/ Her Housebreaker Py Florcnci- Mor.sc KinRglry. UNIQUE TAXES OF OLD DAYS. ViJC: â- =if CHAP. II.â€" (Cont'd.) I He drew a deep breath. Then another thought swiftly cros- "^ thinl<-I should l.ke to tell you sea hor mind. Hurriedly ..he- opened; ''^I?'""r8. .li/' .s""' .«Jo«'y^ an ur4locked drawer in her desk; tha little roll of bills Viy in the corner,' Then h ; added, as if to himself: never had a m!.ther.'' She smiled at him as she might of salt pork and salt, pepper and but-! have smiled at her boy. Then swiftly ter, cover with milk and bake in the I she went down stairs. : usual way. If you have some cold milk ' Great Britain's Exchequer Was En- "If he hi.s lied to me," she said to' S^ravy left, add it in the place of part riched by Many Original Methods, her.'it'lf, "he will take the opportunity °' ^^^ '"'"'• This saves ti.e gravy and: One of Parliaments hardest t:i.sks to escape." j ""akes the potatoes better. j u the preparation of the BudRet. For awhile she heard him moving' . f ""â- '!>^ '"^"^ ^ "^* f'^ ^.°''?'' P^^i^" Taxe. must be imi.osccl. but. as no toe?, onions and cucumber pickies salt- one likes paying theiu. they must be ed and peppered, am: chopped to- franierl so as not to place too great trether. For the dressing I use one a burden upon any particular class, tablespoonful of prepared mustard to' For orlRinality of schemes to re- f.vo tablespoons of sweet cream, one pleiiish the Exchequer few have rlval- teaspoon sugar and vinegar to taste, led William Pitt. It was he who de- Line the dishes with cn'sp lettuce vised the dog tax, an institution which about overhead. Silence fo'.lo'.ved and her heart beat sufl'ocatingly fast. She had left her bag containinj;' money on the bureau in her room â€" and there was,the loaded revolver! She bent over the broil'ng just where she carelc-^jly had left it. Nothing had been disturbed in the; dining room, where the bowl of mig-j nonctte ai'd sweet peas gave forth a sicl-ly odor. She opened the windows; theii, still pondering the circumstance | of the muddy floor and the missing. "You mean that vou don't remember' j^a'C'". striving to steady herself. Why leaves, garnish with a couple of sliced still thrives. He also originated the your motJier?" she corrected him. Hin blue eyes stuilied hor face. "Yo-.i look like â€" somebody's moth- er," he said, still as if thinking aloud, j "I am," she told him. "My son â€" "I she liftsd her head proudly â€" "hasi candle, w(nt out to the kitchen. I-'origone to France." an instant her heart stood still, as her I His gaze, g'own ti'nid, ret^-rned to frightened eyes took in the empty her after a s vif t glance about the plate and the crumbs on the kitchen room. hod s^hv not telephoned to her son's friend in the village? His voice from the doorway startled her. "I thought," he said apologetically, "you wouldn't mind my wearing his slipper.i till I could clean my shoes. They're not fit, you know." An immense relief, amounting al most to joy, took possession of her. h.ird-boiled eggs, salted and peppered, income tax. which, during his admin and then u'atch the men wade in. \ istration, was fixed at 10 cents in the T found that the men preferred cold dollar on all incomes exceeding |l,00O. tea, and as we had no ice I steeped! It was the fashion of his time to the tea in a granite dish, with as little wear the hair in a powdered queue, water as possible, letting .it cool, and; and hair powdered appealed to Pitt at the last minute pumped in the cold-| as a vanity for which every man j est water to be had. From three toi would be willing to pay five dollars a • six glasses to the man tells what they i year. He expected the Treasury to thought about that. benefit to tbe extent of over $1,000.- Hastily she examined the She nodded confirmation of his un- ' Clean and fresh, an appealing light A"oth" hing. perhaps not so econ-: 000 annually, but everyone had his in v,io i,i,,o ^.