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Madame Lacroix's delicious be CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE 34 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup milk \ 235 cups pastry flour (or 2 cups and 3 tablespoons of bread flour) 3 teaspoons Magic Baking Powder X teaspoon salt -Cream butter; add sugar, a little at a time, beating until light; add beaten. yolks and flavoring; add flour, sifted with salt and baking powder, alternately with milk. Fold in stifly beaten egg whites. Bake in 3 greased layer cake pans in moderate oven at 375°F. about 20 minutes, Recipe for Chocolate Icing and Filling is in hie Magic Cook Book, ROBBERS! RQOST by ZANE GREY BYNOPHIS. Jim Wall joins Hank Hays' gang of cattle rustlers and desperadoes on the Star ranch, in Utah, owned by Bernie Herrick, an Englishman, who his two gat PES rustlers in his employ--aone y Hank Hays and the other ny one Heeseman. Matters are complicated when Helen Herrick, the owner's sister, comes to the ranch, Jim falls in love with her. Hays' desperadoes steal Her- rick"s cattle and sell them. Hays or- ders them to go to' a certain canyon where he will meet them, When he arrives he Is accompanied by Helen, whom he has made captive. Heese- man's riders are seen approaching and the desperadoes prepare to fight. llelen is taken to a cave} Jim joins the pre- parations to defend the 'roost.' sharpshooter. has the range of the cavern. Smoky crawls out and shoots him. Hank Hays, crawling to an ad- vantageous position, Kkille MHeesemun, The beslegers withdraw in panic, CHAPTER XXV, @Jim picked up the field glass and slinging it in his elbow, essayed a descent into the cave, On the shelf he hesitated and sat a moment lock- | ed in thought. A second time he start- ed down, only to halt straddling the notch. The battle had worked out fatefully and fatally, Would he see Smoky again? Yet nothing had changed the issue. The end was not yet. With his blood surging back to his heart, Jim leaped down to meet the robber chief. Hays was not yet in sight. Thun- der was now rolling and booming over the brakes, and grey veils of rain drifted from purple clouds, The storm, black as ink, centered over the \ 'Would a third of my money square me?" "No." "It wouldn't. Wal, you air aimin' at a bargain. Say half then?" "No." 5 A tremor ran over. the ¥obber's frame, That was a release of swift passion--hot blood that leaped again, But he controlled himself, "Jim, I don't savvy. What's eatin' you? Half of the money hyar is a fortune fer one man. 1 did play the hawg: But thet's past." "I won't make any deals with you." "Ahuh. Then we've split?" \Long ago, Hays." "Air you tryin' to pick a. fight with me?! At this Jim laughed. "'Cause if_you air, I jest won't fight. 1'd be senseless. You an' me can git along. 1 like you, We'll throw together, hide somewhere a while, then build up another outfit." "Hays, you're thick-skulled," re- torted Jim, sarcastically, "Must I tell you "that you can't bamboozle me?" "Who's tryin' to?" demanded the robber, hotly. "All I'm tryin' is to patch it up." "Hays, I wouldn't take another dol- lar from you--that you gave willing- y ' Jim had turned his left side slightly toward Hays, concealing his night hand, which had slipped to his gun Why Magic Baking Powder is used exclusively at this Montreal School of Domestic Science "We teach our students only the surest methods," says Madame R. Lacroix, Assist- ant Director of the Provincial School of Do- mestic Science, Montreal, "That's "why T always use and recommend Magic Baking Powder. Its high Jeavening quality is always uniform. You get the same satisfactory re- sults every time you use it." - And Magic Baking Powder is the unquestioned choice in the major- ity of cooking schools throughout the Dominion. 