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Place wellâ€" lettuce on plate f1 17 In top (qu Pour a litâ€" each peach il wanted. n bottom of lices on top op of them. ten and covâ€" Cook over !hl'ee-quart- rer and cook ven or undâ€" ‘ lll'n’.\’n top. l pper uarts and cloves and one quart " 1RS.â€"LOver iling water arly evaporâ€" hubarb, unâ€" ‘s, put layer th teaspoon of figs, dressing of d suet, one ie teaspoon ted lemon taste.â€" M‘x ile preparâ€" : slices, not ce in m‘xâ€" well oast. â€" One up chopped cun _ bread water un dients an If Our ourâ€" chopped juice of ‘tr. Cook at w8A y h 12â€" Conit Sirup. Denson‘s Corn er Gloss" Laundry Siarch. Littie Willie: "Dad, give mg five cents, and I‘ll be a good boy." ~â€" His Pa: "No, my boy, I want you to under_ stand that a son of mine must be good for noth‘ng," "Miss Brown told me that you paid ber such a charming compliment the other even‘ng," said Mrs. Coddington to her husband, "something about her being pretty. The poor girl was so pleased. _ I don‘t see how you men can be so untruthful." "I should think you‘d know by this time that I‘m never untruthful," said Mr. Coddington reproachfully. "I said she was just as pretty as she could be, and so she was," in working buttonholes terial that frays easily, it idea to but‘onhole it first ches some distance apart go over it in the usual way, In wn.rk'iv.)g terial that fra idea to but‘or »nen marking linen handkerchiefs with indelible ink,. first starch the handkerchiefs and iron them smooth., Then you can mark them clearly with case, A good mixture to roll fish in beâ€" fore frying is made of a cupful of breadcrumbs and the grated yolks of three hardâ€"cooked °£@s, seasoned with salt and pepper. When marking linen with indelible ink, firs handkerchiefs and iron Then you can mark the ease, Try a toasted cheese sandwich, Make the same as the usual cheese sandwich, and then toast it in the over or in a chafing dish. If you would have crisp erust on your cake, add a spoonful of ice water to the dough, or dust the top of it sugar, just before baking. Put the serubbing brush to dry with the bristles down, preventing the watâ€" er from soaking into the back and caus ng the bristles to come out. wir P 1} Little Willie lake the fat from chicken broth when it cools, clarify it, then use it instead of butter for pastry or deâ€" lcate frying. It is a nice idea to have a guest chest in the guest room. It should contain a _ nightgown, a bathrobe, slippers and even a tooth brush. A good way to prevent wear under the arms of corset covers it to reâ€" inforce them, when made with a shieldâ€"shaped piece. diseases, Take the fat ding for hens‘ nests and they avoid the breeding of vermin. When aluminum cook‘ng utensils turn black, boil tomato parings â€" in thom. _ It will clean them. Never use the fingers to pinch the odge of the pie crust for the heat of the hand keeps the paste from rising. Fresh green vegetables and fruits are a natural tonic and should not be omitted from the diet at any season of the year. Lime m‘xed with a little sulphur ind stirred into the soil about plants s said to be an ANEAALE Ahw Rerccs.. add per needless waste of fue A bath in soda w freshing when one is If fruit for stew ng a pinch of borax. It acidity. Food germs. water into kettle, let come to boil and set kettle to simmer on back of stove for about three hours. Much of water will boil away, but marrow of shin will finish cooking. _ Make paste of one level tablespoon flour and one saltspoon pepper. Take up meat, add flour mixture to contents of kettle, let s mmer two minutes, dish vegetables, pour gravy over meat and serve. Enâ€" ough for large family. reeds discase, A redâ€"hot s wund red aindles, o vary a dish of scrambled eggs, a few slices of sweet green pep chopped fine. ne shavings make very good bedâ€" ~XRSale 5o Foll fish in beâ€" g is made of a cupful of bs and the grated yolks of â€"cooked oggs, seasoned with Ussful Hints and General Informaâ€" tion for the Busy Housewife he house clear of rubbish The Limit. indle holders are made c apples cut out to hold th 2. 