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.jacKHtmmmmm mm ,-^v /==r H r r Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. ^ CHAPTER III.-(ContM.) "You was called, minister," whimp- ered the excited girl. "I gave the message to the missis myself; and the missis said as how you would come the moment you got back." For a brief space John stared very hard at the speaker; then, without a word, turned on his heel and went straight upstairs to Ella. "Is this true, Klla?" he asked, closing the door behind him. Young Mrii. M'Donnell, in a white morning-gown, was sitting in a low chair with her youngest-born upon her and to believe in the sincerity of the cry: "My words! my words! Not my deeds!" which he was continually call, ing into the ears of his small congre- gation . John, personally, had, even in his manifestly weak moments, always looked at Father O'Brcam with more pity than disgust . It was not a noble way of cheering enforced soli- tude, but apparently it was a way. Often when hurrying home to his own firesiae, which, whatever else it was, was certainly not solitary, the minister ^ _ would cast a look of curiosity and lap, while the six-year-old Albert was i *hat ho believed to be compassion to- pretending to fetter the seven-year-old Julia with the ends of the blue ribbon which floated from the maternal waist. It was as pretty a domestic picture as anyone could wish to see. "U what true?" she inquired, with a flush of defiance. "That I was summoned to Charlie Robson lag night while I was out?" "Yes; it is true. wards the forlorn light twinkling in the little presbytery beside the glar- ingly-new chapel. With only a mangy Irish terrier for company, the whisky- botte might be supposed to loom dis- proportionately big. But the whisky-bottle was going to have a rest now, no doubt, since it was only in times of peace that it ever be- came dangerous to Father O'Bream; "And why did you not give me thel«"'' '^ the Oban doctor spoke true message?" Klla's" underlip went out,!*''^''^ were not times of peace that but she remained silent. "Why did were coming. There seemed every you not give me the message?" re- prospect of his enjoying what he him- peated John, not loudly. biU much ^^If called one of his "grand old more emphatically. " flings;" and with no one, of course, to "How could I give the mes.sage?" reproach him with endangering lives burst out Ella, visibly quivering. A LINE OR TWO. Send me a line or two, Telling me how you do â€" 'â- ^ Send me a line or two, I long to hearl You are so far away, I miss you every day â€" â- - You are so far away. Once you were near! Tell me the little things. Nothing of wars or Kings- Tell me the little things, Dearest to me. Do your thoughts ever turn To the far hearts that yearn? Do your thoughts ever turn Over the sea? I cannot let you go, Because I love you so â€" I cannot let you go. Out of my life! My love shall be a shield, My prayers a blessing yield, For you upon the field â€" All through the strife! Nina Moore jamieson. SIGN "OF MEDICAL GUARD." St. Andrew's Cross a Sign That a novtor Ih on Board. When warships are in harbor one of I that hung upon his. Ah, well, no doubt, them is nearly always .seen flying PURE MILK SUPPLY OF DENMARK CLEANLINESS OF THE DANISH DAIRY IS AN ART. A Description of the System in Vogue in the Co-operative Dairies of Copenhagen. iron tanks placed at different levels; in the bottom tank are three layers of gravel, that in the lowest layer about half the size of a pea, in the middle layer somewhat smaller, and in the third or top layer a little larger than a pin's head. 'The layers are separat- ed from each other by perforated tin trays, and on the top of the upper- most layer of gravel are six layers of fine cloth. The Cans. The cans, after being filled and weighed, are labelled, tied up with a thread, sealed with a leaden stamp, i and taken off to the milk carts for j Denmark has attained a distinction distribution. I of which any nation might be proud â€" In the bottling room the milk is led j she ensures to her young children the j by a pipe into a machine similar to daily, yearly supply of pure milTr, j that used for bottling beer, at just ; says Marion Jameson in The World's such a rate that it will keep six small Work. Since more than half of the ; taps going. From these taps a skill- 1 farms of Denmark are associated | ed bottler fills clear glas.s