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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1913-12-18, Page 3C.UPMU XXXas-(Continned), • "Mv. Destno, I 111'1'61, 7011 Oil a chaste' ol willeefs ansadera, . , . : Bobby' turned haS oyes P00 ))1D1, too • *to:D.116d to speak; but the elderly ,gentlea man amoide hire e,aid, with tsgitations. la1'ber Ia oine this take. If' tho 'prier Creature' 'wee murdered.. lwat night, Mr. Deane is; oertainly not the criminal, for s,pent ell luet evortieg o mrhoneo at 'Putties,. He came to dine with two other teentlethens-cfleo pupil', of mine -and re- mained the niebt, I-ilte other guesto. the eervants-can prove this," The deteetive wee steggereds "Sho came to eee 'bias. Site wee found covered b,v yonr coat." He. indielated the fur coat. ' "Mine? Not said 'rho, detective looked round eharplsr at the eery/tate. "Whose cent le this'?" ne raked, Merida, - Jane gasped breath. • "My masstera-Loyd-Lont .Gauntle," she said at laet. The detective frowned, "When dikt you see Lord Gaufit last?" he asked. cintieklY. •`'Leet nights -about ten -he ,paseed me in • the 'corriflor,"" •"lie settee bora. then?" • She nodded 9p11131110(400,117. "Yeer1. let him in.' "Did he wear thet coat?" She nodded, and fall to sobbing. - "Yes; he 00111.0' ill it. eie left without it; • -Bobby thook laia need. o waC Confueed toti .bewildered. • - -aehe may be With her eniitLady.Patil- itas Laocellee, ;or ah may liare'..evie, back houie.s I.ean ,not arideretarni. I will go rotted to ..Lady Ponliue'e. ' • The' ' inceMetor podded. "One a my Mon will go round with "oe," he said, gravely. Bobby .started. "Yon -you don't think -YOU doun, dare to euepect my sister?" he began; and the inepector respondea. ellietlYt "Well,the young lady was here last night, Mr. Deane. I Will,,Poek you tO see that elle does not leave „London Just; Yet ehe will be 6111,0 to be wanted, you era." Bobby wene round th Berkeley Square, accompanied by a detectives and' Lady Pa.uline came down' to the draeringroom terrible thing has bapsiened, Lady Pauline," paid Bobby, ,whoso white face And wolverine lips had !iterated nor. "A. -a lady had 'been found do -murdered -'- in says -that is, Lord G.11111t.0—r00/06, and -and-is Decime, here?" _ • "Yee. oho_ le here," field Lady Pauline, irraveiy. "Fithe be very ill with bruits Bobby littered an exclamation; "I meet see her, Lady Pauline; 1tenet( They stay-ait, is said that she wars at my moron last night, and -and-" Lady Pauline's strength of minfl came but-bui if you 'think that hie lardship In the remise where this peer lady has did lt, you're wrong-wrongi Ito been founflP" she eat& Yee. 1 know that couldn't!". . • . - ;the wentto. your noome; the. woman Itt 1.I10 detective turned swiftly upon Mor. charge of the hone!, told meas. But" She • gan Thorpestopped, etrnek silent by the expression "Did your easter know Lord 0auntg, ot Bobby'a face. "Tell me an You know." he asked. she said, gravely and calmly. Morgaa Thorpe ,got up and steadied him 'Bobby, in harried and agitated aceents, eeU by the back of the <hair. , told her all that he knew. "Yes; sirs no use keeping it beak!" he "It,' le dreadful to think, to suggest, raid, us it to himself. ,"Gentlemen, my that Deeirea is mixed up in Wel" he said. Moor Meter wars-wae Lord Gauntest wife!" "She can not poesibly loisaw anything "Bin with? You sdescribed her BB Mee about it. 011, let mo era heri" Dalton!" • "You may seesaid Lady Pauline, 'She Wrtli WS eviler seal Saorgatt,Thorps, with a kind a dogged eullenne‘ss. "They • --they were eeparated. He left her. They /mast have suet by accident here Lust . night.' One a the Seotland Yard officiale drew ' the detective aside. "Yo pe made a miranke Mile time," he said in a low rote°. "The man you want, le title Lord Gaunt. Harry up! You've •-lost a lot of time ae it lel" CHAPTER XXX/. The detratino. was staggered, and look- ed round nether sullenly. His profestaions al reputation was a high ono, and he fest hie mastake recettely. I "What hotel does Lord Gaunt use?" he !raked of tbe gervant, . "TIC always noes th Morlet's, when the rocene are being done up or he can't, Sleep for any racoon," said Jane, weeping. "But it isn't lordeliip." Tho eletoothe loft the room and. got in- • to a, cab. "Lord Gaunt in?" he ingnired co-roles- ly of Wilkins. "Ilis lorsloitip left us early this in s air.' - the r 1 31er of !randy and sada rOMI eYea malt t realize 'it yet. Whit lora for met She wan BO—jao clever. r enali never ;rot an, Witheut. hers So