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n Hints BA %M % s and Prunâ€" ATION directicn, Christ.â€"I Thou i0 rge more »ack y + amnd â€" LP3 i 4 the 2 xorked 101e ef abtrac C Do. nes And ar was : same e long vening iprons wit rp in ns 1ld be last ¢tred rfect war b ainst race nly fe sil$ Y@ it this still But can that 30 ‘ORn me ack h a the MJ ArC LP ith of De IF Lf it Ag #980% dury, seemed qig Mr. g h dee The morning after the funeral, Howard found Stafford aitting in a darkened room of the great houulo"hll head h& hand, a morning paper lying or- on rable ':.-y',r.- him. E: raised his white ind hagward face, as Howard entered and wok h« fmend‘s hand in #ilence. Howard glanced at the paper and bit his lip. Yoe," eaid stafford, "I have been read 5 this You have seen it?" 1 Howard nodded & A Foolish Young Man: IaPTER XXXILâ€"(Continued) °\, [a€t, 1 can eay deâ€" will not," he replied, in mising way, round the large, en room. with its 9 usds o k " is‘ lew monthé. It realize that the wealth Mp your father did 1 uEts on © shares were held by w1 to nothing toâ€"day ; that they will re that they nover may; t would be too late, °_ father held :mg\:' the claimsâ€"an y ©state. I don‘t know sell understood : I am not a business man. his head. d ked not for meyto say. F"R of the dTmn. mpany and others decision will be ubt," othing?" said Stafâ€" ‘ penniless, I eupâ€" edgewood, it -v"T,- zgewood, its cos .lll:i recalled . the nt for a moment, v‘nhnmg face, which (s aspect of youth &« and hollowe of xt h re aware of the that your father i(,’o"‘ d . T lenee ; hlt‘fl-n our mean As _ know n& of ayl C CCw Td 1. on Stafford‘s arm. > tell you, Staff," he eaid. on ought to knowâ€"but it‘s it _ cablegram contained Zulus had rigen en masse, : time, perhape for years, neme was blocked, if not 1t was the one weak link nd your father was aware taken what measures he against the danger; but nces, were too much for uabble, so silly as to b.l between some squatters and the discontented n& his carefully laid planes, gantic auccess, at its very ragic failure." ment 1 you off ¢ to them his thainl auas ce ty t like a man in a dreamâ€" red. If I have been able to is of his love for me, his ©. There never was such a « voice broke, and he made his hand. “kven now I do it he is gone, that I shall igain. I was so fond ol‘ f him!‘ Why do you h.l-, bad NOWS. anM4 Yo anetas which what it means? I want I have been puttinge aff and "o 00 C DAmIn‘ _E want you [ have been putting off the by day, selfishly; I could untilâ€"until he was buried. t it off no longer; I must Â¥hat was that cablegram rought him _ just beforeâ€" ed to keep from him?" not read any of the newsâ€" d Howard, l’raveli. bracin e taek from which his nu‘ ‘ls thanke. have helped them," he ‘w less of my poor faâ€" !, no one is less capâ€" th them than I. Mr. what to do. It is ver{ me to my assistance. him; I have not seen 1t . and Chaffinch raiged ° of eurprige. Mr. _ Chaffinch. rd! Surely you gravely; it ccemâ€" © too k hie head. not been able to. L have to do anything, scarcely hlaw sewas 42 P.. °C MICd hlfl‘?" he said. [ euppose, ruin for him aked all upon this laat dden reverse came at a nerves were strained to he was excited with the he had achieved. The lden,. the revulsion of tation to despair too It is one of tho ns lendor and S oo it his last bt;inoutz "; "he believed in d ng on it to do anything blow came so _ "nim: Why do you hesiâ€" ad news, and I u?m @k I can‘t bear it? How. hing that you could tell )ve me, or hurt me. Fate very woret blow in takâ€" ‘e, and nothing elae can legram, this that the paâ€" loes it mean?" the table so that he could th a friend‘s loving and me dacam SSR lord ? afford ounde ger, Stafford," he * sure you would : done so. We have ither‘s affairs, and ‘at we cannot give of them. As you Mr. Chaffinch," he read this morning, _and names . Mr. rray here execuâ€" proper and satieâ€" mllurtung;,ly’ ‘.I tate." t is one of the most ‘ich 1 had ever heard still speaking about it There is nothing but ing but regret at the ine which cut him nt of his trim‘rh." ‘peated â€" Stafford. . "It on others. What can hing I can do? I am ot even know whether Iy penniless, or whe ing left that I cnn‘ he ary," said Howard. ng into affaire. Thx have had you wi you off. I knew you Murray and the law head and sighed, de away with the and the lawyer he papers before hie gundn clasped xed on Falconer‘s he asked, in iid Stafford, very passed his band Howard, interroga head upon his hand at Howard. killed him>" he said ‘s it I should the door, and the & livery, came in hie in a low voice. ‘he shock, poor r as soon as «he crushed by .. Stafford wayâ€" d took a chair with a straight concealed . by the others. fortune Or, the e said him ; Falconer ‘arved out of and the three _ brow; the emn countenâ€" brows drawn her. She has pale face at strange and to know if ore a clasped | _ Some few said "Hear! hear!