bottles, each | with the co-operative dairies, it fol- â-  of which holds an imperial pint; as : lows that ideal conditions for milking these are filled, they are passed on to must obtain practically throughout , a woman, who corks them on to the i the country. I sellers, who first tie threads across Milk is the one essential human the cork, and then put on a leaden - food. And yet no other factor contri- ^ feal, and the bottles are then placed butes so heavily to mortality as taint- >« racksâ€" in boxes put there by dif- ed milR. Unfortunately this uni- ferent vanmen, each one of whom versal food is one of the best breed- ! knows the number he requires. i ing-grounds for good as well as for | ^t is mteresting to note the differ- j dangerous bacteria. Introduced into i ^."^^e between the "sealed" milk bot the purest milk, bacteria increase en Order Fall Fertilizers Now Two Why 4 C A Traniportation K*a$€mâ€"So the dealer can order out his fertilizer in cars loaded to full capacity, which hold twice as much as average-loaded cars. Just half as many cars are neededâ€" the other half are set free for other uses. Freight con- gestion is relieved. You stand a better chance of getting your fertilizer. A Patriotic Reaion â€" So all our industries, all our national re- sources, all our efforts can give a full measure of war-time ser- vice, and so fertilizer* can have a chance to increase our na- tional food supply. Writm far ParHeularB SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE of the NATIONAL FERTILIZER A3SN. ful*] T>t«tn*b BUf. UuHT Bid*. CUof* Btltiiura The gravel used in the filters is tie of Denmark and that of England, ' cleaned by boiling and stirring it ormouslyâ€" uncovered. milk is always p*'"^'"^ the milk is "sealed" with a ' about in hot water and soda till tlie had just heard that the Oban doctor there were compensations to the ab had diagnosed .smallpox." i sence of domestic delights. "Well?"' (To be continued.) "Isn't that enough? Could I let a you risk your life and the lives of your , . , „ . children by catching the infection? The Making of a Genius. Would i be a mother if I exposed them Q'er the horizon of earth's common to such danger? And Penella so de- .„„i. licate! The slightest attack would . ,' do for her. Oh. John, yoL can't be „ ^ ^reat man rises; BO madly imprudent? Just look at Some cry, "A genius; favoriU of the the darlings." i gods!" John looked as he was bid, and look- Ah, vain surmises! from her yard-arm a flag consisting of a white St. Andrew's Cross on a blue ground. This means that there is a doctor on board, and that she is the ship that is "medical guard" for the time being. If medical assistance is required on any other warship in the harbor whose own doctor happens to be away, it can be obtained from the vessel flying the flag in question. By this arrangement medical officers of liable to infection. the fleet are able to obtain leave in ing, the angry retort which had risen They little know the tender truth that regular rotation, one always being to his lips hovered there for another lies left on duty in case of emergency. tTT ..."f^" f1' 1 ? ^"""""^ "a 'Neath his bright name; Where a number of ships are anchor- these tendei , flawless faces, and « ^i. . -c / Ju i * -i , •. • » *â-  i ..i. 4 thought of the fearful ravages he had ^ ""other's sacrifice, a father s toil, ed, it is, of course, very essential that Been on others, a rush of purely hu- Have made his fame. i it should be possible for any of them man panic came over him; in the next '^^^ lonely homestead and the <iuiet to tell in a moment where the doctor moment detected already, and resoU! farm j on duty is to be found, so that he may utely cast aside. The angry retort Have made sublime Love's sacrifice. ; be summoned without delay. small cardboard disc placed in the | water comes off quite clean. It ._ Cleanly milking from the Danish ' """"'^ °t the bottle, which a dishoft- , then steamed at a temperature of point of view does not begin and end i «^^''a''">"ll^" «^an e^'sily detach and \ about 302 deg. Fahrenheit. The filth with a clean cow; it is a far cry from reP'ace. That dreadful, grey, greasy \ that comes from the gravel is aston- the cow to the child's mouth. The I ?'"'^ "^^^ ^^ ^'^^ ordinary English dairy . ishing and disgusting; yet more care milkers, the pails, the sheds in which '^ ""known m Denmark. | and cleanliness than that shown upon the cows are milked, even the walls ^.