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���� �'� ingenuity to accomplish.
Pat learned of Jalrobski's interest
in the judge's decision quite by acct
- dent. She was admiring the paintings
hung along
the walls above
a low'b
al
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cony, one afternoon, as the exhibition
was nearing its does. It se happened
that no one else was on the balcony
at the time. Pat heard voices below
her on the main floor,
There was a familiarnote in the
low notes of one of the men speaking,
and Pat's curiosity led her to take an
immediate interest in the converse-
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FOURTH EPISODE
Facing Death.
"Behold the new but uncrowned
Queen of the Underworld,"said Phil
Kelly, the famous detecive, as he
stripped from the 'girlish figure, seat-
ed in the big arm chair, the cloak that
covered her head and shoulders.
Kelly's assistants looked on in ad-
miration.
Loosely bound blond curls covered
the girl's head, and n purple mask hid
the upper part of her face when Kelly
threw :tilde the 'cl'oak. Under the
mask the girl's mouth was radiant in
a broad smile. She sat quite still and
Unresistingly permitted Kelly to strip
the disguise from her face,
"Fooled—and by a women!" Kelly
exclaimed at the face smiling at him.
"Who are you? Tell inc your
name?"' demanded the Sphinx in
angry tones.
"I'm the4Queen of the Sewer," said
the girl as she burst. into outright
laughter. Kelly stood, for a moment
contemplating the highly amused
young woman and then opened the
door.
"You may go—and go quickly," he
commanded.
Meanwhile ' Patricia, safely home
from her adventure at the Cafe Chat
Noir, was consulting with Jacques, in
her boudoir. Her'ebie£ assistant was
all interest and attention.
"We must act, fast, as Kelly now
suspects me of almost everything. The
picture must lie, disposed of, and we.
must plan some more raids. To -mor-
row I will go to old Jakobski and get
the lay of the land, and then you will
take the Mona Lisa to him and make
the sale."
She was one of a dozen young men
and women who waited for an inter-
view with Jakobski, early the next af-
ternoon. '
Jakobski drove many a crooked deal
•in his sumptuously furnished- offices.
Besides trafficking in stocks and
bonds, making investments or buying
mortgages, he macre great profit in
purchasing the works of art students,
marking them with fraudulent signa-
tures and selling the counterfeit can-
vases .to art collectors for fabulous
sums -
While Pat waited in the reception
room, one . young man emerged from
Jakobski's office who especially at-
tracted Pat's sympathetic interest. He
was gazing dejectedly upon a few
francs Jakobski'had put in his hand
as payment for a painting he had bar-
gained for.
"You seem to be disappointed," Pat
ventured to say to the young artist.
"Disappointed, miss? Why, that
don't half express it: This old miser
makes a million per cent profit out of
the work we poor devils are compelled
to sell him, and treats us like dogs
besides." -
"Perhaps I can help you, if you will
confide in me," said the girl in her
sWeetest tones.
For some time they chatted freely in
Jakobski's reception room.
"Here I have only a few francs for
my hard work—and I need money to
fulfill my ambition. I want td•paint
a picture for the Academy of Arts,
and I have no money to buy materials,
let alone pay for the services of a
model."
"Don't be so discouraged, my boy,"
Pat said consolingly. "I believe I can
fut•,nish the money to buy the mate-
rials for your painting, perhaps I can
advance your expenses and—well, we
shall see about the model."
Pat's interview with Jakobski was
brief, while the' old rogue was affabil-
ity personified.
"I am sorry that I must foreclose on
the Orphan, Asylum your aunt is so
interested in," said Jalcobslci, during
his brief conversation with Pat, "but
I ani in need of funds, and must real-
ize on my mortgage and must sell :the
property,"
Having terminated her call upon
Jakobski, and before giving herself
time to rseonside• her sudden deter-
mination, Pat hailed a cab and was
driven at once to the studio of the
young artist who had so strongly im-
pressed her with his necessity for aid
and—a model.
Paul Duvelle's joy knew no bound
when Pat, so promptly keeping her
promise, entered his studio.
