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Some persons, especially when they are so good as Lady Pauline, have a knack of exaggerating. Give a dog a bad name, and you may as well hang him right away. Now I, apparently, have a bad name; but don‘t hang me, pleaseâ€"I mean, don‘t cut me as if I were quite too black and criminal Who knows? If you knew the story of my lifeâ€"" _ «e~~ "Just so; so I suspected. But you are not singular. It‘s a way most good peoâ€" ple have. They look upon the poor black sheep as lost forever~â€"" _ ( £ â€"*‘To mend," he eail. "And don‘t you thimk it is the duty of the good folk to belp the wicked ou to the right road? Poor wicked? Perhaps they have strayed through no fau‘lt of their ownâ€"have only lost their way. And think! A helping, a directing hand may put them on the right path again. Do you think it is the duty of all the good people to stand a iong way off and watch the bad ones drifting dowu the browd, the Primroce Path, that steep descent down the hill of Avernus, without making an effort to stop them?". _ "Oh, no, no!" said Decima, b with a piteous little eagerness Decima glarced with a troubled little frown at the handeome face with its halfâ€" grave, halfâ€"bantering smile. | rugk _ "I never thought of that," she eaid in a low voice. No one is weally good," said Decima, And as to devoting his life to the purusit rebuking!y. l"' pleasure‘â€"â€"he paused and laughed, a He regarded her with a half smile | laugh of grim ironyâ€""if he does, his deâ€" "Ah, well; fairly good. Now, Misg| votion does not meet with its reward." Deane, do you think there is no hope for "You know Lord Gaunt?"‘ said Decima. the wicked? Do you think that it is imâ€"‘ Gaunt was silent for a moment. Now possible for a bad man to become good?" was the time to say, "I am Lord Gaunt" Decima looked ehocked. | â€"or, rather, it was not the time. How "Oh, no, no! There is always hope! It could he distress her by revealing himself is never too lateâ€"" | «fier her denunciation of him? No; he â€"*‘To mend." he eail. "And don‘t you would not discover himseli. In a few thimk it is the duty of the good folk to : minutes be would have parted from her, belp the wicked ou to the right road? and she would remain in ignorance of Poor wicked? Perhaps they have strayed his identityâ€"at any rate, till he had gone; through no fau‘lt of their ownâ€"have ouly : and so he would spare her the embarrass lost their way. And think! A helping, a mest which would overwhelm her if he directing hand may put them on the right made hbimself known. He would leave her path again. Do you think it is the duty | when they reached the river, and cut of all the good people to stand a ilong meroes the meadows to Bright‘s house. way off and watch the bad ones drifting Half au hour with bhim would saffice, and dowu the broad, the Primroce Path, that then for Africa once more. Decima looked 2t him. There was a amile in his eyes and on hbis lips, but it wase rather a sad and selfâ€"mocking one. "But that‘s all the point I wanted to make," he went on, knocking the ash off his cigar and looking at her as ifâ€"or Deâ€" cima feltâ€"she were a long way off. "I wanted to show how unreasonable, how inconsisteni you were in cutting me just "Yes?" eaid Decima. "Why do you not go on?" "I beg your pardon," he said. with a alight siart. as if he ha< losat the thread of the subjeci. "Yee, I am rather abeentâ€" minded. Please forgive me. I was going to say that it is very difficult for a man to work who has never learned to do any. And that‘s my case. Unfortunately, .cy parents and guardians neglected to teach me to use either my hands or my brains. I can neither sow nor spin. 1 can do nothing that would earn me a glaae of the cheapest ale. It is sad, but there it is. I can only amuse myself, and"â€"he wighedâ€""I can‘t always do thatâ€"very selâ€" dom, indeed." "Yee?" said Decima, fushing slightly. Incousiatent !‘ "I am, I will admit, very wicked; and you, of couree, are very good." He paused. while to defer girlâ€"judge? _ oo i o d tm though I seem to skate round it And if he went to the opera, and the theatre, and to balle, she would call him a worldâ€" lingâ€"1 think thate the wordâ€"and a slave to dissipation." "Yes," said Decima again. "Very well," he said. "Then. I am afraid code, Deane foreed to admit that I am right Lady Pauline, for instance, would consider a man whose life was entirely given up to amusement as a cumberer of the earth, a nseless member of eociety, scarcely worthy of living in a workaday world?" "Yese," said Decima, reluctantly. "Quite so," said Gaunt, with a grim emile. "And for some of his amusements Lady Pauline would find no word of conâ€" demmation too hard. For instance, if he played cards"â€"he had to cboos?h words carefully, for be fe‘t the girl beside him was as innocent of the world as a childâ€" "Yes: I have heard so," he "Now, I think you will admit t a woman as Lady Pauline Lase be disposed to regard other p« were not so good asâ€"well, let u great einners?" "No," said Decima. "Aunt 'l'he_n «he atopped. ‘"You wou!ld like to : foreed to admit that I Pauline, for instance, man whose life was en amusement as a cumber nseless member of eociet "she would call bim a gamesterâ€"an habit ual gambler." "Yex," said Decima. _"Thanks. 