of “SALADA” for every tvo cups—boiling Wwater—and five minutes’ infusion will produce a most delicious and invigorating beverage. i : 1 THE CABLEMAN AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE \ CHAPTER XIII—(Cont’d.) have quarrelled? “He was your husband.” “And thereby he made me the wife of a notorious criminal, Do you know Biot SEND POR A A TRIAL because I like you, and I like Elsa Ci . She tre: me with a/|that my portrait, or what was said to fair amount of epee an the night |be my portrait, Se published in the the Ring | Police aie s, he was my hus- ock, an suppose af aaett to hate band; vg a have anything her; but I don’t, because she was de- that?” yu thinl to tsa him for in “SALADA, ” TORONTO. About the House _«x fending her father. Is he the theme| Those few sentences struck — thi on which you and che have quarrelled, perenne, and the motive never varied. ” The woman was ¢elfish, callous, quer- ra hayen’t quarrelled,” said Scar-|ulous; she thought herself {ll-used bor wi pupetlnes in self+revelation. But your ast ae sete? itself Elsa had nev d. at] Useful Hints and out smoothly is a jarring | from her, had Tooked forward with no note?” pleasure to the day of her mother’ General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife “Yes,” “Then T'll help you if I can, Mrs. Carrington is a thorough bad lot. I don’t know her well, but I know that. Your future wife. giant make a lucky | choice of pare: death being received Instead it was received with a whine, a sneer, a grum even the decency of pretence. paren Dishes. Strawberry Tarts.—Roll pie dough |p one-cighth inch thick and cut into | ro nes ot correct ze ss cover interes ed i lar_tins. x tins with Stee. oe ick several tee with fork | and bake until delicate brown, Fill with fresh strawberries cooked in rich ‘yrup, or cher desired fruit. | Chops pounds lamb chops, three Load ey butter, two small onions, two gree min in iter vantil tender. toes, stock and seasoning and thicken with flour, moistened with a ee cold water. Boil chops slightly, se: son, lay them in baking dish, ie sauce over and bake until tender it hot ove Cteami of Asparagus.—Wash bunch of asparagu=, removin, eserv- ing tips, ys cutting rest into small over cut pieces three | pints totting water, add one cut stalk of celery, spray of parsley, one hop: ped onion and teaspoon salt. look thirty minutes, run Saoiee nde me turn to saucepan and let come to boil. Beat into it yolks of three eggs and ‘one cup of cream. i ately, press through sieve, add three spoons cream, pinch of salt and well-beaten whites of three eggs. Bote this over soup mixture, place in e table- £008 “granulate wares ie table- Spool boiling Bis tee tick whites, one re one-fourth cups swear, 0 table- | juice, one Htrawberties and juice Soften gela- | tin in cold water, add hot water set over steam until dissolved. steam fowl about two hours, or until joes not pper, two table- | spoons finely minced onion (optional), two eggs and wateras ne move crust from bread a ieaaiieead into blocks, pouring on enough cold press dry, pick spark into light, fluffy mass an leat butter in skillet, add onion and cook (don’t ert s add well-beaten eggs to | read, mix with onions and butter, toss all aa in skillet until hasted| fluous moisture, | b then fill cavities of fowl lightly, leaving Blenty of room for dressing to expa’ Italian * Meat Balls. — Press tw tw ete dd crumbs, two | beaten eggs, one tablespoon stiia teaspoon salt and ak tomatoes in stew pan, add if Sup. ters 008 sliced onion, ae ay leaf, one. and press through ‘sieve. into’ casserole, heat to boiling point, balls. cover and Jet cook one ison heated het moriukle with grated parmesan Bheeks. cod Salads. and Walnut Salad—Wash celery. Cut into small pieces one-thir: lish ok meat broken in two, and enot Garnish with lettuce. Egg Salad—Cut hard-boiled eggs into thick slices or as quarters. Use ll be os ing that anger has bei like everything else and it mus‘ age be wasted. 