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The Clinton News Record, 1917-06-28, Page 6ri•••0111. Wisely obstinate is the farmer's. lie who insists on quality—. and who buys olnly,the best sugar—because ST. LAWRENCE RED DIAMOND Gann) —admittedly without any superior—will never cause preserves to ferment --+1 as it does not contains the organic impurities which start fermentation,:j ; iWE S UGG ST that the 100 ib. ba of St. Lawrence Red Diamond Extra Gra- •nulated, is the best for .the Farmers' Home, It ensures_ full weight of the best sugar and avoids frequent trips to the store. Your dealer can supply Red Diamond in Coarse Grain, or Medium, or Fine, as you may prefer. / Good Fruit deserves Good Sugar—get the ST. LAWRENCE RED DIAMOND GRANEx ED Sold to many styles and ate a of Refinery Sealed packages. ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINERIES LIMITED, MONTREAL. 4-4-r7 SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS. To Succeed with your preserves, buy good fruit• -"it must not be over -ripe. Buy Good Sugar— St. Lawrence Red DiamondGranulated, Sterilize your jars thoroughly. These precautions prevent the usual causes of failure. NJ* 13)1)1, ‘.51( i (ii ac e (-3.mar Novelized from the Motion Picture Play of 'the Same Name Co.y the Universal Film Mfg G ;1+; nnr,M,lw0.bd.Moo. ,.knew,-. s v® B FOURTH EPISODE—(Cont'd). Jacques submitted his strong shoul- ders for Pat to use in climbing high enough to dislodge -'The Dawn of Lib- erty' from its hangings and making all possible speed, "The Purple Mask" and the prize winner Jakobski bad, by his wealth determined on, had soon changed places and were hung safely behind the heavy drapings. As a final touch of her achievement, she hung a purple mask on the corner of the frame which surrounded "The Dawn of Liberty." Then the daunt- less: girl and her faithful assistant made good their escape. * * * * * * The ceremony of , awarding the grand prize attracted a great throng to the Academy. • So sure were the judges of their procedure, that they foolishly made no effort to examine the painting, and nobody disturbed the draperies that- hung before the ex- hibits. With much pomp and dignity, the judges announced that they had given their award to Exhibit No. 24—and as they made their declaration, the drapes were drawn aside. They had, fortunately for their reputation, made the designation by number instead of the title of the subject—for before their eyes, under the number 24, hung "The Purple Mask." The crowd applauded the decision, and having once made it the judges, despite their chagrin and a.stonr@h- reent, could not reverse themselves. Paul Duvelle was beside himself with joy, and in his excitement he would have exposed Pat to the suspicion of being his model. Pat had adroitly lost herself in the crowd, where Paul could not easily find her. "How glad I am that you have won," said the girl when, a little later, she congratulated the young artist. "We Has Nothing to Hide hasthat the Government. has absolutelpyrrohibited the use of any artificial coloring matter in sugar, we tell you, again that we have , —never used Beefs -=never used Ultramarine Blue —never used AnilineDyes -71/miner used Vegetable Dyes in refining any of our sugars. Thiel =mane that oveiy pound, in the ha}ids of your grocer is vire and uncolored. So—why take chances? 'Why not insist on having Laritic-- the Sugars that Rave always been, parep and coo op more than any other? \ Zook lbr't)to ilei Fall Tracfr. nano nn every Carton and Sada azo shall celebrate to -night with a party at the studio, and I'll pay the ex- penses." And Paul, in the rapture of his happiness, was further delighted in prospect. the ros ect. Sphinx about "The • all Kelly Y heard Purple Mask" and suspected that Pat was the beautiful model. He like- wise presumed that there would be a celebration in the artists' colony and was on hand that night, waitingeen ac ues hen Pat and J street,w the q ar- rived at te student's quarters. Pat failed to penetrate Kelly's clev- er disguise. The Sphinx felt sure that he was following an interesting lead, and was among the crowd of artists who assembled in Paul's studio, all in fantastic garb and in high spirits. rt * 9: * 5 • -•Jakobski, half wild in rage and dis- appointment, because his plans had been frustrated, determined that he should be avenged upon the perpe- trator of the trick that had so decid- edly upset his ambitions. There were always henchmen at hand to do his