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seeetillt,; and. the loek of 'teoulale , of dubt
.did not leave 'her .face, He' Walted,-his
,, • oYas eeaking- here,: seelcing them for'
sinne..eigrc which. might, Still- the passion
of 'fear and, se:ripens°. With ,whielr,he We
AttliZiitilaianwighsatide..itn a , voice.
Aeon which raged under If-itirtol
c m:
Will you n�t sPeak to nie? Are you
. • •
She raisedher hand and looked at him
—a strange look from so young •a girl.
• Xt was as if she were fighting agaiiist
•the .Subtle speu of hit words, the de-
, -,matal for her love which Shone in hie
• "No, Zamoot angry," she peed at last;
and her voice, though Very low, was
calm and unshaken. ,
._ He made' a movement towarda net,
• but she shrank back', only a little, but
Perceptibly, and he checked the move-
, ,ment.the desire to take her in his, arms,
"You are not angry?' Thea—Ida'---I
may call you so? --you don't mind reY
you? Dearest, will YOU love me
JuSt a little in return? Walt!" for she
had shrunk again, thia time more Plain-
• lyl I know that I have startled you,
that I ought not to have spoken so soon,
while you only know solittle of me—
You'd naturally say 'no,' and send me
• aWay. ,But if you think,' you co,il like
me...learn to love me—
He took her hand, hanging so tempt-
ingly near his own; but she drew it
, •
"No; don't touch. me!" she said, with
little catch fn her voice, "I want to
shiak—to. Understand." She palmed for
, a mornent'her oyes still seeking the dis-
tant bills, as if in their mysterious
-.heights she might find something that
, should explain this great mystery, this
wonderful thing that had happened to
her, At last,. with a,.- singular gesture,
so girlish. so grateful •that It made him
' long still more intensely to take her
in his arms, she said in a low voice:
"I do not know— Nol I do not want
you to touch me, please!" His hand
fell to his Aide. "I can't answer you. It
is so—so sudden! /go one has ever
Spoken to me as you have clone---"
He laughed from mere excesS of JOY,
for her pure innocense, her unlikeness,
• in her ignorance of love and all Per-
• taining to it, to the women be kneW,
made the charm of her well-nigh mad-
dening, To think that lur should be the
first man to speak pf love to her!
"1 ant not angry—ought I to be? Yes,
I SunifoSe so. We are almost strangerS
—have seen so little of each other."
"They say that love, all true love,
comes at first sight," he said. "I used
to laugh at the idea; but now I know
it is true. I loved YOU the first time
I met you, Ida:"
Her lip quivered and her brows
"it seems so wonderful," she Said,
musingly. "I do not understand 10. The
first time! W'e scarcely spoke—and I
was almost angry with you for fishing
In the Herp. And did—did not think
of .vou—
He made a gesture, repudiating the
mere Idea.
"Is it likely? Why should you?" he
said, "I was Just an ordinary man,
crossing your path for the first and
perhapri the only time. Geed heavens!
there was no reason ,why you should
give a thought to nie, why 0 should
linger in your mind -for half a moment
after I was out of your sight. But for
me— Haven't I told you how beauti-
ful 'you are, Ida! You are the loveliest,
the .weetest— But even if you had
not been -2 mean it is not because you
ar0, so beautiful that / love you—"
She 1 ooked at him with a puzzled,
troubled look.
"No! I can't explain. See, now,
there's not a look of yours, not a feat-
ure that I don't know by heart as if I'd
/earn!: it When I am away from you
I can see you—see the way your hair
clusters in soft little curls at your fore-
head, the long laelies sweeping your
cheek, the—the trick your eyes have of
turning, from grey to violent—oh, I
know your face by heart and I love it
for its beauty; but if you were to lose
it all, if yeti were not the 'loveliest
creature God had ever made, it v,,ould
make no difference. You woulcl•stil I be
Y011 : and it is YOU I want. Ida—give
yourself to me—trust me! Oh, dearest,
YOu don't know what love it! Let me
teaell Yeti!"
Once again he got hold orher hand;
and she let it remain in Ms grasp; but
her quiescence did not mean yielding,
and he knew it.
"No," she said, with a deep breath.
• "It is 'true' that I do not know. And
,O 0111 ---afraid." A wan Ilttle smile that
W12 more piteous than tears curved her
lips: tor "afraid" seemed strange com-
ing from her, the fearless child of the
hills and doles. "If—if I said 'yes.—
Ali, but I do not!" she broke off as" he
made to draw her to him, and she shrank
back. '"I do not! I said 'if,' it would
• not be true; it would not be fair. For
• I do not know. I might be—sorry, 20-
.ter—after you had gone. Andit would
. be toe late then."
' "You're right," he 'assented, 'grimly,
"Once I got you. no power on earth
should make rne let YOU go again."
, Her lips quivered and her eye S droop_
erl before his. How strange a thing
this love was, that it should change a
• Man So!"
