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The Clinton News Record, 1915-04-08, Page 7,. S.Sas, Was, saaa. s, saa.`&aa. \ saesSeasSals I I rip \\V Spread 0 0 „„„„,, ...ma. the Bread with (crown Brand' Corn Syrup and the children'e craving for sweets will be k ' —. s and 'Crozom Brand' form rai perfectly balanced, AI food—ch in . the elements 1 zdwardsburg healthy children. Li " - that go to:Multi up sturdy, ..... Crown Brand Corn Syrup is so economical and so pod, that it is littld wonder that millions of pounds are eaten every year in the hones of Canticle. 'Crown Brand '—:the children's fayorite—is ceatallsi for all cooking, and " oa \ \ N good purposes candy making, ,INIIIIII iiii ./../7., Y trIfITE" is t‘tpure while Corn Syrup,...._ ., noi so pronounced in flavor as 'Crown Brand'. ztillAMBODt nit mayprefer it'. .9,0 Soil „...„„ ASK YOUR GROCER—IN 2,5,10 AND 20 1.5. TINS NIS . The Canada Starch Co. Limited, Montreal OjJ %Or Manufacturers of the famous Edwardsburg Brands \ 29 , . i!I , 111111111M ' N . s ' es IWIESTY17,,,RA"77 / / /a , / s / / .,/ eadesseeaseeepos. HOME th',Abies'esossreisesyseisises -Crackers in COnknrY• . Sardine 111ixttire.--2(Scrve as an appetizer at luncheon.) Bone and ekie one small box of sardines; add the juice of one lemon, 8, little Worceetershire sauce and enough catsup to make a ameoth Paste. Spread 011 crisp saltines and serve two on a plate with a slice of lemost and two stuffed olives. Mock Oysters. --F0030 fresh sau- sage meat into oval cakes reserab- ling a, large oyster in shape and size. Roll liberally in finely rolled soda crackers and saute in a pan, sing a good amount of beef drip- pings and butter. Cook long enough to let centre be well done, and do not let outside get . too dark or erisp. Esealloped Oysters. -- Drain the 'iquor from a pint of oysters. Small ones will do. Place in layers in a email pudding dish, seasoning each layer with salt, pepper and dots of butter. Between each layer and over top strew 4t good layer of fine cracker crumbs, dotting top well with butter, Bake in moderate oven until well heated through and top is light gold color, lilscalloped Tomatoes. -- Peoceed as directed for oysters, but also add a teaspoonful of sugar to the seasoning of each layer. The juice drained from tomatoes may he • pertly added if many craeker are used, while the rest may be used for soup stock. ooMeringue.--Beat the whites_ with a revolving egg beater until stiff, add sugar, two spoonfuls at a time, beating two minutes ,between. Now rile 'on thp of pie or run on with a pastry squirt, sift a spoonful of augar over 'top and ,set in moderate oven until it light golden oolor. Meringue anust• then cool in a warm place or it will fall. It must be firm and creamy in centre with a short crisp tep. Craoker Torte. — Ingredients: .., Four eggs, one -cupful of fine gra,nu- i- lated sugar, one-quarter cupful of cold water, one teaapoonful of vanilla, extract, one cupful of crack- er dust, two tablespoonfuls of co- coa, one scant teaspoonful of bak- ing powder. Method —Break eggs into a large round -bottomed bowl, add sugar and beat five to seven minute.s. Add water and extract, beat well and then beat in the pre- pared cracker dust. As soon as well blended pour into a small Vandusen tube mold and bake until a toothpick if inserted comes out clean. Invert and cool in pan, then either ice with plain confec- tioners' icing or better still split into three layers and spread un- sweetened whipped cream between and over top and sides. By using one pint of cream this will be suf- ficient for eight people, Cinnamon Crackers.—Niee with afternoon tea. Take plain soda biscuits, spread with soft butter, sift well with sugar and cinnamon and bake light golden crisp. Margerites. — Ingredients: One egg, one cupful of confectioners' sugar, one-half cupful of ground peeans, a dusting of cinnamon (op- , tional). Method: Beat egg and so- li' gar for ten minutes and rest and heat well. Run along top of salt wafers', Or you can use plain soda crackers. Cracker Sandwiches. — Cream cheese, plain or with pimentos, preserves or it mixture of cream cheese and ourra,nt jelly all make good fillings. Nice for afternoon spreads, picnics or. the home luncheon. Helps Along the Way. o A small piece of !gum camphor in a 'vase of water will keep cut flow- ers fresh a long time, A weak solution of alum twill re- vive the colors of a faded carpet after a thorough sweeping. White va,selinOS is a goof.' dress- ing for -russet Or patent 1 