‘" but the coner‘s | rest were silent and watchful. As Gritâ€" | fenbere -rcoko the door opened again and e _ was | Ralgh Falconer entered. He glanced at siness," | Stafford and knit his brows, but dropped ved in | heavily into a chair, and sat with stony A very | face and halfâ€"lowered lids. He had ecarceâ€" eld by | ly taken his seat when Howard entered toâ€"day;| in his quiet fashion, and he went â€" and i1 reâ€"| atood just behind Stafford. 1 you . in ome "I eaid eo,‘didn‘t I?" yelled the man who had put the question. "Order! order"" said Griffenberg. "And I am informed that the 3’: was legal, that it cannot be touchedâ€"â€"" _ "Of course it can‘t. Trust Sir Stephen to look after hie own!" wailed the man. "But I yield it, give it up," said Stafâ€" ford in the éame leval voice. . suddenly | "It is quite true," he said. ‘‘The money â€"a hundred thousand poundsâ€"was given to me. It was given to me when my faâ€" ther"â€"his voice broke for a momentâ€" "was in a position to give it, was solâ€" ~"Sit down! Don‘t answer him," eaid Griffenberg. _ m 3x o a a use is ruined by this company, and we don‘t see why we should be sheared while Lord Higheliffe "n- off with a cool hunâ€" dred thousand. ask the question and I wait for an anewer. Stafford rose, his pale, handsome face looking almost white above hie blaek] frock<coat and black tie. C w PCOAE , mD Amoemee â€" ELE tione." ‘‘Then what‘s he here for?" retorted anâ€" other man, whose loss amounted to a few hundreds, but who was more excited and venomous than these who had many thousands at etake. "He‘s all right. He a lordâ€"a pretty lord!=â€"ard I‘m told tae gentleman he‘s mext to is his fuiuro fatherâ€"inâ€"law, and is rolling in money "Order! order!" called Grifenberg. But the man declined to be silenced. "Oh, it‘e all vory ~well to call ‘Order! But I‘ve a question to ask. I want to know whether it‘s true that Sir Stephen â€"blow ‘Lord Migho!iffe, Sir Stephen‘s @nough for me!â€"made over a hunâ€" m thousand pounds to his son, the young gentleman sitting here. Some of Falconer started from his seat and laid Belle of the Season T w m 00 ARCC CCC PXARETY W be ewallowed upâ€"â€"" ‘"Ask him what Sir Stephen did with all his money!" cried an excited shareâ€" holder. "Order‘" said Mr. Griffenberg. â€""Lord Higheliffe is not here to anewer quesâ€" lef _1 am eure we can tell Lord Highcliffe that we are glad to see him, that we are much o!:l}(«f for his attendance." Lo OaE OR PRRAIIUCC To TVE ed at his ?:la and careworn face. The tall figure in ite deep mourning . drese ailenced them for the moment. grig’enbfl'g signed Stafford to a seat beâ€" side him. 0 EC ce 22CT _ MoTG HMighcliffe | y Tt to had died pra;;.‘i:-lanlly insolvent, a‘ mur | . We have much o be thankful for mur arose, a deep gutturol murmur which | D .the Peace Pohcy that has preâ€" vn\; uomethin:hbfrwe;‘: a hials and a grong | vailed between Canada and and it was while t unpleasant sound | 5 - y was filling the room that Stafford enter-" America since 1817. In t.ha,t‘year o iF it zen D silea 'Great Britain and the U.S. signed e groan, if groan it can be A e t i j fled away, and they all turned and look:| * memorqb]e tr_eaty relative to disâ€" â€"well, if not duped and deceived, the vieâ€" tims of his ecriminal eanguineness and carelessness. Griffenberg, being one of the heavieat losers, was elected to the chair, but beâ€" yond making a statement which told them nothing, he could do little. When he informed them that Lord Highcliffe had died practically insolvent, a murâ€" mur arose, a deep gutturol murmur which was something between a hiss and a groan and it was while this unpleasant sound was filling the room that Stafford entar. (4 d temper; for all| / "\¢"+ TOrty years ago, after the all gloomy and in a bad temper; for all + * of them had lost money and some of them , fighting over these same grounds, ware wellâ€"nigh {,?