"I don't want to force you to answer," 1
he said, after a pause. "Yes, I do! rd
. give halt the remainder of 1110' We to
hear you say the one word, 'yes.' But
X won't. It's too—too precious. Ali, •
1l0111; 0011 understand' I want your love,
Yetir love Biel" ` •
4 "Yes, I, understand," she murmured.
"And—and I Would say it 12-10 I were
sure. l3ut I --es, I am all confused. It
is like a dream, I want to think,' to ask
myself can do' what you want."
:Atte put 'up her hand to her lips,,,as if
to keep them from tremblihg. "I want
• to be alone to think of all -,-all you have
' told me."
Hoy gauntlet slinpecl from her hand,
and he knelt on one knee and picked it
111,, and still kneeling, took both her
haeds in his, It clicl net oceuv to him to
remember that the woman who hest-
. totes 10 won; something in her girlish
1/111000110e, 171 her exquisitely sweet can-
dor. filled llni with awe.
• "Dearest" he said, in so low a voice
tbat the mote of the lark flying above
ithein sOunded loud and shrill by con-
trast. "Dearestl—for you are that •to
' will not press you. I will be
Content to wait God knows you are
right to hesitate! Your love is too
'great,' to precious' a thing to be given
to me Without thought. I'm not worthy
touoh you—but I loVe you! I will
wait. You shall think of .all•I -have sald;
and; let your anewer be what it may, I
• Won't complain. But—Ida—y00 must-
n't forget that •I love yOu•avieh all my
•' heart and
,She looked down at 1110, handsome faes,
the face over which her lips had hover-
ed only a short time since, and her lips
moved.
"You are good to me," she said, in a
faintly troubldcl voice. I know, I
feel that. ‘pdrhaps 1, ought to saY
'no!'"
"Don't!" he said, almost fiercely.
"Wait( Let • me see you agaire—you
scarcely', lcnow 5110. All, Bra, what can
I ,to, now gall I Win your love?"
She drew her hands from his with a
deep breath.
"I --O will go now," she said: "Will
Yeti let me goalone?"
• Ho rose and went towards the herses.
• Xis own raised its head and seemed
inclieed to start, but stoocl uncertain
and eventually relltatiled quiet beside
'the' chestnut, StaffOrd brought 'them
to where Icla stood, her eyes downcast,
her fites Pale. 1,571111 his own bridle (wee
Ills arm he put her into the saddle, re-
• sisting even in that eel 01 0110 liniment
• the almost irresietiblo desire to take
her in his Tie
She murmured a "Thank you," as
she slowly put on her left gauntlet. He
clvow the °thee frem leer. and as she
looked ,at hint ouestionIngly, he put 11
to nie lips ana thrust it unclor his waist-
• 000 , mei us heart. The color flooded
her face, but the 01010 Was folloved
. by the former look of trouble 1111d d0110t.
She held out her unglovect eight hand
and•he took it and held 10 for a mtrinent,
then raised ft to his lips; but he did
nOt '0105 11.
"No!' he said, with stern represeion,
• "I will take nothing—until you five it
`She indined her heed the very ellght-
, est, es she understoed,eae if she weve
g,rateful; then letting her eVes iest
• his with am ineerutable look, she spoke
• noftly to the horse and rode away, wItif
o Doneld and Bess clamoring joyously at
'ter her, as if they had fauna the Pro,
°cedillas exiremelY trying.
. . Stafford flung his arm acress his
horso and leaning against, it looked of -
"ter her, lith % eyes fixed Wistfully .on the
slight. graceful figure until it was out
of sight; then he gazed round him ae ie
he were suddenly returning, from a new, ,
mysterioue region to, the old familiar
1 °SnAille throbbing with,
'a'':half=painfur_tostasy.:,!of .liet nee ,
of the touch; of her hand, the InOgle of
her .yolde,',' For .the iirst. time he was lfl
loye,,"."-In Owe,With-_. •moot elsite
the Meat 'wenderfill
creatures He 'knew, as he had said,
that her .answer meant life or deatli to
him, the life of WI lite, nameless Joy,
the deeth of life in death. ,
Was he going to lose her?
. The very que,stion set him trembling.
He held out his quiveringhand and
looked at it, and set his teeth, 'Heaven
and earth, how strange it was,! This
girl had taken possession of • hlin• beds
and soul; every fibre of. hl S being clam-
ored for her. To be nearrher, Just to be
able to see her, hear. her, meant haPlfi-
neeszto be torn from her—
..The sweat broke out on his forehead
and he laughed' grimly. •
.."And this is love!" he Said, between
his teeth. "Yes --and the only 100e
of my life. God help -me irt Yon SaY
'TM,' dearest! But you must not—Ycal
rn,ust. not!" - •
CHAPTER XV.
I
. ' •
Quite an hour, after' Stafford had
started to meet Ida. M1S8 1t110011er made
her appearance, coining' slowly down
the stairs in the daintiest of morning
frocks, with her auburn hair shining
like gold in the sunlight, and an ex-
pression of langov in her beautiful face
which would have'done credit to a hot-
house 1 Ily.
