~~ let you alone." CHAPTER VIII.--(Cont'd.) "There will be nothing to prevent ~ from doing just as you wish. ed ou can paint all day if you want. You can paint yards of things--olive trees and sky and rocks. There are lots of them around Etois. And I--" "Yes," she interrupted; "what. can you do, Monte?" "T can watch you paint," he answer- ed. "OrIcan walk. Or I can--oh, there'll be ie a for me to do. If we tire of Etois we can move some- where else. If we tire of each oth- er's company, why, we can each go - somewhere else. It's simple, isn't it? We can hoth do just as we please, can't we? There won't be a living soul with the right to open his head tous. Do you get that? Why, even if you want to go off by yourself, with Mrs. in front of your name they'll At first she had been surprised, then she had been amused, but now she was thinking. "It's queer, isn't it, Monte, that it should be like that?" "Tt'g the way it is. It makes everything simple and puts the whole matter up to us." "Yes," she admitted thoughtfully. "Of course,". he said, "I'm assum- ing you don't mind having me around ~ quite a lot." ' "No, I don't mind that," she assur- ed him. "But I'm wondering if you'll mind--having me around?" "T didn't realize until this last week} how--well, how comfortable it was having you around," he confessed, She glanced up. "Yes," she said, "that's the word. I think we've made each other comfort- able. After all--that's something." "Tt's a whole lot." "It's Teddy again," she trembled. "Let me talk to him," he command- "He says he doesn't believe in our-- our engagement." ee "We're to be married to-morrow : he. asked quickly. "Oh!" . "Tt's the only way to get rid of him." fet al : "To-morrow?" Catching her breath, she nodded. He took the receiver. ; "This is Covington," he said. "Miss Stockton and I are to be married to- morrow. Get that? te Welly keep hold of it, because the moment I'm her husband--" Following an oath at the other end, Monte heard the click of the receiver as it was snapped up. % "That settles it very nicely," he smiled, ~. CHAPTER IX, Blue and Gold Marjory was to be married on June eighteenth, at eleven o'clock, in the chapel of the English Congregational Church. At ten o'clock of that day she was in her room before the mir- ror, trying to account for her height- ened color. Marie had just left her in despair and bewilderment, after trying to make her look as: bridelike as possible when she did not wish to look bridelike. Marie had wished to do her hair in some absurd new fas- hion for the oceasion, ; "But, Marie,' she had explained, "Nothing is to be changed. Therefore why should I change my appearance ?"' "Mademoiselle to be a bride--and nothing changed?" Marie had cried. "And it needn't ever be anything else, need it?" - "Certainly not," he declared. "That would spoil everything. That's what we're trying to avoid." To his surprise, she suddenly rose as if to leave. "Look here!" he exclaimed, "Can't we settle this right now---so that we won't have to worry about it?" He disliked having anything left to worry about. ' "T should think the least you'd ex- 'pect of me would be to think it over," she answered. "Tt would be so much simpler just o ahead," he declared. here seemed to be no apparent reason in the world why she should not assent to Monte's proposal. n and of itself, the arrangement offered her exactly what she craved--the widest possible freedom to lead her own life without let or hindrance from any one, combined with the least pos- sible responsibility. As far as she could see, it would remove once and for all the single fretting annoyance that, so far, had disarranged all her plans. ; Yet she hesitated, It was not that she did not trust Monte. Not the slightest doubt in the world existed in her mind about to "Nothing about me; nothing about Mr, Covington.' We are merely to be | married, that is all--as a matter of convenience." "Mademoiselle will see,' answered cryptically. ;. "You will see yourself," | had laughed. Eh bien! something was changed al- ready, as she had only to look in the |mirrow to observe. There was a deep flush upon her cheeks and her eyes did not look quite natural, She saw, and seeing only made it worse. Manifestly it was absurd of her to become excited now over a matter that up to this point she had been able to handle so reasonably. It was /searcely loyal to Monte. He had a right to expect her te be more sensi- ble. q | He had put it well last night when he had remarked that for her to go to a chapel to be married was no more | serious than to go to an embassy for a passport. She was merely to share with him the freedom that was his as a birthright of his sex. In 'no other respect whatever was she to be under any obligations to him. With ample means of her own, he was ' Marie had Marjory How a Major and a Corporal Saved "a : stokehold are emptied into the sea. There for twenty-six hours they main- tained themselves. They nearly per- ished with the cold, and to keep warm they beat each other with their fists. Into their precarious retreat crept one of the Spanish stokers, stark nak- ed and nearly dead from the shock of icy water after the terrific heat of the fire-room. He was too numb to fight for his own life. So the major and corporal fought for him. From pum- melling themselves they took to pum- melling the stoker. They wrapped a tarpaulin about him, and though near- ly exhausted themselves, they kept up the prostrate stoker's circulation by unceasing exertions. They brought the stoker through, but he lies at a hospital here seriously ill. Burnham was badly frost bitten and Major Sullivan was _ seriously crippled when flying wreckage crush- ed one of his legs, i Imprisoned in Stateroom. 