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BER JAPAN TEA "Fresh from the gardens' Arabs Becoming More Humane London.--Animal lovers will learn with satisfaction that kindness to ani- mals is becoming much more general than formerly among the Arab popula tion along the Southern Mediterranean coast. Miss Nina M. Hosali, hon. secretary of the Society for the Protection of Animals in Northern Africa, writes, appealing for funds to further the work of the society. In Algeria, Tunisia, and French Mor: occo, with the collaboration of the authorities, animal protection work is yielding rapid and most encouraging results, she says, Kindness is being 'he left her apartment Pr VAN TINE. THE STORY THUS FAR: the night she was murdered. When pi he told Jessup to call him a cab, While waiting they heard a scream from the "Canary's" apartment. Both rushed back and were told everyth! was all right. But the next morning the girl was found strangled. Vance believes two men were in the Apartment at the time of the murder, strangler and a man who hid in the clothes closet. There it no way to account for the All the circumstances point to the im- possioility of the girl's having been murdered, but 'her st led bod; gives the lies to such a conclusion, CHAPTER XIV, "Your long Island Don Juan has certainly not supplied you with any footprints in the snow," said Vance. "Anyway, his coming forward at this time closes one line of inquiry over which we might have wasted con- siderable time." "If many more lines of inquiry are closed," remarked Vance, drily, "you'll be in.a distressin' dilemma, know." . "There are enough still open to keep me busy," said Markham, push- ing back his plate and calling for the cheque. : and Spotswoode told Markham it was he |' who had cone out with Margaret oie re presence of anyone in the apartment, | y e - ney's 'office and the main waiting-| "don't y'] one anywhere. Remember {the Red Queen in 'Through the Look- ing-Glass--'" AER £4 "I'm too busy at present to debate the question of routine versus inspira- tion," Markham answered brusquely, pressing 'a button benzath the edge of his desk. Swacker, his youthful an energetic secretary, appeared at the door which communicated with a narrow inner homhor' hat district attor. room. "Yes, Chief?" The secretary's eyes gleamed expectantly behind his enor- mous horn-rimmed glasses. "Tell Ben to send me in a man at once" Swacker went out through the cor- ridor door, and a minute or two later a suaveprotund man, dressed immacu- lately and wearing a pince-nez, enter- ed, and stood before Markham with "Morning, Tracy." Markham's tone was pleasant but curt. "Here's a list of four witnesses in connection with the Odell. case that 1 want brought requires contem- plation, not routine. "Why not call in | ng "If this sort of thing goes on much longer," returned Markham, dispirit- Just then Swacker looked in through the door to say that Inspector Brenner the telephone receiver, and as he lis- tened he jotted down some 1otes on a | pad. When the call had ended, he turned to Vance. "You seemed disturbed over the condition of the steel jewel-case we found in the bedroom, Well, the ex- pert on burglar tools just called up; an he verifies his opinion of this morning, The case was pried open with a specially made cold chisel such as only a professional barglar would carry or would know how to use. It had an inch-and-three-eighths beveled an old instrument--there was a pecu- liar nick in the blade--and ig the same one that was used in a success- ful house-break on upper Park Ave- "I tell you, Markham, old chap," he | grinned, "this case re ¢ an Egyptian seeress with a flair for| oly, be fempted to take your). 'was on the wire. Markham picked up| down in a pan of cold water, then put them into a yreserving kettle with Rand omtaah. ; |a small quantity of water to prevent bit-and »-one-ineh flat handle, It was, berries from burning. Cook until soft, stirring occasionally, and put in jars. No sugar is required, but a sprinkling | of salt makes: an agreeable addition. It 1s a biennial and produces a com- mercial crop of fibre in the first year and seeds at the end of the second | year, It is claimed to yield three raw 'materials of great commercial value: a fibre for extile purposes which it is stated forms an efficient substitute ond year from the fibre stem which can be used in paper making, and seed which can be used in the manu- facture of cattle food. Apparently the experimental trials have proven highly satisfactory to those financing the scheme and this to be planted with seed obtained this fall. : 2 for cotton wood cellulose in the sec coming year thousands of acres are" - He rose; then pausing, re- garded Vance meditatingly. "Are you sufficiently interested to want to come along?" "Eh, what? My word!.. . Charm- ed, I'm sure. But, I say, sit down just This recipe may also be used for huckleberries. Banbury Tarts One-quarter cup each of raisins, dates, figs, nuts, 1 up brown sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 egg, juice and rind of lemon. Chop fruit and nuts, mix with flour and sugar; add beaten egg, lemon rind and juice. Mix all to- gether. Roll out plain pastry, cut in squares, place spoonful of mixture on each. Fold diagonaily, press edges. Bake at 400 degrees, down here at once--the two phone op- erators, the maid, and the janitor, You'll find them at 184 West 71st Street: Sergeant Heath is holding them there." "Right, sir." Tracy took the memo- nue early last summer. .*. Does that highly exciting information amelior- ate your anxiety?" "Can't say that it does." Vance had again become serious and perplexed. "In fact it makes the situation still more fantastic. . . . 