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l, af;;’; L, 30 4 Egg Salad.â€"Cut hardâ€"boiled eggs into thick slices or into quarters. Use a sharp knife, so the cuts will be clean. _ Arrange each portion on a leaf of lettuce partly covered with mayonnaise and arrange the lettuce Italian â€" Meat â€" Balls. â€"Press two pounds round steak and two ounces of beef snet through food chopper, add oneâ€"half cup of bread crumbs, two beaten eggs, one tablespoon grated onion, one teaspoon salt andâ€"sixth teaspoon pepper. Mix thoroughly and form into small bails. _ Put one cae tomatoes in stew pan, addd oneâ€" half cup water. one sliced onion, one greon pepper cut in <«mall pieces, three cloves, bit of bay leaf, one tablespoon butter, one teaspoon sugar and one teaspoon salt; let simmer half an hour and press through sieve. Pour sauce into casserole, heat to boiling point, add meat balls. cover and let cook one hour. Place meat balls on heated platter, urround with cooked spagâ€" hetti, peur sauce over whole and sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese. Good Salads. Celery and Walnut Salad.â€"Wash and clean celery. _ Cut into small pieces oneâ€"third the quantity of Engâ€" lish walnut meat broken in two, and enough mayonnaise to moisten well. Garnish with lettuce. Strawberry Tarts.â€"Roll pie dough oneâ€"eighth inch thick and cut into rounds of correct size to cover invéertâ€" ed circuiar tins. _ Cover tins with dough, prick several times with fork and bake until delicate brown. Fill with fresh strawberries cooked in rich yrup, or other desired fruit. Lamb Chops With Peppers.â€"Two pounds lamb chops, three tablespoons butter, two small onions, two green peppers, one cup canned tomato, one About the MHouse ___â€"~ Teaâ€" of "SALADA" for every two cupsâ€"boiling waterâ€"and five minutes‘ infusion will produce a most delicious and invigorating beverage. Dainty Dishes. of kindness and mutual understandâ€" ing which each one very loyally is trying to create. This desire of social comity is not | introduced by the wife and the husâ€" band into the home alone, but is shown I ‘in almost all their acts, towards inâ€" | | feriors and equals as well. | in a circle on a flat dish, the stem of the leaf toward the center of the dish, Place a few lilies of the valley or daisies in the middle. Spring Salad.â€"Peel, chill and slice tomatoes. _ When ready to serve, covâ€" er each clice with thinly sliced new onions and radishes cut in same way to give crispness to each mouthful. Instead of thin slices of radishes, just as thin ~lices of kohirabi may be used. Serve with French dressing or mariâ€" nate in French dressing and serve with mayonnaise. Useful Hints. If the leisurely meal of the family is supper, it is a good idea to use the best china and linen for that time. If the custard in your pies shrinks, the oven has been too hot. The cusâ€" tard should not boil in the oven. green coloring pasts into â€" cream choese, giving it a delicate color like a bird‘s egg. _ Roll it into balls the size of bird‘s eggs, using the back or smooth side of butter pats. _ Arrange on a flat dich some wellâ€"crimped letâ€" tuce leaves. _ Group them to look like nests, moisten them well with French dressing and place five of the cheese balls in each nest of | leaves. The cheese balls may be varied by flecking them with black, white or red pepper. If preferred, the nests may be shredâ€" ded with lettuce leaves. Olives, celery and cold macaroni on lettuce leaves make a good salad. Any soft wood may be used for a cedar chest if the inside is thoroughâ€" ly soaked with oil of cerad. Save the liquor in which meat has been boiled and use if for the foundaâ€" â€"Save the liquor in w been boiled and use if 1 tion of vegetable soup Cauliiower Salad.â€"Wash well in cold water. _ Boil in plenty of salt water until the vegetable is soft. Drain off the water. _ Break the vogeâ€" table into flowerets, season with salt, pepper and a little vinegar and oil. Pile them in a pyramid on a dish and pour over them a white mayonnaise. Arrange around the base a border of carrots or beets, cut into dice or fancy shapes, to give a line of color. Place a floweret of caulifiower on the top. Banana Salad.