SUG 3 SARA SAIS ANSE Pi at igi the morning and im the evening she was oce Fighting Life's Battle; OR, LADY BLANCHE’S BITTER PUNISHMENT man who lag pee sprang for- war yy the arm. CHAPTER XXV. I were asked was the ich man aaa most pequetl moth bs bes i Goa baid a veler The first him coolly enough, but with agli “Ilter in his eyes that~ made Floris trem “Well ?? he paid, with an Engtish acce “You shall n ‘Hear me! I say you shall mot ge!” ea shes who held him, vehemently. ‘You Raat gee melee Tchuld-onpoee to epee, cL wealisay’ Florence’ It was May, a lovely, balmy, plea- pantly smiling May, and Florence was looking at its best. in aD: but On one of the bridges, and lean-|—you English are all alike, you w in fing against the stonework and look-|our money and_ then, houf! you Sag down at the river was a young jf Jome lee : girl. Thanks no!’’ said the Enghsh- man, with a smile that was more Leg was dressed in mourning — exasperating in its cool sang froid ot heavy rape, stiff and hideous, it of simple black merino, reliev- ‘ban, any verbal rete 6d by a touch of white lace or lin-| “You will not? “thowted the bn af the sleeves“and throat other, through his set oe “Certainly not!” ied the was a very lovely face even in city of lovely repli . Englishman. ‘Why shania 1? © have won your money; is that what you complain off You | won enough of mine, iay friend. ae Ttalian ee his teeth. You are he his The E mallet hehe. {You euaht to know a brother. artist when n- Tt that = = ° Maile cbr ter eee, eat tate as! at drawing the copper coins on grand people who Fade lazily € Tiiouphcthe parks or. crawled lan | >. he retried, x guidly along the quays. [Sshom. Pianiaie ade care toric: Among the English at Florence | pute had been quite an amusement,|” “You mean——?”’ snarled the wring the long winter months, to {talian guess at the history of the graceful) ‘Just this, my friend=that if T had not cheated, as you \easionally, I should have He chance against you Good-evening: with a simple movement he at the corner of the square, | wrenched the man’s hand from its MiHE the eooettrio old Mee. Sinelaiy frenuadalutch Sanita uvny: and who was called Lillian Wood,| At the moment, while Flori Was none other than Floris Car- (uanking her stars that the afiir Usle, once so nearly Countess of |had ended cand that, she was free i girl who was seen so often in about the r solitary walks ery bat not one o! ed in the ight, the sharp cx up again y in whieh the post of the acer she ae | Crying for help as loudly as she lair was one of thors could, Flori knelt eern beside him eople who permit. them- ue he bsorbed by an idea, | up ares in life 16 se from the lady who engaged ae sti oe a a.minute ago, ed Heo. bast iptonite: as’ it by the pursuit of i nagic, end a crowd gathered round 13,6 Sinclais’s great “ambition |the. two figur prone man was to write an exhaustive work | | with his white face, and the kneel- en botan : ling girl with her gentle, pitying She was Poalonetely fond of one. flowers, and had made them a study} In another the police inelair with white hair and failing Flori was in consequence of this fan ing eyesight that she rae, ady for a young girl t ssi she soon found that, “she hhadl se~- sured a treasure in AHloris. Floris’ work wag-hot difficult ; y noment ever since she was a bi but the came up, a loris hu, home book had not got itself written yet, jto. tell the ory to = though she was now an old. woman : sight. ea ees was sipping her te: afterward, when the gsran ain ne clefgyman. old gentleman, ty respected and beloyed by tl glish community in F for | ence, va ‘a constant visitor at the an | Violet V! u-} “Tam fe this evening, dear ma- pied in making notes and copying | dam,’’ he after exchanging extracts for the great work; the greetings. ‘‘But I was detained on sent of the time was at her own my road hither by an ‘ident isposal, and she f it in| was erossing the road by the hos- an vant 34 A man had been yought in who had been stabbed Soin the stree i-| Floris ditetted and put down her old one that Floris) teac up. Carlisle might indeed een| “He was an dead and Kallian