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• You r_ever. Gane,
She hard hien ge
drive off.
An incur later slietA
, at the bac it t1i$
there ra, 4 a r
• Ts tV rl4gat"lie' , 44ip . .ci.?
"Np, lie's gone•"a-rites 6tivood, Ile
Ilost ,tome money'"Satt•i-day."
"Yes, Iknow he •did."
o fou found rt she breathed Lhank
fully.
He noddLd Warren dzopped rt lir
the b tsein r t o1 that house 1 m build-.
in
1 found it St tueday eight bat 1I
cull r t get hili on tnc + lt.pha u "
No, you Couldn't," she sag dryly.'
kill arguinir
bfi}ce $$99
rut �>
u t1.
CX and
ring
stood
i3u
Aba d
Saturday ni Ile
t--
Ile smiled. '''''"You're.Wordering why
I'didn't'bring it' before-" Well, I'll toll.
you. When I found that money, 1
Llistraight out
!,ofuu-rht it U
ad heaven. I'd' got drop,
00i much spread
' out' on building n lot'# houses at once,
tltet'
and I'd got,to .lp'st- ditch on ready
money.: The worliinep.11ad-just walk-
ed out, on me."
L"Ohl" exclaimed 'Aiello, "And se
yon wonted to use' this?"
• "I,did use it,. T got it split up and
`-•
" I went:' around"and hunted up myPART iTI -"If 1 put the money rr- the ban c, workmen and paidthem off. And this
d 'sloe the man regained his wits G
ren, It's only =i per cent. We ought able to put through. a deal that I'vo
been aiming for. .• 1, sold; the house to
a man' I've boon angling for and got
a good payment, If I could have, reach-
ed Warren by telephone I'd have'. let
prim know the mondy.}vas Safe, but, by.
George, I wouldn't have returned it.'"
He drew out Warren's bill fold and
laid it on the kitchen table.
"Oh, I'm so glad; Mr'. Calder, that
it fell into'your hands instead of—"
"So am I," he put in fervently. "I
needed, it, but I wouldn't have .dd'red
to use it if it had belonged to anybody
but Warren Peck. I couldn't come
around yesterday to tell him, because
after I'd started in on using it, I
couldn't bear to mention it till I'd put
the deal over. But I knew Warren
would have let me. have the money if
I'd asked hire, because he; always ready
to help' a fellow.
"Bless the old scout, he's done me
a .good turn. I'm dividing my profit
with him. He certainly earned it.
He'll find two thousand in the bill
fold"
While Luella was' strugg:iig with -w0 won't be getting ,-high interest:";erlorning they were all back on the- job
"I've been thinkiri of that, Wax- and with everything bumming'1 was
in ecr _ r
and began: a lightning . series of
scramblings-and splaphin s and plung-:
ings that brought him upright and
sent him skating against the outer
door. He unlocked it and dashed out.
"My good gracious!". murmured
Luella. She leaned against the door
jamb, feeling weak' now that every-
thing Was, ;over. Nothing happened
for a few minutes.
Faintly. Luella heard the opening
of;the front door, Someone was Steal-
ing quietly through the house. She
clutched the pocket of her bathrobe
with her left hand, and with her right
she seized the electric iron. Dropping
h cket long enough to turn •the
to get more. You rernember the Deane.
Wheelock'' place in " Eastwood'? The
house burned last year.
He nodded.
"The paper says -that the land will
be auctioned off this afternoon at
trio -thirty. If we could get it for
the twelve hundred, or even a few
hundred more— Will you bid it in?"
"Why, , sure- `11 it goes cheap
enough." 1i
In spite, of her, fears of delay he
backed the car out art, two o'clock.
They got past the house and the
length of the apple orchard; then 'the
little car stopped:
er
po "Now what's wrong?" cried Luella.
key in the. door that led the dining Warren looked `ho lesslateat the
rotor, she took up a;flghting attitude.
The steps approached., The door dashboard, as one idiotically does.
knob turned. Luella's cheat lifted, and Then he swung out, cleaned a small
Elie threatened through the panbls: ' stick and stuckti it into the gasoline
tanl.
