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COUNTIES, TOWNSHIPS, CITIES, TOWNS AND VIL WE. WILL BUY YOUR BONDS SE mend tut details sei Ve wv CRONYN sua, i TORONTO "A MOST STRENGTHENING BEVERAGE ~ The Ivory Angel | PART IIL They like Estella Vanderdeek at the florist's jn Ebury street, and when any ie soos: Tonal Five, thecuse om, was given use of the room at the back of the shop. She was sitting on the corner of her w bed, dreamily stitching at | tracks. the white: muslin' blouse which: she ~ would wear to-morrow in the country, when the was to a visitor. "We've shown him into the back room, Miss Vanderdeek, and missis hopes you don't mind if the lilies are rather strong, ithe shop being so hot with the sun on it" = "Estella, what is the use of this? Pshaw! If you hadn't been so clumsy!' | Why, my sweetheart, the statyette is] to i collection by every art dealer in Eur- ope. It's back in his hands already, I tell you, and } sell You he's on your] You've a chance, J 2 tehanee, I can hush it up. Til do it] if 'you make it worth my while." | "If you touch me, Mr. Benjamin Bell," said Estella, "I call for pele. | 1 Stand out of my way. Take your hand | {from the door. Dg not dare to stop !me; I have nothing to say to.you." Estella went ' swiftly up into her . Ps right hand. Best bit. in vorke Froiabl a pe Nurem- | Date appro: toy fixed by i instrument, clarion, held m my is 5 "Look at the angel again." . Oliver looked, yet withont under- standing. Then Estella, with a smile that transfigured her strange beauty i i ught. beyond the words: the angel holds in its right hand.' In which hand does this angel hold the clarion?" > "Dear heaven!" cried Oliver. "In the left!" = . Then he remembered the postscript ot unique." "There were two: There were two-- a pair!" he cried. : "Ah!" said Eetella. "You know now, but you believe in me without that. And that is why I love you." When Mr. Julius Vane hurried into tong to' the Macmichael (1o' gallery he found Mr. Macmiciael 'belts sewed by hand and everything his secretary bending ther over the case which held angel. The emooth Julius was unusu- ally perturbed, not" to say agitated; and, at sight of Estella, in c'ose con- with her employer, could not conceal a sharp movement of dis- pleasure, "My dear fellow!" he exclaimed, 1 have just heard of the horrible busi- ness. Of course I quite understand you don't want to make a fuss. You Putting down her work, Estella rose little bedroom, and having watched] have come across a very geneous na- without a word. A tinge, the merest' Benjamin Bell, 'with the face of ature. Wiss Vanderdeek." shadow of & blush, spread over the alabaster paleress of her checks. Olivet Machmichael' must just have had her letter. as he was, poor "and "obscure as she must ever remain, she nevertheless thought she could guess the identity of her visitor. But it was the hated of Benjamin Bell, his his grasping hand, which her as she stepped over the cou odioussmile greet thr k " pul" "To show flurry, to speak in haste, was fiot in her nature; the slow drop- ped werd carried all the more surely the weight of her an ism. "I," 'said Benjamin Bell.- "Yes, L" He. went to the door, opened it to make sure there were no listeners,' shut it again, came back, and spoke, bending close to her and ever closer as she wetreated. "Estella, miserable girl, what have you done? All is known. All is. dis- cevered., The theft of the ivory statu- + ette from that grassgreen young fool has been traced to you. 'Al is known, 1 say, Estella. Poor creature! It was a sudden témptaticn. I know, I under- stand. And you counted--oh, Estella! Estella!---jyou counted *on your em- ployer's inf tuation; it was does is--he is furious, not to be held. I have 'just come from him. One only can saye you--I!" He stood away from her to glare upon her, and though his words were words of power there was a ferocity of doubt in his eye. "1 'will be your friend. fy loved you once. I love you still, God of my fathers! I knew the day would edme when you would have to turn to Ben- jamin Bell! Did I not tell you that day you would turn to me? Es- , put your two hands in mine. I what you have stolen. I how you have sinned. I will save my bride." isbéned with a mevble com- SE Bus ER Lp 1 g . The great sheaves ir buckets on the win- ere not more white and ionless than she. Into és 'only, 'widening and darken- id life concentrate, amd: for once inscrutable gaze spoke--scorn: The perspiration was beading on his forehesdd as he waited for her reply. "What! You think I took Mr. Mac- michaels ivory statuette?" There was w little undercurrent of Mughter "in the contempt of her