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Is) Q / Jtl Some retiree nu some does not-one to find out. Buttermilk with I table of freshly grated horseradish move freckles. one-halt pound sweetbreads, one-Ulf 1 pound lean ham, three eggs, one cup! white breadcrumbs, three tablespoons} cream, one tablespoon salt, one-half' teaspoon pepper, one teaspoon onion juice and one cup of canned mush- rooms. cut in pieces. Put all of the meat through the food chopper twice, then add all of the other ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pack in a bread pan. cover with buttered paper and; bake in a brisk oven for one hour. Uncover and cook mic-half hour longq " a--..- “u .. . i. . Uncover and cook one-half i or. Serve cold, sliced thin. . ,7. "u..." ur "It" paste. Bake in a good oven for three quarters of an hour. Mixed Meat Loar.-Two pounds lean veal, one-half pound pork tenderloin, [proud a layer of cabbage in the cus- ',erole, then a layer of sauce and sprinkle over it some grated cheese. Continue these layers, finishine off the top of the dish with several table, spoonfuls of bread crumbs. Bake for 2tl minutes and serve in the casserole. Children are very fond of molasses pie. To make this you will need 1 lb. of ttour, ll, lb. of breadcrumbs, lk lb. of molasses, 6 ozs. of dripping, juice oi one lemon, and one teaspoonful of balor,p: powder. Make a paste of the ttouc, dripping, baking powder, a little water, then line a greased pie-dish with part of it; warm the molasses in " basin and work in the breadcrumbs gradually; lastly add the lemon juice. i'hen spread a layer of this mixture in the paste, now put another layer of paste, then more molasses, repeating till the dish is full, but finish up with When pans are scorched, use men lay on the covers and bake. This is a nice way to cook cabbage: Chop one head of cabbage fine, clean it thornughly and boil in salted water it." "...'0 minutes. When cooked spread it out to dry. Make half a pint of putrit'e with butter, milk and tiour. ./....‘....u. "lacuna reunite tour cup-i run of flour, four tablespoonfuls of; baking powder, a teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoontuls of men dripping»; half a cup of milk and water to can». plete the wetting to the ordinary My; wit consistency. Roll the dough thin,‘ like pie crust; cut, spread half the; rounds with butter, add a fUlintt of 1 tw-"ttrtoneu, finely ground, cooked ham; then lay on the covers and bake. l This is a nice way to cook cabbage: ; "imp one head of cabbage fines, 01mm _.--_- - mam"... MM meat very tine. To each awful will one saltspoonlul of salt and one and one-half saltspoonfuls of pepper, n pinch of Summer savory and one- hutf cupful of stock. Put into a hub ine dish and cover with a crust of numbed potatoes. Brush over the top mm milk and bake in an oven to a crohlen brown. I so Yonge Street makes a delicious“ iriiiii" iii; day. Horne and set sway for Inc. A tttblespoonfut in 1 glass of water Lemon tbmp.--agrnu the rind of six lemons into the juice of 12 and let it stand over night. Make a thick syrup, using 12 cups of white sugar. When it is quite cool strain the lemm juice into it, squeezing some of the oil from the meted rind. Battle and set Iwnv for nu A _ Vfi- .. - we"! tnucv late icing. Set on plate surrounda with paper pumpkin leaves. To main cider sherbet. sweeten cider to tub and add a little, lemon juice. Whel frnzen to I mush add one quart erean to every quart of cider used and " ish freezing. o '"t.rneee, with pulp temov v.hirh to serve the tshertret marking faces with different I sinns on outside of Iii-n uni“- DOMi NION OF CANADA LOAN Sandwich biteuits require four - _..-_ “all I ture of egg, well iriia I with a little milk and fry, will {all-i; good. Tested My... Cut stale bread into th Put two piece- together I cheese between them; dip i ture of etc. an" '-., - We will issue I clrculu' f will receive subscription: in desired, delivering the bond; price. If you an interested in the success us immediately. T -N.-_q-r - - l unarusn aJuV.