"Get out of this house. I'm armed." •,Yes, sir," he admitted. dolefully,
The intruder by this time.became'"she's dry. I •intended to look before
possessed of the power of speech. we started, but I forgot it."
"Why, Luella! , What's happened„ "Warren Peek, Low could you?"
honey?'
"Oh, my Lard!" groaned the fighter. "I intended to look, Luella," he re -
It was a full Minute before she could
gather the strength to unlock the door.
Warren burst into the room.
"What's the matter? Are you sick,
honey?"
Then Warren looked about, -
"Gee. whiz!" he said, He spanked
soapily into the laundry and gave the
stopper chain a yank.'
"I didn't " suppdse—it was you,"
gasped Luella. "1 didn't hear the car.''.
"0f course you didn't, honey. how'd
that •soap 'keg get knocked off?"
Luella told him about it. But re•
viewing the facts confirmed her opin-
ion that she had been abused and she stay all right, so the tiro didn't go
began to sob passionately. down. I intended to put on the spare
""Now now dear!" Warren dropped and have .this mended; but you know
limited mildly. "I'll have to go back,
but I'll hurry."
Presently Warren carne back with a
one -quart mason:: jar filled with gas -
They covered half a mile with
smooth swiftness." Then 'the car be-
gan to jerk. Warrenput on the
brakes. ' "
"Gash; it'd that Hatt.".
"Were: we driving with a nail, War-
ren Peck, are you crarayRt'
"It's the rear right; =he satd, get-
ting out the jack. "I got a nail in
that tire lest Week, but .it seemed to
into a chairs and drew her into his. 'how it is."
lap -which was doing pretty Well At a quarter "o£ three they started
after' ten years, because Luella was .on again. The land was put up at the
damp from tears and her bathrobe auction rooms in connection with fur -
and slippers' were dripping. Moreover,
Warren wasn't in any romantic. sit0ii
tion himself, his fent being partially.
under water at the minute..,
"Poor little honey girl)"
With her head ors his, breast, she
sobbed in agreeable self-pity. Then
she stiffened, This wasn't any way
niture from o large- house.' The only
chance that the Pedal would be in time
was that the furniture might be offer-
ed first,
But it wasn't, When they arrived,
the land had already gond for -tout-
teen hundred dollars. Luella was bit-
terly diriappointed. Besides, banking
to treat a man who had done the hours were over for the day; and in -
wrong thing ever since noon, She stead of using this money as a par -
sat up. tial payment, they would have it on
"If he'd ' got the money it would-be their hands.two more nights, for this
Y,was Saturday.
It was, five o'clock wheal they began
to chug homeward:
"Something funny about that
and friends than you de oh your own money." Warren broke the silence
affairs, and that's one reason you're with a chuckle. "We can't seem to get
always behind. You're too easy. Think it invested.".
of, your going five 'miles to -night to Suddenly Luella saw a;abance, She
attend to a horse when they lead a vet. had been trying for years to -persuade
orinarian right there. You hadn't Warren to sell the three acres, 'move
any right to leave nae to guard that into Eastwood' and work as an elec-
money,": tr"ician, which his trainin hied fitted
"I :intended to get back by ten him to do.
o'clock, honey, 'Honest, I did. I guess ."Why .don't we use this to begin
we pulled the liaise through, but it buying a home in. Eastwood?" she sag -
was a hard fight. And, I golly, Luella, Vested sweetly, "Roy Calder is build -
it does me good to think what a brave ing a lot, of •houses. There's one that's
little wife I've got. How'd: you scare'semoout isc�d It would be easy to
the fellow off?"
your fault." She hastily wiped away
the tears, by wayof being more se-
vere,
"You spend mere time on neighbors
"Two thousand!" Luella's eyes
bur ed
"It's of iy fair, Mrs. Peck. He pull-
ed me out of a hole, but I wouldn't
have taken the chance if I hadn't
known Warren would understand. His
heart is where it belongs, You drew
a prize when you . married Warren,
'Mrs, Peck?'
