HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1914-11-05, Page 3Foolish
Or, the Belle of the Season,
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CHAPTER XXXIII.-7(Contlime1).
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to hie arm, ad thinking ,it the•.earlieet
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, Seafford PaSe'oa lie baud =rood his way of ,getting ridne liim, and le aye d
brownti et sande, a grim motto, curved a scene, Staleond aeumnpartied Min to ,t1 e
hie lipS. , ' . - • clean and inyiti ng ,li teat, public at 'the tio o
•"I dent know," 'he eaid. "The Money', nor, or the outay, and poimiated the mon
, wee their's, not mine." • ' to otelerati,gleae of ale Tor hitt ; the. bar -
•"Stuff and, rubbieht" 'said IP:teener. maid, •witheut receiving tory intimation,
"You thoughtStilly of youtovelf, oe your placed allarge loautnof vim hetere the
father's good 'mime, I need ecaocely tell man, wile renlarkee, - after, reek:site his
YOU . thee, efande—" , glass Lo Stafford's. health i • - "
Stafford -waited, ide pale face net like a
ettrthes. - "Yee, 'sir; and Ien going with `those
- beasto I've nothing, to any age net Old
-"That Mando-avell, YOU...don't meamet England, no keg ao yen dont gels me to
her to consider the engagement binding live here rye been here ela weeks and.
a f tee -after this P '
The blood rushed to Stafferde Moe, there's ooly one thing ;that 1 Teel I waut
"I -oaderatand," he est& falce
"Mies ln- aatd can't getamo, . inms, it ain't ruin,
er t
le free. -I resign all elaihn to her.' here's vacuity of that -it's Or, air, 1 solo
the Oiey gents ate used tallying
ha d atinchot fought he Wary from the t\nvrtillout it, though ,coqno of you look Pale
At •this luomento Howard came out. Re
enough.' You don't look quite the- thing.
crowded Irooni, . , 1 . Yallaaelt, eiel anther white about the gills,
'St'nfrerd I" he owie,1-- • "It le nc't to° ..a"°,' and not enough Meat on you. Ah I TV soon
Yotacan take le hook! They are friendlier!" numthat if I had you at Salisbury Tlein.
Stafford milled, ' I ,thould like to take out a whole ship-
"Ivo,nething to take back!" he ealel. load of you; and, =bid, I could doowith
liowatrd linked hie arm in 'his triente; a fewmod pay you bettor 'wages than you
Gm'd Igla(4nnel 11'4' 3 001113enr-end''' get hi the Oity of London. Andthe life!
But all the same -Stafford, have, yell con-
side:Intl? ilt agave you -practicelly Why, you'd think yourselyee hinge, with
It w
peaelleMP' : ' • - a horse to ride end plenty to eat, and
Ocilla,' of fun.. But, there!. you can't tell
l know," said Staffood. "I have eon- int ioo take =ions row,. 000„ it, and
sidered. Let, 130 go'home" h over you should hove a Matey to nee
Th0 'went to tit'iThril'Es 24}"a• En01'n3d you come out to eodebua7 Plain, to My
waa hot with the eitehusietem Of admires little place on the Burraatetraa for I like
tionA and withithe effort to suppeese 'It; the look of you, young mane you're a,
101 41Otvadaan_ men de not 'tolerate Dre'e° yonteeman, though. I've am idea you're
even 'from their dearest !friend. It seem-
ed to'Howeed lie if Stafforde act of .re. ilmgoPbuoYorrtig9,111 aalnai'laneersderlyieell
sk, titnadt
, nuniolatien led brought him n. certain
eenso Of' inlief, se if some portion df the there's trouble in yews. Been ont-min-
11.'8 ilax,I4bgnartOlar the ii'ltriruk.A'w"11.,t1LGuya'ftcen4, ntrst
Inavyweight. lad been .lifted,frbin
heart. . ,. - . .• , _ ,. . m -lion a rough a b .
"Of course now we have to go into th
committee 'pa:ow:eye 'and. meano,, My. dear "Not at Oa' mite' Stafford, "and now
Staff, you Weill Mina my tithing you:what illl',take a drink tvith 1120, or shall
You're going to do? I need not say that wo ma to 1 m cigar. or e
you Ivl 't ' e" f h did not want
there its no need Sol any ptediipitate ea to lead .thes man any lurther on the road larly, not to say unpleesantly, civil to
tion: • I--er-the .1 act is, Staff, I have a 01 inebuietY.
