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BY ROBERT J. C. STEAD.
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(Copyright The Ilueson Book Cm)
CHAPTER XIII.--(Cont'd.) lit was with the deepteet regret 1 learn-
ed• from your canvereation of the
" I dort'e third< I wo'uld. be in a hurrY death tof Dr. Hardy. He was a gentle -
to .buy," Eiden said, slowlY turnin:ga 'Ivan who commanded my respect, as
es °T1 hIsr Partner. "Yell w°43a" he must have conananded the respect
Perhogs be wiser to rent a home for of Len who knew him, If my behaviour
a while. -Rents are becoming easier."
"But I have bought," said alhalaaseaeonalinyeede,,eagharat ePot'eXaeaeaDal-ler.eHeyaoetayt.sI
Hardy, and thei,,,e. was triumph rather widow—and his aaughter."
than regret in her voice. "I have paid ert is, a p,s„ouliar service/I m
1 g
rs
he
ad
of
e.
. eraWei/NO FOR sisTER's MEMORIAL
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my deposit." • • Hardy answered, curtly. She felt s
"It is the policy of this firm," Elden jhae , geaavanee again,,t paw. Ile hi
continued, "not to force or take &le ..1.3.,,et jived down to her ooneeptiQn.
vantage of harried decisions. The fa.ct 'what a raw western yoUth should b
that you have akeedy made a deposit Even the act of 'burning the egre
gh Mies Florenoe Cavell, a eister of 'Nurse -Edith' Cavell, sell'ing Vicaets at ,
does not alter that policy. I think ment •and the cheque, dramatic t'reou,
may speak for my partner and Neal it was, it hada paiae to it that see
firm when 1 saY that Your deposit ed inappropriate. Dave should ha
will be held to your credit for thirty snatched tee papers—it would ha.
days, during. whieh time it will co -i been better had the partnere fug
stitute an 09t1r41 •the ProPertYel over thern—he should have creamed
which you have aeleeted. If, at the them in rage and consignee them
end .ol that thrie, you are still of YOUr the fire with ourees Mrs Hard f
present inind, the transaction can Sao that in such condlict Dave wauld ha
through as now' planned; -and if •Yoy tbean running true to form. Hie a
hav-e changed your mind your deposat sumption ,of the mariner& -of a "gentl
will be t rt.'" man annoyed, her exceedingly.
Conward shiftedunder Dave's direct (it can only apologize for /iv Pa
eye. He paeferrede to look at Mrs• net's behaviour," -said; Conward. "
Hardy. "What Mr. Elden has told need not, however, affect the tran
you tabent the policy Of the film is ateaeion. in the ,slightest degree. A no
quite true," he managed to say. "But, agreenient will be drawn at once—a
es it happens, thie transaction isenot agreement whieh late- firm of Oo
with Conward & EIden, but with me ward' & Elden will met eoncerned,'
Persenally. I find it necessary to dia.
That will be more statisfaetory
pose of the property arldoli I have just said Mrs. Hardy. She intended th
sold to you at such an ex'ee,ptional remark D ' • , but h h
priee"-ehe was looking at Mrs.. Hardy rnoved to a corner of h
—"1 find it necessary for financialawaa .eantrersing in low tones with
reasons to dispose of it, and naturally Irene.
I. cannot run a chance of having nlY "I am sorry I had to make your
Plans overturned' bY any Possible mother s acquaintance under eircurn
change of mind on your part. Not that stances which, I fear, she • will no
I think you will amigo your mind," even try to, understand," he had sai
he Ii.urried to add. "I think you are to Irene. "I em sure she will no
already 0o/winced that it 'de, a very credit me with unselfish. motives."
good buy indeed." "01-1, Dave—Mr. Elden, I mean
iThe the feet of her tietter's Monument in London, on. a tag clay ter the Cavell
've I Meniorial .Fund, the aneiversaey of her death,
vel —
ht the facts. That seeme to be a businese Electrical Power for Palestine.
