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â-  .,-,7«^.W>lW % 'A sn^ Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. aeeag (HAPTKK II.â€" (Coiit'l.) "Another piece of imprudence, prob- ably. Ani nov they'll expect you to Bit up all niRht, and vrhaps even tie Up their wound-s. Poor, dear father! But you've really got yourself to thank for it, you know, fo making yourself too cheap. Now, mind you're back before we are, unless you want me t'- come after you and march yo-j home. Really, I'm sorry for that great lump of an Adam. What can he have been after? Here's your cloak, Fenella, and the machine is waiting. Now, mind your flowers!" But Fenella, for a brief moment, had forgotten her flowei-s. Her brown eyes remained fixed a little wistfully upon her father's face, sympathetic- ally ;peiing out ..le disturbance writ- ten thtre. A second sharp r?pri- mand from .Tulia was required to re- call her to more urgent matters. The ne.xt few minutes consisted of those rapid movement.«, that agitated collecting of gloves and fans, that feverish draping of wraps and tucking up <if skirts which, on such evenings as this, mark the final stage before departure. Even before the prepara- tions were auite finished, John had silently withdrawn. He was aware of being not only a superfluous (igure, but also a discordant note. Though those three young fjeople were his own flesh and blood, they had no use for him at this moment â€" nor he for them. •'Que (liable allait-il faire dans cette galere?" CHAPTKR HI. It was long past midnight when John, his body weary, his soul bleed- ing with the pity of the things ho had seen, entered the small bedroom he had inhabited since Ella's death. In- to a shabby easy-chair he sank down before the grate, in which, here and there, among the dead ashes, an ember gleamed, like a bloodshot eye. Of the revellers, no sign as yet; an<I, since someone would Lave to sit up to let them in, it might as well be he, seeing that the pictures so vividly filling his mind would be sure to keep sleep at bay fo. some time yet . It was to this consideration that Janet owed re- lease from her post. As he sat there, gently though un- consciously rocking his head from side to side between his hands, John was aware of a pervading sense of loneliness. Ever since the evening on which he and Ella had discovered the truth about each other, the sensa- .ion had been latent, to become period- ically acute. To-day the sight of the man he loved as a brother, mutilated and apparently dying â€" perhaps also tl.at of his own children, rigged out so bravely in the livery of fashion â€" had brought about one of these mo- ments. Though he had been a widower for barely two years, he had l)een practi- cally alone for twenty-four. From a material point of view. Elln had lost nothing by her grudging sub- mission to John's will; since, less than two years after the crucial scene, the three thousand pounds in (niestion had, by one of those subtle ironies in which Kate delights, found their way, after all, into her ready hanils; the relative whom Mrs. Watson had select- ed as her heir having died intestate, close upon the heels of her benefac- tress, and Ella proving to be the near- est of kin. So, as far as the figure of her income was concerne<l, the liat- tle with John had not been crucial at all; and yet it was by far the most crucial thing which came tc either of their lives, either before or after. Although to .jUtside eyes nothing was altered in their relations, yet nothing had been quite the same again after that evening. The reproachful, martyr-like airs by Fllla somehow completely failed to touch John's not usually adamantine heart. Neither was there much talk of the "assist- ance" she had once dreamt of giving himâ€" as, indeed, how could there be, with maternal duties multiplying? He- sides, their ideas with regard to "rais- ing" the native speedily proved not to be identical. When Klla spoke of "raising" she evidently meant improv- ing their manners, and inei<lentally also their Uiste in dress, while John used just the same expression for u field of activity not embraced within her horizon. Yet his patience never failed him. The form which his disappointment took was not irritation, but a slowly Rowing reserve, in which human pride undeniably had its part. Every glimpse of his inner self which he had Rranlcd to this so inndequj.'e confid- ant now struck him as as a humilia- tion. Or. the evening of the discov- ery he had understood that hencefor- ward he would have to go on his way alone; nnd alone he bad gone ever alone, always with the wound of his disappointment upon him but not! actually unhappy, since his work never; failed him. The work itself had its disappointments, its fre(iuent and bit- j ter deceptions; but the spiiitual has this great ailvantage over the material worker that the etfort in itself satisfies! some otherwise innpienchable craving,' and that even failuie fails entirely to depress, since it is but visible fail- ure, and he knows himself to be work-! ing in a field of invisible harvests.' Under .such conditions even the shovel- ling of earth into an abyss can be ac- complished with a whole heart. The growing up of his children around him could, under the given cir- cumstances, only accentuate John's virtual loneliness. From the cradle on they had been taught another catechism than the one he would have loved to instil. Without an open struggle there was evidently no means of leading them into his own grooves of thought, and from the idea of domestic