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BEGIN HERE TO -DAY.
Mark Brendon, famous criminal in-
vestigator, is taking holiday on Dart-
moor and is engaged by Jenny Pen -
deep to solve the mystery of her hus-
band's clisappearance. Michael Pen -
dean is last seen in the company of
Jenny's uncle, Robert Redmayne,
when the two go tc work on a no*
bungalow ,f the Pendeans near Fog -
enter Quarry.
Blood is found on the floor of the
cottage and several witnesses testify
to having seen Robert ride away on
his: motor bicycle with a heavy sack
behind the saddle.
Jenny Pendean had already left
Prineotown and joined Mr. Bendigo
Redmayne at his house, "Crow's Nest"
beyond Dartmouth. She wrote:
"My uncle has begged me to come
and I was thankful to do so. I have
to tell you that Uncle Bendigo re-
ceived a letter yesterday from his
brother, Robert, I begged him to let
me send it to you instantly, but he
declines. Unele Bendigo is on Cap-
tain Redmayne's side I can see. He
would not, i amu sure, do anything
to interfere with the law, but he is
convincedthat we do not know all
A report comes that Redmayne has there is to be told about this terrible
visited his boarding house since the 1:thiiig. The motor boat from `Crow's
disappearance of Michael, A cement est' will be at Ginswear Ferry to
rack from the new bungalow is found N
In a tabltit hole, et a far distance from meet the train reaching there at two
the scene of mystery. o'clock to -morrow and I hope you may
NOW GO ON 'WITH THE STORY. still be at Paignton and able to come
An hour later Mark Brendon had here far a few hours."
She added a word of thanks to him
packed a bag and started in a police and a regret that his holiday was be -
meter ear Tor Paignton, ing spoiled by her tragedy.
He called at Robert Redmayne's
lodgings after he had eaten some sup-
per at the Singer Hotel. There he CHAPTER IV.
had tl.ken a room, that he might see
and hear something of the vanished
man's future wife and her family. At
leTo. 7 Marine Terrace the landlady, a
Mrs. Medway, could say little. Cap-
tain Redmayne was a genial, kind-
hearted, but hot-headed gentleman,
she told Mark.
Brendon examined the motor bicycle
wits. meticulous care. There was a
rest behind the saddle made of iron
bars, and hero he detected stains of
blood, A fragment of tough stringy descended to the water; an the
tied to the rest was also stained, d while i
Later in the dayBrendon retained man did so, Breldon's eyes brightened,
for a passenger already occupied the
to his hotel and introduced himselftto boat: a woman sat there and he saw
it find that
Miss Reed and her family to
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her brother, Robert Redmayne's Jenny Pendean.
friend, had returned to London, She The boat was speedy and she soon
and her parents were sitting together slipped out between the historic cas-
in the lounge when he joined them. ties that stood on either bank of the
All three appeared to be much shocked entrance to the harbor.
and painfully mystified. None could Mrs. Pendean pointed to the man
throw any light. Mr. and Mrs. Reed in the bows. He sat upright with his
were quiet, elderly people who kept a back to them at the wheel forward,
draper shop in London; their daugh- Be had taken off his hat and was
ter revealed more character.
"Did you ever hear Captain Red-
mayne speak of his niece and her hus-
band?" Brendon inquired, and Flora
Reed answered:
"He did; and he always said that
Michael Pendean was a 'shirker' and
a coward. He also assured me that
be had clone with his niece and should
'never forgive her for marrying her
husband. But that was before Bob
went to Prineetown, six days ago.
Front there he wrote quite n different
story. He had met than by chance , .Aye, aye, ma'am," he answered and
and he found that Mr. Pendean had
A GLIM.
A motor boat lay oft` Kingswear
Ferry when Mark Brendon arrived.
She was painted white and famish-
ed with teak. Her brasses and ma-
chinery glittered; tho engines and
steering wheel were set forward, while
aft of the cabins and saloon an awn-
ing was rigged over the stern, The
solitary sailor who controlled the
launch was in the get of furling his
protection against the sun as Mark
singing very gently to himself, but
hardly loud enough to be heard
against the drone of the engines. His
song was from an early opera of
Verdi.
"Have you noticed that man?"
Mark shook his head.
"He is an Italian, He conies from
Turin but has worked in England for
some time."
She called to the boatman.
