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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1914-06-04, Page 3Foolish Young Man; Cr, the 13elle)Of the SeaSOFI. C18.A.P111:41.' X.—(Cdntlnued). • ee. re• We.suie?she .asked eeia**,dld WeeStop? She Paused abruPtly; and both she'and Stafford' stared at the two men who were standing" confronting each other. Sir Stephen Was as white' as a ghost, and there wa"bea look of absoiate terror in his dark eyes. On the face of the other inan wee an eeigmaticat smile, which was more bitter, than a sneer. You are all right?"_said Stafford; but I am afraid you were very much frightened!" T _ The g r turned to him. • 'row" she said, recognizing hini. "Did you stop them?" _ - "Yes; it was easy; they had had al- most enough-" he said. White they were speaking, the two elder men drew apart as if Instinctive - 'You, Falconer?" murmured Sir Ste- phen, with ashy lies. Yes," assented the other, drily; "yes, am here right enough. Which is it to be—friencl or foe?" 1 . Sir Stephen stood gnawing his lip for a moment, then he turned to Stafford. 'Stafford, this—most extraordinaeY— this is an Old friend of mine. Falconer this 18 .151' boy, myon Stafford/. CHAPTER X. . "A very old friend of year'. father:" said Mr, FalcOner, and his keen eyes looked Ino Stafford's as he put out hM hand... Then 00 turned to Sir Stephen, Whose fade haderesumed its usual seren- ity, and was fixed in the smile Leppro- Prietoto the oecasion, "Mr. Stafford Orme and I have met before to -dad-----" Sir Stephen shot. an inquiring glance from one to the other. —"At the arm at the other side of the Lake, My daughter, Maude, and I have been resting there for a few hours. Maude," he said te that young lady, who' was standing looking on at the group generally, but Mere Particularly, Under her lide, at Stafford; "this is a very strange meeting between old friends. ' sir Stephen Orme and I haven't met for, —how Jong ago is it, Orme?" Sir Stephen she,* his head, and rais- ed his thick, dark brows. "Too long for us to go baelt—espe- cially in the presende of these yoUng Peerde,whom we are always trying 10 PerStiade that we are not old. I am delighted to see you, my dear young lady, and I am devoured by curiosity to know how it is that you. are here." sWell, • we owe it to your son, Mr, Orme here, I Should imagine, Sir Ste- phen," she replied. She had fully re- covered her self-possession, and her manner and voice had all the tone ot Pride and indolence which Stafford had noticed when he met her at the Inc. "If he had not stopped the horses. I suppose we should have either been kill- ed Or 011 the WaY to the nearest hospital. Ey the Ivey, have you thanked Mr. it. e ye a "Not 3iti and 1 shoal find it difficult • to do so," Wel 1T1'. Falconer. "Thanks are poor return for one's life, 1%Zr. Orme. I hope you were not hurt," He glanced 0,t. Stafford's dress -clothes, width tvere covered with dust on one side'and dis- played. a rent in the sleeve of the coat." "00, that's all right, sir," returned Stafford, with all an Engliehman's dread of a fuss. "They stopped short the mo- ment X got bold of them, and I only slipped and got up directly. you are not hurt, then, Stafford?" said Sr Stephen. "Ae 1 came up I thought, was afraid, that you were smashed up—and 2 daresay I showed my fear; It's rny only boy, Falconer," He looked at his old friend meaning- ly, and Falconer promptly backed him UP, "Well,,yes, you looked 'fairly startled and scared," he .said. "But now, it the herpes aro all right, we may as well get on. We have given you quite trotible enoug "The horses are all right, Sir," said the driver. "I've managed to take up the broken trace; it was that that startled them, sir, and they'll he quiet enough now." "Oh, but where are you going?" said Sir Stephen, with hospitable eagerness. "Were yeti riot coming to us at the Villa?" "No; we were going to Iieswielt," sold Mr, Falconer. "My daughter had a fancy for seeing the Lake tliscriet, and we are malting a. Idled or tour.' "You have no other engagement? I ant delighted to hear It, said Sir Ste- ghen. "Oh, 111 take no denial! aVhati Do you think I shall pai•t v1 100)1 old friend so quickly—and after suca —sudden and unexpected meeting! Miss Falconer. lel me beg YOU to plead With your father for me:" Isalcorer regarded Sir ... Stephen for a moment curiously, then looked to. wards his daughter, Her fine eyes rest- ed on Stafford's face, and be ceuld do not less than repo:Melds father'e 1100, "I hope you'll consent, Miss Faleon- ee," he said. "You have no doubt been a little upset by the accident and it is rather late to go on. Fray stay with nal" "Thanks 5 shell be delighted," she said, with her lbdolent regal Mr, 131' this time, as they went towards the gate, seine of the men who had been walking in the garden came up, and 'Iloward's voice called out: "Hallo, Stafford! _Anything the mat- ter?' "No; nothing whatever," said Stae- ford promptly; and Sir Stephen seized the opportunity to steer the Falconers through Lilo group. "Seine old friends of mine, 'Air, BToW- ale , theh carriage broke clown—torte- liately at our very door— This