5. 10 and Household Hints. rarelessly â€" expos many novel WILLIAM. | with a little sulphur to the soil about plants an antidote for fungus tove at any tim of fuel. iter is very re tivred. is very acid, ad« will correct the exposed invites & | on a maâ€" is a good with stitâ€" and then "I wander," said Varney after a short pause, "whether she really does," Scarborough did not reply. In his own minrd the same doubt had risen more than once, only to be stead‘ly crushed down. _ It seemed difficult to believe that Elsa‘s faith could have withstood _ unshaken _ the various , shocks to which it had in these last two days been subjected; but apparâ€"| ently it had. _ He remembered, too, that she had said that there were! proofs, and that the murderer had not‘ succeeded in destroying those. Bu what proofs could there be? He was‘ quite unable to guess at what she‘ meant; but he could not but think that‘ if she was, as he feared, pinning her| faith on documents that her father told her contained his vindication, | , there could only be another bitter disâ€"! ; appointment in store for her, ¢ "Are you going to tell her about the | pencilled stone?" asked Varney. l; "I don‘t think so." s f‘r "Or about the hooded groman?!. .. |} "No. What was the use? They‘ll know soon enough. Meanwhile I‘ve a notion that Elsa wouldn‘t care for the news to be bru‘ted about more than necessary. She still believes in hor {ather‘s innocence." "Oh, we‘ll make it musual! It will be a fair exchange. By the way, you didn‘t tell them that Page was Carâ€" rington." "I thought the programme was that she was to convert you," commented Scarborough in some amusement. "Then I‘ll ney. . dfiA D03A w llscac cce 14.3 C200 M MTCERT by EEITUT I should call him the best read Engâ€" lishman in the island. Muriel‘s a nice girl, too, or will be when she lives down a few of her crochets. At presâ€" ent she is just a lit‘le bit of a prig." "Then I‘ll convert her," said Varâ€" me?" said Varncy with a grin. "What‘s the father ?" "Grows pineapples for Covent Garâ€" den. Was an Army crammer in Lonâ€" don, doing pro‘ty well. Lungs went wrong, so he came out here. Do‘ng pretty well here, too. He‘s smart, and mean to go." "You‘ll be snubbed." "Can‘t help it! But isn‘t there a chance that she might like to convert "I say," said Varney, when he and Scarborough had put a mile between them and the Casa Davis, "I like that grl." Scarborough laughed. "Do you?" he said. _ "Then you shouldn‘t have told her that you were a cireus man." "Why not ?" Because she is very earnest, very young, and very bigoted. _ Didn‘t you see how she froze ?" "She did rather!" | "Quite so! She has notions about the whole duty of man, and I expect she thinks you‘ve missed it by a good bit. _ Bet you five m‘l she‘s already told her father that you are on no acâ€" count to be asked to go and see them." It "Oh," explained Varney, "I have to. I‘m one of the performers, you know." "Oh?" said Mur‘el. _ Her tone this time supgested a sudden and entire lnck of interest, and during the few minutes longer that the young men stayed, she said nothing mara "That," he said, "is what we shall have to inqauire into. Ready, Phil?" "Yes," said Varney. "By Jove! we shall have to hurry if I am to be in time for the porformance!" Muricl opened her eyes rather wide. "You are going to the cireus ?" she asked. She did not ohject to circuses; she would have liked to go herself; butâ€"was this exactly a suitable time, whenâ€"? Her eyes plainly sugrested a rebuke. "That so?" Scarborough eut remark. "M usval W uin# him of them stick out the face." _ "And the edges ‘What! Did she run away from you, too?" exclaimed Varney. ‘ "Or bicycle?" sa‘d Searborourh. | "Neither. She walkedâ€"pretty fast, too! But it wasn‘t her speed that prevented me from seeing what she was like. I met her face to face, as one might say, without bing able to got a glimpse of a feature. She was dressed in capote and capello." | "What are they?" asked Varney. "The capello is a long blue cloak, | and the capote is a hood made of cardâ€" board and