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CHOIOE REC,IPES.
Rice and Oheese Fondu.—One cup
milk, one tablespoon butter, ()Im-
• hoff teaspoon salt, one-quarter tea*
spoon paprika, one cup boiled rice,
one-half cup cheese broken in small
•pieces, one egg. Haiti, the milk, add
'butter, salt, paprika, rice and
cheese; add egg beeten light. Pour
into a buttered pudding dish; set
ba a pan of hot water; bake one-
half hour. e
Walnut Tioabales.—One cup chop-
ped nuts, one-half cup soft bread-
•-on/min, few drops onion juice, one
te'aspoon telt, few grains cayenne,
' -one cup milk and three eggs. Soak
the breaolcrumbs in the milk; add
the seasonings and nuts. Beat eggs
light and mix lightly with the other
• mixture. Turn into buttered tire -
bale molds or sraall custard cups.
Steam one-half hour.
Tomato Sauce.—One pint tomato,
-one large slice onion six chives,
three tablespoons butter, two table -
peons flour, one-half teaspoon salt,
.one-quarter teaspoon pepper. Stew
toiato, onion and cloves together
for ten minutes. Strain. „Soften
_
the butter and blend with • it the
flour, salt and pepper; add elowly
the strained tomato and cook five
minutes. •
Cheese Stieks.—One cup mashed
potato, yolk of one egg, one-half
•cup grated cheese, one-quarter tea -
:spoon salt, few grains cayenne. Mix
with the potato, the cheese, season -
'imp and beaten egg. Turn on to a
well -floured board and roll to a
thicknese of three-fourths of an
inch. Out in narrow strips the
length and width of finger. Roll in
crumbs, then in egg, then in crumbs
again, and fry in deep fat.
•Ohocolate Crumbs.—One and a
'half cups soft breadormnbs, two
squares of unsweetened chocolate,
four tablespoons sugar, one-quar-
ter teaspoon salt, one-quarter cup
1blanched and •shredded almonds.
Out the chocolate into small pieces
and mix with the crunabe ; add su-
gar, salt and nuts. Piece in a me-
dium hot oven and bake till the cho-
colate is melted. Stir frequently
so as to thoroughly mix the choco-
late with the crumbs; they should
all be coated with chocolate. Serve
with whipped crea-to
Potato and Cheese Soup. — One
quart milk, one large slice onion,
one pint mashed .potato, two table-
spoons butter, one tablespoon flour,
one teaspoon salt, one-quarter tea-
spoon paprika, one-half cup grated
cheese. Scald the onion with the
milk, remove onion, add the pota-
to and seasonings. Soften the but-
ter and blend with it the flour; stir
into the hot milk. • Cook five min-
utes, etirring constantly. Add the
cheese and cook till cheese is dis-
solved.
Nut and Date Bread.—Two and a
half cups flour, fiye teaspoons bilir.
ing powder, two teaspoons sugar,
one teaspoon salt, one-half cup
chopped nut -meats, one-half cup
chopped dates, one cup milk, one
egg. Measure flolur alter sifting,
then sift again with baking powder,
, salt and sugar. Add the nuts and
dates (which lutve been scalded,
stoned and chopped). Beat egg
light, add to it the milk and stir
the dry mixture. Turn into a but-
tered pan and stand in a warm
place • for one-half hour. Bake
three-quarters of an hour in a mod-
erately hot oven.
TO PREVENT MOLD,
The appearance of mold as grow-
ing on bread, cheese and other
foods, is familiar to every house-
wife; mildew on cloth is a less com-
monly recognized form of mold.
The spores of the different varie-
ties of mold are everywhere pre-,
sent, ancl they 'need only warmth
and moisture to enable them to
grow on many kinds of food. These
brga,nisins are always at work in
• damp cellars and in dark and damp
coeners of rooms; they are borne
on the feet of insect, and they are
on the skins of all feuits, and in
the dust flying in the air• .
They are not fond of light and
they require no great abundance
of air, flourishing best on foods that
are piled clbse together, leaving. a
small, unclietuebed air space and
moisture. They always start on the
surface and throw their thread-like
filaments down into the substance
below, ,
Take, for example, a fine, ripe
apple and closely examine the skin.
If it is in good condition and at-
tractive, it is almost certain that
the flesh is pretected in the natural
way by an unbroken skin, which re-
sists the entrance of molds aeld
other niicro-organisms. If, how-
ever, the apple has begun to spoil,
it is tamest certain that the skin
'has been broken,
When fruits touch each other, the
point of contact is likely to be more
moist than the rest of the fruit, and
for this and other reasons it is a
favorite place for the starting of
mold ar other growth. If the Akin
is perfectly firm and we rub it with
clean cloth to dry it and to re-
move as many as possible of the
precautions have been taken which
should hinder, or prevent, decay.