„o= h^ „t„„ 1 r,„.,;^„ of Ofiitsl as the before mentioned, but queue cut off. in his lilue eyes, he stood gazing at ^„ ., â- ,, >• • j i . . i. , ^^ ^ > on the rapidly disappearing order, was A tax on shopkeepers, though only AND BEANS table. larder. Someone had satisfied acute spoken question hunger during her .ibsence. The' '"Yes; thi?. wts his room," she said.' her with a look which put to shame i'" '•"" 'â- 'i""'y "' . . , ,, ,, . ^ , ,.,, 1 .. . • , .1-1 1 .<ti in 1 . I .. i,„_ ,i.._i „ â- .^•. brown bread. Our recipe is as follows: a small impost arranged on a sliding kitchen windows stood wide open, ad- He left me oiilv yesterday. her dark suspicions. ^ r i^ " , ,..i. ^ . ., _•,»• I Tu- 1 1 u-i. .<! >-'i L. 1 i ii.- 1 T 1 l\ "t>„ „ . ~ J u . II L ^"6 "^UP 01 sour cream, tw'o cups of scale based on the amount of rental mitting sun and air. This last bit 1 guess vou il hate to think I slepti Im sure you are a good boy," she , ,,, . '.,, ^ \» i â- , . ., â- , j â- .»_,.â- , ., , > , V 1 11 1,1. 1 ii' -J _! ../-> ,1- • buttermilk, one scant cup of sugar, paid, was stoutly res s ted and even- of circumstantial evidence rea.«sured here, when I tell you what Ive done, said warmly. "Come, everything is , ,. ui r < â- , : n j » . i a . « . 1. TUL jt.-i-if ..I. 1 Till 1 11 1 , i> lour table.?poons of cooking molasses tually defeated. A tix on female ser- her. The hungrj mara-.dcr had evi- he said, ufccr a pause. "But 11 tell ready." i „j^,„„ â- t„„\u n o-.ti • ^ â- / .. . en . . J ii 1 r,^ 1 Ti • 1 • . I ou u J J J i- J 1 stirred together we . S.;ft in graham vants, amount ng to 60 cents for one, dently left by the same way in which you. I She had found time and courage to «„„_ . , , â- , , , i , j * ' «i o- »„„ .„.„ ,„i torr, r , .i,,^, „^ V u 1 1 1 rni. , , . , ou ;• • i.1. i-ii.. 1 J I ^u u u » 11. 1 1 : "Our, to which has been added two; 51. 2u for two, ur.'.l 52. GO for three or he had entered. The unbroken catch She v.ps noticing the little beads of, gather a bunch of the purple asters^ i...., ., , , , I „,„„ „,,„.„ „„„„o„„,„, rii,.ti,= I and deaths were all made ! ibute to the national purse. I bride cost him a trifle over _ «• -1 C.U n 1 ci 1. X ,v A .V. fu . .u • 1 * . , bake a sample the first time, for un- 1 $230; the arrival of an heir meant a ||OUS<*k e<»l}e I*. S StTVC' a quarter of a nile away. She recalled Shemovcd toward the door; then saw that the simple appointments of ,^33 ^^e batter is thick enough the contribution of $150, an'l subsequent I ""^'-"^^^r^* •'' CUBICS PORK At least twice a ecoiioiniciU and week wise this fact uneasily, as she hesitated at paused with a sudden impulse. i the table were nnfamiliar to him and the foot of the stair. But, she reas-j '"You will find everything to make that he did not understand the revcr- oned, the person wno had entered her your.self tidy among the things he ent bowing of her head before the house was not an ordinary biirgiar, loft. He v.ill not i.eed them â€" for a iinta.sted meal. Some inner voice for neither money nor silver had been long time." j prompted her to utter her thanks- bread will fall and it is rather too ex-| male additions pensive to waste. For gems you will called for $12.5 find this recipe hard to improve upon. ' wife necessitated the payment to the I also put a mirror, soap, comb, tow-j Government of $250, and smaller sums to the family each I Hril.!,,!,'^** P^vm.!.' oBiil The death of the •'-'•"Hh B 01 K dliU 'Do you mean you want me to â€" ?". giving aloud. 