^*"'.,^°">P«"y » vans which carry . the farms supplying the company and the floors; the transit of the milk '^^ ^'7 *» the consumer are so con- could not possibly be observed, from the farirf^to the retailer, and ^^^ ,t the milk-cans are lock- Cleanliness of the Workers. ed in the van, and can only be drawn | through dust-proof taps. charge of the vans cannot tamper j -â- j;;--;^^-p- ^jj^j^^^d jheNemployes thence to the consumer, are all in- cluded in the Danish programme for pure milk. . , The personal cleanliness of the The men in ! ^.^rkers is no less insisted on; shower The Life History of tl,e Milk-Can. '"^^ T.r^^ ^n^^hil^.^mti^ ^ «^^^'^^°'^ ^"^^^^^'^^^ The life history of the milk-can in kept in another part of the vehicle in Copenhagen is interesting. To start trays containing crushed ice. angrier for coming a came all the moment lute. "So you would have me neglect myl duties because of personal considera-i tions?" he asked, in the harshest voice Ella had yet heard from him. "And' I sleep .sou.idly in my bed while! Charlie Robson goes unassisted to his! account? Oh, F.lla, this is the end of ell the truat I ever had!" I "Where are you going?" asked Ella.' starting to her feet, as he turned abruptly to the door. I "To the Robsons' cottage. Minnie Robson is likely to follow her hus-: band, it seen.s, and I cannot let all my parishioners die without my help."i 'If you go to the Robsons' cottage JIbout the DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME. Second Lesson â€" Water, Its Source and Use*. Water forms about three-fifths of Water can carry many infectious Vu '^?."'n '""'"'' ''"''' here," declared the total weight of the human body, diseases, and for this reason, when the Ella .shrilly. ''Ue can have no com- a^j „„ tj,|^ account it is a necessary character and source are unknown, all "TSrh^v^had tn:;ugrregaH''f.'.? --'â- ^-"' "^ ^he Elood stream. | water used for drinking purposes your own wife and children to think of The sJvent properties of water are '>''""''' '•«' ooiled. ,...,,. that. John." well known. Water acts as a carrier' To alleviate the flat and insipid taste The lust words swam in tears al- throughout the body and is an a:tivei°'' 'j"'led water, it may be beaten with ready, whereupon Julia began to participant in the process of digestion ,"" •'ffK-'^eater or filled into bottles and whimper and the baby to bawl in sym- y^j elimination. i " spaâ„¢ li-'ft for air at the top and P^thy. TV, » _„ . » .u 1 J • .then .shaken. This will incorporate "Very well, I won't come back." said _ |"/ temperature of the body is re- 1 .^ .^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ Distilled water hii 1 the valuable I mineral elements removed, and be- I cause of this it should not be given to [children. Do not use water from I wells or springs unless you know that John, with small trace of his habitual Kulated by the presence of water in mildness. "I shall atop in the vil- the blood. The blood flows from the lage, and shall have rny things fetch- warm interior to the cold exterior of *d." the body, and the water in it acts as a And hastily hi clos-jd the Hoir upon distributor of heat, e fcenc of domestic distri-.^s which ir- rp, , . , ,,,,â- â€¢ ritated him in this moment far mort '"e chemical processes of the body | j^ ig free from contamination. If than it appealed to him . «"^ carried on by the aid of water, and \ (hgre is an epidemic of any diseases in As he hurried down the village '<"" t"is reason a large amount of it I yo^r locality, play safe: boil all your street, all his pulses still throbbed, and is necessary. Two quarts daily is the drinking water a certain chronic perplexity set num-, least amount that a healthy body can; Drinking a glass of water before berless bewildering wheels agoing ,n perform its duties on. This amount I ^^al time stimulates the digestive juices and prepares the stomach to re- ceive food Drinking water with the meal depends entirely upon the in- dividual; if the individual is stout, it substances I will cause an increase in weight. Drinking a glass of water after Ws head. For there was truth in 'may be teken either plain or in bever Ellas complaints, and there was rea-' son on her side. ('ould she justly I age. be blamed for thinking more of the! ^he presence of mineral deposits infety of her children than of the; and gases in water determines its mental peace of Charlie Robson's last character. Where these substances! h<'Ur8? Human though these con- i are of a pronounced nature we have' Biderutions might be. they yet had to | the so-called mineral water and effer- ! meals will help the process of diges- vescent waters. These waters have , tion, as it is well known that all foods be weigheil; and so deep was J«)hn in' the question of how his family'.s safe Liic uuc^tiuii ui iiuw JUS iuiiiiiy .'