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WINNIPEG'
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ALLEY FA
Or, Felicity's Inheritance,
CHAPTER IV.
A'Yo1 . iliaven't been -working in the gee -
eon for the last two anornines, Miss Haste
• ilton. Why. WaB 'tlninf"
Joyce aterted, -flushed orianeen, end ewe
eilent. Deo. in thought and elbsorbed li‘31
' taok ol weeeding the, hitheYdeeed. Okla
had uot, Dieited tidiest &One's Rowena'.
Sho could not tell .Jim ;that ehe shrank
fecen eueeting hime-thedgh gitm coned not
ave said why. $he atm:Age:toned herself,
. and looked to at him :with each a-greve
ewe° that tbe taiechievous light, died Cut
•.af .111$ , oyes. • '
"a missed you," ale wee gently. "I came
bete anorniags and waited a long 'Mine.
'E'en ,glad you're :bere atom; I have some -
'
thing Very paetioulae I leant to ask, you.."
•."Whot is it?" .
He lookeddown at hoe for a momeat
Without epealking. She had none. of Fe-
licity's 'beauty, but hors was k ;fake to in
;mere trust end eove, -with rio beautiful
EYCG, meet mouth, and eure complexion
untoueliera by color save when it reepond!
MI to some sudden thought, Or emotion'.
Her hair, soft and dank, was negrene eon -
treat to hor erientee, -with itO ourls and
pules, for it Ives eimply parted down, the
.iniddle and anianged itt this -back of her
head, There -was juet a grea.b a ditletence
• betweeu the tivo ghee' dress. Jake, was
always, dainty, 10 luen to severity; Fe-
ond would root lave
suited Iter, .and oho knew it. Her figure
iinifoemed continuerl with, the other's,, hat
• yet a trace of its own.. Small
:slight. end meet though she -was, hers we
personality thee eeenis to have a pecu
:liarattraction. for 'big eteeng men, de
mantling of their 'beet in reverence an
chivalry,
•The Morning Sun reione down on Rob
ort Stone's pietueesque if somewhet 'au
conyentioniel figure HeWore neither eon,
1101weisteoad' -t,' 'enhis sort turned-dow
erollrrro ehowed hie firm round eeek to ad
vantage. It was deeply tanned, like Itt
lam, end -the erisp hair, when he mallsed
. bits , ba tiered Straw hat, leaked all th
fairer in ooneequence.
•"No, on seeond thoeghts I don't think
I'll tell you," lie mud, se whimsically
the!, Joyce's henet felt suddenly lighter
lie w,13 till gothg to be het'
, "Then I won't Well you nrhy I'dldn't
come,' ,she retorted with eeirit.
'Phe (leek Oyes met the gray, and they
botb laughed tslenulltamu'IX'
"Come end sit down"he said, turning
to the old both, "lf you work I must
needs and. VI own I'm tired before
the clay begint.'
aboyecthinielooking at him a little
aneiouete Yee he did look ao if
he had slept badly.
He admitted et, when she asked him, but
curtly, as if he .did not wish to puesue the
selbject. Anxioue ehow little ay,m-
ptetby and interest, she began to talk in
as' eriendly eerie as she could oommand.
• "Iesleep badly too. Ien a:hauled to con -
fella It, but nervems. My room is so
gloomy, and there are meth etrange
nreees-I• suppose it la beenese the house
is so old. I beget to liatenand then it's
. all erp twith trying to go to sleep!'
eWbieh fa your loom?"
ehe ono over the poech-ole. Mr. Carlo.
ton
Ho gave a ehtuo exclemation, and :star-
ed at her in concern.
"TbeY *should not hue° Pet you in there
--it's enough to try any girl's nerves. 31t
lisedete be minewhen I wee nursing him
- there se anything to fear, he
added quie.klY. "He was a, good old anon,
end the dead'eannol, return, or harm us -
you know that?"
"Yes'," oho replied, ooberle. "I tell inee
:self so, 'but eotnetimes-in the night -it is
rather difficult -to remember it!"
"Youentust above," he said deckledly.
"I'm net going to have you frightened -a,
little bit of a thing like you."
Jeke explained to him that it was lm
ponsible-'thy lead only three bedrooms
furniebeal.
"I don't believe I shell :mind GO much
now I haeo told. you," elle added. "I
dateme say anything 'to Eliza, and I don't
want to vex Pelieity• by complaining."
"ehe might have) been angry," he admit,
ted, with e twinkle in his eye. "She Pak
you, too. doeone, ebe?"
Then they laughed again like two an -
<Wen. joke eould not help it, though she
w414, COIISOilona it was etripardenable of him
and rather disloyal on her pate
"/ wieh there were a few tt
he said peeeently. "There's only old Ike'e
sieletY, and hoe 6o alberninaibly dent"
'rho .old cowman lived alone, in a tiny twee
Teemed dwelling that had once 'been 'nisei,
of the eert-shed. "ely oleo le so far away,
but wee the only one I could and when
I quitted here. I can't leave ctt present,
even if yeti could put me up. ethielt. you
cane. net reminds 1330-1 think tell
yett after 'all, and chance your mesjudglng
me." Ile had got her, permiosion to smoke
and he staxed herd ne, hie pipe for eome
minntea before gentinuing. "Miss Fe.
iiiity wanes to come and see linydiggingd,
and want you to' keep her away. Will
• Joyce -stared at him in amazement.