disharmony ho fearfully shrank. Here, again, the inherent reserve had triumphed. He stood aside, fleeing how, year by year, the Intangible barrier which stood already between him and his wife was growing U^ between him nnd his children. When at last hn was left alone with I them it was too late to throw down I the barrier â€" or so it seemed to him. During the two years since Ella's death nothing had changed between father and children; he continued to I look at them yearningly, but from a distance; and to them he remained "poor father," an object of more or less tender veneration, tinged with that half-contemptuous pity with which so-called "healthy-minded" peo- ple regard those who differ from them in the appreciation of visible goods. And yet his memories of Ella were not entirely bitter. They were even touched with remorse. Was it so completely her fault that she had fail- ed to come up to the ideal companion he had pictured? or not rather his for having expected of her more than she was able to give? It was this ques- tion which, throughout all her foolish- ness and peevish deterioration of tem- per, had kept him patient. On one solitary occasion had pati- ence failed him. This had been dur- ing the smallpox epidemic which had raged at Ardloch some eight years after his marriage. For some days there had been sickness about, to which an incompetent doctor had not been able to give a name. But on that day an Oban authority had pro- nounced the terrifying word, and a summons arriving in John's ab.sence had been promptly suppressed by Ella. On his return he had indeed observed an increased nervousness of manner, and had be'en closely questioned as to the people he had met on the road; but no suspision had awakened in him until next morning, when a second, and this time fearful, messenger burst into the room in which he was pre- paring to breakfast. Charlie Robson had died in the night, it appeared, and now his wife was sinking so fast that she felt it needful to see to her soul. "Charlie Robson?" repeated John, thunderstruck. "Gone already ? Why was I not called?" (To be continued. ) 1 'The Stately Homes of England." The stately homes of England How stricken now they stand, The cottage homes of England Are lonely through the land. And Flanders from her riven side Sends seagulls in with every tide. The lilacs bloom in England, But their fragrance breaks the heart, The hawthorn glows in England, But it has a poisoned dart, And Flanders with her crimson flow- ers Has stained the tender hue of ours. The nightingales of England Still cry from hill to hill. The cuckoo sings through England, But other songs are still, And Flanders from her fields of red Sounds us the Last Post of the dead. The sad waves cry round England, The sad clouds tower and break, But brave man smile in England, Brave women work and wait. And Flanders from her deathless pyre Waves high her torch of holy fire. The stately homes of England, How glorious now they stand! Oh, the cottage homes of England, How great they are and grand! And heroes kiss the sacred sod Of Flanders and give thanks to God. â€" S. M. Smythe. Have the kitchen shelves placed a half-inch from the wall and you will find it the greatest help in cleaning. His Other Copper. Macdonald's dog was in the habit of going daily to a baker's shop. His master would give him a penny, which he would drop out of his mouth on to the counter, receiving in exchange a penny bun. One day his master said to the bak- er: "I should like to know how much my dog really does know. Try him with a half-penny bun to-morrow." When, the next day, the dog drop- ped his penny, and only a halfpenny bun was given to him, he sniffed at it, turned it over and over with his paw, then in a dignified manner walked out of the shop, leaving the I un. In ten minutes he returned, accom- panied by a policeman. /Ibout the OUSi DOMESTIC SCIEN( E AT HOME. First Lesson â€" Food Constituents. The secret of success in successful ing tissue. They also furnish heat, cooking lies with the housewife who Starch, by the process of digestion, is knows food constituents, their value ' converted into a dextrine, and then and the proper method of preparing, made into a convert sugar. This as well as how to plan a diet for in- 1 change takes place in the intestines, valid, child or grown person. i Fats. â€" The source of fats is in beef, Many women read technical terms lard, chicken and other compounds of and become frightened and bewilder- ^ an animal source, and in olives, corn, ed. This is very foolish. Just re- J peanut and cottonseed oil of a vege- member how hard it seemed to do i table source. Vegetable oils are * 'ee decimals before you mastered them, i from all disease. Corn oil is superior and how quickly you understood after | to all domestic oils, it is the by-pro- n little practice. It is just the same | duct of corn from which cornstarch is way with food terms. Learn the few made. In composition fats contain simple principles and become mis- carbon, hytlrogen and oxygen. Fats in tress of the finest profession in the j the bo<ly furnish a greater amount of World â€" become a practical and scienti- heat than starches. They are used fie housewife. also for building tissue. A large The five principal elements of food j amount of fat must be used during necessary to maintain the health are: cold weather than in hot weather, for Proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral ; the heat radiating over the surface salts, water. evaporates more quickly in the cold, Hroteins. â€" The source of proteins oi, in other words, the cold oxidizes are meat, milk, cheese, butter, eggs, ; this body fuel. fish, grains, and legumes. Proteins! Mineral Salts. â€" The source of inor- conlain carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, ganic salts is principally in green sulphur and sometimes phosphorus. 