«izfled by tt,hehcolh\pm gl)are the main factors in the war of the company w was to have made * s 5 their fortunes. They came before noon.f")'da«" The infection that arose the appointed li,our, n:k:e mked. Q(;mue‘;imeg | from dGra»velot»be and Sedan has in undertones, but no m in lo an 4 complaining voices. By one and all the ;pr.ea over all Eul;)-})e, and the dead man was blamed for the, ruin in | fruits are now mng _ reaped. rwt'-ichhhe l;:u; jfl}"""- th;gn. hThd? h;d When the hour of meditation and eft the whole thing in his hands: C T canthar f # ought to have foreseen, ought to h."‘Lamt}_(‘(ymes, after the war ha.s‘ tukelr; Q;Ope: 3"&:1““03-& Tl}eydh:g been | spent its force, let us hope that inâ€" â€"well, if no upi An eceived, e Vicâ€" ead 646 ‘once +3 tim.l of his eriminal eanguineness and :t'er 03{ Z?e}m Co nyr:lveOfshI;?lwfi;:'e} carelessness. rmo Griffenberg, being one of the henvieat’a ‘"Concert of the Peoples‘‘ ever in losers, was elected to the chair, but beâ€"| ,:; is yond making a statement which told‘t’me and dewote'd to the commonl them nothing, he could do little. When | welfare of mankind. he informad tham i thak Taas wrac.cdn mUTECCT oo ue r y e iime B RAARE â€" OR in the rape of Beléiu}fi776~r6&t want to thinkâ€"to think." fhad s He sank into a chair, when Howard had Br}t&ln found a moral sanction for gone:, and, tried to think jof his future; doing what she had pledged ‘herself ut it was only the pas at rose i i t mind; and it wase not altogether of his to do. A f"ls? step in the dlp]o l{lfl:!her tl&at, h? ;pou.ll;t.hbug td)f-ldl,-n :d“ g"wj O:l t‘?l“sfi!‘;h‘ set the world on 18 sacrifice of himeelf, he had sacri c re, and the t now is practisoauy | her. And Fate had uniehed him for him * wesk forced treachery. He sat, with his head | f0r €xistence on the part of Gerâ€" n hlis :ands.blul:i ho:!u, recallingh tho;e,m»any and Austria. That no one oveâ€"lit ours beside the S‘r?flm, when @ i had looked into her eyes, andâ€"yee, kise. | 40 has a l"l@ht to bear the t'oro.h hed her z’mefi li}mh Now, what ahbankn;lpt 511(]1 start such a quenchless fire is e wae! His father, his @weetheart, his a lesson most obvious Civil law wealthâ€"all had been taken from him. s + y He did not think of Maude. in Europe is paralyzed and marâ€" past o ie tial law holds the boards. Thus CHAPTER XXXII barbarism takes its revenge. There At noon the following day there wae a|Can be no security even in de'n.)(?- )arlt;e :!een'gg a6 (luoucestfir Houae.w'l'heie cracy as long as absolutism or miliâ€" gather the tons, aron irsch, j 1 H + Griffenberg, and the titled and untitled tarism grevm.].s « The v1ctory of the folk who badbbeenh:om;erne%inh Sir Steâ€" on}? nation and the defeat of the phen Orme‘s big scheme. And t ey were | other, all gloon‘l.y‘and in a bad temper; for allj‘:F_LLr fiorty ye_aars AgO, after the mm e io w e Pn . He sank into a chair, when Howard had gone, and tried to think of his future; but it wae only the past that rose to his mind; and it wase not altogether of his father that he thought, but ofâ€"lda. In his sacrifice of himeelf, he had sacrificed her. And Fate had puniched him for him forceed treachery. }& sat, with his head in his hands, for hours, recalling those loveâ€"lit hours beside the stream, when he had looked into her eyes, and â€"yea, kiseâ€" ed her sweet li’u. Now, what a bankrupt he wae! His father, his @®weetheart, his wealthâ€"all had been taken from him. He did not think of Maude. C Pnd inb aprtcainines"> phidein AiP is S Witlint / "Leave me now, Howard," he said want to thinkâ€"to think." for a moment or two, then he said: "Howard, will you send my horees to Tattersall‘«? And the yacht to the agent‘s, !or lfilo? g'here is nothing elee, I think. t EC C OE EPRTOTT CS MENTCHYT They murmured a negative, and Stafâ€" ford, begging to be excused, left the room, gigning to Howard to follow him. He did not mean it. but his manner, in the abstraction of his grief, was as lordly as if he had aueended‘ to an earldom of five centuries. When they had got back to the little darkened room in which he had sat since his father‘s death, Stafford turned to Howard: "At what time and place is this meetâ€" ing toâ€"morrow, Howard?" he asked. | V"At Gloucester House, Broad Street. Noon." Stafford nodded, and was loet in thought for a moment or two, then he said â€" ‘"‘There is no occasion," began Mr.s Chatâ€" finch. "I need scarcel say that the bank will honor your lonLhip'a cheques . for any amount." "Please get rid of this houee as ecoon as possible," said Stafford. He rose as he lp:lxe. "You will remain to lunch?" 