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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1914-06-18, Page 3CANADA SUGAR'REEINING CO., LIMITED,' . s`.MONTREAL.' Why take chances by asking for A Dollar's Worth of Sugar ?", MONTREALV 100 lbs. Buy REDPATI-1 in Original Packages and you'll be sure of:hill weight — highest quality — absblute purity. lagsaaessaassoas ' Seasonable Dishes. Little Citron Piiddings.—Beat the yolks of three eggs; add . tWt) ounces of sugar, ote tablespoonful of. &tux, and gradually one4salf pint of cream. Stir in two ounces of citron, chopped fate. Put in in- dividual cups, grate nalaneg over the tops, and bake in a quick ove.n. Chopped nuts may be added to the citron if desired. • Cherry Padding.—Butter atale slices -of sponge eake and .pour over • them stewed Cherries.Serve cold with creamy Sallee. Oretrany. Sauce —One-fourth cup butter, onatalf clip of pbwdered etagaT, two table- spoens milk, two tablespoons cherry • juice. Oream butter, add anger gradually, „add asi/k and c,herr,y • . juice drop by drop. Use care in adding liquid's so that the seuee • will not eurdle.• . . Delicate Currant Pudding. --One - cup currant juice, one cup of water, - six tablespoons cornatarefh, one- eighth teaspoon salt, one-half cup sagas', whites .two eggs. Put the currant juice and water on to Wok. When boiling .stir in the sugar and cornotarele which have been mixed to a smooth paste with a little, cold • water. Stir until it thickens and • then cook fifteen raj/rates. Beat • the 'whites of the eggs untir light and atir into the hot aterch. Turn into a eold, wet m,old. Serve dold . With a boiled curtaed made of the yolks of two eggs, one and one half cups of milk and four 'tablespoons , of sugar. , Cr,eain „Cheese gild Cherry Salad. —Make small balls of oream cheese. Stone c.he.rries; cut them'in halves and place a half-therry on two • sides of a cheese ball. Serve on hearte ef lettlice with Frehoh dress- ing highly seasoned with paprika. • Stewed Figs.—Mix half a cup ' granulated woe "with two cups cold water and stir overthe fire un- -Los' til -the sugar is 'dissolved. Then add the rind of a lemon, cut in thin strips end a pound of dried _figs. Stew slowly for about two and a half hours. Remove from :the fire, add the juice of a lemon and if de- sired a wine glass and a lielf of port. Chill and serve cold. Grilled FigS.—Soalc dry figs 7an hour, dry them On a eat' elothand sat open. Pat f1 eith a 'potato masher or mallet, brush with salad oll„"and bsoil over A cleer, ',hot fiTe for a minute or two on each Side. Slip on a, hot dish, sprinkle with lemen jitice and granulated .euger. Serve immediatel,y. Chicken Shorteake.—Use chicken that hes been either etewed or fri- oessed ; remove the bones and the skin, andacut the meat into einall pi,Sees. Warrn it in a double boil- er, with enough gra,vy ' or ligitor to moisten it. ' For the ehortealte, elf a two teaspoonfuls of baking powder with one-quarter level teaspoonful of'salt into one pint ef flour. Rab into the 'flour one edhepoortful of lard and one teaspoonful of bother, s then add three-quirteas of A cup - fig of milk. 'Make the dough into ,a smooth bell, and Toll it into the saihoe of a round cake about an inch . thick, . Ilake St in a quick oven fif- teen or 'twenty minute. When it is done, opeu one edge 'with a knife, and -tear the cake apart. Spread - the- hot chicken on the lower por- • tien, then replace the top, and pour aslittle gravy. over ail. By ,making . • the pasts:Sr Part in the fon of 1."is- • cuits, the Shortcake carr be served' in, indieidual dishes. 'Frozen Fig Pudding. --This is a delioious 'frozen •fig deeseet. To make it melt four tablespoonfible of sugar in a saucepan and cook it on - tit lit is a thick caramel, like mo- • lasses, hist do not burn: Then add a cupful of water and boil until all the sugar is dissolved. Add two • cupfuls of milk, a =phi and three- quarters of granulated sugar, and • • the yolks of eight eggs. ,Strain the caTaniel into it and add a pound of d ried figs, cra in pieces not larger ' than raisdna. Freeze until anek and then pack in a mould. Pitt in salt; and ehopped ice for twe and a half hours. • .A. Simple Bread Priddiag.