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same erman‘s c â€" TBG revents anteed. ONTO, ONT. NT ED NTED g for us in â€"rtul Chemâ€" nimal ints â€" n Â¥inest healer ver »t t9% L% D Favorite Recipes. Vegetable Pudding. â€" One cup grated carrot, one cup grated poâ€" tato, one cup brown sugar, one| cup seeded raisins, oneâ€"half cupl chopped suet or butter, preferably | suet; one teaspoon soda put dry | into one heaping cup flour, oneâ€"half‘ teaspoon each of cinnamon and cloves, no water for wetting; the juice from vegetables is moisture enough ; steam in three one pound baking powder cans, filled half full and covered, one and oneâ€"half hours ; uncover and brown in oven oneâ€"half hour. Sauce for the pudâ€" ding: One cup puiverized sugar, one tablespoon butter; mix well, then stir in white of one egg, un-' beaten ; now beat well. This is alâ€" most like whipped cream. This sauce is enough to serve four peoâ€" ple ; increase according to number served. Steamed Salmon Loaf.â€"The folâ€" 0 ) gaeine® i | @ueQuat i 6 Enaiee® 4 ) mtc lowing salmon loaf has never been seen in print and is perfectly delicious either hot or cold. Two cans of salmon, one cup cracker crumbs, one large onion fried in four tablespoons of butter and then strain out the onion, four eggs well beaten, one 5 cent bunch of parsâ€" ley cut fine, salt and pepper. Mix all together and steam two hours. Put in greased lard pail. Serve with a good white sauce. If you wish the sauce to look pink add a little tomato catsup and it will not only look pretty but taste good. Rhubarh Custard _ Pie.â€"Two cups rhubarb, two eggs, one cup sugar, one tablespoon flour, three tablespoons pulverized sugar. Poel and cut up the rhubarb, pour boilâ€" ing water on it, let stand five minâ€" utes, then drain; beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar, add the flour, and mix thoroughly with the rhubarb. Line a pie tin with good plain paste, pour this mixture in it, and bake about half an hour. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs and sugar, place on top when done, and lightly brown. Two Muttins.â€"These are called" the two muffins because there are two measures of each ingredient, with the exception of salt. Served with eggs, fruit, and coffee, a betâ€" ter breakfast at this season of the vear is hard to find. Two eggs, two teaspoons sugar, two teaspoons melted butter, two cups flour, teaâ€" spoon salt, two teaspoons baking powder, and enough sweet milk to make a soft batter. Bake in a quick oven in muflfin tins. Yeal Loat.â€"Two cups of veal and ne cup of celery cut in small picces, oneâ€"fourth can of sweet red peppers cut fine, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of extract of beef, one envelope of gelatine. Soak the gelatine in one cup of waâ€" ter for five minutes, add one and oneâ€"half pints of boiling water, salt. and extract of beef. When W vent Home| poon of < i raw egg he other ery â€" slow! one piat : emon juic liffeulty i and p! hand|e seaving flavorin t« parr of them in sticking HONEST TEA is THE BEST POLICY , S 5 EPT LARGEST SALE 1A IN THE WORLD R Delicions Oil Maynonaise. â€" The k of a hardâ€"boiled egg, mashed »â€"ll, one teaspoon salt, one teaâ€" con of dry mustard, the yolk of raw egg, beaten and mixed with e other ingredients. Add oil y slowly, as much as desired, ne pint is a good amount). Add mon juice or vinegar to taste. The eulty in making oil maynonaise to avoid having oil separate m other ingredients. To preâ€" nt this mix ingredients in a chillâ€" enitar waxy piece of candy, leayâ€" ;:g the last taste in your mouth lightly salty. Pure glycerine is bsolutely harmless, as any drugâ€" st can tell you, and is used to ive the candy that smooth waxy Rect. Salt _ W If the finger nails are too brittle wb them with vaseline at might. When taking spots out with gasoâ€" ne, put a piece of blotting paper nder the cloth, and no circle will emain after the material has been eaned. Baked potatoes are delici F ice of bacon is put in:i‘:l(:)mxl:k: t1 Ing the vanmilla king it at a «] ature. When ‘isin Pie.â€"One cup of raisins d until tender, one cup sugar, egga, one cup cold. water, two »â€"spoons melted butter, two taâ€" poJns flour, _ one tablespoon gar. â€" Let cool before putting crust. This is a good selling esp UWi eppers cold s m n& t T ater Talfy.