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Dainty Dishes.
Prune Pudding—The whites of three
eggs beaten until stiff, one cup of
sugar, one cup of chopped eooke
prunes. Mix carefully, pour int
a buttered baking dish and bak
slowly for twenty minutes.
Cranberry Pudding=,Sift'toaethe
two cups of flour, three teaspoons
baking' powder and a pinch of salt
Add milk sufficient to make a don
about the thickness of any batter pud
ding, stir in a cup of well -sweeten
and strained cranberry jelly and steam
-for an hour and a half. Serve wi
hard sauce.
Vegetable Pie—Put into a buttere
pie dish layers of sliced potatoes an
of half -cooked, Spanish onions. Th
season with salt and pepper, and mois
ten with vegetable stock or milk.
Fill with cooked carrot and turnip,
cut in dices. Put more cooked car-
rot on the top and bake in a hot oven
for about an hour.
Griddle Cakes—Crumble bread int
a bowl, first removing the crust. Pour
a pint of boiling hot milk over th
crumbs and let them stand until the
swell, then beat in the yolks of tw
eggs; a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of
melted shortening, two heaping table
spoons of flour and the beaten white
of the eggs. Beat well, then bake
them in the regular way,' being care-
ful when turning them not to break
then. These are very good.
Hot Salad—Take a good beet root
and its equal ,f bulk in potatoes.
When the beet 'root has been boiled
until it is tender cut it into slices.
Then slice the potatoes and lay the
alternate slices of beet and potatoes-
in
otatoes
in a dish. Sprinkle with pepper and
salt and pour a wineglass of lemon
juice carefully over the top. Vino -
gar will do just as well as lemon juice,
but the flavor of the lemon juice is
more distinctive. Place the dish and
its contents in- the oven until very hot.
and then the salad can be served with
hot roast meat.
Kidney and Onion—Take a sheep's
kidney and a moderate-sized Spanish
onion. Skin the kidney and season
according to taste. Peel the onion,
cut from top to bottom, but not quite
through, hollow out the inside suf-
ficiently to hold the kidney, then place
the kidney inside the hollow, close the
onion and tie together tightly. Then
place the onion in a covered stewpan
with two or three tablespoonfuls of
water and stew gently for about two
hours. The gravy it has been stew-
ed in should be served with the onion.
Porridge Scones—For these, cold
oatmeal porridge can be used. The
scones must, however, be eaten at
once, as they will not keep. Make a
stiff dough by adding flour to the
poreidge, and flavor with a few drops
of vanilla essence. Roll out the
dough to Half an inch thick, cut in
scones and bake for about half an
hour in a moderate oven. Butter
should be liberally spread over the
scones when they are cut open. 1
Bacon and Split Peas. --Put the peas
to soak the day before required. Wash
them well and remove any that are
discolored. Tie the peas loosely in
a muslin bag, then boil until quite!
soft. While the peas are cooking'
trim off the rind of. some fat bacon,
and just before the peas are ready fry
the bacon, place on a dish and keep.
hot. Rub the peas through a sieve,
then add the seasoning and some of
the bacon fat. The bacon and peas
should be served in separate dishes.
Spanish Soup—To nlake this vege-
table soup peel eight potatoes, eight
smell onions and one Spanish onion.
Cut the Spanish onion up small, fry
in dripping and add salt and pepper.
Cook the potatoes ancl small onions
In a pint and a half of water, and I
when perfectly soft and tender add the,
fried onion and one pint of hailing
milk. Draw to the side of -the fire'
and add two well -beaten eggs. Stir'
till the mixture thickens,ebut do not'
allow it to boil; then add half a cup -
fell of grated cheese and stir again.( t
Rub through a sieve and servo with c
toast.
