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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1913-07-03, Page 6er Great Love; Or, A Struggle For a Heart ClriaFTEH VIII.-(Cont/d). Gaunthanded him the rod, but, Bobby shook head determinedly. ' Not much! You hooked Imn, and You ought to land him. lt's a beauty! here, Decie; come and see your first trout be- ing killed. This /gentleman s hooked, the beggar, I have been trying for for ever sO hong.' Beeline., ran up and etood watchhig the ,businies, little ,guessing, the skill With which Gatint was Playing the big trout, but nnderstauding enough of the oper- ation' to share in lobby's 'excitement. "Oh; what ,a .splendict,fellowr,, she ox- , claimed; as..,Gaunt .brought him to the bank and Bobby _slipped the net under -, "Thank You," said Vaunt, heading the Bobty laughed. "Tom throw a beautiiul -fly i sir," he. said. "Are you 'staying here? If so, 'I'll aek Bright -the steward -to "give You 520- 1oS1011 to fish. Halloo! 'here he is!" he broke off ae a short:thick-set mem, with , pleasant, good-humored face, came round' the , hill. "Ili. Bright! how are , you?' Just look at this 8sh!' This is my sister. Decimaq. this is ltr: Bright. Tho gentleman caught him. Why, what's the matter?" he broke off; for, -Mr. Bright's face, as he -turned to 'the stranger;" had grown red, with surprise and delight, and raisinhis hat, he came, forward weth an eager exclamation of-, • OHAPTEIVIX. • For an instant, nut an instant otllY, Gaunt looked annoyed and,emberraueed, so he shook hands with the steward. "H.B ow do you do, right?" he said. "Taken you by surprige, you :no." Behbi etaree, then' 'emitted a low whistle, and grinned. But Ikeiran,'e face wore no smile. It went' red for a I110. ment, then very 'pale, and her eyes sought Gaunt's, then bid themselves under tneir 'long lashes. This man, to • whem she bad been abus- ing Lord' Gaunt, was Lord Gaunt him- self! Humiliation, shame, aud"oonfusion fell- upon her and seized her in their clutchee while one could count twenty; then something like resentment and an- ger took their place; and she drew back and turned her face away. But sho.could hear Lord -Gaunt talking eteadily and slewly as if to afford timo for the em- iassment pass. . "Yet; I should have written to -say X i might have found some excuse for eino- was coming, Bright, but' 1 -well, I didn't tion at Eight of itis grandeur. To De- anna it seemed as if it had been .cut from the frame of Borne old peeture, or were a realization of it description she had read in ono of the county histories. The walls, running to the vaulted roof, wore covered with- oak black with ago, with portraits of dead and" gone flaunts smiling or frowning from the panels. A group of tattered and smoke -grimed gags drooped from a spot near the ceiling; mep in armor stood out at intervals, and trophies of weapons gleamed dully in the vari;colored light that rioured through the great stained window. A. huge fire -place yawned on one- elde; with a hear, so beautifully eet up that it looked alive; rearing on its haunehes beside it, It wee so very. alert- and fierce - looking ,that Decinia4-almost atart:i as be caught Eight • of it. Leopardand lion shine were spread. Upon the palinhed parquet floor, and an eagle stretched Its •broad wings and roared its head from the ten of an antique case, through the glees _doom of which a collection 'of Rome gtitterod , and. shone brightly. The place seemed crammecl with curios and bric-a• brae, and indicative of luxury and wealth and rank; but over it all hung a kind of gloom, the air of melancholy* whin' every place, however rieh, inevitably wears when it has-been long deserted. "Xt is very grand!" eaid Decima, and she spoke in quite a hushed voice. Gaunt opened a door on the left and stood aside to let her pees in. It was the big dr awing.room , large and magnificent enough for a state apartment. The dec- orations were tarniehed with age, and offered relief to' the ancient tapestry with which a greater portion of the room was hung. Beyond, and beyond it again, wero other rooms, all equally large, and all very fine in form end coloring. At the end a pair of tall glass doors opened to the palm -house, in which paints reared their heads thirty feet high,. and were surrounded by mm mailer tromil ilante and form. A marble nymph rose, Llte Aphrodite, from a fountain in the center; but the fountain wae etill, and no water flowed from the upturned sho'l she held in her whito'hand. The gloom and sadness of desertion wero here also, and the white cal:co cov.' erings with which the superb furniture was shrouded gave the place a ghostly appearance. Deekna stood in the center of the room and gazed about hat, and Caunt stood near her, and 'looked not at the room, but at her. Suddenly she shivered slight- lyno went to one of the windows,,,and with a hasty, almost angry, gesture -tore aside the long heavy curtains which - screened it, Instantly a flood of sunlight poured into the -room liglning up the gold of the decorations and picture- framee, and falling in to golden torrent over Decima. Gaunt turned and saw -not the sudden. 