'Another terrible experience was that of John Kieley, manager of a moving-picture theatre in St./ John's. He is the only one of those trapped below who lives to tell of it. The first rush of water flooded his stateroom, but the air pressure at the top of the room kept down the water, so, that by lying on the upper berth with his nose to the ceiling he was able to es- cape drowning. His greatest fear was that life-sav- ers might board the ship, take* off |those on the decks and believing all below drowned depart and leave him to die. He cried for help at the top 'of his lungs. He beat the ceiling with his naked fists until his knuckles bled. _But the howling of the gale and the crash of the seas drowned out his feeble sounds. When hope had near- ly gone he gave a last desperate shout. 'He heard an answering shout. Res- cuers had heard him and in a_ short time bluejackets from.a rescuing ves- sel had: smashed a way to him with | axes and lifted him from his tomb. a EARLY AMBITIONS. UNUSUAL HEROISM ~ ON STR. FLORIZEL THIRTY MEN AND WOMEN SWEPT AWAY WITH DECK. . -- Their Own Lives and That of a Stoker. Graphic stories of rescues from the wrecked Red Cross liner Florizel and further details of the disaster of Feb. 24, were related by survivors who are recovering at St. John's, Newfound- land, from the terrible: hardships they endured before being rescued. Members of the crew said the mis- take in reckoning which brought the Florizel head on to the coast twenty miles north of Cape' Race, when all: hands thought she was well out to sea, was due to running without a patent log. The heavy snow, forming an icy crust, or what the natives term "slob," as it struck the sea, made it impossible to use the log to register the steamship's progress against the storm. The ship, therefore, was navi- gated by dead reckoning, and, as fre- quently happens in this region of shifting currents and baffling winds, the calculations were off. Many of the passengers were swept to death, half clad, in less than fifteen minutes after the steamship struck the rocks. Dozens of passengers, trapped below decks, were drowned in their berths or at the foot of the com- panionways. Thirty Go With Bridge Deck. Directed by officers and crew, who never for a moment forgot the best traditions of the sea in looking after their passengers, those who escaped from the saloons sought safety on the bridge deck, Two hours later a giant | wave thundered upon them, wrenching the structure bodily from its base} and engulfing thirty men and women. Career of Two Noted Men Took Un- 1A short while later twenty persons | expected Direction. clinging desperately to the roof of the | smoking room met a similar fate. The stout construction of the wire- | less house saved most of the surviv- ors. Thirty-two person piled into the wireless room. They were without * : 2 food, water or adequate clothing. They | directions and finally became Ameri- were often engulfed by boarding seas. fee leading iron and steel manufac- urer. Some of them, badly injured by flying , Robert Burns, on the other hand, timbers, died as they stood. : : The pitiful manner in which mem- | Spurned efforts to induce him to go bers of families died, one by one, was | into journalism and thus made the way graphically described by survivors, jclear for his becoming the most be- Three-year-old Betsy Munn, daugh- | loved of Scottish bards. These points ter of John S. Munn, managing diree- | W°"¢ brought out in an address re- tor of the line, was swept overboard | cently given by William Will, presi- before his eyes. The child's nurse had | dent of the London Burns Club. drowned in her berth. Munn was! _ The first attempt to get Burns in swept to his death with the group on the newspaper line was when Peter the bridge deck. Fred Rutler, an; Stuart of the London Morning 'Post architect of St. John's, who was going | Started the Star. Burns declined to to Florida with his wife, was support- SV active assistance in turning out ing her against the rush of water the paper, although he _ occasionally when one comber towering above ail contributed articles. Later James i Andrew Carnegie in his early days had an ambition to enter the news- paper business, but when he failed to obtain a position on the Pittsburg De- spatch, he turned his talents in other simply giving her an opportunity to | enjoy them unmolested--a privilege | which the world denied her as long as she remained unmarried. In no way the others arms. ly in the torrent, bringing up in a snatched her from his; He was carried along helpless- : Parry, proprietor of the London Morn- ing Chronicle, offered Burns £5 week to join the staff. Burns refused Food Control Corner the Canada Food Board that' the Poster Advertising Association, re- presenting nearly all of the bill post- ing plants in Canada, has decided that in future no member of the associa- tion shall use wheat flour for the manufacture of bill poster's paste. As a substitute for wheat flour the poster men will use cassava flour and a low grade of cornstarch. 