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| & { #x ie« =all ten : dazed you you v here thinking nobody would Bidn‘t you ?" "Yesâ€"Orryâ€"butâ€"but They parted on the bridge, and Nan elimbed the gently rolling hullside toâ€" ward the house. Orry came to meet her. "Nan, dear," he said gently, "there‘s trouble afoot. That despicable spy of a Dobbins has been ferreting about and has found some arsenic tabletsâ€" do you know anything about them?" "Noâ€"no, Orry, of course 1 don‘t." "Butâ€"he says he found them in a vaseâ€"in your ‘bedroom. In a large tall vase that stands on a pedestal)." "Yes, 1 know the vaseâ€"" "And did youâ€"Nan, did you put the tablets there?" neighbor girl, intimates that she pqqs‘ more about the affair than she Nan smiled a lit thinking she was â€" knowledge of events CHAPTER VIHIâ€"(Cont‘d.) "If you don‘t know anything of more importance than that 1 threw away a worthless parcel, you don‘t know much, dear." Douglas Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evenâ€" u.on the floor of the sunroom of er Acres, his Long Island home. Btanding over the dead man, pistol in hand, is MalcolIm Finley, former sweetheart of Raynor‘s wife, Nancy. Eva Turner, Raynor‘s nurse, stands by the light switch. In a moment Naney m»ppears, whiteâ€"faced and terrified. Orville Kent, Naney‘s brother, comes in from the south';fio of the room. And then Ezra Goddard, friend ot Finley; Miss Mattie, Raynor‘s sister, and others, enter upon the scene. De-] tective Dobbins heads the police inâ€" vestigation. An autopsy reveals that Raynor was also being systematically poisoned with arsenic. Lionel Raynor, son of Douglas Raynor, somes to claim| his father‘s estate. Now Dolly Fay, a‘ )# y & Im never too tired to sleep now ~ Rested nerves make all the difference "And do it intelligently, Nan. See‘ won‘t do for you to face the detec Who Whs They found them, Nan, ard they‘ve lyzed them, and they contain arâ€" eâ€"so I think, sister, you‘d better v all knowledce of them." OW GO ON wWITH THE STORY NOW, AS TO THAT PRINT OF AN OVERSHOE, I BELIEVE sOMEBODY FAKED THAT." ablet BECGIN HERE TODAY tle at the child, exapgerating her but they weren‘t caurself logether. ispecied of murâ€" d! They think louglas, and you find then AY |tives with that conf=sed look, and say, und â€" shot Now, old Goddard, who has no thought arly even. or care for any ene but my own foolish inroom of self, forbids my taking any definite and home.‘steps to protect Nan, because, he says, , pistol in calmly, ‘No, I didn‘t do it‘ Shout.it e g’;”"" to the skiesâ€"we‘!ll all helpâ€"but our ‘!'uuda?y' efforts will be as nothing unless you ent N“cy’co-operaw intelligentlyâ€"see? _ Will terrified, y0u° Will you, Naney?" er, comes| "Yes, of course," and in obedience the room. to Orry‘s orders, she began to put more: friend ol" vigor in her tones, more force in her r‘s sister, voice. | neither helieve ) "We must know all we can find out,| _ “"":’_:::4:.'::_- e ©. in order to provse the contrary. Here‘s lmy predican:nent, Kent. llfnow a first In th Usefuh:e:s i % ) ik ;'llem detective, who would come o‘-n‘of knm d;OLll,lw. smy in a stock here and solve the whole business in E4* wnich may carry you short orderâ€"but, do we want him? Do (tPr94>* life, whatever your after purâ€" we want him to prove that Nap ki»â€"" "suits may be, with uo‘(:‘fulneu and her husbandâ€"or even atte~/%eq to 4j honor. But recollect, this is not to :ll:zn ls‘r;::”it‘b“:;r to"l e‘; D obbi.ns . },. don:twithQut o:aertion, nwti‘t:x’o;t the some fian“:;?;n;ie;::cf‘ it nec”:: ‘ ure and gratification. Selfâ€"denial is a '“r,_':, o {virture of the highest quality, and he ""Manufactured evidence?" ; who .h“. it not, and does not strive to "Yes, make up some clewsâ€"now, as 2¢94ire it, will never e(x:eel n;x anything. to that print of an overshoeâ€"1I believe ‘ ony bear, 908 AASCERCâ€"OF CVE ALe* . 