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011APTER XXVIII.-(Continued).
She ,einptical the glass presently, then
get ap, anti relinet it, and drank again.
The neat spiels soothed her, and after a
niinute.or to elle raised her head and
looked round and laughed to heoll.
"Lady Gaunt!" she muttered. -That
sounds nice. I'ra a lady of ranlit'She
rose and took a Court Guide from the
book -albeit, found ,the page, and road,
aloud, the par:tar:still headed "Gaunt'
"De's aU this -and I'm Ida wife!" she said
to herself, gleeting over the information
and history of the name, the description
ofAinunt's residenee. "By Jovel 111 have
a good time! n1 euiee myeelf .ivith the
best of - them! And I'll have my revenge,
too r' Ger White even teeth clinched to -
(ether viciously. 0111 make him wish he'd
, noels been born 1" She looked liver her
,,slionider toward the door of the inher
room. and shooktheboek at it threaten-
ingly. "And Morgan, Ill be, even with
him. „III cast him off. Not one' Penny
ahall he have. rll be even with hixnr'
flee rose, and etreeehod her arms above
her head 'with a geeture ,cd relief and sat -
ideation.
"To bare done with the old lifet To be
respectable. come one.a great ladyIt
nOnalds good-good-goodl"
She le.ughed,' and flung herself on the
couch. The.epirits B.be had taken, and the
•renetion after the excitement' of her fury
and paesion, were having their due effeot
upon hart and presently her eyes eloped,
though site wee not Belem), That Gaunt
•'we:s in love with another woman. that oho(
Laura, euepeoted that other woman to
be in the rooms, did net All her with
• wifely indignation. She only. f3aW in the
• feet a meanie of inflicting basalt misery and
torture Upon lthn. She °mild atrike, at
him through title other woman; thee was
all she eared about,
Now. Trevor had dismissed his' eab at
the corner et the street In which the Kam
falone stood. Ite did not need to drive up
to the door, for be knew where Laura wag
going. He got out, paid the cabman, and
stood staring down "the street, at the spot
where she bed disappeared ae she entered
• the labium.
He Was ehaking all over, and his brain
Mau whirling. She—she who had told him
that (the loved Jilin, bad promised to be
his wife-Itadegone alone to another man's
room/
The fact:made hint sick and giddy. Ile
' looked round 'meetly.
There was a public -home at the corner
of the street, and he walked across tole
• asked for a whisky and soda, and lighted
O cigar. ,
The barmaid, as she'eave him the drink,
noticed les deathly pallor and the blood-
shot tree, noticed also that hie band
'shook we he reload the glaze to his lips;
end she eoneleded that he had been drink.
"Looks had, doesn't be?" she remarked
to a fellow -barmaid.
"Yes." the assented. "Hope be ain't go -
to stop and make a tone. I do hate
a row; and led be au ugly customer to
get rid of quietly."
Trevor, though he stayed some time, and
drank lila eraoked, wae quiet enough. The
liquor brought no color to his face,
though bias *wee grew more bloodehot, hut
hie Land became steedier, and as he
'emptied his third lease and went out, be
Sodded mechanically to the two girls, who
had been watching Isim eevertly.
Flinging hie cigar away, he crossed the
'street and wont up the steps of the en-
tranoe 10 Gaunt's Oat. .
The rooms were on the ftret. floor. As so
rule, the porter or a page -bey was in the
lobby, but on Ole occaalon they were ale -
;tent; end Trevor went upstaire without
Seeing any one or being seen.
At the door of Gaunt's fiat he paused,
and fought for ealmnese and self -pone.
. aeon. Then he put out hie handto ring
the eleetzie bell; but as he did aso, he saw
• that the deer wee ajar.
/n her sudden flight at Gaunt's appear -
ante, the maid had unwittingly failed to
.. close the doer after her.
Trevor emiled grimly. All the better!
Re could steal in upon them, upon the
faithless woman anal the partner of her
treneherY. and eoutrunt them• .