She had slept the sleep of the just—
the maid Who had gone to wake her
With' her early cup o,f tea bad been al-
most startled by,, the statuesqueness of
her beauty, as she lay with her head
pillowed on her snow-white arm and
her wonderful hair streaming over the
pillow—had suffered herself to be dress-
ed with imperial patience, and looked—
as Howard, 1/110 stood at the bottom of
the Stairs --said to himself, "like a
queen of the/was descending to her
thron,e-room.',
"Good merning, Miss Falconer," he
greeted her. "It's a lovely morning',
you'll find it nicely aired."
She smiled languidly.
"That means that I am lato," 2100 said,
her eyes resting languidly on his cyni-
cally smiling face.
"Good heavens, no!" he reePonded.
"You can't be late or early in this ma--
gio palace. Whenever you 'arrive' you
will find things—'things' In the most
comprehensive sense—ready for you.
Breakfast at Brae Wood is the most
movable of feasts. I've proved that, for
I'm a late bird myself; and to my Joy I
have learned that this is the only house
with which I am acquainted that you
can get red-hot bacon and kidneys. at
any hour from eight to ttVelve; that
lunch runs plenteously from one to
three, and that you can get tea and
toast—my great and only weakness,
Miss Falconer—whenever you llice to
rlOg for it You will find Lady Clans -
ford presiding at the breakfast -table: I
believe she has been sitting there—ami-
able martyr as she Is—since the early
dawn."
She smiled at him with languid ap-
proval, as if he were some paid Jester,
and went into the breakfast -room. There
were others there beside Lady Clans-
ford—most of them young people—it is,
alas! only the young people who can
sleeu through the right hours of a
summer's morn—and a discussion on
the programme of the day was being
carried on with a babel ot velces and
much laughter
"You shall decide for us' Miss Fal-
coner!" exclaimed one of the young men,
whose only name appeared to be Sevtle,
for he was always addressed as and
spoken of by it. "It's a toss-up between
O drive and a turn on the Lake in the
electric launch. I proposed a sail, but
there seemed to be a confirmed ana gen-
eral scepticism as to my Yachting capa-
cities, and Lady Plaistow Says she does-
n't want to be drowned before the end
of the season. "Wbat would you like to
do?"
"Sit somewhere in the shade with a
book," she replied, promptly but slowly.
There was a shout of laughter.
"That is Just what Mr. Howard re-
plied," said Bertie, complaining,ly,
"011, Mr. Howard! Everyone knows
that he is the laziest man In the whole
world," remarked' Lady Clansford,
plaintively. "What is Mr. Orme going
to do? Where is Ile? Does anyone
Iceow?"
Theve was a general ,shalcing of heads
and a chores of "No's.'
"1 had a swim with him this morning,
but Pve not seen hem since." said 13er-
t1a "It's no use waiting for Orme; he
mightn't turn up till dinner time. Anse
Falconer, if I promise not to drown you.
will You make one for tlie yacht? The
man told me it would be all ready."
She shook her head as she helped her-
self to a couple of strawberries
"No, thanks," she said, with her mu-
sical drawl. "I know what that means.
You drift -Into the Middle of the lake
:it Yale ilceori'elggwstal dain'nettnad 1J:cr-
eche. Please leave me out. I shall
stick to my original 'proposal. Perhaps,
if you don't drown anyone this time, I
may venture with :yein another day."
She leant back and smiled et them
under her lids, as the discussion flowed
and ebbed round her, with an air of ple-
ad contempt and wonder at their ex-
citement; a.nd presently, murmuring
something to Lady Clanaforcl, who, as
chapevone and deputy hostess was try-
ing to coax them into some decision,
she VOSS Mad went out to the terrace.
There, lying back in m (leek- hair liu a
corner screened from any
draught by the glass verandah, 170)010055111,11110,.
Howard with one of Sir Stephen's price-
less Havannas between his lips, a
French novel in his hand, and a morning
papev across (1(0 knees. Ile ,rose as she
approached, ansigh 01 checking a sigof re-
signation, offered her Ids chair,
"Oh, no," she sald, wlth a smile which
showed that she knew what the effort
of politeness cost him. "You'd hate me
11' I took yeev chair. I know; and
though, of course, I don't in the least
care whether you hate me or not, I
shouldn't like putting you to the trou-
ble of so exhauet1ng an emotion."
Howard smiled at her with frank
admiration.
"Del's compromise It," Ile said. I'll
drag that ellair up here—It's out of the
sun, 'you know --so, and arrange these
cushions so, and put up the end for your
feet so, and—how is that Miss Falcon-
er?"
"Thanks," she murmured, sinking in-
to the soft nest lie had made,
"Do you obJect to my cigar? Say so,
if you do. and—
"You'll go off to find some other nook,"
she put in. "No, I like it."