When he . had gone, Luella stood
still. Then she crumpled into a ebair,
flung herself face down upon the table
one hand. c.utehing the bill fold, and
burst into tears.
(The Nucl.)
' "All ritgght, if. it '.would suit you,
Why,_ I—I just stood there,„_ fat- honey We'll go around before long
tered Luella. "And looked at him,", and look at the place."
„ _ "Let's go stow,', insisted Luella.
Warren smnied, "Saved your• 'a- "It'prettyte:»
we „ s la e
pons for yourpoor old husband did It'won'.t take long.” 1 g
you? The place was decreed, the warltmeit
"By
George!" He slapped his knee. gone, but they went le through. the
g pP k n
"Isn't' it a Ittcicy'thing I didn't
get basement.
house i t
, The o so eased ricer both.
that washer fixed right? I'd been in- ,.
I
A]I ri lit honey,
are ` . ,
Ito he ed 1
tending to do it for several days; but. g + yr in g worked up to" make attractive ruga
hunt trpeiny Calder, a'few days and of different 'si s;
if I had—"see r f we can it, it,'' �
",
Cut the. rags to the desired width.
I m goingto C $ ag
bed, announced his : 'They. went .home happy, .both of
wife coldly: them: Luella sangmerrily ars she Lay the tree ends of two. rags togeth-:
d i•
The next morning the Bill fold' went broiled the stealer She beamed radiant- er, lapping them a Itttle. Gut a slit
'' . i -whe War'r'en ca e into the kitchen,a little more than a quarter of an inch
down to breakfast in Warren s�pocicet:. Y n m
Luella was reading 'the: 1porning pa but the radiance faded as she. looked long: on each rag. By placing one on
at him, top cf the other a single slitting will
per
now, burned in the household altl. "That money!" he gasped, "It's do it, If the rag has been lapped, the,
most a day. go"Gone!" she shrieked. "When 'did work is already half done. The next
you lose it?" and last step i5 to slip the end of one
the added.
Tie Little Fir -Tree.
Thorn ere a thotrseetd,chtldren 00 the
hill,
Slender, green -limbed; in strength and
beauty growing;
They toss their beade and talk, as.
children trlllt
When the wind's blowing.,
Their fathers died before they carne
to birth,
And manye. night and day,
Sleeping and curled and still, the child-
ren lay
Within their' mother, the brown and
splendid earth.
One. says: "My tether was a gallant
tree;
Ito gave his life for Man'
When, the Great War began.
For then they slew the ftr-treee. ono
and All,
And the whole air was thunderous
with their fall,
And the hillside strewn with deexi,
Pitprops, they salt
"Now'when.i'nt grown I hope that I
may be
Mighty and brave as ito;
I hope that X'may die as my father
died;
Valiant and full of pride,
Offering breath and bough end body
and limb .
To Man, most willingly , . "
Andras Ise spoke, milieu uprooted him
To make' a Loudon tint& t Christmas
Tree.
-Jan Struther in Westmineter>
Gazette.
WHEN YOU MAIE CARPET
RUGS.
Now that old-fashioned rag rugs
are so popular, a quick method . of
joining the length of clout or the rags.
will be welcome,
The work is done very much more
quickly than when needle and thread
aro used, and the splicing is even
stronger. The work is not so tedious.
And in every home' are numerous
pieces of stout cloth which an- be
efir
•
After ' eatia 01' .00iattia
Writes freshens the iriou
�, y �
and sweetens' the breath.
Nerrveo aro soothed, throat ls'.
refreshed and diae5tioti'hided•
30 ea3y to carry die little picket!
tr'IPsI'�
"I don't know. I didn't discover it
till just now. 'Ile seemed dazed.
I "Did- you have it in the hill fold?"
He nodded, "That'sgone, too."
Then, as if tho words cliolced-him, he
added, "It—it must ha'c+e: slipped out
of my pocket."
Slipped out! How "do you -mean?
