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r that reason is is Haver sold in bull. RED GERANIUMS. | Life did not bring me silken gowns "Nor jewels for my hair, Nor sight of gabled, foreign towns In distant countries fair, But I can glimpse, beyond my pane, "a 'green and friendly hill, And red geraniums aflame upon my windgw-sill. The brambled cares of every day, The tiny, humdrum things, May bind my feet when they would stray, Rit still my heart has wings, While red geraniums are bloomed against my window-glass, And low above my green-sweet Bill the gypsy wind-clouds pass. | : And if my dreaming ne'er come true, The brightest and the best, { But leave me lone my journey through, I'l set my heart at rest, And thank Thee, God, for home-sweet things, a green and friendly hill,' And red geraniums aflame upon my window-sill. --Martha Haskell Clark. FIFTEEN FOR. DINNER. My neighbor was amazed when I. spoke of having fourteen or fifteen for, dinner on Sundays. And she was al-| most speechless when I told her I. enjoyed it. We live on a 200-acre! farm and I could not imagine why I should not invite my friends out from | town to spend the day without horri-| fying my neighbors. "How can you enjoy their company after getting the dinner, besides doing | all your other work, and then have the great stack of dishes waiting for Jou after they leave?" I laughed heartily. ised you were horrified. My friends ways like to enjoy my company, so they bring the dinner, or a goodly por- "tion of it." + Then TI told her the arrangement we had drifted into. They felt free to ¢ome, for they knew they were not "burdening me with extra work. T en- Joyed their coming, for it did not mean 8 day of extra work before or after. As we have abundant fresh vege- tables: on the ranch I always plan the yegetables and make an extra cake, pudding or pie when I bake. We have milk, butter, fruit and melons ir great i They divide up the meat, , relishes; baked beans, cake or ert, and whatever else they deem céssary, among themselves, each bringing the assigned portion. In the summer I make ice cream on Sunday, #8 we keep ice always on hand in the Pig milk refrigerator. Dishwashing is done as if by magic. Everybody helps clear the table and then takes a hand with the dishes. My share usually is putting the dishes a The old saying that "many | make light work" is surely true! ls case, and we can visit at the] time, We are very fortunate in| Ing large trees in the yard. During | the summer months we Bet the table' but under these. - Sh! I'M tell you a| A long work bench and two "tables that are kept under the during the summer are placed her and used. all those napkins and a big blecloth to be washed?" said rhbor wearily. 'I: "The big white tablecloth , come out of the drawer ex-' *I am not sur-| When I had a ite about six nelies high I bound them very 'tightly to- gether with strips of strong cloth, and made a fancy cover out of some strong sateen with figures from cre- tonne sewed on the top. I keep this! as an honor seat when a small child comes to visit me. It changes an ordinary chair into a high chair at .meal-time, can easily be carried to "the verandah, and is not too good to be played with, nor too heavy for the small guest to carry. The many left-over bits of paste- {board I stored in an old sack and find ' them very useful in starting fires. --Sara K. Knowlton. A PRACTICAL MODEL FOR SCHOOL: WEAR. > 4666. Wool crepe and he suiting are here combined, of the waist are pleasing and the plaited skirt affords comfort and free-: om in moving. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 12-year size The long, lines fro Sa Canbingh ak to 1 ae at the Denmark Tg at eleven to-night, One Some Alon i. 'Kirby studied the invitation care- Was it genuine? Or was it a oh nt? He was ho han ting ex rt, but he hada feeling tha nine. yer a disguised se script, T There i an in t- able design graphy of an i i ooh pi t find here the awkwardness of the ot uy rather the elaborate imita- tion of an amateur ignoramus. Yet he was not sure. He could give no definite reason for this fancy. | And in the end he tossed it.over-| board. He would. keep the, appoint oo ment snd see what Same of it. over, he would keep it for a friend: handing Frio the. left arm at his side. Kirby had brought no revolver with him to Denver. casionally he earried one on the range to frighten coyotes and to kill rattlers, | But he knew where he could borrow one, and he proceeded to do so. Not that there was any danger in' meeting the unknown correspondent. Kirby did not admit that for a mo- ment. There are Jeonle so constituted that they revel in mysterious. They wrap their most common actions in hints of reserve and weighty silence, Perhaps this man was one of them. | There was no danger whatever.. No- body had any reason to wish him ser- Tous fll. Yet Kirby took a .46 with him when he set out for the Den- mark Building. He did it because that strange sixth sense ot his had warned him to do so. During the day he had examined the setting for the night's adventure. He had been to the Denmark Building and scanned it inside and out. e had gone up to the fourth floor and Foohad at the exterior of Room 419; The office door had printed on it this design: | THE GOLD HILL MILLING & MINING COMPANY But when Kirby tried the door he found it locked. The Denmark Building is a little out of the heart of the Denver business district. It was. built far uptown at 8 time when real estate was booming: Adiching it is the Rockford Building. two te 'a neighborhood of 1 i 0 two-story stores and roomin houses. fl Ba dull seasons the offices gr landmarks are not always f B® bie tenants, The elevators in the Denmark had! ceased running hours since. Kirby took the narrow stairs which wound; round the elevator shaft, He trod. the | ron treads very slowly, ver; softly. | He had no wish to advertise is pres- 'ence.' If there was to be any explo- sive. surprise, he did not want to be at the receiving end of it. He reached the second storey, cross- alone--except and 3.0il i Compan have s oe became-lost-in who illed diy "room oo BS Shi h past past him in the 3 he i last 0! bo y la yere aa some unfin do Foe was a drug store in the build- ing, cornerin, on two | stopped 'into of oh clerk at id prescrip 8 tl the Denmark Buil "No, sir.""