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Heartsease and Gentian By GERTRUDE ROBINSON. PART II. "I am carrying' some jelly to old Madam Turner on the Powik;- fvlill road. She used to teach the Birch Pwir.t school, yoa know. She tauctht my mother a-.J «hc tautrht me; Lmt r.fw she is ol-l. The P)>S l^r .VK:! people gave her the frround for her little home, and the Helpinsr Band looks out for her as much as it can. It can't do much because she is very proud. But she does love my mother's jelly, and she like."! to have me read the Psalms to her on Sunday after- ! from noons. She taught me to read, you see." "And you read to her every Sunday afternoon?" taid Horace thought- fully. "Yes; I do it instead of Kwng to Sund:y school. Mother thinks it is better for me." They walked on in silence through the pine woods that bordere<l the gras'i-grown road. Presently, <it a turn, Eloise took the basket and book from his hand. ^l COLONEL BECOMES CONSTABLE. Everybody baa heard «f the Kngllsh- man who wmit Into the war a private soldier and came out u Brigadier Gen- eral. A case even more niinarkable, however, Is reported from rardliY, Wales, and lias created Bouiethiiig more than local stlr-lhough Cardiff Ludlow," she said. "We will take' itself appears to have taken the mat them to our old friend. Madam Turn- tor with entire calmness. Before tho war Arthur Ititchlngs er." And Madam ("hcney swept on, leaving the man standing fooli.shly on the bridge behind them. Elo('«e, without a backward glance, trailed in her mother's wake. "The poor little thing," Horace mut- tered to himself. She hasn't any spirit of her own. She wanted to speak to me!" His eyes fell upon something red lying on the bridge. It was a police constable In tho town. He enlisted in the ftriny in 1914 and served In the ranks in that (Irst criti- cal year and the two years following. In November, 1917, he was pronioti^d Second Lieutenant on the lield, by February, 1918, he was a Captain, a little later he was a Major, and the end of the war found liim a Mcutonaut I^Oing Fruit; and Vegt'tables. i It has been estimated by reliable authorities that from one-fourth t0| three-eighths inch cubes, blanched two minutes in boiling v.-ater, dipped in cold water, spread from one to one All grades. TORONTO a J. CLIFF Write for prlcM. SALT WORK'S TORONTO was the little copy of the Psalms! t!oIonel. In that time ho hud been six which Eloise read to the old! times wounded, he had won the de- A drier of the given dimensions will hold eight trays. The frames of the trays are made of one-inch strips on which is tacked , , . , galvanized screen wire, which forms one-haif of all perishable crops raised; and one-fourth- inches deep on trays ^ ^^^ bottoms of the trays. Each cray in this country before the war were and dried at a temperature of 120 deg. i j^ ^,j ^ jg inches making it three allowed to go to waste. Through at-|to 170 deg. F. From six to eight ; j^^^^^ j^^^ j^ ^^^„^^ ^j,^^ ^j^^ j^.j^^^ tuntion to modern nwtliods of pres- 1 hours' t;me is required for drying »' xhe lowest tray when placed in the ervation (drying, canning, storing and j this temperature. drier is pushed to the back, leaving .salting) the percentage of foods! Cauliflowerâ€" Heads of cauliflower , the three-inch space in front. The formerly allowed to go to waste haslniust be washed, separated into parts ' njxt tr.-'.y is placed even with the front, been greatly reduced. ] or branches, cut one-fourth inch thick leaving a three-inch space in the back.' Of the four methods of preservation! by means of a sharp knife or rotary. The other trays alternate in the same â€"drying, canning, storing and salt-; sliccr, blanched three minutes in boil-j^-ay. This permits the heated air to ing â€" widely recommended for use dur-j ing water, cold-dipped and dried in jj^gg around and over the trays, ing the past few seasons, the first is layers from three-fourths to one inch There is a ventilator at the top. schoolmistress. He picked it up andi coration of Chevalier of the Legion of slipped it in his pocket. i "o"0'', the Croix do Guerre with The next week Horace Ludlow left^ I'iilms, and tho Military Cross, having Birch Point. He carried a dead hope' ''^^" mentioned three times in dcs- in his heart, and a Ktle red psalm' ''"tches and having proved himself a book, frail remembrance of that futilej ^''"''"^ ^°'''''"" "'"' ^'''«' """"â-  system of drying, or dehydration, is| 150 deg. F. aspiration, in his pocket. ^'"' '""*5 'â- ^^° Lieut.