whalebone, and covered w‘th cloth," explained Scarborough. "Some admit that you h: man usual for your u "More ground tha sval fancy! Why, I ay I saw the capot "And imagined all t alking in the same . Scearborough and Varney exchanged glances. The same thought had ocâ€" curred to them both. was the woâ€" man. after all, Mona de !a Mar?" "What was she like?" asked Scarâ€" borough. "I don‘t know. _ She didn‘t give me a chance to gsee," ‘"What! Did she mm awraw Pram wan "He burried on," said the pineâ€"growâ€" er, "as thouch he thoumht I was chasâ€" ing h‘m. _ In a sense of course I was; but what I mean is that I got the imâ€" pression that hs had some strong reason for avoiding me, so I turned back. It was then that I met the woâ€" man.‘ man in it." . . _ Muriel shook hor t reason idmit â€" everything, unle THE CABLEMAN CHAPTER IX.â€"(Cont‘d) What po up 1 ’”nosmg said nothing more. said Varney, when he and said Varney. "Well, I AN EXCiTING PRESENTâ€"DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY pen with her hand," addâ€" This wearer didn‘t. She ticular care to keep them lered at the time if she w‘th excess of modesty; it of our later knowledgo e it wasn‘t that. So you he added, turning to his had some reason besides saying that there was a her head. "I don‘t see : sa‘d obstinately, "but you had more ground your usual fancy." d than usual! My Thy, I saw her! Anyâ€" capote and capello!" d all the rest. She was same direction as Mr. in qu‘ckly with a ssible reason have that she was purâ€" a yard in front of ip together, and less the wearer orerpn was, 1. 1. Very ikely," said Scarboroug pretty fast, believe he didn‘t like Carrington. speed that : .. C The scene between them had been acted without witnesses. The curtain had gone down upon a tragedy. Bu had the woman caused it? had ruined her. _ She had brought him to bay in the valley of the Caldâ€" e‘ra de Morte. _ The injured and the injurer had met face to face. But what had happened then?" Neither of them felt much doubt about the identity of the hooded woâ€" man now. _ Margaret Ryan had not forgotten her vow of vengeance when she came to the islands of the Azores. She had tracked down the man who "By Jove!" said Varney, and Scarâ€" borough gave a short laugh. Searborough and Varney exchanged a look. "The four deckâ€"hands, the nigger and the â€"r‘ngâ€"mastor. I discharged him last night, so he had no right to be there, Except these six, and Mona de la Mar, nobody," "What does it mean, Phil? Ruin me, of course! â€" But what else I" "Who was on board ?" asked V; ney, Val B. Montague laughed as he gave the news, and saw the look of consterâ€" nation on the young men‘s face. Then with a sudden change of manner, he collapsed, and said in a quavering voice to Varney : f what I say; but if that means, I can‘ problem beyond n My schooncr, the ; from the harbor of P morning, without o permiss‘on. It has I don‘t know where gone." 7 0006 000C 900 .A IDEWOn UG drink whiskey and soda." Look here, Montague, stop talking nonsense, and tell us what you mean." "I mean," said Montague, "exactly what I say; but if you ask me what that means, I can‘t tell you. It is a L usax ns 1 2 aparaber i: Gompabadiatieet fcirtsiafiiiai is d |__ "I haven‘t the least idea. Mr. scar-lsion. Did the baronet mean to chalâ€" ‘borough, sir, I am pleased to meet you lenge his opponent to a duel or was again, but you will no doubt share my bhe mercly threatening him with an regret that I do so under somewhat Oordinary _ licking? However, the depressing cireumstances. I had the Speaker intervened with a rebuke to honor to acquaint you yesterday with Mr. Hogge for his constant interrupâ€" the fact that this show was go‘ng to tions, and the storm subsided. the devil; I have the honor to inform | â€" The war has brought out Sir Hamar you toâ€"day that it has gone. Will you Greenwood wonderfully. Always imâ€" let me have the pleasure of standing bued with a taste for things military you a whiskey and soda?" | â€"was he not for several years a lieuâ€" "What‘s the matter now ?" askeq tenant in the Canadian militia, and Varney. ‘later a major in King Edward‘s _ "The matter is, sir, that the lady Horse?