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Then they looked into. each Other's faces and. smiled that smile of muttial under- standing which all men Imow to -well; after which they parted with a hand- grip that would have crumpled- the knuckles of city weaklings. CHAPTER XI • The days came unannounced, 'lived their legitimate lives and died neither blessed nor execrated. Findlay was away the major portion a the thne new, making flying trips to Archer that usually lasted from Saturday -un -- Monday, the returning to the city front which he held typewritten con- verse with tl* rest of the world as he exchanged his good logs for its good money, growing richer and thinner with each shrewd bargain driven!. It was a tediously exasperating. trip on the bumping logging train, and no man who was not much in loye would have made it as regularly as did the lumber- man _in order that he might have a day with Barbara. On; these trips he always 'spent hours talking to Wilson. •about her. • "Fact is," he said one time, "I'm head over heels in love with that girl up on the hill, and a course when. it comes to fools an old 'fool is the limit. • I guess it is partly becauseshe is a _live image of her mother, and her mother—," Findlay drew • a -quick • breath and ran the back of his hand over his forehead. "Well, if her mother isn't the Queen of Paradise this moment ,it is because there isn't any such job.- Ever tell you ,how I won her?" "Then I guess I will,- although I ain't much on hawking family matters, and probably it won't interest You particularly anyway. Still, there was erst-class romance hitched to it after all. It was a long time ago of course—just about the time you.were getting born. I was brought up itCthe woods; have lived in them all my life, and now at fifty am just beginning to think I oan see my way out of them. If I have five years mote of reasonably good luck I will beable to sell out for enough to enable me to take my girl from this place out into thetfirm- ament where she can shine along with the rest of the stirs—that is of course unless some other man happens to come along and take her away first. Well, 'way back in those dark ages of.. twenty-five re. more years ago I was riding logs-aand as often as not river bubble—and living along the same as any other boorrasIdpPlag lumber jack, the only difference betweenme and the rest of the boys being that I had symptoms of an education and wanted • to gat it good and har& while the • rest of them didn't have any and were proud of it. About that time I got acquainted with her mother, Barbara o Wines. Barbara Wines was the daughter of olld Abraham Wines, who was circuit judge at that time—good old- New England thistle stock that got blown out of Vermont some -how ' or other and took met in the sail up this way. He was a widower then, and Barbara's mother kept house for him at Cypress in just about the same way that my girl is now keeping .house for me. In those days Cypress was about the widest open, toughest, meanest, ,hurdy-gurdy bark and slab shanty monstrosity that was ever per- petrated even in the pine country, with Barbara Wines about its only redeem- ing feature. She was that girl who is -now up -there in the cottage almost to a dot, not quite as pretty maybe or as well educated, but pretty enough to make any king turn his head, and better read outside of the statutes than the judge himself. There wasn't. any sChool in Cypress those clays for the reason. that nobody had happened - to think of one, and. the kids used to run wild as porcupines until they got big enough to go into the woods with an ax on their shoulder. ' But there was saloon for pretty near every adalt citizen, and every adult citizee came pretty near supperting- onea-- Hop Smith had a log joint on the outskirts of the burg, and Hop being somewhat of an alleged humorist had put up a sign in front of it that you could see for a mile when yea were coming to- wards it—add you could usually see two of them for the ,same distance when you went away. The sign read. 'Hop Smith's' Institute. Wines and other liquors.' , Barbara's mother was about twenty then, and she used to worry about those little brats running loose and growing up with no more educa- tion than the angle worms they went . fishing with. So she tried to get the town to put up a log schoolhouse and let her teach them just for the' fun, of it, butthe town allowed that a school- house was a superfluous redundancy and the old judge did not dare to take up' the proposition for political reas- • • N EXPOSITOR where the bar is, some deacon seats where the tables are and amater tank' in: place of the whiskey barrel. And that bitr sign of mine—' Bop thought for a minute and then grinned. 