-HU0nrttl. but we rel M . " . t The Kru ho nearer and neuter. and uali ya, My on the Immutable flavour Finally he ad',',',,', ‘upright on the rank, q . t, mateymn apermanent cugtow. coarse gnu and grinned at Monty, We wilt even one, to give this first trial if :whose leap buds were outstretched Ott will h ee §towards hum. He fumbled for a mo- y drop " a postal to Toronto. Bill" ment in his, lo.iryelotty.. Th_en_ he, drew Canada Btyy..i..., Prrporaiion "Make Over" Meat Pe-chop This Advertisement Household Hints. LIMITED . i - - GovWt.NytEx'r & MUNICIPAL DEBENTtiREs About the Household pump]: 'th"ttrrrtotrvturstra-, err, hailing and I must experiment I tnblospoonful --UBe cups made Pulp removed in 'rosted no thin pieces. ther with (rated ; dip into a mix- firyulnr_fully explaining this Loan and will re- and thinned " in your name, dr 9therirhre,Gi; bonds to you It the Government', hot fi rat A bachelor who reads the marriage notices isn't satisfied with his lot. "That's quite right, sir. No false pretense about that. I said it would restore your head to its original con- dition, and you know, sir, most of us are born' bald." Work? No. It's taken off what little hair I used to have, and I am as he“ ft' the pavement now." You remember selling me some hair-restorer when I called the other day to get shaved, you hoary-headed old thief t" roared the indignant customer. "You sold it under false pretenses, sir. You said it would re- store my head to its original condi- tion." "Well, didn't it work t" asked the barber. , naming and massage. i; Here is an excellent way to kill ,‘moths in carpets which never fails. ' i Wring a coarse crash towel out of F water and spread it smoothly on the , carpet; iron it dry with a good hot , iron, repeating the operation on all parts of the carpet infested with the L moths. There is no need to press hard, and neither the pile nor the col- or of the carpet will be injured, and the moths will be destroyed by the heat and steam. l It is appalling to see the amount of l succulent juices which many cooks send swirling down the sink. The wa- I ter in which vegetables are cooked' should always be saved. Onion water,’ for instance, gives the necessary flaw, or to a tomato or vegetable soup. Nol matter how carefully we boil ourl foods, more or less of the flavor and: mineral salts are lost. Cabbage and, eaulifhswer waters make a good found- 1 ation for a cream or vegetable soup) without meat. Only potato water and / the first water in which old beans are, cooked are not desirable. The last water in which beans are boiled, be-,, fore they are baked, may be seasoned 1 [ with tomato and served as a bean 'i, bouillon. When you boil rice use,l plenty of water and save it, then use} it to add nutriment to a vetretabley soup, or boil it down and make blanc >1 mange of it. ll t To preserve rubber heels, scrape all I grit and mud out of them when clean- , ing the boots. Grit and small stones I wear out the rubber as it revolves on h the screw, making it fall off long be- , fore the heel is really worn out. _ The best way to warm up a Joint _ of meat is to wrap it in thickly greas- ed paper and keep it covered while in the oven. By having it covered thus, the steam will prevent the meat fromi Ibecoming hard and dry, and the joint: twill get hot through in less time. , When a child has the slightest tend.. , ency to crooked legs he should have a Ivery special treatment. His bones are too soft, and he needs more lime lid iron. He should be taken off his feet at once, and have salt water bathing and massage. If the piano keys are washed with a soft flannel dipped in alcohol they will retain their color and not grow yellow as they do when wazhed with water. To wash anything that is greasy, use hot soda water. The alkali turns the grease into soap, which will do its own cleaning. Putting a coat of varnish on the linoleum yearly will make it last for years, and look bright end new. A little salt added when cooking sour fruits greatly reduces the quan- tity of sugar required for sweetening. It is best to give linens a long soak- ing before washing. If this method is followed stains will wash out eas-{ ily. Figs are nice soaked r1813mm) juice, stuffed with murahmnllow or nuts, and rolled in powdered sugar. The good homkeepei' {time go over her supplies ovary day. By this mens she canovoid food spoiling. If you use euditintr powder for saucepan: be lure to wash out the Pe.. afterward .with cold water. To tstiff wire whisk to get the burned foird off the bottom. TI of this Loan write Toronto, Ont No Swindle. ', On the summit of a little knoll, with a pipe between