"You shall have 'your model," Pat
quietly said, as she approached Du-
delle;-radient in:her beaety, "That is
you -shall 1 have n model—if I wil�
sive.".. ' ;
"Ola, in, 'darling luck;" exclaimed
the ;youngpainter in ecstasy.
"If you are agreed we will begin
• our.bittlegs 'tit once," she continued,
Theyworked hard, Pat and Duvolle,
to finish the pleture--for• there was
none too 'much time to have the can-
vas' really for the..Aeademy.
"The prize is mine," Duvelle would
exclaim, as he contemplated his can-
vas,
ATiset the canvas was flniched, and
Pat's trying and; tiresome ordeal Was
't an end. The work wee done gust
time to hang the Purple Masic' at
e 'Aethdemy :tor prize competition.
es: Van Nuys Accompanied har )niece
o View the Collection on the opening
ay• p ng
"Iii my opinion," said Pat, "it should
get the grand prize,"
And she determined, secretly, that
she would in Home matiiier accom-
ttlish that desired end, But when she
learned. that she had the 'dumb* and
crafty Jalcobslci to deal with, before
gaining her end, she realized that her
tion. Quietly stepping to the edge of
the balcony she readily heard Jakob -
ski as he said:
"It means a fortune to you gentle-
men, if the picture I have spoken to
you about should get the prize. You
have the right to do It, and you will
be liberally rewarded."
"But the public has selected 'The
Purple Mask as favorite," said one of
the men' who Pat knew to be .the
chairman of the committee of judges.
"How can we snake 'The Dawn of
Liberty' win the capital prize with
popular opinion against us." : •
"You decide, that's all. What you
say will be final—and you will be in-
dividually rich all the rest of your
lives. Don't that mean more to you
than public opinion?" urged the crafty
Jakobski,
"We are taking a great risk, but the
money should pay for loss of pub-
lic respect," said another member of
the committee. "1 for one am in fav- ,
Or.
The rest of the conversation was
lost to Pat, as Jakobski and the com-
mittee moved away.
"They shall not rob us of the prize,"
she declared stamping her pretty foot
in excess of hier wrath.
And that evening Jacqubs and Pat
wero hidden away, An safe seclusion,
when the doors of the Academy closed.
The prize was to be announced the
next morning, when the public would
be admitted to await the decision.
Groping their way through the dark-
ness, after the watchman had gone to
another section of the display, pat' and
Jacques soon arrived at the spot where
"The Dawn of Liberty" hung behind
the heavy curtains. Only a few feet
away "The Purple Mask" was similar-
ly secluded behind thick drapes.
(To be continued.)
THE KAISER'S WIFE.
Why Does Not the German Empress
, Protest Against Brutalities? •
"The Kaiserin, so far as is known,
has raised' no womanly, wifely, Mo-
therly voice in protest against the
horrors in Belgium nor the recent
greater horrors in Northern France,"
says Auguste Rodin, the famous
French sculptor. "I am sure I ex-
press the unexpressed collective
thought of the women of the allied
nations when I say they must vision
the silent attitude of the German Em-
press with loathing, in the light of
that which has occurred in Belgium
and evacuated territory in northern
France. For this imperial wife of an
imperial monster has raised no dis-
senting voice against the horrors I
have mentioned, As a wife, as a mo-
ther, what can be her thoughts? She
is represented as imbued with Chris-
tian sentiments, a zealous and fervent
Christian who, according to reports,
prays earnestly to the Almighty in
favor of her country and her people.
If so, what must pass through her
mind at the treatment of French wives
and mothers of the Somme department
by the 'soldiers' who serve her hus-
band and whose acts of violence and
vandalism ,are publicly procloimed by
him as 'glories to the arms of Ger-
many'? •
"As •wives and guardians of the
sacredness of homes, the women of
the Allies must have collectively
classified the German -Empress in the
same category all men to -day classify
her Imperial husband.
"How can she, mother - and grand-
mother, have remained silent at the
tearing away from their mothers and
grandmothers, of more than 400 young
French women to serve as slaves, or
for unmentionable purposes, to the
uniformed officer barbarians of the
German army?
