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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1916)
THOUSANDTH WOMAN firow Aufhor of BheAMfflQR CRrNOSMAN. RAFFLES. Etc. luusrcAnoNS & o. ircwus .mvers 8YNOPSI3. Caialat, on the steamer Kaleer Frlti, nomeward bound from Australia, cries out In his Bleep that Henry Craven, who ten years before had ruined his father and himself, is dead and finds that Hil ton Toys, who shares the stateroom with him, knows Craven and also Blanchs Macnalr, a former neighbor and play mate, when the dally papers come aboard at Southampton Toys reads that Craven has been murdered and calls Caialet's dream- second sight. He thinks of doing a tittle amateur detective work on the case himself. In the train to town they discuss the murder, which was com mitted at Camlet's old home. Toys hears from Cazalet that Scruton. who had been Cazalet's friend and the scapegoat for Craven's dishonesty, has been released from prison. CHAPTER 111 Continued. Toya looked disconcerted and dis tressed, but at the same time frankly puzzled. He apologized none the less readily, with almost ingenuous cour tesy and fullness, but he ended by ex plaining himself in a single sentence, and that told more than the rest of his straightforward eloquence put together. "If a man had done you down like that, wouldn't you want to kill him the very moment you came out, Cazalet?" The creature of impulse was off at a tangent "I'd forgive him If he did it, too!" he exclaimed. "I'd move heaven and earth to save him, guilty or not guilty. Wouldn't you in my place?" "I don't know," said Hilton Toye. "It depends on the place you're in, I guess!" And the keen dark eyes came drilling Into Caialet'a skull like augers. "I thought I told you," he explained Impatiently. "We were in the office together; he was good to me, winked at the business hours I was inclined to keep, let me down lighter in every way than I deserved. You may say it was part of bis game. But I take people as I find them. And then, as I told you, Scruton was ten thousand times more sinned against than sinning." "Are you sure? If you knew it at the time" "I didn't I told you so the last night" Well, I mustn't ask questions," said Hilton Toye, and began folding up his newspaper with even more than his usual deliberation. "Oh, I'll tell you!" cried Cazalet un graciously. "It's my own fault for tell ing you so much. It was in a letter from Scruton himself that I heard the whole thing. I'd written to him to ward the end suggesting things. He managed to get an answer through that would never , have passed the prison authorities. " And and that's why I came home Just when I did,' concluded Cazalet; "that's why I didn't wait till after shearing. He's been through about enough, and I've had more luck than I deserved. I meant to take him back with me, to keep the books on our station, if you want to know!" The brusk voice trembled. Toye let his newspaper slide to the floor. "But that was fine!" he ex claimed simply. "That's as fine an ac tion as I've heard of in a long time." "If it comes off," said Cazalet In a gloomy voice. "Don t you worry. It'll come off. Is ho out yet, for sure? I mean, do you know that he Is?" "Scruton? Yes since you press It he wrote to tell me that he was com ing out even sooner than he expected." "Then he can stop out for me," said Hilton Toye. "I guess I'm not running for that reward 1" CHAPTER IV, Down the River. At Waterloo the two men parted, with a fair exchange of fitting speeches, none of which rang really false. And yet Cazalet found himself emphatically unable to make any plans at all for the next few days; also, he teemed in two minds now about a Jermyn Street hotel previously men tioned as his immediate destination; and his step was indubitably lighter as lie went off first of all to the loop-line, to make sure of some train or other that he might have to take before the day was out. In the event he did not take that train or any other; for the new miracle et the new traffic, the new smell of the horseless streets, and the newer joys of the newest of new taxi cabs, all worked together and so swift ly upon Cazalet's organism that he had a little colloquy with his smart young driver Instead of paying him In Jermyn Street. He nearly did pay him off, and with something more than his usual Impetuosity, as either a liar or a fool with no sense of time or space. : "But that's as quick as the train, my good fellow!" blustered Cazalet. "Quicker," said the smart young fel low without dipping his cigarette, "if