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In red notes." a u. is o Bramptono, or _ Weet bound indfather‘t just 8. PINEO 5.18 OR grandâ€" dmm." oronto, . % e x A Foolish Young Man; H H H in making jams and jellies the least expensive item is the sugar #EV" @ moments whem the part, of . best friend is silence, “ild'l ard turned aside, and Stafford owly, with a kind of enforced _ to the billiardâ€"room. While vith diemay and apprehension ag after him, he heard «Mr. called softly, mockingly, from . and looking u%. eaw â€" Maude ea v\n“ over, with her arm exâ€" r fimm opofl. rstood in ~ moment, and, réâ€" « ring as he ran up the stairs, the soft, pink palm. She gave umphant, mocking laugh, her 4 over the ring, and then she d ET the sugar is the most important ingredient because if its quality is not right, your confections ‘will ferment, spoil, not be sufficiently sweet or be flavourless. With St. Lawrence Sugar results are always satisfactory. ood until ehe had got as far in the staire; then Howard, crectly gone on, turned to go _ But as he came up with a wler and repeated congratulaâ€" ~ stafford put his hand to his 4. as it scemed to Howard, St. l;m- Extra Granulated Sufi;hnldinq}_lb. l.‘jllbo rto: ad im :t:: zé.b‘ui.': lbs., S?g-.. and 100 lbs. * Order .I::: of St. Lawrence Extra Granulated Sugar Blue Tag~ condition he moved beside m in art Lhe, entered the «| «traight before him with forced emile, .?:'i'“h m‘o‘ rooping €yC8 W T sh on her u:llb"’ pa. face, : and tremulous. The ball ip, come of the women had. to the drawingâ€"room _ Of irtments; a stream of Qin' their way to the billia hich came the popping of rke and the hiesing of SY; »y entered the hadl, Howard g out in his leisurely way, wingâ€"room, and at «ight of secmed to awake, to realize done and how he stood. He Howard to Maude, then he â€" from BM kingâ€"room . Was crowded â€" a6 de his way in. Through the noke he saw his father standâ€" nd, eurrounded by the money: rew. _ Falconer seated in a him with a black cigar be ps. The group were lnnfhing â€" loudly, and all had glaeses nd=. Some of the younger men w come from the ballâ€"room, « their laughter and chatter * Dazed and confused, halfâ€" caizo and despair, with a sense va= joining her mocking laughâ€" < of the men round him, Stafâ€" . glase of wine from the butler cod with it, and drinking it off to be reflled. The man reâ€" wice. and Stafford, his eyes nost pushed his way through camns t where his father suits most people best ; I :‘:::y':tn can mly!..;"d-' St. Lawrence Sugar Refin XXTII.â€"(Continued) want you to congratulate â€"«ner Maudeâ€"has promised not start, but he stared in : instant, then his eyelide forcing the astonishment . he took Stafford‘s hand ind bowed to Maude. itulate you with all .fi stafford, and I hope you‘ wov as the happiest pair in d Or, the Belle of the Season. â€"r they went alowly wp Stafford‘e head Was will felt confused, like : dream. Aince he had said very little; and n broken more often ; him. She had told <. tremulous with love. ~‘ ind again, how she with him the day he the Lake; how _.M.h.'d , Hu':, h: might 0"‘ :?' bed for him and for w and then snloa :. in response; he scarce said, he could not have were ten minutes after he eat with his arm man playing a part meâ€" ne LEREZ. TCO PCR ven againet the feek i conquered her. How heen, though she had nigery, lest he should â€"~ for her, and she er that most merciless nrequited love. _ She curcely 'IHMA h"l-‘w m threw Stafford‘s. now," she said. ‘"Good Tds â€" C Wvevetndt s k it for granted that ruth and that he had t were & ;'.';"'"su""' K Grainâ€"This s1 sir," he said, in & not loud, was so through the row. promised to be my "I have come for your c0 tulation, sir," he said,. in a voice w:fl:. though not loud, was so clear as to break through ‘the row. "Miese Falconer has promised to be my wife!" A silence, so eudden as to be startling, fell upon the hot and crowded room ; then, as Sir Stephen grasped his son‘s hand, a din of voices aroge, an excited buzz of congratulations and good . wishes. Stafâ€" ford faced them all, his face pale and set, his lips ecurved with a forced emile, his eyes flashing, but lit with a sombre