his teeth and his back against a palrp-tree, Trent was lounging away an hour of the breathless night. Usually a sound sleeper, the wakefulness, which had pursued him from the instant his head had touched his travelling pil- l low an hour or so back, was not only an uncommon occurrence, but one ‘which seemed proof against any ef- ‘ifort on his part to overcome it. So .he had risen and stolen away from the little camp where his companions ' lay wrapped in heavy slumber.' They had closed their eyes in a dense and ‘tropical darkntssL.so thick indeed that they had lit a fire, notwithstand- ing the stifling heat, to remove that ‘vague feeling of oppression which ;chaos so complete seemed to bring iwith it. Its embers burnt now with ,a faint and sickly glare in the full; Trent went thoughtfully back to the town. He had committed himself now to a definite course of action. He had made up his mind to take Monty back with him to England and face the consequences. promptly, "we will. We'll 'do our honest best." Trent laid a bank-note on the table. "Just to show Pm in earnest," he remarked, rising. "I shall be up- country for about a month. Look after the old chap well, and you'll neser regret it.", 2 "You cannot be domed," Trent said. "l am satisfieu that you knew nothing about it. Now I am going to let you into a secret. Monty is a rich man if he had his rights) and I want to help him to them. I shall take him back to England with me, but I ean't leave for a week or so. If you can keep him till then, and have some one to watch him day and night, I'll give your husband a hundred pounds for your work here, and build you a church. It's all right! Don't look as though I were mad. Pm a very rich man, that's all, and I shan’t miss the money, but I want to feel that Monty is safe till I can Mart hgckwto England. Will you undertake t is . , F "I am very sorry indeed to hear this," the woman said, "and I am sure my husband will be too. He will feel that, in a certain measure, he has be.. trayed Captain Francis’s trust. At the same time we neither of us had any idea that anything of this sort was to be feared, or would have kept watch." I caught a Kru rp0TiriirTrCr' him Ein this afternoon. Evidently it has been a Eggular thing." "He has no need," Trent answered bitterly. "There are men in Aura who want him dead, and they have Ewen dging their Jsest,to. hu.rrrhirn oe. "How can thaiiee." she exclaimed. "He has absolutely no money and he ney_e_r goes off our land." The woman was obviously honest in [yer amazement. "It was a pity," Trent said, "that you could not have watched him a little more out of it. Why, his brain is ggdden with drink now." "Captain Francis hinted as much," the woman answered. "That was one reason why he wanted to leave him with us. He knew that we did not alioyv anything. in the, house." ard t"' ed it. He eats scarcely anything, and we consider that the little work he has done.has about paid us for kcggipg him.", "bid" you know," Trent asked blu.tt.ly, "that he had been a drunk- _, -.. ...... "ya-.7 unylvbalulh "Pm sorry to trouble you, Mrs. Price," Trent said, plunging at once ( into his subject, "but I want to speak to you about this old man, Monty. You’ve had him some time now, haven't you'."' "About four years," she answered. "Captain Francis left him with my husband; I believe he found him in one of the villages inland, a prisoner. Trent nodded, "He left you a little money with him, I believe." The woman smiled faintly. "it was very little," she said, "but such as it was, we have never touch- _ "Very good," he said. "Now listen to me. If ever I catch you round here again or anywhere else on such an errand, I'll shoot you like a dog. Now be off." The boy bounded away with a broad grin of relief. Trent walked up to the house and asked for the mission- ary's wife. She came to him soon, in what was called the parlor. A frail, anemic-looking woman with tired eyeiand weary expression. "Most every day, massa--when him Mr. Price away." Trent nodded. "Very good," he said. "Now listen to me. If ever I catch you round here again or anywhere else on such an errand, I'll shoot you like a dog. Nope be off." __..._. -..