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"Thisstate« ment on every tin Is our guarantee that Magic Baking Powder Is free from alum or any harm. ful Ingredient, et 1 ee -- A ------------ Early Mailing Many BUSINES men, who are other- wise on their toes in giving speedy eervice, disappoint out-of-town cus. tomers by late mailing, Holding the bulk of the mail until the evening es a_ 8 gerlo congestion t "Office and Ten Re FR Hy ro the mail the i and the careful handling it requires, Quite uside from the possibility of a mis- take being made, the practice of last minute mailing is certain to result In delay to at least a portion of the mail, because to many points there Is only one train a day and that train may leave In the morning or early afternoon. If business men expect to land the: out-of-town order and want to bold their out-of-town customer's good- will then mail should be posted as soon as written, If- this {is done UH service and more business r t. A further step in facillating the delivery of mail is to tle the Gh po fi_&¢ at pre main ofice Initede of a p BO hi = i hat b his mall is well pre- poste rly in the day. th Ld ox "Loss Set at $10,000 Vienna, Ont, -- Fire recently de- stroyed the plant of the Medicine, Gas Con pany with a loss of 000, pared and + ~|-one crippled: -- | he demanded, peaks of the Henrys. Between the intervals of mumbling rumble there was an intense quiet- ness, a sultry suspension of air. Even in that moment the beauty of the scene struck Jim as appalling. It geemed unnatural, because death lay about him, bloody and ghastly; and dyn the arroyo stalked the relent-| less robber, : Jim strode out. The chief hove in sight. He walked slowly with an air of intense preoccupation, "Where's Smoky?" called Jim, his Jynx eyes on Hays' right hand. "Cashed in," boomed Hays, fasten- ing great hdllow eyes of pale fire up- on Jim. "He had cover, He plugged I don't know how many. But Morley's outfit had throwed in with Heeseman. An' when thet gambler Stud broke an' run Smoky had to head him off. They killed each other." "Who got away? I saw four Hien, "Morley an' Montana fer two. didn't recognize the others. They shore run, throwin' rifles away." "They were making for their horses, tied half a mile back. Where'll they go, Hays?" "Fer more men. as stubborn as Heeseman. he's seen this Toost of ours--he!'ll want it, an' to wipe out what's left of us." "Heeseman?" "Wal, he didn't run, Jim. Haw! He's dead." The chief strode to the mouth of the cave and stared around. Jim re- mained at the spot he had selected, to one side, between the robber and Helen's covert, "Jack an' Mac, too?" he ejaculated in amaze. "How come? No more of thet outfit sneaked down in hyar." "Mac stuck his noodle too far out of that hole in the cave. And Happy Jack stopped . a glancing bullet. There's just the two of us left, Hays. By the way--you going to bury your dead?" "No. be fer my gurl, Morley is most Haw! If'1 do anythin' at all it'll Them stiffs ain't a | pretty sight." 1f Jim Wall needed any galvan- izing shock to nerve him to the deed he had resolved upon, that single pos- seewive word was enough. "I'll bury them later," he said. "Good. I'm all in, I climbed more'n a mile to git to them fellers." Hays sat down heavily, and ran his right hand inside his shirt to feel of the bulge on his shoulder. Jim saw him winge. Blood hag soaked through his shirt. Sel \ "You got hit, 1 see" "Flesh wound. Nothin' t6 fuss over this: minnit. An' I've got a croase on my head. Thet hurts like gixty. Half an inch lower an'=--;" "I'd have been left lord of Robbers' Roost?" ; "You shore would, Jim, Lousy with money, an' a gurl to look after. But it jest didn't happen thet way. "No, it didn't. But it willl" That cool statement pierced the robber's lethargic mind, Up went his shaggy head and the pale eyes, oqaque, like burned-out furnaces, took on a tiny, curious gleam. When his hand came slowly down from inside his shirt the fingers were stained red. "What kind of a crack was thet?" uzzled. i. orget." di ay " 'Oh, ho! Reckon I did. Never]: thought I'd fergit Smoky's - blastin' iy, Fou an' pie oF Shadi 1t mi el. ot Smok ro Bit more t pore thet oh 2 Wt J el 1 vig it you double crossed me same as you did them." "Uh-huh. Wal, you got me ina coxner, I reckon. Thar's only twe of us left, Td be erig Jo gun. «» .