"Stand out a utile or so, Doria,"
she said. "I want Mr. Brendon to
see the coast line."
not elurkcd but had done good work
in the war and got the O. 13. E."
"You have neither seen nor heard
of the captain since?"
"Indeed, no. My last letter, which
altered their course for the onon sea.
IIe had turned at Jenny Pendeat's
voice and shown Mark a brown,
bright, clean -shorn face of great
beauty.
"Giuseppe Doria has a wonderful
yuu can see, came three day: ago. In
story about himself," continued Mrs.
it he merely said he would be hack Pendean. "Uncle Ben tells me that
yesterday and meet me to bathe as he claims descent from a very ancient
usual. I went.to bathe and looked out
for him, but of course he didn't come."
�d "Tell nu• a little about him, Miss
Reed," said ltd Talk.
"Captainfain Red-
mayne, I hear, had suffered from shell;
shock and a breath of poison gas also.
Did you ever notice any signs that
these troubles had left any mark upon
him?"
"Yes," site answered. "We all did.,
My mother was the first to point out
that Bob often repeated himself,"
"Was he a man you can conceive
of as capable of striking or killing a
fellow creature?"
The lady hesitated.
"I only want to help him," she ans-
wered.. "Therefore I say that, given
sufficient provocation, .I can imagine
Bob's temper flaring out, and I can
see that it.:vouid have been possible
for hint. in a moment of passion, to
strike down a man. He had seen much
death and Was himself absolutely in-
different to danger. Yes, I can imag-
ine hint doing an enemy, or fancied -
enemy, a hurt; but what. I' cannot A Middle-aged man with a tee:seeps
imagine him doing is what he is sup- came to greet them.
posed to have done afterward --evade �—
the consequences of a mistaken act" family and is the last of the Dories of
"And yet we have the strongest —1 forget—some place near Venti-
testimony that he has tried to conceal migia."
a murder—whether committed by him- The boat turned west presently,
self, or somebody else, we cannot yet passed a panorama of cliffs and little
say." bays with sandy beaches, and anon
I only hope and pray, for all our skirted higher and sterner precipices,
sales, that you wi-11 find him," she re- which leaped six hundred feet aloft.
plied, "but if, indeed, he has been be- Perched among them like a bird's
tra.yed into such an awful crime, 1 nest stood a small house with windows
do not think you will find him." that blinked out over the Channel. It
"Why not, Miss Reed? But I think rose to a tower room in the midst, and
I know. What is in your mind has before the front there stretched a
already passed through my awn. The plateau, whereon stood a flagstaff and -
thought of suicide." spar, from the point of which flutter -
She. nodded and put her handker- ed a red ensign.
chief to her eyes. The motor launch slowed down and
lieark Brendon thanked her for her presently grounded her bow on the
pebbles. Then Doris stopped the en-
gine, flung a gangway stage ashore.
and stood by to hand Jenny Pendean
and the detective to the beach. The
place appeared to have no exit; but,
behind a ledge of frock, stairs calved
in the stone wound upward, guarded
by an iron handrail. ,.Teeny led the
way and Mark followed her until two
hundred steps were climbed and they
stood on the terrace above.,
It was fifty yards long and covered
with sea gravel. Two little brass Can-
non thrust their muzzles over the
parapet to seaward and the central
neatly surrounded with a decoration
of scallop shells,
"Could anybody but an old sailor
have created this place?" asked Bren-
don.
A middle-aged man with a tele-
scope under his arm came along the
terrace to greet them., Bendige Red-
mayne was square and solid with the
cut of the sea about him, IIie un-
covered head blazed withnaming,
close -clipped hair and he wore also a
short, reel heard and whiskers growing
grizzled. But his long upper lip was
shaved. Ho had a weather-beaten
face ruddy and deepening to purple
about the cheek bones—with eyebrows,
rough as bent grass, over deep-set,
sulky eyes of reddish brown. IIis
mouth was underhung, giving hint a
pugnacious and bad-tempered appear-
ance, Nor did his looks appear to
libel the old sailor. To Brendon, at
any rate, he showed at first no very
great consideration.
"You've come, T see," he said, shak-
ing hands, "No news?"
"None, Mr. Redmayne."
"Well, well! To think Scotland
Yard can't find a poor soul that's gone
off his rocker!"
"You might have helpedus to do
so," said Mark shortly, "if it's true
that you've had a letter from your
brother."
"I'm doing it, ain't 1? It's here for
you."
