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THROUGH THE DARK SHADOWS
Or The Sunlight of Love
CHAPTER XXVI.—(Cont'd},
When ho arose from his knees his
face had lost all its old languid self-
er, more
Possession;
1ighthinh s
ewas
eyeedranras his
lips pressed the hand of the dead girl
they muttered a farewell vow, which
was never to be forgotten from that
hour till his last.
Lady Constance, bravely overcome-
ing her own pain and horror at the
double tragedy—for Jasper's body
hid been recovered and brought back
to the house an hour after the death
of Jessica—hid retired with poor re-
morseful Ada to her own rooms, where
she did her best to soothe and com-
fort the unhappy woman' Over -
ie me with remorse at her
reviou
neglect of the girl, a blamed
he •s
bitterly for not watching her enem
more closely, and thus protecting a
concerned from danger.
Meanwhile, the last painful duty had
to be done. In the Blue Room were
ruin
seated
Morin timertShelton, L rd and Mr
Harker. On the table lay the papers
which Mr. Harker had brought with
him, ainongst them the all-important
roll which Jessica had rescued from
the street. The three men were
waiting now for Adrien, with patient
respect, knowing the cause of his ab-
sence.
Presently the door 'opened, and the
young man entered. ' Lord Barminster
held out his hand without a word, and
his son, as silently, grasped it; then,
with a sigh, he seated himself at the
table, prepared to learn to What ex-
tent he had been robbed by the man
he ,rusted so fully.
Without comment,- Shelton passed
him paper after paper, all drawn up
in the clear -writing of Mr. Harker;
Adrien, with deep humiliation, exam-
ining them all. With another sigh he
ee dropped the last one upon the table
and looked up.
"This tike some hideous dream," he
said in a low, shocked voice; "Jasper
Vermont, then, was not only a traitor
to me but a forger g olid flied..
I
scarcely bcIfeve it—though, of cotusel
it is impossible to get away from these
proofs, He must have even bribed
that jockey to Iose the race, as the
man hinted, That he could so have
used my trust and confidence to. gain
money, and by crime when he could
have had it for the asking, seems past
bei1ef,"
His kI tether looked pityingly at hint; '
he , knevr only too well what a blow
tire'idas to th
ever been known to use. "You o
not ask whether anything can me re-
gained?"
"I am willing to pay the penalty of
my folly," said Adrien, in a low tone;
"and if only it can be arranged that
you, too, do not suffer, I shall not
m1nd,"
"Not even if it should leave you
penniless?" asked his father.
Adrian raised his head with a
mournful etude.
"But for one reason, I am indiffer-
ent," he said.
His father's face lit up:
"Yes," he said, "I think I know that
reason, Mr. Harker, 'will you .be so
good as to place Mr. Leroy in posses-
s Sion
of the facts which
you have ilready given me. I aalmost too
m al -
11 fl tired to speak, alter the strain of these
,last few hours." •
Adrien looked at him remorsefully;
for the old man had indeed undergone
e' much suffering during the last event-
s'rful weeks, -
Mr:, Harker laid a small book upon
(the table,
"This will do so better than I can,
gentlemen," he said. "It is a list of
the' various investments in which Mr.
Jasper Vermont placed the wealth he
had so fraudulently amassed. His ex-
penses were small; and l the invest-
ments which were niade with Mr,
Leroy's money, and which he hoped, of
course, to put to his own use, amount s
to a large sum. When realised,
they will cover the enormous embez- a
elements, when the forged bills are j
destroyed."
Adrien took up the book and glanced
through it.
"Is this true?" he said ,with an
earnestness that -all present under=
stood. "Am I still a rich man?"
"The statement is correct, sir," re-
turned Mr. Harker respectfully. "You
will find that you have in reality bene-
fitted by his cunning and astuteness,
even after the racing debts are fully y
Adrion laid ad ontheboolc
the table.
"I am grateful," he said gravely.
"But I would Ieave this room penni-
less, and gladly, if by so doing I could
bring one life back to us." Then, al-
most overcome by his emotion, he
abruptly left the room.
War,Time Savings,
The economical housewife givee tie
the benefit• of genie of, hoe diseoveties,
'Tho other clay I made an ap
pie, the dye, which looked a pert
succees, but, alas, when I attempted
slip it oft' the plate I found that
under crust had not baked well.
the top crust was beautifully brow
simply turned it upside down, tura
od off the undone crust and cove
the apples with a nice meringue; 1'
the members of my family were
lighted,
We do not use stove polish on
stoves, as we find it economical
save fall our old stockings, sew th
together and use them moistened wi
coal oil for cleaning the stoves. Cu
must be taken, however, that the sto
is not hot when cleaned.