'I'll leave you the sign and all you will have to do will be to change the spell - ink, of one word, Miss Wines. As it now is it reads "Hop Smith's Institute. Wines and other liqieours." After you have changed the spelling it will say "Hop Smith's Institute.. ‘ Wines and other lickers." ' . "I was hanging around teem that sumnier and hankering more than ever for the kind of an education that a man can't get out of a saleon.conver- siation. I could read, write and cipher fairly well, but I had a sneaking desire to get on speaking terms with a- gram- mar and be able to have friendly dot Iings with algebra. Theo, too, when- ever I watched a bartender. mix a drink r got to thinking about chem- istry. I could tell the plus and minus Signs apart when I saw them together, but I wanted to know what H2SO4 stood for. Barbara Wines was the only one in town who could teach Me, but I was ashamed to go to day sehool with those kids whose heads didn't come much above the tops of a pair of cruising boots. So one they I edged up to her on the quiet, stammered out my troubles and offered her about all I had if she would teach 'me off and oe earnings. Well, do you know she flew at the chance like a hawk at a June bug! Wouldn't listen to taking a cent, but made me promise I would come to the house three evenings a week. So did. But we couldn't got satisfactory results' there, aarnehout Just about the time I'd get a good grub hold an a cube root and had got it half pulred out, someone would come in to politic with the judge and that would rupture my chain of thought, and_ mental maellinery that I'd got' wound up tight would run down all in a second with a whizz like. a clock with a broken dog clutch. Then' I'd find myself sitting there sweating and red with no more ideas in my hy; head thin a rabbit. So we gradually. adjourned to the Institute half a mile away, and 'then I began to do a gdod deal better. Also by mutual consent we raised the ante tojour eights a week. Of course I always had to see her home safe every evening after I had got groggy with knowledge. "I'll admit that accordiag to modern standards we rather crowded proprie, fies a young woman like her teaching a lumber jack like me .off "there- in' a log cabin evenings. But 3rOu've got to remember that those were pioneer days in this country when everybody did about as he or she pleased- and 110 qaestions asked, and I doubt if either one of us ever gave that matter a thought. I know I didn't. And rough; devil -me -care men as. moat of them' were. there was not a jack of them rough or devil -me -care enough to care or dare say a word against Barbara Wines And if he had, the rest of us would have chaimed him onto a saw log and shot him head- first' to glory through Bull' Moose rapids. • It goes without saying that I fell in love with her without knowing it --that is withe out knowing it until that night when with hell scorching us I told her about it in water up to our necks, my arms around her waist to hold her up and hers around my -neck because there wasn't any other handy ;place to put then." Findlay's voice had fallen al - /nestle a whisper and'nove he paused altagether - until Wilson jogg- ed him • f- .f"And that night! We. had been working as usual, in the log :school, I steuribling along as best I could and she helping me' up and etartinge straight again. It was chilly that ev- ening and I had. built a* fire in the heater when we fist came in, but. the heater didn't seem -to draw just right and there was more or less smoke in the room after a little while, smoke that kept getting thicker although we were so busy trying to .dissect,an al- gebraical conundrum that we did not pay much attention to it until we be- gan coughing. Then all of a sudden I came back from unknown X to solid earth and looked up. Just at that time something caught my` ear and I got on my feet and opened the door in a mighty hurry. All to the north, east and west. of 'us was a line of fire, fire and the sparks driven . overhead thick as stars. There wa4 a blanket of smoke just beginning to settle down upon us and it was the lower strata of that which I had thought came from the heater. And new that there was no door between It and me I could hear the roar of it, sounding. a good deal like a. train, going over a. bridge a long ways off Then I heard some- thing else ,that stirred me into life— a quick gasp at my side and I whirled around. rarbara Wines was standing beside me with her hands clasped, and her big eyes staring into the infernal furnance