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To this day Captain Barber does not know how he got there, and he resolutely declines to accept Captain Niblett‘s version as the mere offâ€" fl)ring of a disorered imagination. e also denies the truth of a stateâ€" ment cireulated in the town that night that, instead of replying to a leadâ€" ing question in the manner plainly laid down in the Church Service, he anâ€" awered, "I suppose so." He came out of the church with a buzzing in his ears and a mist })e!ore his eyes. Something was (-Imginfi to his arm, which he tried severa times to shake off. _ Then he discovâ€" "Time we started," said Mrs. Banks, raising her voice above the din. "Cap‘n Barber, you and Mr. Gibson and the other gentlemen had better get to the church. The men got up obediently, and in solemn silence formed up in the little pasuge, and then started for the church some two hundred yards disâ€" tant, the crew of the Foam falling in behind unchallenged. i. > # "1 suppose," said a lady of a romantic turn of mind, "that you (‘hdr)'}_‘know what was happening at They regarded him tenderly, and the youngest bridesmaid, a termible child of ten, climbed up on his knee and made audible comparisons _ between the two bridegrooms, which made Mr. Gibson smile. first "How strange!" said two or three volees. "I did not, ma‘am," agreed the ;::J»â€" tain, in trembling tones. "No \y was more uurprins than wot I was.‘" 959 The Bride‘s Name; CHAPTER XXIâ€"(Cont‘d.) Catalogne mailed froe __@@@#""* Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser \ _ On two or three occasions the girl had accompanied him on board the | steamer, and at such times it was Mr. Green‘s pleasure to wink in a frenzied manner at Mr. Joe Smith, and to make | divers bets of pints of beer, which | made that thirsty soul half crazy to listen to. _ Hewalso said that anyone with half an eye could see what was in the wind. The vegetable water is the water in which the vegetables have been cooked. (In the case of potatoes the water is not used.) _ The vegetable pulp is the cooked vegetable rubbed through a sieve. _ Since the vegetable is cookâ€" ed before making into soup, any leftâ€" over vegetable from dinner can be used to make a hot soup for supper or lunch Onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, canâ€" ned corn, peas, or tomatoes, are genâ€" erally well liked. In the case of tomatoes, a pinch of soda must be added to neutralize the acid so the milk will not curdle. Remnants of cold boiled fish, or canned salmon, or Milk and cheese, at present prices, furnish nourishment at a much lower cost than meats. _ The housekeeper who knows their food value and how to prepare milk and cheese in a varâ€" iety of appetizing dishes will use more of them. Secure the best milk at any price for the babies; their lives deâ€" pend upon it. _ Whole milk,/skimmed milk, butterâ€"milk for the children, inâ€" stead of so much meat, is both more wholesome and cheaper. _ If possible, buy skimmed milk for milk soups and puddings; it is a substitute for meat protein and costs about a quarter the money . 2 Tablespoons butter or dripping, 2 tablespoons flour, ‘4 teaspoon salt, 2 eups milk or 1 ecup milk and 1 cup vegetable water, 4 cup vegetable pulp or flaked fish. | A fine October gave way to a damp ‘and dreary November; a month of mists and fogs, in which lhippins of ‘all nations played blind man‘s buff at 'sen, and felt their way, mere voices crying in the wilderness, up and down | the river. _ The Swallow, with a soul ‘too large for its body, rammed a firstâ€" |class battleship off the Medway, and | with a thoughtfulness too often lackâ€" ing at sea, stood by and lowered _ a boat, whereupon the captain. who had been worrying about his paint, inâ€" vented, in his surprise, a brand new adjective for the use of senior officers | of the British Navy. | can serve two masters; and, with a view to saving himself worry, dismissâ€" ed the matter from _ his mind until some weeks afterwards it was forcibly revived by the perusal of a newspaper which the engineer had _ brought aboard . Without giving himself time for due reflection he ran up on deck and a%proached the skipper. "Golden Cloud‘s in the paper as overdue, sir," he said, respoct}t)fily. "An‘ what about Cap‘n Flower *" ; suggested Mr. Green; "she‘s evident the young Tady he was talking about that night, and Tommy‘s heard ‘em| speaking about him once or twice too." ; Joe shuffled uneasily. _ He was beâ€"| ginning to