13, brightened room, but this fe.rre face and form glorified by the inn -night Ile started slightly, andsoreethi, g -he knew not what -went the blood rushing to his face. It resumed its ordinary Puller al- most Instantly. and he was' grave and eoleposeeseed, as usual, as Tracima turned 20 him with a emile. That is what it wants -the sunlight!" site said, ,nodding ...brightly. "Only the eualight.', "And human voices and faces," said Mr Bright, nodding also. "Tin eorry you ehould find the place thut, my, lord, but-.' Gaunt made a gesture of repudiation. "All me fault. Bright," he' said. "Bit it ellen have the ennlight and the rest. Will you come up te the picturagallery,,Miss Deane?" ife led the way up the bmtd sta'rs, and they reached the long corridor which ran round the hal). It was lined, cram- med,. with pictures, forming a col/Gegen which -Bobby. rightly deecribed as priae- less. Ono of. the Ga,unts had taken the "picture mania," and the Lentmore lery was the result. If le not bY any means the woret,,form of madnees. "We've taken care of tho pictures, at any rate," said Mr. Bright. "X have to thank Mr. Deane for some hints in re, gard to their preeervetion. It was at his. suggestion that these" -he nodded at sev- eral -were glassed in," "X am very grateful," Bald Gaunt, quiet- ly. "I hope your kindly. interest Won't cease, Deane." ' Bobbo . flushed'with, amour° at the words, the tone, tind, mooteof all, at the friendly "Deane.' - -"Oh, it waa like rny cheek," he said; "and I expect you' know more about.theur "Let u,s say that a whisper froni my geed' angel reaelied my ear. There is 0 go, d angel at every man's shoulder, isn t there?" , Deoima glanced at him. with grays re. bele. ' "There are alwaye a good one and a bad' one," she said. 4 ' "We'll wieh you good-afterneon, Lord Gaunt,:' said Bobby. Gaunt held out his hand, then drew- it back. "I wonder whether you and Miss Doane world be SO kind as to come up to the house with me?" he eaid. 'To tell you the truth, I rather brink from ite lone- liness; there will bo an accusation, a re - _preach in it, which will bethard to bear; and Mr. Bright won't bully me -he can bully torriblY when he likee, Mien Deane --if you are bY. He'd -be too ,polite." Mr. Bright beamed on them, and laugh- ed. "Ob, pray come!" he. "All right," said Bobby, laying down his rod. "Caere on, Decii." ) 'Deciina beeitated a moment, while Gaunt" watched her gravely, then she in. elined. her ,head. They , Went up the bill and along the avenue, Gaunt and.„Deeinia ia front, and Bobby and. Bright behind: Gaunt looked about .hini silently for, W-111102if01111 or two, then he midi.. "These trees want thinningi and. the road needs a dozen men at work on • As they reached the -broad atone lead- ing' to .-the terrace, he ran .his cye cori tomplatively along the front of the house. "It looks dezerted enough," he uaid, more to himself than to Doeirna. "Poor Bright, what, he must have suffered!" But you will not, let hint suffer any longer?" said Deanna. "You -you will have it put right?" "Yes," he replied; "wo will have the old -place swept and gerniebed." He turned on the top alop and Moved his hand toward tho view, It was a magnifieent one of far-streteli- ins meadow and fir -clad hills, on the sides of Which, in little cleaTings, nestled the homesteads of the farms. • "011, it is beautiful!" exclaimed Decimn, under her breath. ' Gaunt nodded, ansi they entered the hall, the great doorof which a .wonian had opened, and at which she atood court- egying nervouely. Docima looked &Mad the vast place with a kind of awe. The hall at Leaf - more is 0110 of .the fineet in England, and a more experienced person than Deeima, make up my. mind until the last mo- ment" . • "Delighted to see you, my lord," said , Mr. 'Bright, "node(' or no notice. Of course I should have preferred a abort Warning. The house -well. I'm afraid the house Is scarcely fit to reCeiTO you." "That's all right,"...eaid Gaunt. "I shall not stay- long; half, an hour." Mr, Bright looked at Bobby- and De- . dom. "This is Mr. Deane, -of The .Woodbines, a neighbor of your, my lord/2 -he said. Lord Gaunt held out hie hand'to 'Bobby, upon whose face the grin still fliokered. "Very glad to make your acquaintance, Mr. Deane," he said. "Tlianks," eald Bobby; "and "I'm'aisid - to be able to thank you for thre, PermiS- e'en 20 fish, This is my Meter. Decline." Lord .Gaunt went up to Decime, who stood perfectly still and Without making 10115, response • to the in frodaction. "I can not hope -for forgiveness this thne!" he