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_ i4 i & &0 gi" " | 4 ‘7. [ 4 % » "I never said a word about it," inâ€" terposed Captain Barber, in a loud voice. "There‘s no reason â€"for waiting," said Mrs. Banks, decidedly. "I dare say it‘s his loneliness that makes him want to hurry it. _ After all, he ought to know what he wants." "I never said October," interrupted the trembling mariner. "There‘s his memory again," said Mrs. Banks, in a low voice. "Poor dear," sighed the other. "We‘ll look after your interests," said Mrs. Banks, with a benevolent smile. _ "Don‘t you remember meetin me by the church the other night ang telling me that you were going to marry Mrs. Churc{ in October ?" "No," bawled the affrighted man. g "Clean gone," said bfrs Church, shaking her head; "it‘s no use." ‘ "Not a bit," said Mrs. Banks. l "October seems rather early." said| Mrs. Church, "especially as he is in mourning for his nephew." | FIVE ROSES FLOUR uo ul " k o . We l r sls Ponm ...AD.E‘A“.‘S?UDDING‘J'PA.TRIES' "I don‘t like to seem to hurry it," said the housekeeper . ‘"No, of course you don‘t. It he said October, naturally October it ought to be, in the usual way," reâ€" marked the other. To say that Captain Barber pricked ur his ears at this, indicates but feebly his interest in the remark. â€" He held his breath and looked wildly round the room as the two ladies, deftly ignoring him, made their arrangements for his future . Be sure and write for free copy, profusely illustrated. It‘s full of great bargains. EASY TERMS FOR ALL. Have You Our New Furniture Catalogue? "He‘ll get the better of it," said Mrs. Banks, kindly, as her quondam foe wiped her eyes again. "If he don‘t, you‘d better marry before October." "Who are you?" asked the sufferer, promptly . "How are you feeling?" demanded Mrs, Bunks, in the voice of one adâ€" dressing a deaf invalid. "I‘m all right," said Barber shortl{. "That‘s his pride," said Mrs. Church, mournfully; “te won‘t own to it. He can‘t remember anything. He preâ€" tends he doesn‘t know me." he had told her he should not be home to that meal. _ He was ungallant enâ€" ough to contemplate a raid upon hers; she, with a rare thoughtfulness, had already eaten it _ He went to the "Thorn," and had some cold salt beef, and cursed the ingenious Nibletts, now on his way to London, skyâ€"high. ‘ Mrs. Banks came in the next evenâ€" ing with her daughter, and condoled with the housekeeper on the affliction which had already been noised about | Seabridge . Mrs. Church, who had, accepted her as an ally, but with mental reservations, softly applied u! han_d_ken'hief to her eyes. [ There was enough emphasis on the last sentence to send a little chill through the captain‘s frame. He said nothing, but keeping his eye on his plate attacked his frugal meal in silâ€" ence, and soon afterwards went upâ€" satairs to bed to think out this position. If his own memory was J:;ectivel Mrs. Church‘s was certainly redundâ€" ant. _ When he came hurrying in to dinner next day she remcl:gered that "It doesn‘t seem quite so good as it was," said the lady, affectionately. *Never mind, my memory will have to do for both." it ?" ue Antinemsand® wortint Dracy uhi e it uies h "My memory," said the trickster, slowly, passing his hand over his brow; "why, what‘s the matter with "Whatever has haprned to your memory ?" said Mrs. Church, sweetly. UR R O U G H E STEADFASTLY REFUSE +. . SUBSTITUTES k Black, Mixed or Natural Green. rxs 645â€"647 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont. CHAPTER XVIII.â€"(Cont‘d) The Bride‘s Name; Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser ONTARI TORONTO struck him with an odd sense of disâ€" afipointment. The place seemed changed. He hurried past the wharf; that too was deserted, and after a lovâ€" ing peep at the spars of his schooner he drifted slowly across the road to n Nenpempmnit 0 u6 4P cnteraaichiay ce viist crradt t w A | _ It was over a fortnight since his re.| is one of the best methods of giving | turn to London. _ The few shillings their leaves the necessary moisture. | obtained for his watch had disappearâ€"| _ After washing oilcloth and linoâ€" | ed day3 before; rent was due and the leum, be sure to dry it properly. â€" If cupboard was "".