you were going by the old Southwest ern!" ' The very man, and especially the manners that made or marred him, jwas entirely new to Cazalet as a product of the old country. But be had come from the bush, and be felt at though he might have been back there but for the smeil of petrol and the cry of the motor-horn from end to end of those teeming gullies of bricks and mortar. He had accompanied his baggage just at far as the bureau of the Jermyn Street hotel. Any room they liked, and he would be back tome time before midnight; that wat his card, they could enter his name for themselves. He departed, pipe in mouth, open knife In one hand, plug tobacco In the other; and remarks were passed in Jermyn Street at the taxi bounced out west in ballast But Indeed it was too fine a morn ing to waste another minute Indoors, even to change one's clothes, If Caza let had possessed any better than the ones he wore and did not rather glory in hit rude attire. He was simply and comfortably drunk with the delight ot being back. He had never dreamed ot its getting into his head like this; at the time he did not realize that It had. That was the beauty of his bout He knew well enough what he wat doing and teeing, but inwardly he wat lit erally blind. Yesterday was left be hind and forgotten like the Albert Memorial, and to-morrow was still as distant at the tea, it there were tuch thlngt as to-morrow and the sea. Meanwhile what vivid miles of daz zling life, what a subtle autumn flavor In the air; how cool In the shadows, how warm In the sun; what a spark ling old river It was, to be sure; and yet, if those weren't the first ot the autumn tints on the trees In Castle- nau. There went a funeral, on Its way to Mortlake! The taxi overhauled It at a callous speed. Cazalet just had time to tear off his great soft hat. It was actually the first funeral he had seen since his own father's; no wonder his radiance suffered a brief eclipse. But in another moment he wat out on Barnes' Common. It had been the bicycle age when he went away; now It was the motor age, and the novelty and contrast were endless to a simple mind under the Influence ot forgotten yet increasingly familiar scenes. But nothing wat lost on Cazalet that great morning; even a milk-float entranced him, Itself en chanted, with ltt tall can turned to gold and silver in the sun. But now he wat on all but holy ground. It was not to holy with these Infernal elec tric trams; still he knew every Inch "Fiddle!" the cried. "But you're not altered enough. Sweep, I'm disappoint. ed In you. Where's your beard?" "I had it off the other day. I alwayt meant to," he explained, "before the end of the voyage. I wasn't going to land like a wild man of the woods, you know!" "Weren't you! I call it mean." Her scrutiny became severe, but softened again at the sight ot his clutched wide-awake and curiously characterless, shapeless tuft. "You may well look!" he cried, de lighted that the should. "They're awful old duds, I know, but you would think them a wonder If you saw where they came from " "I'm sorry to Interrupt" said Blanche, laughing, "but there's your taxi ticking up twopence every quar ter of an hour, and I can't let it go on without warning you. Where have you come from?" He told her with a grin, was round ly reprimanded for his extravagance, but brazened It out by giving the smart young man a sovereign before her eyes. After that, she said he had better come in before the neighbors came out and mobbed him for a mil lionaire. And he followed her indoors and up-stairs, into a little new den crowded with some ot the big old thlngt he could remember in a very different setting. But if the room was small it had a balcony that was hard ly any smaller, on top of that unduly imposing porch; and out there, over looking the fine grounds opposite, were basket chairs and a table, hot with the Indian summer tun. "I hope you are not shocked at my abode," said Blanche. "I'm afraid I can't help it It you are. It's just big enough for Martha and me; you re member old Martha, don't you? You'll have to come and see her, but she'll be horribly disappointed about your beard!" T 4 Young Woman Had Appeared One of the Wooden Porticoes. of it; and now, thank goodness, he wat off the lines at last. "Slower!" he shouted to his smart young man. He could not say that no notice was taken of the command. But a wrought-lron gate on the left, with a covered way leading up to the house, was past and gone In a veritable twinkling. Five or tlx mlnutet later the smart young man was driving