1 could see a glimmer of light--eerie and unearth- ly, perhaps, but still a perceptible-il- lumination--in all this murkiness if '}it wasn't for that jewel-case and the steel chisel." Markham was about to answer | when Swacker again looked in @nd in- taught in the schools, and the Arab boy of to-day is beginning to regard the patient donkey as a sentient crea: ture needing Intelligent care, and not a mere thing with huge untended sores, to be goaded by a nail or pack- ing needle, The older men gratefully bring their animals for veterinary treatment to the free clinics which have been es- tablished. In the larger towns, such as Algiers, definite reforms have been made, in- In well-informed quarters it Is con- sidered there are market possibilities for the develcpment of the plant as a substitute for cotton ,possibly in part for wood and undoubtedly experi ments will be made in Canada and in other parts of the Empire to try out tha possibilities for growth of the plant. Prof. Harold Hibbert, professor of industrial and cellulose chemistry at McGill University, states that the facts had been brought. to his atten tion in the course of scientific re- b632+8lip on dress surplice closing blouse, finished with two-piece shawl eollar in scalloped outline and inset vestee. -- Long sleeves gathered to wristbands. Attached two-piece skirt, grouped in plaits at front, Removable belt. For Ladies and Misses. Years 16, 18, 20, Bust 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 inches. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap #t carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Bervice, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto: Patterns sent by an early mail. cluding the abolition of the "'serette," an iron instrument with sharp teeth which ig used on the noses of horses, mules and donkeys. The barbarous practice of "hanging" unwanted dogs at the pound is also being stopped. Humane killers have been, provided for animals injured in street acci- dents, Almost every day appeals are heing received from fresh districts for the formation of a branch of the society. * The Higher Culture Kansas City Star: It is said that the per capita book sales in this country are somewhat less than one book each year, This must be very depressing to those in the hook business, but they'll just have to be patient, \Ve're busy just now making every family in America a two-car family, When that is accomplished, then we'll see about the two-book families. Solis Kill that corn with Minard's Liniment Tae knowing hostess takes advantage of every oppor- to give individuality to her table. She always makes her own salad dressings. She prefers to create her own desserts. And she makes her own mus- tard pickles. In this way she can develop her own combination of vege etable ents--an sure eaten and fresh. She can use the purest of vinegars, peppers and spices. And, most important of all, ghe can give her pickles that uperlative, indispensable of flavour "The case was pried open with as only a professional burglar would know how to use." a specially made cold chisel such formed him that Sergeant Heath had arrived and wanted to see him. Heath's manner was far less de- pressed than when we had taken leave of him that morning. He accepted the cigar Markham offered him, and seat- ing himself at the conference table in front of the district attorney's desk, drew out a battered note-book. "We've had a little good luck," he began. "Burke and Emery--two of the men I put on the case--sot a line on Odell at the first place they made inquiries. From. what they learned, she didn't run around with many men --limited herself to a few live wires, and pluyed the game with what you'd call finesse. . . . The principal one-- the man who's been seen most with her--is Charles Cleaver." (To be continued.) frat Tested Recipes Meat and Vegetables En Casserole Take 1 pound of stew meat, cut in inch pieces. Place a layer of meat in bean pot, sprinkle with pepper and salt, then a tablespoon flour, next a layer of sliced onicn, a layer of pota- toes, and so on, until the meat is used up, Cover with a up of cold water; place in oven covered, and bake slow- ly 8 or 4 hours, adding more water as a moment--there's a good fellow!-- till 1 finish my coffee." I was considerably astonished at Vance's ready acceptance, careless and bantering though it was, for there was an exhibition of old Chinese prints at the Montross Galleries that afternoon, which he had planned to attend. A Riokai and a Moyeki, said to be very fine examples of Sung painting, were to be shown; and Vance was particularly eager to acquire them for his collection. We rode with Markham to the Criminal Courts building and, enter- ing by the Franklin Street door, took the private elevator to the district at- torney's spacious but dingy office which overlooked the graystone ramp- arts of the Tombs, = Vance seated him- self in one of the heavy leather-up- table on the right of the desk, and lighted a cigaret with an air of cynic- al amusement. "I await with anticipat'ry delight the grinding of the wheels of justice," he confided, leaning back lazily. "You are doomed to not hear the first turn of those wheels," retorted Markham. "The initial revolution will take place outside of this office." And he disappeared through a swing- ing door which led to the judges' chambers. LEN Five minutes later he returned, and (sat down in the high-backed swivel ¢hair at his desk, with his back to the four tall narrow windows in the south wall of the office, "I just saw Judge Redfern," he ex- plained--*"it happened to be the mid- day recess--and he verified Sp woode's statement in poker game. The