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herself while she put the dishes on - the table. ! But her cheerfulness was short- lived; even in the midst fxf supper forebodings settled a^ain upon her, she was sure that Jerry had just been trying to comfort her, some big and ominous change affecting all the em- I ployees of the Works was impending. She left her supper almost untasted, and Jerry ate without satisfaction or enjoyment. Afterward.s while he I helped her with the dishes, he tried to â-  turn her thoughts into more pleasant channels, but she would not be divert- , e<l; she was for the most part glumly CHAPTER IV.-(Co„fd.) : .ngj it's a mercy i learno.i to wash ^^^^ -'diltf p^e'jictLr ''"jc^r^'s "If he'd just do something so that^l'^'^'^X^raK^^ngt." |h«ar^ «ank lower and lower; he fore- I could sma-sh him!" Jerrv ofti-n ''*'' .""^ *'*''"^'' *"** "^,'!' saw that what he must soon say would thought while he marched and coun- ' "- ^" ^'^'''^^ ^° you to let you run provoke her to despair in a new quar- termarchcd with his company in the Y. "» ""•-'' >'"" «""" ''"Wn. .said Jerry A | ^^^ m^ in.stincts in dealing with his M. C. A. Hall; and the desire made *>"« '^'^'^^ y"" '' ''«• t^'><'"K '"W"*'?"?^; mother were fatally accurate. Yet him shout out his orders with an ex- ''"'' ^^^ ''''® °^ ^"^^' ""''. ^ ""^ /"^"'â- i there was no way of avoiding this traordinarv ferocity. Roger Trask. "^^ for letting you. Sit you down,! ^lig^gte, the drillma.ster. colonel of the third >'"" 'â- ''^pted old body, and got posses-, militia regiment, watched him and «'"","^ yo"''„'^^ve «e"ses. And now r^„ ^ â- nTT.r, ^r thought, "There's a fellow th.U would T'",'' f^"i I'm telling you. Divil a CHAPTER V. make a good soldier---a good officer." , '^oi'l^t.^'"* I fould get a l;''"" J"'' f "y u was a sunny morning in early Trask had a special interest in|i'«y '^ ^ .'^hose to Quit the bteel jj^^^j^ ^^^ ^,.^^^ gj^^ ^^j^, ^^^^ ^j,g Jerry, a special feeling for him. Iti Works and go into the city.^^ Divil a ^^^^^j^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^„j had been Jerry who had induced Trask I"""'" "o^- ^ "> telling you. U-indows to welcome Spring. Jerry to undertake the training of this com-! "Oh, Jerry, is that the truth? In-[Donohue, starting to "his work four pany; one evening in the preceding <iced, if it is, you're taking a great minutes ahead of his schedule, strolled September, at the invitation of the' load off my shoulders." | and swung his dinner pail blithely, superintendetnt of the local branch of "Of course it's the truth. A great It was just a morning to assure one the Y.M.C.'V.. the officer had given a strong lad like myself! In half -â- .nthat all one's doubts and apprehen- talk on the discipline and sen'ice of hour I could land any job that lisions had been vaporings as tenuous the militia. He often recalled his sat- wanted. Divil a doubt now." las the smoke that floated and drifted Cream Wanted 8WEET OR CHURNING CREAM W* liupply cans, par axpreBu chai'cea ana remit dally Our price next week forty-elght'cents Katnal Dal 743-S Xlnr 8t. 99 rasa Katnal Dairy aaa Oraamary Oo. Toronto <'«pyrl»hf Hou«hton MlfTlln Company by apeclal arrangement with Thoa Allen. Toronto it's a mercy I whei kept my health and strength." Isfattion when after the talk a stal- ' â- ".â- rt'does'me'good'to hear you say ' a"'l,l^'^'^e to 'et the sun shine through. wart, eager-faced, blue-eyed young ,. r,,. t vvi«h vou wouldn't sav that ^o long a time had passed since the man came up to him an.l said, "That's ^o^d 'divil ^Jerrv de^r Your fath-' absorption of the Purroy Works by fine, what you've been telling us. And rnll. ,«,.,! T" I the American Foundries Company,; it would be the making of a lot of us , " ,, " , ', r.,. i u ^\ ^ith no foreshadowing o. any change if you'd only come out "now and then . i^" 'â- '^^,'' J^ol-her. I 11 do my best. )„ policy, that anxiety was giving anj give us some real lessons about ^nd now don t be pulling that long pi^ce to confidence throughout the^ drilling and soldiering" The com- '"<='* ^ny more; it don t look right on town. And Jerry's sanguine temper pany which at first had numbered only y°"- X"""", ^"'?„^"^*'*t^*°. v^ l>road was invigorated by more than the^ about thirty men had doubled in size, and good-natured like a Dutchman s. | fresh nweet air of the morning. "The, It was still a varied assortment of old , ^he smiled douHfully. 'Have you night before he had found Nora in her, firearms that the privates bore- honest the heart to bo joking with me, most responsive, confiding, affection-j Trask had wanted them tfl dispense Jerry-" , ,u ^ _. . u .