1 am coming to my point "Lady Pauline man, is she not "Yerâ€"oh, yes; ness iteelf," sai But Gaunt was in a queer afternoon. Perhans the «ight place in which he had been which he had neglected so lon upon him. Perhaps the girl frankness and candor had effect. Anyway, he yielded to and began. "I suppose it was your Pauline, who told von that He paused, and bit his lip as ifâ€"he were it worth while? Wha her think him the m la-d no doubt painted Te forgotien her, then he looked at her | with a grim smile. "I have decided that I can not tell you, Misaâ€"" He hesitated. "Deane," said Decimaâ€""Decima Deane. You have forgotten my name!" "I had," he said. "It was unpardonâ€" able. But, you see, when a man has neod,' of so much forgiveness, a emall short coming or two more or less acarcely‘ counts. No; I can‘t answer your (}nostion. Mies Deane. But, all the same, 1 should | like to make a short statement in my own' defence. Every eriminal is allowed to erossâ€"question and palaver before the Judge passes sentence, you know." "Yes," admitted Decima. "Very well, then. Shall we sit down? This bank will serve for dock and bench." | "My brother is waiting for me," s#id| Decima. } "If 1 know the angler, he has oomplew-i 3 forgotten you by this time," said | aunt. "And I ~.!! promise not to deâ€"| tain you many minutes. Will you not ait | down? Let me remind you :t will not be | the first time we have taken a 16st toâ€" i gether. andâ€"well, 1 trust you »uffered no‘ harm on the last oec sion." "Wait until I decide whether I can tell you." said Gaunt. And Decima waited, her innocent gray *yes on his face with a kind of troubled patience. He looked beyond him fixedly, with a grave thoughtfu‘ness, and was silent #9 loln‘g that Decima alme«t thought that he h forgotten her, then he looked at her with a grim smile. LEET Poot who told 3 * he said. said Decima He aemoked i : tell you of v een guilty? ad neglected so lo Perhaps the gi and _ candor had way, he yielded to 6 it was your 10 told you tha + svid. d Decima. Her Great Love; CHAPTER VIHII said Decima, breaking he monster Lady Pauline rinted him. waid. _ ‘"Then, I am ling to Lady Pauline‘s ed â€" man. But, Miss . after al!, worth f before this sweet _ queer mood that e «ight of the old d been born, and | so long, had told he girl‘a innocent r had bad their ded to the impulse idmit that eo good ne Lagcelles would other persons who p , A Struggle For a Heart Aunt Pauline ry goodâ€"good aunt, Lady at I was so he remarked No ay, very but are in _Â¥od Rave sacd notmisg wrong or inâ€" discreet," be said. more gentiy than he had as yet spoken. "Every word you utiered was true ind just, and 1 krow that he !Q%d r the firet to adirit it Think no more of itâ€"or sim. Were is your brother moré of itâ€"or sim. Uere is your brother â€"â€"and, ae I prophesied, qziae absorbed in his fehing." The";,hui reached the end of the road, fnd era standing on the crest of a steep ittle hill, at the bottom of which Bobby was busy flogging the stream, "Mind how {uu go down," eaid Gaunt. "It is steepet than it looks, and the graes is ghors and slippery. Will you give me fifr{tw he, * "Oh. o4. thanksi‘ said Decim#,. "I can ’"'g'fl-le auite well; I sha‘l not fall. \ he began to descerd with herlight, @rm etep; but, suddenly, she trod on a emall stone which rolled away from <unâ€" der her feat, and she slipped. Gaunt was hy her side, and his hard went out and caught her erm, almost as it had done at the lion‘s cage at the Zoo. Decima loocked up at him with a laughâ€"the laugh "Yes, I know himâ€"know him very well," be said, #s if suddevly awakening from a reverie. ‘‘There is something to be said for him like the rest of us, Miss Deane. Me is rather anâ€"an ushappy man." "How ean he be happy?" eaid Decima, with her frank eyes fixed on his face. ‘"No one can who neglecis hie duty. Why does he not come and live here and try to make others happy? Perhaps he would fad his own happinese then." Gaunt looked at her smile. "I‘m half inclined to think he might be Kn-.mgod to do eo, if be heard you, Miss ane." lbfcima Bushed slighUly and frowned a iitle "Ob, I! It does not matter whrt I think. J am only a girl, and quite igâ€" norant; andâ€"s4d i ougbt not to tave Mcanwbhile, Decima waited for ‘her swer. Decima shut her lips close for a moâ€" ment, then she said: Oh, 1 do not suppose Lord Gaunt would care who repeated the story, that while he can not find any time or money to devoie to this beautiful place, he can afford the time and money to spend in pleasure and camblin’g. Is it true that he wonâ€"what was it, fifty thousand pounds of a Ruswian prince?