1 vegetables, grains, milk, meats, eggs (Containing about sixteen per cent, of i nnd fish. The salts found in foods nitrogen, the.ir chief use is tissue ! are calcium, iron, chlorine, phos- building, repairing waste and making phorus, magnesium, sodium, sulphur muscle. They also supply the same land potassium. Salts are used to re- amount of heat as starches. gulate the body; they are also needed Carbohydrates. â€" Their source is in j for the formation of bone and teeth starches and sugars, and they are I structure and appear in tissue build- founil chiefly in green vegetables, ' ing. grains and frjits. Carbohydrates are Water. â€" Water is the most neces- composed of carbon, hydrogen and sary of all foods; it forms a part of oxygen in small granular grains in- ' all tissues nnd is the important fac- dosed in cellulose coverings. Carbo- tor in the blood stream. It is pre- hydrates are used to supply energy or 1 It carries nourishment to the blood power to do woik. They enter, to a [ and regulates the bodily process of small extent, into the process of build- elimination. Canning Gooseberries. To can gooseberries, stem and re- move the tails, then wash in plenty of cold water and drain. Pack in jars and fill with boiling water or a heavy syrup. Place the rubber and lid in position and process in a water bath for thirty minutes. Remove, and test for leaks, then store in a cool, dry place. Label and date. Canned fiooseberries for Pies. â€" Pre- pare the gooseberries by stemming and tailing. Place in a preserving kettle and add one cupful of sugar for every pound of prepared fruit. Add one-half cupful of water to a cupful of sugar. Place the kettle on the fire and bring slowly to a boil, stirring all the time the berries are cooking. Boil for five minutes, then pour in steriliz- ed jars. Place the rubber and lid in position and process for ten minutes in hot water bath after the boiling starts. Remove and cool and then test for leaks. (Jooseberry Jam. â€" Use two quarts of gooseberries. Stem and tail them and place in a preserving kettle, add- ing ono and one- fourth pounds of su- gar and two cupf\ils of water. Cook until very.thick nnd pour into steriliz- ed glasses. Cool and cover with paralTin. Store in the Usual mftnner for jellies. Gooseberries may be combined with other fruits when making jams, such as strawberries, raspberries, black- berries, huckleberries or cur>'ants. English (Jooseberry Jam. â€" Two quarts of gooseberries, two cupfuls of water. Place in a small preserving kettle and boil until very soft, usually about one-half hour. Rub through a fine sieve nnd allow a measure of su- gar to each measure of fruit pulp. Re- turn to fire, cook slowly until thick. Pour into glasses or pots and cool. Cover with paraffin. V Floor Fillers. (Jracka and crevices in old floors may be filled with the time-honored ' paper pulp, made by boiling newspa- pers to jelly, draining, and mixing ' with glue. The substance is jammed j in with a knife, then painted over. ! But sawdust, mixed also with glue, is more satisfactory, and saves time. Cornstarch, moistened with turpentine , or linseed oil, makes an excellent filler for porous-grain wood, to be applied before paint, stain, or wax. If de- sirable, tint with ocher, burnt umber, or lamp black. Commercial fillers ready to apply may be bought at any paint store and, of course, save time and trouble. THE PHYSICIAN IN THE WAR ZONE WAR TAKES HEAVY DEATH TOLL OF MILITARY SURGEONS. In Their EtforU to Save Life They Expose Themselves on the Actual Firing Line. The military surgeon, according to that revised art of war which began to be on a fateful August day three years ago, is no longer the neutral ministrant to the wounded. He is a leader of men, for he sustains the morale of troops, he restores the slightly injured as speedily as he may to the fighting line, and he fits his fel- low soldiers for their trade. Therefore he is marked for death by a savage foe just as though his scalpel were sword and his tourni- quet were trigger. The military ne- cessity of Kaiserism demand.s the tor- pedoing of the hospital ship, the shell- ing of the ambulance unit, the bomb- ing of the dugout where the maimed are in refuge. Hence it is that in this tragedy of Europe the casualties in the medical profession have been much greater than in any other war, for they are relatively equal to the mortality among ofl[icers of the line and greatly exceed that of the staff. The army surgeon, whether he be with troops in the charge or far back from the front, is exposed to peril, for in these days of long range wea- pons safety is not assured by dis- tance nor by the dictates of humanity. The surgeon volunteers who are going from this country to fill the depleted ranks of their brethren abroad are therefore Knights of the Great Ad- venture whose chivalry is a rally of self-sacrifice. The Army Surgeon of To-day. The army surgeon of the new order was revealed recently in a lecture de- livered by Col. T. H. Goodwin, D.S.O., an officer of the Royal Army Medical : Corps of Great Britain, who has been on the western front ever since the war began. | "When the battalion is ordered to attack," .said Col. Goodwin, "the regi- ' mental medical officer