Re epuehed the door gently, and valuing
tamough the corridor, opened the drawing -
room door as gently, and entered,
were in his power, under his thumb. But
you did it, lanowing all the time that I
10,Mtl 34M. No," broke from his strained
lime "I .wontt believe it. Tell ;no that you
aro' joking, that You are only saying it to
tease Me Tell ine, Laura."
lie flunk himself on bin kneSaa beside
the couch, and tried to take her hand;
but she ,whipped it behind her. -lie gazed
at her piteously. lie bad. Meant to eon-
dront her, charge her with her faithlees-
nese and. trenehery, anti leave he over-
Whelreed by his scorn; but the eight . of
her, of the beautiful face, the grecefel
figure, 'had dispelled hie rags. Even now
that lie had, heard hor confess, bomb- Of
her duplicity and deceit, of the fact Oat
she had helped to swindle and rob him,
he could dot reeiet tho faeeination !of her
presence, her Voice, r'
"Laura." he said', hoarsely, "I can't be-
lieve it. • No W01,12l0:11-leaSt ed all you --
°maid' de 11, See, dear, I knew you 'ere
joking. You ere saying it to -to try me."
Ire laughed dieeerebently. "Well, I have.
tet rime to it, You bane fake me in."
She looked at, him with unooncealed' con-
"Tou mint be mad' she staid.
euppose. X am," he said, helplessly.
"I -I came here -I followed You to have
it diet With you. 10, break the'engegement,
to oast you o!(; but I caul -•I eant. Even.
thouvh 1 hod you here in Deane's reorne,
Where is he?"
Ile broke oft 'with the abruptneete of e
Man whose mind es in too great a whirl
to act consecutively.
"I don't know," she said; "I haven't
seen him,"
A Hash of hope smote across his misery.
"Tlfen--then you did riot come to -to
meet hi02?" he said. ilutekli, with a ahem,
breath,
"Oh, yes, I did," she said, coolly,
"T.hen it was by that ecoundrel's, by
Morgan's °edam?" be said, elutching at
the hope that aho bad been foreed to some.
$ite nodded.•
"Yea." , -
•"Thank Godl" he breathed, "Laura, for-
give me --forgive all my doubts of you. I
might have known that -that you *would
not, have been so false. Forgive me. I
love you, Laura. Come mvay with me
now—come home. I will proton; you from
Horgan, We Will be married et once."
She shrunk back front him, and ;dared
with cold antauement
"Come with you-anttrry you Why,
'didn't X just tell yen thee, I didn't Imre
for youf that 1 only add What I did, aro-
Iodated to be.. your wife, bee:butes I •was
Hired? You' 111Utit be stark, maw
He put hie hand to hie liot brew, Ine
deed her confutation of bee basement, her
treaehery, head been forgotten foe the
moment, '
"You didn't mean HP" hoesaid. with a
ghastly smile. "You art epeoileg me,
Laura. Come 1"
Mo rose and heild out his arms, and
bent down as if to lift lier frodi the
(touch. She eat up -and pushed him away
from her. -
"Come *with you? Marry you? Not if
there wasn't anetbm• man in the 'world!
/-hate You!?
lie looked at her, the emile dyieg away
on ids Nee, bole eyee dietending.
"You -hate uter
"Yee,",Sheer sued between hteeth.
"I've alwaye hated , you from the first
Why, what is there about you to take any
womane fanty? Look in the slant" She
laughed heartleesly us elm pointed behind
him. "And you were elvtays a hear and'
O savage. Many's the time white you've
talked athout your love and -and touohed
me, that I've had hard work to keep my.
self from crying out. And oven Morgan
sometimee found it difficult to eland you.
If it hadn't been for your money -and /
suppose •thate gone new, or moat ef it?"
"YeB, it's gone," he eald, dully, mech.
anioally.
ile delt and looked like a man in a
dream, a hideous nightmare which para.
lysed him.
She laughed.
"For Heaven's enke, go! Penne-or-or
80106 on! will come in, and there will be
o Ile did hot move, but gazed dewn at her
with his under lop drooping, his eyee va.
cant and expreesionless.
"Po -you Marte? Why don't you go? I've
He loeked round the rem, paused for ft, anewered you Planets, enough. I've told
moment in surprise at ite Meade, theii you that I hate you, and that nething
saw the figure lying on the coueli.• Ile
gvould Induce me ta marry 7011.
VloSed the door noieelesely, turned the "Hothing-would-induee-your 11 amid,
key, mid stole aeroes the room to her,
Cautious though. his movements had aftlir her.
ol Beeldes"--she yawned and steel:oh-
4")enua abo lleavd hint, and. raining bar ed out her arme and looked at the brace -
head, she said! lets upon them --"besides, if were ever
"Oh, You'Ve Some, book, have Yon? eo fond of you, I couldn't. marry you."
te
Yove thought bettermf it?" ewee_eet?" he naked,,,thickly.