Wood have arenes ‘that is why they se ‘om her es. course, I found d the poor fellow in Mrs. Sinclair had no’ friends ae he surgeon’s hands, and very much nides the clergyman and the profes-/ exhausted. It appears that he was sor; no English newspaper ever en-| fered the house; no tidings of the|in great world on the other side of the ehannel ever reached the Violet Villa, as it was called, and Floris room, or wandering dream- | and ealled me in. ly about the beautiful city. | br To all intents and purposes, Keren Italian in ae qitictude of | pital when 8 porter ran across | ®! Englishman, and for me, of stabbed while coming out of a house streets off the sate ‘ing | ious to ex the matter up, and was er retice! ly Is he vaey asked Floris in a badly wounded ?”” tried to persuade him to remain, but he re- solutely declined and came out with m she was known, then she set off for ome. With her book under her arm sl was walking quietly through a nar- row street’ when, suddenly, there on the drowsy, shad lowy. si- sound of men’s voices "Cs it possible ?”” iWreatied Floris. “He is an Englishman !’’ he said, as if that eeninied the man’s ob- stinacy. ‘‘An Italian, now would ave given in and laid there for a re no strect| month. Poor fellow, T happen to aL a easia: fol "tien at know a great deal about him.” pe y in fis road and a woman lol-| ‘Yes?’ said Floris. ta door, and Floris was won-| ‘Yes. He is a well-known man d_and faced | alt ee but it. was not a Flor- e scene she had seen in che was thinking; ‘angely unaccountably, her thoes ee travelled backward a and more clear SACRA | ™ an, pat abe Gad soar hint or mon month he: HOME. past his face rose befo: y TASTY DESSERTS. wounded man, Oscar Raymond, was like that of her lost lover, Perhaps if Oscar Raymond’s hair had been black and he had worn a moustache, the resemblance would have: been too great to escape her e six months of nad nee powder, one teaspoon’ salt, one tablespoonful of white su- gar. Mix thoroughly. Then add three tablespoonfuls of butter and sweet milk sufficient to make soft dough. Roll out in three lanes slightly initer each layer, lay 1 on top of the ether, bake tbat him 46 repeat the comedy two mines, separate the layers who ¢ heat hi ole m, place bottom erust on ate, cover with sliced’ orange, ane thickly with sugar, lay on + TR cx ee erust, ‘and proceed as be- eee a nist. top with pas sugar, Three wecks retina nd the rou-|serve while warm with cr a a of Flori unbrok- | sugar. nas or veathes may } ten like the daily. ene of a well-/used instead of oranges. made clock, and she had almost) Pineapple Fluff.-One cup pine- had proved a tragedy for flocs Carlisle t in ae buti Remov pepper. ty : fe garnish, with brown potatoe: * DOUGHNUTS. nuts after roll thin, cookie cutter. your Place some ants rele, tee Conetied sel he inet of these particular doughnuts and that is how to prevent them from a housewife has experienced “yemembered to have forgotten’’| apple chopped fine, one-half cup the incident of the gambling fray. |chopped English walnuts, one cup She had so far forgotten it that she | cream, whipped, one-fourth poun had resumed ee old solitary wan- | marshmallows. Cut. the marsh- | derings about one af-'mallows. into quarters with the, ternoon was neied under the trees | scissors, mix and pineapple, square with a book in her Hand; and her eyes fixed on the en=| purpled hills, when she became jeoneniols that some one was stand- ng beside he ahs awoke “from her reverie with jand add whipped cream. } Apple Cup- Gustard.—Pare core three large apples. Steam al tender and press through colander butter, three large tablespoontuls a start, rtled to see the | oF Hutter, three large ti Buglishivan He badinctecen IEE Fale aigar VON ARTES eeER on the cold stones, standing quiet- | three- fourtlie gaptul milk, Bake in small custard cups ordin- 's hat as she looked up, and his dati eyer'mot her start Jed gaze with a calm but earnest appeal in them. Dc n ary custards, meringue made a whites left | brown lightly, cold. Pineapple Ca’ Ele opall an dots ble boiler two Patol of brown = tha aad over, I beg of alarmed, , in a soft g e did so that 1 Hine gard t ; it, cae tha Te lett hand-waecnn dst containing chopped pineapple n the fold of his coat. ve cold, with whipped cream s the second time I have jcontaining English walnuts and ‘candied cherries. with a] Fyuit Pudding.