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The Clinton News Record, 1915-06-17, Page 3nee e .1•11•11• The Lady of Lancaster ; Or, Leonora West's Love. CHAPTER XXXII. "Lord Lancaster, I want to ask you something," said Lady Adele East- wood. It was in the 'evening after the gen- tlemen had ,come in from their wal- nuts and wine, Lord Lancaster had retired rather sulkilyto a corner, and the earl's daughter had followed him andsat down near him. She looked very handsome in her dimmer -dress of rose -pink satin drap- ed With creamy lace. Her brilliant black eyes searched his face, as she "Lady Lancaster has been telling us the strangest story before the gentlemen came in. I am going to ask you if it is true." He tried to rouse himself to interest in her theme. "Yes," he said, "I. know that Lady Lancaster can .be very interesting," sarcastically. "What is it all about, Lady Adele?" She lowered her voice, and glanced across the room where Lieutenant De Vere sat with rather' a bored look on his face, trying to become interested in the lively chatter of the pretty Miss "It is about that handsome Lieuten- ant Be Vere," she said; "Lady Lan- • caster has been telling us that he is infatuated with a ridiculous creature —a servant, I think she said, or some- thing like that. And he is going to • propose to her, and it will most likely he a match, Now, you are his friend, 'Lord Lancaster. Please tell me if it is really so?" "No, it Is net," he replied, pulling savagely at the innocent ends of his -long mustache. . "Then it is not true? Lady Lan- caster was only telling it to tease Emma Dean, I fancy. Emma has been setting her cap at the lieutenant, you know. She will be very glad to hear it was all a Joke" "But it was not a joke, really," he said, embarrassed. "You know what Tennyson says about a Me that is half a truth,' Lady Adele, Well, that is "how the case stands. Lady Lancaster has simply misrepresented the facts. "There :was a grain of truth in her bushel of falsehoods." "Oh, dear!" cried Lady Adele., in dismay, She nestled a little nearer him on the fauteuil where they were :sitting. "Do tell me the right of it, Lord Lancaster; I ant all curiosity." "Then I will tell you.the right of it, It you care to hear," he replied; and there was so stern •a look on his face that the earl's daughter was frighten - 'ed. She wonderedIfhe was angry with her. "I hope you are not offended with me -for repeating what Lady Lancas- ter said," she observed sweetly, giv- • lug him a decisive look out of her -large black eyes. • Ile loolted,at her gravely a minute without replying. She was very hand- -.some, Certainly—a brilliant Inemette, very vivacious when it pleased her -to be so, and again . with a languor .and indolence amounting to laziness. She had been in society several sea- sons, and owned to twenty-three years old. She was beautiful, grace- ful, and dignified; and Lancaster felt that she would make a fitting mistress for Lancaster Park; but his pulse did not beat any faster at her bright .glance, nor at her sweet, half -confiden- tial tones. But he looked back at her reassur- ingly as he retitled: "I am sorry I looked so black as to Inspire you with such an idea, Lady Adele.. Of .course I am not offended with you. You are not answerable 'for Lady Lancaster's peccadilloes. I think, howev'er, that she might have ,shown more respect to Lieutenant De Vera than to indulge herself in such .gossip, more than half or it being false." "Oh, then he isn't going to commit ,such a folly after all?" she exclaimed, relieved that it was not so, for her patrician pride had been somewhat hurt atthe cidea of one of her own .order descending to a plebiaa. "You lump so quickly from one con- clusior, to another, Lady Adele, that you will not give me time to explain," he said, smiling. "Oh!" she cried, abashed. "Then I 'shall 'net say another word, only lis- ten to your story." "There ie.. no story—enly an ex- planation," he Said, "I should not speak. of it, only I thialt Be Vero would thank me for getting him right. Yes, he is in love, Lady Adele, but not with 'a servant girl, as my.aant in- sinuated. Tae young lady who has . won his heart is a fair, relined young girl, cultured and, accomplished, and 'of respectable although not noble birth. She is an American girl who came over with De Vere and myself from New Yolk to her aunt, who is the housekeeper hero. That is the long and the short of the servant -girl story." "Yoe know her?" cried Lady Adele amazed. "Oh, how I would like