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4* We need not follow the evolution of the acquaintanceship in all its details. Let it be enough to say that at 6 o‘clock of the fourth subseqent day Mr. Billy Miles and Miss Dorothy Fitch were seated together at the T ud _T uh th. somebod Jimmy." In truth, greatly in h tion. "I don‘t think she‘s tied ug yet, Mr. Miles, sir," said Jimmy. "An‘ if she is, it will be just because she‘s such an innocent lamb, siv." The words were a relief as wel!l as a renrcof to Billy Miles‘s doubts. He "Pronty* Pronty? By Jove!" Miles tapped the table with his fist. "That‘s the man‘! Got into trouble with the postoffice people last Hyear. Shady mailâ€"order game." e frowned at vacancy. "Do you suppose, Jimmy, she‘s tied up with anything like that ?" "That fellaw," said Miles, "isâ€"â€"I‘ve geen him somewhere. Heâ€"â€"" "‘Is name is Pronty," Jimmy volunâ€" teered. "It‘s some business deal that he and she‘s talkin‘ of," Jimmy announced quite frankly to Billy Miles after the gwir! and man had gone. "It don‘t look right to me." t #waâ€" TO SERVE AND GOOD TO EAT CLARK‘S It ps@] (Gy: CANADIAN BOILED DINNER certainly READY d The Two Guardsmen s," he finally said, "as if has got to watch out for her, nt 1 do it?" he argued. needs a friend. Andâ€" incident helped him cess of selfâ€"justificaâ€" II !ly mounted the By BANISTER MERWIN. of men like that? I‘1 tell you the truth, Doroâ€"Miss Fitch I saw you first at Shea‘s. Iâ€"I just had to know you. I found you Hv:g‘ at 133, so I moved in thera, though I‘ve got an apartment uptown. Iâ€"hang itâ€"I spoke to you. I wanted u{ou to like me. Don{hi. you must like me!" "‘le think I‘d better go," she gaid y; but 310 did not mise, "I can‘t help it," said Billy. "I‘m an .fimd I know it, butâ€"" € e gazed dreamily into the dis Milss winced. "Confound it!" he floundered. "Iâ€" I know it‘s none of my business, but â€"how can you understand the ways "There are a lot of men who make a trade of cheating the farmers that way," he added. "I saw one of them with you at Shea‘s one dayâ€"a fellow namcj7 Pronty." She turned and reâ€" garded him silently. "Of course, I don‘t suppose you knowâ€"" This wounded very lame, and he stopped, _ "Has it occurred to {ou." she said coolly, "that perhaps there are two sides to Mr. Pront{)’l story? Thank you {o‘r'telling me, but I am perfectly you ior telling me, but I am perfe well able to look out for myself," The nut fell from her fingers to the grourd. The squirrel seized it and scampered away. s _ She consented; so on Sunday afterâ€" noon they went out to Westmount, then up the mountain, and sat on a bench and talked. Under the tghmces of her gray eyes Billy Miles thrilled; but ‘he returned resolutely from his excursion into the realm of day greams. _ _ "I am thinking of making a little news out ofâ€"of fake mail swindles," he went on. The Timl”ai{w&mflerz;l:& in little timid rushes. She held out a peanut beâ€" tween her slender fingers. _ "It‘s a slack ceason in my work," he began. wo "Let me show you around a little on Sunday," he requested eagerly. That evening as fi}ii}-s;t--with her at dinner he did his best to make her speak of Pronty, but she would not. Jimmy understood well enough. He saw that matters had prog:essed with Mr. Billy Miles. He was sensitive; he was proud; he would not give his adâ€" vice unless it were asked for. She knew concerning him that he was Billy Miles, of theEveninfg Star. That would have been enough for any | one familiar with newspaperdom. He knew of her that she was an | orphan, the @aughter of a Cnlgary clergyman; that she had been head clerk in a Calgary bookshop. Also he was glad that her name was Dorothy; but he was conscious of her resorve. When he turned the subject to work and business she looked thoughtfully | past or through himâ€"he was not sure which. Not a word from her about | Pronty. And yet Miles felt certain that she was in touch with him, conâ€"| tinuing negotiations, perhaps, at an office. , He would not spy om her; so you’ see there were limits to his shamelessâ€"| ness. He had resolved to know more| than she would willingly tell khimâ€"| and that, as it happened, was nothing. | But with Jimmy, in Billy‘s absence,‘ she was franker. | "I am in big business for the first! "I am in big business for the first time in my life, Jimmy,‘ she had said to him one day at lunch, smiling as she spoke. "What would you think of a young woman with a little â€" money taking up a business of stock investâ€" ment for women on a $5 instaliment corner table at Shea‘s, while Jimmy hovered over them to take their order. ol e _Y_‘ After I have my jelly prepared I lay out the collars and cuffs which have been washed ani dried and apply the jelly with a. «~!t cloth, rubbing in thorâ€" oughly ca stt <!