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We know several women who, with Peel bananas, remove threads, and children, have met suceess in work when pie ia done slice fruit over cusâ€" outside of the home and at the same tard, cover at once with meringue of time managed a beautiful family life. °gg whites, powdered sugar and oneâ€" One woman, with three little,children, fourth teaspoonful vanilla, and bake managed to support the entire family ten minutes in slow oven. when her husband was ecrippled. Anâ€"‘ i imencns other, with two children and a haby.g Useful â€" Hints. ;'3: s:o‘h:;nm‘kl?t:t;r?t“,1:;‘;: th(‘: Biscuits should always be started other has sent children through col. !" &A very hot oven. _ & lege by representing magazines, and , White silk blouses will not turn yelâ€" in no case was the home neglected. *°W 'f washed e cold water, _ But in very case the women were willâ€"‘ _ Never hur;‘y "’1“.' bread-mg:mg. If ing to put their work definitely beâ€" Y°Uu do, the'nrea'( is apt to octg fore "society" dress and detail. _ Any 'W.hen frying fish, the fat should .be woman can find that she can spend 18 boiling hot before the fish are put in. hours a day in a home if she wants‘ . Cream cheese and dates make good to, but that doe: not mean that the "'”_',"%’_ for a brownâ€"bread sandwich. to give up an excess of telephoning to friends, gossip and chitâ€"chat. They may not be willing to spend fewer hours running from shop to shop looking for a waist 50 cents lower ind spending in doing it three valuâ€" able hours in which at concentrated work they could certainly have earnâ€" ed several dollars. _ They may not be willing to give up an undue amount of amusement and social life which cats more time out of the average woman‘s day than any one has estiâ€" mated. We all want to be neighâ€" borly and to have friends, but that does not mean telephoning for an hour after breakfast to find out what soâ€". andâ€"so wore, or what she said, or where they are going. 1 Dainty Dishes Potatoes with Carrots.â€"Peel and of her complex household duties. The sole reason for difference beâ€" tween these two women is undoubtâ€" edly that the former can concentrate, and that she has in mind comething over and beyond her housework, worthy of concentration. _ She wantâ€" ed to take the subscriptions, she wantâ€" ed to develop as her husband‘s bookâ€" keeper, she wanted to find time to be her children‘s companion. So she studied and shortened her work, and concentrated, thinking of the most imâ€". portant ends first and not pusting unâ€", due prominence on the details. | must spend a certain amount of time, Imperial Salad.â€"To oneâ€"half cup (registered only in her own mind) on Washed, schaped and chopped celery certain household tasks. _ She may add equal measure of canned pineapâ€" wonder why other women seem to P!¢ chopped and drained thoroughly. have more time; why others, in fact, S02k one and oneâ€"fourth tablespoons have "a career," when it takes her|Eranulated gelatin in oneâ€"fourth cup‘ every minute of her waking hours ©!4 water for five minutes and disâ€" merely to manage the home. _ Now, if Solve in oneâ€"fourth cup boiling water. there is one fault greater than others Strain and add to first mixture, then which we lay against women in their 244 oneâ€"fourth cup each of vinegar present state we would say it is lack! @4 sugar, twoâ€"thirds .cup canned| of power to concentrate. _ How they Pincapple syrup, one and oneâ€"half can "fritter time away"! _ Take two tablespoons lemon juice and a few women, each with two babies and Z*A4D8 Ssalt. _ Turn into individual supposedly indentical tasks in their M%UIds, first dipped in cold water, and respective homes. One woman is ¢hill thoroughly. Remove from mold:«I able to carry on club work or take to nests of crisp lettuce leaves and subscriptions for a magazine or sell *¢"Y@ With mayonnaise. l homg-made bread, thus increasing the! Lady Fingers.â€"Add two heaping: family income. _ The other woman is tablespoons powdered sugar to stimy: constantly trying to wind up the beaten whites of three eggs. Add‘ household red tape and come to an end. to these wellâ€"beaten yolks of two oggs of Nher comnIox mAancomall AurkSse L anmt®) eversetBhe |Sneskudy o4 Ne ut Wrunecg l” About the House _ And so it goes. The average houseâ€" keeper is quite convinced that such and such things must be done as they have always been done, and that she must spend a certain amount of time (registered only in her own mind) on certain household tasks. She may wonder why other women seem to have more time; why others, in fact, have "a career," when it takes her "Oh, but I must wash on Monday!" exclaims the methodical housewife, "and of course we must have a hot dinner on Sunday noon. _ We‘ve alâ€" ways had it.