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This most valuable of farm books costs you not one used, mean hun you, It covers oncrete on the farm om fence-post to silo. Canada Cement Company Limited 88 Herald Building - Montreal FIVE ROSES FLOUR FOR BREADS = CAKES i PUDDINGS - PASTRIES OUR neighbour, : famous for her baking--maybe she uses Five Roses. CHAPTER IIL--(Cort'd.) For that afternoon on the Necro- olis had not remained solitary of its 3 and during his last weeks Glasgow the meetings, Doth nltintiad | Some obscure doubt, and overlooking y 'So had the mutual More and more deeply had John unfolded to the eagerly list- ening girl his plans and his hopes; thrilled by the belief that his zeal was Even the visit to Grant Street had been paid; for Mrs, Watson, her first indignation cooled, had re- flected that to get Ella off her hands would not be half a bad job, seeing that it might enable her to take a lod- ger who would pay, not only for board, but also for lodging, and since a poor relation has a terrible way of turning into a stone around one's neck. Dating from that visit to Grant Street the acquaintance entered un- mistakably on another stage. an alarm that was yet not wholly un- leasant, John began to realise that regarded as having "inten- It was certain, at any rate, Even John was vague- ly conscious of thems and could no find in himself either the energy 'or even the desire to resist. ly even the practical side of the ques-| tion would put in its argument. not Tim M'Laren long ago recommend- ed a wife for the sewinf on of buttons and similar proceedings? not a wife, whose care would keep the Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. | sordid things of life from him, prove al help, rather than a hindrance? Yes a helpmate must be good-- else why should so many pastors be husbands? Thus John argued, the only decisive argument in the which was that he was young and | | case, | but a man, and that she was likewise | young and also very tolerably fair. i He would be doing nothing wrong, he was sure of that, even when be- ginning to be aware of the personal element in the prospect. . It could not be called a defection, at the most a compromise, since legitimate love was not forbidden to the spiritual laborer. And yet--and yet, it had not been in the plan bef6re; and, do what he would, he could not get it quite to fit in. * * * * * Another thing which, on this his last return to the quarry, helped to disturb John's mind was a certain heap of stones which Me found piled up by the side of a narrow by-road winding into one of the valleys. Was that for the new school-house? he in- | quired. No, he was told; it was for ithe Roman Catholic chapel, for which the sum had been raised by subscrip- on. John's surprise verged on indigna- tion. * Was it worth while building a ichapel for the hundred and odd Ro- Iman Catholics extant within a round of three miles? And how about John Knox? The existence even of that hundred seemed to show that his measures had, after all, not been searching enough. There was a cer- tain cottage in the village whose thatch was weighted by bricks dangl- ing from wires, and which was pointed out as the place where, during the persecutions, Mass had been secretly celebrated. John, despite all his mild- ness, could not help thinking that, for the purpose, it might have continued to suffice. A chapel meant a priest, or course, and it was impossible to relish the idea of meeting, even only on the road, a Papist worker--on this ground which he had so long looked at as exclusively his own future field. But after all, this was a free coun- try. CHAPTER IV. "How perfectly lovely! Oh, how truly picturesque!" y It was Ella who said it to John-- no longer Miss Mitchell to Mr. M'Don- nell. And the occasion on which she said it was one which comes to a good many lives, though not to all, and which Society has agreed fantastically to dub a honeymoon. ° 2 For Fate had been too strong; eith- er that or else Ella's pale blue eyes, Seeing her again at the outset of his last college term, he had known how it would end, and had not even been | sorry to know. Was there not some- thing scary providential in his meet- ing with this so sympathetit soul? And how should he doubt her lively interest in his work when she did not doubt } herself ? Towards one of She 8} | eternally giggling girls of the period, § | John could never have'felt drawn; but | Ella herself was so convinced of Suing "gerious," that she easily convin B nim. That during one of their Sun- day walks he should take her hand and | say to hes: "Will you work with me, Ella; will you help me?" was there- fore just as unavoidable as that a stone dropped 'into 'the water should sink to the bottom; and as una as the affirmati i milk, ' one and one-half cupfuls flour, one and struggling with faces upon 3 'edness of those those bare abrupt, 'unclo! these things tothe water Maple-Sugar in the Daily Meals. If you can buy maple-syrup at a reasonable price, do so, and bottle it yourself. To make a success of this the syrup must Le bottled while hot, in air-tight bottles--preferably in pint size, for it very soon loses its flavor when left open. Following are some particularly good recipes for the use of maple-sugar and syrup: Lunch Cakes.