5 him. . Ton‘t it 265z to let bobbins blunder alorn» f ues . pis «â€"evenâ€"even giving him erse "anufactured evidence, if necesâ€" for her. I‘ll tell you, Orry, that when the time comes, I hope to tell her all 1 feel for herâ€"but not now. 1 won‘t add the weight of a straw to the burâ€" den she has to bear. But, as you are ker brother, I must talk to you plainâ€" ly. What about these poison tablets?" "But you must, Orry. If Nan did try to poison Raynor, 1‘d rather know 1t." "I know Nan was desperateâ€"1 know Raynor had brought her to the last stage of desperationâ€"and, 1 know she studied up the subject of poisons. Do we need more proof?" with her, and sheâ€"looked like a girl at the very end of her rope. She seemâ€" ed desperateâ€"and yet despondentâ€"1 couldn‘t get anything out of her, though, she just begged me to let herl aloneâ€"said she knew what she was about." i "Your father? What did he say?"| "Dad seemed puzzled more than anyâ€" | thing else. He tried to ask hor some‘ questionsâ€"but she wouldn‘t answer ; any of them." l "There was some reason," Finley| said, thoughtfully, "some threat Rayâ€"| nor held over her. But, never mind| that nowâ€"it‘s up to us to get her out of all this trouble and start life afresh | _ "I don‘t think, Finley, 1 can discuss thatâ€"even with you." ""What do you think, yourself?" "I don‘t know what to think. J saw Nanâ€"twiceâ€"put something in Rayâ€" nor‘s cup. J thought at first it was saccharineâ€"then I tried to think it was> some harmless medicineâ€"but why should she do that, when he had a trained nurse?" Finley saw at once he believed in Nan‘s guilt. "Manufactured evidence?" ‘Yes, make up some clewsâ€"now, as to that print of an overshoeâ€"I believe somebody faked thatâ€"to turn Dobbins on a wrong scent." __"No, you couldn‘t have done that, Mal. She married Raynor of her own willâ€"nobody forced her into thatâ€"" "Raynor did." "Yesâ€"but I mean, no outside presâ€" sure was brought to bear, Why she did it, 1 don‘t knowâ€"but I am sureâ€" positive, there was some strong reason, quite apart from affection for the man â€"she hadn‘t any." ‘"You must seeâ€"â€"you must know, Kent, that 1 Jove her with all my heart and soul. 1 have always loved herâ€"if I hadn‘t gone away when I did, I might have made her marry meâ€"" "Why, for heaven‘s sake, does he say that?" : CHAPTER 1G. AN AWFUL ACCUSATION _ â€" "It‘s this way, Orry," Finley said to Kent, as the two held private conâ€" clave in Kent‘s room, "that silly deâ€" tective has his mind made up that Nan is concerned in Raynor‘s death. it will react against her to have me for her championâ€"" . _ But when they reached the house and Detective Dobbins met her with the direct accuâ€"ation of having dropâ€" ped the tablets in the large vase in hef bedroom to prevent their being founrd by the searchers, she broke down utâ€" terly, and cried out, "I didâ€"yes, 3 did !" Kent looked at the other curiously. Soups.â€"Clear soups have practicâ€" ally no food value, but goups made frotr meat, to which vegetables and barley; rice or macaroni are added, make valuable food. Thick soups, especially those made from peas and beans with the addition of milk, are nutritious and cheap and may largely be substituted for meat and eggs. Serving Food Food should be served warm and well cooked, on clean plates and on a clean table. Food that is "off flavor" or tainted should never bo served. Most of Canada‘s bullion is now refined in the Royal Mint at Ottawa. Milk should be kept coolâ€"if posâ€" sible on ice. Vegetables.â€"All vegetables need to be thoroughly cooked. Steaming is th ebest method of cooking vegetables, because there is not as great a loss of food material, particularly the valu able mineral salts. If vegetables are cooked by boiling, however, the water in which they are cooked ({stock) should be kept, and used when makâ€" Ing soup or vegetable sauce. Potatoes are best baked, or boiled with the skins on and peeled afterwards. Eggs.â€"Should be soft cooked, codâ€" dled, peached or scrambled, not fried. Meats.â€"Should be roasted, boiled or broiled. Fried meats should not be given to children. Most stews made with potatoes and other vegetables are recommended, provided they are thoroughly cooked and the fat bas been removed. For sunburn, apply‘ Minard‘s Liniment 6. A glass of milk and a plece of bread or some fruit is all that should be given to a well child between meals and then only if he is really hungry. Cooking Food Cereals.