If, however, the frnit is kept in a
warm and damp place, and touch-
ing other fruits, its decay is cer-
tain.
In dealing with all varieties of
microscopic life we have learned
that to prevent theta from getting
a start is the all-important thing.
The growth, once begun, is difficult
to arrest.
The first requisite is absolute
cleanliness in the ,, storage place.
This is not to be attaiped by the
use of soap and water alone. Fresh
air, sunshine and whitewash are -
important aids. Shelves sheuld be
washed clean and then dried, but
the undue use of water should be
avoided, as moisture is one of the
chief requisites of growth.
A cellar may be kept dry by plac-
ing in it dishes of unslaked lime,'
which takes up the moisture with
avidity. When the lime crumbles
apart, losing,entirely its crystalline
character, it has become "slaked,"
will take up no more water and
mut be renewed.
The growth of most molds is re-
touteri by light ventilation and low
temperature, Light and ventilation
are important. The right degree of
cold for each different product has
THE WIIITE LADY
OR, WHAT THE THRUSH SAID.
CHAPTER, VIII.--eCout'd/
Directly afterwards theroad swerved to
the right, and I lost siaht of ine Our-
suere. But I knew thet we were gaining
upon them at every stride, and was just
beginning te feel satiefied that they must
soon give up the obese, when the butcher•
boy began to eleeken rowed.
'lia going to, °all beee,elian't ,be
minute,' he glad. He poioted as he spoke
to a cluster of smell houses at the road-
side, one of which ,was a shop, and a
minute later we 'stopped, and he got down
and went -into the ,op with some meat.
I belied at first tbat he would not delay.
But I soon found that my hope rested on
a Pelee foundation. There was a Young
girl behind the, (leek, and the butehee.
boY, leaning his 'elbows on the counter,
began to ealk to her.
I looked at the olock behind her head:
It.was a quarter to four. In five minutes
the Dalasa would turn the, corner. The
butcherboy Beamed in no hurry to leave.
He and the girl were lauebing and chart.
ting to their mutual satisfaction. I be-
gan to grow very anxious. I dare not ask
him to be quick foe fear of exciting his
suspicions. I could fool those two Dalys
panting along the road, I could—feel the
rieconds slipping past. The etveat ran
down my face in streams.
If I were taken I should be flogged. I
had struck a corporal, and I had attempt-
ed to desert. The time slipped to; it was
twelve minutes to four. The butcher -boy
stood up and came to the door. The girl
followed ,him. I thought I couldhear
the feet of the Daaks on the road.
"Well, ta ta, Bertha," said the lad,
holding elle hie hand; "I'll he seeing you
again laefore Sunday."
• "r-shoula think so," tlie girl answered
smilinga .
The boy came out. I glanced at the
road and at the clock; another minute
and i8 would be too late.And then the
eh% coming to the door, „said euddenlY,
"Oh. Charlie,. would .you like a rose for
your coat?"
"Come on, come on," I shouted. The
boy said, "One minute"; the girl gave me
a cross look and went into the garden to
out a rose. I looked about me. A little
farther ahead was a county inn. I slip.
ped down from the trap and -hurried to
this inn. As I entered I gla,ncced down
the road, and saw one of the palyss come
panting round the Corner. I ran then,
and as I went through the paseage fell
almost into the arms of three men of
the military police. •
"Hallo, my lad, wliat's your Mailmen
here with no belt on?" eald one a thee°
men, a sergeant of artillery.
