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MEDICAL
DR. E. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Ophthai-
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Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
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each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
SI Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
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University of Western Ontario, Lon-
don. Member of College of Physic-
ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office
In Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.
DR. R. P. I. DOUGALL
Honor graduate of Faculty of
Medicine and Master of Science, Uni-
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Member of College of Physicians and
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east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall
Ontario. 3004 -ti•
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Bayfield.
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Rotunda Hospital for Women and
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lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons.
Hours: 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.,
Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26
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Office and residence Goderich Street,
east of the United Church, Sea -
forth Phone 46. Coroner for the
County of Huron.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medalist of
Trinity Medical 'College; member of
*he College of Physicians and Sur-
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DR. H. HUGH ROSS
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Ontario; pass graduate courses in
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England; University Hospital, Lon -
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College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto.
Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St ,
Seaforth. Phone 151.
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HalfBreed
A Storyof the Great CowboyWest
By LUKE ALLAN
(Continued from last week)
When she came out into the open
air again spring would be budding
on the prairie, the breathless little
spring that is only a door to summer
She knew he would wait there for her.
Night after night he would sit shiv-
ering in the big draughty cave, his
dirty old corn -cob pipe and Juno his
only companions: The chair would be
there for her -the chair she knew ha
had moulded with such labor.
A tear dripped through her eye-
lids and she turned her head from her
guard. a
"I wouldn't do that," whispered
Priest gently. "It'll only make them
look the harder You'll . be
warm -it'll be winter, you know -and
they'll give you lots to eat."
She swept out both hands with a
yearning movement.
"It's that -that -the prairie!" she
moaned. "My prairie!"
"Lord love us, miss, it won't be any -
one's while you're. -down there. You
will be out again as soon as it's fit
to ride on. Only we Police) have to
shiver out there while you're down
there. You'd better be thinking how
lenient the judge was no more than
if you'd lifted a ,watch . . . . It
might have been ten years."
They had long since passed Dun-
more, where the Crow's Nest line
leaves the main line, and some new
passengers had been added. From
their seat at the rear • of the car Mira
and her guard looked into the backs
of the dozen strangers before themes
they ran along through a stretch of
prairie broken sparingly by small
bluffs of trees and cutbanks and
chalky -edged sloughs. Grassy Lake
was behind them only a mile or two
when the sudden application of the
emergency brakes threw them for -1
ward in their seats, and; with a few'
dragging jerks the train came to a
stop between high cutbanks.
The passengers scrambled out, but
Constable Priest only leaned across
Mira to investigate from the window.
He could see nothing except a steep
gravelly bank rising twenty feet be-
side the train, but a passenger return-
ed with the information that a slide
had occurred and would delay them
twenty minutes. Throwing himself
into a seat with the disgusted com-
ment that this was the only bit of
cutbank on the line before the foot-
hills, Priest and Mi4-a waited. a sec-
ond passenger came in and yawned to
his seat.
The door behind Priest opened a-
gain and the Policeman yawned. And
his yawn was stifled by a rope fall-
ing over his head and binding his
arms to his sides before he could move.
He heaved forward, but a pair of ir-
resistible hands pressed him back.
"This is a real lariat, llfountie,"
jeered a voice at his back, "an' yer
tied to the seat. The rest o' yuh"-
for the passengers had turned in a-
larm -"jest keep yer faces to th'
other end o' the car an' yer all right."
Mira had not even moved her head,
She knew the voice, and from the
corner of her eye saw what had hap-
pened to Priest. Then a pair of
strong arms reached over and lifted
her clear of the seat and set her on
her feet, and she looked into Blue
Pete's blue -black cheeks from a dist-
ance of only a few inches. She clos-
ed her eyes.
"Ef yuh'll open yer peepers," he
said dryly, "it'll be easier fer both of
us."
• Her wrist held in his steely hand,
they raced back the track to the end
of the cutbank and climbed up to the
prairie. In a bluff were Whiskers and
a horse for herself and Mira knew
with a surge of delicious excitement
that she was to have one more ride
at least. Whiskers whinnied a wel-
come that set her heart bounding, And
reached out to nose her hands.
Oh, it was good, it was good! To
ride straight into the teeth of the
wind, her blouse fluttering, her short
skirt flapping rhythmically against
her horse's sides -that was joy and
freedom, and she urged her horse in-
to its best stride and laughed hysteri-
cally.