His eye shone with keen apprecia-
tion: this girl was not only a beauty—
which is almost, commonplace nowadays
'—but witty which is•rare.
'Thank( Would yoteellice the paper?
Don't hesitate if you Would; I'm not
reading it; I never do. / keep it there
so that I mon put it *over my face it.
feel like sleeping --which I generally
do."
She declined the Meer with a gesture
of her while hand.
"No, rd rather talk; which means
that YOU are totalk and rin to liste,a
will it exhaust you too 111 11011 to tell
me where the rest of the people are? I
/eft a pavty in tile breakfast room
squabbling over the problem how to kill
time; but where are the Ohm's? 111y fa -
tiler, for instance?"
, "He is in the library with Baron
Wirsch, Mr. Griffenherg, and the ether
financiers. They are floubtleSs engag-
ed in some 'mystic rites connected with
the worship of the Golden Calfvitae in
Which the word 'shares,' 'stock' 'dia.
monas,' 'concessions,' appear at fro.
anent intervals. I suppose your father,
Ifavitig Joined them, is a member of the
all-powerful sect at mopey-weeshiP-
She shruggea hoe shredders,
"T suppose so. And Mr, Orme—is lie
one of them?" she asked, rith elabole
ate inaifferenee
IIowarcl smiled oyalealiV
"Stafford! No; all Wet 110 knowe
about money io the art of sPeederig it;
and wbat he doesn't knolv about that
isn't Worth knowing. It slips through
MS fingers like water through a sieve;
and one of those mYetevies which bur-
den my existence is, how lie always
manages to have some for a friend up
"Ts he 50 generons, then?" she asked,
lvIth a,'delicate yawn behind hev ,hancl,
lIo-,vard necklet], ana was silent tor a,
inoment, then he said musingly:
"You've aot on my ravoaite subject—•
Stafford—Mise Falconer. And I Warn
you that if X go on Tshafl bore You."
"'Well, I can get un and go, awaY,
she eat& languidly: "He is 5, friend of
WOW'S, 2 SUPPOSES? By the way, 'did YOU
klIONY that he stopped thoee ridiculous
hOree.s last night and probably eaved
"'For geoclnese sake don't let
hear yen say that, or even guess that
you think it," he said, witli. an altoeta-
;—
tton 02 alarm 'Stafford weald be in-
exareseibly annoyed. Se hates a /Mae
eVerr more than moot Englishmen, and
(would take lt,yeay unkindly le you 0101-0
,ret.lot a little thing like that pass an,
• noticea., Oh, yes, I am his greatest
friend. , I don't thinlc"—sloWly and con-
ternplatively--'.`that there is anything
he wouldnq en tor me, or anYthing I
'-wouldn't do for him—exceptitig to get
0)0 earlY-,go out, in the rain-- Oh, it
isn't truel rill only bragging," he brOlce
off, vidth a groan. "I've done both and
shall -•clo them whenever he evante (118-
000. l'm !JOU': 'creature, miss Falconer."
. "A martyr on the sates:. of falendship,"
sho said. "Mr, Orme must be very ie-
esistible." '
I -Ie is,' he assented, with an 2b +of
Profound meltuneholy. "Stafford has
the extremely Unpleasant imbelt. of get-
ting what, he evante. yery disguet-
ing, but true 'Thetis whybe' is so
general a favorite Why, ie, YOU'. Walk-
ed into any drawing room and asked
wha was the. most popular man 111 Lon -
'don; .the immediate andunardmOus.re-
Ply.would be 'Stafford Orme.'"
, She settled the cushions a little move
comfortably.
"You mean amongst men?" she said.
I-loward emiled , and eyed her ques-
tioningly. '
"Well—O didn't," he replied drily.
She laughed a little scornfully.
"Oh, I know the soet of mon he is,"
she .eald. "I've read and heard about
them, The sort of man who falls in
love with every woman lie meets. 'A
servant of dames'!"
Howard leant back and laughed with
cynical enjoyment.
- (To be cont)nued.)
A NOTED BLACICEOOT SCOUT.
Eddie Snring-inethe-Crowd Is a
Strange Charneter.
Wherever a North-West Mohnted
Police has patrol week en an In-
dian Res.erve, he must have an In-
dian' scent to assist him. This offi-
ces1 employed by the Mounted
Police, Heves at the ba,rfacks, and
Wears a. uniform peovided for hire
by the department. He Lifiligb be
able I:0understand and .speak Eng-
lish, for he is the medium between
th.e• Red Man and the officer of the
la.sv in the Indian teeribery.
Ueually the scent becomes -a very
important personage among the In -
diens, and iS pot arm& loved by
them • While they are .not usually
averse ite polloa eontrol, yet they
cannot overcome the old idea that
the Medicine -Man and chief of the
Eddie apring-iwthe-Orowd.
tribe should be the only Indian an.
tdmrity under which they must
bend,
One of the most enlightened
scouts in the employ of the force is
Eddie Speing-in-the-Geowd, who,
ler short, is calle•cl plain "Eddie."