â€"This taffy, near the seashore, is a rite and is sold in large It is made by simply â€"vanilla taffy receipt and at a slightly lower tomâ€" When it is done remov*® set Useful Hints. an< aidd celery, veal, turn int_i) mold. and garnish with a wl &2 ann‘e P3 & 1 | corer, roll a piece of bacon and put | it in the hole. ! A good way to clean patent leaâ€" | ther shoes is to remove all the dirt \ and then wipe them over with a soft cloth dipped in milk. Polish | with a dry cloth. s t ' When baking anything which reâ€" quires attention at given intervals, \set the alarm on your kitchen clock. | Its ringing will remind you to keep | a lookout for the dish in the oven | while you keep busy about your lother kitchen duties. To remove typewriting ink from linen place the inked parts in turâ€" pentine and soak for at least | twentyâ€"four hours, then pour boilâ€" 'ing soda water on it, rinse and dry, |and the stains will be completely | removed. The skin of a grapefruit after re-i moving the bitter white pulp, can be crystallized and cooked in thei same manner as orange and lemon rinds are prepared. | A cheap cut of steak can be simâ€" mered slowly in a covered frying pan, together with chopped onions and a can of tomatoes. Allow two or three hours for the cooking. To put a gloss like new on white silk, wash and rinse well, then put into water containing a teaspoonâ€" ful of methylated spirits to a pint of water, and iron while damp. Old rubberized raincoats can be eut up to make cases for rubbers or slippers. Also to cover the clothes basket when laundry is sent away from home. When a little totamto sauce is left over, try poaching an egg in it. Season with cayenne and Worcesâ€" tershire _ sauce. _ The _ tomatoes should be boiled when the egg is dropped. Suede shoes that are spotted from rain can be renewed by the simple method of rubbing with an emery board the spots matted toâ€" gether by the water. A To clean a fryingâ€"pan place it on the fire for a fewâ€"seconds, then wipe out with a piece of soft paper or damp cloth. This will preserve the pan in better condition than scrubbing it. 2 If a small hook and eye are placâ€" ed at the ends of the rubber around the knees of little boys‘ bloomer suits, the rwbber is easily removed when the suits are washed, and the bloomers can then be ironed out flat. A little ironing board with a creâ€" tonne case is an excellent thing for women who travel, as it can be put into the trunk with the electric iron. A leftâ€"over dab of mashed potaâ€" toes can be made into a cupful of good soup with the addition of milk, a bit of butter and some celâ€" erv salt. In making pea soup, after well washing one quart of quart of split peas, soak them for the night, and boil them with a little carbonate of soda in just sufficient water to allow them to break to a mash. Then put them to three or four quarts of beef broth, and stew for one hour; then pass the whole through a sieve and heat again. Season with salt and pepper. One or two small heads of celery, sliced and stewed in it, will be found a great improvement. It is important to exercise great care in washing woollen garments in order to avoid shrinking and hltmg They should never be rubâ€" bed with soap, but gently moved about in warm (not boiling) water in which sufficient good, plain soap has been dissolved. Rinse them afterwards in clean, warm water of the same temperature, and dry quickly without wringing. Woollen garments should not be allowed to lie damp, as that induces shrinking and may cause the colors to run in the case of delicate shades. Sally, from the London slume, was the guest of a great lady who interestea herseif in ‘‘the poor. Saliy, perfectly selfâ€"possessed, sipâ€" ped ber tea, and procecded to enâ€" gage her hostess in small talk. "Does yer ‘usband drink!‘ she queried politely. "My dear cluldâ€"no !‘ â€"‘(ow much does e make a week : "Heâ€"erâ€"does not do any work." Her ladyship was beginning to feel slightly annoyed. ‘Well,"" continued Sally, "I ‘ope yer keep out of debt !" "Why, of course, child! Don‘t ask such â€" ridiculous _ questions‘! Don‘t you know you are being very rude !‘ Sally was amazed. "Rude it is? Well, mother says to me: ‘Now, be sure and be‘ave like a little lady. she says. And when ladies come to our ‘ouse they alwavs begins by asking those quesâ€" ons Love. Love‘s pictured as a little chap, A litle chap he may be, At any rate his troubles seem The troubles of a baby. He must be fed so tenderly, This winsome, wee gossoon, And often he spends hours and hours, Aâ€"crying for the moon. Some 160 millions of people speak the English language; German is spoken by 130 millions ; French by 70 millions. Example Better Than Precept. east | she led Decima to the piano, and Deâ€" boil.|cima looked up at her appealingly. P 2 dry ‘ "I have so little voice," whe said; "and YYy, | after that Fruud one!" tely | But. simpg and unaffectedly, she eung " |one of the ballads which Bobby wase e0 1lond of listening to after dinner; and well | there must have been something in the l-tlvuico which touched the audienceâ€"and BP1t | what®an audience!