How could it slip out?" '
I "Wel, you see --' IV'arren ih 11-
fled his right foot r r ;c is y over tha in making neat balls on rainy days
linoleum. "There was a littie hip in when they are restless.. and eager to
that pocket. Now wait a minute do something, '
Luella. I intehded to ask you to seri •----
it up; honest, ,I dial ---but `11-1 pinked • t..Nevel Race.-
it and 1 forgot- pritisit soldiers ran a novel race, not
Luella snatched the- broiling steak bong ago in ;competition- at A1del•shot
from the 'fire and sla ed it on the,
PP for the shield of the Duke of••Uon-
platter.,. Hauglrt. The conditions were dint
Your dinner's read unci osed
Y. P
Luella shortly. teams of titirtyetwo men' with null bat,.
But her Uri n of tie (equipment; should run a Tull, by
a n do mentthe subject
• was only temporary. The - more• -con- cenrpass in toggy`weather' over ex'
trite Warren„beeame, the higher wax- troniely rough groped aril suamoinrt
ed her wrath. a steep 11111 three -hundred feet high,
She prodded him to drive into dist- Tale' wlnuing:team covered tb0 ills -
wood and insert an advertisement iu tanee in :'diteen minutes atiel forty-
tlreBpaper, ;, seven ,seconds, which, though Hol: the
rag through the double split and draw
it" back. It will make a,' firm, smooth
•union; which will work up satisfac-
torily in the weaving.
Try a couple of 'rags and experi-
ment with them It ,will only take a
moment to master the knack; alid the
`chances are that the children will love'
to do this work;' and will take; pride
ut my risme was on the. bill 5010
he told her, "If anybody finds it he'll host time ever made, is a remarkably
know right off whose .it "ie.', good performance.
"flow many people clo you think
would retain it because of that?" she' - ',I nu greatest harm that can come to
. can
But ,she couldn't get him started. �c:f. Think that over,
a.rs' '1� s0 xpe ience to
.io •.'e wee' rnterestl say L rag.
"Of course, youknow right
away that I= refer to Sunlighc
_ � ict
�`�
1' is theonly
ecae Sunlight �
Made fan �a..
laundry bar:soap,ti�.ad in
ada' that is guaranteed pure..
h .
85 000 Guarantee of Puritygoes
with :every bar;: and. according
lo. the makers, this Guarantee
has never once been challenged'
duringthe whole lifetime of "
P
Sunlight Soap.
"It's perfectly obvious, too,
that when every ' particle of a
material
cleansingm
soap; is pure
—and not loaded with_ useless
mater,
adulterants and hardening r.�.
more
ials — th;en that . s�ia has
cleansingpower and does more
withless labour. A little
work
of it goes a long way. Inshort,
o - ndmlcal.
it's really eco
"That's why 1 always use
and recommend Sunlight for;the
laundry, .-dishes and -general
housework. Sunlight keeps my
hands' soft and comfortable,
too!" Lever Brothers: Limited,.
, Toronto, make it.
1006
1007,
Smart Mode for- Otttin 'Wears
For s oras wear, nothing quite sol
to p
smart as this lament) Blouse anti,,
bodice skirt for vacation days' and'
7c.-.- Q
The wide range of the amusements
which to -day afe open to young Deb-
ate, for example, gives cause ion
au"tiety to than who, ordetiag the
course of their lives, wish to see them
steer a :clear course through the prose
of encompassing waters,. They know
that tete child will not long be a child..
Soon enough the attractions of life
will be about him, se many siren -
voices of alluring oberm• Whet% Is
best for ,him -his unguided plunge ia-
to'the maelstrom of conflicting plea-
sures, at. the mercy of each contend-
ing eppead,-'or his firm grasp of an In-
terest able to safeguard him against
whatever seductions niay assail him'?
Music Is such au interest. Every
parent and .every guardian of a child
should use It so. Not once, not twice,
but often, in days to come, the plea.
sure of. this and that amusement, and
some of .it no more than a Bute -waist•'
Mg, mind -spoiling amusement, will be
offered hint. It will be well If he bus
something to eel against the tempta-
tion to be one more of times who frit-
ter horns away in enjoyments that are
as -fleeting: as the moments containing
them:
• Mus!