Falconer.. Sto,rord, will you give MiSti Maude your arm?" "Strange, our meeting again so soon, and under such circumstances," she said., "You must have stopped those horses very pluckily. thought Unit eintl:of thing was out Of date now and thar gentlemen only called the' police on such ocensions. You are sure you are not hort? I thought front your father's face you must be. ' He must be very fond of 000 to look so scared. Iie was as white as a ghost," ."He is very fond of ine, 2 hope and ethinit," eald Stafford. "Candidly. did not think he would he so alarmed—but don't know him very well yet—we • have beep, living,.ppart until just re- "WhY, that Is my case," she said. "My father and I were strangers until the other clay, when he came from -abroad --- What . beautiful house! 11 18 nee a miniature palace." She looked at the Villa and then at Stairot•d with re- newed interest "I rim ms • • f ther is Ihe Sir Menhen Orme of whoth one has heard so much.? did not think of it until this moment." ' Stafford Was giving instructions that the )?'alio,-,e,-s' carriage should be 00 80 ...to, and „wee so spared a reply. she. stood in the hail looking round with a kind of indolent admiration and sur- prise, and perfeetly self-possessed, though the hall waa rapidly .ftiling with (nen from the garden. "You would like io go to your rooms at once," said Sir stephen, in his serene and courtly voice. e . Ion e too tired to come down again to -night I will have some dinner sent up to you•—but I hope you. Won't be, It would be a. great disap- ointment," "Oh, I am not at all tired," said Miss Falconer, as site followecl• the 'house- keeper and the two demure maids -up the exquisite .stairease $.11' Stephen looked after them wlth a bland smile, then he turned to Stafforc3 and caught his arm. "Net. hurt, my' boy?" he said, in a tone or strained anxiety. Stafford was beginning to get tired. of• the miestion, and answered ra,,ehee immetiently: "Not in the least, sir --why should I be? Fil change my tliingS, and be down in five minutee!"• . • -,a "Yes. Yesi','.,Sir Stephen still eyed him •, 'with barely concealed "augletY.. "Sti•ange coin,Idence.. Sta:fford; haven't seen ;Ralph Falconer foV--for..eyer so many years! And lig is theown at nty Very gale! And they say there is no • such thing as Foto--" "'Hadn't you better go into the draW- ing-eonin, sir?" Staff.ord reminded him, "They'll think eornething leas • happen- • • "Ii? Yes. yes, dr ooursel" said Sir stennen, with a little start as if Jac bad been lost to thought; but Ile' -6,,a.itca 1j114 ese Ji,eaw Lao, ,walk }m the, stall's, 'Tviilhifti 7-4-)1' stn. 62 a 111111),6-66irs need a,up,pigEruc ions, onIcitly served a ..ehoirrr, littte dinner for the uneXPecrted 'giltrls. and Stafford, who bad walted in Pis hall, ac c a pin I ed them into the . Alies Falcone, had chang., ; all her travelling-dess Ter 1011 5\en- ing-'rerAc, • and te jeels Stte') bad 110 510511 Were Sticieted y sOe re- markably fine iaonds, "I Wish you hd coe itie fo nerl" he sal, as he onducted he r to • her eat. "So do Ti" returned; , serenely. We arc.. gtViitg,a great',deal of ,trouble; '0101 .,your gueSte.,. The fildlet who walledean nie told me that you had 0 , large hOus. ,"):es," said Stafford, 015 Is a kind or house-warming. Nly father intends settling in England for seine time, .L 1111,11m,,h,(1,2,eaea,, "And he hap built ale. Falconer looked up from Ids plate le his alerlywa,tchful way. • "Sir Stephen's 'plane rathee 01)100)" talo?" 115 011.1d. Vemember he always used to be rather erratic. 'Well, if he moans settling, lie's made himself a very cosy nest," Ile looked ebund the Magnith;ent room with a curious smile. "A wonderful man, your father air Orme!" • "Yes?" wild Stafford, with a non-com. dal emile. • - "'Yes; of course, I've heard of Ills great doinge—whe hasn't! iDicl you evee hear Jilin speak of me—we were great friends one time?" . "No, I don't think I have," re'plied Stafford, "But as was telling Miss' Falconer, I have not seen very, muoll of, him.' "Ah, yes, just se,' assented Fal- coner, and he went on with his dinner. Stafford had taken a seat at the table and.- poured ou t glass:of wine 50. 10111 they might not hurry; but he felt that he 'need not have been anxious on Vita account, for the'•gtil ate her dinner in a most leieurely nuinner talking to him in her soft, slow voice and looking ,at him front under her half-elosed lids. She talked of the seenet•y, of the quaint inns and hotels they had put up at, of' the various inconveniences which she had suffered 'on the way; .then sudden- ly she ralsed her lids and looked' at him fully and steadily. - • "X suppose the young lady we' saw you with this morning is your sister?" With all Ole natural simplicity, Staf- ford was a man of the world, and he did not redden or look embarrassed bY the suddenness of the' question and the direct gaze of the luminous eyes. he said. "I have neither -sister nor brother—only 'my, father. She was ,friene," "Oh, she said. Then after a pause: "She was 'very prettY." • Stafford nodded. Like a, flash floated before him (he exquisite loveliness of Ida Ileron. "Do you think so?" he