4 share knife, will rrange Mina portion on a ae ‘of lettuce partly covered with mayonnaise and arrange the lettuce M carrots or beets, cut eit aoniae ve SH s separ- iy tablespoons : bi kis cashed | © ssixth in Fi Paris. { ne ae Pour sauce | d the quantity of Eng- | the war. aise to moisten well. | littl a me “me details?” said woman plainly did not care, and in Se: nent: qui thi in acirele on a flat dish, the ste e hearing of her daughter at least, tly. the leaf toward the center of the ist Monk duis Mavctiok’s Gacy ah aquick glance | did not think it worth while t ae a tow ie, of he valley oF [at him. His face looked almost hhag-|to care bine atts yer ap the middle, ___|gard. He was suffering. She did not ce it the t Mae va eeene aud aliee enawe howe sk would fale him to. hese (che had Comet oie Gece ane perio ‘When ready to serve, cov~ se she could tell; but he said it) Elsa remembered aes as a erat allo Seles Aldniy” aleed ew:| wold” "Bo" HKG told “him what shall vars auferent nerwen Geercahe Sb yonipas and ei cot in’ same way |}enew: femembered P : i les to give cris to each mouthful. | “She is a woman of the world, in| handsom gge a bg es Ttod of thin slices of radishes, Just ‘tha worst sence’ of the word het ing. way, ‘ always eanltlanaly dressed, less, extravagant, selfish, busy in a whirl of social duties, Sone neve eH nla Bal aA te vot fase) times fitfully indulgent to her daugh- ie too anit prabahigaelte bigeert {tery ti 7 mt | “i pap speabalivect r, petting her whei whim took wallow as thin clices of kohirabi may be used. Serve with French dressing or mari- {nate fn French dressing and serve mayonnaise. Cauliflower “Salad.—Was h well in lay that | ness, hardly with a art. “at sa ‘Greingion’s hee Th canines what little of it there Desi ot the Wat ee ath cal was a i aes ou teem an jhad eat, was never, in truth, mor Be ee Cone srigar ad oll st eh nalbars eh. ae tful—I think it | than a tenderness of words; there oa Ii fe the one alek and pwwas because he ee an expensive and ' no tenderness of thought, and Elsa ile them in a pyramid on ce thless wife. $ secimtual, knew that she had never held aap! place a clever criminal; es it was she wh © | in hex mother's fi Rackel ro ii Her craving | Carrington busy, ates, hunting: Areaivereruul the because he | play ruined him, life there had shapes, to give a line of color. Place tried to satisfy it. I believe he oes oe eli Pa rer ge ed any rate he stole for hen | a floweret of cauliflower on the Banana Salad—One head ra six ripe banana: anas, one cup diced pin |for hers, though shallow, is foreeful— ‘kel and ORES Fe apple, one-half cup mayonnaise mix- | s very defects of glittering | gerous ind i i ot : ed with one-fourth eup whipped cream, hardness ae celfishness. There, | sero es ye ea ay that is tl 0 | do you like i i Scarborough did at answer. |imbien st Sstial Diesen ‘She works | bo | “There is. one thi more,” said ee mt ah? round sjices, without separating (Mona. “She was syonderfally best. hea ate finenrtoaieeicn Cover with spoonful et pine- |fuj, ‘That is one quality which her |tost that Chico MEE IE apple and generous sponta! of cream daughter seems to have inberited from | mp, Seen and serve cold. ere was tragedy -mayonaise. Garnis [gather (ragedy in’ this, Bird’s-Nest Salad—Rub a little ore of discontent about her en coloring paste cream “Still Scarborough was silent. Mona mouth had their pathos; for the pun- re a leaned forward and put her hand on cheese, giving it a delicate color like | pis arm. ird’s egg. Roll it into balls the | “I don’t know whether Iam right in size of bird’s eggs, usix this,” she said, I don’t | ishment of folly is tragic, and the suf- |ferings of the wholly worthless are Giolead poiguahe peraustithey arede- smooth side of butter pats. ieve in the doctrine of heredity | “°"¥® -a fiat dich some well-erimped let- | mush myself; but perhaps you do.| But the generous heart of youth | tuce leaves. Group them to look li S Sou ated? cannot know this. In witnessing ‘nests, moisten them well with Trench ta geata?” he asked, Varnouetha ig wholly eanteed to. sates} essing and place five of the cheese! «Afraid that the Gaughter may have | it notes and condemns the selfishness, each nest of leaves. iebited more er mother than eudeAneite-horrosgie nee tk apt to cheese balls may be varied by flecking | veauty? yay “think you need-be, | overlook. the sorrow. mother; put she a adeeseiba ines eniliehe [inc that the despised Hen And atten Ww of het company she came if pref fed with ya fee Useful Hints. i ish with eweet- uu are,” said ae ke eee an If the leisurely meal of the family | ue you don’t think so, I shall take the | But as yet her anger had not blaz- | aly is supper, it is a good idea to use the liberty of calling you, not a good €d out into open defiance, her father’s Steai Roast Fowl.