leather; polish with absorbent cotton after applying it with the fieger tips. The cooking process of "anything cooked in a, double boiler can be hurried if salt is added toethe wa- ter in the outer boiler, , Rhubarb can be mixed with othei fruits and made into it delicious pie. For instance, rhebast and apples together are delicious. Fine linens and pieces of lingerit will last much longer 11 they are wrung 'out by hand and not put through the wringer. A piece of lace or net starched end put under a hole in a lace our thin, then pressed smooth with a warm.iron, will scarcely be visible If flour is placed in the oven un til it is thoroughly heated it wil not be so apt to lump in making thiCkening for gravies, soups and sauces. Potatoes will remain firm and mealy all winter if air -slacked lime is sprinkled over the barrels or bins; the lime .a,bsorbs the moisture When cooking rice, if necessary to stir, always use a, fork instead of a spoon, as the spoon crushes the grains and makes It look mushy. .A lemon that is heated 'will yield more juice than tile that is cold When Cold, lemon in a heated oven until it is warm through. Olean your sewing machine fre quently if you would have good service. Kerosene oil and obsorb e,nt cotton are admirable for the purpose; follow wih a good lubri- cator; There is a vast difference between the flavor of good turnips and those that have 'been standing on the market stall lor a week Or two ask the market man to cut a tur- nip in two for you and if it is solid and juicy -looking inside, it is good For tired feet, throw a, handfu of Epsom salts intoa foot -tub of very warm. water. Immerse the feet and ankles for 10 or 15 min- utes, dry quickly and get into bed Refreshing sleepwill follow and that tieed, aching sensation will be quite gone. Continue every nigh until a cure is completed. Not Quite Certain. A certain business man is of opinion -that he has an exceedingly bright office boy, and nothing pleases him better than to tell how he acquired the youngster's ser vices. A notice had been posted in the man's shop window, which read as follows :—"Boy wanted, about fourteen years." A lad of that age, with little that was preposses- sing in his appearance, came into the office, and stated that he had read the notice. "So you think you would like -to have the position?" asked the merchant. "Yet, ior," was the reply '• "I -want the job, but I don't know that I can promise to keep it for the full fourteen years." Real Business. "You know, Miss Blank," said the proprietor of a railway station restaurant, "there is a, great deal in having your sandwiches look at- tractive." "Yes, sir, I know iti" replied the girl. "1 have- done everything I ceuld. I have dusted them every morning for the last ten days." If woman had her way man wouldn't have his. Two little girls Who played to gether a, great deal had an alterca- tion one morning. Beth ha,c1 told 13Ianehe what she called "a little fib.' `A fib is the lame thing as 'a story," explained Blanche, "and a story is the same thing as a he "No," argued Beth, 'it's not." "Yes, it is " insisted BlaneZte; ''e- 00010 my rather said so, and my father is professor at the college, and he knows everything." "I don't eare if he is 11, professor," said Beth. "My lather is a real estate men, and, he knows a lot more aibout lying then yonr fa• then" _ The Lady of Lancaster; Or, Leonora West's Love. CHAPTER VIII. • "If only the earth would open and swal- low is up!" sighed Lanotteter to Iiimeelf, miserably. It not ,pletteamt to be made fon of, and the most of people are too thinelcinned to relish a jokoadirected against themselves. Lancaeter did not. Hes ridiculous mistake flaehed over Inne instantly at the 'depreeatory words a the girl, and ha fleibreoly knew whom to be most angry Withealfirmelf or Leonora West. • He store a furtive glance at hers wish- ing in his heart that he could eubdue-the orimeon flush that glowed on his rase. He woe glad that elle was not looking et him. She had ,sunic into a chair and buried her face in her halide, Evidently sbe was not enjoying her saucy triumph much. Them lost impatient words of his had cleverly turned the tables, lie glanced at the drooping figure M the arm -chair, and it flashed over him that Do Vero would never be done laughing if he knew that he, Lord Lancaster, a env - airy °Mbar, 11M1 a "swell party" alto- gethor had been made a target for the amusement of this lowly born girl. How dared ,she do it? and could he keep De Vero from finding out? he