said, with af- fected indifference. • "Why, yes; don't you?" she retorted, "00, yes," he assented; "but X didn't know whether you would; men and. wo- men so very seldom 'agree upon the queation et looks 1 nd 5 the women 1 think are pretty are con- sidered next door to .plitin by ray ladY. friends." "Well there can't be any doubt as to your friend's. good. looks," she said, "She made rather a striking, not lo startling, figure perched sideways on that horse, in the pelting' Juin. I sup- pose she is one of your neighbors?" "Yee," replied Stafford, as easily- a,nd casually as he could, for the face still floated bear° him—"yes; but not a, very near one, Let me give you some more "No, thanks, Father, haven't you nearly finished'? illr. Orine has kept US company so nicely that y, e bectl tempted to forget that we are keening hint from his guests." She rose, and with a peculiarly sinu- ous movement threw out tile train of her dress, and sweet languidly to the dear Stafford offeeed her his arm .and they clawed the law ng -loom. appearance naturally causecl a little sen- sation, ror Nome of the men had learnt and told the. story of Stafford'S plucky arreaL the bolting horses, and the people Were curious to see the father and daughter who had been rescued, 0101 et to lad e enc s ol Sit' Menhen. 130 a sort of tacit understand- ing, Lady lansford, who was was a good-natured indiVidual, Was playing the part of hosiesti and general chape- ron, and Stafford led Bliss Faleoner up tO her. 13efore a quarter of an 'hour had pees - ed Miss Falconer seemed to be quite at home in her novel surroundings; and leaning back in her chair, and slowly fanning herself, received with peefeet self-possession the attentions which her beauty, lier costly dress,- and her still more cootly 'jewels merited, Presently Stafrord heard Lady Clansforcl ask lier to sing: and ho went te conduct her to the Mama "My music is upstairs in my box— but it does not matter; I will try and remember semething," Oho said. "I wonder 'what yen like?" She raised her eyes to bis, as her lingers touched the keys. 'The simple ballad would be ra- ther out cif place, wouldn't IL? DO Yole know this thing Of Wagner's?" As she bderati Lo sing 4.he talking died down and gradttally ceased; and every eye was fixed upon her; fOr it was evi- dent that she not only had an exquisite voleo, but kneW how to Use it She t,arig like an artist, and apparently without the Twat effort, tile liquid notes flowing from lit?' red (105 like the water of a mountain rill, :Stafford was surmised, almost startled, blit aS he stood beside her, lie was thinking, etrangely enough, not so much of the singer as of the girl he wits going to meet on the morrow. 'When she had finished. there was a gen- eral murmur of applause, end Lady Clansford asked her to sing again. "Yeti have a really wolitleeful voice, Faleoner. I don't think. Melba ever sang that better." "Melba's register is eeer so MUM) a'reater than mine," remarked Miss Fal- coner calmly "No thani s• v 't sing again, I think 1' am a little tlroti." She went back to h'o' seat slowly, her fah moving languidly% as if she were too conscious of the worth of her voice to be affected by the murmurs of 1117- 1,18,11Se ancl admiration; and Stafford, as Ills eyes follewed her, 'thought she re- sembled a superb tropical flower of 1,th and subtle coloring and sort and languorous grace. • None of the women would venture to sing after this exhibi- tion, and one of the yOung men went to the piano and- dashed or a .send -comic song which relieved the terision hroclue- ed by 'Mies Falconer's Magnificent voice and style. Then the women , began to glance at. the clock and rise and stand about preparatory to going to bed, and presently they went oft, lingering, talk- ing, and laughing, in the hall and•ln the corridors. The men drifted into the billiard and smoking-t.00m, and Sir Stephen started a pool. He had been at his very best in the. drawing -room, moving _about amongst the brilliant crowd with a word for each and a/1, and a pleased sreile on his handsome face, paid a hap- py, genial brightness fn his voice, Ones or twice Sir Stephen approached Mr. Falconer, who leant against the wall leoking on with...the alert'veatchful eyes hall screened behind hie lids, which, 110e his daughter's, had a trick of droop- ing, though with a very different ex- pression. "your daughter has a , magnificent voles, Falconer," Sir' Stephen had said in a congratulatory voice; and Falconer had nodded sYes. She's been well taught, I be- lieve," he had responded, laconically; end Sir Stephen had nodded emplatical- "win you play, Falconer?" he aelted, wheri'they got to the biniard-room, as Staftord gave out the balls. "You used to play a gOod p " Falconer shrugged his shoulders. - Haven't played for years: rather look on." he said'. "Lel-me give you a cigar, Try these; they are all all right, Stafford eayse ' Falconer sealed . hinself in one of theloungeand looked athe pla,ers and round, the handsomeroin contem- plative silence. Sir Stehe's eye wan- adgma•eidn, ciovertly towadiow arid and once he-saitStfford:"Seef Mr. i3'0250001'eouesoe