- The clerk corrected him- self "lwell, there's another way out. suite of of.) fices. that run the Building, Taye. Dott an alley ta connect between : the two buildings. It's on the fifth floor." "Is it open? Could a man get out of the Denmark Building now by way, of the Rockford entrance?" "Easiest in the world, All he'd have to-do would be to cross the alley bridge, go down the Rockford stairs, and walk into the street." Kirby wasted ino more time. He knew that the man who had tried 3 juurder him had long since made Food his getaway by means of the fifth- storey bridge between the buildings. 2s he walked back to the hotel where he was 8 wopping. his eyes and ears were busy, no dark-all y chances, but headed for the. bright lights of the main streets where he would be safe from any possibility of a govond ambush. His brain was as busy as his eyes. Who had planned this attempt on his life and so nearly carried it to sue- cess? Of one thing he was sure. The assassin who had flung the shots at im down:the narrow stairway of the Denmark was the one who had mur- dered his uncle. The motive of the ambuscade was. fear, Kirby was too hot on the trail that might send him to the gallows, The man had decided {to play safe by following the old theary that dead men tell no tales. CHAPTER XXXII, JACK TAKES OFF HIS COAT. Afterward, when Kirby Lane looked back upon the weeks spent in Denver trying to clear al ap the mysteries which surrounded the -wholea of his} uncle's death, it sured to him 'that he had been at times incredibl: stupid. Nowhere did this accent itgelf so. much as in that fart of the tangle which related to Esther McLean, From time to time Kirby saw Cole, He was in and out of town. Most of | his time was spent running down faint trails which spun themselves out and the hills, The cham- pion rough rider was indomitably re- requires 2 yards of plaid or check led. the landing, and began the next solute in his intention of finding her. material, and 1% yards of plain material. If one material is os 8%! yards 40 inches wide will be required. | Pattern mailed to any address on! receipt of 16¢ in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St, Toronto, Allow two weeks for receipt! Again his foot found the lowest tread I'll Sertainly give them hos i of pattern. THIS SWEATER IS QUICKLY MADE. One of the new silky, glossy wools will be most appropriate for making| this attractive sweater blouse, which any woman will find desirable for Yoaring with a skirt of contrasting, color. several tones, or it may be preferred to keep itonlyin one color. If a striped effect is desired make the body of the sweater in some neutral shade and nse' the goless, fis many as you like, in the! border. We require two pairs of knitting needles for the work, one of steel, the other of light wood. The latter should be very large, for the sweater must 3 ! be loosely done. If of one color: is used from four to six balls of the wool The sweater may be made in flight. The place was dark as a mid- | night pit. At the third floor its dark- | ness Was relieved slightly by a ray of | light from. a transom far down the , corridor, | Kirby waited to listen. He heard no faintest sound to break the stillness. and he crept upward. In the daytime he had laughed at the caution which had led him to borrow. a weapon from an acquaintance at the stockyards.' But now every sense shouted danger: He would not go back, but each fo: ward step was taken with infinite care. a4 And his cate availed him nothing. A lifted foot struck, an. of empty soap (box 'with a clatter to e seven | sleepers, ~ Instantly he ake it 'had been put there for Him to stumble over. A strong searchlight flooded the stairs and focussed on him. He caught a momentary glimpse of a featureless face standing out above (the light--a face that was nothing but ' a red bandanna handkerchief with slits in it for eyes--and a below at the top of the irwayv. ~The searchlight winked out. There was a flash of lightnin, and: i» crash thunder. A second ket flash found Kirby. It othe him: crouched low and reaching for the .45 under his arm. 'The booming of the r of feet . There were times when Rose began to fear that her little sister was lost to her for always. But Sanborn never shared this feeling. "You wait. I'll find her," he prom- ised. "An' if I can lay my hands on the man that's done her a meanness, pital sharks a_job patchin' him up." His gentle eyes had frozen, and the cold, hard light in them was almost deadly. Riss could not get it out of his head that James was Sespansible for or 'the disappearance of the gi et he 'could not find a motive that would justify so much trouble on his cousin's| part. He was at a moving- on Curtis Street with Ro: explanation popped into his mind. They were watching an old-fashioned melodrama in which the villain's let- ter is laid at the door of the unfor- tunate hero. Kirby: leaned toward Rose in the darkness and whispered, "Let's ot "Go, where?" she wanted to know in surprise. They had