-...........uu v1 unnauah "How often have you been coming here on this errand ?” he asked, stern- ly. - “Massa, I tell! Massa 00m Sam, he send me."' "And what is the stuff '." "Hamburtrh gin, massa! very good liquor! Please, massa, point him pis- tol the other way." Trent tbok "d the flask, smelt its contents, and t rew it away with a "tle, exclamation of disgust. "The next time," Trent said coolly, "I shall fire at you instead of at the tree. Remember I have lived out here and I know all about you and your kind. You can understand me very well if you choose, and you've Just got to. Who sends you here with that vile stuffy' The Kru boy, shrinking away from the dark muzzle of that motionless revolver was spellbound with fear. He shook his head. "No understand." There was a flash of light, a puff of smoke, a loud report. The Kru boy fell forward on his face howling with fear. Monty ran off towards the houie mumbling to himself. stuff 2" and?" he iusiiiCtstisravrTiiriii1 bet answer me." out a long bottle and handed it up. Trent stepped out as Monty's nervous fingers were fumbling with the cork. He made a grab at the boy, who ttlid- ed off like an eel. Instantly he whip- ped out a revolver and covered him. "Come here;" he' cried. The boy shook his head. "No under- stand." '.2P,o sLent T? h,ere with! that Iittha CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER x,XMr.--(Corrt'd). Mood of the Or “In Adventures oi ledgard." By the Author of "What He cont Hon Ypmgn 7 answered WMZTRCHIVES TORONTO GOLDEN KEY 'i, The little party stumbled eagerly after him. In a few moments they were at the camp. Trent roused his companions, packages were hastily undone, and a meal prepared. Seared- ly a word was said or a question ask- ed. One or two of the Kru boys seemed on the verge of insanity~ Francis himself was hysterical and faint. Trent boiled a kettle and made some beef-tea himself. The first mouthful Francis was unable to swal- low. His throat had swollen and his eyes were hideoust bloodshot. Trent, who had seen men before in dire straits, fed him from a spoon and forced brandy between his lips. Certainly, at the time, he never _stop- ped to consider that he was helping back to life the man who in all the) world was most likely to do him ill. i "Bettert" he asked presently. I "Much. What luck to find you! What are you Ifter--troidt" I Trent shook his head. P'Not at present. We're Planning, "of cou;se we can," ed quiekl.v. "This way of stores." ,,n_...-.. ..m AuLE, unu ms clothes hung about him in rags. Evi- dently he was in a terrible plight. When he spoke his voice sounded shrill and cracked. "We are starving men," he said; “carlyou help us t" coma distinguish them more plainly. There were five Kru boys, a native of a tribe which Ln did not recognize, and a European who walked with reel- ing footsteps, and who, it was easy to see, was on the point of exhaustion. Soon they saw him, and a feeble shout greeted his approach. Trent was within hailing distance before he re- cognized the European. Then, with a little exclamation of surprise, he saw that it was Captain Francis. They met face to face in a moment, but Francis never recognized him., His eyes were b)oodshiit, a coarse Ity:! disguised his face, and his ”A. M _‘__ _q ... - l His pipe was nearly out, and a cool- T er breeze was stealing over the plain. :After all, perhaps an hour or so’s sleep would be possible now. He ;stretched himself and yawned, east one more glance across the moonlit plain, and then stood suddenly still, stil'ened into an attitude of breath- less interest. Yonder, between two lines of shrubs, were moving bodies-- men, footsore and weary, crawling along with slow painful movements; one at least of them was a European) and even at that distance Trent could tell that they were in grievous straits. He felt for his revolver, and, find.. ing that it was in his belt, descended the hill quickly towards them. ', With every step which he took he! could distinguish them more plainly. There were five Kru boys, a native of tt tribe which LP did not rennin-in: - ----_-___- ...... mm...