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The Clinton News Record, 1915-07-15, Page 6TSE GOLDEN KEY Or "The 4dveitu'res of ,Ledgard.". By the Author, of `'Whet He Cost Her." CIIAPTER L Filth," grunted Trent -`ugh! I tell you what it is, my venerable friend- I have seen same dirty cabins ii1 the West of Ireland, and some vile holes in East London. I've been in some places which I can't think of even now without feeling sick. I'm not a par- ticular chap, wasn't brought up to it -no, nor squeamish either, but this is a bit thicker than anything I've ever knocked up against. If Francis doesn't hurry we'll have to chuck it! We shall never stand it out. Monty!" The older man, gaunt, blear -eyed, ragged, turned on 'his side. His ap- pearance was little short of repulsive.. His voice when he spoke was, curious- ly enough; the voice of a gentleman, thick and a trifle rough.. though it sounded. "Myyoungfried' he said,"I agree with o-ieffect-most heartily. Thesplace is filthy, the surroundings 'are repulsive, not to add degrading. The society-er-not congenial -I al- lude of course to our hosts -and the attentions of these unwashed and I amtafraid I must say unclothed, ladies of dusky complexion is to say the least of ite mbar ssi ra ng" ..passionate appeal were like a,revela ties). He stretched out his grea hand and patted his companion on th back -a proceeding which obvious' causd him much discomfort. "Bravo, old cockle!" lie said. 'Didn't imagine you got the grit. You know I'm not the chap to be let down easily. We'll go through with it, 'then, and take all chances! It's my game right along. Every copper I've got went to pay the bearers here' ,and to buy the kickshaws and rum for old ; ihat's- his-name, and I'm not anxious to start again, as a pauper, We'll stay here till we get our concessions,- or till they bury us, then! It's ago! i Monty -no one 'at Buckomari had ever known of any other name for him -stretched out a long hand, with I delicate tapering fingers, and let, it •rest for a• moment gingerly in the thick, brown palm of his companion. Then he glanced stealthily over his shoulder and hie eyes gleamed. "I think, if you will allow me,'Trent, I will just moisten my lips -.no more. --with some of that exeellnt erandy." Trent caught his arm and held it firmly. "No, you don't," he said, shaking his head. "That's the last bottle, and we've got the journey back. We'll. keep that, in case of fever." A struggle went on in the face of the man whose hot breath fell on Trent's cheek. It was the usual thing -the disappointment of the baf- fled drunkard -a little more terrible in his case perhaps because of the remnants of refinement still to be traced in his .well -shaped features. His weak oyes: for once were eloquent, but with the eloquence of cupidity and unwholesome craving, his lean cheeks twitched and his hands (hook. life at Buckomari, and lastly this bold enterprise in which the savings of years were invested, It was it. life which called aloud for fortune some. day or other to snake a little atone- ment. , The ..old man was dreaming. Wealth would bring biro, uneducated though he was, happiness enough and to spare. •-+,, A foot step fell softly upon the turf outside. Trent sprang at once into an attitude of; rigid attention. His revolver, wlnch1f or four days*had, been at full coca( by his side; stole out _ and covered the approaching shadow t stealing gradually nearer and nearer. e The old man saw nothing', for he y slept, worn out with excitement and exhaustion. (To be Continued,) "Dusky complexion!"; Trent inter- i rupted .scornfully: ' "They're col, black!'" E,.." Monty nodded his head with solemn emphasis, " "I will go so far as to admit that you are right," he acknowledged.: "They are black as sin! But, my • friend Trent, I want, youto consider,, this.: If the nature of our surround ings is' offensive to you, think what it must be -to me, I may, I presume, between ourselves, allude to you as as one of the 'people. Refinement and luxury have never come in your way, far less they have become indispen-i sable to you. You were,.I' believe, educated at a Board School, I was at Eton. Afterwards you were appren-� ticed to a harness -maker, I -but no matter! Let us summarize the: situ- i ation. "If that means. cutting it short, for Heaven's sake do so," Trent grumbled./ "You'll talk yourself into' a fever if. , 'you don't mind. Let's know what' you're driving at. "Talking," the elder man remarked with a sight shrug of his shoulders, "will never have a prejudicial effect upon my health. To men of your- pardon me - scanty education the ex- pression of ideas in speech is doubt- less a labor. To me on.the other hand,it at once a p"leasure and a relie. What I was about to observe is this: I belong by birth to what are called, I believe, the classes, yea to the masses. I have inherited in- stincts which have been refind and cultivated, perhaps over -cultivated by breeding and associations you are troubled with nothing of the'sort. Thereepre if these, surroundings, this diseorinfort, not to mention the appal- ,'' ing overtures of 'our lady friends, are rf distressing to you, why, consider how much so they must be to me!" Trent smiled very faintly, but he said ;nothing. He was sitting cross-legged with his back ,against' one of the poles which supported the open hut, with his ,eyes fixed upon the cloud of mist Banging over a distant swamp. A great yellow moonhad stolen over the low range of stony hills -the mist was curling away in little wreaths of gold. Trent was watching it, but if you lied asked him he would have told you that he suss wondering when the alligators came, out to feed; and now near the village, they ventured. Looking at his hard, square face and keen, black eyes no one would surely have credited him with any less ma- terial thoughts; "Furthermore," the man whom Trent had addressed as Itionty con- tinued, "there arises the question of danger and physical suitibality to the situation. Contrast our two cases, my dear young friend. I am twenty- five years older than you, I have a weak heart, a ridiculous muscle, and' the stamina of a rabbit. My fighting days are over. I can shoot straight, but shooting would only •serve us 'here until our cartridges were gone -when the rush came a child could knock me over. You, on the contrary, haye the constitution of an ox, the muscles of a bull, and the wind of an ostrich. You are, if you will pardon my saying so, a magnificent specimen of the ani- mal man. In the event of'trouble you would not hesitate that your chances of escape 'would be `at least double urine." Treat Iit a mach under pretence of lighting his pipe -in reality be- cause only a few feet away he had seen a pair of bright eyes gleaming at them through a low shrub. A lit- i tae native boy scuttled away, as black dS;night, woolly-headed, and shiny; he had crept up unknown to look with fearful eyes upon the wonderful white strangers. Trent threw a lump of earth at hire and laughed as he dodged "Just a drop Trent!" he pleaded "I'm not feeling well, indeed I'm not! The odours here are so foul. A liqueur -glassful will do me' all the good in the world." "You won't ,get it, Monty, so it's no use whining, Trent said bluntly. I've given way to you too much al- ready. Biiek up, man! We're on the threshold of fortune dad we need all our wits about, us.' "Of fortune -fortune!" Monty's head dropped upon his chest, his nos- trils, dilated, he seemed to, fall into a state of stupor Trent watched him half •curiously, half contemptuously. "You're terribly keen on money- making for an old'un," he 'remarked, after a somewhat lengthy pause. "What do you want to do with it?" "To do with it!" The old man rais- ed his head. "To do with it!" The gleam of reawakened desire lit up his face. He sat for a moment think- ing. Then he laughed softly. "I will tell you, Master Scarlett Trent," he said, "I will tell you why I crave for wealth. You are a young and an ignorant man. "Amongst other things you do not know what money will buy. You' have your coarse pleasures I do not doubt, which seem sweet to you! Beyond them - what? A tasteless and barbaric display, a vulgar generosity, an ig- norant and purposeless prodigality. Bah! How different it is with those who know! There are many things, my young friend, which I learned in my younger days, and amongst them was the knowledge of how to spend money. How to spend it, you under- stand! It is an art, believe me! I mastered it, and until the end come it was magnificent. In London and Paris to -day, to have wealth and to know how to spend it is to be the equal of princes! The salons of the beautiful fly open before you, great