taire of money lying at the bank which "A cigar? Itig1M you Ore," the settler
albsoluteey annoys 111111 by its uselemneset replied, promptly. Ile took..ont an envel-
The, bank manager has been bothering me ope, intending to eerew it up eor EL light,
about it for aome time Inset, and it was but tsuddenly caught sight of the auldrees,
eutelt a. nuisance that I thought of dossing turd with genial gravity handed the on-
him..tvhether he ehould take it or I. It velem'. to 'Stafford. ''There's any name-
ien't inuch-a, man doesn't aanaee aflame Ilenery ,Toffler, and there's nee addreee,
fortune by -writing leaders for the newo and anybody at Melbourne will tell you
Palmas and oigioles for reviews -but of the best way of getting there. 001110 When
e,,ourso you wouldn'e be so Mean as to re- 7011 like, winter or summer and; youlll
rinse to borrow what there is. rill very mid Henry Joffler Eriledw• 10, receive you
anti& afaaiti that you'll euffer by this ab- with a welcome. Now I ,tirill have a drink,"
Gladly -quixoeic action of youre, whitth, be remarked, se' ff he.had pot 'partaken
mind you!. though I a,dniire it, an 1 It'd- of one for it milleador month. '
Walt:4,10a is a piece of darned foolish- When Stafford left the little public changed to 0110 Of insinuating familiarity.
nthe the siege of TroY, or the battle of
nese. However, let *hot go! What do houee . he hold the envelope in his hand lie addressed her in a low voice, almost a
Ile 'whisper, no that lie sister and mother
you mean -,to -.do P" • end tvrie nibout to •teax it up, token
could not hear and he smiled and nodded
. "I . don't know yet," 'mid Stafford. He checked himself and meohanwelly put it
at her in a would-be myeterious manner,
didn't. the,nic lloweed dor the offer; no into his pocket. The incident, if it had.
tie if they were sharing some iseeret.
{limas 1,,,ere aeconoary. ono thing us 60 nob ,actually amused him, had diverted
Though Ida did not know it, it was
sudden that I have not mode any plans. hie -mind in o wholesotne manner for it
meant' to rouse Min. Hermes suspicions:
1 eimpoeo theres something I can do to short cameo; but he had tamest forgotten
and it eucceeded admirably.. Dor thin,
earn mv liviag. I've n6-1.1ralne, but I'm it When the' reached hie 1.001110. The time
nnatrow face -would lineh attgrilY and she
; Pretty strong. I might, drive a hansom had Slipped by him •and it was now twi-
woulid look across at Isabel signilicentlY,
gab, or an omnibna; Ebetter men Ilion I light, and as he was ereeeing the troein and Isabel would snigger and ,tosss hey
have done worse. Leave me alone, old in. dusk to ring the bell for a light, a
. head, es if she quite understood.
man, to have a pine and think of IL" woman Toth from hie ehear end ealue to., Ide, often went to her 01V11 TOOM before
/email angered Tor nu bour or two. ward Min with outetretohed halide and Mr. Joeeth, returned at night, but some- ,
for he edit that though Stafforel had die- his name ou her lima , times he canio in before she bad gone; 1
=idea aline le had nee.d of him; and "Mandel,. he exolaimod, etortled 0100 aud he made a practice of sitting nal,' i
. when he had gone Stafford took his hat .of his self-poseession. Then it flashed Pan- her, even 'venturing on otmasione to lean I
and went out. He did not cal a lioneom, on him that the should not leo there in over the back of her chair, his mother
but walked on eagardless of his eoute hid; rooms, atone; end he looked et her vote:Ulna hint out of the corners of her
and loot in thought. Something of thO grameaY. eyes, and with her thin eine drawn down;
weight that had Crushed him had been oreety etaae you tome, Mande?" he mad. and although Ida invorialily got up and I
lifted froni hie -heart; lie ,was penniless, "Walt but one moment and I 10111 call' o wont :to another part of the room, her
Ole ltebure etretched darkly before him cob -go hole° with you." . ' avoidance of Joseph did not lull his nua ,
tiler's 'suspicions. Ida's eontempt. for the I
• wtth a darkness through which there ea.. 'No," she (mid, presently. "Did you
Pearled no road Or sign of lightabut he thine( / alionEld mat eeme, Stafford? I have Young man Wee the profetind to permit I
of such a 'sentiment no hatred -one can •
was feee. 'He *would not be compelled, to been hero for houre." She daew nearer to
go to tbo eater, thero to perjure hiingoaf aim; ilea eye% ea cold to otbere,, burning oeaanelY hate that whith -one seorne-ibut I
whenever he 110110 near her with his 10- '
wItitan oath to love and .0.berieb one wo- like 'eapphiree as they were roised to Me.
311tal anilRe Ile 'loved another. 10111 afraid "Did you think 'when I.had heard 'tylutt. emcee and enirit-laden breath, ehe woe I
o_way? •coneoloue of an inward ehudeler %villa
he did 11.4* feel much pity for Mande, eine you had done that X should keep closoiy resembled that with which She „
pry .beerraso,ho did not eealize low much No! I -I MU proud ot Yott-can 70)1 1(00 passed through the 'reptelo house at the
she cared for him, gueee how amoutla-my heart le star, zoological' Gardena.
Ire walked on for some eime and at last with lt. Ala but It wets like you, .