â€"One head lettuce, six ripe bananas, one cup diced pineâ€" apple, oneâ€"half cup mayonnaise mixâ€" ed with oneâ€"fourth cup whipped cream, berries or cherriec to garnish. _ Arâ€" range light, crisp lettuce leaves on individual plates. _ Place one banana, _ Bread pTAdding with prunes in it can be served with a lemon sauce, and the whole family will relish it. Before popping corn put in a sieve and dash cold water over it. _ The kernels will be large and flaky. & Milk and cream stains should not have hot water put on them. . Wach them out in cold water, followed by soap and water. If your slippers do not cling to your heels while dancing, gum a tiny bit of velveteen and place it inside the back of each heel. When garments of any kind are washed in gasoline, add a few drops of oil of cedar. The disagreeable odor will not be noticed. wi‘h peel removed, in center of each plate and with sharp knife slice â€" it into round slices, without separating picces. Cover with spoonful of pineâ€" apple and generous spoonful of cream mayonaise. _ Garnich and serve cold. Bird‘sâ€" Nest Salad.â€"Rub a _ little To stretch kid gloves when new, place them between the folds of a damp towel for almoct one hour beâ€" fore they are to be worn. Add a pinch of cream of tartar to the whites of eggs when they are half beaten. â€" This keeps them from fallâ€" ing before being used. All those who come in contact with the public professionally, says a writâ€"| er in the Paris Temps, "will admit that we have grown more polite since | the war. Persons toâ€"day are ashamedl of little displays of impatience or of little deceptions which would have made them how! twenty months ago. | When about to make a scene for the! most trivial motive, the most violent | woman becomes suddenly calm, realizâ€" | ing that anger has been mobilized like everything else and it must not be wasted." m Useful Hints and G=neral Informaâ€" tion for the Busy Housewife SEND FOR A TRIAL PACKET Mail us a postal saying how much you now pay for ordinary tea, and the blend you ‘preferâ€"Black, Mixed or Green. "SALADA,** TORONTO. B191 note?" "Yes." "Then I‘ll help you if I can. Mrs, Carrington is a thorough bad lot. I don‘t know her well, but I know that. Your future wife didn‘t make a lucky choice of parents." "We haven‘t quarrelled," said Scarâ€" borough. "You have quarrelled? I‘m sorry; because I like you, and I like Elsa Carrington. _ She treated me with a fair amount of scorn on the night when she rescued me from the Ring Rock, and I suppose I ought to hate her; but I don‘t, because she was deâ€" fending her father. Is he the theme on which you and che have quarrelled, "But your idyll isn‘t working itself out smoothly? _ There is a jarring "Can you give me details?" said Scarborough quietly. Mona de la Mar shot a quick glance at him. His face looked almost hagâ€" gard. He was suffering. She did not know how it would help him to hear what she could tell; but he said it would. _ So she told him what she knew. "She is a woman of the world, in the worst sense of the wordâ€"heartâ€" less, extravagant, selfish. When I knew her, she was a woman of fasâ€" hion, too, and probably the biggest pill in all the dose she was made to swallow two yedi‘s ago, was, to her, the necessity of ceasing to play that part. _ If Elsa Carrington‘s father was a thiefâ€"I don‘t know whether you consider that doubtfulâ€"I think it was because he had an expensive and worthless wife. _ He was a criminal, a clever criminal; but it was she who drove him to crime. Her craving for diplay ruined him, because he tried to satisfy it. _ I believe he lovâ€" ed her. At any rate he stole for her. His character was weaker than hers; for hers, though shallow, is forecfulâ€" strong in its very defects of glittering hardness and utter selfishness. There, that is the portrait of your future motherâ€"inâ€"law, as I saw her! _ How do you like it?" . Searborough did not answer. "There is one thing more," _ said Mona. _ "She was wonderfully beautiâ€" ful. That is one quality which her daughter seems to have inhgrited from her." "Ah, good! You are right," said Mona with a smile of relief. "And the jarring note in your idyll will tune itâ€" self into harmony presently. Now tell me why you wanted to know all this?" Scarborough pointed to the harbor. A small steamer was coming in under a cloud of black smoke. "If you think that Elsa Carrington is the swoeetest girl that ever lived, you are," said Scarborough gravely. "If you don‘t think so, I shall take the liberty of calling