• ate mood. Never had she been so with weapons, but Jerry had plead-' ^es, and the heart to be eating a | completely, so assuredly the girl that, ed 30 hard for them that he had con- fi"\ "^PP"^'"' '.^ ^^^^^ " ^"^"^ * t*^'"« ^^l^e loved-witH her hand pres.«ing his cede<i the point M^e had in this house â€" | arm, her slender self drawing close . . I ,â-  ' , .T. , ,v I "Well, there is then." And she bustl- 1 to him, her eyes upturned to his, her Jerry s feeling for Trask was noth- ed away, and presently Jerry from his! laugh trilling a pleased response to ing less than heroworship, qualified upstairs heard her singing to the speech o? admiration, to the sud- only by the secret serkse of kinship , _^__^_^__^^________^ that humble appreciation claims. â€" â€" ^â€" â€" ^^â€" â€" â€" ^^ Trask was exactly the kind of man that Jerry aspired to be â€" ^straight, vigorous, commanding, yet genial, too, with a geniality that never com- promised his dignity; contemplating him Jerry felt in himself all sorts of •imilar potentialities, and at the same time more than ever despaired of out- growing his coltishness. A circumstance chronicled on the first page of the Daily Press, the fav- orite newspaper of the workingman, <-onfirmed and emphasized Jerry's secret sense of kin.ship with the drill- master. The engagement of Colonel /Ibouf the KITCHEN EFFICIENCY. The busy woman of to-day realizes â-  you chip the enamel off the saucepan, what efficiency in the kitchen means sometimes into the food, and you have Roger Trask and Miss Claire 'd^^I ^ •^o'' further ability to easily supply , to pick it out; then again, of tener you mond was announced in an article! to her family nutritious food without fail to see the damage you have aone richly biographicaJ and illustrated by ! waste of time and strength. I until, when washing the poU and photographs of the pair. Miss Des- 1 The problem of obtaining help pans, you find a spot where you have mond was not only very beautiful, as brings to the housewife a thought of chipped off the enamel. Now, if you appeared from her picture; she was ^ the time, strength and energy required have a broken spot in the bottom of the daughter of Benjamin Desmond; to keep the household at par. So your saucepan and you are stirring «nf i^tW ^f^V^nTrwf/ fr' I'ij'^r 'h^-^t to equip the kitchen with modem, the food that is cooking in this pot, ant as that of Vanuerbilt or Astor. . , ,v "^ , ^, , . , • *'„„;„„ „ „ i i „„ »„ „*;.. wifVi vou It was not long after this that the ' ^°'! ""^^ ^o replace the furnishings of using a metal spoon to stir with, you figure of Benjamin Desmond began to' 'I'e household laboratory in an attrac- are grating off ♦'•" "'"â- "â-  ' loom portentiously alive to persona fori t've manner is no longer a fad, but a ""' '" whom his existence had hitherto l>een dire necessity. as mythical as that of Croesus. For Cleanliness is an absolute essential the rumor that had been disturbing ^ that is based upon fundamental princi- the community there proved to have ! pigg. The kitchen should be compact been a solid foundation; one morning! [„ jt^ ai-rangements, so that no motion early in January the announcement ^„y ^e lost. Unle.%8 one can afford a tiled kitchen, a durable wash paint is the most economical. While the cost- liest kitchen is not necessarily the was made that the banking house of Desmond and Company had purchased the Purroy Steel Works. Grim speculation at the Works, foroboding and panic in the homes of! best, intelligent and careful planning of the workmen, followed promptly upon this disclosure. That evening, on going home, Jerry found his moth- er in a completely pessimistic yet de- spairingly resourceful frame of mind. She was waiting for him in the hall; she clung round him and he felt the trembling of her arms, the nervous clutch of her fingers. "Now don't you feel blue and cast down in your mind, Jerry," she en- treated him. "It's just when you least expect it of them that things have a way of coming out all right in the emi. I've been thinking what a blessing it ii that I have my health and strength. If things come to the worst, we can mayl>e sell or rent the house, and we've still got your fath- the glass coating on the enamel saucepan into your food. Think about this, and then use wood- en spoons for stirring all foods while cooking in all saucepans. These woo<ien spoons need not be costly, and any handy man around the house can whittle a couple of paddles for you from any piece of hardwood, preferably maple or ash, in a very few minutes. Learn to use the fireless cooker for cereals and breakfast foods and also for cooking the cheaper cuts of meat. Meat cooked in the fireless cooker loses