fire. There wase a smile on his lips, & falre amiably in his eyes, but there was so much of madness in his heart that he was afraid lest at any moment he should dash the glass to the ground and break out into cursing. o An hour later be found himself in his room, and waving Meaeom away from him, he went to t.ge window and flung it wide open, and stood there with his hands ‘ prm«{ againet his throbbing brow ; and though no word came from his parched lips, his heart cried: "I4a! Ida!" with all the agony of de _ "Tda! spair. The hours dragged along .8 Stafford | faced the tragedy of his life. As he paced the room or f#ung himeelf into chair, with his head bowed in his hands, the effects of the wine he had takon, the eup: rruud excitement under which he had qbond. paesed away, and in the reaction his brain cleared, and he began to realâ€" ize the terrible import of the step he had taken, the extent of the sacrifice he had made. His own life was wrecked and ruined irreparably; not on’}{ his own, but that of the girl he loved. e step he had taken was not irreparable but _ irrevocâ€" able; hescould not go back. He had askâ€" ed Maude Falconer to be his wife, he had spoken words which must have sounded . is YSU" °* na had kissed able; hescould not 89 U"I"* ces he hi ed Maude Falconer to be his wife, he had spoken words which must have sounded to her ae words of love, he had kissed her lips. In a word, he was pledged to her, and thedfled'e ‘could not be broken. And Ida! hat should he do in regard to her? He had promised that if hie feelâ€" ings underwent any change towards her he would not ;ho and tell her. And at that moment, he felt that the promise had not been a vain 0nNO; for he knew that he could not go to her, that at sight of her his resolution would â€" melt â€" like snow in the sun, that his love for her would eweep him away 0N a torrent of paseion, and that he would be as falso to Maude Falconer as he had been to Ida. And yet he could not leave her, desert herâ€"yes, that | was the vord!â€"â€"yuthout making some eign, without epeaking one word, not of exeuse, but of farewell. What eould he say to her? He could not tell her the truth; for his father‘s sake that must never be divulged; he could give her no explanation, must permit her to think " ion, MUSP PC""a" qishonorable. must never 50 °"""@ ~semit no explanation, must permit her to him base and taithlees and dishono There was only one thing he coul and that wase to write to her. But could he say? He wert to his writingâ€"table and up a pen. Hie hand was eold as i¢ shaking. and he held it before him it Erew steadier. At the best of Stafford wase not much of & letterâ€"w one does not learn the ephtq!un cither at public echools or the Var 4C P U2+. recterâ€"writin either at PW and hitherto eiuher &9 PMUCRD @ar and hitherto Stafford‘s 1®tte"**""""" "nopt. been confined to the sending, O". acceptâ€" ing of invitations, & «hort â€" note about some meet, Of horeo dealing. How was he to address her? She was his dearest still, the only woman in the world he had lovâ€" ed or ever would love, but he dared not eall her 60. dared not tell her 60. He wrote her name, but the eweet word ecemâ€" ed to look uP at him repromhlu“y. acâ€" cusingly; and though he had written only that name, he 40re up several eheeta of paT.r. and at last, in deeperation, scaTC@‘ ly now in# what he was writing, he wrote Doowiv. hurriedly, and without pausing, quickly the foll "I am writing you this because _20°° made me promise that it anything bapâ€" pened, let it be what it might, to separate ue, I would not eome and tell you. Rome: thing_ has happened. 