What. :hie father saw at the time of
his birth to suggest 'such ria-inicom-
mon name for his child is nob
known Fddie 'is one of the few
Indians of the Blood Reserve who
gets mail, at the local, p.esteoffiee.
For some years Eddie has been's,
subscriber to a Cenadien periodi-
cal, and while the police affirm. that
he does not read the literature, yet
they believe:the pleasure of having
a magazine come addressed to him-
self mere than offsets the email
subscription he paye for it,
&late has 110 aversion to sitting
for ahotograph.e.r. The, .a.ceom-
panying photograph thews him at-
tired in a new eerge with brieht
brass button's. Eddie has also in-
vested in a new pair of boots.
10
, COLORS IN MEN'S CLOTHES.
-
London Tailore Jill reduce Over
• One Hundred Shades.
Don't be afraid if ,your tailor
happens to say you -would look well
in tt "mauve and black suit," or
even if he suggests Y011 would look
well' in a "dull blue and willow
gx een.
„Tis.esc are t•wo of the 115 shades
of th e laaW cello r- Wen elect 'materials
for men that the principal London
tailors are trying to intreduce to a
wider public. The titles of seine of
the °thee shades ore:
Gold brown ad heather, amethyst
and black, claret and blue, wine
r•ed and genes green, Danneen pur-
ple, ninlberry 'and sepia, IllaUVE and
chestnut, purple and brown.
These names read like mixed
drinks, but quite 50 per cent, of the
shades would not be particularly
notieeable 1.0 a crowd if you did not
a label to the suit, though all of
them, look: 'much. brighter than the
ordinary suiting and have a distine-
To be quite earidid, there fire
really only '11 (11011011 colore \vhich
could only be worn by a blind 11100
or sillier -nut,. `,Phese include brighj,
bluee, "peac.ock," 'Purple,'' "pan-
sy," and other vivid :colors. The
,rest are carefelly blended Shades,
which heighten up the room without
offending the eye,
•:Cheery 'Dishes.
• .Cherries are. antrong,the Summer
11021105 shat are' Mizell imprevecl by
'Cooking, Somehow they lose nettle
of their freshness ansi ere reader.,
ed mucii jitiMer'ded mere tooth -
Shine ,by eliglAecosiking. Hete, are
s�nte Teceipta that Make use: of
Cherry `1101110011aTo make a deli-
cious oherry padding eoals one small
eupful of tapioca in water over
night. In the Morning add a pinch
of •salt an.d Cook until clear. Then
add butter the size of an egg and
0110 cupful of :stoned cherries (the
sem dherries a)m, preferable), Add
to .this a half cupful of cheery wine
or a little lemon juice and sugar
to taste. Flavor with ranilla ,and
bake :until !bubbles appear on the
.bop. ,Serve very cold with whipPed
cream.
Cherry Plc.—Line 01. Pie Plate
with Tied' pastry, Stone the eller-
ries and fill the pie dis.h. Then p
over them four .table.spoonfuhi -of
molasses a•nd 'dust over all one ta-
blespoonful of flour. Put en an up-
per must:and bake one half hour in
01 moderate oven. When emeleclust
the top with a :generous 'sprinkling
of powdered sugar,
Candied Cherries.—To make a
delicions confeetioa, wash, stern
and pit one pound of large, firm
cherries, putting a pound of sugar
:to: one pound of the. fruit. Bell the
juice and, the :sugar to a very thick
(syrup. Pat the eherries in this
eyamp and let them simmernot
boil—for ten enin.utee. Then set
them .away in the syrup until the
next day. Then take die cherries
out of the syrup and put them in
a deep dish. Let the syrup boil up
once and pour over the cherries.
This operation should be repeated
for ,three. mornings. On the fourth
moaning, boil the syrup almost to
the thickness of candy, dip the cher-
ries in it and let them get thorough-
ly coated, then place them 'septa
rately on flat dishes and dry,
Cherry Cordial.—Very ripe cher-
ries make the •best cordial, Bruise
Che fruit and mash through a col-
ander, :sweeten to taste and boil
b3/1 ten minnEes and then strain.
Boil again -until perfectly clear,
skimming off eccasionallyi To
every quart of the therry juice add
one gill of pure brandy, Seal the
bottles tigil-ctly and keep in a cool
dark alace until Teady rise.
(Ionian Cherry Pie.—Make a
cherry pie, 415 salmi, bob onsit the
upper cruet. When almost done,
beat one 'egg until very light and
add to 11 on•e ecant hall cupful of
rich -cream. Pour the mixture over
the top of the pie. Publthe pie .baok
in the oveneand bake until the cus-
tard is seb. This snakes a -very at-
tractive as well as an appetizing
dish.