-Col. Ultchings especially applicable to those crops Peasâ€" Peas should be shelled, Five years later, Horace Ludlow,!'^" **"= army- the war being fought I which can not be stored satisfactorily,; blanched from one to one and one-half browned and matured, and valued'?!"* *"""^"'' <l"i'^t'y resumed his | as well as those which ?re difficult to minutes in vigorously boiling water, worthy of special consideration. The deep at a temperature of 105 deg. toj partner of a thriving lumber company. Let found a wounded lumberman in a tract of forest he was estimating. Horace "We are almost there. That is took the man to his camp and doctored Madam's cottage under the big pine him with the skill of a woodsman, yonder. Thank you for carrying my | After he had bound up the crushed ba-s-ket, and for the gcnt.'ans." j foot on which the poor chap had been Thus dismissed Horace Ludlow j hobbling for weary miles, he recog- turned back a few paces into the;nized him as one of his fellow work- wocis and sat down daj;edly on a boul-l men in the Birch Point shipyard. place as a common policeman pound- can, particularly on a small scale. ' cold-dipped and dried in layers from Ing a heat^ln Cardiff. ^ The Chairman j There are two methods or systems of three-fourths to one inch deep at ap- "' "'" "' ' " ' '" " " ' drying suited to the handling of sur- proximately tl)e same temperature as plus produce from the average farm, that given for string beans. Thefirstof these systems includes the! Pumpkins and Winter Squash- operation of the majority of cook-stove These, h.indled in tho same way as der. He could hear the girl's curious- ly singing voice. She was rea<ling the Psalms to her old schoolmistress. A strange rmarting sensation stung the man's eyes. Shamefaced, he stole farther into the woods. An hour later he saw her como out of the cottage and start homeward. He watched tho swaying flowcr-li'ke figure until she had passed through the woods and was nearly home. He did not know that she had left her old friend earlier than usual in the inno- cent hope that, he might be waiting for her at the turn of the road. It was ten days before Horace Lud- low saw Eloise again, for he was away The woundod man was pathetically glad to sec some one who established a link with home. Half-delirious, ne of the> Municipal Bench nuide n point of saying he was glad to see him liack, and even went so far as to congratu- late Constable Rltchlngs publicly up- on his military record. In fact, It seems there was a sort of ceremony welcome. So the Lieutenant Colonel with four years of active military service to his credit and field rank, won at the front, displaying the ability to command 3,T)00 and odd 'men, modestly under- babbled ceaselessly of happenings in j took to take charge once more of his home town, from which he hadi casual drunks and disorderlies In that been absent but a few months. Pres- busy Welsh mining town. ently he mentioned the Cheneys.] Somebody wrote an indignant letter Madam Cheney, it seems, had been ^ to a London paper about It, otherwise very ill. She thought she was dying apparently the Incident would have drying contrivances, the most satis- factory of which is a set of cloth or screen-bottom trays arranged horizon- tally over the kitchen range summer squash, give a satisfactory product. Summer Squashâ€" ^This should be ^"®j peeled, cut into three-eighth.s inch second system comprises the operation | g,i(.es ^^ one-half inch cubes, blanched of fan-equipped commercial driers, or j j^r three minutes in boiling \vatc-, dehydrators, which may be had in ; cold-dipped and dried in from and made Eloise promise to marry a young