"No French woman, were her hus-
band the Emperor of all Asia, would
have remained silent under like cir-
cumstance, and thus given tacit ap-
proval to the practices of her Attila -
like husband and his Attila -like fol-
lowers, who disgrace civilization."
HIS MOTHER
How proud I was when he marched
away '
On that first great day of school,
Though my heart was sick for his prat -
Wag play,
And the touch of his fingers cool;
I longed to keep him and hoid ;rite,
As only a mother can,
But 1 braced my will; and tc&id hire,
"Be mother's brave little man."
I was prouder still when he marched
away
To the "Job" he ealzod with joi.,
Though 1 lanew's•tho •Suc+ecrss of blas
busy day
Melut the loss of my trting boy;'
Bet who, Willi the great world calling,
May hinder creaLlon's plan,.
Sof kept lay tears ff°oan failing,
And murmured, "Be brave a mani"
But proudest of all when lie marelled
• away
To the oolore-olult was I,
Though' I knew that the lad who left
So, gllY
Was as bidding a long goad•by1
Butleve both starred ane skilled me
As—oue of tho,fighting clan ---
1%e mmled,with itlook that tbri led ore,
Always and forever a maul
To impart a delicate odor to linen,
l ,
setm'ate a piece of cbttoti hr' blotting
.paper with oil of lavender, and Duni
place it among the various articles:
BRITISH LAUREL
WON BY EX -BOER
GEN, SMUTS 'ROW A "STAUNCH
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IMPERIALIST.
Sagacity of Former Foe of England
Foiled Germans In
South Africa.
Among the Britishers of to -day who
are earning the right to be classed as
possessing the imperial mind, no one
has come to the front more rapidly
the last half year than -Gen. Jan Chris-
tian Smuts, Minister of Defence of the
Union of Mouth Africa, and at pree-
Sout
e of the b
r eentativ
nt the
e
e representative
African commonwealth in the imperial
conference in London,
The following is a' very brief
epitome of the record of the man, whb
is now barely 47 years old, has the bet-
terart of his career ahead of him,
p
and begins to be regarded as one of
the coming figures of the empire and,
indeed, of the world.
Born in Johannesburg in 1870.
Educated in South Africa and at
Christ's College, Cambridge, where he
made a really distinguished scholastic
record and earned the highest honors.
Practised law with eminent success
in South Africa.
Wrote extensively on a variety of
public questions.
Entered politics as a young man,
and was an unfailing supporter of the
Boer cause when the South African
war broke out.
Loyal British Imperialist.
Rose to distinction as one of the
military figures in that struggle, and
to more distinction as one of the first
men to recognize, after the Boer cause
had been lost, that destiny and com-
mon sense summoned the real intelli-
gence of the Dutch States to accept
the situation and to become the right
kind of citizens of the British Empire.
Was one of the leading figures in
framing..the new scheme of govern-
ment for the Union of South Africa,
under which within .a few years after
the Boers had been conquered Great
Britain turned over to then,, as the
citizens of a British dominion, the
complete control of their own affairs.
Became in the government of Presi-
dent Botha of the South Africa Union
the right hand of the President in the
direction of domestic affairs.
Foiled German Intrigue.
At the beginning of the present war
immediately took a leading part in
making certain that the South African
nation should not fall into the trap
which the Germans thought had been
set for it and, revolt against its al-
legiance to the British Empire.
Became the Minister of National
Gen. Jan Christian Smuts.
freedom egaillet•,elay'ery', Pt free g'ov-'
eraairient against military despotism.
Battle for Freedom,
South Attica at the beginning of the
war; • These men realize that British
inatitutipns, though indeed forced up-
on diem unwillingly, had been really.
a blessing. In truth there are no more
loyal British imperialiets in the em-
pire •now,than these men of South
Africa, who fought under Kruger and
Botha in the South African war. They
were won in the mldtit of.tho bitter -
nese of their defeat;by the generos-
ity which heeded their country back to
them and gave them a measure of
freedom and of real control and op-
portunity that they had never enjoyed
and could not have hoped for under
the narrow and almost despotic reign
of Kruger an his burghers.'•
THE FUTURII .OF FLYING.
