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tb crosswise. . Put one tablespoonful butter in blazer; when hot add banâ€" whas and cook until soft, turning Drain, sprinkle with powdered g‘r and afew drops lemon juice; prange julce or sherry wine may be Sauted Bananas â€" Remove â€" skins from three bananas, cut in halves lengthwise, and again cut in halves Bananas Cooked in the Skinsâ€" Loosen one of the sections of skin from cach banana. _ Pub into blazer, cover and let cook until skins are disâ€" ecolored and pulp soft. _ Remove from skins and lprlnih with sugar,. Serve with lady fingers, Peach _ Canapesâ€"Saute _ circular pleces of sponge cake in butter until delicately browned. Drain canned peaches, sprinkle with powdered sugâ€" ar, a few drops lemon juice and a slight grating nutmeg. _ Melt one tablespoonful butter; add peaches and when heated serve on cake. Fricasseed Eggs.â€"Cook two table spoons butter with one and oneâ€"half tablespoons finely chopped mushâ€" rooms and oneâ€"half shallot, finely chopped. Add one and oneâ€"half tablespoons flour and pour on gradualâ€" ly one cup white stock. Add five hardâ€"boiled eggs cut in slices. Raspberry â€" Fruit â€" Basket. â€" Bake plain paste over inverted patty pans, roll paste 1â€"8 in. thick, and cut in strips 4 inch wide. Twist strips in pairs and bake over a %4 lb. of baking powder box, thus making handles. Fill cases with raspberries sprinkled with sugar. _ Garnish with whipped cream. cold with cream. | Raspberry Cake.â€"1 Cup white sugâ€"/ ar, 4& cup butter, 2 eggs, 2 tableâ€" spoons buitermilk, 1% cups flour, 1; teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon soda, nutmeg, 1 cup raspberries, (to be adâ€" ded last). _ Bake in layers. Raspberry Vinegar.â€"Put 1 quart of raspberries into a suitable dish, pour over them a quart of good vineâ€"| gar, let it stand 24 hours, then strair | through aflannel bag and pour this liquor on another quart of berries; do{ this for 3 or 4 days successively nfi strain it; make it very sweet wit ' loaf sugar; bottle and seal it. Raspbercy Creams.â€"Stir _ enough confectioners‘ sugar into a teaspoonâ€" ful of raspberry jam to form a thick paste; roll it into a ball between the palms of your hands. _ Put a lump French Cream into a teacup and set it into a basin of boiling water, stirring it until it is melted then drop a few drops of cochineal coloring to make it a pale pink, or afew drops of raspâ€" berry juice, being careful not to add enough to prevent its hardening, Now dip these little balls into the sugar cream, giving them two coats. Lay aside to harden. Raspberry Pie.â€"To 2 cups raspâ€" berries add 1 cup of red currants and | 1 cup granulated sugar, with which a | teaspoonful of flour has been mlxod;' stir together. Lire a plate â€" with flaky pie crust, put in the fruit, cover | with a tolerably thick sheet of paste.! make several incisions for escape of‘ stecam, and bake until the crusts are nicely browned. _ Serve cool. Raspberry Shortcake.â€"â€"Bake sponge cake in 2 layers, or split one | thick cake; put in between them CS thick‘layer of berries, and on top put | whipped cream and more berries. | Raspberry Tapioca.â€"Put 2â€"4, cup tapioca into akettle, cover with 4 cups boiling water and cook until transparent. _ Stir into this 1 pint of fresh raspberries, adding sugar to taste. â€" Pour into a mould. _ Serve Raspberry Crown.â€"2 Tablespoons water,2 tablespoons corn starch, 1 cup boiling raspberry juice, 1egg, pinch of salt, lemon extract,. . Cook until creamy. Put into moulis. When cold serve with raspberries or whipped cream. to make simall pipe joints air and watâ€" erâ€"tight. _ Cut several layers of the paper the required size, put them on the can and screw the lid down as tightly as possible. If preferred, rings of soft leather, cut from _ the tops of old shoes, may be used, but they are not as satisfactory as those made from newspapers. A Good Substitute for Can Rubbers. â€"â€"When about to close a jar of preâ€" served goods, the housewife very ofâ€" ten finds herself short of a rubber band, or else the last one breaks. A very good substivate can be made from newspaper. â€" This is better than other paper, because, as plumbers say, "it packs better." _ They often use it Prescrving Fruit Without Sugar. The Recipe.