‘ is composed of clean, whole young leaves. Picked right, blended right and packed right. It brings the fragrance of an Eastern garden to your table. lls n A A is comnosed #uk > @eKens ar muule Ne > use en fais us ui Fresh and Refreshing Learn Art of Concentration. When frying fish, the fat should be boiling hot before the fish are put in. Cream cheese and dates make good filling for a brownâ€"bread sandwich. Cabbage leaves contain a great deal Banana Cream Pie.â€"Two â€"cupfuls milk, three eggs, threeâ€"quarters cupâ€" ful granulated sugar, oneâ€"fourth cupâ€" ful corn starch, oneâ€"fourth teaspoonâ€" ful salt, two bananas, three tableâ€" spoonfuls powdered sugar, vanilla, flaky pastry. _ Scald milk and ctir into it granulated sugar, corn starch mixed with a little cold milk, and salt. When smooth and thick, cool a little and stir in one whole eg¢g and two. egg yolks, lightly beaten together. Flavor with oneâ€"half teaspoonful vanâ€" illa and pour into pie plate lined with pastry. _ Oven should be hot at first, then moderated ‘to prevent boiling. Peel bananas, remove threads, and when pie ia done slice fruit over cu&' tard, cover at once with meringue of : egg whites, powdered sugar and oneâ€"| fourth teaspoonful vanilla, and bake: ten minutes in slow oven. | \_ Steamed Veal Cutlet.â€"One and oneâ€" half pounds veal cutlets, one egg, one pint milk, one tablespoon flour, one tablespoon butter, cracker or bread crumbs. _ Have veal sliced thin and |eut into pieces cuitable for individual service. â€" Beat egg slightly, add salt and pepper to it, and dip veal in. _Rojl in cracker crumbs, brown in butter or any desired fat, sprinkle with a little more salt and pepper and‘ place in pan which will fit in steamer. Make cream sauce of butter, flour and milk, add to it few grains baking soda,‘ pour over veal and steam two hours.f For any such cooking as this canned| milk is invaluable and incxpensive as | well as convenient. _ Thin it to deâ€" sired consistency and use in the same| way as fresh milk. _ Or keep it thickâ€", er than fresh milk and omit flour. ‘ and vanilla extract. Fold in oneâ€" half cup flour, which has been sifted twice, with pinch of salt. _ Line pan with paper but do not grease it, and precs batter through pastry tube on it. Form into strips four inches long and one inch wide. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, and bake in moderate oven ten minutes. ! To make a good meringue, allow Lady Fingers.â€"Add two heaping tablespoons powdered sugar to stiffly beaten whites of three eggs. _ Add to these wellâ€"beaten yolks of two eggs boil six goodâ€"sized potatoes. When cooked, rub through wire sieve and season with salt and pepper and warm butter. â€"Use a little milk to moisten them. _ Beat well and mound with knife in beehive shape on vegeâ€" table dish. _ Have tender sliced carâ€" rots warming in butter. _ Lay carâ€" rots, dot top with a few carrot slices and serve hot. \ Useful Hints and General Informaâ€" tion for the Busy Housewife as this canned| "Alil Ali! Alit" inexpensive as| This is not a temporary form of Thin it to deâ€" madness, either, for he has kept it up es h e . e EW : P Fold in oneâ€" 7i im TY ple of mice fight‘ngâ€"actually fighting in the corner of it!" "Well, sir," reâ€" plied mine host coldly, "and what dy‘e expect for two shullings a nightâ€" a bull fight. High Finance. "Another new hat? You chould really save your money with the price of everything go‘ng up." A stranded traveler reluctantly took a room at a somewhat shabby village ‘nn in England recently, _ He retired to rest, but ten minutes later came downstairs again, with anger in his face. _ "I must insist on having anâ€" other room, sir!" he informed the innkeeper sternly.