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The Clinton News Record, 1915-10-07, Page 6T1 -1E4 GOLDEN KEY Or "The Adventures of Ledg4rd." By the "Author of "Whet He Gest Her." I) CHAPTER XVI. Ernestine Wendermott travelled , 'back to London in much diacomfmt, being the eleventh occupant of a third - i class carriage n a particularly un- puneteal and dilatory train. Arrived at Waterloo, she shook out her Acids with a little gesture or relief and started off to walk to the Strand. Half -way across the bridge she came face to face with a tall, good-looking young man who was hurrying in the opposite direction. He stopped short as he recognized hr, dropped his eyeglass, and uttered a little -exclama- tion of pleasure. "Ernestine, by all that's delightful! I am in luck to -day!" ' She smiled slightly -and gave him her hand, but it was evident that this meeting was not wholly agreeable to her. • • ' "I don't see where the luck comes in," she answered. "I have no time to waste talking to you now. I am in a hurry." "You will allow me," he said hope- fully, `..gto walk a little way with you?" "I am not able to prevent it—if you think it worth while," she answered. He looked down—he was by her side now—ill good-humored protest "Come Ernestine," he said, "you mustn't bear malice against me. Per- haps I was a little hasty when I spoke so strongly about your work. I don't like your doing it and never 'Shall like it, but I've said all I want to. :You won't let it divide us altogether, will you." "For the present," she answered, "it -occupies the whole of mytime, and the whole of my thoughts." , "To the utter exclusion, I• suppose," he remarked, "of me?" She laughed gaily. "My dear Cecil! w.hen have I ever led you to suppoee for a moment that I have .ever wasted any time thinking of you?" Ile was determined ihot to be annoy- ed, and he ignored both the speech and the laugh. "May I inquire how you are get- ting on?" "I am getting on," she answered, "very well indeed. The editor is be- ginning to say very nice things, to me, and already the men treat me just as though I were a comrade! It is so nice of them!" "Is it?" he muttered doubtfully. "I have just finished," she con- tinued, "the most important piece of Work they have trusted me with yet, and I have been awfully lucky. I have beento interview a millionaire!" "A man!" She nodded. "Of course!" "It isn't fit work for you," he ex- claimed hastily. "You will forgive me if I consider • myself the best judge of that," she cg,wered coldly. "I am a journalist, "Md so long as it is honest work my sex doesn't count. If every one whom I have to see is as courteous to me as Mr. Trent has been, I shall consider myself very lucky indeed." "As who he cried. • She looked up at him in surtirise. They were at the corner of the Strand – but as thoegh in utter forgetfulness of their whereabohts, he had suddenly stopped short and gripped her tight- ly by the arm. She shook herself free with a little gesture of annoyance. • "Whatever is the matter with you, Cecil? Don't gape at me like that, and come along at once, unless you want to be left behind. Yes, we are very short-handed and the chief let me --go down to see Mr. Trent. He didn't • expect for a moment that I should • get him to talk to me, but I did, and - he let me sketch the house. I am aw- fully pleased with myself I can tell you." The young.man walked by her side for a moment in silence. She looked up at him casually as they crossed the street -and something in his face sur- prised her. "Why, Cecil, what on earth is the matter with you?" she exclaimed. He looked down at her with a new seriousness: • "I was thinking," he said, "how odd- • ly things turn out. So you have been • clown to interview Mr. Searlett Trent for a newspaper, and he was civil to "Well, I don't see anything odd about that," she exclahned impatient- ly. "Don't be so enigmatical. If you've anything to say, say it! Don't look at • me like an owl!" "I have a good deal to say to yeu," he answered gravely. "How long shall you be at the office?" "About an hour—perhaps longer." a • •t f ' the proofs are submitted to ne. Where's the sketch?" She held it out to him. For a mo- ment he looked away from his own work, and took the opportunity to light a fresh cigarette. Then he nod- ded, hastily scrawled some dimen- sions on the margin of the little draw- ing and settled down again to work. "It'll do," he said. "Give it to Smith. Come back at eight to look at our proofs after I've done with them. Good interview! Good sketch! You'll do, Miss Wendermott," She Went out laughing softly. This was quite the longest conversation she had ever had with the chief. She made her way to the side of the first disengaged typist, and sitting in an easy chair gave down her copy, here and there adding a little, but leaving it mainly in the rough .She knew whose hand, with a few vigorous touches, would bring the whole thing into the form which the readers of the Hour delighted in, and she was quite content to have it $o. The work was interesting, and more than an hour had passed before she rose and Put on her gloves. "I am coining back at eight," she oaid, "but the proofs are to go in tO Mr. Darrel! Nothing come in for me, I suppose?" The girl shookaher head, so Ernest- ine walked out into the street. Then she remembered Cecil Davenant and his strange manner—the story which he was even now waiting to tela, her. She looked at her watch and after a moment's hesitation called a handsom. 