Mr. Jbsenh,. the house, the whole life, be -
found himself somewhere down by the ford!" gan to get Oh her nerves; and in the feel I-
MinewieS, in that mysterious Bast Ilnel, As she put bee hand on hie Shoulder, tude of her own. aoom she spent me.ny an
of whieh vre hear so math -and of which and' icolted at hint with it smile of pride, anguished. hour 'trying to diecover %some o
, we knotv "so little. A. little farther on he and of adoration, ,Stairord'e eyes tell be- way of weave. She road ael the advertise. ,
canto .upon the TiVer and he stood for a fo're here. ments of 81011001mm vacant in the novo- i
moment or two !watching some sheep and "I toufd do nothing olse:' he said. "Tut paper; but all the employers seemed to i
ipPeaare-"-'--'1-ranip. The eight of -Munn recalled Ha Falconer tell you?"
Gal:hie-being chive» on board' au 'ocean X um eorrY Yen came, Maude.. Didn't Ir- require technioul .knolwel_lcolge and accent.
,F11,11:11,-tmziev,tivIl
1111 tiotht.)0 ilt 114.1,1121iteelaztunE51_1 0
rondole and Ido; and he wae turning She 'laughed and. threw back her head
away, -with a sloth, when a, burly matt with a defiant gesture. est of children, the was unacquainted wit%
with a large slouch hat stuck on the back "Yes-ne if it mattered! As if anyone the inyeterimas science of 'shorthand, and
. of his head came lurthing out of one of -even ho-cotelel !Separate us! Besides, bed nover seen a tYpewriter. No one ajo.
the Mille wooden offices on the quay. He what he Said. 1058 111 a lit of temper, lie
fitVEGeac ittooreZ:,,(1ttoti'd e0a0t0g,, I:rd.:urn). ,ferglil
or in some way concerned with them, for money, And hibeyogla.110oreTinetilleer!.1'041f 01101'5114and this was the only kind of work she
was onnatently the owner of the sheep, wae fennel'
could do,
he hasongued the' drove in tt flow of could not control ene."
language which, thongh rich in profanity. "Let me get a light," said steirore, so elm liERA forced to the bitter concha
wee Peered !forth in a Plena:tin and jovial "No matter," Ole said, as 4I she eetld eion that elle -would have to go on living
velem, 1.10 had been drinking linevisolY not bear him -to leave her eide, oven for a the life, and eat the bread of the Serene,
and teo well, and ae he wobbled richly moment. "Stefford, dearest, you Ivill not with as much nationee tie 11110 could corm
about the small quay the happened 10 think of, you will forget, what he isaidt mond, in tile 10110 that some day "some.
(lurch against Stafford, who Wats attempt- It 'was eaaken in a ntoment of irritetien. Ailing would. happen" to voices -0 her from
ing. to ovoid him, lie !begged Stafford's cm, my dea-reet, eet um look at you -it le 111)1„. •trella0,4/.0/4 10,11icvilg,00 b%titiztt,t,i;1,• rftt
.pardon. prefueely and with emelt good- so long oince I eaav Yen. en ilelig1 so 30,.:.1 1,...1 biro
I making her thin and lig-lees. It eeemed
tfen to aaantio, oim. tam iorrgive0e00 30, ITIogei!o pale you are, and how Weitry l
auttaleed peniteuce that Stafford, in addl. that nothing over would )1:Omen, thee the
requested, asked him where the sheep and Iler other men went eound his neck, and weeks , would. drag into menthe and tho
cattle Were freing. she 1001114 litiVe drawn Its face clown to months Otto years; and one day as oho
tolled Giowly home. f rom a country walk,
"To my littfo eleoe, Salisbury Paean.” her lips, bet Stafford checked her..
, Seeleg. the astonashmont which Stafford You should not be there," he stammer' the almost felt inclined to turn to that
Met refuge of tato deetituto and 1.0101001.
could not, keep out, of 1118 face, the man ed. . one of the advertieements for IL lady's
laughed and expanineci. ' Not your Salta Sho laughed,
' bury Plain, not the place here in Eng- "Rea Eprontr 1011 rivet Yes, and / love help: anything would be better than to
land but in the altutrtaleurra country, you forill Yon think that I should do. 1g1o.roandivatintathbieulniumfo invidath -which wag
Auettalia," ho pointed -with his fat hand eert you, as meet women would dot" She
As she enproached the house, oho 01.01V
downwarde. "Right underneath. They're laughed afr,in• "If 1001 lvere 5' r'2•L'Per- that the gee Wee tit in tho drawing -room,
prize rams and bale. I like to have the he and the sound ot voices, in which a
best, and I paid a long psice for theini an't',Ilt, iger,-tgclioyt. your father called me,"
0,0a ao. strange one mingled, penetrated through
You'll come anti liavo ono." Sho smiled up into ;i le gloomy
hut I've got enough left for a. drink if the thin door se Ole passed through the
Stafford declined; but the man clung 00 fla,u41.33,,a,.ttedt.nep,,011111g1,y,.att or p
off her that, theta came a hurried knock,
I aro riot -ors heal to her room. While elle •wite taking
.10,ther is Mch.—" Stafford winced and
his 1ne0 11111101(1, bilt she had turtlea aside
was thielted and in a flutter ot excite -
and Isabel entered in her' best these. She
tot 5 moment and did not see the effect .11.
eV/ .be continued.)
of her -words. "And you have 011010 then
wealth," she laughed. "I veminded hint
of that, and It sobered liiin. 011, believe
.and at bearh ie 01110011a 00 see his daegle -----44—___
mo I for all hie metended stoicism, my fa-
ther velure a tilde ue leethnly MS most men
ter a baroness,"
Stofford bit his lip.