asked himself In the same breath. And Met then Leonora Weet lifted her wet oyes to his faoe. and said, with. a dob in her throat: "I am glad now that I didn't tell You the truth at first. If I bed, I mightn't have found aut, perhaps, that you thought me a bore mud a npisance, and that yon didn't want me to go to Europe with you. Captain Lancaster winced. All 'she had said ems quite true, yet he had not cared to have her know it It is but seldom elm cares to have people know one's reel opinion of them. "And—ft.nd"—she went on, resentfully, "you mai be quite, quite sure, after thits, that I -will 1101 g0 With you. You will have no trouble with 11211. My aunt might have come atter me herself, I think, I was amid, when / got her letter saying that you would come for me, that some- thing would go 'wrong. Now I know it, To think that e ou should call me a baby!" While she poured forth her grievances dolorouely, Lancaster had been collecting hie 'wool-gethering wits. What upon earth was be to do if ehe really refused to go with him? He pictured to himself old Lady Lancaster's fury. It was quite like. ly that, meter euch a contretemps, she would cut him off ivith a shilling. "It will never do for her to etay in this mood. She shall go to England, nolens ye. lens." be resolved. "Richard" began to be "himself agoan." uTphoorilthullmer.ous side of the case dawned "I have made a tremendous faux pas, e,ertainly, and now I /3111131, get out of it the best way I can." he thought, grimly. Leonora's sharp little tongue had grown eM11 now, and her face was again hidden In her hands. He woat up to her and touched her black sleeve lightly. "011, came now," ho said; "if you go, on like this I shall think I made a very apposite mistake. Who but a baby would make such a deoleration ne yours in the face of the circumstences? Of course you are going to Europe with me?" "I ant not," elle oiled, with a mutinous pout of the rich red lips. "Yes, you are,' he replied coolly. "You have no busineee to get angry with MO be0DAUS0 I made a slight mistake :about your age. And after all, I remember now that It was really De Vere's Mistake, and not mine." "Who is De Vere?" inquired Leonora, ouriousla. as she glenced up at him through her wet lashes, .and showing the rims of her eyes very pink Indeed from the resentful team she had shed. "De Vero ie 3111' friend and traveling. companion," he replied. "And does he, too, coneider me a bore and a nuirsance?" "Well," confidingly. "to tell you the truth, we both did—that ie. you lcurea while we were laboring under the very natural mistake that you were a very small baby instead of—a growtsup one. But all that is altered itow, of course, since I have met you, Miee Weet. We shall be only too happy to have you for our compilation du voyage." Ite was speaking to her quite rte if elle were his equal, and not the lowly born niece of the houselceoper at his ancestral home. It was impoessible to keep that fact In hie head. She was so fair, 00 refined. 60 well-bred, in epite of the little flashes of spirit Indicativeof a spoiled child. She did not, tilleWiir, and ho continued Opulently: "I aln YerY Sorry for the mistake on my part that caused you go much annoYarice. I elesire to offee you every poeeible tool. °gYfolritlie" She ood up at him quickly. "Oh, I wasn't mad became° you thought Leonora, W4athewilaswliy—tbahbecayc. s'eheI thought You were a nurser "Not that either, I 'WM only annum/ at those mistakes of yours." Was palmed 0, moment, then added. with a, rising flush. "It -was for those other words you said.' ''I do not blame you et all. 531150 it refs vier brute," said ,Laticaeter, penitently, "Do say that you forgive xne. I never should, have amid it if only I bad knoWn." "Known whata" she inquired. "That you were the baby I had to carry to England. I should have been only too happy td be of eerviee to iota 3)e Vero will be distracted with envy at ray privi. lege. There, I have 130.11:1 fieveral pretty things to yeti. Will you not forgive me. now "Yes, r will forgive you, but you do not deserve It" answered Leonora, "It ems not kind to talk about MD so, even If I had been an unconeeious baby." "It was not," he admitted. "But think a moment, Miss 'West. I' am a bachelor, and I know nothing at all of babies, I hate fergotten all the experiences at my' awn babyhood. I was -wretched 61 tho idea of having to convey one of those troublesome little problems acrose the ocean. I would ae eoon have been pre- eented with a white elephant, 1 should have known quite ae much of one as the other. Can you find it in yola heart to chide me for my relnotance?" , Leonora' reflected, with her pretty brows' drawn together. Perhane you are right)" she ac. knowledged, after a moment. 