1 have diecovered that I am not only un worthy of_ calling you mine a8 any man in the world, even the best. would be, but that I am UM worthy in the eense that would justify you in the eyes of your father, of every» body belonging | t0 you, in sending me adrift. If 1 eould tell you what it is you would understand and see how great . a Oe sen us. You wm:ld not * cidiss * tm gult yawns marry me you but & DRETT 1_oa wan. know how much I love you, Y guess what it costs me to I elaim to YOU: to tear myeel you. But I must do . s0â€"2 There is nO hope, none wha 1 do not ask you to forgive known what 1 know now I have died than have told y« ed you, but 1 do aek, y0U f or, if you remember me, to as the most wretched and men; as 0n€ who is bound hb and compelled, driven, l againat his will 1 dare ; more, dare not tell you wh CCC 0C Whether you a single back UP looks b@ He read 1t V* and every timg i Yoe« inexplicabl® destroyed ter, nothing MM"] _ "houflh it aeemed o would have expressed SR lle ankr. he d At last, and envelope and face do'n'af might not see power to tort ing that the mented by . ) rhyliel“! ill ater* on he ( he swam out ROTERET NC phynic&“y 111. Me GAUC!!" Caoter. an ater* on ho dived into the water, and As8 | he swam out he felt, for the first time in | his life, a elight twinge of cramp. At anâ€"| other time he would have been eomewhat | alarmed, for the etrongest swimmer . i6 | absolutely helplese under 2M attack _ of | cramp, but this morning he Was indifâ€" | ferent, and the thought etruck him that | it would be well for him if he flung UP , his armé and went dow» to the bottOM | of the Lake on the shores of which he had | experienced euch exquisito joy. euch un~] utterable misery. ; He met no ON¢ on his way back to the house, and went straight to his room.. The swim had removed ‘some of the traces of mst night‘s work, but he etill looked _nights "*""‘.ad there Wwas that _0 Ens of Fast MS"C® """ "and haggard and worn. and there expreasion in his ¢Y® which wear when he has been battling het 1°."""0,sling againgt following He was to read it over & ) Sn e vet e upon my _ bsck upon last, and reluetant!y ope and addressed i downwards on his t C 0 nama CHAPTER XXIV t, and reluetantly, he put it in an e and addressed it, and turned it wnwards 0n his table, so that he not see the name which had such to torture his heart. as, ae a rule, s0 moderate in arink | at the win@ he had taken, aupple-‘ wine Dt P4" 20 vim feel | than B®""," ou to fo yuat I do ask, you to forget me; 1 remember me, to think of me ost wretched and â€" illâ€"fated of one who is bound hand and foot, pelled, driven, along & path his will. 1 dare not eay . any re not tell you what this eacriâ€" meâ€" Whether you forget or reâ€" me, I shall never forget you for instant. shall never cease to look m my lo6t happiness, as a man L mmon a lost heaven. Aife s omcs & 8 PWWTTC s between US. Ou nV o yX . I can never be anything to painful memory. Though you much I love y0U, you will never t it coste me to relinguish all you, to teat myself away from 1 must 40 soâ€"and for ever. C none whatever, .for me. % v 3003 written it he lineé L 5 my work wasn‘t | BDSDUL wioe, y dear bog. he said. "And Murâ€" _1 have n at it eince eeven 1 want to put some of these PX right before Griffenberg and 30 ve toâ€"d4ay. are m today?"* said Stafford. u. will be a genoral exodâ€" and w*® °_ ‘Tim un held it before him until . At the best of times, much of a letterâ€"writer : irn the epistolary art echools Of the ‘Varsities, @ard‘a letterâ€"writing h‘f rer a dozenâ€" â€"twenty times, it gcemed weaker, meaner, e; but he knew that if he » could write nothing betâ€" that could satiefy him, ed to him that his heart ressed iteelf more fuily if ; only, "Goodâ€"bye! Forget rule, so moderate in drink ine he bhad taken, supple: mbenrx. made . him feel He gh dered with cold as "@ Tats the water, n_nd as usual, #if. irony. truggling threw uD T20 2 thim her to think dishonorable. he could do, â€"and for ever. atever, for me. e meâ€"*“ 1 hfld 1 would rather you !h&t} lovâ€" because _you his head you. Romeâ€" diecovered of calling world, even 1 am un yuld justify t. of everyâ€" But what and took him he aaked the letter to | ever written Stafford finished _last 1. "And Murâ€" m pan'fi with & free to go and come as you course, you would like to go MR mm ty o SA PW OL OO PADDSER on the ground. As he was leaving room his father took a letter from table, held it up and dropped h‘,.'u‘ l-‘-{. L c40 FL B : $ i2l D cd * 5 Anr sttht â€" "You‘ll be wanting to bn;_ a little preâ€" sent for your ladyâ€"love, Stafford," he said. "I am placing a thousand poundé to your credit at your bank, I don‘t know wheâ€" ther you‘ll think that is euo%h-â€"" "Quite enough," eaid Stafford, in a low