sea-capta,in who had spent the time Ijetween cruises for the past few years in Birch Point. He had, it seems, bestowed many entirely unrequitted attentions on Eloise. Eloise had stead- ily discouraged the young wiithout being able to give from Birch Point mark'ng out lumber , finite reason for her inability to care from a pine timber reserve some m.iles i for him, but she was also unable to distant. On the way home from the woods he found a great clump of velvety-brown asters. So irresistibly did they remind him of the young girl's eyes, that almost against hiin will he gathered them and carried them to Eloise that night. At the door of the great colonnaded house he clanged the iron knocker with emphasis, but the same propi- tious chance that had graced his form- er encounters with Eloise did not at- tend him now. The stately woman who opened the door bore 'cant re- semblance to the maiden of dreams. "I wish to see Miss Cheney," Hor- ace announced. "My daughttr?" There was a gent- ly surprised lilt to the voice in which Madam Cheney responded. "Hut it passed It not unnoticed, at least as not more than ordinarily noticeable. As a consequence the Watch Committee of Cardiff, equivalent to our Police Com- missioner, took the ex-Lieutenant Colonel off his beat, and gave him the skipper,! Job of training the police awkward any de-| squad of recruits in the proper bear- ing and behavior of a constable. The Lord Mayor when pressed for Infor- mation whether there was any inten- tion of apBglpting the distinguished isn't necf.ssary. You have brought a young renegade he had known some flowers for the chunh, I see. | St. John's years before. There were I wi 11 attend to them." | rumors that the man had a wife in a All of Horace Ludlow's assurance Brazilian port, wilted. The promptness with which | Was it his duty to (interfere and his altars were whisked into the .save Eloise â€" to save any girl^from refuse the request of her dyinr mother. .She accepted the captain, formally, at her mother's bedside, and' ofHcer to a higher and more reaponi then Madam Cheney got well! ! Ible position on the force went to the Madam Cheney, nevertheless, held i length of admitting that he thought he Eloise to her promise. The girl at might say all the members of the last consented to set a day for the. Watch Committee were sympathetic wedding; it was exactly one week dis- with this Idea, and that he had no tant. doubt that when the opportunity oc- When at last his patient was asleep, curred Colonel or Constable Rltchlngs Horace Ludlow opened the trun'k in' would be given a chance such as he tho corner of his tent and took fromj deserved. it a little red psalm book. Between It was also said In auth^orltatlve quarters (to quote the British press account) that Lleut.-Col. Rltchlngs hlniRelf "recognized, as every rlght- thlnklng man would, that he had a moral obllgntlcn to return to the Car- diff police force for the reason that the ratepayers h,id been contributing He remembered the man distinc"tly as! during his absence to the support of his dependents at home." o The Whale's Complicated its leaves lay a sprig of heartsease, his Little heartsease it had brought him, he reflected, as he fingered it ruefully, and little there was likely to be for the girl who gave it to him if she married the man for whom she had been induced to set the wedding day, sizes adapted for farm use. Driers of this type usually consist of a horizon- tal or a slightly inclined tunnel or cabinet fitted with a steam coil or a hot-air furnace at one end and a large exhaust fan at the other. Trays con- taining prepared â- Jjroduce are placed in the cabinet or chamber through which is drawn a current of heated air. As the heated air becomes moisture- laden, it is removed and replaced by the fan, thus reducing the time ord- inarily required for drying by about one-half. Not all kind« of products can be dried satisfactorily. In fact, little or no attempt should be made to dry in rrom one- half to three-fourths inch layers at a temperature of 110 deg. to ICO deg. P. Sweet Corn- At