whis- As Stafford went 1111 to 'Mr,Falcoretse Omer he saw that Mr. Griffenberg andBaron Winch had ' joined him. The three Men Were talking in the low 0011- fldential tone characteristic, of City men when they are dismissing the sacred subJect 02 ineneY, alla Stafford caught the words—"Sir • Stelthen"—"South .Af- dean Railway." ' Stafford stood a,t his 1;1.0. retiewcotline:OkPkyle?adhs!ayielsdc-s,thhaarnP11:;,, Ts tifitU\PCPATtIettfil„rd• 16915, rge:O7.111110ttit93.2.1fieel;talga, „shall): rsPliod the, baron, eel,* a votigiek, kantowq. nt,),(111Inv tgg vtra, shions,bie, filvoloim. No, Sir Stephen doesn't bring him in at all. You under.' stand? He is ze ornamental, shleeplre Imaelner, eh?" And. he ehnekled, Falconer nodded, and leaning for - Ward continue11 the conversation tr, a. low vole°. Then men went or lo One by one, and presently only Sir Sic,- pben, Stafford, and,...Falconer •lemaineti: and as the latter rOse as if to aStiee, Sir Seephen'leld a hand op hie phoulder, "Don't go yeti I eheuld Ince to have &little, <Mat with,you—a.bout ald Falconer sanle'11110 (118. 05111 again tired took it freeh" cigar,. and Stafford left Ci`o be continued.) IN THE .TUNN,EL. "My Uncle," Writes a ,YOuth'e 'Com- panion contributor, "had a,' contract to install a heating' and 'ventilating syStenu, fwe 'School Out West. I had the 'SuPerVisioll, of' the ,cohtYae't; .and see'that the planOlict,'its'''W6ritllrblierlyr.';l:As the suceeSs of the whole nystem depended on, the proper inaking of the final con- nection, 1 decided to do filet myself, and not trust ft teeny helper. - "The two buildings were. about two thousand feet apart. One was( old; the .other.had.,jUst been finished, " The boiler vicuna end furnaces were sit- uated' theold building. Leading from this building ,to the ileW was a tunnel, four feet square; and lined on all sides with. concrete. A boot from the door a network of steam- pipes ran the entire length of the tunnel. • "A gigantic fan in the boiler 'room pumped air through the imixtel. In passing oyer the -steam pipes • the air.. became heated, and icept the new building at the proper temperature. • "The stystem was controlled auto- matically by compressed air. When the tem.perature- in the 11008, building rose too high, the thermostat , autb- matically shut of the fan,- and turned cold water intethe pipes in the tunnel: - When the temperature fell too low, the thermostat started the fan, and turned the steam back into the pipes. "The pipe that carried tins,compress- ed air ran through the tunnel, and 'it' was- on this -pipe that the connection was to be made. . "I put- oa my, overalls and jumper and went -after my tools. My flash light was missing, so I took a stub of a candle that a plumber had left, and entered the tunnel. "I crawled along until the light from the entrance grew SO dim that I had' to light my candle: Reaching into my pocket, a discovered that I had only two matches. But I went ahead, assisted by the feeble light from the taper. The connection was eXactly in the centre of the tun- nel. I reached it in a few minutes, did the work, and started back. "In my haste, I half rose to my feet, and was going along as fast as any- one in that crouching attitude could go, Suddenly, without warning, my foot canght in an opening between the pipes, and I fell. My head bit the sharp corner of a reinforcing rod that projected from the concrete wall. The fall .knocked me unconscious. I lay there about two holm. "I came to with the consciousness that I was in imminent danger. My head ached. 'Under me I heard the snapping and creaking of expanding steam pipes. In an instant I realized ray danger. Thinking that I had made the necessary connection and had left the tunnel, the Janitor, according to directions, was' getting up steam, "I tried to rise, but my ankle was sprained, and I fell back, with a sharp exclamation of pain, on the hot steam pines. My wound opened afresh, and Icould ing down over 1117 face. Again I tried iec.feel the warm blood stream - to rise, butt the pain. was too much for n "The heat of the pipes was getting Inaupportable. They began to burn my hands and -legs cruelly. To make mat- ters worse, I was so confused that 1 had lost all sense Of direction. "Suddenly, in the distance, I heard the grinding of the huge fan. The Janitor ;was just starting it. In a low minutes it would be going at full Speed, Idea flashed through my dulled brain. I groped over the pipes uatil found my candle. I carefully lit my last match and touched it to the candle. The almost imperceptible current had at first no effect on the candle, it was so slight. Almost in- stantly, however, tho tiny flame bent to one side, and showed me plainly the way to safety. • • "The pipes were -so hot that I could no longer tonal them. I tore off my jumper and shirt, and wrapped one round each. hand. I began to drag myself along. The pain from my wrenthed limb was so intense that I• nearly fainted. "Suddenly I remembered the com- pressed -air control! If the air -supply' pipe were cut off, it would have the same effect on the system as a rise in temperature. The fan would be stopped, and cold water would run through the pipes. "I made my way painfully back to my tool kit, and fonral a hammer and cold chisel. Then I found the air pipe, and attacked it as best I could, "The last thing, that I can remem- ber is the hiss of the escaping air. fell hack unconscions. When I came to 1 *as tying on the janitor's Cot in the engine none, and a physician wee dressing my wounds and my burns." FLOATING NAVAL STATION . Can Be Sunk Out of Sight On Ap- proach of Hostile Fleet. Fo‘r nations that need naval , coal- ing stations in different parts of the world where they have no. colonial pOssessioas, a Eusian 1iventor has d signed a floating storehouse fon fuel and other Supplies. manned. 