to see this fascinating girl, admired both 'by Lieutenant Be Vere and Lord Lan- caster!" "You have seen her," lie replied, With that quick flush that showed so clearly through his fine skin. "Where?" she cried, amazed, "Y,ou remember the young lady we saw sketching among the ruins yes- terday?" "Yes," she replied. "It was 'Miss West—De Vere's in- amorata," he answered. Lady Adele did not speak for a mo- ment. She was surprised into silence,. When she recovered her speech, she I said, faintly: "You said she was staying in the neighborhood for the sketching." "That was a small lib, Lady Adela, for which I' Inunbly .cra.ve your par- . don. The truth is that bliss West's father, lately dead, has left his daugh- -ter to Mrs. West's care. She is Stay- ing at Lancaster because she has no other home." "AM Then she is the housekeep- 'er's niece. I presume that is the seas - an Lady Lancaster called her a eery - ant," said the earl's daughter, •in a tone that quite excused the dowager. 'He gave her a quick leek which, not • being an adept at reading expressions,' , Lady Adele did not understand. "No, she is not Mrs. West's niece. Her father's brother was Mrs. West's husband. There is all the relation- ' /Min there is," he said, almost curtly. • Lady Adele gave him a glance that was rather ba.aglity, yet half jealous. "I can see that Lieutenant De Vere Alas a zealous champion in you,' Oho said, with a tincture of bitterness, in her voice. • , "I do not think he Meedfror 'desires a champion," he answered. , "No? And why not'?" she asked. "Surely he must be aware that he will lie censured by marry for his ' Ours.° In marrying below his own station in life. He will need some one to make excines• for him." ' "His wife, if he wins. her, will be an all -sufficient excuse for him," Lancas- ter said, calmly. "Why?" ehe asked, rather piqued at his words. • "Because Mies West is Quite fascin- ating enough to make any man excus- able for his folly, if folly it be," he replied, "You are very complimentary to her," Lady -Adele said, with her head held high. "I can not see how she could, be so fascinating. I did not think she was so very pretty, really. She had quite' common, broWn hair, and gray eyes, I think, mod one of those baby faces that, some people admire, but which I never did." "It is not at all a baby face," he said. "She has a great deal of charac- ter and decision in it,. I think." "Indeed? But, of course, you have had a better chance of studying her face than I have, and may be a better judge. I think you are more than half -way ia love with the housekeep- er's niece yourself," Lady Adele • ex- claimed, flashing a reproachful glance upon him, for, being well aware of Lady Lancaster's . scheme, she felt that he belonged to her. ' "De Vere would not like that much," Ihe said, carelessly, without betraying his inward vexation. She fanned herself rapidly with her pink satin fan for a moment, then said, with a keen glance at him: "Lady Lancaster has formed a fine plan for showing him his folly and breaking off the affair." "Really?" he inquired, sarcastical- ly. "Yes; she is quite sure that if he could once see this girl in the corn- pany of real ladies, 'he would see the difference and bedtime disenchanted. "Yes?" "It seems as if the girl: can play quite well," said Lady Adele., going on in her low, confidential tones. "And the ladies are all curious to see her. So Lady Lancaster, is going to have her in to play for us, just for a pre- text, you know; and then Lieutenant De Vere can not help seeing the dif- ference between her and the welnea 'of 'his own set. Perhaps it will cure him of his fancy." "Perhaps," said Lancaster, dryly; but his heart began to beat. Would Lady Lancaster really bring Leonora into the drawing -room? Something assured him that if she did it would only be to humiliate and snub her. He read this intuitively in Lady Adela's superoillous expression, Hie heart swelled with bot resentment. He rose hurriedly. "She shall loot send for her," he said; but the earl's daughter answer- ed, With ill -concealed malice: - "She has -already done so," "Then, she shall not come. I will myself forbid it," fie exclaimed; but even as the word's- left 'his lips, lie paused and stood for a moment speechless, The drawing -room door had just opened then, and Leonora West stood just inside of it, heeitab ing on the threshold. . CHAPTER XXXII'. "Oh, Lord Li:tweeter, you are too late! She is come mow!" cried Lady Adele, for her glance, too, had fallen on the graceful, hesitating