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shock to her to find out he had been all through a real engagement before. Madelalne told her she had even start ed her trousseau." “ It may dd'her good to tell her” — his tone took on a quick sternness as he stood up— “ that Hal’s absolutely smashed up over her silly nonsense. He loved her completely. He made us bring him up here because It seemed Br LZOLA FORRESTER they had planned to spend their honey moon here In camp— ” (C o p y rig h t, 1911, by th o U c C lu ro N e w s * “ That’s what Dell told me. I must p s p s r S y n d ic a te .) get back, or they'll miss me.” “ Well, It's seven miles from No “ Let’s try nnd tie up these ends of where, sure enough,” Dell declared romnnce again, you and I,” he said. with a sigh, after they had climbed “ And don’t think me an Infidel. I be the trnli for three hours, and still the lieve, too, In love at first sight.” camp on Mirror lake lay far ahead of She ran back down the overgrown them. ” 1 don’t care, though. The path to the camp with his words ring farther the better, and I hope we’ll ing In her ears nnd a guilty load on never see a white man all the time her conscience. But the secret o f the we’re here.” other campers was ns safe with her as Wah-tonah, the guide, heard, and with Wnh-tonah, nnd when she coaxed never changed his expression. If the Dell to take a long hike with her she white women who camped on the lake never betrayed the plan Stanley had chose to think nobody else cared to laid out. He was to bring Halbert half camp there likewise. It was not his way round the lake, up to the rocky fault, nor his duty to Instruct them. point where the pines were nnd leave Two weeks before he had climbed the him there to rest Just when Dell would same trail with the three men who find her way up the narrow trail. The two conspirators waited down wanted to be where there were no women. One had been very ill. One nt the base o f the clilT. They had was his brother and helped him over known ench other now for two whole the rough places along the trail. The weeks, nnd when Dell nnd Mrs. Cam other sang much. His voice rang out eron hnd marveled nt the fish Beth In the wilds like some clear-toned bird caught she only smiled happily. There call. The guide remembered, too, that was too much nt stake to give the se he had been like the old hero hunters cret away. “ How long shall we leave them up to look upon, tall and slim and strong, and he had laughed much and cheered there?” asked Beth, hopefully. “ T ill they come down. If there hnd tho other two. There was no fear that they would been any trouble she'd have come meet unless the curling smoke o f the flying hack thé minute she saw him. camp fires betrayed them to each oth It’s all right. I ’ll bet a cooky they get er, but Wah-tonah felt his conscience married up here nnd chase us all was perfectly clear In the matter. away,” he laughed up nt her. “ I ’ve They each had a whole side o f the had a corking time, haven’t you? I lake to themselves. I f they would stay wonder if you still believe that?" “ What?” on their own sides there would be no “ Love nt first sight.” Above them trouble. And here he had a happy thought. Gravely he looked at the there came a whistle, then a hail from three; the one too fat, the one too thin, Hal. “ Don’t answer yet,” he began. the one with the hair like sunlight “ They won’t miss us a bit. Didn’t you and eyes like deep water in shadow. know the first day we met that— ” “ They’re coming down,” said Beth. He did not know their names, but this one he liked best, so he addressed her. “ I know It’s all right.” He took her two hands In his and “ Too much bear on lake,” he told her. “ Not where you go. All good forced her to turn to him. “ I ’ve never even asked a girl to there. Too mnch bear other side lake.” “ We'll stay right on our own side, marry me before,” he said, “ and here thanks, Wah-tonah," Beth said prompt you won’t even listen to me. I’ll throw ly. “ Anyway, we’re all pretty good you over my shoulder and cnrry you back to camp If you don’ t answer me.” shots.” She laughed up at him teasingly ns But she remembered what he had said. After the second week nt the Dell and Halbert came In sight to camp one day she hnd swung out Into gether. “ I ’d love a honeymoon In camp, too,” the woods to pick berries, and there came a suspicious crackling til the un she said. derbrush. Watching keenly, she heard the slow, heavy movements of a body BIRD SAVED LOST BATTALION pushing Its way through, and before she thought twice she had slung her And fo r T h at Reason "P resid en t W il rifle to her shoulder and sent n good son” Has Been Cited fo r the shot straight nt the moving bushes. Al D. S. C. most instantly there came a good, leavy broadside of strong language, and The carrier pigeon that saved the Beth sat tight on a log. longing to “ Lost Battalion” was a visitor here the laugh and only glad the shot had not other day with the third assistant sec