â€"he is now as thoroughâ€"going you asked for just now has deserted. ®" advocate of compuisory service as The name of Mona de la Mar wil} there is in the House of Commons. henceforth not appear on the playbills| His experience at the front has shown of Val B. Montague‘s American Cir. him what are the necessities of the cus Combination. _ In fact, I doubt| case, and he is at once too sane and whether that worldâ€"famous troupe wil}| too shrewd to let any proeconceived cver issue another playbill. Mr. Var.| theories obstruct his vision. His reâ€" ’30.3".] include you in my Invitatinn 1..| cruitin® WoOrk "he Hortarms_ h aom.. Val B. Montague turned a straw, by a dexterous movement of his tongue, from one corner of h‘s mouth to the other, and held out his hand to Scarâ€" borough, saying: ney. ‘ _ _ â€" 3 wUUu who. ~suegested," _ Scarborough reminded him, "that she refused to perform last night because she had business with Carrington." "Great Scott, yes! But th‘ngs have happened since then that she can have had no hand in. Her business wasn‘t murder!" "I don‘t suggest that it was." "But you won‘t take it for granted that she had nothing to do with itâ€" could have nothing to do with it, being the g‘rl I know her to be," | "No," said Scarborough. Varney laughed, but there was vexâ€"‘ ation in the laugh. | "Then," he said, "the only cure for you is to meet the girl herself. If: you‘re not a hopeless fool, you‘ll seef in five minutes that you‘ve been inâ€"‘ sult‘ng her. Hurry up, and let‘s get there as soon as possible." ) Twen‘ty minutes later they disâ€" mounted at the door of the circus building. Val B. Montague was standing looking out into the road. â€" "Where‘s Miss Ryan?" asked Varâ€" pror | "Haven‘t got on@," said Varney, |"unless it‘s that Miss Davis is right, |and that her father is mak‘ng a great deal out of nothing. By the way, I ‘got the impression that he wasn‘t | found of Carrington," ’ "What made you think so?" | "Well, he didn‘t express any sort of | grief at his death, and he seemed very ready to believe that he was running | away from that woman. When a man fears a woman so much that he runs {from her, the most usual theory is that the man has someth‘ng to be asâ€" ; hamed of, It struck me that that was the theory that had occurred to Davis," ‘ "On general grounds ? know anything ?" "I don‘t think so," Presently Scarborou ugain ‘to the enhinl . A V "No, not at present. What‘s your | theory about the hooded woman ?" | ‘°ve that it may have been, u the idea is absured, but y em to be inclined to believe "I want to hear what she y," Scarbu:-uugh returned s "Exactly! _ You suspect h omised to introduce you, and _but I‘m more than half $ omised, and I‘m altogether s er told ou dihawk sn y uonl s yond my understanding. r, the Sneâ€"Horse, sailed rbor of Ponta Delgada ‘this thout my knowledge â€"or ncined to believe mie," o hear what she has to rough returned steadily. You suspect her. I introduce you, and I‘ll do more than half sorry 1 not returned, and or why it has said Scarborough, " n W a prepared to 1 returned | was the hooded tren sharply: 'Gmn Or did he ng at, of You think n. I tell you don‘t WPâ€" Caseyâ€"Is it boastin‘ ye are, or apologizin‘? Which? O‘Brienâ€"Oi can say wan thingâ€" Oi‘m a selfâ€"made man. _, _ "When there are a number of them ‘they will start off, and, after running " a few hundred yards, will stop, and ~/with raised wings will whirl rapidly ? round till they are stupified or perâ€" ° haps break a leg. The males pose ; also before fighting. They kneel on their ankles, cpening their wings and ) balancing themsgeives alternately forâ€" ward and backward or to cne side or , the cther, while the neek is stretched on a level with the back and the head strikes the sides, now on the right,; |now on the loft, while the feathers| are bristling. ‘The bird appears at ) _ this time so absorbed in its occupaâ€" | tion as to forget all that is going on | around him, and can be approached and caught. The