"You shouldn't a' did it, Pete, dear,
you shouldn't," she panted. But she
knew she loved him for doing it -
loved the daring of it, its success;
and her heels dug into the racing
horse.
Hle grinned and she noticed how
wan and peaked his face was, how
loose his clothes hung. A cloud came
before her eyes and her hand moved
out to him.
"Shudn't nothin'!" he laughed.
"Ain't I got yuh back? That's en-
ough fer me."
In sheer joy he jerked his Stetson
off and clapped the pinto's flanks as
in broncho -busting, and Whiskers did
a mild buck in response. ..Blue Pete
felt that some slight exultation was
coming to him.
R. T. LUKER
Menaced auctioneer for the County
of Huron. Sales attended o in all
carte of the county. . Seven ear& ex-
perience in Manitoba and Saskatehe-
wan. Terms reasonable. PII'nne No.
178 r 11, Exeter, Centralia P.O., R.B.
No. 1. Orders left at The Huron Ex-
positor Office, Seaforth, ;promptly at-
issied to.
She knew they were making for
the Hills -the old cave, the one place
no rustler had found and only one
Policeman, and he would never tell. If
they were not safe there, Montana
was only a few short miles away; and
no one would care for them over the
border. Off to the south-east lay
their raven, a mere twenty-five miles
or so, In two hours, or a trifle more,
they would make them -and safety.
She could almost smell the damp od-
our of the ivy before the cave, and
hear the tinkling ripple of the leap-
ing streams. The cave -their home!
"We've a quarter of an hour start,"
cheered Blue Pete. "It'll take them
that long to get back to 'Grassy Lake
to wire." 1
But he was wrong. A. passenger
cut the rope binding Priest as soon
P,I
1 as Blue Pete's footsteps had faded a-
way; but the Policeman saw only the
running horses when he reached the
top of the cutbank. There was, how-
ever, 'help nearer than Grassy Lake.
Priest sought out the conductor, found
a telephone connection on board,
threw it over the wires beside the
track, and was in touch with Inspec-
tor Barker within five minutes.
Mira and Blue Pete rode on, and
an hour later, with the dark line of
the Hills softened into a deep green,
drew up to let their mounts rest,
When they started again they noticed
with concern that 'M'ira's horse was
limping. A mile back it had stumbled
but had, recovered and continued its
way as if nothing had happened; but
now it could only hobble on three legs.
I Instinctively Blue Pete raised himself
in the saddle and scanned the prairie
between them and the :Hills.
It was Mira saw them first. With
a trembling laugh she pointed out,
five or six miles away, mere specks
on the prairie, two riders moving
swiftly across from the east to in-
tercept them, and when Blue' Pete
turned to the west two more were rid-
ing there. The telephone had done
its work well. With fresh mounts es-
cape would still have been possible,
but now the half-breed looked down
on 'Mire's horse with shaking head.
"You make) for it, Pete," she urg-
ed, smiling her gratitude for his brave
attempt, and stooping to kiss Whis-
kers' ears. "You can do it easily a.
lone."
But he only frowned and raised his
rifle to examine it, thrusting two
more cartridges in the magazine.
"We're not caught yet," he grated.
"I've two bits o' lead here fer each
o' them -an' it usually only takes
one,"
But she shook her head. "No, Pete.
We can't do it It was
foolish of us to try, but -but it was
grand while it lasted You
just can't shoot." i
Blue Pete looked about him. Sev-
eral miles back to the west was the
deep valley of a small river, in whose
depths he knew a line of cottonwood
trees grew. It was their only retreat,
and with night coming on anything
might happen.
As they pulled about and made for
the west the Police bent their course
more to the north, always verging
nearer, but the early October day was
drawing quickly to its close as Pete
turned on the brink of the ravine to
study hiss pursuers.
"I dunno," he said hopefully. "Meb-
be we kin yet."
When they dropped over the bank
they noticed with throbbing hearts
that it was much darker than out on
the prairie, and Blue Pete laughed
recklessly. Deep into the cluster of
ugly, gnarled, wind -twisted trunks
they urged their horses and there he
left her while he returned to the edge
of the open and lay down with ready
rifle. He had not long to wait. A
Stetson appeared, then a second, and
his rifle slid forward. But it was
struck aside even as he pointed it.