taken effect. retary o f war. Out from the woods came her “ big This winged messenger, named Pres game," six feet two, dressed 111 khaki, ident Wilson, Is the sole survivor of and frankly furious. At sight of her a basket of signal corps pigeons that he stopped short, stared and then attempted to cnrry messages from the laughed with her. “ Lost Battalion” to headquarters. For “ Well, you did clip my hat," he said this service the war department has ruefully, showing the two neat holes cited It for the Distinguished Service through the peaked crown. "Do I look cross. In action It hnd its left leg like a bear?" shot away. “ You acted just like one," said Beth. The official citation of President W il “ How was I to know. Wah-tonah, our son fo llo w s: guide, told me there wasn’t a soul up “ During the operations o f the tanks here but us, and there were bears on in the St. Mlhiel offensive, one big the other side of the lake.” blue bird, known to his trainer ns “ The cheerful lia r!” exclaimed the President Wilson, working from tho Intruder, " lie took our whole outfit tanks, carried messages o f Importance up th-re n month ago, and knew we with such rapidity o f flight ns to call were going to stay, and he's been up forth commendations from the signal with supplies twice since, and never officer o f the first corps. Transferred told us anybody was here but our to the Meuse-Argonne sector, with sta selves. tion nt Culsjv President Wilson again “ We’ve got n dnnd.v camp down on proved his mettle. It was on the the shore in that little curve where the morning of November 5, the big blue, pine grove Is. Probably he didn’t tell with his leg shot off, nrrlved nt his us about you because—-well, my aunt’s loft. Ills flight, the second on this with us, and Dell, that’s her daughter;’ front, was mnde in 21 minutes, over Dell's just hnd a really terrible experi n distance of 20 kilometers. Particu ence. She Is completely disillusioned, larly creditable was the performance of nnd the engagement’s broken, and we President Wilson because o f the fact came up here to try and make her for that he honied In n henvy rain nnd fog. get. She hnd heard of the lake from A powerful bird, o f wonderful vitality, him, and always wanted to come, I be the big blue recovered quickly, and to lieve.” day graces the Hall o f Honor o f the “ Isn’t that too bad 1” Stanley settled American pigeon service. President himself beside her sympathetically. Wilson Is officially designated ns U. S. "May I help pick berries, too? Maybe A. 18, 10374, b. c.” — Philadelphia Led we can fix up a truce whereby I’ll ger. trade fresh fish with you for huckle berry pies; how’s that? I ’m dying for Noted Chinese Engineer. n whole pie. W e’re not much on cook Jeme Tlen-yu, better known among ing, any o f us. There’s Frank Car ter— maybe you've heard of him, aw Chinese as Chan Tlen-yu. died recent fully clever fellow, scientist nt Colum ly at Hankow. He wns the builder of bia— nnd his brother, Hal. I roomed the Peklng-Knlgan railway, the only with Carter during our post-grnd. years purely Chinese railway, and has held nnd when he hnd to come up here with many Important posts In connection Hal, I told hint I’d stand by. He's with China’s railways and the min been pretty sick; nervous breakdown Istry of communications. In building the Kalgnn road he made a record and worry." “ Halbert Carter?” queried Beth, eag fo r efficiency and success In doing erly. “ Why, he’s the mnn, you know." good work at small cost not yet equal ed by an foreign engineer In China In “ The man?” “ Yen, the one Dell was engnged to, any large undertaking. He wns Amer Eastern Bureau and they were to be married this fall, ican-trained.— Far and she went to visit a girl friend, Bulletin. Madelalne Collier, and she found out Welcome Troops With Song. he’d been engaged to her, too." In Frankford. Pa., the war camp “ W ell?" Stanley tried to look seri community service has organised sing ous. "But he had told Dell she was the ing groups to welcome home the boys and to have the groups participate only girl he hnd ever loved." “ Didn’t that prove It, when he’d In the great peace celebration which Is scheduled fo r May. The groups will found out the other was a mistake?" “I don't know." Beth looked away be divided Into adult community units, from him over at the waters of the female Industrial units and children's lake. " I suppose to men engagements units, and will be so distributed about are Just happenings, but perhaps they tho town that the total number o f don't realise there are girls who are voices will number about 10,000. different, who really do believe In—" “ What?" Seems So. “ Why, In romance, don’t you know," “ You frequently see a doctor at the She flushed a little, but went on, feel head of a South American republic.” ing she was pleading Dell’s cause “ They are evidently experts at feel against one who was an Infidel In the ing the pulse.” — Louisville Courier- faith o f loving. " I t was an awful