~ Te An' once Pr this Sa Thi no mix| oo butt, with his thumb on the hammer! For Jim 'then, Hays was as good as dead, "It'll all be mine, presently," he re- plied. "Holdin' me up, huh?" rasped Hays. "Learned to be a shore-enough robber, trailin' with me, huh?" ® "Hays, I promised Smoky I'd kill you--which he meant to do if he had lived to come back." The robber"s face grew a dirty white under his thin beard. At last he understood so much, at least. What volumes his stupidity spoke for his absorption! It changed. Jim's pos- ture, his unseen hand suddenly loom- ed with tremendous meaning. "Shore. Thet doesn't surprise me," admitted the robber. "When men's feelin's are raw, as in a time like this, they clash. But I did my share to clear the air. An' if Smoky had come back he'd have seen it different. I could have talked him out of it . +. «Jim, you're shore smart enough to see thet, an' you oughter be honest enough to admit it." "I daresay you could have won Smoky back. He had a fool worship for you. But you can't talk me out of anything" "Why, fer Gawd's sake--when I've givin' you all the best of the deal?" "Because I want the girl, " thun- dered Jim. A great astonishment held Hays stricken." Through it realization fil- tered. "Thet! he- gasped. "All the time, Hank Hays," phe Jim, steadily, and it was the robber's eyes, pale fires no longer that he watched for thought and will. Still he saw the violent muscular quivering which slowly diminished. to freeze into rigidity. He had struck the right chord. In whatever way possible, Hank Hays loved this wom- an. However it had begun, the sor- did, brutal thing had ended in Hays' worship of the golden-haired sister of Herrick. Jim read this in the ex- Thet was it--all fie time!" more--that it had been Helen the rob- ber had fought for, not his lost taste with his men, not the honor of thieves. 1t was this that accounted for the in- fernal blaze of unquenchable hate, of courage that death itself could scarce- Jy have stilled. All this immediately coalesced into the conscious resolve to act and kill! As the robber sprang up Jim's first shot took him .somewhere in the breast. It whirled him half around. traordinary betraying eyes; and read| girl! Escape from that hell-hole, soon to be besieged again! He must pack that very hour and ride--ride away with her, "Jim--oh, Jim!" came a cry from the back of the cave. (To 'Be Continued.) i 2 2 Southern Village Up drowsy pathways' where the sun- light's fingers Close on dead drec ns.and faint for- . gotten things, Under magnolia shade where starlight lingers From ancient summers and long- buried springs, Only the wraith of living ever tarries; Something has been here that is lost and gone Save when the south wind chinaberries Sings with the evening and the widening dawn, in the Out of the solitude a lean hound marks A cotton wagon rumbling toward the gin And clips-the air a mc ment with his barks, Then sleeps ain. rapin Traces the dust, ing more. Silence has walked this eld way before. --Minnie Hite Moody, in The Lyric. 2 of _ Appalling Accident List: What Can Be Done? One is appalled by the never-ending succession of motor accidents on the highways these week-ends. But it is really surprising? = From our obser- vation of the traffic, the remarkable thing is that there are not more mis- haps. Take a drive along any public high- way after dark and as you turn out to avoid a passing car_your see the forms of pedestrians walkiLg ag. far out on the dark pavement as they dare, as if to proclaim their right to a place on the pavement. An admir- able sentiment in a way), but fearfuily dangerous. Another good candidate for the Suicide Club is the. bicyclist A mottled ter- Then there is noth- 'riding along the busy highway in the dark. One has to be keen-visioned to |- avoid these gentry, of whom theve are many. Then there are the cars with one light and the cars without tail- lights. Even worse still the buggies without lights. They take big chances. Even should their occupants come througk an accident with a whole skin, they would be legally responsible Mg well-being of those they clash wit It appears that there must be much} ¢ preaching and teaching and publi varning before people will take/ev a 1oderate degree of cautions k- irg to the future is would scéin as if something * should be done in the scLools to train the upcoming genera- tion in the need of caution on the highways. Would it not be well for the Department to require school chil- dren to familiarize themselves with a code of rules for safety? The: day- by-day accident list surely challenges the authorities to take. every possivle step to curb its fatal progress.