figure. She saw with inexpressible chagrin that Leonora was in simple but faultless costume. Her dress, of some soft, shining, thin, black material, was of stylish and fashionable make, and her white shoulders and arms gleamed marble -like through the thin folds. She hted arranged all her rich tresses Of chestnut hair in loose puffs and waves out the top of her head, and fas- tened a single spray of starry white jasmine flowers at the side, Some of the same sweet, fragrant blossoms fastened the full ruff of white crepe Uses at the round, white throat, and. constituted her only adorning.. Her white arms, and dimpled wrist, left bare by the elbow -sleeves of her dress, were more beautiful in. their shapely grace than Lady Adela'S ten - button gloves and diamond bracelets, "She has had the impertinence to get herself up in full evening dress, the minxi." the earl's daughter mutter- ed, almost audibly; and then she ut- tered a suppressed exclamation of an- noyance, for Lord Lancaster had start- ed for her side, and was making his way rapidly across the room to the door. "He has left me for her!" was her jealous, angry thought, and a sudden hatred for Leonora entered her heart. Meanwhile, Lord Lancaster had reached the spot where the girl was standing, with a slightlyheightened oolor on' her face, but with that quiet air of self-possession she habitually wore. She was not at all overwhelm- ed by the honor Lady Lancaster had thrust upon her, but she was a little indignant at the dowager, who pur- posely lett her standing there alone, taking care that De Vere did not sob her and go to her rescue. But she forgot her nephew sitting In full view across the room, or she thought that he would not forsake the side of Lady Adelaide. What was her amazement when she saw him stand- ing by the glens side, saw he lair face lifted to his with a grateful smile. "Lady Lanillster has commanded your humble servant to appear before your highness and execute divers pieces of music," she was saying, mis- chievously,.when the dowager pounc- ed down upon them like a hawk, and, with an angry aside t0 her nephew, bore Leonora off to the piano. 'The next Minute De Vera came for- ward gladly, By this time every one was looking, yet he was in nowise in- timidated. "Oh, Miss West, how glad I arms to meet you, and looking as charming as ever, too!" in an audible aside, While, his face beamed with delight. Leo- nora drew her hand rather hastiey away. "I am not here on equal terms, please remember that," she said, turning around and sitting down on the piano -stool. "It is, my lady's or- ders that I shell collage the com- pany." . - "Then I shall turn your music—may I?" 'he entreated, ilver oss LAU N DR y STARCH means teerfect starching, whether used for sheer Laces, dainty Dirnities, deli- cate fabrics, Lace Curtains &Table lalnons. • Gloss. has been the favorite in the bemeionnore thantO'years ATCIROCER The Canada Starch Cs. Dinka She gave a careless. assent, and looked at the great pile of music. "Perhaps you will select something to play," she said; and seeing, with- out turning her head, that Lancaster ,had gone back to his seat by the earl's daughter. "He is afraid she will be jealous of me," the girl said to herself,, with the least little curl of her red lip. ' "Can you play this'?" Be Vere in- quired, placing a simple little song before her. "Yes; but I do not ward a song, please. Give me something by Mo- zart or Rossini --something I am on exhibition, you see," saucily. "Can you really play Mozart?" he whispered to her as he searched. for the music. "Oh, yes; and Beethoven, too. I am 'fond of music, so I have Studied it a great deal. I can play almost any- thing," she said, careleesly, as she took the piece he handed her—an ex- ceedingly brilliant and difficult piece ' by Mozart, and ran her quick eyes over it. She placed the music before her, and struck the first notes. The hum of voices in the room grew instantly still. No one spoke while that grand torrent of music rose and fell on the charmed air, as those slim white fin- gers of Leonora swept the echoing keys. They forgot the performer for a little, even as she' forgot them. Her cheeks glowed, her eyes sparkled. While she played she remembered no- thing but .the harmonies that were shed from her subtle finger -touches, 'The art of the grand composer charm- ed her, and when she paused at last, It was with a low sigh of blended pain and pleasure. "Brava!" eaid Be Vere, bending over her, and she smiled. "Have I done