"No, no, Pete. You mustn't." Mira
was' lying, beside him, her voice filled
with a fear he had never heard there
before. "I couldn't- -couldn't think of
you as a -murderer. I couldn't bear
to iemember you that way."
His heart thumping, he strove vain-
ly to read her face in the dark. She
couldn't bear . . She couldn't
bear . She couldn't bear. It
kept tumbling over in his whirling
brain.
"Don't, Pete, please."
The appeal in her trembling voice
made every nerve go limp, and he
could just stare and stare into the
gloom where her face was. Present-
ly she crept away a few feet. But he
knew she was watching, and he went
to her and whispered:
. "I won't shoot to kill, Miss Mira -
not yet. But I got to scare them."
And he returned to his post and fired
twice close above the heads of the
Policemen.
At a peremptory order from behind
them they stopped and slowly retrac-
ed their steps. Blue Pete knew they
would not come again till daylight
Four of them could surround the
clump of trees and prevent their es-
cape in the- dark, leaving their cap-
ture to the daylight. He rolled on
his side and began to plan.
"It's only six months, Pete." The
whisper came pleadingly to him
through the darkness. "It's only six
months."
'He felt her hand touch his shoulder
and move down his arm until it reach-
ed his hand, where it lay soft and
warm and confiding. He did not know
what to do with it. He wanted to
grip it madly, to crush it to him.
"I'11 come back, then," she breathed,
"te the cave -to the chair you made
me -to you, Pete, dear fellow."
His big fist closed spasmodically
over her hand in a grip that must
have hurt, but she only nestled her
head against his shoulder and lay
there; and for a delirious moment he
heard her faltering breath, felt it on
his cheek; and a lock of hair wave-)
across his forehead. One big hand
went out blindly before him, trembl-
ing
"You'll marry me then, Pete, won't
you?" she was whispering into his
ear. "And we can live on, own
ow
life, without the Police and the rust-
ling and the other worries.,
He found'his voice then-er was it
his voice? All the harshness had
left it; a deeper, fuller tone welled up
from depths that had' never before
been stirred.
"Don't, Mira, don't! I can't -stand
it -+girl. I know -I know I must be
dreamin' again, 'cause it can't be true
Don't move, Mira. Let me dream,"
lice a iu,34,91 d�' ?i onto his ter e
and sighed as she xe 0,11ed,up and rub
bed hair emu;ot)1 ° -', against hil
rough one
`�Qirlyl six i ,.'tt.l j`' . e wh°-:tered
"The sprjng wi 1 c ineng, ail the
prairie penpipg frgn the snow, and
the calves running with the icv of it
- And so we'l we, Pete," •
His arms closet) convulsively about
her, ,ta'nd then dropped away as .he
pushed her from hint almost rudely.
"Goin' to " e'en whar they are," he
paid abruptly and left her.
Something about it she did not un-
derstand made her unhappy, but be-
cause she did not undelrstand.--!be-
cause she knew nothing of love as the
world knew it -she did not try to
work it out.
Twenty yards from her Blue Pete
lay with his bead buried in his arms.
At the very moment when a joy too
great to feel all at once h •
1 had comic to
him he had remembered what she had
forgotten. He could never return to
the honest life again until he had
paid the penalty for his crimes. The
Police were after him, and he must
serve his time -and nothing so easy
as six months. He strove-te smother
it all in the memory of those brief
moments when she lay against his
shoulder, breathing into his ear, but
the picture blurred and ran into a
jumble of drabness.
When he returned to her he threw
himself on the ground beside her in
silence -just out of reach of her hand.
She thought she understood then.
"It doesn't matter„ Pete. If we got
away they'd only get me some time
and put me in jail longer. It's best
as it is, dear Pete.; -Don't fret."
For a long time they lay side by
side, silent. Over the river they
heard a sound that told of the Police
watching to cut thetm off in that di-
rection. Far away, all over the prair-
e, the yapping of coyotes seemed to
mock them and the world, and the
stars shone so coldly that Mira shud-
dered and turned to the shadows a-
bout her.
"Now," she said. at last, "you must
go."
He raised himself fiercely, but she
felt about until she could still his pro-
testations with her warm hand.
"You must, Pete. You mustn't get
caught, too, Can't you see that we
both can't get away with only one
horse? . . Besides, Pete, I'm
not going to try. No. I'm not. When
T get out it'll be all over and I can
come back to you without fear -now
go And, Pete, dear, don't
forget -never, never, never! -that I
ove you."