male alone utters a | ery, which sounds much like an efâ€" fort to speak with the mouth shut . | tight." | "Why are you inviting Miss Notâ€" avo‘ce to your party if you don‘t like her ?" "To get even with her." « "I don‘t understand your method" "I‘ll give her a perfectly miserable evening by not asking her to sing.""" of South Africa. One of the oddest sights of the sandy stretches of plain in southern Africa is a party of waltzing ostriches. A writer on the subject thus describes their queer antics: cruiting work he performs, by comâ€" mon consent, with equal ardor and abilityv. als. One of these, Mr. Hogge, exâ€" ; citedly shouted: "Why did you leave your regiment?" thus impugning Sir Hamar‘s courage. White with rage, the former Whitby man expressed his intention of taking the earliest opporâ€" tunity of dealing with Mr. Hogge outâ€" side the House. The House, while generally sympathetic to Sir Hamar, whom it knows to be a brave soldier, who only returned from the trenches on the insistence of the Government, was somewhat puzzled at this expresâ€" sion. Did the baronet mean to chalâ€" lenge his opponent to a duel or was he mercly threatening him with an ordinary _ licking? However, the Speaker intervened with a rebuke to Mr. Hogge for his constant interrupâ€" tions, and the storm subsided. } TORONTO of military age who hid themselves in munition factories and elsewhere. He had just mentioned that while Sir John Simon, the exâ€"Home Secretary, might have many friends in Germany, he had none in the British trenches, when he was interrupted by angry cries from a few ultraâ€"pacifist Liberâ€" | Exâ€"Canadian Has Been Converted to ‘ Compulsory Service. Rather an exciting scene in which Sir Hamar Greenwood, formerly of Whithy, Ont., and now a British barâ€" onet, M.P., and colonel, figured, took place in the British House of Comâ€" ‘mons the other day. Sir Hamar, who was for several months in the trenches, has been called back by the Government to take a prominent part in recruiting work. On the occasion in question he was eulogizing the conâ€" duct of Mr. "Willie" Redmond, who, notwithstanding his fiftyâ€"eight years of age, could go to the front, and conâ€" trasting it with that of the shirkers "I wonder what the current is ?" sh mused. "It is sett‘ng dead inshireâ€" but how much? It I allow half a point for drift, that should take me near enough to let me steer by the sound of the surf," (To be Continued). Elsa stood up in her boat, and markâ€" ed the exact direction of the rock for which she was steer‘ng. Fortunately she had had the foresight to bring a compass. She had half a mile to go yet, and the breeze was dying. She would steer by sight, so long as the fog did not hide the rock, if it did she WOu'ld have to trust to her compass. Patches of fog were creeping across the water, and as the evening drew down they thickened and grew wider. The setting sun flashed on water mirâ€" rors of ever dimin‘shing area. In anâ€" other hour it would be dark, but even sooner than that the fog curtain would be unbroken, for minute by minute the rents in it were closing. | SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD. Revenge. e you inviting your party if Bir Hamar Greenwood. * | _ _Don‘t wait until it beg‘ns to Miss Not. sprinkle before starting to lay up you don‘t money for a rainy day, | _ "Green was knocking Rrown terâ€" fribl,v yesterday. I thought they were the best of friends. What has hapâ€" _pened ?" Green to pay back wme he loaned to him." and greator facilities for German shipâ€" pfng.' #»» "‘Everywhere in the German Emâ€" pire there is an ardent longing for peace, and they make no bones about telling you so. There is a distinct, well known peace party. It is headed by the Kaiser, and includes the Chanâ€" cellor, Ballin, Dernburg, Prof. Dolâ€" bruck, Von Jagow, and interests >â€"» resented by the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Borliner Tagoblatt. Bo Do People, But Crown Prince and Generals Favor War. The London Weekly Despatch says: "A well informed neutral just arâ€" r‘ved in Englard