been Studied experimentally, and a Tell'reehal3Wrired Met and 8 was taken
ea
0eports and lodged in the
knowledge of low temperature in Guard -roam
relation to the growth of bacteria seliee=iiite. litre
d itItie Balmier, who was
and fungi forms the basis of the "Pnagrim," saard hen, °''irt leTrri I am m
cold -storage industry. • see yez in this piekle. The more shame
to me as is an owld hand, and shonld
..—...--- have tould yez better sense than to take
HOME HINTS. diversion out of a spalpeen wad stings
on his arrum. It's not good spelt welch
When buying bacon notice that chyle Paddy Renee, oer colonel,. ifc the
;terrry edivil. wid the eat, and ye'll be air -
the rind is thin, the lean tender and B e.6ee g itl.t gin Aretig tliagigr a but tepee 1,1T Billy
adhering to the bone, and the fat
11 mesilf 'an' owld Blgocr%
firm with a pinkish hue. If the fat Oni.inarisfa.an'
roayr tnall.r„divil a fear but
has yellow streaks in it the bacon Cowe'can°
And with that the Ba:nshee handed me
Will taste nasty and rancid. a plug of tobacco and retired
To hot
BprlouonantsoWear Well. —
It is dip brooms id mind to e
As Soon BacsapI..Wa4th:10,:fie.1 in.ade up my
soender;uzrini was a sna all c4e7 igntrgt
veryynot soapsuds once a week. This febaetrefrom, tbe floor. If I
co: uld removentlie I thought I might
in toughens their bristles, and the
Yeei'lced Thorn°euggflUard bed on to of the
s000ms not only last longer, but al- drwer, and so managed to readiPth
sweep better than if they were bars were old and rusty°, Want
e., P ec y ry
them
be ;Iona'
means strong. 8 Set, to w
kept erf tl 4.1
d at once, foreing the ork upon
, The Oold Joint.—Any. boiled bisiifjcitivards
Or ;,tifa thlonnvarde with my hands
roasted meat t1 at, can be eaten cold
a an edat the bottom. This Zonrc
1 a long hour, but agVniat:beseuftleed to
liquor,
be cooled' in its gravy breeak it at the ten
and a boded ham should al; mb irditit ‘1;isorp with, so that by a little aft('
had mu:deeded in wrenching
ways be cooled before skinning, ant mat the two gide bars, and had the way
in its liquor; the taste is altogether weer -
all was quiet now. I could hear the men
different, and the meat does net of the guard snoring, and the pen of the
dry nearly SO TOSICh, • sergeant seratch'ng as he wrote out his
How to Wash Glasses.—Glasses report. I climbed up gandthfeorced lily
tadeeinetlfroieilaioutteersteteherojeu 00)3 grt, eweijid‘oz;
milky substances should always beY
which are used fer milk or an teno‘f t: ground,gI etleted my-
freaumround, and graspin the
thwashed in cold water in preference ,_ the drew my lege out a,nd dr a of the
e., td Court. 81 was a moonligchntnnedighint.
hot, as the latter is apt to leavesi,
rem ved
but the wale
y bwas in shadow, antodehniadv.ini
tate
tceloudy appearance and neces
bear°d themsentoots I made no
marching up and down
the washing. The same • 1
a a great deal more u loambpoprueins Itoillasr;idae wcerseivesrusaers5edroir.ssgelsidailll Ittchgenep.
I crept to the door of
to perfectly new glasses which have the tennis court,
not been used. • I could see ao;osneadhl"pkgadcOffg
There was no one sari.° round.
Loose Knife Handles. — Knife
handle
thats have become loose can 2.r.bleranqoukzeoinonig Rael%rovanlglisnIt171,:e a o'llVhbaWedalW :ciret
ea Creep in
fill alitnbed after them. dropped into the road
ter. II, band, and arisdk it. °I tirealpewda'a ni',3 slue.
bus refastened to the blades. Make
n swiftly abrol'iasoftlane
lime
eixture of (Anal parts of quick -
d powdered resin, half parade. threw my a boots over the wall,
the hole in the handle, made the and found myself facefee w tl
handle try who was standing at thecchaf ri ea Ben-
Letit remain without moving until back to trte eleg ea: ettlyeraimg5;8, ef b'aric ,:!rw.'it Beg token-
uffed and 1 1st' ci
part which goes into the Itift bwatoneteeclosee to
bot, and insert it firmly in the hole.'
quite cold, when it will be perfect- c The next morning I Was put bath for a
ly firm again. court-martial, •
Eat Plenty of Toast.—Bread that . CHAPTER ex,
has been toasted entil it becoines I sat all day in MY cell trying to think
brown has had the starch in it of some means of escape. There seemed
largely converted into dextrine, and bi; °signer iraeteallp2edTitiriedoeciiirlyWNa,sigireteewtt
hence, so far as the brown portion a narrow grid not big enough for a man
is concerned, one of the processes to put Isis leg through.
Still I could not give up. I was re -
of digestion is gone through before solved to die rather than submit to the
the bread is taken into the stomach, .ttrgiTdie3,'„,.:If tale iegh,arodt VlaliBti all
It Will be found that the thinner mind, until suddenly I bethouglit me of
the slices of bread, and the more txbieworsislint 3. I 3:stosoddeux ab once, and tried
s common
thoroughly they are toasted, the lath and plaster.
easier digestion will be, and when LaT,,,,hgi 0 b'er facer en=cichagInceadtenIrct
al) portious of the slice of bread
are thoroughly toaster:II—not burned,
but changed to a deep brown color
—it will be found still more easily
digested. 'o•
YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE A
• CHANCE. •
If you go across the ocean, your
ship is liable to sink.
True enough, but if you travel
on land your train is liable to be
wrecked.
If you just jimmy around the home
town, your automobile is liable to'.
blow up or throw a tire and precO
pita,te you quickly into a ravine on
3rour elboevs and shoulder blades.
• If you go buggy riding your horse
is apt te shy at a piece of paper iri
the road and kick you into the mid-
dle' of the following week.
If you go out walking an auto-
mobile is liable to scramble you up
or a footpa,d is liable to tap you
suddenly yet firmly upon the dome
of thought.