â€"The fruit is prepared in the ordinary way, the jars . are cleaned and scalded while the rubâ€" bers and tops are boiling. The fruit is then placed in the jars, in which cold water is placed. â€" When the jars have been sealed airâ€"tight they are placed in a boiler filled with cold watâ€" er and brought to the boiling point. Berries will do if removed when the boiling point is reached, while large fruits, such as peaches, cherries, plums and apricots, shouli get 20 to 80 minutes boiling. _ Keep cover of wash boiler on tight. "Silver .Gloss" if preferred. Recipes for the Housewife About the House â€"â€" THE CANADA STARCH ___ CO. LIMITED MONTREAL, gollbfl""-- BRAANTFORD, AT WiILLIAM. Makers of "Crown Brand* ana #I ty Whita* Corn Syrups, and = Laundry â€"» Starch_ o Deviled Tomatcesâ€"Wipe, peel ankl pac slice crosswise three tomatoes. Set- are | 808 with salt and pepper, coat with IDâ€"| flour, and cook in a hot blazer until uit thoroughly heated, using enough buatâ€" ich ter to prevent burning. â€" Cream oneâ€" fourth cup butter, add two teaspoons TS powdered sugar, one teaspoon musâ€" ‘*€ srd, oneâ€"fourth teaspoon salt, a fow **â€" | prains cayenne, the yolk of one hardâ€" '}‘: boiled egg, one egg slightly beaten, "° \and two tablespoons vinegar. _ Cool E% ‘ over hot water, stiring constantly, unâ€" €S> til it thickens. â€" Pour over tomatoes. |\ _"Tomato Figs."â€"Scald _ and skin pearâ€"shaped tomatoes, and to ecight pounds of them add three pounds of brown sugar cook without water unâ€" ‘til the sugar penetrates, and they have a clear appearance. Then take them out, spread on dishes, and dry in the sun, sprinkling on A little | syrup while drying. _ Pack in jars | or boxes, in layers with powdered suâ€" ‘pur between. â€" These will keep any | length of time and are nearly as nice | as figs and certainly less expensive. | _ Mint Jelly.â€"This is my way of makâ€" | ing mint jelly, and it is fine; _ Boil \ crab apples in water until they are | soft, then put in jelly bag and hang ; up where it can drip. Don‘t squeeze | the bag, or the jelly will be pink. Use one cupful of sugar for each cup . of | juice and boil until it jellies. â€" Have | your mint washed and lightly brushed \ Put a goodâ€"sized sprig of mint in leach jar, pour the jelly over it, and !seal. This has the true mint flavâ€" \ or and the leaves look pretty when l served. ‘ More Blouses, Lingerie and _ Ekirtsâ€"more Table Linenâ€" more Sheets and Pillow Cases â€" more Curtains â€"â€" ar@ starched with "Stiver CGloss", than any other starch in Canada. Your grocer has it. Boiled mutton: Caper, or parsley sauce. Boiled tongue: Tartare sauce. Pork sausage: Apple sauce, or fried apples, Sweetbreads: Bechamel sauce. Lobster cutlets; Tarbare sauce. Broiled steak: Maitre hotel, â€" Lamb chops: Bearnaise sauce. Roast game: Bread sauce, brown The young or IneXperi@nReRtITOAAI wife is perplexet often to know which sauce or gravy it is correct serve with the different dishes. _ The cookery book give all the recipes, but seldom tell the exact combinations, as they are so much a matter of course to most of us that it would seem a waste of time and space while she, feeling her ignorance, is half ashamâ€" ed to ask a more sophristcated neighâ€" bor, and so has always the uncasy senâ€" sation that, maybe, the sauce ie is serving is not exactly right. _ Boiled fish: Plain white sauce, or egg sauce. _ vee $ Roast vension: Brown gravy, curâ€" rant or barberry jelly. _ _ § _ Roast quail: Currant jelly, celery sauce. Sauces are such an important part of the meat, too, that they either can make or mar an otherwise uninterestâ€" ing dish, and besides a good many of the tra,litional combinations are . so arranged for some dietetic reason. It might be a good idea to cut out the following and put it on a card for further reference in time of doubt: _ Broiled