well?" It is because I have a passion for music, and have given my soul to it." (To be continued.) A Real News. "I notice that you publish a verse from the Bible every day," said the caller to the editor of the newspaper. "Do your subscribers ever read it?" "Should' say they do," replied the editor. "Why, it is news to most of them." Looney With Love. "Miss Butey is not at home, sir. Will you leave your name?" "Do yeti think she would take it?" Reminders. "Cuttem, the tailor, reminds me of a, clergyman." "He doesn't site; he reminds me of a bill I owe him." There's "Point', to The Point Gown The "point gown" is what a design- ee of smart summer wear showed one the other day when I asked to sea some of the new things, for summer— some of the models that may be ac- cepted as correct for mid -summer days. And the point of the fashion news she gave me is that the gowns we'll be wearing in the dog -days will be just as cool and bewitching as the Dolly Vardens worn by our grand- mothers. The. sketch, made from a gown de- signed by Mine. Hillquist of the Fash- ion Art League, is made of novelty organdie, with sleeves of net, and side panels of net in the little coatee. , The three-tier ruffle is pointed, the sleeves; the collar, the jabot effect at the neck, all give "point" to the general effect of points and angles. Embroidered batiste is used as a foundation for the skirt, and sedmon color chenille rosebuds ornament the upper ruffle of the tier. The girdle i$ crushed «apple green silk knotted in the front and with a big bow at the hack. "Ab»iut the Household , Serving Rhubarb. Baked Rhubarb.---Waeli and wipe 'tiro the rhubarb, Cut into inch lengths. without peeling. Arrange a layer of the rhubarb in the bottom of a buttered earthen baking dish cov- ering with sager, repeat this <process until a sufficient quantity has been used. Cover lightly; clo not 'add water. Bake for one hour and serve cold. Rhabarb Puffs..—Cream together ante cup of sugar and two tablespoons of ,butter,, add two. well beaten eggs, one-fou'rth of a cup of milk, one tea- spoon of baking powder and flour enough- to make a stiff batter; then stir in one cup of finely chopped rhubarb; half fill well buttered molds with the mixihre and steami for half 'an' hour. Serve with any preferred pudding Bence. ' Rhubarb Dumplings.—Wash and cut the- rhubarb into inch pieces and stew with a little more than half, its weight in sugar, adding a very little water. Make a batter by using a scant cup of sweet mita a pint of flour into., which has been sifted twd teaspoons of baking powder, and' a little salt. Drop this batter by spoon= fuls into the boiling rhubarb, and cook for ten minutes. The result is a delicioug pudding, which should be served hot, with or without cream. Rhubarb Snowballs. --Boil half a cup of rice until soft; wring small pudding cloths out of hot water, and spread the cooked rice about half an inch thick over the centre of the cloths. Spread about half a cup of chopped rhubarb on each, sweeten well, tie up the cloths closely, and steam for 20 minutes. Then turn out of the cloths carefully and serve With rich cream. Rhubarb 'Fritters. — Peel young rhubarb, and cut into three-inch lengths. Make a batter of two well beaten eggs, one pint of milk, a lit- tle salt, and six large tablespoons of flour, beating until smooth. Dip each piece of rhubarb in the batter and fry to a golden brown. Serve very hot, piled high on a napkin lined plate, and well powdered with sugar. Rhubarb Custard.—Make a custard by using the yolks of two eggs, a pint of sweet milk, and two table- spoons of sugar. Line a deep pud- ding dish with pastry, and cover the bottom with a layer of chopped rhu- barb which has been rolled in sugar. Pour this over the custard and bake, Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs, spread over the baked custard, and set in the oven to brown. Rhubarb Souffle.—'Pot the rhu- barb, cut fine, into a double boiler with plenty of sugar to sweeten, and steam until tender; then press through a sieve. To three cups of this sauce add the well -beaten yolks of three eggs, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, and bake in a well buttered dish until it begins to crack open on top. Serve hot. Rhubarb Pie.