‘gg.. 1 add the cold water to the starch and make a thin mixture without lumps. Then I add the bohing water llOWQy, stirring coftstantly, and allow it to boil up. Bince I live on a farm and am quite far removed from a laundry, I always do up the stiff collars and uffs at home. By using starch jelly I am able to secure just as high a gloss as that obtained at the laundry. The followâ€" ing are the proportions which I use: $wo tablespoons starch, oneâ€"quarter eup cold water, one cup boiling water, I add the cold water to the starch If, truly, this is an age of uplift, let it include our littlesi citizen. Let the right of the baby be looked irto and his voice be heard and understood. Away with grownâ€"up excuses and reasons. His first two years should be of uninterrupted tranquillity; his place, in the home. An eightâ€"hour day for babies. Wiho will join their voices to his and to mine? | visits. An eightâ€"hour day." Uhea;i-l-; ‘ I avert my eyes and reflect anew upon | "man‘s inhumanity toâ€"babies." And while we are on this subject, I may as well suggest another uplift, namely, the elimination of marketing from the baby coach. In many coaches the visibility of the baby is nil. The coach itself might be an Itlian pushâ€" cart and the mother a vegetable vendâ€" or, for all the passerby may know. Moreover, it is a sacred invasion upon‘ infant right. Ignominously the noor baby is trundled along with the family dinner on top of himâ€"forced to view the scerery thr®ugh celery tops and salad leavesâ€"to say nothingy of the weight of potatoes and other sundries upon his sma‘l tces. | ; Gaze upon h‘m. There he lies, _ crumpled down in an exhausted heap upon a hard and corsetâ€"proof lap, or dangling in * headâ€"rolling impotence ‘over a roughâ€"coated shoulder with a | routhful of fur for a pacifier, a specâ€" | tacle of speechless infelicity. ,__ I have often caught these little trayâ€" | elers regarding me with an expression ’o! morose resentment. Peering out of| Itheir lace bonnets, always askew, the | accusatipn in their eyes is unmistakâ€" |‘able. | Just what is a baby, anyway? A side show or an ornament? Frankly, it is hard to tell. From the manner of handling they get from grownâ€"ups one would think they were labeled like certain bottles of medicine: "Shake before taking." That is another thing to be considered along with the eightâ€" hour day, a society for the prevention of shaking. No wonder so many babies look rattled. They are. Added to the lateâ€"hour habit is the exhibition evil, largely the outgrowth of parental pride. At all hours of the day and night the baby is rudely awakened and brought out like a new Lat or bonnet for inspection, made to laugh and look at pretty pretties and be jostled up and down. "Cive us our right," they signal gloomily. _ "Down with train rides, sle.figh rides, shopping, movies and It is no use. He has raised his voiue â€"now I raise mine. An sightâ€"hour day for babies, shorter hours, longer naps; away with social duties and visitings. He has raised his voice in his own behalf many times, but the trouble is he speaks a forsign language variousâ€" ly interpreted and but indifferently uncerstood. If he crics, according to parent parlance, he is cither hungry, urcomfortable or in a temyer, more supposedly the latter. Decidedly not! What about that unclassified morse! of humanity, neithâ€" er man, woman‘ minor for animal? What about the baby? This is, I reâ€" peat, an age of uplift, but the only uplift he gets is a playful‘toss in the air. What of his rights, benefits and preventions? He has about as many at the present time as a Chinese gold. fishâ€"the right to live, be fed and to be displayed to the greatest adâ€" vantage,. i â€" Ceemmeeert 'fl I .How y eperen tor ies name p 4| hn iie on Aean me nirew s An eightâ€"hout day for babics. Wl..y' leln:hem :: 'in a towel while still wet. TL . Reerybody else hag ns 'I.’huii‘o twenty or thirty minutes I iron is an age of uplift and orgamzatlon-; ur: firstyon one side and then on the There are societies of every sort for t.le): With a ifon rubbed with parafhn, preventions, benefits and rights; lgm‘ 0 ”" e“rfectly y and glossy. governing the time and conditions | ““I; P very high .gloss is desivred I under which men and women may | 1s :iam cloth.6ver them andâ€"Again work; laws insisting upon a proper, Tu :untif perfestly dry. ‘ treatment of bow wows, horses, don-l pr:’;hen washing articles which I do keys, pigs, and even lobstcr§. Comâ€"| £ ‘sare "to have especially stiff 11 placently the old world rubs its hands, no lly use the coldâ€"starch method, and inquires, "Everybody happy ?" ) generally ho To Launder Collars and Cuffs. stammered on. "I don‘t ask you to say you care. I only zck you to give me a cthance to make you care." "Wait," she said. "We mustn‘t talk like this. I wischâ€"" § * He raised his troubled eyes to hers. "You are not to see me till you hear from me." * "When will that be?" "When I am done withâ€"with what I am doing." "What?" he asked.. _ "I wish you to move away from Mrs. Cressup‘s." "But how shall I see you?" She deliberated. How could she be so calm? A C TORONTO Sphave Q | _ Van Drebbel also invented what he called a "certain Quintessence," or ‘ chemical liquor, by which he was enâ€" abled to renew the air in his boat iwhen it had become vitiated. it is | even said that King James I., cautious |as he was, ventured on a submarine ‘trip in Van Drebbel‘s underâ€"water Patâ€""Well, I didn‘t open it, for on the outside of the envelope was printâ€" ed, ‘Please return in five days.