Then she BIM who it was, and broke off She laughed.
with a faint 007 0! surprise. "Because / happen to be Married al.
"Oh, Ws your she said, contemPtu- ready.'
He stared at her, anti his lips moved.
He stood and glared down at ner.
Be
,eyes, We /I" he amid. "Wet:it-whet nee inff thv
wasrezpeating her erases again, otter.
to realize. thm
eir eaning..
you doing here? You didn't expect me!" elteeeeeeereeeeadera
• Rio voice was thick and harsh, his lips She nodded.
were [drained tightey,
' She regarded him with cool Meolenee, evo_to nen ?”
era dropped back, her fate pillowed on She /coked round the remitlier .
hand. She laughed. It amused her to Mystify,
"I certainly am not!" she stud.•
"You deceive him.
followed me, I suppoeeP eyee-to him," she said,.
"What are 3,011 doing here?" he repeated; ,Secretly?" ho breathed.
ao if his mind were absorbed by the elms' "Yee, yes, of course,' she autievered, im.
ton.
"Followed me like the Mean man v' Pa"enV17`
" "All --all the time; even when you said
0001" she said. that ,vou loved ;no -promised to be my
"What are yeu-" he said again. • wife?"
She interrupted him with a curt leugie She made a gesture with her hande, as
"What busieess le that of yours?" she If she wore utterly weary of his queetione,
Totor14d. his presenee,
li"iS hand clinched at hie side, Mad' he "Yes. Yes! Olz, for Ileavene sake; 'go,
'20010tened H0n. .• and leave me alone; What's the leo of
l'You can ask me that?; lie said, eoaree- "eying. weeyie, mo? neeee went
ly. "You -you can ask nte that? •But I 10 000 again!
,
don't -event any answer." Sre rose, and ;went Mud him to the Bre-
"Then why do you ask the question?" place, movement seemed to break the
she mei& spell, to release him from Ile benumb.
• "There le no need to tell me," he said, ios i„ileonee.
"You Eire hero in his rooms, alone, at With a low snarl, like that • of st, wild
Tight!" beanat, ite caught her by the arm and
She shrugged her Shoulders, and gazed eNvUng her round tothirm. a
up at him through half-closed lide. -The. "You -devil he. hissed,
30,0310refeery and rage gave her a kind see etelereeed and uttered a cry,
of eaftiefaction, pleasure, She was ne -heart, lle covered her mouth with/ hie hand,
hese s.nd cruel he the Fauntine of old, and and forced, her 00 her lineee. As he did
tIso infliction of pain upon' this man whom so, efe foot etruok agaiest the IMeelan
elm hated cense as a relief after ell she dagger which laja amenget the ether
hersejf had endured. • thinge 'width -had been overturned. '
• -It 'looks' like it, doesn't it?" she said, ere caught it en, (*irked the blade from
-And if I ata,--' 110 put hie hand to hie
. 'My goodness!" he said to hinamelera-
flier than to her. "And you said that you
loved, stet V011 premised to be my wife-
' my Wife!" •,
, She laughed, and etretehed herself into
h still 'easter and more indolently care-
less an aftituda •
"Did I? It -wee a mietake. I never meant
• 'it. If you hadn't been fool enough te lose
your .head, you'd have seen that."
.Ite looked at her ae if he could not bring
himself to believe he had heard aright.
"Den never -1" he gawped,
Sbo eralled im at him. ee
"My dear follow, 11 you mean that I
• never loved you, you are quite right. I
certainly never dicl."
lie struggled for breath, ,
`'Why -why -P"` he panted.
dboo raieed her head upon her hand, and
looked 10 1110 coldly, eentpinptuously.
"Oh, for several reesone,' she retailed:
"One, beeauee Morgan wished me to keep
You, in 'tow; another, bereauce-well, eou
• were 50 mad that night that I was ob-
liged to 'humor 9011,"
He put hie hand to hie throat ze if lie,
were:choking. • ,
' "Morgan-. ho said. e
lithe nodded,
'Yee. You may ma wel1 know the truth.
You'd haio discovered' it eeoher or- later.
Yon were useful to Morgan; you see."