He felt her soft lips press his hand,
and for one overwhelming moment he
had her in his arms. Then he crept
away, a great ache tearing him, But
in a moment he was back. "Yuh'll
hear a c'yute up thar 'long the banks
-three yelps an' a howl -that's me."
'She reached out in the dark and
pulled his head down and kissed him
on the forehead, and with bared head
he crawled away, her benediction
burning into him.
She heard the yelps and shudder-
ing howl on the cutbank, and with a
smile of peace and love and hope pil-
lowed her head in one round arm.
But as she sank to sleep, two pierc-
ng whistles split the darkness from
agreat distance. Something moved
quietly close to her, aril against the
skyline Whiskers' little body loomed,
as the pinto crept carefully through
the trees. A few moments later a
burst of galloping hoofs broke' from
the top of the cutbank and a succes-
sion of rifle shots. But the hoofs
kept on. She smiled sleepily. Whis-
kers had gone to join her master.
And when the sun was• beginning
to trickle into the tops of the cotton-
wood trees, she walked out and up the
bank to the waiting Police.
"You see. I didn't run away," she,
laughed. "Take me back."
CHAPTER XXVII
THE HALF-BREED'S SACRIFICE
Despair and desperation threatened
the lives of many people, good and
bad, that autumn. There were times
when Blue Pete's emotions almost ov-
rcame him. Lonely, living an un-
natural existence, driven by memories
and goading impotence, two plans
came frequently to his twisted mind.
Standing among the outer shadows of
the Hills, he fumed at the Mounted
Police and the suffering the law had
brought to Mira, until his fingers hug-
ged his rifle with a menace they
could never have suspected. At other
tines he commenced to pack his lim-
ted possessions for a riot of blood`ov-
er in Montana' where Dutchy and Bilsy
and their fellows had retired before
approaching winter.
It was really the pinto decided the
course of his life • through the grip-
ping months when the prairies lay in
the clutch of ice and snow. Sensitive
to her every mood, the half-breed felt
her reluctance to leave the Hills -ev-
en to desert the cave where her nights
had Le) 1 -,ng bc::r .;pc -,-,t. In her fond -
n -ss fer the familiar scene's, ue
Pete read little but equine a ction
for the woman whose love wa almost
driving him insane; and that he. felt
he must respect.
Sothat when whistling gales and
driving snow drove him from the op-
en, he clenched his fists and retreat-
ed to the old cave and its haunting
ghosts of happy days. Juno languish-
ed, whining quietly in the long even-
ings, and Whiskers seemed to have
lost her old lazy playfulness; but the
winter passed with more pleasant
sadness than would have faced him
anywhere else, he knew.
Spring found him altered more in
body than mind. His physique that
great bundle of muscle and 'bone that
had never failed him, yet never been
a care -had paid the penalty of his
brooding and careless meals. Itis
cheeks were fallen in and hung flab-
by, his eyelids were heavy and swol-
len, his clothes sagged and were
draggled from much sleeping in the
opbn and wandering in the storms. .
To a day he had worked out when
Mira would be free, and each morn-
ing, as the time approached, he eag-
erly sought the open to scan the sky
for signs of spring. Experience
taught him that when it came it would
appear almost uirannout'iced, but he
trembled lest the' frost would outlast
the April day when she would have
paid the cast of her sacrifice. And in
late March, when a final chinook blew
down from the Rockies aril released
fl
the Op Nvii},t1e lb 14i
�nxo the z aaxin
s lillg stream the fiXl
! pxa�xi,e would he 'p,}lsn aznd ,eeTk
t weloino herr, they freer .1}>1 .a '9l'ii;1%
droop ever their .POMO to merry AAIAIe
at titer retui n
He would have gone •$o I th�aritlgg
7.o receive her f regi the prison gates
had he dared, but be knew alie wonkd'
come straight there, where they had
spent those gleaming wea'lss of joyous
excitement and dawning hove:. He:
would' wait for her -Juno and Wails -
kers and he, and the horse he helped
n
himself to from her awranch. So
intense were his expectations that the
cave became more unbearably crowd-
ed with her presence, and he again
sought the open while the ground was
still damp and the eold water flower
from the sides of Mount Abbot.