ac- He flung out his arms. "Don't be a fool, Estella!" he roared. « "Unhappy child, you never thought of Jooking at the markings of 8 dkerchief. You 2 is < 8 nt i E £ ; Rich and important | . from his touch to the, "devil, jump into a taxi and drive away, | she put on her hat and very deliber-! ately directed her steps to Eaton place. | Oliver 'Macmichael's servant - re- ceived the secretary as a matter of { course and ushered her into the small; anteroom where she was wont to di-' | vest herself of her outdoor garments. | "Estella hesitated, then followed the | pointirg of fate. She took off her: hat and gloves and entered uman-| nounced into the presence of her late | employer. | He. was sitting in her place before the writing table, his face buried in! | his hands. Before him stood the-vory, 'angel where Benjamin had left it, the little' figure of purity and pity! } In Oliver's brain words were ringing as with the toll of a great bell. "Young, beautiful, penniless. Young,! beautiful, penniless." And each time the bell tolled a wave of compassion-| ate love went through him. A sudden 1 | temptation. Who was he to judge her?| When he looked up again his counten-! Her step on the carpet made ad sound. The movement of her thin] black dress did not as mueh as whis- | Benjamin Bell were a bit of a rogue," | Morning of the'sewing. Then the set- Yet he. felt her presence and he exclaimed, with the most agreeable ting of the tables, mashing of pota- per. looked up. She was so poignantly the! centre, of his thoughts that he felt mo | surprise; nov-did Je pause: to question why she should present herself bare-| head, as if that letter of resignation had not been written. i ! She stood still, half way across the! room. Then, very quickly, he came Then he seized Oliver by both hands Whole day is one of pleasure and pro- toward her. . His charming, irregular boyish. face was suffusei with chang-| glanced at Estella, and bowed low with: gets her sewing done in this way. ing colors. His voice shook, but he, spcke with a dignity no one had yet known, in him. | "Miss Vanderdeek, I'm most awfully, sorry that you're going to give { your work for me. I must ask you te accept a little gift in memory of our pleasant hours. I have got out the, little angel, you see. Will you take jit--" 'he broke off. His gaze had] plunged into hers. To Benjamin Bell her eyes had al-| ways been baffling. but Oliver Mac- ! michael read into her very soul. He saw Jrow innocent it was, how honest, ! how pure, how untouched with the world's wickedness, With a great ery he fell at her feet. | "You never did it! Oh, you never did it!" he was embracing her knces.| He bowed his forehead on hier shoe tip. | "If an angel from heaven came to tell me you had done it, I would not be- lieve it." "Oh, you are good," said Estella, and the next moment they were clasp- ed and their tears mingled. Presently she put him from ber, and, taking his hand, said: "Come, I want to show you something." She brought him to the table and took up the "look closely. | "Now Nook ha' said; Do you notice nothing ?" ; a re \ eis peari grey enamel inside W ce-coated enameled steel, and I iis with a snowy white lin- Ware is enameled: Prob ER 1 steel, 'steel with two coats of vers co TE WINNIPEG Ca "Don't say a word more, Mr. Vane," said 'Oliver "tili you 'hear ny news. Miss Vanderlcek has consent2d to marry me." anlivs fell back a step with a sneer which gave his handsome face for one moment, Estella thought, a horrible! likeness to that of Benjamin Bell. "Yes," pursued Macmichael, stead- ily. "And you found us in the very thrill ¢f a most interesting discovery. I have been very cleverly robbed. A whole pane of glass had been cut away from this cupboard and replaced by a new one. And the statuette you see there on the writing table never was mine. It belonged to Miss Van- derdeek. You may well look amazed. I was myself taken in when Benjamin Bell brought it back to me, but in his zeal for honesty he omitted to notice that the attitude of the angel is re- versed," Julius Vane took a stride to the table and bent over the statuette, ance had resumed its smooth mask. "It seems uncommonly as if Master lightnéss. "Clever chap, but a.scoun- drel! T always said so, didn't 12" "If you happen-to see him said Oliver grimly, "you can tell him for me that I have no intention of com-! pounding a felony!" Julius Vane laughed and disclaiméd. and effusively congratulated him; a deferential admiration which wiped away from her guileless lover's mind the unple®sing impression of his en-~ trance upon the séene = It 'was very. tactful to hurry away and leave the betrothed to