Ite elfd eee. .
"lie -he has robbed mei" he said hoarse-
. ,
ly, catering before him vacantlY. aeon for a time, he went to the body slow.
thaVe ae0aree ^f/a7 of Putting it, 19, fearfully,, awl 'inane it ce.refully, laial
, Bee: yoar 'Way to be Coarse; les Your 1 on the eoueli. Hie eye caught Gaunt's
tleture and 9.011 help it If 7011 3)10011 far coat, and he took it 1117 and eovered
that Morgan-withe My help S Man- 310 body with it. Ae he drew it over the
aged te wbii, yOU're right. Don't blahlo beautiful face--nevet inore beautiful than
000. / was tandem his thumb, and bad to 11 yule now In the ca'ninegethe placidity
obey orders. Go and Red hini and have of deatIn-he shivered as if with void, and
is lolv moan broke from he livid lips Ile
drew hie 0700 away slowly, and talcihg 1(51
hiediat, went slOwlY---and• still backward
--tO the door, ,and opened it.
There was no one 10 the servidor,
0030011wag shifting in the servants' room,
ITO eloned the door, natty, very acq/Ay,
lf to aVold waking the -woman on tho
couch, and passed (middy and on tiptoe
down the stairs, and into the inroad,
And it IT 00 not 11(1111 310 haa.rottehad 'the'
, !My gencleme he extlatmed, crowded thoroug„)rfare at the end tea:item)
' 0.'1'1llebeh'.1, ?.0.1,e...,n;:a?rri,..,, Go to Morga'n teed eter toolii,oerue,80,thoert ii-ioewo61e.11),,ee epee elm en.
mo,'. -T. 410 Let blame 7,011: yon (To bo emetlneeede
,
its sheath, and raised it above hie heed
His hand still covered her inonthi but if D
it had not, her tongue would have refueed
ite Office, for she wee pare/yzed by terror.
She fought, and struggled with him, but
in vain: Ile held her in. the grip of a vise;
bre bloollehot ere; atared into hers, his hot
breath scorched her cheek. BI
The shining ,blade was Poised aleoe ;
heed for an anetent or two, then it frmam-
ed downward:. There wee a low, gurgling
cry; then, rea he reloaded the blitde, the et
body fell away front him in a gliestlY
heap on the iloor. ' let
He knelt beside it, looking at the dead se
fame, at the tiny stream of' blood which
had already teased M run. Por a' monient
he'did net realize what he had done; then, th
with a grown and a shudder that shook .nt
him from head to fciot, he bent over her •'-'e
and moaned ber name. ch
"Laura, Laura, Laura!" . • th
Time mowed down the fatal momenta .
with Its relentlees Earths. It seemed to in
tick "Murder; murder!" ae they fell. ne,
Treyor remained on his knees, staring '
vAantly at the dead, white face fee full ev
five enlnutee, listening to the accuraing. an
010011' then he rose, and staggered baek-
ward to the fire -place, hie eyea fatal
on the face, so if they were chained there a
Another five sn)nutes passed liefore ,ho
realized that he was in danger. . Some
one -he, ,her,husband-her Iniebancr-migith 3)13
come ht, arty moment. Ile meet fly! '
With the instinct of fielf-preHerva,MOP„
the methaideal desire to conceal his deed tdi
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A DANIS)! EEL FARM.
ingenious Manner en 'Which the
Stock Is Kept Up.
One of ,the latest additions to un-
usual industries is the eel-farrn that
an enterprising citizen of Copea-
ha,gen has establisluql the coast
of Denmark. 'The Journal of the
Department of Agriculture and
rechnical Instruction for lrelaini
describes it! •.
A, dam WaS built on a fiord in
Zealand wadi the intention of re-
claiming some land for agriculture.
The scheme fell through, and Mr.
Nielsen conceived the idea of mak-
ing the place an eel-farrn. Within
the ,embankment there are three
hundred ecree of water, Meet of IL
about two feet deep. The surface
of water is a few feet a,bove the
levelsof the fiord, which lies on the
other side of the erabankment, and
whieb „hes practically no tidal
changes. The waker of tee lake is
fresh, 41nd the fiord water is fairly
salt, havieg a marine fauna, and
flora.