â€" "What‘s the matâ€" ter with the one you‘ve got?" asked the latter. _ "Matter!" snapped the angry man. _ "Why there are a couâ€" "But why? Th lo‘nger I save the less I can buy with it." | _ Everyone venerates him. The richâ€" ’ost- men in the city have presented \him with rare gifts. One of them | gave him a horse and saddle, and with | that he gallops through the streets when he is not walking. He is priviâ€" [Iegcd to break up any kind of a meetâ€" ing or assembly, and all stop and lisâ€" ten to his cries as long as he is of the l notion to stay in their midst. | for twenty years or so. He started it | when he was still a young man, and 4his idea, of course, is to venerate the |name of the God he knows by ceaseâ€" ‘ilessly shrieking his name. At his death a huge monument has already been promised, on which will be carved the word "Ali," so it will tell to generations to come the story of the man who spent the best years of his life and all of his waking hours shrieking the name of the deity he worshipped. One particularly crazy man, accordâ€" ing to Mr. Fetter, the craziest man he ever saw or heard of, does nothing all day long but race up and down the streets crying at the top of his voice: Where Lunatics Are Looked Upon as ; Wonderful Beings. It appears there are places where lunatics are not shut up and kept away from the rest of the world, but are revered as saints and far superior to the ordinary run of mortals. This is the queer state of affairs that exists in some of the interior cities of Persia. A British traveller named Foetber, reâ€" cently returned from the Orient, brings back come interesting talss of the mentallyâ€"deranged men who are looked upon in the light of wonderful beings. Chief Librarian of the Loindon, Onâ€" tario, Public Librury, who has been appointed Provincial Inspecâ€" tor of Public Libraries. will always be crisp soda water. When making egg custard pies, alâ€" ways heat the milk to the boiling point before mixing it with the eggs. If this rule is followed the undererust C miraPintedling & s ~ullekinihiaids tds 4c It is a pretty notion when arranging the butter for a luncheon to form each portion into a cone and stick a sprig of parsley in the top of each cone. No fruit jar that has been standing for weeks is free from germs. â€" Beâ€" fore putting fruit in them they should be thoroughly sterilized by boiling in The apron with two enormous pockâ€" ets is a great convenience when putâ€" ting the house in order. . So many things can be stuffed in the pockets, ’m tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar to the white of one egg. _ To keep moths out of the piano, rub the 'oo&ork inside of the case freâ€" quently with turpentine. [ Delicious extract of either orange or lemon can be made by paring the rinds off as thin as paper and putting them into a bottle of alcohol. A good recipe to follow in making thin white sauce for vegetables is a tablespoonful of butter and a tableâ€" spoonful of flour to one cup of milk. l REVERED AS SAINTS Library Inspector Unreasonable o+ ce sn it, "The sealed packet which you will find with this lqtter contains docuâ€" ments which must at all costs be kept out of the hands of people who would use them to your and my injury. I do not trust to my own ability to safeâ€"guard them, nor is it possible for me, watched as I believe I am, to put them into any place of safety.‘ That must be your task. â€" Those who are shadowing me will not consider it necessary to watch you also. â€" Take the packet, and put it in the safe:‘.] tla.:e that you know. â€" When I reâ€" urn, if Iâ€"do return, I shall not ask] you where it is. .| _ "My dear daughter,â€"I told you this ‘morning â€"that â€" when you returned (from Ponta Delgada you might posâ€" ‘sibly find that I was not at home to |g‘reet you, and to hear your report of l;what and whom you had seen. I might have told you that the posâ€" ']’sibili‘y was a certainty, but I did not { wish to alarm you. _ By the time you return I shali have succeeded or ;failed, in an enterprise, the cucceess ‘ot‘ which is so essential, that to enâ€" | sure it, 1 am voluntarily putting mayâ€" self in some danger. _ While you are ‘doing your best at Ponta Delgada to |disc0vcr who the unknown enemy is, I shall be engaged in a similar conâ€" |est with an enemy who of late has jtnken to using threats. _ Now, little igir],~betwaen the known enemy and |the unknown, I run a double risk of . |failure, and this is what you must| {help me to avoid. | Elsa opened it an hour after Scarâ€" borough had left her. This was what it obtained : This paper was marked, "To my daughter, Elsa, to be opened by her toâ€"morrow at noon, if by that time I have not returned to destroy it," It will be remcmbcred that when Elsa set out