'by . sii2011 crew of men, the, floating naval - base caebelowed to 'any 'advailtage- ous position and anchored; ready to receive suppliee from colliers 'and dis- tribute them . to warshibs. On the approach of a hostile fleet the entire naval base', grew and all; can be sunk Rut 'of sight,' to reappear .again as soon as danger is past. As patented, the floating storehouse is very much like ,a huge diving -bell, cylindrical in phape, with double walls and roof Containing compressed -air tanks for regulating its height in the water. It has no bottom, excepta wire netting, and is usually _Partly filled with, .water, All coal, pettoleum and other naval supplies are received 'and stored in small water- tight drums. From the recerving cranes on the 1:00f the drums are niered to a well in the centre, lowered t('S the proper -depth and shunted 012- th -rough windows in the well upon con- centric tracks, where, they remain sus. pended in- the water until needed. Ail the -handling is done •by automatic machinery.—Popular Mechanics..., 111.11110"51gac&A/MMI rot' nursing mothers Na:Bra.Co Laxatives offer the important advant- age that they..do not disturb the- \reat of the system or affect the child. esc. a box at yottr Drusesist's. National Drug end Choiniesi Cc. • of Conada, Limited. 175 ari";1:120nagala ow% ' Sdleetett-,Ifecipe Butter Cream, mail 'Filling': —Make exactlY like hard ','Sauce, with unsalted 4reamed;icing Sugar, ..and .flasoritig,''hut st1,p4ei4', ing eugar tielere itsgetbAo the lard SgelSe Stage. 2)311.85,; 139 .0pr11titi easily :and about once and a 'laza the amount,of sugar will usually be about +the right mea-stire. it 113114 be thick epough to stand up. . lf no fresh butter is 'to .be .procured make .a little by shaking mine cream in a; Mason jar or whipping 11 to butter. Three or four minutes" is usually ail the time it takes to make this butter if it is to be 01)021 imme- diately. • • . Three Egg Sponge Ilatter.-One cup sugar, •one cup flour, one alid a half teaspoons of baking ppwder, three • eggs, one-third of a cup of het water, oneehalf ,teaspoon of fla- voring. Sift the auger into the mix- ing bevel and then -sift'the flour with the baking powder in with it and mit these -well together, with a pinehaof _salt. Beateggs well and stir into dry ingredients, then add the water and finallY the flavoring. Beat kr at least five minutes and Shen pour into battered and paper ed dripping pan. Bake 'front tkvelve to fifteen minutes; •iiecording 20 thickness:- - If for jelly roll the layer 4s1 bat- ter should not be over one-fourth of an inch' thick. If to be cut in squares, etc., this amoupt ,batter will make e cake eight by founbeen inch -es of about the Fight thickness. It is sufficient to make two jelly rolls of this size, .but a wider .and • shorter pan would be better if the eake MS to be used for this' pur- pose. If to -be Used for a jelly -roll turn out on sugar eprinkled paper, eut off edges along the length, cover with warm jelly, and wrap in cloth.- Little layer cakes of any shape may be made by putting two. pieces of this take together with jelly. Cut alevays with a hot knife if the cake is still warm. If a butter cream is used with this cake it must be cooled first, but if a piece is eplit open while yet a bit warm and the butter cream ad- ded the cream melts into the Whole; enriching it deliciously. Of course 16 must be cold when batter is Spread on the -top. Coffee Cream leing.--Make just like t;he butter cream icing, but odd ooffee essence 'to taste for flavor- ing land additional sugar to take up any moisture resulting. This is particularl? delicious. Other 'fla- vorings rosy be used. -Orange is good, Mirror Chocolate leing.--Melb one eurice of chocolate in about half a cup of water if over a. 'hot fire, less with less fire; add it to .11, tea- spoon of butter and boil well. Boil- ing it with the buttter makes it glosey. but if the chocolate contains all of its own oil it efin eontain it will throw the added butter oat, when it earl be poured off. 