81 Cupole Street, she told him. "This is a little extravagant," she said to herself as the man wheeled his horse round, "but to -day I think that I have earned it." G'What's rmi=6561/2012mucaliztvkisugg=. , tile name is it means irreproachable q ality and value2 B 75 ed to do it? How could they have "It was a beastly mistake," he ad- gi dared to do , . , mated. . ABOUT TUE sweep over her. ' She could. lceep still HOUSEHOLD no longer. She wanted up and down ?,-sm•-1 m the little room. Her liana were 4535 iszitc.i..7, clenched, her eyes flashing. "To tell me that he was dead --to let him live out the rest of his poor Dainty Dishes. life in exile , and alone! Did, they Finnan Haddie -Broiled.—Wash a think that I didn't care, Cecil?" she thick haddie and cover it, with cold exelahnecl, suddenly turning and fac- my water. Put flesh side down fde. hell ing him. "I have always loved father! You may think that I was an hour. Dram and cover again with too young to remember him—I cold water. DraM and cover with wasn't, I loved him always. When I very hot but not boiling water, and grew up and they told me of his dis- let stand for half an hour. Drain and grace I was bitterly sorry, fel: I lov- day. Rub it well with a cut lemon, ed his memory—but it made no differ- dot with butter and broil for. twenty ence. And all the time it was a weak, minutes. Place hot on dish, dot with silly lie! They let him come out, poor butter again and pour over: it one father, without a friend to speak to him, and they hustled him out of the cupful of hot cream. Serve at once country. And I, whose place was with baked potatoes, there with him, never knew." „ Bread and Potato Fritters. --Light "You were only a child, Ernestine. and savory fritters may be made cerns especially the housewife who It was twelve years ago." . with breadcrumbs and &cited raw does her own cooking. Here, for ex - "Child! I may have been only a potatoes. Grate two thick slices of ample, is how one woman saves time. child, but I should have been old bread to fine crumbs, mix with one When she makes pie crust she makes enough to know .achere my place was. tablespoon finely minced onion, 'salt double the quantity needed at the mo- ment, as pie dust rolled in a damp napkin and put in the refrigerator will keep perfectlY for several days. Then she plans in the menus for the next few days to use that crust. A dessert or a fruit tart for the first night, a meat pie for dinner the sec- ond night, turnovers for luncheon the following day and if any crust re- mains it can be used in desserts, meat patties or cheese straws. By using the pastry in such a variety of ways she avoids the impression of same- ness yet manages to lighten her work materially. 4.— • 1 A whirlwind of scorn seemed to - water for a little while they become suitable for salad. • s Do not use scouring powders or soaps on your bathtub; a cloth dipped in kerosene oil or turpentine will re- move all soil, when the tub can be polished with a little whiting. Any- thing gritty, it should be remembered, ruins the enamel of bathtubs. Save the water' in which the fresh green peas have been boiled. It makes an excellent foundation for soup stock or graaies, It is of such a delicate flavor that some people like it served in bouillon cups with salt, pepper and a bit of butter. A quick way to clean currants when making cakes is to put the frit into a colander with a sprinkling of flour, and rub round a few times with your hand. It is surprising how quickly the stalks are separated and, come through the small holes. Get some bitter apple from the chemist, crush it, .and sprinkle it amongst the clothes.. You will find it the finest thieg on record for keep- ing moths away from everything and one can use garments at a minute's notice, as there is no smell left by bit- ter apple. _ A way te make old carpet's look and wear like linoleum: Take any old piece of carpet and tack it, wrong side up, to the floor where it is to re- main. Now nix a thick paste of flour and water, cook it thoroughly and ap- ply evenly to the wrong side of the carpet. This paste acts