'.1 will telte you none now," he said.
Something in hie' voice eold her that she
had made -a 'Wren etee, 11101) 0111 had foil.
ed, With a Pry she elung to him snore
tighly. luta &awing back her head, Eeet1.11-
nett hie face. .
"Staffoodl You -yon don't me(0l) to
leave nio-to throw me ofel Say it -pro-
. info= inel" She laughed hysteritally and
would have elipped to her knees at hie
'feet; but he held Ice firmlY. "St.:,e0,yoclueal ri
cot, I weteld Plead to you. Prae, '
ano,•so ;amid. 33111.7011 Won't do that -
You_ won't let anything Generate us?
llueli! 'there is my father. Stafford, yen,
vita Mien, you o0111 ageol"
As Falconer knocked at the door, plhe
released • Stafford, liot. aloud pear ' him,
with hoe hand Testing on hie arm Val.
' cotter came in mad regarded them front
under his lowexed lide. o
.,I might have eimected , to nnti you
.tiere,' he said harshly, to Maude.
' "Yes; I mune to hint,' ehe (sad, wieh a
' kielle gostwee. "Why should I mita Why
thould. I caxe---'
Falconer shrugged lr_es shoulders, and
turned hom hoe to Staffosel.
' "I've tome to Mike buck what, 1 01001 thiti
' morning," lia said, 'in hie dry voice, "1.
'Was hasty, 101101 your-iuseneate f ally in•
giving tot the money 'upset Me. 1 holey
been tallong the inatter over with Nfattle,
and we hove :monad to -to eontinue 'the
engagement."
! Stafford nit 0 couple of candles ,eaul the
' omint light fell -upon ele Mow of the
, throe .the white one of the woman, the
etern and vet one of Stafford, and the
herd and impaesive one of Mr. Falconer.
' "01 entree ,a lattge eum or money will
hove to be etitt 011; and I 1111110 find it. It
Wial be Gettlral upon Moude-ovith, ., or
melee, a eeitablu allowanoe for 11 1:1001,13.
111 11 11 01 Ey0111 1 an ,
. It. ,,,..',00 oa;e11..,1111,F1?1,0 sn.,;,,,,tE, ,i' ,i,;Eloni:1,.,.,,,Siraiiirlit fi,Eu..11,1.,,,,11`,011.11 01:11,31,iio,,,11,... .w.what: ,i..„., 1, um:, 1
cone,. I de not intema Eto nee not i1PoE
iz,:oNmE:11,1agt I'd' a tell:ce,it.. i ;nod F41,00 Or, 11)2 l'o ;E.°
R TO
"I intend dropoleg it," seiti Stalotel .
"13-nt I dna ititeml e-ou should," ra. ,
lethal lealeoiter, 1)111 (13' "11 1 cote."'
to itts! deughter'n mare:Ong It pauter ' "
'A. pa:Mier is 01.0 Whe twee.' Laid 111V11'
Stafford hie face white ao maehle. -1
have not ye., boggca--''
o Ran' old I ' ' erica. 11 and e. Then eh 0
swung on her father. "Why do yoo speak
to liturato hin1-1 i 11(1 this?--Staffoad, you
v1417olevig-y-thing, in evere wala but this,'
lie Gant, with tho eetne ominous quietude.'
"If Neu are content' eo drop, the title, to
'Mara the life of m poor tual au ordinary
woricingenan-ae 1 bane to
He a old , out hie band 1 lid 8110 would
have taken la (thing to la hut, ler father'
grotto .between them, and with 0. heath
heath, excleimed: , , ,,
,."Yon fool! Don't; you rine 'that 1m is
wanting to get rid of von, that he ie mils,
Inc glad of the exeuee. Hove yell 110 touch
of Womaillineee in you, 110 'Pollee of
((11-1259'-' --
411,o h'int ' eel de eel lb a g oath re ,
and advanoine to Stafford, looltedelenighl.
into hie oyee, • , '
' "le -is it true?" 'slut asked bearRely.
"Tel 1 Vet Is What, he Gaye treat. Blotto -
that *rather than marry itio„ you would
go out into the World ' penedless, to warn
Your lliving-yon? Answer! Do -do you
love MOP"; ^ _
,Ifis' eye; dropped, Ids teeth clone:110d.
asiel'the Moment of eilence hung ',heavy in
the atibni,- 'Shootiii•ned from him; her hand
going to( boo brow with a geatUre of weari.
"lait ue go." elle said to lior father. "Ilo
-does not love alle-I1E3 never did, thought
that teeth:ape do titne--" '
The -eight of her humilliation Wan naOre
ehan Si -ogre -1,d coutd boar, Ile groats to
her tend laid his hand on here.