entertain a considerable reâ€"‘ gard for his new skipper, dnting from . the time he discovered that his sinister | suspicions concerning him were unâ€"‘ founded. _ He had moreover conceivâ€"| ed a dogâ€"like admiration for Poppy . Tyrell. | "That‘s ‘is business," he said, shortâ€"| ly; "judging by what you ‘eard in that pub, Cap‘n Flower knows where to put | "is hand on one or two more if ‘e wants ‘em." | He walked off in dudgeon, ignoring a question by Mr. Green as to whose foot kep‘ the door open, and felt dimly the force of the diction that no man "And a very nice couple they‘ll make, too," said Joe, solemnly. Cev Over three months had elapsed since the Golden Cloud set out on her long voyage; three months during which Fraser, despite his better sense, had been a constant visitor at Popgy Tyrell‘s, and had assisted her in the search for fresh lodgings to avoid the attentions of Mr. Bob Wheeler, who, having discovered her whereabouts, had chosen to renew his sult. Milk and Cheese Dishes. CHAPTER XXIL ~MOLLS Milk Soups. About the |\ He handed the paper back, and reâ€" turned to his work and to confer in a ‘low voice with Green, who had been ‘watching them. _ Fraser went back to the cabin, and after sitting for some time in a brown study, wrote off | to Poppy Tyrell and enclosed the cutâ€" _ting. es Mix first five ingredients. Add yolks of eggs well beaten, and fold in the stiffly beaten whites. _ Pour into a buttered bakingâ€"dish and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Cheese Souffle. 3 Tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons flour, 2â€"8 cup milk, 1 egg, 1 cup gratâ€" ed cheese, salt and pepper, Zew grains of cayenne, dry crumbs. 4 Add 2 teaspoons salt to 2 quarts boiling water. Drop in the macaroni, broken into inch pieces, and boil hard for 20 minutes. Drain and pour cold water through to prevent the pleces sticking together. â€" Melt the 3 tablespoons butter in a saucepan; add the flour and stir until frothy; add the milk and stir until it thickens. Season with salt and pepper, add the cheese and pour over the cooked macâ€" aroni,. _ Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a baking dish, stir the crumbs in this, turn them out on a plate, put the macaroni in the bakingâ€"dish, and sprinkle the crumbs over the top. Bake until thoroughly heated and _ the crumbs brown. _ This may be served in a vegetable dish without the crumbs and baking, but the macaroni must then be reâ€"heated in the sauce. Cheese Fondue. 1 Cup scalded milk, 1 cup soft stale bread crumbs, 1 cup grated cheese, 1 tablespoon butter, 4 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs. Melt the butter, add the cornstarch, and when well blended gradually stir in the cream and cook 2 minutes. Add the cheese and stir until cheese is melted. _ Season and serve on toastâ€" ed crackers or on bread toasted on one side, the rarebit being poured over the untoasted side. dried beef may be used in the same way as the vegetables. Macaroni and Cheese. 1 Cup macaroni, 2 cups milk, 3 tablespoons _ butter, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 cup grated cheese, 4 teaspoon salt, few grains pepper, ‘4 cup dry bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon butter. Important factors to life are air, water and food. _ We can live without air for only a short tims, without waâ€" ter from one to four days and without food from thirty to fifty days. _ In composition the human body is threeâ€" quarters water, and of such a nature that a variety of foods is necessary, but not all are desirable. "He‘s done it this time, and no misâ€" take," said Joe, at last. _ "Well, ‘e was a good sailorman and a kind master." In a dazed fashian he read the paragraph over and over again, closeâ€" ly scanning the names of the rescued men. _ Then he went up on deck, and beckoning to Joe, pointed with a trembling finger to the fatal paraâ€" graph. _ _Joe read it slowly. $ _ "And Cap‘n Flower wasn‘t one o‘ them, sir?" he asked, pointing to the names. Yl "What is?" inquired Fraser, sharpâ€" y. Days passed and ran into weeks, but the ({oltren Cloud was still unspoken. Fraser got a paper every day when ashore, but in vain, until at length one morning, at Bittlesea, in the news colurins of the Daily Telegraph, the name of the missing ship caught his eye. _ He folded the paper hurriedly, breathed hard as he read:â€" Missing ship, Golden Cloud. Rio _Janeiro, Thursday. The barque Foxglove, from Melâ€" bourne to Rio Janeiro, has just arrived with