bidding, and Jakobski had Paul followed to his studio when he went home in triumph ;with his prize. Jakobski's man learned of the celebration—and Jakobski determined to be present. He had most of the afternoon in which to formulate his plans, and kept his servants busy in perfecting details "How Glad' I Am. That You Have Won." of the arrangements. Whmesevening come Jalcobski had everything re- hearsed and ready to proceed. With a party of burly henchmen, he burst in upon the revelers at Paul's studio sud- denly and unannounced. "We are gendarmes" shouted Jak- obski, "and you are all under arrest," Pat was, at the moment, standing in the middle of a table, passing out cakes to the throng, dancing around in her joyousness and inspiring the revelers in their marl fun. When Jakobski and his gang burst through the door, Pat waited only for the an- nouncement ho made. Then she smashed the lamp hang- ing over her' head, and threw the studio into darkness. 'Sphinx Kelly was in the thickest of the fight. Somebody opened the door, and the crowd surged out of the studio and down the stairs. Sphinx Kelly seemed to be the epe- cial object of attack, and Jakobski's men kept him busy repelling their as- saults. In the scramble and lighting Pat managed to avoid collisions, and was near Jacques when she saw Kel- ly fighting his way, against odds, as y he descended the stairway to the street. Grasping J apges alt& pullrn i int after liar, Pat was sop elarn1or1ii down st irs, eager to keep Kejl�* yvltli- ill sigh'. Just as she t�eaeiidci till street s o saw the Sphinx being' alt' (sermon ously thrgtvn into an out in is ble, 'Pe her Apache frielnds wile ll;ad •conA with Jaegno8 as a specie final to he "queen of the Underwa�jld,' t El irl gave �rIdo 0 bat the automobile hears t 10. }pal he ho no must be kept ii ring heretumbling into the machine ha had }Skoogl�t her to the studio) Pat was seen fol owing the gin wllg iaac kiptir�ppod "oily, • The tape was shaharip and spirited, and Pat's driver brought his machine it to ahalt just in time for the girl to see Kelly being carried, struggling, in- to a ramshackle building. The door slammed behind prisoner and captives, , andPat• s hatimpassable was halted bythe r as p barrier. The girl noticed a door that led to a short flight of stairs, -and, with Jacques closely following, she mount- ed to the floor above the street. She listened intently to the scuffle and sharn voices that reached her ears from the room below. She heard heavy doors slide -upon their rollers. Then Jajcobski and his gang scrambled to get away. In a moment Pat heard a voice, that she easily recognized, shouting 'for help from the room below. Command- ing Jacques to aid her, the girl used an axe that was fortunately at hand to chop madly a.. the' thin planking of the floor beneath her feet. The first sharp blows made an aper- ture through which Pat could look down upon the room beneath her. The horrified girl beheld a sight that near- ly made her faint. There was Kelly, striving madly with his baro hands, to tear the boards from the wall and . make a foothold and handhold to save himself by climbing from a terrible fate. The floor of the tightly sealed room in which he madly struggled, was slipping from under him, sliding in two parts, under the walls of the room —and beneath was a huge tank of water, alive with vicious alligators, which surged madly about in their eagerness to reach their prey. (To be continued.) AMERICAN REPUBLICS IN WAIL Attitude of Mexico Continues' to 'lie Uncertain. In population the greatest of American republics are the United States, Brazil and Mexico. In size they stand in the same order, except that Argentina takes the third posi- tion, writes Prof. Jones, of Wisconsin University. Tho attitude of the greatest Powers of the New World in the great war is, of course, of great interest to all parties to the conflict. The United States, with her popula- tion of 101,740,000, has already put herself as a combatant on the side of the Allies. She has done so without any prospect, without the possibility of a material gain comparable to the 'sacrifice which she will make. We are greatly interested of course in the attitude of Brazil, the largest of Latin American States, our most important South American .commercial coifnection; and in that of Mexico, our nearest Latin American neighbor and of greatest commercial importance to us of all the mainland republics. The nations are typical of the groups into which