should, as far as possible, keep near the command- ing officer and move forward with him. If the attack is succefsful there will be a certain number of wounded in ; No Man's Land. j "The medical oflScer should direct each of these who are able to walk to I go back, taking shelter as much as i possible, until they meet the stretch- j er bearers of the field ambulance divi- sion who are coming up behind. Those : wounded who are unable to move ' should be placed in shelter, in shell , craters or trenches, and first aid i performed as rapidly as possible. "The medical officer should not de- lay here. He must at all cost keep in touch with his battalion and move for- ward with it. His presence in the | ncwlv won trenches will be of im- mense moral value. He can forthwith set about improvising a regimental ' aid post, improving shelters for the wounded and attending to casualties 1 as they occur. He should take every I opportunity to get in communication 1 either by telephone or messenger with the field ambulance bearer division, which will now, under a pretty heavy shell fire, be clearing the wounded from the area through which he has just come." Some one asked Col. Goodwin how it would he possible for a regimental officer advancing with a battalion to attend to so many wounded. Death in No Man's Land. "He can do first aid," was the an- swer, "but he should endeavor to move forward with his battalion. He can, as a rule, place wounded men in fairly good shelter, and if he can do that with every man he should con- gratulate himself. "If he had fifty cases, twenty-five would probably be more serious. He cannot manage twenty-five cases without taking at least twenty min- utes. He cannot delay long, however, as the battalion is probably going into the next trench, and he must at all costs endeavor to be with them. "I grant that it is difficult indeed, but we have to do our best. 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"Out of a total of 6,000 casualties you will probably get back 4,000 to ; 5,000 right away to the clearing sta- , tion. Sometimes the wounded have to stay in the front area all day in the 1 dugouts and then when the fire de- j creases at night you get them back. Sometime."! it seems impossible, but ' you can manage to do it." Speaking of the field ambulance, { Col. Goodwin said that it was largely composed of newly commissioned of- ficers with men under them who are little more than boys. i "They go cheerfully and quietly for- ward," he added, "into positions which can only be described as unmitigated : hell." ! Dr. Goodwin then tersel.v laid down some general axioms for the guidance of the surgeon in the field and put especial stress upon this: "Keep cheery. Your mental atti- tude will have a considerable effect upon the men." Medical Corps Heroes. "Although as the organization of the war hospitals proceeds there may be comparative safety for the sur- geons at the bases, the ranks of the profession are being constantly de- pleted by the demand for first aid on the firing line. This is the duty of i the regimental medical officers, to whom Dr. Goodwin refers, and among these there has been the greatest loss of life. When the war began many of the best surgeons of both England and France were sent to the furthest front. So many of the profession have lost their lives that in these days when a skilled and experienced surgeon Is worth as much to an army as a Colontl, every effort is being made to protect the surgeons. HISTORIC FLAGS CRE.M.\TED. Or Burted With Military Honors t« Prevent Ignoble Uses. Britain is the only country w^hich allows its historical flags to go into the pawnshop or auction room. One such flag, after having waved over the 39th Foot for three years during the siege of Gibraltar, was actually found covering the sofa cushions of a tradesman's sitting-room! In 1886 the 1st Battalion Gloucester Regiment recovered from a pawn- broker at York four flags, which it had borne from 1795 to 1810 through the Egyptian and Peninsular cam- paigns. There may be seen to-day in the Kendal Parish Church a pair of the old colors of the 2nd Battalion Border Regiment. They were res- cued in 1888 by Lord Archibald Campbell from a London upholsterer, who had advertised them for sale as though thwy were mere window cur- tains. To prevent old colors meeting with such fates many have been cremated, with great ceremony, and the ashei preserved carefully in a box. Others have been buried with full military honors, among them being sets be- longing to the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the 2nd Battalion Wor- cester Regiment. Field beans planted in June mature a crop in ordinary seasons. Well- drained, limed loam soils of medium fertilit> produce the best crops. Bolivia, South America, the coun- try of Andean heights, torrid valleys and freezing plateaus â€" a South Am- erican Switzerlai.d that perhaps never will be liberally provided with hotels for tourists â€" has a total of 153 auto- mobiles. CHOSetl f RICNDS A fralaroal and Iniurancs (odety that DTOtacts Itt member* itl accordanco with iha Cntanv Govornment Stmnoard. Sick ana luaar&lbenaiitaoptioaaJ. Atithorliad to .ablaln mcmlMrt ant] charta* lodgaa in ovary Provinco In Canada. Ptualy Canadian, aai*. soand and ocoao- micaL If tKatwtanolocallodffo of Chosen Frien^ In yotir dtalrlct, apply dlnct to any «i th«k following oficaraj Dr.J.W.Edwardi.M.P. W. F. MonUgua, Grand Councillor. Grand Hacordaa W. F. Campbell, J. H. Ball. M.D.. Ciaad Onanliar. 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