â€"Coarse cereals require at least three hours‘ cooking in a double boiler, fine cereals at least one hour. Cereals are largely composed of starch and fibre. Long cooking is necessarty to soften the fibre and thoroughly cook the starch. In a fine cereal, heat penetrates more quickly to the centre of each grain than in a coarse cerealâ€"hence the necessity of longer cooking of coarse cereals. Rules for Eating 1. Children should wash their hands before eating. 2. Food should be eaten slowly and chewed thoroughly. 3. Include some fresh vegetables in each day‘s meals. 4. Give each child at least a pint of milk a day. 5. Water should be given freely beâ€" tween meals, but not at bed time. "We‘ve come for a definite talk about these matters," Dobbins said; "it‘s time things came to a focus. Now, I‘m sorry, but 1 can‘t see any way to look for the criminal in this case, except toward the one most interested â€"most benefited by the death of the viectimâ€"and that‘s M&rs. Raynor." (To be continued.) ‘"Don‘t get that detective, Finley," said Kent. "Let‘s manufacture clews â€"or whatever your plan is, ourselves." Some Rules to Follow In Feeding the Preâ€"School Child A tap on the docr sounded, and Kent admitted Goddard and Detective Dobbins. "I didn‘t shoot Raynor, but look here, Kent, I‘d swear that I did, if Nan should be accused of that." M "Well, old chap, there‘s no chance that you did it, if yowre willing to have the big sleuth on the job!" "Looks bad to me. That‘s the thing I‘d like to put Wise onto. He‘s soon settle the will business, he‘d straighten out all the question of property and inheritance, and he‘d show up who did the poisoning and who did the shootâ€" mg "Then we don‘t want Wiseâ€"that‘s positive," Kent declared. "Now what about Lionel Raynor and his will busiâ€" ness?" vious." * f "And you propose doing more of such obvious hocusâ€"pocus?" _ "Don‘t take that one, Orry, as if I were compounding a felony. But if by any such trickery I can divert susâ€" picion from Nan, I‘d gladly do it. However, if I were to engage the deâ€" tective I have in mindâ€"Wise, his name isâ€"he‘dssee through all planted clews in a minute. He‘d go straight to the truth of the matterâ€"and, if that inâ€" volved Napâ€"â€"" â€" Flies shousd be kept away from "Maybe she did," said Finley, thoughtfully. "It wasn‘t a bad scheme, except that it was a little ridiculous to a keen observer. It was soâ€"so obâ€" "Why, Miss Raynor is quite capable of such a trickâ€"or old Goddard, or Miss Turnerâ€"or you yourself, if you‘d thought of it. It all draws suspicion away from Nanâ€"" "And away from you. Maybe Nan did it for your benefit, Finley?" "Who would do such a thing?" he | asked. I 13 ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS TORONTO â€" It is so easy to forget a kindness, and to remember a kick. Yet conâ€" trolling our recollections is almost as important as controlling our temper. We are apt to forget completely a hunâ€" dred little kindnesses and courtesies which one has shown us, and to reâ€" member a single careless slight or thoughtless word, Often we hear it said of some wrong or foolish deed, "I have never thought so well of that man since then; it was there he showâ€" ed his real character,"â€" as if a man‘s real character appeared more in one separate deed to which,perhaps, he was sorely tempted, than in the strivâ€" ing and overcoming of many days and years. The newest car on the market is The Roosevelt, but it is a cinch that no ad will refer to it as The Rough Rider.