voice. ‘"Thank you! You, are very generâ€" ©uBâ€"â€" ® © Sir Stephen winced and held up his hand. ‘ "What is mine is yours from this moâ€" ment, my dear Stafford," be said. Stafford went out by the door at the other end of the hall, and made his way Stafford went out by the doof i5 """ other end of the hall, and made his way to the stables. Just as he was crossink the lawn the temptation to ride over 10 Heron Hall and leave the note himeelf asâ€" «ailed him strongly. He took the letter from his pocket and looked at it wist fully. But he knew that he dared not run the riek of mceting Ida, and with a sigh he went on towards the stables, carrying the note in his hand. And as he turned away Maude Falconer let fall the curâ€" tain which she had raieed at her window P e CC c ars whe atood ) 111000 .1 08 cA esthary «o that she might watch him for a moment with her d held together with one white lide half closed. e pets eo LNAt SNC MUBT® TORCO Auacab g‘:‘dlw!:otlrm _wlilbh herhdreauing-‘own ether with one white hand, lide half closed. nand. Bef "He has written to her," she eaid to herself. ‘"Has he broken with her for good, or will he try and keep her? I would give oomethin& to see that letter, to know exactly how he «tande. And how I stand! I wonder how he will gend it? He is taking it to the stablee." She thought a moment, then she emiled, "Pot tinger!" she murmured. Bg.aflord found Pottinger giving the last lovm: touches with a eilk handkerchief to Adonis. His coat and waistcoat â€" were off, his shirt open at the neck and his sleeves t‘,urned up. He touched his foreâ€" head with & ru‘gecflul and welcoming greetln:. and without any ou;?riu; for Stafford very often paid an eanly visit to the stable, and had more than once lent a hand in groomin: a favorite horse. "Looke well, sir, don‘t he?" eaid Pottinâ€" ger, passing a hand over the flouy black and finishing up with a loving emack. "I‘m rather late this morning, «ir." He emiled and looked a little sheepâ€" ish. "We had a little bit of a jollificaâ€" tion in the servants‘ hall, on OUT own account, sir, and were enjoying ourselves like our bettere." "That‘s right," eaid Btafford. Someâ€" thing in his voice caused Pottinger to glance at him with aurgrise and appre hengion; but, of couree, he could not say anything, but he dropped his eyes Te spectfully after the one glance at Staf. ford‘s haggard face. h ggard 12¢€) _ . slay for me this over with a "I want you 10 tARC & CEAC sA morning, Pottinger," eaid Stafford. ‘"You can take Adonis; it will exercise him, a6 I shall not ride him toâ€"day. Here is the letter. Heron Hall dies on the other side of the river. 1 want the letter taken there early this morning." Pottinger touched his forehead. "I know the Hall, eir; I‘ve ridden . Over there with meseages from the housekceper ar;% from Mr. Davie." ""there will be NO answer," eaid Stafford. "Simply leave 6. â€" "Yee, eir," said Pottinger. "Would you mind putting it in my eaddleâ€"wallet, sir? I won‘t touch it till m('e hands are clean." Stafford put the letfer in the wallet, eald a few words to Adonis and some . of the other horses, and then left the stable He heard voices 00 the terrace, and, t< avoid meeting anyone until he was com pelled, he went down the slope of the lawn, andA, seating himeelf on 2 bank, 1i attired in & SNMPE 77 12 aam d I ive morning frock, could se0 him. After watching_ him for a minute Of two, she went to her writ)ng-tablo and wrote two or three notes quick!y, and, with these in her pocket, went downstaire and t.hronfh the hall to the stable courtyard. Ppottinâ€" gor was etill finishing off Adonis, and he drew himeelf up and saluted ag she en« tered the stables. As a rule her manner to the servants and her inferiore Was PC * _Lshiv but, i6 Stafford ha:i wle Ne ay t 7 wvOrd ATCC . A pelled, he went down N0 "‘ lawn, and, seating himeelf on a cigarette. From her window, Maude Fs attired in & «imple but exqui 4B T Eons could see to URO 3°""" "Shtr.