaigel the mime
happened in with the news that it
was time for them to retire. Jaraoe
was put to bed first, The nurse
said:
"You must forgive your brother be-
fore you go to bed. You might die in
the night,'
After a fesv minutes elapsed James:
replied:
"Well, Pll forgive him to -night, but
if I don't die he'd better look out in
the morning.'
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WHITE
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F. F. DALLEY CG. OF'OANADA, LTO., HAMILTON, CANAO‘