fish: Maitre d‘hotel, or tarâ€" tare sauce. e Roast turkey: _ Cranberry . jelly, brown gravy, celery saluce. itoaqtc: ‘écx.)'s;e: Api)le sauce, barberry jelly. s Roast veal: Tomato sauce, horse radish sauce. Roast lamb: Mint sauce. Roast beef: Brown gravy, horseâ€" radish sauce. Roast filet, of beef: Mushroom sauce. Roast canvas back duck; Black curâ€" rant jelly, olive sauce. Boiled chicken: Bread, parsley â€" or celery sauce. lmfi:l;eé"fifis_fi:- Dawn butter, Hollandâ€" aise sauce, melted butter with finely chopped parsley. _ 'aio;st chicken: Breal sauce, brown gravy, grape jelly. f _ Fried chicken: Cream gravy. Roast duck: Bread sauce, brown gravy, currant jelly. _ Raw oysters: Lemon, horse sauce, tobaseco. â€" « Tasty Sandwich Filling.â€"A halfâ€" pound of plain cheese, a half can of pimeno peppers, olives and ketchup, s cmion, salt and paprika. Put through the meat grinder and mix well with two tablespoonfuls of butâ€" ter, melted. _ Cut the bread round by stamping each slice with a biscuit cutâ€" ter. _ Put the mixture over the rounds and brown in the oven before servipg. Eggs A La Bechamel.â€"Fry three tablespoons butter with one slice each carrot and onion cut in pieces, a sprig of parsley and a bit of bay leaf, five minutes. _ Add three tablespoons flour, oneâ€"fourth teaspoon salt and oneâ€"eighth teaspoon paprika; then add one cup chicken stock, strain, rehcat and add four hardâ€"boiled eggs, cat in eighths lengthwise. Just before servâ€" ing add oneâ€"half cup cream and a slight grating of nutmeg. 5 the Curried Eggs.â€"Melt two _ table spoons butter, add two tablespoons flour mixed with oneâ€"fourth teaspoon salb, oneâ€"half teaspoon curry powder, aml oneâ€"cighth teaspoon â€" paprika. Stir until well mixed, then pour on gradually one cup milk. _ Add three hardâ€"boiled eggs, cut in eighths lengthwise, and reheat in sauce. Useful Hints and General Informaâ€" tion for the Busy Housewife How to Vary Sauces. or inexperienced houseâ€" eil often to know which y it is correct serve with dishes. _ The cookery Caper, or parsley radish "I for{;éf about her," said Mona rue fully. P x her." As he said this, the door of the room opened suddenly, and Mrs. Carâ€" rington herself stood smiling on the threshold. "No," she said, softly, "it won‘t do to forget me. _ Elsa, introduce the young man to me." . h "And Mrs. Carrington?" said Scarâ€" borough. "Who‘s going to stay and watch her? 1 had counted on you for that duty, you know."" "Exactly," said Mona. _ "But that‘s just what I meant by suggesting a picnic. â€"If he sees you and Phil moonâ€" ing about here, he‘ll know that you are watching him; and you may be sure he will see you. _ But if we all go, he‘ll think it‘s just a picnic party, and we shall be able to explore the whole neighborhood without exciting his or any body else‘s suspicions." "You are going to ride over and reâ€" lieve Phil in the morning?" Mona asked. , “Yes-" "I can improve on that plan. Elsa and I will go with you, and we‘ll call on the way for Miss Davis. We will make a regular picnic of it." Scarborough shook his head. "Too conspicuous," he said. _ "We shall frighten our man if we go in a swarm. Phil suggests, and Ithink he‘s right, that as Gillies seems to know more than we do, we should let him go ahead without interference for the present, and be ready to come in at the last minute. _ So you see we oughtn‘t to frighten him yet." _ Scarborough told them the result of the visit to the venta, and of Varney‘s sugestion that the Furnas district should be watchedl night and day, in order to catch the man Gillies. _ Of course Gillies knew nothing about the scratched stone, and if it was he who had stolen the plan from Mrs. Carâ€" rington, there was still that link missâ€" ing in his knowledge; but it was also possible that he had other reasons for knowing, or guessing, the place to which the plan referred, and so could do without the stone. _ Anyway Varâ€" ney was quite right in saying that he must be watched." "Change the subject, please!" sa‘ Mona with alaugh. _ "Mr. Scarborâ€" ough, you haven‘t