â€"for the talking ceased. and | While she was etill einging, the gentleâ€" t \ men came in; and at the door they too mAl€ | szopped talking and stood listening. It was the one thing needed. The men emiled, and leaned back in their chairs, and the women tapped their feet on the soft Turkey carpet in time with the subâ€" ' ‘‘Presently, Perh:um?” eaid Lady Roâ€" { borough, as if she understood. And with a nod she left her. A daughter of Lord Ferndale‘s went to the piano. She was a | beautiful girl, the belle of the county, and possessed a magnificent and por{ectly | trained voice, and its marvellous notes |filled the big room with a volume of sound. Decima listened with delight, and |her eyes shone. There was a murmur of lap'plause when the song finished, and dued silvery etraing i‘; say, and she smiled approvingly at m. At last Lady Roborough looked round at the ladies, and rose, and they filed out to the drawingâ€"room. _ hats Decima glanced at Gaunt, and be met her eyes. ‘"Are you ‘fleasedâ€"‘aatisned.’" he cecemed E_? eay, and she smiled approvingly at Gaunt wae near the door, and he openâ€" ed it for them. As Decima presed, he etretched out his hand and touchod her arm. She felt the touch and looked at him. ‘There wee an infinite yearning in his eyes, a wistful sadness which emote her, and it haunted her for some minutes afterward. As Gaunt went back to the men, he passâ€" ed his hand over his brow with the gesâ€" ture of a man who has to get through an allotted tack. "Olose up!" he said. "Ferndale, the port is with you, Mr. Mershon, do you préfer claret. It is there at your elbow." In an instant or so he was the perfect host again, and with a smile on his lips, was encouraging the men to drink. But all the time his thoughts were with the little girl in the dove<olored dress, and he hated the necessn{ that kept him away from her; but he played his part with consummate art, and talked and laughed as if he were delighted with his company and his position as host. : Meanwhile, Decima had found algusiet corner of the drawingâ€"room, and h alâ€" most hidden herself. In Lady Pauline‘s drawingâ€"room she was eomebody of imâ€" portance; but here, amidst these county dames, in their gorgeous dresses _ and diamonds, she felt herself a kind of noâ€" body, and desired to remain unnoticed. There was a emall cabinet of books near her, and she took out a volume. _ It chaneed to be an edition de luxe of a reâ€" cent history of travel, and as she turned over the pages, she came upon a referâ€" ence to Lord Gaunt. It seemed that the writer regarded Lord Gaunt with strong admiration, and he «poke of his courage and s?irit with enthusiasm, . Decima‘s eyes glowed, and the colc: rose to her face. It was etrange that she should have happened upon that book of all othere; it seemed as if, at no moment of her life, Lord Gaunt could be absent from her thoughis. As she was reading, Lady Roâ€" borough came up. . a k 8 ing me of your goodnees to the villuge folk. And he says, too, that it is you who have transformed Leafmore from a dingy old house to what it is " Decima looked round reluctantly. She was not rervous, but she felt that the simple «ongs would be ecarcely suited to so large and grand a party. _ _ _ _ ‘"‘Thank you, Miss Deane," she said, smilin*’ down at her. ‘"That was a genuâ€" ine tribute, and I am grateful. I am her mother, you see!" T t "I have been looking for you, my dear," she said, with that kindly familiarity which an elderly woman of the world can use toward a young girl. "I have been hearing your praises aun;. The vicarâ€" what a dear old man he is!â€"ha« been tellâ€" Decima flushed elightly, but her clear eyes met Lady Roborough‘s frankly. "Oh, no, no!" she eaid; "I only helped." Lady Roboroug» «miled at her :gprov- ingly, for Decir nodesty pleas her. "Rather more .