American Powers have fallen in their attitude toward the war. The Milted States is at war; Brazil has broken with Germany and seems to be drifting toward war. Mexico still re- mains unconvinced. If Mexico added -herself to the Al- lies there would be no neutral coast on the Atlantic anywhere in North America. The West Indies are either openly at war C,ith Germany or under the de facto control of the belligerent powers, and the Central American States with Atlantic coasts have all avowed their intent to co-operate with us. Till Mexico talc coming into th Latin-American p great an influence United States an es a definite stand there will always be suspicion among us and hope in Germany that there may be an attack in the rear. The the war of no other ower would have so in heartening the Cl discouraging its enemies, VIMY RIDGE I A PREDICTION (Written in btarob, 1017.) The Germane laugh on Viniy Ridgo, Where once the ehildr'en played; And on the slopes of Vimy Ridge, The bloody slopes of VImy Ridge, The sons of Prance oro tall, rAlt sweat In tleen, on VlVliily Ridge, Cpprs.ge 1)1011 answer graft) Spring on the slopes of VIp»' Uddgo, The greenly 110000 of VIVO' Itidgo, A sweeter sound shall waft! Children shall play on Vimy Ridge, Whore ones the Germans laughed •"bI. B,," in Tho Westminster Gazette a Ring Albert of Belgium. ' The latest photograph of Belgium's monarch. King Albert is spending most of hie time at the front en- couraging' n- coura in ' histroops. p g g THE ELUSIVE SUBMARINE. Thousands of Inventors Striving to Find the Antidote. A development of the war which will receive special attention from the histi rian is that which is connected with the mobilization of inventions for fighting purposes. In Germany science was harnessed to the Moloch of destruction before hostilities be- gan, and all the resources of tech- nichal knowledge were brought to bear for the purpose of devising new methods of killing. It was the use by the Huns of poison gas and similar contrivances which awakened the Al- lies to the necessity for mobilizing in- ventions and the imaginative enter- prise of thoughtful men and painstak- ing investigators. As a r€sult there were established in France and England boards of in- vention connected with the naval 'and military departments, for the examin- ation and trial of such plans and pro- posqls as seemed to be of value. By thele measures the -flow df invention was directed to channels from which it was hoped might issue a provision of new weapons and new kinds of munitions helpful to the forces by land and sea. Just at present the attention of in- ventors is directed particularly to - Ward finding an antidote for the sub- marine, It is said that the Consult= ing Board of the United States,receiv- ed in one week more than two thou- sand letters, each containing what the writer believed to be a solution of the submarine menace. How many letters the British Board of Inventions has received on this subject has not been made public, and yet it is manifest that no device has been discovered the practical 'application of which is an assured success. The explanation of this unsatisfactory state of affairs seems to rest mainly in the inability of the inventor to grasp rightly the factdrs in the problem.. To overcome the submarine it is not sufficient to be able to 'obstruct its passage in certain limited areas, or merely to be prepared to deal with it during its. brief intervals of emer- gence. Something more is wanted than this. The real solution of the problem will depend upon the possi- bility of discovering its whereabouts under water and making that discov- ery either on the surface or in the air. This is the fruitful field for investiga- tion, and this is clearly the direction indicated to inventors as the line along which to devote their thought and study if they are seeking an antidote eo the submarine peril. The limita- tion thus set up not ton1y narrows the scope for euggestion but the number of persons whose equipment by train- ing and experience is likely to fit them for the task. In osier to save themselves from an inundation of use- less or impracticable schemes it is surely worth the while: of the various investigating boards to issue to would- be correspondents some rules by which the latter might be guided in making suggestions. Much disappointment would thereby be prevented and much waste of time and trouble. A LIFTING HOPE. There is no prison d the mind, Death's sting is drawn when