Trips`in Aeroplanes Will at no Distant.
Future Become Popular.
Mr. Orville Wright, the American
expert, predicts that the aeroplane
will play
a great p
art in the new or-
der of things that will follow the war.
He believes that it will be in great de-
mand whenever it is necessary to tra-
vel at great speed. By aeroplane it
will be possible to go from New York
to Chicago in eight or hours in-
stead of in twenty, as at present; and
to San Francisco in two days. Further-
more, it will be useful in transporting
small packages and very valuable
freight to remote regions that the rail-
way cannot reach. There are thou-
sands of such places in the West, in
-Alaska, in South America and in
Africa. Mr. Wright thinks, too, that
flying will become a popular sport,
the greatest yet devised. He says: "It
is far more exhilarating and delight-
ful than the automobile for high
speed, and far eater. The time is not
far distant when people will take
their holiday spins in their aeroplanes
precisely as they do 'now in their au-
tomobiles. Long tours in the air will
offer greater relaxation from the daily
grind than - long railway journeys.
People need only 'recover from the
foolish impression that it .is a danger-
ous sport, instead of being, when
adopted by rational persons, one of
the safest. It is else far more com-
fortable. The driver of an automo-
bile, even under the most favorable
circumstances, lives at a constant
nerve tension. He most keep always
on the lookout for obstructions in the
road, for other automobiles, and for
sudden emergencies. A., long, :drive • is
therefore likely to be, an exratesting
operation. Now, theaeroplane has
a great future for ap6ftlaig,,prirposes,
because this element egitrve,tension
is absent. The driverasitgys the pro-
ceeding as much as his passengers,
and probably more. He can make mis-
takes, even lapse in his attention,
without any serious consequences.
Winds no longer terrorize the airman.
Newspaper readers will remember
that, ten years ago, my brother and I
carefully selected the days in which
we made our flights. Some days, when
there was too much wind, we would
tot fly at all. But we have learned
now to fly, and even strong gales do
not now frighten the flyer. He goes
up at any time except in the very bad
days. The only wind conditions that
deter him now are the kind known as
'cyclonic; when there are great twists
in the atmosphere. Under these cir-
cumstances he does not fly."
Defence and as such directed the cam-
paign in which the German colonies
were seized by the South African
forces.
Sent to London as one of South
Africa's representative for the pur-
pose of imperial consideration of im-
perial problems presented by the war.
Smuts is one of the men who have
had time in spite of the stress of war
to shadow forth an outline of the vast
sequences of this era. It is a vision
of what the British -Empire and the
reunion of the Anglo-Saxon races
means to the world.
Democracy vis. Autocracy.
"This," said Gen. Smuts in. one of his
recent speeches, "is the battle of free-
men against bondmen. Before the
war it was bruited abroad that this
nation had become corrupted by
wealth that it was growing soft and
that the day of trial would find it
wanting; but when the blow fell it
showed what freemen could do, It
showed what a free natien could du
when it was fed on the stuff of free-
dom. To -day it had become the fin-
ancial, the moral and, in a sense, the
military mainstay of the Allies.
"Looking at this nation as it stands
before the world to -day," ho continu-
ed, "I feel that liberty, like wisdom, is
once more justified of her children.
The great British commonwealth of
nations overseas did not always want
this bloodshed and the terror of milt
tarism always over shadowing them,
They wanted to bend all their energies
and resources to the building up of
their nations, -end that could not be
done when they had to be prepared to
meet the enemy at every pojllt, Slow-
ly but surely America has come to
realize that this struggle was the old
"In my day and in my country," ad-
ded Gen, Smuts, "I have seen freedom
go uhder, but I have seen it rise again.