â€"I forget his nameâ€" and that he thinks of nothing but amusâ€" ing himself? 1 hope it is not true." "Not quite," he said. "It was not so large a sum as you mention. Twenty was the amourt, aud he lost it, not won it. And as to devoting his life to the purusit "Perhape he can not help himself," said Gaunt. "I ventured to pgead for mercy for myself just now, Miss Deane; let me now plead for him. We don‘t know his story. It‘s likely enough that if we heard him in his own defence, he might not seem s0â€"heartlees was what you ealled him, was it not?" Decima nodded. "Do you not think it is heartlese to lead a life of selfishness, and neglect all one‘s duties? Bobby saysâ€" But I must not reâ€" peat it." â€" "Please do!" he eaid. "What wae broiher said?" Decima shut her lips close for ment, then she said: "Oh, I think not. It is that he neglects them. Why doce he not come and live in that beautiful house and in this lovely place instead of deserting it?" | _ "I will not avoid you again," she said in a low voice. ' He inclined his head. | "Thank you," he said, gravely. "I shall | not abuse your indulgerce, for it is not | very likely that we shall meet often, or | for a very long vime." % | _ "Are you going away? Do you not live near here?" asked Decima. He ignored the latter question. | __"I am going abroad very shortly, and | shall be away for some time," he said. | ‘‘That will be nice," said Decima. ) But, even as she @poke, she was conâ€" ;uciuus of a vague sensation of regret. He | had been so kind to her at the Zoo, andâ€" fwell. a young girl could scarcely help ; being fattered by such a plea ae he had < addreesed to her. *"Yes. it would look rather eeric," he T}}?S(\ little people, kn(nv‘vn as the “?}fg i“‘:"p?;;lfltlrl‘y-t the law a t Adke Tapiros, average 4 feet 8%; inches 8 A w does no ake | ; f » r ivi it away from its owner, and give it to | n height. T.he.\ were f-mmd'hnng eome ogtnvz‘xp would appreciate and lovelon the lowâ€"lying hills of the Kapare It, 641 ima. iv Gaunt put up his hand to his moustache | RI\.CI'. On_ the approach of the to hide the grim smile. It was evident | whitemen they ran away, but phe fhat Endy Pauline had not told the #irl) expedition succeeded in capturing "That sounds like a kind of soceialiem,|three whose curiosity brought them :‘,:fwlf""igc 1t it i nbe appn . uC Y"“‘near camp. At first they woere & 8 appreciate it ? f 1 s Decima stopped yg()rt and looked over| Ereatly frightened, but kindness he.x.'ushuuk:er at him with &i:nhs‘urprimlwm&them over, and a few months ow can he, . seeing . . he . nevcr . « Yz comes near it?" she said. "I think ho'lawr tfhc explprers we{'e {"nal.)led to must he very heartless." establish trading relations with the ‘,7:";',"bmflw was tellng we pow|tribe and were allowed to visit and ;he l:eward bad written to him, seking stay in their village of Wombirmi. ‘im for instructions to manage the esâ€"| is vi j i 3 " tate. And he will send no answer. Is it Thls nll‘uge is hidden e uNo In t(hi(‘ notâ€"well, yes, it is wicked. For, think! forest high up the mountain side ;ur;lg it iamwicdied to m-g‘l‘ect, nne'a'duty.¢and was only found after imany nd it is his duty to take care of peoâ€" a & . j o pleâ€"the tenants and laborers who live on , f““t_]‘,‘ss attempts. While no open the estateâ€"and naturally look up to him| hostility was shown to the whites, xla;mti?::;.”lrtend and protector as "well as | they were not exactly received with (ln he a, hard landlord, did you hmr?"]upen arms. Of the women and chilâ€" sal aunt, quietly. j i "Oh, I think not. It is that he neglectfi'd“\.n th?y w en nothmg, but their them. Why doce he not come and live in | shrill cries could be hceard as they that beautiful house and in this lovely fled up the mountain side on the place instead of deserting it?" _ "Perhapse he can not help bhimself," said | app!