'"Wait-4111110de," he enad,
meet lay the title aside; 1 (sonnet accone
'Your faeliern money. I Must work, ae
other a,nd bettee men. have done, 'ere do.
SIR D 0 17 GE AS
In Command of the First Army of
the British Porde.
Cameron Brig in !the Kingdom of
Flge,. Scotland, 'has 'been well ac-
quainted' the Ilaigis Int. 'many
ge•rierations, and 'it ivas here. tha,b
Sir Nine:10, ,.:Coinanaaidter tibm.
!First. Army Corps in, the British
Expeditionary FOY Op, W4S,
dog. 11 yen Emit:wait 1111011 I ItivreE.abOrtie AfEby..411\roc, yelarla ago. In clue time
t 0 • 1105111- -
he went' to Clifton and from tili•ope•
13resenese 0.allege, 'Oxford, butt
the •ariny was hi,P dove... He
the Royal Cola•pee. and
yery eerily in his ,carect. gave prom-
rEe Of •what' was ta come, f.or 110
passed first out of Saai.dhurst,
gaining. !the highly -prised Anson
should alo..40P ale got lale.pipe and ran swm.d.
'hie pocket for hie metenes, Asbe did's° „ . , ,
lie came upon Mr. "iffeneek" ,Thiltleiets,ena ISOu aitaita; was, eaelteeTaeet tare,
110 (Welted at It vac:14311y foe p, Efusstars, and years later
:moment or Owe; then he laughed, a laugh
that wals not altegetther one of derieion Iva's' llockY 'cul'ough gelb cth the
tunileeinelitt, '
,She 'turned ,to him, her 110fe
lier byes flashing. •
: "1 wil:11 avith you 110w, ne.W-0111.3 111$
comet, to atoverty-to peril, anyWhere. ()11.
.Stairord, oatiq you seo, ean't you valne
Ole love 1 °flea you?"
When her elather had tee her envoy,
Stafford sank nit° a ohair and hid, hie
faoe le. .11,01101e, Ile woe ne longer free,
the eluvelgeti were Mall upon him. Arti
310•Wfte Pletet1e11.111 i hat
Soudan Expedition, whcoe he was
proseart At.bara. end Klrarbodart,
OK/lymph xxxry. , Nee,clless to say, this Tory 'thorough
Ida had found her life at Laburnum
and nursbeirlid yount, ans.0 was man-
y/rut hard enough in coneuienee
fore the of the concert, bat it be- belled en despatches, :as well ett
010110 430111 Loader otter Mr. joeePh'e con, 0.,suing the Egyptian Medal,
descending avowal of love to her and her a ,
inevitably soortkful refuetel. She avoided A Sett/Mille Soldier.
him fte much ae possible, but .ehe was _
foreea to Meet him at the tamely break. blr DOestadaS ite ,belieleed. to be a
1031, a meal of a cold and dismal' chathe- ,scimidfv, an,d has
ter, generally partaken of by the amiable
family in a artOreee and gloomy 611101100 sterialeen a.book oalledl "Cavalry 'Pac-
er to 511 aeconniantinent ut irritoble and ation.,, inoatelarelhip gained for
nagging personal oriticiem. Mr. Heron, , date_ Tr 2- 2,-
111.41t°111701Eveoredret fartmlrientutiegaerietbit°1 eV; a'3311%-b.w17:- 111,120 4110 etluZ. quvicturafy'rtnugig'euea'nff'u-
roe invariably minimized meaner and nation for entrance 'to the Staff Col -
:more lateuTrnoee; Isabel more irritable
and. dissatisfied; and Joseph. whose blood- !lege and CUM had to 'go before a
ehot eyes and swollen lips testified to the
arduoue character of his "late work at Inedi'cal. b°41"t'd ka'r fltne's"s' P -he,
the offecea went throuy,h the nrotenoo b.o.apd• aneroarieed, lie was coloi
a meal nvith sttllen doggedelees which blind. Haig 'emulated the example
evinced itself by something like a snail
if anyone addreesed hian. of our army of bygone days in Flan-
Iiitherto the bad, of course, been portico. deaa; goit, ,spe,ciadiebs bc4'h 110
Ida, but after 311 annulse Ide manner be. land_ and Franee to prove that he
came morked by a covert ineolence which was not color blind,- but the con -
'Wee (intended to remind her of her &moral- cleaned Beechacns, ealled tale
ent position, and the feet that her most
dheot eneans of escape from mote bY board, were obdurate. It seemed
accepting him ae her lover. Phis man- ,oertain that ihe would never be able
rier of Idea offeneive as it was intended to .
be, Ida ward have borne -with more or to wrate P.S.C." 'after his name.
Eleee eauanimity; .for to her, Mae! Joseph. when the late Duke of Cambridge,
Ileron eeemod of very little more accouitt , .
than one of the traderanen's boys she sew nearang ot tale flambee e, gave hull
octagonally coming sic to the house; but the C0111111fflader-in-Clhiers neenina-
after treating her to it, for a day or twee
tion, which exempted :the: oecipient
in the hope or breaking her slant, als
1VOU1d hove expreeeed it. his manner 1 nom examination.s. 'The .Ld'crta-
thin was :sewed. Haig :daily wentto
the Coldoge 'and passed out bril-
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of small wares, "do you eall these
safety matches Why, they won't
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"Laddie, keep your temper,"
said an old !Scot . to his irat,e .son.