"Xan afraid cane. I have no influence
over her "
• eres, you have, in tido ems°. She hates
long walls, as you know, end she won't
Como without you -the seid so. New if
potted refit:se-snake any excuse you like I
but refuse firmly -then I needn't worry.'
The thought flashed Into Joyce's nund
that porhaos his lodginge were very hum-
ble, even squeal/L. that ea:se it was only
natural that he :dieted. not want the fas-
tidious .neotreee of the Valley Farm to see
them Felicity 'WM not, remarkable for
twee, aed byte often felt aoluentedue ehe
heard lea. holding foreli on the drawbacks
of her aceent. abotle, as if she had altIVeye
ham surrounded with luxuzy.
"Of eon. se I will proud:se not eo eome,"
ehe said, "and Felicity shaeet if oan
hely i
11e thanked her with mach a,n umnietwk.
able look ef relief tame once more herr
•
e/ done oven know iyhore it le," eke tue
ded lightly. "I holm sluteet stumble
upon le in any rambles -you would be sure
to thinat I had broken may word...and woe ,
amine." -
A. eteringe look creseed his Pace at the I
Avoid, but lie twined his head and: looked ;
at ber steadily ao she sat at the end of the I
bench.
"I don't the., shotild mind you so
anuche he eel._ "Tbere's nothing
suspicious in your natume, 1 think you
aro the sort of gee to truet It man
throngb. thick .end tithe even le aemethr.
anew were against Idea."'
"I Ito,pe eo-I think GO—tf he were my
'friend.
Itobert Stone came nearer, and pointed
to where the little white gate amide a gap
in the hedge. Fields etretelied beyond, ap-
parently for miles, but on the horizon
51015 11 h'
"Tbatis where I 1ive for the present -in
a cattege the other aide a that clump.
les in what, they call Classy Lane -a cor-
motion of 'gamy,' I believe. The 'place is
,albla.ze with geree."
"Are you quite alone there?" Joyce ask-
ed, wondeeing, woman-like, if he were be.
ing properly looked alter.
eSawee Scott, eat il'here'e ,a house:full
. ,
0.
- ihaughte whirled thretigh her
Mind, et •lightideg speed -thoughts • lat
d eyelet Robent Stone, Fetioity; her mother,
Ness Cheater, and Mr. Ellieon :seemed
- jumbled together. Oh, why had she been
. 'brought up so like •a nun? • Whose fault
t was it that ehe should tremble beeaniee
n man had cooken. low 'end given her it
. rose? Why did tbe look in les oyes .re-
s :Mind her of the. man who had asked in
vein &Whet, love? At thee moment . she
O hated ,herself passionately: What had
come to her ,that she should waste it
thought on Felicity's lover? And oh,
neat mast 1,o think of her? This new fear
steadied her nerve, and though she cooke
in a very small vette she managed to
smile up et him quite bravely.
"Thenk you," aho.said. "It is lovely.
--I expect by thin time you know how fond
I am of flowers. And a white roea means
iriendeirtp, doeen't HP Perhaps you
tho-ught of that. I -I shall be vary glad
to be friendts."
"No; 1. didn't think of it. The built
where that, grow is just under my win-
dow. I brought it bemuse it reminded
ane of you. I -wanted you to have itto
know -that is how I think of you -as e
meet white tom."
joyee game a gaep. This was wenn -
mach weiree I Ilia voice had trembled, and
ho had otammered like a boy. 'Without
another word or look oho turned and left
him, walking up the long garden with
bent heed, her team falling on the rose
he lied given her; but whether they were
team of shame, or anger, or dey she could
net for tete world. bave told.
Breakfast was veady the pleasant
fambhouse kitchen, and if Eliza. had been
kept waiting elle did fiat say so. They
ate the meal el'most In silence, as they
had dene on other moreings, but, when
it was over Eliza did not begin to bustle
about. She tolded her arms on the leble,
and looked across at Joyee what towOr-
mod expreemou on her eevere, deeply -dined
face.
albout tired of these carryium-on,
Ulm joke," she enid.
The.gize flushed 'scarlet. Had Eliza seen
her mild Robert Stone telking, and none
10a going to take her to task? irho next
words relieved her mind on that point.
"Ialeeie'a goimg a bit thee eat. I'm alraid
sbe'e getting fond of Mr. Robert. It'e got
to be put a 01011 tO, anti you've got, tO
help me."
'"1?" Joyce said, in surprise. "/ can do
nothiege Feliciey doesn't wane mo
at al nownadttem-you Call 4131) thee I
Should not dere to interfere,'
"Some ede's got to inteefere," tbe
anan mad doggedly.
"Bitteie-if you don't oprove. Eliza, why
have Yull let Feltalty be oo much with Mr.
Stone?"