Chicken Salad—Cut cold, boiled c
Thicken into dice. Take two cups of,
;his meat and unix a cup of celery' b
d
eed. Linea chilled bowl with crisp servants, needless to say, he could "Oh," said Mr. Vermont, "i was
lettuce leaves, fill with the chicken - have given Jasper -a very fair idea, of my mistake. `I thought I saw a gentle-
r salad, and pour mayonnaise dressing where he had gone; but he preferred man rowing a lady down the river-
of over all. to keep his own counsel. rowing very well, too, in R light skiff,"
Egg Salad With Cream Dressing-. "Oh, very well. Pll just go up and "Ahl" said the man, ` puffing a
gh Telco equal parte of hard boiled eggs write a few letters, Norgate," said cloud of smoke from his rough clay
end celery and place them on lettuce Jasper, making a pretence of indiffer-' pipe, "I know who you mean, now;
a leaves which have been put into a once; and he
chilled dish Over this pour the cream passed into the study, a entiomeregular swell, and a
Norgate returning to his own uar ladyin blue. Lor' bless yer, that
dressing which has been made creel!"
tors. I ain't one of mine, that's a private
beating three eggs, yolks and whites; Mr. Vermont waited until his re- boat that's kept up at the Court, I
d together, until thy are light; add treating footsteps had died away, then think. Oh, yes, he's all right; gone
d one teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of red with a quick hand and a.keen eye he upstream, they have, and a nice day
The
THROUGH TIIE DARK SRADQWS
Or The Sunlight of Love
CIIAPTLIt XIX.--e(Cont'd). this neither of the ladies would allow
"Oh!" said Jasper quietly,
in.. I and with a parting snot on the taus
wardly irritated that his dupe should ject of Adrien'e whereabouts, Vprfrtgnt
be absent, even fora day, Without took his leave.
telling hint of his intention and plane.. Ilia next' move was to Waterloo
"Ohl Where has he gono7 He did Station, where he took a train to
Jae -
mention it last night, but 1 have for- Bampton; and a little after noon, Jas.
gotten." He put bis hand to his Pore- per Vermont was strolling alcing lire
head as if trying to recall i to his side of the river, smokingahis cigar,
mind. Very amiable he looked, end exceed -
by
Norgate was too sharp to be zngly interested in the boats, and
caught by this time-honored man, therefore it was not surprising that
oeuvre, He knew very well. that the the man who let them out on hire
lvhole outing bad been too hurriedly readily answered lure questions as to
decided upon for Jasper to have been the best season of the year, the ap-
told on the preceding night; and he' proximate number of customers, etc„
had' no -intention of allowing his mss- had a boat with a lady and gentleman
ter to whom he was sincerely attached, all leading up to the main rluestion,
cut into dice with it, Spr nkie all to be worried by Mr. Vermont. .. gone out that day?
with salt and pepper. Into three NI don't know, sir," he replied stolid -
tablespoons "No,' the man said. "Curiously
tablespoons of oil stir a tablespoon of ly He did not leave word." enough, sir, no boat has gone out to
vinegar, Pour this over the chicken As the letter had been brought round day with a lady and a gentleman in it,
and celery and toss until well.mix-,quite openly by one of the Merivale like what you describe."
pepper, half a saltapgon of mustard turned over the letters which lay they've got."
_ mixed with a little water, and, lastly, where Adrien had carelessly thrown This was what Jasper needed; and
three or four tablespoons of rich, them. Amongst them was one which after strolling about among the boat
sweet cream. had been evidently overlooked, for it for a few minutes more he started off
Hungarian Beef Stew — Cheaper was unopened. It bore the Barmin- along the bank, keeping at such a dis-
cuts of meat can be made up in most star postmark, and Jasper's eyes twice from -the stream that, though
delicious stews. The following re- shone. Could he but learn its con- he could see all who passed in the i
1 boats, no one on the river could see
him.
The beauty of the day, the shimmer
and sparkle of the river, with the soft
lap of its waters,., the singing of the
Ibirds over his head, all had no effect
on him. His dark, beady eyes noted
nothing but the boats that passed,
none of which, as yet—though the
afternoon was waning fast—contain-
ed Adrien and Lady Merivale.
Yet he knew that he had not miss
ed them, for he had taken his lunch on
the balcony of an inn commanding a
view of the river, which he had kept
under survey from the time he had
reached Hampton earlier in the day.