‘oM_h _Of a stranger. comes near it?" she said. "I think he must be very heartless." "MHeartlews ?" ‘‘Wea. My brother was tel!ing we how the steward had written to him, aeking him for instructions to manage the es tate. And he will send no answer. Is it notâ€"well, yes, it is wicked. For, think! surely it is wicked to neglect one‘s duty. And it is his duty to take care of peoâ€" "If you like," she said, walking on again. "Isn‘t it a pity that the place is so neglected?" "Is it neglected?" he eaid, after a moâ€" ment. ® "Oh, yes; so my brother says. lHe was telling me all about it last night. We strolled down here after dinner, and you can not imagine how lovely it looked in the moonlight; and yet so weird andâ€" and melancholy; for there were no lighte h; }!A'o windows, and no signs nor gounds of life." "Yes, it would look rather eeric," he eaid, very quietly. 1 "It is a pity that the law does not take it away from its owner, and give it to some one who would appreciate and love it," said Decima. "That sounds like a kind of socialiem, Miss Deane," he said. "But how do you know he doesn‘t apgrociate it ?" Decima stopped short and looked over her shoulder at him with faint surprise. "How can _he, . seeing .that. he. nevcr Gaunt put up his hand to his moustache to hide the grim smile. It was evident that Lady Pauline had not told the girl his name. Decima rose and took the path through the firs toward the river, as she answered : "My father sent for me quite suddenly. Our house, The Woodbines, is near here â€"down the road to the village. Perhaps you passed it. It is a very pretty cotiage overgrown with ivy, and with an oldâ€" fashioned garden in front." "Yee; I noticed it," he said. "But all the place is pretty," said Deâ€" cima. ‘"And isn‘t this lovely?" She paused and looked round her and at the great house, a glimpse of which they could still see between the etraight fir trunke. ‘"Not very much, 1 am afraid. Do you know the story of the boy who startled everybody by refusing a raspberry tart, until he informed them that he was emâ€" ployed at a pastryâ€"cook‘s?> He had got tired of jam tarts. I have gotâ€" tired of travelling, and most other things. But "Nice? Ah, yes, yos; I dare say you would enjoy it," he eaid. "And will not you?" asked Decima, re garding him inquiringly. _ â€"I don‘t know how it isâ€"I have dropped into a fine display of egotism. Will you tell me how it is I find you down here so unexpectedly ?" trying to catch his words; but Decima looked at him waitingly. "I wase going to eay that even for such a one as myself it might be possible to find some excuse; and it is, again, just possible that you would let me off ‘with the option of a fine.‘ But the poor prisâ€" oner at the bar has «poken, and his prayer is that the eentence will be lees severe than the cut direct. Is the judge inrclined to merey : inelined to merey * Decima looked straight before her. Notâ€" withstanding the emile, there was a cerâ€" tain sadness and gravity in his eyes which revealed the seriousness under the tone of banter. d wh ; thanxai‘ said Decima,. "I can auite well; I shall not fall.‘\ _ did. But with his weary it your Remarkable Counter â€" Claim In Breach of Promise Suit. Love and lucre are the elements in a curious breach of promise case before the Paris Courts, to which the breaker of the engagement has lodged a counterâ€"claim in the form of a bill for expenses. The father of the lady, M. Wiener, who is suâ€" ing for £460 damages, said that afâ€" ter an engagement of two months defendant, M. Wroubel, broke with his daughter, Bertha. The enâ€" gagement, continued M. Wiener, had muleted him in various exâ€" penses, including £12 for a celebraâ€" tion dinner and £10 for his daughâ€" ‘‘Their houses and surroundâ€" ings," says Captain Rawling, "are considerably in advance of those of their largeâ€"framed bretiren of the plains. To the list of Negritos, which with the Negrillos are the known tribes of pygmies inhabiting the earth, must now be added the newly discovered tribe of Tapiros who, so far as their stature is conâ€" cerned, take rank next above the Congo pygmies." A box of chocolates every evening for two months.. EDVe c.:.....‘:..1x.rl 2 ‘Theatves;".:...â€".....1. Prisents to young sisters Describing the men, Captain Rawlings says, taken as a whole, that they are well made and wiry, while their color is a dark chocoâ€" late. The hair, usually black, but sometimes with a touch of brown or even red, is worn short. _ Many grow beards, the older men dyeing theirs red. Like all native tribes they wear necklets of animal bones and other small possessions. Their only clothing consists of a covering around the loins. of his fiancee .. General expenses Engagement ring Other jewellery . OM â€" . < cao +Rrx :+ ~rres f0 I6 Ee added that he also thou himsolf entitled to 8s. damages. Captain Cecil G. Rawling, the explorer, has recently given Engâ€" lish scientists some interesting acâ€" counts of a new tribe of pygmies, found by his expedition in Southâ€" west Dutch New Guinea. Little Men Average Only Four Feet Eight Inches in Height. "No, I don‘t," admitied Bobby. "I can throw fairly straight, but not so far as I should like; the fly falls about a yard short of where he is feeding. You try." Gaunt hesitated a moment, then took the rod and threw the fiy. "Is it there? Ah, yea; I see him." "And have got him!