â€"Birmingham News. Write your name and address plainâ€" ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by an early mail. _ A modernistic print in silk crepe with plain crepe in deepest tone used for applied band to outline modern line: of bodice. The scallops of hip yoke' that dips its side, uses the lightesq shade of print in plain crepe for bindâ€" ing. The skirt is straight and slender‘ at back with flared fulness across | front. Style No. 465 can be had in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust, and is smart to wear with straightline coat to complete en-i semble. Flowered chiffon, georgette | crepe in tomato red, black silk crepe with eggshell trimming, Lelong blue canton, faille crepe, printed rajah silk,{ and featherweicht tweed in check patâ€"| tern in woodâ€"viotet tones ave smartly, appropriate for immediate wear. Patâ€"| tern price 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin | is preferred). Wrap coin carefully. ‘ HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. | Hospitals, New York City, offers a three years‘ Course of Training to young women, having the required education and desirous of becoming nurses, This Hospital has adopted the eightâ€"hour system. ’r}}e g‘\lpfll receive uniforms of the School, a monthly allowance and traveling expenses to and from New York. For further informatton write the Superintendent. The Toronto Hospital for Incurables, in affiliation with Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, New York City, offers a These carpets are found chiefly in Persgia. ‘There is a notable difference between the style of Northern Persia and that of Southern Persia. The latâ€" ter differs from the first in the abundâ€" ance of curvres rather than the geoâ€" metrical and symmetrical forms of Northern Persia. Various examples of these differences were ilustrated by the speaker. ‘ _ Various industrial contributions of ‘the Orient to other nations of the world and a short history of the Orient opened the speaker‘s remarks,. In |early days, Oriental rugs were not marketed. They were given to relaâ€" 'tlves or friends as tokens of rememâ€" brance or friendship. But toâ€"day, the iOrient, like all other countries, has commercialized all its products and‘ ‘its arts. Nevertheless, the same art :’as that of preceeding centuries still prevails in all exported carpets. } _ To the majority of possessors of Oriental rugs, the speaker stated, the designs are without meaning. But such is not always the case for every design such as the eight pointed star, the sun, the flowers, the four cardinal points and the bird, is the symbol of an actual thing. _ Imitation ofâ€" the style existing in pilars erected in Perâ€" sia has also prevailed throughout the centuries. Montreal.â€"Interpretations of drawâ€" ings on Oriental carpets were exemâ€" plifed by D. W. Thomas, president of St. David‘s Society, in an address on "The Influence of the Orient over American and European Countries." NURSES Symbols In Rugs Unbalanced Memory DELIGHTFUL FLARE T°70DN sheet of water. . . . The view from the dwelling house itself was broad, enclosed by fine outlines of orâ€" dered hills, blue and purple at sunset against a primrose sky. Half a mile up a steep glen on the other ‘side of the stream the temple of our host was dedicated "To an great men who loved nature.‘ The tablets of Keats, Shelley, Wait Whitman and Shakeâ€" speare, among English‘speaking naâ€" tureâ€"lovers, and many another great one from every nation, were there in company with two fine old Buddahs who, when the village temple was Pereimmon orchards. ‘The trees, far larger and more buzhy than any to be seen in an English orchard, wert laden with large golden fruit, brilâ€" liant as oranges among sparses crimâ€" son leavesâ€"the sight of the orchards alone would have been well worth the Journey. _ The stage ended at the house of our host, Lo Ching Shan Chai, so christened by the late Emâ€" peror. In English the name sounds elaborate, though it is certainly apâ€" propriate, the Nature Lover‘s Mounâ€" tain Lodge. It was situated in Ming Tao Kow, Cherry Glen by interpretaâ€" tion, the leaves, autumnâ€"tinted, still made the foreground brilliant as it fell rapidly from us. +/ Below a mountain stream rushed,‘ tearing its way between trees and boulders, with here and there a smooth sheet of water. . . . The view from . Aive ~dbure ind / Bs nanue d h ce My last trip in the Western Hills was in late October, to the great pilâ€" grimage temple of Miao Feng Shan â€"â€"the Mountain of the Marvelous Peak. To go there we followed the Pilgrims‘ Way. This, while not much more than a path in width, is one of the very few made roads in North China, paved in its length. In the first stage miy vivid recollection is of persimmon