trying fo catch some flies for din- wer, In a second Spook"s paw shot out and she iad a litle fish in her paw. But just as she started to make a meal of it out it sipped and back it swam into the brook sgain. : Spooks was so stirprised that sh didn't know whai to. de, but as a second one swam by she reached out her yaw and caught it, but that too slipped out of her paw into the Water again. This made Spooks ry that she forgot to be quiet and she ran to the water and meow- ed and meowed and 'even got her feet wet and that made her stil more cross, Spooks tried and tried to catch the fish, but couldn't and she be- gan to wonder what was the trouble All 'at once she thought what it was. How simple! Why her claws were dull and needed to he sharpened, 80 back home she ran and began to scratch on the trunk of a tree in the yard und there Nina found her when she came home from school ah thought she must be having a Living"' Menu | clas Bron Fish 4 Fried rooms ing Coffee Popovers,--Beat ne cup of milk, quarter of a n of salt and a heaping cup Bake in a quick twenty-five minutes. 1 i Bt drain a dish. Drain the ofl from the sar- dines and press them into the rice. Decorate with peas and mushrooms. DINNER, Pan Broiled Fish.--Wipe the fish carefully, sprinkle with Indian meal and season Have the pan hot and put in the fish with a tablespoon of butter. Fry brown on both sides. For the tarter Sauce use the mayon- aise dressing that is on hand, mix- ed with a teaspoon of chopped onion and a tablespoon of chopped sour pickles. Fried Mushrooms. -- Peel the mushrooms, cut off and scrape the stems, melt a large tablespoon of butter in a frying pan put in the mushrooms and stems and fry un- til done, turning frequently. Serve very hot. Potato Sticks.~Pare and slice potatoes in long thin strips. Lay in ice water for half an hour. Drain Defully and fry in deep, boiling at Rice Pudding<~ Allow three tablespoons of washied rice to one quart of milk. Stir in four table- spoons of sugar and turn into a baking dish. Bake in a slow oven for four or five hours. 7 & Practical Dress Making Prepared Especially for This Newspaper by Pictorial Review or the Woman Who Wears Black. 'thirty years- | ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. -- Picton 'Academy Passes the Centen- nial Mark. Another centenary of great signifi- cance to Canadians came around re- fently when Pictou Academy, the most famous seat of learning iti the Maritime Provinces, attained one hundred years of age. The probabil- fty is that the commemoration of thé actual opening of classes in the Academy will be held nest simmer. It was on March 26th, 1816, that the bill establishing Pictou Acadenty became law. Preparations for the organization and equipment of the new institution began not long after- wards; but it was not until the aut- umn of 1817, so far the late Rev, Dr. George Patterson, the carliest pub- lishing historian of Pictou Gounty, could ascertain, that the first classes were opened. The actual final establishment of the Academy would thus seem to have extended over more than year, Students of Piciou Acadomy are to be found .in every quarter of the habitable globe. Wherever the are found, they are certain to be men and women of unusual Intelligence and attainments, almost wiitho x ception engaged in the higher ae vices of humanity. In spite of the fact that foi the full iife of a geno ation-----Pictou Academy under law to be # cial institn tion," and is class in tha Ycduca tion Office as a * Acaden 't is 80 only in It has continued as fal" and as outstandingly uniqu aver, It Is In a class by iteclf has no compeers; no passible rv It does Pictou County's educationa work as thoroughly and faithfuily as ever. But it does, as always done, far more thar 1t draws fo it annually not only the cream of the young intellectual life of Nova S¢otia to be prepared for university dnd higher educational work, hut ft attracts students from cther Cana- dian provinces, and from the United States. Young men and women have been 'oming to it n recent years from the West Indies, and even from far dis tant South. American countries. Two hundred young men and women are on its annual roll; and they are pass- ing out in a constant, over-widening stream of grateful loyalty and earn- est devotion to the grand oid institu tion, whieh, instead of weakening or loging energy through age. is renew- ing its youth and strengthening its hold upon its students. Pictou Academy, through all its changes and viclasitudes, has been singularly--perhaps, it might be het- ter said, providentially--Ifortunate in its leaders, in' the men shaping and guiding its destinies, Doétor Me- Culloch, its first official head, its principal designer, and one of its main founders, was a man of such outstanding ability, strength," and worth that this province can never be too thankful that it was able to at- tract him to its shores. : He laid broad and deepithe found- ations, mot only of Picton Academy, but of democratic self-government in Nova Scotia. Volumes would be re- quired to do justice to his activities and services. The province as a whole owes as much to him as does Pictou Academy: His initial coadiutors were Dr. Me- Gregor, and Rev. Duncan Ross, fa- ther of the late Principal James Ross, 6f Dalhousie College. Dr. Ross, the pupil, succeeded Di. Me- Culloch, the teacher, who became head of Dalhousie in 1838. Associat- ed with Dr. McCulloch in Pictou Aca- demy were such others as Rev. John McKinlay, the forefather of the Ae Kinlays, of Picton and Halifax, who taught classics and mathematics Following them were men like Michael McCulloch, the worthy son of his great father, and Ge 3 Blanchard. After them came In- structors like Basil Bell, father of the late Hon. A. C. Bell, 8 ww, and John William Dawson, afterwards principal of MeGill University, first a has reagad distinctly * Foe to Liquor! "LIVE WIRE" is Joseph Gibson --*Daddy" Gibson --of Ingersoll, Ontario, the doughty champion, able, promising, of the anti-liquor forces in Ontario, an outstanding figure, and one of the most picturesque in the public ey, says James Shelton in The Toronto Star Weekly. A little man---but oh; my!