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A New Layer Cake.--' large tahlespoont'ul of butter, one cup su- gar. two cups of self-raising thrur, one egg. one cup of milk. Cream but. ter and sugar. Add the egg, well beat. "n, and the milk. Sift the ttoar grad- ually into the moisture, and beat thor- uughly. Bake in three layers in welt greased tins. For the filling: Three tart apples, rind and juice of one lem.. on, "ne egg and a cup of sugar. Pool and grate the apples. add the grated rind and juice of lemon. Stir in Mtg, well beaten, and the sugar. Cook the Moisture in n bowl. set in a pan of hailing water until it is quite thick, spread over two bye", and put the third layer o'.' top after it has slight-' ly cooled. I For oateakes put 2% handiuls of thu. oatmeal in n bowl, with a tea- -.p.u:nful of sugar and a little salt. I'ulH' over this “1. pint of boiling wa- ter in which 1 or.. of butter or drip- ping has been melted. Mix well with n spoon. then turn out on the board and knead with the hands in a round. Take the rolling pin and roll out very thin. taking care to dust the pin well with meal to keep it from sticking. Nicely round the edges with finger and thumb. Cut in four. Have tho girdle nice and hot, bring it to the edge of the bond, and slip the cakes ott to it. Fire on one side until the edges begin to curl up, then toast the other side in front of the fire. An hour or two in a moderately hut oven makes them nice and dry and crisp. In making scone: take 1 lb. of pre- pared flour, l teaspoonful of sugar. pinch of butter size of walnut. small pinch of salt. as much milk as will make into a nice consistency. Have the girdle very warm and thoroughly clean before starting. as it greatly dcpenoh on the firinq. Put Bour into a basin with sugar; rub butter in till it is quite powdered with the flour; add salt, and with a knife mix the milk, as this makes the scones lighter. Date Breatd.--To one pint light wheat ttour sponge add two teaspoons sugar. pinch of salt and enough whole wheat ttout. to make batter as stiff as can be stirred with wooden spoon. Wash. stone, and cut into bits enough dates to make two cupfuls. Add dates to batter, mold, put in pan and let stand in warm place until light; then bake in moderate oven. Wunen.--sift together a lightly- measured pint oi flour and a half one and tive-eitrhths cups bread tty/ one tablespoon orange juice, one-half teaspoon salt. one-half teaspoon gin-f ger. grated rind, one-half orange. one I teaspoon soda. Dissolve soda in sour. milk and add to other ingredients. Beat all thoroughly. pour into well- lnlttured mold and steam about fifty minutes. Serve with orange sauce. I Ginger Puddirttr.--0ne-ulf cup mo- Ivsses, one and one-half tablespoons melted butter, one-half cup sour milk, Ginger Bread-thu, cup of war. two cups of molasses, one cup of lard, one tahlespoonful of soda dissolved in one-half cup of hot water, one cup of buttermilk or sweet milk. Thicken with ttour, add ground ginger to taste. Bake in buttered pen 46 minutes. Winter Succqtuh.- Soak one pint of tie-d lima beans and one pint of drie'd sweet corn over night. Drain and rinse with fresh water, cover with cold water, add two slices of Moon or smoked ham and boil until tender. Season with salt Ind pepper to taste. Serve hot. Pineapple "ud.--arne small pine-" apple, lettuce hearts nnd honey nlld' dressing. Pare pineapple and re-I move eyes, chip into thin, small dices. ( dress with salad dressing and let! stand thirty minutes. Serve on lab} tuce hearts. i Home] Salad Dressht---Beat to- ) Rether three tablespoons olive oil, two I tablespoons.. honey, one ubleapooni lawn juice and a few grains of “It. I Use immediately. I Always Accieptaple and Deliciogg. co The Tea of " Teas. Buchanan ) Get a package and enjoy “Mixed a cup of Tea "In Perfection". About the House .1) Miscellaneous Recipes. Sure cure and positive preventive. no matter how hot”. at may use are anllcted or “exposed." Liquid. [Ive-I on (In lnnmue. acts on the blood and glands: expel. the pol-enou- germs from the body. Cure. Dlsumper lu Doll and an.» and l‘holr'n in Poultry Largest selling 1|"ch ”My. (‘ures Lu Grippo among human beluga. anal. In. Kidney remedx Cut thU out. Keep it. Show " to - am who will Re! it fur you. Free Booklet. ',iil'S"id'Q and can." Sun in! arms want”. mu My For Distemper umm- Ind Bacterlotogist L Om ht. I“ Some time ago the German army administration officially reported that Heinrich Lohberger, a Pomeranian farmer and reservist, had been killed. A week later the supposed dead man returned to his native village alive and well, although