- ed with oxen-drawn wagons. Then I the fancy suddenly left him and a girl’s face seemed to be laughing into f his---a face which was ever changing, _ gay and brilliant one moment, calm and seductively beautiful the next. He smoked his pipe furiously, per- Re"',', and uneasy. One moment the ace was Ernestihe'a the next it was Monty's little girl Liiiihiiii; up " him from the worn and yellow tin- type. The promise of the one-had it been fulfilled in the woman? At least he knew that here was the one great weakness of his life. The curi- ous flood of sentiment, which had led him to gamble for the child's pie- ture, had merged with equal sudden- ness into passion at the coming of her later presentment. High above all his plans for the accumulation of power and wealth, he set before him now a desire which had become the moving impulse of his life-a desire primitive but overrnasterine--the de- sire of a strong man for the woman he loves. In London he had scarcely dared admit so much even to himself. Here, in this vast solitude, he was more master of himself-dreams which seemed to him the most beauti- ful and the most daring which he had ever conceived, filled his brain and _ stirred his senses till the blood in his A veins seemed flowing to a new and I wonderful music. Those were won- 1 derful moments for him. I mood of yellow moonlight which had W m‘fsllen upon the country. From this an}: h, point of vantage Trent could trace h y, backwards their day's march for a". t ed many miles, the white posts left by is." F the surveyor even were visible, and Pi or in the background rose the mountains if e p. of Bekwando. It had been a hard ttt " week's work for Trent. He had qu I k. found chaos, discontent, despair. The lf I " English agent of the Bekwando Land 'll tot " Qompany was on the point of cancel- h.” ms ' ling his contract, the surveyors were 'es spending valuable money without " hGree r- making any real attemnt to start rl', gi upon their undoubtedly difficult task. y. om y Everywhere thefyr1ink seemed to be "Att, 'd that the prosecution of his schemes “a?“ was an impossibility. The road was . e n altogether in the clouds. Trent was 'Jer,',",', Ls flatly told that the labor they requir- a} y; e ed was absolutely unprocurable. For- " h t tunately Trent knew the country, and it)“ t he wasta Jll'e If: t'dlT,',1; Prom the how“ , momen w en e a appeared upon . E the spot things had begun to right old _Mo: K themselves. He had found 00m Sun ah".,'.',,",',', it established as a sort of task-master " rent an.d contractor, and had promptly dis- h ytru. , missed him, with the result that the e Ttttid , supply of Kru boys was instantly {from t doubled. He had found other sources a "in.“ i of labor: and started them at once " t " ' on clearing work, scbrnfully indiffers S reme ', cnt to the often-expressed doubts of charlett , the English surveyor as to the possi- w] o left bility of making the road at all. -He “he. thy had chosen overseers with that swift a are 1tl ' and intuitive insight into character f'? see which in his case amounted almost to ',7f genius. With a half-sheet of note- "IR!,' paper and a pencil he had mapped It's .1 out a road which had made one, at ately. least, of the two surveyors thought- believed ful, and had largely increased his re- h ’13,“, Sheet for the English capitalist. Now t att I he was on his way back from a tour Monty “ almost to Bekwahdo itself by the fir?i.thed route of the proposed road. Already while-a the work of preparation had begun. He w. ‘Hundreds of natives left in their i",?,',','."",?,',',,' :track were sawing down palm-trees, Thu, tun, 'cutting away the bush, digging and hey twt making the road everywhere for that at er te, a straight, wide thoroughfare which and YP was to lead from Bekwando village to that Ir.hit the sea-coast. Cables as to its pro- and Na gress had already been sent back to fitltlt' London. Apart from any other rC,"noke . s;lt,STr§nt :3ve that he had saved! e yn lea a ortune b hi . - ney here. y s Jour I GERMA The light of the moon grew strong- er-the country lay stretched out be- fore him like a map. With folded arms and a freshly lit pipe Trent leaned with his back against the tree and ttxed eyes. At ftrat he saw no- thing but that road, broad and white, stretching to the horizon and thr_o_ng- l can," Thin? 2ntiwer- We've piggy l Never judge a woman by the com- planning puny she is compelled to entertain. Witnar--No; I did I; Gi; enced man could. Lawyer (to wi.tntss0--pid you say that an incompetent man could keep a hotel just ff wts11 'P, anybody? 