--Torist L small alines ef breed a delicate brown on top of the stove, butter while hot and plece two -layers in a . smell .granite pan. Pour over this a, pint of milk, sweetened end fla- vored, with one egg added, Cover •closely and eet over A moderate as flame, Experience soon 'beeches what degree of heat is required. Ib .wili cook through in five ninnies and is done it fifteen minutes. If on extra totteh is needed,when • done and flame turned out, put a •Layerof mead -mall owe .closely over the 'top of the podding. GoVer -again and they ewild form it flue mtle ringue. Either fresh or stale cake can be utiliked in this Way. So•me`- . fa:meg for a oharige use a layer of jelly or steered. fruit .betweep the bread ox cake. • . For the housewife's Scrapbook. Two oups--One. pound. • Four Cups pastr,y 'flour—one pound. . '• Three and seven -eighths ctps whole wheat flout—one pounds • Four and: Mae -half ''ou.ps graham flour—one pound. Two andothree lona-the cups corn- meal—one pound. Four and one-third cups rye meal —one pound. s • Two cups finely chopped meat— one pound. • Two and two thirds cups oat -meal —one pound. • •• Fe& and three fourths etips roll- ed oats—one pound. One asid seven eighths cups rice —one Pound. Two oups •granulasted sugar—one pound. Two and two thirds -cups poWder- ed sugar—one peund. Three and one half cups confec- tioner's sugar—one pound. • Two and two thirds cups brown sugar—one pound: Four salespoons—One teaspoon. Three iteaspoons-'-one tablespoon. Sixteen tablespoons—one' oup. One wine glees—one half gill. Two. .tablespoons butter -- one Two tablespoons granulated su- gar—one 'ounce. Four tablespoons • flour a-- one ou nee . - One cup stale bread ciirmbe—two ounces. Things Worth Knowing. • Slowcooking is the best cooking for ohildren's food. Potrutow are more wholesetrie 'baked than boiled. prevent milk from turning sour drop into it a piece of loaf nu - Do not leave a spoon in anything you are cooking; it conducts away some of the heat. The varnished street door will look like new if well rubbed over with a eloth dipped in paraffin. If the tops of pies are brushed over with the yolk of egg they will be brown anol glazed when cooked. To remove fine pin feathers when dressing a chielren rub wiils000king soda. They can be easily scraped To prevent .anything sticking to the saucepan eshen boiling, or the erouhle of stirring, put a marble in the sau.cepan. ' •- When 'relaying 'the stair carpets put a pad- of folded.neerepaper over 'the edge of each stair. This will lengthen the life of the carpet. When making coffee sprinkle a little stab on 'the coffee before pout.- ing on boiling water, and the flaVor will be wonderfully improved. Pocket handkerchiefs should be washed apart from other linen. As a rule they should be Soaked, and after soaking these may he sprink- led with -a iittle salt . To TentiVate 'scratched furniture dissolve beeswax in turpentine, making it a the ceneisteney, .of treacle; apply with a woollen cloth', then rub briskly -with a dry picoe of flannel. . IT you have a cracked hot 'water bottle do riot throwsie away, but fill it with eand and put it in the oven an hour or two before bedebitne. You will find you have a hot bottle just as good as, and more sale Wens one filled with water. This also' keeps hot a good bit longer than new one. - 'If a bast to, be boiled whole it 'fiett. boiled -several minutes in soda Wa- ter the skin will clean off bright and clear; then :rinse the ham well and put baok into clean water to finish coolcing. Meat that is close up to 'spoiling can be sweetened by treat- ing the same way, and all hint of 'taint will, disappear. The coereet way, to boil cauli- flower is as follows :—Cht off the greater part of the lea,ves and stalk, rinse well, withou letain g it in the water, as this imparts an unpleas- ant ornell. Have ready a 'saucepan of boiling waiter, bo which a good quantity of .sale has been added, plunge in the casiliflowee, and allow ib te boll until it can ' be pierced with w fork. Take out easefully with n spoon, ,and :serve with pars- ley 'and butter sauce. Oauliflower cia also be baked and fried in the sem e mann e r a,s rseakal e Net'in the Picture. Mr. Oyrus 'Green—Molly, What is that, picture called in the caber - le gue Mrs. Greed (reading)—Cows ter RO8a, Bonhear. Mr, °seen -13y Gosh! I see 'the cows. bet -where ie Itosa Bonheur ? The Moscow hospital, tho krgost in Europe, employs over 000 nurses, Foolisti Young Mail, Or, the Belle of the Season CHAPTER XII. - lda walked home through ' the rali very thoughtf011y: but not sadly; To though it was till , pelting in the un compromising: Lalce fashion, tale Wa half censcieus of a strange lightness o the heart, a strange 4rightneas. in her self, and even in the rain -swept view Which vaguely surprised and puzzle hen The feeling" was not yield enougl to be happiness but It was' the neares thing to it: • And without realizing lt, she thought all the waY home, of Stafford Orme. He, life had, been so mecluded, so softer), and friendless, that lie had corrie into i as a sudden and unexpected flash o eunlight 171 a drear Novembersclay. 