When i put my roast away to ser
cold I wrap it while warm in chee
cloth; both the flavor and the moistu
are retained, and, speaking of ehees
cloth, if you will wrap a double pier
;wet in vinegar; around that piece
cheese, when you get ready to use
again it will not be hard, mouldy
dry.
Should you wish to keep. cream fa
future use add two or three lumps
sugar, cover and set away in a co
pantry,
Ofnelet is cheaper and much
tender .made with water than
Before eating canned foods
bright, clean, steel knife into
as soon as opened, Leave for
ute, and if ptomaine is 'present `
be seen on the knife. Throw th
tents out and you will escape p
ing,
rile
oat
to risen bread -dough, one-half" cup
the butter, one and one-half cepf
As maple -sugar, two eggs, one-half t
n I spoonful soda, one._fourth teaspoon
tr-el
l eves, one-half teaspoonful cinnam
red otic -half 'teaspoonful mace, ono -h
a d teaspoonful nutmeg, one cupful se
de- ed raisins, one-fourth cupful slit
citron. Take dough, when ready
our eitapo into loaves, add other ingre
to ants, and mix and beat with hen
em Turn into tube calve=pan, and well
tit light (it siuld not quite double.
re bulk) bake in oven at a 1.',ttle to
ve temperature than Tor bread. Wh
cold pour nipple frosting over ea
ve and decal -lee with pecan or hickory:
se nut'meatt,
re Maple Frosting.—One cupful maples
e- sugar, one-half cuifdl boiling water,
e, whites of two eggs, one-half teaspoon..
of ful vanilla. Cock sugar and water
it without stirring, until syrup threads
or when dropped from spoon, Pour syrup
In a fine stream onto • whites' of eggs
r beaten until foamy, beating constant-
pf ly meanwhile. Set saucepan on range
of for a moment and continue beating, un.
til egg is cooked. Add vanilla, set
re over cold water, and beat occasionally
until cool, enough to spread,
a Maple Cookies.—One cupful maple
n sugar, three tablespoonfuls butter, on
_ egg, one, cupful sour cream, one -had
t1 teaspoonful salt, one-haif teaspoonfu
•soda, flour, maple -sugar. Cream butte
t- and. sugar, add well -beaten egg, cream
Sift soda and salt with a -little flour
dl then add to mixture enough mo
flour to make of right consistency t
s drop from spoon. Care should be
n taken not to
get the mixture � ur
e too stiff.
ifP.
Grate maple -sugar on top of each
I cooky and bake in moderate oven eight
minutes. Cookies should be kept in
an air-teght receptacle,
How To,Use Skim Milk.
Many people do not realise how nu-
tritious skim, milk is. They imagine
that because it so generally has little
or no commercial value it is hardly fit
for human food. As a food it is not
so valuable as whole milk and cannot
take the place of the latter in the' diet
of children. Nevertheless, skim milk
(can be used to great advantage in
Icombination with other food materials,
especially in cooking, and is altogether
too valuable to be wasted,'
The uses of skimmed milk are natty
and in cooking it adds to quality as
well as to food value. If used in
place of water in bread it adds about.
as much protein to one pound of bread
as there is in an egg. Skim milk
used in place of the usual half milk
and half water, of course increase the
quantity of protein in a loaf by the
amount that is contained in half an
egg. To cook
ga cupful. o
of cereal '
m
three cupfuls of skim milk instead of
three of water adds as much :protein
as that contained in three eggs.
There are many dishes which may
be described as vegetable milk soups,
usually made by combining milk and
the juice and pulp of vegetables. This
mixture
e is then
thickened
with th fl
and starch and enriched with butter
�r other fat. If a fire is kept allthe
itime and .the cost of fuel need not be
taken into consideration, the fallowing
method i. •
a recommended omme
add
as
a
moans
of utilizing skim milk: Chop the raw
vegetable or cut it rots, small pieces.
