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The Clinton News Record, 1917-03-01, Page 2Eyssy Lea is 'of VinQuality' Sealed Packets Only. Pierer in Bulk, l lack, Mined or Green. B217 THROUGH THE DARK SHADOWS Or The Sunlight of Love CIIAPTER XXL,-4(Cont'd), "You ask inc why?" he murmured, his forehead damp with the force of his emotion. "You who )(now how I love you —worship your very shadow!" She trembled under .the passion of his gaze. "Adrian!" she exelaimed, in low, reproachful tones. "Why do you speak to me like that, when I know how little your words realaly mean?" "Little!" he cried with suppreesed paseion. "Ah, Constance, why are you so cruel to me? Why do you so misjudge me, when I would gladly die to serve you." The earnestness in his tones was unmistakeable; but she kept her face turned from him, and he knew only from the quick -drawn breath that she had heard him. "Constance," he pleaded; "look at me, dear. Give me this one chance. I shall never trouble you again." "You have no right—" she began tremulously. "No right to tell you I love you. Do you think I don't know that?" he burst out, "It is just that very knowledge which has burnt itself into me, and seared my very soul." "What knowledge?" she asked, £or- getful, in the suddenness of his attack, the tactics she had adopted with re- gard to Lord Standen. "The knowledge of your engage- ment," he answered hoarsely. "Ah, Constance, be merieful. Surely not even Standen himself would grudge me these last few moments." "What has Lord Standen to clo with - rue ?" she asked, looldng him full in the face with steadfast eyes. He stared at her in amazement. "Is he. not your accepted lover?" His voice betrayed his agony of spirit; and, hearing this, she relented. Holding up her left hand, the third finger of which was bare of rings, she said quietly, almost indeed, demurely: "Trus does not look like it, does it?" The light of hope, new-born, flashed into his face. Ile sprang forward eagerly. "Constance!" he cried. "My darl- ing! You will try to care for me then —9" He would have taken her in his arms• but she held him off at arm's length. • "No! no, Adrien," she interrupted sadly. "Because I am not engaged to Lord Standen, is that any reason why I should love one who treats me so lightly 7" "I treat you lightly, you—the one woman l have. ever truly loved? Con- stance, whatever sins I may have com- mitted, you are my first love, and you will be my last. I am not worthy to touch your hand, as pure as it is white, but will you not forgive inc the folly of my past life, and let me live in hope that I may do better? I swear from this day forth to cast off the old life, with all its emptiness and folly, and lay the future at your feet." As his passionate words ceased, she turned to him. "Adrien, I do not know what to think," she said in low, troubled tones, "I wrote to you last month—that day we came up to London, believing that! perhaps you had learned to care a little for me; but when you deliberate- ly spent the day with another woman,: sooner than with me, what am I to think?" "What do you mean?" he asked hoarsely. "I saw you," she returned simply,! "when we were at the station, auntie' and I, on the twenty-second—" "The twenty-second!" he echoed, through blanched lips. "Yes, you were at Waterloo Station with someone, I did not see her face. But what does it matter now? If you had cared—" She stopped abrupt ly"I do care," he reiterated passion- ately. "Heaven above knows that; but I do not hope to make you believe me. Constance, I can ive neither you nor any living being tt e explana- tion of that awful day. But I swear to you that the meeting was unsought by me. I could not help myself. I do not know how all this has come about. I understood from Standen that—that he was engaged to—" "Muriel Branton," interrupted Con- stance softly. "He told me himself" For a moment, Adrien stared at her in stupefaction, "If I had known we were at cross- purposes!" he exclaimed. "1 see it all now—when it is too late," and sinking down on the stone seat he buried his face in his hands. For a .minute there was silence, broken at last by the rustle of Lady Constance's dress as she came timidly towards him, "Adrien," she murmured, very low indeed, but not so low that he did not hear. He looked up, gave ens sWift glance at her blushing face, then, with an incoherent cry of delight, caught her in his arras. "My darling!" he cried, "I love you. Believe that, though I failed you so." No further words were spolten— I none were needed; then Adrien sa d