('have seen that small people of mifie,
a beaten people, rise again and fight-
ing for the same 'freedom again, but
iiow no longer for themselves but for
the whole of the rest 0 the world, and
the record of their efforts you will find
written all over Africa south of the
equator,"
This is the sort of appeal that
Smuts and mon of hie mind made in
struggle .for which shehad fought hi
fo•Mer ware, This was onto more
George Washington :against Georg
IIT, In other words, the leen of
•
MILITARY PUNISHMENT.
Old Martial Laws Not Adaptable to
Changed Conditions.
• The changed conditions of warfare
have developed situations to which old
martial laws are not adaptable.
Under the old system the suspen-
sion of sentence for first offences was
not obligatory, but was simply a mat-
ter of discretion on the part of the
general commanding. Amendments
passed by Parliament in the course of
the present war make such extensions
of sentence obligatory for alit canes.
Nearly two-thirds of the court-
martials at the front and immediately
behind the front have developed from
either drunkenness on'fear, sometimes
from both, according to Monsidur
Rene de Planhel, who has had more
than two years' experience as counsel
for the defence of soldiers. •
Cases of desertion with downright
fear as the cause are occasionally re-
ported, and very few soldiers are to-
tally exempt from fear. Mon who
have fought bravely in numerous ac-
tions, Mon. de Planhol says, finally
give way to what;is called "nerve
wear"; their moral curage is no long-
er sufficient to overcome physical fear,
and they run away from danger. Their
number, though, is small in compari-
son with those who forget their duty
in the stupefaction of excessive drink-
ing. Even these, considering the mil-
lion of amenmobilised, are so small
a percentage asto constitute no re-
flection of the army as a whole.
A frequent and ,effective means of
defence invoked by counsel for accus-
ed soldiers is the citation of gallant
conduct on the battlefield. It often
happens that a soldier refractory to
army discipline is a great fighter, and
between court inartials accumulates
honors and decorations that it is diffi-
cult to ignore:
When
much disputed point is: When
;las an infraction of discipline or a
crime been committed "in the presence
of the enemy" an aggravating circum-
stance under military jurisprudence?
In trench warfare the old definitions of
"presence of the enemy" have become
obsolete; greats latitucic is now given
for lenioney oaf this point, and it is
exercised in all but the most flagrant
A pen recently 'patented is double
jointietl, en that ;t can be used ei1he
as a.fine-pointed or stub pee.
Wo all make mistakes. With so
many problems in [nits work there
are euro to be some failuros. And
most of us are no thoroughly human
that we Irate to acknowledge our mis-
takes. A successful farmer says: "T
have learned more from my neighbors'
failures than from their sucees.es;
and 1 have profited most of all 11•(101
my own mistakes ---lay ttudy'n•t• n 1.
the eau's, slicing opt flim' rfh: '
and avoiding their repetition,"
Noce To Cook Asparagus.'
The early spring vegetables have
many desirable qualities. `whey come
to us in the spring, after the winter
season of heavy eating. Of these
vegetables, asparagus is particularly
good. It it diuretic in its properties.,
its mineral salts ase of a solvent na-
hire; It ,liar a decided' beneficial re-
sult in its action upon the liver, kid-
neys and bile. Because it carries
many of the rich mineral elements one
may eat it freely, knowing that it
will removemanyimpurities from
m the
s
p
body.
Scrape the stalks or brusli them well
with a Stiff vegetable brush. Wash
well, shaking them, especially the tips,
in plenty of water to remove the sand.
Careless preparation will detract from
this delicious green.
Trim and shape, then tie the as-
parague in small bundles. Cover with
boiling water and cook until tender.
Remove from water, drain well and
then serve them in any manner, desir-
ed,
Epicurean Asparagus. ^•Prepare,
cook and drain the asparagus. Serve
on a thin slice of toast with butter
sauce prepared as follows: One ounce
butter, one teaspoonful salt, one-half
teaspoonful white pepper, one tea-
spoonful vinegar. Melt the butter, add
salt, pepper and vinegar. Bring to a
boil, then pour it over the asparagus.
Asparagus may be steamed or boil-
ed, well drained and served with eith-
er cream, Hollandaise or Bernaise
sauce.