as a filling CHAPTER XVII. "Ernestine," he said gravely, "I am going to speak to you about your f a - thee, • - She looked up'at him in swift sur- prise. • "Is it necessary?" " "I think so," he answered. "You won't like what I am. going to tell you! You'll think you've been badly, treated: So you have! I pledged my 'word, in a weak hour, with the others. To -day I'm going to break it. I think it best." ' "Well?" "You've been deceived! You were told always that your father had died in prison. He didn't." "What!" Her sharp mi. rang out strangely into the little room. Already he could see signs of the coming storm, and the task which lay before him seemed ,more hateful than ever. "Listen," he said. "I must tell you some things which you know in order know. Your father was a younger wise enough to attempt no sort o half cup of milks If the filling of the to explain others which you o no son of extravagant parents, virtually consolation. He leaned 'a little for-; sanawich is a savory mixture of egg, penniless and without the least cape- ,ward and laid his own face With the cheese, meat or fowl, a pinch city for earning money. I don't palm of his hand. When at last s•he fish, blame him—who could? I couldn't looked up- her face had cleared and. each of lseliper and salt should be add - earn money myeelf.' If I hadn't got her tone was less bitten It would • ed to the batter. If, however, the It I daresay that I should 'go to the h rcl with the Earl of East - bad as he did." The girl's lips tightened, and she drew a little breath through her teeth. Davenant hesitated. "You know all a.bout that company affair. Of course they made your father the butt of the whole thing, although he was little more than a tool. He was sent to prison for seven years. You were only a child then and your mother was dead. Well, when the seven years were up, your relations and mine too, Ernestine, conceded what I have always con- sidered an ill -begotten and miserably selfish plot. Your father, unfortun- ately, yielded to them, for your sake. You were told- that he had died' in prison. He did not. He lived through Itis seven years there, and when he came out he dicl so in another name' and went abroad on the morning of the day of his liberation." "Good Ileavens!" she died. "And now!" , "He is dead," Davenant answered hastily; "but only just lately. Wait a minute. You are going to be furious- ly angry. I know it, and I don't blame you. Only listen for a moment. The scheme was hatched up between my father and your two uncles. I have always hated it and always protested against it. Remember that and be fair to me. This is how they reason- ed. Your father's health, they said, was rttined, arid if he lives the seven years what is there left for hina when his comes out? He was, a Irian,' as you know, of aristocratic and fastidious tastes. He would have the best • of Miff IliEiWIIITIST.0011E1 outhoulligillimiltimpulutivilltuollillamil tumult% A.* '•*•' o N s NO A.,L,IL.11‘.1 Makes pure,delicious, healthful biscuits, cakes and pastry. It is the only well- known strictly high class baking powder made in Canada, selling at a medium mice. Read the label E.W.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED MONTREAL 1101410111011110110101IIIIIIIMMillinimiav WINNIPEG 7*i0)1000100000001 At From the Ocean Shore BITS OF 'NEWS FROM THE MARITIME PROVINCES. C. Copeland, of Harvard, containing a contribution to the Patriotic Fund. The letter said the contribution was "for hospital, relief or whatever will give most aid and comfort to my friends and neighbors of St. Stephen in the field—or families left at home. I wish I could do more. God save them, and England, and the allies." Items of Interest From Places The New Glasgow News says a -apply one finishing coat of paint. Let peddling of limam.. the paste dry thoroughly, then apply one thick coat of paint, A. light lead •in the Cuctoms returns at St. John, and make4 a good surface on which to 5100 or three months for the "pocket Tine saving is one of the chief pro- over August last year. • will not show the dirt. blems of the busy woman, and it coa- , ' Atlantic. . Latiped By Waves of the story has come to light of a German N.B. a gain of more than $90,000 At St. John, N. B., a man was fined • August showed Lorenzo Rennison, of Albert Mines, a decided increase . i would build with Itl)ifimfe . sated that lie was a German spy. posal arid in this way he secured agent who toured Cape Breton some time ago, holding up to the manu- facteTearnsdpictaunrtes of and ld 'th capital at his dis- much'valuable information relative to the resources and present industries heard tell of no more. It is now ---4. heB'r'ebtle°wn. giant indfustries which he away"Af tersaantdi s f ywi nags CROSS ROAD FOR CANADA.' — Winnipeg Trying to Get