Parting, this good-bye of our â€" this last good-bye â€" Be still and splendid like a forest tree;f Or like the hands of Silence holding up The blue and burning comers of the sea. Let there be one deep look within our eyes, Buflt of the wonderment of these past years; Too vast a thing of beauty to be lost In quivering lips and burning floods of tears Back to the chaos of the world, we go Shining with one sweet secret no one knows; Sweet com should be^Crutches of dreams to help us on our path. From snow to tender petaling ot>tbe rose. husked, silked, blanched for from five to eight minutes in boiling water, cut and scraped from the cob and dried in layers from one-half to three- „ , , ,.....,.. fourths inch deep at a temperature ^° 'L?:i'^?,L^^'''l^ !^ A"!Arj' of 110 deg. to 140 deg. F. An oc- casional stirring of the corn on the trays tends to shorten the drying period. All products should be dried enough to prevent them from spoiling when held under ordinary storage. Dried or dehydrated apples carry approxi those crops which keep well in ordin- 1 mately twenty-fiv» per cent, moisture, ary storage, unless through drying the ' However, a product which has les.s crop can be marketed to better ad- vantage. In all cases an attempt should be made to secure a flrst-class moisture will keep to better advan- tage. When thoroughly dried, the slices of apples or vegetables should That none may find within our calm, clear eyes The secret that two travelers have re- turned, ^ And cast away their key to Paradise. â€"Archibald Sullivan. Klaaxd's Ttlnlmtnt Cnraa Sivhtliarla. There are approximately 30,0{KI autos and 8,000 trucks in Toronto. product from each kind of produce ' approach a brittle stage. In general, handled. This mefuu that only pro- j the quality of the product is not affect- duce of good quality should be used. | ed by more thorough drying, provided Cull fruits or vegetables give a cull i it is not allowed to scorch during the productâ€" that is, one of .inferior qual- ity. AH produce should be thorough ly and carefully prepared drying process. \ Many vegretables which adapt them- selves for use in the form of vegetable house and he himself bowed down the steps assured him that if Eloise did not realize th-- meaning of his atten- t'ons, her mother did, and far from approvingly. The next Sunday afternoon, Horace Ludlow walked on Edgecomb Bridge. This time ho was equipped with a tiny wooden Ixisket in which a slender maidernhair fern was growing. Eloise ul.=o walked on Ivlgecomb Bridge, but net alone! Madam Cheney accompan- I'cd her daughte â-  on her erianil of mercy. Inspired by a sudden resolve, Horace walked up to the pair and offered his basket. ".May I give you these ferns. Miss Cheney?" he ventured. Mr.(Vm Cheney forestalled her dajghtcr. "Thank you, Mr. â€" eh â€" Breathing Apparatus. An eminent naturalist says, con- cerning tho breathing apparatus of tlie whale: "The windpipe does not coniinunlcato with llie mouth; a hole Is, as It were, bored right through the such a marriage? All the old desire which he thought had been quelled in j the past surged back into his con- sciousness with stinging force. It was! back of the head. Engineers would do .'ncredible that her mother should he I willing to sacrifice Eloise to an ignoble , man. Surely, Madam Cheney was ig- . norant of the man's character. (To be continued.) What "Boudoir" Means. "Houdolr" rtMilly means a "sulkery,' for It Ik dorlved from tho French word well to copy the action of the valve of the whale's blowhole; a more perfect piece of KtriKture It Is Impossible to Imagine. Day and night, asleep or awake, the whale works its breathing apparatus In such a manner that not a drop of water ever gets down Into the lungs. Again, the whale must of necessity stay a much longer period under wAter than seals; this ulono might posHlbVy drown It, Inasmuch as meaning "to .sulk." Thackeray had a I the lungs cannot have access to fresh room In his house, upon the door of which was a sign, "Mr. Sulkery!" and whenever that door was locked he was never diHtiirbed. Two Mark Twain