said -in a low voice, unheard by Bbbby and Bright, who Were for their part 'dieouseing the strangeners of Lord Gaunt's sudden and unannounceti v sit. "But yen will admit that the temptation to conceal myself was very strong. If Mr. Bright . had . not turned up, I 'Mould have got away withefit ,your learning that I was the 'heartless' owner of Leaf - more." • The tears of vexation, were very near Ttecima's eyes. ' ' "It does not matter," elle said, with a little, a very little, catch in her breath. "It does not matter in the very -least. But -but I think you might have stopped me when I was talking of you yourself, not knowing. that,' -that you were Lord Gaunt." "I might," he said; "but it wonld have 'given inc pain to reveal mytelf; and - well, we men all shrink from palm you .... know. However, you said nothing that, was unfeet or uncharitable; and if it will commie you, let One assure you that the truthe you uttered have done me eoine good. For, once, at any rate, I have eeen myself as others sec Inc." - Decline, gnawed her lip eoftly. "Are yen still-inocking Inc?" she eaid; and there wae 'something in her voice which brought the color to Gaunt's Tam "Mocking yen?" he andel, and hie voice rang deep _and low and -full of pain. "Great,' heaven!. don3 Yeu Bee that I am burning with shame at my cowardice? that 5 would now give the world if I had had the pluck *to own up? Mv dear young lady, them is no.mockorg of You in my inind; nothing but respect for your denunciation, .nothing but- How can I convince you. prove-" . Mr. Bright approached. "Will you come up to -the Hall, mY lord? I have so much I should like CO say, and -and-you said something -about half an • hour." He ended regretfully. ' 'Lord Gaunt was looking at Deeima's averted face. Ho turned hie eyes to the ground, and, at last, as if ,he were awak- ening -from a brown study, and had,come to s sudden resolution, he raised his head and said, -quietly: "I will come to the Hall, Bright. _X can't give you moze than half an heur to-clav but I shall be down in a -few "DoWn ?" said Bright, with a flush of eagerness. "Do you mean that -that?" Gaunt nodded. •"Yes," he said, "X am C.0113/11ff to stay at Leafmore.' "Lord Gaunt!" exclaimed the deyotal steward, .altnoet breathlessly. "You -you are 00111illg tO live here, to stay?" "Yes," said Gaunt, glancing at Deoima, "X sin going to live here. The place has • been neglected boo long; it is Com I set- tled down, atut looked after things; the -tenants and the people on the estate, and all that. 'fire'll See if we can't carry out • some of thew 'improvements yen have been worry -Wanting me to see about." Bright looked as if he were inclined to cry with joy and satisfaction, and there was eurprise in his face- aleo. "I -X heard iron:I:Belford Se, Lan; the • lawyers, that your lordeliip had booked a passage for Africa," he can, "So I had,;,,the vessel sails the day after to -morrow. But I've changed my and' she'll sail without me." . • "That is good news, my lord," said, Bright. "There'll hb rejoicing in the vit. lege when they hear you are going to settle down." "Beally,?" said Gaunt, wills a grMi. smile. "That sounde strange." , • Ile-Nlrow, nearer to 'Decirim. "Have -proved the sincerity bf my , remorse,- of my e'desire for reformation, • Mike Deaner' he -amid in`,..a low: voice.:' Decline. turned her, eyes to- his'. he 500 43triii a little palerbut there ,w,co the light of pleasure shining in her eYem, and her lips were rather tremulone. , Sold In sealed Head ' ,packetd only—never in bulk. In this way, you aro always gua- ranteed a. delight-, Tea with all its freshness, strength and flavour per- fectly preserved. BLACk,..MIXED".St GREEN. "Indeed-, but you can," he said. "I shall want no end of &civics even all the ben- evolent schemes Mr. Bright is Itatching. I know nothing of the people'e .;wants.': "And I?" "Being a women, Will know all=by a woman's instinct," he said. "I cotint upon you, Miss Doane. In lad, I shall eousider that I am entitled to oomo to you -for advice and assistaues--_,and' pro- tection -the moment Mr. Bright begins - his assault. Shall X count in vain!, Doeinia-,looked from side to sidei. then- • raised her eyes to his face. "It sounds nonsense," she said. "But - but, yee, X wiD help you. But you will not iiedti me,". He wag silent a mament, then he said, very quietly: , thirds --I 11212 sure -I Shalt need you; and I will come and ask your -father 'to permit' yeti to render' me your . The -elnek, in the -turret struelf the hotir hotirselY:tand Itcrbby, who had been etadY- ins , a -Milting group With keen interest, started: "1 055,, Docie, we shall, bave to makt; a rush for it, if we aro to be home in time for dinner." "I will order a carriage," said Gaunt; Ilion he laughed grimly. "I forgot. There is no carriage. But there Shall be the next time you come, Misa