we can say, "Visions and dreams alone can bind To -morrow's hope with yesterday. The violet lifting lovely Bead, The red, pd rose blushing fair, Grow beet in cities of the dead And from the grave of man's de- spair. There is no .prison of tho mind, There's no death when the sting is drawn; Prieetior or prince, dream on and find Your darkest hour before the dawn. - henry Leverage. To know how to do without thhigs is to possess thorn. Tlie Economy of Rest, "I rest for, one-half hour each morn - Imo" said My neighbor when I asked her how she did her housework so easily. This woman lives on a farm, does all of her own housework, in- cluding the laundering, helps ears for the garden, raises chickens, and wee for ewe children, ono 'five and the oth- er seven years ora, yet she never seems tired or nervous and her house is always neat, • "After breakfast I wash the dishes and piit the house in order," she con- tinued, "then'I care for my children, bring from the garden what vegetabe les -I will need, then do my special work for the day—cleaning, baking, or ironin'g, as it may be. At ten o'clock Igo to my room, darken it, loosen my clothing•,nd lie down fax a half hour, If I am v i'.y tired 'I sometimes go to sleep, but even if I do not sleep I rest, I try,to forget all about my work and Just let go find rest. The children understand that I am not to, be dis- turbed, and are willing to play without Mamma for half an hour. "When I get up I feel like new; so I start the dinner and then clean my- self up a little. After dinner ,I finish up my work, but I always have an hour off in the afternoon too, and generally two, or even three. "I try to get as much as poesible done before my forenoon rest period. I work as hard and fast as I know how up to that time, but try to plan my work to make as few steps as possible. In that way I get the big- gest part of my work done by ten o'clock." "But can you do that on wash days too?" I asked. "Yes," she replied, "if .I hurry and the washing is not. too big I am all ice. through by that time, If I am not through I just let the clothes soak while I rest, then finish when I got up.I'ven few found out that there are f w s thin that can't stand tobe left for a g, half hour, and it certainly helps me, fen. if I didn't trest in the morning I could never stand my work," Strawberry Shortcake. Mix 2 cups flour, , 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder, ee teaspoonful salt, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar and sift twice. Work in 1/4 cup butter with fingers. Add eel cup milk gradually. Put on board, divide into 2 parts, and roll out to fit the cake tin; using the least pos- sible flour to roll. Put one part on tin, spread lightly with melted butter, then place other part on top. Bake 15 minutes in hot oven. When baked, separate and place between cakes one quart of strawberries mashed slightly and sweetened. Decorate top with a few whole berries. 'Canning Advice. When canning, pickling and pre- serving do not use any powders or preparations for keeping fruits or vegetables. Itis not difficult to keep fruits or vegetables, but it is absolute- ly necessary to sterilize the contents of each jar for sufficient length of time to kill all spores, germs and bacteria, 1 The use of alum and its equivalents in pickling is positively injurious and must not be thought of. If you will follow carefully the directions in any good cook book you will find that the pickles will have a good color, be crisp and have a delicious aroma.'' This can only be obtained by careful up-to-date methods, Fruits may also be canned without sugar, or syrup may be used in place of sugar. Fruit canned without sugar may have the sugar added just before using. For successful results it will be necessary to drain the liquid from the canned .fruit, acid the sugar and bring to bail. Cook for five minutes and then pour over the fruit; this fruit will not equal that which has had the sugar added at time of canning. • Preserving Rhubarb. • Rhubarb may be canned by the cold water method. To do this, wash the rhubarb, remove tips and root ends and cut in inch -long pieces. Fill the cans as tightly as possible, of course, cans must be sterilized, and fill to ov- erflowing'fvith cold water. Seal at once and set in a cgol dark place. The natural acid of the,rhubarb prevents the growth of bacteria. To can by the hot water bath meth, or, as sterilizing in the boiler is call- ed, wash the _rhubarb and cut in inch