'They are troublesome—balbles, I mean—I think you called them problems. You, were right there, too, for one (Moe not know what to Make of them, nor what tl3ey will do next, nor what they will become in the future." "Then you ear not blame me, ca.n not be angry with me. And YOU will be ready to go with me tomorrow?" "No, I think not. I em afraid, after all you have mid, Captain Lai -meter, that you really are vexed in Your mind at the thought of taking Inc. / do not believe I ought to take advantage of your pretend. ed readiness," ehe replied, eensitively, and with that perfect frankness that eeemed'to he one of her chaa•aeterietice. "And You refuse to go with me?" He, gazed at her. despairingly. "I would rather not," deoidedlo. He looked at the pretty f ace in come alarm. It had a very resolute air, Would shereally carry out her threat of staying' behind? He did not know much about American girls, but he had heard that they managed their own affairs rather more' then their Englieh 8t9i01.8. Thiel one looked exceedingly like the herobne of that feuniller'balled: • "When ehe will. she will, depend on't, And when ,the won't, elle won't, And there's an end met" She glencel en and erov hini pulling at, the ends of lrie anoustache with an Injur- ed air, and a dark erown on his ,brow. "Why do you look so pied'? I should think you would be glad I'm not going." "I am vexed. 2 wasn't aware that looked mad. 111 England we :put mad pea ple into Insane asylums," he replied, ra.- t.her etifflY. "Thank you. I understand. Old Eng. hi giving Paling AMCITICEL o rhetorical hint. Why do you look eo vexed, then, Captain Lancaster?" • "Because there will be no end of a Tow 111 Lancaeter Park when 5 go there, be. cause you have not come 1111111. inc." "Will there reallYP" "Yes; and my aunt, Lady Lftryousber, W110 has prombeed to geve lier 005 "when she diee, Avila cut 311O off with o elusling because I have disobeyed her oidere and disappointed. Mrs. West," Tho blue -gray eyes opened to their widest extent, "Nol" she said. ' "'Yee; indood," replied. "Then sho must be a, very bald swollen, ' sa•id Nies West, a decided tone. "She , ho replied, Ituconioally. "You are certain that she 'would not give you t115 money?".1411X10111.117. "Quite certain," he answered, "And—have you nono of your own?" ,3:ny sav in the arary,", he admit ted, lamghing within himeelf et lust "le thot much?" ohie event on, gravely', ' "Hummel to keep me in boobs and bate, ,Ire anewered, .with en owl -like gravity. "And thie Lady tancaster—youv aunt— does ehe give you the eeet?" pereeacred Leonora.. He did not want tb rude:. Mit he burst out laughing. She looked up into the bright blue eyes mad reddened warm- ly. "I dare say you think•me curioue and ill-bred," she said. . "Ohno, no, not at all. I nen inteneely flattered by the interest you take in my affairs." , • "It ie '0111Y became I do not want to be the means of your loaing that money, 11 you Want It. Do you?" "Indeed I do. .Anylbody would be glad to have twenty thousand a, year," he re. "Sosnruch as that? Then, of eoureo, I Janet not 'be the cause of your losing it," said Leonora, grovels. "Shen you will go with me?" he cried, with quite a load lifted frolil his mind by her unexamoted concession. "Yoe's. I suppose I shall have to go," she answered. "A thousand thanks. I thought you would relent," he sad. "And will you be ready to ea& with me to "Oh, yes, quite ready. My trunks have been packed eeveral Treats, and I have been only waiting for you to come," Ole answered, promptly. And than she elipped her small hand Antes the 'folds of her dress and drew out a, netted. 