1 "No need to trouble about that, my lord. There will be sufficient at the bank to pay such emall claime. Your lordâ€" ship will keep the house on ?" Stafford looged up with a eudden energy. ‘"No," he said; "not a moment longer than is necessary. I shall return to my old _roome." D DOS.0CT PMTZ WUT the native rininc,. an Bouth African omp: Stafford ecarcely |] thinking of his fath and care for his eo of bereavement ahot "Very wise," said ) "Whatever happens, safe, high and dry Sue{nl_ly invested, t] "It wase a very wise provision," eaid Mr. Chaffinch, approvingly. "And dieâ€" tinctly one I ‘should have recommended ; but Sir Stephenâ€"Lord Hichclmevâ€"dxd_ it of his own accord. He was a farâ€"seeing m_:nfi t'udl g:e wa:‘ aware _that lonnlhlo might fail him, t t it was necessary he ehould place you, my lord, out of danger. I can well believe that, even at that time, he SAW the Dneerago comine awa mak ced Stafford whook his head sign of relfef. tha anlas as Bhe iy.000,0000%, 420 CVINCOd NO vign of relfef, the color did not rise to his face, and his eyes were still fixed on Falconer. thousang .\__\"% _ & ©ft of one hundred thousand pounds," said Mr. Falconer. ‘"Which deed, bei made when he was quite solvent, e.nn&.be upset, The money miue Dlaced in trust, and is quite bgl“’“d the reach of the creditors," said Mr. Chatâ€" finch. "We thought you were aware of this, my lord." * Lt 20 C Ae 0 in your favor, a thou!.n‘ pounds," a pause his hand He evinced no k .| _ Negotiations having in view the dismantling of hostile fleets on the Great Lakes, and hostile forts on | both sides of the boundary, were ) begun by the U.S. immediately folâ€" i[Lowing the close of the second war | with Ei#zland, and were concluded 1!,',, April, 1817, by an agreement, | which is yet in force, completely neutralizing our mutual boundary. )As a result of this treaty it would be difficult to sum up the saving in ’military equipment and armaments which both countries have been | spared. Here is a lesson our yImPt HImbIn and the U.S. signed a memorable treaty relative to disâ€" armament on the Great Lakes and all along the boundary line. ihe voice of reason was comâ€" pletely silenced ; war must be deâ€" clared on the instant or it woul:d not be made. Those who made it gave no itime for protest, and no fol;ce was at hand to stop them. _ The 300,000,000 of people of Europe c vent it. They have but for ithe past ter trend has been towsa the warâ€"makers contr chinery. ComInet, without hate except such | as it engenders., Strictly speaking, it is more of a holocaust than a civilized war, the glaughter surâ€" passes anything in the world‘s hisâ€" tory, and yet the world knows but [ ittle of the detaily op the terrible conflict going on behind the cenâ€" sorship curtain in France. It is all the work of the sabreâ€"rattlers and those ambitious fiends who trade in war and connived at it in the counâ€" cils of Europe, ’ It seems the inevitable culminaâ€" tion of those accursed and degradâ€" ed notions of ithe nations respectâ€" ing the ‘"Balance of Power‘"‘ and the "Armed Peace," resulting in hidden deals of what they call diâ€"| plomacy, under which guise they prepare for war while outwardly | proslaiming a disinterested peace.| n C IM T as it engenders it is more of â€" civilized war. The present dreagiful European war is a senseless, aimless, soulless conflict, without hib sensak callnlw C TTD PHRE poor @a@,,q "_Tan who had at poor S:afford, and before it had ce to ringx through the crowded room, Stafâ€" ford had made his way out: Mr. Falconer caught him by the arm as he wase going _down the stairs. £i.. "Do you know what you have done? he demanded in his dry, harsh. voice. ‘"You have made yourself a pauper. _ Btafford stopped and looked at him with & dull, vacant Kaze. e _A pauper‘‘ repeated Falconer, h.unklly‘; w d;lrreuy.’.' said Stafford, wearily, . _ "And you @ peer‘" eaid Falconer, )uag face a brickâ€"dust red. "Do you think . they will have any pity? â€" Not they.' They‘ll take you at your word. They‘l1 | have every penny ! Kyow do you mean to | live? You, Lord Wishalia.» Lo 9m e Another che ed by the va poor S:afford t0 Fing thw.. uie n er‘y EtC a of, , " 828 with a¢ much o-otm as a City man may permit himself. "Lord fighcl!floulzu beh;ved like a gentleman, & no man, can assure you that his sacrifice is & real one. The deed of fm which he has eurrendered is a perâ€" ecl.l{ sound one, and could not have been toufi od., A!: honor toi him for his eurâ€" render, for his enerosity . Another cheer 's.roaeâ€"-an.in it was startâ€" ed by the ya., _ 060â€"@gain it THE FOLLY oF THIS By Chas. M. Bice, Denve: Wt gize it up. relingmeh ito i ve up, u e }E‘_.