pieces, plunge in boiling water for two minutes and then clip in cold water, Pack the cans as tightly as possible and pour in a thick syrup till cans ov- erflow. • By thick syrup is meant ,a syrup made in the proportion of four pounds of sugar to three quarts of wa- ter, boiled until it is hard to "pour it from;,the spoon. The syrup should be boiling when poured on the rhubarb. Proceed as in canning any product and sterilize fifteen minutes. Fruit combinations .that may be cooked with rhubarb include Pineal/ - Fie, raisins, dates;' orienges, apples and prunes. Peel and cut rhubarb, and cover with• the amount of sugar 'e- quired, and let it stand in warm place until sugar is melted. Add desired fruit, cook until, when tried in a saucer, it is - of jamlike consistency. Use two pounds- of rhubarb to one pound of fruit and three-quarters pound of sugar to every pound of mix- ed fruits. Dp not cook rhubarb ire tin saucepans. CCIANGED BRITISH MANNERS. - Contrast Between London and Brus- sels Under German Occupation. Striking changes in British man-, ners have resulted from the constant presence in London of thousands 'of of- ficers and soldiers on leave from the trenches, according to'one of the at- taches of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, who has recently, eturned to New York from duty in Brussels, Amsterdam and London. The tradi- tional aloofness of the Englishman, always so noticeable to Americans, has disappeared and he is as approach- able as a Kansas City drummer in a Pullman smoking room. The men on leave are trying to en- joy what may be their last vacation, and every one else is out to help them do it. The whole city is constantly in a holiday statte�,, of mind. A sort of cheery light Kea`rtedness is abroad, a spirit of comradeship that seems to .pervade the whole nation and every class of society. The things that were formerly worth while seem to have lost their importance. The struggle and rivalry of that time which now seems so far away has been superseded by a de- termination to do more than a bit to make the way of one's fellow mortals . little more easy. y London, the war capital of the Al- lies, is far more interesting than Brus- sels, where, on the surface, life seems to go along in its normal course with very little to mark the chief city of a conquered nation. Though there are no horse drawn vehicles to be seen and no automobiles, except those of the German military officials, the street cars are in,operation and the Belgian police and fire departments are performing their usual functions. The army of occupation is composed of men physically unfit for active ser- vice—wounded men who are unable to return to the trenches; mere boys or men past the age limit. The sol- diers are for the most part well be- haved, but there has been absolutely no reconciliation between them and the Belgians. No one takes the slight- est notice of a German uniform. On the streets, in the cafes, they are left absolutely to themselves. By not so much as a glance is their presence ever recognized. FIRST ATTEMPTS TO FLY. It was in 1678 That the Earliest Real Trial Toole Place. Although it was Leonardo da Vinci. the great artist, who produced the first "heavier than air" flying machine, it was a blacksmith named Besnier who first tried to fly. Leonardo da Vinci puttered around and didn't get off in his 1480 A.D. attempt. Like- wise Veranzio in 1617 "foozled" when he attempted to fly in a parachute ar- rangement. But in 1678 Besnier, the blacksmith, got tp looking at the heavens and, like Darius Green, said: "The birds can fly, and why can't IV' The villagers "kidded" him merci- lessly as he talked and worse when he started -Making his - flying machine, but Besnier was determined. His scheme was to place light boards on the ends of two long poles; to put the poles over his shoulder, to chain the rear end of the pole to his feet and then to launch himself into the air with a swimming motion, his arms and feet giving the wings an up and down motion that would shoot him aloft. It was a fine scheme,•and one day when he was ready he invited all the neighbors in and led them to a hill. He put the poles on his shoulders, gave a "whoop" and, leaped' over the edge, working his hands and feet like a clog in the water. The women shrieked and the little boys cheered and the cows in the pasture bellowed and ran --and Besnier, the smith, with a great flopping of wooden wings came thundering down to earth, brok- en and splintered and ready to cry. Bosnier's example was enough, and no more efforts to soar, were made un- til the nineteenth century. "The entire object of true educa- tion is to make people not merely clo- the right things, but enjoy the right things."