"You don't 11110W, 11146-61o. I do. If you
go agalnot her she's thee keen mi having
her OW11 way she'll stick at nothing. If
you let her 'alone shell tire of a thing .ba
lore you tian' tdrn rbund, seen it
„ea
:herself itulls, and it was small nvondoe ,tha
the man at hot old° felt the arneonseiou
flattery Of her interest :and amereed,to hie
work, She in -ado a „prettypicture,,
dark oyes slening, her eager. face turned
to him ,as ,ho leaned ono .elbow on tam
rustic table anal reeted hex cheek oft 110'
' 11 :was with e Abase, of (EMMY the
Behest ikon° was repelled to the Peesen
laY . hearing the luw-wtegone 'rumble am
creak mut al the etacik-yeed. Ho looked e
AUG watedi and kee to his feet,
eBY .easnee, howethe time lees flown! Do
levee% she for yarning, like' this, Iltisfi
YOU must be dying foe Your
breathaaeb." ' 4
"I had forgotten He' elle .seid siinedYe
The nervous color oprang to her cheeks;
the louged 00 atek him the time, hut dar.
ed not. Perhapo Ehza, would he croee; per.
haps IF-elk:16y might be downsteirsSho
was ' preparing to ' huery onraY when he
stovned him with.a.geeture.
"1 brougHt eamething tot you. this morn.
Mg. I' weeder you win have it."
Without welting for her reply he went
towards the 'little gate,. and draw some.
thing mere/WIT from the tall hedge where
it had been hidden. It *mem/roped in a
docklead, lW.111011 uu-cuiled no be put, it in
her hand, eevealing a pure white rose, of
the kind that is 'found on' Many e besh
In voterge gaadonsesmall but tperfeetle
Termed, still fresh with dew. and &mes1.
dazeling ili its "whiteness.
He did not epeak, arld 417034Co 0014141 not,
Something :seemed to elooe her . throat,
and the dared not lift her eyes from the
sooreo of times. Why, last winler woe
that -worried f or :leer oho ohoul marry
that good-for-nothing Potheriek. Rinking,
daneing, he waff with him, -meeting him
everywhere. Then all at once she peeked
him otre.iforgot 11 ebout him. And when
I tusked her ehe says: 'I'm tired of him,
Mize. He bores me, 10 deathr
"1 don't think 10 r. Stone would, bore
any one," Joyce ventured to say,
, Eitel froweed.
, "I've made a mistelse-and I don't mind
owning it. I thought -ehe'al get Wed of
playing et farming long before this."
She has been very 'happy here," Joyce
eeoerved quietly.
"Don'b / know It?' Eliza cael, almost
fiercely. "That le why I let her he. I love,
to sae the child enJoying herself. And
whet else was there for her to dO in a de.
aerted hole like this? I wish we'd bevel,
come! But I'm going to p1011 :Stop to 11
nOwlan not going to let her spoil her
lif "
•
"Do y011 think her ille would be epoilt
10-1 elle married Mr. Stone?"
:_"Of couree it would!" annoyed Eliza.
"How could she be leopy here? I lc/low
what mimics likes and it isn't what he
calls the temple life, though It suite her
Ito clay at it for •a, bit, And when there's
a man only waiting to give her all a girl
oan poesibly want, it's eheer flying in the
demo of Providence to, canry on as she's do-
ing."
"You meen—"
"I mon Mr. Carmichael. Look et the
pooitioh ho weuld rive heel end they sae
his gaselone end conservatories axe tho
illicit in Wil rid ne tor. 1 know bits home
-
keeper, end nee -showed Inc over his houeo
tho other else. MY, it INVe fit foe a, outsell le
The wet -mate,' faee wee lrettefigered
On tlillenn9in. "Mireie weuld be in het ele-
anent there, and no inesta,ke I"
"Rut, Eliza, tee g101 h
as to marry the
man, not his house."
"Done you believe it, miss, Tbe men-
tion't eourzt-at lenge not often. Women
are like cete-more attached to nieces
than people Give a woman a, good battle
--ana,ke, her comfortable -and she ;won't
care whet *sort ob. 11 nmeee cutting sound,
Ito's lsind of thrown in, so to :speak,"
A dietressed look came over Joyce's sen-
sitive face. She would have liked to co:11-
We this view, to etend tip for hot sex, but
elle knew teak trying to argue with Eliza
was rather like hareem oneself againet 11
wall-eone,eould not move her at all. and
n y receiv asnage.
"Do yeti. think Mr, Cermichael is ,01111
thinking of Pollotty, aliett?" she asked rue
thee
M he issret What's he writing. to her
for? ghee had 'three lettere oince she
Paulo Imre. And why does he 'keep on
eending her chocelatee, and baskets of
fruit, and these hothouse flowers?" .
JOyee was 'eilent. 1 She had wondered
someeisnee if the offerings thee lent,
And ellen he went very red, and gave an
embarraesed laugh, no it the words had
• slipped out unawares. •
eX nruet go now," Jdyee Bald, after a
anesnerceo eiaence. 1111010 will have gat•
brealePaet rowdy, and I dare say you ought d
to be in tale hayfield by now."
i'Tlint's real naete of Yen, MiSs Maimil.
•ton." Ile was frequently guilty or a
Arnetiteniem "If I ought to be e
there I should be there -leaven% you le
-found that, met? Ao 10 metter of feet, we
cane, do -anything yet. There's eueb, a d
heavy dew' .thie morning, end there'e a
000 aUnGa in turning ,wet coils of hay onto
soaltitigground, now is there?
Joyee meekly "supposed not."