‘ exclaimed Bobby, with a flash of excitement. "I «ay, what a fly you throw! That was splendid!~ (To be continued.) Decima withdrew out of the radivs of the fishingâ€"line ae it flew back and round in its graceful curve, and Gaunt weni up to Bobby. "Any sport?" he said, raising the lid of the baeket. Bobby nodded. "Very fair. But they‘re rather emall, aren‘t they? There‘s a big one just over by that‘ Lush, and I‘ve been trying for him for the last ten minutes; but I can‘t get him." _‘"You don‘t quite reach, do you?" said Gaunt. ‘"Well, Bobby!" she exclaimed. "Are you catching all Lord Gaunt‘s fish?" "‘Sh«h!" eaid Bobby, rebukingly, and without looking round. ‘"Don‘t kick up such a shine, or you‘ll frighten every trout in the river! What fearful ignorant things girls are! Keep on of «ight; and mind the hook when I throw, or you‘ll have it in your hair or your clothés." _ "Better take my arm," he said. "Oh, mo; thanke; I am going to ran down," she said} and she started as his clasp relaxed. He looked at the sweet, laughing face, sxnd smiledâ€"without irony or sarcaem this time. of & girl whose heart is still in her keepâ€" ing, and who has not learned to thrill at any man‘s touch. P ‘"‘That eervee me right for boasting! I was nearly down, was I not?" _ % NEW TRIBE OF PYGMIES. BLACK, MIXED & GREEN. TEA AT ITS BEST he | LOVER‘S EXPENSES. which keeps the Its garden freshness and fine flavour are protected by the ination out. 70 15 0 thought Cherry bread pudding is a dessert which can be eaten by children and which is enjoyed likewise by grownâ€" ups. To make it, spread a layer of bread crumbs in the bottom of a buttered baking dish and cover with a layer of stoned cherries, sugar, bits of butter and a sprinkle of lemon juice. Add a layer of crumbs, another layer of cherries, and so on until the dish is full. Finish with a layer of crumbs. Bake the pudâ€" ding until the cherries are tender. If they are juicy the pudding will need no moistening while baking, but if they are not juicy pour a few tablespoonfuls of water over it when it is put in the oven and add water to keep it from drying out as it bakes. Serve the pudding with a sauce made of cherries boiled in eugar and water for 10 minutes and then pressed through a sieve. Cherries can be used for shortâ€" cake, Make a rich biscuit shortâ€" cake, bake it in two thin, crisp layâ€" ers, butter each and cover over the bottom _ with crushed and pitted cherries that have been generously sprinkled with sugar. â€" Cover the top with whole, pitted cherries, sprinkle with sugar and serve with a sauce like that for the bread pudâ€" ding. Put a damp cloth or damp nap kin over sandwiches or bread if it is necessary to wait before serving. Bour cherries are needed fo> cherry sherbet. Stone a quart of them. In the mean time boil toâ€" gether a quart of water and a pound of granulated sugar for 15 minutes. Add the cherries to the hot syrup just as it is taken from the stove and stand aside until it is perfectly cold. Strain through a fine wire sieve and freeze. When you take out the dasher stir in a meringue made of the white of one egg sweetâ€" ened with a tablespoonful of granuâ€" lated sugar. Pack in ice for an hour or two. Cherry salad that is surprising as well as appetizing is made of pitted cherries filled with chopped nuts in the cavity made by the removal of the pit, served on crisp white letâ€" tuce leaves and dressed with French dressing. This is one of the pretâ€" tiest salads imaginable, if the cherâ€" ries are bright red and the lettuce white and yellow, as perfect lettuce hearts are. The hair may be kept from comâ€" ing out after an illness by frequent application to the sealp of sage tea. To remove a fishbone from the throat, cut a lemon in half and suck the juice slowly.