Concrete Highway for Canada. Reports from Winnipeg state that Central Western Canada will Italie a Federal Highway, if the project be- ing urged by the Winnipeg Board of Control is carried out. This project contemplates the con- struction of a concrete highway from Winnipeg to Calgary, to go thorugh the more thickly settled territory tapped by the Canadian Pacific Rail- road. The thousand nines of highway through the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and half way into Al- berta, will be financed by the munici- palities through vshich the roadway would pass. Several appropriations also -will be sought from the provin- cial Governments. The project has been received with the greatest en- thusiasm in a number of the larger cities along the proposed route. It has been pointed out by the pro- moters of the highway plan that the land values of the prairie provinces would be greatly enhanced by the building of a permanent concrete in the United States. highway, such as the Lincoln High- way, which has had such a wonderful effect upon the general road building GERMAN CUPID. — Surplus Royalties, Wedded in Balkans, Help Fatherland. Thank God I have done with people and their disgusting shibbo- leth of respectability." • "You are a little violent," he i.e-• and pepper to taste, and add one cup boiling milk. While mixture is cool- ing pare and grate six large potatoes marked. a and, beat :them into bread crumb mix- "Pshaw!" She flashed a look of , ture. AM two well -beaten eggs. Drop scorn upon him. "You don't under- by spoonfuls into frying pan in which stand! How should you, you .are of ; there is plenty of boiling fat and dry their kidney --you're only half a brown on ot sides. mace hot.. man. Thank God my mother was of b h • S • h Potato Chowden—Parboil and slice the people! I'd have died to have gonel smirking through life with a brick . six fine potatoes; fry half a pound of for a heart and milk and water in my sweet salt pork (chopped), and when veins! Of -all the stupid pieces of it begins to crisp add a minced onion and cook to a light brown. Pack in brutality I ever beard of, this is the most callous and the most heart -i layers in a. soup • kettle, sprinkling said,I each layer. with pepper and minced breaking." . "It was a great mistake," he , cover with "but I believe they did it f or A pint of boiling water and.simmer 30 the paisley. Add the hot fat. 'th She sat down with a little gesture minutes. Turn into a collander and best." • of despair. • . 1 drain the liquor back into the kettle. "I really think • you'd better go Have ready a pint of hot milk into I's101-1.1 setxrials:1 which has been stirred a tablespoon - pa away, Cmeee itoo sheshorribly.said. . t ful of butter, rolled in fidur; add to you or throw something at you soon.'• the liquor, cook one minute, return Did it for the best! What a miser -1 . . , potatoes to the et e an serve. k tl d able whine! Poor dear old dad, to' the think that they should have • donel A novelty sandwich consists in the this thing." fact that after the sandwich is made , She buried her lace in her handker- it is pressed Closely together and chief and sobbed for the second time , then dipped in a thin batter made in was the proportion to one beaten egg to, a since her childhood. Davenant chester, however, if he had called to see his niece just then. "Well, she said, "I want to know now why, after keeping silent all this time, you thought it best to tell me• the truth this afternoon?" "Because," he answered, "you told me that you had just been to see Scar- lett Trent!" ' "And what on earth had that to do with it?" • , "Because Scarlett Trent was with your father when he died. They. were on an excursion somewhere up in the bush—the very excursion that laid the foundation of Trent's fortune." "Go on," she cried. "Tell me all that You know! this is wonderful!" • (To be continued.) WILL USE PRUNING KNIFE. ,"I'd rather yea didn't. I don't want with an escort." Now all these were barred against them to think that I go trailing oboist everything—society, clubs, sport "Then may I come down to your him. If he had reappeared he could not have shown his face in Pall Mall, or on the racecourse, and every mo - Mont of his life would be full of hu- miliations and bitterness. Virtually then, for such a man as he was, life in flat? •I have something really im- portant to say to you, Ernestine. It does net concern myself at all. It is wholly about you. It is something which you ought to know." , "You are trading upon my curios- England was over. Then there was ity, for the sake of a tea," she I You. You were a Pretty child; arid the • laughed. "Very • well, about five Earl had zio &Haven. If your father e'clock." iwas dead the story would be forgot - He bowed and walked' back west- , ten, you would marry brilliantly, and wards with a greaser look than usualan ugly page in the family history upon his boyish face, for he lied a task ayould be blotted out. That was how l before him which was very little to, they looked at it—it was how they put his liking. Ernestine swung open thet it to Your father." \ entrance (him to'the Hour, and pass- "He• consented?" ed down the rows of desks until she "Yes, he consented! He saw the reached the door at the further end , wisdom of it for your sake, for the marked "Sub -Editor." She knocked ' sake of the family, even for his own and was admitted at once. 1 sake. 