Asparagus and Macaroni.—Cook one
cupful of macaroni in boiling water
for twenty minutes. Drain and
blanch by pouring over the macaroni
plenty of cold water. Drain, chop
fine and add: One teaspoonful salt,
one-half teaspoonful paprika, one cup
heavy cream sauce. Mix thoroughly
and pack in a well greased mold.
After greasing the mold, sprinkle with
fine bread crumbs before filling. Bake
in a moderate oven for thirty minutes.
Serve with Mousseline sauce.
. Moussoline Sauce.—Two tablespoon-
fuls butter, two tablespoonfuls, flour,
one and one-half cups' asparagus wa-
ter, yolk of one egg, one teaspoonful
salt, one-half teaspoonful white pep-
per. Blend butter and flour, then
add water and bring to the boiling
point. Cook for three minutes, then
take from fire and beat in yolk of egg
and seasoning.
De not throw out the water its which
the asparagus is cooked. It contains
many of the valuable soluble mineral
salts, and it can be used for cream
soups. Added to stock pots it can be
made into sauces and gravies.
in cookery, so dp not•waste any. Sour
mills and buttermilk can bo Weed with
soda in making hot breads, or sour
milk can be turned easily into cottage
cheese, cream cheese or clabber. Sour
cream is a good shortening in making
cakes and cookies and useful for salad
dressings and gravies for meat,
`• Soup Stock.
Soup stock, is the meat cooked to a
jelly, ready to use for making soups.
The outside of the meat should be
wiped with a perfectly clean wet cloth.
Then chop the meat, and saw the
bones into small pieces. Place half
meat and half bone in a kettle of cold
water, the proportian being one pound
to one quart of water. Add season-
ing, either spices or vegetables, or
both. If only herbs and spices are
used, the soup stock will keep longer.
For such stock the following propor-
tions may be used: -To each quart of
water add -one even teaspoon of salt,
half saltspoon of pepper (if desired),
half saltspoon of celery seed, two
whole, cloves, two allspice berries, four
or five bay leaves, a little parsley, one
teaspoon of mixed 'herbs; such as
thyme, marjoram, summer savory and
sage.
If vegetables are used, they should
be cut into small pieces, so as to be
easily measured. For soup stock
made with vegetables, the following
proportions may be used: To each
quart of water add one tablespoon of
chopped carrot, turnip, celery and
onions.
The kettle should be covered and
water should Simmer so that the stock
may cook slowly for about three or
four hours. It is better to make the
stock the day before using it, if pos-
sible. After cooking, allow to cool
and remove fat.
To clear soup stock, pour it into a
saucepan, stir in the whites and brok-
en shells of eggs—one for each quart
of stock; boil for two or three min-
utes, stirring contently, then set back
on stove; keep it hot without simmer-
ing for fifteen or twenty minutes;
strain through a• fine sieve and then
through cheesecloth.
TRUE AND FALSE ECONOMY
Here Are Some Instances That Are
Well Worth Noting.
f ems s
There isstory, at whie1, a x
h
a
ensile, of a thriftman who cooked
his potatoes after laying the peel for
sped. The peel, he reasoned, contain-
ed the eyes, or buds. Plants ought
td spring from thele and boar potatoes
i their turn did, and the
inS they ,Y
potatoes reached ,the size of walnuts.
Some newspapers have recommended a
similar practice this year, when seed is
expensive and everyone is making a
garden; and it is true that with skill-
ful cutting, 'abundant fertilizer and
expert cultivation a very small part of
the potato, if it contain' a bud, can bo
made productive. But any attempt
to cheat nature is bound to fail.
Nowhere is the proverb, "Nothing
spend, nothing have," better illustrat-
ed than on a farm. The sprout should
have a decent amount of nourishment
from the substance of the parent seed
if it is to make a vigorous growth.