Journal. | A Camp Honeymoon * STRAW W ITH VELVET LEAVES Value of the Hands and Fingers Provided for by European Insurance Scale This is a French Tllleul straw hat draped with pink satin ribbon and trimmed with a wreath of velvet- chestnut flowers. MATERIAL FOR RACE COATS W aterproof Satin One of the Novelties Of the Moment; Dominating Cape Mantle. A novelty o f the moment is black waterproofed satin, which Is prepared especially fo r race coats. T o accom pany such a coat there might be a draped toque or tam-o’-shanter o f the satin, and then the wearer could take her pleasure regardless o f the warn ings o f the weather glass. As the season advances one real izes, more and more clearly how grent Is the attraction o f the cape m antle; how firm a hold it has taken upon our affections. There are several things to be said In favor o f the gurment, which takes so mnny different forms while always remaining picturesque, but Its most potent chnrm lies half hidden In the fact that It is suitable fo r everyone. It can be and is worn by women of all ages and sizes; It Is not— as are so many o f the present- dny fashions—obviously intended fo r youthful, slender figures. Simple chemise robes, mnde o f jer sey cloth, are still fnshionuhle. Fine hand embroideries are almost always Introduced on the front o f the corsage and, more often than not, on the sash ends and short sleeves. R at’s-tail braiding is the rage o f the moment. This work Is easily achiev ed, and on navy-blue serge it gives superb results, with touches o f black silk embroidery In the Interstices. Eyes o f approval are once more turning on the demure chemisette of organdie muslin or tulle. Some of these “ modesties” are fascinating be yond w ords; so dainty nnd yet— “ so French 1” PEARLS STRUNG WITH CORAL Clever Combination Made Possible by Bringing Out the Stowed-Away Necklaces. A resourceful young woman who wanted a very smart, rather long string o f beads to wear with a spe cial frock, looked over her assortment o f necklaces before faring forth to pay any money on an expensive neck ornament. Put away In one o f her treasure boxes she found two old neck laces o f previous years. One was a short but very good string of small pearl bends, laid aside because a short string o f beads just encircling the throat was neither very smart nor very becoming with present-style cos tume. The other necklace was a short string o f real coral beads, n left over from childhood dnys. She dis covered that the smnll pearl beads and the coral beads were exactly the same size and she hit upon the idea o f stringing them together, a pearl bead alternating with a coral bend. Quite a long loop wns achieved nnd the gold clasp from the original coral necklace finished off the new necklace beauti fully. FOR THE FANCY WAISTCOATS W ide Black Silk Trimming Band, Richly Embroidered, Affords Splendid Fabric. The demand for fabrics that can be easily converted Into waistcoats con tinues. One fabric that meets the de mand Is the wide blnck silk trimming hand, embroidered with gold nnd sil ver threads. This trimming comes In two widths, one wide enough to make the waist coat without piecing, the other only wide enough fo r half the waistcoat. This narrower silk must be pieced down the front, but this piecing Is effected with smnrtness, under a pleat. Some o f the new silk sweaters have wide turn-back collars o f contrasting color, that extend to form revers down the sides o f the front. They are held back by the wide belt. The belt and revers collar on a cerise sweater are o f gray, and on a purple sweater they are o f soft old gold. Swiss Negligees. Some o f the new dotted Swiss neg ligees are made on tailored lines, with no trimming but Irish crochet button* and loops o f cord to go over them. They have half length sleeves and are made with the waist line shirred In on cords. These, o f course, wash easily. Perhaps more dainty are the Swiss negligees made with a binding o f col ored washable satin ribbon around sleeves and collar, and with perhaps a satin aash run through loops under the arms, or a string sash o f the Swiss, ending In Uttle satin balls. In many cases surgeons have to estimate the chances o f saving In jured hands and the comparative value of hands and fingers. According to a scale o f value furnished by the Miners’ Union and Miners’ Accident In surance companies o f a European country, the loss of both hands Is val ued at 100 per cent In the ability to earn a living. Losing the right hand depreciates the value o f an Individual as a worker 70 or 80 per cent, while the loss o f the left hand represents from 00 to 70 per cent o f the earnings of both hands. The thumb Is reckoned to be worth from 20 to 30 per cent of the earnings. The first finger o f the right hand Is valued nt from 14 to 18 per cent, that o f the left hand at from 8 to 13V6 per cent. The middle finger Is worth from 10 to 16 per cent. The third finger stands least o f all In value —although, like other useless