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PT1 X1.'E'e be 'S face grevE stra,l'ned, and
Sir. Stephen dosed te dc1Or after.him,,
' then: went back to the room and steed
oohing clown at Falconer who leant
' ,' back In his chair with his cigar in his
..t milli imul eyed Sir Stephen under half-
osed lids with an expression which had
something of mastery ,ancl power ill it
r Sir Stephen bit at the end at his mous,
tache, his thick black brows lowered, as
if he scarcely, knew hoW to begie the
' "chat," and Falconer waited, without
any, .offen Of 'assistance. At .last Sir
Stephen sad;* • -
7 "You asked ind outside Just now mil-
er:41er, 11 it was to be 'friend or foe?'
I'm thinking the question ought to (mine
from me."
"Yes," assented Falconer, his eYes
growing still narrower, "Yes, I suppose
it ought" •
"Weald, your answer have been tne
• same asmine-'friendS"?" asked Sir
Stephen in a low voice
Falconer was silent for a moment,
then he said:
"It oughtn't to have been, If ever a
Man had comae to regard another as an
enemy, I've had cause to regard you as
-• one. Orme."
Sir Stephen flushed, then went pale
. again. '
"There is no use in raking up the
past," he mattered.
"Oh, Iv e no need to rake It up; WS
here right enough, without raking," re-
• torted Falconer and he 3oUched his
breast with his thick forefinger. 'Tm
not likely to forget the trick you played
Me; not likelY to forget the man who
turned on me and robbed me—"'
"Robbed!" echoed Sir Stephen, with' a
dark frown.
Falconer turned his cigar In his ennall
and bit at it.
"Yes, robbed. 'You seem to have for-
gotten: my memory 15 a better one than
yours, and I'm not likely to forget the
day I tramped back to the claim in that
God -forsaken Australian hole to find
that You'd discovered the gold while I'd
been on the trail to raise food and 11101101,'
--discovered it and sold out -and clear-
ed out!"
His eyes flashed redly and his mouth
'twitched as Ms teeth almost met In the
choice Havana.
Sir Stephen threw out his band
"I heard you were dead," he sald,
hoarsely. "I -heard that you had died in
a street row -in Melbourne"
Falconer's heavy face was distorted
by a sneer.
"Yes? Of course, I don't believe You:
who would?"
"As Heaven is my witness--!" ex-
claimed Sir Stephen; but Falconer went
on:
"You didn't wait to see If itworetrUe
or not; You cleared out before I'd time
to get back, and you toelc precious good
care not to make inquiries, No; directly
Yeur partner's back was turned, you --
'sold him; got the price and levanted."
Sir Stephen paced up and down, Ms
hands clenched behind him; his fine
leonine head bent; then he stopped in
front of the chair and frowned down
Into the scowling face.
"Falconer, you wrong me -it was not
so bad, so black as it looked, It's true
I sold the claim; but I swear that I In-
tended saving half for you. But news
was brought in that you were dead -a
man said that he had seen you fall, that
You were dead and burled I had to
leave the camp the night the moneY waS
Paid: it would not have been sere to re-
main; you know what the place was, and
that the man who was known to have
money carried his life in his hand. I
left the camp and tramped , south. Be-
fore a month had passed, the money had
gone; 11' I had hacl any doubts of your
death, it was too 11110 to inquire; it
would have been useless, As I tell you.
• the meney was gone. But I hadn't any
doubts; in simple truth, 2 thought you
were dead."
Falconer looked round the luxurious
room.
"You lost the money? But you ap-
pear to have picke11 it up again; you
Seem to be pretty flourishing my friend,
when yeu got on your feet again and
• made Your pile, why didn't you fInd out
-whether your old pal was alive or dead?"
Sir Stephen was silent for a space,
then ho raised his head and met the
other's accusing gaze unflinchingly.
"Fil tell you the whole truth, Falcon-
er; and if you can make excuSe for me,
if you cam pat yourself in my plaee—"
Ilo dreW his hand aeross his brow as if
the sweat had broken ouL upon it, "The
luck was dead against me for a time,
the old luck that had haunted you ancl
Ine; then it swilng round completoly-as
. it generally does when 11 changes al al1.
was out 111 Africa,, on the tramp, pick-
ing up a day's work now and again at
the tarins-you know the life! One day
saw a Kaffir boy playing with some
rough stones—'
Falconer nodded.
"Diamonds. I fancy I've read an ac-
count o2 the great Sir Stephen OrmeSs
first beginnings," he put in with a
tooth of sarcasm.