'Make your.!elf preventableâ€" yes." 1 (To be continued.) touched. Without further reflection she mounted the stairs and passed into the \«hite perfection of her room. Here the pictured face of her son brought back her .ijrief, half forgotten during the tense moments of her dis covery. She crossed the hall to his bedroom. Mary Brett was a brave woman brave enough to have sent her only son to the rescue of the dying on that terrible elongated battle-front across the sea. She neither screamed nor fainted when .'he saw, lying on her sons' couch, the relaxed figure of a man. F'or a.i incrediiile in.?tant it; I'lan To Save Steps seemed that it must be George, lying ^ How to make work easier 'if wc are ^Z%Z^A7rl t^ r\. % r '° ^^ ""hout help, that is the great darl cnrlin/btrr^ ,b *" • l' ^'"''^''^ "'''^'h ^'""fronts housekeep- dark curling hair on the crimson pil- ers, city and country. Electricity and low, his sturcy length and b'-eadth. laboi-.aving machinery go a long way t^^.V,?' ^ °" l\ slumber, towards solving the problem in town, brought an aching lump to her throat, but doesn't do much to help out the There was a ImidH revolver in the farm woman except in a small number drawer of a table ,n her ow-n room. „f cases. Hut there are a great many It did not occur to her to fetch it. ways in which the far-seeing countrv She sat down in a chair by the window and waited. i After a little els and dishes to wash in at the well, under a big shade tree, setting the table on the verandah, and fancied I got along easier this year than ever before. I find that simplicity combined with plaift substantial food, ^uits the men better than all the fancy dishes I used to make before the old H. C. of L. put his foot on my neck. For the Pickle Shelf. Cucumber Catsup â€" 1 dozen large cucumbers, 1 quart vinegar, 1 table- spoon salt, '4 teaspoon cayenne pep- per. Gather cucumbers before the sun strikes them and keep in a cool greatest possible distance from each place until used. Peel and grate the c *"' 11 1 â- t cucumbers and drain off the water, bmall kitchens, with every inch of Heat the vinegar and spices to boiling space utilized, is always my slogan, point; pour at once over the grated "â- ""; . , My present kitchen is ju.st 11x8, about cucumber, bottle and .seal. Cucumbers' """^ "" windows the size of many a farm home pantry, bottled in this way retain their fresh- There IS no pantry, only a small re-'ness and make a particularly good frigerator room. Table, sink and stove' sauce for steak. are all near enough together so that Curry Picklesâ€" Boil together for only a couple of steps are necessaiy ' five or ten minutes, two quarts of in moving from one to the other. This vinegar, one tablespoon of salt, one woman can make her work easier df ^^^ ^een large enough to do the work teaspoon of black the I she keep an open mind and is willing '^"'" ^''v«" people, sleeper stirred to adopt new methods in the kitchen* Immediately I hear a cry arise, "No â- '*^^''"''' "f her as hor hu.sband is in the fields i "^'"^ to- take care of, and no wa.shing presence. 1 hen he turned on his pil- i Firele.ss cookers-home-made or ' ''o"e in the kitchen.' All very true, low and half opened his eyes, blue as : store-make it possible to go without. .''"^ ^i"'' " ^een neces^^ary to do the e sciousness awoke in the boy's face. | wheeling the disJies to and from the' lie sat up suddenly, staring :ibout him, 1 table, water in the house before there; as If struggling to recall the events is<a car for plcasui could be utilized as a table when wash- pepper; take one tablespoon of curry powder, one and one-half tablespoons of corn starch, four tablespoons of ground mustard, one tablespoon of sugar, or more if desired. Mi.x these thoroughly with a little cold vinegar, then put into hot vinegar mixture and stir all until it thickens. Take about three hundred small cucumbers and wash thoroughly. If medium-sized ones are used, cut were payable on the death of other members of the family. These lite and death taxes were as- sessed on every subject in the king- dom who had anything to pay, the smallest siim collected being for mar- riage, some 60 cents, paid by the man whose income was less than $250 a year. This man paid 00 cents each time he became a father and $1 ap- rroximately upon the death of his wife or son. Bachelors of every rank were taxed from 1695 to 1706. the payments vary- ing with the rank of the individual, and