Trayoissagene.a.at Bennie ae, if everybodY had frano• Y0141, etand by. ma, Deane? You -You rhay hoer all !terra of things! about no, but you, You won't believe them, Duette? I always bad a liking tor you. my dear bee, als "Better not dt:ink. any more," paid Bob- by; but Thorpe shook his head. , "It's the Only thing that will keep me 11D. To think that, Lattra'e dead, buteber- ea' -amino, thatebeast Gaunt: I alWasc hated him': A it'SinelauP, ,racering beset! Yeti, istwaye hated him and so did. she." "Anel' flier' Were married?" Bald Behar, With's.. "harp seseg os retherso foe Ills ewn Thorne hodded., , . ' 'don't ,hear athe Malthe beeallee'I keirt*is from you, deer boy 11 Waesher (mores,' not Wine. „iin4 elle was.' aeneitive. 3fy poor Lania'l hes shall hang tor it!. Ile Walt bang thr it!" Bobby 'shuddered, don't believe he did it; I can't!" ho raid. khow Gaunt. Asi I've, said ;mores of tinies,.he ion't capstath of it It'e Juet that. Suoh things! are impassible to dome mon, and -and murder la impoesible to Lord Gaunt!" "Then 'who dist it?" demanded Thorpe, with a hicooug.h. "Telt me that. Isn't the evidence against bim as stronsf me it can " Bobby ohook -hie head, The evidence might be es strong ne it could be and Yet it did not convince him. rafter he had rams Thorpe led away to bed he left the henna. The eubtle, laminar perfume In the. ^omit Gowned .to follow him, and the dead woman's faeo and vote haunted Ott Ms way. tOLady len halleht, the ;second edition of an evenieg papeass no evening paper ever ovine to a first edition -and, while.he waited in the draw. tng.rooni, read the stockunt. "The. Tra- 'reds at Prinee's Istansional" it woe head- ed, and there were :',2eare4tnee" inter- . yals of the report: Rio hearrasurils Se he reed'the smooth and yet graphic eratentent, „The„ninr4red., Tropism wa.e. so it set forth,. the -wife of Lord °suet. ,lithre' fol- lowed all hit raffles and title*. Ile had. married her with a euppression Of Alia rank, and had very moon after,,the cere- mony, Which. had taken 'place in •Switzee- land, separated from her, going on 'the travels width liad made him. with a eel -- tett' eection tile public, famoust. The deceaeed lady had gone to his rooms - whether by appointment or eot, tbe re• port eould not, eay-and it *WRO proved by but you can. net learn. anything from tho statement of the eersants thee . s 110 her. She is quite unconseioue, Here is had met Lord Gaunt in thera rooms. 'bora the doctor." - Gaunt had been aeon to leave thent with - She heard Itie atop coining down the out his overcoat; and tbe murdered. wo. stAire, and called him in. Man had been found lying on the couch "Mies Deane ie in, very, Al," he said, eovered by tide 00.1110 overcoat. The au - quietly. "Ellie may T01110111 unooneothus Mane dagger with which the deed had for BOMB time, possibly for days, You been comraitted had been found lYing may see her, yes; You can do no Imam," near the body. Lord Gaunt had digits>. Bobby went up, and. gazed at the white Peered. face with the etering oyes. then be came 'Title, in brief -the aecount took A full down again .and looked helplosely round. Page of the paper, for it was the dull pea.. him. •- • son, and n, murder -and such a murder 1 - "We may pe aeon go, air." Bead the de. 1000 an editorial godersnd-wae the sub. tective. "Lady Pauline will let UP know Mama of the aorattet. when Mies Deane' is enough to be Well might /3obby's heart sing as he asked any questiona." read it, Me own name, and -alas! and They returned to Prince's Mansions, and alael-Deoima'a occurred eeveral timee, the detective made hie etmort, to the in- Ile stilled a groan and crautnsed the pa. speottsr. He nodded gravely, and drew per into hlo Pdeket as Lady Pauline en. Bobby aeido, terea. ' sail "I may ae well tell you, She wan calm and aelf-posseassed, with the "Mi110 os Deane will be an important wit. "Boobs= le aneereolaae." eh° eattl- 31r. 'Deane -mind, I don't, speak officially calinnera and self-posseastion ot Clirietian -that wo do not suspect Mira Deane." fortitude. "The doctor says sbe may -may "Busmeoti" 'exclaimed Bobby. indig. live; but that it will be rame time before nantly. he will be able to tell us anything. Is The inspector raised hie eyebrowe. there atlY later new,?" "Well, else was here, you eee; and any- Bobby produced the paper, one spresent In these room!! last night "Yee; I have read it. I know -or, ra- ther, 7 know of -Lord Galant. I am not rarprieed to hoar that he is snarriedi ne- ttling I could hear of him would ourprice me; but / de not think 'that he ie guilty." "Ile ie not -he is not!" amid Bobby. Lady Pauline retreaded him coldly, "Anti you knew this unforturate wo- man?" she said, Bobby hung his head. 