Sir Stephen reddened.
"I daresay. It was the start, the coin-
xnencement of the,luek. Froin the even-
ing I took those stones in my hands -
great heaven! I can see the place riow,
the sunset on the hill; the dirty brat
playing In the dust -the luck has stood
by me Everything I touched tinned
out right. I left the diamond business
.and went in for lapcl: wherever I bought
land towns sprang up and the land in-
creased In value a, thousandfold. Then
I stood in with the natives: you've heaed
.a the treaty—"
Falcener nodded.
"The treaty that enabled you to hand
over so many thousand square miles to
the Government in exehange for a
knighthood,"
"No," said Sir Stephen, simply, "I got
, that for another business; but I dare-
say the other thing helped, It doesn't
matter. Then I -I married. I married
" the daughter of a man of position a girl
who-ewho loved and trusted me; • who
knew nothing of the past You and I
'know: and es,I would rather have died
than that 11110 should have known any-
thing of it, I—" •
"Conveniently and decently buried it,"
nut 1/1 1001001101'. "Oh, yes, 1, can see
the whole thing! You had blossomed
"cut trot/1131(ml( Steve—" Sir Stephen
rese and took a step towards the door,
then remembered that he had shut it and
sanIc down again, his face white as
ashes, his lips quivering -"to Sir 1110-
0115/)01111e, the African millionaire, the
high ancl lofty English gentleman.with
his head full of state secreta and his
:safe full of foreign loans; Slr Stephen
Orme, the pioneer, the empire 1110.ker-
0/1, yes, I can understand how natUrally
YOU would bury the past -as you had
buried your old pal and partner. The
.dainty and 'delicate Lady Orme was to
hear nothing--,"•
Sir Stephen rose arid stretched out his
hand half warningly, half implerIngly.
"She'S dead, Falconer!" he Bald,
hoarsely. '',Don't-clon't speak of her!
Leave her out" ' .
Falconer shrugged his shoulders.
"And this boy of yours -he's as ig-
norant as hee ladyship was, of course?"
Sir Stephen inclined his head,
,es, said, huskily. He -he
knows nothing. He 'thinks me -what
.511 the world, saving , you, Falconer,
thinks me: one who has.risen from hum-
ble hut honest poverty to ---what I am,
You have seen him, yoU can understand
what I feel; that I'd rather die than that
lie should know -that he Should think
badlyof inc. h'alconer. I have made a
clean breast of it --Vin in your hands.
I'm -I'm at yen/. mercy. I appeal to
• you" -he stretched out his white, shape-
ly hands -"yon have a child of your
own: she's as dear, to you 0/5 mine is
to me -I've watched you to -night and
I've seen YOU look at her as she moved
about and taliceil•amd ,9ang, with the look
,that my eyes wear when they rest on
my boy. I ain at your rnerey-nol only
mine, but my son'S future--"
He wiped the sweat from his fore-
head and drew a long breath.
Falconer leant bacIc and smelted con-
templatively, with EL cOolneSs, an indif-
ference to the other'S emotion which
Sir Stephen found well-nigh madden-
,y0S,0 said Velooner, after a 1/111100,
"2 your house et cards would,
dome down with a crash if I opened my
mouth, say, at breakfast to-moreow,
Morning, and 1015, -well, ell I know of
- the great Sir stenbon Orme when be
bore the narne 00 B1ack SLOVe. Even
7011, witI1 all your colosSal assuranee,
Could ncit face it or outlive it, And 00
for the boy-lt Would settle 1110 hash
for ever, A Word from me wcnticl do
11, eh, Orme? And Upon my soul, I don't
•ItneW why 2 shouldn t say 11) I've had
;it in my mind :Pre kept it 05 11Sweet
..morsol. for a good 11131111( YearS, YeS,
. been leaking forward to ft. rve been
;waiting for the 'Psychological moment'
'as I think theY call it; and lt strlieem
due that it MIS areived," ,
a 'curious expression crept IMO it , ,
."12 you ask me' why you 5110111/1.1111.
0
I can•give you_no reason," he.sta
you 105/'5 poor I should offer you money
--more, a great deal more them I receirt
Ca fol. 010 old claim; but I can see th.t.
that would not tempt you to forego youi
revenge. Falconer, you are not p"oor;
your daughter wears dianlOndS---
Falconer shrugged Ills shoulders.