gently. "Darling, before wo.'eturn, tell me, just onee—let me hedt it fromo r own lips, that you love me: for can scarcely believe I am awake." "It is no dream, Adrien" she said, her face flushing and quivering with pent-up emotion, "I love you, dear." Again he claseped her in his arms and neither heard a step behind them, It was not until a warning cough roused thein, that Adrien started, and became aware of the presence of Mr, Jasper Vermont. CHAPTER XXII, While the preparations for the ball at Barminaten Castle had been going on apace, trouble and confusion reigned in the little village on the banks of the Thames. No sooner had Mr. Jasper Vermont taken his departure, than poor Lucy Ashford'sank on the. floor of the shop, and burst into a flood of tears. So great had been the strain that she was completely unnerved, and had quite forgotten the Likelihood of her hus- band's return from Richmond, as well as the mysterious disappearance of Jessica, who had not been seen in the house since the arrival of Adrien Leroy and his uneanscious burden. This sudden realisation of all the presentiment of evil which Lucy Ash- ford had ever in her mind, had burst on her like a thunderbolt. Site had known always that the man, Mr, Jas- per Vermont, who knew her secret, was alive; but never before had she been actually threatened with its be- trayal, Ha father, Mr. Harker, had always' stood between her and that dreadful possibility. Presently, she jumped up and call- ed to Jessica. Then site remembered that the girl had disappeared from the time she had sent her from the room. Fearing that Vermont night yet change his mind and rettu'n for the night, she ran to the door,' calling out Jessica's name in a paroxysm of nerv- ous terror, which finally, on receiving ino reply, ended in a severe attack of hysterics, in the midst of which her husband returned and found her. With an exclamation of alarm, he raised her from the floor and bore her 1 upstaine to the bed on which Lady Meriva9e hacl lain such a short time ago. Ho was greatly puzzled by the disordered appearance of the room, and his first thought was of burglars. 1 He gave no time to this, •however, but hastened to get his wife into bed, then rushed out for a doctor. When he returned with him it was found that Lucy had relapsed into a state of fever, and was talking deliriously of an inn at Canterbury, an individual of the name of Johann Wilier, and most of all, making plaintive appeals to Jasper Vermont not to betray her. As the next day Jessica had not re- turned, Ashford found all his work cut out for him, to see after the shop and the children, as well as his wife. A kindly neighbor carte to his rescue; but John insisted on nursing Lucy himself, while the woman remained downstairs. At first, the husband paid little at- tention to the wandering, incoherent sentences of his wife; but as the first excitement died down, and they began to take distinct form, be bent over her, and learned the one error of her life, Naturally, poor John recoiled in hor- ror; the whole thing seemed so incred- ible, so impossible to believe, Yet 9$. 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Tears sometimes are Nature's own medicine, and do more to soften the heart than any words, After the first shock had worn away, Ashford com- menced to look' back on the happy. days he had spent with Lucy; the way she had worked with him, and for him, These thoughts did their Heal- ing work, and accordingly, a few days later,, when Luck Ashford returned to consciousness, she found her bus - band's eyes gazing into hers with only pitying tenderness in their depths. "John," she said faintly, "have I been ill?" "Yes, dear," he replied gently. Something in his saddened tones, or perhaps some strange intuition, told Lticy that her secret was no longer hers alone. "John!" she cried, her voice shak- ing with terror and weakness. "You know all!" And she hid her face in her hands. Her husband bent over her tender- ly and kissed the thin cheek. "Yes, dear," he said. "You've told me all. Why didn't you trust me before?" She looked at him in wonder, hard- ly believeing the evidence of her own ears. Was this all tho reproach and anger he would deal out to her ? Could it be possible that; knowing all, the man the .had loved, yet feared, solely on this account, would not only forgive but take her into his heart again? As if in answer to her be- wildered thoughts, John'e arm was around ha neck, and Mira kiss of for- giveness fell upon her sins, Presently, sho looked up,. with a look of ineffable peace and