reported what you and Phil. found at the Yenta." "Oh, don‘t bother!" said Mona. "I‘ve got plenty of money, I tell you; but it‘s a theme I don‘t want to disâ€" cuss just now, I have a reason for that, too, which I shall perhaps tell you some day, and perhaps not. It all depends upon whether something I very much want to happen, does hapâ€" pen. See?" The others noted with astonishment that she was blushing, and Elsa beâ€" "Not just now," said Scarborough. "But if you grow tired of your wandâ€" ering life with the cireusâ€"troupeâ€"‘ "Oh, yes, we‘ve settled it all!l There were rather alot of people who sufâ€" fered in the Carrington and Varney smash, you know, and most of them were poor. We had decided that the diamonds shoul4 be sent to the liquiâ€" dator in bankruptcy, to be turned into a small dividend of something or othâ€" er in the pound." "Oh, no, it isn‘t splendil}, or heroic¢, or anything of the sort," Mona cut in before Scarborough could answer. "Don‘t run away with that idea, Elsa. I‘ve got two reasons, both are very ordinary ones. The first is that I‘ve got a feeling that I should hate to touch a penny of the money which the man who stole it from me lost his life in defending. That‘s silly perhaps, but Ican‘t help it. The second is that I don‘t need it." "She resigns all her own claim." said Elsa to Scarborough. "Isn‘t it splendid of her? She says that the p;:s-' people suffered more than she d Elsa had jumped up, and was gazâ€" "Why, Monaâ€"" ‘THE CABLEMAN Ripe Cherries PRESERVING LABELS FREEâ€"Send red ball tradeâ€"mark for book of 54 printed gummed labels to Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd. Power Bldg. Montreal 40 Order LANTIC SUGAR by name in original packages make delicious and economical preserves Lantic Sugar don‘t think it will pay to forget CHAPTER XX.â€"(Cont‘d.) 2 and 5â€"lb Cartons 10 and 20â€"ib Bags AN EXCITING PRESENTâ€"DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY "Then she‘ll have a carriage. You on your bicycles can {;rovent her givâ€" ing you the slip. I‘ll catry oup my "I think," said Scarborough, "that you two had better give up your plan of going with me toâ€"morrow; stay here, and watch Mrs, Carrington. If she goesâ€"" "Oh, she‘ll go right enough," said Mona. "Yes, I think she will. If she does, gu ga.’n follow her. Does she bicycle, “ $ "I think this will do," she said. "There isn‘t a hedge within fifty yanmis, and the sickâ€"room of our headâ€" ache patient is double that distance away. Our voites won‘t be heard. But speak without pointing at things. There‘s a bright moon, and an intelliâ€" gent observer can deduce a good deal from gestures. Now, then, what‘s to "Elsa and I will see you on your The camera man evidently went way to the Cable station," she said with them, for he was there when to Scarborough. "There are no keyâ€" the Rangers took possession of the holes in the open air!l Never mind hole, and he filmed the hand grenade your hat, Elsa. It‘s warm." | throwing that followed. The soldiers When they were clear out of the| remind one of workers busy with house and the trees round it, Mona)risky blasting operations in a railway halted in an open space of the road. cutting concentrated on a shift of toil "I think this will do," she said. that has nothing to do with fighting "There isn‘t a hedge within fiftyi man to man. This is as near fighting yanis, and the sickâ€"room of our headâ€"| the Germans as the camera has (got as ache patient is double that distance yet, and short of a bayonet attack it away. Our voites won‘t be heard.’ is as near as*anything we are likely But sneak without pointing at things.