1 seemed te, her .extraordluary that sh' should have metOsimso often, still mor extreordinarr the offer iiesshad made 11.4 morning. She ,aSicetklYerself; 00 sh went with quick, light stop along th Mlles why he had done It; why he, who was rich a,nd' had so many friends -silo doubt the Villa ;would be full of theni— hould find .any ,pleasuiss In learning, to herd cattre and count, eheep,• to ride about the dale with only a young glr Lei company. If anyone 'had whiSpered,'"It is be cause he prefers that young ,girrs. so ciety to any ether's; it is because h WantS to be with you, pot from any de sire to learn farming,' she would hay been more than surprised, would, ffave received this offer of- a solution of the mystery with a smile of incredulity for there had been no candid friend to tell her that she possessed the fatal gif of beauty; that she waS one of those upon w,hom the eyes of man cannot lool without a stirring of the heurt, and a quickening of ,the pulse. No; she assured herself that it was Just a whim of Mr. Orrne's, a passing fancy and caprice which would smon be satisfied, and that he would tire or it after a new days, ,perhaps hours, Of course, she was. wrong to humor the whim; but it had been hard to refuse him, hard to seem churlish and obetin- ate after he had been so kind on the night her father .had frightened her by bus sleeP-Walking; and it had been still harder because she had been consciouri of a certain pleasure in the thought the -t she should see him again. As she, entered the hall Jessie came in by the' back, door with her apron full of eggs. _ "I saw You corrie In,' Miss Ides so I thought I'd just bring you these to show you; pey're laying finely now ain't they? • • Ida looked round, film where she stood, geing through the form of drying her thick but small boots against the hugelog that glowed on the Wide dog - Iron. "Yes; that is a splendid 10t, ;resale!" She said, with a smile. "You will have some to send to market for the first time this season."' "Yes, miss," said jeasie, deftly roll- ing the eggs in the basket. "But I'm thinking there won't be any need to send 'them to BrYnderrnere market. Jason's just been telling me that -the new folks up at Brae Wood have been sending all round the place for, eggs arid butter and cream- and fOwls, and Jason -says NIBS he can get so much better prices from, them than from Bryndermere. He was thinking that he'd Mit aside all - the cream he could spare and kill half a dos- -en of the pullets—if you don't object, Miss Ida?" Ida's face ilnshed. and -She looked 510- edly at the tire. Something within her protested against the idea oe selling the dairy produce to the new people at Brae Wood; but Sile struggled against the feeling. "Oh; yes; why not, jessie?" she said; though she knew well enough. "Well, miss," replied Jessie, hesita- tingly) and with a questioning glance at her young mistress's averted face, "Ta - son didn't know at first; he said that selling the things at the new house was different to sending 'em to Inarket and and that you mightn't like It; that You might think it was not beceraing." Ida laughed. . "That's pride. on Jason's 'part; 'wicked Pride Jessie," she said.. "If you sell your 'butter and eggs, it can't very much matter whether you sell them at the market or direct. Oh, yes: tell Jason he .can let them have anything we cah Sparc.° Jessie's face cleared and brolce into a smile: she came of a race that looks af- ter the pennies and loyeS a good "deal.'" "Thank you, mIssl' she said, as if Ida had conferre a personal favor. "And they'll take all we can let 'em have, for they've- a mortal eight of folk Up there at Blue 'Wood. William says that there's nigh upon fifty bedrooms, and that they'll all be full. His sister le one of the , lcitcheri-maicls—there's cOok from London, quite the gentleman, miss, with rings on his lingers and a. piano in his own room—and Susie SEWS that the Place is at one mass of ivory and gold, and that some of the rooms is like heaven—or the. queen's own rooms in Windsor Castle." Ida laughed. "Susie appears to have an enviable ac- quaintance with the celestial regionS and the abode of royaltY, Jessie." "Yes, miss; of course„ it's only what she've read_obont 'ern. And she says that Sir Stephen—that's the gentl ma as owns it all—is a kind of king, with his own body serVant and a—a--I forget what they call him; Ws a word like a bo I "A, secretary," suggested Ida. 