--St. Mary's Journal-Agus, "] suppose the Duke has landed estates?" "Landed one every time he man riled, but he managed to run through 'em all." His gun, spouting flame, tore up the grayel at Jim's feet. A terrible wound with its agony, a conscious-, ness of its mortality, ad to. the overw erwhelming ferocity of jealous hate,' gave the man superhuman physical, activity. He whirled, bounding the! other way so swiftly that Jim's sec- ond shot missed him altogether. Hays' gun was booming, but 'it was also describing the same curves and Jerks as his body. Then as passion gave place to desperate need and the gun aligned itself with Jim, Jim's third shot destroyed aim, force and con- sciousness, Hays' demoniac face set woodenly. The gun, with hammer up, dropped to explode. And the robber lodged against the slant of wall, dead, with the awfulness of his mortal passion 1 RS hig Lede? 3 Th thed, The 4nd which held hip gui 80 wet nd WHR oh in blood 7a | Futterad m, ove He shoved Hays off the ky Wiping. his face, Jim staggered to the rock and sat down. Spent and out ge wiilien a Anding iF agai; the veal value heaving he sat there, his will operat ing on a whirling mind. It was over ' the thing that had had to come, All dead. loyal and faithless Tob. bers alike. What to do now? The "The prettiest rag rugs ° I ever saw" "I feel I should share with you a wonderful compliment I had on my new rag rugs," writes an appreciative Three Rivers woman, "A wealthy lady 'from the City of Quebec was visiting here and saw the rag rugs I had just finished. She was s0- en. thusiastic -- sald she had never seen such rich, lovely colors. She asked me it I bought new materials to get such beautiful color effects, When I told her I had dyed my oid BCTADS ith Diamond Dyes, she simply couldn' be- léve it. Ot course I'm very proud of} ar being beautiful col] : 1 i: pple. i In | dng: of Diamond Dyes for parmanchl dark: *j colors by boiling. No other dyes make old materials look so new atld rich in calor, because no other. dyes contain 80. much of the, finest aniline colors, For light dainty shades without boiling or lingerie, summer blouses and dréss- use the 'wonderfal: new Diamond Cit, All drug stores have both Dia. hiond 'Dyes and Plamond Tints. ---- -- "Fresh hom the Gardend™ © Don't Overlook Mother's Helper Children to Help, But "Néttie, take out this garbage, I'm all through now and I have to do some telephoning." hung it up. =~ When Nettie had finished her task, her mother called: "Nettie, the front porch is covered with flies where the baby broke his bottle. Get a mop out of the cellar and some water and wipe it up." Then she turned back to the phone, It took Nettie half an hour to do what her mother could have done in five minutes, but she was only ten years old. "May I go over to play pn a she asked then. ~~ "Walt -- there's something 1g else 1 want you to do." Her mother pursed her lips and thought hard, There was really nothing in her mind at the min- ute but she knew there must be some- thing. "Oh yes! The bird cage, It "has -to be cleaned." y "I'm always afraid he'll get out like he did the other day." 'He won't get out, your leg?" Whe.t's that on An Accident "I cut it on a piece of glass." "Get me the iodine. I'll put some on." There wasn't any in the medicine closet, so Nettie reported. 'Oh, 1 remember, Mrs. Smith bor- rowed it. Go: over and get the iodine from Mrs. Smith." But Mrs. Smith was out and Nettie 'had to go to the drug store. While she was out her mother told ler to go to the baker's too. Six blocks altogether 5 RR AA Mrs, Smitir--untied: her 'apron and | -§.the porch. All Work and No Play Made Nettie Very Tired -- Teach See That They Have Some Time For "Fun" Eventually the leg was fixed and the bird-cage cleaned. The process by Nettie's tempo took another hour, - Again she asked, "May I go over to Helen's and play, mother?' - "No, not now. You should have gone after lunch.. Now the baby's awate and I have an ¢ 'rand to do, You'll have to give him his bottle 'and watch him till I get back." At five o'clock Mrs. Smith returned, hot and weary, 'I meant to tell you "Wo peel the po- tatoes," she said. "You might have thought of it anyway. You must iearn to think of things." "The baby cried the whole time and I had to wheel him." "Well then--set the table. IT can't stand up