five men, sole survivors of the ship Golden Cloud, which they report as sunk in collision with a steamer, name unknown, ten weeks out from London. Their names are Smith, Larsen, Peterson, Collins, and Gooch. No others saved." Fraser shook his head, and both men stood for some time in silence. "If I‘d got a ‘ead like you Willyum," he said, enviously, "I‘d be a loryer or a serlicitor, or something o‘ the kind." The men moved off slowly, Mr. Green‘s reproaches being forestalled by the evidently genuine compliments of Joe. m "Yes, sir, I did tell Joe, sir," he answered, with a reproachful glance at that amateur. "I met Cap‘n Flower that evening again, late, an‘ he told me himself. I‘m sorry to see by this morning‘s paper that his ship is overdue." "That‘ll do," said Fraser, turning away . * Mr. Green being summoned, hastâ€" ily put down the cat and came aft w{ile Joe, with a full confidence in his friend‘s powers, edged a few feet away, and listened expectantly as the skipper interrogated him. "What do you *now about peated Fraser. "Willâ€"yum told me, sir," : hastily. 8 Joe looked round helnlessly. _ At such moments Willyum Green was a tower of strength, but at the present time he was fooling about helping the ship‘s cat to wash itself. "Golden Cloud, sir; boat Cap‘n Flower is on," said Joe, slowly. Fraser â€" regarded> him _ sternly. "What do you know about it?" he asked . Standard Food is the Cheapest. The most important business of the (To be continued.) told me, sir," said Joe, it?" reâ€" Best Guard Against the Ravages of Insect Pests. In an address on "Insect Life in Relation to Bird Life," a Toronto speaker, Dr. Cosens, recently told of the constant struggle going on in the world between plants and animals and insects for existence, and of the nice balance of nature. This has been deâ€" stroyed by man, who is reaping the consequences of his destruction of the birds by suffering from the ravages of insect pests. Birds are the most imâ€" portant check on injurious insects. There are certain other checks, such as parasitic insects like the family of the Ichneumonidac. The Ichneumon fly lays its eggs either on the skin, unâ€" der the skin, or near the larvae of the insect it preys upon. But the birds are our great helpers, and every stage of insect life, eggs, larvae, caterpillar and mature insect, furâ€" nishes food for some bird. Warblers and chickadees clean up the eggs, as do the creepers. A colony of warblers and chickadees will keep an orchard free from the dread San Jose scale. A number of orioles and â€" yellowâ€"billed and blackâ€"billed cuckoos will keep an orchard free from the tent caterpillar. Bank swallows feed on the adult mosâ€" quito, and should receive absolute proâ€" tection. Dr. Cosens deplored the deâ€" struction of colonies of bank swalâ€" lows every year by idle boys. This should be stopped. Every bank swalâ€" low is a public benefactor. The woodâ€" peckers are the only check on boring beetles in the world, and are specially equipped with a beak and a tongue for digging under the bark and lickâ€" ing out the grubs. The bark beetle is the most destructive pest we have. The annual loss in forests in the United States alone is estimated at $100,000,000. Woodpeckers should be encouraged and protected. The sapâ€" sucker is more likely boring for a grub than for sap. The robins feed on the brownâ€"tailed moth, which was imported to this continent from Holâ€" land in 1891 in nursery stock and beâ€" came very destructive in the New England States. The gypsy moth has a caterpillar which weaves a silken sail and floats away on the wind to pastures new. The sugar for jelly should always be heated in the oven before using. Stir frequently and do not allow it to brown. Fine linens and all pieces of harlâ€" some lingerie should be wrung out by hand and never through a wringer. The young carrots pulled up when thinning the carrot bed can be scrapâ€" ed and cooked and served with cream sauce. When the top of the kitchen range is red hot your fuel is being wasted. Hot egg sandwiches make a good inexpensive dish for supper. Tins for the baking_c;f large round cakes may be partially lined with paper. Prunes cooked without adding sugar are more wholesome and better flavorâ€" ed. Cooked squash left over from a meal may be made a delicious soup. 