> This will dissolve the fishbone, and give instaAt reâ€" lief. An easy and quick way to clean pieâ€"dishes and plates burnt in the oven is to wash them first, and then rub them with a small piece of emery paper. « When boiling old potatoes add a little milk to the water in which Cherry fritters can be served with meat as a separate course or as desâ€" sert. To make them, prepare a batâ€" ter of a cupful of flour, a teaspoonâ€" ful of baking powder mixed with a tablespoonful of melted butter, a wellâ€"beaten egg and enough water to make a thin batter. Stew ripe, pitted cherries until they are just tenderâ€"but do not cook them to piccesâ€"and sweeten them. Drain them and add them to the batter. Drop it in spoo (uls into deep fat and fry brown: ~The juice drained from the cherries can be substituted for water to moisten the fritter batâ€" ter. Cherry cocktails are made in this way : Stone ripe cherries, chop them fine, add a tablespoonful of lemon juice to each cupful of cherâ€" ries, sweeten them to taste and serve them, either in cocktail glassâ€" es or else in lemon skin cups, made by removing part of one side of a sufficient number of lemons, cutting a bit of the rind from the other side, removing all the pulp and juice and washing and chilling the shells. Cherries served with French toast can be used as an entree. To make them cut rings half an inch thick from bread and soak them in beaten egg yolk, milk, a little sugar and a pinch of salt. Roll the bread rings in crumbed bread and macaâ€" roons and brown them in butter. Stew rips cherries with sugar enough to sweeten them, drain and pile in the middle of a dish. Surâ€" round them with the juice of the cherries thickened with a little cornstarch and flavored with orâ€" ange juice. Cherry soup has been made, but it could hardly be more than the result of an effort co serve cherries in a new and unexpected way. Howâ€" ever, at every course save the soup course cherries can be legitimately served. | Cherries served fresh and cold| on their own stems for breakfast are | so delicious that no other way of serving them at that meal could be| better. But pitted and sprinkled with sugar and a bit of lemon juice, | they serve as an appetizer and at‘ the same time lose none of their| delicate flavor. Another way of preâ€"| paring them for breakfast is to pit them and mix them with sugarâ€"| in the proportion of half a cupful | to a pint of cherriesâ€"and cook them | until they are just tender. Then| pour them over buttered toast. | Ways of Preparing Cherries. Cherries are the first of the fruits of the summerâ€"the first, that is, of the fruits of the summer trees. Plums, pears and peaches are still served only in the feasts of dreamâ€" land when cherries are ripe. Hence they are generally greeted with an enthusiasm not bestowed on any of the later fruits. A Few Suggestions. Sherbet and Salad. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO To clean finger marks on doors, rub well with a piece of clean white flannel dipped in paraffin oil. The marks will disappear like magic. Afterwards wipe with a clean cloth wrung out of hot water to take away the smell. This is much betâ€" ter than using soap and water, and does not injure the paint. Paraffin oil is also excellent for cleaning varnished hall doors. To clean a panama, rub the panâ€" ama with a nail brush dipped in a lather made with white Castile soap and a few drops of ammonia. Then rinse it in warm water to which a When buying siair carpet get an extra yard, and fold in a piece at each end. If you do this you will be able to shift the carpet someâ€" times higher or lower, and by this means you will get it worn evenly all over, and will not have the edges looking frayed and shabby while parts of the carpet remain untrodden and fresh. To take bruises out of furniture wet the part with warm water. Double a piece of brown paper six times thick. Soak it and lay it on the place. Apply on that a hot flatâ€" iron until the moisture is evaporâ€" ated. If the bruise has not gone repeat the process until the dent or bruise is raised level with the surâ€" face. _ When making jam add a piece of I\butter the size of an egg, fifteen |minutes before removing the fruit ‘from the fire. This will make it |look clear and prevent it from stickâ€" |ing to the sides of the jars. It is useful to know that a cake which seems to be hopelessly fallen in the middle need not be wasted, but can be made into a splendid steamed pudding if it is crumbled up and mixed with milk to the usual stiffness. Any kind of cake, fruit or seed, etc., can be treated in this way with certain success. Enamelled teapots, when stained with tea, may be cleaned by being filled with cold water to which a handful of soda is added, and set on the side of a moderately warm stove for some time. â€"After it has boiled fill with cold water and rinse until clean. When cream is only slightly sour it may be made delicious to serve with puddings, etc., in the followâ€" ing way : Put it into a basin with the juice of a lemon and a tableâ€" spoonful of sugar and whip until quite stiff. This treatment makes it excellent and increases the