5 Some fascinating speculations come 'into this book as to the future of the, Czar's charming daughters-ie" _ greatest matches in Europe." Thus A marriage with Prince Carol of Ru-) mania is predicted for the Grand, Duchess Tatiana; while for her elder: sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, no) foreign prince who did not professl ', the Greek faith would be popular-un. I less (says Princess Radiziwill) it) were with a personage whose choice ‘is looked forward to most eagerly allI over Europe, and whose entry into! the Imperial famLy would be hailed; with the wildest bursts of enthusi- asm; I mean the Prince of Wales. . . . Holy Russia would look through} her. fingers if one of the daughters or, its Czar would consent to embrace the! Anglican faith after her marriage tol the heir to the English Crown. l One of the Car's daughters might', conceivably be given to the Crown; Prince of Serbia, whose sister Helene F married Prince John of Russia. She is extremely beautiful, very talented, and moreover possessed of a strong will, which she never show- ed more bravely than when, alone in her motor-car, she met the German army which was invading her Grand Duchy and protested in person against the violation of its integrity and neutrality. She is a staunch Catholic. V7. v- vv - MVWII by an alliance to Germany." Some in- teresting pages are devoted to that in- dependent lady, the Grand Duchess‘ of Luxemburg, the youngest nove-! reign in Europe, who has so far re-! fused all her suitors, and therefore! "remains the despair of all the ambiy tious royal mothers, whose 50mg would be in the position to aspire to; the hand of the richest heiress in Eur' rope": _ Ligwmw " munch“ C: - -___ ....-... -...- Hall and Russian princes can be united are Denmark, Sweden and Norway. lish "How could he do such a thing? It is perfectly monstrous; we shall never now be able to marry our girls to a grand duke!” The princess notes that, with Ger- many beyond the pale, and leaving out Italy as too Catholic 3 country to admit of mixed marriages, the only countries in Europe that can furnish princesses with whom Eng- ”..L __J “-Arr’ . crush, He was exhausted, and sank back speechless. Trent sat and watched him, smoking in thoughtful silence. They two were a little apart from the others, and Francis was fainting. A hand upon his throat--a drop from that phial in the medieine-irhest-- and his faint would carry him into eternity. And still Trent sat snd smoke . now. You were gambling with poor old Monty for his dtsutrhter's picture against a bottle of brandy." Trent winced a little. "You have an excellent memory," he said drily. Francis raised himself a little, and a flereer note crept into his tone. . "It is coming back to me," he said. " remember more about you now, Scarlett Trent. You are the man who left his partner to die in 3 Jun- ttle, that you might rob him of his share in the concession. Oh yes. you see my memory is coming back.', have an account against you, my man'." . “It's a lie!" said Trent passion- ately. "When I left him, I honestly believed him to be a dead man.” "How many people will believe that.'" Francis scoffed. "I shall take Monty with me to England. I have finished with this country for a, wh.ijs---and tlten---and then-V' t GERMAN MARRIAGE MARKET, “I Enough? iGiiaTiiiid slowly, "that there was something familiar about 35m . . . I remember it all "Great Heavens!" he exclaimed. "why, {on are Sculett Trent, the man whom met with poor Villiers in Bek- wando years ago." Trent nodded. . "We waited for you," he and, "to witness our concession. I thought thet you would remember." "A "chiriei.i."iGGa, pulled him- self together, and looked curiously at hl.tt man who was still bending over “We have a eurter," he said, 'Und if nécesury, we must "ht. I'm ttlad “the ptepeLth_outrh/' -- - -- was bad new: for him, and he Wu thankful that they had not carried out their itrsrt plan and commenced their prospecting " Behendo vil- lives: I French looked up with surprise. I “Never been] of it," he aid; “but there's trouble ahead for you. They m tutteing the - dqnee It Bu.. wnetdo,pntftheEhtgttiatremt that up for three days with the priest end never opened his mouth. We were on our way from the interior, and ne- lied on them for food and drink. They’ye always been friendly, but Tiger" always been friendly. but this the we barely esaped with our Knew What Be Meant ( To be etrntinued.) faee Bret'. uriqug. This -ex peri- the London Police Force on serving with the Navy and