But if you sit still at home a hun-
dred thingb are liable to happen
you. You may have a fit, some weary
wayfarer may come along and sell
yoe a lot of Turkish rugs, lightning
may strike the house, and then
there is always the possibility of
an earthquake.
At the very beet you have got to
take a chalice whether you want to
or not.
I3arber—"Getting pretty thin on
top, sir. Ever use our Miracle Hair-
growine ?" The Man in the Chair—'
'Oh, no It wasn't that that did
it.''
Iforse-racing, in the reign of
Charles IL, used to take place in
Hyde Park, LOndon,
tiuking knee-deep in mashes or kabbit
Warren, but always keeeing awae from
any sign of a bridle path oe road, meal
all at once I found myself surrounded by
Dartmoor is a famous place for foss.
Poing a tableland about 1100 feet. ebore
the sea -level, 'it often happens 'that the
traveller in that regien Rude binuelf sud-
denly enveloped in drifting clouds.
This waci mY ease. For more than an
hour I blundered on, not knowing -in what
direction I went, until the fog, cleared
es rapidly as it had dome.
It was a curious 'and impreesiee sight
The huge, dense cloud lifted itself from
the earth like a curtain, and displayed
to my astonished eyes the beautiful, wild
landscape, ite rolling hills and grassy
plains radiant in the sunshine, a broad
and deep brook, spanned by a bridge of
planks gliding silently along at my feet.
and right before Inc, at a distance of less
than fifty yards, a largo, one -storey cot.
tage etanding .in an orchard, with some
hayrieke end ploughed, land in ite rear,
and at the doorsill a buxom women, with
a great white hood tilted over hei• .brOwn
brow, turning a spinning -wheel, and sing-
ing as she worked.
It' wee no time for hesitation. I walked
boldly acmes the bridge and up to the
door of the,,eottage, and bade the woman
good morning.
She answered me coolly, glancing from
'under leer hood meanwhile. in a suspicious
Way; then, remarking that she had "no.
thing to spare," arose and put the half -
hatch doer betwixt hereelf and me,
"I'm not a beggar." I eaid; ''I can pay
for what I want, if you will help me."
The woman put her arms akimbo and
looked at Inc 'sternly over the batch.'
"Thee'st best be aff," she said; "us'll
have no tramps here; and wants nor thee
nor thee 'money." .
"Have you never a son of your own?"
I asked, "or a brother, or a husband?"
"Inc a husband, imperence," she an-
swereca "ands near by, so thee'st best be
off, or lie Bees thee.' - •
While she was epeaking, looked round
and saw in the garden a tall, spare Man
in a farmers smock -and wideeeseke
watobing me keenly from behind the
ranks of great yellow and. purple holly-
hocks.
Ac semi as our eyee Met he came for.
ward and said curtly, "What, do you
want?"
"Sir," said 8, "r am in trouble, and want
help. / will give you ten ehillings for a
casteff suit of olothing of any kind.'
'Thee'st get clothing here," the wo-
man struck in sharply; "us be honeet
folk, ue be, ana win na' deal with tramps
a' strangers."
"Martha, be atill, wench," said the man
In a firm, quiet way._ "Boy, step thie
road with me," and without another word
he permed out of the garden, and, turning
round the gable of the cottage, pushed
open the door of a barn and went in.
"Now, hey." he said, when we were
alone," 'what is You're a deflator,
eh?"
"Yes," I re,plied; "you maY tern me
away if you will, or you may help me if'
you Will. If you knew all YOU tvould help
me."
'7 have a mind to help you," he said
gravely; "what do 9011 want?"
"Shelter, and work, and clothing, if
tbat le not too much to ask," said.
"Not so fast, my lad, not so fast," said
the old man coolly; "first answer me a
few questions. Who are you? Why did
you desert? What is your regiment?
Bow comes it yea have money?"
I told him, in a few words, all 11443,
eimple story; but when I came to speak
of Alice, my voice failed me, and 5 had
to turn away.
"Aye. aye, aye," said tbe old man; "I
flee, I see. So you lost your eister, and
—to be eure, to be Rum Weil, boy, I
know vrhat trouble is, and what. punish-
ment in amongst the soldiers, having seen
Cie same in my own family, end beeng as
You seem a decent lad, I'll treat You."
I thanked him eagerly and took out all
the money I had. But be wayea it away.
Vele," he Raid, "keep your money, boy;
teen tbe bit a your bounty. rn. find you
teething and a bed, and a bit of such
food as we got here, and wink too, if you
mean work. But do as you're done by,
boy. / etand to you, do you stand to
me. If so be as, you're tracked down, you
mind you came here as a farm hand to
ask a job, and I gave it you, Is it a
bargain?'
"It es," I said; and he shook nie by the
hand, and, going back to bin wife, sea
"Martha, wench, this lad's name is Will
Davis, and I've put him on as a laborer
Treat him fair, and he'll behave fair. If
not, let rne know."