~ eold and haughty, but, 38 Burt e discovered last night, she could be eoft and gentle when she chose, and now, ehe smiled at Pottinger and the horee in . faghion that almoét dazzled that ingont ous youth. At the eame time her eve had noted Pottinger‘s coat â€" and waistcoat e"® C at the stall:â€"pos! PERCUTO3® ous youth. . noted _ Pott! which bhung with the e3 The coat WA which B°"9 »mawa with the eaddleâ€"wallet The coat Was an old one kete, and there wase NO & them, or in the waistco she knew that it was in "Ta he coutil Duchess of Sutherland Doing Hosâ€" pital Work in Belgium. English and Belgian doctors and nurses are eoâ€"opcerating in hospital work in the theatre of hostilities. The active superintendent of trainâ€" ed nurses is Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, who wears the white blouse, pinafore, and capote with the little red cross in front that makes up the workmanlike uniform of the French "secour aux Blesses." She is very appreciative of the way she has been welcomed, with Miss Gavin, when she travelled from Paris to Brussels as a member xoRBLE RED _9 oE C C in found a special train walting at the frontier, and the Belgians cheered whenever they caught sight of the travellers. When they arrived at Brussels the travellers found that the Belgians had evolved a remarkâ€" able ambulance organization. The Duchess wants the English wounded treated in Brussels instead of being sent home. "They would be better off here," she said, ‘‘Sor Lo £2 124 Adunar mumiviel of being Ser? COCXO UE be better off here,"‘ she said, "‘for it is a healthy city, and they could be sent home or back to the front so easily when ht again. . Money would be wel} spent on having these men looked after here." "How much, do you propose t‘ The Quchess said that she :proâ€" posed to raise 825‘,L000 for her work. Did you ever think what a lot of good you might have done bfi,‘ us ut o on P e 9 % ird face. u to take a letter for me thi-‘ ttinger," eaid Stafford. . ‘"You lonis; it will exercise him, a6 ride him toâ€"day. Here is the m Hall fies 0n the other side . I want the letter taken this morning." touched his forehead. he Hall, gir; I‘ve ridden OV meseages from the housekceper [r. Davis." 1 be no answer," eaid Stafford. we ‘t." NC (5) a siinger. "Would yOU party of French nurses. They io arn udn cce hirver: s Aihuke The Duchess of Sutherland. (To be id PotUDE®T:â€" _ _" mat airi t in my eaddleâ€" wallet, sir? t till m‘ve hands are clean." the letfer in the wallet, de to Adonis and some . of a. and then left the erbl':; W CS am waistcoat. 4 was in the e continued.) | Th s astestedie: eame time her eye bad coat â€" and waistcoat hook at the stallâ€"post illet slung OVeTr them. d one with gaping po¢â€" ; no sign of & letter in aistcoat. Instinctively, aa in the wallet. CrROss NURSE POD TY 0844 exquisitely Falconer, noW T T CR OO the effectâ€" After eoft «he lit at the summe The kitchen itself, in which preâ€" serving or pickling is done, may be spotless, but if there is a dinrty garbage pail just outside, or perâ€" haps some blocks away, breeding tiny things which throw their spores (the seeds of the lowest forms of plant life) into the light and dry summer air for the breezes to carry where they will, then the raw material to be pickled or preâ€" served will have dirt on its surâ€" face which cannot be seen and can only ‘be destroyed by high temperâ€" ature, or what we call sterilizaâ€" tion. f C Any ‘one can SULOTIIED MUCIMCY IOL: be preserved in some wav by usâ€" ing enough temperature, and for long enough time, but both flavor and éolor are often destroyed by high temperature. A temperature high enough to destroy a spore in one cooking that is sometimes on peas, for instance, would cook the peas to & mush. } Sterilization means | ‘‘to apply heat to destroy microâ€"organisms Las® t old Hbd i a or to hinder power,"" in othe: this tiny vege growing and eat Bacteria which spores can be peratures below e qs SOM LE Om e Sterilization means | ‘‘to apply | neat to destroy microâ€"organisms or to hinder their vegetating power,"‘ in other words to prevent this tiny vegetable form from growing and eating up our foods. Bacteria which do not â€" produce spores can be destroyed at temâ€" peratures below the boiling point, but this point is the safest. Steam heat is better than dry heat of the same temperature because it deâ€" stroys â€" these low forms _ much quicker. * ET 18 onl