Steadily, with the persistence of a
bloodhound tackling its prey, he walk-
ed on and on, until he came to a v11
loge, or rather a collection of home
steads. Very small it was, consist
ing only of an inn, a house, half cot
tage and half shop, and a few red
tiled cottages wherein the bargemen
lived, when they were at home, which
was seldom. In the bright sunlight,
the blue sky overhead and the shining
river in the foreground, it formed a
pretty enough picture.
In the Iittle shop parlor now, sat a
woman and her husband, at their five-
o'clock tea.
'"John Ashford, Grocer," was the in-
scription over the shop door; and
these were John Ashford and his
wife, Lucy. They had two children,
now playing by the river side; and
were, as the bargemen's wives expres-
sed it, "doing comfortable."
The man's face was a good-humor-
ed one, round, honest in expression,
and common -place. His wife was not
so ordinary; a' fair-haired, small -fig-
ured little woman, she showed traces
of having been a village "beauty" in
her young days, of the pink and white,
shallow type. But in her eyes, and
along the corners of her somewhat
weak -looking mouth, there were signs
of an ever-present fear.
Even now, as she sat pouring out
her husband's tea, her habitual ner-
vousness showed itself in the restless
movements of her unoccupied hand,
and the sudden start with which she
would greet the slightest unexpected
sound, or the knocking of a customer
on the little counter. From where
she sat she could see her children, and
once or twice she smiled gently as she
waved her hand to them, where they
were playilig with an elder girl who
was in charge of them,
"I say, Lucy," said John, as he
drank his tea noisily, "how's the girl
going on? Getting over her shyness
a bit, ain't she?"
His wife started; but he was evid-
ently too accustomed to this to notice
pe for Hungarian beef stow you
nd a splendid dish and an inexpen
sive one, too: Two pounds of lean
beef, shoulder steak, two tablespoon
y fuls vinegar, two tablespoonfuls fine
° ly cut oniohs, two tablespoonfuls bu
ter or suet, one level tablespoonful
aflour half -cup cream, sweet or sour
one teaspoonful salt, one-fourth tea-
spoonful caraway seed, one-fourth
teaspoonful swept marjoram, half-
eup hot water or broth, paprika to
taste. Cut the meat in one-half inch
tubes, put in a granite dish (not tin),
add vinegar and salt and let stand an
hour. or two. Heat the butter in a
porcelain -lined iron kettle; add the
onion and cook until tender, not
brown, add meat and spices and cov-
er closely so the steam will not es-
cape; Iet simmer slowly until the
moisture is absorbed, and brown, stir-
ring often. Add a half cup of hot
broth or water and the flour mixed in
cold water. Just before serving acid
the cream and shake in paprika, to
taste.
•
q' fi tvr 1 tents? He picked It up, turning it
over and over in his hand. 'To his
intense delight it was but lightly seal-
- ed, and by dint of a little care the let-
ter was safely opened, uninjured and
t- unsoiled.
It was from Lady Constance, stat-
, ing that she and Miss Penelope were
to spend the -day shopping in London,
and would be at Barminster House at
eleven o'clock.
It was quite a short note; and Jas-
per, smiling' wickedly,. sealed it up.
He knew there was no fear of discov-
-cry, for there was not a more unsus-
picious man living than Leroy. His
mind was working rapidly, seeking to
mature a plan by which he could sep-
arate Leroy and Lady Constance still
£artier.
First of all; he continued to search
through the letters, ocketing those
which were obviously hills. He look-
ed at the last one with a sigh.
"Not here," he mused. "I should
know her handwriting in -a moment,
Yet I am positive he has gone with her
She must have let him know by let-
ter this morning. Can he have taken
it with him?"
His eye caught a scrap of torn pap-
er in the fireplace. Like a bird of
prey, he pounced on it, and untwist-
ing it, his small eyes glittered as he
read.
"Ah!" he stuttered. "Lit his cigar
with it, and burned all save one corner
—Hampton. Yes, that's it; under
cover of Lady Rose they've betatron
themselves to the river. Now what
shall I do? Follow them, or See
Lady Constance, or do both?"
Placing the scrap of paper carefully
in'his pocket -book he left the flat, and
made his way to Barminster House.
He had called presumably in order to
see after some slight alterations then
being made, and his surprise on finding
Miss Penelope and Lady Constance es-
tablished -there, was beautiful to wit-
ness.