you, not a good judge, but the poore:t." "That is the Funchal, from Lisbon," he said, "and Mrs. Carrington is on board. I wantcd to know whether I should find in her a friend or an enâ€" ecmy. _ You have told me." Mona laughed. "I‘ll tell you another thing," she said. "If my twenty thousand pounds were, as we suppose, converted into diamonds, and if Richmond Carringâ€" ton was robbed of them, and perhaps lost his life in defending them, I don‘t think the thief will succeed in getting away from San Miguel with them AEVOTG "Who will?" Scarborough asked quickly. _ "You, their owner?" "No. â€" The woman who is advancing towards us under that pall of black smokeâ€"Rachel Carrington " "I think," said Mrs. Carrington, "that you have been very imprudent. I don‘t in the least expect to find that jar in the place in which you say you put it. _ What induced you to choose such a ridiculous hidingâ€"place?" Still Searborough was silent. Mona leaned forward and put her hand on his arm. "Absurd!" said Mrs. Carrington. "Your father was a fool to trust you." Elsa bit her lip and did not answer. Her mother had been in the island of San Miguel +wentyâ€"four hours, and alâ€" ready Elsa had grown tired of the useless endeavor to defend the dead against her sneers. A dull rage against this handsome, grumbling woâ€" man was burning in ber heart, and it was only by an effort that she kept back her tears. Mrs. Carrington had landed on the quay at Ponta Delgada with a grumâ€" ble. _ Why was her husband not there to meet hor? Elsa, in the mistaken idea that the truth might be too great a shock, had told her first that he was ill, and had marvelled to see the anâ€" nouncement met with a shrug and a sneer. _ When at length she did sumâ€" mon up courage to say that he was dead, Mrs, Carrington had stared at her for a moment and then had brokâ€" en into a hard laugh, saying: "I don‘t know whether I am right in telling you all this," she said. I don‘t believe in the doctrine of heredity much myself; but perhaps you do. Are you afraid?" "Afraid ?" he asked. * "Afraid that the daughter may have inberited more from her mother than beauty? I don‘t think you need be, and I believe I am rather a good judge of character." "Father said, ‘The safest place you know.‘ That was the fissure in the Ringâ€"Rock," caid Elsa. "Why didn‘t you tell me that _ at first? Did you think I should faint,or seream, or cause ascene in the cusâ€" tomâ€"hougse? Do you think, child, that I care? I don‘t. _ He was a fool." "He was my father," said Elsa. "I don‘t see that that fact disproves my assertion," Mrs. Carrington had answered. _ "I expect you are a fool, Aud CHAPTER XIII.â€"(Cont‘d.) THE CABLEMAN! AN EXCITING PRESENTâ€"DAY ‘ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER XIV. ONTA | Was it the tragedy of two years ago |that had worked this change? For |Elsa remembered her mother as . a very different person from this. _ She remembered a gay, laughing woman, handsome in a hard glittering way, ‘always faultlessly dressed, always | busy in a whirl of social duties, someâ€" _ times fitfully indulgent to her daughâ€" |ter, petting her when the whim took her; but more often letting whole weeks pass without a word of tenderâ€" ‘ness, hardly with a glance of notice. The tenderness, what little of it there had been, was never, in truth, more than a tenderness of words; there was no tenderness of thought, and Elsa , knew that she had never held a place in her mother‘s heart;: _ In Rachel ; Carrington‘s busy, pleasureâ€"hunting | life there had been no room for affecâ€" rtion; the glitter of her social success \ was a hard glitter, out of keeping . with the softer feelings of a mother, and likely to be dulled by any danâ€" gerous indulgence in them. _ Not, inâ€" ‘deed, that she ever felt any temptaâ€" tion so to indulge; her shallow nature | had room but for one great passion, land the passion that filled it was the | ambition of social success. She workâ€" ed with singleâ€"minded, purpose to win her place in the whirl; and when she lost that place, she lost all. £ _ But as yet her anger had not blazâ€" | ed out into open defiance, her father‘s | letter had bidden her be guided by her ‘mother, and So long as it was possible, she would obey; but she had an inâ€" | stinctive fecling that soon it would | not be possible. Those few sentences struck the keyâ€"note, and