a cripple. He had been badly wounded when his death was reported. When he arrived at home the veteran found his wife mar- ried agein. At present, however, there is mat dittieulty in fitting new mercantile ves- sels with proper machinery and other equipment, largely through the num- ber of men engaged on Admiralty work, and more recently by the new recruiting campaign, which is slowly but surely depleting the yards of ne- ccssary workmen. Despite these draw.. backs seven new vessels have Just been completed on the Clyde, including the New Zealand passenger steamer Aotearoa, 15,000 tons, the Leyland and motor liner Bostonian and the mo- tor ship Montezuma. Said to Be Hampered By War's Call For Workmen. While the vast resources of the various ship-building yards of Great Britain are largely eoneentrated on naval work, it is believed that during the next few months much of the ur- Rent naval ship building will be com- pleted and a certain number of men released for mercantile-building and repair work. So many people are busy knitting toeks for the soldiers that the follow.. ing hint may come in useful. When the socks are quite finished darn the heels and toes on the wrong side by picking up the stitches and darning so as not to show them on the right side of the socks. This makes them last twice as long again before wear- ing into holes. When vegetables or other foods be, come scorched, remove the kettle at once from the stove and put it into a pan of cold water. In a quarter of an hour you will be surprised to find the suggestion of scorch almost if not entirely Cone. A few Rowers of a kind grouped loosely in a vase make a much prettier bouquet than a large number crowded together. Do not put too many colors together; the effect is better with only one or two. Burning the fintrers can be avoided by equipping the metal knobs on pot and kettle covers with good-sized corks. wired on with bits of picture wire. Raisins will stone much more eas- ily if they are placed in the oven un- til they are heated through. They can then be easily split and the stones removed. There is nothing better for re- moving sticky and soiled places from the rugs than ammonia. If this fades the color, rub with chloroform. . Combs will Boon warp if washed with soap and hot water. It is best to put a little ammonia in lukewarm water and scrub the comb with a nail brush. When cooking rice, if necessary to stir, always use a fork instead of a spoon, as the spoon crushes the grains and makes it look mushy. Milk will never burn if, before heai- ine, a little cold water is put into the saucepan and brought to the boil. Then eat the milk in the usual way. When boiling meat, which is inclin- ed to be tough, add one teaspoonful of vinegar. This makes it tender, and gives a good flavor. When frying chickens or fish, to avoid the grease from smattering, sift in a tiny bit of ftour just before put- ting them in. To keep rugs from turning upr at the ends sew coat weights at each cor- ner. - They also keep them stationary. When mashing potatoes, always use boiling, not cold milk. Beat hard and the potatoes will be light and fluffy. A bottle of dried-up glue will be- come soft if a little vinegar is placed in the bottle. lf a little salt is sprinkled in the bottom of a frying-pan the fat will not splash over the stove. Fish, fruit arid inlaid: should be frequent in the menus for the brain worker. Frinar.fried potatoes dipped in cornmeal before frying are excellent. Dry ftour rubbed on tin with a newspaper will clean it beautifully. The winter breakfast should con- tain both cereals and fruit. Macaroni and cheese baked is a good substitute for meat. Found Wife Married Again. BRITISH SHIP-BUILDING. Useful Hints and Oenerai Informa- tion fur the Busy Housewife Put in ammo. mare "VII, Ind 0‘2”.” um Some Useful Hints. Da Souza planted himself in front pf them, _ ___ - H -- "You defy me."' he said. "You will not trust him with me or take my ad- vice. Very well, my friend! Now listen! You want to ruin me! Well, if I go the Bekwando Company shall go too, you understand! Ruin for me shall mean ruin for Mr. Scarlett Trent-ah, ruin and disgrace. . . . It shall mean imprisonment if I can _ bring it about, and I have friends'. Don't you know that you are guilty of fraud'. You sold what wasn't yours and put the money in your pocketh You left your partner to rot in a fever i swamp or to be done to death by those l tttthr blocks. The law will all that] winding! You will ilnd Yourself in! the dock, my friend, in tho prisoner’s dock, I so l Come, how dd you like that, Mr. Lud'l Trent? If you