men will clamour for your friendship, all the sweetest triumphs which love and sport can offer are yours. You stalk amongst a world of pigmies a veritable giant, the adored of women the envied of men! You may be old -it matters not; ugly -you will be fooled into reckoning yourself an Ad- onis. Nobility is great,' art is great, genius is great, but the key to the pleasure storehouse of the world is a key of gold -of gold!" I•Ie broke off with a little gasp. lie held his throat and looked imploring- ingly towards the bottle. Trent shook his head stonily. There was, some- thing pitiful in the man's talk, in that odd mixture of bitter cynicism and passionate earnestness, but there was also something fascinating. As re- gards the brandy, however, Trent was adamant, "Not a drop," he declared. "What a fool you are to want it, Monty! You're a wreck already. You Want to pull through, don't you? Leave the filthy stuff alone. You'll not live a month to enjoy your coin if we get t." • "Live!" Monty straightened himself out. A tremor went through all, his frame. "Live!" he repeated, with fierce con- tempt; " you are making the com- mon mistake of the whole ignorant herd. You are measuring life by its length, when its depth alone is of any import. 'I want no more than a year or two at the most, and I promise you, Mr. Scarlett Trent, my most esti'm able young companion, that, during, that year, I will live more than in your whole lifetime. I will drink deep of the pleasures which you mow nothing. of, I will be steeped in oys which you will never reach more. nearly than the man who. watches a change in the skies or a sunset across the ocean! To. you, with boundless wealth, there will be depths of hap- piness which you will never probe, joys which, if you have the wit to ee them at all, will be no more than a mirage to you." Trent laughed outright; easily and with real mirth. Yet in his heart were sown already the seeds of a tenet dread There was a ring' of passionate truth in Monty's words. He 'tlieved what he was saying. Perhaps e was .right. •The - man's inborn Hatred 'of''a second or inferior place n anything stung him. Were there o be any niches after all in the tem- ple of happiness to which he could never climb ? He looked back rapid - y, looked down the avenue of a qualid and unlovely life, saw himself the child of drink -sodden and brutal tweets, remembered the Board School' with its unlovely surroundings, his s ruggles at a dreary trade, his ree- ling away and the tierce draughts' of elight'which the joy and ;freedom of the sea had brought to him on the morning when he had crept on deck, stowaway, to be lashed with every rope -end and to do the dirty work of every one. Then the slavery at a elgian settlement, the jolt on a steamer trading along the Congo, the it. "Well, go ahead, Monty," he said. "Let's hear what you're driving at What a gab you've got to be sure!". Monty waved' his hand -a 'magni- ficent and silencing gesture. "I have alluded to. these matters, he continued, "merely in. order to. show you that the greater share of danger and discomfort in this expedition falls 1 to my lot. Having to you- J of this, Trent, I refer to the.conclud- mg sentence of your last speech. The words indicated, as I understood them, some doubt of our ability to see this thing through-' mussed, used, peered, over to, where Trent was sitting, with grim, immov- s able face, listening with little show of interest. ;He drew a long, deep breath and' moved over nearer to the doorway. -His manner was suddenly changed.,; 's • , ' s "Scarlett Trent," he cried, "Scarlett Trent,, listen to me! You are young 1 and I am old! To you this,.maye bne h adventure amongst many -it: is 'my last, I've craved for such a chance i as this ever since I eet foot in this t cursed land: It's come late enough, too late almost for me, but I'm going through with- it while there's breath 1 in my'body. Swear to me now that s you will not back^out! Do you hear, Trent? ' SWEAR!" Trent looked curiously at his com- panion, vastly interested in this sud- t den outburst, in the firmness of his tone and the tightening of the weak :d mouth. After all,,. then, the old chap had some grit in him. To Trent, who had known him for years as a` broken- a clown, hanger-on of the settlement at i?uckomari, a drunleards gambler, a creature to. all