‘I’W'h_rh" Sime seemâ€"| left damp it will speedily rot and soon | efl‘el;ai\.vl;'in:;::g at;;( 1ht’I’12.' lt"o:tl’n ’Z(i'gg{-h:"’,g; become totally ruined. _ It is a great | belonged to another period of exis. MiStake to use too much water for tence. _ At the risk of detection he| Washing it. _ The cloth should be had hung round the Wheeler‘s night Wrung out and passed lightly over after night for a glimpse of the girl the surface. | |for whom he was enduring all theu! A campstool to hold the clothes‘ hardships, but without success, He basket is a convenfence on washday. | became a prey to nervousness, and, unâ€"| It jg light, easily carried about, and ;able]t:» encjurel ihe "“‘SW":” ‘]‘t';‘y '°’.‘3.'; when not in use takes up little room. | er, determined to pay a stea visi a s [ to Wapping and try ’m ARige F"syer. In hanging out the clothes and taking the smm _ Psnndb o0 is d s s MB & d td \ ! He chose the night on which in the ordinary state of affairs the schooner should f)e lying alongside the wharf ; and keeping a keen lookâ€"out for' friends and foes both, made his wn{ to the Minories and down Tower Hil ‘ He had pictured it as teeming with people he knew, and the bare street | and closed warehouses, with a chance! docker or two slouchin slowly along,E struck him with an ods sense of die.! |_Opponents of medicine have hit! | upon a means of cleansing the system | by abstaining for a time from food.’ ‘and drinking a quantity of fair water. | It is stated to clear the eyes and the, ;skin, and to cause a feeling of light-! \ness and buoyancy undreamt of by | | those who have never tried it. All people, perhaps, are not affected exâ€" |actly alike, and Captain Flower, while | admitting ‘the lightness, would have | !disdainfully contested any charge of buoyancy. _ Against this objection it may be said that he was not a model‘ patient, and had on several occasions‘ ]wilful]y taken steps to remove the! feeling of lightness. | "You forget yourself, ma‘am," reâ€" turned her victim, with unconscious ‘ambiguity, and, closing the door beâ€" hind her, returned to the parlor to try to think of some means of escaping from the position to which the inâ€" genuity of Captain Nibletts, aided by | that of Mrs. Banks, had brought him. | i Captain Barber‘s voice was drowned in acclamations. ° Elizabeth kissed Mrs. Church, and then began to disâ€" _ euss her own wardrobe. _ The owner | of the house, the owner of the very | chairs on which they were sitting, enâ€" deavored in vain to stop them on a point of order, and discovered to his mortification that a man without l' memory is a man without influence, In | twenty minutes it was all settled, and |even an approximate date fixed. There | was a slight movermnent on the part of!' | Elizabeth to obtain Captain Barber‘s opinion upon that, but being reminded | by her mother that he would forget all‘ about it in half an hour‘s time, she settled it without him. I "I‘m so sorry about your memory, Captain Barber," said Mrs. Banks, as she prepared to depart. "I can underâ€" stand what a loss it is. _ My memory‘s a very good one. I never forget anyâ€" thing ." w "All right," said Mrs. Banks, inâ€" ,Idulgently. "What are you going to wear, my dear?" she aJ:ied, turning }' to the housekeeper . | _ Mrs, Church seemed undecided, and ‘Captain Barber, wiping the moisture "'!rom his brow, listened as one in a dream to a long discussion on the pos-‘ | gibilities of her wardrove. _ Thrice he | interru, ted, and thrice the ladies, susâ€" | pending ther conversation for a moâ€" | ment, eyed him with tender pity beâ€" fore resuming it. | | | _ "Me and Frank thought of October," said Elizabeth, speaking for the first time. _ She looked at Captain Barber and then at her mother. _ It was the look of one offering to sell a casting vote. "October‘s early," said the old ]ady,‘ bridling . l Mrs. Church looked up at her, and then medestly looked down again. "Why not a double wedding ?" |hel asked, gently .. ‘rlited slowly across the road to "Albion," and, pushing the door a CHAPTER XIv ,.,h-'fl â€"out tof} Time will be saved if the houseâ€" his wgafi keeper will sit down with pad and cook wer Hill.| book and plan the meals for at least ing w1th: three days, and as each meal is planâ€" ': ';:tar:::j ncl a list is made of the food to be iy talong | purchased; by this means the marketâ€" c of dig.