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Between Cousins; oR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. See EE 'day's wo A CHAPTER XVI ("that reminds me--I haven't olin cl this JRORhIngs ¢ "saw all the doings that hi | tulated you yet upon your success in . + She wants a night's rest. under the sun; and, behold, all is At fuming the bear. Duncan hagaetal. Don's bother her, Julia, and gout take and a Qrasping tithe wih dr ily wittigrawn his suit, 'and all is away the Dovels, from her. "isn't : ! ; Fd a ba Aik oh In the same plain pulpit in which a1 "ee qenerd blood rushed to], He Anished with carolesly smiling SEES Sl i a soutiE PR SL e _ he stood once more, not so upright in. "Oh, has he really?" she breath- "To be LY 2 deed as on that long distant Sunday, lessly' asked. "I am go glad! On, eb i --with narrow shoulders stooping, and | how genefous he is! I Rearcely ox | bleached hair tossed back from his, Pected--I did not know what to hope high forehead, --but with a light upon ~~ Jip a : -- et ; his face which had not been ho rewind The disturbance in her voice was so Most Venerable of Earths Cities and then: Li was the spot on which his | evident that Avert, glancing at ery Rich in Historic Interest. natural shyness always dropped from in surprise, and reading the same dis-|. . FRE ; him as Ea a as Bot to-day | turhance in her glowing face, was for| Hebron, recently captured by the there was more than a mere absence a moment just a trifle taken aback. | British forces' in Palestine, is a very of self-consciousness: a sirange new | By an association of ideas, which wi ancient city, figuring, in fact, as one aggressiveness of demeanour. The more instinctive than reasoned, sof the oldest in the history of Canaan. mild brown eyes were no longer the eyes ought the broad-shouldered fig-| Its modetn Mohammedan name is El eyes of a dove, but rather of some ure fast diminishing upon the road. A ghalil, or Khalil Allah, "Friend of fierce bird of prey, poising to sweep fine specimen of manhood, tertainly | goq," said to have been so nam upon-its victim. y |--even in his Sunday slothes, half the from its association with Abraham, "And fothing of what my eyes de- membered having heard that hall the |g 4). soclems regard it as ane of sired did T deny them, und refused no Eirls in the village weve seCtol|c, spcred cities, the others being ; t " | languishing for Duncan's favors. ; J Pleasure Yo my heart." 2 haps it might be as well to put a stop| Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. e words of the preacher-king rang (i140 visits to Adam's cottage, But, lies only twenty-one miles south-west though she Sowged ace with that! ean ag he formed thé thought, Albert of Jerusalem. . eT ne oe p00 nervous ex-/ smiled at the grotesqueness of his own| The city of Hebron is referred to in "a Ive fancy. The ghost of an idea which the Qld Testament in Numbers xiii, And as I gazed upon all the works fo. 3" moment had startled him, was 5o i ii. 2: ry of my hands, and upon the doings! a taken more re ously than 22) Genesis xxiii, 2; Joshua xiv., 1 which 1 have accomplished, behold it {As a sanctuary it was the most fam- was all vain and grasping at the wind, |", other sort of ghost. {ous/of the south, and the three patri- and there whs no gain under the sun.' 'hat afternoon Fenella sat for a che Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-- His body a little drawn back from | ong while upon the shore. lare reported to have sojourned at pulpit-wall, upon which his thin hand] Was this, then, really the whole frapron (Genesis xiii, 18; xxxv., 27; rested, he paused, measuring the con-| value of those goods which she had| vii 14.) A legend has it that gregation with an eye which seemed | been taught to prize above everything, ! 2 : + bv 3 : : they were all buried there, with Re- to challenge contradiction. whose praises had sounded in her ears b d Sarah. whil + "You have heard the words before, | ever since she could remember any-| Decca and Sara i, while even o-day an all of you--for they are not mine, as | thing? An empty grasping at the old oak is pointed out at Mamre, near you know well; they are those of the! wind! Consternation was born of by, as that of Abraham. ; man who perhaps of all men on earth, | that thought, and yet the consterna-| The spies sent out to «visit the either before or since, had taken the | tion itself was not all surprise. ~~ Al-| Promised Land ventured to Hebron, fill of all the goods of the earth,-- most it seemed to her that she must and Joshua was said to have destroy- who had fed his greed with