‘ So I sent it back." x Mikeâ€""I heard you got a letter from your brother Denny." Patâ€""Indeed, I did." Mikeâ€""Was there anything impor tant in the lettery‘ The larger one pulled twelve oars, which passed through holes in her sides. The holes were made waterâ€" tight by leather sleeves attached both to the oars and the vessel‘s side. Acâ€" cording to one account of the balance between flotation and submersion was so fine that she could be kept below water by tae oars alone, presumably used in the same way as the diving fins of a modern submarine. were launched on the Thames. They were built of wood, strengthened inâ€" side with iron bands, and covered exâ€" ternally with tightlyâ€"stretched hides soaked in grease. ed for a Putchman named Van Drebâ€" bel, to build a boat able to travel unâ€" der the water for a short distance. * Van Drebbel con_:_aLructcd two subâ€" marines about the year 1620, which . "But you will give me a chance?" \he implored. "You willâ€"Dorothy?" |_She rose. He stood close beside her, and his eager cyes searched her face, |\ but she avoided meeting their gaze. | "I will write to you," she said Wooden Submarines. Who bulit the original submarine? The idea was first suggested by a British seaman in 1578, but it remainâ€" Add the cold water gradually to the starch. Mix well and add the dissolyvâ€" ed borax. Dip the article in the soluâ€" Cion and rub well, repeating the proâ€" ess several times. With a cloth remove all surface starch, roll up in a cloth, and allow +o stand over night. Iron according to the directions given for starch jelly. When washing articles which I do not care to have especially stiff I generally use the coldâ€"starch method, which is somewhat simpler: two tablespoons starch, one-ha{f teaspoon borax, two cups cold water. _ The squirrel was again making litâ€" tle rushes toward them. Billy frowned at it. Billy groaned. "Are you going on, with that man Pronty ? "I knew Mr. Pronty in Calgary," she answered quietly. " o. _"@5, simply. Minard‘s Liniment Cures Colds, &c. Obeying Orders. (To be concluded.) â€"(ROWN BRANDâ€" a door to hold it open. A priest at a wedding in old Babyâ€" lonia used to take a thread from the garment of the bride and another from that of the bridegroom. These he tied together into a knot, and presented it to the bride as a symbo! of the binding nature of the tnion between her and her husband. Hence the expression, "tying the knot." An extremely simple spring clip has been patented to be slipped under CoORN S The Syrup {for Pancakes s Could that day cver come? Ward it off! Grace your table daily with a generous jug of Crown Brand Corn Syrup, rcadg for the dozen desserts and dishes it will truly "crown", _ _ Sad the day when you are too big to enjoy a slice of bread sg)rearj thick with Crown Brand! In the Kitchen, there is a constant call for _ ; Crown Brand Corn Syrup for making puddings, candies, cakes, etc. A golden stream of Crown Brand Corn Syrup is the most delicious touch you can give to Pancakes! Bovrilise your cookery Use Bovril in your cookery The bodyâ€"building power of Bovril has been proved by independent scientific investigation to be from 10 to 20 times the amount taken. BOVRIL Bovril gives richness and flavour to soups, gravics, and all made dishes. When you are cooking, keep the bottle where you can see it. Bovril not only makes the dish more enjoyable, but also gives it additional {food value. f PARKER‘S BVE WCFKS, Limited Liniment Cures Diphthcria Cleaning and Dycing is proporly done at PARKER‘S Parcels may be sent Post or Express. We pay carriage one way on all orders. Cleaners and Dyers, * 791 Yenge St. Advice upon cleaning or dyeing any article will be promptly given upon request, PARKER‘S The clothes you were so prouu U MA newâ€"can be made to appear new again. Fabrics that are dirty, shabby or spotted will be restord to their former beauty by sending them to Parker‘s. w Tz mm LA °254 & * o Th\ "Under the magnotism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; or the imâ€" petucus, prudent and peaceful,"â€" Thackeray. a )g:,’ Â¥ ‘l"’l f # @ ow * rees ol u‘l, {as .9 | | 4 ammmansmmmemnemamnnmmmmamen= _ oa ~ U e The Canada Starch Co. bu M 4 T 20 po so proud of when Toronto eop o ready been destroyed by variouns ig gects. Its use, it is believed, will help‘ very greatly in the entomological work with various