proportionately less per pound than meat cooked upon the coal, gas or electric ranges. Use all left-over breakfast cereals in making bread. A word about the refrigerator. Upon this important household uten will count quite as much as money Color schemes can easily be follow- ed. But for general utility a Colonial buff is the best color with which to paint the walls. The window trim- mings may be ivory and white. A good quality of linoleum for covering the floor will be found satisfactory. A kitchen cabinet, a fireless cooker and . . a good range, a refrigerator and a ! sil depends the health of the family, table with a sanitary porcelain top ' The Ice compartment should be suffici- would complete the largo furniture ently large to keep a piece of ice that I needed In the kitchen. will keep the food compartments at a Have the man of the house build temperature of not less than 50 de- I and attach to the kitchen table a g:rees Fahrenheit constantly. A I frame that will act as a rack, above thorough cleansing three times a week j the table, to hold dippers, atrainers is an absolute necessity. Remove er'8 life insurance money. Then in and other utensils that are necessary, the drain pipe and flush and swab out the city I can find washing to do, and | A drawer in this table to hold the the trap. This la very Important. Do that will keep us till you get a new knives, measuring spoons, etc., will not place the refrigerator in a dark, job. Of course if we can't sell or make for time saving and efficiency, damp place, rent the hou.ne and there s the mort- ; ^ careful selection of pots and pans is Do not permit the drain to be con- pose we'll lose pretty much everything | ^'**' ^° '•'^" *« housewife my pot and plj)* \s attached have it made so that we own. At least we can keep body ! pan story. and .soul together through my wa.sh-' Sixty-five out of every hundred per- â-  - â€" ! sons suffer from some form of in- testinal indigestion. That is due to (he manner in which the fool is cooked ir to the utensil itself. How many women are there who, in cooking food in an enamel saucepan, stir the food while cooking and then tap the spoon oil the edge of the pan. Ah! I see you smile, for you all recognize the old trick. Now, do you know that often giiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiMiiiiiiii^ I Come to Toronto | " TO DO I Your Buying I It may be frequently taken apart and flushed with boiling soda water., Drain the waste water from the re- frigerator into the garden or yard. To make a drain from the icebox, cut tt hole in the floor and place a large funnel in the hole. Now connect suf- ficient length of pipe used for speak- ing tubes to this hole and drain into the yard or garden. This pipe can easily be taken apart for frequent flushing. j dry before you can get over it. The really ^t*'® objection to this method is in the in addition to the outing and a 5 change, a shopping trip to Toronto = fmay save you mu9h money. The 3 advantages of buying In a Urge 3 E metropolitan city are very many. S I Wider choice, new«r goods, fresher g p commodiUes, special bargains, all a B of which mean a saving in money, g I In addition to a pleasurable trip. â€" S And all tJiis is doubly enhanced by = E the fact that you can stay at the c S most home-like and comfortable B S hotel In Canada, and at moderate n g cost, and have your parcels sent 3 direct to our check room. There Is ^ no extra charge. 3 The Walker House | TheHouse of Plenty 3 TORONTO, ONT. 2 s To Have Clean W'indows 2 There are few women who 5 enjoy cleaning windows, and one rea- e^ect of the strong solution on one's 2 son must be that the result is so often Angers. A rubber or leather glove = disappointing. Soap always seems ""^y b« "sed, but even without gloves a to smear the glass, and the cloth gets 1 ' ^"^1 it takes so short a time to clean 3 too drippy and counUess things hap- a number of windows that if one is g pen. But one housewife, has thought careful to wash the hands immediately g alxjut it hard and has decided just f^ter the task, then rub them with 3 what is the best method of cleaning S her windows. She ient us her deci- a .siqp, aivd here k Is: g "I have found a Way," she says, "to S polish windows brilliantly with the a least possible work. I can clean them lemon juice or vinegar and rinse again with clear water, there will be no unpleasant effect." How to Clarify Fats. Here are tliree methods of clarify- vhether the sun is shining or not, so : ing fat. Method 1. Melt the fat with infallible is my method. Fir.st wipe an equal portion of ->\-ater in a double If the dust with a dry cloth, or if boiler. Strain through a cloth. When very dirty, wHth