before us, white as a snow - bank but. as I found out .a moment later, cool as one, too. • "I didn't wait even to get our. hats. I grabbed her by the hand and away we went tiklit as we could -jump down the tote road to the south. The smoke was whirling around us and the sparks stung like little devils. Half a dozen small blazes started around us and I knew our only hope lay in getting into Lake Beaver, half a mile beyond. Barbara was running. as well as any worfien in skirts could, and when I turned to say something to her about not giviree up she only told ree to save my breath for things that were neces- sary. We made the lake and waded into it up to our necks and between -heat and ernoke it was the most un- comfortable few hours I ever put in, but on the other' hand it, was one of the happiest because her • arms were • around me and when I told her I Would rather die with her than live without l*r she only hung on to me a little tighter as though she hated to let me on So Barbara Wines made up her go. And that night was the official mind that she would do it on her own ; beginning of a mutual love that lasted hook. Off she went to Hop' and with ) without a skip or a break until I closed that broad, friendly smite that you have seen on my girIlt face she began • to argue with him like the lawyer's daughter that she was Hop wasn't any worse than the ordinary man of those days in that community, being not over nine -tenths scoundrel, ,and she made out a case that convinced him. right,' he says. `PI1 build Me another shack Tlearer town and turn this place over to you so you can teach the kids to shun me forever after, provided I get credit for my progres- eiVe, citizenship. I'll move out the fixtures and all you will have to: do will be to put in a teaching pulpit her eyes for the last time more than twenty years after. But every time I look at my girl 1 See her reetheYtoo. So maybe that will help make you understand why I seem a little over - fond of Barbara, even for a 'father. Don't forget -to keep your eye on that shack when you ain't busy, and if you catch her running off in the woods by herself just because she imagines she is getting a little lonesome, bring her back bodily the way. you did the last time if she won't come any other way. Ife he scratches you I'll raise your pay as a salve. And if anybody attempts to seriously molest her Pll tell; you what do. I'll stand behind sI ^ We Are , As. Full of Deadly Poison As -A Germ Laboratory. , :AUTO--' INTOXICATION . OR SELF -' .POISONING - .• 0 • “IFRUIT-A-TIVES"' Absolutely P,reL vents This Dangerous Condition. - . Ir4e c' hie/ cause oi poor health' is' • ii, o - neglect of the bowels: Waste atter, instead, of passing from the . !ower intestine regularly, every day, • Js allowed to remain there, generating poisons which are absorbed by the bllood. . . , ,In other words, 'a person who is • habitually constipated; is poisoning i hiniself. We knbw now that .Auto- ' intoxication, dne to non -action of the bewels, is directly resfignsible for • serious Kidney and Bladder Troubles; •• that it upsets the Stomach, causes Indigestion, Loss of Appetite and • atism, Gout, ,Pain .In The Bak, are Sleeplessaess; that chronic Rheum- ti relieved as soon as the bowels become LA' - regular • stud that. Pimples, Rashes, Eczema and other Skin Affections disappear when F`Frult-a-tives" are taken to cornet Constipation. , • "Fruit -a - lives" will protect you. against Auto- intoxication because thta wonderful fruit medicine acts 'directly on all the eliminating organs. c. a box, 6 for $2.50; trial size 25e. A Ian dealers or sent oie receipt of pr ce by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa: • you with. Yny last dollaT and 'give you et reward of merit card besides if you'll pick up sonfething and kill him for • me. Will you?", The rich color of the younger man's weather -tanned face suddenly. turned to a sickly gray and he sank into a chair with the limpness of one who is suddenly stricken with the siclaiess of death. And Itindlay, much alarmed at seeing. the uncanny. metam.orphosis that followed his last words, made a dash for a drawer froni which he drew' a bottle half filled -with whisky. Hur- riedly filling a glass he thrust it before his ' companion's lips. "What's the matter with you, map! Your face looks like a. toadstool. • Drink this." The sitter shuddered and sat erect. A dull red glow came surging where the ghastliness had been and he leap& to his feet with eyes lighted by great anger. One savage stroke' he Made and the glass crashed upon the floor; then he stood before his em- ployer with every muscle in