- The owner keeps up the stook of
eels in the lake by the introduction
of elvers, which hp teethes. in an
ingenious manner. When the eel -
fry put in an apitiarance .in the
fiord, at the end of -their long jour-
ne3r from the breeding-grout:ids in
the Allantie Neon, he lowers a
rough orate heaped bell of water -
weeds therOge the front tof the eleice-
ente, He then raises the gate so
that a etream of treeh evater,flows
through the crate -and down it elop-
ing channel to the 'fiord. The elv-
ers, in .searoh of fresh water, make
their way upestream'inect the crake,
and remain eartangled among the
wee.da, which every now and than
are lifte,d, spread oat, and shaken
over a piece of ' very fine-meehecl
net.
Mr. Nielsen collects the elvers in
this sra,,y, instead a letking them
have a free mut te the kite., in or-
derethat may,know exasitly how
many lie petits eve -vary year,
Even- mare ingeeious le the meth-
od he employe foe capturing the
full-gm:an eelete That also makes
use of the migratory inatinct that
drives the mature eels to seek salt
water. Slueg from it fremework of
rough poles is it box or eheatt about
twelve feet long, round the sides of
which are openings nine inches
equaret To each d aim holes is
attached it small conical ecemet of
the ordinary Queue that opens into
the box. There are also rows. of
holes that Permit the circulation of
water and the escape of undersized
eels.- The central 'pare of :the box is
Carried up so ea te be above water
when the rest of the box is sub-
merged; aud a hatCh in the side of
this raised part gives acce.ss to the
interior.
By means of & anel
wooden chute, .saler water is pumped
into the lake in front of the box for
o da.y before a coesignment re-
quired, Thie attracts the eels,
which want to migrete to sea. At
night the .stream of reek water is.led
through the hex bY metals of the
ohuto, and thus entices the eels to
,enter. The box is then hoisted out
of the eveter by a geered winch, and
the eels are removed.
The lake appears to contein plen-
ty Cif natural food, but Mr. Nielsen
also gives artificial food to the eels.
Ile buys gobies and other
unrnar-
kebable fish at it low rote, minces
them in it machine worked by the
wire:Tina', and throws them into. the
lake loose, The merket price of
eels at Copenhagen varies from ten
to twenty-eight cents a. pound, and
in 1911 Mr. Nielsen's catch amount-
ed to over thirteen thousend
pounds.
LONDON'S LAST FAIIIITOUSE.
Relic of .Past la Heart of City to
Disappease
London's (Berglund) last farm-
ifouse which standii :within a mile
of dazing GrOfig, is about to, be
pulled' down and with it will &sap -
peer one of the moat interestin,g
landmarks of the metropolis:. So
far as lean- be ascertained, the
house was built &boot 1770, but re-
cords einalv that the farin, was there
match earlier, for the London Ga-
zette of October 5, 1693, eontains
references. eo Christopher Capper,'
ieho grazed cattle on the land,
:which was known as Capper's farms
The house was called Cantelowe
The Capper's:ever° tenants of the
ukes of Bedforce itarl *.heir berm -
lands etretched northward to Tot-
:tenth:a:en Court Road tied weee
bounded on the east by svhat is now
oornsbury Square. The original
Ban Wes granted by Clereriale
°eager Duchees. of Bedford, and
conteleied a clause thee the tens
should proeide shecia kr at
aert forty cows, Thde mime clauee
amde in this leaser toesday, although
e time of keeping. mettle in
ootnebury fa,r post. Th•e farm
tinged ha -rids about Cho middle ef
e eighteenth century teed came
to poseession ths Miesee Clepe
r, two maiden, ladies., who were
idently oispeculier habits. Ititee
d bathing appear to have been
e bane of abeir ,Whenevcr
bey was seen flying akiee sine of
ecu women would, it , seems,
nint a horse and, armed with a
rge pair of sheers, net out to cut
'kite earinge. The other sis1er'e
cialt3e.was to seize the elothee of
e boys who itressmesed on their
einises to bathe,
B farming was eooe to b o
owdecie' out of the Tottenbani
tat Bead &strict, aid the °Ow-
eds became livery irtables for the
adeemen who rodo &eve in -to
sinese daily from their country
me.g, _useirsec_ently the fertre
use wee built aroreal and hid.den
shops.
it out nith him, I don t, She
lattghed carelessly,
"Yell -YOU helped, Illfrir hp said, Ma if
he, were half stupefied:- .•
Ube lieddcd and `yaivned,
-"Yes; the good and. faithful siSter
that I am.,,I've often, wondered you have-
n't, ,cleiecteal' te, T've seen you -look Itri
when I've been bending oVer yOu Maid
malting siFne to, Min, tolling him the carlds
rou hold.' gho hod -
• Thelitling•perelits in Etlimonton or
see mente of October had a value of
4i158 625.