On his entry into the drawing -room,
Lady Constance sprang up eagerly,
regarding him as the forerunner of the
man she loved; and Jasper smiled as
he greeted them respectfully,
"This is an unexpected pleasure,
Lady Constance,' he eiclaimed. "I
had no idea you were coming up to
town."
"It's only for the day, Mr. Ver-
mont," she returned as calmly as pos-
sible. 1 "But I wrote to Adrien, for
auntie, telling him all about it."
"Dear, dear!" ejaculated Mr. Ver-
mont sympathetically. "I have just
come from his chambers. I learned
that he had gone out for the day."
"For the day," said Miss Penelope,
"after reading our letter!"
"Perhaps he didn't get it in time,"
suggeeted Lady Constance.
"Poor Adrien," said Jasper with
apparent reluctance, "I'm afraid I
cannot even allow him that excuse;
lie had evidently taken away all his
correspondence this morning."
"Oh, it's of no consequence," said
the girl lightly, though her face was
pale, and her eyes shone, as if through
a mist of tears, "We are only going
shopping for the ball, and that is dull
work for a marl,
"Can I be of any assistance, Miss
Penelope," inquired Mr, Vermont. ' 1)o
-lot me Help, I love shopping!" But
Useful Hints.
When the washing is done by ma-
chine, boiling• is a litle less necessary.
Sugar gingerbread makes a whole-
some sweet for the children.
English walnuts added to orange
gelatine give it a delicious flavor.
When preparing pickles a wooden
;spoon or fork should be used, neve• a
• metal one.
A boiled custard with crushed ber-
ries added to it after cooking is a
delicioU5 dish,
Good drainage is. the most import-
ant' thing to consider about foliage
plants for the house.
Javelle water removes the most ob-
stinate stains from clothing, but it
also removes the color,
No one who has seen an electrically
equipped kitchen can doubt that it is
labor and dirt saving.
Even in winter green food, such as
salads, should play as large a part as
possible in every dietary.
Covering the furnace and heat
pipes with asbestos will keep the heat
from being wasted in the cellar.
To. prevent custard from curdling
place the custard cups in a pan half
filled with cold water instead of hot.
Common lump starcB can he used
for cleaning silver when no other
cleaner is available. It should be
applied with a damp cloth, allowed to
stand several minutes, then rubbed off
with cheesecloth.
To clean a sewing machine quickly,
moisten all the bearings and metal
parts. with kerosene, then run the
machine rapidly_ for a few minutes,
afterward wiping off the oil with a
soft cloth.
You do not have to put greased
paper in the bottom of pans in which
cakes are being baked. Sprinkle
flour over the paper, You have
enough shortening in the batter with-
out grease on the paper.
When preparing French -fried petite
oes they should be first' soaked in
old water, then immersed a mos
meat in hot water and dried on cheese -
loth. If this is done before frying
they will be soft inside and crisp and
rown on the outside.
and f Ib, Cm r 0111--
t), 2O 11 and 100 lb, llabz,
is made in one grade only—the highest. So there is
no danger of
� getting "seconds" when you laity
Redpath in the original Cartons or Bags.
"Leg Roclrpath Sw, etee
►tItetar. Sugar Refining Cz .,,.Lh nited,11Rv i;reaL
her.
"Yee," she said, reaching out ;for his
cup, "Poor girl, she's seen some
trouble, I'll be bound; and for one so
young, too, and innocent. The
world's a hard place! -
"Yes, indeed," agree[: john Ash-
ford, with a glance through the win-
dow where the little group of three
wore playing: "Let mesee ,she's been
hero a mutter of four weeks, hasn't
she—since I wont over to Walter!. ha
RUM thing inc finding het' at all. If 111
I hadn't conte across the moor instead
of along the road, she'd 'ave been in
that furze bush still."
Mrs, Ashford shuddered at the sug-
gestion of his words.