'Yes, that's it, miss! But that he's Quite simple and pleasant -like and that he's.as easily Pleased, as if he were a mere nobody. .And Susie says that she runs out after 'dinner and peeps into the stables, and that it's full oe horses and that there's k dozen carriages, some of 'ern grand enough for the Lord Mayor of London;' and that there's a head coachman and eight or nine men and boys' under him. I'm thinking, Mlsa Ida, that the Court"—the Court was the Wayne's place—"or tannerda,le Grange ain't half so grand." "I daresay,' said- Ida. "is the lunch nearly ready, Jessie?" "Yes miss; I was only waiting for. you to come in, And Susie's seeh the .young Mr. Orme, Sir Stephen's son, 055 she. 803e that he's the handsomest gentle- man she ever saw; and she heard Mr. Davies tell one Of the new hands that Mr Stafford was a very great gentleman amongst the fashionable Depute in.Lon- don; and that very like/y he'd marry one of the great ladies that Is corning down, Mr. Davis Saw; that a cluchees woUldn't be, too line for him, lie -stands so high; and yet, Susie says, he's just as pleasant and easy as Sir Stephen, and that he imYe 'thank you' quite like a 'common person. Bet there how footsh of Mel I'm standing here chattering while you're Wet through. Ho 'le run up and change while I put the lunch ons Miss Ida. dear, . When Ida eaine down her father was already at the table with hie bOok open at hie elbow, and he searcely looked up as she went to her place, s Now, as a rule, she gave him an 00 - count of her rides and walks, and told him about the cattle and the pragreSs ofahe farm generally, of how One had seeo a 'kingfisher or noticed that the trout were rising, Or that she had etart, Ied a, covey of partritig,es In the young wheat; to all of,which he seemed ecarce- 1y ere', to listen, nodding hls head now and again and returning often to. his book hefore she had finished epealcing; but to -day elle coUld not tell him of her morning walk and her meeting with Stafford Orme. • So she Sat altunst street,'tli,nlclng al - what JeSsle had told •her. ,and, wonder- ing why Slafford. Onnie should leave the gay Party- at the rills, to ride with hbes Onoe PO'S in the ceurse of ,,tbe Meal did her father speak. STe looked up eadenly with a, rieiek, almost dunning, glance, and said; , 'Can you let Inc hare Norne 1nOneY', Ida? 0 want to order Some books. There'o. as'oCIT(')ygu'ef'IUShol'uTrialetql'31lelys'.',1," tile "How much 15,11, father?" 'she a.sked: • 011, „five pounds will clo," he sidd vaguely. "There are One or, IWO other booke," She inad.e a hasty calculation; dye Pouncla waa a large sum to he; but she smiled' as she said: ',You Bee very extravagant dears There is already a copy of the 'Relicues' in the w,...huenortdlleVp.do, 0;nolieS ilmon,evvIer; Saw he las ✓ He took the oote vith an assumptioi _ of indifference but with a .gleam s satisfaction in his s ihIcen eYes- y "Didn't your,' ,he aid. "I must have • .1! fitcug:1,ti.otiernt. YOu're a ways, so husYS but you ClaitWn of- the You must keep down the expeneemnsei,YnWdjellraee t poor very poor you know; and the cost • of living and servants Is very great— very great.' . He wandered off o the library, mut- . tering to iairnself, with -his book under his arm, and the five -pound note gripped t` tightly in the hand which he had thrust into the pocket a his dressing gown: and Ida, as she put,on her , habit and 9 went Into 1.1 -Se stable -yard to have the O colt saddled, sighed as she thought that it woold be Mee to have just, for once, e enough money to meet all the bale and e'• buy all the books her father coveted. Slit her melancholy was not of long duration The colt was In high spirits, and the task of impressing him with the feet that he had. now reached a .respoe- foible age and must behave like a horse, with something 'else before him in life than kicking up his heels in the pad- - dock, soon deove the thought of their - poverty feom her -mind and soot_ the O _ vbeloileids. leaping warmly,and wildly in her e She spent the afterneen in breaking In the oolt, and succeeded in keeping Stafford