"I waane hinting thee you we.re tele,"
olio added, with a emile, think you
work vere hard, and your houva ere so
thet's noth,ing When I was in
Manitoba, one herveeting 0 worked ,eighlt-
eon hottre out sf tee twenty -Pear for
weeks -teat was from sunrise to sun-
down. Anal this Le child'e play atoll .than.,
• boring—that le liard Work, if you like. I
eperit ono winter on the Sante St. Merle
Ile beget: to tell ho r something of Ids
1k'0 "out WeCt," and in lietening to hie
eimple yet graohic deeeriptien joke for.
got Eliza ene ereakDast.thes-iforget, trio,
thee, odd pein ,t'hae, bad pepped her heart
thee° days ego. She lend expected Felicity
• to eonfiele,in ber, ao she letd .always done
-had awaited it w.et10 a feeling or appre.
heneion, but everytbing had gone on tttg
before, and ef that atoemy scene had end
-
el in a lovoy0sertge-a6 Felicity had hint -
pe -if Ole 'two heti corno 10 onr melee.
standing, she Waa evideney not Ito know
• of ft Itt exeeent..
Joyce made le good lietener-eas hotter
than Follette. Wile dearlY loved to hear
citement to the postanan'e cull came from
ihnr tut Felicity h.ael not -told her, and
iso load alumnae from reeking, ,
',shwa hatra letter tom him -tide Mann.
ng," Eliza went on. "He wants to coma
own, in bis motor. I wish etteel let him,
he sight might clue her of her folly,
nal bung her to her GollGO3."
Would it Mcleod? joke wondered, 10
he eight of the s,horb, eteut, complacent
an, vwith Ids bald headand suepicioue.
y black moustache omit' make Felicity
orget10 'broa.shouldered figure,
bronzed! Mee, dand bwo keen grey gee.
hen Mr. Certnichael 'must be a magimen I
ut perhaps, it woe the motor thee was to
o-rk Ole in AOC
woularett interfere 10 I were you,
Eliza,' she eald, reeter a paee
use "If F
UMW ehould cheese, love in: a eottege—"
"Love in a fiddlestick I" ;the other inter-;
notate with a snort.. "She's got to
choose wbat's beet for here and if she
doeme know whet% best F.m going to
:show Dien I dwololiGed flier another r4 look
rater her, anal ran ,going 00 de it. 'Take
ear") of boor, Dll dilo eairl-ithey were
about her last evolds-'Den't let her throw
hereele anvey as a did' She martuded for
lenre,-poor due, .and math id
good it d
her 1,
joyee'e 'flea) quivered., and ohe, hit her
lito no ff something had hurt Mese HOW
00 soundee 1 Had the yoor mother
In bee hest mornenths thought, only of 'the
materiel welfare of the child elm waG
"Have You thought .about He, Sto-ne?"
'the re41,11.U.od tO Enfit, "If you get your own
way ran afraid It will come eery heed
1111'11°IincilIim'
tVosna' n looked at her Curiously.
'To you, think he's in aove 'with Ali:min?
dizitet he ,inet hitmere'ter am ate would 40
ahead Of coulee, ho admires her -who
could help et?''-Witli quick imeloneY for
ber nuraling—"ibut don't tlaitrk be levee
heel he }Mani got 'the looketh Ins eyes!'
Joyee wirs lsibenb. Felieleyeirad evideetly
net taken' Eliza, Into liceleelifidenee.
"et'e eee wilnit Mae leolieres
lettere" Mite -went oe; elle meant to get
the'peace, I idenetilteenv that I blame him
eltegethere at'er rdoe eaceigh lama fer
theseeteme 0100011.1 gOtdd/o :senile to ereler
a ether'. But anisoyeg fiefi loing. Ito be
eneeimiel be, anyeanan for W004..15140 Can
dnipg, Oslo, Sae's; worth -mere team thee"
.do yea omen? ,I "Omit reader-
'
1011tA it's ,easy &KOOK to see .throug-h,
dare Soy yorieve honed thee he thought
the old wan wouldleame it 00 him -111144810
451lOrs Ole,, lew-Yer .eole.- her 1.36. Well, hoe
disappointed andiliee anade up his mind
he ,easethevo 01 oDe weer 100 eill are
,Toyce Cialiostneinars 'ataisage as 10 11-01'
uocal, the thcerght -had never Once Oeour.
red -to 'her... Coul0 it the yes-sible tier a
man who locked eo true eked 11-000-to11l0 to
.etoop 00 low? • Perameo the Ati,as ,poor, and
had no other proepeete-it must be so, or
why ihold he stay one But 'Elie:lean-est
be 'wrong- Folieity :Was benutieul en-ough
iturn -any. uvan'd beed, Itelbert Stone
loved thee -elle was -sure eV it. Anal though
the thought geve her an odd little twinge
of pain,' it dime' lea, less than -to .thialls
him ;designiug and nleroonaily,
1 1300t Eliza, was opeakne, a
igentth
agent -thio eitne
in lowered tonea, au it afraid of lloOing
o1'o11.14044/141 4 and .51,yea'e wondering'
thoughts 'were ;brought It:wear:with a start,
and she listened da growing eeneterme
ti°"ln;un not ono to encourage gossip, as You
know, Mies Joyce, but les would Itells-it
Was yeetercluer morning -,-and he had eoked
for a glees -at' milk, and a oeuldn't hoelp
likening. • Ile is a vmy 000ln:tall too.