gratitude on r her foss, "John," the said, t' and for poor father', it will be new life to him to knob that this dreadful Weight is off my heart, and that yon, knowing what a bad woman I have been, will still call me your wife, Oh, fetch him to Inc Noon, deal, that he may bo happy EON". (To be Oontlnuad).. Ginger- Recipes for Cold Days, Gingerbread. --One cup dunk mo- lasses, one cup granulated sugar, one- half cup shortening (half lard and but,- ter), elle cup cold water, ono teaspoon eat:h-of nods, cinnamon and ginger, four cups' flour. Stir sugar, shorten- ing, epiees and molasses together with Water, _ Then add flour sifted with soda, Beat about ten minutes and bake. Ginger Pudding -Four ounces of flour'r six ounces of molasses; one egg; one teaspoonful ground ginger; rind of lesion; pinch .of salt; four ounces of breaderumbs; four ounces of finely chopped or shzedtled suet; ono teaspoonful baking PAder; two to blespoonfule milk, Having chopped the suet as finely us possible, grate the lemon ri}id and mix these two with the flour, breadcrumbs, baking pow- der and ground ginger. Add the mo- lasses and the well -beaten egg. Then with the milk rinse out the bowl in which the egg was beaten and add to the rest, Mix very well and pour into a well -greased pudding mold; steam for three and -dr half hours. Serve with a sweet or a hard sauce, When measuring the molasses the best method is to dip a tablespoon in flour and then to fill with the molasses, which will easily roll out from the floured measure. One tablespoon (heaped) is roughly one 'ounce. Boiled Ginger I'tidding—One-half pound of suet; .one pound of flour; one-half pound of brown sugar; two heaping teaspoonfuls -of ground gin- ger. Chop the suet very finely, and mix with the other ingredients. Put all quite dry just as they are into a very well -greased mold and boil for three hours. When cooked turn out on to a hot dish and serve with a hot, sweet sauce poured over. - Ginger Puffs—One-half pound of flour, ono teaspoonful of ground gin- ger, three eggs, one tablespoonful of sugar, preserved ginger. If not suf- ficiently moist add a little milk. Mix the -flour, ginger and sugar together; beat the eggs very thoroughly and stir them into the dry ingredients. But- ter some little baking tins, put small pieces of preserved ginger at the bot- tom; half fill with the mixture and bake in a quick oven. Serve with wine sauce or a little ginger syrup heated and flavored with lemon juice. Gingerbread Pudding — One-half pound of stale gingerbread, one ounce of molasses, one egg, two ounces of sugar, one-half pound of flour, two ounces of almonds, one-half pint of milk. .Crumble the gingerbread and nrix with the flour, sugar and blanch- ed and chopped almonds, then stir in the molasses, milk and beaten egg. Mix thoroughly, turn into a well -but- tered mould and steam for three hours. Ginger Rings—One pound of brown sugar, one pound of flour, two table- spoonfuls of ground ginger, six ounces of butter, one egg. Cream the butter, and sugar and add the beaten eggs, flour anti ginger. Mix thoroughly and knead lightly. Roll out on a floured board a quarter of an inch thick. Cut into rings, us- ing doughnut cutter. Bake in a moderate oven till they have acquired a deep golden brown color. Ginger Snaps—Ten ounces of flour, two teaspoonfuls of ground ginger, a pinch of salt, .one-half pound of golden syrup, three ounces of butter, a small teaspgpnful of baking powder. Mix the flour, ginger, salt and baking pow- der together. Warm the, syrup and melt the butter in it. Stir into the dry ingredients, roll out and cut into rounde. Bake on a greased tin for fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Four Delicious Hot Bread Recipes.' The breakfast "pop -over" usually takes about three-quarters of an hour to bake, but from abroad comes the following recipe for a very similar hot biscuit, which can be baked in less than half an hour: - Two cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of milk, two well -beaten eggs, salt to taste. Beat the eggs thoroughly, then heat in gradually the flour, milk and salt. Place buttered earthen Sups in a hot stove and let therm get very hot. Pour the pop -over batter into the hot cups, only half full, and in half an hour, or even less, they will be light, full blown and a golden brown. ' Here is a hot breakfast brand which can be cooked on a griddle in twenty minutes and is exceedingly good: Three cupfuls of flour, one-half tea- spoonful of sa.it, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ane tablespoonful of butter, onehalf cupful of milk. The flour,'salt incl balling powder aro sift- ed together, then the butter is rubbed in: Adel milk and mix thoroughly, using more mills if necessary to make a soft dough. Then place the dough on the hot greased griddle, cover and cook slowly for tern minutes. Re- move, turn the dough over and cook on other side ten minutes longer. Do not cut this, but break into pieces It can be served with butter or in small howls with fruit juice.