gold;-his partly' have expected this. Had not!.q the city before giving it as a heri- appetite with delicate meats, his. lust! Lady Atterton said something very | i : ! ) h, 4 . A | tage to Caleb, and made it a city of with the beauty of women, his fancy like it when she asked: " Was ever .fuge. Then the place figures promi- with every device that could amuse it. | success such as my success 2" and had | " the hi 2D f ge id Li it Nothing which his eyes desired did he answerdd herself: "It was not success 1°" : In the history of avid, jor 1 deny them; it is he who says it. And at all--it was failure?" twas here that he was anointed King, the end? Behold all is vain, and a! How strange that her father should first over Judah, and then over the grasping at the wind! It is the sen- preach such a sermon just now! She Whole of Israel. (IL Samuel ii, 1-4; tence of the Pride of Life, spoken by had heard of people the course of V., 1-3.) Absalom also made his at- one who had tasted it to its dregs, whose lives had been changed-by such, tempt to capture the Throne from He- and found but bitterness in the cup;-- things as a sermon or a book; but bron, but soon after that time it dis- . by one who had plucked the fruit, and whether this was to be or her one of | appears from marked prominence in in whose mouth it turned to ashes.! those decisive turning-points she was, Bible story.( In the Apocrypha it is And this man accounted the wisest still unable to discern. She had heard,| tioned however, as being the man of the old world. [ too, of earthquakes which, by levelling 1-41 050 a0 o Maccabeus took from "And we, my breathren, into whose the walls of prisons, had set captives P&T 0 HCA] aceabeys toply Ir ear hese words of wisdom have been; tre . Was it possible that she had | the Edomites. called ever since we were children, ben living in a prison until now, and} how do we follow their lesson? Are'that the gan: Ro that morning| Control of Insect Pests in Canada. ... ANCIENT HEBRON. re a sured y \ hard oe ve | --- | Many ) Us Spies to Impart Information to "" Retreating Huns. ts x : Solio i Prosaic ctivities of small farmers must take place, in northern France, in the shadow of great guns. a farmer with two red cows one | white one drove them down the road every day io 2 German ait French shells shrieked overhead. But after the three cows, strung out in single file, had gone by the German artillery flamed forth in| renewed activity. 3 It seemed imbued with a startling prescience regarding columns "troops, files of supply trains and lo- cations of new guns. A French offi- cer became interested in that prdtes- sion of cows. same on two successive occasions. Sometimes the white cow would. lead. Sometimes the white one was be- tween the two others. Sometimes the farmer would whip one or the other of the 'creatures ahead of the line. Frequently the "formation altered several times in the half-mile jour- ney.. J Every change in formation seemed utterly needless to the purpose of driving three cows to pasture. ° The |} officer apprehended the man on the way back, "You will flot see the sun 80 high in the heavens to-morrow," he remarked casually. "You have not done well--for France!" The . peas- ant's face paled. He tried to pretend astonishment, but his fear and con- fusion were too obvious. He told his story to the drumhead court that con- vened to listen. The Germans; in falling back, had~firranged a "three cow" method of signalling. Tle three animals were capable of half a dozen different formations that spelled a half dozen different truths concern- ing troop movements and artillery accuracy. He was paid well by the Huns and coached for a couple of days in the tactics to be pursued before they fell back. The French officer was right. The peasant saw only one more sunrise. And for him there was no sunset, Clever Expeents Used by the Ac-10 | cordingly the French artillery officers | did not think it at all remarkable when | les, particulariy u st EE the pasture, while "the | their of | their original cost. and unless they are completely steriliz- It never seemed the 1 cold, store the jars in a cool dry place, results: The 'asparagus must be young and fresh. i Peel and remove the pithy parts." good: y An _ assortment of haome-canned vegetables will prove a most welcome a on to the pantry during the win- ter season, besides saving many times Bacteria cells cover all vegetables, ed this bac will cause fermen action to take place in the jar, en the contents will be a total To Can, Asparagus Select perfectly fresh and young asparagus. Wash it carefully to re- move the sand. Peel the stalks care- fully and trim away sli the hard and pithy portions. water until all the asparagus is pre- Jared. Then tie it in convenient undles for easy- handling "while blanching and cold dipping. Blanching--Have a large pot of wa- ter boiling. Place the asparagus in loss. this water when it starts boiling and boil for ten 'minutes. ove and cold dip by dropping into.a pan of very cold water. 