the motive never varied. The woman was selfish, callous, querâ€" ulous; she thought herself illâ€"used and was shameless in selfâ€"revelation. Elsa had never expected sympathy from her, had looked forward with no pleasure to the day of her mother‘s arrival in San Miguel; but she had looked for the news of a husband‘s death being received with sorrow. Instead it was received with a whine, a sneer, a grumble. There was not even the decency of pretence. The woman plainly did not care, and in the hearing of her daughter at least, did not think it worth while to seem to care "He was your husband." "And thereby he made me the wife of a notorious criminal. Do you know that my portrait; or what was said to be my portrait, was published in the Police News? Yes, he was my husâ€" band; do you think I have anything to thank him for in that?" Mrs. Carrington had demanded to be taken to the Ringâ€"rock at once, in order that she might get into her hands as soon as possible the packet which Elsa had hidden there. _ Elsa would have liked to have believed that this eagerness was prompted by anxâ€" iety to read the evidence which her husband had got together to prove his innocence; but she knew that it was not o. _ Her mother plainly expected to find something more than mere documents; and Elsa, thinking again of the story of the diamonds, dared not ask the question which rose to her lips. _ But when she saw the gleam of greed in her mother‘s eyes, her faith died; the faith in her father â€"for which she had fought, against evidence, against her own judgment, even again=* her own loveâ€"was killed in the end by her mother. Rachel Carrington did not know that. Had she known it. she would have laughed, perhaps even pitied, in a sneering scorn, a girl who could be such a credâ€" ulous fool; but assuredly she would not have cared. As Elsa‘s boat brought them nearer to the Ringâ€"Rock, the girl‘s heart sank. â€" She had looked forward to putting that packet into her mother‘s hand~, in the beliéf that she would be taking the first step in the promâ€" ised vindication; but she realized now in the last few hours that hope was dead. Mrs. Carrington, on the other hand, grew more eager every moment, and by a somewhat natural mental proâ€" cess, more ready to discount as posâ€" sible disappointment by blaming Elâ€"a for what she had done. ‘"I:]l;;' dld fiot reply, but began to make ready to lower her sail. The There was tragedy in this, and those lines of discontent about her mouth had their pathos; for the punâ€" ishment of folly is tragic, and the sufâ€" ferings of the wholly worthless are no less poignant because they are deâ€" served. But the generous heart of youth cannot know this. In witnessing a | sorrow that is wholly centred in self, | it notes and condemns the selfishness, : and, in its horror of that, is apt to | overlook the sorrow. _ Elsa did not| sympathize with her mother, but she | thought she understood her, and she | knew that che despised her. And after | a few hours of her company she came | very near to hating her. | "I tell you that I don‘t expect that | jar will be there," she replied. "The | place has been like a dockyard for the | last week. Do you suppose that the | people who refloated that schooner | won‘t have explored every inch?" ‘ you might have avoided letting yourâ€" sel? be seen. â€"Anyone with a grain of intelligence would know at once that you had not gone there alone, on the day after your father‘s death, for noâ€" thing. . The obvious inference would be that you were Iriding something. The jar won‘t be there," _ "I don‘t see why they should," said Elsa, wearily. "They had their work." "Well, if they haven‘t, someone eise probably has." 6‘wh()?" "I don‘t know who," Mrs. Carringâ€" ton answered irritably. _ "But I do know that your foolishness went the very best way about to excite suspiâ€" cion. _ You couldn‘t help the Seaâ€" Horse being wrecked I daresay, but TORONTO |\ _ The Chief Secretary is, by statute, : keeper â€" of the Irish Privy Seat, ‘President of the Irish Local Governâ€" ment, and Home Secretary for Ireâ€" ‘land, all in one. Ireland, it should 'be noted, still retains much of its own : governmental _ apparatusâ€"its _ own Privy Council, administrative officers, ‘law officers (Lord Chancellor, Attorâ€" \neyâ€"General and Solicitorâ€"General), |and law courts, the last being at preâ€" sent