'When this is cool add half -a cup of sifted ieing auger, er nmee if acedeel. This will keep bright, and glossy for a day only and is good tfor chocolate eclairs and little cakes Cllt Olet, 511- 0 1' not, and covered with choco- late, These always set off a plate of offerings tub tea and are usually the ,sonnest to disappear. Omelet Surprise. -- Cub out 50 foundation of 'the above cake in any preferred shape --round, ovel, square or oblong. Put this on a dish as a. mullion for the mold ef ice cream of whatever sort. Turn the ice cream Ott' on it, cove -1' it with an .ordinary meringue smooth- ed with a. knife, leaving it every- Ishere of an even thiekness sil two- thirds •of an inch decorate 21 12 you car -e to do so, epAnkle with powder- ed sugar, and set in a hot oven to brown, but not long enough foe the heat to reach the ice underneath. Serve at once, Individual portions arc easiest for the inexperienced t'oinwretgelli Snsh.—For lihe invalid slices af this typ0 of cake toasted are • an agre-eable tea accompani- ment and eminently wholesome and nourishing. They are more pala- table than the bread Tasks or zwie- back. •....Each slice may or may not, be eprinkled with poweleeed sugar before toasting.' One Egg Cooked Cream. --Cele cap narlk, one and a half teaspoone of cornstarch; one-half cup of ea - one -fourth. mip of buttere one egg, flavor tosbe, amid the milk, add sugar and -butter, -then the cornstarth 'mixed with a little cold milk, When thickened pour on :slightly beaten egg and sprea,d between a square of. the above cake split in two. Leave until . cream so.aks weli into the cake, PoWde.r the top with icing sugar and serve. To thie cream .piay be added note chopped, half a cup of paeans chop- ped, or it may be flavored in vari- ous ‚ways. A h-andful of filberts cooked in a catamel of sugar and then ground makes a most Bayer- ous and delicious fla,voaing for Stiff or for -a Tidier cooked cream. Bana- nas, or even oranges, if it,is to be' served within a fewhours, may be added. . TM'S cake May •he used a•s gni:to satisfactory stibstitute for the ele- gant and.;expensive,Savoy, the Gte- Doese,, eta., and whites of egg only instead of ehe ,whole egg .In'ay be uSed in making 21. 1 team -be put together with fruit syeups, aged for trifle,s, and with all the compounds of Whipped eteem ;and fruit. Household Hints. - To get the most good out of a.s- paragus, cub off She tips and cook theiii separately. ' ElastiCity is restored Ito rubber by cooling it in -one part ammonia and two parts water. A paintel:'s brush may be used to dislodge dust fro -m- ,cracks anePere- vices about the house. Try removing 'mildew by soaking it in a weak solution of ehloride 3f thee siosime in cold water. ',Tee warm Water „to sprinkle etarched clothes and the effect will a,yiee as satisfactory: Sew a loop to the ineide of a hat where it. will net show -,„if yote would like to be•Oureeof semi' hat etayiag on its hook. ' • ' delectable' -Combination 'fel' a spring ...salad ia 'died, pine apple , .eelery, Mid 'beamed eed pepPeas, served. with mayenffitise. ' '• If ythallein yottftable napkine, it wilr be found a great' help -if linen is hemnie.d at ea.ch end and washed before anteing. . - Hothouse_ flowers, like chiesan- thernunn, oan 'be kept freet for days if the water in the vase is (slanged and the room is net kept hot, Granulated sugaa•makes a coarse - ;grained. cake; powdered sugar fine ,one, -but a, moist, light brown sugar -is ape of the best kinds to 15511. In cleaning windows, first remove She dirt with hot soapy water then wine the panes with io paraffine cloth and polish with a piece of pa- per. • , When making cake, save a little of your cake mixture .and fill it with •raisins -and currants or nuts. Then bake in -patty pans for the children. , By 'slipping -stiff 'crilltirs intle a glass tumbler after they areironed and allowing them to dry, they can he made to keep their shape. ; Angel food shoidd not be stirred in the ordinary way. but folded 'over with a long sweep of the spoon so that the air cells may tenatein un- broken. • . - To keep celery fresh and crisp prepare it for the table'then wet an old piece of clean linen in ice -cold water anki place the celery on the ice. It will keep a week. Bread flour should always be used for bread- ancl pastry flour foe pas- try. for the two are cjuite'different 'things. The first should -absorb the meet water and the second th.e least. Fat should be kept in a cup. or bowl and then clarified. Add a small quantity of wearer ansi cook slowly, and When all -the sputtering has stopped strain through a. cloth. When the ohildren'e shoes ate heed after being wet, apply a little glycerine, atter they have become dry with a pieZe of absorbent cot- ton. They will absorb it and the next'day will be as soft as ever. Remember that when using pine- apple as a flavoring in ice creams or in gelatin mixtures, it must first be cooked, otherwise the -enzyme which the fresh pineapple contains will prevent the gelatin from hard - 1111111501' the ice cream from freez- ing. A careful ;housewife saves the liquor in which vegetables and cereals are cooked far the founda- tion of soup and stocks, The water in which spinach, nea.s, beans and other vegetables have been caoked makes a valuable foundation for soups. • For a particularly good salad dressing, take a mayonnaise of good boiled salad dresei»g. 