| to see on the film. "Elsa and I will see you on your way to the Cable station," she said to Scarborough. "There are no keyâ€" holes in the open air! Never mind your hat, Elsa. It‘s warm." be done?" "Young man," she said, "you are not a fool! I admit that I hoped you were. Good night." She swept smiling from the room, and Mona jumped up and opened the long French winjows that led to the garden. "Oh, no," said Scarborough, "If you say you are coming, I have no doubt that you will. But you will probably make your own arrangements. "I shoull like to hear what you mean to do with me," she said sweetâ€" ly. _ "I am coming tao your picnic, but I realize that I shall not be very welcome. I am an unfortunate comâ€" plicationâ€"how are you goign to deal with it?" Scarborough smiled. "I don‘t think there is anything to be gained by saying," he answered. ""You hope to be able to leave me out afte rall?" Mrs. Carrington gave him a quick glance. "You have." said Scarborough, quietly. _ She was trying to anger him, he thought; but he was not even annoyed; and he rather admired the woman‘s impudence. She was a type that he had not met before, and he realized for the first time the tremâ€" endous advantage that a s imple shameless gives _ a plotter who has brains to use it effectively. Mrs. Carrington had the gift of shamelessâ€" ness, but _ she also undoubtedly had the gift of brains. She was an added difficulty of course, but his hands were not tied by misundâ€" erstanding now; he was free to grapâ€" ple with difficulties, and he rather welcomed them as adding zest to the game. pone idfi o, it Aices AB w2 . Arvint tds ds ts Pm ... 5.5 no doubt, is why Mademoiseile Mona de la Mar insisted upon staying. I am not needed, so I will retire. You have arrangements to make for toâ€" morrow. I am afraid I have compliâ€" cated them somewhat." "Really to bed, this time," she said "But don‘t go, Mr. Scarborough, on that account! I don‘t suppose a chapâ€" eéron is really necéssary, as Elsa‘s friend is with her. No doubt that was why Mademoisenlic Mona de la Marâ€"I have got your professional name right, my dear, have I?â€"that, But though she enjoyed her triumph, and did no mind in the least that she had gained it by admitted eavesdropâ€" ping, she was really tired. Moreover her headache had not benefited â€" by half an hour‘s crouching with her ear to the keyhole of the door. She exâ€" pected to spend an energetic day toâ€" morrow, and she did not think she was likely to gain any other information toâ€"night, so she sacrificed present gratification to future profit, and anâ€" nounced that she was going to bed. Mrs. Carrington was enjoying the situation. _ These young people were really delicious. _ They thought they had outwitted her, and were discussâ€" ing gravely what they meant to do with the diamonds when they got them. _ The stones were to be handed over to her husband‘s creditors, for distribution amongst the widows and orphans in England; it was a touching scheme, but it was not the one which Mrs. Carrington proposed to see carâ€" ried out. She threw herself into a chair, and her mocking laughter rang out again "Very well," she said. "I mustinâ€" troudce myself. I am Rachel Car rington, the woman who retired to bed with a headache, utterly routed after a battle of words with two young girls But even after a defeat the enemy sometimes rallies, you know, and while I have been standing behind that door I have rallied considerably. You, I presume, are Mr. Horace Scarâ€" borough, the young man who, my husâ€" band informed me, would very posâ€" sibly be my sonâ€"inâ€"law one day." "Mother!" cried Elsa again. + Mrs. _ Carrington laufied again. "Elsa‘s blushes suggest t I am inâ€" discreet." she said mockingly. â€" "But, Horace, if I am to be your motherâ€"inâ€" law, you ought to have the opportunâ€" ity of knowing something of me. I shall join your picnic toâ€"morrow, and we can enjoy a talk together. _ You don‘t look pleaséd. Surcely the arâ€" rangement is a good one. It will obâ€" viate the necessity of leaving anyone here to watch me!" "Mother!" â€" she â€" said scornfully. "You have beenâ€"" "Listening," said Mrs. Carrington calmly. "Yes, child, I have. Do you exroct me to be ashamed of admitting it? Don‘t be foolish. Introduce me." Elsa stood where she was, and made no movement to do so. Mrs. Carringâ€" ton Inughed. ing at her mother with a look of minâ€" gled contempt and anget. R CHAPTER XXL TORONTO "What, on the sofy?" cried the old lady, horrified. "No, on the floor." "On that grand carpet!" came in tones of anguish. "No; I rolled it up!