And so I found. myself enga,ged as handy
man on the sinall farm of George Lis'kard, teuant of Sir Ingoldeby Yale, of
Dartmouth Manor, in the county of
Devon.
CHAPTER X.
For eight months I served my new mas-
ter steadily and well, sharing the simple
board of the houttehold and neither asking
nor reoeiving any wages; and during all
that time nothing happened to dieturb or
vary the placid monotony of existence.
Mr. Liskard wan a singularly reticent
man, and we, often worked together for
the best part of a day without excliang-
ing a dozen words. Ilia wife's attitude
towards ine being of armed neutralitY
made conversation impossible in that
quarter, and the only other inhabitante
of the little farm were a stolid country
boy, hired ot tbe fair. and Rachel Lin.kard, the farmer's daughter, a bonny
girl of fourteen, amiable but shy.
I was thus driven in upon my own soci-
ety, and found myself tbe dullest of dun
company. Indeed, my state of mind was
one of blank bewilderment and serrowful
apathy. All my paet life seemed. to have
died 'with my sister, and tbe future Vgla as
vague and empty as the dim expanse of
sea upon which gazed for bours end
hours in the clear Sunday eveninge from
nay lonely emit oil the top of a rugged tor
about a nille from home.
On this quiet eminence I would sit and
tbink, sometimes sadly of my lost Alice,
and of the poor girl I left upon London,
in the ceiling, squeezed between the raft. Bridge, aometimes with idle wonder upon
the unborn years and the unknown gifts
they held.
Life le a strange thing, The great
world :spins aed whirls upon Re .waY
through the cycle of elle seasons, bearing
ea with it into such haps as we little
dream of, The morning we greet with
an idle and listless yawn, as another of a
series of uneventful days, nifty be the
coming of our fate. The careless choosing
of this path or that across a moor, or
of this turning or that out of a etreet,
may involve the transformation of our
lives; or a meeting with some fellow -voy-
ager, as oblivious of ue as we of him, but
wbose coming is to be both ethe most im-
portant Incident in the history of two
human souls. There are no such things
as baffles. The veering of a gale may
3511 the fall of an empire. The utter-
ance of a careless word may change the
current ef hishory.
The summer wailed and died, the winter
came and went, the daisies peeped out
amongst the shore pales on the side of
the tor, the lark• sang over the fallow
fleld, the thrush piped in the orchard. It
was late in the month of March, and I
ers, wrenched off a couple of slates,
climbed out, slid down the roof, and drop-
ped into the Willie court.
But this time, instead of crossing the
parade, I crept along under the barrack
wall to the armorer's 'shop, which was a
low' building, piled up some empty boxes
which stood outside, got upon the roof,
and dropped into the street,
A few ,minutes later I was running
steadily along the North Barrier Road in
the direction of Princes Town. And this
time I had got clear away, and with a
good four hours of darkness in which to
cover the eighteen miles which lay be-
twixt Devonport and Dartmoor.
By stanriee I was alone amongst the
green tors and maticher Plains of Dart-
moor, with never a regal of human habi-
tation nor human cultivation; no, 'nor
even a cm, a sheep, or a tree visible as
far ae my eye could reach. Nothing but
the broad. grey eky blushing in the east,
the heathery common dotted with rushes,
Ole rounded hills strewn with grey stone
boulders, the winding rills that tinkled
like little bells, with the rabbits flitting
shadowe. amongst the sandy herbage, and
tae great swifts skimmitig and wheeling
high up in the misty air.
It would be
citwo •houre yet before MY
The great difficuley now was howdCHILDREN S HEALTH
a change -of clothing. I deed te
Walk on, steering nortleeast, by the old of
the sun, and to trust to chance to ,help
nee.
Scarcely had 8 formed this, resolution
when, as 5 looked keenly round the ivied -
scope, I observed at a ,great distance
what seemed to be a man 011 horseback
moving in my, direction.
• I instantly concealed myself in a great
patch of bracken, where I lay quite still,
closely watching the traveller, who turned
out to be a prison werder.mounted on a
pony and crewing aeciarbiae. , Ile came
en ealddlY, and passed,within a hundred
yards of my bidingmlace without suspect-
ing my • proximity. I let him get , well
tiaras, behind the hills before I• emerged,
and even then, IV way of preemution, I
decided to rid myself of my uniform' as
well ea I Maid, my red jacket being so
conspicuous an object in this place.
Amoral/10Y I took my Jeekeb and
off
sunk it under a big stone in a marsh
near by, boned my trousers inside.out to
hide the stripe, and stood up egain,
curious figure enough ,in my grey shirt,
and with the wide, eough seams exposed
down ,the sides of my ,legs. Still, from a
distance, L,ohoubsi net be so likely to at-
tract attention, and, taking such consola-
tion as / could from tine thought, I re-
smiled my journey.,
For two or three hours I tramped en
over • the uneven, spongy ground, 08 ten
there would be no due 'as to my where. ,
escape would be • discovered, and than
WATCH y
OUR
abouts, feer I had not met a soul upon
the way. I sat down upon the hillside
and breathed freely. "es,
If any of your cbildren seem to be
pale and anaemia growing too fast or
too slowly, don't Mart doctoring them.