He saye 'the old anae-Me. 0a,rleton, you
• keew--took‘ against Robert Stone at thb
last. Ho 'found' -out aomething about elm,
and wouldn't let him near him. Postman
meld the old anaietter evaen't, -the enly man
he had taken. in. He says Inc went away
and Was drunk 'for .tt week ,when gel
diseliarged Ifeom sae Valley Farm."
-don'e believe a tweed of itl" joke ex-
claimed, they oyes full of indignation.
• "Nor 1, miss, ,a,nd I ;tail the .postanan so.
X snapped hie head off, and olamaned tate
door on him, Ile won't bring any more
tales hero. But it showed me my duty.
Whet do nye know of Helmet .Stene? Mind
You, I don't 41411100him-heis headwork
ng -
Ing, and a nieemannered young, mem but
he's uot Tor enieeie. And I want yeu to
help atie to snake Filer eee 11.
,She got up an one spoke, and begen to
clear the teble, and Joyce, that
no Menly Geonaed to he expected of her,
Suede- hev <some.
• Her Sitee Awes very eweet and iserione go
she init Idle littIO Whine rose, 101 Water, and
left it to (brighten her gloomy bedroom.
^"I ered lint I minted to he delude, and
I do,' She whispered. "I iwon't believe a
word 'against him -a won'teven think
about it anyam. on3re'
eeon:tinueri.)
e.
THE SOLDIER AND HIS WILL
How the State Arranges Important
Matters for TEM.
The soldier, according in Kipling.,
is an absentminded beggar. The
Haiti -sib law itself seems to have the
prevaleant idea about Tommy Atkin§
being absent-minded, for it gives
him it special privilege which is de-
nied te the civilian. This is tin re-
gard to the m-aking of a will.
If the ordinary civilian in the Old
Country wishes to make his, will lie.
has to comply with all :sorts of for-
malitieS and teebniealities. He ia
practically boned to• go to or trained
lawyer-othe Twice there will he
trouble and expense when he dies.
For Tommy •At -kin e none of these
terrors exist. He hos the privilege
of ignoring them altogether, .and
'disposing oY. his belongings•in a, veny
shnple way. He does not need any
witnesses, nor :technical phrases,
nor elaborate &moms. Ile, can even
dispense with -writing if he so de-
sires, and just say, by word of
mouth, what his will is with regard
to 'his property.
The law aa,ya that a soldier who is
in actual military service may dis-
pose of his personal ,estate with -out
the usual formalities.
It con be either in writing or by
word of ramith. He need not wait
until he is twenty -on& either, as a
civilian has to do. The important
point which is always cropping up,
however,. is, when is a soldier in
actual milita,ry service?
There were some interesting eases
on the point, altos: the Boer War.
When the War Offiee wanteti.volun-
teers for South Afiricnr a certain
young man offered himself. He
passed all the tmetlical tests and
went into barracks, which happened
to be 'in the same town. He; then
made his will in baraa.oks.
Later on he went out to South
Afriee, where he was kill,ed in ac-
tion. His will was disputed, and
,attempt mode to up.set it ion the
geound that he was not in actual
military service when it was made,
It was decided, however, that as
soon as he ,hact trileen cettain steps
under .orders preliminary to going
to the front li-e eva,s in aCtual
peryiee, and the will was de-
elared to be a good ond ,valid sol-
dier's
The privilege extends not ona.y to
soldiers, .but to 'sailers. as well. la
the case of p, sailor he must be at
sea when the will is m.ade. As
usual in these cases, itis left to the
couetssto say who is a ;sailor within
Ole 'meaning of the Aet. For rio-
00 parser on board a warship,
had made a will without the usual
formalities. " Subsequently the will
was qaestionted and .the question
was, "Was 41, p141.1e0, a seamen?"
The cooirt decided that he was.
More than one will has 'been
niade on the ba ttlefield, and . more
than one soldier has died 1 tom
woun,clis within a few minutes, of
oorabblong onit it dying message
which has been construedinto a
Daring the Boer war, one of ova
soldiers, before, going to the trenein'
ea, told' one oS his officers that if he
were killed he wa,nted em his pro-
perty to go to rseertain person. The
.officer happened to snake a note
Later on the soldier's name found
its way on the of honer, and a
dispute arose- over his belongings.
Tbe offieer produced his notes of the
dead man's wishes, and it was held
that they Were a good and valid
will,
lestly; it may
this privilege of
new thing, for it
Julius Caesar foo'
Roman aemy. It
England in 1837.
Up in the Air.
, "What are Betty and jack quar-
relling about n ow ?"
-oh, it's one of these wireless
quarrels, I guess,"
'Wireless quarrels? What doyou
mean, 1' '
"Words over nothing, you know."
be aeananked that
the soldier is oso
wa,s introdueeiti by
the benefit of his
was i.ntroduced in
Few ,self-anade men
enough to finials the job.
live long
• e
, .