---is Joseph Gibson. To see him mount the platform, all spring and electric- ity, and concentrated gun fire, and watch him sail in to old Demon Rum is an experience to go down into memory. For what he lacks is sta- ture he makes up in fire and logic. As the breath in his nostrils is the thrust and parry and lunge and coun- ter of a fight. His whole body, brain, and spirit is consumed with relentless, vicious Bate of the lquor trafic, and he flays it alive! Woe betide the liquor advocate who cross- es swords with Joseph Gibson on the platform; he must needs lay about him right lustily, and if he be less than the ablest fn their service he will certainly bite the dust. Mr. Gibson is postmaster in the town of Ingersoll, in the County of Oxford. Although a Conservative in politics, he held the post all through the years of the Laurier Govern- ment. He has served the municipal- ity as Mayor, Reeve, Councillor, and school trustee, and although he dropped out of municipal life some years ago, he is still active in every movement to advance the interests of | the town. A member of the Methodist Church in Canada, he has represented the Hamilton Conference for nearly 20 years at the meetings of the General Conference, About 15 years ago he was one of the lay delegates from | Canada to the Ecumenical Couneil, iin London, England, and he has { been chairman of the General Con- | ference Temperance Committee, and a member for many years of the Book and Publishing House Commit- tee, He has been prominently jden- tified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, occupying for twe | years the office of Grand Master | Workman, "It is, however, in the field of tem- burance reform that Mr. Gibson has | been best known. During the bitter | fights of the Scott Act days he was | always in the thick of the fray, and | pitted against the strongest platform j orators that the liquor party could muster. Mr. Gibson likes to recall those stirring times and the verbal combats in which he engaged. He is one of the best stump speakers in the Province, breezy, original, vigorous, and fluent, and with the happy gift of readily touching the risible facul- ties of an audience... . The gallant old man has been fore- | most in the fight this spring for total | prohibition. As honorary president | of the Ontario branch of the Domin- {ion Alliance, and president of the Committee of One Hundred for the { South Riding of Oxford, he did yeo- | man service in awakening public | opinion tothe duty of the hour. At | the memorable meeting in Massey { Hall, Toronto, on the evening before (the presentation to the Legislature {of the monster petition, his appear- ance upon the platform was the sig- nal for ringing cleers. "I reverent- ly thank God for this day," said he. "I now only want to live long enough to see two things happen. I want to see the Germans licked to a finish, and I want tn see King Alcohol bur ied so deep in his grave that he will never be exhumed!" Joseph Gibbong has never deserted the fight. Although 60 years is a ! pretty long time to keep on the fir- ing line, he has always been on it or near it. Now, full of years yet still vigorous and in"full possession of all fearless, and deadly uncom- Who Will Get Highest Title of No- bility Out of the Conflict. Will the greatest war in history roduce a British dukedom® It will curious if that is not one of its minor results, because many of sur noble families of the highest rank owe their distinction to the prowess of warrior ancestors, Marlborough and Wellington are instances which will occur to everyone, but there are others. The first Duke of Norfolk, who died on Bosworth Field leading the van of Richard's army, had many years before became, Captain-Gen- eral of all the King's Forces at sea for resisting the attempts of Lan- castrians, and was perhaps the best "sailor and soldier too" of his time. The Dukedom of Somerset also bad its course in a first-clase fighting man, who 1.d an army of invasion into Scotland in 1544, and after de- feating the French a year later be- came Captain-General of Boulogne and Lieut,-General of the Army in France, His was probably the quickest elevation ever recorded, for from a simple knight he became Baron Seymour one day and Duke of Somerset the next. of Manchester was perhaps distinguished as a diplomatist than a soldier, yet, espousing the cause | of the Prince of Orange, he took an active part In the campaign in Ire- | land and was present at the battle | of the Boyne, thus carving with his | sword the way to the highest honor of the peerage. Remarkable Snuff-Box. Mauchline, proud possessor of a snuff-box. squares of wood with the most inter- esting histories. On one side there is "oak from a canoe found in the | from Glasgow | Doon, 1831"; oak Cathedral"; 'from Highland Mary's thorn"; "oak