'This action is expected to save a very considerable amount of the low grade of wheat flour. : Arrangements have been completed by. the Canada Food Board by which fresh-frozen Pacific fish are to be de- livered through the usual channels of trade to consumers in British Col- umbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba at ten cents per pound. These fish include flounders, brills, soles and other varieties of flat fish, highly prized as food in England and elsewhere near waters in which they are found. Preparations to ensure a supply of fish as the best and cheapest sub- stitute for beef and pork have been under way for some time. Delivery of the fish will begin as soon as deal- ers place their orders. Consumers are requested to co-operate by placing orders for the fish in advance for weekly deliveries so that dealers may arrange for regular supplies and at the same time avoid loss from over- stocking. ' Fish from the Pacific at ten cents per pound will place the western con- sumer on the same footing as the consumer in the east, where supplies of fresh frozen fish at this price have been available at the principal centres, The objective of "a pound of fish per week per person," in order that beef and pork maybe sent to the armies overseas, can now be attain- ed with the help of the consumers. This consumption when reached will not be unusual as the normal con- sumption in Great Britain is over a pound a' week. * we ae Suspension Bridge in British Colum- bia Built by Indians, Last August, when the suspension bridge of Hagwilget built across the | Bulkley Canon in northwestern Brit- ish Columbia collapsed, the world lost one of its engineering wonders. With only the tools of the wilderness, with no knowledge of the laws of stress, vibration, tensile strength and carry- ing load of various materials, the red men succeeded after two failures | throwing across the canon at a height 'of one hundred feet a suspension | bridge one hundred and forty-six feet jlong and ten feet wide. | A little while before the first suc- | cessful Atlantic cable was laid an | American telegraph company conceiy- jed the brilliant scheme of connecting | North America by wire with Europe. |The plan was to run a line through . 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When the Klondike rush occurred the bridge helped many gold seekers over the difficult canon, for it lay on the route that a great many men took going into the mine. Its collapse was owing to neglect, for, although sever- al requests had been made for a grant to preserve it, nothing had been done. This neglect is probably explained by the fact that the bridge was no longer needed commercially, for not long ago an English firm of bridge builders spanned the canon with the latest type of modern suspension bridge. The new structure, one of the highest of its kind on the North American conti- nent, is two hundred and fifty-one feet above the river. It is , four hundred and fifty-one feet long and nine feet | wide, and is capable of sustaining a moving load of eighteen thousand pounds. Sr Care of Roses. Roses should be pruned after the hard freezing weather is over. Most of the monthly roéses, such as the China, Bengal and Moisettes, should be cut back severely, leaving only one to three eyes on each stem. Bourbons and hybrid Chinas should be left with six or eight eyes. Hybrid perpetual. roses should have the weak and decay- ed wood cut out, also branches that are crowding. The remaining shoots, which are to produce flowers, should be cut back to about six or eight eyes from the base. All shoots older than those of last year should be cut out. Climbing roses only require the poor wood cut out and the shoots shorten- ed suffitiently to keep them in bounds, A Real Fence--Not Netting fm Strongly made and closely speced--making 4 aA barrier againstlarge animals as well as small eitted and bottom wires No, 9--Intermediates No. 12 wire--made ' di by the Open Hearth process which time and othor tests have | pecoma ts be the best. Sond for catalog. Ask about our farm and ornamental moing. Agenolos nearly everywhere. Agents wanted in unassigned territory. The Banwell- Hoxie Wire Fence Company, Ltd, Winnipeg, Man., m FENCE. it a complete poultry. Top POULTRY Hamilton, Ont, SAVE: FOOD In a time needing food economy many people are not etting all the nourishment they might from their food. t is not how much you eat, but how much you assim- ilate, that does you good, The addition of a small teaspoonful of Bovril to the diet as a peptogenic before meals leads _to more thorough digestion and assimilation and thus saves food, for you need less. Send one article or a parcel of goods by post or express. We will pay carriage one way, and our the offer on the plea that his duties as/ 11. wilderness at the extreme end of that. She would trust him farther; wo, he to be responsible for her or an excise officer would prevent him) than she would even Peter--trust him {> her,-He understood this fully, and charges are most reasonable. tangle of wreckage. Bruised and en- | meshed, he was unable to extricate | farther than any man she had ever jt was exactly what he himself desir- met. He was four-square, and she knew it. Perhaps it was a curious} ipsa tyler ' She, in return for this privilege, _ suggestion--it was just because of was to make herself as entertaining a Bat the hit acnt eo come we ogee Sh : ' : ; she had been these .