'When ready to serve turn amount dressed into a bowl and with Dover beater whip in -a tablespoon or two of strained catchup, or chili sauce may .be ad- ded, A bit of Worcestershire will give a little "'snap." ee THE 1111111 COST OF LIVING. Abthe pee -sent time possibly no other subject is receiving quite as mach attention in Canada as this une. It will be a our -prise to most readers to know that, during the fis- cal year NV Well 0,114,0d iVittrch 31st, 1013, Canada paid $11,500,000 ill duty on food, and all of this large sum is virtually a direct tax on the eaesenner. In glancing over the list it is easy to understand that the, buying 3)115- 0, 10 themselves largely to blame in many instances, for theee are articles of food produced in Canada that are equal in every respect to those made in any country in the world. Ia the ba -king powder line alone there ltne.re 667,904 lbs. imported into Canada,. and this ineane the oonsumer paid in cluty the enoe- metes ;sum of $67,000. There are ne better goods in the world in this line thee Teazle baking powder, tend it ismade ill a, needed eanitary up- to-date factory, and can be pro- cured in any first-elass store al on -e- 11 1f the- price the imported article sells for. Smell eteiieles ete raisins, cuerants, and ',many other things, • whic5 do not grow in (Jumada' or ,are net pro- duced here, have ofneoessitY to be importe-de and the duty paid. ' .-If the ,constimer would, devote ib thought .and attention to this subject a larg.e amount of money edulel end would be saved.—Cana- dian Home Journal. FIRE AND WATER. Woman's Swim for Life in a Burning Sea. The story of. a two hours' BWilll in the sea at night in danger of being overtaken by a flood of burning ben- zine is told by Mrs. Anna Boerne, wife of the Captain of the Russian steamer Remota, which blew up' MT Algiers, arid was completely burned, with the 1os4 of 15001her company. "My hus- band put, me in a boat after the ship had burst into flames" she said; "but It capsized.' I began to swim in the black water, whieh was lit up, by the Iwnlng ship: The benzine ppread on the 'sea and foilned one vast burning film which the wind droye towards me. For to ehours--I swam desperately from the Ames. At last! when I was on the point of giving up, I heard 'a voice shouting In Russian, "Come here!"• It was the Mlle& stoker and some of the men in a boat which was full of water. They hoisted me in it and 5 sat. in water up to my hips for tWO hOM•S' more. I can only hope that my husband 10 among those who were picked up by the Engliell Slip Lim- erick," • BlOWn-.---"gOlv yOla let year wife .aiave her own :Way 80 entire- ly Jones,-,"Beaause1 Onee tried to' stop. her." ' : ' ,ALLOW ME TO, PRESENT MY BEST FRIEND ROYAL YEASTv"----rx ESTI* MIMI LI KES c IN BUYIA'a YEAST CAKES BE CAREFUL 70 spEolpy ROYAL, .11111 - DECLINE SIIBSTMITES. E.W.GILLETT CO. LTD. TORONTO. WINNIPEG. ., MONTREAL. FROft [MN'S GREEI ISLE NEWS. BE NMI FROIII LAND'S SHORES. IRE - Happenings In the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish - 11160. A further outbreak of the- foot- aer froin.m°14hea ThdisuirleSs,ehes•aubeen l on-one"1:rt- noa all the, cattle have been destroyed. Mr. S. F. -Morris, aged 23, son of Samuel Morris, 7,I?., Newrath House, was thrown from. hie heree near Castiock and instantly killed. Two persons loet their lives in a serious fire that 'broke out in the shop and dwelling house occupied by Mr. Dolan, tailor, Thomas street, Portadown. The Belfast shipbuilding industry is, unusually prosperous at present, and in both the emeds alarge num, bee of new vessels are being com- pleted. . The North Down regiment at- tended .6, drum head seryiee when an address was given by the Bishop of Down and the troops, were inspected by Sit George Richardson. The death has oocurred of Mr. Anthur Donn Platt, vice-conaul in Dublin for the U.S.A., in his forty- eighth year. A \variation named James Porter, of Liakey, Fintone, as instantly k.iiinleelin the saw -mill of Mr. Bell, ltton The funetal took pines, recently Gort, of Wan. Glynn, of Goat- nacarnane, who had attained the age of 105 years, Militant suffragettes. are respons- ible for the destruction by fire of another stately County Antrim mansion, known as "Orlande". An aged woman named Margaret MeGreal of Knockorogbery, was knocked down and killed near the station by o Dublin train. Coal .has been diseovered in a - remote pa -r5 of County Louth, on the estate of Mr. Samuel McKeever, 3. P,, of Rathium, Cellon. A boy named George Cochrane, agedten, was run over and killed by a. traction elegine on Jibe Newry Road, about a mile from Rath- friland. ...An attempt was made to burn the Belfast and County Down Railroad Station at Bangor, bat fortunately She reight-watehinen sawit in time. *While Patrick Hogan, aged 73, of Balinmere, near Cloughjorclaa, was taking n Meal at hie- brother' B table, a -mall bone stuck in his throat, eausing death. The week before Easter establish- ed a record in pay in connection with the 01121313 ,111(1±115 works of Ales -ere. Harland 6.5 Wolff, $150,000 being the amount paid in wages. During the past few daye there have been very high titles et Water- ville. Tho water went over the eat!, promenade which 301155 litterz,a with seaweed and fragnmats of wreckage. A complaint has, been made by 'the Master of the