ranging fronT~$1.25 to $60 a year. A man over twenty-live and unmarried was a bachelor under the law. Two of the most short-sighted taxes ever levied were those on paper William III. origin- ated the paper tax, which at one time was as high as $140 a ton. On the paper used by Charles Knight to print his Penny Cyclopaedia the tax amount- ed to $100,000. Later there was im- posed a tax of eight cents a sheet on newspapers, with an additional tax of 85 cents on every advertisement. Beans either w'\{\\ To- mato, iliili or Plain Sauce. W. CLARK, LIMITED MONTREAL Manufacturers of Clark's Pork and Beans and other good things. C.289- of the previous night. "You broke into my house," Mrs. Brett said to him calmly. "Was it ing was not being-done. This is work-; in small pieces. Pour the boilirfg sauce ed out in many city flats and has prov- over the cold cucumbers, bottle and en satisfactory. As to the milk, care-1 seal. fill planning and a little alteration of; Apple Catsupâ€" 1 quart apple sauce, the average farm cellar would make it, 1 teaspoon vinegar, 1 teaspoon cinna- re riding in the barn, these are only a few of the thing.H which the country womar. can , . , u • V V , '^"^'^ "'"' should insist upon if she last night or the night before? Ive. wishes to retain a vestige of youth i'o»-*"»e 10 care ror tnc miiic there. If mon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon been away two days. and health. we weren't so wedded to custom. \ pepper, 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 tea- His shamed eyes sought the floo,-. | Ther. is one thing, though, which !,. ^V"*"*' """^en, however, find a larger spoon onion juice, 2 teaspoons salt. It was last night, he mumbled., can be gotten more easily than anyi''"'â- ^'" better for their particular,! pint vinegar. Simmer slowly until It was raming. I--was hungry." | of these in many country houses ami I ""«''•''• With small children who al-, thick, bottle and seal. A sim.ilar cat- u .'[•', "â- A faint .smileitha't is the ohminat.ion of miles ofi^^'^Vs mu.st be where mother i.s, an sup can be made from plums or touched her lips. 1 needless walking. The thing which I ''"^ kitchen is not just the coziest grapes, and spiced to taste. Sorghum _]--l (liiint mean to go to sleep, impresses the city visitor most when! t''''""^ '" "^^ world. If your kitchen is or molasses may be added if a sweet I_ .liist thought Id restâ€" for awhile. j she takes stock of her country sister's! ''"'*^'' •'"'' y"" want it so, then the sauce is liked. Ihen I meant to go on. I suppose j work-a-day problems is the countless' "*'^'^ '^ing to do is to plan to n*ke it O you'll have me arrested?" number of .steps which the farm wo- ' '^°"^''^" '''"'• T^e sink must remain maard'* tlntmeat crore. Garsret la Cows He remembered that ho was wear- man takes during the day. Used to! "'here it is, unless you wish to engage, - ing the blue bath-robe and the gay| small, compact houses, the city wo-!" Phimber, which perhaps at his pres-' "* "^"^ Hopes. slippers. His coat lay on the back of a chair. He put it on, awkwardly folding the garment which he had ap- propriated. "I â€" I was all wet," he apologized, "and my shoes " "Sit down," she ordered, with gentle authority. He obey^'d. "You must explainâ€" tell me all about it. How (lid you come here^ to my house? "I was tramping money and I â€" Ics It was a beautiful little place. The (impact houses, the city wo man wonders that the country woman *^"'' ''"''^'' >"" ''" "°'' ''"'â- «' '« '^°- But has lived to her present age whatever <^^^" "^"t^ """''' P^V .V" '" the longi ''ouso was small, but perfect, and the it be, when she sees the steps which ' '"""• 'f "moving the sink would save Karden lovely, with flowers and fruit you many steps. You can move the' '""' vegetables and hens, and all. And table, however, and the cupboards if 'he surrounding country matched it they are not built in. And by buying f'"' P'ettiness. the arrangement