'The Earl settled an income A thin, dark young man, wearing a upon him and he left Englanrl semetly • pincenez ansi smoking a cigarette, on the morning of his release. We looked up from his writing as she en- ' had the news of his death only a•week terecl. He waved her to a seat, but ; or two ago." his pen never stopped far a -second. I She stood up, her eyes blaeing, her "Bach, Miss Wendermott! Very hands clenched together. good! What did you get?" 1 "I thank God," she said, "that I "Interview and sketch of the house," have found the courage to beeak away she aesponded briskly. "Interview by Jove! That's good! Was he very. difficult?" ' "Ridiculously easyl Told me every- thing I asked and a lot more. If I could have got it all down in his own language it would have been positive- ly thrilling." The sub -editor scribbled in silence for a moment or two. He had reach- ed an important point in his own work. His pen went slower, hesitated for a moment, and then clashed on with renewed vigor. . "Read the first few sentences of what you've got," he remarked. Ernestine obeyed. To all appear- ance the man was engrossed in his own work, but when she paused he nodded his head appreciatively. "It'll do!" he said, "Don't try to polieli it. Give 11 down, and see that sandwich has a sweet filling, the bat- ter should be slightly sweetened and flavored' with a teaspoonful of sherry. Cook the moistened sandwich on a hot, well -greased griddle, browning first on one side and then on the other: A shallow iron frying pan will answer the same purpose, and olive oil will be found an excellent substitute for butter. Fowl With Sour Cream Gravy.— Cut chicken or fowl ae for fricassee and coak slowly till tender. Do not add salt until nearly done. When perfectly tender remove to platter on which is spread buttered toast or crisp baking powder biscuits, split, and make sour cream gravy as fol- lows: One and one-half cups chicken broth, three-fourths cup sour cream and one and one-half tablespoons each of butter and flour. Rub butter and flour together, add to broth and let boil. Thin with sour cream, reheat and season to taste with salt and pep- per as needed. Do not let this boil, as it is liable to separate. • If fried chicken is desired, dredge rneat with flour and fry in butter, chicken fat, or lard until brown. Delicious. Irish Stews—Free two pounds neck of lean mutton or veal from fat. divide into meat cubes of uniform size, about one inch long, and put on to cook with enough water to Over. Let stew Until tender. About an hour should be enough if meat was reason- ably tender to begin with. Have ready in another pot two carrots, cut into small dice,. and two fair-sized onions, sliced thin. They should be cooked ten minutes to take off crude flavor. Drain and add to meat, with pepper and salt to taste. Cover and simmer one-half hour. Then add two hod -sized potatoes, cut into cubes British Government Will Cut Down Expenses., That the British Government actu- ally means business in its inaugura- tion of a natiotal campaign of thift is proven by the fact that, when, in the Hou'se of Lords, a resolution ayes moved in favor of economy in public expenditure—the Mover, Lord Mid- dleton, ,sharply criticising many im- • portant items—the Government, in- stead of resenting the action, actually accepted the resolution and made the vote in its favor unanimous. Lord Lansdowne, a prominent member of the Government, while declaring that the first rush of preparation for war meant extravagance and loss, yet ad- mitted frankly that there were ways in which present expenditures could be curtailed, and promised that the re- solution in favor of economy should bear early fruit in the way of real economies. It is pointed out by the Economist, one of the greatest au - and parboiled, and two stalks of eel- thorities on financial questions in the world, that the expenditure of the ery, also diced. Simmer steadily' Government bas immensely. inereased another halflour, covered. Put one on many new services, while old ser- tablespoon butter into frying pan 'and vices, on which economies might be when hot stir in one tablespoon of expected, fm just as much money