orchards. The trees, far larger and more buzhy than any to be seen : In ‘nn} EnigHiah : sSmihartP . susct EAGLE BRAND Puffing up the pass by train the Wall had impressed me merely as a magnificient enclosure. The firet hint of its livingness was at the station where we stopped. Here it fied from the mechanical monster which bad cut it through, a headlong fight up precipitous hillsides Jeaving its stairâ€" way wrecked behind it. We joined it by a gentler slope, and found it broad as a lane and generally in wonderful preservation. My visit was in July and the hills, obviously never very freen, were comâ€" a Tower and see the Wall travelling determinedly as far as the eye can reach in either direction, up hill and down dale, discovering even in the valleys ridges on which to perch itâ€" gelf, a breathless impetus carrying it to the top of the highest hills. _ During my months in Peking, of the many things I enjoyed those that stand in m ymemo® for delight are excursions outside the city. I had been prepared by photographs for the beauty of the Great Wall, but it was exciting beyond expectation" Besides the power that belongs to all great walls, the sense of fortitude and staâ€" bility, there is an impression of active energy, as though soldiers were hardâ€" ly needed to defend it, and its many watchâ€"towers were fo rits own use only. It is an inspiration to stand on Ask Your Barberâ€"He Knows FOR THE HAIR Conpenseop Western Hills U ° "~a) beiween trees and with here and there a eet of water. . . . The view dwelling house itself was losed by fine outlines of orâ€" , blue and purple at sunset primrose sky. Half a mile SALADA has the finest Slavour in the world and it costs only oneâ€"quarter of a cent a cup ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ *T Y A ~dJA ;\ ORANGE PEKOE 2 m A a total act; thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs. Let the beauty of affection cheer his lowly roof. ‘The scholar loses no hoeur that the man lives. Emerson. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think. Living is Macaroon: One cupful of dried, powâ€" dered macaroons and one teaspoonful of vaniNa. Peandt: Omit sugar from the recipe and add as flavoring threeâ€"quarters of a pound of peanut brittle put through the food chopper. Minard‘s Liniment for sick animals Pineapple: One cupful of pineapple syrup and two tablespoon{uls of lemon juice. "Say Bil!, has your doct r proven reliable?" _ â€" "Yessiree! A pint a week regular as clock work." Strawberry or raspberry: Mash one quart of ripe prepared strawberries, or from three to four cupfuls of red raspberries, mix with the sugar in the recipe and leave standing one hour,. Peach: Two cupfuls of peaches, minced or crushed, used as directed for strawberries. Grapejuice: For water in the recipe substitute one cupful of grapejuice and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Mousse Flavorings Chestnut: Mash three cupfuls of cooked French chestnuts and add one tablespoonful of vanilla. Maple: Use maple sugar instead of white sugar. overtaken by destruction, had_ found a refuge here.â€"Rachel Wheatcroft, in "Siam and Cambodia in Pen and Pasâ€" tel." practically eliminates underâ€" exposureâ€"the cause of ninety per cent of poor pictures. At dealer‘s everywhere. Say "Gevaert"‘ the next time you ask for film. You‘ll be amazed with the results â€" clear, sparkling negativesâ€" fewer failures â€" better picturesâ€"rain or shine _‘nydme’ myvhm. ISSUE No. 27â€"‘29 Being and Thinking TRY . THESE FASTER BETTER iJ When the shadows grew loag, they moved away to feed again and to drink in the grown pools of the codar swamps.