"Never quareelwi' aro • angry per-
son, especiallp a woman. :Kind. ye,
a soft answer pays best, and fully
it makes them Ear madder than ony-
thing elpe ye could satY."
Old Peterby is rich and stingy. In
the event of his death his nephew
will inherit his property. .A. friend
01 1.110 family said to the old gentle-,
man -"I hear your nephew is go-
ing to marry. On that :occasion yon
ought to do eomething to make bim
happy,." "1 will," said Peterby,
I'll pretend that I'm dangerously
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O.n the outbreak of the Sontli Af-
rican War, Captain Ilaig was ap-
pointed staff officer to Sir &Alin
French, and 00111, ,11.1; Elendslaagte,
Cole.sburg, the relief of Kimberley,
P:aardeberg. and Belfast, and after
the cavalry divisi.on Was broken up,
had eittronand of :all the different
:columns in Cape Colony. The w,ark
OILS tremendous; but apparently it.grated,and quarter of turnip also
agreed with hint, for the harder: he
grated, three or four good thick
wo•rkerl and the le.ss he Slept the leeks , .Invo or three potatoes cut.
fibber he seemed to keep and the into pieces. 'Let all boil for two
MOM unreason•able olid he. become
heurs before •disliing. Leb stand a
f'ovhremn,0111;417 PTlieda's 00011;ailn`e.c,olt"golva.„011LPisult fetv then :skim off all tile
!at,. lac; 44 bowl, and put aside,
he was nntde a breyetanajor and
l'his with potatoes, makes a good
got a O.B., shortly afterwarcl being
irom.oted Co command the 1711) 10 (1<tarsgo,, 11 ±0.1117 ot Bim..
ancers ("The Death or Glory
Boys").
Wont Next to India.
After the war lie w.ent to India
as imp:eta:or-general ef cavalry.
There NOM much grumbling in the
Shiny over 'the' appointment. Tlhe
Indian cavalry thought . he was
much too young, and that .he knew
tee little about India. They short-
ly aoknowlecleed they were w:rong.
Though he succeeded that brilliant
cavalry soldier, Sir Edward Lo:cke-.
Elliott, Haig Wait a grea,40. success,
and only returned home in order
to become the director of military
braining at the Army hea.clquarters.
Five years ago: he became thief
el the staff in India, and on Gen-
eral Smith-Dorrien going to the
0itiihern eollintand 0.talturd. Haig
.succeeded him at Aldershot. Smith-
Dorrien had done snatch for Alder-
shot, Haig did more, and, it is :Der-
itain thalt 'the troops there were
never so' efffaienitE, 00 under this
young and brilliant :soldier. But-
t:here is always a but -he made send
the hearts 01 nearly by ertiblirbing
very strong order on the suln.ect of
cigarette smolcing. Thsps „Q. gratin.
O. Small portions of left over
cereals may be added to the pan-
cake batter and will greatly im-
prove the Cakes. Or they may he
rolled into 'balls and friend, or add-
ed to the soup stock.
6. The tough, cnels of steak may
be Chopped very line, seasoned well
with pepper. 'salt, butter, and a
little, onion juice and forme:d into
balls or cakes fur sautes or broiled
for lune,heon. Scraps of white
meat may be ch-opped., mixed with
a white sauce warmacl'up and gar-
nished With parsley and hard-heiled
eggs. 'The cavoasses of fowl and
the bones of roasts altould be used
to make a nourishing soup. Beef
fat and drippings and the 'fat front
poultry should be clarified and
lc•ept for frying, W1.0. antl legs of
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corn 'bread, griddle cakes, ginger
bread, and biscrlits..It may be made
into cream :Cheese or tatened into a
repealing drink by icing it and.
whipping, it ,f.or /plilsouti five minutes
With ail egglihnate'r. '
Hints.
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Selected Rebipes.
• Baked Pork 'Chops WIth Dirn8S-
fug.-Seleet six medium pork chops.
Make, a dressing as you would' tor
chicken or .any fowl. Place the
pork .chops oile oh top of the Oeher
diessing 'between. The fat 43 ri
the ends of the .chcips makes caough
grease for baking,
' Sicripler 'Cookie, Baking. - When
'baking cookies a great amount of
fuel inay •be saved as -yell as time
by having a largepiece a zinc cut
to fit your oven, raised slightly at
the end, or one can 1,e1e a handle
put on for 6 oehts. Pub cookies on
this zine. instead of nails and see
hew quickly a toindred can be bak-
ed. No tweeted rooin in 'between
P10110, etc. The sino.can be ecreb-
bed.
Weed Souffie.---Soak liwo cups
stale bread ertun:bs in hot milk. Add
one cup 91114e.c1 cheese and beat
thoroughly with an egg beater.