Put it with the .skim- milk into a
dcuble boiler and cook until the vege-
table is tender. The mixture can
then be thickened and enriched as
described above, By this method no
part of the vegetable is thrown away
and the liquid of the eoup, instead of
beim• part milk and part water, is all
milk. A soup so made, therefore,
usually has about twice as much pro-
tein as that made in the other way,
and has the additional advantage of a
particularly good combination of
r,.ineral substances, for milk is rich in
calcium and phosphorus and the vege-
tables are rich in iron
taking up korai/one oil eta d ether
grease. spots,
Maple -Sugar Ttepes. "
Cdlonist Bread Calle.--Two eupf
ails
fail
uls
ee-
ful
on;
elf
ed -
ed
to
di,
de,
en
in,
wo1`"
en
ke
mo
milk
put
the ca
It 1011
it evil
a con
oiaol
Do not melt your butter if too har
to serve; just fill's. bowl• with boiling
water, let this stand until the bowl i
very hot, throw out the water and tui
the hot bowl over your butter. This
will not impair the taste or waste the
butter,
In making croquettes always use
three tablespoons of boiling water to
one egg in which to dip them, Beat
the water and egg well together and
you will find that it endears the pur-
pose just as well as two `eggs. Cut
your stale bread up in small pieces and
crisp in a corn popper, and your crou-
tons will be made,
MelWhen I•use half a lemon I place the
,. half on a small saucer; cut.
ide downward, and cover with a tum-
bler. I also warm a lemon before
queezing, and I find that I get more.
eke. As potatoes grow old I add a
easpoonful of lemon juice to the wa-
ter in which they are boiled, and they
do not grow dark while cooking.
It is not necessary to use a lot of
tea in order to have it strong; just add
a tea'sponful of sugar; this opens the
leaves and makes :t stronger. When
a fowl seems tough I acid a pinch of
pbda or a little vinegar to the water
in which it is cooked, or I cover it
tightly I and g d bake'
Y
it a whole ino • '
tnnr
g
in a moderately hot oven, after adding
lard, boiling water, salt and pepper
and sprinkling with flour.
Food Values.
CURIOUS FACTS
REGARDING BIRDS.
BYU)EN1.' ABILITY TO Elf ST'
WITHOUT WATER,
Island Entirely Without Water Which
Ilarbor'e'Some'Forme of Animal'
Life.
Recent investigations on the
known and rarely visited Bend
90 Elizabeth Island beveled to
discovery of a complete and cu
little Colon
Y of zoological total.
stainer£], The island, which is
liabite<d, is situated about 120
northeast of Pitcairn Island
—
sufficiently out of the way, but fe
as the home of the descendants q
mutineers of the Bounty,
/There is no water on it, not.
a swamp, and it is only, nix miles
Yet it harbors quite- a menaget'i
kind of rat, a lizard, described as
abundant, and no fewer than
kinds of birds, a11�• peculiar to
island. These are a fruit pigeon
lorikeet or honey -eating parrekee
little rail or crake and a reed war
The. strange thing about the inn
of this curious little natural aviar
coral rock, surrounded by waves
stead of .wires, is that two of its
mates are birds, one especially a
elated with water—the rail and
warbler.
• Live Without Water.
Yet it evident that these, like
rest, must do without drinking un
the dew can slake their thiest, or
have acquired toleration for sea w
e ter ae a beverage. A similar cane
f that of the peculiar and very han
1 some wild goose of the Sandwi
✓ Islands, which frequents the barn
, lava flows, where there is no perm
ent water supply, but it feeds o
re juicy food,, such as sow thistle, . an
O berries. Here'we get ' an even mo
aquatic type of bird marooned on d
land, but the Sandwich Island goo
takes to water readily enough whe
kept in Europe,
"As to the existence of animals
without drinking, it is well known that
many have the power of sustaining
themselves in this way, and the phe-
nomenon occurs irrespective of their
diet being vegetable or animal, at any
rate in some cases," says The London
Standard in commenting upon Hen-
derson Island life. "Rabbits, as is well
know -n, can live without water if giv-
en plenty of salad, and so can per
rots if supplied with »op; yet both
will• drink on occasions. So wil
hawks and owls, but these birds can
subsist for long periods without drink
ing in captivity; in fact under the old
management at the Zoo the owls neve
had any water given them. Neither
did the curious hornbills, which are
by nature chiefly fruit eaters, receive
any. They have the opportunity of
drinking now, but do it so awkwardly
trying to peck up the water with their
great bills that the habit hardly seems
natural,
Adapted to Surroundings.
