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Keep your eye on this Brand The one Tea that never disappoints the most critical tastes* II II SALADA' on a Sealed Packet is Your Safeguard. TEE FORTUNATE MARY By ELKANOR 11. PORTER. c PART I. I Twenty years of her inavricd life,' and half as many more of her v.jdo-.v-l )ioo<J, JIary JVIahoney lijul spent in tho little brown house. | Mary was of the type calW "motherly." She "ran in" to the rekighbora', and "watched" v.'ith the, sick. She borrowed upon occasion,' and lent freely. She quieted the cry of the newborn and closed the eyfs of the dead. j Mary's Eons and daujjhteis liad, died years a}.:o. In the little brown' houi:3 i^<A\' with her were a widowed cousin, Mrs. Mary Ware, and a bach- elor nephew, John Tibbcts, both of whom worked in stores a i'ew blocks | away ; they paid her for their boai-d j and rooms. With herself and her work Mary; Mahoney was more than content. j 'There ain't anythin' better Pd ask â-  to do than what I am doin'," bhe v/ould declare sometimes; "only â€" well, Pd liko one of them phony.crraplis,] what talks and sings to ye. 'Twould be so company-like and cheery for ua, i a-settin' here evenin'B eo quiel, ss we, do." And it â- was to this house Hud to this woman that there liad eomo now the; announcement of a legacy of forty thousand dollars. When the lawyer 3iad gone, Mary Mahoney fell back in her chair and fanned herself as .if the month were August instead of March. 'Sakei alive, Mary Ditto! Won't ye think of that, now! Forty thousand dollars â€" and to me!" | Mary Ware had hean cLristered Ditto lonK before by the family to distinguish her from hrr cousin; they had each been Mary Titoet-s before marriage. I "Not that I can guess what Pll be' wantin' of all that money," resumed Mary Mahoney, with a frown; "i;till," â€" briiihtcninK", â€" "we can havj that. phonygraph now!" The thin-facet'., wistful-oyeJ little] woman opposite suddenly found her| voice. "I'honograph!" she a;a.r,ped. "Mary Tibbeta Mahonoy, I should like to know if you th.!nk that's f.ll tliat . foily thousand dollars will buyl" The other's countenance re)r,xc.l in a dtprecatoi-y smilo. "Why, no, I •t'po.se not," she admitted; but you see I thought of that phonygrapii 'caufCi that's all Pm really luiedin'." | "Really needing! As If your; wlwde stan-ed life v;cron't just crying! out for things!" A painful red flew to Mary Mahorj fiy's face. "Why, Maiy Ditto, you know I ain't starved a bit. I'm eure â€" d-don't you have â€" ^liavc enough toi cat â€" hero with me?" Mary Ditto laughed, and threw up' :iei" handg despairaifrly. "Of course I do, dear! You don't iindevstand. It's your life, your soul, not your body, that's starved. Now you can go to places and se^ things. You can read, too. You'll have time; don't you Kce? And you can have nice things round you to look at and live with." The voice broke with longing. "Sho! Now, so I will," murmured Mrs. Mahoney. "I hadn't thought of it that way." She paused and gu'/od soberly at the storm raging- out.side the window. Suddenly her face light- ed up. "Kay, Mary!" idie f.\claimed. "I'm goiii' to set that phonygrajih riglit away. As long a.i I kno^v now that Die money la comin', it don't matter if 1 .<;pend some of niina that'.s in the stockin', does it?" "No, of cour.se not," agi'eed JIary Ditto irighcly; but she S'ighed a little as ahe rose to her feet and prepared to rrfiirn tu hor work for the after- noon. There was not much except the for- tune talked of in the brown house during the days that followed â€" the wonderful fortune that the almost forgotten Uncle Simon had left Mary Mahoney. Seeing how very desirable this fortune v.'ar, in the eyes of her friends and neighbors, the heiress gradually began to regard it with more intei'e.st. 'l!io lawyer had said that there were a few preliminaries, ' concerning other betjue.sts and so fortii, to be arranged before the estate could be settled ; then she would be asked to come and get her .inheritance. Meanwhile lie should be glad to for-; ward as soon as pos.?ible for her use a thousand dollars. Kven before the lawyer's chefjue arrivetl, Mrs. Mary Mahoney was en-i joying the situation immensely. She liked the new deference paid to her; • and she never tired of talking about t'he bequest, the man who made it, and tlie Btrangcness of it all. W.ith the ''btockinw money" she had indulg-' ed, too, in various "extravagances," as 3h« called them: she had bought peanuts often; and pink and white peppermints and wintcrgreen lozeng- es; she had purchased a string of gree,n beads for her neck, and a lace tie with fluted ends; she had treated Mary Ditto ta several trolley-oar ivdes, and to three or four motion-} picture shows. The phonograph she iiad bought at once. j When