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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1913-05-01, Page 3For liVcal or for• Woe; Or, A Dark T'erriptatign • CHAPTER XXXVX.a-(Cent'd) When the morning light broke Little .Gay wasin a high, delirieue fever. a The professor .and hie geed wife ntood by her couch with anxious facee, Ancl then the, othelest blew that fate could have dealt poor, hapless Little Gay hale In the senseaess raving babblings that fell from her feverish lam elle uttered the name of Harold Tremaine, The professor leaped to kis feet with an exultant faee. "A clew at that, nay dear," he cried cheerily. "Pam has Inentioncd the name • of a niana I know. I will send for 'Ire - maims at °nee; luckily I know his aca drees—he can tell us who this young' girl is, of comae, and where 1101' fol103 are to be fopatd.a He immediately ,put the plan into °ea. aeuthaff arlatellyeatt hour had elapsed ere 'Presnaine presentedThaisself at the pro. fesser's reeidence. - "Some girl repeating ray name overamd over iu her delirium/' he muttered.ongrily aa he etood there on the marble 'Steps. And he idla wondered which ono of his eine had, found him out now. Ho waa dreseed in faulthea ,attire, froni hie polished boots to the immaeulate (Mira front on which a- tatignaleent diamond . blazed; yet when he WiLB presented to the professor's wife, she formed a dislike to - the .dark, haudsome.,., face and smiling mouth under the drooping mustache,that she could never wholly account for. . Trenseinea intense amazement and joy knew ria _bounds when :they led him th the couch...to identity the lovely etranger and his eyes fell epee. tittle ',Gay. He could scarcely repreee the .cry Of exulta- tion that Sprang to his lips; and like.a, flash a, diabolical plot swept 'through hie brain, and he carried it out on the spot. Ho turned to them with a wellesimulat- ed gasp of dismay and the, athet intone° Y. "My God!" he exclaimed in sawell-feigned excitement; "how came ehe here? This ie my wife! While they explained, the aituatioli — which they did—he knew he ehould have time to think. Reluctantly the professor admitted the true situation in a few worde, begging Trernaine woulht not betray tho medical fraternity in this affair, as it vase nee. easary to obtain bodies in the cause of science, whenever and whatever Way they could. • They readily .believed Tremames story of his great grief over the supposee death of his young wife, and that, in one in- stance, at least, grave robbera could be . blessed for the eaving of a human life. "If vein think, my wife able to be re- moved, I will take her away at once," he went on eagerly; but to tbis neither the doctor nor hie wife would agree. "You must wait a week until she is a little etronger," they both declared, and despite his chagrtn, he was forced to sub- mit with a good grace. On the fourth day, Gaya; great, dark, velvety eyes opened to consoiousnese, and the first Deacon on whom they Tested Waff IffirOld Tremaine, leaning tenderly over, .her couch. ie I Two or three other persons were ill toe room, but his eyes met and held her own with a vntrning light in them; but only; for a moment, however. The next in'I stant. a thrilling, hysterical cry rang through the 'room: I "Save me fram hiMI—save flier • Tremaine drew back with a muttered curse, ground out savagely between his white teeth, wItieb no one save Gay Ile turned to the doctor's wife with an I beard. _ injured expreasion 00 hie darklyhande; some face. "My darling does not know. me; shell imagines me some mortal foe." he said • sadly. And .1de grief was apparently so real that she felt sorry for,him, believing her Judgment of him had 'been too hasty. Gay grew 'so alarmingly worse, ae he stood by the couch, tbat he was obliged to leave the 1.0011.1. "Your husband, who as a physitsian of experience must have had many eimilar caeca will tell you in casee like MY young wife's, they often imagine that the one who la nearest and deareet to them le their cruelest foo; YOU 1UUBb pay • no attention to her vavings; X shall take her away thie evening. X obeli be more . than gratefully indebted to you if you will see Mutt she is ready to accompany • zee within an hour, my dear lady." Little