"It has
been recorded ed that. a great
bustard lived for months in captivity
without drinking', although the species
does drink occasionally, and it may be
suggested that the bustards are'' a
family of birds accustomed to frequent
dry places, and hence have acquired
the power of abstinence,
"But setting aside the fact that the
great bustard is often :found near wa-
ter, this explanation would not serve
in the'case of parrots and hornbills,
which are, as a rule,f •
otest birds.
Moreover, the
family of birds Y
mpst,es-
pecially. associated with desert condi-
tions—tire sanegrouse: do not .show
any tendency to dispense with drink-
ing. Indeed, they are very dependent
on water, flying to their drinking
places twice daily, and watering their
chicks by soaking their own plumadse
in the fluid, which is afterwards suck-
ed off by the young.
Endurance of Animals,
"The caintl itself, proverbial for iia
adaptation to the desert and endue-
ante of thirst, is equally in need of
drinking, although on account of wa-
ter storage arrangements in its stern -
etch 'it.can do without a fresh supply
for days. Yet its endwnince of thirst
can be maintained only about twice
little
einem
the)
0•ioua
ab-
unin.
reliefs
—"itself
mous
f the
even
long,
e -a
very
four
the
, a
t, a
bier,
ates
y of
in-
$B0-
the
n-
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the
less
they
HAS 13 Q l lA&.. ,{
it not only softener the
water but darublen I::Ixn cieanne
ing pOwer of snap, anti niefsec
overything sanitary tend
wholesome
reseu$p_ eunattrurne,
WAR DOGS DOING THEIR BIT.
Ttemarkable Treats that Trained Doge
Are Doing on 1� attlefront.
'rite Germans entertld the war with
hundreds of dogs tritttdffftned to pule=
various services. They had the dogs
that did what the St.. Bernards used
to do, namely, hunt out perishing•
mon, and bring their friends to them.
They had also scouting doge, and
dogs that would growl or bristle at
the approach of a stranger. They had
dogs that would recognize an' enemy,
by what moans- we do not know, but
maybe by his uriifotn, and seize him
if the• opportunity arose.
In the natter of teething their dogs
for war the Germans; as usual, led.
France„ however, copied very quickPy.
The Belgians, always animal=lovers,
had made use for years of the dogs
that dragged their rapid-fire guns in
time of war as'they dragged their
milk wagons in time of peace. It we''s
not long before both Belgians and
French had established a dog service
in the army quite equal to that of the
14,- Gormans.
Sonia of the things the clogs ha
rs been .taught to do remain almost.m
d- aculous even to those who are not
oh together ignorant of tem brain -pow
ant that may be developed in a dog, t
n'
re
di
se
nl
ORKNEY ISLES
HELD IN PAWN)
ORKNEY AND SHHTLAND;
BELONG TO BRITAIN.
HOW
Giving an Interesting Bit of Histoi'yt
Which Is Not Generally
Known,
It is not generally known that the!
Orkney Islands, though supposed to be
Pant and parcel of the British Empire,.
are in reality held by. us exactly , ae
the pawnbroker holds the watch of the
impecunious individual who .has tem'.
porarily: parted with that useful are,
title. These islands nee only held by
us in pawn, arid. Norway, as it were,
holds the ticket. :
Long ago Orkney, together with th<�
Hebrides of the west coast of Scot
d
land, belonged to Norway. After the
battle of Large, Norway ceded the
ve latter to Scotland for a cash payment
fr- of 4,000 marks and am annual tribute
100 mar
al ks, This tribute, known
ee ! in history as the Annual of Norway,
Pot• has to bo paid regularly under a pen-
alty,
On the morrow, despite all efforts to
hush the •matter up, the news went
flying
throe Y g au •lr the land, Adrien Le -
,1 oy, the well -beloved of Vanity Fair,
tad been betrayed by his friend and
:oufidant, Great was the sensation
when all the fads came out into the
full light, t'
g and it tva
known own t
ha
t Ad-
rian
had been save e
d lin the traitor's
own daughter, who had given, her life
that his might be spared.
Mr. Harker •was well rewarded for
the part he had taken iu exposing
Jasper Vermont,' and preserving the
Leroys from the pitfalls and ruin he
had dug for them. All the forgdd
bills were -promptly burnt, and there
remained only those real amounts that
Adrien had signed, and which, all put
together, only amounted to but a min-
ute fraction of the supposed sums ow-
ine• by theyoun man.