subject to the appellate jurisdicâ€" tion of the House of Lords, although . when the Home Rule Act comes into | operation, such appeliate | jurisdiction | will be exercised not by the House of ‘Lords, but by the Judicial Committee | of the Privy Council. The Reason Why. \ _ There had been a very forlorn apâ€" pearance about Mary Ann of late, and \ Mrs. Pokernose fancied she knew the reason why. _ At least, if she didn‘t, she meant to. "Mary," she said, "what has become of that nice young butcher who used to come round. and was co attentive toward you?" Mary produced a pocketâ€"handkerchief. "He | got married," she wailed. "And | since he got married he don‘t come | round any more." "Married!" exâ€" | claimed Mra. Pokernose. _ "But I alâ€" | ways thought he would marry you?" | "Well," answered Mary, bursting into uncontrollable sobs, "he did." | Since the union between Great t Britain and Ireland, something like ‘half a hundred men (more or less). \have held the office of Irish Secreâ€" |tary. Many of them have held that Ioffice more than once. Among their | names are included the names of many \famous and many brilliant men. But | only four men who have ever held that | office have subsequently attained. the |\ Premiership. Those four men â€" are | the Duke of Wellington, who, as Sir ‘Arthur Wellesley, was Chief Secreâ€" |\tary in 1807; Sir Robert Peel, who held that office in 1812; Lord Melâ€" | bourne, who, as the Hon. William \Lamb, held it in 1827; and Mr. Balâ€" |four, the present First Lord of the | Admiralty, who held it from 1887 to |1891. _ One Irish . Secretary (Lord |\Frederick Cavendish) was murdered. | Several had years added to their age, | one, in particular, the Rt. Hon. W. E. |\Forster, known as "Buckshot" Forâ€" ster, by reason of his instructions that in firing on rioters buckshot was to be used in place of bullets, being turnâ€" éed into a prematurely old man. I The Real Ruler of Ireland. / _ The Chief Secretary for Ireland is ‘ not one of the principal secretaries of | Stateâ€"in fact, he is not really a Secâ€" |retary of State at all. His full title iis Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieuâ€" ‘tenant of Ireland. But though the |Irish executive is formally vested in lthe Lord Lieutenant in Council, that is to say, in the Privy Council in Ireâ€" ‘land, the real ruler of Ireland, the ioflicer responsible to the Imperial | Parliament, is the Chief Secretary. |\ Curiously enough the formal medium lof communication between the Soveâ€" treign and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireâ€" Iland is not the Chief Secretary. Genâ€" 'erally speaking, the Lord Lieutenant‘s | position is that of a constitutional |representative of a _ constitutional | Sovercign, but this position in some ways becomes somewhat _ modified ‘when, as sometimes happens, the ‘Lord Lieutenant is also a Cabinet \ Minister. The present Lord Lieutenâ€" ant does not happen to be a Cabinet | Minister. Indeed, when the Chief Secretary has a seat in the Cabinet, ‘the Lord Lieutenant generally has not but when the latter has such a seat 'and the Chief Secretary has not, then | the Chief Secretary takes a secondary | position, in fact as well as in name. } The Secretary‘s Salary. \ â€"In any event, it is of the utmost imâ€" | portance that the Lord Licutenant iand the Chief Secretary should be Ein complete accord. The former is by ‘far the better paid, receiving $100,000 ‘a year, while the salary of the Chief Secretary is $22,125â€"less than is reâ€" ceived by thirteen of his Cabinet colâ€" | leagues. entrance to the Ringâ€"Rock was only a hundred yeards away now. SECRETARYSHIP FOR OLD RELAND Suddenly Mrs. Carrington gave a short cry, and, pointed forward. "Who is that?" A boat shot out from the opening in the circle of the Ringâ€"Rockâ€"a small boat with one man in it. and the man was rowing as though he were in a hurry. ‘"Why should we try?" asked Elsa. "Besides, I don‘t think we can." The man had stopped rowing, and was running up a sail. "This boat is a heavy sailor," Elsa went on. _ "I doubt if we shall gain on him now. Do you want me to ,try?” A POSITION WITH MULTIFARLIâ€" OoUS WORRIES. Many Famous and Brilliant Men Have Occupied the Office. The rumored appointment of the R#. Hon. Lewis Harcourt to succeed Mr. Birrell as Chief Secretary for Ireland was followed quickly by the _ anâ€" nouncement that he could not accept the post because of illâ€"health. In fillâ€" ing that office the Prime Minister‘s choice will be limited to the Liberal members of the Cabinet. For Mr. Birrell, the late Chief Secretary, was, of course, a Liberal, and it seems to have been part of the terms of coaliâ€" tion that when a Minister resigns, the Minigter appointed to succeed him should be of the same political party. "Keep your sail up, Elsa! We can catch him!" For a Fair Deal. Wifeâ€"John! One of the twins has swallowed a cent. Husbandâ€"Wel}, ; a cent to swallow. es in this family! (To be continued. give the other one I‘ll play no favorâ€" Verdun has been in a precarious position ever since the beginning of the war, when the Germans in their original rush against a haifâ€"ready French army seized among other places the strategical position on the heights of the Meuse at St. Mihiel. They swept around three sides of Verâ€" dun and could not be dislodged withâ€" out paying a price in lives which the French General Staff has. never conâ€" sidered worth while. Forts of Little Value. Since that time the value of forts as forts has greatly diminished. Verâ€" dun by itself could have been blown to pieces, but the new trench fortifiâ€" cations in front of it have protected Before de Castelnau was able to organize his defence, the Germans, marching under the protection of a deluge of shells, had already reached Douamont. They had the town and it seemed so certain they would have the fort too that they announced the fall of the fort a little too soon. For it did not fall,. Just at that tme the counterâ€"offensive hit the Gorman adâ€" vance. Gon. Petain arrived with his picked army of 450,000 mon, the moâ€" bile army, the best body of troops in Europe. A Million Shells a Day. The Germans opened their offensive against Verdun in February by dropâ€" ping a million shells a day into the French trenches. Jt seemed like madâ€" ness to try to hold out in a disadvantâ€" ageous position against them, and Joffre, looking to the military advantâ€" age alone, wanted to abandon the fort and withdraw to the shorter, stronger lines west of the Meuse. But Gen. de Castelnau, having his ear to the ground, and realizing the bad moral effect, argued him out of it. When the two Generals fought it out in council at the very height of the first attack, de Castelnau talked for two hours straight before he won his point, and raced to Verdun late at night to take command. The Gerâ€" mans at that time were coming steadâ€" ily on, the French falling back, on orders, before them. So de Castelâ€" nau raced in a closed motor car, with war maps on his knees, and the trench commanders heard nothing more inâ€" gpiriting over the telephone than a curt command to hold. to pieces, but the new trench forunâ€"/ i t o t cations in front of it have protcctedls'"m‘ is the Time 40 .Remed) P%e it from assault. The trench fortifiâ€"| gerous Conditions. cations have done the real _ work,| ~Canada continues her enormous fire and for months now Verdun, as & Josses, notwithstanding the efforts of fortress, has not been worth fighting many interests to reduce this drain for. |upon her resourtes. During March The French people, whose moraleapproximately $1,406,500 worth of is one of the most important conâ€" ‘ created resources was consumed. The siderations at this tense moment Of usual causes, namely, overheated and the war, are beginning to realize the defective stoves, furnaces, pipes and facts about Verdun, and if it falls chimneys, defective wiring, dropped now they will not consider it a defeat. cigars and cigarettes, and children If it had fallen after only two or threée with matches, were responsible for a weeks of assault, it would have large share of the loss. C The French people, whose morale is one of the most important conâ€" siderations at this tense moment of the war, are beginning to realize the facts about Verdun, and if it falls now they will not consider it a defeat. If it had fallen after only two or three weeks of assault, it would have been a great victory for the Germans, particularly on account of the moral effect on France, but it would have no moral effect now. The French peoâ€" ple know how dearly the Germans have paid for every trench. Saving Soldiers. If the German offensive continues at Verdun until it is no longer worth while holding, the