« He]peg, my dear, if all they eay is true; and I think it is. But why are you sitting here like a litâ€" tle puse in the corner? Won‘t you some and sing or play for ue?" 4 "How beautiful!" escaped Decima‘s lipe. Lady Ferndale was standing near her. She was paseionately. fond and proud of her daughter, and the involuntary, girlâ€" ish burst of admiration touched her. _ Decima emiled up at her as if she unâ€" derstood what she felt; and drawn toâ€" ward her by her aym{:uthy. Lady Fernâ€" dale sat down and talked to her. Someâ€" one played a brilliant sonata, and then Lady Roborough same up and drew Deciâ€" ma‘s hand through her arm. _ fln _‘"Now you will sing to us, my dear," she said. 5 T flls Gaunt had entered almost last, and he drew back so that he wae quite behind the others. His e{en went toward _ the girlish figure at the piano, and he held his breath for a moment as his lips twitched. When she had finished, he went up to the piano and stood beside her. 1t was the proper thing to do, as hosi; but he did not praise the song. "Thank you," was all he said; and the words sounded almoet grim and stern. As she looked up at him, she saw a deep line merces his brow, and that his lips were tightly drawn. She looked down again in an inetant, a faint trouble at her heart. Wae he ill, nnhnfppy? she wonâ€" dered. A moment or two afterward some of the other men came round her and beâ€" gan to talk, and Gaunt moved away and went about the room. _ % Tea was eerved with due state and cereâ€" mony; there was more singing and playâ€" ing; the room was filled with the buzz of conversation. Gaunt moved about with a kind of restlessness, and euddenly he went into the hall. Decima heard the servants wheeling the furniture about in it; then the band began to play, and Gaunt came back and went up to Lady Roborough and eaid something. _ $ â€"She smiled and nodded, and addres@ing the company generally, said: _ _ _ _ _ ‘"Lord Gaunt eays that as the band is here, why not dance?". 3 3 _ The ladies brightened np and murmured a delighted assent, and in a moment or two the dancing commenced. Decima drew back, for there were more ladies than gentlemen, and she did not expect to have many partnere; but to her astonishment, several men came to her with eager requests for a dance. Now, Gaunt had propceed the dance that be might get a waltz with her; and having seen the first waltz started, he was making his way to her. Then he saw that she was surroundedâ€"and by eome of the younger men, and he stopped short. The line deepened on his brow, and with a eigh he turned acide and went and sat by Lady Ferndale, ag if he had no intenâ€" tion of dancing. . e 29e Without w‘“t“hjnf, him, Decima _ saw him, and noticed the approach and reâ€" treat, and a little wave of dieappointment passed over her. 3 0 | . apmig en is l tcaiiine, ep ces .7 ~"T‘ve been talking to that sweet girl said Lady Ferndale. He looked etraight before bim. C "Which?" he said, â€" almost _ curtly. "There are so many sweet girls, Lady Ferndale." Fhe laughed. "How gallant! I mean Mies Deane. She has quite won my hbeart, and I intend to wee more of her. if she will let me." _ He nodded. with a kind of bitterness in his heart, for he saw that he should no longer have Decima to Rimself. She had made an impression on the society of the place. The next inetant he felt ashamed Of Wiwelf. .. . 00 caclclk * % I awloud _"You will like her," he eaid. ‘"She ha« very few friende:; and it will be very kind if you will call on her." _ _ |_ _ _ "I ehall certainly do so," said Lady Ferndale. "How happy she looksa!" Gaunt followed her eyes, and nodded grimly. Decima was dancing with one of the handsomeet young men, and one of the beet dancere in the room; and there was a faint roge tint in her face and a happy light in her eyes. d’e nti(od a eigh. &'ou not be happy? wals WA' x;m';&rt' or two la‘oâ€"r he rose, almost abruptly, and crossed the room to the buaffet which the butler had excemporized. EMSee mm Nn ie t s e C g d Some men were standingh there, driukâ€" ing champ?ue. Among them was Mr. Merwhon. He was lean‘ri; against the table, his glaes in his hand, his eyes fixed on Decima. Hie narrow face was pale, and his nostrils had a pinched look whout them, and Gaunt, us he gianced at him, wee struck by his exproyAon. Gaunt got himself some wina "Not danpcing. Mr. Mershon?" he said. Mershon started, and, his ey<e dropped Irsiantly. CHAPTER XVIIIL.â€"(Continued) 4 selfish brute‘" he thought; then Her Great Love; CHAPTER XIX Or, A Struggle For a Heart why should she When the waltz was over, he went to Decima and asked her for the following oune. She was panting & little, and there was a happy emile on her lips, for she had enjoyed her dance. Morehon bit his under lip. ‘jgerhwps you are engaged for all?" he said. "Oh, no!" ehe replied. "I don‘t know how many there wii be, but i am o iy engaged for the next two. I will give you the third, If you like.