a quiver from .a passion that seemed about to burst him by its violence. • "Findlay!" he cried fiercely. ni look after your daughter all right, and I'll do it as earnestly as if she were my mether, but if you ever of- fer me another drink of whiskey don't be surprised if I knock you flat.,. Out of the door he went with a rush, leaving the other man staring after him in a daze of bewilderment. The rapid thump of leis footsteps died away and tb.e lOggerl kicked the frag- ments of KlaSS into a corner 'and re - plated the bottle from whence he had obtained it. "Glad he don't like the stuff," • he mused as he began to whistle thoughtfully. "But what gets me is why the sin he first get white at what I paid, then all of a sudden got so. darned read just because I 'offered him a drink' of good liquor," 'CHAPTER XII Findlay went back to the town of- fice and Wilson took hold of his new work with a grip that quickly , niade him the master of it. e It was only elementary beekeeping after all, in- volving .ittle more than corrimon sense and the logical classification of added and subtracted figures; e system -sim- ple to understand and readily amen- able to still further simplification. Nor was there work enough about his new position to make it seem more than play to one \Ow had been. ac- customedd to as many, hours of hard labor per day as had this new wielder of the pen. In fact when night came he scarcely ever was tired enough' to wish to go to bed, and as he took (little pleasure in spending his even - Ings in the close atmosphere of the boarding house bunk shanty, he often sat for many hours in his .little teem over the store with the lanai turned low and his eyes fastened on the dark- ness without, turning them from time to time to the little dwelling upon the crest where the window lights twinkled star -like. Day times he oc- casionally came down from the top of his stool to wait on a stray customer who wished a piece of tobacco or some article of wearing apparel, but oftener still to ° stretch his craniped legs for a few mofnents: At these times he in- variably made it his business to step to the door for a brief inspection of the Findlay home. Once he caught a glimpse of Barbara as she passed the open door, but the • distance was con- siderable and if she saw him she gave no sign. He used to wonder vaguely at these times how she passed the long hours alone. But, Barbara, although her house- hold duties were light, and. despite the fact that she bustled r about them as though oceans of weak lay before her, was seldom idje. She seemed to pos- sess as great a feculty for finding • work still to be performed as she did of performing it after it was found. And as her • hands were seldom Still, SO were her lips not often silent—now humming soine air t of her schoolgirl k 1 day, now forined. ,into a rosy puc er from which tame shrill, mecertain a other e:.:racreir.zrY -enteles pipings like the tentative squeaks of And rris GREATEST EXHIBITION OE ALL TIMES a young TO, squeals that sent the i liotaw cat slinking *to dark corners - tease her for a moment just to see for the source ofsthe sounds Wet , what she would dol. inystified n beyond feline 4xp1anation. j Prim I have robbed- you of the For Barbara, although ever ready to 'pleasure of reading the story by my belittle her full-throated voice, was tiresome chatter," she returned cold- vaniti itself when it •eame to her ri- II, her chin giving' itself an upward diculeus Whistle. The weather had tilt. He thought it time to begin to been'grosely, disagreeable for tome be mollifying, . tune and she had not passed front '"On the contrary, you have given -beneah tthe mot Then one (ley as me the much greater pleasure of list - the clbud curtain drew itself aside and . , . ening to your rendition. A. good story the sen swung .'boldly int!) view she I well told makes the reading of it aft - stepped to the door and stood, eraards flat, stale and unprofitable, thought -engrossed, looking down upon j What . are our great actors but our the roofs of the scattered hamlet; \great story tellers' Who would not 1 Several times she had seen Wilson rather see Jefferson's Rip than read Standing at the' Store door or straigh- Irving's? Who—" telling out the kinks 'In his legs with She interrupted lihn icily. "In - the store watchs dog pacing. behind him, and now .sudden determination came upon her; a determination born of a deep sense of obligation and a touch of sympathy for his lonely con- dition "That poor man! He •must be dreadfully bored down there with nil one te talk to except now and then a lumber jack after another bushel of tobacco. •I