'I will not reproach ,you; but if I may Say a word in geapon-' "There's; no need," said Bobby; "I'm punished bad enough ae It 11, All my 'thoughts are of Brahma,. To think that she is mixed up in thiel" l!arly Pauline inolined her heart gravey. "Who ie Mr. Mershon?" the mated. Bobby- atarted. "Mr. Mershon? Re le the man Deotraa is engaged to,'' 310 amid. "Pleaem write and toll bira that I walls to see aim," said Lady paulino. "You would - like to siect her? She will not know' you; she is Quito unconscious," Bobby wont up to Deeimaaa roont and gazed at her piteously tes he hail done be. might fall under eneploion; but 31 seems The detective had quite expected this to me that the case ogiinet, Lord Gaunt anower, ie as clear sus noonday.' "Do you knovi where I can find him?" "Lord Oaunti" said liobby, chokingly, he inquired an eareleraly. Whitten looked eurPrised. • "llis lordebip sailed for A/rice ilia morning," he raid. "The vessel must hove started by thia thne-we gent bin lord- ship's luggage on yeeterday-to the 'Pe - valuate, Castle.' " !Phu detective nodded and bit his lip. 'Then he stood for a moment pondering. Surely Lord Chant would not hare been ,thich ea fool as to shut ltimeeif lin in a Ve0Z01 whiih could be stopped by oats% at Idaderiu . "Went hi a cab, I sulleora?" ho said; "Yee sir -a, hansom. Ills lordehle e1117 had a ' "Just so, Did you happen to hear what directions bo gave the cabman? tyo get ' inapoitttut nuelnase with Bit; lordship and 'weep, to oatch re him befoite ethane, if I "Iao raid Charing Orem Station." said Whkine. "I happened to hear him." • 'The detective's face clenred, Of oonnse, Gaunt would leave his -luggage to go by the Ortpo vessel, and make -for the Cknn tinent. ,The cleteetive thougbt ho saw the niovt'lflt t He ie iteapable of it! .. The inspector ehrugged 311, 0110111,1F6. "MANI 0110 130, ofteit Wake,' he maid. "However, WO shall 040011 see. • Our man will hare overtaken bim by this time, I thould think." • They 11414 rantored the body, but.Mota gen Thorpe had still lingered. Tho sbook -and tho brandy he had anteumed-had rendered him a pitiable eneotrado. "Como -coma Immo with mei Don't leave me alone, Doane, for goodaras raker he said, clutchingat Bobby's arm, and quite forgethlug his 'recent plot to rob, "I will see you lionic," said Bobby, pass- ino bamd acreee his brow. "I don't know wbest to do, where to turn. I ought to (to home and tall 1113, father of all th;s -not that it would be of any I can't leave my Meter, Yes, I will go home -with you." They went to Cardigan Terrace, anti Bobby looked round the fInhlilar room with O shudder; be could ahnost 000 the small, eisquisitely dreamtt figure silting at the There was a letter on tbe mantel shelf. "Thanks," he said; and jtimped into hie and Morgan Thorpe took it up and opened crab and wee afiven to Charing Omni: the envelope with shaking finger!). But There he wired a description of Lordhe wee incapable of reading it, and lie Gaunt to the police at Southampton tted Dover, and instructed them to atop Wm. A oontinental train happened to he duo, and the detectives pretty well assnrod tatat' be was oft tho truth of the fugitive, went down to Dover by it. The Southampton telegrams arrived ex- actly ono bone alter tho "Povensey Cas- tle" had sailed. ' Meanwhile, the pollee of the Munitions wore• gat/teem? infornantion from tho or. vat& and other persone, and very ason the feet of Decline's visit on the previoue evening castle out. Bobby was amazea and horrified. •'Tern elle is my sister," he said. "She must have come to see me, 00 Jane nene. Ste could not have come to meet Lord Gaunt," for the inspector haat ventured to suggest thie. "Where should. we be likey to find mid neaner bo mitred, signifiealtilY. held it out to Bobby. "Bead 11, Deane," he raid; and ho Made for the linnoratand on the aide -board. • 'It is from Trevor," ettal Bobby; and lie read the note aloud: "Dear Thorpo,-X fool very seedy, and thall run over to the Continent for a thenge; may gar eosne time. I Nr316 sorry to hear that Rite. Dalton had a. bad head - Acne when I called to say good-bye, I am starting in half an hour. I packed that morning. Alsrays; de things euddenly. don't I? Itesnombdr me to Dean* and all the rest. "Yours. Rehm Trevor." Thorpe moaned In a maedlin way. "Poor old Trevor! Ile 'will be awfully cut up 'when he hears of -of it. Ito was very forbd of her, Deane. 