"No, rin not in want of money, 'You're
not tile only 1111111 10110 has had a change
of luck, No, you can't bribe me; even 11'were bard up instead of rather flush,
as I am, II wouldn't take /1, hundred
thoueand pounds ior rny revenge."
Sir Stephen rose. There Was an 001111-
00,1 change ln his manner, His 101000u5 -
11e50 and apprehension seemed to have
suddenly left him, and in Its Place was
a terrible, stony 501M11050, all air ef.ki-
flexible•determination.
"Good!" he said; and his voice hall
changed also, changed from its falter-
ing tone of appeal to one of steadfast
resolution, the steadiness of 11053150/0
tion, "I have made my appeal to you,
Falconer, and I gather that I have failed
to move You; that you intend to exact
your revenge by --denouncing me!"
Falconer nodded coolly,
nAnd you chink that I could endure to
nvb under such a threat, to walk about
with the sword of Damocles over my
head? You ought to know 010 better,
Falconer. 2 will not live to endure the
shame you can inflict on me, I will not
live to tempt you by the sight of me
to take your revenge. I • shall ,die to-
night."
• Falconer eyed him intently, and care-
fully selected a fresh cigar. When .he
had as carefully lit it, he said callouslY:
"That's your business, of course. I
shouldn't venture to Interfere with any
plan of that kind. So you would sneak
out of it, eh, Orme? Sneak out of it, and
oun
leave that yg fellow to bear the
brunt? 'Well, I'm sorry for him! He
seems the right sort -deuced good-look-
ing and high -class -yes, 110 sorry for
him!"
Onee again Sir Stephen's lips twitched
and the big drops of sweat stood on his
brow. He stood Or EL minute looking
from right to lett like a hunted animal
at bay -then with something between a
groan and a cry of savagery, he sprang
towards Falconer adth his lianas out-
stretehed and malting for -1110 torment-
or's throat. 13efore he could sweep the
table aside and get at hjrn, Falconer
whipped 5, small revolver from his
pocket aiA aimed it at Sir Stephen.
"You fool!" he said I/O his harsh, grat-
ing voice, "did you think I was such an
idiot as to trust 'myself alone with you
unarmed? Did you think ra forgotten
what sort of man you were, or imagined
that you'd so changed that I could trust
You? Bah! Sit down! Stand -back, or,
by Heaven, I'll shoot you /IS 3 would a
dog!"
Ste Stephen shrank back, his hand to
his heart, his eyes distended, his face
Ilvicl as if. he were choking and sank in-
to a chair. Falconer returned the re-
volver to his pocket, and with his foot
Pushed the inlaid Oriental table towards
his host and victim.
"There! Take some brandy! You're
too old to play these tricks! That heart
of yours was never worth much In the
old days, and I daresay 135 still more
groggy. Besides, we're not in a 'mining
camp or the backwoods now." He sneer-
ed. "We're in Sir Stephen Orine's pala-
tial villa on Lake Beynclermere.'
Sir Stephen stretched out his hand
and felt for the decanter, as if he were
suddenly blincl and could not see it, and
u
pored himself out some brandy. Fat-
Cener watched Mtn narrowly, critically.
"Better? Look here, Orme, take 1111,'
advice and keep It guard on your emo-
tions: you can't afford to have any with
a heart like that" He paused and wait-
ed until Sir Stephen's ashy face had re-
sumed a less cleatillY pallor. "A/1d 1100'
I'll answer your appeal -I don't in -
Lead to denounce you!" Sh• Stephen
turned to him with a gesture of incre-
dulity. "Sounds strange, doesn't it?
Hurnpli! Doesn't it strike you that I've
had my revenge already? .0 there is a
sweeter one than tO See the man who
hits sold you grovelling et your feet,
and praying for mercy, then J don't
know A! The meat Sir Stephen Orme,
too!" Ile laughed sneeringly. "No, if
I'd meant to give you E1.001L1,E, Orme, 7
should have clone IL to -night In your
swell drawing -room, lvith all youe swell
guests round you, with your son-aY,
and 017 daughter -to hear the story -
the story of Black Steve! lint I didn't
mean it, and I
Sir Stephen drew a long breath of re-
lief, and drank some more brandy.
"Thank God!" Ile murmured. "What
can I eity--What 01141 1 do -to -to ex-
press Tiny gratitude, MY sense ot your
forbearance, Falconer?"
Falconer, with his eyes narrowed Lo
slits, loolced at 111171 keenly.