to go to the cireus at Ponta Delgada, her father‘s last words to her had been that ifâ€"â€"unlikely as such a chance seemed at the timeâ€" he was not at the Chinclas when she returned, she would find in bis desk, in the second small drawer on the left, a paper that would tell her what she was +o do. "I am not a fanci{ful man, Elsa, but Later had come the reaction. She took up her faith again, the more "unâ€" reasonably because reason had forced her to lay it down; and she despised herself for the weaknes= in allowing the calumny to influence her even for a moment. There was something of obstinacy in thisâ€"the obstinacy of a strong nature which fights the more tenaciously when facts and commonâ€" sense alike are> against it, and it knows quite well that it is in the wrong; and there was even more of the beautiful loyalty with which every true woman will always, at whatever violence to hor own judgment of right and wrong, defend those whom she loves. I ately that since might goâ€"for al hated him. â€" Sh on the couch, and for at that mo was in her hear was true! her mind, but she hadvstrang]ed the;;nl[. "Goodâ€"bye, little girl. I think this at the generals who are leading the remorsclessly at their birth, and by an is the longest letter I have over writ. atrocityâ€"army in the trenches in effort of will made herself believe that‘ *°" to Y9u. I have one thing more to France and Russiaâ€"study the porâ€" they had never been born. There was, 294 to it If you have hbegun to tr@its of Von Bulow, Hindenburg, and however, one moment when the doubts 49Ubt me in some things, at any rate Mackensen. Can any sane person had been too strong to be stifled thus;‘ Y°" have never doubted that J love r°@lly see in their features any semâ€" they had cried clamorously, and had Y9W In days to come your estimate blance of kindness, of justice or of refused to be choked; and for halfâ€"anâ€" Of Y9ur father may change; you will bumanity? Forgetting for a moment hour she had tasted a misery more hear things that will try your faith,. @ll that has happened,: is it possible bitter even than that which had come But never believe that he did not love | to find in their sunken, staring eyes when she first knew that her father Y°Uâ€" It is for your sake that I am NY expression of love or pity? was dead. That moment was when I98"NZ danger toâ€"day; it is for your| That there are numerous traces of she listened to Scarborough‘s tale of °2K¢ that I hope for success, that I bandsomeness there can be no doubt, the embezzlement of Margaret Ryan‘s MSY return to you to be happy, for And specially is this so in Hindenâ€" inheritance, and had told him passionâ€" * ht“f! while longer in your love. ‘bur'g’s face, l?ut it is a handsomeness ately that since he believed, it, he‘, "It is time now that I was starting. Of its own kindâ€"that, indeed, which might goâ€"for almost she thought she ! C2N00t write more. But again, darlâ€" seems strangely akin to beauty of hated him. â€" She had thrown herself NZE» £004â€"bye." preâ€"civilized days. There are, too. «ne did; and, for the rest, she tried to force herself not to think. She had not kept her faith without a struggle. Misgivings had arisen in her mind, but she had strangled them remorsclessly at their birth, and by an effort of will made herself believe that they had never been born. There was, however, one moment when the doubts had been too strong to be stifled thus: | She was an expert and fearless ihoatwoman, but she was not accuf»! tomed to having to depend altogether !upon herself in her expeditions. The: boas was a present which her father| had given her a little more than a} 'year ago; but with the present, hel ‘had coupled a stipulation that she | should never go out in it alone. _ The‘ |irregular coasts of San Miguel breed ; . mt 10 ECCA NT AASeel Creed | treacherous currents, _ and _ wind squalls are sudden; but even had the lwaters been as safe ‘as the Solent, Elsa‘s boat was too big for one girl to manage. _ This, therefore, was the first occaâ€" sion on which she had been out in it alone; but toâ€"day acommanian was im._| alone; but toâ€"day a companion was imâ€" posâ€"ible. _ For she had work to do which no eye but her own must see. Did she still believe in her father‘s innocence? â€" She was acting as though ghe did: and. far the rack cha «uts pi_ she did; and, for the force herself not to ter. _ But the opening in the circular wall was hardly more than ten feet across, and underneath there was a broad sill, which rose to within two fathoms of the surface. â€" It was a dangerous entrance, even for a smal boat, and when the wind blew from the west, impossible; but Elsa knew it well, and thought that she could manage it, even alone. 