quanâ€" tity at the same time. There is a proper way to mix blacking. Cut the cake of blacking into small pieces, put into a saucer, and pour enough sweet milk to make it rather into a thick cream. Mixed in this way helps to prevent the blacking from cracking. When boiling rice boil it fast for twenty minutes, then remove from the fire, and pour cold water immeâ€" diately over it. Drain through a sieve, and place in the oven to dry before serving. In making meat pies to be eaten cold, see that the top is ventilated by one or, better still, two holes. Without this precaution ptomaine poison is liable to develop, even when the meat used in the pie apâ€" pears to be perfectly fresh. A few drops of castor oil will be found most beneficial to drooping ferns. Drop the castor oil on the roots and soak the ferns in a pail of water all night. In a week a marked improvement will be noticeâ€" able. To clean white shoes, scrape some pipe clay finely and mix it to the consistency of cream with cold waâ€" ter. Brush all dust off the shoes, and rub the mixture well into them. Leave till thoroughly dry. . An excellent plan before putting one‘s hands in sodaâ€"water is to rub them well with a piece of mutton fat. This counteracts the bad effects of soda. they are boiled. This prevents them turning dark in the cooking, and improves the flavor. After washing blankets, hang them on a line until quite dry, then beat them gently with a carpet beater. This m:{es them soft and fluffy. cacdes Canada Cement which Canadian farmers use, with their own sand, stone and gravel to make concrete, is the only ingredient you have to buy. We have, by reason of our large ouiput and scientific methods, been able to bring the price of "Canada" Cement so low that it is within the reach of everyone. An increase in demand results in a greater economy of production, and when conditions have warranted it, we have, from time to time, shared this saving with the consumer by redutâ€" _ 1f this label is not on ing the price of Canada Cement. This demand will _ every beg it is not continue to increaseâ€"as fast as farmers learn of conâ€" Can4da Cement, crete‘s superiority over other materials. rrr: When you buy cement, ste that you get "Cenada" < “‘* Cement; by so doing you will assure the complete .P, * success of all your concrete work. e ‘,'\‘{‘,' a Send a post card for our book "What the Farmer U‘ Can do With Concrete." It is free. \ Stocafe .4 There is a Canada Cement dealer in your neighborhcod. NTES Canada Cement Company Limited a Montreal Jrrigating a Contineat. The rainfall in Australia is very unequal, Although there are freâ€" quent and heavy rains on the eastâ€" ern highlands, the climate of the plains to the west is exceedingly dry, and the government of New South Wales is planning a system of irrigation so that the soil, which is naturally rich, can be cultivated. There will be an immense reservoir with a dam 240 feet high, to collect the winter floods of the Murrumbidâ€" gee River for use in the summer. The reservoir will be one of the largest in the world; it will hold 33,000,000,000 cubic feet of waterâ€" a quantity greater than that in Sydney Harbor. Some of the irriâ€" gation canals will probably be at least 1,000 miles long. The governâ€" ment is already advertising for apâ€" plicants for the land that will beâ€" come available for cultivation, and has issued a pamphlet describing the progress of the work. Thirtyâ€"seven per cent. of the chilâ€" dren recovered in less than three weeks, whereas under the ordinary treatment the mildest attack lasted two and sometimes five or six months. Of the rest forty per cent. improved greatly, while the remainâ€" ing twentyâ€"three per cent. were not alfected either for good or bad. Dr. Roux while declaring the exâ€" periments thus far were on too small a scale to make a definite proâ€" nouncement, said he believed an effective cure for whooping cough was in sight, Dr. Roux was merely transmitâ€" ting the report of Dr. Alfred Conâ€" or, bacteriologist, of the Belvedere Military â€" Hospital, Tunis, where, with the collaboration of Dr. Nicâ€" olle, he had prepared a solution containing _ living cough baceilli which he injected into 122 children suffering from the disease, repeatâ€" ing it every two days. Paris Doctor Thinks Remedy Is In Sight, The possibility of the discovery in the near future of a cure for whoopâ€" ing cough was held out recently at the Academy of Sciences by Dr. Emile Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute and a member of the Acaâ€" demy of Medicine. Travelling with such a treasure as Juliana, who is not only a daughâ€" ter but a royal heiress, has its trials, for it