—Two cupfuls of brown sugar, half cupful of butter, four eggs, leaving out the whites of wo. Beat all together, add flour Ras to Tonk stiff batter with wo teaspoontuls of baking powder, ghensbe ice quart of any kind of jfruit—berries are been pstindes enough to alarm you,” said, gently, and touch of genuine self-repro regret in his yoice. forgive me. There is Sy alml) dd sae beg you to to forgive,’” said Floris, “ay, a great deal,’ OE nee wot foe: as if uncer- | said, gra z gotten’ be ramped: hard sauce. an hour. rey th tain how to proceed, then went on; Angel Te ‘or two quarts take after a pause—“I fear I must have | juice of five lemons, two heaping been the cause of great uneasiness and alarm to you. I wish that my friend had made his 2 een cupfuls granulated sugar, add three leups “boiling Water. Mie popether, strain through cloth, and allow 2 serving, | Apple Pudding.—One cupful of milk, ne tablespoonfuls of short- utter and’ lard, two tea- spoons at shortening butter and Hs d, easpoonfuls of baking wde Ba . is pine of salt, flour mowgh to thicken. Fill the hottom ofa baking pan with apples cut in ‘small pieces and sugared: add a \ little cinnamon to tie ane and ‘cover. batter m. Bake ANNUMTATE DREADNOUGHTS New Dirgible Torpedo Will Carry a ‘on of y That latest and most terrible en- gine of naval warfare, the new dir gible torpedo whose movement: controlled wireless te eae ca 00 pounds. Yet tha Pen terobtai- chopped suet, ove pound of figs ed with these and others of even | three eggs, two cupfuls of ieee size, have been sufficiently fexumbs, one cupful of sugar, two awful. leupfuls’ of mill Wash, Thus, the xery pe torpedo of the | the figs, and chop. Chop the suet | odern dirgi pe, that was ever ; beat the eggs “light without separ- used in Serra. pcan contained ajation. Mix all the ingredients nursting charge of only 50 pounds, y; turn into a well greased sufficed to destroy the fine new Tur- er and boil three hours, kish monitor Dai-Matsin during the With wine sauce: One Lusso Turkish War in 1877, cup Of apanese, during their last a4 with China, used comparative ly small torpedoes of a very simi- Yet by their aid they. sue- gar, beat butter to a crea sugar gradually, and add the wine which has been made hot, a little at a time, place the clad Ting-Yuen, the pride of the; bowl in a basin of hot water and Chinese Navy. stir for two or three minutes. The On July 3rd, 1880, the Chilian = ansport Loa was destroyed in Cal lao Harbor by a non- cirgible, see pedo concea' Se in a fruit boat, whi a oe Sree of sauce should be smooth and foamy. 300 pounds aa the biggest aunty Mae Hi Min at then had been used in naval war- fare, and the ofte ct was terrible. Not only was the Loa herself blown to bits, with the Joss of 150 men oub of her crew of 200, but every house uu cloves and sprinkle with | elici- ar. Bal neue ous when “ee cold. am and Eggs— Melt one table- 1m Callao was shakén to its found-| sooonful o butter and moisien with Ou And ABR Aine: 3. eer E ious nnd sacle uptuls of tale rocked to and fro as from an earth: |) oh vimbs. quake shock. Perhaps, however, the most. strik- ing example of what can be arcon. pli ‘crumbs in a small ba ais, then to on top rack of moderate oven twen- derig whence the sound proceed- ed when, from the house opposite which she was standing two men @ame ont. Y They came ut hurriedly; the | y Joremost one in silenco, the ot! mone pne vociferating in the sharp, exci hi } he seemed ‘to be in possession of a) ‘large sum of money and, for a time | the appearance SE hived n great style. He became a the first man Vaibehted: labia ae: teeter of one of the fastest clubs | mtion, as she stepped back to al- here, and soon got himself known! yw them if oe she saw that he as a man who played continually was an En and ioe Shae stakes. Then he dis- fata seemed to her for tlie