Athlone Worlehouee that the institution is being used as o public morgue. It has been sug- gested that the Town Commit must prOVilde, Lb morgue. According to officiel reiurne the fishing industry in the Londonderry distriot dueing the past quarter has been most disappointing, end ule- remunerative, the price being low and the quality oaly medium. Dr. Whyte, medical officer of health, has reported to the Bally- mahen military anthorities a ser- ious outbreak of diphtheria in the district. All iblie schools have 'new been Closed, A young girl 'who waa one of a party driving on a ear from Cooks, town tie Cote& to take part in 51.11 Orli:lige...13411, was seriously injured by a blciev from, a stone, her skull be6illie gRil'eageitcadel TGemeral's return of the. number of Irish people who enii- grated from Ireland during March 9110W/3 that the number was 1,426, being a deorease of the iseene ino.nth last Year of 862. The first outrage attributed to militant euffeagettee which ha e yet occurred in Loneloaderry waa des - covered when a large, unoccupied residence in Derry was found in flames. A large demeraerit was found, reading, "Fair ' play to women." - CATERPILLARS THAT BURN. And a Burrowoingieattire With a Belt • tPrickles. More than one traveler has serious- ly asserted that the insect pests in the valleys 01 1110 Orinoco and the Amazon are enough to prevent forever the settlement of that region by civilized people of northern races. southern Brazil seems as badly off, at least in the forested interior, laugh Pearson, an English explorer.of the wild coun- try, describes two insect pests that in- fest the sources of the Parana. One is a redhot caterpillar that burns a person, wherever It touches; and the other a burrowing creature with a belt of prickles. The caterpillars are no2 named, but are said to be various and beautiful, and the different species can be recog- nized by the kind of pain they althea as well as by their markinge. They may be the larvae at a species of Lasiocampidae, related to our . tent caterpillars, which are clothed with tufts of downward -pointing hairs that in several tropical species are known to sting dreadfully. Madame Marian, years ago, in an account of the zoology of Surinam, described an enormous 'caterpillar of this group. She simply touched one of them, whereupon her hands became inflamed, and she suf- fered excruciating pain. There is an African moth the hairs of ;whose caterpillar are so yenomoas that they are liSed as an ingredient in making tu'rew .poison, Mr. Pearson asserts that where one of the South American caterpillars rested on his bare skin it made a blister an inch long, that had all the characteristics of a burn with a hot Iran, and left a similar sear. In the same Porcztz men and ani- mals are plagued by the barna, a mag- got, Probably of a,' flesh, fly, which grows from an egg laid under the skin of the host It the egg is not soon dug out, It causes pain that becomes more and more seveae as tho creature grows until it becomes continnoue and intol- erable. A bad sore follows, from which the insect finally escapes. The pain is duo to the tact that the maggot ac- quires, as it grows, a belt of needle- like spines, that tear the fiesh as the creature moves in the Inflamed wound, Dogs suffer much from this pest; and where the insect abounds, it is enema fable to raise cattle. THE. CITY OF MEXICO. Points About tha Capital of Distressed Country. MOXICO City is 7,415 feet aboee sea. level, and by rail 264 miles northwest of Vera Cruz. With a wet, undrained sub -soil, and many thousands of In' 1110)05 and half-breeds, living in crowd. ed quarters, tile death rate has been notoriously 51511-46 to 66 per thou- sand, though drainage works, under- ground sewers, and sanitation have tended to improve theee conditions. The city is laid out with almost un- broken regularity. The name of a street changes with almost every block according to old Spanish custom. Tlis Paseo de la Rotuma, the finest avenue In the city, is a broad boulevard al- most three miffis long. There were (1908) 921 government schools in the city, including 11 professional and technical schools, aud nefiriy 201, pri- vate echoic a Geographical Society, an Association of Engineers and Architects, and a Society of Natural History, also a National Library dealt cated in 1692 of inwards of 221,000 volumes. There are over 150 Manu- facturing. establishmentS, -including Iron working. shops. stioncee Non are lover of music V' • He—'`011., yes ; but you can go on playing just the same." "Ala," said_ the five-year-old, "do they call sailors tars because they're et0 used to the pitching of the -ship 1" • Sugar does make the bread aid butter taste good !" • tr is when you spread it out on bread or pancakes, fruit or porridge, that you notice moot the sweetness and perfect purity of REDPATH Extra Granulated Sugar. Buy it in the 2 and 5-113. Sealed Cartons, or in the 10, 20, 50 or 1004b. Cloth Bags, and you'll get the genuine "Ors absolutely clean, juit as it left the refinerSr• 83 CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, MONTREA 1/4 '-ati tear 1135.0.130V51'5- ;IVA '