Deane." • They wont down etaire to -the door, and Dosima lie/d out her hand. "Am I forgiven?" he said, no he teak it iu his, and hie eyes sought hers grave- ly. "Yee, quite!" she said, frankly. "Good- bye, and thank you ,for ehowing us the house." He did not utter -the conventional res - 'pease of "Thank you for coming," but as he shook hands with Bobby, said: "I hope we shall .see a groat deal ..of each. other, Deena." (To be continued.) ONE ON THE DURE. The Duke of Argyll, at the open- ing of a recent exhibition in Lon - :don, beca,me much interested in a particular make of chimney pet, de- signed to stop smokiness, and, turning to the attendant of the Stall, asked him to send one• or two of theente his houee in' Scotland. , "CortaMly, sir," .saisl the' man, net recognizing his dovidy-looking- custonier. "What nem° -and ad-, elrees,?" • • "The -Duke el Argyll, Rose- neath," said the Duke. "Yes, sir; what name?"' asked the man again, whereupon, his ease "No,",,said Gaunt. "I like them, 'but- Inc afield -I've. boon indill'orent." ..eyes followed Decline, as BIli1 /110V0c1 along 'the long- line, „ !'Are you fond of ar,t,.. Miss Deane?" he asked, '1020g tip her:• "Oh, Yef41.W)10 110t2" Hil.1(1.00A1013, you love pieturtm. But I don e. know .erg h, 15 47, er,,,,efiii,IY;s1.4trug•llt9a,„4.t03.-„Yn-gto,f,..-1,-, multi abbutl tliem, though Aunt Pauline readiriese to forget. and forgiVe, and a had me tacsghb t° (11'" paint' W0111.11'11 delight at lia-ving her •» way', .1 read' CalaaiUgllaal 'aad'aaaldn': knnt • "Really and truly;...on your. honerl You ikealadli-inthe.thl,..ter6illiiise°°11151',..6thilio'o'autnt,Wrya.1....', won't, run away again mnd Mr. Bright and all the pcor ,peoPle • ahd twe,ittbgo ,the, Nat:onai .clialle,ty; who W ,- ill be ee glad, , ho says, to' *orthat know eonie?..Of ‘thee'-pctures; neenuee you have come back?" ' , ' have read of 'them How proud slim must "Really and truly, en myl honor," he e, ,91 Seem 5' „ Caid, 11d.th a faint siulle. ; I suppose T ought to be, he sem. , laugbed it Misr, •sonly''i'1tn a wonder whether you will come with Pointed Peragrtiplue, puzzledk , loocame, into her ,eyee: Your Broblier Tee thean--oPten, when- • . "wtlmindy so you-wh at made" yen' nge ever ca"n 2 , Get the blunt .iintli,tc'sm'in Your --e. 1'41' d ,tudacnly wita d s, „ tt , • eld a el""V" fra"k a"" isitscent (a16'17.47h' • Bobby He '.sho.cili hie hoed, aud.'em-iled -at her • 1,6 .1,5- • „atalogue " , . l' "Hpon 71-15, 'word, I doult,kning," k'aid. The Duke of Argyll. S/411+-"WWWW11041011106.1"11.4".... Do not use soap in'-waehing win- dows. Clear warm Water with a little kerosene or ammoniaadded ill give a high polish. • ' 'Don't forget, to stop the clocks When going away -for the summer • it is bad for the springs if they are allowed to run down. , _ It is best -to clean windews on a 'cloudy day, Jas the alinshine, dries the watee too quickly, and the Win- dOW is 'apt- to be streaked. Summer bedspreads should-- be. made of material easily; washed. Nothing ii prettier ,than the inex- Pensive dimity or madras. . Never turn your faucets on With a jerk. ". Turn slowly and gently when turning"the water on or off. The faucetsewill-wear twice as long. To tablespoonfulof paraffine mixed with a bucket of boiling water, with'which tables are to be se -rubbed will Make them beauti- fully -white and smooth: The fleyer oflernonade will be im- proved if for.. Part of tlee.sweeten- ing loaf sugar rubbed over the peel of the lemons is used. In making an eggnog, beat up the egg light with the milk—three-quar- ters ef a cupful of milk to an egg is the usual priniortion—and add a pinch salt, sugar to taste -and a little nutmeg for flavoring. Then add the white beaten to a stiff le.eseesesseeeeseeeee•rwerea Choice IleeePes• •Bacon Gnet-VY on ToaSt.—Cuttup one-half Pound bacon ....into small bits and fry brown.: Add oneehalf cup of hot water, two cups Of -milk,- a small piece of butter and season- ing. Add- sufficient flour tomake thick .gravy. Pour over the toast. Frosted Currant. -,Take large,' perfect bunches of red and white currants, Wash carefully ancl when dry dip in the beaten 'white of egg to which it little cold water has been added, Drain then roll in -pow- dered sugar, or sprinkle the sugar evenly ever, the currants. Lay them on a colander to dry. , Rim and fried Green Pepperee--- Boil rice and turn it into a •veget- able dish. Cut' green peppers into rings—remove the seeds—and soak 'the ,peppers in salted watey for half an hour. Then.drein, and fry them in butter, Arrange the pepper, rings on top Of the rice and turn over them the butter in which they -were cooked. Cover and place ein the oven foe five Minutes,hen ekrvo. - Fruit Canapes. --Use „the.,iponge cake, that NVIiI3 left sfroin" ffiniday's sap-Per=eut in- sqnares Saute ie butter;- on, both 'sides. Spread cooked fruit on each piece; make as -thick sauce' of thesfruit ink° by adding- ariewroot ▪ "the 'hot' juice and pour over the ,canapes. Siberia& Saupe.