‘fs ~~~. .0~ ~.._. "I‘m going to dance the next," he said in & strained voice, and moved away. He jotted it down on his cuff, bowed, and moved off, and going to a recess, etood there and watched her covertly. hPreaent.ly Mrs: Sherbormne came up to im,. "Why don‘t you dance with her?" she eaid. "She is making a sensation. Itâ€"it will turn her head." He stifed an oath, and glanced at her eavagely. "Do you think I can‘t see it? Why do you come and worry me?" _ _ s "Don‘t be angry with me, Theodore; I can‘t he!f) it," she said in a low, nervoue voice. "Iâ€"I wish you had spoken to her before. It will not be so easy after toâ€" CE tS" I . His oath wae audible this time, and she shrunk away from him. Me remained in the same .;Bace for a minute or two, still watching Decima, then he went to the buffet and got some more wine. His face did not gain any more color, but a light began to burn in his charp emall eyes, and his lips twitched, for he wae an abâ€" stemious man as a rule, and he had drunrk far more than his usual quantity already. Eks e it e P 9e 2 night Gaunt moved, it might be said that he wandered, about. There was a smile on his face, but it was a fixed smile, and too grim for mirth. At last, as if he could not keep away from her any longer, he went up to Decima. "I‘ve come to beg for a dance," he said. ""Will youogive me oneâ€"the next?" She raieed her eyes to him with a sudâ€" den pleasure in them. "Oh, I am so sorry!â€"I mean‘"â€"she falâ€" teredâ€""I am engaged to M}‘.‘Merqhon.;' eaid "Waeit?" he said, rather grimly. "Are you happy?" he aeked, suddenly, his eyes eeeking ier face with something of their loveâ€"hunger revealed in them. The question startled her. "Yes," ehe said; "very happy! It is all so bright and beautifulâ€"the music." She looked round and laughed with inâ€" nocent delight in the brilliant scene. "I am glad," he said in a low voice. "It was worth doing." "It is such a great success," she said, wfter a moment. "All are eo evidentl; enjoying themselves. Lady Roboroug eays that your party will never be forâ€" gotten." "It will notâ€"by me," he commanted. "And you, too, must be happy!" she said, glancing at him. _ _ Her late partner rose, and bowed and left them, and Gaunt sat down in his place beside her. ‘Give me oneâ€"the first you have," he â€"‘"There are so many otherâ€"younger men who are anxious to dauce with you, he eaid. | j s NP There was unconcealed refiroach in her eyes as she raised them to his. "And I am host, and mvuet eurrender the best to my guests." he added, quickly. She lTaughed softly. "What an outrageous compliment!" she â€""I amâ€"very," he said; but eomething in his tone, in the eyes, that trowbled her. _ . _ "It in a long way off," ehe eaid, regretâ€" fully. "Whyâ€"didn‘t you ask me before?" she h’ad almost ended with innocent reâ€" proach. as n . Am ras w Sn n L â€" Gaunt could have finished the sentence for her. an said "Â¥ou deserve to be," she murmured loftl{l and a little ehyly. "You aie so unâ€" selfish; you have taken all this trouble to give pleasure to others." ________ _ _ He folded his arms ard lfflp yed them above the elbows u’htly. er hank, inâ€" nocent praise of him, the soft . sweet voice, the dee;; eyes, "were getting on h‘s nerves." He felt that if he stayed near her much longer he should lose the power of selfâ€"restraint. He forced a smile, and got up from the lounge. 6 "I eave my modesty by flight," he said. "You would make a saint of me, and all the while I know that I amâ€"" _ * Mr. Mershon‘s dance came, and with it that gentleman. He offered hor his arm without a word, with just one sharp glance from his guarded eyes, and they started. fu. c % § _He left the eentence unfinished and walked away. _ in t oo He was not a bad waltzer by any means, but either he had not got Decima‘s step, or the emotion which was pressing on him made him unsteady and confused him, for before they had gone the round of the room he had lost the time and presently came to a lfu_ll,l' @SOD. 2 : > 5. BCOE Nmd dn T "It isâ€"is hot, isn‘t it?" he said, looking just below ber eyes, "and the room is crowded." It was not "Wouldn‘t you like to sit down for a little while?" "Oh, yes!" eaid Decima, promptly. She would not have very much en{loyod A waltz with Mr. Mershon even if their etep had matched dpcrlectl{; and ehe was glad to be released. He led her, through the fre'.u glass door at the end of the room, nto the palmâ€"house, and they sat under a marble nymph. The light from the lamp in the hand of the statue fell upon Decima‘s face, and Mr. Mershon glanced at her in eilence for a minute or two. He had paid several visits to the buffet, but he was not in the least intoxicated; and the wine had ouly served to give him a kind of epurioue, desperate courage. _ i His fwe darkened for an instant; then | he emiled and rodded toward the ballâ€" room. _ Rhe looked and caw Lord Gaunt {wi:h Lady Blanche Ferndale upon |his arm. He was looking down at her as he | talked, with a »mile on his face, and the | girl‘s eyes were upturned to his with a | pleased expreesion in them. _ "He won‘t remain a bachelor very \long," suid Mr. Mershon. "They eay that | the Ferndale‘s daughter will be the misâ€" Hr«\‘of Leatmore." ! Decima looked at Lord Gaunt with & | sudden contraction of the brows. . 