^ sale- „ «.„!;»;... 1 1 1 . . . . .... ty (ould best be assured without detri.;" ""'dicimil value and are very often I must be reduced to a liquid state bo ment to his own duties, that he came' P'*'""'"'''^'' ''y P'^y«"'a"s for various " - *â-  'â-  -"' ' near to stumbling over a certain rath- 1 '^e''""8:<''"e"ts of the stomach, kid- er disreputable-looking Irish terrier "eys and liver. They are also order with whom he hud u bowing acquain- tance, and who at this moment was sit- ting in the street with one eye upon the (lead rut he v as worrying an<l the other upon the door of the cottage whi<h stood next door to that of the Robsons, and which was the very cot- tage in which, in a less free age. Popish rites were said to have been'*^*"" fore digestion is complete. The tem- perature of water should be from 45 to r).") degrees Fahrenheit. A glass ed for U.SC in eliminating the undesir- 1 of hot water acts as a tonic if taken able acids and deposits from the body, upon arising in the morning. Tested Recipes. | gooseberries, two pints of water. Pre Strawberry Jam.â€" Hull and wa.sh P'""^ the goosoberiies and add the wa berries, then drain and cover with su- ' Stand over night. In the morn Then place in a preserving ket- tle and bring to a boil. Cook until jheit is reached. Pour into sterilized I glasses and store in the usual manner. When Food Is Wasted. portions are lett on Rhubarb Cheese. â€" ("ut one pound of j plate and later thrown into the gar- rhubarb In one-inch pieces. Place bage pail. Learn to know the needs celebrated. At sight of the mangv,'"K Put '" « saucepan and cook until ! ,^'^'"y «"/'• then drain, using a jelly terrier, whose boldness was partly due thick. .Stir con.stantly to prevent I '"'*''• Measure the juice and allow an to ill-trentment not unprovoked -at burning. Fill into glasses and when '"'""' '"^asure of sugar. Now re- the band.s of the village cuts, John! cool, cover with paraffin. Store in a r".""" '" '^^ '<«"''' ""'' ''"'' fo"" f'VP. Bomewliat hastened his ftep, for fearl^ooj jpy ^lUce Use three quarters 1 """"*^''''' Add the sugar and boil for L' ,"«â- !; >r^wh "wi' 'uVr.'^Tl'' ^Tf-^'oi a pound of sugar to one pound of !«^.e '""""*« "^^il 221 degrees Fahren- ly owner, who was bound to be not far,, . :i....» :„ u...i r. ^^ . ,,! â-  off. This was no longer Father " Flinter, but a very different sort of! Cherry Cuslard.-. --Line a pio tin with personage- loud-spoken, rubicund, ' Kood pastry. Fill with stoned and quite a.s Irish, ami not always much cooked cherries, well sweetened. Pour more respectulile-looking than his in- j over them a custard made of one cup j When anything edible is allowed to separable four-footed companion. That of milk, pinch of salt, one egg and go to the garbage pail or allowed to Father O Hream regarded certain ; fo,„. tablespoonfuls of sugar. Bake spoil for lack of proper handling beZil t'h 'r:,': quen;hi,fg''.t'[hH;t! I '" T^T'"' "^"^ """â-  ^'^ '^"^^'â- ' " n '"'''" '"'' T''' '' """T' "^ " '"^'*'- would have been an open secret, even I '"'*" ''^*- Uneaten portions are left oh the had he not himself been the first to pronounce the remorseful Mea culpa. John knew the man as two <iuite dif-|in saucepan with one-half cupful of j of your family and serve each no fereiil persons: one a flushedj hazy-l water and steam until tender. Dis-'moro than you think each will want, eytd. and very common-looking in- solve one-quarter ounce of gelatin in When too much is prepared for a dividual, keeping the middle of the jugt enough water to cover, mix with ' meal. Unserved portions are likelv road with some difficulty; the other, a, the hot rhubarb and one pound of su- 1 to be thrown into the garbage pail or devoted and indefatigub e worker. .u 1 • t u •! /. 1 » n 1 ^ 1 >. e"- •<»»,«- |jmi 01 whose fever of zeal seeme.l to sco.n f"'"' *^"" '".'"