3 3 Pack into the jars, the tip end down, as closely as possible. . Put a silver knife fii the jar to Jretent cracking while filling with boiling water. Re- move the knife and put the rubber and lid in position, Partially tighten and then process in hot-water bath for two hours sfter the boiling has started. Remove and tighten the lid securely as possible then invert to cool. Poi.ts to remember for successful Wash carefully to remove any sand. HOW SHALL I USE THE Turkey Emince.--One cupful. of small pieces of turkey, one onion, one green pepper, one-half cupful of t ii lay in cold p we wise enough to learn by another's Al-| The annual report of the Dominion most it seemed to her that some sort Entomologist for the year ending of chain had fallen from her. And, March 31st, 1917, has just been issued now she peered about her, blinking her by the Department of Agriculture, eyes in the new daylight, and wonder-| gyawa and in its twenty-four pages ing which road to take. a brief record is given of the activities SH rent home ut lash, dase, bo. or he offers of the. Entomslogil from her Roti and seeing no| Branch. The nevessity > Proteeuing clearer into the future than she had!®ll our crops from insect pests with 8 seen that morning when she had sat in | view to increasing crop production is the chapel, quivering as though under more urgent than ever at this present a lash. ' |time, The establishment of regional Had proof been wanting for her entomological stations, of which there nerves being off their balance, it would are now ten in different provinces, has have been 'supplied by her very greatly enlarged the scope of strange behaviour that evening after| work and the usefulness of the officers the cold "supper which, on Sundays| concerned. Concise statements are alone, replaced the orthodox meal. given of the progress of the following They were alone in the bow-window- | lines of work; investigations on in- ed drawing-room--the three young geots affecting grain and field crops, people--and ale she {somewhat garden and greenhouse, fruit crops, severe ecclesiastical discipline of H © forest and shade trees, stored grain tna Fights, Which thoy. could. Bll the and other products, insects affecting more safely do as the minister was| domestic and other animals, the house- experience? Oh, foolish and blind! We will not believe in the bitterness of the cup until we have tasted it our- selves; we grasp at it, 'we pursue it, breathless, on bleeding feet, over all obstacles. = And when we have reach- | ed it--we find that we have grasped the wind. Rich or poor, high or low,! that deadly thing, the Pride of Life,! has us all in his clutches. For what is the poor man's envy of the rich but Pride of Life? : . "And some of us dream only of gold, and of the ease it brings, and of the juxury in which it will enable us to revel---forgetting the while that ease without work™is no ease but weariness, and that the grosser luxury swells, the more quickly it pallsj--~ and that there must come a day--and be it, the day of his death,--on which the rich man who has been only a rich man, blushes to find himself no higher than the animals. "This also is grasping at the wind! "And some of us again dream only had been words of liberation? lways washing them. - Up on a little the together, some widely spaced. After "Shirt Signals." Another clever expedient for signal- ing was that employed by the "woman of the shirts." She seemed gravy. Mince the onion and pepper fine, then parboil and add to the minc- ed turkey. Moisten with gravy and heat until very hot. Serve on toast. Turkey Terrapin.--One cupful of cold turkey, cut in one-inch blocks, twe tablespoonfuls of flour, one cup- ful of milk, Season with one tea- spoonful of salt, one-half teaspoon- ful of Worcestershire sauce. Blend the flour and milk and then cook for five minutes. ~Add the cold turkey meat. Shake or toss until very hot. 'Add the yolk of egg and a dash of nutmeg. Serve. The old question is here answered in a few palatable receipes. E Turkey Fritters.