Cherry Salad.—Here is ,11. delight-
ful dish bloat calls for fresh cher-
ries. F.or a course in a warm -
weather luncheon it is very geed
Either the large white or the red
cherries may be used, and Ibis most
effective to mix the two milers. The
fruit 'should be •stoned without
breaking the fruit and in the plate
of eadh stone is placesl se, net meat,
Hazel nuts 'are the easiest to use,
but any sort will do, The cherries
Should then be spread on lettuce
leaves and used 02 they may be
stewed with "sugar, water and a
tle lemon juice,.
Dried Cherries.—The housewife
who has an eye to the demands of
the following winter tvlsen fresh
fre it 13 not to be 'ha'd in abundance,
will veeleonie Lhis receipt :for dry-
ing cherries. Select the 'most per-
fect fruit cad cut th' bems off
close, •Donlb pall the atens, as
this :bruisee the fruit, and .allows the
juke to escape. Now spreal and
al.low to -du slowly in 0 cool oven.
Whe.n thoreughly dry pack away in
boxes and have on band for ceest
winter, Mey may be irs'ed when
soaked in almost any of the ways
in which the :fresh fruit is used, or
they may be dewed witilasagar, wa-
:ter and a little lemon juice. •
Hobsehold Hints.
Silver spoons that are stained
with egg should be rubbed with
salt.
New patchwork designs show
large, pink 't3.1 1113S 011 a neutral
ground.
Use a funnel in filling -a, hot wa-
ter bottle if you would save the
rubber. -
The best way to mend linen is to
Istreieth it emoothly ovei an em-
broidery frame.
A .paper basket 'folded over the
outer edge and top of ice in the re-
frigerator will save the iceman's
bill,
ISfained flour beardS can be clean-
ed by acrubbing with Chloride, of
lime, using a tablespoon to a pai1
of water.
If a little floiir is .sifte'cl into hob
fat, eggs may be dropped in with-
out the objectienalyle sputtering
and frying of het lat.
If the hair is dry •and brittle give
it a .good application of vaseline or
pure olive oil onethe scalp the eight
loe.fere shampooing.
The tea Itettle 'should be washed
'clean every night ..and filled 'fresh
every morning, 'if you would have
good •coffee /arid tea.
When 'there is a white deposit on
Oho comb Oise shampooing, it is
either from the 'towel oe soap welch
has not been riased out. ,
It is a good ide,10 lei rinse muslin
hangings, chidren's clresse.s and
pinafores in aiura \eater. 'It will
r en cle r n on -inflammable.
G•oocl floor adheres to ,the hand,
rind when pressed 'tightly, 'Ten -mine
in shape .and shows the imp:Ant of
the lines on the .skin of the head.
Tomatoes are delicious broiled.
• Out 1111010 111 thick .slices and broil
• them over a hob fire; :then they are
eime, .butter and ePeinkle with
•ealt ancl pepper.
Arnie soup, poar it, while hot,
,througli, a erraislin' cloth whieh has
just be.en wrens ,of ice water.
swgaa.lien, ean, heett
A palatable waydte serve ecild
boiled. potatoes ss to put' them
through the sieve. Se.asora thein
vvell' With bitter ,and +sal &nal into'
eoliesand br own,in the oven.:
- When Pressing 'theirs in crepe de
thine use a piede oItiesue paper be..!
tween the, iron arid the right side.
-The theks 'On be .geen arid, at the
,eaine time preteeted. • _
'deiAge:',813,tbekdedppl
of aaeny way
th
ayoef smeorSvtin-;sasil
ap-
ples. If -'a bit of butter is placed en
top of each apple before it is pat in
tlieproovveend,. the flavor will be much
im
When tomatoes 'are dear try :buy-
ing one large 0130 .and slicing it
yery thin op lettuce leaves. You
will find -that it gives the necessary
iaterest and Raver of a %ornate se-
ed, and is as eatisfying as if you
hod used feu -name -toes.
As‘padague when it comes from
the market is hound to be alittle
wilted, 11 you cut about one ineh
off the bottom of the stalks and
,is.
steasac.1 Ithem in water 'about tw.o
in.ches deep, they will freshen and
regain .some of their natural sweet -
1 .
Rernembe:r when sewing on dark
matexial byartificial light to wear
light-oolered apron, 'and .epreael
a white cloth on the' sewing table.
'Ilhe.se things wiN increase the light
to an appreciable extent, and the
great. . on the eyes leiK !Mt be so
FROM MERRY OLD MAU
NEWS RI' MAIL ABOUT JOB3
EULL AND no PEOPLE.
Occurrences In The Land That
Reigns Supreme In tha Com-
mercial World.
Bristol City Council emecimmend
the purchase of :the tramways.
Hull Tramway Committee have
inaugurated one cent faxes on the
corporation care.
Large cracks have appeared in
one of the buttresses of London
Bridge, .and repairers are now at
work:
Staple Mill, near Sandwich, one
of the few Tetn.aining ,winslmills In
Rent, has been des10oye.c1 by tire.
Willeacteneeouncil has decided te
proceed against dairymen
mills from slot machines on half -
holidays,
The new battleship "Marlbor-
ough" has been commissioned at
Devenport as the flagship of the
Fiest Battle :Squadron.