have; Monty Wavered then. His dull eyes shone once more'. "If I could do that," he murmured. “I pledge my word that you shall," Trent answered. Monty rose up. "I am ready," he said simply. "Let us start at once." "But if you could leave her a for- tune, make her magnificent pre- sents?" But Trent shook his head. "I have made up my mind." he said. "He must come with me. Monty, there is the little girl!" "Too late," Monty moaned; "look at ma!” "He's quite right, Trent," Da Souza put in hastily. "He's too old to start afresh now. He's comfortable here and well looked after; make him an allowance, or give him a good lump sum in lieu of all claims. I'll draw it out; you’ll sign it, won't you, Monty? Be reasonable, Trent'. It's the best course for all of us!" “I don't know," he said; "pm com- fortable here, and I'm too old, Trent, to live your life. Pd begin again, Trent," would indeed, if I were ten years younger. It's too late now! I couldn't live a day without something to keep up, my strength'.", - Monty turned a woebegone face around the little room. "May he so," Trent answered, "yet you'd have died in D.T. before now but for me! I kept you from it as far as 1 could. I'm going to keep you from it now!" "You were always a hard man, Scarlett Trent," he said. "You were alleys hard ol? Ine!" Ila“ CIIUUEII Ill Illul- I The man's hand dropped to his side. l He looked into Trent's face, and the years seemed to fade away into a mist. Monty rose up weakly. His knees were shaking, and he was in a pitiful state. He east a sidelong glance at the brandy bottle by his side, and his hand stole out towards it. But Trent stunned him gently “by firrply. - "Not now, Montir," he said,"‘you've haAenousrr pf that."' 7 ' "Very well," he said darkly, "you go your own way. You Won't take my advice. _I’ve'been a City man all my life, and I know a thing or two, You bring Monty to the general meeting of the Bekwando Company and ex- plain his position, and I tell you, you’ll have the whole market toppling about your ears. No concern of mine, of course. I have got rid of a few of my shares, and I'll work a few more off before the crash. But what about you'. What about Scarlett Trent, the millionaire '." l "I can afford to lose a bit," Trent answered quietly, f'Pn1 r1ot_afrairl." "She shall norknow," Trent said, "I'll promise you’ll be perfectly safe with me." "You see, it isn't that Imind," Monty continued in a low, quivering voice, "but there's my little girl! My real name might come out, and I wouldn't have her know what I've beenfor _an_ything." ___ "Ikive you lily word, Monty," Trent declared, "that there is not a single sou_I__who has_any idea of the/sort." "There is no one, ihen," Monty ask- ed in a slow, painful whisper, "who will, pg: me in prison l" - - "You've nothing to be afraid of," Trent continued. "As to the money at Mr. Walsh's house, I settled that all up with him before I left Attra. It belonged to you really, for I'd left more_ than that for you? Bioriiy iGiaiUt him, perplexed and troubled. "You think you’re a financial gen- ius, I suppose,” he said, "beeause you’ve brought a few things off. Why, you don't know the A B C of the thing. I tell you this, my friend. A company like the Bekwando Company is very much like a woman's reputation, drop a hint or two, start just a bit of talk, and I tell you the flames 'll soon do the work." Trent turned his back upon him. "Monty," he said, "you aren't afraid to come with me?" "Du Souzé lauéhed a little hysteric- a Ye, A, - - $14: Da Souza was no longer cringing. He shrugged his shoulders and thrust his fat little hands into his trousers pockets. “He'll go mad fast enough with a bottle of brandy within reach, and you know it!" Trent answered fiercely. "I am Tine to take him away from ere. ' "He goes mad without something to drink," Da Souza muttered. "You blaektruard.r" he said in a low tone, "you wanted to kill him, did ion? Don't you know that to shut mi up here and ply him with brandy is as much murder " though you stood with a knife at his throat t" Monty's hand was limp and cold, his eyes were glazed and expressionless. Trent looked " the half-empty bottle By his side and turned savagely to Da The old man and the girl were equally terrified, both without cause. De Sousa forgot for a moment to be angry at his daughter', disobedience, and was quick to see that her pre- sence there was all to his advantage. Monty, " white as death, was strick- en dumb to see Trent. He sank back gasping into a chair. Trent came up to him with outstretched hands and Evith a look of keen pity in his hard ace. "Monty, old chap," he