French people will be ready and anxious to give it up before the army is ready. For it is also an expensive business holding Verdun and the Fronch are becoming chary of the lives of their sons. So also an expensive business ho.cing Verdun and the Fronch are becoming chary of the lives of their sons. So far Verdun has cost the Germans beâ€" tween 140,000 and 150,000 men and has dost the French about 90,000. The French will not continue to suffer in that proportion from now on and will not pay a total of more than 130,000 against the German $00,000. The French, having already an eye‘ to the end of the war, hate to lose that ‘ many sons, though they inflict a loss ‘ more than twice as large on the Gerâ€"| mans. Only the loss of German efâ€"| fectiveness at each assault makes it worth while for the French to stay. Most of the French losses were right | at the beginning of the battle. Theyi were so great during the first week| that Gen. Joffre wanted to give it up,! but Gen. de Castelnau, Commander in Chief of the armies in the field, begâ€" | ged permission to send up Gen. Petain | with his crack troops, the mobile army of France. _ Kept Out of Verdun. First the â€" Moroccan â€" volunteers Q @ ‘Silver * Gloss" Canada‘s finest +n: Laundry t Starch %4_ case. One small size bottle guaranteeC to do m 1 thing for brood mares; mcts on .!» blood. SPOICBr sold by all druggists and harness shops or fanu turers. 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[They paid for Douaumont and so did | the divisions that followed, but they |prevented the Germans from sweepâ€" | ing into Verdun. The hobo from the city has difâ€" ferent ideas from the farmer as to working hours. The Country Gentleâ€" \man says that a hobo got a job from ‘a farmer in the busy scason. He | worked till 9.30, then had his supper. At 4 the next morning he was called ‘to get up. He ate a hearty breakâ€" ‘fast, then started upstairs again, sayâ€" |ing: "This is the best place I ever ‘ workedâ€"two suppers in one night and back to bed again." "I don‘t know about that. Once in London I saw a lovely lady throw a penny to aitreet beggarâ€"" "And wasn‘t he pleasod?" "Well, he wasn‘"* so blooming pleased. _ You see, it was one of those English pennies, and it hit him in the Australia‘s population is only 4,â€" 951,078. Yet it has £87,918,204 in savings bank deposits and £174,979,â€" 836*deposited in banks of issuc. It is, it is claimed, the richest country per head on the earth. To Kill Flies in Housos. Mix two tablespoonfuls (one ounce) of 40 per cent formalin with one pint (16 ounces) of equal parts of mill; and water. This mixture should be exâ€" posed in shallow plates, with a piece of bread placed in the centre on which the flies alight and feed. By an early and active campaign of fly destrsction, great inroads may be made upon this pest, and many valuable lives may be saved. "Sweet charity is always gratefully received." The use of stoves and furnaces for heating will soon be â€" discontinued. These should then be carefully exâ€" amined for defects. Chimneys and stove pipes ~should be thoroughly cleaned. Stovepipes found corroded and dangerous should be at once reâ€" placed. Too much care cannot be taken to guard against fire. It deâ€" stroys both life and property. Last year 141 persons lost their lives in Canada by fire. Ordinary care only is required to prevent this loss, and it is hard to realize that Canadians are so blind to their own interests as not to appreciate this condition and give more attention to fire prevention. She Could Write, Anyway. A lady who lived alone had taken into her service a young girl from the country. _ One day both mistress and maid were going out, and in such cireumstances it was usual for the key of the back door to be hidden in the garden. â€" The hidingâ€"place had been pointed out to the girl, and when she went out she was careful to secrete the key in the place indicated, but she pinned on the door a piece of paper on which she had written. _ "Shall be back soon. _ Key under the flowerâ€" pot on the windowâ€"ledge!" # of "Orown Brand" and "Lily Whi Syrups, and Benson‘s Corn Starch, CANADA‘S FIRE WASTE Hobo‘s Idea of Break{fast. The Richest Country. Aim of Charity s ts 9y merves, ro: glow of h wrenewed « Women ca ‘should, bu ‘strength : the occasi Pink Pills. 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