The old instincts were still alive in
hi the
m, uncanny sense of�danger
and of the unusual. As he lay on his.
back one day staring through• the bud-
ding trees, a sound he had not heard
for many long months broke the sil-
ence of the gills -horses on the move
and mounted horses at that. A quick
whispered order sent Juno slinking
back to the cave, and very quietly
Blue Pete glided into the shadows,
floating over the damp leaves and
twigs like a ghost. Now running as
fast as he dare, now creeping on his
knees, now darting into deeper thick-
ets, he rapidly approached the disturb-
ing sound and at last threw himself
on the edge of"'a ravine, only his eyes
above the ridge.
They were coming on with an as-
surance that betrayed no idea of on-
lookers, and his eyebrows knit in per-
plexity. But a glance told him that
they were not Mounted Police, not
chance cowboys on' the trail of strays,
not even merely one or two rustlers
returning to scenes of former success-
es. There were ten of them to re-
new the old campaign of lawlessness.
He counted them more than once be-
fore he tried to distinguish.them.
Then as he deliberately and in turn
studied their faces, he drew further
and further back in the shadows.
It was not fear -he had never felt
that in his life; and a grim smile was
twisting his face. Yet a shiver ran
through him as he looked and recog-
nized; and his rifle slid forward and
covered the eye of the leader -moved
back to the third and returned -and
dropped without firing. Before him
rode his two sworn enemies, Dutch
Henry and Bilsy, but he did not fulfil
his vow at this moment when they
were helpless before him. They had
brought with them eight of the most
daring rustlers of the Badlands, and
he wanted to know their game.
k * * * *
Such a band of rustlers had never
combined before on either side of the
line, and they quickly made their
presence felt. So fast did rumour
follow disorganized in the pursuit of
them. The Inspector gave his opinion
bluntly to Mahon.
"It's his revenge for the capture of
Mira," he said, gnawing h i s
moustache.
"It's the work
one man," Mahon
if y.
"He's joined the old crowd," guess-
ed the Inspector.
Mahon had considered that, but al-
ways turned it down. He did so now.
"I think we know Blue Pete bet-
ter than to think he'd go back to the
old crowd at the old game."
An additional Policeman came down
from the north to assist, a keen fel-
low who had proven his worth in
many a long trail and many a fight.
and the Force undertook an ambitious
plan. Now thoroughly roused, the
ranchers were at last joining hands
with the Police, and, as April ad-
vanced and the rustlers grew bolder.
it was decided to confine attention to
the Hills, the new plan being to place
a system of patrols -cowboys, ranch-
ers, and Police -all about the Hills,
night and day.
The first real evidence that the rust-
lers were in the Hills came from a
cowboy who had seen four of them
emerge and retire in the early morn-
ing light. The single telephone line
was monopolized by the Police for the
next two hours, and a cordon was
drawn about the entire western end
of the Hills. Sergeant Blakey was
already named for another district,
and Corporal Mahon swelled one day
with an unexpected promotion as his
successor. To him was given charge
of the chase, because he knew the
Hlills best and had had the most suc-
cess in the detection and capture of
the rustlers.
of a gang, not of
made bold to qual-
(Continued next week.)
FANIMES OFTEN ;,CRAVE HAM
One of the differences between the
newly fledged cook and the one whr,
has won her medals of praise lies in
the ability to bring out the full pos-
sibilities of a food flavor. This may
mean simply expertness in the tech-
nique of cooking, but it may be fre-
quently assisted by ingenuity in cre-
ating new dishes from what are not
unusual items of food.
Ham can certainly not be called an
unusual dish;; in fact it is a standby
that can be relied on to lend new zest
to the menu; and the family that is
without its salty savoriness too long,
soon gets ham hungry.
It is the well known Canadian fav -
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ur.