"You've lost two days."
(To be continued.)
Where Hills Arise.
Take a. hill before a rein,
Dust upon the yellow plain,
And the sombre waiting firs:
Take a hill when rain has passed
And the serried pine are massed
Spear points where a breathing
stirs.
There is somethiug in a. bill
Ever eager, always still.
In the sleep Meant of the Ville
Are a hundred hidden courses,
Anti their plunging waterfalls
Are like silver running horses,
While on windy days above,
Though the valleys have no sound,
Where the gentian holds the light,
Movement seems to till the ground,
I Was born where many waders ,are,
1 have seen then at their soui'eo, and
later,
Watched 1110111 when the floods were
Mgt],
Crossed then) when the geese flew by;
Many a sea I've known. but never
Water like a hill -born river.
--Struthers Hurt, in "When I Grew Up
to Middle Age."
Whistler and 1 -lis Mother.
Few modern pictul'es aro .more fa-
Millar to the, general pnblle than
Whisiler'e portrait of his mother, fine
sub,cctof that famous portrait, Anna
Ai WhisLler, was agentle, affectionate:
and deeply religious ol(1 lady, eouven-
Ilene: In her habits 1111(1 outlook anon
life, and not at all the kind of parent,
ohe would have expectel to belong to a
brilliant, eccentric, sharp-tongued and
belligerent genius. But the relations
between mother aitd eon, es depicted
in ,§cute of Mrs. ' hisdler's.letters re-
cently published in the Atlantic
Monthly, were of the happiest. The
(Inc old American, though she had
some natural doubts of the solid value
of her son's artistic London friends,
gifted and charming though they were,
endeavored to prove herself adaplable
and understanding, and aeted succese-
fnlly as hostess Bor herr beloved
",Temic" when he entertained them,
She tried hard to understand and
appreciate his art and tools a true
mothe'r's pride and delight in his snc-
cess. Of the femme portrait itself she
wrote:
"Just now a neighbor and friend in-
terrupted my writing. She has just
told me what some of Solute's friends
said of the portrait of my unworthy
self. An artist said to her, 'It has a
holy expression, 011, how much senti-
ment Whistler has put into his moth-
er's likeness!' Your sister 1111 -tell
you how wonderfully the three cases
of portraits were preserved from fire
on the railroad train, though many
packages of valuable luggage were en.
tirely consiuned. The flames heed
reached the case in winch my portrait
wee; the lift was burnt, a side of the
frame was scorched, yet the painting
uninjured."
Suppose the picture had been burn-
ed. Could or would VTblstlee have re-
placed it? It was a narrow escape in-
deed. for one of the really great art
works of our time.
"It is more encouraging to lny'hopes
f Jemie," continues his mother in her
eter, "that at this time, when the
e'orld le offered him, he should con-
ded in me voluntarily his desire to
site with me in the highest of all at -
Ailments. Ills is natural religion; he
thinks of God as the diffusive source
of all he enjoys, in the glories of the
firmament, the loveliness of flowers,
the noble studies of the Manan fnt'nt.
The Creator of all!"
Winter Warmth.
Twinkling flames danced beneath
file mantelpiece. Bronze andirons car-
ry the figures of dormant liens, eym-
beis of soft subservience 11t the flames,
asleep like gentle cats under the spell
of the fire. Lichen -covered dogs, col-
nr0d a sage green, with young moss
and earthy smells clinging to their
round and knotted surface, crackle
I merrily in the wide fireplace, etched
with polished tiles, Grandmother alto,
contentedly in a \Windsor -.choir and
reads.
'I'hls is a modern hone! Trans -
Planted beauty of the ages abounds;
within the four walls of the living
room whcee hardwood ficors radiate
from than Chinese design on the tMuneI
Wilton reg. The fireplace Is only
evidence of old-fashioned enjoyment1
of winter in northern lauds. Thel
The Chipping Sparrow.
Brisk little chirp' bird, front oer win-
dow narrow,
Your busy way wo watch;
Yoe are a kinsman of the.Eu•glisdt spar-
row;
Perhaps you're Scotch?
Yee, doubtless, toe your neat is built--
how thrifty!— -
With wisps from Dobbin'e-eessne;
You're cant)', too, evading Puss the
shifty,
Time and again..
Anal when we hear your Little song in-
sistent,
Limited, ehaingeiese, sure,
It proves you are a ;Scot but Inoon-
edstent,
A wee bit dour.