—One cup of finely chopped rhubarb, one-half cup of sugar, one heaping teaspoon of flour, the yolk of one egg, a small lump of butter, and a drop or two of lemon juice. Bake with one crust, and cover with a meringue made of the white of an egg, beaten stiffly, and to which has been added one large tablespoon of granulated sugar. Brown in a warm oven, and serve hot. Useful Hints. • After the dust is wiped off a mirror a little camphor on a cloth will brighten it. It is better to clean meat by wip- ing it with a wet cloth than to let wa- ter run over it. To place ferns upon the window sill means their death, as the plants cannot stand a cold draught. Every housekeeper should possess a wooden spoon for stirring all fruits or soups containing any acid. To shaven scissors take a bottle and cut with the scissors as if you had to cut the neck off the bottle. This is effective. To clean a mincer after using grind stale crusts of broad through it. The bread collects all the fat, grease and skin from the small teeth, To keep out moths whole cloves sprinkled among furs and woollens will be found as effective as the ill - smelling moth preparations. The castors on large and heavy pieces of furniture should have a drop or two of oil applied to them, once or twice a year to keep them -running smoothly. When malting mills puddings nse half milk and half water for mixing them. This ie.more eeonomical, and the pudding will taste almost as well as if made with all milk. It is said that stains on blankets and other woolen goods can be remov- ed by using a mixture of equal parts of glycerine and yolk of an egg. Spread it on the stain, leave it for half an hour, and then wash. Often a good table cover gets torn at the corners through having been carefully pegged out on a windy day. This spoils the appearance, even if the rent can be &tenet'. If the tear is a very bad one the only thing to do is to round off each of the four earners to match, hemming them very neatly. To remove shabby leather' chairs take one pint of linseed oil, boil it, and let it stand till nearly cold. Then stir into it half a pint of vinegar. When the two are perfectly amalga- mated bottle, and it is ready for use. Shake the bottle well before using the mixture. Pour a little on a soft , cloth, rub it well into the leather, turning the flannel as it gets dirty, then rub with a soft duster till the polish is restored. This polish soft- ens the leather and prevents it from cracking. Paint Brush Help.—When white- , washing or painting a ceiling, the, liquid is apt to run down your hand or arm and is very annoying. To eliminate this trouble, use a large paint brush and a large rubber ball. Cut the ball in half, make a hole in the centre of one-half and push the handle through with the cap side to- ward the brush. If care is taken not to splash this will catch the liquid, which can be emptied frOm time to time into the can. Double Boiler Substitute.—To cook oatmeal and other breakfast foods without a double boiler, take a two - quart lard or other tin pail which has a tight fitting cover. Into thes put the breakfast food mixed up with boiling water. Then cover the pail and place it in a common iron kettle, it which there is about two quarts of boiling water. Cover the kettle and let it boil 15 minutes. Less time is required than a regular double holier, for the iron kettle sets in the stove. If the kette is needed for potatoes the pail of oatmeal may be placed in first and the potatoes put around it. WIT AND WISDOM. Rankin: "Have you over been to the •Trosaehs?" Phyle: "Yes; but 'I want to go again some day and see the scenery. The first time I went I was on my honeymoon." Hubby: "My dear, if all that I hear about you is true--" Wife: "I as- sure you it I. I started the scandal myself. You don't suppose I went into society to be buried alive, do you?" Madge (reading letter from bre- ther at the _Front): "John says a bullet went right through his hat without touching him." Old Auntie: "What a blessing he had his hat on, dear." clumsy carver once sent a goose into a lady's lap. His apology was 'better than his carving. "Ah, ma - darn, how potent your charms are; they attract not only the living but also the dead." Mrs. Ryan: "They do be afther saYin' that old man Kelly has got locomothor ataxy." Mrs, Murphy: "Well, he's got the money to run wan av thins if he wants ter, but I'd rayther have a good horse any day." "When my wife starts talking on an embarrassing subject I always change it." "I've tried that with my wife, but it was no go. She simply exhausted the new subject, and then took up the old one where she left off." Two Irishmen were philosophizing. Said Pat to Mike: 'Did you' ever stop to think that wan half of the world don't know how the other half gets along?" "You're