the dieque came, Mary eyed it doubtfully. She was not u.scd to cheques, "You don't mean that it's there on that paper â€" a whole thous- and <loilar3?" she demanded of her cousin. I "No, no," said Mary Ware. "It means that the money is in the bank waiting for you; don't you remember? The lawyer told you â€" and all you've j got to do is to present this and you'll get it. This .'s a cheque. Father used to have lots of them, and he told me that I should have them some day â€" Vv-hen I was oightee.i he would put Kome money in tho bank foi" nic to iiave for my own. And thenâ€" he died ; and that ended â€" everything." "Yea, I know. Poor Jamb!" nodded Mary Mahoney, in quick symp.ithy. '•And it's been hard for you â€" harder'n it'.s over been for me â€" to work as we've had to. Iâ€" I wish thi.t money had come to you instead of me, any- how. I vow 1 do! I di'.dn't used to think Uncle Simon liked me overwell, Avhcn I knew him as a girl; and I'm sure I didn't like himâ€" sliume be to me to say it now, after all he's done lor me." "I know; he was queer, hut I al- ways liked him," miu-mui-ed Mary Ware, with her eyes dreamily turned away. "Maybe 'twas because ho was so queer that I did like liim; I don't know." There was n moment's silence; then, impulsively, Mary Mahoney cr.ie<l, "Ijodk n-here, I'll give ye half that money, I vow I will! You ought to have it, too!" Mary Ware sprang to her Tcet. "As if I'd take itâ€" from you! If he wanted me to have it, he'd have given it to me himself." "But I'll give it to ye, myself," or- Kucd the other. "Surely you'd take it from me'/" Mary Ditto shook her head. "No, 1 wouldn't. I couldn't." Then she turned and stumbled blindly from the room, leaving behind her a puzzled questioning in Mary Mahoney'.s eyt-s. The cheque proved to be a trouble- some burden. Its owner did not know where to keep it. She hid it in vari- ous places: in the old stocking, .in the family Hible, in the china teapot. Then she tried it under the braided rug in the front room; at last she put it in tlie pocket of the gov.n she v/as' wearing. | "But, Coua'n Mary," i-cmonstrated Mary Ditto one day, "you don't need to worry so. That cheque won't do anyone any good without your name on the back!" i "I know; course 'tis silly of me," admitted Mary Mahoney. "But only think what that little slip of paper means â€" a whole thousand dollars!" , It was a neighbor who forced mat- ters to a climax. When Mary Ware came homo from work one night she found hcv cousin pacing the room, obviously in great excitement. | "Look-a-here," Mary Mahoney cried, "Bill Knceland is telling me that I'm riinnin' a fearful risk, not Uirniu' (hat paper into money right away! He says that mebbe the bank '11 blov/ np, find there won't be nothin' to pay with. Just think, Mary Ditto â€" lost, a â- whole thousand of my dol- Ditto, why don't you say somethin'?". lars! And I can't do a thing to help' it till to-jnoiTtr; and it may be blowin' up now â€" this minute! Mary Obediently, Mary Ditto tried to say ."jomething; but her words failed to comfort. When John T.'bbets came in, he, too, tried to say something; but in vain. Mary Mahoney neither slept that night nor let her family sleep; and at the earliest possible Tnoment the next morning she started j for the bank not far away, where, she had been told, she could get the mon The paying teller greeted her an* ious question with a smile. There | was no need of identification. As a boy he had sat on Mary Mahoney's knee, and he had already heard of the cheque. He looked at it amiably. "That's good, all right," he answer- ed. "Now just Bign your name on! the back there, please, exactly as it's! written â€" Mary 'fibbets Mahoney." It was all flo simple that Maryi could not quite believe that the busi-l ness was finished when she finally held the money in her hands. I "And now what arc you going to do] with if!" the teller asked. "Hadn't" you better let us keep the most of it| hcr« for you Y" Mary shook her head. "I'm think- in' I'd better have it where I can put my lingers on it any minute." "All right; but look out, Mary. Just be sure that no one else gets Ivs lingers on it, tool" As if Mary Mahoney needed a warn- ing like that! With both hands clutched about her shopping bag, she fled through the bank door and out upon the street. Like some guilty thing, afraid to meet her felloiv men, she skulked home by a back street, and crept into the house. In her tiny bctlroom she locked the door, looked under the bed and .into the closet, and pulled down the shades. Then tremblingly she drew the money from her bag and gazed at it. One thou.sand doll.trs â€" and all her own! How crisp and clean tho b'lls were, and how pretty! And besides all these, there were to be â€" (To be continued)). ^^^ vwQns (Sph â-  •( >}pDQ2?Q Freshening Up Your Woollea Clothing. Serge or other woollen dresses wiiich have become soiled or shabby, are freshened up in this manner. Sponge the goods on the right side with ammonia water, one tablespoon of ammonia to each quart of water. Care should be taken not to have the solution too strong as some dyes turn purple or green in such a case. When the dre^s is entirely sjKinged, turn it wrong side out, lay a cloth over it and press with a hot iron until dry. Should your clothes wear .'