317 poor Laura!" Ito drew the hand whith held the tum - 'Tho moment you • tes it, you will avant it/ •Smell.it! —just once! 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Gotoluiet- te.'olrottlr, Aa he left the house, the special editione of the evening experto were being howled through the street, and the mimeo= voioee of the newspaper boyo wet° shouting: "'Or3Able mutderl Tragedy in egh Wel" All Ienglend was ringing with the nrave of the murder, and the consternation and excitement in Loamebire, and round about Leatmoro especially, wore intenee. Crow& gathered round the gates of Leaf. more and stared tip the avenue -Heaven alone knows why -as if thee* eel:meted to draw sotrathing of the grim tragedy from 10 olimpse of the house, )bobby had wired to Bright, fled lie had dashed oft with tit) .nowe to 'Mershon, to boa' him to help break it to Mr, Deane.' Mershon was startled, but more indig- nant at Deolmeas connection with the- lea fair than horrified at the tragedy itself, "Alwa,ye ,thoughb there was ;something queer about Lord Gaunt," he said. "Yes; heaf just than= to stablits *wife if he didn't, like her. I beg your pention"-for Bright hnd reddened, and enelainsed, in- dignantly. "Of coulee you think he is in. Docent?• " "Ilow could I think otherwise?" 'raid Brielit. warmly. "Lord Gaunt is not gaily!" "All right," raid Mershon, grimly. and with a thong of his thoulders. "To tell you the truth, I don't, very much eere whether he is or whether ho ien't. Of couree I hone ,be isn't. What /'m thinking about le Deohna.-Mise Doane. What I waist to know ie, ethy did the bolt up to totem anti uthy 415 slie g,o round to his rooms?" "Mies; neauo went to seo her brobber, imagine," amid Bright. "She could not 'now that Lord Gaunt would be there, that he was in Londonone of us -not even I--have.known anything of hie move- ments. It is terrible that Miss Deano'e name should appear in the affair.' "I think so," said Merabon Moodily. "It's jolly hard on me, I know." "I am going round to Mr. Deane to tell him," ea -1d Bright, "Will yon come with me? 7 lrall go straight from there to Landon, of course, Lord 001111 will want met and if he did not,--" "rn go with you,". neat Merelion, Ro racompanied Bright, and ordered the oarringe to .follow them to Tne Wood- Tbey found Mr. Deane in the laboratory mid broke, the netve. He was startled, but bas do means overwhelmed, though sine. tressed in a confused' and, bees/Merest wey et the, fact that Drainth wail 01111001.005 bo the inaitera and wae 111. • 'I ant thankful she le With Lady Paul - i110,"• he amid. "It -it would no Of little • nse my .gomg up to her." Ma glanced • wistfulrY at the ridiculons model he lyee atawork upon. "basi, no," ,said Mer.shon, gnawing at liis cigar. "I'm .going; 'you'd. better Sonve it to Me. The old fool dooms% yentas° it," lie said, .to Wight aq they named out. deem% 'see Ord this will bring a lot of scandal noon my -heat]." The, fononine .merning, White Bright, wee going to and from the Manoione and acotland lard, trying to master the 410 - fails, Mershon preseeted aimeelf at Lady Pauline's. ' :Her Met, thought, as she looked ethisny wa,e: eHow deo it Imppeo. that. Decima -my DecimaaSie engaged to' thie alien?" Poe Mr. Moulton, pale 'and euilen vitt anxiety and reaentmeet at .tlte, stile of W3,1 not PrePoRROlailitg; and Teldy Paelineee ,told' and stately inanner of re• colaing 11110.41141 not, tendto pat him at • • mece is very 01, Mr. Mershon," elle gaid . afi ober huittoned him th "Very ill iotleed. But Y011' have 110 dolibt aeon Molested?" ^ ta eheatoo.-111 to .rae.me?" he broke tn. "Knelt leo ill,' aeplied Lady Pauline; "and -I think- it best:los-he lia quite Candid, Mr. Mershon -even if ole wore well .eneugdo' not; think the Interview would be amnion." • • 'Wet 'deeirahleP' he repeated, staring et. her. "Why-Whaa'elieat ingageflatemela 'efilhe Mae, eo 0110 lee infoimed me,' raid Lads, Pentium • ' "Wept" echoed aferehoe. "What do you mean? I don't, underetand." (To bo othitinued.) No Extra Charge. Lady Of . the'. incenie-HaTE the things you wash are tern to' pieces. .,Washerwoma-n-Yes, mum; but WINDS AND PLANT (iiIi0IFTILn Experiments ofProf,Rersibeek - Show Interesting Fads. A rather stirprfoing degree of in- fluence of the 'Wind upon plant growth, nrid crops hase been shown by the experiment.e of Dr. Oscan Bornbeck, a aerMan prefesear of agriculture:, Severe gales t,encled, to preening; giying Minsfnd andlsnotty &hap! to