of the hou.so makes necessary. A large number of farm homes, it is all too evident, were built in the days when lumber was ^heap and large ' families with daughters who stayed , home and helped mother were the , fashion. Those days are now numbered I with other good things of the forgot- _ . , . .u 1 • ng. 1 had a little: ten pi.st and only the houses are left ^'^^P'' '" ^''tting a meal and washing, condemning the gardeners . St it." jas a legacy to the twentieth century ' '''â- â- ''^''•'*' ""'' '^en proceed to have a I "'''''*= Property was tor sale few lengths of stove pipe and ani "However did you get such a fine elbow or two you may have the stove I hor.se?" asked the friend after the where you will. Sit down and study! ^^f"*' '>'"' proudly shown him around, your own kitchen. Figure out how yoii I "" ^^'"^ '^is way," said the host, can rearrange things' to make it pos-1 <^^"«t'"*5 a cautious look round to sible to take the fewest number of where his lady was inspecting and work, so I brought my wife to see it. When she Where did you come from?" I housekeeper with he.- "no help prob- t^''^"'^'''"' shake-up, ,,.,,,, , .. , A dark flush sprang to his forehead. ! lem." Mammoth room, are fine if ^""'^ >â- "" "P "'"" ''own cellar more ^ad looked round the house and the "From a town back a wavs. Must: .vou have help, but, 0,the backrche ^^•â- '" '*' "eces.^ary. If possible „,ake C»''''^"«' »'"' "'"""P'' the views from I tell you everything?" lif only one poo- woman has to keep "" '"'^^^^â- ^ rcfrigerataor. And don't I '''o windows I She pondered his question: j in order. And, O, the tired, aching T"". '1"^''" *^''.''" °^ •'""'" "t^Ps and a I "'ought of it. "You have broken into my house, feet after a day of trotting from stovi You have eaten my food. Yes; I think! to table, table to sink, sink to pantry you must tell me everything." " and pantry to woodshed, all at the The Ex-Kaiser's Peculiarities The ex-KalBer will be brought to ! Zitzewitz. Not only did William rob trial by the Allies for his public uc- I me of that precious portrait, but his tions during the war, but Mr. I'oultney j courlleiH looked at one another with nigelow, the well-known American â- stupefaction when I made so strange author, brings against him accusations ' a claim upon one who was evidently uf jietty iiKmniicss almost Incredible In a monarch of his jirelensioiis. They were perHonal friends and companions in their younger days, but Mr. Ilige- low, in his recent book, 'Prusslanism and I'iicfflHin," makes the German Kmperor practically a kleptomaniac, \U wa.s the owner of a valiiabU' miiiia- trrc of the famous QiK^cn Louise, wh'ch wax a gift to him from the rff', C '""' "f Hi'iiover, whose hus- 1 I Wfl,i dethroned y ('(> 'William II m |rt:-i)fe interest in this miniature that not accuHtomod to restoring what had once come under liis all-coveting hand." Mr. IJigelow achieved some fame as a canoeist and made a l.BOOmile voyage down the Danube, being the first to pass through the Iron Oatos in a cano('. The Kiuperor borrowed thi.'* canoe, the "Caribee," on the ex- cuse that he wanted his sons to learn to be expert CHUoeists. "While I have Mr. hla word, for when 1 visltod her In 191S ny ^Y!!!!'.'.!;; ' hi I hijt^^v m'<tchles3 "Caribee." says antfestcd Htich an ' nigelbW.^ttie ICalnor iias broken asked her what sho 'Henry,' she replied, half dozen rods out to'the milk house' ''' '^ ^," '""^"y " '^='^''' '"° speech- for all your butter, milk and eggs, as I '^^s!' some women persist in doing. Keep| what you will need for a day's supply in the house. You can keep the milk cool by sitting it in cold water. And the eggs you w,i'il use in a day aren't going to spoil if you do keep them in the house. Plan to save steps. This is a thing we can all do. Got all the kitchen helps you can, everything that makes' work easier is a necessity these days. ' But while you are buying labor-saving devices don't continue to work over- i