•â- liny, it is due to the oil which is more or less pi-esent in all wool, and is made con- spieuous by the friction incident to the wear of the clothing. This .is especially true of hard-twisted w"©©] or worsteds. Sponging with hot vine- gar cuts this oil and greatly improves tho looks of the garment. Or the nap may be pulled up by pressing damp crinoline on the goods until it dries, then pulling it off. If there are trimmings v/hich can be easily removed a serge dress may be wasted, provided you use soap fi'ee from alkali or pure soap flakes. The dress should be hung up until it is partly dry, and then pressed on the wrong side. Wrinkles may be steamed out by pressing on the wrong side with a wet cloth under the iron. Care of clothes from day to day is more saving of garments than the .practice of letting them get soiled and mussed and then usiing strenuous cleaning and ironing processes. There- fore, it is well to remove spots as soon as they occur, and the follow- ing formula for a cleansing fluid is an excellent one: Benzine, one pint; chloroform, one-sixteenth of an ounce; sulphuric ether, one-aixteenth of an ounce; oil of wintergreen, one- eighth of an ounce; alcohol, one- eighth of an ounce. This must never be used near a fire, as it is highly inflammable. To avoid the ring so often left by a cleansing agent, apply the fluid to the clean surface, outside the spot, then rub toward the centre where the spot is. When using the old-time decoction of soap-bark, to one ounce (costing about five cents) add one quart of boiling water. Al- low this to steep for a while, strain through a cloth, then add to the water fn which woollen clothes are washed. h%% interest PAYABLE HALF YEARLY Allowed on money left with us tor from three to ten yean. Write for Booldet. / The Great West Permanent Loan Company. Toronto Office 20 King 8t Wett has been said of the .imaginative child does apply, it is not enough. Find out what frightened the child and put ,an end to that one fear at once. It will probably be found that someone told it some story for the veiy purpose of terrifying it, a pro- ceeding which is nothing short of criminal. Hou.Hchold Hints. Using Chicken Fat. â€" By using chicken fat in cooking you can cut down the amount of fat you must buy for that purpose. To prepare it, try it out in a double boiler, or other ves- sel set in hot watei-, until the fat just melts away from the tissues and can be poured off. This fat becomes rancid easily and should be kept cool and covered like butter and used in a very few days. Chicken fat, like goose fat, may be used for shortening in cakes, such as spice cake, where the seasoning used will mask any flavor which the fat might have. It can also be used for frying the chic- ken itself or other msats, and for warming vegetables, etc.^^Mrs. J. J. China decorated with gilt should never be washed with water contain- ing soda, for the soda will soon take off the gilding. Good white soap cut into bits and put in moderately hot water, will answer the purpose and do no injury â€" Mrs. J. J. O'C. Many who use gasoline for cleaning spots on clothing dislike the "ring" which it leaves around the place where the spot was. If a vei-y little water is added to the gasoline no marks will appear. â€" ^Mrs. E. T. Last fall 1 picked ripe grapes, sev- eral different kinds, dipped the stem of each in melted parafin, and packed them in a wooden box between layers of cotton batting, being careful not to let the bunches touch, laid a news- paper over top of box and set in a dry, cool room. We had grapes to eat on New Year's day, as nice as if they were just picked from the vine. â€" Mrs. F. He Wears a Necklace. Did you ever hear of a man wearing a necklace? Well, that Is what the male Canadian warbler docs, while on the female of this attractive bird there Is only the slightest indication of a necklace. The warbler's necklace ol black spots shows up very strikingly on his olive green and yellowish throat and breast. On the back the bird Is of a slate gray color, with the tall more of an olive brown tone. This is a very lively bird. It 1» very seldom etiU for more than a few eeconrls before it dashes out on some tempting bit to cat. It is partial to (he wooded bants of streams. It usually