Wedge, and ordinary winch; diminielied the energy of growth Of • sprouts threnginthe increase of trammiren t,idrisand alterition of circulatory, conditions', and had a:diying effect that in some cases caused serious\ injury to both soil and plants. Under a wind of thirty-three feet per second, th,e ground lost.three or four times as much -water as on pro- tected ln.nel, On ground suffielently moist, etrong sprouts wore but little .affected, but on ;some soils the growth with no, wind was three times as great ari with a wind of. thirty-three feet per second. It wa,s evident that tile usual moderate wind of Gent -early -ten to •twenty-five feet per seconcl-nmaY leasen the yield of exposed land more- than ;half.... Peotection is to 13`ii nounnneby vaxi- ous kinds of wind shields, ifeen 4111 walla and hedges, and eaneeiallY by planting forests on neighboring hills. • Dr. 'Marla Montessori. She is now on this eide of the Atlantic; lecturing on her famous method of school teaching. • EA.BLIElt DAYS AT ONEOBID. Student Life of Fifteenth CollturY Had Many oad sides. 'Dho undergra.duato at Oxford University in 1413 in order to ob- tain his B.A, degree enielied the high logie of Porthyry nvicl %gbh- ius, something of Arintotle and enough of arithet mtip to enable him Ito find muster, 5111,0 a writer in Harper's Weekly. Three year* more were usually snout in studj•- ing geometry, astrenomy and as- trology. He lived in college. His allow- ance of money tra..5 a shilling a week. Hie brealdast was a piece of bread and pot oE beer at dawn. -His dinner was eaten at ten in the morning. He was given one euit of clothes yearly. Three times a, year each student, was zequired secretly to tell the masters of 'the misbelow- /or of his fellows, nine then received 'coompetent eastigatien.'' The rules of the university pro- hibited visits to taverne or apectan elers," the keeping of dogs, the playing of chees and other ''noxious and illicit sports, shooting with ar- rows or other missiles, dancing, running, wrestling, or other in- cautieus and inordinate arriuse- ments." The only reereation permitted was the .onsembling round the fire on winter nights to indulge in "singing or the reading of poems 1111(1 ehronicles of the realin and of the wonders of the world.'" The college was summoned to dinner by two ;poor scholars, who ran round the quadrangles shout- ing in bad Latin and French; "Tempue est- yeesteli a manger, 0 eeigneurs 1" The °seigneurs" were •obliged to eat in absolute silence, WA.SPS AltE THRIFTY. Divieion of Labor Clearly Seen In Their Operations. It is declared by those who. have made a. careful study of the habitis al WaBpS that these insects are fel- ly inclostrious 8.5 ants or bees. Division of labor is elearly seen in the wasp*' noel). Some of •the workers, ,stictes a writer in The New Yorn Press; eeem to be specially employed to forakers and soldiers; others appear to be told off as nurses and guardians, while yet others are engaged as paperhang- ers and 011050018.. Weeps- a re at all times panticular- ly fond of honey. Toward the -end of the summer, 84 ell beekeepers; know, they will force their way into beehives and tarry off by foree much as they can gotge of their winged. neighbere' honey. The ninnies of the wasp ‚.8111.1(1, in- stead of being idle and *luxurious, au re sober, industrious and well- behaved ,members, of the commun- ity. They Clean the atreete of their town with exenni/arY diligence, act- ing as public,seavengers or sanitary officers. And they have their re- ward, nor, unlike the bce • drones, they live their allotted lite in, peace and quiet -Ices until winter involves both them and their maiden sisters ili o00111.00111.10011e eooeivittelysin of death and destructioiv. • Do nob spend 10a11 your time in when a thing is torn in two or the niskIng of promises unless' you more pieces, rnum, I only charge want to give up the othein hall to for thetn as tnepieee9 mum the making of excUses. enelefeelsensesalleses. • — n311, ee wveinene. • Favorite Redness. Buffins.-Sift together two cups of •flour,' four level teaspoons of baking powder, one -half teaspoon salt, two ta,blespoona sugar, Add one and one-fourth 'cups milk an rrd ono oenteegg, and laetly two '6,9,t blespoons of melted butter. Bake in greneed, • gem penis twenty-five min u fee. - Rook Oaken Chielsen.