said, "what on earth are you scared att Don't you know Pm glad to see you'. Didn't I come to Attra to get you back to England? Shake hands, partner. I've got lots of money for you and good mews." T,?! THE GOLDEN KEY CHAPTER XXXVI. Or The “nature: ot ladswd‘" By the Author of "What H. Cost "or.” "in the meantime! should be ostra- cised." "By a good many people, no doubt." He held his peace for a time, and ate and drank what wu set before him. He was conscious that his was scarcely a dinner-table manner. He was too eager, too deeply in etttytest. me t" _ "You are a man,", she said, looking at him earnestly; “you have the nerve and win of a man. what you have dong before you, might do. grain." “I will tell you what it made me realize," he said. “I am drifting into a dangqrous positiou. I am linking myself to a little world to whom, per- sonally, I am as nothing and less than nothing. I am tolerated for my be.. longings! If by any chnnce I were to loge these, what would become of it matter? The money was gone, and I was simply myself again, Scarlett Trent, a laborer. penniless and of no account." , "It must have been an odd sensa- tion," tlys _st.id thoutihtfully. _ "This afternoon," he said, raising his glass to his lips and draining it. “I think that I must have dozed upon the lawn at Ascot. I sat there for some time. back amongst the trees, and I think I must have fidlen to sleep. There was a whisper in my ears and I saw myself stripped of everything. How was it? I forget now! A concession repudiated, a Yank t'uilgre,__a big slump-what does "You are talking in enigmus sure- ly," she said. "Nothing of that sort could possibly happen to you. They tell me that the Bekwando Land shares are priceless, and that you must make millions." "O-oh!" She looked at him attentively. Her own heart was beating. If he had not been engrossed by his cure lest any one might overhear their conversa- tion, he would have been astonished atthe change in her, Nee, "it is no ordinary reverse," he said shyly. Al! is collapse-everything'." “Is this a new character?” she murmured. "Are you becoming faint, hearted?" "Two thousand pounds.'" She'act- ually sighed, and lost her appetite for the oyster patty with which she had been trifling. Trent looked around the table. "At the some time," he continued in a lower key, "I'11 make a confession to you, Miss Wendermott, I wouldn't care to make to any one else here. I've been pretty lucky as you know, made money fast-piled it up in fact. To-day, for the first time, I have come face to face with "the possibility of a reverse." marked, "as the sort of person likely They Are Really Natural Storage to lose a fortune on the .raee-eourse.r; Reservoirs "You are quite right," he answered, I . "I think that I Won money. A couple I It has been shown that forests pre- of thousand at least." " . vent the rapid melting of ice and Crm., thousand pounds'. Sh? act- snow, and thus avert or modify fioods ually sighed, and lost her appetite for in the spring Mountains also play the oyster patty with which she had . t l" t with . .d t been trifling. Trent looked around the an ttttpor an m" . I t.tP"I " table. floods. By intercepting drifting eur- "At the same time," he continued in rents of meisture-ia.der? 'btt' Pflt a lower key, “I'll make a confession tains are active agents m precipitat- to you, Miss Wendermott, I wouldn't ing-rainfall; and, unless they are pro- care to make to any one else here. tected by forests, the waters pour I've been pretty lucky as you know, down into the valley in destructive Brindle Ptr1ty,,1te,tr:pil.e it. up in fact. torrents. "If I had lost the former," he said, "I should very soon cease to be a person of interest, or bf any account at all, amongst your friends." She shrugged her shoulders. "You do not strike one," she rrr- marked, "as the sort of person likely to lose a fortune on the raee-eourse." It was an early dinner, to be follow- ed by a visit to a popular theatre. A few hours ago Trent was looking for- ward to his evening with the keenest pleasure-now he was dazed-he could not readjust his point of view to the new conditions. He knew very well that it was his wealth, and his wealth only, which had brought him " an equal amongst these people, all, so far as education and social breeding was concerned, of so entirely a differ.. ent sphere. He looked around thel table. What would they say if they‘ knew? He would be thrust out as an I interloper. Opposite to him was a peer who was even then engaged in threading the meshes of the Bank- ruptcy Court, what did they care for thut-not a whit! He was of their