B C cocutes ‘aliffavrant GpMERCMET Y Different foods require different times and the same food may reâ€" quire a different treatment at one time from what it does another. Manufacturers have learned â€" this to their sorrow. The same fruit grown in different localities â€" also requires different treatment. It is harder to sterilize foods in glass than in tin; a high temperature is required and this must reach the centre and be held there. Though not always so regarded, cleanliness and proper disposition of waste materials are great facâ€" tors in sterilization. Some processes which are good for perfect vegetables or fruit withâ€" out bruises are not good for imâ€" perfect and bruised food. Bruised materials must be carefully sterilâ€" ized. . PR s e 12C0. The weather often has an influâ€" ence on the chemical composition of raw materials just as it does on the finest vegetables in the fields, the best corn spoiling and the best tomatoes cracking open to be mold infested shortly, in the sunshine following rain. 1 & ul in oo L statad IOlOWINB® L@IM All fruits and vegetables should be canned as soon as possible after being picked and not allowed to stand _ exposed. Raw materials piled too closely soon will grow slimy as will parboiled vegetables. 1+ mav be necessary to parboil ve:et:fi;s,_ but if they stand _ °Xxâ€" posed afterward even for twenty minutes bacteria may Ccause them to be bitter. ~Green tomato pickle sometimes is bitter. on this acâ€" s count. S&al::d and ;:reheled tomaâ€"| _ SMML..._._â€"_â€"s~~â€"~ toes shou put in the : r soon as possible, doing on!: EDS is large and of best lots at a time. nt good GRAIN and will A y â€"â€"oâ€"â€"_____ feb prices. o renew Whe MBE . apply the white of:an ef spongeâ€" J s ~ If. a chicken or duck steam < it forwi‘ be 'i'x"fi ‘the outhi “gfifi.fifi Things can sterilize foods, outsides of wire n & ‘oo“ of White j world cannot. see Â¥ fl;e lustre to white of an egg ?Wotth Knowi , in which preâ€" of wire ‘Apply a few drops of paraffin to a cut and it will give instant reâ€" lief and ass‘st in the healing. ‘ Do not throw away one drop of soutr milk. ~Many things can be made with it ‘if qne knows how. Instead of putting the sugar on top of the fruit in pies try putting it on the bottom.crust mixed with a small portion of flour, according to the juciness of the fruit. | â€" Etraw sleeve protectors, similar to those worn by butchers, are very | inexpensive and answer their pur pose admirably, us they. aré light and cool. * F To remove the leaves of a head of lettuce easily, cut‘ out the stalk and plunge the head downward inâ€" to cold water, and after five or ten minutes the water will fll in beâ€" tween the leaves so that they will reaquiy fall apart. To remove red ink stains from table linen, spread freshlyâ€"made mustard over the stain and leave for about half an hour; then I sponge it off and all trace of the| ink will have disappeared. ' When rust is stubborn, it may be |. removed from steel by covering 1 with olive oil for a day, then rubâ€"| bing with a lump of fresh lime and polishing in the ordinary way. At this season of the year it is a good idea to instantly preserve any bit of fruit that is left over from \the table, even if it only flls a |glass; you will find it acceptable \in the winter season. .\ ‘The leftovers of chicken can be \ made into delicious shortcake. Make the biscuit crust the same as i | for oldâ€"fashioned shortcake. | | Spread the chicken between and ; | pour gravy on the whole. â€"| If you have lightâ€"colored blankâ€" t | ets which are too worn to use ON t |your beds, you can make â€"lovely â€"| comforts by placing between satâ€" e |een or pretty silkoline and tacking them _tgéetfiér with worsted KITCHENER NOT HEARTLESS AN INCIDENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. A Reservist Tells How Famous Sol: dier Cut Short His Impriâ€" sonment. "Kitchener a hard man t Well, L suppose he is. But his is such a peculiar type of hardness, that unâ€" less you have been mixed up in elose relations with the man yOu don‘t ‘get ‘him,‘"‘ an old country reservist was speaking. "I know something about Kitâ€"| j chener,‘‘ he continued, "and if yOU | o have a minute