dreaming of the cruel plot, against poor Little Gay, wbich she was uncoiled- euely lending herself to, she contented. When Gee, found berself alone with the sa kindly -faced, motherly lady, she held out .her white arme, to her with a piteoue, trembling STY'S "You must not believe what he has told you—that I am his wife; he is ,My Cruelest foe. I ani the adopted dough. ter of Allen Remington, the banker of 110. Gramerey Park, 1 woe decoyed away -by the foulest plot that was ever - "There, there, my dear," interrupted the good lady, soothingly, as ehe lanced her hand gently hilt firmly over the girl's • quivering red mouth, "you aro not to talk now. You ehall tell me all about it after awhile; in the meentime you are to dress. Your folke know all about your being • here, and they 000 10 send a -carriage for you pretty soon to take you heme." Gay mould have put a thousand eager queetious to her, but she refused to listelit Elbe had wondered vaguely whether or not the pretty stranger whom Ilya ad 'Pre. reline caned by the very uncaps" ,I name of Gay, was really out oE 'head or not. "Dear me," she thoesalsiheraelf, the idea of her imagining ateatelf the adopted daughter ot the great banker of Gatim- ercy Park—that eettles it; of course she s out 'of .her bead, poor, meaty young thing!" Ari the motherly womaa would neither listen nor reply to her•questions, Gay was • forced to relapse into` eilenee, 'while the garments 'Preinaine bad provided were donned. „. Row her heart 'throbbed at the theughtl She watt—going home! She would toll -them of .Harold Tremaine's audacious re-, port, and they would punish him for it. She longed 10 Isnow,how they had foun(1 her out, but it was (elite useless to Reit questionee ehe saw. . At length a, carriage drew up .before the door. Tremaine, in a carefully dis- • guised. voice, inquired if she were ready, and for answer the doctor's wife drew Gay gently down the - porch to the ve- • hicle•iu waiting. Some one WAS seated 'within. Gay sprang into the coach with a fluttering "Papa, dear papa!" she sobbed Joyous- ly, "it m you who have come for ano, to take inc )10010, I know.' 'The coach •door clesed with a bang, and it whirled- rapidly down the street, bet • it was not the banker's cheery' voice that answered her. • • pi% 'Make no outcry," hissed a voice sslose to her ear. "It You do, by all the pow- • ers above, 111 cbloreform you and put a gagin your mouth. You are at my moray at last, -my girl, I mean to take a double 'vengeance upon you for giving me the slip from the eld house by the river road, and for 'forcing ine back from the bridge that night down iato the wet- ' cr. You ellen pay dearly for it." Gay uttered a piercing cry for help. "Attempt that again at your peril!" cried Tramcars° hoarsely, with a terrible oath." s The sentence waa drowned in a shower of crashing glass. In terror and desperation Gay had eprung ouddeuly .forward, (lashing herlit- tie hands, through the plate glass window of the vehicle, slavering it to atoms, and before Trensaine could prevent her, again that shrill, piercing cry rang out on the' ebght air" It almost electrified two gentlemen who had stepped out of, the telegraph' °Moe, Waiting en the corner of Broadway to hail a passing cab. • 'Rhea were Mr. Lennox, the detective. and Percy .Granville. "Some woman in daeger I ' cried the de- tective excitedly. 1 =et follow that cooth. Gooasbye; Granville,' he Bahl, wringing his friendat hand, os he sig- naled a cab and jumped nto it. , "If you leant to make a evadellar note, (math that coaseli a block ahead!" he ax- elaimea hurriedly th the driver. . 