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He paid, and paid well, these to whom he saw fit to entrust small parts in his various enterprises, but the bulk of the work he dill himself, and he kept the bulk of the proceeds. Less fortunate fellow erooka never had much difficulty in getting a few dol- lar; from hint when their pickings had been had, but he always insisted rigidly on repayment whet. fortune smiled again. Froin the back door Vogel surveyed the immediate surroundings before stepping down into he dark alley, but, once satisfied no one lurked in hiding. be followed it briskly for a couple of blocks, debouched 'upon a dimly light- ed street and sought the shabby hotel where he had one of the two rooms he maintained m different parts of the city. .11e glassed through its doorway and dent straight up the steps at the side of the narrow lobby, deserted now by its habitues who, as was their custom, -prowled all night 'and slept all day. The surly -faced clerk mounting guard over the desk looked up at his en- trance, then ' esumed his reading of the evening paper. The comings and. goings of the hotel's guests interest- ed him not in the least. . Down a long, dark hallway Vogel stepped with the assurance of one who lmows his ground and knocked upon a door, -whose grimy transom revealed a light within. "Who is it?" demanded a woman's voice. °Louie," he replied. There was eonnd of a drop -ping chain, the click of the key in the lock, and the Boor was thrown open. In the dim rays of a gas light he faced a girl, scarcely keyond her teens, auburn haired and baby faced. She held a -auly kimono wrapped about her figure and evident- ly she had been surprised in the act of dressing. She did not invite him to enter, and "Big Louie," fumbling his hat in his hands, seemed at a loss for words. "1 thought you might want to take in a pitcher show," he finally stammered. "Well, I don't," she replied "I've got another date for to -night." "Big Louie" glared and his face flushed in anger. "Who is he?" he asked. °`I'1I knock no you won't," she replied; then laughed. "Aw, I won't kid' you no more, Louie. It ain't a he at all. I'm going to a meeting!" "Again?" he muttered. "Seems to n]e yu've got them d—n meetings on the brain. What do they get. yu? New if yu'd hook up with me—" "And be left a widow some day when some cop bumps you off? Not much. I've told you that before, You'Il get yours sure as shootin' one of these times. If you really want to marry me you'Il have to cut out the rough stuff and get a job. I work every t ? You can do the same and it won't make no difference to me whether you make ten dollars a week or fifty. Tine's coming when las people what has to work will be gettin' ours, share and share alike, and we'll all be on the same footin' and no guy with money's goin' to sit hack and get fat on what others make for him." "And that's what yu learn at them aneetin's," interrupted Vogel, rough- ly. "Yu listen to a lot of long-haired guys telling yu what they areoin' to do for the countryg if yu'll jest do as they say and yu give 'em your money neyto help spread °the message to a ourdowntrodden brothers,' he mimicked a street orator he had once beard, "and yu go out and help push their graft along. But if their dreams olid come true and all that they prom - iso yta happened where do yu suppose • ti get off'? At the short end of the Txorn, as usual. Yu've l?3teanell tQ this Spielin' so long yu got so yti believe it, and yu're always tryin' to ever,. some other person into it. No wonder they're got so they call yu 'Bel Stell." This red 'flagwavin' ain t goin' to get yu nowhere." ! "Now, Louie, we've been good friends and all that since you found me cryin' out there in the gutter one night because I' was broke and hun gry and no place to go and von been my friend right. We ain't goin' to tuarrel now, So you run along and let inc dress aiid I'll drift on down to the nieetin' and along about 10 o'clock, say, you meet me in front of ?iiassey's and we'll have a ice cream sody or sometlzin'. Some of these days, perhaps, we can see things alike. Meanwhile we ain't goin' to fuss." 1 She made as if to close the door. but Vogel put out a restraining hand. here's one thing more, Steil," he said, awkwardly. :"I picked up a piece of change to -night and I want yu to keep it for me until I call for it. And if 1 don't call, why it's yours." He pulled out the ten hundredollar bills Lebrune had given him to bind their compact and pressed them upon her. "There's a thousand dollars there, kid. Keep 'ern as a favor for ire and if— if win -thin' happens, yu keep 'en] fer yerself " "1 wouldn't touch it for myself, Louie," she replied. "But I'll keep them until you want it, asa favor for you. I've lived straight, so far, and I've lived honest, and I've never spent a penny that I didn't get fair and square." • "That's what I like about you, kid," he said and turned on his heel. Stella Lathrop stood lookingat his retreating back. for, a moniethen shaking her head, closed the door and resumed her interrupted dressing. She was a startling and unusual exception to the class of people with whom she associated, almost as, much to their own surprise and wonder as to that of the police, who hada beenvainly. trying to discover just Where she fit- ted in among the denizens of the underworld. Stella Lathrop lived among crooks because among them she had found the only friends she had known since she had quit the mountain community where she had been born and reared, down among the foothills of the. Oz- arks. She had gone to The Cove's little Reboot end, because she had hu- e tninonion and was a dreamer,` she had foreseen that she could follow but two courses, One was to break away from The Cove altogether; the other to retrain there and marry some