Sow Sweet";Peae Faris
Too much eznpbeeis ailino to :
on the necessity :of gettinge'„
Peas in early. As a v40, 14104 1,
growing this really 7leautifful .o, a
traces to late planting or to ,xteg
of a few simsple rifles- regarding care
Sweet Peas are hest 'grown at the
back 'of the annual beds or in the. wveg
etable garden.. As a matter of fact
the are y r grown for their cutting' pur
poses only, the foliage not being par-
ticularly beautiful and as the plants
require support it is rather) too hard
to work them in in any other way
than straight rows. On this account
the vegetable patch is a good place
to grow any quantity or in 'between
vegetables and flowers. Select the
first spot in the garden to dry out so
that the seed may 'be sown at the
very earliest possible moment. Deep
open soil and deep planting is neces-
sary. The simplest way is to dig a
trench two feet deep. In the bottom
of this put a foot layer, well tramped
down, of rotted leaves, manure or
some other vegetable refuse which the
roots can penetrate easily and cover
with two inches of garden loam. Plant
seed in this an inoh deep and four to
six inches apart. As soon as the
plants appear above the top of the
soil gradually fill in the trench a half
inch or so every week so as to develop
further root growth, which is abso-
lutely necessary to carry plants
through hot weather and keep up the
blooming. Sweet Peas, like the gar-
den sort, are a cool weather plant,
and if we are to keep them blooming
in July and August (,it is quite pos-
sible to have them bloom until frost
cuts them down) their roots must be
deep, going down into cool soil. Some
sort of climbing support, such as
brush, strings or wire, at least three
feet high and better'still four or five,
is necessary.
Lawn Work.
Early Spring is the time for lawn
work. Then, when the soil is still full
of moisture is the best time to use'
the roller or pounder to even up the
surface, press tiny roots back into
place and firm in new seed. Grass is
a cool weather plant and must be put
in early or in the Spring or in the
Fall. Get good seed as this is the
only kind which will keep coming on i
year after year and will give that fine,;
velvety appearance so desired. Sow,
thickly. rake lightly and then roll in.
A good commercial fertilizer just of-'
;/4.1:
e ,. Yt d t madeapilebeingi! o 1ilceThis isEppaperhic is ';bald A ti+ :SO
tween row:.afegejaabie,
con iderable tragic, Ti x Id
a£ruwbheroref osmwsoenr< Tltg uedan k fl
: iQyrn w
conserves moisture sells 'liar
' groiwth because it eat4 ►e i s
rays and adds wariit'h bone so11's
'one wino has placed his haniVe a'
paper roc during the izaiddlet j ,G
'day when the sun vas;"shining=.a
understand the latter point 'Far alae `,
home garden the use of mulch. Ziapen•'
has a very definite pinee.in that' ttiee
• vegetable crop inay be planted` and
allowed to take care of itself with'
the exception of pulling a few oda
weeds that grow in the rows 'between.
the plants, or when thinning . the'
plants- is necessary, or spraying has
to be done to control insects and dis-
eases," writes T. F. Ritchie, of the
Dominion Experimental Farms. • In
his garden last summer the writer
found that wire staples made out of
the ordinary cheap, black wire were
a very good method of holding the
paper down to the soil, although.
stones and soil heaped along the edge
will also do, though they are not so
satisfactory. Sow seed along the edge
of the paper 'before putting down the
next sheet, er if plants are being set
out make a small hole in the paper
and insert.
Seed.
At the risk of repetition the writer
would again like to emphasizze the
necessity of good seed, which is even,
more important in the garden than it
is with field craps, as most vegetables
and flowers we grow have decidedly
more breeding behind them and are
grown in a much more intensive way,
scores 'of different kinds being grown
in a few square rods of soil. Not only
is it important to get the very best
quality of flower and vegetable seed
to insure the right colors in flowers,
and earliness and tenderness in vege-
ta'bles, but it is also necessary tobuy-
seed
buy
seed specially suited to Canadian con-
ditions.
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Ili
orite for breakfast with eggs, the in-
disputable luncheon dish in sandwich-
es, indispensable in the cold meat
platter, takes to highly flavored sauc-
es, and is a general all around good
mixer. The adventurous spirit in the
kitchen may experiment in far fields
with this type of meat and produce a
delectable dish.
Alabama Ham Steak.
1 slice of ham 11/2 inches thick.
1/2 cup of Maple syrup.
1/2 cup of water.
1 teaspoon of vinegar, baking ap-
ples (1 for each person), potatoes (1
for each person), raisins.
Mix the syrup, water and• vinegar,
and pour them over the ham. Peel
the potatoes and core the apples. Pill
the centre of the apples with raisins
ands arrange the potatoes and apples
around the ham steak. Bake in a
moderate oven about an hour, or an
hour and a half. Sometimes the ham
steak may be a trifle too salty. In
that case, parboil the steak in water
about ten minutes before baking. •
Missouri Baked Ham.
One ham, 1 tablespoon prepared
mustard, cinnamon, 11/2 cups vine-
gar, 1/2 pound brown sugar, 1 cup
boiling water.