"011, VII dispense with your grati-
tude, Orme. We'll agree to f:orgive and
-forget. Th18 18 the last word we'll
say about it." Sir Stephen, as if he
could scarcely belieVe his ears, gazed
at his magnanimous foe in silence. "No
half measures with ine--you remember
me of old," said Falconer. "The sub-
Ject's done with," he moved his thick
I/o/Id as if he were sweeping it away.
"Pass the whisky, Thanks. Now, let's
have the chat yoU kept me up for."
Sir Stephen wiped Ills lips and forced
a smile.
"Tell me -about yoUrself; what you
have been doing since 'we-er-all this
long trine."
Falconer shrugged his shoulders. "Oh,
it isn't as interesting a story as yours,"
he said, "I've just rubbed along with
had and good luck in streaks, fortunate-
ly for me, the good ones were thicker
and more frequent than the had ones,
Like yourself, I married; like yourself,
tm a widower; I've one child -Maude,
She's been at school and under the care
of some people on the Continent, while
I've been at work; anci I've come to
England now to settle down, That 10115
enough of my story, know 7011/5, 105
the rest of the world does. 'You're fam-
ous, 70t1 see,"
There was a pause; then he looked
over his glass, and said;
"What's your little game at the Pre-
sent 1110111001, Orme?"
Sir Stephen looked at 111111 interro-
gatively, confusedly, as if he were still
rather confused by the terrible scene
which they had gone throtigh.
"Why have you built thla place and
got all these people here?" said Fat -
"t know enough of 'Misch and
Griffenberg and the Beltons to be aware
;that they wouldn't come down to the
Lakes at tiffs time of the year unless
there 10E3.5 something worth coming for,
something -.--and a pretty big sum -to be
Sir Stephen looked down at the floor
for a 1110111011t, as if he were considering;
then he leant forward,
arm tell' you," he said, with an air Of
decision, and with a return of his usual
coolness and aplomb. A dash of color
rose to'his face his tine eyes greW
bright; he Was Um "man of affairs," the
great financier again. "TVs Africa this
time, he said, in a low voice, and with
a, glance at the door". "I've another
tioat,)—" Falconer nodded. "I ant
making for a concession -a eharter from
Lhe Government."
Falconer nodded again,
•^Ancl I want a railWay from Danville
to Bualbec," I -11s voice ahnost 0111111a whisper. "Grireenberg, 'Wir5011, ato
nd
the rest are with me --or nearly so -I
have got them clown to clench the mat-
ter. There are millions in it -if I can
bring it off; there iswhat is worth
more than millions to Me--"
'Falconer nodded.
peerage for Sir Stephen Orme,"
said Falconer, with a gritri smile
"For Slr Stephen .Orrne's boy!'" said
Sir Stephen, with 5, %lush; and it 00,511of the clerk eyes. "It is for his sake that
I arn making this last throw; for my
boy's, Faleoner, For myself, 1 am 00n -
tent -why shouldn't I be? 33u1 for him
-ah, well, yOu've Seen him. You'll un-
derstand!" Falconer leant back and
•smoked in silenoo. "Plaistow is worlc-
ing the Colonial Office, the Beltons are
feeling their way in the .elty; Wtrach-
but you know how the thing is done!
Fve got them C100011 here that they maY
work it quietly, that I may haVe them
under my gye—"
"And the Verde and ladies -they're to
have a finger in the plabecause, theugh
they ean't hell)you In the African lousi-
ness, they can in the Matter Of 'the Peer-
age?" ' •
.Stephen "You'll stand in
With US, Falconer? Don't refuse, me!
Let me "make ,some reparation -some
5101101/10/1tfor the past!" He rose .and
Stood smiling, an imposing figure with
his white hair and' brilliant oyes, Fal-
coner got tip slowly and stiffly, •
"Thanka. I'll think It over. It's a big
1001/1, 11/1 yousay, and it will either
make 10/2-",
•
DUKE OF MANCHESTER.
-"Or break me!" said Sir Stephen,
but he laughed confidently. ,
Falconer nodded thoughtfully.
"Ili go up now," he said.
Sir Stephen went to the door with 11110
and held out 1115 hand,
"Good -night, Falconer!" he said.
"Thank yoti-for my boy's sake)."
Fn
alcoer took the warm hand in his
cold one and held it for a moment, then
dropped it
"Good -night!" lie said, with a nod and
a sidelong glance.