--One . cupful of flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. one cupful of milk, one egg. Mix.the dry ingredients together and milk and beaten egg. Mix to a smooth batter and then fold in one cupful of finely noll where her little house stood they flapped and danced on the clothesline in the fresh morning sun- light. Back of and beyond that knoll the guns loomed sullenly, their smoke plumes lifting lazily like = blossoms of white against the green hills, The shirts flapped--red and blue and white and red again--some very close a few days they arrested that woman. Terror-stricken, she babbled her con- fession of the "shirt signals." She had sold her country for silver and followed the instructions of the re- treating Huns. 2 Sheep have -been used to signal. Chimneys smoked on alternate morn- ings; stopped suddenly and smoked spending the evening with Adam. {bord and public health; the introduc- "Well, I'm blowed!" exclaimed Al-|tion and colonization of parasitic - in- bert, lifting his facé from the 'latest! sects and studies of natural control; Scotsman, "Just listen to this: | field work against the brown-tail moth " 'Elopement in high life.--It is con-|in the Maritinfe Provinces; and the in- fidently affirmed that the Honorable gpection of imported nursery stock, A Miss Lilian _Larrington'--("That's| prief statement of the work undertak- that pretty girl who was staying with oy, with a view to conservation of wild her Ho ther, Lady Calder, at fie Dis vite, particularly birds, is also given. Op a eal er ) | "The publication does not contain any recommendations respecting the con- .--*left her Rome on Wednesday night, i " tt, | Ameompane 2 : TE a bh rol of insect pests, such information lis published in the bulletins and eircu- 1 under whose tuition 'her younger be found... How should it be, since it, brother, the Honorable Edward Lar- lars of the Entomological Branch, It comprises a brief account of the years 1 is not for these things that we are' rington; had been recently placed, ard made? Our soulhunger Jemands, hos since Joon clandestinely grarried vtier, Sood. nd what holds back, to him. y Calder has fallen ill in| work and will be of interest to a the hand that proffers it? The Pride; consequence of: the shock received.' " no desire to learn what dll 2 of Life---only the Pride of Life." "Good gracious!" was all Julia could io made in this line of scientific In the chapel not & head moved, and ' say, having emerged from her movel,| "co 8 h lied t tealti scarcely an eyelid blinked, ~~ What in order to listen. = After a moment's| LSS6Arch as applied Lo agricubure. had come over their minister to-day? | earnest reflection she added: "I sup-| Copies may be obtained on application «for that something had come over, pose she's mad." to. the Publications Branch, Depart- him seemed patent to the least obser-! "Either mad or bad; for she can't ment of Agriculture, Ottawa. All en- vant. . Never had they seen the flame' seriously mean to remain Mrs. Butt all| quiries respecting, insect pests should be addressed to the Dominion Entome- logist, Department of Agriculture, Ot- tata; such requests and enquiries may within him leap so high as this. For her life." be mailed free of postage. abs. Sl of 'hearing our names in the mouths of men, of seeing their backs bend be- fore 'us, of revelling in the pomp and circumstance of fashion. But if we sit down to think we shall here blush again; for who would be honored be- cause of his gold-bags, or because of the chance of his birth? "This also is grasping at the wind! "All, all is a grasping at the wind which has only this life in view,--this atom of time Yor in Eternity. It is not here that our satisfaction is to minute after minute they listened, a! "Why shouldn't she little bewildered, for in truth the ed Fenella suddenly. k Pride of Life had as small a place in| "My dear child, because people the hard-working community as it can brought ap as Miss Larr nfto n has have in any but thut of monks. What, Late t up don't shake down into had they done to deserve this severe the sort of life which the Mr. Butts ' moral scourging? . they asked them-| lead." 3 . selves, even while carried away by| "But if she cares for him enough?" the current of ardent words, and a "The more she cares for him--that s trifle awed by the fierceness which! is, the more passion thete is in 'the|monthlies;1 bi-monthly, and 16 quar- contrasted so strangely with their pas-| matter--the quicker it will fizzle out, terlies. ; tor's usual mild benevolence of utter- > ance. He was speaking like a man! explained the youthful her, | = with as much assurance as though| half a century of experience : iE hind him. "Wh © moved by personal hatred, almost i Findiet vense; That Pride of