Food Is, the keypote of a child's growth
and bealth. Some children, owing •1.0
constitutional weakness, or as a result
of children'e diseases, will not thrive on
food from which stronger ones benefit
In such oases the addition oC Bovril to
the diet will peoduee marked Termite.
Bovril Is concentrated beef in its best
and most palatable form. Stringent
scientific tests have shown that it is a
great body-buildee. It is in itself a
highly condensed food, but it posseeSes
the remarkable power of enabling the
,eyetem to draw the full store of
nutriment from ordinary food. Give
Your child between meals, once a day,
a cup of warm milk, in which you have
stirred a spoonful of Bovril, and try a
dash of Bovril in your gravies, sauces
end soups. It will be not 'only the
delicate once • who will appreciate the
added zest, all will benefit from the
increased nutrition,
was treiwhing In 810 gar en. eerie one
morning, whon a farmer named Hewitt,
who lived on the fringe of tee moor, mune
trotting by en his toe, and Fleeing ler.
Liekard at the poveh reined up and called
"Mernine Ortega, has thee yeered thieltIcy
'ND,' said Liehard. "What, is it; Ile.
w`alltotwf"itt, Milling in hie cob, eeplied in a,
loud voice "War with Rooshia, boy.'
"nowt say,"answered LiFtltard.
"That Ichav," shmated Hewitt, "an' main
bad 1.1rWS.it be, 's if taxes wesn't heavy
enew; boy. Put' oar eoment el not be
axed, I reclion;" and with a Wave of his
hand the,rudely, ftet farnaer trotted on. •
I etraighteued myself up, and looked
about me -
War with 'Inside. Wert
Between the sweet, moist morning elty
and the sweet, moist graee the lark flut-
tered, singing.gladlY:' before me the vete
arable grey .and green tor reared its rug-
ged bulk against the rose -tinted clouds and
the shadeerY band of distant seal upon the
thatched roof ef the cottage the doves
Were playing; within sounded the low
whirr of the ,spinningewheel, and 'close to
the porch where 111,, 0111 farmer sat amok-
Itaehel stood, in her blue hood .45
brown frock holding up a great pitcher
to catch the water which the boy was,
Pumping. The water splaehed her rosy,
bare feet and chubby halide with silYer,
the sunlight splaehed her yellow curls
with gold, the bandle of the pump clanked
musically, and the childish treble trilled
out the eimple old eong;
,Gin a body Meet a body, comin' frae the
well,
Gin a body Mee a body, need a bedy tell?
Ilka body has Beene body, ne'er a one hae
But ce the lade they love Inc au' the
waur , am I?"
Peaceful and bright and innocent the
whole land seemed, and there Wag war.
Warl War with Russia. I looked up at
the fluttering lark, I looked down at the
merry child; I eat how meet and good a
thing was mace, how black and horrible
was war, and then—I thruet my spade in-
to the earth, ad walking up to the far-
mer, said, "Mr. Liskard, I want to leave
you. I want to go away. I want to go
out and fight in the Russian War."
Mr. Liskard was naturally sueprieed by
my eudden determination to go back to
the colors; and tried in hie own woy to
disenade me from what he considered a
rash notion.
"Is this place too quiet for your he
asked.
I replied that I lilted the place very
much, and preferred quietude.
"And is that why you watt to go to the
war; to seek, quiet?" he asked.
I shook my head.
"Because," said The, "you might be
mgcladeet eentoeurggehtttf, of, g..fseme Ruesian had
-8 must take my chance," I answered.
"Nay." said the farmer, "you mean you
will take your ahanee. But I don't eee
why. If it's only death you're seeking
""fredonglinwgat9tMftowdarea,"MI 1105e Ri! 1."
"Maybe," suggested Mr. Liskarcl, "you
want to kill the Russians. But don't
eee whY you ahould. They never did you
any ,harm."
"I have 110 ill -feeling towards the Rus -
Biome," 8 anuwered, with•an uneasy souse
of guilt at ray heart as I spoke.
The farmer smoked in silence for a few
moments, and then said slowly, "Farm
work is hard work, and dull work, but
it's God'; work, and feeds Hie people. Mak-
ing widows an' orphans le exciting work,
I daresay, but it's the devil's work, and
don't you do it."
"But," I protested, "some one must go,
and it is a just war, isn't it?"
"Now, look ye, boy," said the farmer;
"I don't rightly know what this war's
about, an' I don't believe tbat anybody
knows, neither Englieh nor Russians.