‘-‘E’ hqpch. .“?.-_ seulri, ... ‘"Don‘t be & thick voice. 225 2790, 000 Of â€"loving of Europe oouid not preâ€" They have postponed it, the past ten years the as been towards war, for makers controlled the maâ€" Ts aa ns la ul 2C Lord® Highcliffe!" (To be continued.) BX e uCC um-uy.l Stafford, wearily, | " eaid Falconer, his | . .‘"Do you think | _ pity? _ Not they.l Kyom' word., They‘ll ow do you mean to | ; De-m}er, Colo " he whispered in his WAR. he eaid in ‘"‘Begorra, if a eat should have kitâ€" tens in the oven. would you call them biscuits." An Irishman (and a Frenchman were disputing over the nationality of a friend of theirs. "I say," said the Frenchman, "that he was born in France ; therefore he is a Frenchâ€" man.‘"" ‘‘Not at all,‘"‘ said Pat. I TeasW#erâ€"Who can tell me how many teeth a human being has ? Bright Pupilâ€"A mouthful, miss. Parishioner (to departing minisâ€" ter)â€"We‘re all very sorrty to lose you, Mr. Foodle. Mr. Foodle (moâ€" destly)â€"Never mind, Mrs. Toodle. I‘ve no doubt you will get a better man next time. Pari-nhionerâ€"Ah, no, Mr. Foodle. That‘s just what the last minister said when he left. h 0 e a s n alone to blame j C es coqe uy c c coet 09y Te o1 Te ; |fearful condition of the German f Commissary, and its near approach |to a total collapse. It seems corâ€" ‘|tain that Germany could not mainâ€" ‘|tain a long drawn out war, and | that her greatest weakness is in ; ker scanty food supplies. But the | Chauvinistic demagogues will not ‘|see or realize this until many useâ€" |ful lives are snuffed out and much blood is spilled. Vainglorious in their hero worship of the warâ€"god, they shut their eyes and continue on in the hopeless strife. Howâ€" ever large the circle, nature ever returns into her own matrix. The elements become mineral, the minâ€" eral advances to the vegetable, the vegetable feeds the animal , but the animal at death is pulled back again to elemental conditions. Out of chaos comes the cosmos, but it is | sure to return again,. Out of warâ€" ‘ ring and downâ€"trodden principaliâ€" |. ties Germany was formed, and| forty years have welded the union, ,( but toâ€"day disintegrating signs are y conspicuous that portend its utter a dissolution. We grieve to lose the Germany of science, of art, and of | philosophy, but she has herselt | sY 04 s Denver, Colo PV CeS and her acts were abways |for peace; and just because she has asserted a higher virtue and a |more unselfish purpose than other |European nations, and because she |has been foremost in deploring war and _ condemning _ militarism. a greater circumspection and a more conservative attitude have been de-J manded and may be expected of her. She has already shown a willâ€" ingness to consider terms of peace as soon as the proper moment arâ€" rives, but it seems the other conâ€" tending nations are not yet ready, though, in all probability, they will be soon, for German , shut off from the world‘s f()o(’] supply by the British Navy, and having for ’many years discouraged agriculture | to build up her manufactures, will| soon be starved into submission.| Already we hear of her half famâ€"| ished soldiers, taken as prisoners | . of war, and whose tongues, no | ; lfimg‘er‘ unde'l: restraint, tell of the | . ing nations look to America for the final decisive action, the final help. It is her greatest opportunity, and I am glad that President Wileon is alive to his Godâ€"given duties, and is putting forth every _ endeavor possible to quench the mad war spirit that is driving European eivilization to its utter desbruction.} While England is one of the belliâ€" gerents, she id not voluntarily enâ€" ter the contest, and would giadly have shifted the responsibility ; but it was fight or humiliation and forfeiture of national honor. Her policies and her acts were always for neace : miad inst (hanssas â€"IL . 