—Stir together one teaspoon chopped pimento, three of 'grated horseradish, one of mixed mustard,/ one- • teaspoon - of sugar and a little salt. Add suffi- cient vinegar to cover and serve with cold meats. - floilcd Lettuee.—Cut away the thick stalks from four or five heads of lettuce and boil the leaves in salted water for fifteen minutes. Turn put into a, pan of cold water, drain and chop. -Return to the fire, add a cupful or more of white silica and when quite hot stir in the well -beaten yolks of two eggs. Cranberry and Nut Salade-Cut into dice a sufficieht quantity of cranberry jelly. Sprinkle with chopped. walnut meate. and -pile. lightly on a, bed of lettuce leaves. Cover with Mayonnaise dressing. Rice Pudding (St-ade from cold boiled ,rice.) -s -Break up two cupfuls of cold boiled 'rice, „so that it will be,lree from lumps. Add one table; spockful melted butter„sone table - spode sugar, a good pinch el salt and the beaten yolks of three-ev-gee.,„ Stir in two eups of flour to which has been added one heaping tea- spoonful Of 'baking powder. Beat all together until smooth, flavor' eith orange and, the last thing, fold in the stiffly beaten -whites of • the three eggs. Put in' a- buttered baking dial and bake until it is well set. Se33,,e' plain or evitle'•et fruit tomer had to explain exactly who he was. As he. went away, the ven- dor of chimney pots wae heard to say: 'Lord, I took him fOr hotel.; keeper, and The Duke of Argyll' as the name of his 'pub,' " — o .. Grains of Gold. It is well there is no one"withoub a fault, for he wciuld..not have a friend in the world.—Healitt. The nearer pne „gets to God ' the more good one can ancl will clo fo1. his felkw-men.—R. W. Barbour, There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking ab the root,' -+Scottish , Dream , not fiat any of you will ever obtain nternal Life. unless, yon have- alreaelsereceived it in this life. 1 -Art excellent' way; to 'extract the juice 'from an onion is to out the onion, press it firmly_ against a grater, .and then, draw . it up and down. The juice 'will drop slowly 'fresh oneeeorner elthe grater. • , If you are mixing a pudding or cake with a wooden spoon, beat the mixture with the back of the speen. It is far easier and becomes beauti- fully light in half the time. When' 'a kettle is badly burned, do not fill it with water, but set it aside to cool, thdn put in a hand- ful of washing soda and water and allow it to boil -for an hour or more. - To wash an eiderdown quilt, place the quilt in a, lather made with hot water, soap jelly, and a, little liquid ammonia. Soak it for ten minutes, then souse it until perfectly clean. Rinse in two clear, waters to which a little- ammonia, has been added, pass through a wringer, shake well, and hang to dry, shalcing several timds while drying. To clean a light suit, brush the suit thoroughly, Then rub it over with a slightly damp cloth. Make a paste of Fuller's earth and water, and spread carefully over- the soil- ed parts. Leave -the suit till thor- oughly dry, then brush off the pow- der, with a stiff, perfectly clean brush, ' If' all men had to earl' all they lived upon they would know better how to, use:money and haw to save Barauel Bar-ro.d. If' One' "„advances ,confedently in tha. direction of hit drew's, anclee- cleavOrs tO live the life .whiCh hat imegined, heemilleifeet With ee .sucenese, uneXpeeted irfe.:Cominen horirs•-‘-ffilioteen:•,)2'. The die&-VeryS'Of hannitiese..'„m4,. ebe the great- a,bri, of wi,ed•Sen; 'and we needs neuest ehappyenne „Selves hefoee we can know that Nisi.' .dosrie its(elf : contains • ialLeegifetein. Ogling Shoes For. Everybody TFIE riERFECT Slit)t FOR §g P/414 OFORTs e ilifSeiel le;r4 (1.011 said." , -,t;knoW whore .11, W'a viit find it, -shan-f ley -hands full, I can see, , Weft 011,- with-. a. (31„1/ge, half listless, halt 'anin'sed.' 'There will bti :.good deal to dh. There are the 'tenants and- the -...people -011, the. eSta,t0 1 they will want looking' .after. Mr. Bright has -I can eeelikiii his eye --all sorte,Of unlimpeg itud plans foi, Pew schools and„c'ettages and yillage hospitals:" He paused a me- :neut. ''T wonder-,., He slopped again. 'M/116 DoUne, tlee'lt it, -occur 11,0 ',VDU t13 11.t V01.1' 011/1t. 10 Mr Boma of • the respon- L o. -blip, poerft. ,* •'• • Pen.Y.i-vo maide iha.y devalop'.inte exi? ert siva wiveS.1 , :Hen frequently aree Visions-1dt the. 'blonde ,6r15„rienetteityPee. ''." ' , ongaiecl (monde se don't !slight your friends+. gneeit. traVelfe Jilt AiVraVe throwe lo'n the., iglisSpeedleyer.' •, When fidlign'egete. 'busy .facts be; come asharnseNef'etheinSelveS. Many a nifiaineerelysitalee .hisi t•be, , . , ses sale Denima, with open-eyed eur. -whon 111,18E4. 