® "I‘m resting in the parlor," came the reply. * One day the old lady missed her huafl.nd. Uncomfortable Economy. They were a very saving old couple, and as a r esult they hatl a beautifully furnished house. "Joseph, where are you?" she called out. The operator shows five minutes in' the life of a company of mud-bespat-| tered Connaught Rangers. First one| sees the Irishmen hugging the dripâ€"! ping wall of the trench with fixed ; bayonets waiting for the mine to be sprung. There is a spout of black! earth a little way off it in the desolate | fields, and at once the Rangers tumble out and walk, rather than run, | through the sticky mess toward the | crater. l London Movies Display Soldiers Seizâ€" ing New Ground. London is flocking to see the first film recording crater fighting â€" the real thing. The description of the incident is taken from the official daily record: "Yesterday we sprang a mine near â€"â€"â€" and occupied the crater." The misery is indescribable. In Auâ€" gust, 1915â€"that is, in the first month of the German occupationâ€"the deathâ€" rate was 15.88 per 1,000 (calculated to the year). It has risen steadily since October, 1915, and has _ now reached the figure of 34 per 1,000. At the time when Warsaw passed into the hands of the Germans about $24,000 a month was being spent by the city on the free feeding of the population; by March, 1916, this item of expendiâ€" ture had risen to $255,000,. Against this enormous expenditure there is only a small and uncertain income. Besides the ordinary expenditure of $5,125,000â€"about $2,000,000 above the average of the last three yearsâ€" the city of Warsaw has to bear an equally heavy burden of extraordinary expenses. Every month $500,000 is spent on poor relief, $140,000 on sepâ€" aration allowance, etec. "Finally, one has to add the expense of complying with the different demands of the Gerâ€" man authorities. Their exact amount cannot be estimated in advance, but between August 5, 1915, and March 14, 1916, it was $1,892,000." Exactions of German Administration Robbing the Population. The Cracow Czas recently publishâ€" ed a memorandum on the ffnnncial condition of the city of Warsaw, which has been presented to the Gerâ€" man authorities by the Cityâ€"President, Prince Z. Lubomirski The memoâ€" randum, though mutilated by the Ausâ€" trian censor, forms a powerful and incontestable indictment of the Gerâ€" man administration and its financial exactions. Careful perusal of it shows why relief is needed in Poland and why the German authorities are so keen on getting it. Scott there, and he‘s going to stay the night. He‘ll do it if you say I told you to ask him, and he‘ll do it thoroughly.‘ "Does he know, Mrs. Carrington?" "No; so you can tell him what you like of her. Say that she‘s an inâ€" interesting woman with a very sad past, a fascinating creature with abnormally developed criminal tendâ€" encies, and that a day spent in watching her will be well worth while to a close observer of character. Val. B. Montague thinks himself rather a connoisseur of character, and is alâ€" ways complaining that the female vilâ€" lians he meets aro bloodless and feeble â€"no real gritty vice in ‘em, sirl Exâ€" plain to him," said Mona la’\:glfinz, "that this one is real hard sand, and he‘ll do anything you ask for the chance of studying her." Scarborough thought for a moment. "You know him better than I do," he said at length. _ "Don‘t be annoyâ€" ed ab what I am going to ask. Is he absolutely trustworthy ?" Elsa wouldn‘t submit to be bullied by the lady with the headache. _ You see, Mr. Scarborough, _ we‘re going. lB'ut instead :1‘1 M!I's. Carrington givâ€" ng us the slip, I suggest that we should inflict that expe‘:znce on her. What time can you call for us in the morning !" "I am on duty till eight," said Scarborough. "Couldn‘t you get one of the other men to take the last bit for you, just for once? Couldn‘t you be here by sixâ€"or betber, halfâ€"past five?" "Perhaps Scott would do it," ui’l Scarborough