3 RIMRI 471 EPMMIUIME, MRCPCCNCN ECCIUEO Decima fenned back and fanned herself. She was scearcely conscious of his preâ€" sence, but was listening to the waltz and thinking ofâ€"Lord Gaunt. The tone of his voice haunted her; and she was wonderâ€" ing what made him «o sad and grim in the midet of the general gayety. _ _ _ _‘Then, euddenly, Mr. Mershon broke in upon her reverie:" â€" VA TNL . 010. .ou 0i mE PmE "Rather a fine place, Leafmore," he said. His voice, sharp and thin, yet not so sharp and metallic as usual, jarred upon her. "Yese," she said, simply. He stroked his cleangshaven lipse and looked critically about him through halfâ€" closed eycs, and then glanced covertly at her 2 oT shouldn‘t mind having a place like this," he #aid, meditatively. _ _ _ _ "You have a very"â€"ehe could not say beautifulâ€""grand _ bouse _ already, Mr. Mershon." He shook his head. "Yâ€"es; but it‘s rather commonplace. It‘s new, you see. I should like an old house, something after this etyle. I think I shall bui one:; there are always plenty in the market. Why do you smile?"" he adâ€" ded, quickly. Decima laughed goftlg; "Because you said that as othere say it when they are referring to @ulte m trivial, inexpensive thing," she replied, candidly. . freag >Â¥ e P "Well; it wouldn‘t break me," he said, coolly. "I might just as well mend my money that way as not. The only thing is, it would be rather large forâ€"for a bachelor." 5A oo Pioks _"Lord Gaunt is a bachelor," she marked. e l o se "She is very beautifulâ€"very!" she eaid, under her breath. Mr. Mershon nodded. "Yes; but I didn‘t ask you to come here to talk about them," he eaid, with a kind of desperate abruptness. "I don‘t take any interest in them orâ€"or any one else but myselt andâ€"and anotber mrmn." Decima turned her eyes upon him with faint surprise. i ‘"What a strange speech!" she said, with a smile. "I don‘t in the least know what I am engaged for that," she said, "You don‘t?" he eaid, incredulously, and with a side glance at hber. ‘"Don‘t {ou know that the only person I take any nterest in isâ€"you?" * Decima neither blushed nor started, and (h_ow:mile was still on her lipe, as whe said : "In me! That is very kind of you, Mr. Morshon. 1 qupszm it is because you are ?o {rea“t a friendâ€"you gee «o muchâ€"of my ather. He looked at her and lowered his eyes quickly. Gaunt would not have doubted her innocerce and sincerity for a moâ€" went. but this man was of different metal, _ "Not aitogothcr," he said. "Yes, I am was unconcealed reproach in her there . was look o% h‘s ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO ""Soldierâ€"Automaton‘‘ Said to Be Substitute for Skirmishers, Yet another terrible engine of war is likely to be added to the iequipmenlt of modern armies, if the ‘invention of an engineer named }Aassen of Copenhagen fulfills exâ€" pectations. This engineer has perâ€" ‘fected an invention which he calls ‘a soldierâ€"automaton, an automatic machine for replacing the line of skirmishers for defense purposes. Briefly, it consists of a cylinder ‘which is buried in the ground and which, like submarine mines, may ‘stay there for years without being 'damaged. A signal station at a distance of four or fire miles away lis connected with the cylinder. By pressing a button an electric curâ€" rent is transmitted and the cylinder shoots up until it is about two feet from the level of the ground, firing at the same moment 400 shots in a | horizontal direction. a friend of {m father‘s, a true friend; butâ€"but, if I am, it‘s because of you." Decima looked at him with a .li:hz rmled air, and he went on, not hurri y but elowly, as if he had rehearsed his ‘I‘ve known you someâ€"some weeks now Miss Decima"â€"6he frowned unconsciously at the Decimaâ€""and it‘s only natural that I should bave grown to care for you â€"to love you, in fact.". mhe e â€" Now, let it be remembered that no man had ever epoken of love to her; that she had, unlike most girls, never thought or dwelt upon the great mystery. She ecarcely knew what it meant; but ahe knew enonfh to shrink at the sound of the word in Mr. Mershon‘s voice. The eolor left her face and her lips grew very grave. â€"‘"‘That‘s how it is with me," he went on, after a pause. "I‘ve fallen in love with you, and I want you to be my wife." . The very suddenness of the thing lesâ€" sened the shock, etrange as this mssy