lt
ed!suggeetion. I think we are,agreed that
to 3) One of the great undertakings for
the Qom is over-. Values are on the resettling Palestine is to use the swift
current of the river Jordan from
Mount Hermon to the Dead Sea to fur-
nish eleetrical power for lights, rail-
avoys and industrial purposes and
Water. for irrigation. The cost of coal
iiePaleetinee-about twenty-five dollars
a ton ---is one of the chief reasons whY
grade. The boomsters are de -
down,
vseh parting. They are moyitig on to new
eel fields, as we .shouldt have done a year
or ,two ago, but I confess I had a_sort
Le -sentimett for this place. . Well—
that is the price of sentiment' It 'won't
f'.1 mix with business' Now, grant -jag'
;I that the boom is Oyer, Where. do we
,, !stand? the country is so backward. in in.dus-
h "We are rated as millionaires., but
1,1 we haven't a thousand dollars in the (try and transportation. The campaign
for funds is now going on, and it
bank at this moment This," he lifted
_.mrs,, Hardy's, ..would have seems that the Jews of Europe and
a'cie
seen us oeete next pay day, but you America will Provide the necessary
, hay the firm must have nothing to do o?eneY to fharneea the "one wide
And. which Is the more on- river.'
moral—since you ' have ' spoken of
Morality—to accept labor from olerke Good Reason.
whom- you. can't pay- or to sell- pro- . •
• I wonder, said 'the vicar "if any
perty to women •whe say they want
it and are satisfied with the price? You boys' or girls °an tell me Y"'-hY
`± We make our incoMe y selling pro- 'Mary and Joseph fled. into Egypt?"
'• petty. .4s soon as the sales- stop, the "Because," said a shrill, thin voice,
income -stops. Well, the sales have "because they hadn't paid their rent,
stepped. But the expense goes en. sir."
We have literally fl. '..i- of un- ,
"I am entirely satisfied," said Mrs. tha-t is—you delft know how prond-
settled 'eentraets.. We finiee keep el" Dye,,Old Wrap, Skirt,
sy 'staff -together. - We have debts to pay,' a „... .
-1- and we owe it to Our creditors to make weaiter,, Curtains
Hardee "The fact that Mr. Elden yen don't know how much of a ma
wants to get the property back makes „you inade me feel you are." She wa
me more ,satisfied," she added, Nvith flushed a.nd excited. "Perhaps
the peculiarly irritating laugh of a shouldn't talk like this. Perhap,s______
wernan who thinks: she is extra.ordia "It all depends on one thing," Day
rtarily shrewd, and is only very417. interrupted.
"The agreement is stigned1", sted
Dave. He walked to the desk and "What is that?"
It all depends on whether we are
picked up the documents, and the Miss Hardy and Mr. Elden, or whether
cheque that lay upon them. His eye we tare still Reenie and Dave."
ran down the familiar .contract. "This Her bright eyes had fallen to the,
agreement is in the name of Conward floor, and he could see the tremor of
& Elden," he situ. "This cheque is her fingers as they rested. an the back
payable to Conward & Elden." of a chair. She did riot answer him
He was addressing °onward. Con- directly. 13ut in a moment she spoke.
'ward's Livid face hadi become ...white, "Mother will buy the house froin
and et was With difficulty the controlled, Mr. Conward," she saki!. "She is like
his anger. "They are all e printed that that. And ‘vhen we are tsettlea you
Way, he explained, "1 am going to will come and see me, won't you—
have them ,endorsed over to me." llama?V'
"Tull are nut," said Dave, "Y(41 CHAPTER XIV.
are 'charging this women twenty-five when the Hardy& hadgote cormard,
thoemand dollars for a house that
viron,t bring tcoonty thousand on the atunend fietimitoouEtivdehne..„,;v7Weestagay,ethteersatrid
open mariost today, and •by Fall won't
bring ben thousand. 'Ile firm a Con- trYing '13ealc dispaseionately, lou
vrard & Elden will have nothing to there was a tremor In hie voice.