for a time, and I heard} wee as ii cet him be- Biccloskelean tint with pact frightened ares of her | w in; was particularly handsome, with a pair of dark flashing eyes, and all the manner of a young man, /though his hair, cut close to the - a, was grey—almost white—and is face close shaven. It was a singularly striking face, and it affected Floris strangely ; why, she did not know, e did not see her, and would have walked past with a quick tho’gh not hurried step, but the hair. ce name is Raymond, Oscar Raymon Blots turned the name over in her mind for fully a eee but she could not. recone act, er haying he: re to her room, and setting her lattice back, looked cut to the city with its countless gee beaming like fireflies in the [Magship | of the Ru i ch | Makaroff, and was first-class in ov in ery respect. Yet she u fine cand sunk w thy a irone : bottom. was afforded pnates he destruction 6 fthe Saked Livak-Buy. call’g liver’ in ace a contact mine containing 500 ths. of dynamite. And now nearly fonr times this | quantity is to be used, and in dir- gible torpedoes. The next naval war ought to witness a big mortal- ity amongst Dreadnoughts —— DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. “So they have quarreled !’’ “Yes. “Can there be a reconciliation?” “T fear not. The disrega cach other's feelings wa: She thought nothing of in} il brown nicely, just bef sery Deviled: Steak.—C using his | cne razor to sharpen lead pencils and ore it is é ne flank steak, vo. tablespoon- tablespoonfuls spoonful of salt, | of pepper, one he aneisiee on using her manicu Fr; Qne set to draw corks.”” | while hot add one tablespoonful of ft half an hour sooner or jeool, Then put in freezer and last- (fo be conbmvea'y Hy ada beaten “avhites oF ods ae = |Freeze for about twenty Ainoree then let stand for half hour before | eabb: agined, w! it is remembered that twenty minutes in a hot oven. ; the ieee ‘liveible Na em- | Serve with caramel sauce. | ployed up till now ss tha Pudding.—One — cupful of pick over} is easily and absolutely overcome by the simple method of wetting the edges of the dough with milk before pre hem together | Doughnuts.— aes cupfuls sugar, and one whole one, “al of ‘salt, one eup! at Yr nd one-half cupfuls of , one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream — of tartar, ablespoon- and one-quarter teaspoonful of mut. d Ad meg. Beat eggs. milk, then sift dry in add. Put in the sugar dients ice box over night. ane When ane heap with | In the morning roll about one-quar- ter of an inch and cut with a dough- nut cutter and fry in hot fat, but not iy guick. Drain pape | Dota ato Doughnuts.—Four um sized See es, two tablespoon Hfuls of melted lard, one eupful of sugar, two one cuplul of It, enough make dough. ch flour Fry in hot fat. ‘potatoes, add e soft feout milk preferred. ingredients, may be us e the onion Stuffed Doughnuts.—Make dough- favorite recipe, and cut out with small Have prepared some stewed prunes of apricots drained at splitting open while Hela. Many this | difficulty in making like viands. Tt and on brown medi- Boil and mash the | Then add the milk and other M and soda ea On the Farm 3 THE DAIRY AND SYSTEM. System means more money. In even one minute daily become rich, so greatly is time valued. e in New Zealand have not yet attain- eh Ua Aanatica s Canune daveld jop- ment, but even here method in every busine: fast. developing, he New Zealand Dairyman. “si stem of the Hairy—In the farm aiing working means more Many fermers do not re- as worth so much money—at leat in practice. of them could tell one, off hand, potly how neh tae farm return nlar year. many e improved: t 89 are ar season i Fer } holds its Consequently, necessary to the. pails, shaved don nie aed all hands go t cans Seagate morning has | custom seems like as jadded to their working: da; |morning hours.are worth ¢ Grapefruit Salad. — Grapefruit |much as are the afternoon hite grape salad. Cut the |These immediately preceding re grapefruit. into small sections free | marks may appear platitudes,’ bub from white pith and seeds. Add to i eut in s and seeded. Dress