weuld-die of loneliness if I had to stay in such a place alone. I wonder if he hassanything to read deed! I remember now how bored and fidgety you were—turning the book over and over and saying 'yes, yes,' like a ninny while jabbered on. And the worst of it is that I was a bigger ninny, for I imagined that I was ine teresting you." She taok a step to- wards.him, her mouth compressed into a horizontal wrinkle/. "But how did I know that you would not read the last page first the way every one else does ? Give ane my book." "But Miss Findlay—just a moment eveninika! I'll just take him down —Please—' • something." So she hurried , to the "No, I don't *ant to listen to you. book case where She stopped lin per_ I am going to leave before r say some- plex4g, a faint frown wrinkling her thing that will spoil the other twee forehead and her hand wandering un- I want my book" She seized the vol-. bee hovers in mid air over a blossom 'much as a uThe from his hand and had opened certainly over the volumes bed before he chooses his flower and makes his dart, • "I wislf I knew What he likes, then I would know what to take him. Love stories! He dosen't seem very senti- mental—more practical. He would probably laugh up his sleeve at me if I took him one. But I Will just chance this one anyway because it is so clever and its ending is such a surprise. Then of courge most men like to -read about war .and blood; and here is a book that has a horribly interesting fight that I know he will revel in and—" her fingers made another dari and she plucked forth a thin voluine triumphantly—"this volume of scrip- tural quotations is just the thing for Sunday reading% I know he has nev- er.read it, and besides; it will counter-. act the book with, the fight in She deftly wrapped the selected mot- umes into a 'Package and started (hewn the hill full of the self -patting com- plaisance of the righteous who invade the haunts of the benighted. Wilson loudly adding up a column, lost his count at the first sight, of her face and advanced.. a few steps to meet her. He was genuinely delighted that she had come, told her eo, and took the books thankfully. "No, he had not read any of them, but he certainly 'should devour them all. It was very to one to -be r membered by certain thoughtful of h7 and very agreeable people the door before he could fairly get his tongue in action. ite'eTeeniverye -wbilerkd,"_hetwiwaciel.td. Tii`Iellshratpead shutting of the door was her reply, but she had not taken a dozen_ steps before he was standing upon the plat- form and pleading against her rap- idly vanishing back. "Wait, I want to explain:._ Please wait and give a fellow a chance, won't you?" But her head still remained high and her feet beat the path in. a liyely tattoo. He had never seen her vexed like this be- fore, and although he knew her im- pulsiveness. his surprise at her was only equated by the self -anger that arose within him. To offend and wound her was tad enough, but in ad- dition to that to; drive her away just when he would have given a tooth to • keep her there was almost enough_ to make one bite his tongue in twain. And all because of his anserine stu- pidity! To be sure he had no more in- tended to offend her than she had in- tended to spoil the story for reading purposes, but he had only been amus- ed and entertained whereas she had lost her temper completely. He could not understand it. Barbara Findlay, with her keen sense of htunor, losing her temper over a. thing a ridiculous as this! Barbara Fhallay - with her love of teasing not likely to be teased herself! But she was gone, probably never to return, and it was all his fault. As inconcetaable Idiot His manifest appreciation, of her unspeakable. Fool incomparable. Ass, charity delighted her, and at once she started in, to tell him about the love story, Raiiidly she unrolled its intri- cate plot, skimming swallow -like over the minor details but pouncing upon its crisis to hold Ahem triumphantly be- fore him as she dwelt impressively upon the trials of hero and heroine. Then with infinite satisfaction she told him the unexpected climax, when the c,unning spinner of the yarn had by a Oft move gathered up the loosely woven strands and, presto! tied. a nuptial knot that,..endo all just when. one thought the feat impossible, "Wasn't that fine?" she inquired, eager for applause of her recital and confirmation of her taste. He nod- ded, a small, queer smile about his lips as he gazed at the volume which he had been turning over mechanical- ly as she spoke. "Decidedly. But I don't think :1 care to read it." piste/41y Berbera be- came bolt upright in her chair as she stared at him in arriazeinent. "Whynot?" she gasped. "Simply because you have told me all about it much more interestingly than could any author. Why, there- fore, should I read it 'when I 'already know the plot, the triaii and the in- genious finale for Width I had waited with a scarcely beating hart?" - "Oh!" said Barbara,. . He smiled flateringly. • "Wouldn't it be like tediously crawling over a landscape that you had just seen from Pegasus's back?". 