Nottingham corpora.tion voted
$355,000 in :relief :of 'the loetil rates
from the profits of gas, tramways,
and electricity.
Damage to •the extent of $100,000
was caused by a fire that broke ciut
111 the New Era, Joinery 'Company's
Pal hays D ems b.
Walton-011-Th.ames district 001311-
011 has acquired a site tor a public
recreation ground, over six acres in
extent, for $5,850.
In an amateur bands contest DI;
Hayward's Heath the .silver chal-
lenge shield in the first section was
\von by East Grinstead.
Owing to suffra,gebte outrages the
Royal Exchange has now been clos-
ed to ladles, as damage to the very
valuable frescoes is -feared,
Large quantities el -cherries, nec-
tarines atelea,pricots ere being land-
ed daily at Follestone Harbor from
.Franco for the London markets,
Over a dozen people ha•c1 'a 1101"
10)1 eecape from being suffeeated
by escaping gas from a balloon
Which had :descended in East Green -
w1211. • :
A ;venlig :married woman names'
Shoat arid !her two children were
burned to death ab a fire that 00cm:-
red at a shop ab 101 Union street,
Torquay.
A report by :the medical officer of
Ise,alth for Westminster elates that
in his district only 15,999 00(1 01 53,-
224 women aged from 15 to 45 are
married.
A man named William Jeffery of
Garsliff, aged .seventy-three, died in
a tramway Oar' fl'OM Salnele on read-
ing 1.he news of the Empress of Ire-
land.
Without a single exception, 1,700
blankets lent to 'the poor ef 'South-
ampton for the winter 'months, have
been returned into :stores in good
condition.
4 Samuel Math:lick an ele•ctrical
futler in his fortieth year,1groployed
in Portsmouth Dockyard, has bee'n
:arrested at Portsmouth on a charge
of espionage.
Damage 0101112,501541 at $255,000
was caused iiy a fire. in a large
warehouse .ath Goswell Toad, Lon-
don, E.C,, occupie.c1 by Messrs.
Hasa and Sons, fane,y goods manu-
facturers.
Six lives were lost on Whit Mon-
day in a Sea Scout .cliseester on the
Norfolk Broads, nea.r Lowes,beft,
when a, eailiag boat .sucldenly cap-
sized off ,Somerleyton.
Seven Liverpool boys crab fiehing
from the rocks at Now :13riehton
we're .c•ut off frem the .mainland by
the tide allti were resaled hy two
.wh'o waded tb them, the
water, reaching to their .n•ecks. '
London'6 l'atedt 'dream g
• suburb for dockland,seems like
conning true, A numb,er of houses
aim new being'demelished at Silve:r-
, town and the port authoritie10 have
puechases1 gerden •area of 35 anres
to atarI.
A Skeptic. ,
Feed—What kind 'of a fellow is
N.etle-If you should tell him that
sbeing was. 'believing, :he ly011 t
look.
A quick way :10 get through a
crowd is to go around it.
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THE BANNER 'PROVINCE.
Ontario Produces4O Per •Cent, 011
ileid `Products of Canada.
So -mudh has been heard of Can-
ada's grain -growing prairies that it-
is but natural the impression
should be held abroad that the
countrie's energies are devoted 'al-
most Saheb; to farming, and that
on the plains of the West. Ontario,
with 0m-s1x0h of lbhe Peceeinee's
population of three million people,
yearly produceS fatty peeecent, of
the total field Products of Canada's
'nine .Peoviaces. It live stock and
its dairy products are far in excess
of those of the prairie and Pacific
provinces. This Western coumtry
has built up' zilch cities as Winni-
peg, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria
and Vaeoeuver.
The farin wealth of Canada is
great but the mines of Canada,
stand high in the list of sources of
income. In Ontario fare mines that,
during 1913, wene !responsible for a
production of $55,000,000—over one-
third of Canada's raineral output.
The two sources of national
wealth, mining and agriculture,
whieh reach their greatest develop-
ment in the province contiguous
and 'contributory Ito Toronto, axe
reinforced by a third—timber. Last
year's cub of timber in Ontario -was
one-fourth of Canada's total of
$195,000,000.
Great as these sources of wealth
are, yet the greatest instrument
for moneymaking, the greateet
P010011 toward national prosperity,
is the machinery in the factories
and mills of Canada. The table
that follows may dissipate a popu-
lar impression fostered by those
who have endeavored to 'bring only
the agricultural possibilities of
Canada into peominence,
Canada'' Production, 1913.
Manufactured goods ..$1,000,000,000
Farm products (grain,
live stock, dairy,
and all ether farm
prod ac ts) • 853,000,000
Forests 195,000,000
Mines 144,000,900
Fisheries 33,000,000
$2,825,000,000
These figures indicate that menu -
featuring hasa, greater capital in-
vested in it than :any other form
of ;national energy; tha-b it must
employ many more people than
agriculture ; that industrialism is
the largest force in the wellbeing
and presperity of the country,
The railways. of Canada, in whiell
$2,500,000,000 has been invested,
propose no restrietien to the 000-
pansion demanded by the growing
necessities of the eountry.