keeps In under- brush near the ground. A good cellar in connection with a farmhouse is as important as a well-arranged kitchen. Beautiful Women of Soclet}',duringthepast teventy year* have reUed upon it for their dlstin- Vfluisbcd appearance. The ) toft, refined, pearly white complexton it renders instantly, is always th« source of flattering comment. Cjoiir,-iud s Oriental Cream -^y- Economy of Rules It is economical to have rule."), and it It economy to obey them. A tremendous number of accidents result from tho breaking of rules, yometimes the rules are not laws, laid down in black and while and en- forced by law, but they are rules, Just ih#» «niiio Many motor actilnnts come because of speeding, driving on the wrong sldo of Iho road, dlaobeyinR (raUlc regulations In the city streets. Many accidents to pedestrians occur because they don't stay on the slde- walUn, and when tliey must crchs the streets Ib^y don't do so at tho cross- ings. Muiiy llres start becauso in- flammables are kept In dangerous places- goiiolene Is stored In tho linen closel, when wo know lt.«liould not, according to tbo terms of our loaso, be bought In large quantities, or kero- pono Is used riirolessly about a Are, ia Kplte of caution from tho Firo Du- Itirtmcnt. So it gouH, .Many of U.a ills of W.in- kind result from a lUsobeylng of rules. This ailliude lit adults is much Ilka ilisoberlii'Mi^o In I'hildren and the re- ^ults are much tho enini>, for punish- ment In Homo fonn la very likely to eome. Nov/ In every iiousehold there ore certain rule?, more or less well formu- lated. And they should be a help Ic family life. Unfortunately for the housekeeper, punishment for tho breaking of these rules does cot al- ways fall on those who break thorn. Too often It Is the housekeeper or the Borvonts who get tho punishment. Nevertheless, It Is possible to formu- lute u set of household rules, and to drill one's family to obey them. Per- haps without actual punishment Ihoy tun bo made to believe that tho most coniforable way of living Is to ob- Borve the rules sol down by tho linusc- keeper. And to the housekeeper those rules can bo made a moans of saving time and energy and nerve force. Think over every nile you announce before you speak of It. Kor a foolish rnlo, like n foolish law, breeds disre- spect on tho part of those who are asked to observe It. Thert) can bo Ju.'<t iiilcs about priinu'tf-cn'! at monlH, about iiulivlilu.il duties for each mcinbor of the house- hold, about opening wndows, about closing screen doors, about cariug for the clothes and many other things. .\n(l each of the»o rules can bn so worded that It will seem rcHKonublo, ! and at the same tinio so thought out I that it will brIuK relief t(» tho one »ii whom the burden of bousekeepinc falls. AN OLi> WOOL DRESS IS NOW WORTH $50 "Diamond Dye«" Turn Faded, Shabby Apparel into New. Don't worry about perfect rcsnlta. Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to gWe a new, rich, fadeless color to any tabrlc, whether It be wool, sUk, linen, cotton or mixed goods â€" dreasei, blouses, Etockhigs, skirts, children's coats, feathers, draperies, corerlngs, â€"everything! The Direction Book with each pack- •go tells bow to diamond dye over any color. To match any material, have dealsr show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card. Forgotten Peerages. It would bn interostlng to know how many of the present titles of Bri- tish peers will bo known fifty years hence. Peerages disappear at tho rate of five every four years. There are numerous reasons for this. Tho re- cent case of Lord Swinten, who died before the letters patent of his peo^ ago passed the Ureal Seal, is unusuiVl, but not without precedent. Beven years ago a barony was be- stowed on Sir Thomas Uorthwlck, but he died boforo the Issue of the letters patent. From various causes 124 peerages became extinct between 1800 and 1900. Some peers have had no heirs, M Lords Kitchener and Roberts. Lord Kelvin, the scientist, left no heir at all. Lord Lister, the Inventor of antiseptic surgery, had no one to carry on bis title, which has thus be- come extinct. Of present peers neither l^ord Mlluer nor Lord North- dlffe has a sou to succeed him. Sugar Beets In Australia. To develop tho boet sugar industry Australia will adopt up-to-date .