| N&Z can be done for three days in little seemed more time than would be required for e wharf; one. er a lovâ€"| _ When a child has the slightest tendâ€" schooner | ency to crooked legs he should have a I:(:;o(f)rt:ivery special treatment. _ His bones‘ T SONTV TWT TOES â€" RUHL 4 1720 workers were trying to forget the labors of the day in big draughts of beer, while one of them had thrown off his fatigue suffitiently to show a friend a fancy step o!r which he was somewhat vain. It was a difficult and intricate step for a crowded bar, and panicâ€"stricken men, holdinfi their beer aloft, called wildly upon him to stop, while the barman, leaning over the counter, strove to make his voice heard above the din. _ The dancer‘s feet subsided into a sulky shuffle, and a tall seaman, removing the tankard which had obcured his face, revaeled the honest features of Joe. The sight of him and ‘the row of glasses and hunches of bread and cheese behind the bar was irresistible. The skipper caught a departing customer by the coat and held him. (To be continued). ‘Pamai _ ___ _1 CR CC NEUuously In. The faces were all unfamiliar, and letting the door swing quietli back he walked on until he came to t e "Town of Yarmouth." T!:e public bar was full. â€" Tired Liftle _way A campstool to hold the clothes basket is a convenience on washday. It is light, easily carried about, and when not in use takes up little room. In hanging out the clothes and taking them from the line the stool saves stooping and keeps the bottom of the basket clean. | When a screw becomes loose, reâ€" move it and fill the hole with bits of sponge packed in tightly. Then reâ€" ;place the screw and it will hold as firmly as ever. | _ When slipping geraniums remember | that the woody stalks cut back and set | in rich soil will make the best bloomâ€" ‘ing plants. | _ To set growing house plants in a | tub and spray them with a bath spray is one of the best methods of giving their leaves the necessary moisture. ‘ Pictures should be hung on an agrecable level with the eye. The lightest weight kitchen utensils make work less tiresome. Eggs may replace meat in the adult diet whenever the price per dozen goes below the cost of 114 pound round steak. the small children. _ The normal child will thrive better on milk, cereals, and eggs in place of meat. A child‘s apâ€" petite is what the parents make it. Do not feel sorry for the child whose breakfast is oatmeal and milk, and supper is bread and milk with a bit of biscuit and jam; thec hild is well fed. Use every part of a meat purchased. Fry out the fat not used for the table, and use for shortening and other purâ€" poses; trimmings and bones for soups, and leftâ€".overs for "made" dishes. Avoid using too strong heat for roastâ€" ing and broiling, which ruins bones and trimmings for the soup pot, beâ€" sides wasting heat. Eliminate meat from the diet of | _ Stewsâ€"To many Canadians the word brings a memory of savorless ‘chunks of meat swimming in a waâ€" tery gravy. _ In intelligent kands it Ibecomes a dish of infinite variety through the combination of different meats with different vegetables and. seasonings, into juicy pieces of meat bedded in most savory sauce. | Make a little meat go a long way.r Spread the flavor over other nutritious | but more neutralâ€"flavored food, e.g., meat pies, Irish stew, potpies withf dumplings, stews with plenty of savâ€" ory gravy, served in a border of rice, mashed potatoes, boiled beans, macâ€" aroni or vegetables. wood fire is being used for other things; in the casserole or closeâ€"coverâ€" ed stone crock in the coal stove oven when it is left for the night; or in the fireless cooker when gas or electric stoves are used. Prolonged cooking at the lower temperatures will make the toughest cuts tender and improve their flavor. This can be accomplished economically in the doubleâ€"boiler when the coal or The cheaper cuts chopped fine make a Hamburg steak as quickly broiled as a porterhcuse. We buy meats chiefly for their proâ€" tein food value. _ The cheaper round, shank, and neck cuts give more for the money. bread and cereal dishes, and eggs when they are cheap enough. Serve carefully at the table; it is better to serve twice than to send remnants to the garbage pail. Use cheaper cuts. We pay largely for flavor, tenderness, and excessive fat is the expensive cuts. se less; once a day is ample if supplemented â€"with legume dishes, milk soups, cheese dishes, attractive bread and cereal dishes, and eggs when they are cheap enough. Use less open, peeped cautiously in. J POU ‘ iJ LLS -: o e T Household Hints Meat A tree has been discovered in