4e, asked her this cooly and provokingly, wishingt to Idiot, Fool. He . bit his lip and thoroughly enjoyed the pain that fol- lowed_ . From half 'way up the hill there came back to hirk a laugh that bubbl- ed 'arid grew until it was suffocated by aceihite palm suddenly clapped over guilty lips. And. the gild hurrying more than ever now ran up the steps and darted in the house with the quickness of a rabbit disappearing in its warrea, while the one below, star- ing afterl her blankly for a moment, turned into the store with Ee sigh of 'relief iii the 'consciousness of having been thoroughly humbugged. It had been B,arbara's joke from the begin- ning. She •had started in to tell- him the story expecting him to protest, and had he done se she would un- doubtedly have dropped the real nar- rative and gone to inventing just to see what he would, do. But he had not protested and therefore she had kept truthfully on to ,the end.I Then he had attempted! to mildly irritate her by his provoking tones, and she had recognized his intent and taken the . game into her own hands. She had. probably intended to go away much insulted, leaving him. to wrack his brains as to how to apoldkize to her -until she forgave him of leer own accord, but tlfe latigh had betrayed her - and the ,game was up. They were quits.' . : And if in the weeks that came there- after Batbara went to the -store f�r small household needs full as often as necessity •dernanded, and if finding herself there she listen to his wishes id that she, remain a hile and thus break the monotony of heir lives, who is there with spirit rn,ean enough to - have denied them.? Findlay . was seldom home, and when he was his visits vith the _girl hore the sanctity of close family . affairs. That no in- sinuating tongue could by ally possi- bility be stirred, , Wilson would rot have called at her home during the father's absence even had she granted him that permission, and grant him that permission she 'certainly did not. But that' they should broaden their acquaintance at this publie place of trade in the broad light of day wait quite another matter and nothitig more natural beneath the sun. It was but the unconscious listening, to nature's call; the willing obedience to the primal law which has drawn woman te man and rnan to woman 'through all the ages innumerable. For he was tall and strong and good to look upon through a wornan's eyes, agreeable as well; and tall, strong 1 me ap Who are good to look upon And agreeable as well have been of in- terest to' women since the beginning. Then as if that were not enough, he • was the only specimen of his kind available; whicli. was a circumstance of tremendous import in itself alone. Strange would it have been if Wilson in loneliness had not pleaded. Al- most stranger had she not sometimes granted. It was kismet. . $:pring came with the first breadth of the south fanning the cheeks soft as the brush of a feather. followed by lukewarm rains that pitted the bosom of the fmaw and turned the erstvvhile brittle coverlet of • the river into a rotten honeycomb. Stray ducks came whistling close overhead, and every now and then the ear caught the 1 lational Viciory Celebration TO BE OPENED BY H.R.H., • THE PRINCE- OF WALES Aug. 23 TORONTO Sept. 6 Li • • Eritroh Grenadier Guayas Band • • ;Vat; Memorial Paintings Seb.3ation of the art world, recording every phase of Canadian operations oversea. 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BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT Brueefield St. Marys Kirkton ' Exeter 41 Clinton Ilensall Zurih dinner, seated himself upon a box with hie back again er the office to bask, eyes shut, in the almost forgotten luxury of a sun bath when he heard light footsteps coming nearer and un - !closed his eyeslie had not seen Barbara for nearly a week, worse luck to it, ,and therefore was even more ipleaeed than usual to behold her. Her Poeta were spattered with muddy alusli to the bottom' of her short walk- sldrt, and. she jooked at the brook- ets and puddles *that bounded her oh every side with displeasure plainly Written upon her face. "I have not been out of the house rfor