Jessica was buried in Windleham
churchyard; the funeral was attended
"I believed 111, him to the last," con -
ti
Untied d Ailrf
en 1n •
Lh
e same low
toi
„ les.
I Believed. '
firm
true to spite
your warnings."' of all
He turned to his friend,
"Shelton," he said, "I cannot thanlc
you as I should like,.nor 'indeed, you
either, Mie. Harker. I am deeply
grateful to you all for what you have
done for me, • Truly a man should
take heed of his self-coneeit, lest he
fav; as,T have done."
He dropped his he'd on hie hands,
and -his father turned to hint affection-
ately.
"Yon do not ask if the evil this man
has worked can be remedied, Adrien,"
he said, in a softer tone than he had
•
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./
IOU1t neighbour;
famous for her
;aloin-� maybe Site
peen Five l.otad ,
In the.present state ore the food
market it is a wise economy to serve
two or three vegetables at dinner and
less meat, Those which have the
highest food value are the legumes,
peas, beans and teethe, which contain
starch, protein and mineral matter:
The green ve etable'
g s have a largo
proportion of water, and are principal-
ly useful on account of the mineral
salts which they contain. Potatoes
and other. root vegetables are about
one-half water, and the dry matter
consists of starch, sugar, protein, min-
eral matter and fat,
A Cure,foc Floor Stains,
Should you accidentally spill shoe -
blacking on n wooden floor, put a
handful of corn -meal ori the spot -im-
mediately and rub in briskly, Sweep
off; not even a sign of the stain will be
seen. This, twill also answer for fruit
juices or almost any liquid that leaves
a stain. It will also greatly aid in
by all the Leroys as well as by many
of the countryfolfc, for her sad little
story had become known, Ada Lester
was also present; she paid her last
visit to the neighborhood of Barmin-
stee on that day, and,' with a tact most
-
unusual to her, refrained from attract-
ing any attention so far as the Leroys
wore concerned,
Well planed now in money matters
and proprietress of the "Casket'
Theatre, she settled down to learn th
art of acting• as well as dancing. and
eventually married her business man -
a ar. She also undertook to look
after her sister, who, however, died
shortly a``ftorwaeds, without ever re-
gaining her memory, or learning of
the fate which had befallen the man
whom she had once Ioved, or the
daughter of whoa existence she had
forgotten since the day of her birth,
(To be continued),
Work,
Let mo but do 111y work from day to
day,
In field or fared, at the desk or
loom,
In the roaring market; -place ot.•
tranquil room;
Let Inc but find it in rev heart to say,
When vagrant wishes beckon me
astray,
"rife is my work; my blessing, , y b ossni not.!
my doom; . g, r
Of all rvho'live, I am the one by i
whom
',Chis work can. best be done in the
right way,"
Then shall I see it not too great, nor
small,.
To suit trey spirit mid to prove my
powei'si
Then Shari 1 cheerful greet the
lebcring hours,
And cheerful turn, when the long
shadows J'e'll
Al. eventide, to plrry and love end rest, t
Because 1 know for fie. my ivtn' • is 1
,hest. r
Food•
Value of Beans.
I0 is estimated that an average
acre of beans produce as much real
food material as is usually obtained
from five to fifteen acres of pasture
land in the production of either meat
o1 mills. According' to recent deter-
minations and prevailing• ,,,•fees
much valuable food material fol h as
',much
consumption could, be obtained
e /from the pui'ehasc of '•beans with
Itwenty cents as from line ptn chase' of
cheese with forty -Hired cents,•oe beef
steak with seventyenine-den le, and of
!eggs with one dollar and' sixty_Sne
!cents, Field beans,approach animal
(foods in nutritive veled, They sof
thin a high perceetage'of protein, and
in this roped seemed the cereals
Commonly use<l as food seen ae wheat
and oats. There is a higher percent-
age of protein in beans than in the
best cuts of meat, but it is not quite
so completely digested.—Prof,
Zavitz.