43.6.,,Esu,b eTe beet eeet "yeas im said, graVely, --but wrth a forward, , touch of banter ,.in his oyes. 'It ,was :NUT censure of the absent amd heart- less owner whiolt led turl to; decide on etaame 'pore. Yekeineet+ beer some of the httPdoll 'Whip „Will fa, upon. mo 20 eVewjapues, Tiet onif fair." . e color roan • Deernm's face. 2hsogid" P 99414 ne41 )I-91' Date Gems.---Sfft together two enps,fieftir, twoeteatpoons .baking powder, one-hali tea,spoon cinna- mo-n one-half teaspoon ginger and a little salt. Heat one-half cup ino-, lasses and a tablespopn butter in a sauceelan until the butter melts. Then stir in the dry ingredients, alternating with one-half a cupful of milk until it is well blended, Now add one cureftfl of chopped dates which have been liberally sprinkle.d with (leant' Bake in butteredenuffie tins for half an hour. Carrot Puree.—Peel and slice sev- eral good-sized carnote. Put them in a saucepan with minced onion and two tablespoonfuls of dripping. Cover' closely and cook until the carrots are tender. Then add one quart of 'stock, pepper an,d salt and cook for fifteen minutes. Put all through the vegetable press and serve very hot. Baked Rash Balls With Mint.— he lamb -which was left from Mao - day's -dinner may be used for these. Mince fine and add some chopped leaves of ,fresh mint, pepper a-nd lt and the yolks of tNvo eggs. - b 1 Parc into a s and .p one an a a s- ing dish, Pour a teaspoonful of melted butter over each and- bake in a hot oven about ten minutes. Garnish with Sprigs ef mint. Meat Fritters.e-eMake a good rich fritter batter' and add one cupful .or more of minced meat to it, Fry as you would any frittera,. Spitler Corn Bread.—Grease the bottom and sides of an iron spider, then melt two tablespoons of but- ter in it. Beat together two ens, two tableapoons suga,r, two mins milk, one cup, cornmeal, eneehall cup of flour mixed withea, teaspoon baking powder and one-half tea- spoon salt. Pohl. into the spider, but do not stir., Pour over, this one cup ef milk; 'bake about half an hour in telloCoven.; When suffie ciently neekidelt should he;ye a. stresalc of Custard -through the cen- A BIT FLIGHTY IS PflINCESS RALEIGH'S "SIONErPITCH." .What Asphalt,Was Eligst Discovered ill Trinidad. Lave may.laughiabsthe,slopkamethe b wilk,refuee treSeenile, oy,er 21 luck of: woman'e. hair,-.' • • , , Success comee to a fsW ne in spite al .,ourssIveilt • . --- • DARE DEVIL FEATS OF TB. S RUSSIAN WOMAN. A Wild Aviator, and Safety Doesn't Appear, to Make Any Ap- peal to 'ler. Princess Shalchovskoy and her teacher, the Russian Veeveled Ab- ramovit'eh, fell the ether day 'in their +Wright biplane when, flying at ,Joharinisthal, writes, a Saint Petersburg correspon,d,ent. The princess fell on her head and, since she 'ore a :safety helmet, got off - without injury, but. Abramovitch is lying at the, p.oint of _death. Thereby is dissolved, a, remark- able flying partnerehil—perhaps the most remarkable that has ever been known. ,Sir Walter Raleigh was probably the first white Man to discover the existence of ii,--sphalte in Trinidad, declares Mr.- A. E. Aspinall in his book, "The British 'West Indies." He left England on February 6, 1595, and after • coasting by the Grand Canary and touching at Ten- eriffe, directed his course sfor Trin- idad. He arrived there on mara eenti, and cast anchor. at "Point Clutia,pan, which the Spaniards call Pilule...de Gallo." After remaining there foul: or five days, he visited at plaCe called Par- ico, and ."From thence I rowed to another port, called by the naturals Piche, and by the Spaniards Tierra de Brea. . . . At this point . , there is that abundance of stone -pitch, that all the ships of the world may be therewith loden from thence, and we made trial of it in trimming our shippes to be mosteexcellent good, and melteth not with the Sunne as the pitch of Norway, and therefore for ahippes trading the south parts very pro- fitable. ' The commercial possibilities, of the lake were overlooked until 1805, when Admiral Sir Alexander Coch- rane sent two ship -loads to Eng- land. This experiment was not suc- cessful. Later, Sir Ralph Wood- ford, go•hrnor of Trinidad, tried to hie the asphalt for paving a public square of the city. The -result was surprising. The asphaltum mixed with the &oil, and made the grasa grow !floret luxuriantly. Years went on, and the wonderful deposit was put to little or no practical use until 1864, when the late Henry A. Geeig visited Trinidad, and formed a partnership with a local sugar - Planter for exporting the pitch. The new company „quickly got poases. sion of individual leases. of the lake, and eet about digging and shipping the substance. When the government decided to secure a revenue from the deposit, A. L. Barber, who .baci. been de- veloping, the a,sphalt paving busie nese of the United States, secured a-, conceieion of the whole lake of • 118 Mires for a, peAod of twenty- one' yeairs, paying an exPort duty of, five shillings it tonseande'hroy- ealty of one shilling eights pence on a tninimum export of 30,000 -tons of aephalt a year. At'the sametime, Mr. Barbee formed the Trinidad Apalannyhalstti101oconinPtArlsonl, the that" cep, s e enterprise ; -E,1311-0).,-.4.