"She hasn't: given us no account of
herself now," he eontinned in his
he started pgaln "4 Pale'
a lit- p TARED
tlo. RECRUITS tl', ASD
"Of course, :dear," she mala; "I
wasn't thinking of lis,"
"We've ne secrete" said the geed -
natured grocer, as he took down h
hat and emit from behi'ing the doe
"Our hearts are open like then elook
with hal the works outside, eh, Luc
my dear?" Laughing rgt his own
simile, he kissed her again.
"If you'll take ,caro of the shop
he went on, as he opened the doe
"I'll :tnet run over to Richmond i!
thoeo jams and things. Old Tucker
cart is going over, and.he'll lend mo
hands,
"Get along, (then," replied •his wfke
"ancl don't forget we want some mor
spices•"
"Right ygu are," said the husband
azzd With
t a wave of ]us hand to her
he went clown the path, the two chit
clren running to meet bim.
Lucy Ashford. stood at.the door and
looked after him wistfully.
"Poor John," she murmured, as
she went back to clear away the tea
things. "What would he do to me, if
he knew?"
Her thought.( went back to the great
secret of her life. :It was that which
caused her strange nervousness. She
had repeated of the past truly enough
and.. -no better wife could have been
found throughout the kingdom; but
the secret had eaten into her life.
She strove now to put it away from
her; fol• she knew she was in reality
safe. enough. Only her father- and
Mr. Vermont knew—and the latter
she had not seen for years.
Now, therefore, she put away her
cups and saucers and called gaily to
the children, as they came running
back. The girl who had been playing
with them: came too; and as she ap-
proadhed the cottage she raised her
head and smiled. Lucy Ashford
stooped to kiss thee hildren, then said
kindly to Jessica—for it was indeed
she:
"I expect you are tired with them
now, my dear. Come and• sit down
with me for a little while."
Jessica raised her dark eyes grate-
fully-
-"No, ma'am, thank you. I'm not
tired. I love the children; they are
ao-good to me."
(To be continued).
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A ROYAL NAVAL CANADIAN VOL.
Y, UNTEIR RESERVg,
FOR ROYAL NAVY
,,r Sea Experience Unnecessary and Life
or, •
or Is a Pleasant one.
's As part of Caneda•'e contribution of.
a 000,00 melt for overseas, the Dominion
Naval Department hao organized. the
' Rani Naval Canadian Volunteer Re-
e serve in width Canadians can ,eet•ve
the Empire afloat at the same rates of
' a as
n tate Canadian pExpeditionary
Y a
iOorcos, Men en1lsting In the reserve
aro ranked as able soignee Rud. . -paid
$1.10 per day, with S20 per month se•
paration allowance to wife or dopend-
ants. No sea experleee is necessary
—men who are physically fit and be-
- tween the ages of eighteen and thirty-
eight, even if they have never seen
the sea, are given the unusual privi-
lege of Joining the navy at full sea-
man's rank at a wage many times in
excess of that paid the regular British
, Navy seaman and rated two ranlce
higher than that allowed ordin•t9•y
"green" recruits.
The naval seaman upon enlistment
receives a full kit of clothes consisting
of twd cloth caps, one white duck cap
and cap covers, three duck working
jumpers, two duck uniform jumpers,
two serge jumpers without cuffs, one
serge juniper with cuffs, two jerseys,
two check shirts, two pairs drawers
!four .pairs duck trousers, three pairs
serge trousers, two pairs socks, one
pair shoes, one pair boots, three blue
!Jean collars, throe flannels, two night
shirts, two lzaudicorohiet's and one silk
handkerchief, two bed covers, one
comforter, hammock, knife, blacking
brushes, clothes brush, hair brush,
scissors, soap bag, "housewife," comb,
toothbrush, cap boxes, prayer book,
overalls, lanyards, etc., the whole De.
ing stowed in a brown canvas kitbag—
the bedding excepted, which is lashed
up in the hammock. Each seaman re.
calves two hammocks. Oilskins, sea.
boots add watch coats aro issued to
those men on duty which require
them. A stack of ready-made cloth-
ing Is kept in the naval depots, and
aboard many ships and issued to the
men when necessary to replace lost or
worn out ldt.
Goes to Halifax.
• LAND 'BATTLESHIPS, •
Tanks Represent The Best New Idea
Developed in The War.