-lbake one and one-half pounde of small pork chop*. Then make a clreseing of one pint bread crumbs, one egg, one-half cup of milk, one tablespoon of onion. chopped fine, sage, salt and pepper to taste. Between two chops place a thick layer of dress- ing, tying the two chops together .with string. Put into a baking pan with a little water, cover and bake one and one-balf•hours, basting fre- quently. Serve with gravy made from juices. , Date -Fuilding.---One pound seed - .ed dates, one cup English Walriuts, four tablespoons flour, one tea- spoon baking powder, one cup light brown sugar, two eggs, well beat- en. --glitter a bake dish and set that diah int;en"neotner dieh of boiling water arid bake neninty-five minu- tes, When coolisig pour on-Snsit one cup of sweet cream. d One Egg (bustard. - Heat two cups; milk. Take Iwo tableepoons sifted flour and four tablespoons sngar, mixing well together. Add this g,raelnally to the milk, stirring well over slow fire, Add the well beaten yolk ef an egg with flavoring to suit, still stirring until the mix - tare is reationably thick, Out of the white of the egg inake a meringue, adding a pineh of baking .powder. •Cover the custard with tins. . Custard Corn Bread. -One quart boiling milk, one scant nint corn meal. Stir meal into milk as for mush, add one teaspoonful of but- ter or lard, one tablespoonfel of sugar. When cool add two well: beaten eggs and throe teaspoonfnls of baking' powder, one teaspoonful of salt. Bake in the dish in which it is served. Egg en Robe de Chanibre.---Peel six uniform potato!, Bake in the oven. 'When none 'cut a, piece front the side of each potato and remove the contents, leaving a firm shell. Beat well and add one tableepoon- ful of melted butter. salt as wished, and sufficient 'twitted cream bo intike a fluff. Press through 10 vegetable sieve, lightly fill potatoes, make 11 estyity 011.011 petato and deep in an egg. Dust with salt and pepper, replace the round 'cut from potato, set the potatoes in a baking., pan, put them in the oven few minutes until egg is sot. Date NuMns.--One-third cup but- ter, ene-fonrth cup sugar, 0110 egg', three-fourths cup milk, two cups Pastry flour, three level teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon wan Scant ofie-haIf pound dates. Cream the butter and add auger and egg, benten light. Sift to- gether three times, flour, baking nowder and *alb. Add these to the first mixture, alternately with milk; beat thoroughly and add the slates, stoned and cut in pieces. Bake in 1101, well -buttered muffin pans, nuked Creanted Chieken. -- Enough for fifteen people -One chicken weighing four and one-half Pounds or two weighing' three pounds eaoh; four sweetbreads, one Call mushrooms. Boil the ohicken and sweetbreads; until tender, and when cold eut up as for salads In 4 saucepan put 0110 Quartet cream, in another four tablespoonfuls ;of butter and five level tablespoonfuls of flour: stir the latter until melt- ed. then pour over the hot cream, stirring until it thickens. Add one indium -sized grated onion, !season with pepper 1100)a few ;dashes of cayenne. Mix chicken, sweet- breads and meahrooms and cream sauce and put in baking dish with crumbs on top and bake twenty minute, , Finkle Salad.-(One-Ouerter re- cipe, ample for family of five). One box gelatin, soak one -nail hour in one pint of maid water ; two ceps brown sugar, one cup vinegar, live cents' worth of cleves (whele). Boil water, sugar, vinegar an.d cloves Isc)gether until syrun hairs. Stir and add to gelatin with elle quart, -of cold water. •When practically cold add one pint of sweet piekleS (small) sliced thin, and one cup of clumped linglish walnuts. Pout in mew 10 cool, serve in eubes, Deli - °lees with chicken. Angel Parlait.---Isna,ce ,.over the fire'one-half enn each of water and minor ; stir until the sugar die - ;solves, then boil without' stinking until it haire. Meanwhile, beat tine tiil stiff and ciry the whites of tbree eggs, and add to them slowly the hot syrup. after it has been taken from the fire for about half a min- ute, Beat well and flavor as desir- ed. When cold stir in gently a pint onerearn well whipped and drained. Pitt into a mold and pack at once in lee and salt for about four hours. (Half quantity ample.) Useful If eonvenient, the waffle batter may be mane the evening before it is used. Thenwaffles will be lightei and More easiny digested. Those who are prone to neuralgia and rheumatism will find "relief by adding a little oil of tuipentine to it warm er not bath. If aomething you 'are cooking liappens to acoroh, set the kettle in cold water immediately, and there will be 110 seerdhed taste. ' For wiping oiled floors use an oil- ed cloth made by