• , Husband and Father of Gila Family in Oa,ngon
This pictupe. show,s elle wife and bhildren of Private Lenistliale, a, Bri-
tish prisoner of war at Doberitz in Germany, who wiaa aentenceti to
death for striking a German officer in the concentration camp, lit was
onlysthrongh the intervention of James W. Garen& the American am-
bassador at Berlin, that Isis life was saved, and it is now stated that
the drastic .sentence will probably not be carried out. lnatead •the
soldier moy hove to undergo the original aentenee of ten years' impri-
sonment. The. entire matter may be talre,n up by a higher military
court of the German army.
Midwinter tanning Hints.
Summer time is canning time, as
everybody knows. Neverbheless,
there ore many preserves that may
be prepared at this time of year.
They are economical in two ways -
they are made at a time when the
liolate preserver is not rushed with
other work of the same kind, and
they are made from fruit that is in
season, and, 'therefore, cheap.
Apple jelly should be made at the
same time that some other apple
preserve is prepared, for the ,skins
and nores from the apples used in
some (Aber way May be added to
the jelly. A good jelly, in fact, ellal
be made from skins and cores alone,
but the took can satisfy her desire
for economy by an extra, core from
every apple.
Jelly foe a Year. -The cores and
skins shotild be, broken and the
whole a,pples should be washed and
sliced with skins and eores in
place. Then •the whole mass should
be pat in a granite or aluminum
preserving kettle stnd barely cover-
ed with water and cooked slowly
until tender. Next it should be
drained through a jelly bag for
twelve hours and then measured,
and 'to every pint of juice ,a, pound
of granulated sugar should be al-
lowed. The juice should be ibeought
to the boiling point arid then the
sugar, slightly 'warmed, should be
added and •stirred intothe' juice
until dissolved. Then the mixture
should be boiled rapidly until 10 10
ready to jelly and iit .should be put
in jelly gla-sses and 'sealed. This
jelly tan he made now toslast for a
year. It is it delicious jelay in sum-
mer, simply because apples are then
out of season and the baste is,
therefore, welcome,
Apple preserves an be made to
give their quota, of eores and skins
to the jelly kettle. Use rather tart
app es wath good flavor, and man
and pare and quarter them. Weigh
them then. and allow an equal
weight of granulated sugar. And
bo each pound of frisit allow • the
juice of bwo lemons, the grated rind
of one and a cupful of eold water.
Boil the auger and water for two
minutes and than add bhe lemon
and the apples and simmer until the
apples are tender. Seal in jars
while hot,
•Orange Marmalade. - Orange
marmalade is a ,standby 110 lase.st
househOlds and if oranges are, now
ab their olteapest• and best in your
markets this is the time to ma,ke it. ,
But remember that it is worth while
to use good oranges. It does not
matter if they are very email, But
they must be juicy and of good flav-
Wash the skins thoroughly. It is
well to use a soft brush to clean
them with. Of eourse, this brushing
removes some of the oil, but there
ie much dirt usually on the out- I
side 'of an orange. So do the work I
thoroughly and •carefully, Making
an effort to remove the dirt and
leave the oil,
Pare half the orange, taking off
only the thin outer rind. The white
part of the rind is bitter. Cut this
thin yellow rind into ahreds and/boil
it until ib is tender, ,changing the
iwatei twice in the precess. Grate
'the rind from the rest of the
oranges, just the yellow outside
ipait. Then take off all the white i
part of the rind from all the, I
oranges and out them into very
small pieces. Remove the seeds. 1
Weigh and allow a`pound of sugar ti
for every pound of fruit. Dramas the
orange pulp into a sieve, without
pressiag it, and putathe juice on
the 611,g1110.1 and boil mail (Aeon. Add
to this syrup the boiled shreds of
skin and boil for ten minutes. Then s
add the grated rind and the orange a
pulp and boil :mail a sample of it 1
thickens svhen •eooled.
Graperrult, Marmalade. -s- Grape- o
fruit, marmalade is also delicious
and is as interesting. to prepare as t
is omega marmalade. To make it, i
choose six rather small grapeiruit
and wash them wells• Then cover I
them with eta water and boil until s
they are ,soft. Be careful, ashen
testing their -softness, not to .psine-
tura them with ti, fork and so lose
some of their juice. DraM them
when done and let them cool; and
then; :with a sharp knife, pare off
the thin, outside yellow ,skin and
shred it. Out the grapefruit in
half. Take out all the seeds and
take out the pulp. Boil a quart of
water and five pounds of sugar un.
til clear and add the rinds, shred-
ded, and boil ten minutes, then a,dd
the pulp and boil until a little of
it when 'cool is thiek enough.
Candied Ortingen-Candied orange
or grapefruit peel can be roa,de. at
this time of year and packed in
small glees or tin boxes to use for
several months 06 come. The pulp
eon be used for fruit cocktail or
salted, and the halves of skin from
which it is removed can be candied
Soak the shells in eold water for
two days, changing the water once
or twice if convenient. Drein the
shells on a -sieve ,ancl plunge them
into boiling water :for five minutes.
Drain 'well again and then cut off
the thin, outer akin and shred it.
Put it in 11, saucepan over the fire
with three maps of sugar to two of
water and enough of the syrup so
formed to cover the shreds of skin.
Bring -to a brisk boil and then sim-
mer slowly for a eouple of hours.
Then stir until the syrup sugars
around the shreds of skin and cool
and peek.
lioILsehlold ili II
Grated raw potatoes will lay dust
and help clean carpets.
Old magazines or catallsgues are
fine for !cleaning- irona on.