'Phis, man whipperl up 'WS lussee and the terrible caume -began, caritPrEn .xxvii. . ...r have the fleetest team in the cite, eie," replied the driver, eagerly, as he whipped up kb 'horses. "I eau vun down the cab ahead of ue if_ any one can." ' , It was not long before Teemaine, case served that he was hotly- pursued, and curses loud and deep broke from hie lips. "If I ean but ‘reaell the river first," he muttered, under hie .breath, "I defy the fool who is.mad.enough to follow me—to track me down." * "I ehall pay you for thee" he Mend. In , Gay's terrified ear."If- I had taken the precaution to caloreform you 'Miele- fernal bueinese would. not have 'tapped. The terrific craehing of the wheels as they Red over the paved etreets, drowned hie .angry voice. . It was a ride never th be forgotten; both drivers lashed and. •urged their 1100000 10 do their utmost, and the speed with which each vehicle turned corner after coiner was tremeedeue. Poor Gay expected each moment would be her bast. Slowly but surely the detective'e• cab was gaining on Tremaine's, and, at last, they were within bailing dieta,nce of mulls other. • "I command you to halt!" thundered tho detective, leaning far out of his car- riage window, his clarion tones rising above the noise of hoofs and wheels. A derieive laugh from Tremaine floated back th him. • The detective placed hie whistle to hie lips, and blew a shrill blast, th call th his nid the blue -coated preservere of the petite; but, as usual, when they are want- ed, they are not to be found. 'The detective's blood was up; he was determined since the affair had gone so far, he would see it through to the end if it east hira his head. He' saw the cab was making for the river -bank, and more than one clever trail he had lost in this way. "I'll double the ewe 3: offered you if You overtake the cab ahead," he called out sharply to the driver, and again the matt applied the lasb, whith gave a fresh impetus to theefoaming, panting beadts. One terrific cut of the whirl, and the two cabs were abreast at last, and both came to a dead stop simultaneously. "Now, then, halt)" thundered the de- tective again, "and explain the mysteri- ous cries for help—in a womun's voicle— that tutted front this vehicle." • For answer, Harold Tremttine whipped out 1110 ?evolver, and taking SAM ill a twinkling at the detective% head, firea; but the ball missed its mark, and before he Wahl repeat his nation, the weapon was dashed from his grasp by the bound hands of brave Little Gay, "Polled!" ho exclaimed, with a terrible imprecation, spriegiva forward in a dor- iege attempt to regain hie weapon; but IMr. Lennox was too quick for ham In a trice both were on the pavement, igrain/ling w-ith each other ni a desperate struggle for supreme:as Tromainea driver would have sprung ; to hie Te00110, but the other driver beld I him batik, I "He is in the hands Of the great do - teethe. Lennox; you must not interfere," ho said. • It teemed as though the famous detee- 1 Myst had at last found hie match., for Treniaine fought with the courage of an enraged demon. Ho had recognized ale assailant, and he determined not to be taken, for he knew 1 he WRS wanted for more crimes than one in the great metropolis. Gay, still bound and gagged, had crept afrom the coach, gazing at the fearful combat in mortal terror. It came to an mid at last; the detective, with a clever movement, had smiceeded in slipping a ; pair of hamlouffs over Tremaine's white I hands, arid he was rendered pewerlese. . "Now then," exclaimed' the detective angrily, dragging lain by main force to- ward the carriage -lamps, "we tvill take a loolc at you and see who you are, and at the same time find out who it is you I were about to kidnap." ' Tremaine threw up hie darlc, handsome ' head prondlyeerleflant to the lout, a mocks ing, encoring -earths on his white face. • i "I am captured, but met oonquered." he exclaimed bitterly; "you shall soon find that out." . I At that instant the light of the lame 1 fell full on his face, and the detective exelaimed, in the keenest amazement: "Ily all the powers thetas wonderful - 1 the very man I'letve boat see:robing the city turd the 'whole country through for long months to find—Harold Tremainel" I "Now that you have me, what do you , want of no?" exclaimed Traumata, torn- ' lug a shade paler. I "First and foremost, to answer for the ; part you took in spiriting away Little I Gay—Percy Granvillea bride—from Past- , sale some menthe ago, and secondly, for 1 a bone the government has to pick with I you," returned the detective grimly. • "May I ank who informed agltitiet me In the letter offense I am, charged with? tasked 'Premaine, hoarsely. "A girl whom you discarded, I believe," replied Lennox. "Lydia Moore,' who was your eweetheara-ehe lived 'in the old house by the river road. to withal. you brought Granvillea bride—the Made a clean breast of all else knew concerning Ts CLEAN, and • tts SIMPLE cts "A.B.0.". NO clutnoe of MISTAKES if you use 'rac Gnarante 411 (I "ONE DYE 10). Inds of Cloth," , easy rr 'fled nroVeit 00' Y.:00'..if Send 10 [000 Cotor Cord, Story Booklet, nnd Book. itt giving results of Dyeing over other colors, o Johneen-Oicherdson Co., linnted, • Montreni eomeie,.....maxemelkeueverrearevareweremma ATEA Unequalled for Fragrance and Wholesomeness. Sold in lead packets only. Black, Mixed and Green. 