If still we doubt, there is a little mat-
t
att ter,
That proves the point, inayitap;
Nature has g'ven yon—the wise old
hatter!— -
A brown Scotch cap.
' Robert Gilbert Welsh, in "Azrael."
I The Flowers of Kingsway.
• Great cities are always being re-
btlilt. They are never LI heal 'Lon
(Ionia no exception it is never out of
the builders' hands. Ono of its most
famous thoroughfares — $ingeway
has in recent years beau carved out of
an area.' of mean streets and shabby
buildings.• 111 the place where they
stood are rows of tine buildings, with
the great Bush building, lcokitag uii the
Way anai by its sculptured motto,
"Frleirdsltip between the two nation's,"
reminding those Who pass' ofthe 'cor-
lnon interests of America and Britain,
Tho transiformation toolt.ntany years.
The district was. for long a mass of
ltoar1Ltgs and ecaffoldings. For a long
time much of the land was' unbuilt up -
mi, after the building -wreckers had
done their wont.
It was diking 'that. time that a
strange thing happened. Nature be-
5Eln tp torn those vacant apaees into
-gardens. Strange flowers appeared
here and there, flowers for which it,
difficult to account for the
Was d � Y were
not native bloorne. Expert naturalists
werecalled in and decided that they
were Italian flowers. They said that
the ground there had not had a drop
of moisture or a ray of sunlight on it
since the days when the Romans oc-
cupied London and built on that site.
For the first time for all those cen-
turies, the ground had been opened to
the ministries of sity and of cloud, and
these flowers were rho result. Buried,
they had bad no chance. When at last
the opp'orhmity came, those long-
ln riett seeds were not slow to respond
lin the sum and the rain, and to bring
touches of loveeiness to that stretch
of waste land.
There are surprise's like that in hu-
man life. 13u•ie(1 in many a life are
potential virtue., things of loveliness,
that have never found expression.
They are In the most unlikely places.
Sometimes they only get their chance
after an experience that resembles a
demolition. The overcrowded ground
of life has been eitatred and the buried
things are at last exposed- to those
ministries of God's grace which can
turn the wikiernesss into a garden.
0'U\V blaze is bringing anew a blush to 1
grandmother's Sch
cheeks.
As the living
g�
flame 1 at1
from the togglowinga
'
atmosphere is left
, which forms the y
Real Estate.
"Your frisoriship'to ate this sum-
ner.has meant a lot,"
'Well, then all we neva now is the
lene.'
Sentence Sermons.
Tt Will Pay You --Ts, treat any man's
lonest opinion with respect.
—To give tate criticisms of your ene-
'Mee pretty careful consideration.
—To Investigate twice before you
nvest once.
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-- To learn to manage money before
you aslc for the big raise.
- -To answer your faultfinders court-
ousli'.
-- Ta invent Mare in friend:; and
eave less for tombstones;.
To spend more for hooka than for
:Augusts.
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information and repeated his growing
conviction that the subject of their
speech hurl probably committed sui-
cide,
For two days the detective remain-
ed
emained at Paignton and devoted all his
energy, invention, and experience to
the task of dicr'overing the vanished
men.
Then Brendon prepared to return
to Princetown. He wrote his intention
to Mrs. Pendean and ',informed her
that he would visit Station Cottage on
the following :evening. It happened,
however, that his letter crossed an -
essence of the foyer to the French;
the hearth. without Its c•rleket, to the
English.
The fir
eplace is the link with win -i
ter clays of yure. 3lemor!ee and dim
pictures are in the fireplace frame--+
pietures that live and breathe and
vanish with the ever-changing music!
of the crackling loge.
All. pervading is the warmth. the
winter warm which bears no kin to
the vagabond days of summer. Out.'
side, the lawn is snow strewn, lit by I
the glow front the window where'
fringe of shade leaves a bar of flick-
ering lightand shadow. above the slit.
Odors of the forest III1 the living
room. Phantasles of spring leap from
tluiekening logs, as the rich aroma
urines from red and purple fiances that:
matte only one step to the vanishing
point in the somber shadows of the
chimney and go out over the roof top
into the night as a veil of smoke. i
A Good Fan.
He ---"Now we are at the hall game,
we'll aft by my friend Jones and keep
cool,"
She—"Naw con we peep cool?"
Ile -"He's a good fan."