appearance hopelessly B gone under, this look and this almost First Krupp. Was Blacksmith. From 'a little blacksmith's shop at Essen in 1812, the mighty firm of Krupps, the home of German guns,. has grown into the largest armament factory in the world, Friedrich Krupp originated the smithy, and for four- teen years struggled against poverty. He died a poor man, and on his death- bed confided confided ,the secrets he had dis- covered during his lifetime to his son Alfred, It was more than twenty years before Alfred Krupp gained re- cognition, but after obtaining fame through exhibiting a forty-five ton cast ingot of Krupp steel at the Crys- tal Palace ' Exhibition in 1851, he never looked back. 'When he died, in 1887, 00,000: people followed him to the grave. To -day Krupps' works cover 1,000 acres of ground. Even be- fore the war -rush commenced the firm were employing 60,000 men , at their. main Works at Essen and thous- ands ofothers in their collieries, ship- building yards, and private testing grounds. It is estimated that over 300,000 people depend on Krupps for their livelihood. At the Krupps' workse40,000 can- non are turned out every year. Work at :Krupps' is conducted in great secrecy. Each worker is for- bidden to enter any office or workshop not connected with his own depart- ments, He has a passport for his special job, and he must not' take any interest in any other. Krupps' private 'army will march him off to the private barracks if he disobeys. Hundreds of watchmen, heavily arm- ed, guard the secrets df the Krupps' works both day and night, and the grounds aro a mass of electric traps which immediately signal the ap- proach of any intruder. .N A Supporter. "There ought to be only one head toany family," shouted an orator. "That's s true, replied a married - looking man in the audience. "You agree with me?" shouted the speaker. "I do," replied the married -looking man. "I've just paid for hats for nine daughters." Sign of Sapience. "Pa, why do people call the owl the bird of wisdom?" "Because he's got sense enough not to come out and fly around until all boys of your age are in bed." The British navy is the only navy that had practised' firing at submar- ines before the war. he'Charmn of Eastern Fragrance is typified inevery sealed packet of [Q Selected leaves from the finestlant �.i, � �� ons9 famous for teas of subtle deliciousness. SALADA is fresh and free from dust. BLACK, MIXED®R GREEN -g 77 About the Household oaxseh lel Sandwiches and Sandwich Tilling. Chicken and Bacon. -Mix equal quantities of minced -chicken, broiled bacon and celery. Add' one teaspoon- ful minced green pepper and a few drops of vinegar or salad dressing. Lay shreds of lettuce on sandwich before putting on top and, if at hand, a slice of tomato over each before top crust is put on. Paste Cheese. -This can be made at home by grinding sharp cheese through the meat grinder. Add pap- rika, salt, a little olive oil and onion juice. Mix well and paek,into jars. Before using, add chopped chives, parsley or cress to give color and ad- ditional flavor. Cucumber Sandwich. -Lay slices of cucumber, thinly cut, into a small bowl orFrench dressing for one-half hour. Drain and lay on buttered slices of entire wheat bread covered with lettuce strips. Thin chicken slices will combine excellently with cucumbers. Tomatoes and cucum- bers both combine well with cream cheese and nuts. Harlequin. -Spread slices of brown and white bread with different colored butters or fillings. Place four slices together. Press down and lay under a weight for an hour or more. Slice the opposite way, which will give sections of white and brown, like a checkerboard. Ham Sandwich Nouveau. -Mince ham or use very thin paperlike slices. Lay on white bread and cover with thin slice of Swiss cheese, Cover, press firmly together and lay in oven until bread heats and cheese melts. nerve with sweet gherkins, either hot or cold. Veal, Tongue or Ham. -Run each meat through food chopper instead of using whole slices. To 1-2 cup ham and 1 1-2 cups veal and 1 teaspoonful of vinegar, 3 drops tabasco, 1 tea- spoonful of French mustard, horse- radish and tomato catsup. Blend and add mayonnaise enough to spread. Use on white bread only. Egg -Sandwiches.