81110 .purse, through whose meshes he oaught the glitter of gold 'Owe. She counted out a number of ehimeg coins intti hie bend with (suite 10 business -like air. "That is the price of my ticket. Will you please buy it Tor sue? I will have my luggage sent down all right," elle eaid. He took the money mechanically and rose, thinking' this a. dismissal.Then something that had been on hie mind all the time rose to his lips. "I want to ask Fi greet favor of you, Miss West." She looked at him with a engin a,ir of weeder, and answered: "You will meet my friend, Lieutenant Do Tore, on board the eteasner. He ie a very Moe youth indeed. He will be good friende with you direetly," "In -deed?" said. Leonora., In a, low, in- quiring vole° that implied a distinct doubt on the subject. "Yes. indeed You need not look to in. credulous. You will be eureto like him. The ladiee all adore him." She looked 1113,111him with the dimples coming into roguish play around her mouth. "And you wish to warn me not to fell a victim to hie manifold perfections?" tho "4(1.011, deer. no, not it all. I never thought of sucb a thing. Yon see, 'Mee 1Vest, my friend intensely enjoye a joke.' "Yes?" she gazed at him with an Ma of thorough mystification. "Hu intensely enjoye a joke," repented Lancaster. "I want you to pronileo me now upon your honor, thet you will not tell 'him how unmercifully yon quizzed me awhile ago. He would never have done chaffing me if he knew, ;yid he would tell the whole regiment once We landed in England." "Would they tease you issues?" lnquir. ed Leonora, hiehly interested. "Unbearably," he replied "They shall not know, then," she an. swered promptly. "I will not tell your friend about it." "Nor any one?" he eatreated. "Certainly not," ebe answered. sooth- ingly, arid involuntarily he caught her hand and preseed it a Moment in his own, not displeased to see Mot elle blueh • ed as she drew it haetily awaY. Ile went away, and when he looked at ble watch outeide the door he Wile hora eetly surprised. "Two Imre! I really do not know bow the time went," he said to lihneelf. .When he went back to hie betel he found De Vera in a etate of surprise, too. "You have been gone anima three hours," he said. "Did you find the baby?" "Yes. I found it." he replied, cnreleesly. "Was it well? Shall we have the plette- ure of its company toanorrow ?" pursued the lieutenant. "Yee, it was well, but it is a spoiled child. I am afrttid we shall find ie 10 source of trouble to une," replied Captain Laminator, smiling to hitneelf at the sur- prise end delight in More for De Vero to- morrow, when he should thol that it was O beautiful. young girl inetend of it orooe baby wbo was to be their conmegnon du voyage to England. • CHAPTER IX. Laneaster electrified his friend next mornins by informing him that he =test get their tra.pe aboard the steamer him- self, an he would not have time to attend to his own affaixe, having some commis - stone to execute for Miss West. "The nursing bottles and the cans of condensed milk, you lonely," he said, with a mischievous laugh. and De Vero stared. "I should think the nuese would attend to that," heath,. "Nurses are forgetful, and I wish every- thing to be all right, you know," replied his friend; eo 1 11a1 gee to everything Inyeel 0.' "Well, you will lave plenty of time te de so. We do not eat until four o'clock. "Well, I ehttla have plenty to do in the meantime, so Y011 (1004 not wait for me, Harry. You may Just go aboard at any time you like. I shall take a carriage and call for the Vaby on ray way down." "You ere getting very kind all at once," De Vero seta, carelessly. . "Yes, I mean to be. Having undertakee It. I mean to see the poor little thing into ly. through." "Well, I wish you success," De Vero re. plied, as he lighted ft 0110,311 cigar and turned away. The ticketand etateroome had already been secured, and Lancaster hurried down 10011, Intent on eecuring all the com. forte possible for his fair charge, who had suddenly grown very intereeting in his eyes. He bought IL eteamorahair, some warm rime, and a gayly colored Or. thineb wrap that woe botlapretty and coal. fortable. Then he provided himeelf 'with 60M0 nice novele and poems and books of travel. When he had provided everything ho could think of that wae conducive to a lady's comfort, he repaired to a floriets and selected an elegant and costly boo "I have noticed that ladies always like a, bunch of flowers whel1, they are travel. lug." he said to himelelf. "But what will De Vero say to each recklees extravagance on nasr Part?" He smiled to himself. thinking how the youne lieutenant would chaff, "Anyway, I shall have got the stoat of him," be 'thought. "He will be on the qui vivo for a flirtation with Leonora West" Then he rooked at his watch and .found that he had coneumect so much time in making hie nurehneee that lie oily had time to take 0 carriage ;mil call for his charge. Having sent all his purelmooe to the ken:met% and being encumlbered with nothing but the &mere, he made all 1,0 10 to execnte his last and pleasantest task— tecoonthanying Mies West to the eteasnee on which they were to embark. "Drive fast". he amid to the