do with that trensaotiroi. It won't even "I agree,'' I -et -erne& Elden, vibe ha
entaceee it Tose!) •
no .desire to evade the iseuie. "Do you
A flee was burning in the grate. consider it fair to select inexperience(
Dave walked! over te it, and very %Yuman *fdr your viutinhe?"
slowly and deliberately thrust the °onward made a deprecating ges
agreement and the cheque into the tura "Thes,-e ie not,hing to be gained
ters stood out •after the body
flame. per a moment the printed letalb3r ciaarrelling, Dave,'' he said. e`tItiL
aa the! us face the setu,a.tion fairly. L
paper Was, consumed; then am fell' to get at he aetel' When we have
ashes. agreed: as to facts, then we -may agree
"Well, if that tdoeSn't beat alit" 1VITs. t d
Hardy ejaculated. "Ate an eow punch- S'haot," said Dave' He eta°d With
ex.e so disoourteous?" his sheulclex. toward Conward, watch-
niean diseourtevy " zaid Dasre ing the dusk settlin about the foethill
collection:s so that we can pay these in Diamond Dyes
e debt, and we can't make collet -Alone
without staff. I symeathize with your „
Baca package of "Diamond Dyes
feelings on this matter, Dave, but
what's' a man to do? It's like war; contains direetlmis simPle any we
-
we me,se kill or be killed- Busbies's man can dye or tint her old, worn,
is war, of a kind. Why, on the property faded things new. Even if She has
we are now holding the taxes alone. never dyed before, she can put a riche
will amount to twenty thousand doi- fadeless color into „shabby skirts,
laws a year, And I put it up to you, dre,sse.s, waists., coats, stockinge,,,
if -we are going to stand on sentiment sweaters, coverings' draperies, hang -
who's going to pay, the taxes?" inos, everything! Buy Diamond Dyes
"I,know—I know,' said Dave, whose "'
—no other Ituid--tlien perfece home
anger over the treatment of the.
Hardys was saready sub,siding, evje dyeing is guaranteed. Just tell your
are in the grip of the System. As druggist whether the material you
you have said, it is killeor be killed. wish to dye es wool or silk, or whether
Still—in war they don't usually kill it is linen, cotton, or mixed goods.
women and nen-combatants. That is Diamond Dyes never streak spat,
y the point I m trying to intake. I've no fade, or run.
sentiment about ethers who are in the' a
t garne as we are. If you lami yew. ' ObeyingOrders,-
operation -a to them—."_ Going into his stable one day, a
d "The trouble is, you can't. They're farmer found his little son with a
wiSe. They see the bottein going, ard notebook aid pencily in his hand, •sit -
1 they quit. Most of them .bove already ting as one of the horses
moved on. A few firma, like am:elves, •
- stay and 'try Le -figilt it out; try, 'Why' cl(1,ie' he exclaimed, "what
in the world are you doing?"
at least, to Cleee up with a clean Sheet,
t if we inust close up. But we can't "Writing a composition," replied lit -
wind up a business without selling tie Eddie.
the steckeon-thand, .and to whom are "Well, why don't you write it in the
we to sell it, if not to. people Whit) want' house?"
,
"And I hope you Will let me lay now, eitY. mo 'streets ed awaa into elle
what I should have said before that gathering eurkneae' aucl thesciaexe
brick blocks stood in blue Silhouette
against a .chaimpagne sky. He became
conscious of a strange yearning for
this young metropelie; a sort of pat -
sad .broeding over a boisterous, lea -
able, Wayward, Youth. It was his city;
no one 'could claim it more than he.
And; it was a v.& city to look upon,
and to, mingle in and to drawn about.
"I think, said Conward, "we can
agree that the boom is over, Boome
feed 'upon themselves, and eVentually
they eat themselves, up. We have done
Well, on. paper. The ,thing now is to
eonvert our paper into cash."