064 meet. .Are you really taking me' bottle 10 1717 dear adopted parents? If -you -are, I could fall down on my knees and bless "X am indeed taking you to them," he answered cheerily, ."and to one, too, who haa been wearing hie very life cut search. ing for you—to your young husband, my dear," , The my of joy Gay uttered brought tears th his eyes. ' "It merles , almost too good to be true," she sobbed. "Oh, air, if anything ehould come between tia•now, when Meeting him some so certain, the blow would kill nue, I—I love hart so." , 'Nothing but aeatli Min prevent you teem eeeing him ere the day dawns,' be, replied • aeassuringly; "se prepare your- self for a joyful meeting. As soon ae place you within the safe 'Tortola of your own home I will diapatch a =monger th the hotel, with these worda: 'Gay bas him to your side without an instant's abeeleana;:sund; f1110 ifl 101M0 with the Rem- ington's% Rest assured that will fetch Gay's heart was WO full for utterance; she could, only sob out brokenly: "Oh, Percy, are we really to be united at last?" Suddenly she sprung to her feet with a wild ory Of horror. "Oh, you wre deceiving met" she cried. "They told ma he ivae to be wedded on the 201h to Evelyn St. Claire. To -day is the 1010. Oh—/--" 'Soothingly Mr. Lennox took the two cold, white bands that were beating the air on mortal terror, and at length IMO - (leaded in making her undoretand just how matters were, telling hor all of Pkneroc41 story. wkich the reader already Ile told ler. too, how her disappearanee had been traced to the door of her beau- tiful, cruel rival; and how Evelyn St. Glair° had acknowledged that she, and she alone, could unravel the mystery of her disappearance, but that she would die before the would speak the werds that would enable Percy Granville to find We loet love. "The vengeance of a just Heaven soon overtook her, however," continued Mr. Lennox. "for, in attempting to escape front my custody, in which she had been placed. she leaped from a vehicle and was picked up from the pavement in an WI- conscione condition; ebe was conveyed back to the Remington mansion, and the doctors say tee guilty girl's death is but the question of a few ehort hours," he oobd gravely. "Poor Evelyn—dying," sobbed Gay. "Oh; oan nothing be done to save her? 131113 11•118 1101 kind to Inc, but I forgive and pity bor." said Gay, in deep distrese. "You are little lese than an angel to feel 00 kindly disposed toward one who came so near•wrecking -your whole life," exelaimed the detective, admiringly 'still, your pity and forgivenees cannot, save her:ash° cannot survive." To deseribe the great joy of the banker and his wife whon Mr. Lennox led Little Gay' into the drawinfaroom where they were seated, is beyond the power of tho pen. They laughed and cried over her by turns, declaring she was as ono brought back to them from the grave, In another part of tho grand snanethn, where Evelyn St Claire lay dying, they heard tho groat commotion. 'What ie it?—bave they found herr' she gaeped. "Yes,' replied the ,joyful attendant, who had recognized the 00001 young V0100 in the corridor below, "they bave found Little Gay at lasts God bless 'herr' 'Evelyn St. Claire fell back on her pil- low with a bitter groan. Alt the plotting and planning—bor cruel crimes—bad all been in vain—Heaven bad foiled her—Percy and his lest darling would find entsh other tit last; they would be lawny, While she was called to atone 'for ber terrible sin. • While Gay was relating her pitiful ex. perionces of all the 'had undergone Glace the day she was decoyed away, the detec- tive hurried away to the nearest etation and sent a telephone message flying over the wires to Percy Granville. A meow that almout took Percya