-"Witle a double biecuit cutter °tit. riagesout ofeelices ,Of'stafie'bread:- •Toast...or fry deep data,niee browre- Diepose down the Center of , a platter' and place a ithleepeon of drearadd abieken ring of bread: G,arriish with Stitniner •Salad,Ciit into einai,1 pieces 411y cold vegetable eklaich Yon may hev1. i3ring ,leee,i3S,-"e1Sgalre•gf,163.. ;OAS...) pOtittbeii beeta, tordatdesecii-• • eninlooree: "et*: • ; ,Mix they . Will lief lb esente :en :and: dieSS,Witlt; Ffencle Things Worth Hnoiving. .: -To. rennive' seiireli.,.statit, wet it and- expose let the ,sunehine. • It. ie. ivOrtli:While40 add the White of -an ,egg to.the., pot, of 4,:0001gt., ,Alpinoh of Elds :added -to ,a'berry loko:h041-'e ▪ erwitis' puti - on, 1vili epr, it ..froni,:r tinning Oyer.: drOltren, hang: theitt'.;ever n cod ltaii-g0..110, they',W4-Cdiy: eiceenly.40.7 bang 'Much' straiggey: • ;rgo etnef,y:PiPsrAnthe eentee and draw *Jib ),cbifb.'ksipidly"sleaele-.andi forth: ' Princess Shalchovskoy is, the wild aviator who for morithe Past • has been oscillating betweesn Saint Pe- tersburg and Berlin, bent on mighty feats. She wants tee fly around the world. 'To fly, that is . as. antomobiles fly, erossing the oe.,eams on a For a long time she had to 'wres- tle with her.first teaeher and come rade,' Abramovitch, -whom she wanted to. „take. round the world with her, because he. argued that the ob.staele was Siberia, where petrol and benzine are scarce: The .princess &dared that she would make depote. in a.dva,nee all along the Siberian railroa,c1, and flea aht, could cross Siberia in a -Month, and, America in a fortnight. That was, she said, taking it easy. She wanted to. start from Moscow and to.' covor Siberia the hardest , part oe thejourney, first. Holds the Record. Vsevolocl Abrainovitch was not in shy sense such an optimist as the princess. "Who will -repair our machine in Siberia if it comes, a cropper 7" he asked. • "That can be done," said:the-ire- perturbable princes's. "You forget that I hold the reeord." And, in fact,. the 23 -year-old princess does hold the record—the Russian record, that .is,—for flying high'in company of e passenger. . ^ Johannisthal, , near Berlin, _where she flies round in dangerous- ly narrdw ;circles, Shakhovskoy is knoarfias ".dte wilde Fuerstin," the wild princes's. She got that „nick- name by the daring 'way she learn- ed to fly. When she arrived there from Saint Petersburg she could not fly at all and had only been twice- up in an aeroplane. But the third time she went up she idsisted on steering the machine herself, and nearly broke her own and her c•om- panion's neck by getting faint at it Fritical turn., Now she is the best women avia- tor ia Europe and. can perform ex- ploits in (hiving over and under stretched ropes that would baffle many skilled men ilyees. - When husband Prince Peter Sha.khovskoy heard of his wife's ex• ploits he was horrified. The wild princess inereesed his horror by an- nouncing that she would go to poli' to drop bombs on the BerberS in Italy's sa,ei7a,c1+ cause. She weuld do this ehe said, because -she was educated in Italy and loved the Italian race. Prince Sha,khovskoy Was highly wrathful, but 'all he tould do was to stop his wife's albowance, and that he did., Her Husband. ' . Thronged. Ile& straight, end...narrow paellist -neyer' so crowded that - a ery- 'der ngei:'.of being josl):ans 1medoult_ionf Prince Shakhovskoy is a rich landed proprietor, .who was once aide-de-camp to Tsar Nicholiee II. Ile 'got into trouble, for marrying the wild princess, who is partly jewieh by blood. The wild princess was always wild, and that was how she won her husband. She cap- tured him at. Naples, 'by dancing on the flat roof on the Officers' Club. The prince [sacrificed all foe lov-e, 'and within three menthe the had to secrifice th.e love also, for the black- eyed princess vowed that the a•ris- tocratic life in the Sergayetielcy street was too tame, and that she would go bear shooting. She left the prine.e and went bear e.h.00ting in Volog.da province. A bear bit her hand, and this SO displeased her that ehe dispatcherthim with a knifiend- ing this Irwork tame, see re- solved Iso become an .axiater, a, pro- fessional aviator who sv.6iilet worry her huaband for fends- 110-IllOrg; And an aviator ,oho has become, Ab Johannistlial the wild prin- cess performe strange feats, Spine arc unsafe. Once, after her teactiee skbramo- vitch rern.onstrated vainly, she took two inexperienced officees up in a gale. „Another day she flew high over the Teraplehef Field to enriethe. nau, a.