right," says Mike; "and neither does the other half." "Many a damsel who is a kitten with mon is a cat with women," says Mr. Golett Burgess. "The custody of the child used to keep discordant married couples together, but now," says a cynic, "it is the automobile." Agent: "I came to deliver your book on 'How to Play the Piano.'" Lady: "But I didn't order any." Agent: "Haven't you a next door neighbor named Brown'?" Lady: "Why, yes; is it for her?" Agent: "No she ordered it for you." don't think I'll go to school to- day, mother." "Why, Eddie! I thought you liked to go to school." "I do, mother; but, you see, some of the boys in my class are not so far adavnced as I am, and I thdught it would be kind of nice if I stayed away and gave them a chance to catch up." MORE WARS TO FOLLOW. Prophecy of Vast*Series of Struggles For Existence. Professor Ridgeway, speaking at a meeting of the "Eugenic Society in London, said that the nation had been brought into the present struggle by a Combination of millionaires who were frequently alien in origin, and their dupes 'the4masses while the same forces were exercising a bane- ful influence on the prosecution of the war. , Far from this being the last war, the hard facts pointed rather to its being the 'first of a vast series of struggles different from those yet known. The earth's waste spaces were now getting filled up and the struggle for existence, not merely kingly ambition's, was the great stake for which Germans and British were -now fighting; Henceforward each new struggle would be more desper- ate. GOLDEN SENTENCES. The only way to live in this age and get any pleasure out of life is always to take more time than you need for every job you tackle. You'll see areagth enough in the people some day. The trouble with all your big men at the top is,that they're trying to do for the crowd what the crowd wants to do for itself. The age we live in is changing so much faster than any age before it that a man, if he's to be vital at all, must give up the idea of any fixed creed, in his office, his church or his horde. If he holds himself open to change, and mews that change is his "cry life, thou he can get which is as much better than that of the monk as living is better than dy- ing. Were we sent by our rulers to die only in order that they in their scram- ble might take more of the earth for themselves? Expert in Silver Linings. Hall—Blythe is a pretty optimis- tic character, I hear. Wall—r should say 80, If he fail- ed in business, he'd titanic Heaven he had his health; if he failed in health, he'd thank Heaven he had his busi- ness, and if he failed in both he'd say there was no use having one without the other. Fortunes of War. Girl (reading letter from brother at the, front) --"John says a bullet went right through his hit without touching him." Old Lady—"What a blessing he had his hat on, dear." IFRECllIVNT A GRENADE ALSO GOOD BOMB THBOWEBS AT SMALL EXPENSE, Fume's Erom 'These Missies Which are Charged With Chemleala Have Overpowering Effect. The widespeead use of trencheain the. present war, writes a earreae pendent with the French' army, has brought the opposing armies into eleeer proximity than ' ever 'had been .eonsidered ,possible since the development of firearms, and the remelt hoe been that new Meth, ods have 'had to be devised to' deal. With unexpected, aonditionee. "Al first," says the coerespond- ent, "the Germans were probahly better prepared for this kind of warfare. Their 'neinenwerfen' are excellently made, and weak design- ed,' ae. I have beeo, able to assure myself by the exaanination of some of those captured on the Cham- pagne front. There is no stiggese Hon of improvisation about them. On the eantaary, they are, if ,BAIT - thing, ,overecomplicated. ExPeri- mice has shown that they are far too heavy. The largest of them, indeed, are cemented into, the trerechee, so that they otinnot, be removed, and none of them is near- ly so effective ,as the ,simple weap- ons that the, proverbial: mgeawity 4Df the Feench has invented under the pressure of cireunistances, "The Germans have been. ecoring to a certain extent by the use of asphyxiating tombs in utter &- Samoa of the obligations they had accepted under The Hague Con- vention. The French have not been long in finding te reply to these weapons. n the German's mean to use poisonous gases in warfare, the 'Trench are ready 'to retaliate with a weapon that should prove very effective, though it in no way Cone travenes the elegulationa accepted