breath away in his intense joy. "Little Gay, 1129 brale, found, at last!" he cried. "Can it be really true?" (To bo ceetinnecia 'Pretnaine ground lib white teetth, in an - potent fury. "Curse her!" Ye muttered savagely, "the woman has ruined mo at lama as' X always thought she would when I baolce with her." The dettive had not waited an instant to bandy words with him, but, placing him in charge of a patrolman wbo heel appeared on the thrilling econe, was hur- riedlyexamining the interior of the, coach Tremiane had occupied. • Wes his eensee playing him some hor- rible trick? Where was the Woman, whose placing Or108: and first attracted hilnP Thecoach- wee empty!' His amazemept knew no boonda but it WAS only-mons:intern however; -for, upon glancing about him hp ehsez•ved the Oen- der figure of a young 'gin lying at his, Little Gay had fallen in a dead faint whoa she had. meet ,frora, the coacheand beheld the terrible combat in which alre- mama and her would -10 rescuer were en- gaged. , Mr. Istinnox raised her in hie'arms; and f03 he did eo caught a good view of the face, framed in its sheen of golden hair. "Good Heaves!" ke alter:dated, in in: tense exeitement; "X reelly believe in tracking this villain down, I have found Little Gay, Peacy Granville's thst bride, and Banker Remington% adopted dough - ter." . -He tore the bandage from the little red mouth, tend sinloosea the little white h,ande, hastily • applying restoratives, whieh he elwaye oarried about hiat. Ily thie timeanother officer bad found his way to the spot, and the two were dispatched to the Tombs With their hand. sem°, aristocratic, defiant prisoner, with the written messege te the chief _that he woe to be clotained ill clime euetody until Detective Lennox atrived. Just 00 the latter placed Gay in the cotteh with inetruotions to drive am tut as the condition of the tired -out horse .troald permit to Banker leamington's ye - cadence, Goy opened her eyes. A cry, of moat ineense gratitude and JOY broke from her lips; as she dam the kind - 1y face of lier. rescuer' opposite -her ill - stead ea the dark, treachorette saes of narola Tho detective oChit forward eagerly. "be not be afraid, my dear" he ettid, taking ono of the little thill-Cold, hands in his. "you are quite safe, / am talcing. you to your friends.I sincerely hope 1 Rm not mistaken, Yott are Mr. Itemingtona sdooted • daughter—the bride of .PereY Granville, are you net? Suaely I cannot 10 mistaken." You see right," sobbed Gay; "I ean Ita deed that most unfortemate person. Ob, toll me, sir, are you friend er fo,ep st have been deceived so much lately / do net know whom to trust. I am fearful of everyone playing me false whotn I RUST WEAR GLASSES. For Stone -Cutters and Others 110 Waialeale Iltelaballarearialesiballsale 1 Seasonable Recipes. Asparagus Rolls.—Cook half bundle of green asparagus tips or finely sliced spr-ae (asparagus) in salted water, and drain on a sieve. Put them in a, stew -pan with a few mushrooms and -Iwo slices of ham or tongue, also cut into fine shreds. Blend well and mix with beehamel or veloute sauce, season with salt, pepper and„a, grate of nutmeg and keep hot. Cut three-fourths very small dinner rolls in half, scoop out the crurnbly part of each half and dry them crisp in the oven. Fill each roll with the above rnixtore, coat the top with white sauce, be - 'sprinkle . with bread crumbs and grated cheese. Place a small piece Of butter M the centre, and put in a hot oven kng enough to brown the surface. Dish up on a folded napkin, and send to table hot. Asparagus Pudding. — Scrape, clean, wash and drain a bundle of green asparagus, tie it u13 and cook in salted water until tender. When cooked draM the asparagus and rub the ten'der parts through a fine sieve. Melt about two ounces of butter in a stewpan'stir in three ounces of flour (sifted), cook a lit- tle without browning, and add by degrees about three-fourths of a pint of hot milk, -in whMh a bay leaf and a piece of 1110.00 have beeh boiled. Stir over the fire for sev- eral minutes, then let cool a little a,nd work in one by one four yolks of eggs, season with salt and pep- per and a pinch of red pepper. Whisk the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, and incorporate