There never was a just war in my opin-
ionl nor a wlee war, an' the man that
works does well, but the man that fights
does ill, an' killing's murder."
I had no anliWer to these arguments ex-
cept to repeat any first declaration that I
wanted to go out to the Russian war.
"Well," replied the farmer, "I've said
my eey, au' you're your own man. • So
be le
• He laid aelde his pipe and went into
the house, from which he fetched out a
bag of money, and having given me live
bounds, bade me get the pony and trap
ready eo that he might drive me over to
Exeter. "For," said he, "you'd beet not
venture boo Plemouth in case you meet
those yould rather not see."
And so I left my place of refuge on the
quiet mean and threw myself once again
into the noise' and horrid stream of life.
Mr. Liskard made no further °front to
dissuade me from my purpose. But wheu
Ole trap was waiting at the gate he called
Rachel out into the garden and said to
her, "Now, maid, William is going away
from no to the ware, and I want you tO
bid him good-bye and good speed, for
that is hie due as a good man who's done
his work well."
Then Rachel came forward shyly and
held out her hand. I took it in mine
and said "Good-bye," and she answered
quietly, "Good-bye"
• But this did not content her father.
"No," he said. "not so, child; do YOU kiss
this bey and say God bless you."
Rachel held up her pretty face obedient.
but blushing slightly, aud I bent down
and kilned her. Then we drove away,
"I thought, William " maid* the fernier,
after the lapse of Mar an hour, cm the
trap boWled smoothly over the soft turf,
"I thought, William, that as things are
and may be it would be a kind of tataY
and cheer to you to go away with the,
kiss of an Englieh maid on your lips, and
a child's God bless you he Your Mira It'll
be eomtaking to think on, William, in
rough times."
(To be continued.)
NOTHING BUT TIM TRUTH.
On little Arthur's birthday, he
received a present of -a very large
furry toy monkey.
Two days later, his father found
.
it lying le a corner with both eyes
missing.
"My boy," asked father, more in
sorrow than in anger, "why have
you spoiled that beautiful monkey
by pulling ite eyes out?" '
'Didn't!" replied Arthur brief-
ly.
"Don't tell any untruths," snort-
ed father, more in anger than in
sorrow, "or I'll punish. you 1 Why
did you pull the monkey's eyes
oltt 1"
"Didn't!'' repeated little Arthur
defiantly. Then he hurried on, as
father took off his slipper. "I—I
pushed them in 1"
SIIE DIDN'T KNOW MOTHER.
Boys will be boys, except *hen
they are little wretches, and Tommy
was no exception.
Re had broken one of the school
rules, and the teacher told him to
tell his mother about it, and also
aboet the punishment he had re-
ceived. This Was foxy of teacher.
She thought mother might thrash
him again.
The next morning she asked:
"Well, Tommy, did you tell yesir
mother about your bad behaviour
yesterday, _and how I punished
you ?"
"Yes, taiss," replied • Tommy
quickly.
"Well, • what did your mother
say 7" was teacher's next question.
"Saicrshe'd like to wring your
neck, miss," replied Tommy calm-
ly.
AFRAID OF DRAUGHTS.
"Did you 'ever see any one so
afeaid of &alights as Aunt Mor -
"No; she'd put a wrap on if she
came into the room and found a
bureau drawer open."
Willie—"Pa, what does discre-
tion mean?" Pa—"Picskitig out a
small man when you are looking.for
trouble."
THOSE DELIGHTFUL PETS
LITE LIZARDS ARE T1111 ItAGT1
'IN LONDON NOW.
No Trouble to lieep--Glaee of Wa-
ter and a Few Meal Worms
Daily.
According to the London Daily
Mirror, the fashion, introduced
some time ago, of using live lizards
as women's adornments is growing
rapidlyoin favor, and bids. fair seoe
to 'become the ``rage." Many
women now pay efterneon calls car-
essing wriggling green lizards,
which have little gold or silver col-
lars round their seedy necks. So
popular has the reptile 'beconsethat
It 'threatens to depose the fluffy
beauties of the Pomeranian and Pe-
kinese world from their posts of
honor.
A lizard has many qualifications
as a pet. • It can cling around and
decorate its owner'e neck; get itself
tucked up under the collar of a
coat; snuggle under fluffy weeps
and feather boas; be used as a live
and elegant bracelet; carried with
dignity in the hand, and shoved
away in a bag should It happen to
be temporarily in the way. And it
has a further advantage—not that
it is. xnaterial---of bell% cheap; 60
'cents' will buy one, and eight meal
worms a day—they O011h 12 cents per
100 --will satisfy its normal appe-
tite. -
HAS BECOME CRAZE. -
"Scores of well-known ladies
keep lizards as pets," said J. W.