-Yolkes of 2 hard- boiled eggs, French mustard, celery salt, paprika, salted chopped almonds, mayonnaise. Mash yolks and add seasoning, working until smooth, and then adding enough mayonnaise to spread smoothly, This amount can . New 'Millinery Model From Paris. Ani unclyed satin toque trimmed with rabbit ear bows of black velvet. Sorelli, of Paris, considers this one of the smartest creations of the season. The lower hat is a straw turban with broad band of bhpe, taffeta trimmed with large silk poppy on either: side. -Designed by Elane. he doubled or trebled as necessary. Spread either on white or 'brown bread, using cress, lettuce or other salad plant, between. Two Rice Dishes. To boll 'rice -Place the rice in a pan of fast -boiling water, and be careful to choose one large enough for it; 1 ounce to 1 1-2 ounces of rice should be cooked in a quart pan, which should be three -parts full of Water, - and have half a teaspoonful of salt and few drops of lemon juice in it, the latter to preserve the white- ness of the rice. Stir occasionally. Boil the rice from 10 to .15' minutes, but test it at the former time by pressing it between the finger and thumb. When the grains feel soft remove the saucepan from the fire at .once and drain off the water; return the rice to the pan and set it on the corner of the stove to dry, shaking it occasionally. Some grains of rice will always stick to the pan, and to remove these put a small pat of butter in the pan, and as this melts the grains will fall away. The rice will take quite 10 minutes to dry, and should never be served until the moisture has been got rid of and the grains separated. If the rice is boiled too slowly or for too long a time, the result will be a sticky mass. A. good plan is to pour in a pint of cold water when the rice is suffit i- eptly cooked. This stops the boiling and helps to separate the grains; if putclose to the stove when the rice is first put into the pan, the cook will be able to throw in into the pan the moment the rice is tender. If the rice is to be served with meat in place of a vegtable, the rice should only be partly cooked, and the water all drain- ed off and then half a pint to one pint of stock put in the pan. This should be simmered until quite cook- ed, drained and served. Risotto. -Chop half an onion very finely and fry it in half ounce of but- ter. Place 4 ounces of rice in a sauce pan with half a pint of stock, add the onion and cools until the stock is absorbed. Stir in 1 ounce of grat- ed Parmesan cheese, pepper and salt to taste. Make very hot and serve. If liked, serve the rice as a border to a center of scrambled egg. Rice Rissoles. -Make some risotto, as above, but omit the cheese, and add a little tomato sauce. Lay the rice on a dish to cool. Then form into balls, egg, crumb and fry a gold- en brown. • Household Hints. Cabbage leaves contain a great deal of gluten; therefore, are very nourish- ing. Rag rugs made of cotton wash well, are inexpensive and are often just the thing for the kitchen . To make pulled bread, pull pieces of crumb out of a freshly baked loaf, then bake these pieces in a quick oven till brown. To make a filling of hickory nut cake whip cream very stiff, sweeten and flavor to taste and add nuts cut rather fine. . Olives and shrimps chopped togeth- er make an excellent salad, with the addition. of mayonnaise. A girl with .clever fingers can make good little shirtwaist bows out of her brother's cast -of ties. A stub pen can be usd in an emer- gency for tightening the tiny screws in a pair of eyeglasses. ` A red brick kitchen floor will keep beautifully clean and red if a' drop of paraffin oil be used in the water it is washed with. - Potatoes, other vegetables and pork chops are among the edibles that may be cooked in the casserole to advan- tage. Never throw away the skin of or- anges. The grated yellow rind is a good flavoring for calces, etc., and is cheaper than extracts. If your wash boiler springs 'a leak on wash day, stop, the holes tempor- arily with a piece of bread rolled into - a ball and pressed over the leak. Hee ammonia water always in- stead of .soap if you are cleaning 'white paint. It has the advantage of not dulling the surface. Whole • wheat bread filled with a mixture of dates, raisins ' and nuts is not only delicious, but so nutritious one could almost live on it alone. Mock cauliflower can be made of half a head of cabbage and half a bunch