—Three or | best china and linen for that ti {judge, but a yore | letter had bidden her be guided by her four pound fowl. three cups of bread- If custard in your pies shrinks,| “Ah, ! You are right,” said mother, ae a ae as it was possible, cumbs, one-third cup boiling water, | the oven has bet 0 ate cus- | ihe with a smile of relief. “And the oo woul ey; but she had an in- salt, pepper, sage and flour for dréss- tard should not boil in the ing note in your idyll will tune it- stinctive feeling that soon it would) i a i celery and cold ‘nacétonl | er into harmony resently. Now tell | not be yas Carrington had demanded to oft wood may be used for | Se atck ete ra the eens. be taken to the Ring-rock at once, in ine Saet if the aaa is Raees ‘small steamer was coming in under | 0rder that che might her ney soaked with oil of e a cloud of black smoke. nds as ce as possible the packet | ave the liquor in which “That is the Funchal, from Lisbon,” which had hidden there, Elsa | ey of vegetable ead pudding with prynes in it shold find in her a ee or an en- oun to the eer ‘was only vund, Suddenly Mrs. Garingtag: gave short cry, and Belated forward. “Who a Shae A boat shot out Bate the the circle of the Rin; (eigeeee e man res res, as though he were in Ea fat il up, Elsa! We can catch him!” “Why should we ryt asked Elsa, “Besides, I don’t think w man had stopped ieeeluay ad was running up a sail. “This boat is aheavy sailor,” Elsa ‘went on. Het doubt if we shall gain on him ni Do you want me to try?” ; (To be continued. ; SECRETARYSEIP FOR OLD IRELAND, i A POSITION WITH MULTIFARI- OUS WORRIES. Many Famous“and Brilliant Men Have Occupied the Office. The rumored spear of the a Hon. Lewis Harcourt to succeed M Birrell as Chief panaary for Ireland was followed quickly Bp post because of ill-health. In fill- that office the Pri choice will be limited to the Liberal members of the Cabinet.‘ For Mr. Birrell, the late Chief Secretary, was, of course, a Liberal, and it seems to have been part of the terms of coali- tion tha when a Minister resigns, the Minister appointed to im should be of the same political arly. Since the union between Britain and pela something iike | half a hundred men (more or less). save deli ie office af-Trlabs, Secret ary. Many of them have held that office more than onc only four men have subsequently attained the :P! Precis ip. the Duke of Wellington who, as Arthur Wellesley, was Chief Secre-) tary in 1807; bert eee yee ee that oes in 1812; Mel- | tab held th in 1827; and Mr, Bal- , the present First Lord eS cs | Admiralty, who held it from 1887. to 1991. One Irish Secretary (Lord Frederick Cavendish) was murdered. Several had years added to shel age, one, in particular, the Rt. Hon. W. | Forster, known as “Bu ckshot” For. ster, by reason of his instructions that 2. firing on rioters buckshot used in place of bullets, being tar Ns into a prematurely ‘The Real Ruler of Irelan he Chief Secretary for Ireland is principal secretaries es jretary of Stat \is Chief Bochetary to the Lord Lieu- | tenant of Ireland. But though |Trish @ PS Lord Lieutenant in Council, tha’ is to say, in the Privy il i |land, the real ruler of Ireland, jo! officer’ an es to tl imps Parliament, is thief Se Curiously Ries os formal medium of communication between the ee e Lord Lieutenant of h fie speaking, t | position is that Senin Bab thig: foltpn tActenhad becomes somewhat modified as sometimes happens, the | J so. inet can as served with a lemon sauce, an oui have toldssii husband had got AS to prove his | Minister. The ae Lord Lieuten- | the whole family will relish it. | eon antigl inniocence; but si t it was /ant does not happen to be a Cabinet Before popping corn put in aoe “P}] tell Si “another thing,” che|™ pee Fos & er mother Dials orpected | Ecsta edt “ven cues 7! it. ia“ mething more mere i Ce ee ake said. “If my twenty thousand pounds | ae ae and ¢ Lord lieutenant generally has not ton was robbed of them, and perhap: have hot water put on tl m, T don't | her lips. them out in cold water, ntallowed Sty soap and water. | ff your slippers do not cling to away, fom San’ Miguel “with ee ‘ the faith in her father your heels while dancing, gum a tiny —for which she had fought, against bit of velveteen and place it inside me ho will 2” Scarborough, pet [evidence against her own judgment, the back of each heel. auieky. “You, even against her own love—was Killed fin the ead Rachel | cee di Had | known it, she would pee Tangled, odor will not be n ee even pitied, in sneering To stretch kid epee when new, Ga prR: SEN scorn, a girl who could be such a cred- place them between the folds of a |ulous fool; but assuredly she would | (damp towel for almo:t one hour be- Carrington, | not have "As Else's Tet brought them nearer heart kind are washed in gasoline, a afew drops e dis Ba feesiie man ets 10 is ee owar< eee us: itfidek that pall of black poke aera per inet 8 BE at induced you to choose patting that packet into her mother’s | tuch @ ridiculons.