doubtfully; "but what‘s your plan?" To be off before the lady suspects that we are even awake," said Mona. "She will follow, of course, hat we‘ll :v’e a competent detective to shadow e." HWho’” "Val B. He‘s at the Cable Station now; he has been dining with Mr. FILMS SHOW CRATER FIGHT. SUFFERINGS OF WARSAW. h e emmiad haplin Ait (To be contl;nued.) nit to be bullied by headache. You gh, _ we‘re going. ;s. Curin;:;:t givâ€" suggest we expe‘:s:nce on her. Stopped at Her Pudding. A litte girl had sent back her plate for chicken two or three times â€" and had been helped bountifully to all the good rich things that go to make a good dinner. _ Finally she was obâ€" served looking rather disconsolately at her unfinished plate of pudding. "What‘s the matter, Dora?" asked John. _ "You look mournful." "That‘s just the matter," said Dora "I am mor‘n *all." By the completion of this work, which has cost about one hundred million francs, vessels up to six hunâ€" dred tons displacement can go by water from Marseilles to Havre and the North Sea without passing throvizh the Straits of Gibraltar, Marâ€" seilles has now direct water communiâ€" cation with inland cities like Lyons, Avignon and Valence. Incidentally, the canal will probably be useful in time of war, for through it small fighting craft, like small destroyers and subâ€" marines, can make a quick run beâ€" tween the Mediterrancan and the Engâ€" lish Channel. The importance of this canal which was begun in 1904, and which is sixty miles long, is that it connects Marâ€" sceilles, the principal seaport _ of France, with the North Sea. A delta at the mouth of the Rhone makes passâ€" age in and out of that river difficult for large vessels, and heretofore Marâ€" seilles, the great French Mediterâ€" ranean port, about twentyâ€"five miles from the mouth of the Rhone, has been cut off from the inland waterway sysâ€" tem of France by a ridge of hills. The canal bores through this hilly barrier five miles of the canal being a tunnel beneath a hill. This tunnel by the way, is seventyâ€"five feet wide and seventy feet high, dimensions that make it the largest tunnel interior in the world, according to despatches. The report of the opening of the canal connecting Marseilles and the River Rhone is an important piece of news from France that does not reâ€" laie primarily to war, although, inciâ€" dentally, it is a testimonial to the spirit of the French and the stability of their industry that work on the canal has been kept up despite the war. Giant timbers are being cut at Hastings mill for keels of British Columbia ships. R A firm of Denver contractors wins a suit of over half a million dollars from Foley, Welch & Stewart, Vanâ€" couver contractors. Dr. Gilbert Hartin, a physician of Nelson, is taking his first vacation after 21 years of hard work. It Frany Picknel, an oldâ€"time fiwherâ€" man of New â€" Westminster, plunged into the swift current of the Fraser River and rescued a child. An 18â€"yearâ€"old Japanese iirli, of Vancouver, died from â€" injuries reâ€" ceived by a street car. + Mrs. Vera Hansen of Vancouver, has been sentenced to one year‘s imprisâ€" onment for picking up a little girl and throwing her down with such force as to break her thigh. Sentence of death has been proâ€" mulgated against "Betsy," the masâ€" sive black bear which nightly visits the headquarters of the 6th Field Company C.E., at Vancouver. Word has reached Victoria of the death, in his 84th year, of Mr. John Ferris Ryder, of Cheam, B.C., one of the real pioneers of the Interior. _ Mr. Aaron Lewis, who was born in Victoria 56 years ago, died last week at St. Joseph‘s Hospital, after an illâ€" ness of three months‘ duration. Lieut. J. A. Jackson, of the 20th Battalion, who recently won the Miliâ€" tary Cross, is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Jackson, of Chilliwack, B.C. K. Thomas Gibson, siged 80, was struck by a log at the International Lumâ€" ber Company‘s jam in the Campbell river and instantly killed. A third attempt is to be made to float the Japanese steamer, Kenkon Maru, No. 3, ashore