really slowly along a narrow road between patent wealth and blatant teml-gentility; on the left good grounds, shaded by cedar and chestnut, and on the right a row of hideous little houses, as pretentious as any that ever let for forty pounds within forty minutes of Waterloo. "This can't be it!" shouted Cazalet "It can't he here stop! Stop! I tell you!" A young woman had appeared in one ot the overpowering wooden porti coes; two or three swinging strides were bringing her down the silly little path to the wlcket-gate with the idiotic name; there was no time to open it be fore Cazalet blundered up, and shot his hand across to get a grasp at firm and friendly as he gave. "Blanchle!" "Sweep!" They were their two nursery names, hers no Improvement on the proper monosyllable, and his a rather dubious token of pristine proclivities. But out both came as if they were children Btill, and children who had been just long enough apart to start with a good honest mutual stare. "You aren't a bit altered," declared the man ot thirty-three, with a note not entirely tactful In bis admiring voice. But his old chum only laughed. HE beautiful coast ot Maine reaches its climax at Grand Manan, the Island of mighty cliffs, near the mouth of the St. Croix river. The magnetic beauty of the island has stirred the admiration of many who have seen it from the deck of passing steamers, but few per sons, comparatively speaking, have stepped upon its rocky shores. Because the agents of the British and American governments when lay ing out the boundary line between Maine and Canada hugged the west coast of 'he mouth of the St. Croix during a thick fog, both Campobello and Grand Manan islands are today under the jurisdiction of Canada. The island of Grand Manan Is 20 miles out from the mouth of the St. Croix river To the west and north the Maine and New Brunswick Bhores stretch away into purple Indistinctness, while on a clear day the faint line ot the Nova Scotia shore is visible 40 miles to the eastward. "Manan," or "Menan," is Passama- quoddy for Island, the word being found farther down the coast in the name of Petit (small) Manan, and the rock islet Manana close to Monhegm One traveler has recently said that although the cliffs ot Newfoundland and the Labrador are higher, they tall short in Impresslveness - of certain parts of Grand Manan. Twenty miles from north to south, varying from four to eight miles from (OUBLE CONTEMPT OF COURT Coming through the room, stopping east to west, its whole western coast to greet a picture and a bookcase (fill ing a wall each) as old friends, Caza let bad descried a photograph ot him- Belt with that appendage. He had threatened to take the beastly thing away, and Blanche had told him he had better not. But it did not occur to Cazalet that It was the photograph to which Hilton Toye had referred, or that Toye must have been in this very room to see it In these few hours he had forgotten the man's existence, at least In so far as it associated Itself with Blanche Macnalr. The others all wanted me to live near them," she continued, "but as no two of them are in the same county It would have meant a caravan. Be sides, I wasn't going to be transplant ed at my age. Hero one has every body one ever knew, except those who escape by emigrating, limply at one'a mercy on a bicycle. There's more golf and tennis than I can find time to play; and I still keep the old boat in the old boat-house at Llttleford, be cause it hasn't let or sold yet, I'm sorry to say." "So I saw as I passed," said Caza let. "That hit me hard!" "The place being empty hits me harder," rejoined the last of the Mac nalra. "It's going down in value every day like all the other property about hero, except this sort. Mind where you throw that match, Sweep! I don t want you to set fire to my pampas- grass; It's the only tree I've got!" Cazalet laughed; the was making him laugh quite often. But the pam pas-grass, like the rest of the ridic ulous little garden in front, was ob scured If not overhung by the balcony on which they sat. And the subject seemed one to change. It was simply glorious coming down," he said. "I wouldn't swap that three-quarters of an hour for a bale ot wool. You can't think how every mor tal thing on the way appealed to me. The only blot wat a funeral at Barnes; It seemed such a sin to be burled on a day like this, and a fellow like me coming home to enjoy himself!" He had turned grave, but not graver than at the actual moment coming down. Indeed, he was Blmply coming down again, for her benefit