9611,1)1110 SWI0 111,111,11.111.111,11.11,4b
11641-110,1*
'Christmas Cooking.
It is a good plan 10 get soine ol
the Cliristma,s baking done ear-
ly in December, as there is always
plenty of other work to do as the
etoliday ,season draws neaer. The
Christmas cake, the mincemeat and
the pudding- may all be made severs
al weeks before needed end will --be-
all the loetter for being kept.
Christmas Plum Pudding. --1 111.
suet ehoPped, 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. each
of raisins and currents, Ri lb. mix-
ed peel, 8 eggs, X lb. bread cremes,
lb. flour, Lteaspoon each of gin-
ger, .cinnamon, cloves,' reseavater,
vanilla, km:1m and 'salt. This
amount will make three small purl-
diegs. It is well to put part in it
cloth, anti the 'Pest in dishes or
bowls ond essok for six houra The
pudding in the cloth can boil in the
pet below the steamer while the
others steam. On the day requir-
ed, steam for two hours ifiore.
Carrot Pudding.—A geed subste
tete for Christmas plan. puddingt
and does not require eggs., One
cup each of suet, sugar, raisin,s
currants, grated potato, and grated
carrot.- A little mixed peel, o-ne
and a half cups of .flour, teespoori
each of salt and Bode, . Steam. or
boil 011ie hour, Aislittle ginger,
cinnamon and -ckves may be ad -
-Christmas Cake. --1 lb, each of
raisins (stoned) and currants, 34 lb,
each of butter and sugar, 3-4 lib.
flour, 6 eggs, 2 OM mixed peel, 1
teaspoon each allepice and cinna-
mon, 'X, nutmeg (grated), 3A cup
good molasses, ,X cup almonds
(shelled, blanched and . chopped),
small teaspoon baking powder,
Cream the butter and sugar to-
gether; add the well -beaten egge
and molaases, sift some of the flour
over the fruit and peel. Into the‘
balance of the flour put the powder
and spices and -sift several times.
Mix all together and bake from two
to three hours in e moderate oven,
Cruet for Mince Pie. --1 lb. flour,
Ib. lard, 2 teaspoons baking pow-
der, 1 teaspoon ealb. Sift the flour,
porwder and salt together several
times. 'Work the lard lightly.
Web with cold water to make a stiff
dough. just before putting the pie
in the oven, wash the top crust over
with milk, using a pastey brush or a
piese of cloth. This gives the eon-
feetioner's appearance..
Cheistmas Short Bread. -1 lb.
butter, 1 lb. sugar, 3 lbs. flour, 4
eggs. Cream the butter and sugar
together, add the wellsbeaten eggs,
stir in the flour, roll oub X inch
Wick, cut into diamond-shaped
pieces, break the edges around with
a knife. Sprinkle with. comfits
(tiny cokrecl candies) and bake a
pale brown.
Nine° Meat—Two bowls of finely
chopped meat, four bowls of apples,
Iwo bowls of raikins, ono bowl of
marmite, ores bowl of sugar a•ncl
One-half bowl of suet, one-third
pound of citron, one-half cup of
New Orleans molasses, two tea,
spoons of mace and two of ground
cinnamon, one teaspoon of cloves,
two nutmegs, salt. Mix all together,
add cider, and eook thoroughly.
This recipe has been used by many
good cooks mid has been found to
be an excellent one. The "boawl"
referred te helds one and one-half
pints.
Try Borax.
Borox is, literally, almost as
"cheap as dirt," The extraordin-
ary variety of uses to which it can
be put is astonishing.
An old and faded carpet can be
brightened Bad cleaned by beteg
rubbed with warm weber ohcl am-
monia in which a tablespoonful of
'be -rex has been dissolved. Added -
bit the rinsing water of , handker-
chiefs it will give them a delightful
semi -stiffness. Cockroeches and
beetles will .retreat in a penie be-
fore powdtered borax, Added to
the la,st rinsing water it imparts a
snowy whiteness to clothes.