mountain boy and raise his ehildrer and work from early morning nntil late at night to retake his scanty earns ings keep, a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs and rough clotting on their backs. She had shuddered at visions of herself be- coming a drudge like the. other Cove women, •hen mother, for example,a slatternly, angular, discontented 'wo- roan, whose frayed nerves kept her houseful of children in constant fear of her. So Stella; Lathrop, having broached the subject of seeking employrent.in town and` receiving a box on the ears for her pains, had silently packed her pitifully few belongingsin a hand- kerchief and set out one- night to trudge the rocky roads to town. If she had feared ;pursuit and forcible' return to her home, it was groundless. Her father had branded her an un- grateful little hussy, and her mother had been positive she would return as soon as she grew hungry. The girl knew a storekeeper,. in town and he, sensing her ignorance, had readily given her a job in the kitchen of his home, at the munificent wages -of four dollars a month and. her keep. She had quickly seen that she had utterly failed in her purpose and she miserly had put by every cent of her wages until she had the price of a ticket to the big city. Then, her only possssions, the castoff garments. of her mistress and two dollars in change, she had bravely set out to try her fortunes. But the big city had been unkind, as is. the habit of the big city. How she got past the policeman, and wel- fare agents at the station where she was deposited by the train that had brought her, always was a mystery to her after she learned there were such persons on the 'lookout for un- wise little girls. But she evaded' them, probably because she was not trying to, and speedily found herself en- gulfed in the whirlpool. She had tim- idly ventured to ask a kind -faced old woman where she could get. a job and had been answered so harshly that it was several hours before she had got up her nerve to ask any -one else. Of course she never got the answer she was hoping for. One or ttio- nien, pausing to take in the beauty, which her ridiculous garb could not entirely hide, had been rude, and badly fright- ened her, ` and she had wandered on until she had come to a park and there, she had fallen asleep, her couch a cold stone 'bench in a sheltered nook *here she escaped the eye of the park" policeman. Thus two ' days s y had gone by and Stella had accomplished nothing 'be- yond seeing a `great deal of the city on foot. Naturally;'with her mountain training, she had gravitated away from the better resident districts and towardsthe slums and there it had been that Louie Vogel had come upon her—a weeping, very tired, very hun- gry bit of femininity—and had taken her under his protecting wing. Why he had done" it 'the gunman himself could not have. told:' "One of those streaks of goodness which are said to exist in even the worst of us must- have come to the surface just long enough to touch his heart at sight of the forlorn little girl. At any rate he had taken' charge of her and in his masculine" way, unaccustomed as he was to dealing with women, he had seen that she had food_and clothes and a room: at -the shabby hotel and then, when she refused to acecpt fur - teesegs When To Send for the Doctor. family doctor befoie serious'complica- ) In innumerable instances the sum- moning of a physieiar a necessity; but oftentimes- a physician is called from force of habit, and hypochon- driacs seek a doctor for no apparent reason whatever. Many small ailments can be overcome by means of diet, rest or simple home remedies; but the practical and sensible person realizes the inability of a novice to cope with many of the ills common. to "mankind. "We haven't consulted' a doctor for nearly ten years,"'was the proud boast of a man in whose home we found, ourselves recently. Meanwhile, his near-sighted wife rocked a peevish, fretful baby. "What is the matter with the little fellow?" we inquired. "I don't l now, answered the moth- er. "He has never been very well. sometimes I think one thing is the matter, and sometimes another. I suppose he will outgrow the trouble after a while." A small girl ran into the room and climbed upon her father's knee. Her breathing was difficult and seemed restricted. Her general appearance bespoke thepresenceof adenoids. We said nothing. What was the 'use? What was there to say to a man who boasted that be consulted no doctor, while the condition of hia little daughL ter pleaded for attention, to say no- thing of the assistance an oculist; could have rendered leis near-sighted wife. Any one with ever] average in,- tellagence would realize that, for this particular family, medical aid was imperative. AIthou h the of summoning habito a gt? physician for trivial excuses is un- pardonable, to postpone the securing of necessary medical aid is dangerous. 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Strangely enough, she had kept het - self aloof from any of their nefarious enterprises and, stranger still, she !had • gone straight. But her own bitter ' experiences during her first days in the city, magnified perhaps by the strangeness of all about her, had implanted in her heart a rebel- lious feeling against the order of things -which permitted so few people to have a great many things, and so many people to' have nothing at all. Thus she had been 'an.easy convert to the street corner harangues of °soap- box Socialistic, I. W. W. and Bolshe- vist orators and. deluded by their false doctrines, she had' beoome a rampant radical herself. She attend- ed all the meetings of this kind she could, eagerly drinking in the lying promises of the spellbinders and fail- ing :latterly to see the real motives be- hind their words. Bit by bit, they had taken notice of her, sensed approval It takes a joint of beef to make a bottle of Bovril. 