H. G. Wells, the novelist, believes
that the nation that builds the big-
gest "tanks" and builds them the fast-
est will win this war; and by this
we are not to understand that he
contemplates German victory as a
possibility. He is merely trying to
impress upon his cotutrymen, and es-
pecially upon those given to mechan-
ical and engineering experiment, the
fact -that there are tremendous pos-
sibilities in the tanks. Those al-
ready i11 rise are said to measure be-
tween twenty and forty feet long.
Why should they not be ten times
longer, with tra,•tors that could cut
twenty -foot furrows: in the soil, carry
hundreds of men, huge guns, and be
able to resist the fire of heavy artil-
lery? Theoretically, he believes that
there exists no bar to the almost un-
limited development of the tanks.
The land battleships would not even
be hampered by considerations of her.;
bore, which sets a limit on Dread-
nought construction. It might be
that the existing tanks could not be
used as models, but Mr. Wells believes
that they represent about the best
new idea developed in the war, and
that the engineers capable of build-
ing them are also capable of building
machines ten or a hundred tinges more
powerful.
Some time after the first exploits
of the British tanks were recounted
a story appeared about German tames,
in which it was said that these mailed
monsters had displayed the speed of
cavalry. • Such statements can safe-
ly be disregarded. Germany must,
though, have captured one or. more
British tanks by this J;ime, and has
no doubt set to work to c eplicate them
or more probably to improve upon
them. Britain, we may assume with
equal certainty, will net rest satisfied
with existing tanks, but will continue
to experiment and build as suggest-
ed by Mr. Wells. Getman engineers
and mechanics are not now and have
never been superior to British; there
is no reason to fear,thatwe shall be
outstripped in the manufacture of
land battleships. Moreover, Germany
ie more likely to be concentrating her
chidf constructive efrorts upon sub-
marines, Site, has probably conte to
the conclusion that if she' cannot
starve the British people by sinking
indiscriminately all boats :tlutt ap-
proach their shores, she camlot win
the war. Britain's supremacy in the
matter of tanks is not likely to be
wrested from. her.
The Correct. Diagenesis,
The physician had been called in
ate to see a small negro who was
A£tal: a brief examination the
doctor announced: "This boy has
eaten too much watermelon,"
"Ohdoetah," expostulated the par-
ent of the ailing one, "dey ain't no
sick ring as too much wataltmilliot.
Dat boy just' Win' got 'nottgh stomach."
hearty, good-tempered voice. "Not — -- --
oven her name, 'cept—what d'ye call
ft?"
"Jessica," lzut in his wife.
call her Jessie, sounds more home-
like'
"And hasn't she told you anything
more as to why she tramped out of
London?"
"No, nothing more," said his wife,
"except that she couldn't -bear the
crowds. 1 haven't asked her either,
John, She's a good girl, you can see
that; and penniless as well as home-
less. I should hate to send her to the
workhouse, or perhaps worse,u .she
halt whispered, "If she's got a
secret in her heart, we'll let her keep
it, deet•, Italians we all have a lit-
ho corner in our hearts marked 'Pri-
vate,' " she added in 'a low voice,
".Excepting you and met, my dear!"
said John, wiping his moutes he 0080
trent the table, and eonieg round to
Kits Itrr,
After enlisting • at the recruiting
offices in Canada the recruit is sent
to Halifax, where lie is lilted out with
an able seaman's kit and thence for-
warded on the Bret ship to a naval
training depot in England. At the
training school, the ItN.C,V,R, roan
receives instruction In the rudiments
of naval drill and discipline; is taught
the distinguishing ranks and flags;
how to look after his kit and limb his
hannnock, and is given at least two
months' preliminary Instruction in
rifle and bayonet drill, foot drill and
as nnueit knowledge of seamanship as
can . be given ashore, and a general
idea of signalling, naval gunnery and
torpedo work.
When considered competent enough
the naval seaman is drafted to a men•
of -war and entered on her watch b111,
A card is given him which details him
to his moss in one or other or the
various departments of forecastle
men, of foretop men, Maintop men, or
quarterdeck men, and in either the
port or starboard watch and the Rub -
divisions thereof, in his particular
watch or subdivision he is given de-
tails as to his position in event of col-
lision, torpedo attack, outbreak of fire,
going into action, or abandoning ship.