‘hiding-place?” |hand:, in the belief. that she ae beater ing before paing w = | | “Father said, ‘The safest place yon ee taking the first step in t! PEOPLE MORE see Now. | know. That was the fissure in Ring-Rock,” ald El rethe last few hours that hope was | War Has’ Wirouaht Jnt Great Changes in “Absurd!” said Mrs. Carrington, ‘dead Mrs. Carrington, on the other cba “grew mote eager every moment, by a somewhat natural mental ae cess, moré Yeady to discount as sible disappointment | by blaming El-a egcand Wanye | Elsa bit her lip and did not answer. War has ina about an increase Hey mother had been in the island of of politeness between men and women’ san Miguel twenty-four hours, and al- vance, says observers of life in'seagy Bsa had grown tired of the useless endeavor to defend the Hei W. against . dull $e, aces this handsome, gn ia ie ss n was burning’ in her heart, and it eased to ina the ene was only by an effort that she kept yn both back her tear Meh Geengon Hed landed on. the m- | Ele, T don’t expect that ‘jar will be ied. “The place has been mee dodkgurd i the | ‘last wee the ‘people who refioated # won't have explored every, ind T don’t see why they should,” said , wearily. “They had their’ each one very loyally tee to. create. ae of social comity: is not inteadaeee ec wife an us- .d into the ee alone, but is ee in se all their acts, towards in- feriors a equals as well. ates Ht, those who come in contact with he public ‘paessonally, ayes ee = in the ‘will adm’ meet he ea that the truth might be too great a shock, had told her first that he was ill, and had marvelled to see the an nouneement met with a and a When at length she did sum- weet, if they haven't, someone else! pr obably has. “Who?” Horse being wre ‘ou might have Sasa letting your- ny Nace | fst? Did you think T should race Bett S Ve | <cream, or cause ascene in the cus- | intelligence would know at once thal ade them howl twenty month oa. coi hoieet. Da-gar dite claidy that: you: one there alone, on the When about to make a scene for the | 7 ear : don’t. He was afool.” | day after your father’s death, for no- most trivial motive, the most violent} «jy, father,” thi The obvious, dudstence would said S fon't see that that fact disproves ing something. my assertion,” Mrs. Carrington had aereral “T expect you are a fool, too,” : ‘The jar won’t be ther Elsa did not SpE Bit began _to make ready to lower her sail. The - | governm and the Chief Secretary has not, then fact as well as in name. ‘The Secretary's Salary. | In any event, it is of the utmost im- | fportance that the Lord we the Chief Secretary should in complete accor ‘mer is by far the better paid, receiving $100,0 la year, while the salary of the Chief | |Secretary is $22,125—less than is re- | ceived by thirteen of his Cabinet col- Jeagues. The Chief Secretary is, by statute, | keeper of the Irish Privy Seat, | President of the Irish Local Govern: | ome Secretary for Ire- land, all in one. it should |be noted, still retains much of its own imental itus—its own) the prom. ; ‘fal saliation , bit aha’ realized new |Beivy. Counel, administrative offiers, {Payot fall Jaw officers (Lord Chancell ‘Attor- | General and Solicitor- General), | and law courts, the Inst being at pre jsent aubject, to the appellate jurisdic- of the House of Lords, although ih en the Home Rule Act comes into | operation, such appellate jurisdiction | | will be ree not by the House of ‘Lords, but by the Judicial Committe’ jo of the re Council. | ‘The Reason Why. i “There had been a very forlorn ap- Mary Ann of late, and jake pienso lary, “what has become of that nice young nd duced ket-handkerchief. “H: TE ‘ae he wae ant) = Laundry since he got’ marsied | es cont come ound an e.” Starch answered rx