Army, whilst a further thousand have been drafted out of the metropolis for the protec- tion of dockyarda and military stu- tions in the provinces. ( The correspondent remarks that the concluding phrase, referring as it doubtless does to Serbia, typifies the deep-seated instinct of the Runian to respond to blood ties. an appeal from our oiesGiGririG' find a warm response from the Russ. aiag Irmy." "The crisis has passed favorably for us. We issued safely from a dilficult position in the advances in the Vis- tula theatre, where we were envelop- ed on three sides, and now stand based upon the centre of our Empire unexhausted by war. It is true that there is still much fierce determined fitthtinq ahead; there may be move- ments rearwards, but there certainly Iwill be advances also. 1 f Awaits General Ofensive. i "Our army lives in expectation of s' general offensive, and looks with full eonfidenee to the armies of its allies. It will march boldly and cheerfully, forward, conscious that in so doing it is defending the interests of our country and the interests of our allies. g "A stirring struggle with the forces , of nature has schooled the Russians to hardships and ingrained in thear the instinct to hasten to the succor and relief of a brother in need. Hencel 8immmia.r: i During these months of continuous and prolonged action the high quali- ties end the mettle of our troops un- der the difficulties and arduous con- ditions of retreat have been demon- strated afresh. Notwithstanding his obstimcy in fUthtintt end his persist- ency in carrying out maneuvres, the enemy is still confronted by an army .which fully retains its strength and morale, and its ability not only to of- fer staunch and successful resistance. abut to assume the offensive end in- tliet blows, which has been demon-‘ streted by the events of recent days. ( I Failed in Their Best Time. s "This "ords, the best proof that) the Aurtro.Germams have failed to: destroy or even disorgenize our army; Seeing that they failed in that etrotti' during the five months which were most favorable to them, it would be: impossible for them to repeat the, Galician and Vistule exploits that the" successes of the allies in the west have complicated the strategies! posiy tion. I Up to date: at Ityt 1,700 men of Dtsutrhter--When father was Isn't he more romantic? Mother-He was less rheum i "From May till October, the Ru- sian army has been subjected to un- interrupted blows along I front of 700 miles. The Austro-Gennnns have applied every possible meme, not ex- cepting such as are forbidden by in- ternational treaties, in order to in- crease the pressure against us. Muses of their troops were fluntt against this front and sent to destruction regard- less of losses. Military history does, not afford another example of Buch) pressure. , “The situation in regard to the higher command, probably is more satisfactory than it has been since the inception of the war. The opinion of virtually the entire Russian army is that in General Aiexiefr we have at 'our head the highest military ability that Russia possesses. He is a quiet. rather shy man with an enormoua capacity for work, and in a crisis actually directs personally the most important movements. It is stated that during the retreat from Vilna, " 1 most every detail was directed by him, while there was no doubt that he directed personally many details] of the sweeping withdrawal from Warsaw. I After Ila-u- of line-y'- Favorable Opportunities. 'ta-kat. An laud and Cour“ A corresnondent of the London Times with the Russian landmark". in a review of the genenl military position, which he considers entirely favorable for the Russians, says: _ In Days Unprecedented I‘m-are. i"c"""ni"uoiminouomroa, less rheumatic. young fmuch water " others, And the um.- Ewood veriel much in the mount of Water it holds. Even dinerent part: 'of the same trunk my diner u much lid the mount of moisture they con. itain " tree: that - I hundred miles apart. The amount of water in 'tE growing tree does not vary much :with the seasons. If it vuriel at all, ‘it is greater in winter than in rum. mer, notwithstanding the general be- ilief to the contrary. I A recent pens-mph in "Nature and '8cience" explained why it is impossi- ble to get wood that is absolutely dry. 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