110° nem all go. ‘The world !lmve no . abiding civilizadion peace without security of prop and life, so long as a war lord ’ mains to uppli; the torch of dest tion. Let us bend every effort sible for a saner, wiser and n patriotic public opinion, and fc public consciénce which will m another great war impossible . May God bless America in her forts to reach out the hand of « ciliation. rhtephnd . MX s it i Ahst Pag l CHe same human policy along her many national boundary lines, The war system must go, and let us not forget, that while we are about certain to crush the German machine, which, perhaps, the arroâ€" gance of rivals has done much to upbuild, the machine will soon rise again unless all the rival machines are swept away with it. l Let them all go. The world can both sides of the border appeared sides e r. ap ;lit.fled;riaimgbrlti_me,q\nd again in 1861 to â€"1871, misunderâ€" standings threatened to embroil the two nations, but in the absence of forts and fleets, and before preâ€" parations for war could be made, the war fever happily subsided and died out entirely. Here we have a practical test of what a mutually agreed disarmament understanding can effect. The history of Euxvqre in 1914, now. being written in the blood of heLohivah-ic and noble sons, would have been spared had she adopted ‘and lived up to the True, in 1837 great masses of the contendâ€" Answered. CHAS. M. BICE out seourity of property o0 long as a war lord re. pply the torch of destrucâ€" us {end every effort posâ€" look to America for the , some agitation on "25¢f and more rion, and for a hich will make impossible . _minâ€"| â€" Beets _ for Garnishing, â€" After , the | thoroughly washing a quart of it the | young beets put them on to cook in again | a covered kettle with cold water to ut of|cover. Add to this a teaspoonful it 18| of salt and two tablespoons of vineâ€" YAr | gar. Cook for one hour or perhaps 1P@li: | fop minutes longer, if it seems neâ€" and cessary. If gently and properly "'O“"cooked it will not be necessary to t 8P add water. When the beets are “t't'fir done skim them out into cold water Sdt’o? and rub off the skins. Then put :rself them into a stone jarâ€"glass â€"will doâ€"and strain over them the liquid T in which they boiled. The vinegar * _ |keeps this from turning _ dark. Spread two tablespoons of powderâ€" ed sugar on the beets, cover, and put away in a cold place. These how | are much better for salads and ! garnishing than are pickled beets|â€" iss. â€"| and more wholesome . 4 Beet _ Relish. â€" Tywo quarts of niSâ€"| beets, measured after they have l0se | been boiled and chopped ; one large moâ€"| head of cabbage, chopped before || dle.| cooking so that it will cook more tter | quickly ; three green peppers chopâ€" Ah, | ped ; four cups of sugar, one tableâ€" hat | spoon black pepper, salt to t.ute,,‘ eft. | vinegar to cover. Z her efâ€" of conâ€" Indian Relishes, â€" Twelve sour anvles, six green tomatoes, two onions, one cup raisins, two green peppers. ‘Chop the tomatoes and drain ; then chop the other ingreâ€" dients, and add two cups of sugar, two tablespoons of salt, one quart of vinegar, and cook a}] together until all ingredients are tender. * i Roquefort Dressing, _ Mala (.| UWreen or Red Fried Tomatoes.â€" If the red ones are used take off the skin, cut in oneâ€"third inch â€" slices, dip in beaten °e8g seasoned with salt and pepper, and then in white corn meal. Fry in bacon fat or butâ€" ter. With the meal the bacon fat is preferable. & saucepan, add whatever vegeâ€" tables you choose for seasoning â€" an onion and carrot at any rate, and perhaps some tomato, herbs, etc.â€"and then add a little butter and water to cover, or, better, some meat stock. Cook over a genâ€" tle fire. Seraps of meat may be addâ€" ed to this stew. The lettuce withâ€" out any stuffing, but rolled into balls,*may be cooked after blanchâ€" ing with some agreeable flavoring of vegetables and perhaps an herb bouquet. Green or Red Fried Tomatoes.â€" Te us & or in four parts, lengthwise of the leaves. Fill each of these parts with a tablespoon or so of some dainty and well seasoned chopped meat or a vegetable mince. 1 Roll up ama ai1 Â¥o 0nc 9c un . 2 ‘ n on Emm ECTTHT Illl and tie. Put rolls close together in | _ Cueumbers in Butter.â€"Peel and Jcut cucumbers into pieces an inch and a half or two inches long, take out the seeds and the threadyâ€"part, cook for about fifteen minutes in boiling salted water, drain, then put into a saucepan with a piece of butter and simmer for some minâ€" utes. Serve with chopped parsley. Cooked Lettuce. â€" The French have nearly a hundred varieties of cooked lettuce. It is a pretty sort of cooking, and cooked lettuce dishes can ibhe made ornamental, W ash thoroughly after taking off all the coarsest leaves or those which are in any way â€" defective. Blanch in boiling salted water, boiling from five to seven minutes, then drain. Lay each head or bunch on a board and split it. If the ;heads are large they may be cut| d | © Tested Recipes. *| â€"Cooking Lima Beans.