with a little salt, three tablespoon- oil, and one tablespoonful of Jemnon juice. Let stand in the or aboat an hour serve on lettuce ] | Corn Salas fea ten peo pers gar, three t uistard, one. tablespdonfal of salt, cne tablespoonful of - celery seed, one cupful sugar; boil ‘and Weal Whitefi a ala di=-Boil fish until tender; pi one mare y alf its quantity of white grapes and eaves. |Gn any year) until the end of Au- | Fae medium sued 12 st. tablespoonfuls of kan i e to cool. | they are worthy of repe they illustrate my point. had o time able arranged re ae) be ‘following time table serve from the beginning of June on easi ust. ,| Time Table—Six a.m., men 0 to 7.30 a.m. » and milk hor fast 7,30 a.m., break- | fast ; lihe return of cart, {pigs Gf any) and wash eans and |buckets; 8 a.m. to 12 noon, agri- jeultneal wae commence regular Take one-! ‘hall ena aie two | W 30 a.m. to 1M a.m., one) fekedauntald oils-hengersand Saleeto ee Rac Gla alle oaetann taste, dash of paprika, and onion |Spread manure, the othe i sauce. Put over fish just before |” chop wood ‘and t in field serving. This is good on | Work 3°12 noon 2 : o'clock, pbeuer: thin slices of bread for sandwiches, (al dinner hour; i aoa Se \field or (agri tlbaral) fan toe: ,| THINGS WORTH KNOWING. prags eater ak assist eld one |: White pepper willbe-found jie: eee is Aaniot eld heads, pli nr seme to black in seasoning chick- ning down stairs a stiff, NaS: chopped almonds, added ¢ A civatd! ore Mreaieaadae all greatly improve its flavor. Rugs, that curl on the edges ean iis sande td He Sat: hyadiuntpening sailed age and ae thom with hot i Aieagi bu linen handkerchiefs and towels mu can keep them a good Ee aaee oaily than if cotton ones are boug) When beating rugs ig auieceal Always buy an extra yard of stair n ‘carpet: T¥ Gat: chen Bot avitted ub or down a little every time it i taken up, so that ib wears evenly. When using cornstarch or arrow- at fore stirring it tata an hot “auld. Do not forget that: matting must \. strong cleans matting and makes it look ike new. alf a saucer of chloride of zine moistened with an equal mixture af vinegar and water—a few a oe only will purify a siek- few minutes. ning room table from hot dishes by placing an asbestos mat—the ordinary tin rimmed ones used in the kitchen, under a doily, using one under each hot. dish. Take cornmeal, saturate thor- sf ouhly with gasoline, sprinkle quite Re rpet, and serub J a BTSoa will remove all d and dust, oath the carpet Nook ike new. Have plenty of dish towels and and three for the tin and crockery ware, Always keep the pieces of wall paper after papering a room. Roll the pieces together and keep in a paper box. If the paper gets faded or torn it can be replaced with new. Seanecital tard, three table- spoonfuls of vinegar, two euptuls of & water. aa the butter in a fring lice the anion and fry} Good advice is the oes you re- member too late that you forget to take. ( e a soft clot morni Thus a se polish may be obtained, and i will be preserved by: the aS Emery powder and ail aoe into ea 5 ‘natn brush is better‘than a whisk | qo ro rops | af dairy hands (it is assumed that very milking in th s and after en lo odd jobs; “5 pim., field-hi se work, pithodiees and cover | ho 5.30 p.m., t a. "This time table } js. not Fonoumy hd; ed Ss a hard and fast code er as a “ground plan”’ of aries WI here the dairy herd is larger, we practically nil, and the fam- | vy (or hanae) small, and where a milli machine is used\it cannot be applied in its entirety But with modification to suit es should nrove an all- pelo tine ae: The author's aim in “ nomize time, to order Satie on 3 the farm, and to get the utmost ata peas wi zeae strain. The ails morrow’s worl Shoulll be tilled in bythe farmer on the night before, so that ‘the work of the next day is planned ne ean be star wi ithiout: aes DRESSING -POULTR Mec dressed determines largely the price it. will bring in market, aste is an ey cellent. mixture to cient steel. Rub on well and are | ter which rub with an oiled ra; and then polish up again with . clean duster. | For a laundry bag buy one and