Orme out of her thoughts; but ; he slid into them again as she at by • the drawing-1'0qm fire atter dInner---the t 'nights are -often 'cool in the dales all through early summer—and recalled the c earnestness in his handsome face. when he pleaded Ad be allotved to "help her. She sat up for some little time after her father had gone to bed, and as usu- al, she paused outside hN door and lie- ' toned. All was quiet then; but as she was brushing her hair she thought she • heard bus door open. • She laid down the brush and stood battling with the sudden fear which possessed her; then she stole out on to the corridor. The' old man was stand- ing atthe head of the etairs as If %bola . to descend; and though she could not -see his face, she knew that he was aeleen. She glided to him noiselessly and pia her hand upon his arm softly. He turned his sightless eyes upon her, evidently without seeing her, and, fight- ing against the desire to ery out. she led him gently back to his room. He Welts as they crossed the threshold, fwalthew'ria,nd looked at her in a stupe,fled "Are you 111:father? Is there any- athsinsghey.coouulwdantr Eihe asked, as .calmly "No,' he replied. "I am quite well; I do not want anything, r was going to bed—why have you called, me?" key In the door. When. minutes, then left the room,turning the sho remained with hiptefeorhaad gone • he stood listening with Ills head on one side; then he opened his baud and look- ed With a sunning smile at the nve- round note which had been tightly grasped in It. "She didn't see it; no, she didn't see it!" he muttered; and he went stealth - the b:Aapn,rdEtahrxusrit r1.1 'under the The morning broke with that exquia- ite clearness which distinguishes the Lakes- when a line day fellows a. wet one: and, despite her anxiety on her fa- ther's account, Ida, aa she went doWn- stairs, was eonseioUs of that sense of lumpiness which comes from entail:at- tion. ' She made her morning tour Of in- spection et the stables and the dairy, and ordered the big chestnut to be earl- dled direotly after breakfast. When her father came down she was relieved to find that he scented to be in bis usual health; and in answer to Inc question whether he had slept well, he replied In the affirmative, and wee mildly surpris- ed that She shoUld incluire. Directly he had gone off to tile library she ran Up- stairs to put on her habit. Her father was walking hp and down the teerace slowly as she•carne but, and he raised his head and looked at ber ab- sently. . • "I shall prebb.blY ride Into Brynder- mere, father," she said. "Shall I Post Your letters? • I knew you will. be anx- Mils for that ono to the booksellers to go," She added, with a smile. His eyes dropped and he seemed dis- concerted for a minute, then lie said: "No, no; I'll send it by Jason; rve net written it yet;" and he turned away from her and resumed Ids pacing to and fro. went to the stable -yard and got on to Rupert by the ald or the stone 'Mounting block" from which Charles the Second had climbed, laughingly, to the White horse which figures ip 00 many Pictures of the Merry MOodrch, and rode out of the coUrt-yard, watched with pride by Jason. Before she had gone Inc he'ran after. her'11 you're riding -by West Hill, Miss Ida, perhaps you'd better look at the eattle shed there. Williamt says that the roof's falling in." "Very well, she called back in her clear voice. "Oh, there'sa big stone washed out of the weir; I'M thinking it ought te be put back or well bave the ineadewe above flooded this winter" She- laughed and nodded, and put Ru- pert to a trot. for she knew that while she tvas within hearing distance Jason would bombard her with eimilar tales of woe. Not a slate slid from the old roof of the Hall, or a slieep fell lame, but ihe matter Was referred to her. She had resolved that she would not ride straight to the stream, and she kept up the hill-side,-bUt her eyes wan- dered to the road expectantly now and again; but there was no sign of atorse- man, and. after half an hour had passed a sense of disappointment rose Within -Inc. It was quite possible that lie had• forgotten the engagement; perhaps on reflection he had- seen that she was quite right in. her objections to Ills strange proposal,' and . he would not come.. A faint flesh rest to her face, and she turned :Rupert and rode up and over the hill where HIM •could not see the road. • But she bad no sooner got on top than she remembered that no time • had been