wringing a duster out of kerosene and hanging it out- cloens Lill perfectly dry. Tarts that will please the chini- ren eon be made in gem tins. The tarts should be filled with straw- bearr7 jam and covered with 1.1.001' ba;'. making gored drosses for lit- tle girls, stitch a long sbrin of sel- vage ma-teviel clown the bias skirt , BEST YEAST IN THE WORLD. DECLINE THE NUMEROUS INFEFOOR IMITATIONS THAT ARE BEING OFFERED AWARDED HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL EXPOSITIONS E.W. GI LLETT COMPANY LaIMITMD. WilisiNiPinCil TORONTO ONT. MONTRICAL seam of the bent, and not sag. 11is a good idea to snipe carpet all over with a cloth wrung out of water to which ammonia hail been added, (Two teaspoonfuls to -a gal- lon of (water.) Every housewife ehould have one, day in the week for which nothing is planned. That day can be de- voted to •odds and ends of things whi.3h have no name. Spots on carpets and rugs in most instances may be -removed by spenging with oxgall or tivith am- menia and water, in the first place taking earo to rinse thoroughly. If a cartiennovers the whole fleer, the skirt will WA.NTED TO LEARN.. An Awkward Boy of 100 Years Age Who Became a Great Inventor. More than 100 years ago a -stout, freckle -faced, awle•waind boy of 18 'years, nosed in a ragged waist- coat and !short breeches, without stockings or ohoes, rapped one evening at the door of it humble cottage in - /northern England, and asked, to see the village echoolmas- ter. 'When that person • appeared the boy said, very, modestln, "I would like bo attend your evenieg seheol, air!' • "And what do you wish to sprinkle pleas ....of damn Paper study 1" asked the teacher, rough - round the sides of litennnorn, then ly. "I want to learn to read and gweem with a car -pet hrckini...,.:The write, sir," answered- the lad. paper will gather the dust closenten-----ngennneannewn....ati boy'o homely face and roughelothes ecornfully, and said: "Very well, you may attend, but an awkward, bare -legged 1,1.1,',, 101,' you w.ould the edge of the mop board, • 'Ugly cracks in furniture may easily be filled in with laeeswax, E0 that the marks will hardly show, Slightly soften the beeswax until it becomes pliable, then Pres° it better be doing something else than learning hie letters." Then he closed the door in the lad's face, This boy was the son of the fire. and work some into the • beeswax. man of a pumping eng'a" lrl a' Thi* gives a finish to the wood, and Northumberland coal mine and when it is varniahed the cracks will was 'born 132 years ago -on lune have disappeared. • 9, 1781, to be exact. His birthplace m was it hovel, with a clay floor, ud walls and bare rafters. When he , NORWAY ICE CROP. for his laving by herding cows in the wan Anne.Ye, ere old he began to work Storing the Frozen Harvest. saettntioghpetikitg day -time and barring up the gates 114erogureeswirooluidetrhhen eos, -- . Primitive Methods of Cutting and The anethods used -10 oecure the and alter that to driving to hone ie., harvest in, Norway are ivery whioh drew coal from the pit. Ire primibive. To begin with, the fee went half -fed and half -clothed, lake is cut up by means of a small 'When he called at the school- n' plow drawn by a, pony. Two long house he was plugman of a pumping ma uts, with a spoke of 26 inches be- 1.1-41."'f and, though h? . khew h0d tween t - chem, arts de along the thing o reading or writing, he ha, Loire, and than men armed ninth studied the engine until he had a isomplete knowledge of the machine. huge taws cut the strip of ice thus He was able to take it aparb and separated into blocks, each 26 inch- make any ordinary repairs. Magazine. • • given him by the sehoolmaater, he Not discouraged by the advice es square, says the Wide World pushing the blocks of ice along the kinunodwerk uosevueismul000esnsiguilneasu,dtdorgs;taios of ice to the •storehouses, at which evening school. M the end ef about , stage. of the journey hi simple echool could teach him. He 0011- Arist removed f rom one end of the already cut a channel in the lake, steam engine. It took him a long channel EO mado 1 This argues, of the ice shi,ps can call, The first two years he had lengned all this eourse, that wine of the blocks are engineer; enough. The itie harvesters have eeiveel. the plait of nonstructing a Could anything be easier tham time, but at the age of 40 he had The next sten; ia to take bile blocks made application and attended the , .the railroad. head of a slipway, build long and difficult s lines of ned n and