judge met h side the club at ten minv three in the morning. He noted the had promised his eleven, : ~ holstered chairs near the earved oak midnight, and was with him until randum, and with a priggish, but by no means inelegant bow went out.. During the next hour Markham plunged into the general work that had accumulated during the forenoon, and I was amazed at the man's tre- mendous vitality and efficiency. He disposed of as many important mat- ters as would have occupied the ordi- nary business man for an entire day. Swacker bobbed in and out with electric energy, and various clerks appeared at the touch of a buzzer, took their orders, and were gone with breathless rapidity. Vance, who had sought diversion in a tome of famous arson trials, looked up admiringly from time to time, and shook his head in mild reproach at such spirited activity. It was just half past two when Swacker announced the return of Tracy with the four witnesses; &nd or two hours Markham questioned and cross-questioned them with a thor- oughness and an insight that even I as a lawyer had rarely seen equalled. His interrogation of the two phone operators was quite different from his casual questioning of them earlier in the day; and if there had been a single relevant omission in their former tes- timony, it would certainly have been caught now by Markham's gruelling catechism. could go, no new information had been brought to light. Their stories now stood firmly grounded: no one--with her escort, and the disappointed visi- tor at half past nine--had sntered the \front door and | to the Odell apartment from seven o'clock on; and no ome had passed out that way. the exception of the girl herself, and| . ry. Oatmeal Cookies One egg, 1 cup sugar, % cup short- ening, 1 tablespoon molasses, 4 table- spoons sweet milk, 1 teaspoon cinna- mon, 1 teaspoon soda, %¥%. teaspoon salt, 13 cups flour, 21% cups rolled oats, ¢ Peach Cream Pie cream, 2 egg yolks, 34 cup sugar. Cook over hot water as for a pudding. Add 1% cups peach pulp, using fresh or canned fruit. Cook for 5 minutes then fill' a baked pie shell. Cover with meringue made with the 2 egg whites and brown in oven. Canned Blueberries {But when at last they were told they | -- i One teaspoon cornstarch, 1 cup thin sauce. | | Pick over berries and wash by plac | * ing in a strainer and lifting up and' go gy, o srademark Negistered to Canals Shrimp Wiggle One can peas, 1 can shrimp, season highly. with a little Worcestershire Make a cream sauce, season- ing with salt, pepper and paprika, and pour over them. Serve on toast with a slice of lemon. simile Minard's Liniment--The King of Pain. VER wait to see if a headache will "wear off." Why suffer when there's always Aspirin? The millions of men and women who use it in increasing quantities every year prove that it does relieve such pain. » The medical profession pro- nounces it without effect on the heart, so use it as often as it can spare you any pain. Every druggist always has genuine Aspirin tablets for the prompt relief of a colds, neuralgia, lum! miliarize yourself with directions in every GASPIRIN etc, Fa- e proven TLost Beautiful BLACK you have search and he believed, as far as he knew, that they were accurate. Tasty Sandwiches Apple Sandwiches--One ripe apple, 1 stalk celery, % green pepper; chop together and moisten with mayon- naise. Use with white or graham bread. Peanut-Pineapple Sandwichés--Use 2 parts pineapple to 1 part peanut but- ter and spread on white bread. Chopped Meat and Nut Sandwiches --Use equal parts chopped chicken, beef or other cold meat and walnuts, Moisten with mayonnaise. Jam and Cheese Sandwiches -- Spread 1 slice of buttered white bread with cream cheese, the other with jam or jelly. Sprinkle with nuts and put together. - Raisin, Celery and Nut Sandwiches --Cook 1 cup of chopped raisins till soft. Add 1 cup chopped celery, 1 cup choped walnuts, and moisten with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and mayon- naise. Keep In covered jar for use. Here is another nice filling to have on hand: One cup peanut butter, 1% cups blackberry jam or jelly, 1% cups 'chopped raisins, 1 cup pecan or al mond meats, chopped. Cheese Sandwiches--One half-pound cheese, 8 sweet cucumber pickles, Grind through the food chopper. Thin out with mayonnaise-dressing and place between buttered bread. Dried Beet Sandwiches -- For 12 sandwiches, soak % pound dried beef in cold water one hour, Then dry, roll in flour and fry in dripping; place between thin slices of buttered bread. Indian Sandwiches -- Mix mashed sardines with yolk of hard-boiled. egg and cooked salad dressing. Spread on unbuttered bread. New Sandwiches--Thin out peanut butter with a little water and add 2 tablespoons ketchup. Mix well and spread on buttered bread. Salmon Sandwiches--To 1 cup sal mon, chopped fine, add 3 tablespoons cooked salad dressing. Season and spread on buttered bread. Date Sandwiches--OQne-half cup of dates, % cup walnuts chopped, % cup sweet cream; mix well all together and spread on buttered bread. Celery Sandwiches--Equal parts of finely minced celery anu cheese, moistened with 2 tablespoons salad dressing. Season with salt and papri- ka, spread on thin slices of buttered bread. ' Ham Sandwiches--One pound ham (ground), 6 hard-boiled eggs, 10 sweet pickles, 3% cup nut meats; mix with salad dressing and spread on buttered bread. Sausage Sandwich--Fry sausage un. til a nice brown. When cool mix a little fine cut celery with pepper and add a few fine cut pickles. Take thin slices of buttered bread cover with a lettuce leaf and place the sansage be- tween. A nnn ~The Difference Mother lecturing Billy after the ~|company had gone)--"Don't you know