members o f the community. It Is surrounded by riches, Its value being only from 7 to 9 per cent. The little finger Is worth from 9 to 12 per cent. The difference in the percentage Is occasioned by the difference In the trad e; the first finger being, fo r Instance, more valuable to a writer than to a digger. | Bank Prepared to Battle Bandits Installs “Pill Box’* Made of Steel, in Which Aimed Guards Are Stationed Day end Night Bamboo Needle of the Phonograph— Process Wood Must Go Through It was F. D. H all of Chicago who discovered the bamboo needle of the phonograph. The Scientific American relates the mnny woods with which he experimented before he found the right one and describes the Intricate processes that the bamboo goes through before becoming a needle. The hard point o f the needle Is formed from the enameled cortical surface o f the cane. The poles, 20 feet long nnd from 2 M to 3^4 Inches In di ameter, carefully selected, nre sawn Into pieces about nn Inch long and split In two. Machines split these again Into prism-shaped blanks for needles. T o force out the sap and re place It with oil nnd wax In the myriad cells o f the cane, the bits are put In drip kettles and lowered Into vats laden with an oily mixture at 340 de grees Fahrenheit, where they remain 40 hours. Then they go into tumbling barrels containing hnrdwood sawdust, where they get cooled and polished. Each needle is Inserted by hand into a cutting machine that snips the point Into the fam iliar triangular form at the rate of 30,000 needles a day. M other’s Cook Book. U matters not how deep Intrenched the wrong— How hard the battle goes—the day how long— Faint not! Fight on! Tomorrow comes the song. —M. D. Babcock. Pies of Various Kinds. O f all desserts, pastry seems to be the most favored. Raisin Pie. Take a cupful o f chopped raisins, cover with one cupful o f boiling wa te r; mix one tablespoonful o f flour with half a cupful o f sugar, the juice and rind o f one lemon, a little salt and a tablespoonful o f butter. Beat the yolks o f two eggs and stir into the mixture. Bake In one crust, cover with a meringue made from the two whites beaten stiff. Lemon Pie. M ix one tablespoonful o f flour with one cupful o f sugar, add one cupful o f milk, the Juice and rind o f one lemon, the yolks o f two eggs nnd two tnblespoonfuls o f butter. Mix well and fold in the well-benten whites Just before filling the pastry shell. Bake In a hot oven at first, then more slowly to cook the filling. Cream Pie. Bake the pastry shell fo r this pie before filling. Beat the yolks o f three eggs, add one cupful o f sugar, two tablespoonfuls o f cornstarch and two cupfuls o f milk. Stir and cook until smooth and the starch Is well cooked, then add a teaspoonful o f butter and pour Into the baked shell. Cover with a meringue using the two whites, brown and cool before serving. Ripe Currant Pie. Take one cupful o f crushed fruit, one cupful o f sugar, two tablespoon fuls o f water and one o f flour, the yolks o f two eggs. Cook and fill a baked shell, cover with a meringue of the whites, and brown. This pie may be more quickly made by putting the filling uncooked Into an uncooked pas try shell and baking quickly at first to cook the pastry, then slowly to finish cooking the currants. Currants that have been canned fresh by crush ing with equal parts o f sugar, may be used In this recipe, using a pint can. Pie plant may he used In place o f the currants fo r this pie, making a most dainty dessert. Blueberry P I * Line a deep pie plate with good pastry and fill with two and a half cupfuls o f blueberries, mixed with half a cupful o f sugar, one-eighth o f a teaspoonfhl o f salt and six green grapes with the seeds removed. Cover with a crust and bake nearly an hour. The berries should be dredged with flour. 'HtuA. TVLrtwtiG. \ Due to the great number o f bank robberlee In Chicago, the Pullman Trust and Savings bank has Installed a “ pill box,” constructed of heavy steel, in which armed guards are stationed day and night to prevent robbers from looting the bank. The guards are equipped with high-powered rifles and shot guns and are prepared to protect the bank both from the Interior and exterior. The “ pill box” is built half inside and half outside the bank building, so that the occupants, through the portholes provided fo r the rifles, can have an unob structed aim at would-be robbers, within or without the building. FOR POULTRY GROWERS In 1699 They Smoked Big Cigars Made Just as They Are Made at Present Time. The earliest known mention o f cigars (Prepared by the United States Depart Is in a book published In 1740 under ment o f Agriculture.) When open range is not available and hens must be confined, poultry specialists o f the United States depart ment o f agriculture recommend the di vision o f the hen yard Into two lots, so that green stuff may be grown on one side while the other patch Is being grazed. As soon as the green feed ts tw o to three inches high the hens may be