of celery chopped together and boiled 30 minutes. Add milk; salt, pepper and butter. Greens' should be cooked in their own moisture in the double boiler or plunged into rapidly boiling water, salted, and cooked and drained while they are still green. It is a wise housekeeper who does one piece of housecleaning every few. weeks, so then the dreadful turmoil of the usual long spring and fall outturn- ings is entirely avoided. To keep apples through the winter in a barrel bore holes in bottom and sides of the barrel and store on a dry platform a foot or more high. Never feed a baby before you give it the nightly bath. The order should be reversed, and therm the youngster should sleep the sleep of the clean and well fed. The person who does not pay as lie goes seldom succeeds in accumulating anything. , It is better to deny your- self at times than to run in debt for • —• unnecessary things. A good lunchedh dish is made of leftover ham and chicken, put through the chopper. Put in .a baking dish with layers of boiled' macaroni, with the top Myer of bread crumbs. Cayenne pepper is exeellnt to rid cupboards of mice. The floor should • -_. be' gone over carefully and each hole was elected Mayor. To Mrs;' Fawcett, another of the remarkable Garrett sisteris, belongs the enterprise of hay- ing married a man who had - never seen her and never and never could see her. Mr,: Fawcett had been blinded by a gun accident. During his political career hie wife, played a prominent part. T'ew women, indeed, have been more, closely associated with practical politics, for hers were, in a sense, the eyes of the blind Post- master -General; and, as a fellow - seer in the larger sense, she wrote, in conjunction with him, various es- says and lectures on `political econ- omy. Her daughter Philippa was Senior Wrangler of her ; year -or better still, beat the man who, apart from feminine competition, was the winner of that high distinction. . All these ladies, including the young mathematician who astonished. Cam- bridge, and the young doctor with the hospital in Endell Street, retain the name of Garrett. It is part of feminine history. stopped up with a piece of rag dipped in water and then in cayenne ppper. WOMAN DOING FINE WORK ORGANIZES AND MANAGES MILI- TARY HOSPITAL. D. Louisa Garrett Anderson Has Served Prison Term as :Suffragette. Since September. Miss Louisa Gar- rett Anderson, an Englishwoman of note as a 'suffragette, has been doing great, things for the wounded. Early in 'the war she and the British Gov- ernment felt mutally shy of one an- other, and her first hospital was opened under French authority. Her next hospital was at Wimereux, where she was among her own peo- ple, and where the ration (most in- contestable of all evidence of recog- nition) supplied to her patients.(were the official rations of the British sol- dier. The mutual shyness having been dispelled, the War Office asked Miss Garrett Anderson to return home and make a hospital in London. Out of her own resourcefulness, experience, and initiative she makes her hospital. It has five hundred beds; it is to be in working order in record time; it is to, be wholly, self -sufficient -that is to say, Miss Garratt Anderson her- self is wholly self-sufficient, How has she come by 'the necessary abil- ity? Not, certainly, by the fostering foresight of a paternal Government. No count was taken before the war of the possibility of ma woman doing the things she is doing, and even af- ter the war was well in hand there was still no effort made to secure the services of the whole group of ex- traordinary young Englishwomen to which she belongs. She now holds authority equal to that of a Major in the R.A.M.C., and the Press is eager to give her the salute. She ra- ther relishes the humor of the situa- tion-when itua tion when she tries to persuade the public, against its will, that she is not a Major -that no woman can hold a commission in his Majesty's Army. Once in Jail. She remembers that the only time before the war when the authorities showed any special interest in get- ting and keeping hold of her was when a magistrate, not without com- ments, sentenced her to six weeks' imprisonment. For forty years her mother and her aunt had worked with all propriety, for the cause of Women's Rights: After that space of time, the ridicule of Parliament