to spare I‘ll tell you | c about him. To begin with, a Tommy | e doesn‘t fear Kitchener ; it‘s the offâ€" | ; cers he keeps hustling. If two men | ; appear before Kitchener, _ both wearing his Majesty‘s uniform, they both look alike to him, even if one| of them has got stars on his shoulâ€" ders. Kitchener of Khartoum doesâ€" ] n‘t look at the stars, he just looks | at the men, and before they have spoken, he‘s got them weighed off. "Tll tell you a little story about | Kitchener, and I can tell it to you right, because it so happens that I was one of the principal characters in it. It was one of those times when the field marshal and â€"the \ ‘Tommy‘ divides the honore. | _ ‘In South Africa there were hunâ€" | dreds of men raised in rank, withâ€" lout possessing the qualifications .\ which King‘s regulations insist on â€"\in time of peace. As soon as the , | war was over, they started to send i|all the nonâ€"commissioned â€" officers > | who had been raised in the field, to â€"| school, to qualify for the ranks they i| already held. I was among them, but possessing a good â€" education t| when I enlisted as a raw recruit I â€"| qualified from details for any rank e | I might get before I joined the regiâ€" <â€"| ment. "Our sergeantâ€"major was ont of the finest that ever lived.. He could take one of Gale and Polden‘s drill books and give you every word in it from the preface to the appenâ€" CAE 1w lns ioh Red e B EW PCE ue 3 ie 5o EC dix. It had been the figures that had fooled him, and he had been struck off all regimental duties beâ€" fore the war for six months so that he could qualify. ©Sechool started as soon as the war was over, and at the end of Hay â€" for ~Sale and | Oat Crushing Clash with Sergt.â€"Major. For all Shoes Easy to USE the first school parade the orderly sergeants were paraded at the orâ€" derly room tent to give their school reports. I, of course, was absent for the reason that I didn‘t have to go. He didn‘t know that, and on looking over ‘A‘ Company‘s reâ€" ports found that I, who had been jumped from lance corporal in the field to staff sergeant, was missing. "A bellowing voice from the orâ€" derly tent called me up. 8 4t . NeR OB CGCe CE NOC VCAE woe .. "Why was I not at school! Did‘ I not realize that I had committed a C.O.‘s crime in sbsenting myself ! These were some of the questions that were flung at me by the pomâ€" pous sergeantâ€"major . I answered, ‘Why, sir, before the war broke out I passed for the necessary qualificaâ€" tions to take me up to the best of warrant ranks.‘ ‘The orderly sergeants, conscious | ; of the story that lay behind the serâ€"|, geantâ€"major‘s elevation to warrant rank, gave a quiet snigger. f Injudicious Prank. ‘ | "A few nights later I went out with ‘some of the boys.‘ I must confess that I absorbed more liquid refreshment that night than I would have done had I been going to prayerâ€"meeting later on. "It was fully an hour after ‘lights out‘ had sounded that I fumâ€" bled my way back over the sand to camp. On the way back we pa,ssxxl‘ the Naauport station of the Cape: Government Railway. Outside were piled up some barrels of Almeira grapes. The temptation was too Afstrong. It was but a moment‘s | work to hoist one of them up on my ‘lshoulder and the march back to lcamp began. I with the barrel of ! grapes on my shoulder taking the lead "It was so soon after the war that many of the barbed wire barricades had not been removed and into one of these I stumbled the wire just catching acrogs the face below the eyes. My comments were veheâ€" ment enough to awaken the serâ€" geantâ€"major "i was tried, anga POniE Uup® TV ter, just as the Commanding (’)fl'r‘ cer‘s parade opened out on the sand, with the sun pouring duwn.‘ the guard of the day paraded at the | entrance of the tent, and I was perâ€" emptorily commanded to stand tn\ attention, and march to the middle | of the parade ground, where the regiment had assembled, forming three sides of a square. I was marched into the hollow of the three sides, the adjutant and officers fillâ€" ing the fourth side. Court Martialled. ‘ ©The proceedings of a district court marial,‘ commenced the adjuâ€" tant as the companies were comâ€" {manded to stand to attention, and \the officers drew the swords, ‘Tor \the purpose of trying 6â€" Sergeant |r__ (â€"â€" on the charge of drunkâ€" enness and theft.