and hit own, without an ulterior trouble until Blanche took him up with a long face of her own. "We've had a funeral here. I tup- pose you know?" "Yes. I know." Her chair creaked as she leaned for ward with an enthusiastic solemnity that would have made her shriek it she had seen herself; but it had no such effect on Cazalet. (TO BE CONTINUED.) presents a seemingly unbroken wall ot guard over the waters that twirl around ita base. "The Bishop" next comes Into view, a detached rock at the base ot a cliff, In which tome have fancied a resemblance to the high church dignitary In hit robet ot of fice. Just beyond the Bishop rises Ash- burton head, the scene ot two tra gedies of the sea. Beyond Ashburton head is a remark able stratified rock formation, called in the earlier days the House cliffs, from the resemblance to masonry, but now more generally known as the Seven Days' Work. The strata stands out with wonderful distinctness, the cliff running perpendicularly 200 feet into the air and stretching along the coaBt for a mile and a half or more, while the presence ot iron and copper ores gives an unusual play ot color along its whole surface. Swallowtail, with Its lighthouse, next comes Into view, the long promontory ot rock taking its name from Us shape as seen from the higher land where the rock juts out from the main Is land. In a very few minutes the steamer Is at her dock at North Head. Here is a very sizable settlement with churches, schools, stores, post office; library and a branch ot the Bank of Nova Scotia. While catering to Bum mer visitors Is not a business of su preme importance to the residents of the village as a whole, the owners of some half-dozen or more places have seen the possibilities of profit, and In addition to the old hotel, recently en. Gilman n'arston Wat Thoroughly disgusted With Court and Wll- -v ling to Pay for It The following anecdote Is told of ten. Gilman Marston. a once famous lew Hampshire lawyer: General Marston was attending ourt at a small country town when a oung attorney made a motion that ras denied by the court The young nan remonstrated against what he bought was the wrong ruling ot the udee. So vehemently did he do to hat be was lined $10 for contempt of ourt. An older attorney took the latter up, and he was fined a similar um. Still another, who thought ne tood a little better with the judge, mdeavored to straighten the matter nit, but he, too, enriched the coffers the state by paying a "ten-spot tor ontempt General Marston was then seen to 1se in his seat and advance to the lerk's desk. Taking his long pocket pook from his pocket, he took out wo $10 bills and laid them on the lesk. "What Is that for?" said the Judge. "I want you to distinctly under- itand," said the general, "that 1 have ust twice as much contempt for tnis iourt as any man here, and 1 am pay- ng for It" HAD A JOB THEN. Photographic Apparatus of Im mense Military Value. Germans Get Topographical Date In Form That May Be Studied at Lei sure Modus Operandi Sim ple and Ingenious. The resourceful Germans have found a way to photcsraph the en emy s terrain, without recourse to man-guided aircraft, as the term It generally understood. Not only that but the cunning Teutons get their photographic data in photographic form when the doing of It It scarcely suspected and quite beyond the chance of Interference. The camera Is carried aloft by the Impulse of a rocket, the latter soar ing skyward like an ordinary rocket The head of the projectile consists of a thn metal shell containing a cam era, while the section below holds a tightly packed parachute, the re lease of which Is effected by means of a time fuse, which can be set to go off at any desired altitude within the climbing limits of the rocket. At the proper time the parachute It re leased and spreads, and Ic of tuffl cient area to hold the suspended cam-, "Do you think he'll be able to land I Job?" "Well, he worked his way tnrougn :ollege." Prosperous. "Young Plodgett seems to have done well in the city." "YeB," replied the old resident 'That young feller must be drawln" a :ancy salary. He useter run aroun' Hicksvllle with nothin' on but a shirt n' a pair of overalls, but now when is comes back ter see th' home folks lie rides up from th' deepo In th' hotel bus." Levis, Ann srtumrt- timi rusty rVtRACHUTL- ROOKtT- ,HERA -TIME Or mm ROCKCT OTICH Southern Head Hatt and Facet. A Boston man went down to Hart ford and said to the Motherhood club of that city, "If you have a 29-cent face don't wear a $30 bat" Of course, the Boston