Beat thre.e ,eggs till light; and add
one-half teaspoon salt and one
fourth teaspoon paprika. 'P1340 a
tablespoonful butter in sauce, pan
and :cook half the roixture at a time,
cooking more slowly than an ome-
let. When it is net, fold over the
edges and serve immediately,
Potato Sirup. - potatoes,
three pints of water, one pint milk,
one egg, one ounce or more hntter.
Pare and out into small pieces -the
potatoes. Put with the weber to
boil. When the' potatoes have
cooked to piec•e,s, add bhe milk, 'but-
ter and well beateo eggs. The egg
alter beating should be mixed with
O little elf the soup ibefore it is add-
ed to it, Hob water should be add-,
.ed from time to time to replace that
lost by evaporation.
Marshmallow Apples. - 'Wash,
wipe and corethe apple's. Place i11
pan and fill the holes with sugar, a
small piece :of butter On top of each
and it sprinkle of cinnamon if
'Wanted. Sprinkle sugar in pan
and add a little water. When ap-
ples are eooked through, remove
from oven. tfi11 holes with nut meats,
place a marshmallow on top of each
apple and place in oven until the
marshmallow is a dainty brown.
The flavor is delicious and when ap-
ple is placed on a lettuce leaf it; is
indeed :pleasing to look at,
Fer 'Scotch eggs 'boil six eggs
hard, take them out; of the water,
eraele thent, anel 41041 111 cold 'water ;
this will preserve their color and
make the shell clime off easily. Roll
the eggs in flour; take either a
pound.of :sausage meat, cold fowl
ancl ham, or any saroury mixture
of cold meat; season. well with pep-
per, salt, parsley, and a pinch of
nutmeg; :divide the Meat into six
portions, envelop an egg in each,
dip into beaten egg, .covev with
bread -crumbs, and fry in boiling
fat, which must 'be deep enough to
cover the eggs completely. Cut
each egg in halves 'before serving,
For 'Seoteh breth p13401). ycrur pot
with less than two gallons of water,
10 tezieupful of 'best ba,rley and plas
let 1111 11011, odd 13( lb. of good, fresli
beef or mutton off the flank, one
carrot cut tnto very small slices,
one quarter of turnip the same. Cut
anuther carrot Mb° thielc slice0 and
it half turnip (to cab with yeur
meat), let all boil together for an
hour, then add another earrot
or eight.
---
Ways of Saving,
Save :badly 'cut pieces of bread,
and slice's left over from the table
for a bread pudding ,er 5, 33rown
Betty. Save every scrap and genet
to crumb up for stufiings or te use
for !breading scallop dishes, . cro-
quets, etc. . •
2. Remove the sinew from the legs
of a fowl when it is drawn and the
meat of the leg will be as geed as
that of the second joint.
S.' Cold • rine should always 'be
saved, it ean be added to a soup,
mashed into erogliets, mixed with
eggs, and fried like hominy or used
in a scallop dish.
4. Left over vegetables when the
ameunt is too small to be served
again may be mixed in a soup
sliced together and boilet•I with
.grayy for a ragout, or used sever-
al:oily 'or together for a salad.
Cauliflower, potatoes, and cabbage
are good broken in small pieces
covered with grated cheese a,nd
baked in a ba•king dish, "a Jo
(40011131 1.115,1- General 11:089 was right,
for 'the wild -and fragrant Woodbine
played gre.atter havoc with young
soldiers hearts than ell the: pretty
girls, in .Alciershot, rind' stepped
their powers of marching more even
than tight boobs. 131,1 T. A. was
riot the only one to come under
I-Tajg's eagle eye. Officers: wore.
Wanted for 'spending too flinch 011
1100 bo,,' .oars alrici not enough on their
polio ponies and .chargers. Cavalry
officers' had to be well mounted,
and :after all, good chargers, snake,
very .good hunters, .and polo and
hunting General Haig looks Om as
being essential for the preper
training of a cavalry officer. •
•The
"Did you And apythin in that
helve '" asked the tOotpat . •
S'IsTetrjing worth while,'' .answer-
.e,ct."±lva rg", !Wilt bact luck
to come away eitiii3by- ended, po
brotight along the evatehd.og -ancl
lot of burglar alarm appa,ratuS,"
• "Why ate you so down on, Briggs,
the botelkeeper 1" "He gave. me,
130.4 quarters in exchange for "ft
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siclerecl a very important factor in
tv•ise plarming otf meals.
'Scatter grated white potato .over
the carpets if you 101511 to clean
them :and fre,shen theie colors.
Use a bicycle pump to clean such
parts of the eewin,g machine as you
:cannot reaoh. With a cloth.
Before peeling onions let them
stand in water, then pe.ei, and the
eyes will not :smart eo badly.
Alcohol, ether, eldoroform, ear -
bona, gasoline and naphtha soap
and water are all good solvents for
grease.
Braising is hest for large pieces
of tough, lean meat, 'Sear, add
vegetables and herbs, and cook
long a:nd slowly in a eoverecl pan.
We geb into a, rub in buying our
'food and are apt to overlook the
fact that 'for the best physical re-
sults we should use a variety.