from Berlin, in an interview with Frederic William Wile, says: m | _ There was one thing that Professor Haglund noticed with a thrill; the condit‘on of women was undergoing a change. Before the war they "lookâ€" ed up" to the stronger sex and there was complete subordination to it. But now that women have taken the place of men in so many employments and the men have failed in almost two years of war to conquer and cubdue Germany‘s enemics, the women feel that they are of far more imnortance in the community than they used to be. "Now they have," says Professor Hagâ€" lund, "an air of fearlessness and conâ€" scious selfâ€"control." ‘could be so mad as to depreciate the ‘mark, and he was dumfounded when told that it was not considered to be worth any more. Even officers and medical men who returned from the front "were absolutely ignorant of everything that had not happened in their immediate circle of action." Bepâ€" lin was war weary, judged by the np-] pearance and manner of both soldiers and civilians, It may be supposed | that a little of the truth about cond‘â€"‘ tions on all the fronts and the dangerâ€"| our submarines controversy leaks out now and then in Berlin, with the reâ€"| sult that faith in final victory â€" is shaken. I That the German people had no doubt of the satisfactory prosecution of the war by the Government and its successful issue was plain from a talk the professor had with a doctor about the value of the German mark in Sweden. The German doctor, when so informed, asked how the Swoedes _ The newspapers were filled with propaganda articles, in which a speciâ€" men was a panegyric upon the new Belgium as ruled by German army ofâ€" ficers and their civilian aids, "which gave anybody with an ordinary sense of justice l‘ttle more," says Professor Haglund, with reserve, "than a feelâ€" ing of discomfort," ‘ guess Brown must have asked ‘A Swedish Professor Reveals Uuâ€" bevacite , comfortable Conditions. BITSs OP NEWS FROM THB The impression that the German |people are living isolated from the | MARITIME PROVINCESA \rest of the world in dense ignoroneo‘ l uces of what is happe beyond their boandarics ht Leen cenhtined by t5g| Htems © ufF ‘Antercet . Erow:. Pincek SBwedish professor, Patrik Hulund.? Lapped By Waves of the who visited Germany recently on a| l’;mx'k gf observation, says the New' Atlantie ork Sun. _ "The people in the shops, t un !in the streets, in the resaunnu‘..:%‘: fiffi?”‘;,f,";’;”’ ppan unusual know nothing," says Professor HAZâ€"| ‘The new building of the St. John‘s lund, _ When he met old friends or N.B, Post Office has just been com made new ones they "thoroughly pleted. drained" him of news. He found| Upwards of 40 steamers were that the censorship kept the people "in f\;(:lr‘c!tlxwd in St. John‘s Harbor during ignorance of everything that might ° * give rise to inconvenient rcflections."‘”“Th;e':::‘i;g;ag:f “fi:&'“}g thl"!‘.‘:,t(m The papers contained only official war Skins sE f news, and all of it favorable to Gerâ€"| Soeores of West Indians from their man arms. Picking up a copy of the pattalion, are in the hospital at Haitâ€" Fr‘ankfurter Neueste Nachrichten at A fax suffering from frost bites. ra‘lway station, Professor Haglund| Three bodies of infants were found was amazed to see spread all over the On three consecutive days recently, front page an article entitled "Assasâ€" one at PFairville, N.B., and the others sination in War," which told its readâ€"!!" the vicinity, ers how the British Government had _A St. John, N.B, paper says that not murdered ten or more Englishmen "",we tfie St Jo.h.n fif'p frave sugar hish whose ofense ~was that they had i:]rflfi;s een anywhere near the present Sh:\yn sympathy for Germany. Sm;wfnll for March in Fradariotan KAISER WAXNTs PRACE A NEUTRAL IN GERMANY. A Likely Reason [GILLETT‘S LYE] of the money SPOKK mxcq: CO., Chemists For sale by livered by For Coughs, Colds and Distemper. and at 1 toms of any such alliment give small doses derful remedy, now the most used in exil; Watch Your Colts | _ "Do you think kissing is as â€" ns to ous as the doctor‘s sey ?" + lay up| know it has put an end to mar | fArmed bachelors." po" on most usgd in existence NB DISTEMPER COMPOUXP. any good drU&&i®t, harness deai» Sheâ€"I couldn‘t help it ful Mss Oldun said t wasn‘t married was be had proposed to me, so her you had. Heâ€"But 1 asked you keep our engagement a the present. Sheâ€"I couldn‘t hats i Toward the first of the mortality was 4.5 per cent. but since the improveme»: medical service and the disve remarkable number of now to the advaentage of science | materially increased. 