â€"Joseph Wharton Lippincott, in "Long Horn Leader of the Decr." In the early morning they came upon an old doe with two fawns folâ€" lowing her. The fawns were brown, with white spots all over, When they ‘ltood still their color matched the summer woods so perfectly that an enemy could scarcely see them; The old doe was a friendly one and stayed with the buck and the little doe. They all lay down near each other for the day 2 ~d solemnly chewed their cud. . . When walking about in the woo feeding and on the watch for enemi« a deer had little tim« for chewin but when lying down sesting, it cou be done comfortably and thoroush\y. Me: "I fell over 50 feet." She: "And weren‘t you hurt?" Me:‘*"No. I was only getting off a crowded street car." _ The doe had found some late blucâ€" berries along the edge of the meadows, These she daintily picked off and ate with relish. Gradually she and the buck satisfied their hunger with small quantities of grass tips, grapevine leaves and soft sprouts of the wild raspberry. Farther in the woods, on the way to a safe, cool resting place they nipped birch and other leaves as they passed the trees. The buck shook his head and stampâ€" ed with a front hoof. His antlers shone clean and grayish white in the ;l':::.nlight, the points sharp and warâ€" TKG, .+ +4 The two breathed contentedly all the wellâ€"known old scents. They walked the length of the tall timber and out among the meadows where the vicious little salt marsh mosquitoes rose in hordes but could not worry them very much through thick hair, Alkthe other deer semed to be absent, perhaps wandering as they had, to the distant creeks and lustious fields beâ€" yond the Pine Barrons. The buck found a low wild cherry tree alone on a sandy knoll, and rubâ€" bed his antlers against its twige, up and down, backwards and forwards until the little tree was bent and scarred. He had been doing this often in the evenings, after feeding, as well ase scratching with the sharp hoofs of his.hind legs, The brown velvety skin which had covered and protected Lis horns while they were soft and still growing, had become useless and itchy as soon as the points were full size and had begua to harden, The skin ecrecked and came og in strips and strings. . . . On the little cherry trée was left the last piece of this velvet. Long Horn and the little doe follo ed a path to the very heart of t~o range, where very tall timber extenced between dense cedar swamps To the eastward ran a belt of sersb troeoes and then the salt meadows bordering the bay. Beyond this was the Atlantic Ocean. The "rolleo" will be held in Lake Sacajawea Park, within the clty limâ€" its. _ Twelve hundred dollars in cash and prizes are offered, and the evont is advertised especially as a touwnist attraction. At the highest feasible point, he cuts off, with axe and saw, the top of the tree, and clings to his precariâ€" ous perch as the top, frequently 54 feet high itself, thunders to the ground. â€" He then rigs the tree with pulleys and cables, and it is used as a spar tree for a "log setting" to havl in the logs and load them aboard logging cars. Other lumbering communities in the Northwest are being asked by the Longview Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring the event, to coâ€" operate, and the competition, which will last two days, is being billed a# the world‘s championship, High climbing and tree topping are spectacular and necessary parts of the Northwest woodsman‘s job. Every "woods camp has at least one high climber whose job it is to mount the giant Douglas firs to a height varying from 150 to=225 feet, using a belt and spurs similar to a telephone lineman‘s equipment. Some of the other competitions which are being arranged are high €limbing, tree topping, leg bucking and chopping races. As the name implies, the contest will center about the rolling logs which jumbermen "berd," ride and drive through the great mill ponds to the slips of the bead mills. Novel Exhibition HMusâ€" trating Woodsmen‘s Skill in Tasks of Every Day Longview. Wash.â€"Riding pigos inâ€" stead of pontes, punching logs instead of cows, scaling trees instead of steeples, lumbermen of the Northweek are preparing for a widely advertis ed dayâ€"or, rather, forest day is to be devoted to competitions according to arrangements now being made. Called a "rolleo"â€"because it offers many similar tests of skill with none of the objections of the rodeoâ€"the days is to be devoted to competitions in sports and practicos common #o lumbermen in the Northwest, "Pine Riders" In "Roller Contest" High Climiing, Tree Topping and Chopping Races Will Be Other Features of Cedar Swam» 008 "Lovy. pt B l