Mesio is beau
is the richer wl
c Is Beauty.
ty, and the Ito)' at jdrl
to desires beauty, who
is able tb discern beauty, who can an-
predate Cie' power of beauty to up-
lift, to satisfy, or to stir. Sooner` or
later`"both bay and girl. 1111 be sur
rounded by -attractions, some of which.
holiday outings. ,'Blouse has. long own the semblance' of beauty's bloom,"
or short sleeves, well ebaped collars and
some or Klticlt claim flint their ex'
and a jabot of Iace or georgette.- s or their allures, are better
With strai ht.'timer edge, eltemcnt ,
Skirt 'cordion' laiteci' than beauty. But .the.boys and girls
-ether gathered or at p
attnehod.to a Ion -waisted camisota .will be far safer' if tliey can,s0t against
g.
bodice, ladies' ;blouse. No. t0G6 out 'the fevered i harsits of suoii as these
to sizes,. 14 to 44 inches beet, Si00 36 their possession of the real, the true
requires 1% yard 36 01 40 inches ireaul,y, eau Set against 'them such it
wide with short -sleeves. Ladies beauty as that of 100010, is -blob neither
skirt No. 1007 tilt i eines 34 to 44
Ih
r o:.. u n rise nor age can Impair, sines the glow
sties bust.' Any size requires S
e
wieich allows the child's music to be
the spurt of chabirp; to be regarded as
.unimportant, to be so fragilely the
child's possession, .and to have so
small a pert In ilia. life, that. When, in:
his youth, the first breath oftempta-
tempta-
tion towards a lesser pleasure meets
him, it blows his =Sit out of exist.
once.
Home Influences;::
It is not too march to say that one-
half of the value of teaehiag is`squan-
der•ed in. the home. The teacher's in=
[defence,' the teacher's disscipline, the
ieachor's.autboeity, the teacher's firm.
Patti, plays a great part in 'the er-.
delency of teaching, and in that out.
come, of it, which ie the pupil's know-
ledge of the subject' taught. The
school -door -ciosee upon the chlld, and"
the,home-door opens, --to. lead, too of.
ten,' merely to a life within where in-
elstence, discipline, authority, are
loosened and lax, and sympathy Is in-
dulgence. 3t is in the -home. that rho
child's interest in Mande, his lave for
music, his delight in mesio, can 'best
be cultivated, It is the `members of
his family wilo beat can teach liltn to
estimate the worth of music. In the
bonne, more than anywhere else,
niusia inay so' be played and sung td
the ohiid, and his own nusio=making
may be so encouraged, that music will
become stn indispensable part of his
life, and' the beauty of music be to hire
a cberisihett reality.,
Into the glitter of rho world'of
a'musement'and pastime, wirieli are
only that, ho, too, soon Will go, Give
him as na.nanee. of osciipe, sometimes,
from' the lure of rte frivolities. Bind
hini•to a mast. Urge upon hint a hob -
'by. And if you would assure to hint
hearty,-aud he could have no greater
possesslon--•let that hobby be love of
nrusiee For imisic, like Nature her -
.
self, "never' did betray the heart, that
aids 3t "40 or 44 inch inaterfal t,s 1 grace cf rt are fend unceasingly loved'her:"
9
for plafted'skirt"` Camisole`1 yard.;,`; from eternal springs of beauty.
'Wilson lossnu's of the anusenrents nd
r - t Tharp. elders oorhnlaiu of rho woe th
Pattern mauled to any address on„. a in- l
ltailroa"cls Destroy Forests.
The famed Sherwool Forest, in Not-
tinghamshire, where Robin Ilcod',
Friar Tuck, Maid Marian and other
more or leas tradittonar figures are
deemed to have dlnported tbemso:t'es.
Is gradually.beconiing cverleid whin s,
network of railways, thanks to tit:
opening up .of a new collieries in the
eighborhood.