nearly a week and amsuffocating fox freth airr she announced after_ bidding; hirn a good afternoon: "I 'don't mind wading through clean snow even if it is deep, but 1 despise mud and I abominate slush. I want to go somewhere and I wish I had a horse." (Continued ,Next Week) • ; NEWEST NOTES OF. SCIENCE aiinual production of salt exceeds 2,100,000 tons. In China there is an oil well that ha e been. drilled to a depths of 3,600 feet with the most primitive native tools. An 'electrically heated roller, to he connected with a lighting socket, has een 'invented for mounting photo- phs. A new fruit has been discovered ear Torreon, Mexico, yielding. about enty-five per cent. of oil of high lubricating value. Deposits of a peculiarly hardened peat that burns almost as well as coal have been discb-hred in Southern' New Jersey. Pneumatic stage scenery invented in Europe is said to be more realistic than. the ,flat and to be more easily transpqrted. • To a California inventor has been granted a patent for a faee mask to protect men from switching cows' tails while milking. . - • A shallow draft boat has beereeqmp- ped with a complete laboratory to study tropical diseases where they occur in the Soudan. The French inventor *of an antoino- bile driven by an. aerial propeller has shaped the blades of the latter, like the wings of a bird. Cams instead of cranks are used to drive the pistons in a new reciprocat- ing pump from which vibration is al- most completely elizeinated. The chilian government will conduct exhaustive experiments with a view to the installation of oil burning loc- omotives and all its railways. An inventor. has mounted thirty feet of lamp cord on a spring reel carried on a setivel to permit an elec- tric light to be moved over a large area. A private train built for the Khedive of •Egypt, is composed of cars pro- pelled by electricty obtained, from dynamos driven by gasoline engines. Invented by a California, man, a non -sinkable lifeboat will serve r its intended purpose perfectly no -matter which side of 'the craft is uppermost. In a Norwegian engineer's device to improve wireless telegraphy the elec- tricity is received in an accumulator and released with mathematical ex- actness. A device has been invented which records on a sheet paper mounted on a revolving drum the vibrations of the springs of an autqmobile or motor itruck. I All of the mineral springs in Pera will be taken over by the government and conserved and exploited under the direction of the public health depart - Melte . An Illinois inventor has patented bangers for barn or other doors • that are suspended- from tracks that can be adjusted to work properly when a door warps. e In One region of government forest land in Argentina it is estimated that there are at least 1,000,000 pine trees large enough for profitable lumber- ing. To save automobile tires when a car Is standing in a garage a jack has been invented that automatically lifts the ar clear of the floor when run over The Siamese musical scale is an qual division of the octave into seven arts and music never is written, but arned by ear and handed down tradi- ionally. What its New England inventor alis a motor treadmill utilizes the ower of an artomobile to operate arm machinery by friction of the car's driving wheels. Australia new daylight saving law Provides that all clocks be put for- ward an hour at the end of September and back again at the end of March in. each year. To help motorists locate ignition troobles B. device has been invented to be mounted on a ear's instrument board and show which cylinders are sparking properly. Recent government figures show that only one person in every 1,000 DenmArk is tumble to read and write eompared with seven in each 1,000 in muffled drummings of a partridge, as the United States. Lae man is formed. of a single narrowetrip a fabric so wound and sewed upon itself as toforin the body, arms, legs, and dress of the figure. Chili claims that the island of Chi- Ioe, off its west coast, is the original home of the potato and that it has been cultivated there since early in the fifteenth century. For campers 'a box for shipping supplies has been designed with sides that fold upward to convert it into la - table, supported by lion legs that form: braces when it is closed. The Brazilian government has de, creed that products offered for sale as • butter must contain at least eighty per cent. of butter fat and not more than fifteen per cent. of acid content. . In a bowling alley patented by a .Milwaukee man pins that are knoceed over ar4 registered in electric lamps on a score board and electricity alsa is used to set them up again. The government of C2bchoslovaltia will enlarge and re-equip its telephone, system and will send a commission of experts to the United States to study systems and appliances in use there, Weimar. • Some of the German newspapena, and doubtless many of the Germs* 'People, are puzzled over the selec- tion of Weimar as .the seat of Gov- ernment. The r is advanced that, the former government having lest national support, Berlin was held te have fallen into correspon.ding ,repute with the people gene .ra31g,,, and the selection of Weimer Was VIIIW peeted to win ir)pular approval cause of the city'f, literary and mud. cal traditions.