another minute." Via "Can 1 get dressed first? Hcler's got on a new pink." "You'll have to do the dishes. T'm too tired, 1've been on my feet the whole blessed day." Reproved By Parents ° "Why don't yon let Nettie help you more?" said Mr. Smith that night on "She's old enough now." Mrs, Smith sighed. *What can a child of 10. do? Shes always wantiig to go over to Helen's." "Well, it I were here she'd help by Jimminy. Nettie, . you must help your mother more," "Yes, sir," said Nettie. "Come on ove", Nettie," called Helen, "I'm tired!" - Tired!" exclaimed her mother, "And you haven't done a thing .]l day. Co on... I'm afraid, she added when Nettie was gone, 'she's going to be Jazy'"t-- 2 pe Origin of Soil "Many people look upon, tae soll as a cold, inert, lifeless mass of mere mud or dirt, about which there is little to Know, and in which there can 'be no interest," says Professor Summerby of Macdonald College. "Contrary to this, the true facts are that it is teeming with life; its his- tory is that of the history of the world; and its problems are go many and so deep as to challenge the best minds of the country, All goil was at one time solid rock. By a long serles of chemical, mechanical, and biological changes it has heen chang- ed from the original rock into soils '| that now produce grain, hay, pasture, apples, potatoes, violets and geran- fums, Many are the influences which have operated in -goil formation. We are accustomed to think of rock as -| being unchangeable, but, very slowly} and surely, changes do take place, man, the soil is very old. It has been estimated that the formation of one inch of soil from limestone rock takes about ten thousand years, cesses which have changed rock into soil are still going on and now exert a very important influence on the fertility of pur: soli! ed a '"' i i Where Winter i is Coldest Verkhoyansk, Siberia, holds the world's blue ribbon for frigid winter weather, compared with 'any other place where temperatures 'are regu- | larly measured. Vladimir Zenzinov, in "The Road to Olivion," quoted by Charles Fitz- hugh Talman in his. Science Service feature, "Why the Weather?" says of some effects of the severe cold: "You take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals of .ice, Spittle. will freeze before reaching the ground. All live things seek deep shelter during the winter. Partridges dig themselves far into the snow and stay there, There 'Fave been cases of their falling like stones while in flight, freezing to death in the air. Marmots hide in underground holes where 'they hiber- nate, assuming the shape of a little claylike ball ball. the ax rebounde from it. Live wood it, oriike fly a8 if from flint." (§ ¥ ". New Game Sanct vary' : 'whole of the present wild animal park, square miles south and west of here 'katchewan Government, it has been missioner, ; i PRISMA RIESE Ss of mutton and lamb in the United Kingdom. ra me tp | Gems fof Life's Serap- bool As, measured in termg of the-life of |' The pro-|. 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"The world has never yet armed for peace and got peace. rHary Elmer Barnes. ; ------ ei Newspaper Best Medium to get something which had slipped down behind them and he came across ahout twenty bills, neatly - folded which had no doubt heen gent out by the merchant whose name was attached for distribution to the house: holders but which had been thrust in of, .Billg are: no doubt good advertising, when proper- But nobody had: a chance to read at least twenty or 0 £0 of that issue and the message cons tained on them helped no one. No ad- vertising, and this is admitted by all great advertisers; is. so. effective as Newspa advertising, We cannot guarantee that - an advertisement printed .in the weekly paper will bé read, but we can at least guaranted that the paper containing it will be. "| taken Into the homes, it will not be - | chucked under steps. in bundles: and eth to: 'roti-- (Clinton News-Record.) Eo pro sp } ¥ ' 80 long as. fdleness is quite shut out. = from our lives, all the sins of wanton. ness, softhess 'and effeminacy are pre. vented; and there is but little room for temptation.--Jeremy Taylor, * 3 "other."--Roger- \\ Babsom, ae | "A citizen had ecccasion the other. day to move his front steps in crder N 1