lightly with the mixture alternately with the asparagus puree. Three parts S.11 one or two well -buttered pudding molds, cover well with buttered paper, and put them in a saute -pan containing a little hot water. Steam thus in a fairly hot oven for about an hour. Unmold the ,pudding on- to a hot dish, pour over a well pre- pared lemon sauce made partly from the asparagus water, and serve. Tomatoes a la Chasseur. — Take six large, ripe but firm, even -sized tomatoes, six or eight 'reserved mushrooms, chopped parsley, a lit- tle eream, six small eggs, six tart- let erusts (baked) to serve tomatoes on. Wipe the tomatoes, remove the stem, make an incision on the stem side' by means of a plain one and three-fourths inch paste cut- ter, and carefully remove the pulp without breaking the skins of the tomatoes. Chop the mushrooms and sprinkle these with chopped parsley at the bottom of each hollowed out tomato, Place them into the tart- let +musts, which should be made to well fit the tomatoes. Break a small, fresh egg into each tomato ; upon this put a dessertspoonful of cream and tomato pulp (the batter being rubbed through a sieve, mixed with the cream and suitably seasoned with salt and pepper). Sprinkle a few clrops of dissolved butter in top of each tomato and bake in a gen- tle oven from five to six minutes, just long enough to poach or set the eggs. • Serve hob as a supper dish or vegetable savory. Green Peas a la Paysanne.—Shell and cook one quart of green peas in salted water and drain them. Peel and chop fnely half a small onion, fry it in an ounce of butter a pale golden color; to this add two ounces of cooked lean ham, cut into dice. Dredge with a little flour (say a -teaspoonful), stir over the fire for a few ,seconds, and wad a quart of cooked green peas. Season with a pinch of sugar, grated nutmeg, salt and pepper; raeisten with two tablespoonfuls of good stock, sim- mer gently for ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Dish up and serve hot. Staffed' Tomatoes in Aspie—Take six even -sized, ripe and firm to- matoes, four filleted Gorgona an- chovies, one hard -cooked yolk of egg, about one pint of aspic jelly, one dessertspoonful capers, mayon- naise, two cabbage lettuces. Wipe the tomatoes, carefully scoop out the centre by means of a vegetable cutter or a teaspoon. Chop the capers, yolk of egg and anchovy fillets, mix with a gill of mayonnaise and a gill of aspic, stir over the ice until nearly set, _then fill the cavi- ties of the tomatoes, cover with a spring of parsley, and put on the ice to set thoroughly. Co.at each tomato several times with ball -set aspic, or line some little molds with, aspic and set the tomatoes in the same. Have ready the lettnees,, washed and divided into small piec- es, season with salt and. pepper.', dress with mayonnaise, and put iu the centre of a dish. Arrange the prepa,red,tomatoes round the salad, garnish with sprigs of parsley and blocks of. aspic jelly: Some lobster or any other kind of cooked fish may be used for the stuffing in place of the anchovies. Green Peas with Rm.—Boil and drain a quart of young peas; shred finely two rashers of raw ham, and fry them for a few minutes with a small piece of Mittel.: Add twn small, gredn onions, finely chopped, and the peas ; moiSten with three tablespoonfuls of hechamel Sauce, Iwo of cream and season with salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar. Let all simmer for a few minutes lon- ger, turn out on to a hot dish, gar- nish with fried bread eroutens, and serve hot, Whose Eyes Are Endangered. "I believe," said Mr. Myles Standish in his lecture at the Har- vard Medical School, "that it is a crime to have pointed scissors about in any household in which there are children 'under six years of age. Children will invariably play with scissorS; they frequently fall on the pOints and puncture the eye' and often the, wound, while it willcause blindness, is too small to be noticed by the mother, • "Next in point of danger to the eyesight is the pounding of steel on steel, which throwing out slivers, eventually destroys the sight. Ma- chinists and stonecutters meet with similar accidents, and new that the public is paying for these injuries through