-.. A substantial hot bread -fax, break- fast is a cornmeal and rice combina- tion. The rice can be Cooked the night before and be used cold boiled in the morning. It is made as fol- lows: Two cuptfls ofcornmeal one cup- ful of boiled ries, two cupfuls of milk, three eggs, one tablespoonful of but - tor, one teaspoonful of salt, two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder. Mix the well -beaten eggs, milk, butter and cornmeal—to which the salt should be , therice. I mail: the added—and y, baking powder should be stirred in. The batter should pour easily, but if too thick a little ,more milk should be added, Pour into muffin this and bake in a moderate oven,. Ilere is the recipe for Scotch seems, the favorite Scotch hot bread: Twa cupfuls c: Motu, one teaspoon- ful of baiting powdery cola -quarter.' tea- spoonfal of salt, tf"io tablespoonfuls of butter, one egg, One cupful of .ming. helix the dry ingredients together, then rub in butter, The egg should be beaten up in the milk and then scarred into the d1'y mixture, Mix thorough, ly and bake on riot griddle or in a quick oven, Cure of Floor's, ' No housewife can expect to keep her floors looldng' beautiful without some attentjo1, so, naturally she wants t0 find the eimplcst way in which :it on bo given. In searching fol;' this many adopt methods which exports on floor ftniehes know are ruinous to the finish and often even to the wood itself. Shellac Finish—If i'vater has been spilled upon the floor and it has turn- ed white in places, moisten a soft cloth with a little alcohol anal rub the spots lightly. Do not repeat this operation too'ofted, however, or the finish will be. entirely removed. Shellacked floors sometiines take on a clouded or gray ish appearance dire to dampness in the air. This condition can usually be greatly improved by the same treatment. If' the finish has become so dirty that -itis necessary to remove it, first scrub the floor with wood alcohol and. then bleach it with oxalic acid; never use lye, as it turns the wood black and ruins the surface per- manently, After all moisture has evaporated the original finish may be applied. Varnish Finish—If the finish has be, come badly worn, scrub with a brush, but never flood the floor with water, After it has dried out, apply a thin .coat of varnish; or, in case time can- not be allowed for the varnish to dry, wax may be substituted. Do not use shellac on top of old varnish or varnish on top of old. shellac, Wax Finish—Waxed floor's should be dusted daily with a broom covered with canton flannel. Keep a can of wax on hand, and should the finish be- come worn apply a thin coat, rubbing well into the wood. Allow the wax to dry for one hour and then polish thoroughly. Before rewaxing the floor scrub it with turpentine and a piece of cheesecloth. The rules apply to virtually all hard -finish floors. Household Hints. A small amount of salt added to milk will make it more easily digest- ed, When a housekeeper has no.help she should insist on a kitchen. cabinet" Cream of wheat served with pork sausage is good and it counteracts the grease of the sausage. February is a good time to plan the flower and vegetable garden, and send in the order for seeds. Fondant, thebasis of all good cream candies, can be used as a coveting and also as a filling. Whenever you take stock out of the stock pot, add all equal amount of water to keep up the supply. A simple dessert is made by adding chopped nuts to stewed apples and serving with whipped cream, If a soft piece of home-made bread is rubbed on a scorch on woollen goods, it willremove the scorch, ' It is better to have too much than too little of the mineral substances found in milk and fresh vegetables. All cereals should first be boiled rapidly for a few minutes and then slowly for hours in a double boiler. ' going it Blind. After witnessing the wonderful per- formance of a blind pianist, one Irish- man remarked to another: "By the powers. that's the best music I ever hears !s'ith me two ears." "He does pretty well for a blind man, doesn't he?" "He does, indeed, but I