—Ruskin. 'l ENGLISH GIRLS SCORN SLACKERS 600,000 MORE MEN NEEDED BY • FIRST O1 JULY. Thousands of Men From Forty.one to Fifty Years.are Offering Their Services. With 5,000,000 mere. reported now serving in the military establishment and about a half million in the navy, Great Britain is already casting about for mor=e resource's of man power. Never was maw of war so'vor- ciouse in its demantheds for cannon fol -a der, says a London writer. Gen. Rob= ertson, Chief of Staff, has demanded that he be provided by July 1 with 600,000 more men, and they will be forthcoming. The military authori- ties have issued an invitation to men from 41 to 50 years old to volunteer, and the results thus far have been as- tonishingly good. Tens of thousands of men within these age limits offered their services et the beginning 'of the war, and were disgusted when they were rejected. Despite all that is heard . and printed about shirkers, it ie alto- gether probable that Britain still has as many men who have thus far been rejected despite their willingness to assist at it has men of. military age who managed deliberately to evade service. The combing process out ccs s is now in full swing. Conditions on which men may be exempted from military ser- vice are being constantly tightened. Contempt for Shirkers. Everyweek makes it harder for a man under 40 to give a good account of -himself ex khaki. When it gets noised about a neighborhood that a particular young man has been before the tribunal and secured an exemption, either temporary or permanent, the measure of his essentialness to his civilian industry pretty promptly be - conies also the measure -of his non -es- sentialness to the young women of that locality. That particular young, man suddenly discovers that bright eyes are 'averted as he passes, and skirts flirt contemptuously in the other direction. The girls whose bre- thers are at the front or in the train- ! ing camps or in the hospitals, either, at home or in France, or sleeping the., last sleep under the white crosses in France, don't care much for the shirk ers. ' I asked a young woman how the, girls of her set treated the exemptees.' "I don't know any exemptees," she re- plied acridly. • "Literally or socially?" I persisted. "Both," was the reply. "I used to know some men who are now shirkers; whenever one of them happens my way I do what I can in my feeble fashions, to make him understand that L am sorry I ever knew _him. I3e is apt not to happen in my vicinity, again," Men Over Military Age. Two new groups for the voluntary attestation of men over the -present military age of 40 have been opened up. The first includes men, whether single or married, between 40 and 45; the second, for either single or mar- ried men, between 45 ' and 60. The country has been plastered with post- ers appealing to men in these groups to come forward and enroll. For the present at least no compulsion will be resorted to in enlisting men for these classes, though it is whispered that it may be necessary later. The purpose of this voluntary re - 1 eruiting of the oldsters is to replace younger men who are behind the lines in France and will thus be released for service at the front, A consider- able proportion of them will also be trained for service in the home de- fence. For these various employments they will be assigned, according to their medical classification. The latest census indicates that there are in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland nearly 2,500,000 men within these age limits, The propor- tion of rejection among thein for phy- sical reasons is expected to be con- siderably larger than among younger men, possibly as high as 50 per cent. For arranging short -stemmed flow. - ere take a small square of quarter - inch wire mesh rind turn down the sides for feet, Put in the bottom of the dish, thrust the stems through the wire and they will stanil erect. 2 and 5 lb. Car ones 10, 20, 50 and 100111. Bags, Froin "Ye Olde Sugar Loafe" of grandmother's clay, to the sparkling "Extra Granulated" in your own cut -glass howl, Redpath Sugar has appeared three times daily, for over half a century, on thousands of Canadian tables. RedpathSweeten itt " 1 Made i ll one grade only the highest I