For children's teeth, a little dis.
solved in warm water, will keep
_them clean and sound. A tea,spoeti.
ful added to a gallon of hard water
will. make it beautifully soft—a
ikon to those with tender skins.
Thrush in children can be treated
by wiping out the mouth with a
camel's-hair brush dipped in borax
water. •
Sears •(not old, or large) and
blendahes, can be removed by a
&lettere of borax 1114 ounces, sali-
cylic acid 12 grains, gIyeeriee 3
drachms, resewater 0 ounces, being
applied on lint for a ehort time
deity, It removes freckles. Add to
X, drachm of powdered borax 1
ounce of lemon-jniee a,ncl % drachm
of sugar, Mix this, let it stand for
three days, and then rub on the
face occasionally,
It is the best cleaner q a hair-
brush. Add to a teaspoonful of bo-
rax a tablespoonful of soda in wa-
ter, Dip the brush up and clown in
.this—not touching the back, of
course—then rinse and dry. -It is
an excellent and provedpreventive
of "hair falling out." An ounce of
borax and half an ounce of eamphor
mixed in a quart d boiling water
should be rubbed gently ieto the
roots of the haireonee a week,
When washing sateen, or any of
tie new cotton materials with a
satin finish, always rinse in borax
water to get &gloss. A soothing lo-
tion for sore eyes is one grain of
borax in one ounce of camphor wa-
,ter, Apply with lint pad eeveral
times daily,
e Cracked lips ean be quickly cur-
ed by being frequently moistened
with e mixture of 1 borax half a
drachm, glyceripe rme eunce, rose -
Water
000 otene.
A poWdee, Which will clean teeth
end not hurt the enamel,'is made
as follows 1 ounce of borax., pre-
cipitated chalk 2 ounces, myrrh Se,
ounce, orris root X ounce. Gums,
teeth,, and breath all benefit from
this.
Every laousewife, course, uses
it when she makes her starch. A
toilet water which an be made up
eheaply, and, which prevents black-
head8 and greasieesse and effaces
the marks or scars of burns or
scratches is as follows: ounce of
Powdered ,leorax, 19 Maid ounces of
orange -flower water, and 1 ounce
. glycerine. Mix and shake well,
and apply.
Not a bad list of uses for •berax,
alone, or in combinatioul
Things Worth 1(nowing.
To °leen the itaide of a silver
teapot, mix together equal queue. -
flee of soda'vinegar, and flour.
Paste this around the inside of the
pot and let it stand overnight. It
will make the inside as bright as
possible with very little labor.
Many professional cooks cook
vegetables in salted water from'
ten to 'fifteen minutes and then boil
quickly for two minutes in fresh un
salted water.
If :brass is very much tarnished it
will be found wise to wash it thor-
oughly in warm, soapy water, to
which aminonia has been aided
poThieil.polish it•
with a tried metal
ma:king soup, if it has' been
over -salted, the addition of one or
two raw potatoes will remedy the
difficelty, The potatoes will ebsorb
the extra salt.
When preserving sprinkle some
ashes on the stove licl beneath the
kettle of boiling fruit. This pre-
vents standing over tile stove tb-
:stir the fruit.' It will not burn or
stiek if this method is ftellOweci,
When whipping cream, cover the
bowl with a piece of paper with it
slit in the top, the shape of a malt-
ase erase Insert the egg bea;ter
into the slit, and the cream may be
whipped without danger of spatter-
.
kg.
le is it good idea to make button
holes on both sides of a lingerie
waist. Sew the buttons on a to,pe
and button theirs to one skis of the
waist. When the waist buttone,
and the same tape of buttons can
be used on several waists.
If one Ime not the bags of dried
lavender, pub a few drops of oil of
lavender on blotting paper and slip
among the linen. This will giye a
delicious fragrance,
Would you like to know how to
clean knives? Here is an excellent
method t Mix a. little common leak-
ing soda with the scouring brick,
and you will find the knives clean
mitelt easier.
D isco uraging.
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Mr, Jordan was touring by meter -
car, and arrived at it crowded vil-
lage inn quite late one evenieg.
Thore was no spare bed to be had,
which was a great disappointment,
as he was tired, and very much dis-
liked the thought of driving far-
ther that night. •
"Haven't you at least a bundle
of hay you can give me I" he de-
manded of the landlady.