Protect your polished floors by
posting small eirsles of felt on the
legs of your °hairs.
an making a tplain omelet, it is
better to add hot water than milk,
as it makes it much more tender.
Soiled puddings should never be
turned out the moment they are
done. They are very likely to break
if this is done.
All milk puddings intended to be
eaten at luncheon should Ihe pre-
pared as soort as breakfast things
are cleared. aiway.
Cakes should not be placed in a
061c1 place or at an open window to
cool. The ateans ton -dense and
make them heavy.
When the hemstitching on bed
linen breaks apart, ,erover it with a
row of feather stitched 'braid, neat-
ly stitched on at each side.
A geed way to stiffen the bristles
of hair brushes after iwashing it to
dip them in a mixture of equal
quantities of milk and, water, and
then dry befoie the fire. •
Dry your 'cruets in the oven, put
through"the meat chopper and save
as crumbs for stuffieg poultry, etc.
Melt one ,ounce of butter to stir in-
to the eupful of crumbs when ready
to use;
To remove stains loom knife
handles and also to keep the ivory
from turning yellow, rub the
'handles with a, cut lemon; after-
ward w'ash in soap and water and
.dry immediately.
For grease spots make a stiff
pante with ifoller's earth and vine-
gar. Roll it into ,balls, and dry
them. Next damp the grease spots
and grate one of the balls over them
and leave it Until it is dry, when
the raark,s should be 'washed with
tepid water. These balls are 001-
celleat to keep al, hand for emer-
gencies.
In order to, "tit>, pictures pro-
nerly, avithout puttingi nails under
them, see that the screws -age placed
n the centre.of the -bank •of the
ra,mes, and if you have nota pic-
ture -rail the cord shoulcl just re,ach
the top of the piature. 'Before <tidy -
ng the nail in the wall clip it in
lot water and it can then bo driven
quite atraight without Ibreaking the
plaster,
rOe potato puffs take some cols1
'oa,st meat, cut very small, 5000110-11nth pepper and milt, Roll and
nash some potabo,es and make them
alto paste aviell one or two eggs,
Roll this out' with a duet of flour,
tot into roends; put aome of the
minced meat on one half, and fold
he other half over. Fry the puffs
n boiling fat until goldee brown.
In making .stuffing for roast tun
cey take a quarber-pesfod of beef
net, rninced, two ounces of minced
hem' grated rind el half a llellben.
Caseteesd poonful. eaela of . maime
herbs, parsley ' and salt, 'one salta •
spoonful •of pepper, one eaitspoom.
hi .01 Apouncleci Mace, One brealefa.at--
rcupfail df the breadcaumbs1 bwo well
beatiefieggs; a little milk if ibis too I
dry, ' Mix thoronglaly. , I
if you ,would. have your fried els I
look pink tend 'beautiful, fry •barrot;
one et Si time in a good deal of
ond give thelll yOltr undivided attens
bion. As, they are cooking take a:;
goon end continually pour the hot
fat over them until they are doom.'
•An egg that is a little stale is al --
most -sure to break its yolk -avhen 10
is ,put into the Dan.
Dt
FEAR OF RUSSiA A B.Ovtiti
WAR IS STIMULATING NATION-
• AL! CONSCIENCE.
Russia 'Will Get Constantinople
The strength of sth,at conscious-
ness is proved by the unanimity with
which the Russian people hild aside
heir grieva,nces and took up arms
o defend their country against an
alien foe.. They know that thii war
annot stop the growth of that eon-
eiousness. And they know, more -
ver, that the Goosernment needs
he suppott of the peoPle, and that
y in their turn supporting it they
d1.4 assert that fact.
The aummoning of the DUMP, im-
mediately ,alber the War is a fact of
real; importance. For the first
Moe the Government not only need -
d the help 0! tine pe,ople and isske,d
or it, but. that help, through the
eoplels sepresentataves, was sum -
loner' and taken 1011a matter of
ou0110150,This war in, no way resembles the
tts.so-laponese war. That svaa es-
entiailly a war waged by the Gov-
rnment-,to a gre,at extent because
sat Government 'feared the people
nd h.oped to avert the oncoming of
le revolution which it knew to be
evitable. To -day every Russian
rearm Awihat he is fighting foa, and
he great wave of patriotism which
as swept the eountry has caused
ot only progressives to cease for
he time their struggle with, the
overnment, but it has also made
he most violent !reactionaries meal -
their views.
In the. Dolma Monsieur Postristh-
eviteh, most rabid of reaetionarie.a,
only recanted' many of hoe former
elielsasamong others. his anti-Sesni-
e views, 'announcing his opinion
at all should now hove equel
ghts as Russian citizens,
.As one of 'the meagre proofs of
ussiala ,nefarious ultimate inten-
ens, it was, inevitable that the bo-
y of o' Russian inyasioin 01 India
mold be sentscitated, Thot that
or bogey •ia fest losing its 150.
The greatest 'Russian poll:Haien:5
d military asotheritiesanasitsblY
enamel Kuropriblohnshave repeat -
ay affirmed. that the eonquest of
die would ha the beginning of the
nd of the Russian Manias. Owing
But Will Be Satisfied
with 'flat.