If a 'baking dish has been scorch-
ed or burned, fill it with cold wa-
ter to which a pinch of soda has
been added. Allow it to bell and
the dish can be easily :cleaned.
It makes sponge cake very light
and spongy,' if a tablespoonful of
water'with the chill off, is put into
the cake mixture :directly after put-
ting in the eggs.
Alter washing quilts and while
they are still on the line, but near-
ly dry, beat them with, a, carpet
beater and they will be wonderfully
light.
The annual coat of oil'uot only
prolongs the life of willow and cane
furniture, but it keeps it from be -
00 dry that tiny splinters
stiok out.
Newly fbaked !bread should be
lightly :covered with ae,clean cloth
while it is :cooling, and 1± 140 is not
:Lived when ib is taken from the
oven, it is apt to be soggy.
Soot from a stove or chimney
where wood is burned, if put into a
pitcher and boiling :water poured
over it, makes a healthy drink for
'house and garden plants.
To remove perspiration stains
from waists, sponge the place with
a clean ram \vet in-elear, cold wa-
ter. Then cover with powdered
:chalk and brush off carefully with
a soft brush.
When beating the whites of eggs
with a rolary egg beater, try bokl-
ing the beater ab an angle instead
of straight up and clown in the
bowl. This accomplishes the work
much quicker,
BRANS OF BRITISH ARMY
SCENES AT THE WAR OFFICE
IN WHITEHALL.
No Place More Busy it Old London
1,700 Persons Regularly
Employed. '
There is no place more busy in
all London to -day than the War
Office -the home elf the "brains of
the Army," says it London paper.
Little can the ordinary civilian soct ;
of its workings ; cannot geb in-
side .except in exeeptional eircum-
stanceS ; 0110 11011 onlY stand outside,
in Whitehall, and watch the people
go in ancl. out. Even that is a WWI-
derhil sight; for, apart from the 1,-
700 regular emploYees of the de-
partment Who pass !within and with-
out the police -guarded portals from
early morning and all day long,
there is a .continuous stream of men
and wonien, all on state, or in any
case, on officfal business. For the
present, indeed, the War OfFico is
open all night---`rwaiting"-ancl
one of the highest officials sleeps
on the premises.
Every Rank of Army.
The regular staff are .supposed to
cease work at 6 p.m. ; that is, the
day staff -an hour later lot' the
present than in normal times.
Among them ±11 eVery rank of the
army, Ifroan tlance-corporal te gen-
eral; there , are hundreds of
sprucely 'clres,sed eleirks-nuts and
.dandies of the !Civil !Service -bat
serving their country in war almost
as advantageously as a soldier. -
There are also a large number of
olerles of lower social grade and,
messengers, 'neatly ex -soldiers of
non-cormnissioned rank, and all
Wearing .conefortable-looking but
no longer .smart, • clothing. There
are spores and seoree of pretty,
well-dressed, chattering -
tYnists and clerks -leaving lox home
in 'the evening; and, creasing them
at the stairheads, are scores and
:scores of faded -looking elderly 'wo-
men, the "official" :charwomen, of
whom 110 are on the staff. There
are also a dozen "official" cats,
100 Boy Scouts.
To the staff wonkers have been
added in the pa:st few clays ovee •
1;00 B-oy Scouts from all 'manner of
•cornpanies, judging by the many
:colors of their shoulder ribbons
Some, provided with bitycles, are
messengers -swift, silent little fel- .
laws -taking their orders from the
'sergeants in the main halls and re-
turning with envelopes of the let-
ters they have delivered marked
!with the time of delivery. Other
/Scouts are employed all over the
!building as office boys, running
about like so many mice among the
!big men. Nor are all the Scouts
very small yonngsters .either. At
least a dqzert at the War Office ars
long, willowy fellows, close upon six
feet tall, and looking still more
elongated in their shorts and bare
knees, Every official, high and
low, is delighted with the work olE
these trained and chilled boys.
Cluirehill`Popular.
Many °Moors in uniform -gener-
ally drab service kite -are in and
out; of the War Office, and occasion-
ally a motor ear dashes up tvith a
soldier -chauffeur, and a general or
colonel, with an oiclegle-carnp,
steps out and disappears within.
Sometimes an emin.enb soldier is
recognized, ancl then thete is a,
cheer from the :crowd, re.eognized
with a smile or 41 swift touch of the
khaki cap. The First Lord of the
Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill,
seems to be a caller at least once a
day. Ha is !becoming very .popular,
and is frequently hailed by name,
and is "all smiles."
Aunt Ethel -Well, Beatrice, were
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Beatrice -Yes, Auntie, 1-Waa..Aunb
Ethel --Then there's the fifty cents
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what he did to you. Beatrice-fFle
pulled out two of 'Willie's teeth.'
The old gentleman's wife was
getting into a. carriage, and he neg-
lected to assist her'. "You are
nob so gallant, jehn, as wheril was
a gal," she exclaimed, in gentle re-
buke. "No," was his ready re-
sponse, "and you are not buoy-
ant as when 1 Wag a 'boy!''
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