man didn't make It clear to the ladles with Hart ford faces Just what the bat-and-face ratio should be. Even a 29-cent face might hesitate over wearing a 29-cent bat On the other hand a woman with a $50 face could scarcely be expected to don a $50 hat No, the Boston man It wading Into deep water. He quite overlooks the eternal law of compensation. Let the 29-cent face wear a $30 bat It may distract attention. At for the woman with the $60 faoe, she doesn't need any hat Cievelaad Plain Dealer. rock, varied' in spots by touches of green, where the hardy fir and spruce have gained a precarious foothold, yet with the summit rich with evergreen growth, a rare scene of mingled grim ness and beauty. But as one approaches the northern extremity from the west, headland after headland looms In turn from what before appeared Impenetrable cliff, like a succession of crouching monsters held in leash. A portion of the eastern side is also rocky, ragged and rugged, but the greater part of the coastline on this side is in decided contrast with that ot the western side. - Here are located the villages, five in number, North Head, Castalla, Wood-. ward's Cove, Grand Harbor and Seal Cove. Scattered along the eastern shore are numerous small islands, eacn with a name of its own, Nantucket, Long island, Ross Island, Cheynes Is land, High Duck, Low Duck and oth ers. The principal one of these Is lands Is White Head, containing a fish ing population (sufficient to warrant a church, school and post office. For two hours before and after low water It la possible to walk or drive across thS bar connecting White Head with the main Island. For the remain ing 16 hours out ot each 24 the inhabi tants are shut off from communica tion with the main Island except by boat save for the telephone cable re cently laid. Wreckage-Strewn Squally Point As the visitor to Grand Manan rounds the northern end of the island, on the deck of the steamer which runs from the mainland, be will be greeted with a salute from the foghorn at Long Eddy point, "The Whistle," as it is known to the people of the island Just beyond the Whistle Squally point looms up above the rock, wreck age strewn about Its foot, sharp as the prow ot a cruiser, towering its bun dreds of feet into the air, Its red walU brilliant In the late afternoon sun, seeming a sentinel standing constant AIDS NORTH SEA RESORTS I Germany Makes Loant In Certain Lo cal It ls Where Wtr Hat Caused Idleness. Finding tbemselvet unable to pay opened, the visitor may find himself well cared for in the smaller cottages and remodeled homes of fishermen. Records of Many Disasters. Gannet rock, with Its powerful light house, lifts its head to the southward, and the chronicles of the rock with its neighboring ledges are .records of disaster, from the wreck ot the first brig that went to pieces In 1759 to the total loss of powerful steamships, like the Earl of Warwick In recent years. The light was first kindled on Christ mas eve, 1831. It Is at Southern Head that the cli max ot the grandeur of Grand Manan's cliffs is to be found. Headland aftor headland, cliff after cliff, juts out, their heads towering 400 feet Into the air, for the greater part of tholr extent absolutely Insurmountable except by the aid of a cable fastened on one of the cliffs years ago, by whose aid the more daring are able to make the as cent. The red basaltic cliffs glowing In the Bunshlne, with a patch of green bore and there, whore some bit of earth has given root to grass or shrub, makes a sight of combined beauty and majesty hardly equaled on the whole Atlantic coast At the southern extremity ot the Island is a peculiar formation, marked on the marine charts as Pinnacle rock, but known to the fishermen at the Old Maid and to the visitors as the South ern Cross. Rising 75 feet above the water, when viewed from certain points, It shows a symmetrical cross. As one sails past the rocks and looks back on It he understands the source of the fishermen's name, for It takes the outline of a hunchbacked woman. Grand Manan Is not a summer re sort In the sense of being crowded with seekers after the pleasures of so ciety. Dances, teas, musicals, form no part of the life of the summer visitor to this Island .of the sea. A hundred or two genuine lovers of the sublime in nature come year after year and grow more devoted with each sojourn. real estate tecuritlet circlet to create a special department to handle the bathing companies' paper. Illusion of Strength. "Of course you" don't believe clothes make the man?" "No," replied the observant person, 'but they seem to influence his con- luct In life considerably," 'How so?" 