3 iest hurricane that ever . blvefiv;', "i‘!'- it had been possible fpr any ship to enâ€" It was a place where a ship might have ridden out in safety the heavâ€" CHAPTER X.â€"(Cont‘d.) The islet for which she was steering lay a little more than two miles from the shore, with deep water close up to its flanks. It was ringâ€"shaped, like a Pacific atoll, but its formation was different. _ Not the slow, quiet growth of coral insects had made it, but a conâ€" vulsion of nature. It was the sumâ€" mit of a deepâ€"water volcano, whose crater raised a brim, a hundred yards across, out of the sea. There was one place on the West, where for a few feet this brim had been broken down, leaving agap by which a boat might enter; and the water inside made nnl almose circular lagoon. Local tradition said that it was botâ€" tomless. ‘THE CABLEMAN ince he believed, it, he )r almost she thought she She had thrown herself , and sobbed hysterically; moment the knowledge heart that what he said AN EXCITING PRESENTâ€"DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY She was not alone. Voices of men close at hand came to her through the fog. â€" She brought her boat close to the rock wall, and was feeling with a boatâ€"hook for the mouth of the fissure, when a sound from the outside struck her ears. \__She took the beat in through the ‘ opening, and made for a spot on the ‘east of the circle. There was a funâ€" nelâ€"shaped fissure in the rock wall here, which even at low tide containâ€" ‘ed a fathom of black water. She had sounded it on the last occasion on which she had visited the Ringâ€"Rock, and it was this funnel shaped fissure that she meant to use for her hidâ€" ingâ€"place. _ She had painted the jar‘ black, so that it should not be visible against the bassalt, and she had tied! many loops: of strong picture wire about its neck so that she could reâ€" cover it by grappling when her mothâ€" er came. She had the packet with her, sealâ€" ed in a great stone jar. It was thin and flat, and had rolled easily into a shape that would pass through the jar‘s neck. she took a dreary pleasure in carryâ€" ing out the task which he had laid upon her. The safest place she knew. That was surely the Ringâ€"Rock, round whose flanks she could now, through the fog, hear the water swirling. Her love carried her as once to the other extreme of speculation. Was her father not a victim, but a hero? He had made a great effort, and he said that he made it for her sake; she did not understand that, bu*t he had written the words. Did he know that the effort would cost him his life? Sha canvassed this thought, anrrlfli! secmed to her that it was the truth. She found a certain comfort in it, and Thtre was much in the letter that she did not understand. _ Her father plainly looked for death as the issue of his effort; but what sort of death? At the hands of the enemy whom he was going to meet?â€"murder? Then why that reference to the hardships of his youth, and the weak place they had left? For the first time che aiâ€" lowed herself to hope that her father‘s end had not been violent, after all. Suddon it must have been, but perâ€" hapsâ€" I Elsa read this letter with tears streaming down her face. _ Whatever the man may have been in life, only a _churl would deny that this message from him in death was pathetic. If he was a scoundrel, he had never been so to this daughter; and in his skilful discounting of the revelations that must come after his death, there was a melancholy cleverness. _ He fought for the continuance of her love, and it was plain that while he pleaded he feared. _ Ag present Elsa saw only | the pleadings; it was not until later days that she recognized, with a sorâ€" rowing pity, that the tear was there too. Elsa | "Your mother is on her way to join us. _ She will arrive on the Funâ€" ‘chal from Lisbon on the tenth of the month. _ If on that daze I am unable ‘to meet her, if my presentimentâ€" ‘after all, I think it is a presentiment, lEl: aâ€"has by that time come true, I wish you to recover this package from the safe place in which you have beâ€" stowed it, and to give it into her hands. _ When you do so, te!l her also. that my last message +o her, spoken | by the lips of you, her daughter is | that, she is to respect the wish I have expressed in a letter to her which the packet contains. She will underâ€" stand; you will not. _ For the rest, be guided by her. | |ed to avoid, but I have no choice: I ‘tell you this unwillingly, and for the :’fint time; but it is necessary that you _’should be ready, if I fail, to take up |the work where I leave it. | _ "Now you will askâ€"what is the |work? My daughter, it is the reâ€" |habilitation of my name. 1 have 'thought lately that you were beginnâ€" ing to doubt whether my anxiety on ‘this point was not becoming weaker. ;Elsa, I say to you solemnly, that it is [as strong now as ever it was. â€" But having said that, I am now going to ‘add something which you will, perâ€" haps, not understand. It is this : I ‘hand over the work to you, but I lay \no charge upon you to complete i. |Nay, more, under certain cireumâ€" stances, I forbid you to complete it. I do not even make you the judge of those cireumstances. That is an! office which I leave, not to you, but to your mother. I have written those four words. ‘I | do not return‘ deliberately. Of late I have had a feelingâ€"a fanciful man would say a presentimentâ€"that my |end is not far off. I have lived alife of varied activities, some useful, and some perhaps not so useful, and the lstnin of old efforts is beginning to \tell upon me. In the early years of ‘my manhood I suffered great physical hardships, and they left a weak place; | before I left London my doctor warnâ€" |ed me that the weak place was becomâ€" ing weaker. The effort which I must !make toâ€"dayâ€"an effort, which for yourl‘ sake as well as miric, is ineviubleâ€"‘ l is of the sort which I have been warnâ€" CHAPTER XL drew back her boatâ€"hook from I GEGCWBT BBR NN B MB PEPITCG . |_ Then study photographs of our own "Well, now, and d‘ye think a stone _ generals. Can you discover those done it ?" "crafty, catâ€"like glances, that animal R type of head, that relentless, sneering awih ‘ mouth? Do not the photographs of Associations. Kitchener, of Haig, and of Jellicoe A few days after a farmer had sold | inspire confidence? Is there not someâ€" a pig to a neighbor, he chanced to , thing about their look akin to the pass his place and saw his little boy | human mind ? , sitting on the edge of the pen, watchâ€" [ Study, also, the portrait of General ing its new occupant. \Joffre. Is there not about this man "How d‘ye do, Johnny?" said he. a look of sympathetic understanding? "How‘s your pig toâ€"day ?" iTrue, there are traces of emotion‘ "O, pretty well, thank you," â€" reâ€" | about the eyes, but it is an emotion plied the boy. "How‘s all your which seems to ring true. "A happy, folks?" Now have a look at the Kaiser‘s portrait, Not the searching, almost piercing eyes, his sneerâ€"like mouth, his â€" irregular scattered â€" moustache. Watch, too0, his pose when he is laughâ€" ingâ€"that peculiar mocking grin that seems to scorn all treasured tradiâ€" tions. That there are numerous traces of handsomeness there can be no doubt, and specially is this so in Hindenâ€" burg‘s face, but it is a handsomeness of its own kindâ€"that, indeed, which seems strangely akin to beauty of preâ€"civilized days. There are, too, marked qualities of cleverness. But is there anyone who could study their short, clipped hair, and tightlyâ€"closed mouths, and not believe it is a ruthâ€" less cleverness? Take the case of the Huns. Look at the generals who are leading the atrocityâ€"army in the trenches in France and Russiaâ€"study the porâ€" traits of Von Bulow, Hindenburg, and Mackensen. Can any sane person really see in their features any semâ€" blance of kindness, of justice or of Neither Kindness, Justice Nor Humanâ€" ity Are Seen. "My face is my fortune," is a little phrase most of us have heard; but recent events have demcnstrated that one‘s physiognomic expression may also be one‘s ruin. She put an car in the sternâ€"notch, and began sculling towards the enâ€" trance. A voice from close at hand rang sharply on her ears. "Rocks dead aheadâ€" Starboard!" (To be Continued.) l She must finish her work before it lifted to betray her. | ~ She lowered the stone jar into the fissure, and pushed her boat quickly away from the side. Hardly had sh> done so, when by some caprice of the air currents, the fog cleared away so completely, that