‘ "As my name was mentioned, I felt my cap taken from my head from behind by the sergeant major, who was being particularly regiâ€" mental on this occasion. 1 had seen other prisoners ‘read out‘ on the ONTA Under Arrest. ‘ALO, N.Y. TORONTO sorry «spectacle square, and mechanically I stepped out bareheaded, two paces ahead of my guards. You know, if you are a good soldier, that even supposing you are hearing your own sentence read out, you wouldn‘t think ‘for 4o o 0B t caus HRC td ce mt en ate i t one moment of doing anything that would cause a hitch in the proceedâ€" ings. It was for this reason that I had made a special study of how to do the right thing at the right moâ€" ment, and particularly I wanted to do it without the necessity of the P "41 wap on delt sergeant do. Heayy Sentence. "To cut a long story short, the adjutant finished up by stating ‘and the sentence of this cgu.rt is That the #uid â€"â€"â€"â€" â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" NC NIW" fined in the military prison at Midâ€" dleburg, Cape Colony, for the perâ€" jod of 112 days.‘ This of course meant that I lost my rank, too. "‘The next day 1 was taken over L. \Aho "namvias iail atb Middl(‘bum. "‘The next day 1 was taken ove* to the canvas jail at Middleburg, and was put to work on the rock pile. I omitted to say that when the proceedings went before Genâ€" eral Lyttelton, then commanding all the troops in Cape Colony, he remitâ€" ted 56 days of my sentence. I had just put in two days on the rock pile, when the â€" Provost Marshal came to me, and, commanding me to stand to attention, said, ‘Left turn, to your _ quarters, quick march.‘ I could not understand this at all, and my wonderment inâ€" creased the next morning when a Cape cart arrived to . convey me across the veldt to my old regiâ€" (mentâ€"with permission to smoke. , Enter Kitchener. 1 , ‘"Again I found myself in the | guard tent, and the next morning the regiment was drawn up in the ;| same formation in which it had ;\ been three mornings â€" previously alwhen I was sentenced. And here is t ) where Kitchener comes in. The ofiâ€" »|cers drew their swords, the comâ€" â€"| panies stood to attention,. again my â€"\hat was lifted from my head as I stepped forward. Then the adjuâ€" tant, started to talk. The same old _{ proceedings were read over, and $ PC o y on old #DQahan. ‘-l-.‘bm: IRAR O CT proceedings were read over, and then: ‘Field Marshal Lord Kitchenâ€" er, commanding all bis Majesty‘s troops in South Africa, has been pleased to remit the entire sentence on Sergeant Eâ€"â€" Câ€"â€"â€", and adds as minute 5, If railroad companies with eatables in their charge are £o foolish as to store goods in the open within a few hundred yards of an on Sergennt Hyâ€"â€"â€" Vâ€"â€"*, NBA MNATT as minute 5, If railroad companies with eatables in their charge are £o foolish as to store goods in the open within a few hundred yards of an infantry regiment, the members of which are not getting any too much to eat, I can only say that they deâ€" serve to lose the said eatables. This nonâ€"commissioned officer must be released immediately. â€" Kitchener, "And then chener is A so he might be in some ©€3 if Kitchener wants me, all to do is to say so. T‘ll fo man who‘s a hundred per man; like he showed me he go Mard Times. "‘We‘re having a har« Jing x jury" ME C8T 30 "How‘s that !‘ "‘The defense won‘t accept single men and the prosecution bars eB married chaps."‘ %, ‘"‘That salesman prevArica100. . "As to how !"‘ "Said this color was fast." "Well, did you ever see & color ) more rapidly when it once startâ€" J to run major telling me what to dumedkd TETVT mitted to say that when edings went before Genâ€" lton, then commanding all : in Cape Colony, he remitâ€" ys of my sentence. I had in two days on the rock n the â€" Provost Marshal me. and. commanding me Will Fight for Him. HES Told the Truth. you tell me that Kitâ€" heartless man . Well, be in some cases, but wants me, all he‘s got ay so. T‘ll follow any . hundred per cent. a prevnricated.” time