Explained.
A little girl who wax trying to tell
a friend how absent-minded her grEwal-
pa teas said:
"He walks around thinking of noth-
ing and when ha remembers it, he
then forgets thatwhat be thought of
was sonrelitiilg entirely different from
what he wanted to remember,"
KEPT AFLOAT EY LUMBER CARGO
WHAT "OTl-1E12.
PEOPLE" SAY
7y A young woman tells me that 8110
considers she has a right to five her
own life in ier own way and do-exac -
ly as she pleases. So she hos snapped
her lingers In the face of Mrs. GrtmdY:
Now she finds that her reputation is
being torn to Lalters and thinks that
site is being treated unfairly,
"How hard, and cruel, and unjust
people are!" she says, and thee asks
"Don't you think that gossip. is the un -
Pardonable sin?"
Not tat all Gomel') Is one of the
mostpowerful influences in ,the world
for good. It is the Invisible, omnipre-
sent policeman that enforces law and
order, It is the scourge that keeps
the trembling wretchin order and
makes the weak•lateed and the wobbly
walk the straight and earner path.
Cowards AIII
i?
We cantifle the voice, of cenecl(tn'ee,
but wo c'lenel: silence the voice of our
neighbors, We can. believe that we
have a right to make our own code
of conduct, but we cannot force other
People to take our point of view, or to
make any exception on our behalf to
the standards that society has set up
for koo l behaviour.
;And it to thin fear of what "they'll
say" that makes us keep up at least
an outward show of decency. For no
matt('( holy vain and egotistic we are;
THE NEW COSTUME BLOUSE. do metier how self -complacent and
self•. atisfied we are; no matter how
One of the new silks having an in(lerc-ndent wo think we are,, we are
attractive border design has been all cowards who grovel in the dust be-
fore !'ublic opinion.
It is the lifted eyeehrow. It Is the
cold, n a"urcd, appraising look that
weighs us in the balance and finds us
wanting. It la tire turn of a shoulder
away from us and the 111Lle flush that
falls cma 0reap as the approach that
tells us daft. we have been the subject
of unfavorehlo discussion.
It is the knowledge that she will be
gossiped' about if she indulges in any
flirtations that lce.1,s utalny n hared
young married woman with romantic
yearnings from indulging in little af-
fairs with good-looking bachelors. She
knows that there mightreally be no
this blouse may be worn, making a berm in her having lunch with Mr. A.
charming costume. . The full sleeves or going to the theatre with Air. C..
are gathered into narrow bands at the
wrists, and a collar with longends is
tied in the front. No. 1246 is in sizes
84, 86, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust- Size
36 requires 2% yards 40 -inch, or 2%yard's 64 -inch material. Price 20c,
Our Fashion Book, illustrating the
newest and most practical styles, will
be of interest to every home dress-
maker. Price of the book 10 cents
the copy.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS,
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chosen for the fashioning of this
charming costume blouse. The ne'W
trintniing feature of fine tucks is in-
troduced in the groups placed at the
hips either side of the front and back,
emphasizing the bloused effect; and
right Hary let me tell you that the
smartest way of wearing your tucks
is on the inside `of your frock with
just the back of the seam showing on
the outside. The appeal of this blouse
lies uent: length. e
the l n g eel Y Fr one` has
in
dresses that are worn at the top and
around the hips, yet quite good at the
lower edge. The worn-out top may
be cut off, making a slip over which
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
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Pattern Dept.,
Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West Ade-
laide St„ Toronto. Patterns sent by
return mail.
Making Use of a Paisley
Shawl.
The fortunate possessor of a Pais-
ley shawl has a charming decoration
for the wall. 'While these shawls, so
popular in the last century. were
woven in Scotland, the Oriental 1 color
ings
and patterns make them delight-
fully harmonious with period furnish-
ings. The famous palm -leaf pattern,
for example, is a decided "find" to
hang in the fashion of a tapestry or
other d'soorative textile, on neutral
walls. It matte% a "point of interest,"
as interior decorators say, when hung
in 0 dark- corner needing more color.
It may be hung above book ;;helves,
above a mantel, a console table or a
couch. It can he fastened directly to
the picture molding, or hemmed at the
top and a stick run through the eas-
ing. Then a cord must be tacked to
each end of the casing and hang with
a tassel like a picture or mirror upon
the wall.