« ^". V*""'' (00k for allowed to spoil. Many housekeepers »uch trifles as sleep and food. His I""*®" minutes. Stir frequently. Pour j do not know how to use leftover foods time at Ardloch had been chiefly 1 '"*'° "'"I'l*' 'hat have been rinsed in | to make appetizing dishes, divided between alternate bursts ofi^o''' water and net aside to mold Fil j When burned or spoiled in cooking, over-indulgence and of remorse -| center with custard made of yolk of , Improperly prepared or poorly sea- the emptying of a whisky-bottle and two eggs, one cupful of milk, one- 1 soned food will be left on the table the strewing of ashes upon his head, quarter cupful of sugar and one-half and pr(d)ably wasted. Buy food He was continually fHlling. or, at any Ueaspoonful of vanilla. Cook until , wisely and then prepare it carefully. custard thickens, then set aside to When handled carelessly. Buy clean cool. Wh-^n ri ally to use unmold the rhulHjrh, pour the custard around it i.nd 8er\e. (Jooaeherry Jelly. â€" Two quarts with, the cows are kept in bright, airy sheds all day; only in the summer months are they allowed open-air pas- ture, for the effects of cold and rain on the milk yield are well known. There are no fences in Denmark; the cattle are pegged down and moved systematically over certain restrict- ed areas. The beasts are examined by veterin- ary surgeons twice a month; twice a year they are tested with tuberculin, as in many cases tuberculosis of the udder is very rapid and its early de- tection imperative. These veterinary surgeons not only examine the ani- mals, they also inspect the conditions of the cow-sheds, the food, the milk- pails, and report on the yield and ({uality of the milk of each cow. The cows are never milked in the Where Cleanliness Is .\n Art. ing; their clothes are constantly changed, and if any infectious disease occurs in any of the workers it is at once reported. Very wisely the one. The bottles as they come in are most carefully washed with hot water ' and soda; the inside is then scrubbed , , , . , , .,, I with a revolving brush and boiling i sheds; m the summer they are milk-,^„ter, and the outside is treated in | ed in the fields, where carts are sta- ' The cleanliness of the Danish dairy [ workers are paid full wages while is an art. There is no superficial they are on the sick-list, and thus swilling of cans and pails. Floors and ' there is no fear of detection or at- walls, cans, bottles, and pails all re- j tempted concealment of the complaint, ceive the most scrupulous attention. Half washed pails, the breath of a The cans are cleansed in the fol- j consumptive milkman, or the dirty lowing manner. They are first rinsed , hands of a dairyman are not permit- irtside with a powerful jet of cold wa- ted in Denmark to carry death to ter, then they are wa.^hed with hot hundreds of little children, water and soda with a brush both in- 1 To walk through the airy and spa- side and outside; after that they are ' ^ious rooms, to see the wet and shin- forced through some strong lime and jng floors and walls, and the lustre of water, on a wheel, and fipally they glittering bottles and pails is to real- are placed over a jet of boiling water, j^g the beauty of cleanliness; and the which is injected upwards into each f^esh smell of the place, the white clean clothes of the workers and their well-scrubbed clogs, give one an idea of the purity of the milk that goes to Danish nurseries. , the same manner with a small hard , Cuban deposits are estimated to con- brush, after which they are carefully tain all the way from 2,000,000,000 to rinsed with clean cold water. 13,000,000,000 tons of iron ore. THE COAL SHORTAGE tioned to carry the milk immediately to the refrigerators; in the winter they are milked in scrupulously clean rooms set apart entirely for the pur- pose. Even the milk-pails are spe- cially constructed; they rest in an out- er receptacle filled with crushed ice and salt, and in this way the milk loses its cow-heat, micro-organisms do not develop, and the milk keeps sweet longer than three days. Refrigeration and Analysis. The milk is conveyed at once to the orders to the dealers till fall. [rapid deliveries, but unless consum refrigerators, where, by the unlimited â-  xhis is the opinion of railway men ' ers co-operate by giving their orders supply of ice it is cooled to fiO deg. who say that while they are doing | to the merchants now for their win- ter supplies, then unloading cars quickly, the congestion experienced last