Dave tamed abut. "You knew
don't elailt to be any great rnoralist,
Oonward,". ht said, "knd I have no
pitY u ganiblei who deliberately
eke in end gabs Stung. Consequently
I am not tronblecl with any self-pity,
nor any pity for you. Arid if you can
get rich of our holdings to other
gambiei% / have nothing to say.. But
if it is to be leaded en 'te woman who
are investing the hark savings Of
their I/Veg.—Wendell ago 'tett Morrison
and Mrs?, Itezdy---then I am .going to
have a good dea te Say.. And there
to that Mani—what's, his tutine?-14er-
ten, 1 think; a, hinter 11 there ever
'was onei tuberculosis Witten all over
Mtnj a.*id6wer, too, with 4. little boy,
sens,,oirt hero as hisi,liaat ,ehanee—you
leaded him -With. atilt Whore he can't
006 the Orablee, ,(Of the eft, end you
eat it eftY prapaztn That's what
Want to talk about,"" said Dave, with
rising heat. "It basine.ss has to be
415 done that way, then I say to hen with
imainess4"
".I asked you not to .quarreb" Con.;
wand itturned, with remarkable 00111,,
pollute. ,,suggested that we get at
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Be free froth pain. Thous-
andi•onettliferete( have been to',.
WYO. .0.1! _Abet/ Matisinr, moling#
Neuritisl,‘ b&itica,
Lntii-
bao and Gent by Nes
.Remadee .
601311%4 attiatelut testlnon-
is 'axing the putt
twenty,tive'yeait from thooe,
,0460414 by "New Life.
Does not ,)4ontaint any /Manful
&eget Pleaaant te take QM
tittle net tipeet the digestion,
e battle for Dial bellar; Six
ettlee for Plye
is4 ikaat to Dittetomeee,
from your ,eiedeest Dentogi4
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it? That is what yet 'seem to object
"Yon place me in rather an unfair
light " Dave rotiked "What
jeer, to is taking the life ,savings e
people --people of moderate einem
stances., exchang•e fo
property which we know to be worth
next, to nothing."
"Yet Y011 aanlit that we reuse clean
up, don't you?" .
"Yes, T suppose so." .
"And there're no other way. Dave,"
said °onward, rising' and placing an
atm on, his ,paitneloo shoulder, "./ elym-
pathize With. greet point of view, bat,
rny boy, We pave sentiment, and senti-
ment hat no place businees. And
you remember the terms of our liart
nersiitip, .clorist you?"
(To be 'continued.)
Switzerland Has' No
Language.
The Steles constitute that eurlotis
anomaly, a nation without a langeege,
and in Ole they are alone amli
among a
tliepeoplee, of the world. nide is all
the mM
ore rearkable when their in-
tense patriotism le coneidered, and
their lieally wonderful lave et country.
The ' Official langitagets are. Getman,
Preach, arid Italian, theee throe being
the recognized "mother tongue" of the
majority of the Jahahitants.
Average Wo ight of Srefl
Thaver
e age *eight of the brain of
an adult male Is just over three
pounds; of a feinale, two pounds four
ounces, The nerveizi are all connected ;
with it dui ectiy or by the spia.31 mon
row. Theee norvee wit'h theh• berreit
es and in n r am "fi ca tio rt, b.tiny
exceeti 10,1)00,600 in nember,
0/Huard's 1-fnlmont Colds, eta,
"Because," answered Ealtide, "the
teacher told us to write a composition
• obe,
on a horse.'
minard's Liniment for Diphtheria.
r I
SALESI j4
We pay weekly 'and-.ott6i, Steady
emPloYnient se11th stir '0Oreplete end
exclusive lines ot -whew-vent,. treell-
,dug-to-erder trees anti plants. Beet.
stee1 ". and service. .We tow* andecjnip '
yoon.. free. , money -making.
otmorttunty, • • • • •
Wake Ofrothers7 Ittfuraeries, utontroat
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postman or express mariwilli, to
your home; Suits, dresses,
tilsters arid all wearing apparel can
be attecesstilik :dyed;
Curtaint, draperies, Carpets and
all household articles 'can he dyed and,
restored to their original
freshness
Wepay atteriage one
way, on all orders. '
Write for foil .partiettlerS.