\ni- orlcttu machinery and will iuipoit sugar beet seed from Calllorniu. « New Stove Lld-Llfter. A new stovo lid-lifter has two pivot- ed handloH which are pressed apart to spread hooks at their ends agalnnt the sides of a hole In a plyte to pre- vent It slipping. « aciBsrd's Z-lslmest (or sale •TMrTksrk The Child and thje Dark. There are some children, as every mother knows, who are absolutely terrified in the dark. They may not be at all cowardly children, but if you notice, you will find probably that the fear is owing to one of two causes, either they are specially imaginative cliildren, or they have been frightened in some way which gives them an un- natural ten-or of the darkness. These two causes should be treated in very different ways. Take tho case of the imaginative child. When one really thinks about it, what is more natural than that such a child should be afraid of the darkness ? The unknown has its fears for most of us, and for the (imagina- tive most of all. And to a child, how many things in this strange world in which it finds itself are unknown. It has to explore everything itself and it never knows what Wiill be the next surprise. The darkness must neces- sarily be mysterious to it. What may come out of the darkness to its bed- side? Some strange, dreadful mon- ster like the scarecrow that fright- ened it is in the field, or perhaps that great spider that frightened Miss Muffett so much â€" it seemed to do it on purpose â€" or the three bears might come all round the bed, for they came nil round Little Goldie Locks' bed; it said so in the story. Such thoughts are quite natural; and even more terrifying ideas than these oc- cur to the limaginStive child, for it is quite capable to drawing on that im- agination until it actually sees these things and to add to the horror, by hearing the scarecrow speak, or the bear's claws scratching on the floor; the furniture of the room will take tho shape of strange creatures who stand silently round watching unceas- ingly; in fact, there is no end to such night terrors when they once begin. Now how can all this be ended? The best thing a mother can do is to welcome that imagination in the child as her ally. Let her try to plant in the child's mind the seeds of love and tnist. Teach the little one to see the good in everything. Don't let it fear or despise ugliness and deformity, but pity it. Let it imderstand that such things as fire and water and darkness are beautiful and useful and our friends; that animals are hero to be loved and to love us, and that if they scratch and bite it lis genei'ally be- cause they have been badly treated, even lions and tigers do not kill for cruelty but for food. Along such lines the child's imagination will take the right att.itude to things, and wonders will have been accomplished. For the same reason choose a child's reading from the first along those lines â€" no fairy stories of cruelty and horrors. Such stories are too commonâ€" but l>eBUtiful fairy stonies of pretty fairies and good spirits and lovely deeds. And above all, teach it to love nature. The ca^c of the child who has been frightened is different. Though what Keep Lamps Shining Brightly. A good many industrious and clean- ly disposed housewiives, like Aladdin of old, believe in rubbing their metal lamps. Aladdin got what ha wished for when he tubbed his glim producer, but the housewife generally gets, in the course of time, vihat she doesn't want; namely, a shabby api)€aring lamp, for .it doesn't take long to rub the lacquer off metal. Lamps wouldn't be permitted to remain shabby very long if house- keepers knew how simple a process it- is to relacquer or re-enamel them. Paint dealers, druggists and dealers in plumbing supplies sell the lacquers and enamels in small-quantity con- taiiners. Direction for appying usual- ly come with them. ,> Royal Clothes. The most extravagant European monarch as regards dress was the late Czar of Russia. The bill of his civil tailor bordered on $10,000 a year, and that of his military tailor $16,000. His top-hat cost hini $25, and every year be gave $2,000 for a fur coat. It Is said that ho never gave less that |60 for a suit, and never wore It more than three times. Compared with him the Kaiser was quite shappy. His price for n suit Is at most $35, and he will wear it thirty times; whilst King Haakon spends no more on a suit than the average Norwegian grocer. Grandma: "Shall I teacli you how to make doughnuts?" Sweet Young Tiling: "Yes, I am terribly interest- ed, but how do you fix the inner tubes?" COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. CLIFF - TORONTO Use Baby's Own Soap. It's "Best for Baby â€" Best for you". Cleaniiag â€" Muiliacâ€" Fra^ruit SCIasid'a Ztlalmant B»Ucv*s Kanrslvls. Oxo Cubes contain the rich nourish- ment of prime beef in so compact and convenient a form that they are bandy for use anywhere, at any time. Just a cube â€" hot waterâ€" and a biscuit or two â€"and a light sustaining meal is ready. At Your Service Wherever You Live. The woman In town, or'aountry, has the same advantage as her sister In the city la expert advice from the best-known firm of Cleaners and Dyers In Canada. 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