Sir Stephen went back a.nd poured
himself out another Heuer glass of
brandy and heaved a sigh of relief. But
it would have been one of apprehension
tr he could have seen the camel smile
which distorted Falconer'S face as he
went through the exquisitely beautiful
hall and corridors to the luxurious room
1Vhi01i bad been allotted to him.
There was in the smile and the cold
glitter of the eyes the kind oi loolc which
the cut WOa1'S when it plays with the
mouse.
(To be continued.)
NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT Tus wusrrino PEOPLE
ARE D 0 IN G.
• —
Progress of the Great West Told
In a Few Pointed
Paragraphs.
There are 30,000 fruit trees on
the ranches at Ratzic, B.C.
A $30,000 operia..house is being
built in Cumborland, B.C.
The labor market i11 said to be
badly overcrowded in DOEIVS•011.
Maple trees from Manitoba are
being ple.nbed in Kaslo, 13.0.
The .cannery at Sunderland, B. C. ,
will treble its output this year.
A .company for raising foxes has
b e en .o rgan is ed at Wloibohurso, B.C.
A .tot on Third Avenue in Prince
Rupert was recently sold for $15,-
000.
.A. carload of dairy cattle 'from
Ontario WS. sold at Ohilliwack, 13.
0., for $140 each.
A weird monster of the deep,
half fish and half animal, ivas
caugh1 in the eels near Prince 11,u -
pe , 13.0.
It is reported that six feet of zinc
ore WaS ,R,bru.r.k in the U.S. mine in
the Jackeon .Basin of the Slocan.
All Asiatics 111e. 11.0w prohibited
from entering Canada unless they
are tourists, students or
chanto.
At Vancouver a Chinaman WaS
arrested :charged with passing
counterfeit money, the same being
a Prince Edward Ieland bank note.
It is estimated 11l35,1 3,000 carloads
of fruit, and vegetables will this
32.001 be shipped from. the Oltenia,
gun, 33.C., valley.
Burglars ab Pent:jai:on, 33.0.,
blew a safe and made off with near-
ly $1.‘2,00el in bills and valuable pa -
2)038 from the post °Mee.
Fred Young, proprietor of ilhO
Kamloops, B.C., Standard, was
overhauling some guns when one of
them was accidentally discharged,
and Mr. Young died as the result of
a wound re.ceived,
A Vancouver Chinese load a sus-
picious mark on his thumb, and
bold a magistrate it was Catilled by
a boil. The 'magistrato decided the
mark was: nuade by using all °phut
needle, and fined him $50 and
costs.
The Westminster, BO., Gas Com-
pany reoeived a. shipment oil 500
tons of coal from Tacoma, U.S.,
causing indignation among the coal,
dealers of Vancouver, who claimed
they coukl have delivered 50,000
tons of coal on short notice, if ask-
.
Iiilerchantis of Verne n, B.C., want
lower fire insurance rates. They
say they nay inoee than $21',000
year in 'premiums. 011 the four
blocks of ithe principal business
streets, and thEut never, in any of
the last four years, has the total
fire loss exceeded $4,500.
It was stated at Vancouver that
many of the Hindus who had lost
their p3,aoes in t115e B.C. sawmills,
°Wing to whites being employed in
their places, have made application
to he admitted- into, the U.S:, and
that many have already crossed the
border. ;
The .0ity 13.ea111itul Association,
of Nancotiver, sent .ft protest to the
City Comical a,gaine6 the proposi-
tion to erect a temporary- market
on the old' hospital grounds. The
said market, if erected, would in-
terfere seriously with the associa-
t`l'0.11's •Plazle for beautifying the
3.021a11 P. Babcock,' goveiminent
Pert with. the B.C. fioherieo, has
disocivered a '.now way of hatching
mob fish eggs. He :hurried 300,000
of the ova under six inches of sand
ancl graVel, . with lhe • result . that
88,000 of them wore and the
healthiest eVer produced in the
hatchery. '
At a :wedding of foreigners in
VaPeouver 1±3forme out in police
court proceedffings -.afterwards that
every one of the gtiests who attend-
ed had a knife in his 'pocke...t; pre -
:pared for tr.ouble. One man, who
w.as :stabbed, : was given judgment
for $150 arid costs against the man
who Carved him up; .
ita..41t,4,,,O.E1b4110464t..evo-411^,,i2!
1 11.0-1T to RINI ti00 -the BM.