flour, cook, but do not let darken, new expenditure is sharalY questioned ing. and add to -stew a little before serv- Take up meat with split spoon, as ever. The wisdom of much of the and the use of the pruning knife to lay it neatly in centre of heated plat - bring the whole tree of public expen- tel. and lay vegetables about it. diture down to the requirements fixed • Heasehold Hints. Cold water, ammonia, and a little white soap will remove machine At one of. the military camps some grease. recruits were being put through the Powdered French chalk sprinkled riditg test. One man didn't know over stale bread is an excellent clean - much about horses, but trusted er for wall paper. luck to get through. • Should fresh paint be upset on the . He had not properly ,adjueted his floor, pour vinegar over it and wipe saddle, and on mounting he • swung— ap at once with a soft cloth. Silk, if burned, giveS off a disagree- . saddle .,and ,g all—right under the horse's hocly between its laps whvp. able smell, similar to that of burne& he was suspended for a few sedonds. feathers, whereas cottron or artificial "Hi, there!" yelled the noncom., slik are practically Odorless. in derision; "eau.; that ridfng do Do not throw away one bit of the you'!" - • celery. Wash the uridesie able parts ".0h, no, sergeant," was the in- and boil than with the soup bones. It will give the'soup a delicious flavor. stant answer, "that's a iiew trick for the Dardanelles. Riding under here's If afraid to use poison for rats, fine protectiet from the sun"—Lon- soak a° rag with kerosene, put a piece don"Tit-Bite. of camphor gum in it and stuff the rat hole. Mr. Rat will call at that en - BELLS IN GAME OF WAR. That of Vienna Cathedral, Cast From . Turkish Cannon. N.I3., committed suicide by cutting his throat. Worry over business troubles led to the act. The Patriotic Fund of Fredericton, N.B., is being spent at the rate of $2,500 a month. There is only enough left for one month more. Lieut. Barry, of the Wireless Gar- rison at Newcastle, N.B., was shot and badly injured when a revolver in his pocket accidentally exploded. At a meeting held in Fredericton, N.B., Bishop Richardson and other leading citizens came out boldly in a resolution asking for conscription. C. D. Clayton, Marysville, H.S., had his left forearm so badly mangled - between the cylinders of a card ma- chine that it rendered amputation of the limb necessary. Soseph McVay and Sons, of St. Stephen, N.B., have been awarded tbe contract of dismantling the Sus- pension Bridge over the Reversible Falls at St. John. At Gagetown, N.B., the Kincaid House, an old landmark, was torn down, after standing for 100 years. In one of the rooms was found an old Bible dating back to 1811. Five cents was all that remained of a money package containing $500, which formed part of the registered contents of the mail bag stolen from the mailroom in the rest house at the Union Heald, Moncton, N.B. At Canterbury Station, N.B., three young men were charged with steal- ing liquor from John Murphy. They were let go for lack of evidence, but Murphy was then charged with 20 offences against the Scott Act. At Antigonish, N.S., Lewis Mc- Lean, an innocent bystander, was shot at a wedding celebration where guests were discharging revolvers on the streets. The bullet went through the fishy part of his shoulder. Notwithstanding the financial de- pression, Amherst, H.S., has added The great bell of the Cathedral of St. Stephen, Vienna, cast from cap- tured Turkish cannons more than two centuries ago, is to return to war as an Austrian "skoda," a 42 -centimeter mortar, big calibre shells, or shrapnel. The church has given this treasure to be melted up as part of the war metal collection. Here is another of the reversions to former times that the war has dis- • closed; to the days when he who com- manded the bell commanded the town, when the conqueror melted down bells for amunition or the conquered saw his cannon cast into bells. Bells have had a great part in war, they have summoned soldiers to arms, and they have rung over triumph and defeat. The old bells of Chester Cathedral rang the victory of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson, "after every peal a single booming note of grief." An- other old English bell, cracked under the strain of Waterloo rejoicing, was recast and re -inscribed, "I rang the downfall of Bonaparte and broke." Some of the famous French bells were melted down for gun metal in .the revolution. Many of the bells of Belgium, renowned as a land of bells and where the finest products of the art in its prime, have already met the fate of the tocsin of St. Stephen. Old "Roland," the bell of Ghent, that sounded only victory, and the 600 - year -old "Horricla," of Antwerp, pro- claimed neither their