--One cupful maple- sugar, one-fourth cupful butter, three- fourths cupful sweet milk, one egg, two cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful baking-powder, nuts. = Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, milk and flour sifted with baking-powder. Bake in well-buttered muffin-tins, in a quick oven. If nuts are used, add lastly. Maple Frosting.--One cupful maple- syrup, one-half cupful of white sugar, white of one egg. Boil syrup and sugar until mixture will grain; stir until nearly cold, then pour on stiffly beaten white of egg. Maple Filling.--Two and one-fourth cupfuls maple-sugar, one-fourth cup- ful butter, one-half cupful sweet milk, one teaspoonful vanilla. Cook all in- gredients together, as for frosting. Beat as it cools, and flavor. Have cake cold when filling is put on. Cream Maple-Sugar Frosting.-- Two cupfuls soft maple-sugar, one cupful cream. Break sugar into small pieces, put, in saucepan with cream, and stir occasionally until sugar is dis- solved. Boil without stirring until a soft ball can be formed with the fin- gers when mixture is tried in cold wa- ter. Beat until of the right con- sistency to spread. - Moonshine Cake.--One and one- fourth cupfuls maple-sugar, one-half cupful butter, one-half cupful sweet six tablespoonfuls cornstarch, one-fourth teaspoonfuls vanilla, Whites of four eggs. Cream butter and sugar; sift cornstarch and flour several times, and add alternately with milk to first mixture; add vanilla, and fold in whites of eggs, beaten dry. Bake in quick oven in large tins. Snow Pudding. Two cups water, one-half cup sugar, five tablespoonfuls cornstarch, one- quarter teaspoonful salt. Mix the ingredients in order given, then put on fire and bring to a boil, Cook for three minutes. Remove from the fire and add the stiffly beaten whites of egg and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Pour into cups to mold. Serve with custard sauce. Rinse the cups with cold water before pouring in the cus- tard. Custard Sauce. One cupful milk, one-half cup water, four tablespoonfuls sugar, two table- spoonfuls cornstarch. Mix in order given, place in saucepan on staye and bring to a boil. Cook for three min- utes. Take from fire amd add, yolk of one egg, one teaspoonful vanilla, Cool and pour over the pudding. Skim-Milk Versus Beef. Skim-milk is a very economical food material in the opinian of experts, and might well be more largely used as human food--this in spite of the fact that it is nine-tenths water. Whole milk is an indispensable food for the young, and even in-the diet of the adult it is comparatively economical. The only nourishing ma- terial taken from it in skimming is the butter fat. There is left, therefore, in the skim-milk, not only all of the sugar, which amounts to about four and a half parts in every hundred, and all of the protein. . The last-named substance is important because, be- sides serving as fuel for the Body, as fats, sugars and starches do, it also supplies tissue-building material. The proportion of protein in skim-milk, as well as of the mineral constituents, which are also valuable for body- building, is even greater than in whole ilk, ; Skim-milk is to be classed, as whole milk is, with such food materials as eggs, meat, fish, poultry, and cheese (though it is much more delicate than those foods) rather than with such substances as sugar, which serve only as fuel. Two and a half quarts of skim-milk contain almost as much pro- of energy as a pound of round of beef. When skim-milk sells for four cents a quart, or about two cents a pound, and round of beef for twenty cents a pound, a dime, or any other sum of money spent for skim-milk will pro- vide nearly twice as much nourish- ment as it will if spent for round steak, A Meat Loaf Recipe. Soak two cups of bread crumbs in one cup of boiling water. A Rub the soft bread crumbs and 2 cups of cooked oatmeal through a fine sieve. One and one-half cupfuls of cold boiled meat, run through a food chopper three times. Now rub the meat through a sieve, add the oatmeal and bread crumbs and one and one- half teaspoonfuls salt, one teaspoonful onion sauce, 1 teaspoonful poultry sea- soning, one cupful thick cream sauce. Mix well and pack in a well-greased mold and bake for forty minutes in a moderate oven, Set the mold in a pan of hot water. Serve either hot or cold. HM serving hot, a brown or tomato sauce should be used. To Clean A Blouse. A very simple way of cleaning white blouses, which has been found effi- cacious, is to line a box with clean white paper, cover the bottom with Fuller's earth, spread the blouse care- fully over this and put another layer of the earth over it. © Spread another sheet of white paper over this and put the cover on the box: Let it remain untouched for five or six days; then shake out the blouse, which will be quite clean. Mending Hints. To mend a glove that is split at the thumb or near a seam buttonhole the kid either side of the split and then sew the buttonhole ey together. The result will be a new firm seam that will never tear again. kid, otherwise the stitches will pull out from the kid. All stockings, ir- respective of