man on the b.ox; and when they sluiced before the geneeel boarding-house whore he had 711,1410 MIo Wee 's acqueintltrice the day before, he jumped out with alecrity.,and ran up the stoma The door wae opened by the eimpering maid of the day before who had giggled at his ridiculeme mistake. He could not help coloring ait the remembrance as he met herr recognizing Braes, a, little tinc- tured with surpriee. He maligned an air of coldness and hau- teur, thinking to freeze her iisto pro. priety. "I have celled for Mies. West to talc* her to the steamer. Will you please See .if ole is ready?" ' "Oh, sir!" tittered the maid. "I hay° called for Mice Weet," ho re- peated more sternly. "Can you inform me it fate is ready?" The maid bridled reeentfully at.his "Why. laws a mercy, el e WREI T011017 ages ago, mister!" she said, tartly. "Then10 her to come oat, it you pleaeo. We have barely half an hour to go on ,boarri," ho amid, gleaming hurriedly at his watch. "X can't ask her. She is not hero," was Ile answer, "Not here? then where—" be bogeys bat the port, maid ihterruptod hthl; Writ, LEITCOMPANYLIM(TED TORONTO ONT. As It Is TO Often, New Recruit :—"Luinme, BALI Here's an officer ! What are we supposed to do?" • • Second Ditto :—"I amino. Let's cut him dead !"—Drawn by Alfred Leete in London Sketch. "Lor', sir, Mice West went down to the steamer two home aro." An audible titter accompanied the in- formation. Lancaster bounded down the stepe with. oat a word, sprung into his carriage, and slammed the door with a. vim. "Drive down to the steamer just ne fast as you can, coachman!" he hallooed, eharply. (To be continued.) CtiR1OUS Why Explosives Draw Out Distant Windows. When there is a violent explosion the surrounding air is thrown back with sudden force in air waves that tire powerful in proportion in which the ,explosion is violent and powerful, The explosion aetein all direetions at once with equal force, and the, air on all sides is forced out, and surrounding air rushes M to fill the threatened va- cuum, Whenever the air waves start up suddenly there will be de- molition if there is nob sufficient power of resistance. A curious thing about the effect of these waves et it distance is the restricted limit of their force. Sometimes, as a result of a big ex- plosion, the front Windows of a building several miles away will be drawn out and no other building on the block damaged. In such caseo the air suction is apt to af- fect buildings at different points along the same street. The destructive power of ex- plosions' is reckoned with as a most important factoe in modern war- fare, 'Phis ie shown through the medium of sunken mines, torpedoes and bombs. The projectiles thrown from big gune do more damage by their ex- plosion than by their striking force. It is the explosion after they reach their destination that is expected to d,o most of the destreetion. Well protected forts are not taken mere- ly by battering their exterior, but by dropping into them projectiles that cause explosive havoc. _ ' THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. He who gains a victory over other men is strong, but he who gains it victory over himself is all-power- 11.--La,o Thz,e. No hurn.an actions were even in- tended by the Maker iof men to be gelded by balances, of expediency, but by balances of justice.—Rus- kin, Be not uneasy, discouraged or out of humor because practice falls short of precept in some partieu- Jars: If you happen to be beaten return to the cha,rge.—Marous Au- relius. Our destiny is really nothing more than our character; our char- acter but the result of out active and passive being, the sum, the combination of all our ea,pacities and gifts.--Bahel. We are apt to give up work too soon, to 'suppose that a single breakage has ruined the cloth. The men who get on in the world are not daunted by one nor a thousand breakages,—John Morley. Look not mortiefully into the past. It will not come back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the ehed- owy futi re without fear end with a manly heare—Longfellow. No Beans, "Always be definite, Edits, darl- ing," said the fond grandmother, "and when you are asked a, ques- tion. answer definitely in the affirm- ative or negative and always an- swer politely." Edla listened attentively to her grandmother and determined to fol- low her direction. That day at din- ner grandma, said, "Edla, 'dear, will you have some more beans 2" 'No,'' replied Erna. "No what?" enquired grandma, reprovingly., "No