The Food Question a Vital One,
Everywhere, the world's reserve
supply of fodstufls is being rapidly
'reduced. Recent advices indicate that
the wheat pt'oductiol of Argentina,
New Zealand end Auseralie is esti-
mated at only 70 per cent, of last
year's production. The factors tend-
Mg towards reduced production, Such
as labor shortage and iuereaeod ecs0
of seed, will adversely effect evei.•y
department of the farm', This means
that supply will not overtako.�demand
fon' aerne time to come,
It will be both patriotic And profit-
Able for fanners to put' forth the 'tit-
mest effort to Menage the :feed sup-
ply Unlimited food is a vital ueees-
sity to the `euecossful prooention of
he war, mid its rreeluctfon is trite
rational cervica, fi'respectfve oi''•'the
award that. may be looked, ler' In
attars and cents. 91
--Ilcnry Van Dyke. d
A ,
instance, a dog at a listening post,
whose business it is to give warning
of the approach of an enemy, has been
taught g do so not by.barking or even
by growling, but merely by pricki
his ears or scratching on the ground
He has been taught to cross groan
that is being swept by shell and b
let carrying despatches, to continu
even after he has been wounded. II
has been taught, in some cases, to di
tinguis}t between an offensive and
defensive, to know when to hurt him
self upon an enemy patrol, and whe
to lie close to the ground to let th
Roche pass,
In one authenticated instance ' a
nglish Airedale, et his' master's bid
dung, seized a bomb that had fall i
en
iia trench and rushed with it into th
open. The dog was blown to pieces
but the lives of a clown men were sav
ed. They are taught to work some
r,' times for two days and two nights
without rest. They are taught to ig-
nore the trench rats a articular)
p Y
(hard job to teach a'terrier, and to
make no sign whatever unless a Ger-
man approaches. •
They can see and hear further than
a man, and at night they have frus-
trated' scores of sarprise , attacks,
Their services in the past couple ,of
years
of t •enc
t h war are
f have' � u
Tee
invaluable, and we ar8 glad to' learn
that on more than one occasion par-
ticular clogs have been mentioned in
• official French despatches, and have
even been decorated.
THE MINISTRY OF DOLLS.
Meet Life -like Dolls Leave Too Little
to she Imagination.
Payment Refused.
In 13-
97 Norway, w Sweden andDen- L1 n
y
mark were united under one crown,
ng and when Christian became king of
• the united realms Scotland had neg-
cl lected the annual payment for forty
bit
years, incurring a penalty of over 40,-
e 000 narks, King Christian promptly
e sent ill his account foe the :whole sumo
s -
a•
with a request for immediate pay-(
Scotland declined to pay, and as
1i' King Christian insiated, a rupture ba.
o tween the two countries seemed inev-'
itable, The King of France,'however,
n who happened to have alliances with
- both countries, used his influence and
n suggested a marriage between Prince
e James of Scotland, afterwards King
, James the Third, and Margaret,'King
- Christian's daughter, trusting that
- such a union would lead to a friendly
settlement.
Marriage Arranged.
After much haggling the marriage,
treaty was arranged and the princess'
dowry fixed at 50,000 florins; 10,000 to
be' paid within the year and the Iso
lands of Orkney to be pledged for the
other 40,000.
Only 2000 florins was paid, the Shete
land Islands being pledged for the re-
• mainin 5000—
and there the
pay
1
Y
ments stopped. Though unable t
pay, King Christian would on no ac-
count accede to the permanent cession
of the islands, and it is quite certain
that he intended to redeem them, a
he was quite entitled to do,, for 80 tat
as 1668 the plenipotentiaries of Eu
rope declared that' the islands er
still el
w
redeemable. However, neither;
he nor any of Ids successors have been
able to do so, and that is how Orkney'
anti
Shetlandbelong tail to Britain.
i.
But supposing
that the present ru!
ler of Norway produced the ticket
along with the money due and de -1
mended back these islands, it would
be interesting to know what would
happen.
Toa Much Water.
George was hampered by a mother,
whose Idea of godliness was cleanv,,
nese. Notwithstanding the frej
quent baths to which he was condemns
ed George thrived exceedingly. One
day a. neighbor remarked on his rapid
growth. "Yes," said George; "that's
ma's fault. She waters me so muchl"
as long as that of the horse lcept en-
der similar conditions, and as an ab-
stainer it cannot compare with the
giraffe, the eland and some of the
other antelopes, which can exist, with-
out ddnlnn ' for months at a time,
and probeb y indefinitely.
"Ability' -le exist -without drink-
ing is 'eviden`t'ly a physiold is
g ai peva-�
liarity of certain species of famines of
animals, and it obvious from what
has been said above that this power is
capriciously distributed and has no;
necessary cotlnection with the (Tea -
tune's envh•onment, though ender tile'
pressure of circumstances it nay bc-
coin a invaluable." - -
•70 -
In the cloll'e house,
too the cost of
living. steadily ra
srs. Many a
doll—
like many a real, live musiciaree-was
made in Germany, and the •war has
jchecked the emigration. But there
will be dolls • as long as there. are
hungry little hearts to mother them.