Each of these Manoeuvres calls for
different duties, and at sea he will re.
ceivo his training in diem.
The Daily Round,
In addition to these special duties,
there is the daily round of work which
runs something as follows: At 6,30
each morning, the boatswains and
ship's corporals call the men. The
seamen turn out, have a wash, lash up
their hammocks and bedding and stow
them away, 'lot cocoa is served out
front the galleys, and at 6 o'clock,
both the port and starboard watches
fall in on the upper deck, and the deck
sweepers ire told off to sweep the up-
per decks. hoses are rigged, buckets
rind brooms served out, and the work
of washing down docks begins. Clean-
ing the guns and scrubbing rleeks
the fresh morning air soon works up
an appetite, and when the work is tine
felled at 7 o'clock, the call for break-
fast is sounded. One hour is allowed
for breakfast, cleaning up and chang-
ing into the "rig of the day," i.e., the
clothes for the particular work the
seaman is assigned to, Shortly before
9 the men fall in on deck, the bugle
blows "Attention," the marines - Pre-
sent arms, and the sailors stand at the
salute while the white ensign is hoist-
ed and the ship's band, if carried,
plays "God Save the Ring." In sum,
mer, this ceremony is carried out at.
6 a.m.
Ten minutes later, "Divisions" Is
sounded by the bugler, and the entire
ship's company muster in their re-
spective groups and divisions and un-
der their particular officers. The
names are called off by the various
watch officers, and the men are in-
spected. After divisions, the crow
march aft for prayers, which is follow
ed by fifteen minutes' physical drill,
. then the routine work of the day corn-
mences, Parties are told off for
painting, overhauling gear and rigging;
etc: If the ship is at sea, certain men
have their watches at wheel, looleout
and signalling—the others; outside of
the working parties, are being exer-
cised and !estimated in the arts of
naval warfare at the gums, torpedo
tubes, email arms, and manoeuvres of.
offence and defence.
At noon, all hands are piped to din-
ner, and at 1.10 p.m., decks are clear-
ed, and work commences again at 1.25
p,m., and continues until 4 p.m., when
decks aro cleared up ready for the
evening muster at 4.15 p.m., after'
which the men go to tea. There 15 no
work after this except necessary
watch duties. Supper is served at 7
min., and at 10 p,m•, every man not on
duty is supposed to be in his ham-
mock. 'Saturday afternoon is gener-
ally a half holiday, and on Sunday, no-
thing but necessary work is done.
Recruiting for the R,N.C,V.R.is be-
ing carried on all over Canada.
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A GARDEN OF SERPENTS.
Maintained in Brazil for Purely
Scientific Purposes.
There is a garden in Brazil which
is very repulsive to the lay visitor.
Maintained purely for scientific pur-
poses, it is located at' Butanta., and
occupies about sever hundred acres.
There are laboratories which produce
serums for the cure and prevention
of the effects of snake -bites. The
snakes used in preparing the serums
are kept in a small park, containing
numerous dome-shaped shelters which
is surrounded by a wall and a ditch
filled with water. Other specimens
are kepi: in a similar park near the
main building, in order that their
habits, favorite food, the divers veno-
mous properties of various species and
the best methods of escaping their
attacks may be studied. The hot
and moist forests of Brazil contain
ninny venomous serpents, but the
slightest noise alarms the peacefrtl
and timid reptiles, which attack only
those persons and animals that tread
on them or destroy their :ails. The
principal families are the Bothrops
and the Crotales, or rattlesnakes.
Tubes of serum, with hypodermic
syringes, are sent gratuitously from
the laboratories to hospitals, mnuniri-
palities, and poor patients. Others
are sold at lour prices or exchanged for
live snakes. Serums .for pest, di th
therm, and- tetanus• are also produced,
Cali. you guess it ?
There are housewives whose
cake is always praised—whose
pastry is famous for i is melting
flakiness --whose firm, light
bread wins daily compliments --
whose puddings are noted for
savoury lightness—whose cook.
les are so lastingly crisp.
They have one rule that applies
to all their baking.
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