Madaâ€" gascar that produces coffee which is said to be free from caffein. ’ Fish Pieâ€"Remove the bones and skin from any cold cooked fish, shred it and add seasoning to taste. â€" Butâ€" ter a bakingâ€"dish, cover the bottom with mashed potatoes and add the fish and small bits of butter. Season and cover with a top layer of potatoes and bake in a hot oven for ten minutes or until it is brown. _ Salmon Cutlets. â€" Chop _ rather coarsely the contents of a tin of salâ€" mon, and mix in an equal bulk of breadcrumbs, seasoning the lot accordâ€" ing to taste. Then, with the aid of beaten eggs, form a fairly stiff paste, which can be made into cutlets, and each coated with egg or milk and | browned breadcrumbs. Heat in a fry. }ing pan with dripping. three : f 2 ns ns B Creamed Finnan Haddie.â€"Two cupâ€" fuls of white (or cream) sauce, two tablespoonfuls of butter, three eggs, one tablespoonful of grated cheese, two cupfuls of flalkaA Bwue_el Lo dn ’ To avoid valuable time looking for the different buttons in your button box take a wire hairpin and straighten it out; then shape the wire in a circle and bend each end back after stringâ€" ing all of one kind of buttons on the pin, and hook one end through the oth.â€". er. It takes but a minute and you alâ€" lv:mys have the different kinds right at} and. To freshen a skirt that has become wrinkled and mussed from packing or otherwise, brush carefully, so that all dust may be removed, and hang over a tub of boiling hot water. After it is thoroughly steamed it will look like a tailor cleaned garment. Door mats should never be shaken against a wall. _ It causes the fibre to break. _ They should be placed face downwards and beaten gently with a stick or brush head. Mats treated like this will last twice as long. This method is also cleaner and easier. are too soft, and he needs more lime and iron. _ He should be taken off his feet at once, and have salt water bathâ€" ing and .massage. & CANADIANS WANTED FOR 10, %?gos&%"x'ifi.,.. Canada Sugar Refining Co., Fish Recipes. | "When Two Come Together One Apâ€" | prehends Before the Other." | In discourse with a friend, our thought, hit,berto wrapped in our fconsciousnest detaches itself, and alâ€" ‘lows itsef to be seen as a thought, in a manner as new and entertaining to us as to our companions. For | provocation of thought, we use ourâ€" | selves and use each other. Some perceptionsâ€"I think the bestâ€"are granted to the single soul; they come from the depth, and go to the depth, and are the permanent and controlâ€" ling ones. 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We facts were all lonely, thoughtless; and now : It was not religious fanaticism that a principle appears to all; we see led the present rulers of Turkey to new relations, many truths; every seek to root out Christianity. Far mind seizes them as they pass; each from being fanatics, most of these catches by the mane one of these men, though nominally Mohammedans, strong coursers like horses of the have no religion whatever. Their aim prairie, and rides up and down in is Ppolitical. They wanted to make the the world of the intellect.â€"Ralph whole Turkish Empire Mohammedan Waldo Emerson. ‘in order to make it uniform with only Limited, Montreal, An aviation school is about to be opened by the Chinese government. TORONTO "Indeed then, they _ An old lady who had been Auced to a doctor who was also fessor in a university felt son puzzled as to how she would a the great man. "SBhall I call you ‘doctor‘ or * sor‘ ?" she asked, "Oh, just as you wish," was ply ; "as a matter of fact, people call me an old idiot," P Eocms C e We Act, and you act in time, that is appeal to you. 7_â€"~ TOSPEDnenes Wwhich carry out de. crees of the Government; you must not lose time in the field, in the facâ€" tory, or the workshop. Whoever tarâ€" ries when he ought to be activeâ€"wheâ€" ther it is a statesman, a soldier, an ofâ€" ficial, a farmer, a worker, a rich man with his moneyâ€"he is simply helping the enemy to secure the aid of the most powerful factor in this warâ€"time. t Gut. s stt oc aito Lo in l k ine only way to win time is not to lose time, says Lloyd George. You must not lose time in the Councll Chamber; you must not lose time in the Departments which carry out deâ€" crees of the Government; you must not ‘lose time in tha Rald i. ar. a _ i Surely the remains of this suffering nation could make no stronger