by all oivilized nations except Ger- many. "This weapon consists of a hand grenade filled with certain ehemio- ale which when -released prodnee gas that has no deadly effecte but as quite powerful enough, to para- lyze a man for several minutes. As an experiment two of these gren- ades were thrown into ci narrow lime between. two walls that might fairly be taken to represent a trench. When the gases had been released a company of infantry wee ordered to advance up the lane, and I accompanied them. "When the first ranks came with- in the zone of the fumes they stop- ped suddenly and beat a hasty re- treat, fighting their way through the men 'behind, absolutely blinded by the tears running down their cheeks. The smell of the fumes is not unpleasant, It is suggestive of peer cirops 'combined with very strong ammonia, and it produces such violent salearting of the eyes and nose that it would be hopeless to try and use a, weapon while un- der its influence. These bombs have not yet been used, and will only be employed if the Germans make any further use as asphyx- iating grus Frew+ Hand Grenades. "Beaides the newly invented. gas bomb the Fre-noh have various forms, of bombs and bomb throwers for use in the trenches. The hand grenades are of two kindle. The 'eager kind, which looks like a rocket with a stink sawn off short and a very large head, contains more than. a pound of -explosives. These explosives are contained in a black keel ease 'closed by a wood- en cap, with a fuse at the bottom end. The men Who is to throw the grenade beealcs off the Seal elhielb covers this. fuse, and sets light to it with a match or cigarette. When the flue begins to' splutter he has five seconds before the ex- plosion, and with si good, awing can 14'64E11 COMPAlf(11410 etatIa"sete'ioeSteer& 1"."---- i PTh4 best yeain st i lig the world. 0111 Makes MADE \ leLe\D\Frfeel IN `' N CANADA., li'E'WOILLETT COMPANY LIMITED ‘1 TORONTO'ONT. WINNIPiG , MONTREAL 1 ......el threw it twenty-five to thirty yard's. Men Of all wine are being trained to uee this weapon, and the experi- ments which 1 heVe been permit- ted to witness were carried but by A number 01 infantrymen just back hem the facia. • Its effects ens very deadly, as it will 'sweep an area, of fifteen, yards, ,and though We were :fifty yards away :from the point where one of them exploded it was advisable to, take cover be- hind a tree, as seVeral eplintera readied us. "This large grenade is rutted for defensive purposes. It is thrown frorn the trenches when the enemy is attacking. Foe offensive wank a lighter and moan handy bomb is regained, This ,grenade contains about half a pound. of eacrilosivea,' and a. soldier ,ca,n easily -carry half a dozen of them in a bag when he leaves his treneh for the charge. "When the trenches are 250 to 300 yards apart the range is boo great for hand grenades. For this work a bomb thrower called the cbra.pauillot' has been devised, Its name is derived from the orapaudi a toad. It is a squat, toadlike thing, -painted gray and consisting of a wooden attend mounted on it. The German ehrapaal eases have oaaly to he ‚shortened and to have a teach hole bored hathem. A charge of powder is plated in. them,'ead above it a bomb emataining three pounds of explosives. Inexpecesive Bomb Throwers. "Two -salvoes of six gorapitall- las' were fired in one hour. Six sausage -like bombs were thrown into the air and exploded with tre- mendous -violence when they reach- ed the ground 250 yards away, Ihenaling mitraille in every direc- tion. A piece of mitraille, like a — heavy, roughly made nail, came hurtling through the branches Of the tree behind which I wtis shel- tering and fell at my feet, while another piece was driven deep into the trunk of the same tree. One bomb fell into a stream and threw up a column of water some fifteen feet into the air. The Germano, when they -capture a trench, have an ingenious' 'way of describing these boneb-throwera, which meet about a, dollar -each, as guns, to impress the readers, of their com- muniques. "We also witnessed the test of some smoke bombs from these en- gines. They prod -aced a, 'curtain a smoke which was quite suffieientto, mask an 'advance, and their SW - CM Was the, more rem,arktebleate there was a strong wind blowing. The Patient of ('hose bombe and homb-throwers ig practically un- limited. The energy end method with which the men, who, of couree, are mobilized under law, were working was quite remark- able. 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