was called upon to channel. They are taken to ne,no, But his locomotives were too frela '''" slow; he wanted them to run faster. point they are in position for the ne- . e proposed to -build one that final journey overland. -would run at the rate of 12 miles an Thee() alipavetys remind ono irre- sistibly of the modern eavitcthbaek hour! Everybody laughed at him. Some thought ho was crazy. One railways. The ice blocks aregentleman, who considered himself al- lowed to slide along a Bet of ver ' Y very .wise said to him: "Suppose rough and ready wooden lines hem- you mvent an engine capable of med in with wooden railings'. BO running nine or ten miles an hour, tlaat the ice blocks shall not slip and suppose, while it is running, a away and be losb. Some of these oow should •stray upon the track. slipways have to be carried round Will not that be a very awkward ' corners, and in order to mini -adze circumstance ?" , thsk of off "I should think it would be ,veey- - is riblocks running the Arrely into the cracks, and smooth the aim/anti Over with a thin knife. Sandpaper the surronncling wood, nue a series of very pnennsine, awkward -for the cow," he an- braires has been devised. .00lone swerea- a long plank will no 8,,nponn., Well, he succeeded in making his locomotive, and at the trial whinh ed ever ther 3110110 in such a wan that its entre, bending by ittook place near Liverpool it attain- cs own d to the impreoed.ented speed of le4 miles an hour I By rnaknig cer- weight, nearly tenches the rail. The lee l3kele PaeSitg untilw *hea 'Planne ' . tain improvements this same en - and its speed isichecked consider- gine, the Rocket, was madeto go at taiblolypiwulueirn hitutreitacilis ensottlItoepepnetdre:1-3 a speed of 30 miles an hour. Peo- tirely, and it gees on its journey at plenleauvrgoahedhrouge iivirloedurbut r, 01 1.011101310337 a uxincli slower speed, In spite of engineer to foreign countries and the use of these brakes, however, wealth fiewed upon him. Philosso- the end of the journey is generally phers sought his friendship and his reached very quickly, and means King offered hill) knighthood, but have to be devised for stopping the he. preferred to remaind plain blecb at convenient places. One George !Stephenson. .Thaenie l'Edus Planthieeno s te:pi501310t sole ilica:ledlantana name ef this awkward Jeanie, when at rough aadreadydft1 ekind slpowfan, c,hoaffnerd,,ssj tbieyceame the inventor of the locomo- made of a trunk of a tree, at the top of the planks. The ice -blocks Always In It. eonie imehing dowo the slipway and theplanks: A man standing at Mr. strange yeFuss (furiously) -'1110 mighty Up this point prevents the .blocks from n can't look after things slipping back on the line and thus shave, little better I Here' I want to shave and there isn't a drop of hot getting 10 11118 way of the oncoming wabne here, train. • He then guides the. ice ;Mrs, Fuss (ieily)-It is strange 1 blocke to a plaee of ;safety, from Why, that is one of the things I've which they aro passed on to the never been out of since I married storehouse by the mere act of push- you I lag them there. • • -- *-- Laid or Lied, Mei at a Fair. •Son -Dad, when you put a hen, Two Irish farmers who had nob on eggs to hatch them, do you say ' seen each other for it long time met the is "sitting" or "setting" 1 A at a,fair. They had a lot of things hen can't really sit, cosi shel to tell each other, "Ahura, it's Dad -Don't bother about little married Qi am," • said mlirav. things like that, What eeneerns "You don't tell me se" *aid In- Me meat is to know when ehe cook - eau. replica M„aphy, lea whether she has laid or lied "an' Oi've got it foine healthy bhey which' the neighbors say is the varyLies t.i.a1„ii, fa,st a-nd• 00 keep 11.0111 picture of me," Moran looked for a moment. at Murphy, Milt) WAS not, getbing . to sa31 the lemit remarkable for his . good lecke, and then said :-"Och, phawt's the harrem so long as the choilti's healthy 9'' Just one Point. 'Nora, me darlin', will yez marry me whin I come hack from Ire- land?" "It's meself that's not prepared t,o give elle answer now, but I'll nave it ready when you're combs' back, 'Mike,' 'Well, that's not quite so bad, but -jest tell me th' one thing now, it be yia.or no?" 111•111101.11'6"•"111,141111111 For nursing mothers Na-Dru-Co Laxatives offer the important advant- age that they do not disturb the rest of the system or affect the child. esc. it box at your Druggist's. National Drug and Chernical Co. of Canada. Lunitod. 175 , "Kaman '