• nerliners, howeelea could hardly, have been expeet0d see it that way; and at least oeeetia- sereing journal, r;caking for its ;own constituency, holds that it was the duty of the new govermilent "to pro- tect both the reputation and the politica significaece of the chief alt7 of the empire." Any other chola*, would perhaps have aroused equal m ' criticis; but whether or not it Wail With that intention,' the choice W44.11 well made to remind other nations of German achievements in music and literature that the whole wor14 justly adtnired. he beat the long roll call for his hiding An incandescent electric lamp that mate, Day by day the growipg cannot be removed from a socket .with - warmth -of the sun's smile warmed out destroying its usefulness has been the cold bosom of the earth, and day lovented for use in public places to byday the snows sickened and the ice prevent theft. wasted consumptively until the tote Algeria has a river - that literally roads were awash with slush and the ie filled with ink, being foamed by the going anywhere from ankle to knee- ninon of streams one of -Which is hit - deep. It was upon a Sunday morning pregnated with gallic acid And the * that Wilson, lazily wandering store- other with iron, ward from the boarding house after 'A doll invented by a Brooldyn wo- ' Peppery Pulchritude. -13ob's wife is pretty, but she halt an awful temper," - "las that why they say ihe's a nate ing beauty?" The Chamelon. A general belief is that the theme, leon changes its color in accordanee with its surroundings. Some experi- ments throw doubt on this "View. The color changes seem to be regulated by light, temperature, exeiteraent„ etc. Thus one placed in sunlight so that only one side was exposed to the rays of the sun became dark brown on this side and pale browu mottled with green on the other. Placed in a dark box and kept at a temperature of 730 degrees Fahren- heit, another emerged a brilliant green. Another specimen in a dark box at 500 dtees Tlahrenheit as- sumed a unifor salty -gray -color. Pearls. A pearl is built up in layers, like an ,onion. The layers are very hard, but with suilicieht skill one layer af- ter another may be removed or "peeled." Sometimes a pearl that appears dull, spotted or imperfect in shape, when peeled yields a. gem of the finest lustre and consequently of great value, Dull, rough pearls, bought for a few dollars, are some- times sold for many hundreds of dollars aftef homing been peeled. •An Obvious Retort bnce only, it is said, did Sir F. 311. Smith lay himself open to a retort from a witness he was cross-examine lug. It was in the Divorce Court, and the man ill the witness -box war es nervous little elderly clerk. , "Have you ever been Inarrieat" began Sir Frederick. 'eYes," stammered the Cis" "oncee' "Whom did you -.marry?" "A -a -woman, sir." "Of course, et eouree," snapped the future Lord Chancellor. "Did you ever hear of anyone roaming .s& manr- "Yes, sir—my sister did!" 4, , queen Victoria's Maiden Name. - Members of the royal families have no surname; that is, 110 family namie such as ordinary people are known by. There is a good deal of diva 011E151011 on the subject and Mr, Colt- ayne, an authority, says the prevail - big idea that the family Dame of the House of Hanover, to whieh Queen Victoria belonged, was Guelph, may be dismissed as absurd, that having been the Christian name of a inedio. val duke of Bavaria, whose sister 14 1040 married the Marquis of Este, and it is from that -couple that the! House of Hanover destended. Reno* d'Este -comes nearestto being the maiden name of Queen lirictoria. Hun Cigarettes; For some time past the eigarette in Germany has been growing „thin- ner and thinner until at present the weight of tobacco Is little greatest than of paper. The pre-war eigarette in Germany, when sold by the ounce, ran about 16 to the ounce. Si1100 tho early part of this year the cigarette has "faded" until it takes taors than 33 to make an ounce. 4