Parker a Uye
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.no heed to
bake at honse
ERE'S your old-time fa-
.
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ai-
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,tempting raisins to the slice
—already baked for you by
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-Simply 'phone your grocer
or a neighborhood bake shop
and have a fresh loaf for
lunch or dinner to delight
your folks.
"We've arranged with bak-
ers in almost every' town and
city to bake this 'full -fruited
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Made with big, ;plump,
tender seeded raisinsThe
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Oil
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Raisin bread is a rare com-
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fruit—faith good and good for
you. Serve at least twice weekty
to get tie benefits.
Use Sun -Maid for herne cook-
ing of puddings, cakes, cookies,
etc.
You may be offered other
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than Sun -Maids,' but the kind
- you want is the kind you know
is good. Insist, therefore! on
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'Thb i itis ot strains and sprain's
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the painful congestion.
Sloan's -rheumatic .
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backs. Loor.,ons conrot-.tion from
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taking care of the sign (welling) of
the affliction and p'ayleg no attention
to the cause. What are you doing?
Are you/ neglecting yourself by- wear-
ing a truss, ea:Thant% or whatever
name you choose to call it? At best,
the truss is only a Make -shift. ---a false
prep against, Collapsing wall --and
cannot be expected to actas rnore
than a mere medhanical support. The
binding pressure retards blood els.-
eulation, thus ,robbing the weakened
muse -lee of that which they need most
—nourishment. '
-But science has feencl a way, and
_every truss suffeter in the land is
Mailed to make a test right in the
privacy Of .their own honie. The
PLAPAO Method is unquestionably
the meet scientific, logioal and success-
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World has eVer knoWn.
The PLAPAO PAD 'when adhering
closely to the body cannot poseibly
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—easy to ,apply ---inexpensive, To be
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Quick! Don't walt! Every bald head
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the dreaded bald spot. It veeres a sin
to let hair fall ont or tolerate destruc-
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0011.00 all sect hair trouble with a
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Milliens of men arid women ,know
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Voyagers of Iroday.
It Is eillicult for ass to eealize ta.(147
vytet voyaging meant to 41110$9 61si
traVelerS of the mediaeval World. With.
their new-fountl compass> they could
launch „opt into witat.'esenhed bQUItd
less mystery. Beyaria the little Corner
where 'they &Welt there wiis--,1what.?••
uNnoclulis:caollv'kern:dwh: el;trrty' isatiiradnuigeo:tl'e,c7,149:-
,teries, ,et, nature, myeteries of eivililae
.tiop, wealth .untgaraered and urdienited.
----jorP6e31:1,:aupe.swe paezirlidaPut famiZinattecdi ffiaarrImgzesa,
fierce, terrible, .destroying nnonetera
ensnaring sirens' aria everywhere 'me
known,- sudden, torturing possibilities
of death, What excitementcan we
conceive comparable to that bt setting
forth with 'Columbus', in those three'
little_ co eldeshelle. on• tbtat treinemarms
adventure?
For today there la no watch exeite-
ment, of physical disearvery left iestany
more. The glebe to known, Monoton-
ously, wearily; Painfully; known.. There
are a few patches, still scattered here
and there:whteee hninan•foot has .never
wandered; but we are sure that they
are Precisely.' like the vaster patches
that, we have Seen and teavelled and.
Studied, till they have eeaeed, to have
seereteer mystery, and almost to have
interest. Some day manemay,Vistit the '
meen, and the planets; but still then
the old charm of geographical explore-
tionapersiges only for those who .have
unit:baitef. curictsity, or unappeasable • -
restlesenease ,
Yet the eteplotrer, of toteiray- has still
realins left him that, canebe traversed
with unfeeling. Interest ext.d.deNglie,
. • . ,
SaYS a Water Yollths.! CoMPanima
Thepbikefear world Mali he trapped
and znes.su.ret4 the' 70:ild: ef thought
has vistas of discovery and naysterY'
that open newer ind vaster with every
dkay and year. Einstein uphe-vea tlie
solid earth trope eur,feoh, teaches iie
1 that the gamest caJou1nt5ati are- befit:
on rubble, mixesend mingles the ine •
finitely least with the infinitely 'great
est,. till ourmental universe Is dist
salved iato a. cloudlike feline of in-
stability, • '
Even. le explored arid understoord,
event more fascinating In Its, immedia
ate appeal to ,every one of ha, is the
dim, perplexing regien. of inen'e s.oul.