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As for Vogel, he was in love with her and would have 'married her, but she would havenone of him, norwould she even consider the matter unless he gave up his dangerous pursuits, -and• this he would not do. He had done nothing else for so long that the game itself, if nothing, else, would`. have held him. (Continued in nett issue.) Minard's Liniment for Buri -is, etc, KING SOUTIBERIA MR JOHN T. URNINOER: AEGAN XN• SIyIALI:, WAY. One of the Many Roads to In- dependent Wealth in West- ern :'Canada. ,The paths of fortune in Western Canada are many and diversified. One mangoes in fora-catt1e,.,.another, .spe,.::;-, ..n cializes.in sheep, another grows only grain, and still another distributes his eggs and indulges simultaneously in all three. The • results appear to be the same, and if the follower of one line is richer than another it is in <: that superfluity of wealth beyond hit" man needs. The story that follows' might truthfully be called a sheep 'ro- mance. John T. Heninger is a large 'sheep owner in Southern Alberta,': and on his three large ranches, known as the Coulee Ranch, King's Lake Ranch, and • .Hay Lake Ranch, located southeast of Lethbridge, he i]as clearly denion- strated what can be done by personal application and assiduity coupled with Alberta climate ancl fodder.en inger made a most insignificant--)be.7!�... ginning, early chapters of his life history having much in common with the ,modest commencements which have developed into ranching for tunes in the'west. But sheep have .a way of increasing, and the size of the herd, which at the present time ranges the hills , and coulees of the three ranches, may be estimated from • the fact that last spring it was in- creased by the addition of seven thousand lambs, and that the wool clip harvested amounl.erl to about • 135,000 pounds. The Blighty Wagon. All sheep breeders . and farnie.ra know that there is a tremendous mor- , tality among _lambs in the 'first few hours of their existence, and this rancher's motto has been, "Save the lambs and the sheep will take care of themselves." Upon this policy he has built up the e herd he now owns. A visitor to the ranches in the spring time might be somewhat startled to see an ambulance's mad antics as it pursues a rough and furious way' over hill and clown coulee. An ambulance in the undiluted it d t ed " � v' lid and woolly" is a somewhat unusual spectacle, hut this same "blights wagon," -as soldiers were wont to call it, has savedthe lives of hundreds of lambs each sea - One ton of metal will furnish` ten thousand gross of pen -nibs. COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORK® L d3.'J. CLIFF TORONTO VIA Fn 2,5, and. 10 -lb. tins Gives a wonderfully fresh flavor to et/ cry kind a of cake, pie and pudding—the last morsel is as moist and -digestible as the first. 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Clea,ning and Dyeing Clothing or HouseholdHouseholdFabrics- ._ 'Far yam, the name as "•Par.T es-'rs" has eig'al:fied: perfection to this war& of roakiing old ,thimg Took life newt/; whether personal garments of even the 'mast fragile n tectal ar• Name. !mid cua•tainn, idir peries, rugs:, etc • < , 'Q ti'te to us ,for -further pmnifs mlaes: or Rzeral, your parcels . d.trect to 1 11 rrto The ambulance is mounted on 9. Ford truck, and the interior is fittsd "' out with ten pens, five, on each: side. ft rambles over the countryside at lambing time and, picking upthe ewes with new-born lambs, journeys with them in the snug little pens to the sheltering fold. Here the couples are placed in other comfortable pens, the ewe fed on, oats and hay, and the lamb, if found to be cold, placed be- tween ' blankets. Then, when ,the sun comes out and the lamb has recuper- ated a little strength, the ewe and its woolly offspring are turned out to graze upon the fresh greens grass of the adjacent pastures. When lambs - are being- born too •quickly to.be all accommodated by the' motor . ambul- ance; horse-drawn ranch vehicles are pressed into service. Just what value this system of ensuring the life of the lamb is to the rancher may be judged from the fact that -in stormysprings, when other sheep ranchers have had'' a heavy toll of their newly born lambs, Mr. Ileninger 'claims to have come through without the loss of a single • animal. The ranch houses are in tune with Ale progressive modernity of the ranch metbotls, all buildings,- both for the rancher's' family and his helpers„ being electrically heated and supplied .with running, water furnished by a storage cistern. Wealth is to be found along many roads in Western Canada, • and Mr. Heninger has found the sheep road. -Pace Makers. 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There are plenty of young men in , our business houses whose aggressive, pushing, energetic methods not only have aroued their fellow employees, but who have astonished their cm• ployer•.s and often actually changed the entire policy and the methods of these above them—of their chiefs, of the proprietors, themselves, Young people' should start out on their business careers with the con:; viction that there is, only one way to do anything, and that is in the best' possible way that it can be done, re- gardless of remuneration, I have 'known a stenographer on small pay who put a higher duality of effort into lien'part of the work than the proprietor of the great establish, ment she. o worked for ,into put , his. Consequently silo got much more out of life than he did, It Is only then we do our best, when we put joy, energy, enthusiasm, and zeal into our week, that we really" grow. 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