and the booings of medical students -of students beaten on their own ground -palled on the younger generation,. and a window was broken. Some good, as it happened, came of the in- cident -and the sentence. Miss Gar- rett Anderson's articles on the condi- tions and management of women in prison make, with Lady Constance Lytton's papers on the same subject, an invaluable basis for reform. . The family record is an extraor- dinary one, Her mother, Dr. Eliza- beth Garrett Anderson, was one of the first women doctors. She be- gan her medical studies in 1860; and though the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians refused to admit her to their examinations, she obtained a license to practise from the Society of Apothecaries in 1865. Paris had fewer prejudices than Lon- don and, passing the medical examin- ations of its University, she receiv- ed her M.D. degree. Later on, when England' realized that she was not to be denied, honors were not lack- ing, and her daughter's degree is a London one. An Unusual Family. After a long career in London, Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson retired to her native town. of Aldeburgh, and CROWNS MAY PAY gm WAV The Austrian CrownHas Been Stolen,.,,. Lost and Pawned. European powers may be pretty hard up when the war comes to an - end, and all manner of schemes will probably have to be adopted to scrape money together. Will the royal treas- ures of the war lord and the Ausrian emperor be sold or pawned? It is interesting to knee, that the crown donned by the 'monarch of Austria, which was made originally for Stephen of Hungary, some eight centuries ago, has been stolen, lost and pawned. On one occasion it was pilfered by a queen, who fled across the frozen Danube with it, and there, being in need of ready cash, sheipawned it for 2,800 ducats. When it was finally traced 'and recovered it was placed ina fortress in Hungary and guarded night and day. 'At the time of the revolution it was buried in a forest to prevent it being annexed by the Austrians, and it re- mained under the soil for nearly a hundred years. There is no doubt that this crown would fetch a big price if put up for sale by auction. It is adorned with 53 fine sapphires, 60 good-sized rubies, 1 emerald and 338 pearls. ,The gems are sunken in a mass of pure gold, and the crown weighs altogether about fourteen pounds. There were some very severe storms at Cracow, the Austrian fortress, which was formerly (1320-1609) the capital of Poland, some time before the war. Terrific gales uprooted several trees, one of which was an ancient elm. In the disturbed earth at the foot of the fallen - tree the crown worn by former Icings of Pr - land, dating' back to the fourteenth century, was found. This crown, by the way, has been lost sight of since the middle of the eighteenth eent,ry. Women's Institutes of Ontario. Nearly 25,000 women, in 843 branches, make up the membership of the Women's Institutes of On- tario, the annual report of which for 1914 has just been issued. Articles in this report cover nearly every line of feminine endeavor. The efforts de- scribed or proposed relate to activi- ties in Institutes, the Church, and community life; to -Red Cross and other forms of patriotic helpfulness; and to agriculture, snore especially to fruit growing, poultry raising, and beekeeping for women. The reports„ gives very full consideration to the home, nearly every range of domestic economy receiving attention. The study of child life is given a large place, and two addresses deal with "Children's Right's" and "Education for the Backward." "Electricity as it Relates to Women on the Farm" is the title .of a practical talk by Sir Adam Beck. Considerable space is given to health topics, both of n pub• tic and an individual nature. The re- port reflects much credit' upon the hosts of women who are helping along Institute Work in his Province. GRANULATED SUGAR with the fruit you order for preserving. Tell him, too, that you want it in the Packages originated for 4740 Sugar — 2 or 5 lb. Sealed Cartons or 10, 20, 50 or 100 lb. Cloth Bags. Then you will be sure to get the GENUINE REDPATH-- Canada's favorite sugar for three generation)—'the sugar, to whose preserving purity you can safely trust good fruit. EXTRA it CANADA SUGAR. REFINING, CO., LIMlT8b, MONTIIEAG. "; 135 it fl