was not to be thought that Juliana should have a bad night while travelling, so when her early bedtime came the royal train was run onto a siding on the way and everyone waited till the little Princess began to peep with the birds in the early morning before the journey was resumed. to have somewhat prolonged, so Queen _ Wilholmina thought it would be as well to go and look after him and take their little daughter with her to remind her husband that home and home ties are best of all. Juliana was in Germany for her birthday, having gone there with the Queen, who went to join her husband, Prince Henry. He had been doing a cure, which he seems All Holland paid her honor, and the orange color, out of compliment to her family (the House of Orâ€" ange), was everywhere. Queen ‘Mina, Chasing After Her Rpouse, Took Along Juliana. Littlo Princess Juliana of Holâ€" land, who some day (unless the stork sends along the hopedâ€"for litâ€" tle brother) will be Queen of Holâ€" land and those Dutch Colo ies so rich in the Far East, recently celeâ€" brated her fourth birthday. little glycerine has been added. The rinsing should be done in a large basin, the hat we!l shaken, and the water pressed out with a folded towel. Dry in the air, but not beâ€" fore a fire or in the sun. TRAIN STOPSâ€"BABE SLEEPS. wWHOOPINXG COUGH CURKE. W house, or a million bushel grain elevator, concrete is the most economical building material in use toâ€" day. Concrete never requires repairs, and the saving in repairâ€"expense alone makes.the greater economy of using concrete more apparent every day. The cost of other building materials is constantly increasing. The cost of concrete is being reduced. HETHER for a silo, a milkâ€" every bag it 12 not Caneda Cement, .4"‘ “.' l,. , ffron w@O® e .V‘!'l'v‘ % vg 4 4 d s "A. C A t i ’\' T 1 d The Uses of Birds. Bir Harry Johnston has recently urged the British Government to prohibit the African trade in the plumage <f such birds as white herâ€" ons, egrets, ibises, glossy starlings, and kingfishers. All those birds, and many others that are killed for their feathers, feed upon insects, ticks, and other creatures that act as hosts for diseaseâ€"breeding organâ€" isms. According to SNir Harry, the variety of tsetsefly that causes sleepingâ€"sickness _ is particularly abundant in all those parts of Wesâ€" tern and Central Africa where the plumageâ€"hunters have reduced the number of the insectâ€"eating binrds. He proposes that a law be passed to prohibit the importation of the skins and feathers of such binrds into Great Britain and Ireland. Bweetsâ€"Jellies had conceal« their midst tiny jewelled seent tles filled with various perfum Dessertâ€"One fruit was « with flowers, which pros beautiful ename} brooches Jointâ€"This was the only dish which showered gifts on the men. Baddle of mutton was served, and all the little moulds of red currant jelly passed to the male guests conâ€" tained amber cigarette holders, Fishâ€"MHere was a startling "surâ€" prise." _ Boiled trout was served, and for some time the guests could not discover anything _ unusual about the course. At last someâ€" body found some trinkets concealed in the mouth of a trout. All the fish had rings, brooches, and other small articles of jewellery conâ€" cealed in their mouths. ‘"White"" Entree (sweetbreads)â€" No gift discovered in the dishâ€"a fact which the guests seemed to reâ€" sent. ‘"Brown"" Entree (lamb cutlets)â€" Each cutlet had a charming ename!â€" led thimble fitted to the bone over the decorative paper frill. Breadâ€"When the guests broke their rolls of bread little silver toothpicks were found concealed inâ€" side. Buch a dinner was recently given by a rich hostess to twenty{four guests at her Belgrave Bquare house, London. _ Some particulars of the repast are given by Cecil Mar, the authoress. The menu of the dinner given by the hostess and the various gifts which the guests received may be tabulated as follows : Boupâ€"This was served in dainty Bevres bowls with lids. When the liquid was poured into the soup plates the company were presented with the empty Sevres bowls. Hostess in London Gives *"Surâ€" prise" Banguet to Friends. Gifts in the soup and joint are the latest thing at "surprise‘"‘ dinâ€" ners in England. As children we revelled in the "Christmas pudding mystery,‘‘ that wonderful aish wherein were ooncealed various coins and wondrous trinkets; but toâ€"day hosts and guests alike are more sophisticated. At a surpriso dinner the guests receive unexpectâ€" ed gifts concealed in the bread, fish, sweets and other dishes. GILLETTS LYE EATS DIRTâ€" GIFTS IX DISHE®S. One fruit was decor vas decorated pm\'ed to be ncealed in bot (®