mentioned, or: if it had, that she had forgotten it. She turned and rode up the hill again, and looking down, saw Stafford riding along the val- ley in desperate ,haste, and yet looking about him -uncertainly. Her heart beat With a quickened' pulse, sending the de- licate color InEo her .face, and she pUlIeS Up, and leaning forward with her. Chin in her hand, watched him deeainily, He rode the hunter; and had made a change in'Ids dress; it, place of the riding, sult, which'-haS sinacket1 sI London ancrHyde Parlc, he wore a rough but light coat, thick cord breeches end broWn leather gaiters. Site smiled as she knew that he had tried to make him- self look ris much the a`farmer as Pos- sible; but no farmer In the dales had that peculiar air, of birth and breeding which dletinguished Stafford Orme; the air which his father had been so quick, lo detect and to -he proud af. She no- ticed how well lie sat the great horse,' with what ease and "halides he rode over the tough and treacherous ground, Suddenly he turned his head and saw lien and with a 'Wave Of his hand come galloping up- to her, with it smile of re- lief ancl gladness on his hendSome face, es he spoke. to the clogs, who clamored round him. "I was so afraid I had missed MI," he said. ''l ant late, ecu. -I not? Some People kept me after breakfast." "You are 'not. late; I- don't think any titer mentioned,' 'She responded, quicicly, though her beast was beating With a .iiirahgcs.and'novel -Isensatibir of pleasure in his presence ••0 seareely exnected you." . ' • He loolsed at -,her 'reproachfully. . -"Not-expect mar ' But why?" , "I thought you might, change your He checked a quick respense„ 614 said Ins"t..kena'dl: now, where do -we , go first? You Sec I have got a bit'Omelet' - arse, He'S nreeent, 'also, from nsY fathers What do you think of him? She eyed him gravely and,. critically. "Sle's elm said "but I don't like him au well ns the One oott redo yeeterday. Didn't I see him ell]) islet 00W, eominS Up the hill?" , "Did lop, said Stafford. "t didn't no- tice . To tell you the truth, 0., wag' eo delighted at seeing you. that 0 don't thirSWills/en on his, nose" I ehoold haVe ne treed ST lte hhil h, it Wasn't much of n, slip," olio coaiokly, to covet her alight 0010' 5150 at his en.ndid confession, ;;hall We r dowil, to /the eywhe s 'Tett siirsa he, ssentedi brig lily, "Roincrebei tml your pupils She glanoecl at him Ail?! erniled. , very big - ,But vory,liumbSe ene, ' Itesetid, ' 101 afraid. yon'il add, Veto, Stoptri one, as they l'Ocle doWn. SidITOrd Stole .X -Se looked confused, for, a moment, the? be Bed: ut not with these notee—not with the e notes! They're valuable, and the bogie_ 10 cheep." "very wse, dear, ,' she responded,' and sheWell:. 10 tb'e antiatie hereon and. um: took a five -pound note from 01101' bOX. He wotehed her covertly', with a pain- ful'IetatrpC,Bou have'a berge neet egg there, eh, Ida?" he remarked, with a tmaYering laugh. • ,'No 1 Very little one." she respond- ed. 'Not nearly enough to pay, 1110 nnerterTy bills, But 'never mind, ,dear, there 1110. You must show 010 the books a look he 11,01 fether UflohserVe5. f Vitr6'0°g1 /.tinted 111/1, eren while. mood° Falcon- er,. In sll her war paint 'grid sparkiing with jewels, had been einging, even in the eilent Watches-ot the, night, when— etrange thing for hirrii-sbe had awaken- ed from a'aSeam 00 her; he had recalled the exquisitely lovely face 'with. Its .grave ,yet girlish oyes, and he felrpow, With a thrill, that 'elle svaii, 0000 more ,/ovely,than ehe bad been in his thoughts and hie dreams; that ' the nurnelese ,charin which bad. haunted hilts Wao stronger, more subtle, than even -Itis fancy' had painted it, He net:icedthe ;touch oe color hist ,below her s white slendercoluinn ,of a neck, and wondered Why no other woman had ever thought of ,,s1vvegto agsrearrilieon tirnst.A.,../th h%alfri,ti don't think I evernTalW ii"rnO'reidirgollice this, sO.elear and bright;, those hills there, leek ae teough they wereo,,, uiulta "It's the rain," 'she explained. "St seems to -washthe atnaopphere.1Vly fa- ther 501's there -is 'oplY one.other'•place Which has this particular clearnese and brightness after rain: lima that's Ire land. There are the sheep. Now," she smiled "do you know how to colint .I -Ie stared at her. . ' "lou begin at number one, I 'sup- pose," he maid, . • 'But' where is number -one?" she said, with a 'smile. (To be continued.) TRAMPING IN TIIE CA.UCA.SIJS. Traveller