~ She did not like to help him give up| inet Mee a ot responsibilities that might be good for) 'Therefore it seemed scarcely decent him. She was eg pe ig ey for Marie to speak of her as a bride. ed may he sWas hs ing AN eye ara Perhaps that accounted for the color. ea reas eg Me, ween, ax, invotved_ here we cS hairs niet > hac This was what made e arrange- been free all = ue to ages, Ses ment possible, Sentiment involved car- self, <a he had pede) k @ had ing; and,as Monte had once said, "It's seach hie Having pckten'! a as caring that seemsto make trouble. on ecnatly, to Cont hea d pic | That was the ee a the War- m 8 -ared--from morn- ed even the compensating curse that ing til night, with her whole heart ; is supposed a Pome _ peg Ve and soul in a flutter--for Chie and 'abe h ae ee wee a be 1p ae ra the children. Ina different way, H . had pera 1 the ee fant ray Marjory supposed, Teddy caréd. This aracks . a e-oniy needed Some one tos eee PRE ag rel ee as Pa bring it out, and he would-average Sekiya Se eer a high. Love might do it--the same ' (To be continued.) white-hot love that had driven Teddy Saws mad. Sey But that was what he was avoiding, A NEW NIAGARA. just as she was. Well, what of it? If one did not reach the heights, then one did not sound the depths. After all, it was not within her province to direct Monte's life. She was selfish ~--she had warned him of that. He was selfish---and had warned her. Yet, as she lay there in her bed, she felt that she was~-about to give up something forever, and that Monte was about to give up something for ever. It*is one thing not to want something, and another to make an ir- revocable decision never to have it,! News , Also, it is one thing to fret one's self as Foster Flats, just beyond the nar- -dnto an unnecessary panic over a pro- row gorge that extends for some miles blem at night, and another to handle pelow Niagara Falls, The banks of it lightly in the balmy sunshine of a' the River are there comparatively low. Project to Develop 2,000,000 Horse Power by a Dam in Niagara River. There is a plan on foot to build a large dam in the Niagara River about four and a half miles below Niagara Falls that would create a waterfall ,one hundred feet high capable of de- | veloping two million horse power. Ac- 'eording to an article by Mr, T. Ken- nard Thomsom in the Engineering -Record, there is a point known | the lower shelves of a locker or cup- from attending to the work. Nothing ever resulted, either frcm the sug- gestion that Burns write a three act comic opera. himself and perished miserably. Struggle For Life. One of the most remarkable tales of the survival of the strongest re- lates the way Major Michael Sullivan, commander of the Newfoundland for- estry battalion, and Ralph Burnham, cadet of the Royal Flying Corps, fought back death literally with their bare fists and brought through with them a naked Spanish stoker. Major Sulivan and the young sub- altern contrived to shelter them- selves in the upper section of the bunker, through which ashes from the co oa A little girl wrote the following composition on men: "Men are what women marry. They drink and smoke and swear, but don't go to church, Perhaps if they wore bon- nets they would. They are more logical than women, also more zoo- logical. Both men and women sprang farther than the men." Hot Lunches. | father or older brother would bring it at noon ready for serving. In our school section last year, says! : : ; one of the mothers, one hot dish was} The children brought their usual At. noon they : | lunches s ; served to forty boys and girls of all} -- ies -- oo ae grades every school day from Novem- WEES COM UESE EC ayn Oe SRO eet : . : "ess while the hot lunch was being 'ber until April. Each child brought! ' ide us R : : , la cup and spoon, 'These . with cook- made ready to serve with the help of : AWE : : - | the teacher. When the bell was tap- ing utensils and supplies, were kept in ped each child took his lunch basket to his seat where he was served with a cup of hot soup. They soon learn- ed that no time for play was gained by hurrying through a meal ag all who were ready were excused after a board built across the end of one of) the clock rooms. The blue-flame oil' {stove was placed across the end of | the other cloak room. from monkeys, but the women sprang, ., - Parisian springtime morning. Monte had risen early and gone out} and bought her violets again. When - ghe came in, he handed them to her,! Here more than half the dam could;. This district has a woman's club. be built on dry land, and it would then | The club became co-operative with the be easy to divert the swift-running teacher in serving hot lunches to the reasonable length of time. Here