â€"If the lima Y | beans are the â€"1 bit wilted, = when they are li;::y‘ to be hetser, 6 firft‘ cook them for five minutes in » | boiling saited water,. then drain 1| and put into freshly boiling water, > | and add a small piece ofâ€" butter ;| when they are half done. Some people consider their flavor imâ€" t.l proved by cooking them with a j sprig of mint, which should be reâ€" | moved when they are served. They | should not be iboiled violently, but | just simmered and may be beautiâ€" |dfully cooked in a chafing dish. In | order to ibe savory they should have about a cup of liquid to a box of beans around them when they are done. Pour this on to a tableâ€" spoon each of butter and flour cookâ€" , ed together, then cook the beans in f this gravy for a few minutes, addâ€"|â€" ing some fresh butter at the last|! minute. There is no vegetable that is more improved by a generous use |! of butter than the lima bean . t Left Over Lima Beans, â€" Mash | 5 the beans, put them through a|‘ sieve, and use them for thickening | . any cream soup. This bean puree i] with water in which celery is cookâ€" ed, with some butter and milk, | makes an excellent soup if put toâ€"|" gether with discretion. | TORONTO 3 NN . 7 ec mistrc vein, gradually dwindling inâ€" to a sad diminuendo, and telling the whole story of a~courtship and a zeverance. son working in the north of Engâ€" land, who had refrained from menâ€" tioning his gift in his letter. and the mother, being nearly blind. had not noticed the orders when pulling out the letter. A bundle of love letters, delicateâ€" Iy scented and tied with blue ribbon, was discovered among a quantity of colored paper used for fancy deâ€" cor&t‘ieons. They were :mn little epistles, starting in a right, i-l mistic vein. zgradnally dwind!ingp:t., En C0 0C CORORARCAT POg‘vIicâ€" on the enâ€" velope, and by this means the postal orders were returned to the owner, who proved to be an aged woman. The money had been sent her by a sohd workin‘_g in.the north of Engâ€" e e m t m sn C But the most frequent source of piquant discoveries is discarded enâ€" velopes. In an East London store the back of an envelope was torn while the manager was nandling it, and three postal orders for one pound each fell out. The name and address were still legible on the enâ€" t The wastepaper trade is as full of surprises as a luckyâ€"bag at a baâ€" zaar, says the London Standard. A diamond ring was recently Diamonds _ and Wilis Found in **Wastepaper,* For ham pie use equal parts of chopped ‘ham and chopped _ liver, boiled. Use the fat as well as the lean part of the ham. Season with salt and pepper and a little finely chopped parsley. Moisten with stock, or with water in which the liver was boiled. Puat in a baking dish, and cover with a layer of mashed potatoes. Brown and serve hot. Lo improve the flavor of curâ€" rants and sultamnas which are to be used for cakes, place them in a bow!, pour boiling water over them and leave to soak all night. The fruit swells to twice its former size, but §hould be drained from the waâ€" ter and dried in the oven before beâ€" ing adt:led to the other ingredients. In reheating meat, do not allow it to recook. Merely let it get steaming hot. _ Otherwise fibres will be toughened and made inâ€" digestible, and nutriment lost. Rauces and gravies should be made first, and meat added. _ _ Peel some old potatoes, boil them with a piece of mint and some salt ; when done beat them with a fork, add a little penper, a piece of butâ€" ter and a few drops of lemonâ€"juice ; mix thoroughly ; this greatly imâ€" proves old potatoes. An ounce of soda, two ounces of soft soap, a pennyworth of fuller‘s earth, dissolved in a pint and a half of water, makes an cxcellent mixture to clean leaden sinks. A little laid on a flanne! will be enough each time. 4o prevent new shoes from pinchâ€" ing lay a cloth moistened in hot water across the place where the pressure is most felt, changing the cloth as soon as it becomes cool. This will make the leather shape itâ€" self to the foot. To keep water cool and fresh fill a jug early in the day, place a wet linen cloth round it, and stand it in a cool, shallow place in the pantry. This will be much cooler than drawing from a tap and using at once. Don‘t forget to bathe the neck and arms in a little milk the night before going to a dance. This is grandmother‘s remedy, which never fails to make the skin look smooth and white. A smoky lamp is often the result of a clogged and dirty wick. Take the burner out of the lamp and soak it in a little strong washing soda and hot