• The m.e.gt 1011 is the first place
for -the a.verage housewife to 104
for large expenditures, and this fp'
largely. because Canadians have not
Yet learned the 'art of using every-
thing that is left
±11 18 not an :attractive combina-
tion of wcirds, "loft overs," when
applied lo to -morrow's luncheon or
:dinner, but when usod with judg-
Ment, one's moot intimate friend,
would tot recognize them.
In the firdt pliace iraPress upon
your cook the 'fact that :the best
(Aldo in the world -the Preach-.
never throw away even a teaspoon-
ful. of vegetables.Everything is
saved and transformed into some
delicious tkl-bit-inot te-anorrow, as
the uninitia,ted have a, prejudice
against "hash" :and :other homely
dishes. But if a dEuy or two elapse
between the roast and "Marguer-
ites" the flumil,y never 121) 015 that
the ,mach lauded "French creation"
is a concoction of Jane's ,matle from
a small piece .of the.mutton ora
croquette or any bit of meat which
was left over, a, few Of the outside
pieces of celery, scraped and :cut
very fine, a couple of ta.blespoom
fuls of :tomato, a cup of soup :stock,
and :some cold mashed potatoes. '
To three' cups of ccrld po-
tato add sufficient flenr to make a
rather .stiff dough; turn on a, heard
and roll to the thickness of an inch,
then with a round cutter about
three inches in diameter out into
rounds. With another cutter, three
sizes smaller, cut the centres from
the wounds, taking care not to eut
all the way through; take out the
potato with a fork and hake potato
cakes on griddle until .a golden
brown, Place in oven until ready
to use. Mince :the meat and add it
to the celery, which has already
been cooked until tender. Make
:sauce of the soup stock and tomato,
thielcening with a heaping teaspoon-
ful of butter :and :one of flour rnb-
bed to a :sineobh paste ; when :cook-
ed to the consistency of very thick
5000011 add the eelery and:meat. Al-
low this to get very hot, then sea-
son with .sult Lund a daah of eayenne
pepper and paprika. Fill tlbe pota-
to cakes. heaping the mince,a
Serve on platter with sprigs of pars-
ley.
Soule Rhubarb !Angles.
Here are some good ways to make
:rhubarb dainties. Also our favor-
ite macaroni tomato dish.
In preparing rhubarb do not peel
it, .simnly cut in 111)1311 .02)11/1308 and
wash clean. l'his gives it that Hell',
red color 'which •cannot he secured
if same is peeled.
Apple and Rhubarb j'elly.---Wash
and slice ten stalks of rhubarb, cut
and core three medium sized fip-
ples, then .stew apples and iquibarb
together. Hang up in a jelly bag.
For every pint of mice take a pill
of sugar. Boil till it ;jellies and
pour into tumblers.
Rhubarb a ad Orange Mama lade.
-One quart rhubarb 5111 in small
pieces, hair oranges peeled and cut
fine, six cupfuls of sugar. Take
Ora 110 peel and run through meat
grinder. Make a syrup of the all -
gar and some water until it threads.
Put ingredients in and simmer for
an 'hour. Put in jelly glasses and
seal with paraffin.
Tomato half a
pound of :macaroni twenty minutes,
strain it, iand cut into lengths iyhich
will flit a plain round inold; line the
mokl with it, arranging the top by
bending the m.aefironi in 0 spiral
form. Fill this mold with 0 mix-
ture made of one pound o,E toma-
toes, one pound of mushrooms and
a quarter -pound of grated cheese,
-all pounded together with four
ounces of butter and the yolk of an
egg, season with a, little salt and
red peeper. Put 0. paper round the
mold and.steam for one hour, Turn
out and serve with a thick gravy, or
tomato sarice„ round. This makes
an excellent first course dislh for
luncheon.
Household Hints.
Whe» peelina; onions hol4 a cork
between the teeth and the eyes
will not :become affected.
Corks May be made airtight and
watertighti. by keeping them im-
mersed in :oil for five minutes.
• Pickles may be lte.pt from becom-
ing mouldy by laying a little bag
of mustard 031 the top of :the .pick -Lo -
3023'.
:Crackers covered • with grated
cheese and toasted in the oven are
good 01e00'e.c1 with salad Tor 1(1.11011-
001/0 -•
A little vilegar placed the rins-
ing water on washing day will pre-
-4,7r-zomit
-
Are. you one of those to whom
every' meal is another source of
suffering?