was ,lust thinkin' of wan thing." "What's that?" "It Wouldn't make any difference to him if he wasn't blind." "Why not?". "Well, I was wetchin' him all the evening' and he never looks at the piano, anyhow." Thorough mixing is what makes cake delicate and tender ticSg makesthebest cakebe. canseit creams quickly and thoroughly with the buttem ;which is time Jlardestptrtofthoniix• fag. Its purity and extra Vine" ilea" granula• tion 'make ft dissolve at once. - 2 and 5-)br Cartons 10 and 20.1b. Bags 4 Th.n All•Furposo Sugar" to 2'/ ndirr ; 23' gree Iona/ .wt r, r r, , rwra: r rel %'•r ,_ •r:5' ,111111141111 at r r' AN. RI`I'AI!t a LEADS }� °ADS • of that people. Itisfighting mad to- trade and commerce locked in the day, and getting madder every .min- war issue. ®LIy ate. The stigmas and insults to cr ty VI®tkaS It and honor from Washington only • increase the resolve of her people an their faith in the Invincibility of th AMERICAN WRITER TELLS OF righteous cause, For this they a L willing to pledge everything in seer VAST ACRIEVEIVIENT, Tice for justice upon the altar of the battle fires, The Ordnance Base. Commercial Nation Dwarfs in Thirty nt - Twe five years ago the mai Menthe Germany's Work of ery of England and her metal wor Engldnd did not waken t the waxf1 d power that cameo throngs eulttin l out luxuries no soon as Germany, bu e she is on the road to just ps thole -Lip] re a conservation of ail forces, All ta 1- nations are in the 'struggle ,f.'or +scones 11' rale existence that fighting :forces maga be increased, Germany and EnglanQ are rather ashamed of It; Euseia and France are proud of it, The .shutting n- up of barrooms, the closing of places - of amusement, the closing of cafes "� TM - anti ny the shutting off of lights at nine's ig thirty all make for increased maul e power and greater war efficiency, It n is not enly a financial and a metal, al but a social andeconomicalstrugglt in Europe such as the -world has neve ' er dreamed of and of which the people o . er rjy, i United taus have slue t UI tieU tdS by s n ee comprehension. The People and Their Resources. , Formerly, armiee fought battle, m and the war was wherever the armied moved, To -day, five hundred nt}llion:1 woe people are arrayed in battle and vest d ganizing to win In war. They are or-; n. ganizing' in clothing, food, crinin, the discarding of luxuries, increase in thgl le energies and hours oe labor and in that mutual burdens of all forms of taxes! tion. Any excess profit is peomptijf! taxed. In England more than twd billion a year, or one quarter the eost,1 is being raised by taxation. Grains. are being ground more coarsely with' the result that in bulk they produce' 25% more, a smaller percentage o Thirty Years, ors stamped out the coins of ma nations and moulded the guise of b The Boston (Mass,) News Bureau and Iittle of many more, She was th sags; ordnance maker of the world, The All the seven wonders of the world Germany became her rival as a met fade on history's page compared with worker and, getting government bout the Britain t ties or spectacle � Gr B n n re ens orders, t c eat ri i s is she •a ab P p , , was Ole with 11 to -clay. A commercial nation of less cheaper labor and living to cut and than 50,000,000 people suddenly sum- the prices of -England, The ordnee monad to arms where no arms existed fires of England went out except f and in less than thirty months she navy guns and "made in Germany has a bigger army than history ever invaded the Island and was stampe before recorded and a war machine in over the world on everything fro Europe that for wealth of shell, ex- cutlery to rifles and cannon; plosives and war power is the amaze- But the foundations, in metal ment of the Germans, who had taken ers and the old factories in this bus ten times thirty months to prepare for nese had not entirely dlsappeere the attack. when the Prussian hosts fired upo But this Is only the beginning of Belgium and attempted to roll up tl wonders. treaties of Europe as scraps of paper. It Was on this almost forgotten found- ation that England has brought forth her wealth of war material and is or- ganizing to roll the Prussian back over the Rhine in 1917. England's reserve in mart pow that can maintain her eommerci production, her exports and oversea trade while putting an army great than that of Franco in the field need to be carefully studied. England Feeding and Fighting. Germany is living on S0% pe capita of what it was consuming b fore the war, But England is co suming, feeding and fighting to the extent that her physical