from the piles of Lon- don Bridge, built 1176"; "oak of the | Royal George, sunk at Spithead, 29th August, 1789"; 'oak from Elder- slie"; "Queen Mary's yew"; "oak of House of Lords, built 1834"; "oak of H.M. ship, sunk 1545 raised 1840"; "oak from H.M.S. Boyne." other side of the box consists of bits of "oak of Stato Prison, Bass Rock, 1670"; "oak of Tower of London, built 1077"; "oak of Royal Ex- change, burnt January, 1839"; "oak of ship Temeraire, broken up 1839"; "oak of Knox's pulpit"; "Pedon"s thorn, from burying ground, Cum- nock"; "oak of Alloway Kirk'; "oak of Lord Nelson's flagship Victory"; | "Ehu from field of Waterloo"; "oak of Holyrood Palace"; 'oak of ship which brought over King William III, 1688." There are thus eleven relic pieces of wood on each side of the box. I ---- rn ------ Charles H. than forty years an employee of the firm of I, R. Murray and its suc cessors, Watertown, N., Y., took his life by hanging at his home, No. 602 Leray Street, Monday afternoon. Worry over financial troubles is at- tributed. as the cause, The first Duke | more | in Scotland, is the | remarkable | It is shaped like a book. | The boards are composed of small | ness and Opium Mi OT NARCOTIC. bre -- Aperiect Remedy for Conshipa lion. Sour Stomach, Diarthees, Worms Convulsions ness and LOSS OF SLEEP Far Simde Signature of Dat Fi ARE Exact Copy of Wrapper. pe . Use For Over Thirty Years a o£ | a : THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK SITY. October, | "cedar of Lebanon"; | The | LaDue, 64, for more A AN With money vou can buy friends you want, but they are never worth the price, a mn, DO NOT RISK YOUR FAVORITE LINENS AT THE LAUNDRY, MRS. CANADA ! Have the work done at home un der your personal supervision, with an EDDY INDURATED WASHBOARD, Made of one solid lasting plece of hardened pulp: It will neither splinter nor fall apart. The slight- ly rounded, even-crimp is easy on the clothes and fingers, yet loos ens the dirt easily. Ask for Eddy's '""Twin Beaver." all ve | baby to sleep. aaa TT ct Th PI san OR a ) MT Every woman thinks she is a pri- ma donna when it comes to putting a + One never questions the taste of the black frock, no matter what the occa- sion. This model In cachmere de sole, which is cashmere with a very high lustre, is particularly likeable. The gathered skirt is trimmed with two deep tudent and later a lecturer in the |his faculties, he sees the Promised Ly ~Following them came the | Land of Prohibition just ahead. It is Mulhollands and John Costley, father | a rather happy climax to the life of an earnest, valignt leader in the ranks of moral reform. J | Lotte HE " » A A ¥ iE TL, Bl AIR Ay KREG RR yy ot ( iit HA a ty i Tr hy, I 4 3 wey Ay tucks, while the jacket is laid in plaits 4% the raised waistline. The front may Be ¥olled back to form revers, or the may be. cut very deep, with at- tehed rovers, double capes and flare collar. : In medium size the suit requires 5 yards 54-inch material. The home dress. maker is provided to-day with the proper wiide for cutting the jacket, which muy be fashioned from any other material to be worn independently. The eapes, the back and the collar-ire laid on a lengthwise fold of material. The rever, enuff and back skirt section, all tion neried (H), Aud back. To the sleeve a ront sections are placed on a lengthwise thread above the cape sec being Iaid on a lengthwise thread of the right of these come the underfacing, material. If the deep front effect is to be used, the front edge of the front of the jacket will have to be cut off 8% inch forward of lie of small "o" perforations and the anderfacing omitted. Provision is made also, for shortening the length of the jacket to suit the individual taste. Instead of the usual leather belt, the waist is finished with a band of self. material stitched with narrow soutache braid. The straight front and back panels give the flat line that women in- clined to be stout particularly like. said: "If you cast a Yankee on a des- ert island he'll be up early the next morning selling maps of the place to the inhabitants." A woman is never satisfied until she can do things two different Ways, » B.C The yellow berch-lands gleam and glow Under an azure sky; Above the benches trees arow March upward, very high; And higher than the trees again The scarped summit stands: My heart is Cesolate because I cannot see these lands. The winding trails go up and down, The tributary trails That lead to roads that lead to town, A town beside the rails. But happy he who quits the train And on the waggon-road Rides watching for the old blazed He nckar rot any goad. Dear God, if prayers of men avail | For special things with Thee, This would 1 pray--To hit the trail, And smell the balsam tree; To see the eagles toasting heaven; The sumshafts striking deep, In lonely lakes and laughing Streams, To hear the chipmunks cheep! Some call the Indians dirty folk, But I again would see, And smell, Great Spirit, "wood-fire smoke Of some red man's tipi. One sign that I was back again In these tremendous lands, Would be the sight of silver rings On brown and lissome hands, The bench's yellow pales and fades, The sun ebbs up the hill, 'Tis dark in the deep forest glades, Tis dark and very still: The sunlight on the snmmi! dies, ~-Was ihat a drop of rain? -- I knew' it once from dawn to dusk And would go home again. pri---- ty, Of course it was an Irishman who i Hy 1 it ul / Ty dr Tg ath A h ll \ fg ty) 0 yt "You will T. Fo. HAR Tht ol ¢ fut! {