beano," answered Edla de - Under Cover. Parson—Robert, did you know that your rnothee was looking for you Bo'bby'—You bet 1 That's why she can't find me, Mary's Rccompense eft "I sometimes get so blue and discouraged that I am almost ready to believe the human race is it 1801 lire; then something happens to make me glad I am living in this pleasant, sunshiny world." So saying, Jim Dignan folded up a let- ter he had been reading. His eyes were milling, although a tear or two shone in them. "This letter," he continued, "is what scattered the clouds th-day. "You can't understand unless I begin when I was a bey in a, small town. The third floor of our house was always given over to -visitore. We had no servants; my mother did the work of the house with, the help of the ,children who were old enongh. Tlhere were four girls and three boys. I was the young- est. "In some way we youngsters were made to realize that our vis- itors were not to be discussed, and that We must not ask questions, but that when we were okl enough to understand we sihoulcl know all about them. In due tirn.e I learn- ed that whenever a, woman prisoner WKS released from the jail, which was a block from our home, my mother was at the prison gate to meet her. She would bring the woman to our third floor, which wee her hoine until she found em- ployment, or went to her friends or relatives. 'I wish you °mild know the in- fluence my mother had on those women. There was 'Old Lizzie,' in particular. She -was a frequent offender,. and her slips were al- ways owing to drink. Her remorse after eaeh lapse was sine,ere, but her appetite was too strong for her. Sometimes Old Lizzie, would disappear, and mother would hunt the town over forher. If the search was unsuothesful our doors would be left unlocked, so that whenever Lizzie came back, day or night, she could enter, 'Everyone else gave Old Lizzie up as a bad job, but mother never doubted that eventually her good resolutions would hold, and the battle be wow' It was my mother's death that brought it about. "Mother fell ill with pneumonia, and died within it few days. Men ID sorrow and remorse, Old Liz% zie made her big fight, and con- quered ; end until she too died, her great hope wa5 that mother knew that her work had not been M vain. "After my mother's death, my oldeet sister, Mary, took up the work. She ,took care of the and met the women itt the jail, just a,s mother had done. I can't feel much enthusiasm for storybook he- roes, or newspaper heroee that get a medal for some one atii of brav- ery, when I remember the daily drudgery that Mary took upon her - sell -for many weary years. How with our meagre means she kept us all physically and mentally clean, clothed and fed and happy, I do not know. But she did it. At least three good men asked her to marry them. I know Waal she loved, one of then -1. But ehe couldn't marry and take care of six brothers and sisters, and so she simply put •a,Wfier She idea of marrying. ' "Her gentleness, patience, and sympathy mate her the comforter to whoasi everyone turned for help and inspiration, and I am sure that was all she over deeired for re- ward. "But that wasn't all we brothers and sisters planned for her. When we grew up and made our for- tunes, Mary was to have it fine home, and beautiful clothes, and some one to do .8AI the week of the house. Of couree it didn't turn out that way. One by one we went out into the world, married and made 'homes, for ourselves, We have prospered moderately, but the needs of out own families have left no surplus :for the fine thlegs we dreamed of fur Mary. "Some months ,ago an undo in Dublin died, and left a part of his estate to each -of us; and a week ago I received a draft from the ex- eoutors for $000—my share. It was only natural to think of some the comforts we might have with this unexpected money. Vein 1 remembered that ave might give ourselves the luxury of mokieg Mary's life a little easier, as we had often dreamed of doing. My wife agreed, and it W015 a ;my -te indorse that draft and send it to Mary. • "This morning's mail brought the letter I was just reading. Yoe can understand Why the sun secins to shine More brightly when I tell you that every one of my brothers and sistersent their dralie straight to Mary, too, NO u111, us suggested the idea to anothsr. It was just e spontaneous act of love arid gratitude—and I know that Mary found mere happiness in thab feet than in the money." Fever and Ague. 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