Eger as railway stockholders are
for dividends -especially in these loan
times of.railway eacaings—the mace
posal for the promotion of a now Rail-
way Bill in Parliament by the London,
Midland and Scottish Railway, cur'
powering the construction of a new
line through': the Forest, has not been
agreed to without protest. Miss Alice
Bonus attended a meeting of stock-
holders and
tock=holders'and pointed out how i eilways
had already emitted the County of Sur.
rey, Where she resided. Miss Benue
specially mentioned the destruction
of the amenities of such places of his
torte interest as Merton Abbey. An-
other etaclelicader pointed out that the
new lino through tete Forest meant
running practically parallel with •the
existing lino of the North Eastern Itail-
way.
The Chairman of the company pro-
mised that everything should be done
to mitigate the effects of running a
line through the Forest. Without this
development, he declared, the coin•
muntty, would be deprived cf much-
needed coal.
A citrate factory` 1s . neoys `an ob-
ject of interest to tsarists in. Sicily.
One flat a traveler describes huinnted
h the indeetr-of"severet hundred
wit y
boys and girls who sat et long Benches•
With 0510 stroke of the knife they cut
a lemon in• two and with twc utore
strokes remove the pulp, -which isth'en:.
squeezed in a press. ` The juloe is
piped to vats where after it lips been
condensed by boiling 1t,is mixed with
sliaked lime... Tho product is then
baked find comes cut• as slabs of cit-
rate of lime, which are shipped to the
chemical factories of the world.
reeoipt of 20c in silver, by the tereste chat .draw fire youth or to -clay "`"-"—
Pbl'1' Gc West73Ad Adelaide St
Publishing
. 0, et a '' from"the,intarests of value, anci from
Toronto- Pattern will be resiled same -those best amusements that are not
day order is received., 'too absorbing. There would be far
less of tills unceasing end :nyro itab:e
REMOVING RAIN SPOTS. pleasure-nrak!ng if the youth of to -clay
The first time I'woi'e a new velvet had been tratno:l tet follow beauty; to
hat:I was dismayed .when it hoc:eine'`ctlltrvate ai: ]east ()Mimi'
00 hobby than ha
badly spotted with vain as S stepped in It the appeal .-ot.beauty, to regard
out of a dorway. I it as worth thoir'wiiile, even if they
fter it.liad Uecomc dr I rubbed it must be Interested in many things, at
A Y
ver entry against tH''e nap with fine beast to pursue one pleasure, the Jewel'•
steel;Wool 'until the spots disappeared,' at, the heart of which is beauty --all- i
I:, have iince successfully' tried the'.0atislyiirg, unfailing incl 589111'04. 1
same plan with rain spots on a` light- iasis is an interest of ih•st, high:
colored felt hat.—A, M. A. • North. Itis studio by ioany in child
_ hood But to meet children it hag too
She's Apt Anyway often ben, presented, not ae beauty, i
s ttrd,
you as 10 student?"
' It?” does she 'Impress are ' bandened as soon as the Choice
yali tl a student?„ Iles opett tip a hey or girl hetween a
A1'ecat"I Lind Iter very apt to say - r t that means labor and a plea -
tine lenst." I;tiliet i t r ,
sue that is 10_1'0, ltd for' Ilse laking•'
Visii.or--"'That's remarkable. I find"
fiei•.very apt to oily the bra=t" 2 Somattallg'Wroti9.
Visitor -'f10 you ate.:m3' wlfe`,s paint- as as erre more of, those -subjects of,
v wltdr,h in the urajerlty bf cases
— µ "there' has ben something wrong
The thoughts that come often un- wit 1.1 a teaching of music to, ehildren
sought, and, as it vvere,'drop into Che 'which has done so little, as 111111 for
1.115 re enletimi 0L';mtsle as Ueru1}
niiid, are conmran:,y.the n.ost vi n tb_o
-d But there has also hen something
inquired. you, is that whichyoudo toYour-, 'to s:ecur d, oc auae they seldotnreturn wrong with tr 2t conception lr, their.
w1 .•--joii,i T o, _
of spy rvt•have, and, ihct efor
eiders of what.), be,st. 10' the Cru 3.:,u
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Savings,1 ilia
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.•;
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can be withdrawn at any time, , '
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University and Dundas Streets; 543 Danforth Avenue,
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Pembroke, Hesforth, St. Catharines, St. Mary's,
Walkerton, Woodstock.
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