Stories Ono evening, wh<!n a few friends were at Charles Dudley Warner's, Mr Warner sucroeded In getting Mr. Clemens to tell the story of how he announced to Judge Langdon that he and Lily Langdon were engaged to bo married. When he had settled him- self to his liking, he preluded his story by telling of his periodical visits to the Rochester hoiisu ot the Laugdons. (kpd (irQceedci) to oxpltiin (hat a( Qac{} â-  j'«!i M }rphi fescji to j^riss l:ai'fi'h(U K^ ^'^ anxious but iindcsir- pble B)i|^ur: 0(1 each occasion he was gejljly lileclinod, whereupon he would Tdlf^p't BuppOHB you would liave mo. I wouldn't, If I were you! I don't bejleve I should rcrpect you us I do If I t)iought you would ever marry me!" But ono day she did {jpcept him. As he tiild thid pur( of tho story, says Urs. Cttiidacc Wheeler in Yesterdays |n a Busy Life. Ibo sweet humility and purprlse of the; man seemed to envelop hiiil like a garniunt. It was as if It were alwjtys n new astonishment that hit) dl'af(p) of this priceless creature 8K |)U w}fe could ever be reullzod. Tt)at was ths Inner man; but the aiipouncemttpt of the engagemiMit to jiei' Katll^r WAg Mark Twain, the Inlmlt- and tiling in particular between LIvy me lately?" "No, slrl Certainly not," replied the judge, somewhat flustered. "Well look sharp and you will," dra^Y)e(j Mark: i rcmoMibor, Mrs. Wheeler contin- ues, tha^ oiiG afternoon, when we were all gathered in the sitting room, he proposed to give mo one of his hooks, a^kjiig which I would rathor have I chose fi|i- mo the Prince and (ho Paii. pur, which wa^ uvideij^ly more to ijer '.'!'"1 ill-'l! ?2!!l« ;>tj!fj of iijs bgpks. Mf. ClgmenB \m\{g\\[ If from the book- case, and I (isHud jiim to yjrlT^ spmo air. We find that this difficulty has been anticipatod and obviated by d peculiar reservoir In the venous sys- tem, which reservoir Is situated at the back of the lungs." m sort of inscription so that it 'might go In iny autograph collection. He car- ried it to a writing desk In a bay win- dow, ar.d in the course of our chatting It occurred to Mrs. Clemens that he had taken a long time In which to write a sentence or a name. "Why, Samuel," said she, "aren't you Ihrimgh wyh that? You must bo writ- ing a chapter." "No," drawled Mr. Clemens, "hut It doesn't go. It doesn't sound Just right. I will read it, mul perhaps you can roe what Is the iiKitter." ^ So )ie begiin to road: "To Mrs. Wheeler, with as much affection as Is eJilS, }hfi URfl «U<1 "n'y mt\ of his j proper between two people whose re- kldij m!^ St'i"'^' Or'"'<)^('B<' Ho found lii IHw'B (n '''4 ""'<'â- *> plainly im- 'm|g| ^\» unexpected visit After Un(;pTg(ortahle delay, he burst llctf, are yet alive Of course wo looked at each other with a buf>,t of laughter. "What Is tho matter with It?" i:nld Mr. Cj(;|nen^ ln^oce^tly. "Somehow li doesn't sound right I" Keep the Weeds Down. Weeds will grow where anything else will grow. If Ihey are not des- troyed lliey will ruin any crop. .Sur- vival of Iho fittest Is an Inexorable law of iiHture, and thu weed, being piopagated by natural mothods, has un linniense advantage In competition with a cultivated crop. C'onstant attention Is tho only reme- dy. Once tho Crop is sufflciently above ground to be distinguishable, cultivation jif the soil to kill tho weeds should bo continued till the crop Is high enough to crowd tho wee(;ls oiit^ T|ils cultivation i^ also necessary for good growlli as it per- luits the BO)! to retain moisture during dry weather and leaves tho surface In better condition to absorb rainfall. 1- Light. An enthuHlastic admirer came rush- ing up to Ani(dil Bennett, tho English author, at a reception In Cliicago re- cently. "() Ml*. Bennett," she cried, "I am so delighted to meet you! 