order though he was a beggar. But as regards himself, he was fully con- scious of the difference. The meas- ure of his wealth was the measure of his standing amongst them. Without it he would be thrust forth-he could make no claim to association with them. The thought filled him with a slow, bitter anger. He gent away his soup untasted, and he could not find _ heart to speak to the girl who had ; been the will-o’-the-wisp leading him ,1 into this evil plight. i? Presently she addressed him. I I "Mr. Trent!" J l He turned round and looked at her. , “Is it necessary for me to remind f you, I wonder," she said, "that it is l usual to address a few remarks-- 1 quite as a matter of form, you know- 1 to the woman whom you bring in to ( dinner?" . it He eyed her dispassionately. " "I am not used to making conver- l" sation," he said. "Is there anything 1 in the world which I could talk about likely to interest you'?" ' She took a salted almond from a f silver dish by his side and smiled sweetly upon him. "Dear me."' she t said, "how fierce! Don't attempt it if t': you feel like that, please! What have c you been doing since I saw. you last? ti --lusinst your money or your' temper, c or both?" l He looked at her with a curiously {trim smile. Lady TrestiGl' rose, and smiled i',?,','."',.',,? at the man who was taking er m. sweetly at the man who was taking Irtereatsintr Birth Rate and Fewer her in. i Deaths Reported. "Well, he is to be your charge, so I I hope you may find him more amusing The latest census figures for Ireland than he looks," she answered. show an increasing population. How- It was an early dinner, to be follow- ever common this may be in America, ed by a visit to a popular theatre. A or in the other countries of Europe, few hours 830 Trent was looking for- this feature is for Ireland an agree- ward to his evening with the keenest able novelty. For the quarter ended pleasure-now he was dazed-he could September 30 last the number of not readjust his point of view to the bi th . I l d 27 779 . f new conditions. He knew very well "r a m re an "‘5 ' ' . tate " that it was his wealth, and his wealth 20.8 per thousand, tutti the deaths 14,- only, which had brought him as In two, I rate of 13.4 per. thousand. equal amongst these people, all, so There were only 3,511 emigrants, so far as education and social breeding that the net increase in population is was concerned: of, so entirely a trtfr.tr- 3,558. "This morning," Ernestine said, "he.had passed that stage altogether. This is I suppose, I relapse'. Such a nuisuu.tiforCvout." _ __ - “I have never seen such an alter:- tion in a man," she said, "in so short a time. This morning he amazed me. He knew the right people and did the right things--earried himself too like a man who is sure of himself. To- night he is simply I booby." "Perhaps it is his evening elothes," Lady Tresham remarked, "they take som_e_ getting used to,_ I believe." __ ether. -i . -- V t "Do on know," she said. "I should g neverl Ell“ called you a dreamer, a man i e y to ancy things. I wonder CHAPTER XXXVII. if anything has rally happened to "From a conversational point of make you talk like this t" view," Lady Tresham remarked, "our He f!ys.h.ed a quick look " her un- guest to-night seems scarcely likely to derneath his heavy brows. Nothing in distinguish himself." her face betrayed any more than the Erne. ne looked over her fan across most ordinary interest in what he was the drawing-room. , saying. Yet somehow from that mo- “I have never seen such an altera- silent, he had uneasy doubts concern- tion in a man," she said, "in so short mg her, whether there might be by a time. This morning he amazed me. any chance some reason for the toler- He knew the right people and did the ance and the interest with which she right thintrs---earried himself too like had "exuded him from the ftrst. The a man who is sure of himself. To- mere suspicion of it was a shock to night he is simply a, booby." him. He relapsed once more into a "Perhaps it is his evening clothes," at?“ of nervous silence. Ernestine Lady Treshnm remarked, "they take yawned, and her hostess threw more some getting used to, I believe." tiwn one pitying glance towards her. “Wylie. morning," Ernestine laid, (To be continued.) this room with him, you tn . ruined mun. I shall see to it." _ Trent swung him out of the - single contemptuous turn of the wrist, and Da Sousa reeled against the unn- telpiece. m, held out his hand to Monty and they left the room to- gether. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO He-yes, but you interrupted me again. I love you not for your money's sake. ttu-Welt, I'm so glad, for that was only a joke about the $50,000. Bhe-Sot. I only wanted to try you. I have a fortune of $50,000. He-Excuse me, you didn't allow me to finish. I love you not-- He-' love you. &te---But I haven't a cent in the world. The protection of the forests there- fore is the surest and safest w-y in which to prevent destructive inundn- tions. They are really natural stor- age reservoirs, not holding back great masses of water in bulk, which may be released by the breaking of some dam and carry terrible destruction before them, but storing it in the cap- illaries of the spongy soil and yield- ing it gently and eontinuously during the season when most needed. This duff varies from one to six feet in thickness, Ind has the power of absorbing and holding water like a sponge. During the heavy spring rains it becomes thoroughly saturat- ed with water, which gradually oozes down the mountain sides into the streams in summer. The trees also protect the snowfall from the rapid action of the sun in spring, thus restraining floods from that source also. The evergreen trees, particularly the spruces, are especially useful in controlling these torrents. Under all spruce forests there is a large de. posit of what woodsmer, call "due." This is composed of partially decayed trees, bark, lleedles, cones and mosses. The least satisfactory feature of the returns is the maintenance of a high death rate from tuberculosis. Enorm- ous effort, inspired by Lady Aber- deen. has been devoted in every part of Ireland to stamping out this scourge. It has been by no means un- fruitful. But the scourge is still there, and yearly takes a meat toll of Irish lives. That Ireland is a less diltressful country than it used to be, and now is on the mend, is further evident from the statistics of pauperism. Here there has been a very marked de- crease. There were nearly 8,000 few- er people in the workhouses in the quarter under review than the aver- age of the same period for the last 10 years, and there were 12,325 few- er people in receipt of outdoor relief from the rates. f 4 - jf. ' f . Ji _ ii?fiii ------- -- 2,'etgraltrt, 2.tt.US'rt mm mm in no. yin. his“ in - spin '. ',9rtttia'0VtaEu"tiri'iira"ri7 l the!“ mutation what he had left I I 'dl' t1g'ePltor,,uSeoz,t't' he --.- l an " we wo sometimes w di cunt." , ' ' "t should be sorry," she said, de. WNE.N A YOUTH. lamb. - “Sorry. yes; so mull the trades- ll,1q'l,ut"'2jt2',",2,"gv'g",'d 'p.1,t,2 "p-tse Royast Family Witt Menee-l undeorzet that then-re my debtors." forth Be “ft-Item 1tegardintr " on In cyniaL' , . . "I cannot help it," he snswered. "it bum-awn. t,eu'ettidrod"a'rw1i"ttTev/, With elaborate ceremonies and rites _ things." Mating back in some cam-s thousand“ l It is the decrease in emigration ‘which has turned the scale. The sit- uation might be even more satisfac- tory if it were not for the heavy death rate of children under a year old. About one Irish child in every dozen dies before it has reached the age of 12 months. Leinster and Ulster have the predominance in this respect. In them one child in every seven or eight dies an infant; in Connaught only one child in every 15. Dublin and Belfast no doubt account for this, for poverty-stricken Connaught has more fresh air than can be found in the cities, especially in Dublin, which has a system of tenement houses where scores of families live in one house, and often more than one family in a single room. . l FORESTS PREVENT FLOODS The Cheer of Trouble. One joy that trouble Always sends To, cheer you up IRELAND'S POPULATION. ls kindly trfenda. A Clash of Wits. The hardest branch of learning grows on a birch tree-says a school- troy. "Well, mum. to be" the trout, they're just loike me photographs. None of them don't do me Justice." "rhenAvhy did you not brine ammo. of them with you?” "Have you any references t" in- quired the lady of the house. "Yis, mum, lots of thin." answered the prospective maid. l It is interesting to note, by the way. thaChis father was the last Emperor of Japan to have a harem. According to the ancient custom, the Emperor of Japan is Mlowed a chief wife, or "Kogo," and twelve secondary wives, who are allowed separate establish- ments in the palace grounds, each having her own attendants. In the casc of the "kotto" being childless, the children of the secondary wives would be acknowledged as legal heirs to the throne. Yoshihito himself is a child of a secondary wife, bat hence- forth the Japanese royal family will be Western in so far as the tsuccession to the throne is concerned. Personally, he