from the middle of her little harbor, she could see the whole circle of the basalt walls. It was only a local clearness; in the gathering dusk of the evening she could see through the narrow entrance that the heavy billowing masâ€"es of whiteness were still twisting and heaving on the sea outside. tual words, and she could hear plainly that the language was English. The fog swept down upon her again in a thick blanket. She could not see three yards shead. The thickening of the gloom was sudden, and probably only local. _ But while it lasted she was safe from observation. She heard the voices 'agn‘n;,â€"- :n:i this time they seemed quite close. She coulgi almost distinguish the acâ€" in a fog on the water. _ i’ro;;f; some bco_at was passing in the distance. the fissure, and stood up in the boat, listening with a sgrained intensity of concentration. She was quite sure that they were men‘s voices that she had heard; but were the men a long way off or close to her? She knew how deceptive is the nature of sound MoCZ C CREWE Recmigesern memarons GEN HINDENBURCG‘s PACE ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS distinguish the acâ€"| "A soldier is merely a tool in the : could hear plainly "mlchilw of war," a German writer was English. The|hn declared. And certainly Hindenâ€" pon her again in .lburg. Crown Prince & Co. have lived She could not see up to that maxim. The thickening of _ And the Allics? Where is the eviâ€" BPEHK MEDICL sales has about one chance in fifty ,""’.‘é;iw"i?ii STABLEZ DISTZEMZER. _ " SPOMNB" is your true meatast inss ow ud PP WPVAz & trea t 11 Horse Sale Distemper You know that when you buy or sall throneh le \\! . CO, Chemigcts and Bacterlologists, G.skcnu, Ind., VS.4. There was the usual crowd of specâ€" tators, among whom was a timidâ€" looking man in spectacles, who at last ven‘ured to speak to the constable on duty. Crushing. It was the morning after a visit from the Zepps, and a certain sirect "somewhere in London® was sprinkâ€" led with broken glass. lown at him "Well, now Mr. Gladstone had reached his eightieth year when he was called to undertake the Premicrship of the greatest Empire in the world for the {fourth time. There is much truth in the old sayâ€" ing that a man is just as old as he feels, and many a man feels as young at eighty as another does av thirty, and the former is often a better man than the latter, even if he can‘t lift as much,. It‘s ideas that rule manâ€" kind, not fists. "mailed" or otherwise. Tennyson was remarkable both for the quantity and quality 0/ the work he did in old age. He wrote that supreme lyric, "Crossing the Bar," when past eighty. One of his most famous poems, "Locksley Hall," was written when he was a mere boy of twoâ€"andâ€"twenty, and its sequel, every bit as fine, sixty years after, as its title shows. The late Dr. Alfred Russel Walâ€" lace, O.M., issued one of his biggest and most learned books when he had passod his ninetieth year. Me actualâ€" ly wrote four big books after be passed his cightieth vear! An Gid Saying That a Man is Just as ~Old as He Feels. The cry of "Too old at forty!" hasâ€" in one sense, at any rateâ€"got its death blow during the prosent war. The older men have becn calied to fill the places of the yourgsters who have gone to the front, and they have filled them well, says London Anâ€" swere. T purpose of "taking a trench at all costs"" Mas it not been written of Jofl‘ve that he "nibbles," and of French that he "bites ?" And what of Tommy and Jean? Is there not respoct and love for their officers throvgbout the ranks ? up to that maxim. And the Allies? dence that our men into hadesâ€"like situa purpose of "taking costs"" HMas it not Jofvre that he "nibbl that he "bites ?" An Has not the Huns‘ army been rushâ€" ed on and on without regard to homan life? The actual doings of the gencrals named above are curiously analogous to the delineations of the faceâ€"readâ€" ings. A contented face" is how someone once wrote about France‘s great ecommandâ€" er. And there are suggestions of a happy, contented mind, too! this the reu ked nervously > policeman "roo oLD AT Pogyy buy or sell through the ‘d, for as sure As ’?1- u_ will soorf be rid of the ventive, no matter how (ttle, or dozen bottles, at ses or delvered by the Allies? Where is the eviâ€" our men have been hurled like situations for the mere s he and re ult of the looked replied d‘ve th airâ€"raid pityingly