incecis being carried on by the Federal Department of Agricy!: ture. A New Use For the Aceroplane. The Department of Agriculture at Ottawa has discovered a new use for the meroplane. The Entomological Bran? is investigating the mosquite in the*Lower Fraser Valley in British Columbic. By using the aeroplane the country can be surveyed in order to m&p out the swampy areas and other breeding places that are readily 19: cated in photographs taken from overâ€" head, according to a statement by Dr, C, Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomo: logist, that appears in the Ociober Agricultural Gazette, The aeroplang was used in making a comprehensive suryey of the complicated water #y8> tem of the Fraser River and the ag: jacent bodies of permanent and tem» porary water in that district, fl flight reported by Dr. Hewitt has demonâ€" strated the |>oszlhllitimot using t:z machine zlso for making surveys timber that is being killed or has 1_‘ Every ship that goes to the bottom Jlakes with ber a certain amount of gold. It may be only a few dollars worth, orâ€"as in the case of the famous Lutineâ€"a million may be lost in a minute. Besides all this, there is the matter of hoarding. In countries where banks are not found in every town, the people who have gold hide or bury 1t, In many cases they die without rever}â€" ing the secret of the h#dingâ€"place, Ir this way India alone swallows up more than two and‘a half millton doliars worth of gold yearly, China more than this, while Africa is at present absorbâ€" ing gold in this way mt the rate of more than five imillion dollars a year, The money is paid as wages to the Kafiir laborers at the mines, and by them carried away to their kraails, whence it never returns, Every fire that occurs means a desâ€" truction of gold, and there is never a minute, day or night, when wcores of human babitations are not burning. London alone has 2,400 fires yearly, In the course of one year‘s ordinary use a sovereign loses one and aâ€"hait per cent. of its weight, Careful calcuâ€" lations go to show that the aanual loss which actually takes place by wear and tear of gold coin can be no loss than twenty millions of dollars All this prodigious sum is dissipated into fine dust, and utterly lost, The waste of gold is another factor which keeps down the supply. Few people consider how great is the wasto of gold by wear and tear. Pack two thousand balfâ€"soveriegns in a bag and send them on a journey of a thousand miles: at the end of that journey one halfâ€"sovereign‘s weight of the goid is clean gone. It is in the chape of dust adhering to the inside of the bag. Next, the individual weaith of these countries has increased enormously, and therefore thcir poople require a great deal more gold for purposes of coin. Severai countries which in 1850 were.working on a silver or paper curâ€" rency have come up to the gold standâ€" ard, the latest of these being Spain, Swallowed Up by Jewellery. The third and perhaps most impor tant point of all is the enormous amount of gold rnow used in industry, For the arts such as jewellery, gold plate, gold leaf, for purposes of ornaâ€" ment and decoration, the world is now using three times as much gold in a year as the whole amount produced in 1846 â€"that is, aboutminety million dolliars worth. As a matter af fact, nothing of the kind has happened. In the first place, while the population of the world at large has only increased by about ninety per cent. during the period mentioned, that of civilized countries has doubled, and more than doubled. It is the civilized countries that use gold as a medium of exchange and as their basis of currency. Within about sevecty years the outâ€" put of gold has been multiplied by seventeen, yet in the same périod of time the population of the world has increased by only rinety per cent. This being so, it might well be imagâ€" ined that there would now be more than enough gold for the world‘s purâ€" poses, and that the precious metal would have consequently depreciated in value. In 1860 it was one hundred and twenty millions; by the end of the century it was three hundred miliions, while toâ€"day the gold mines of the world are turning out very neary five hundred million dollars worth of gold every year. In 1846 the w:olo world produced less than thirty ®illion dollars worth of gold. Then the California goldâ€" fields woere discovered, and in four years production had leaped to ninety millions a year. » Enormous Amounrt of CGold is Now Used in Jewelliceyâ€" Increase in Weelth,. ILLIONS LOST YEARLY BY WEAR AND TEAR. ich> authorities estirante that 1 y Bu of the allied soldiers who * . cour‘tn married a French THE CGOLD GO? p‘ TY Ns lov alf to alf «are of The W and ansvery w which they are this paper, mediate reply #B¥€iI0De ue e MWM e coniflad IRe onject Â¥ice of our far authority on a Addrees ai CX p ing th The ob of our t Conduc #¢