time walking several miles unneces- sarily. Our Boys In France. Over the wave, our children brave Have gone at humanity's call; Ueady to give that tin- right may livo. Ready to give their all. In La Belle France where the foe's ad- vance Had blighted the joys of life. They turned their guns on the cruel Huns, And joined- in the awful strife. Land of the West, your Gallant breast. Has nourished a race of men. Whose eager feet will scorn retreat, j And dash to the fray again. I Rod by rod, o'er the bloody sod, I The invader's host recedes. While the shell-torn earth attests the worth Of desperate valor's deeds. By the trenches deep, shall widows weep. Or mothers kneel to pray. For the distant ones, whose dauntless sons Have helped to save the day. 1 MEN'S MILLINERY IN INDIA. Oriental Turban is Composed of Nine- ty Square Feet of Cloth. Modern women haven't a thing on a man from India, when it conies to- wearing expensive hats. And they'll have to get busy to crowd as much on their heads as do the men from Bom- bay. Calcutta and Punjaub, for those red. yellow and white turbans are as long as three tablecloths put end to end. Each turban is made up of ninety sciuare feet of cloth, thirty feet long by three feet wide. The average person wonders why men in these burning countries wear a hat which covers tlio head as com- pletely as the hood of an Eskimo. Both â- do it for the same reason. One seeks protection from heat and tlie other froi.i cold. The heat of one's own b(j(ly is far more endurable than the burn- ing rays of India's sun. .\ m.'in wears a turban thirty feet long, while a small boy wears one from ten to fifteen feet long. But Indian youngsters have found that the cap of the Canadian boy takes far less time to put on than his turban, and they are generally discarding the headgear of their fathers for that worn in America. Mluard'a Z.iiilmcnt Cures nichtherla. To understand all is to forgive all. SALiT All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS a J. CLIFF - TORONTO FLOOR WAX Keeps Hardwood Floors beautiful For Sale by All Dealers BENSON' TARCH We and 1 v.- i:igelow let him .have it to look at, j she was bidden away amid otjior dust- y;--!;cnii'(J hi>w much ho valued \\ 011 covered nautical cufioij m an obscure f--(uuiii ot the circiniiHlailfes under corner of hj'i 'oftathou.ie at Potsdam, which hfi ac(iiilred il. "Never was j T5io old guardian did not know who thnt miniature ^landed ba( k l6 me," j I was, and I stayed but long enough eaye Mr. Higel(»w. "although I spoke | to learn that my canoe had never been Of ft ea'Bcstly to the Kmper(n'H princi- j used and that I had been the victim \..\ .AidO'do-canip, the late Gen. vod «( a Prussiuii proraiso." Dishes the Threshers Like. Did the dfouth catch your early po- tatoes nr.d are you wori'ying about how >(u will couk the old ones, so thnt t'l; threshers will relish them? ell, then, why not scallo,i them iii&ke some potato salad? The shestigr; wbo come here Bur;ly reitsn> e;l these two dishes, or seemel to. "Scalloped potatoes!" you gasp; "with butter sixty cents a pound an(l salad dressing takes too much time to make." Wrong again. You need little butter and can make a large bowl of salad dressing in three minutes. In- stead of butter alone, us* small cubM W T. BSNJOS & COi PREPARED CORK ' (,»« (U tJMM &U1M • ^^ «iiAui>Rn rvu •»..rr.'*?L''' '^' "*;''" '"r-""'* iMi e«e.Mi, WIT. m m <â- â- 'â- â- /'â- '''''â- '/. 'â- '.''/A Dessertsâ€" Rolls Sauces BENSON'S is pure prepared corn starch, delicate and nourishing, unexcelled for ail cooking purposes. It improves the texture of bread, biscuits and roHs if one-third of the flour is substituted with Benson's Corn Starch. It makes pie crusts Hght and flakey. There is a recipe for the most delicious Blanc Mange on the package, together with a dozen other uses. Benson's is the best corn starch for making sauces and gravies smooth ajid creamy. Write for booklet of recipes 226 \ 4 S^.