Tho principle thus illustr %c1 has a
wide application. Lime, for example,
is known to -have little worth strictly
as a plant food. So some fermere
and gardeners count it a waste of time
to bother with it. They will feed their
crops with true fertilizer and save
both time and money. But a soil
from which the lime has leached out
and which has become sour is like a
man with impaired digestion. It can-
not assimilate the plant food spread
upon it In sulh a way as to become
productive. The lime corrects the
acidity by a chemical process; so, in
breaking up a fallqw field, in ,pla,nting
ground so repeatedly cultivated that
rain has washed out its lime, and
particularly in making a lawn, few
things pay better than a careful ex-
amination into the acidity, of the soil.
Wherever moss and sorrel grow lime
is likely to be needed; and if a teat
with litmus paper shows considerable
acidity, true economy dictates.A-
mediate treatment.
Spraying for insects and fungi costs
time and money. Trees get on and
bear sono fruit without it. Potatoes
ripen after a.fashion, although the
leaves blacken with blight or are half
eaten by beetles.. But potatoes thus
given over•to their enemies refuse to
return any profit to their planter. Un-
sprayed trees unquestionably bear
fruit; but the fruit', ceases to
sell to advantage in "the, market
or to keep in the cellar, and
the tree itself fails to make adequate
growth. You look at the tip of an
apple bough and see the leaves of it
curling under the attacks of the aphis.
If you will take the trouble to kill the
insects with a mild solution of nico-
tine, you will soon see, the new growth
start and will learn a lesson about the
cost of such seemingly insignificant
Tests that you will not easily forget.
Pruning is so generally recognized
to be good economy that little need
be sail about it; but to thin our grow-
ing plants properly requires more re-
solution than the average amateur
poseesses. It seems a sinful waste
to pull up half your onions or to pick
young fruit when it has set so thick
and markets are so bare. • But it is
good practice if the vegetables are
too close to permit normal growth or
there is more fruit than the tree can
ripen without overstrain. This year,
in particular, many young gardeners
who look. with delight upon thei start
of their beets, onions and turnips will
be disappointed at harvest to discover
1{ow small and immature their vege-
tables seem. The trouble will be
that they have crowded and smothered
one another. Thinning seems like
waste, but it is real economy; and in
such processes continued year after
year the worker in the earth learns
how just a judge between true and
false our Mother Nature is.
Boning Ham.
Have you, ever noticed how hard a
ham is to carve with the bone in 'it
how the slices are spoiled, and how
much meat is really wasted? j
That can easily be avoided. if ,you
are sure to cook the joint thoroughly
and while it is. hot take the bones out.
It it not so hard as it sounds. There is'
only one bone with which you will'
have any trouble. Locate than bone
with a fork from the under side, cut a
slash through the meat until the bone
is exposed, and with a little dexterous
working of fork and knife the bone is
out. I treat my shoulders in the
sane way, and my friends can't tell
whether they are eating shoulder or
ham, the slices dut so well and tltc
meat tastes so good. After once
serving boned hams and shoulders,
you will never serve them any other
way
l)o You Know.
That lemons will keep almost inde-
finitely if packed in salt?
That every bit of uneaten cereal
r
can be need to thicken soups, stews or
gravies?
That stale bread; can be used as the
basis for ninny attractive meat dishes,
hot breads and desserts? c
That every .ounce of skimmed milk
or whole milks entail -us valuable nour-
ishment? Use every drop of milk
to drink or to acid nourishment to
corals, ,maps, Pauses and nlhor foods,.
if `r:n d,i ;sol, 'nt. Milt Is esse .T •
terinillc and lour creast,; are celunble
i
ALASKA'S SHARE IN THE WAR.
Great Quantities of Salmon and Cop-
per to be Sent to United States.