.Na.Ortt-Co Dspepsia. Tatitelts
will help your disordered stornaCh to
digest any reasonable Meals, and will
soon' restore it to such -perfect, con-
dition that you'll never feel that you
have a stomach. Take one •after
each meal. 50c. a Box al your
Druggist's. Made by the National
Drug and Chemical -Co. of Canada',
1.1mitod, • Ise
175gPx-
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'
vent 4.ihe bonds from becoming
•rough'.and .chapped.
To clean brass flower pots or
traya, trub them netka Piece le-'
then pour let:din* water over
them, and finally Perlish -with a soft
, Toughness of angel leake is efiten'
dile 10 the fact that the eggor
notbeaten propeady.'
he beateir'so stiff that they will:
1V -lien boiled and unboiled reggs
get mixed,
ed-inieS Will sPin qiiite fast; while.
:those Which !have licit been cooked
will lhardly ispM round onee.
POydered oatinealis excellent for
the complexion. A hibtaa of it
throwa into the water in which the;
face and 6ands :are :bathed has a
softening and whitening effect,
No matter how much dripping 'is
used, lith, 1113)011 being Triad is apt
to stick to .5110 pan's bottom. A
tablespoonful ad dry salt rubbed
over the pan will .prevent
To 'clean a white knit sweater or
shawl 3)1.1111 into a 1104 bag con-
taining equal parts of flour and salt
and shake well. No waslirog will
be required' after this process.
Sal-ammonjae will clean a furred
kettle. Fill ith,e kettle: with cold .wa-
ter, add 'eel -ammoniac to
it and boil. All the fur will dis-
solve. Well rinse the kettle iafter-
wards.,
When ironing it is a, very good
plan to get a dean brick, a white
one if possible, as a stand. The
iron will Tets,in heat much longer
than if an mien 71120s11 .stand be used.
Cream cheese, mixed with boiled
salatl dressing and mislead elhives,
makes a most delicious salad if roll-
ed into balls and served on lettuce
or epees with French .clressing.
Cayenne pepper is .excellent 10
rid cupboards of mice. T.ho floor
should be gene Over :carefully and
each hole :stopped up with piece
of rag dipped in water and then in
cayenne pepper.
Tar may be removed from. the
hands by rubbing with :the outs6cle
Id fresh orange or learron peel find
drying immediately. The volatile
oils dissolve tar .so that it can be
robbed off.
To extract ink from cotton, silk
or woolen goods, dip in spirits of
turpentine and let remain for se-
veral hours. Then rub thoroughly
-between the bands and the spots
will disappear without ehanging
either the -color 01' teziture of the
goods,
Wh.en machining your thin ,silk
blouse put a piece of paper under-
neath while 3103/ stitch. Then it
will not drag, while the paper pulls
off easily without any damage. This
also applies 2)hen sewing other thin
fahrie.a, such as net, ninon and de-
licate laces.
A refreeltiog night's -.sleep 'la al-
most an impossibility ±1 ±110 bed has
been on relessly ,yr improperly made,
and one tires 111 the morning unfit
fer the (1111-5 114/111.5(1, .n0 fna.t.tey wharb
f94'1)1 tht occupation takes. To a
tired worker it is an abiulute lux-
ury to lie on a cool, comfortable
bed, with just the correct alumna
of clothing, and each article proper-
ly arranged.
A., salad of gaeen peas is made
with cold boiled green peas, a fresh
firm lettuce, a sprig of parsley,
minced; a few leaves of fresh green
mint, and, if liked, a chive or itWO
finely min:tech 'Wash and trim the
lettuee, and bre.ak -it small, Put it
into the salad bowl, and sprinkle
the peas thoroughly asnoug -Elm let -
time ; add the other ingredients,
and pour over 0,:simple dressing of
oil, vinegar, pepper and salt.
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TO THEA.T NATIONS ALIKE.
Uri HI Seized Greytown ia 'Nicara-
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wer, British Minister, fo; Great abrogating the treaty. But the
1
Britain. ' ' treaty embodied no method for its
- Terms of the Treaty. termination, and England always
protested that it had made sub-
stantial conceosions ra ca,rrying out
the treaty, so that the. United
States Wt.* bound in honor to. ob-
serve it.
'Thus it. fell out that when the
American Government 10310 ready to
go ito work in earnest on the canal
it had to induce England to agree
to a, modification of the Clayton-
Balw,er treaty. This modification
was the Play-Patmeefote treaty, ne-
gotiated in 1901. • The concession
which England .exacted for consent-
ing ito -abandon tihe older treaty was
the paragraph for equality of .treat -
inept in tolls to the Ships of all na-
tions. On this :condition it agreed
to surrender its tights over the
-canal.