themselves. But Julius Vane seemed to have im- portant busincss of his o He rushed to the nearest tele and rang up the private number of Des- cloches & Co. The result of his com- munication was the instant disappear- ance and ultimate flight of Benjamin Bell abroad, admirably disguised as an agent in chemistry; Oliver Mac- hael's ivi tatuette lying lost in |a huge bottle of crystals, Estella's argel was never put back into the Macmichael collection, Wher- ever she went she took it with her, apd in her own room: at Eaton place there was a delicate shrine for it, with a lamp beneath. placed so that her eyes should fall on it if she woke in the night. It seemed bo her the sym- bol of the dear el guarding the sacred happiness of her marided life, (The End.) tm lenin Minard's Liniment for Golds, etc. rrr pe Swimming in the Air. An old-fashioned method of teaching a youngster to swim is to balance him on his stomach upon a piano stool and show him the proper froglike motions. For a grown person this is hardly. dig- nified, Besides, it must be owned that a "dry-swim apparatus" newly in- vented by a Cleveland, Ohio, man, of- fers advantages altogether superior. The contrivance employs a pair of ropes 'which 'are doubled and hung over a couple of strong hooks in the ceiling of a The ropes' are passed through an oblong ring and thence extended in such wise as to support-& long, narrow board. Near the ends. of the board gre slots, into which the ropes fit, to be" thereupon '| tied so that they may not slip. The long ends of the ropes thus hang 'from the board, a pair of' 'pair, terminates halt shoe couple, 0 distance apart by a sp -ring above, being se-. cured thereto. by RES The dry swimmer inserts his toes | ;.. es, and grips with his -{ household table. The dietary value of w 'and the social gatherings of the try must come to a close many house- wives ake advantage of the P days of Merch or April-to ha neighborhood sewing, and combine "business with pleacure in getting the sewing out of the way before house-| cleaning time. The success cf this, "plan depends upon careful forethought "and planning, wpetheu ith anplp] materials and at least three well; cleaned and oiled sewing machines, for the workers. One lady who tmkes the sewing an I ion hireza baste the garments. Each article started afid has the required ma- curely to it, so that there ean be no mistakes. The hems are then put in, the buttonholes made, the plackets and { neatly and securely finished without trouble the day of the sewing, - Such things as sheets, towels, cur- i tains, pillow 'slips and aprons can be | cut by the mistress of the house and need ho basting. The hems are pinned Lin to show the width and the pockets ! of the aprofis sewed or basted in place, Garments for the baby are of the simplest and so are the everyday | rompers and artigles for the older} children. To fill in odd moments and ! provide work when the "sewing ma- {chines are busy there are alwgys rags 'to be sewed for rugs, patchwork for, | quilts and quilts to be quilted or com- forts to be tied. Everything is done to provide work for many busy hands a whole day so as to make the occasion { one of profit. | The hostess provides an abundant | diner promptly at noon and a social' {Hour is enjoyed immediately there- | ; after. Then the work. is resumed and by four in the afternoon an immense | i pile of finished sewing is ready to be | put away. Often the ladies bring their | own dishes and silver so that there is little dishwashing and. no borrowing | of dishes necessary, as they in turn|P ' expect to entertain with sewings and 'errjoy the freedom from dishwashing. The -easy dinner for this occasion ( is the big chicken and gravy and bis- j.cuit feast, as the chickens can be I'gotten ready the day before and the | biscuits mixed and cut early .in the toes and arranging of the dessert of cake and canned fruit or freshly baked ples will be all that will bother the petent wo- |: . ito her letter, "The ivory statuette is: men to come for a day and cut out By AGNES and EGERTOI: CASTLE. ke terials to finish 'cut 'and pinned se-| type. Isn't it absurd, 'we all have when Bersoral grievance we all have o theories to smash? You 3 it were their fault ug Irie : - $ / Nothing fatal. Don't look"so alarm- od. 'Sheil soon be turning it inside out and making an adventure of it.