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TORONTO The planting of the backyard garâ€" den is a "home defence" against the high cost of living . doing my bit?" and, having asked the question, let him leave the Director of National Service to answer it. It is quite possible that the answer will be: "Yes, you are. Carry on}" But every man who volunteers for Naâ€" tional Service helps the Director in his task of putting the right man in the right place. If he is to do his job, he must know whom he can rely upon, He must have the power to send men to the places where they are required. It may be here toâ€"day, and somewhere else toâ€"morrow. War does not wait on the conveniâ€" ence of individuals. War of toâ€"day is an affair of nations, and that nation will be the victor which best uses all its manâ€"power and willâ€"power to achieve victory. Heart and brain and nerve and muscle, strained to the utâ€" termost, and by one and all; that is the only way to shorten the agony which now overspreads the earth., The young man whose infirmity keeps him out of khaki should prove that he is really sorry not to be able to "do his bit." If he is really sorry, the opportunity has come to prove it. The Only Way. Many professed themselves ready to die for King and Country if they had been able. How many will be ready to work? Work is less heroic, it is more humdrum, but it is not less neâ€" cessary to victory. There are no V.C.‘s or D.C.M.‘s to begained by it, but it is a chance for service and sacâ€" rifice. Let every man ask himself: "Am 1 Every man between fortyâ€"five and sixtyâ€"oneâ€"and the man who feels beâ€" tween those ages, but is a little older â€"who feels the blood of youth still running in his veins, should step into line with his relatives and friends who are fighting. And note the word "Volunteer"! It is a great word. We are prouder of the soldiers who volunteered than of those who were forced to go. The solâ€" diers will be prouder of the workers who volunteer than those who are compelled. Every true Briton between the ages of eighteen and sixtyâ€"one not called to the Colors should promptly respond to the nation‘s summons to enrol toâ€"day. He will find forms for offer of serâ€" vices at every postâ€"office, National Service office, and employment exâ€" change. Those who volunteered to fight saw their opportunity, and they are happy in having grasped it. Those who volâ€" unteer to work will be no less happy. They will give all.they have to give. Let, then, the message ring in each man‘s ears who is asked to consecrate himself to service: The solution rests in the hands of the National Service volunteer. He may not know anything about agriculture at vresent; but strong arms and a willing heart will soon make him a useful farmâ€"hand. Aeroplane making, munition work, labor of all kinds is waiting to be done. Shortage of labor is a pressâ€" ing problem. The solution rests with the National Service volunteer. "Your work is needed for the victory of the right, and to save yourself from ruined hopes." Do we quite see the glory and the opportunity of this day? How often in the life of any one of us has it been given to know that a certain course is right beyond all doubt? Seidom, inâ€" deed. But now we have the certainty. And why is 1917 different from the three war years that have preceded it? In 1917 the call has come for Naâ€" tional Service. We cannot please ourâ€" selves whether we work for the nation or not this year. It is our duty. It is the right thing to doâ€"the only thing to do! ‘ Your Chance at Last. "There‘s nothing really the matter with me," he explained, "only the mili« tary are so beastly particular!" The disability to hold a _ rifle, through some trifliing unfitness, is no bar to Hun strafing in 1917. e e l d We all know that 1915 poster which shows a young man in khaki shaking hands with a veteran, who says: "If I were only twenty years youngâ€" er____" But age is no bar to patriotism and sacrifice in 1917. A year ago, two years Ago, the young man bemoaned the fact that he was unfit for military service. owen Sa e i e es "How I wish I could do something splendid!" . cried the young girl in 1914. "Fancy being a girl at a time like this!" But,-;x; 1917, sex is no handicap splendid achievement. Lo uk uscA l uo c o ie wl A CALL TO SERVE It won‘t be only "daddy" who is aSKâ€" ed that question by the next genera= tion. Mother and grandmother and grandfather will have to give an an« swer, says London Answers. ULT e Le qo tw YOLUNTEER Step Into Line "What did you do ?" Heroes and Defeat the It Rests With You. SERVICE "daddy" who is askâ€" i1 an far in Be! 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