Tells of Ills 11xperi- anees 111 That Cotintry. , The path 'of the pedestrian through the Caucasus and along the Black Sea is by no means easy. An anecdote by Mr. Stephen Gra- ham, that appears in 'Changing illustrates one of the many difficulties' of ench a trip. Meeting an aged peasant driving an ox. team, Mr. Graham asked where the highroad la}. "There is no load," said he. Iathought the answer to be 'stu- pidity, so I asked him id which di- rection Otehenichiri lay. By the lest milestone it was only eight yeasts distant, I could do that without a road if I could be sure of the direction. The roan led me to his cottage, climbed on the roof, and bade tile follow. Then he pointed out the di- rection. • What was my astonis'hment to s'ea at a short distance a, river as wide -as the Thames, hurrying on to the "And where is the bridge1" asked. , "1 don't -understand." "Bridge, the -way over." "Oh, the way over—bhere is none. "Can I wade across 1" "Is it possible to .ssvim I" "The current is strong." a "How do you go to Otthemehiril" "Don't go." "What! Have you never been to Otdhenschirir " "But it is only five melee, The old man gruffly beckoned me to come down from the ,roof and stop babbling. "Mid how do other people come across 1" 'They don't come." "How long have you lived here?" "Sixty-four years:" "But surely in sixtdr-four years iorne people have crossed to 01- cherochiri, My naap allows an un- broken &masses, a 'division one' road," My map made no impression on the old fellow. Ile pointed to the inside of hie house, and indicated that I could spend the night there with the pig and the chiokens if I liked. As .for people coming over, there used to be a wooden way, but it -was washed out to sea long ago. I sew he did not know the Rea- gan 'word for 'bridge, and that his wooden way -was the old bridge. I asked -where fide had been. .My would-be host was not offend- ed by my pertinacity, and he told me quite explicitly the way to where the. bridge had been. Alasi it WaS as he eaid. I found all the foundations of a substantial wooden structure, but no cross- beams—nothing on which even an acrobat eould have made his way ac ro as. - I walked disconsolately along the shore, It was a fine, bread river, flooded by 'the rain, shallow at the shore, but 'swiftly flowing over the stones. Yet even halfway ifeross were great .stones not covered by the water. It was almost poeeible .step from atone to 'stone, to the main current. I wondered whether, after all, it wore very deep. As 1 wee, thus speculating, I came to a deep coal sett, and I ea* at a Flame that at any rate, ia normal weather eerie found a fording plebe here. I resolved :to bry what c,ould be done. I undressed and stuffed my clothes into my caPacions sack, strapped it ell over my sffioulders, and started on my cold, unpleasent, NEWS .FROM SUNSET COAST WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE AIRE DOUG. Progress or the Great West Told Ian Few Painted Paragraphs. Vancouver wanted to license its aewsSofs, and found out it had not the power under its city charter. Victoria Hai -hos in now free from sea gulls, which have all gone north till the cold weather returnn Fire almost completely destroyed the pla9t of the Royal City ',stuffier and shingle mill at New Westmins- ter, B.O. ' The Muilding Inspector at Van- couve.r recommended that 19 build- ings in that city be condemned, ancl torn down. Godfrey Ilagga.n., the, Revelstoke, 13.0., Rhodee acholar, Non a Cob- den, eesay prize at Oxford, -which was worth $100. The steamer Elihu Thompson, which left Vancouver for Nome, took with her 18,000 fresh eggs packed in 5 -gallon oil cans. Police of Vancouver are showing great activity in preventing Chinese fromadelivernag and collecting laun- dry wo.ric on Sundays. Forest fires at- Coquitlam and North- Vancouver ersu.sed losses of over i,$800,000 in 24 hours, The fires were finally quenched by rain New .Westminster "native eons" held aoreat re -union, honoring ,several surviving 'Members �f the Royal Engineers Corps at a An order WaS placed with Van- couver firms for five and a half mil- lion feet of lumber, to be used in connection with the new dry dock at Quebec. Madame Ida Estey Newtoa, a prominent Vancouver musician, Was shot and wounded by te,r husband, Who then Comraitted suieide with the same weapon. The Assizes Court Jury at Van- couver .brought ih a veadiot of man- slaughter against Jack Kong, the Chinese who killed Mrs. Charles Millard and