"Thua the tolls controverw is
founded on conditions growing out
of British a.ggression in Central
America more than 60 years ago."
It musb he borne in mind that the
United States at, that time did not
cdo'rne.astmanicetinu;cit'delletbaciadrinagl, toted wit.ario'ci0l'et
punpose Was to induce Great Bri-
tain to surrender tho advanta.ge ot
canal ,controd which its. seizure .of
territory would otherwise give -it.
Accordingly the treaty pl•eciged each
power `not to assume dominion
over any part of Central America,'
not to obtain. exclusive -control ovei•
any canal, wherever con.struebed,
and not to erect fortifications over-
looking the canal . Bee/deo, the two
Powers greed Ito guara.ntee the
neutrality of the canal and to allow
their war vessels to pass through it
without molestation in the event of
"The tnea;ty was ratified in 1850.
It was understood in the United
States that with the ratification the
British protectorate in the neigh-
borhood of the canal site would be
abandoned. 13ut England did not
so understand the treaty, and it
was mot until 1560 ibhati met the
expeetations of the American nego-
tiators.
"For Many years the treaty re-
mained wholly satisfactory to the
United States, since it was- interest-
ed only in preventing any British
expansion in Central America.. But
when along in the eighties, the
question 0,1 the construction of a
canal by the United States came to
he agitated the treaty at once loom-
ed up as a sotirce of irritation. The
shoe was then on the other foot.
The., United States no longer wanted
to use the treaty to restrain Eng-
land. It &sired to have it abol-
ished so -as to release the American
G,overnment ito met as it might see
fib.
In Honor Bound.
How 4 031111:0 31.1)0111 that 0 refit
Britain was in a position to protest
successfully to President Wilson
against the proposed exemption of
American coastwise shipping from
the Panama Can.al tells, even
though the 'United States 113.11 con-
structed the canal at enormous ex-
pense, ie thus told ita the Ka 311Sa.S
(fifty 810.1,
Back in 2±211 forties the United
Statee 11,11.1 engaged in viewing with
alarm -to use the words of the par-
ty platforms --the expansion of Bni-
3101105EIS10118 In Central Ameri-
ca.. The British Government own-
ed, and still owns, a strip of God-
forsaken conntry just south of
Mexico on th-e. Caribbean eoast,
knovin o'001 )3ritish Honduras. In
the decade immediately prececling
the middle of the last century the
33ritisb statesmen started in to ac-:
quire additional territory wader the
familiar guise of eztabliething 0,
'protectorate' tor the benefit of a
handy tribe of •Indians,
"Pursuing this laudable end, fier
Majesty's forces seized the Nicara-
guan town of Sa.,:a Juan del Norte,
and re -named •it Greythown. Now,
Greybown IVISS 110 ordinary banana
village. It was at the mouth of the
San 1)e.033 River, a,n CI at that time it
WaS ,Univ,e,Psa,11,y supposed that the
ouly possibIe route for .an Isthmian
wa.s by way of this riier
lake Nicaragua. 11 Englanticon-
trolled the mouth of the raver it
\no uld control the Short cut across
the -isthinus, •
"Public opinion in the United
Stales was an,oused to a high stage
Id -indignation. ease the situa-
tion the. Taylor Administration ne-
gotiated a treaty with England to
stop furthet eitatesthon of English
territory in the neighb.orboocl of the
site of the 0/113311 /1511 to iitsiaro its
freedom from British control, when
±11 should, be constructed. John M.
Clayton, Secretary of • State, con-
drioted thc negotiations for the
United States, and,,Bir Henry 1314.1-•
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Marcella -141r. Bea,nbrough is the
most awkward person I know.
WheneVer he kisses anybody, it
sounds like a pistol shot.
Waverly-iSeems to irie it's mote
like a blunderbuss.
Paying Min a Compliment.
"I ,hearcl a woman flattering you
yesterday, dear."
"Is that so 7 What did she say 7"
"She WaS ,another mimeo
that I married you for your
money."
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The. last red cedar in North
America is 110W hekl, by British Col-
umbia, and it ha predicted that,
within the next five or six years,
hundreds will be erected to
311(11 tille trees 0114 prepare the wood
For years there -were threats of for market.
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When you buy
Extra Granulated Sugar in any
of these original packages you
are sure of getting the genuine
ag:sfal„ Canada's finest
sugar, pure and clean as when
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