1 is Cog _ j3 (0° Hemico«sungical stat. istics for the entire French army, has just stated that the mortality at ppe. sent is only 2 per cent. His figures, made up and averaged lrom the ye. ports from all French military hog. pitals, at least give an authoritative answer to American quer 2s, He says : "Out of every 100 patients at present being recieved and| treated at our hospitals 98 are sent away in vaâ€" covery," Dr. Jaques Bert‘lion, who i charge of the medicoâ€"surg‘ cal istics for the onti_re French army Amidst the neverâ€"ceasing reports of the tremendous loss of life occasioned by the present European war thore has been a growing curiosity to know just how many of the woundod who are brought back to the hospitals reâ€" cover. _ In previous wars where in. struments of death wore loss thorough it was known that the death rate in military hospitals was about 80 por cent. Only Two Per Cent. of us S enE nemeng . en WOK, A few days ago the Natural History Museum at 8t. John, N.B., received a magnificent skin of a South American anaconda, the gift of a former resident of the city, Mr. Roy Harding The snake skin measures 19 feot & inches without the bead. The reptile was killed near Sao Paulo, Brazil. _ At Digby recently the highest prices on record have been obtained for Iarge and mediumâ€"sized | lobsters shipped alive to the U.S. markets. Stormy weather in March prevented the fishor. men from going out. At present there is no infoctious disâ€" ease in the outports except at Port Rexton where a case of simallpox was reported last week,. The recent outâ€" break of diphtheria at Stephanville has been completely chocked. to the scene of the gathering on snow shoes. A supper was served by Inâ€" dian cooks and a huge bonfire was lighted. The farm residence of Private John Watson, one of the returned heroes doâ€" Ing duty at the Provincial Parltement Buildings, was burned to the ground At a winter plenic held near Frodâ€" ericton, some of the picnickers went Of 52 silverâ€"black fox skins sent to New York and Boston from P.EL, 20 were sold at an average of $726; 10 of these brought an average of $945 each; 8 brought $1,000 each, A hero of Digby is Lanceâ€"Corporal Alexander Grigwold Viets, who returnâ€" ed last week from England, having lost the sight of both eyes in action. The Ladies‘ Association of the Natâ€" ural History Society are offering a large number of valuable prizes to the school children of 8St. John for making bird houses. Several youu‘ ladies of Halifax have decided to fill positions now o6 cupied by men, in order that the latter may go to the front. The St. John‘s Young Ladies Patriotic Association are actively sookâ€" ing positions for women to release men for war service, The new steel bridge on the LCR. at Cross Creck has been put in place. It is 45 feet in length and rests on new concrete abutinents. Snowfall for March in Fredericton was more than 18 inchesâ€"six times greater than the amount for the month last; year. A St. John, N.B, paper says that not since the St. John fire have sugar high prices been anywhere near the present mark. season of prosperity. \ _ ‘The new building of the St. John‘s | N.B,, Post Ofice has just been com \pleted. Three bodies of infants were found on three consecutive days recently, one at Fairville, N.B., and the others in the vicinity, From the Ocean Shore MODERX SURGERY, Conplinwn!ury. OoF NEWS FROM THR MARITIME PROVINCES& _ of Interest From Placeg Wounded Die. U.5.A, Or s say?" 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