Seal. Mr. Seal is an authority on
the subje,ct. He has a shop where
he has sold hundreds of limn& to
well-known perions. "The. fashion
started last April. A lady artist
had four blue Persian eats, but she
wanted to add to the color scheme,
and go ehe bought a few bright
grass -green Dalmatian lizards, and
now the blue cats and green lizards
frisk about together on the floor of
the lady's studio, lEer friends were
delighted with the idea, arid the
craze for lizards has become so
popular that during the last two
months I have sold hundreds.
• "Dangerous? Not a bit. We
tame them before selling them. We
handle them ever water --if they fall
they don't hurt themstelves—until
they get accustomed to us and stop
biting, and afterward they never
give any trouble.
ATTACHED TO A CHAIR.
"There are various kinds of liz-
ards—the wall, green, horned, Gal-
loWs, great apotted eye, the Del -
metier' and the Austrian, the blue-
throated—but the potted eye liz-
ard and the Dalmatian are the best.
They are about twelve to eighteen
inches long, and ladies carry them
abotit while walking or motoridg.
As a rule a pet lizard has a tiny
gold or silver collar around its
neck, and attached te' it is a chain,
so there is no chance of the pet
getting lost while out with its mis-
tress.
"Lizards are no trouble to keep.
You put them in a glass ease when
they aro not being fondled, and all
they require is a glass of \voter and
a few meal worms. These worms—
they are about an inch long ---come
from Germany, anti from eight to
ten form a -complete meal. They
like just a pinch of lettuce, but
worms are their favorite dish. They
need to be fed only once a day—in
the evening.
"One of my customers has named
her lizard Fritz. 'Fritz!' she calls,
and the lizard goes to her and me-
th -ally holds up its head to be fed.
"It's the same in my shop. All
She lizards know when it is feeding
time, and -when I approach them
with the worms they pub up their
heads and open their mouths, They
won't touch dead worms.
PUTTING ON STYLE.
Street ITrehin—Where yer goin',
Maggie?
Meggie—Goin' ter de bUteher fur
fi'cents' wort' 815 liver.
trehin--Ohee 1 Yer koin ter have
company fen dinner, ain't yer
CRUEL THING.
• The iinpudence of some people I"
snapped Mrs. Parvenue. "She told
somebody I did my own washing!"
"Well,'' replied Mes. -Manor, in-
nocently, "whose washing do you
dol
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TRAVELLING LIGHT.
Yet De Latoonaye Was Able to Ap-
pear at Dinner in Full Dress. /
Sir Charles Napier was onee de-,,
lightfully pi -retired in Punch as set-
ting out for Scinde with "his soap"
and very little besides, De Lathe-
naye a -Breton emigre of 1796, who
travelled in Ireland, chiefly on foot,
and invariablyturned up at the
houses of his friends with almost no --
visible baggage'carried nearly da
simple an outfit. Yet in some mys-
terious way he was always able to
appear at dinner in full dre.es. In
his boa; "Promenade en Irlande,"
De Lotocnaye teria how he te00 OM-
plished this feat.
"I had my hair -powder inea bag
made of a lady's glove; ray razor,
needles, thread, scissors and a
comb all weht into a pair of done.
ing-pumps. In acklitioe, I carried
two pairs of silk stockings, breeches— e
of zuch fine stuff that they would
fold up as small as my Bet, three
cravats, two very fine shirts, 'three -
pocket -handkerchiefs, and a dress
eoat with six pockets.
"Three of these pockets I kept
for letters, portfolio, and so forth;
in the others, whenever I was going
tu eall at a decent house, I stowed
awarine belongings, which wore
packed, tomo -in the pumps, Jthe rest
in one of the pairs of stockiugs.
"At other times," he concludes,
with more than Freneh vivacity, "I
tied the three parcels in a handker-
chief and carried them at the end
of my walknig-stick, on which I had
managed to fix an ximbrella."
Thus equipped, he stayed at Lord
Kemeare's for a week, at Hazel-
wood and at Florence Court for the
same length -of time, at Lord Alta -
meet's and Ballynahinch for longer
still, no doubt to the astonishment
of housemaids as well as of hosts.
But he was never disturbed by his
• lack of luggage, and steadily re-
fused all proffered loans of cloth-
ing.
By the time De Latocnaye got to
Sligo the weather had broken, and
he was obliged to add a speneer to
his wordrobe.
MAKING GOLD FUEL
A large trade in goldfish is now
being carried on in Sicily, the col-
oring being obtained by keeping
silver fish in water containing cer-
tain chemicals in the forin of peat,
chalk and iron. 'After a couple of
weeks in this "mixture," the fish
a,re transferred to another bath
composed of iron and tan, which
has the effect of coloring them red,
or black and red, or black, red and
silver—according to the length of
time they are left in the solution.
These fish fetal) a better price than
the ordinary silver fish, found in
large quantities in that region, but
it is remarked that so far they die
yemag.
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