Alaska at the present time leas
awakened to the needs of the United
States during the present war crisis
and will clo its full share toward as-
sisting the government throughout the
continuance of the war, according to
W. A. Manly, assistant United States
Attorney,
Alaska this year will be prepared to
furnish from 0,000,000 to 7,000,000
cases of canned snhnon. The rich
mimes of the Alaskan. country during
tine present year will ship out approx-',
imatoly $85,000,000 in copper. The
rich coal fields of that country will be 1
readiness to furnish all the coal that
is needed so long as the war shall last,
Those are but a few instances of
how Alaska is prepared to "do its bit",
said Me. Mainly, and the people of
the Far North are ready and willing
to do all that they can in order to be
of service to their country,
"This preparedness is for the most
part due to the railroad construction
now being carrier; cm,' 'said lvir, Mun-
ly. "From the little city of Anchor-
age a bi•anclh lino is now being rushed
for a distance of 150 miles to tarp the
richest coal fields in Alaska. Forty
miles of this line are now in operation
and the remainng distance should be
completed by tine end of the season.
Not only will tliis.branch line furnish
the required transportation for 111
rich Matanuska coal fields, lint it will
also aid in developing many small
quartz mining properties which here-
tofo•o have been ignored because of
the lurk of troo,pm'tatio't fnrilitioo:'
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GRASSHOPPERS AT SEA.
Migratory Species Has Been Known
to Travel 1,000 Miles.
would seem to'
ho er
Tho ss
gra Pp
have nothing in common with tate sea-
gull, yet grasshoppers have been pick-
ed up in swarms at sea, 1,200 miles
from tie nearest land,
The African grasshopper has been
known to crossfhe Red and Mediter-
ranean seas iii destructive numbers,
and even to fly to the Canary Islands:
For the most part these grasshoppers
aro of a migratory species (Schisto-
cern tartarica) noted for its great
flights. The bodies are about four
inches long and are equipped with'
large air saes in addition to the usual!
breathing tubes. These sacs buoy up'
the insect so that it is able to stay
in the air for days at a time,. exerting
practically no effort at all. During
flight its speed varies from three to
twenty miles an hour, when it is tired
it rests on the water and is borne1
along on the waves,
Jews and The Holy City.
When the Kaiser visited Jerusalem
in 1898 he had the statue of himself in
the guise of a Crusader reared upon
the Mount of Olives. In that role he
now finds himself called upon to re-
sist the efforts of the Turks to expel
the Jews ,from the sacred city. It
is given out that the German Govern
menta ever tenderly solicitous for the'
fate of cathedrals and churches, is
apprehensive lest the shrines of the
Christian mecca may be desecrated
and the Jewish sanctuaries, likewise
defiled if the city .is left to the un-
bridled Moslem. It is carious to find
a Government that has ruined the hal-
lowed fane of Rheims and maltreated
the religious communities of Belgium
so careful for the preservation of
Jerusalem. Perhaps the true rea-
son for this attitude is to be found in
the remonstrance of the German of-
ficers at Jaffa, who, when the Jewish
farmers were about to be expelled
from the vicinity, pointed out that the;
Syrian army would suffer if those
who provided its food supply were
driven into the desert like the Armen -1
ians. Jerusalem entirely in Turkish
hands would find her trade and tom-
merce as badly mismanaged as in
other cities where the Turkish admin./
istration has made a mess of things)
But fortunately o British army is like-
ly to capture the city before Djemal
Pasha, the Turkish commander, can dei
much harm.
1 1:' 1,0111) 000 kris+c: 3 r o rood
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C▪ ANADA.
They came in their - splendid battae
lions.
When the Motherland gave the sign,)
From ranch, and orchard, and farm -i
land,
From factory, office and mine, ,
From the land of the warm -hued
maple leaf
And the flaming golden rod,
C::tere a man stakes all on the task
itt hand,
l'And gives his soul to God.
0, torn and broken battalions,
When you've played your splendid
part,
You will take back thee•e to your home.'
land
A bit of old English heart,
In the land of the warm -hued maple
leaf
And the flaming golden rod,
We shall face, with you, the task is
hand,
And leave the rest to God.
—A, Lindsay, 123rd Pioneers,
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hi hood value
b f
Make as ninny as you can.
They will be worth a.great
deal to you next winter.
"Parc and Uncolored"
ninkes clear, delicious, oparlclrng
jellies. The purity acid "FINE
granulation mattes success easy.
2rind5.1b 10,20 and 100.11)
cartons sacks nae
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