Boil a twelve or fourteen pound
ham gently for one hour. Remove the
skin and some of the fat if the ham
seems too fat. Place in baking pan
fat side up, sprinkle with cinnamon.
stick thickly with cloves, and pack
with brown sugar. Add mustard to
the vinegar and boiling water and
pour over the ham. Cover with a
tight fitting lid. Bake in a slow oven
(300 degrees F.) for three hours.
North Carolina Ham.
Wash a ham and cook slowly in
water to which has been added one
cup of molasses and a pod of red pep-
per. When the skin side is tender,
turn and cook until the flat bene at
the broad end of the ham is a little
loose from the meat. Leave the ham
in the water until cold. Skin the ham,
trim off the extra fat, dust with
freshly ground black pepper, spread
on it a glass of apple jelly, grate stale
bread crumbs all over the top and
press down into the jelly. Put into a
medium oven (375 degrees F .l to
brown. Serve cold.
Ham -Potato Surprise.
Scoop out the insides of four good
sized potatoes which have been bak-
ed. Add to this a small can of pot-
ted ham or one cup of ham which has
been put through a meat grinder. Add
to this one cup of hot milk and a
small piece of butter. Beat this un-
til light and put back lightly into pot-
ato skins. Open an egg oil to each
and bake until the egg white is firm.
Garnish with a sprig of parsley.
Ham Sandwich Roll.
Take a slice of thin ham, about two
by three inches, and spread lightly
with mold mustard. Grate a raw car-
rot and mix With a email quantity of
cream cheese and chopped stuffed ol-
ives. If desired, add a dash of Wor-
cestershire sauce.
'S'pread this mixture on slice of
ham about a quarter of an inch thick.
Roll the ham tightly. Cut the crust
from a loaf of fresh rye, whole wheat
or white bread. Cut slices a quarter
of an inch thick and butter. Place
the roll of ham on the bread and roll
the sandwich tightly. Wrap in a
damp cloth and put in the ice box for
an hour. Remove and slice down-
ward.
Pan Broiling.
The most popular method of cook-
ing ham in the country has been pan
broiling, or, as many rural people
would call it, "frying." On state oc-
casions such as weddings, anniver-
saries, and surprise birthday parties
hams have always been boiled and
baked. The details of baking have va-
ried, the variations depending upon
the traditional methods used by an-
cestors. The Virginia method is a -
common one. The ham was first
boiled in either fresh or boiled cider -
Lacking cider, water was used. The
ham was simmered slowly for three -
or four hours, or until the small hock
bone was loose. Then it was cooled
in the liquid in which it was bailed_
When cold it was skinned and the
fat side was rubbed with sugar and a
little mustard and perhaps some cin-
namon, and was stuck full of oolves.
After about three hours of slow bak-
ing to toast the fat and to enrich the
flavor the ham was ready for serving.
LONDON AND WINGHAM
South.
a.m. p.m.
Wingham 6.45 2.50
Belgrave 7.01 3.10
Blyth 7.12 3.22
Londesboro 7.19 3.30
Clinton 7.38 3.53
Brucefield 7.56 4.13
Kippen ... 8.03 4.21
Hensel' 8.09 4.28•
Exeter 8.23 4.43
North.
Exeter 10.59 5.42
Hensall ..... 11.13 5.57
Kippen 11.18 6.01
Brucefield 11.27 6.08
Clinton 11.58 6.27
Londesboro 12.18 6.45
Blyth 12.28 6.52
Belgrave 12.40 7.02
Wingham 12.55 7.20'
C. N. R.
East.
Goderich
Holmesville
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Columban
Dublin
West.
a.m. p.m.
6.35 2.30
6.50 2.46
6.58 2.56•
7.12 8.11
7.18 3.17
7.23 3.22'
Dublin 11.24 9.42'
St. Columban 11.29
Seaforth 11.40 9.55
Clinton 11.55 10.09'
12.05 10.18
1220 10.38'
Holmesville
Goderich
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
East.
a.m.
Goderich 5.510'
Menset 5.58
McGaw 8.04
Auburn 6.11
Blyth 6.23
Walton 6.40;
MoNaught 8.59
Toronto 10.25
West.
a.m.
Toronto 7.40'
McNaught 11.40'
Walton •00000••.. 12A1
Blyth , Mt.
Auburn ..... ,11; .
McGaw *At
Meneset !;
Goderieh •.,
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