burned her bod5r. Charles D. Donnelly, of Vaneou- ver, had 4366 in his pocket when he was struck by a stre,erteear anool made uneonacious. When he "recovered consciousness later the money was gone. Vancouver has a large number of tall men on its pollee force. Of a total force of 221, only 82 are un- der 6 feet. The whole foree range in height from. 6 feet 10', -to 6 feet 6 inthes. The Vancouver City Council ast- thoTized Mayor Baxter to demand information from Great Northern Bailwa,y 'officials as to what they in- tend to do in connection withthe proposed eermissal, viaduots, etc. -- The British stsaaner Robert Dol- lar, thek 6,000,000 feet of lumber from Victoria for Toronto-, the lum- ber eo be used in harbor improve- ment work in Toronto. There are 25,000,000 feet in all to be used, and it ie expected that most of it will pass through the Panama- ca- nal. Miss 1. W. Carr, a clerk in a Vancouver jewellery store, was in the store alone when 00 snan came in and went round the ootuster 10 steal. Miss Ca.rr 'got the jeweller's revolver and backed the man out of the front door of the .store. Ho dis- absurd dventure: I 'waded where the oarrent .of the stream VMS bro- ken by 'stones, and after a hundred yards I was only just above the knee in water. Here, however, the channel euddenly deepened. The water, coming straight from the snow-covered hills, was atrociously cold; and at the point where 1 sud- denly went up to the wait hi it, I nearly resolved to tarn back the shore and spend the night with the aged man. Yet gasping and ehiver- in5,1 followed the fines of the Tip- ples that ehowed the shallowest places, came Onee enore into shal- lows, and reached at last the more solid elope of the farther shore. The ourrent, although not po'werful, was difficult to withstand, and at every step it threatened to bowl me over, ' One hour leter I had walked some fresh warmth into my vein's after the icy chill of the river, and I came to Otehemehiri, round its Hotel France'and. ordered the best hot dinner they could give. THE CLEANLIN ESS SINISS,CLOSETS, BATHS.ORAINS, ETC. IS.OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO HEALTH. .1111 op,n,pio -ru6t omitalow appeared before a policentaa could be summoned. Sohn Scotts a. well-known Victor- ia., B.C., Tnerchanti deolared at a banquet that the time was coming when it would be necessary for the Government to appoint a .rentad„ commission, with powers 'similar to the Railway Board, to solve the rental problem in Canada, which et present, he said, was one of the main causes of the present .business depression in some places. ' KILL ILIA.T FLY: Claims Thousands of Victims S Summer is nou-williZr— otius, and with summer comee the fly: Mos't of lbs treat him with a philos sophie tolerance,regarding him as a storm:al, annoying incident of the Warm weather, But he is sisere than that; he is really dangerous, a very active propagator of disease, par- tieularly deadly to rising children.. Whenever the summer months are warra the common housefly claim literally thousands of victim,ss the rete of infantile mortality dur- ing the middle period of the year besng due akaroet entirely, to Ills ravages. The summer of 1911, it wilt be renmanbereti, vase exceptionally hot. Ln consequence, flies were very plentiful, and the infantile mortal- ity in London, England, rose from a normal 173 per 1,000 per week to 630 Dar 1,,000. . During that year in England ancl Wales 38,647 thildren under two years of age died from cliarrhowl diseases, and it is sale to assume that to large majority of the vie - biros were niocculated by flies with the fetal bacteria; for inthe fol- lowing year, when the weather was - cooler and flies less abundant, such deaths zumbered only '7,445. Substitute Gallows for Sword. Although there is no movement in Gertiany to do away with eapital peniehment, there is one in favor of subetituting tho gallows for the headrattals sword employed in Prus- sia and several ether German states. The reformers contend. that, while it is almost impoesible to go wrong with the gallows, guil- lotine or eleetric chase, it not in- fregnently happens that the head- job".1,.9ae,s this .n.erye and botches h34 in An Unreasonable Demand. "1 pay. old man, you've never re - :burned that umbrella I lent you last week." "Hang it ala, old man, be reason- able; its been raining ever since." • The nutn who kicks when he re- • ceives alms% weight doesn't always give thirtyssix inches for a yard.