is a man of great simplicity. He prefers to dress in European costume, photography be. ing one of his favorite hobbies. He is also an accomplished poet. His wife, Empress Saduko. is a woman of remarkable culture and accomplish- ment. The Emperor married in 1900, and has three children, all boys. His father ordered that his son should not be treated in any way dif- ferent from his classmates, and to- day, as far as possible, the Emperor moves freely among his people. was educated in what was known as the Peers' tkhool--not unlike the famous Public schools of Enguutd-- where he had for his friends sons of nobleman. Yoshihito'u youth reminds one of that of the King of Italy, for he had to triumph over I delicate constitu- tion. Outdoor life And systematic exercise. howeGr, built up his phy- sique. He indulged in walking, moun- tain climbing, and riding, und displny- ed an early passion for soldiering by ',t.,t2,f the military literature and mi itary methods of other countries. A: I youth he became on ensign in the Imperial Infantry. With elaborate ceremonies and rites dating back in some cases thousands of years, Youhihito, Emperor of Jan- pan, was formally installed on his throne recently, nlthough it in three yen-s ago since his father, Mutsuhite. A remarkable ais regarding the present Emperor of Japan in that he Japan is proud of her Emperor, be-i cauae he is a zealous aoldier and III true Ion of the people, while no man; in Japan is more proud ot his country than Yoshihito, who rules its destiniea, for the Emperor, although only M years of age. in practically all-power. ful. alllllll;;:l:::!llilli§ '.JPu"u""rlm"ul"u"u"umootaormm B. "s, \ I / I Not Up to Her Standard The Emperor of Jan-n. Abolished Harem. The Mote fault you look f, more you will Ind. I Just before she left an order was issued to the ethset that (he Gets mans were about to Middle the re- sponsibility of provisioning the troops on the people of Brussels. The Men are to be biileted mu the chin-m with- out allowances. The Germans are contident of vie- tory, but the people of Bruwels re- fute to think of defeat. There are now signs that money is ‘scurce, and German officers display Hess opulence. There are fewer vial» crate motor can. Brutoieis people 'seem to think that General Ton Bias- ine does not represent the Wurst type- of German otrieev, and that matters might even be Worse with another Governor. Life, however. is very re- stricted, and the city has lost all its old reputation for niety. Thr tram- ways and bakeries Ire under Gem-n control. and the allowance for Men! has been reduced to four alive: I ar. Butter is " 2d. I pound. and other commodities no relatively dear. I Nurse Maude Horn of Dru-tonic. :Wellington Road, Btocqtrort,Etteuu, who may returned from Brunch. where she wan numbed to Name Cnvell's nursing home, When a. llife of the heroine and her NW! lam-t. trttw Geri-nu Fatter. Nurse Horn/wan in this country when war broke out, but in response to a telegram she hastened to unis! Nurse Cuvell. She saw the Germans march into Brussels. and suyvx if it had been rehearsed a hundred times it could not have been done with more precision. "The German authorities upper-ent- ly convinced themselves of Min Cav- ell's guilt by what WIS described an the confessions of a Pole. He told the Gena-n: he had represented him- self as a Frenchman. and had stayed a night under Nurse Cavell's roof. This Pole was apparently trapped in his endeavors to cross the frontier. and was no doubt pressed hard for u confession.' " "The arrest was deemed quite quietly. Officers arrived in a motor ear, a few questions were put and answered, and she was carried 01. She wrote to me from prison. The letters, with practically all any be- longings, except the contents of a handbag. are still in Brussels. She seemed quite resigned. lief but Mun. "Her letters were bright, and made it clear that she was glad to have the rest that the prison aforded. She said she had everything she could wish for except her liberty. She lit- tle thought that such a terrible pen- alty awaited her, and we at the school were dreadfully distressed when We heard the awful news of her death. The shock was terrible. "it would be wrong to um that Mina (Juan's am“ an: P, I gm: surprise to her or to u." it nyn. "Her school had hell - ed time utter time without -., and Miss Cave“, who wu and loved by those around her, um ”who! with mum suspicion by the undid- ties for a considerable time. SHEWASWITII t NURSECAVEU. f" Coup-Ilia les of [an WI lie- eeised PM thr Heroic NURSE MACDE HORN. OF STOCK- PORT'. ENGLAND. In tf ,