a Fair Deal Wife—John! One of es twins has ; swallowed a “es in this family! i THE PRICE GERMANY ‘ime Minister's | ¢ deal re have paid for every rane Loi \bourne, who, as the Hon, Willan bs the erial | Lieutenant | ™® be 90 | nau ract ced in a arpa motor ay cent. Husband—Well, give the other one a cent to swallow. Tl play no favor- "CAN GET VERDUN FOR 300,000 MEN WILL HAVE TO PAY. When They Got the Town They Would Find It An Empty Victory. Tf the Germans want fortress of Verdun badly enough they ean take it by the middle of July at a total cost of $00,000 men, says Amo the overrated New when they get-it they will find they have a hollow vic- tory. The French will simply withdraw a much stronger position they’ al- ready have Lorene on the west bank of the Meus Verdun He been in a precarious position ever since the beginning of the war, when the Germans in_ their original rush aeeibet a. half- meade Frencl my mong places the tiatogical position on the Beane of the Meuse at St. Mihiel. They swept around three sides of Ver- dun and could not be dislodged with- | vn out paying a price in lives which the ench General Staff has never con- ‘itera worth while, Forts of Little Value. Since that time the value of forts as forts has greatly diminished. Ver- dun by itself could have been blown jto pieces, e new trench fortifi- = s ant lun, as fortress, has not been worth fighting or. jis one ost important con- siderations at this tense moment «of wi re beginning to realize the | it falls | now they will not consider it a defeat. {If it had fallen after only two or three lw sault, it would have Been a great victory for the Germans, moral no moral effect now. ple know how ‘mans Sir; Saving Soldiers. If the German offen: continues , ;at Verdun until it is no Bias worth | {while holding, the French people ol eady and anxious betore ‘the army is ready. f the eir sons. has Soar the Germans be: tween 140,000 and 150,000 men and} has cost the French about 90,000. The | French will nob continue to suffer in ie proportion from now on and will t pay a total of more than 130,000 | against the German 300,000. ‘The Fri Ito the end of the war, e & 5 I et & hate to lose worth while for the French to stay. e | Most of the French losses were right They | wi |at the beginning of the battle. were so great during the first week hat Gen. Joffre want to give it up, but Gen, de Castelnau, Commander Chief o' i | ged permission to send u with his crack troops, the mobile army |. of France. A Million Shells a Day. may The Germans opened their offensive ary ithe It seemed tke mai ness to try to hold out in a aueen ageous position against them, and Joffre, looking to the military advant- age alone, wanted to abandon the fort and withdraw tg the shorter, i fa lines west of t] euse. | Castelnau, hice his ear | ground, a3 reales on ad P| | effect, a When “the two toaeente out in raich for two hours straight before he won i is pane and raced to Verdun late a ight to take comma and. Ger- ily on, the Bpsheh 3 falling Lee \orders, before them. So de atl: with war maps on his knees, and the trench | commanders heard nothing more in- spiriting over the telephone than curt command ators. de Capel wat able organize bis defence, the G arching under the protection of a| deluge’of shells, ed. already reached Douamont. They had the town and {i seetved up: Sereat soe would have the fort too that they announced the of the fort a little too soon. | ee seihar Sh e an |Burope. Kept Out of. Verdun. First the Moroccan upon The French people, whose morale ench, having already an eye! i council at the very height of | wat | the Chiet ‘Secretary takes a secondary | the first attack, de Castelnau talked peas insshallow plates, | position, : at the flies alight and ns at that time were coming stead- | Frenchmen who had been serving in Africa, were thrown against the Germans, They are the venturous of “a the French troops and they bys have been insulted if any antiga ‘oops had been sent into the danger Sone them. They caught the full force of the German rush ped pea and their acts of heroism the annihilating shells would ma to be counted by the thousands. They paid for Douaumont and so the divisions an followed, but prevented the Germans from sweep- ing into Verdun. CANADA'S FIRE WASTE. Spring Is the Time to Remedy Dan- gerous Conditions. 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