Life to X ch he shot his arrows might have "When the poor eal a! awakes from her. intoxication she will find herself "in her own toils, Dee or ee | 'm quite so ; and| she oe such » ood hand at tennis "been an énemy with whom he SO at aot sorry, for Yor at alll" bufst]. hy n or a y p that kind of vehem- mean it?" ask- There are 1,881 publications of all kinds now being ssued in Canada, in- cluding 138 dailies, 4 tri-weeklies, semi-weeklies, 921 weeklies, 222 ntagonist was: clothed in! Roald Macgiivray: John! ool nat one amon; ihe congregation Arg © sensed ibas, for th al out Fenella, with purely | ence which betra; e moment, that 2 40'| five minutes, after which it will shut again. Peasants who would sell their country for gain have stood against stone walls. Signalling is an interest- ing thing--Pizarro raised" his hand for thé famous massacre of the Incas --and history is replete with incidents where things were indeed "not what they seemed." : Stranger, weirder signalling than that done by spies in the present war, however, has never previously been achieved. e------ te Calls You As Coffee Boils. A gas stove which arises at dawn, boils the coffee and wakes you up when it is ready has been invented by Gemaro Rosa of Brooklyn, N.Y. : The gas burner has a pilot light to which is attached a clock mechanism. A dial over the clockworks serves to tell the time. A smaller dial is used to set the alarm, igniting and extinguishing devices. When set the burner under the coffee pot will automatically ig- nite at a prede ined hour and boil the coffee for four or five minutes, The flame will then lower of its own accord to slow boiling for another itself off entirely, The coffee is now fry in hot fat and serve with Chili Republic Will Supply Canada With its own uses, export licenses for hogs will not be granted for an indefinite period. - The ministration' supplied with certain es, from the United States, required' for fee own people; but no more. g 25 ; all sh ready for you and an alarm is sound- icstises chopped cold turkey, one-half tea= spoonful of pepper. Mix well, then sauce, : : Turkey Club Sandwiches.--Use two COTTONSEED FROM U. 8. Necessaries for Home Consumption. The United States Food Adminis- tration has completed arrangements | with the Food Controller of Canada| whereby cottonseed oil and its pro- ducts may move into Canada for local | & 'Canadian consumption. There will be no re-export of these products. 2 As Canada raises sufficient hogs for of the Food. Ad- necessari 1g their 'Regular licen ents & to see that Canada 1s | - all the 1 ppear: be successfully accomplished the sai results in less time than by other methods. Pol In using this method, the vegetables are blanched, cold dipped and then pea Fp hs Toe adjusted and the lids y tighten- ed and then the lids part 4 Cold Dip ~ oe Cold dipping of blanched vegetables is necessary to make them firm enough to handle after being nartially cooked and also to set the coloring matter so that it will not easily dissolve during the rest of the Jroclss, ' fl Be positive t the water is boil- ing rapidly after the jars have placed in e wa er bath before count- ing the time for the pr ind ¥ 8: emember that no Food will spoil that is absolutely sterilized, that bac- teria, spores and germs are exceed- ngly hard to kill and that only Jong . and careful cooking will accomplish = 8. . : - LEFT-OVER TURKEY? E slices of toast cut in triangles. Coy- er the toast with a leaf of lettuce, then lay on two thin slices of turkey, then one thin slice of ham or baco then another leaf of lettuces with a second slice of toast. : with olive, pickle and then one tablespoonful of mayonnaise on: leaf of lettuce. ; 5 To Use the Filling.--Cut the cold boiled potatoes in thin slices, use about two' cupfuls; put in a frying pan in which four tablespoonfuls of short- ening has been made very hot. Turn £8 the potatoes in and add one and one- 5 half to two cupfuls of Heat thoroughly and add one cupful of gravy or stock; cook until moisture evaporates and & brown crust forms. Mold into shape by pushing to the side of pan. 1 out on & hot plat- ter in an omelet shape and then serve. Turkey Broth--Crack the bones and 'then cover with cold water, to one-half. Blend two talespoonfuls of -starch with five cupfuls of the prepared broth, then bring to a boi Add ane teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley and then serve. Heresy not a sumcient amount of milk, Try this; it is The average depth of the English - Channel is 110 feet. ~~ ~~ Tu 'Many People Makea B-Li ne i s ---- Toronto's. Famous Hotel. * tugkey filling. |