|" She fell during that icy spell and hurt her for ahs and then on crutches." "Kate! And with those three ba- bies!" ~ : "I kent It just makes me 'She's been so plucky, but she no sooner gets her head up from one knockdown blow than fate deals her another." "And 'you're going to see her to- morrow. I know you! And I'm going with you." PoEaG "Ww . I'm going this aflernoon." That #®fternoon Kate's little "run. about ste in front the small Sle tt without knocking. : ("Stop right where you are till I guess my three guesses!" a gay voice "I refuse to encourage such child- iShness in a woman who should have drtived at years of discrelion," Irene replied sternly. nT Jane|gave an eager cry of welcome. "Oh, you dears! Maidde, go, and take their wraps. Oh, isn't this just glor- ious! T'm being completely spoiled. I've done nothing but live i a round of surprise parties ever since I dis- covered that smooth place on the Law- tons' sidewalk." "But. Jane, how do you And with the baby, too!" ; Jane's eyes shone. MlIsn't it 'Just heavenly? Six whole weeks with my baby---think of it! I was so. hungry for him!" erm "But meals and everything!" Irene rotested. "Meals? Oh, I can stand, you know. And Dan's a jewel about puts ting up with simple things. As for the rest of the work,--would you he- lieve it?--the neighbors insisted upon dividing "it up--washing" ironing and Sweeping. Did anybody ever have such wonderful neighbors?" "The law of neighborliness is a pretty well-established one--ocause and effect," Kate remarked. "Nonsense--it's no such thing! sheer kind " Jane retorted." get along? It's i hostess, Of course, extra vegetabl | and extra things are often used, but a | chicken dinner needs few extras. The ' fit and well repays the woman who Nuts Hav~ High Foed Value, Nut-crackers are: not considered a necessary equipment of the ordinary nuts not being fully recognized, this implement is rarely required now- adays. Yet there is mo bétter form of diet than nuts. If nuts disagres, even with the most delicate, it is because they are partaken at the wrong time. When consumed between meals they are al- most certain to disagree, as they will algo if eaten after a heavy meal of other food, or insufficiently masti- cated. The proper time to eat nuts is just at the beginning of meals. Then they fill the mouth with a copious flow of saliva, which will assist in emulsifying the fats stored in this important food. In cold weather they are invaluable, assisting greatly in maintaining the bodily heat. Nothing, therefore, can | compare with them as @ morning diet! | for children, and a small saucerful will not: be too large a supply, . Hazel or peanuts, which are pro- curable all the yar round, are ex- tremely palatable. * » too bad to masticate properly, the nuts' may be ground in'a nut-mill before being eaten. The almond, which is grown exten-| They made ted and had a wonderful party. But as they went home Kate sighed angrily, "Poor Jane! It's a shame, 'all the same." 3 And this time Irene corrected her. "I think it's the rest of us that are the poor omes--never Jane" ee etm .Quick Growing Trees for the Prairies. Many of the species which can be used on the prairies are very rapid growers, for example, cottonwood, wil- low, Russian poplar, and Manitoba maple. It is safe to say that wood large enough for:fuel camnibe grown from any of these trees within six years. After that time a plantation will inctease in value and productive- ness year by year and will prove one of the best investments on the farm. Norman M. Ross, Indian Head Forest Nursery! Station. HY nl His Bad Bargain. A colored man, after three weeks of married life, made yer's office and complained that his wife had been throwing things at him and bullying-him. "Can't stand it no longer, boss," he said. : "That's all right, Sam," said the: lawyer. |= "Things will improves. Be- 'sides, remember you took Her for bet. ter or for worse." : (4 answered Sam, "believe me; 2 sively in the Bast, and used in the confectionery business, is a valuable food, being very rich in oils. By them- ib Shese nuts provide a food of ma staying power, whilst their value increased when is, much i combined with raisins. . . Almonds may be served in a- variety of ways. Roasted they are del : Be "and with boii | from each ex- | 7, is, a wi ble lot wuss doh:i took her for." i >, She's got to be in a' cast| angry. |! It was the gayest of afternoons.| way to a law | oh What will you do With tomorrow? win you toil 'at the self-same work? shadow falls, and the' bur den calls Th i" dare not shirk. What will you do with tg-morrow? Are you finished to turn and gaze-- To create a dream for the future that TF would Packing Fish. ~ _An innovation in the fish industry of France is the making Of ice from sea water, by a process which elimin- ates 'the 'concentration of 'salt, that usually occurs when brine or salt water freezes. 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