force is in- creased by far more than 80%. The whole nation is fighting, men, women and children. There is nothing else thought- of, talked of, or worked fo throughout the whole country. ' the leisure classes, men and women, are one way or another in the war. The worsen are joining in the ranks of label' and all labor is to -day for th country with everything in produotio Both Air and Sea Command. Without an English aeroplane en- gine that could circle her 'owe Island she has vanquished tile, boasted Zep- pelins and is mistress of her own skies. With submarines by the hun- dred threatening her coast defences, her food supplies and her commerce, she has swept all oceans, locked the vaunted German fleet in harbor, con- voyed shipments of gold across the ocean in safety—loads of gold that in former tines would have paralyzed national financial markets—made the English Channel her multiple track ocean railway to Europe with no loss by Zeppelin or submarine; fought in Africa, at the Canal, at the Dardan- elles; grappled with the Turk and the Bulger; changed generals and admir- als in command; changed cabinets; fed the armies of France; given arms to Russia; maintained the armies and the governments of Belgium and Ser- bia and altogether advanced three thousand million dollars, or three times the national debt of the United States, to her war allies. Still Supplying the World. While the United States has been trying to find out how to build mili- tary rifles in quantities and has un- filled orders for them representing hundreds of millions of dollars, Eng- land has been turning out rifles by the million for herself and her allies, can- non by the thousand, boots and coats by the million for herself and her allies, and, wonder of wonders, she has done all this, is doing it, is yet to do more, and has now her manufactur- ing, her trade relations and her over- seas commerce unimpaired, Yet she has grabbed the trade of the world, so that her enemies are struggling on half rations with food, rubber and metal supplies from the outside world practically cut off except as new ter- ritory is taken. This is a gigantic physical power and a trade and war power combined never before dreamed of. It puts in the shade all that the world previous- ly knew of Great Britain's financial power. Nobody dreamed two years ago that the war cost to Great Britain was to be beyond five or six billions. It is to -day more than twice that sum and Great Britain is prepared to double it again. But stupendous, and even beyond all previous estimates, as is this financial power, the physical and amental power manifested by Great Britain is the marvel of mar- vels, Tho British Lion was regarded as a ; money bag of trade and a whelp of !mho seas. Great Britain's ability to put 10% of her population under ants, to feed and equip her Allies and at the same time' to maintain ha cre- dit and commerce throughout the world was something never dreamed of within or without her empire be- fore this war. Uncounted Wealth and Unmeasured Spirit. No economist ever counted the wealth iu eredit, gold reserves and se- eu'ites power that is now showing forth in the British empire, No stu- dent of men and nations ever pictur- ed :forth the war spirit at the British people that could be so roused in a righteous cause. No student of re- ligion or social order ever gauged the spirit of self-sacrifice that is now lighting the path of the nation 111 war. This is the people's war. It is the war of democracy that has built the British oniplre around the globe, It not a war of kluge, .lords or nobles. It is a wan in defense of all the civil. Motion, pease and honor for which England has stood and iu which she has made pedgress for more than hnndraci years, 'i`lto Pre no could measurably .ensure he ea /moue th wealth England, til p$ g i, taunt her ptrpulatlon and take tall of ilei• guns, big and little, They numbered hot' military mon, her business risen rind her Idle and leisere classes' atc•l- outside of her navy, her wealth and her trade site was bsr a Prussian miii, tary collate' as nothing, But nowhere in the world was hero anything by which to 01500ure the idemboring sold er al nutriment is lost and, the food bein e9" richer in nutrition, consumption polls capita is diminished without bread cards or. other German regulations., In all fighting countries luxuries are ✓ being steadily diminished. Cream,, e_ fat, sugar, wines, expensive meate and, n_ fruits are being steadily redhead in '.ae consumption. 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