sound. If she had boen at all prepared, had euspected what wase in his mind, there would have been time for the reâ€" puleionâ€"almost horrorâ€"to have stirred within her. . As it was, ehe sat hallâ€" stunned and bewildered. Her eilence d not daunt him. Mr. Mershon was sccusâ€" tomed to getting what he wanted, someâ€" times hy guile, sometimes by force, someâ€" times by sheer dogged persistence. _ He meant getting this lovely girlâ€"anyway. (To be continued.) The value of such an invention in repelling invaders is obvious. It means that one of these cylinders can take the place, at any point, of 400 soldiers, and if a number are buried in proper systematic order over a certain stretch of country, a continuous hail of bullets can be fired at an invading army, without the latter seeing a single enemy. A number of these cylinders, in fact, makes a line of skirmishers whose operations may inflict terriâ€" ble damage on the enemy,. The shots take effect at a distance of 300 yards, and the inventor calcuâ€" lates that only 10 per cent. of the enemy would be saved after an atâ€" tack of these automatic troops,. _ The skirmishers would be placed in rows behind other, to be used successively for resisting various attacks and as the cylinders are hidden in tho ground, no enemy can know where the line is before the firing starts. Horace sat and gnawed his pen, concentrating a look of hatred on the blank sheet of paper before him. From his seat he could see every member of the class writing, as if for dear life, an essay on Henry VIII.â€"their allotted task. His pen alone was idle, ‘"‘Two minutes more !‘‘ came from the teacher. Then Horace, in deâ€" speration, seized his pen and made a bid for fameâ€"as follows : ‘Henry VIII. was a King of England, and the greatest widowâ€" er as never was. He was born at a place called Anno Domino, and he had sixty wives. The first he ordered to be executed, but she was beheaded. He revoked the secâ€" ond, and the third died ; and then he married Annie Bowling, the daughter of Tom Bowling. _ When he died he was succeeded on the throne by his Aunt Mary. _ Her full name was Mary Queen of Beots, or the Lay of the Last Minâ€" strel." English owls feed mainly on inâ€" sects and small mammals, such as mice NEW WAR ENGINE. Bo Much For History. BROAD statementâ€"Yet literally true. The aim of man from the fihnh(hnbeentomkehhbufldingmmbnawlylike natâ€" stone as possible. Theue‘tlnbonefii:dloqmryotoneled him to seek various manufactured substitutes. only reason he ever used wood was that it was easiest to get and most convenient to use. Wood is no longer easy to get. Like most building material, its cost is inâ€" creasing at an alarming rate. ‘The cost of concrete is decreasing. So, from the standpoint of either serâ€" vice or economy, Concrete is the best building material. Canada‘s farmers are using more concrete, in proportion to their numbers, than the farmers of any other country. Why ? Because they are being supplied with Canada Cement â€" Canada Cement Company Limited .â€" Write for our FEree s6beâ€"page bock *‘ ubat ‘1 he Farmer Can De With Concreté" No farmer can afford to be without a copy. LIVING IN BRITISH TOWns INCREASED % PER CENT. IN SEVENTEEXN YEARS. Food Prices 12 Per cent. Higher in London Than in Giher Towns. The dwindling purchase yvalue of the sovereign is emphasized in the report of the British Board of Trade on the economic problem of the working class household, which has been published in a biue book of formidable bulk. For the purâ€" poses of the inquiry eighty eght of the principal towns were taken, and since m 1905 the board casried on a similar inquiry, a comparaâ€" tive study of great interest and imâ€" portance is possible. The companiâ€" son discloses several outstanding facts. Rents have changed very little on the average, while the retail prices of commodities consumed by the working classes have increased materially, though they are still lower than a generation ago. Sir H. Llewellyn Smith computes the average increase in workmen‘s rents, food, fuel ond clothing takâ€" en together at about 10 per cent. _ There hhs been a distinct upward movement in wages, the mean perâ€" centage increases in rates of wages in all towns being : 6 Building trade, skilled men, 1.9; laborers, 2.6. Engineering trade, skilled men, 5.5 ; laborers, ‘3.9. Printing trade, compositors, 4.1. There are cheap and dear towns. London retains itsâ€"primacy as the city where the cost of living is highâ€" est. Taking rates and the selected articles of food and coal, living was between 11 and 12 per cent. dearer than in the other eightyâ€"seven towns. The general level