winter will be accentuated and prices may rise to unheard of heights. Consumers are also recommended to be exceptionally careful in the use of coal, avoiding waste and burning wood The anticipated shortage in hard , stead of being delayed by loading with coal affecting thousands of Can- ! return freight, although this move jadian homes may become a reality . '"«^"f«'*<'eJ«''P^"''e- ^^ ., , , lu • I Within a few days the coal mer- I next winter if consumers delay their 1 ^^ants will thus have prospect of I , cooled C®'"'"-**- ! everything possible to assist Mr. C. A. The milk begins to arrive at the Magrath, Controller of Canadian Fuel premises of the company at Freder- : Supply, the co-operation of the con- iksberg, a suburb of Copenhagen, at gumer also is necessary to mee an about 9 p.m. Upon its arrival it is undoubtedly serious situation, sampled for subsetiuent analysis, | The hard coal used in the east for tasted, and its temperature noted, the average furnace is imported from The milk is analysed both on the pre- the United SUtes, and the problem of j where possible. The merchants mises and in the chemical laboratory supply is largely a problem of trans- themselves are also being asked to co- of the university, the director of porUtion. Owing to the shortage operate by having ears loaded to the which publishes monthly the result of of l«t,or and a very hard winter, the maximum capacity and by promptly this daily analysis. | Canadian Railways last year faced a | unloading the cars as soon as received. The skimmed milk and ordinary ' gevere congestion of traffic, which was thus releasing them for further ser- sweet milk are then placed in the ' accentuated during the winter months | vice. by the demand for furnace coal. The situation apparently is more In order to prevent if possible a serious in the East then in the West, similar condition next season, the I owing to the accepted use of box cars railways are concentrating every ^f- I in th> latter territory . The sufiply of fort on the supply of coal-carrying th^ open cars required in the east is, equipment. The Canadian Pacific, for however, limited, and unless deliveries I instance, has decided to adapt at once j are spread more than they have been cans (as they are) in large ice tanks, after being sampled and tested, there to remain till early next morning, when they are run through a filter, and tapped off into the vessels in which they are to be taken round the town. The cream, after being weighed .^d concentrate a considerable portion over the summer months by the re- and sampled, is filtered, and then bot- tled in clear glass bottles, which are laid away in ice until delivery next morning. The "children's milk," so called on account of special precau- tions having been taken to secure its absolute purity anil wholesomeness, is likewise put through another filter, and bottled. The Filters. The filter consist.^ of two enamelled of additional freight equipment for I commended co-operation of consum- coal haulage, increasing its capacity 1 ers, the approaching winter will come during the next six months by cars '*'ith tragic force upon the Canadians capable of hauling over a million ad- | '" Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime ditional tons during that period. It i Provinces. is withdrawing a large number of cars | The coal, according to Mr, Magrath, from other services, is adapting other is available. The cars, according to types of cars, and has just put into ' the railways, are coming-~but wrill force u new rule under which every | carry the coal only if the orders are foreign coal car is at once returned 1 known before winter puti on the empty to the mines for fresh coal in- 1 brakes. rate, stumbling, and perpetually get ting up again; and each time freshly convinced that this was the final re- surrection. It was BO impossible not to admire his courage, that it be- came possible to forgive his weakness food, keep it clean until used, and be neat in all details of cooking and serv- ing. This lessens waste, and is a of I valuable health measure as well. 2 and 5 lb. Cartons â€" 10, 20, 50 and 100 lb. Bags. Redpath refining methods produce no second grade sugar. We make and sell one grade onlyâ€" the highest â€" so that you will never get anything but the best under the name of Redpath. "Let Redpath Sweeten it" - 9 Canada Sugar Refining Co., Limited, Montreal •/