is a list of some of the dishes we served: cream of tomato soup, beef and she buried her face in their dewy, waters from the present channel the! - fragrance. It was good to have some, fore building the rest of the dam, The | one think of just such little atten-! Niagara River drops one hundred and , tions. Then, too, his boyish enthus-| two feet in its course from the base, - dasm swept her off her guard: He of the old falls to Lewiston, seven. Was So eager and nas g Sener this' miles away, where it flows at the rate | ie te ig es a stapes aaah. of two hundred and twenty thousand | . ey , cubic feet a second. Mr. Thomson, ob age ol oe: cag Mie eat ralinved that the total head and vol- night's discussion. = Wall. have you decided to ume of water should be used as a unit) me?" he demanded. through the instrumentality of one | _ Sho shook her head, her face still large dam. Otherwise the public would | buried in the violets. -, 9» have to pay for a number of discon; | 'What's worrying you about it? inected power plants that could not' ae cee " she answered make anything like the full value of | uy Well, that isn't much, 1 leaks! the river available, and that would re- |, es | up the 'time-tables, and we could sult ultimately 'in the destruction of take the six-ten to-night if you were, all the power plants below the falls by ady."' : ice, The most economical way to util- - "T couldn't possible be ready," she ize the river, says Mr. Thomson, is to Fe lied decidedly . a ae eS ; use ag much Water at the falls as the . Spmag Oty ON EG Sarees governments will permit, and after- finite, the proposition sounded a great hae Lape akan he ay to oe river | @eal more absurd than when he allow- directly below the falls, so that it can | it to be indefinite. She was still he = over again at the proposed! new falls. pe marry a } | itating when Marie appeared. -- A telephone for mademoiselle," phe announced. 'Monte heard Science and the ,Arts. If I had to live my life' over again. I would make it a rule to read some good poetry and listen to some good music at least once a week.--Charles Darwin. : eard her startled exclama- on from the next room. He hurried o the door. She saw him, and, plac- her hand over the telephone, turn- d excitedly, -- j To freshen a carpet sweep it with a broom previously dipped in salt and water. Shake the broom' well before using it, for it ig needed damp not | | wet. ype ae Pe = school children, They bought a twelve- quart aluminum kettle and a soup ladle. The board of directors bought two large dish pans. The mothers sent tea towels and took turns in washing them at home. An old sand table was cleaned, lined and used for a serving table, the cups, spoons and kettle arranged on it by the girls for serving and for dishwashing. The Trustees bought canned soups, rice and cocoa for use in an ¢ ency. We drew on these when mothers were unusually busy. The secretary of the club made out a list of the twelve mothers with chil-- dren in school. One mother "de- clined to serve and the other family lived near enough to the schodthouse to go home except on stormy days so they furnished soap and salt and pep- per for their share. Each of the ten | served once in two weeks. : The mothers who provided the dish | for the day, either sent the materials. prepared for cooking or cooked the. dish and sent it in ready for reheat- ing. Some lunches, such as cocoa and potato soup were cooked entirely at school. | Sometimes the children carried the lunch to school in the morning or a Order Now ONTARIO FERTILIZERS, LIMITED: WEST TORONTO = CANADA | Soe and tomato soup, bean soups (several kinds), vegetable soup, split pea soup, ereamed chicken, chicken and noodles, turkey soup, baked beans, chopped boiled beef and noodles, rice in several forms. f Scalloped potatoes were a favorite dish, One mother living near the} schoolhouse made a specialty of them atter she learned how well they were, received. The mother did not figure the axact cost but agreed that it was cheaper to furnish' hot lunch once every two weeks than to put extra food"in the lunch boxes every day. Diet for Child of Two Years. Fresh fruits, stewed fruits, purees of vegetables and cereal foods are| suited to the child's wants, and with: milk and cream are capable of supply- ing all its nutritive needs. The best cereal preparations are wheat flakes, shredded wheat biscuit, ~oatmeal, cracked wheat and graham _ bread. Potatoes aud other vegetable purees 'and purees of fresh or stewed fruit should also constitute a considerable part of the dietary. : ' Children should be taught to drink frequently. _ Three to four ounces of water should be given several times a day between meals. Children should be taught from the ly. This is highly important, as the habit of mastication formed in child- hood is likely throughout life. Gee ee first to masticate their food thorough-|. to be maintained} | North America, then over the very | narrow strip of water of Bering | Strait to land in Siberia. Thence the | wire would connect with all the capi- tals of Europe. The company started work and at immense expense carried ie great deal of material into the Can- |adian wilderness. 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