eity's danger nor fall. The Great Growler, "die grosse Bi•ummerin," of St. Stephen, weighs only 17 tons, not much wheri it is re- membered that if Russia, too, was to melt up her bells she could find in Moscow one that weighs 180 tons and another 128 tons. Old St. Stephen's bell in times past could have made a small battery of artillery. To -day it would furnish only a third of the ma- terial of a 42 -centimeter mortar, and as the 'shell used in this monster gun is five feet long and weighs three- quarters of a ton, it would,,,not even go far as ammunition. "These shells," it is said, "kill everyone within 150 yards and many further off;" rifle bar- rels melt as if struck by lightning; men who disappear in such explosions "are reported as missing, as there is no proof of their death." The old bell comes down to woeful business from the tower where it has so long pealed only peace. - INDUSTRY AND SOBRIETY. A Man Need Not Be a Servant All His Life Long. from, those people and take a littleo my life into my own hands. You can tell them this if you will, Cecil—my uncle Lord Davenant, your mother, and whoever had a Oay in this miser- able affair. Tell them from me that I know the truth and that they ,are a pack of cowardly, unnatural old wo- men. Tell them that so long as I live I will never willingly speak to one of them again." "I was afraid you'd take it like that," he said. dolefully. "Take it like that!" she repeated in fierce scorn. "How else could a wo- man hear such news? How else do you suppose ,she could feel to be told that she had been hoodwinked, and kept from her duty and a man's heart very likely broken, to save the respectability of a worn-out old family. Oh, how could they have dar- glowing fur - by present conditions is strongly re- commended. Ingenious. It has been pointed out that how- ever unsatisfactory German diplomacy may be, as marriage brokers and king purveyors the Germans are unmatch- ed. It is especially in the Baikal -1:s that this Teutonic marriage broking is seen at its best. The royal families this year to her already large area of all the Balkan States, except Ser - of permanent steeets, 16,000 square bia and Montenegro, are German by feet of conmete streets, 12,000 lineal origin or marriage. The Ring of Ru - feet of curbing and gutter, and 2,500 mania is a Hohenzollern of the minor square feet of concrete sidevsalk. branch, the Queen of Greece is •a sis- W. B. A. Ritchie, KC., has been ter of the Kaiser himself, the King of appointed chief recruiting officer for Bulgaria comes from the house of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha, and the Queen is a Princess of ReUSS. The cornering of the marriage mar- ket is explained by the large number of princes whom Germany always has to dispose of, and the fact has not been without its influence on the pol- icy of the States concerned, as the obstinacy of the late King of Rumania and the self-assertion of the present Ring of Greece have ahown. Every year over five million beds trance no more. ansi eig'ht 'million...meals are provided Cucumbers are cooled under • run - by the shelters and homes of. the Sal- vation Army in l3ritain. the Maritime Provinces with the ian s and pay of a lieutenant. He will me - main in Halifax for three months de- voting himself wholly to the besiness of stimulating recruiting. At the Gana annual meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held recently, the public were warn- ed that "many patent medicines con, taining large amounts of alcohol are neither foods nor stimulants as ad- vertised." They also recommended that alcoholic liquors should only be used under advice. Premier Clarice, of New Bruns- wick, received a letter from Prof. T. I do not believe that the principles of life have changed in 40 years, writes John Williams Streeter. I do not belie.ve that an intelligent, able- bodied man need be a servant all his life, or that industry and economy miss their rewards, or that there is 'any truth in the theory that men can- not rise out of the rut in which they happen to find themselves. Tte trou- ble is with the man, not with the rut. He spends his time diligently search- ing for an outlet or in honestly work- ing his _Way up to it. Heredity and environment are heavy weights, but industry and sobriety can carry heavier ones.. I have sympathy for weakness of body or mind, and pa- tience for those over whom inheri- tance has cast a baleful spell;.,but I have neither patience nor sympathy for a strong man who raidsat his con- dition and makes no determined effout to better it Over one-half of all the women in Frigland between the ages ef fifteen ning water if they have not been on ice or if stood stem ',down in iced and forty-five are unmarried. 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