appeal for pity and help to the Chxistians of America than they make through these martyr deaths. Only a remnant is now left to whom charity cen be extended. It is still a sorely afflicted remnant. ; seek to root out Christianity,. Far ; from being fanatics, most of these , men, though nominally Mohammedans, : | have no religion whatever. Their aim is political. They wanted to make the whole Turkish Empire Mohammedan | in order to make it uniform with only !one creed and no differences between |one class of subjects and another. |They saw that the Christian part of 'the population, suffering under conâ€" | stant oppressions and cruelties, conâ€" jtinued to turn its eyes westward and ‘hope for some redress from the Chrisâ€" tion nations; so they determined to eliminate Christianity altogether. Christ or Mohammed. During the recent massacres whenâ€" ever any Christian would turn Moâ€" |hammedan his life was spared. It was only as a Christian that he was ,killed. Many a Christian child was | torn from its parents to be brought up as a Mussulman. Thousands of Armenian Christian girls were sold in the market or distributed among Turkish officers to be imprisoned for life in Turkish harems and there forced into Mohammedanism,. But many more thousands of Armenians, women as well as men, were offered their choice between Christ and Moâ€" hammed, and when they refused Moâ€" hammed were shot down or drowned forthwith. For days together the bodies of Christian women who had thus perished were seen floating down the Euphrates. The only 16eed," . she m;l,f;;;etly. "but, , they are people that know you." In our own times we have seen this example of fidelity repeated in the Turkish Empire, and it is strange that ’the Christians of Europe and America should not have been more moved by the examples of courage and heroic devotion which the Armenian Chrisâ€" tians have given. Of the seven or eight hundred thousands of Armenians who have perished in the recent masâ€" sacres many thousands have died as mertyrs, by which I mean they have died for their Christian faith when they could have saved their lives by renouncing it. martyrs, men and women who, 110 the time of Nero down to that of Dioâ€" cletian, sealed with their blood the testimony to their faith notwithâ€" standing every lure and every threat, in order to preserve to their death loyalty to their Lord and Master, Christ. whekg POiie i e LC cGee t 1 so much honored by the Church . all through its later days, as dm_ae of the “'I:- tl-:'e in-ltor-yof the early Christian church there are no figures so gloriâ€" ous, none which have continued to be the Turks since the beginning OL UNC war reveals the Armenians quite as much martyrs to Christianity as any of the early Christians who died in Nero‘s arena, writes Viscount Bryce. _ There are toâ€"day more than a milâ€" lion Armenians and Syrians starving to death in Asia Minor, Syria, the Russian Caucasus, Persia and Palesâ€" tine. The relief work for them in America is in charge of the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief in New York. eight hundred thousand Hundreds of Thousands Have Died in OBJECT OF TURK TO STAMP OUT CHRISTIANITY ‘The slaughter of between seven and Making It All Right t as you wlsh,j‘ was the reâ€" Died for Christian Faith. ‘y who had been introâ€" octor who was also a proâ€" university felt somewhat To Win Time. Mohammedan Faith. since the beginning of the she would address plete org: ed by wh possibility its chief b to be the ; sion in the contains a who argue prepared t serve arm: with th ITALY ASK Kaiser Willian mild form of d going treatme; ing to wirciess here. His phy have given as careful regime effect a cure, | retarding the | h AISER WIHLIAM IN J ing gu ly to much â€" til we the me Believes Enemy is P rench Tror "While Germans in they have : which they somme batlieft have clearer g the advantage touch with the distance as ow a etraigh withdraw French f1 would not be reves and British armi their heavy artille "Our advance h to the difficulty of in the devastated Maurice. _ "We from the fact that The Germans along the front o and British have cording to a sta by Majorâ€"Genera director of milit: War Office. He stid that » taken up by the nuch â€" advertiss British Will Ne * Attack U Arr informatior the _ Gern: some _ day ough gh westert At Generally Bel A despatch The We ther pl e Zurick rdam se ays Hence WE ANT h state A1 Al whi