water, then dry thorâ€" oughly, and the lamp will burn much better. When you were cutting new bread for the table did you ever try putâ€" ting the knife in hot water? Try it sometimes and see if you don‘t find it cuts much easier. Don‘t forget to give your hair at ieast a hundred strokes with a brush morning and evening. â€" Proâ€" per brushing does away with the necessity for too frequent washing. An effectual way to remove all taste from dripping when using it for cake is to squeeze the juice of a lemon over it and beat it to a‘ cream ; it also makes the (‘a'ke‘ lighter. ROMANCE IN RAGs 16 in SCnsmine will fall on it. It will leave it clean and white. This is just the time of the year to cultivate a taste for porridge. Try it for breakfast twice a week. It is more economical and â€" more strengthening than bacon. An easy method of _ weighing treacle is to scatter a little flour on the scale, and the treacle rolls off without® sticking. Boiled puddings should never be turned out the moment they are done. ‘They: are very likely to break if this is done. If vegetables are overcooked their texture toughens, their flayâ€" or is somewhat destroyed, and they are not so digestible. J To take out a scorch from a shirt â€" front or any article lay it where the sunshine will fall on it. It will leave it clean and white. ‘ gar Household Hints Rank Hypocrisy. ‘‘The best of us have to be hypoâ€" crites at some time." “la”' M’::’ doling with my +« '“ mn ® ' neighbor over the loss of ugq; ophone. It got smashed last 7 Mrs. Wye‘â€"Well, one can‘t e~â€" pect all the virtues for $4 a week, you know. Mrs. Ekeâ€"But I nav kx Mrs. Exe (complainingly) â€" Such servants as we get nowadays | SR e mt e d . 231, INON+ sieur," he cried, "I would rather be dead with them than not know whether' they are dead or alive or repast. Then they shot him. The third man was a refugee from Malâ€" ines who had been separated a week before by the Germans from his wife and two children. ‘"‘Ah, monâ€" sieur," he cried. "I would ratha» where they are." kn "u q o3 _ _/ y dier nees OOR waoll to a tree by German officers and told he would be shot. First, howâ€" ever, they wanted dinner, and dined around the tree, taunting their victim with offers of chamâ€" pagne, till they had finished their chest, he would be allowed to take it to England. A second man described with glitâ€" tering eyes how his dearest lnm a youth of twenty, had been ti There is a woman living in my hoâ€" tel, says a London Daily Mail corâ€" respondent, whom I have watched for a week. Her husband was a eaptain of infantry. While he was away on duty she would sit sewing in the salon with a sorrowing face as she wondered what was happenâ€" ing to her husband out in the firâ€" ing line. When she heard his step, the gloom went and the smile and jokeâ€"it was easy to know with what an effortâ€"replaced it. The soldier gone, the weary forehoding descended again. After Saturday‘s fight at Termonde, she came down in deepest black. This morning I saw a Red Cross on her sleeve. This is no xception ; that captain‘s wife has a thousand peers in Antâ€" werp. The women of Antwerp become more wonderful every day. While their men live they comfort and cheer them; when they are dead they put the Red Cross band on their mourning and stifle their grief to minister to the dear ones of others. Tend Heroically to the Woundedâ€" Their Dear Ones Dead. ’ The finding of wills among rubâ€" bish is more easily understood. Many probate suits are caused by the action of eccentric old people secreting their wills, and several cases are recorded of these docuâ€" ments being picked out from among waste materials, Marriage certifhâ€" cates, too, have a habit of turning up in unexpected places., | things among wastepaper there is a dozen among old clothes. Romance in rags! People put a purse or a document in a pocket, and, discardâ€" ing the garment, forget all about it. In this way a budding author reâ€" cently lost a manuscript on which he had pinned high hopes. While reâ€" vising it he was disturbed by a visiâ€" tor, and placed the valuable docuâ€" ment in an inside pocket of his old working coat: The next morning his housekeeper sold this shabby coat to an "old clo‘ ‘‘ man with the manuscript still in the pocket. Forâ€" tunately the housekeeper knew the man to whom she had sold the coat, and the writer was able to recover his manusrript, THE WOMEX oFr axtwEerp Exeâ€"But I pay #5 That‘s Different. t frie hoers and irst, howâ€" ner, .,nd taun taunting 45