of food prices and coal in the different towns shows a greater degree of uniformâ€" ity, and on this point Mr. MeLeod of the Department of Labor Statisâ€" tics says : Although in London the rents of working class houses have declined, they are still much higher for the same accommodation than in any other town in the country. PmE ogit t "It is found that the cost of livâ€" ing, as represented by rents, inâ€" cluding rates and the retail prices of the selected articles of food and coal, was between 11 and 12 per cent. higher in London than in the other eightyâ€"seven towns taken as a whole. London is followed in this respect by the Scottish towns, and at the other end of the scale are the towns in the Midlands, in which both rents and prices were at a low average. "Croydon, Newcastleâ€"onâ€"Tyne, Plymouth and Devonport, Sheerâ€" ness and Swansea are tfiz towns in England and Wales for which the combined figures most nearly apâ€" proached those for London, while the towns in which the cost of livâ€" ing was lowest are Wolverhampton, Walsall and Macclesfield. London being taken as 100, the extreme range of index numbers for rents and prices combined in other towns was from 81 to 97." Increase in Food Prices. In broad outline the appended table states the percentage of inâ€" crease which has taken place in the price of food : * Potatocs i « ............. 40.1 PSOOA . 4 ..ss.sisss.::.+» E.l (Cogl 1: xâ€"as1«+s;«ss:,*ss +s« .D IOINCCSE ; . »..sx s 1@« 11 x1 4 +4 + AB B Bread ; ; %«:.,.:ss «* + 1000 FIOUY « s «is>«+:ssr1}s111+ XO.1 Hexs :: s 2is...sirs+s+s24+ 100 British pork . ............ 18.6 BubtbeE ; .. â€".:+.1.::14s+s, O y â€"British becf . . ....:...... 9.9 ‘ Millk . 4 ass :113 1r2s 1+ 411+2 | JBaik British mutton . ......... §.1 Surveying this aspect of the proâ€" blem the report says: 000| _ ‘‘"The rise in the cost of living so far as the articles covered by the present inquiry enter into the toâ€" Rents High in London. a cement of the l:i?:ut possible quality, which inâ€" sures the success of their concrete work. _ satisfaction our advertisements promised. Concrete would not have been in such universal use today, had an inferior grade of cement been supplied. Insist upon getting Canada Cement. It is your bert The secret of concrete‘s popularity in Canada lies in the fact that while we have been advertising the use of concrete, we have also been producing, by scienâ€" tific methoda, a coment so uniformly li in quality that the concrete made with it gives the complete your concrete work. Ther« dealer in your neighborhood. is 4+ MWd s3 + *11+ BJB 112 + +«++ 19,8 :22+4++ 18,1 cÂ¥xsa+s> $B6 s ++s1+ I2.0 rxrksse> P rassas+s BP ra+41a% i Pr%k ie se ns M a i tal expenditure of the working classes, is thus shown to have been very marked in so short a period as 1905â€"1212, and if the comparison is extended back to the year of low est prices, namely, 1896, the inâ€" crease in food prices up to the year 1912 would appear to have Len about 25 per cent. The level now reached is, however, no higher than in the early eighties and much be low that of the seventies, when prices were e)_tcopti-mnll_\‘ I.ugh." Royal Family Favors a Law Against Liquor. There is a prospect that Bweden may soon be placed under national prohibition. Laws making i# an offence to drink spirituous Lquors anywhere in the country are on templated, and there is a reason able chance that they will be adopt â€" There has also been in the cost of clothing vantage of 5 to 15 per cost of footwear. Prime Minister Staaf, in a recent address before a congress f tee totalers in â€" Stockholm, declared that prohibition was the only effec tive means of preventing drunken ness. All other attempted methods of reform, he said, had proved in efl'_e;ctive and insufficient to stop the evil. lieved to foreshadow the introduc tion into Parliament of a bill for the prohibition of all spirituous drinks in Sweden. _ Buch a law would command the support «f the Royal family. The King is a strong temperance advocate. A prohibitive law would be likely to â€" meet with opposition â€" from France. Sweden has a big trade in wines and spirits with France, and she depends upon the French mon ey market to finance many Swedish enterprises. â€" There are fears that the exclusion of French wines would encounter retaliation in the form of exclusion of Swedish securi ties from the Paris bourse. A pro posal to increase the duty on wines in 1914 had to be dropped because the French Government protested and threatened to bar Swedish coonâ€" sols from the Paris Stock Ex change. PROHIBITION FOR sWEOEN. an increase and an ad gent. in th« NeaCia the beâ€"