seated themselves not five minutes before, "I've got a hunch. Come." She rose, and on the way to the aisle brushed past several ru ladies. Not till they were stan: sidewalk ide did he tell will be required, according to the size revolver above reverboratal qown the was on his mind. of the blouse. | For a thirty-eight to forty bust pit of the stairway. "I want. to see that note from here more thin Cig entrance to ° Rockford : on the er what Another method is SoiromBle: riveln gle the gide of the shoa and. graphite or chalk, or : DPBS. ay, driven into the centre of the sole, but this Sedsioes 'the flexibility Medal for Pigeon. i The conferring of a war medal by the British government upon & hom-: {ng pigeon not only is a pleasant bit of sentiment but calls new attention : to the services that homing pigeons" have rendered to mankind, in peace as. well as in war. The incident recalls. the interesting fact that homing pige- ons were the foundation of two great fortunes. Before the days of tha tele: ;graph Baron. Rothchild, used great. numbers of pigeons to, Bring 4 the earl- jas information of the stock market and exchange. in: London to his Paris banking house; and; Paul de Reuter, the founder of the great Ruropean news agency that corresponds to the Associated Press in America, used. carrier pigeons ag his first messengers. amped Minard's -Liniment Heals Cuts. Sarcasm is a, very poor substitute for argument, 'Agriculture will progress as fast as we dare to take on new and improved methods of farming, i vith the citizen. erosity by the amount of advice you give away. I PS es WOMEN CAN DYE ANY GARMENT, DRAPERY Dye or. Tint: Worn, Fadeds ings New for 15: cents. Don't wonder whether you can dye home dyeing is guaranteed with "Dia- mond Dyes' even, if you have never. dyed before. Druggists have all col of the in | 'soft and smooth. ~ vents; is simply ert or keeping the hands beautifully white an ro 1 Positively Lo an schagping. it at ISR Et an washing dishes, and note the improvement of your hands. Keep a bottle handy by the kitohomt® sink. field, | Dioceses. There are 10 aghort te' for who sit in judgment; Mr. Justice + bot Is sixty-two, and brings with hima 'of experience. He oT 4 story of the late Commis- sioner Kerr, who was told by a prison. En he had "found" a gold watch 'chain on the pavement. The ook at the prisoner and then at. the jury. "Gentlemen of the fury," { said, "I have walked over the a £ t ments of London during the last forty years, and: I've never. found a. watch and chain there yet. Consider your verdict!" Lord Beatty Garglo. Good tales of the sea come naturally "to Warl Beatty, and one of his best 'gomcerns a certain officer of the King's Davy: who had for many years suffered The real test of all law: comes met. in the court-rqom. Luv when in contact Don't think people people. Judge your gen-| ! from chronic sore throat. At last, while 'on leave in London, he determined to see a specialist about it, and accord: _ ingly paid a visit to Harley Street. The ' doctor he consulted, being a great be: ~ lever in simple remedies, asked him '{1t he had ever tried salt-water gar gling. "Well," was the reply, | I've been torpedoed six times," Ss Scents: That: Kill. Th. tremendous craze for perfime at the present time is, in a way, an | echo of the age of King Solomon; but it is well to remember that: not all or tint successfully, because perfect | ors. Directions. in each package. scents are "sweet-smelling savours." - Foreign. countries abound in sinister scents of many,and deadly kinds, There are trees in sonje of them which breathe out poison, and woe betide the traveller who is. ignorant enough, to rest beneath their, shade! . : On Hie hill slopes of Chili, for ex- is a tree which the natives look Wpon- as beingspessessed of an evil 'spirit. Many cases have occurred where innocent travellers haye crept under its branches during the heat of - the day, and paid for its shade with. their- lives. After resting under: one. hands and face of a"traveller become swollen, 'as/dn a case of snake-bite, and he surface of the skin is covered with Many tourists. in the vicinity i petals have succumbed. to wt fluence. of this poisonous ~The trumpet flower, AE {Gent n-ne open aE J dangerous in a room. Innocent: people, fascinated by its coloring and scent, take it indoors, and 'soon: fall 'into a trance-like slumber, deyelaping into a deadly. stupor, from which they may possibly never awaken. . If this trumpet flower were ght into a sickeroom and lett there for the Arrow-swift, with the lithe ease of uncle Jou found. in your sister' 8 desk," measure set up 84 stitches on the steel 8 wild thing from the forest, Kirby he said | state occasions, Thanksgiving, p For Sunday dinners I ite oileloth, or if I wish arly festive three or four ed crepe luncheon cloths and pa- ally crepe nap- af the cloth." --Hope W. EBOARD CUSHION. many pieces of plain teboard" snd one needles, and knit 8, purl 3 until you have made four inches. Then ch to the large needles and Ay a knit 8, purl 8 until twenty-two inches have been made, including the border. Next take up work with them for 8 inches; this will form a yoke. Continue with the fine, needles until directed to chan Now bind off 80 stitches neck, leaving on the needles 54 stiteh-| Knit two ducked round the corner for safety. go! He did not wait there, but took the i al d ree at a stride. Not 1 to 1 I~ No' hors ry ofowing Tuck he had By soné m . b was Sharacteristic of oe that he id not fly wildly into ight. he. Te, the fine needles andi came to him. or al ches on these stitches and cast 'She. looked at him an little. "You certainly wan! 'want when you want Hy