„ forest, of high houses in South Berlin. --When sha was flying over theemain road her motor gave outandnehe nearly had to descend on, stenp honeetops, On AIIOULIIII Occasion she new dowit a narrow lane Of pine trees near johannisehal, where the least swerve, to right or left would have.crushed her into the treee. The wild princess is the, admired of Prince Henry of Pruseie. Henry is a sportsman; he has repeatedly Sailed in Zeppelin, airships., and he has taken lesee.ne in driving an aeroplane. Lase fall the wild prieto. case and he flew together, The evikl priiice,se is by speech dictatorial and ruelo, anti dee later seperted to the johannisthal of11- eerf3 'Sexy unfavorably oneHenry as an. aeltoplane man, As+ Henry is a full admiral ,ancl the johanniehhal offieers ,ate meetly juriior navy men, this made trouble, „ • Then the 'wild peincees jearne,yed 01.6+014 and gave I-Ienry there rroof , , Young Wife—How; clo-I know you stifilove me• Yoking Ifitb-=–I Stayed hen* from ball' 'gaine to take, Yon to a basket ' lyfre,eojqaitlWhat-T party do : She had !4net1911i breakdown es, it Was bound tsa coine, epexg$ es fi 93+. • COMPAN9.011 TOR.p.0,0A;,;,„0" MOST PERFECT MADE THE 'INCREASED NUTRITI- OOS.VACUE OF BREAD MAIltE IN THE HOME WITH ROYAL YEAST CAKES SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO TH`E CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE TO GIVE THIS IMPORTANT FOOD ITEM THE ATTENTION TO WHICH IT IS JUSTLY. EN - HOME BREAWBAKING RE- DUCES THE Hos COST OF LIV.ING BY "LESSENING THE AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVD MEATS REQUIRED TO sue - PLY THi NECESSARY Nowv- ISHMENT TO THE BODY.. E. W. GILLETT CO." LTD. TORONTO; ONT WINNIPEG MONTREAL. fine exhibition of flying en 0 prin- cessly way. In Russia the wild prineess is the' first woman, to take up aviation. She tried to get other women to take it up. First she started an association for women axle -tots and got Countess Scheremotieff, Mine. Elise Gotha -toff, Mlle. Desyatinsky and several other ariStocratic wo- men to join. From this .startecl Ladies' Flying Club. - The club lasted a month. • The wild princess flew so high and so daringly with her guests that they were th,oroughly frightened, and they .decieled to leave tieing alone. kidnapped a Fop. , Next the -wild princess kidnapped is. certain Mueller-Grigorieff, the curled darling and .regimental fop of the Chevalier Guards Regiment, The prineest invited the guardsela to take a seat -beside her whiks the motor WEIS running, arid told him that she did not intend to. fly. Then she 'shouted "Let gel" Sped across e the grass, and rose. The Warrior was carried to euch mortal heights that he got violently air -sick. The officers of the Cheva- lier who, did not love Muel- lereGrigerieff, mad -a prese,ntation to the wild princess. The wild-priimets, is just nawbe-, ing coui•ted violently by German' officers. .They hope that when She gets rid of her rich, -unimaginative prince .she will fly aw.ay with them.. Thc princess la,uglis at this. When, approached in sentintental manner - oho reminds them thet she isnob aereplaning for the sake of her health, "It is my livelihood," she saya. in a queer bass voice. ,Flighey .only in the letrictly aviatorial sense is the wild prine c'"s'ANTS BABE BISCUITS. — • Scientist Discovers Species That • Understands Cookery.' The extraerdina,ry habits of the harvester ant have long been known to naturalists. Certain ape- -cies not -only harvest end seem in granaries the eeeda upon which they Teed, but actually .plant and cultiv.ate ami annual crop of their fend seeds, Still more remarkable stories are bold of an ant that ie common in Dalmatia, the • Messer barbarus. Ac,cording to Dr. Neger of the Dresden Forestry School, thie"a„nt not only. outs leave's and gathers seeds, but no -Wally midses bread or biscnitl The seeds are first eprout- ed, then carried into the sun and dried, then taken back 20 the under- gronnd chambers, where they are chewed into a dough. The dough is then finally Made into tiny +cakes, which are baked in the pun, than. carefully ,stored for future use. . From these obseevatinne it would appear that the art of eookery is not confined to th,e human race. A.# coolcieg• is don.e by 'the son, whether in the ripening of fruit or in the baking ef bread in it stove. 'Iffie beat obtained from fuel, le ,simply stored up sunlight 'set free. 'Ills Arab and the native Mexiosin speak •.of ripe fruit as fruit which'. hie be.eneco.elted in tbe sun. .The ant haa .sorneh-ow learAd the art- of sun eookery, the ,selivaewith whieb it moistens ehe grain probably tak- ing the place of.yeilat and +sweeten- ing thienigh changes set up. by ite influence Upon sta,rch. 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