a damp one, then put cold remove the layer of fat from the a small quantity o( water in a basin water. Methml 2. Follow directions and make it very strong with house- given under Method 1, using sour milk. lii^ld ammonia, using not more than Flavors and odors are modifle<l. Me- two parts of water to one of ammonia. th(><l ^. Follow directions given in iJip a small cloth or sponge in this Method 1, adding several pieces of and wring It nearly dry, then go over clean hardwood charcoal. If beef the glass, rubbing hard but working fat is Iniing clarified, the yellow color rapidly. Wipe immediately with a, is removed and a white odorless fat ia ilimiilllllllllllillHIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIilllllii.^ry, lintless cloth, or the pane will be 1 secured. den, impulsive caress. He waa as puzzled by this new hospitality of manner as he was elated. Indeed, had he but known it, the in- fluences that he counted must hostile had advanced his cause; the bitter re- proaches which she had that evening undergone at the supper table from her parents, who were exasperated by the failure of the musical education they were be.'ttowing upon her to pro- duce the expected results, had increas- ed her conviction that life at home could not be much longer endurable; and the boldness of Charley Corcor- an's behavior that afternoon had somehow revealed to her more glar- ingly his scorbutic unattrac-tiveness. Jerry's kind and humorous eyes, hon- est race, and big, stalwart frame had seemed more tian usually welcome and likeable â€" and Nora, while she vaguely, emotionally responded to the admiration in his eyes, had more dis- tinctly and concretely felt that, quite apart from any emotional considera- tions, she could not do better than marry Jerry Donohue. More than any one else that she could think of, he seemed to her to have a man's full strength, a man's full power to con- fer security. Jerry, thrilled by her unaccustomed readiness to let the conversation take a practical turn, had spoken with vig- or and decision. He had been pati- ent, he had waited, but it was time now for a definitie understanding. Very well â€" and the promptness and expficitness of her answer had left no- thing to be desired; the term at the Conservatory ended on April 9; on the next day she would announce her in- tentions to her family, and within a month thereafter she would marry him. So it waa in a blithe spirit that Jerry Donohue set forth the next morning to his work. Indeed, his head w^as so shrouded in the clouds, his nose was so cast upward, happily sniffing the balmy air, that he had got some distance down the slope lead- ing to the Works before he perceived the unusual proceedings at the en- trance. Groups of men stood on either side of laie mill gates examin- ing large printed notices that were af- fixed to Hm f«nc«{ ttoac ^0 htA finished resdlncr passed inside, vmUt- ing slowly; as he drew near, Jerry be- came definitely aware from the b«- ! havior of the men that the printed j notices were of grave import. Stand- I ing on the edge of the crowd, he read I the following: â€" IMPORTANT On and after April 1 work In the Purroy Mills will be in two turns of twelve hours each instead of in three of eight hours each. Under this new arrangement the number of employee* will necesaity be reduced. Those who are not to be retined will be given one week's notice. J. F. Drayton, Superintendent. (To be continued.) Keep feed troughs and drinking pans clean and filled. A new clothes-line should be boiled before being put out. This prevents it from stretching and makes it last much longer. Grow your own supply of vegetable seeds for next year. The Dominion Department of Agriculture has issued a leaflet to tell you how. Z^s^t w>©x '^ IPilSE VC jdy^ORT SOAP T°"°-- RTPiSire R^leans sinks.cbsets^ [Kills roaches, rats « mice J J)issolves dirt M natnino^ ^Ise will movt^^P 8 A Grave Question. Shopkeeper â€" Now, look here, little girl, I can't spend the whole day showing you peimy toys. Do you want the earth with a little red fence round it for a penny? Little Girl â€" Let me see it if you please. QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY KINGSTON ONTARIO ARTS EDUCATION APPUED SCIENCE Miuing, Chemical, Civil, Mccbanical and Slecthcal Bns^neeriag. HOME STUDY â-²rt3 Course by correspondence. De^ic^ â- with oue year'3 atteiidencc or four Bummer sessions. Summer School NavigAtion School July and Aufuat Oecamber to April 19 GEO. Y. CHOWN. R.cistrar MEDICINE Leave It to Parker THE postman and expressman will brin£ Parker service right to yoxa home. We pay carriage one way. 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