The poor child will fashion 'a baby
of rags, or a cornstalk, or a broonIII
stick end, if no better is forthcoming.
It may not be a glorious r`eation,
with a <btwn-flush on its waxen
cheeks, the teeth of pearl, the ring-
lets a butter -yellow, eyes that open
and close and a chest that under pres-
sure emits its squeaky salutation.
These dolts that have all but the soul
of a human child are not the best, for
they leave toe little to the imagina-
tion; that wondrous -power of "make-
believe" whereby childhood builds its
own new heavens and earth and peo-
ples a solitude with Ind :fns or fairies.
The love of a child for • a doll does
not depend •o11 clover mechanisms and
a face that is t1 work of art, - The ad- '
joining high chair at the table or
space side by side oe the pillow may
have to be given. to tt smudged and
battered specimen that is just :t hunch
of ravelings--n small edition of. 1.11e
vampire who leas but "a ,rag', a bone
and a hank of hair,,,
Poor, indeed, is the child life that
has no -doll .and no dog. Either ie a
competency, and 10 have both ie. ii
foettme, If. one could watch the whole
lay of a little girl with her doll oil
would find therein the complete epic
ane of human life. "As if her whole
vocation were endless imitation,•' she
doss witltbee stolid papoose what she
tae seen her mother do. Itis as -real
o her es flesh and blood. It must be
ed and soothed. and aired and pun-
shedlike a regular baby, That in -
tinct of motherhood tenderly homi-
est in• the little girl is not to be de-
fied or discouraged out of her life
vithout irreparable loss,
c
• ft
Cavalry Surprised C,ernurna.
The arse of ci(Valr•y by the 't;'i•itish1
and i'rencit seems to have taken the t
Germans by surprise, upsetting some f
el' their calculations.' in oua village • i
supper, which had been laid out, was . s
abandoned, together with much mum -r f
nition, and in other places newly i ei
opened innate of high explosives were, i
found, with which the Gcrmatle • had
planeed to destroy the villages. bee
lore leaving That the wholesale de-
sttuction WAS systotnotized iu teleen-
nee characteristic of Gormaef theirs , th
an inns, '
gt e lues shown by captured or- N
dens on the subject, 'Pilose directed eV
the blowing up of rill • houses, wells o
and cellars, except these occupied by h
the reametnn'd outposts, tate reamw
gllrtrd being held responsible ,for malt II
r
Mg their shelters uninhebital•lo be-; lb
•Por of felling Intek. ramble: implonoiite l th
won' all burned or destroyed 1�rltenel go
ever rebuilding was awed it was 110et tis
rendered finny. The orders also iii -1 sw
reeted the aasenbdittg of filth in theednelghbotrltood aall wells for the ptn'-�
peso of eofttamlrrating the water, The
destruction of fruit trees how mucor-{
entry covers the entire belt p1 eva+u- of
Med tcrrii:nry, omen nth ‘e -cliis'5 r Ie
'1110 walla having been r tr leeed s
Blvd el Sweetest Song.
It is said the larks of Scotland are
e sweetest singing birds of earth.
o piece of mechanism that man hper made has the soft, sweet, glori-
es music i11 it that the lark's throat
ns. When the farmers of Scotland
alk out 'early in the morning they
Ili
the larks :from the grass, and at
ey rise they sing, and AS they sing
ey circle and higher and higher they
circling es they sing; until at, last
o notes of their• voices die nut in the
eetost strains that earth ewer listen-
to.
Wel tomb in Woetmiester Abbey
n v entered by twenty Canaeli,,n
111050 of it be tee lien • from CaleI
Mg the Islet placed tltcrct..
twee
value a ye:nig holm
A is judged mast eften by
of the roof. Get permanence end
security into your toof end Yo0
to your !moo. PEDLAR :4
you both. at small coat. Made of
specially tented gelvanired /raw—
Ch11110t 101101 rot or break away,
tight nn all lour .11 Yon
traittehle to you end others for
Soffs, if'11 eine you Palletized
Vitito tor 'the Right
TIZEPEDLAIL
(Sofnlifielt,t/I 1840
glecutivo Delco Se ilactorlos:
Dotticluaf
likonttnel Made
Ottawa fif Two
Toronto etyloo