"There isn't a thing left," she
answered, "except a bit of cold
roast beef." r
Sweet Bait.
'Mrs. A.—I told 'Willie on hieway
home from school to get me a bar of
soap,
Mrs. B. -0h, he'll forget it; fily
boy never remembers.
Mrs. A.—No danger; I said he
-might buy Bye cents' worth of
candy et the same time.
His Vie. .
"Iomarriage a failure I"
"I wouldn't say that. Bub there
ape pleasanter ways of getting into
bankruptcy."
Minneepolis capitalista are likely
to start a ereamery itt Alix, Alta.
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Items Fr.orn.Provinoes 'tillers Many
Ontario Boys and Girls d.re
"Making Good."-
,
At se" recent convention' held in
Pilot Mound, Man., over 100,aohoo1
itesochern were present,. •
A detainee at Iiiiclonam Man.,
levee fined $10 and teats for selling
milk which was 46 per cent, water.
On the 29th of October the Red
and Assiniboine Itivers were" both
frozen over for the first time this
seasons -
R. 3. McPherson, of Winnipeg,
will remember Hallowe'en of 1813,
for ons that day Itie wife presented
him with triplerts.
Mayor Deacon of Winnipeg has
announced that ho is willing to ac-
ceet another nomination for the
map:woke- of thee efts:.
Winnipeg business men are jubi-
lant over the feet that for the
month tif October their bank clear-
ings exceeded these of To:rent° by
$379,417.
The,meeretary of the Associated
Charities of Winnipeg is of the
opinion that theee will be mach
drilleulty in finding work for the =-
employed this winter.
Under tee guise of et gas inspec-
tor, a, man has been going round
Winnipeg rifling prepayment gas
meters., end has cleaned up much
coin,
At the Brandon annual tiey tax
sale, held recently, 200 lobs were
sold. The cheapest Waft 25 feet for
$1, and the deterest $2,900 for
on Seventh Street,
The Regina rstreet railway eyetem
will next .spring instal an electric
device which will show, by electric
eign, the name of the next etreet
at which the ear will stop.
Regina, :sehool teachers hove been
instructed to open school with the
Lord's Prayer afler this,. This has
been optiona,1 in the past, but, will
now be mode compuleory.
Ald. Skeletal-, of Winnipeg, has
a scheme eo place cotteges on pro-
perty belonging fo the city for the
use of Ishorere and poor people.
He says the ,city 01P118 Jots suita,lale
for that purpose whieh are N'iorth
$288,550,
A constable of Etimonton was dis-
miesed by Chief Carpenter beeituee
he was late at the heating of it ease
in which he was rte give evideuce.
121ffilitAlfalititela
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The dismissed mart sued for wage,
in lieu of notice, and was awarded
$85,
The Alberta Government "wilt
stop moving pioture eherlrg front
operating on Sundays. I./cermet.
vrill be issued, one of She conditions
of which will be that the license wild
be oancelled if ,the show opens on
the Land's Day.
Paid Gerlach, it fanner, of Allan,
Sask., won a $1,250 separator at
the Tusk., Oklahoma, Dry Farming
Congress? for ,having the best, bush-
el of prairie wheat. It was in open,
competition with the faimens of the
world.
An amusing case wasteard in ,the
Edmonton, Police Court. A Pole
complaissed that a, clothing dealer
grabbed and tried to hustle him
into his store brforce. He resisted,
and then the dealer eLe:ppect his
fetee. The case...was dismissed.
There was considerable uneasi-
ness in the Winnipeg City Hail over
the fact that a large number ot
cheques for large amounts had dis-
appeared. Payment of the cheques
was :stopped. The cheques were
eventually fouled in a roll-top sleek
in the Mayor's office. r
An eastern firm has placed 4'00
trace with ehe Webanuan, Mn.,
Power and Coal Compaaiy, Limited,
with headquartere ab Walla. was),
Wash. It will establish it branch
there owing to the power feeilitiess
The company manufactures agri,
cultural implements.
Host's Youngest—"Don't your
shoes feel very uncomfortable when
you walk, Mrs. Nurychel" Mrs.
Nuryche—"Dear me, what an ex-
traordinary question! 'Why do you
ask, ahildg" Youngster --40h, only
'cos pa' said the tither day since
you'd come ieto your money you'd
got far too big for your boots."
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