the material, should. be darned with darning silk. Not only does it make a neater darn, but it wears better and .does not hurt the foot. Home-Made Hanger. A handy clothes hanger for children can be made of a broom handle. Make a cross of two pieces of wood fourteen inches long, three inches wide and one or one-half inch thick for a standard. Fasten together, bore a hole in the center and insert the handle. Screw half a dozen hooks in the handle, paint or enamel any desired shade and the hanger is finished, Small children will enjoy hanging their dresses on this hanger, thus teaching them to be neat and tidy. was not the consciousness of being a husband in danger of owershadowing the consciousness of those orders so lutely received? Often had he figur- ed to himself this taking possession of hig kingdom, but not one of his dreams had showed him the face of a queen by his side. So much th® more reason for grati-| tude to Providence, he decided, as he gave a furtive pressure to the little hand within his arm, a thing he could do with impunity, fellow-passengers being scarce at this ante-tourist sea- son, About a dozen human beings were thinly sown upon the deck, of which a goodly portion was occupied by a small menagerie, consisting of a shaggy pony, half-a-score of sheep, and a frantically excited collie-dog, barely beyond puppyhood, whose youthful shoulders were obviously not up to the burden of responsibility laid upon them. : Such adjectives as "picturesque," "romantic," "exquisite," had a good deal of hard work that day at young Mrs. M'Donnell's hands. ~~ Some peo- ple are struck dumb by a certain sort of scenery, but not she. The sweeps, of hill on each gide of the advancing' steamer, the fantastic boldness of peaks running against the sky into never-ending patterns, the huge sur- the thin mountain- in vain to clothe the nak- and stony flanks, ped § ) the beds of furi- ous torrents--a awful impres- sion of [solitude hii solemnity Tpon nclofied o grass strove valleys--none of e ' power to tie her ton-| gu . Here and there, a forlorn-look-| cottage pressed as near as possible} Sr the| portunity of tions, it, too, having violently and pro- testingly fenced itself off from the wilderness. "Do you think there will be any- body expecting us?" asked Ella, rather fluttered, as towards the mid- dle of the afternoon the boat headed for the Bonnet Ferry pier, which was the station for Ardlock. John smiled in a rather shy manner. "I am sure there will not. I took the 'Stuart Arms' for a machine, I knew you would not-like to be troubled Yih, 8 lot of strange faces just at rst." "Oh," said Ella, looking down rath- er blankly at her pearl-grey -travel- ling gos, whose tint had been so carefully selected with a view to a possible "reception." She had seen herself so distinctly being handed by John into a vehicle --perhaps even decora -smil and bonin from under the shadow BR Dwrin the re ul saluations of the : turned out to do honor he ister and his wife. : or a pop Taypralie ression upon | . He wag strange in some things. LSE Ga so far, v a ee eT holoey a wonderfully good, 'things, quite unpalatab life, as, quite npaiatabi Im 'sauce a lune de miel. 4 " : % There were a hundred pictures Elia had 5 ies been a 1 look Eor| sve HE all of the mineral substances, but also! - tein and yield about the same amount | Aapats harge is very DE WETS ESCAPE. Incident in South African War Which is Characteristic of a Boer Leader. Of the three great figures that emerged on the Boer side in the war of defence that developed ufter Lady- smith--Botha, De Wet and Delarey-- De Wet was much tke most impres- sive. His face was a study in resis- tance, says Mr. Harold Spender in Gen. Botha, the Career and the Man. His body seemed all muscle. Look- ing on him, one could understand the fear that he ipspired in his own men. But it was his schemes of escape, al- most miraculous in their cunning, that perplexed an empire and puzzled a planet. On one on two cccasions I have seen his face light up when he referred to one of hig own achievements in eva- sion, and of those achievements one still stands out in my memory. One evening, after a long day's march,--so he told us,--all his wand- erings seemed to have come to an end. Let us sestcre 19 seeming sowness yous Hac ains, Ca: and we pay carriage ; PARKER'S } The lights of the British bivouac fires twinkled from every point of the hor-! izon. De Wet, as was his wont, went * apart from his men and sat alone in dumb despair. Thén there came to him softly one of those wonderful scouts who served him so well. The' scout had discovered a slight gap in! the British lines between two regi- ments that were not quite keeping touch. In a moment De Wet was on his feet. = Within an hour every horse™s foot was muffled with cloth or wool and every wagon wheel was swathed, The Boer camp fires were lighted and' were left burning brightly. Then the whole Boer force: crept out through the darkness of the night in utter sil-' . ertce, penetrated the gap in the British lines and started on a new course of fugitive warfare. A Logical Inference. Mistress--See here, this chair is covered with dust. Maid--Yassum. 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