'You have been a wonderful help to me!" "Indeed? In what Wiiy, might I ask?" "Oh, that last book of yours I It has taught me to concentrate." "To concpntratet Well, well, that's nice! Now tell me, wliat are you con- centrating 01)7" "Oh, on lots and lots of things! " Temperature best suited for drying , meals, such as pumpkins, tomatoes varies between 110 deg. and 170 dog. ' and peas, may be dried to a brittle F. In tho commercial drying plants, ] stage and ground immediately through produce is ordinarily entered at the ' a hand grist-mill. The meal may be end of the drier where the temper- ; stored, until needed for use, in paper ature is lowest, preferably 110 deg. to cartons with close-fitting covers. 130 deg. F. Trays entered here are ' A home-made cook stove drier that shifted gradually toward a higher can be used on a wood or coal range temperature (toward the steam coils) ! or a kerosene stove can be made easily as drying progresses, and the produce and cheaply. Dimensions: Base, 24 is finished off and removed ut a temp-' x 16 Inches; height, thirty-six inches, erature of 150 deg. to 170 deg. F. | A base six inches high is mado of In the drying of produce over the galvanized sheet iron. This base kitchen range, an attempt should be [ slightly flares toward the bottom and made to duplicate this temperature, has two small circular openings for This can ordinarily be accomplished ; ventilation in each of the four sides, by lowering the trays nearer to the | On the base rests a box-like frame top of the stove as drying progresses, made of strips of wood one or one Apples â€" Apples dry best when peel- j and one-half inches wide. The two ed, cored and sliced on hand-power or i sides are braced with one and one- belt-driven machines, because the quarter inch strips which serve as slices are of uniform thickness, and , cleats on which the trays in the drier such slices dry best; where a hand- [rest. These are placed three inches power or belt-driven machine is not available, special effort must be made to secure uniform slices, preferably three-sixteenths of an inch in thick- ness. After slicing, the prepared fruits should be placed in a four per cent, salt solution for fifteen minutes. Then rinse, spread one-half inch thick on trays and dry as quickly as pos- sible at a temperature of 110 deg. to 160 deg. F. Beans â€" Beans for drying should be young, tender, and uniform in size. After being washed and snipped, they should bo cut crosswise .into one-half inch lengths, or run through -a rotary I slicer, blanched for three minutes in boiling water, cold-dipped and dried in layers one inch deep at a temper- ature of 120 deg. to 170 deg. F. Carrots â€" Carrots should be washed, apart. The frame fs covered with tin or galvanized sheet iron, tacked to the wooden strips of the frame. Thin strips of wood may be used instead of tin or sheet iron. The door is fitteel on small hinges and fastened with a thumb-latch. It opens wide so that the trays can be rejnoved easily. The bottom of the drier is made of a piece of perforated galvanized sheet iron. T\vo inches above the bottom is placed a solid sheet of galvanized iron which is three inches less in length and width than the bottom. This sheet rests on two wires fastened to the sides of the drier. This prevents the direct heat from coming in con- tact with the product and serves as a radiator to spread the heat more evenly. The first tray is placed three peeled, or scraped free of outer skin, finches above the radiator. The trays cut into three-sixteenth inch slices, or rest on the cleats three inches apart. ClARK^S PORK AND BEANS WITH TOMATO CHILI ORPUIN SAUCE AREA TREAT THIS LEGEND ON THE TIN IS A GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE OF PURITY. W. CLARK BENSON'S Corn Starch "If you will not grub for your neiyh- hcr's weeds. In your own green garden you'll find their seeds." -Edmund Vance Cooke. Ask yoitf Grocer for BENSON'S to.4ay! OOUSEWIVES are finding new * * and delicious uses for Corn Starch every day â€" in fact, for every meal* Not alone smooth, creamy gravies and sauces, and simple puddings â€" but crisp, delicate pastries; flaky rolls, bread and biscuits; rich tender cakes and pie fillings; and desserts such as you never tliought it possible to make in your own kitchen. Insist on BENSON'Sâ€" no other Corn Starch can guarimtee such Purjty anq Delicacy. Recipes on the package. .^4 vppmm