insurance, workmen, who are subjected to such dangers, should be compelled lo wear glasses of ,some sort to proteettheir eyes, "I have-known.of quarrymen go- ing on strike- because their em- ployer tried to fore them to Wear glasses; and I have seen a, quarry- man who has lost an eye through a premature explosion of dynamite go back to the same work and lose the other eye." • QUITE CORRECT. leaolier—"Now, tell me what is memory 2". Pupil:J/11a thing what yea for- get with 1'4 , 4 P old table cloth—to keep it free from germs and dust. The white .of an egg, whipped stiff, with a ripe banana makes a delicious cream to be eaten on a simple gelatine pudding. - Apples can be stewed with a little left -over canned fruit, such as blackberries, and the rcsult will be a pleasant change. Wear a sewing Apron while iron- ing, and you will often find it pos- sible to do a bit of mending while waiting for the iron to theta. Sash curtains of Swiss muslin hemmed by hand are less likely to pucker when washed than when hung up on the machine. It pays the housekeeper to get the best bedsprings and mattresses in the market, even if she has to economize somewhere else. Test potatoes by cutting in two and rubbing the cut eurfaeea gether. Then press the twe parts together. If they ?stick the pota- toes are good. When nailing down a carpet after the floor has been washed be certain that the floor is quite dry, Or the nails will rust and injure the car- pet. . Any one trabled with rats or mice can get rid of them very -quick- ly if they will sprinkle pepper on a cloth and stuff this into the hole where they appear. • All the strips of fat left from a steak should be left in a dish and tried out in the oven. They will make excellent fat for frying. • Large patterns in tablecloths are less economical than Entail ones, for the, simple' reason that the long threads break sooner than the short ones. To preserve the appearance of wooden utensils wash them direct- ly after they are used, because if grease and dirt are allowed to soak in it may be impossible to remove them. In pressing silk or satin, do not use a very hot iron nor dampen them. Lay some clean, dry muslin over the seams and press with a warm iron: To overcome the odor of mould, which eometimes rises in a library in damp weather in spite of the best of care, scatter a few drops of oil of lavender on the shelves, and the odor will disappear. Eating too quickly is a common fault among children who are hun- gry, and the habit should be check- ed from the first, as indigestion will result from "bolting" the food,.ancl when once the seeds of this miser- able ailruent are sown there is scarcely ever a complete cure. Even at the expense of Os little inconveni- ence and trouble it is well to watch the children at meal tiraes, and to teach them to eat slowly. So—etirries during the spring cleaning er....qttions a geed piece of furniture ta bruised If the injury is severe a cabinetmaker shenld be consulted, but where the wood is only dented, and not broken, the mark can generally be removed by home treatment. First wet that, part with warm water, then double a piece of brown paper several times and place it over the bruise; now press with a heavy warm iron, leaving it on the paper until the moisture has evaporated. If one application is not successfnl it must be repeated. Potato parings, baked in an oven, will light more quickly than wood when used to kindle a fire. To keep the light of oil lamps !akar/ the burners ett011ld be boiled eisery month in water with a %rap of soda in it. Always cover newly baked bread with 'a clean cloth—preferably an Charadei. Character is made up of small duties faithfully performed, of de- nial, of self-sacrifice, of kindly acts, of love and duly. The backbone of character is laid at home, and whe- ther the constitutional tendeneies be good or bad, home influences will, as a rule, fan them into ac- tivity. Kindness begets kindness, and truth and trust will bear a rich harvest of tratkand trust. There are many trival acts of kindness which teach 110 more about a man's character than many vague phrases. He—That woman I see you with so„ often looks very sad. Is she un- happily married? 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