a! half yards of wide bleached linen-|™ it, overcast e eae often and so kept sweet , 2 Eg When, aki sour pies, such as Fhubarb and ee rry, it is well to add a cupfal of raisi hat have been previously soa ved ra rate “ty ie clean patent leather and: pre- ane it from cracking take French ee paste used by saddlers. Ap- it sparingly to the leather, and polish it lightly with a black Patent leather thus ive necessary things for chil- ares are plenty of milk, plenty of flannel, plenty i: ee plenty of gee air and p! of exercise. i mother y vill s aS pe children get thee things she may almost cer- ain of her little ones keeping well ie strong. cut off the head end this | ver feed and harness | a.m. dairy hands (to) on | feed calves and wo] the the |” Religion y t The manner in which poultry is looking tecines ragged torn, will be pi y for a "tae ie appearing ge y “ae people ut of ten, even ie the ha: d- % Toone specimen may ality a larger and fatter bird. It is tot ard matter to eas them to lobk Tey. and as the pri what all rowers are nee it aa to do. the work w All Batre ‘to be shipped should Le dry picked. Attach a small firm cord, double to a hook overhead, just long enough to slip a noos@ around the bird's Jegs at a convenix — ent height for picking. Provide a receptacle for blood, enother for feathers if they are to be save . The bird should haye had accese 4 to neither food Erenty our. hours, is is oo Sa the place where they are confined, or catch- ing with™a crook, similar to tha cjd-time shepherd’s roof of the wn » destroy the ue Mt pain. Place 2 hook ake, a peoteh witholied:. ee begin to pick y lai the wings as these cool quickest. |The Reese GA ne off ver} ie YS come smal he where the requires it, the stump tly, remove entrails, Sataa aa naa ay ible.” e, ancl they also. pack fer ship- Ment much bett Pica A ees oe TIMING EARTHQUAKES, Study of Scismic Disturbances Make ing Great Strides. Tho stndy of carthquakes is said to have been pursued most diligent- in Japan and in Italy. The dis y which led to the establish- of observatories, pe iy ment. noticed, ng ob BATTED A with one of ine lev i attached to a ene that the bubble of the level was o: cillating, but apparently for no rea son. Directly, however, there came the news of an earthquake at Iqui- lque, which had occurred an hour jand a quarter bef the oscilla- {tions of the instrument; and since then it has been ascertained "that | this is just the time needed for the arth waves tot the 8,000 s the beginning ‘ts be now a highly developed at- the formation of a new Pa seen SENTENCE SERMONS. Sorrow is the teacher of sympa- | thy. Be There are no saints without ser- vie | Most remorse comes from despis- ing rebuke. good lives are always look- n never come from uct heads. Nothing feels the Jack of exercise Ratner than piety. ie who fears ie as ay a cow- ard is sure to a-|""The holiness that. seems: to burs |you cannot help the wor js out attempt to. dis- cover the meaning of life. He ina nee deed who eek another on to Temptation may he aoe discip- uae re a makes poor diet. ne dios of spiritual indiges- ea" aN ‘The surest way to an empty heurt: is to hehe an envious ply a way of “boast: cing of our power to fool others. nows the less. ay of religious the knowledge The people who are going no- where are always in a rush vo get there —| Some who talk: with unetion-on working for sinners are but work- ing the saints. Folks who sit-down in’a soft place hope that it is on elevator and find it is a glue Life is Tiely’ to lose all humor when you get into the habit of ridi- fe) cule end cheap wit. ae A ae ue “blest st easier to write a volume on psy Pihcion: than itis to get to know a man so as tosreally help him. Some people get so little ont of religion because they are so anxious to get so much for themselves a make him out: of mud an t him up before you in a : - a SEEING THEIR FINISH. Lawyer—"W! hat is your occupa- tion?” Witness—‘I’m a piano finisher.’* Lawyer—“Be a little’ more defie nite. wae you polish them or move them an is sovaialis for wireless sek tat i ea x had s7casion to visit Ss d xe aes bon hook, aS)