The hope that this war will ulti-
mately strike a stunning, if not
fatal, blow to militarism in ,aenerals
and German militorism in particu-
lar, ishould be stunned; but at the
same time *hey appear to be op-
pressed by th ethought: What if
Russia., honing helped to eruah Geas
nanny, develops a psychology analo-
gous to Elsat of Germany aftee IBM
and, after ,tasting power, d,ecides to
beCome the greatest of all -fosters
the spirit of militarism. which we
are now arrayed against 1
re
But theis another Russin-the
Russia of Tolstoi, Boxodine, and
Gorki. For the time being that is
forgotten, or people aefuse rea-
Bac the extremely innioatanb fact
that if Rnseia is instrumental in de-
feating Germany it will be largely
owing to that other Russia, writes
Sash& ICropolkin, daughter of the
famous Russian revolutionist, in the
Outlook.
This Russia., I -will be told, hos
up to the present never had ninth
say in the government -0! the coun-
try. Perhaps. But things axe
oluinging, ands though the a,utocra-
tic regime in laus,sirshas been great-
ly under Prussian influence and
• Prussian in its methods, still it has
already lost some of its power and
is likely to lose even, more, Russia
Can never become . an aggres5ive
militarist pOWer.
Russians of -all partics have sunk
their differences; ehey are showing
a' united front. Just before Lite
war there were banricarles in Petro-
grad; the day the war was declared
the barricades, disappeared, and the
men who had hold them were the
first to join the army. They' were
willing to lay aside their personal
grievanees in the desire to Strike a
blow at Germany; and it is military
Gebmany at which they are aiming
the •blow.
It is too early to foresee exactly
what the war will brin,g, -and I do
not asy that Russia will necessarily
have o revolution svhen tot war
ends; bult 'hitt I do affiem is that
in Russia, just as in eyery other
country in Fatrope, there will be -a
rapid evolution of the present forms
of government
Russia, is essentially en mower -
like nation. S,he is in the throes of
a great internal change ; she wants
to keep her forcea for intern -al de-
velopment, to gain the right to
carry out a thousand and one
sehemes for the 'betterment all
classes.
Growth of Conntionsitess.
t,
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ed
to the vAtatost insurmountable diffl-
culties and the extra,vagant expen-
diture which the ca,mpoign alone
would entail, ouch .ian undeataking
is altogether outside the range of
!possibilities. -The w.erld has changed
since the day When General Skobe-
leff declared that "the road to Con-
atantinople lies ''.4.4thotesel Tndia."
England and Ruesia, were tradition-
al foes in 'those days. -
Certainly Russia, will not ellow
Corasta.ntinople to be taken by any-
one -that is why- she did not aliow
Bulgaria te advance beyond Tcha-
talcalja, But Constantinople will
lose its impolite/lee in the ,eyes •of
Russia as soon the question of the
, opening of the Dardanelles ie. 'set -
tied tavorabl'y. When that has been
orraitged, Itu,saials aanbition no
Mager ooncerns Europe • politically.
Democracy Growing.
Rustaion bureaucracy, like all bu-
reaucracies, has welcomed anilita,r-
ism, and has counted oe it O011fa-
clently as o support, With ,a weaker
Germany there will no longer be
either excuses or necessity for en-
couraging it, .and the bureaueraey
will lose ground proportionately.
Abeve %all, the democraey, having
played an all-important part in the
eampaign, will not only be mole ac-
tively 'conscious of its rightss but it
will find them easier to, obtain. .A
government financially weakened,
as is inevitable attar any war, be-
comes more dependent on its people
---and more tractable. This applies
not only to Russia proper. Poland
has already obtained rigida which
for centuries have been denied her,
though progressive R
raisin, has al-
ways ardently desired and advocat-
ed these rights. In all prohabilitY
Finland, the Caucttsns, and the inn
meaametbly 'wronged jews will ob-
tain eertain liberties and aights. All
these peoples ere standin,g by Rus-
sia, with thegreatest loyalty.
It is obvious that if progressive
Russia has joined forces with re-
a,ctionary Rossi& for the moment, it
is Iseeause she feels herself ateong
enough to postpone her own de-
mands. And in that ease ehe is
hardly likely to 'allow berself id bo
yoked with it homegrown militar-
ism alter she has laid aside her own
grievantes and shed her blood while
helping to :strike a blow at ,another
militarism, which, though irksome
other to nations, has weighed most
.heaoily on its own peoples
The Square Deal.
"Look here I" said' an excited
man to a draggist "You gave me
morphine for quinine this moan-
ing.'
'Is that so?'replied the drug-
gist. "Then you owe me 1:011003/ -
five cents."
The Cause.
"How did no -u lose your hair 7"
"Worry! I was in constant fear
hat I was going to lose it."
A Wind's Vaney.
"The wind," Said ,Mrs. Twickenn
bury, "was blowing at a terrific
velocipe-de."
He whostgives too much attention
to the 'business of oth'er people is
surely negle-cting his own,
,
Hitsband--"Aifter all el.rilization
has its drambbaeks. People in the
savage state seldom get ill." Wife
-"I wonder if that's the reason
you're so healthy."
A girl student, in taking leave of
her eolleige dean, saki: "Good-bye,
professor 1 I shall not forget you!"
"Oh, I beg of you," replied the pro-
fessor, "don't mention such a
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