It is interesting to observe that
four billions of dollars have been
invested in •the capital of companies
prom,oting the manufacturing,
financial ansl transportation inter-
est of 'Canada, and that the aggre-
gate export and dmport trade for
the year 1913 !was $1,147,648,243.
The trade balance against Canada,
which has been freely commented
upon, wa,smaterially recloce.d, the
exports being $474,413,061, fae coin-
peeed with $378,093,9n0 loathe pre-
vions year, the imports being $073,-
234,578, as against $045,547,512 the
year before, To the year's inerea,se
in Canadian .exports manufa,cturecl
geode contributes" e, ga•in of 29 por
cent.
P 0 PULATIN Ci• THE SEAS.
Will Soon Be 40,009 Herthant
Ships Afloat.
Never since the world began have
there been so many meecluent, ships
.on the seas as now. There has been
30 'shipbuilding a tremendous boom,
whi•ch, though declining, still con-
tinue's. By the end of 1914 it is esti-
mated that the total number of
:merchant shipafloat upen the
oceans. of 'the world exce.e,d 40,-
000, and that their total tonnage
will be snore than 55 000 •
000 Three-
foUrthe of these ape steamers; a,nd
the gest .are sailing craft. • The
tonnage of the: latter, however, is
only about obeeeeventh of the total.
In the nuMber and tonnage of its
merchant ships Great Britain is far
ihod of any other country. Nearly
hall the, vessels afloat •aee British.
According to the latest issue of
Lloyd's Register the United States
ranks. next to Great'Britain with a
total geese tonnage of ,nearly 8,-
000,000, • distributed among more
than 3800 shine, Tiferi comes Ger-
many within: 500,000 of the United
States. fetal, Norway outranks
France, and almost equals. Ger-
many in the number of her ships,
but her boats are small in size.
Germane 'and France, however, are
building vessels faster than the
United States. With the opening
of the gates of Panama five new
ocean routes will be created, one
to the West Coast of South Amer-
ica, a second to Australia and New
Zealand, a third to the Philippines
and Oceamie, a fourth to the• East
Indies a•nd Southern Asia, and the
last of all to China. and Japan. Not
even •the meel astute of the great.
commercial Sea Lords who ecan the
horizon of trade from their watch
towers in London, New York, and
Hamburg, can do more than haz-
ard guesees .a.s. to the re -arrange-
ments of trade and the shifting of
fleets that the opening and expan-
sion of ecenraerce and els] inarkets
ivill bring about in the net. five
years. On only one point do they
agree unanimously, that, the world
is on the threshold of a tremendous
eommercial boom, and that its 'stim-
u/ating cause is the opening of 'the
great 'canal, The principal eufferer
from the impending changes will
probably be the Suez Canal.
CRANKS ABOUND IN LONDON.
Mania of One Is Inquests, Aeother
WITS Nightly Salute to Police,
Punctually at 10 o'clock every
night, ,its the men irom one of the
largest metropolitan police sta-
tions march out on night duty, a
mysterious -looking man stands still
and erect .as a, etat'tete with his hand
at the salute until the blue -clad
figure has passed. Then he goes
home without speal6ng a word. lie
has carried out this strange pee, -
gramme for years minus a break'.
When he .was questioned, all th11
eatisfection a repeesentative could
obtain was that bo thought the
meteepolitan police the 'finest body
of men in the Nvorld, and this was
the manner llechose to show his
admiration. His nightly vigil out-
side the police .staition is an obses-
sion.
And In this he doesnot stand
alone. Ilor thew: are numerous in-
etances which go to ahow that many
other people are tarred with the
brush of t•he crank.
What, fer example, do you think
of a, man, who, having a bitter feel-
ing against railways, had his 'sea-
son :ticket photographed on post -
'cards which he supplied wholesale
to the colleelers 1 Such 10211011 does
exist. He has a rooted objection
to showing hie season ticket.
Having fours" that according to
English lu,w that for which. a, 02(1001
has paid cannot be .taken away from
him, :another eccentric individual,
who used the Soluth-western Rail-
way, refused to givC1 ep his ticket.
Not; only did he fight for his 'conten-
tion, but he peeved it in a courb oF
law. His victory resulted in a, modi-
fication of the by-law.--Pearson's
Weekly.
10
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Mrs. • Lubber — He re' s wine
pals, Manly, thot 'Mrs. • Hogan was
either sindin' over for yer. She
says .they'll either kill or cure yer.
.Lubberty (35110 is ill)—Begorra,
did she say which they would do
foorst?
The kicking horse njure's
oelf
Sugar
does nake the
bread and butter
taste good r
IT is wheri you spread
it out on bread or
pancakes, fruit or
porridge,lhat you notice most the sweetness and perfect
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