Sometimes, a treasured Paisley
shawl may be too worn to be used en-
tire, 'Then a strip cut so as to make
the most of the. pattern le attractive as
a straight table runner. 1i should be
lined with sateen. and the edge may
be finished with a narrow metal gimp.
A s'h'ip eat diagonally from a shawl
may be uaesi either in a runner mf as
a centre panel in a soft cushion. Con-
trasted with blade satin, paisley is
very effdetive in an oblong cushion.
where it johns the ,Statin the seam may
be covered with gimp to match the
table runner.
One more use for this colorful shawl
is to drape a couch' -with it. Plain ons-•
Mons should be used. A room furnish-
ed in Colonial 01' Queen Anne style,
specially when the Oriental note is
present, will he interesting with this
rpi('im'e'egne Cover.
Colors to set it off best incline diall
green, gold and black.
The Diplomat.'
lidsle, meet ahreo, was fond of play -
Ing telephone, but. hated to take a bath.
,— 1 Melting she 1001(1(1 1(11 a hale Strat-
egy, her grandmother picked up the
toy telephone . cold said. Dello, is
that 1Clsie?"
The child lyes delighted and said:
"Yes, grandma,"
"well, come and have your bath.":
'Wrsnie cumber said Elsie„ drop-
ping the receiver
:c t of
1!;iOL•en cubic f e w"imy when
frozen, makes twelve ,cubic feet of icer.
The schooner Edward ,I, leaner had a narrow escape from being eluate when elle collided •wii!1 the tanker,
Miller County, six.tulles off Scotland 'Lf htllouae on the New York coast She was kept afloat tor l.3 home by using
g t 1
ether and his plans were altered.' for space of grass about the flagpole was the lumber cargo to fill the gaping hole In the prow: •
but she could never explain it to the
woman who lives next door.
Protect Your Good Name.
Many an indiscreet girl is easy-going
and good-natured, and warm-hearted •
and affectionate, and she Res no harm
in letting boys she lilies kis,, her, but
it makes her heel' creep to think of
the Amalgamated Scandal -Mongers'
Union getting out their hammers and
going for her if site does.
1f we could only do as we pleneed
without moments from cur feliow-
creatures there would be many. morn
philandering husbands and wives than
there are, malty more neglectatt.ehi'IQ-
ren, and ill -kept ltouees. It is the
knowledge that, if they give way to
their natural impulses, they will be
talked about that gives many the
strength to resist the temptation to
be as Pad si as they would like to be.
Those who are down on gossip and
feel that the world should cover up
their sortcouin
gs
with a blanket of
silence are unreasonable. Why should
other people be more careful of your
reputation than you are yourself, 1f
you do not care eucugh for your good
nature to protect it, why demand that
service Olen thegeneral nubile?.
Foolish and vain expectation! For
the gossipers keep on their good work,
anti the only way you 0411 escape be-
ing talkosi,about is to be so exemplary
that yon are a dull subject for conver-
sation.- •Dorot y Dix:
Pyramids.
Vuoulalst build a gorgeous pyramid,
As Egypt did of old,
And point it upwardd to the sky,
Your name 'gainst time to bold?
Nay, do not build your monument
Of stones or jewels rase,
But build it up of loving deeds
Posterity may share.
Stone pyramids are futile things,
At best the stones may stay --
Bat men w111 soon forget the name
0f him who passed that way.
Ant he who builds that others may
Le helped by what be wrought,
Builds unarvelouely, a monument,
Of ever living thought.
--George Flllslon.
A Tense Moment.
At a performance col an amateur
,dramatic club an amusing incident 00-
ollrred through the nervousness of ane
I of the performers.
1 The local -band was leading feature
of the production, and praise for the
music was heard ail over the hall.
i In the third aoL a youth who was
1 playing the partof a page luta to rush
on the etage elitist the band was play-
ing and cry:
"Stop the music! The king is dead!"•
The critical moment arrived, and
the excited and highly strung page
made his entrance,
"Staff; the music!" 1(0 cried, dramati-
cally. "ft lits killed the king!"
Chasm Yawns In Field,
Daring a recent. MOO ,i subsidence
1, Mitch Ulnae(' a hole 30 feet deep,oc-
curled in a field sown with wheat at
Newlands Farm, Luton, England.
Selling Ganges Water.
•
itte ruler of the G.1ngeS river -is a
oonelderahle article of • commerce In
the remote parts of India, •
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