on the Belle Chain Reef since January 12 last. * The Vancouver Company of the 196th Western University Battalion, left last week for Camp Hughes, Manitoba. ‘The Social Service Department of Vancouver is going to open a neW station next month to supply pure milk to babies. aphon June 30 was the last day on which the jitneys might ply for hire in the Esquimault municipality, according to a recent byâ€"law. C Connects Marseilles With North Sea. NEW FRENCH CANAL the "Well," answered his wife, "it mav not be exactly polite, but it shows that he has a sense of humor." Evidence of Genias. "He started life with a shoestring and now he has a million dolars. Seems incredible, ch?" "Not at all. 1 should conshler that a man who cauld get anybody to buy one shoestring was incvitably bound to succeed.‘ One should learn to talk wel also when it is well not to talk. "Every time the baby looks into my face he smiles," said Mr. Meckins. Country Judgeâ€""How long have you owned a car?" Motorist (charged with speeding) â€""One week, your Honor!" Judgeâ€"*"Um â€"then you can still afâ€" ford to pay a fine! Twenty dollars!" At a demonstration in the Queen‘s Park Recreation Ground, Glasgow, a resolution was adopted on the motion of Sir Samuel Chishoim, demanding the Government to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors during the war. A flag captured from the Germans at Windhuk, in Southâ€"west Africa, has been presented to Ayr Academy by Major J. H. Cormack, director of works for Southâ€"west Africa, a formâ€" er member of the school. Great damage has been caused among the lambs in Campsie and Kilâ€" syth hills by foxes this season, and at a meeting held in Glasgow it was agreed to take steps for their destrucâ€" tion. Representatives of the Russian Council of the Empire and the Duma, after a visit to the Clyde and Edinâ€" burgh, visited Rosyth dockyard and were shown over the Government works. In acknowledgement of a donation of $1,035 from Paisley, the proceeds of a flag day, a ‘Paisley Bed" is to be established in one of the chicf hospitals in Petrograd. The Wilder Park, which along with the new Municipal Baths, was preâ€" sented to Galashiels by Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Dickson, Westwood, has been formally opened to the public. Mr. Alex. Campbell, who recently retired from his position as head postman in Alloa post office, after 41 years‘ service, has received the Imâ€" perial Service Medal. A Scottish woman, Miss Grace Ellison, is the chief organizer of an Edith Cavell Hospital, which is to be built in Paris for the training of Frencn nurses on the British system. Lieut. Tom Wilson, of the King‘s African Rifles, the wellâ€"known rugby footballer of Clydesdale, Hawick and Carlisle, has been recommended for the Military Cross. The Scottish branch of the British Red Cross Society has received a gift of eleven motor ambulances, subâ€" scribed for by the Scottish Drapery and Textile Trade. Scottish shipbuilders launched durâ€" ing May ten merchant vessels of 24,â€" 614 tons, of these six of 21,970 tons were built on the Clyde. Reports of the lambing season, in Berwickshire and Scotland generally, show that it has been the worst in the experience of flockmasters for many years. A conscientious objector has sent a donation of $1,250 to the National Bible Society of Scotland, being war profits which he could not conscienâ€" tiously use. The death took place at his resi« dence, Glenbank, Lenzie, recently of Mr. Robert Baird, a wellâ€"known Shetâ€" land pony breeder. bmon' of Mr. Wm. McLauchlan, of Paisley, in his 77th gear, _ _ Mr. J. E. Williams, of Glasgow, has tendered his resignation as secreâ€" tary of the National Union of Railâ€" waymen. Pte. Robert Martin, Scots Guards, a popular member of the Brechin Cricket Club, has been reported as killed in action. One of the few remaining Indian Mutiny veterans has just died in the FROM OLD SCOTLAND Dunbar West End Bowling Club has ceased to exist owing to so many of its members joining the colors. 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