turned on it, while the other lot may be spaded up and sown again. This plan provides plenty o f green feed throughout the year fo r the av erage back-yard flock. The green crops should be suited to local conditions, those suggested below being adapted to moderate climatic conditions. F or the extreme North or South the planting dates should be modified. Thickly sown crops furnish succulent feed and summer shade. From April 1 to July 1 on growing yard 1— oats, chard or lettuce, clover or vetch, sunflowers, eowpeas, rape may be grown. F o r feeding purposes on yard 2— winter rye, winter vetch, sweet clover may be grown, as well as crim son clover in the latitude o f New Jer sey and south. From July 1 to October 1 the oats, chard and lettuce, clover or vetch, eowpeas and rape on yard 1 may be fed, while buckwheat, dw arf Essex rape and flat turnips are grown on yard 2. From October 1 to April 1 the growing crops on yard 1 should consist o f oats, winter rye, winter vetch, sweet clover and crimson clover, while at the same time In feeding yard 2 buckwheat, dw arf Essex rape, flat tur nips and soy beans are grown. HERE AND THERE. The man who likes to do a good Job regardless o f the pay he is getting Is the man who w ill always be sure o f a good job to do. The man who loses his tem per Is apt to lose the argument too. Charity begins at home and If the high cost o f living keeps up It w ill have to get started there mighty soon. Go to the sick if you want to learn to appreciate your health. W hat Causes Colors in the Beautiful Rainbow W hile It Is true that the beautiful colors displayed by the rainbow are due to the pnssage o f light through rain drops, the popular conception that the drops are directly In line between the sun and the bow Is Incorrect. The light enters the raindrop and Is re fracted and reflected back to form the bow. In this passage through the drop the different colors are produced which. Mended, make our ordinary white light. T w o persons standing side by aide see two different bows, though they present the same appearance. the title o f “ Distresses nnd Adventures o f John Cockburn.” It appears that Cockburn was cast on a desert Island In the Bay o f Honduras, from which he swam to the mainland, and thence traveled afoot to Porto Bello, a dis tance o f 2,600 miles. Here he met some friars who gave him some "seegars” to smoke. "These.” he says, “ are some leaves o f tobacco rolled up in some manner that serves both as pipe and the tobacco Itself.” Though this is the earliest date at which cigars appear to be mentioned by that name, so far back as 1498 two soldiers sent by Co lumbus to explore Cuba told their com panions on their return how the na tives carried in their mouths a light ed firebrand made from the leaves of a certain herb, rolled up In maize leaves. The description o f an Indian method o f smoking given by Lionel W afer, In his “ Travels in the Isthmus o f Darien,” In 1699, shows that they then smoked cigars made just as they are made now. The manufacture and consumption o f cigars In northern Eu rope only dates from the close o f the seventeenth century. * LIFE’S LOVELINESS Sometimes the abundant beauty o f the world Makes my heart tremble and acbe. Sometimes, when summer's banners are unfurled. Or autumn’s glory on the winds is tossed and whirled, I think my heart w ill break. F o r loveliness Is often too great to bear. Trees laced at twilight, how they lift me up T o the far heights o f heaven! And winds that stir A t evening bid my soul with God confer. I drink the beauty o f the world as from a cup. W hy should I almost weep when I be hold The quiet moon, a ship blown down the night? Over and over I watch the shadows fold. Over and over I see the stars’ clear gold. But never yet have I lost the new de lig h t I weep for gladness, as women weep when Love Enters ths heart, singing Its ags-old song. And I weep that the cloud which sails that sea above W ill drift from my dreams and all the hopes thereof .. . . And X weep that life Is short, when 1 thought It long. —Charles Hanson Towns In Harper's M ag azine. Patent Medicines Drove “ Yarbs” Out of Business “ Yarbs” are little known to the pres ent generation. The patent medicines drove the “ yarbs" out o f business. The w riter made his first acquaintance with one little “ yarb," the goldthread, when as a boy he was given Its wiry, yellow, bitter rootstocks to chew fo r canker In the mouth— truly not a deli cious morsel. The small, white flowers o f this plant develop some Interesting fea tures. The outer divisions are the sepals, though they serve In the usual Electric Fans in India. capacity o f petals as well. Each real petal Is small, club-shaped and termi Electric fans have made it possible nated by a cuplike disk which, strange to keep churches and theaters In ly enough, has been transformed Into southern India open in summer I a nectary. The pistils are curiously months. . _____ J - . I, hooked.— W . L. Beecroft In Boys’ U fa ,