There are eeorets there, dreameeelehes
there, beauties there, which offer ab -
sox bin.g and. -suffi.o.,ent employment to,
the most restlese spirit and, to the
most ardent heart And behind th•ene
all is the one.snpreme, enthralling,
-intery, of God. What Caltun-'
bus , of to-rnoriew, armed with what
celestial compass yet unfound, , will
probe those mighty., depths:and reveal
.to u.ssome of the seorets for which
humanity e has, 'thirsted '• in vain se
many thousand years? '
Time discoverer to,f' todayt , may set
Quiet in hie study 'andthere encounter
niter wonders; stranger, madden,: ad-
;Ventteres. and 'mane rewarding .trea.-
, :
uTEIV:* Luarl. • any fifteenth -den trey voy-
ager seer conceived. •
. ,
The Cuckoo and Her Egg.
The moving -picture- photographer, it
s,eents, hers Made .a most interesting
and unexpected discovery about the
.baleitet of tithe .English eutkoo. 'What
We knew before, says Country Life,
„
was that the Cuekoo laid a large nuth-
bor of egge; More than twenty have '
been attributedto one' bJrd, The hen
'cheeses the nest intrewhiebtehe meaes
to put her own egg, and the nests, int-
,svca‘ ertcis
el:ly, belong' o the birds 'ono
io,
-Now the photographer for the eine-,
niatograpan has found cat something -
to 'add to that enearniation. Records
sthow that the cuelteto doee not, as was
originally supposed, lay her egg M.
hedgere* and then can,' It to the neat
.of her victim. Before laying her own
egg ;SIC.E) takes into' her beak oue of
these that are already in the. neat, Jays
her egg, in the .pla.ee it'oceupied and
then flies off, not with her awn, but
with her victlinh egg in 'hee beak. That ,
egg she later eats, Hitherto it has
alwaen, beex. suPPOSed that when the
.euekoo 1 seen -flying with the eg'',g in. -
th,e,r beak ft is her own egg, which she .
ie going to place in the nest of another
bird.
The floss.
love trla hose from hoof to, head,
From head. to 'Igoof and tail and
ulil
I love tliae leio;sts froM hoof to head,
From headete-hoof and baolr. again.
"I love my GOd t,)116 firat of all
Then Him field •. perished on tho,
Down on my knees and no've ` the
And nenCi•Xots:6nii.l; yAT'ine: and. then I.' fall
---jamte,st leVhitoornb BAley
Up•to-Date.
An adeoplane was flying over the
countryside, and the pilot. was iadulg-
ing ,int.a little,stunting. Abeetateranda
&city he looped the loop, unite forget,:
tog that be had on bee.rd a parcel con-
tairang a pair ,of hoots",
NatarellY they dropped Oat,
landed just in''front of 'an old woman'
,in 11 cottage gorclett.
, The package beret open, end Out
relied the boots., much to her aetoniehh
latent
Plaiting them up, She liebbled in-
doore, and tailed out' to her hua,bancl:
"'Etyou ere, Gorge! They boots
you Ordered'. awe .come. What a mere
derail thing thies, wireless is! I tlioeght
thea
ee,ricrlet.flie.bezz "ein. .eanaing through,
,Shipping IttereaSed.
In the year andimg..ialth Jenet there
watt an inerease .1n: he world's,eldp-
1.:I6
iii11.8o3g,1-0so
f726s,utie,:nolf alit ee sa s and ,