'The more pads a football playof jaB on his Bhoulders the more he en loys having his picture taken by a newspaper photographer." Absorbed. "You call yourself an expert motion picture operator?" stormed the man ager, "and yet you spoiled that feature lilm by running It too fast! "1 know I speeded up a little," an- Bwered the operator, contritely, "but It was the first time I've run off that film, ind I got so Interested 1 hurried to Bee low it was going to end. Pa Discusses Patriotism. 'Pa, what la patriotism?" 'Patriotism, my boy, Is love of coun try." "Do all good cltizons have It? "Yes, my boy. Only some of them act as though they bad been married to their country bo long that tbey don't think It necessary to show any special mark of respect to her.' Right In Line. "Can I get a drink from your old oaken bucket?" "Sure," said the farmer, "but things must be kept strictly sanitary these days. Walt until I pick you an tndt vidual gourd." Louisville Courier- Journal. None Returned. "You can sell this porous plaster on a guaranty. If they don't help peo ple, tell 'em tbey can return 'em." "Looks like bad business. I may get a good many back." "No chance. This plaster may not cure everybody, but It won't come off." INCOME OF A STREET BEGGAR I Pretended were for Curious Resident on Opposite Side of Thoroughfare Placet Contribu tion, at $1,000 Yearly. There wat a certain Bartlmeus who was wont to take hit teat at the tide ot a crowded city street, with a well fed dog at the side sitting on a mat provided by bit master, to protect hit ilnder-quarters from the cold ttone. The dog held a tin money box attached to hit collar. The man had a few lead tale. The man simply tat, and the money rolled In. A curlout resident on the opposite side of tbe street took lengthy observations, and then drew up cal culation based on tbe assumption that one cent wat given every time a con tribution wat made, though frequently silver rnd 'sometimes a quarter wat teen to descend into tbe tin, and tak ing into consideration the average number of ibeeucei In a given time due to Inclement weatbe, tbe proba- Woet of an Author. How's your new book coming oar "Passably well. Tbe demand lint what It should be. I mean anions- purchasers. And. ot course. If people the Interest due upon their securities don't buy the book there's nothing la because of enforced Idleness since the It for me." beginning of the war, the proprietors I tee. Ry tbe way, I'm reading It of the German bathing establishments now. Binks loaned me a cony that on tbe North tea have appealed to tbe Tompkins borrowed from Bradley, government for help and It bat been Pretty fair story." granted. Arrangements have been made whereby the state will advance lnan whlrh will be smaranteed bv ,B" amouniea 10 aoom $1,000 tn9 district, provinces, and cltletcon- earned, savi a reDort In a recent Issue The estimate may not be very ex- of the Frankfurter Zeltung. The loan act, but It It nearer the truth than wiH bear no Interest for tbe first two tbe ordinary passerby thinks, or the years, after which It will draw 8 per stream of coin would not be to eopi- cent It It to be paid off at the end oua At ne is no longer at tbe receipt of ten yeare. ot custom, the Inference la that be I The loan will be ot considerable baa retired to live la the country oa size, at the companies In Westerland the proceed!. .lon. nee(t $125,000 to meet tbe Inter est now due and the other resorts Equally Unless. .innr the North tea have suffered In Faith without workt U about as aee nnmortlon. In order to avoid similar lee at a watch without wheels. eriaea In the future, it it proposed Id Foundation for Dickens' 8uccett. How hard I worked at tbat tre mendous shorthand and all improve ments appertaining to It! I will only add to what I have already writ ten of perseverance at this time In my lite, and ot a patient and contlnuout energy which then began to be ma tured in me, and which I know to be the ttrong point In my character, If I have any ttrength at all, that there, on looking back, I find the source of my success. Charles Dlckent. Just Estimate. "The parsnip It despised by every body," philosophically stated Profes sor Pate. "It It of no account either in a decorative or gastronomic way. It neither Inebriates nor cheers hu manity. And yet nobody darei de nounce It at a nuisance and an ex crescence. It bat limply got in Ita bluff, and remaint In good eoclety be cause nobody hat the nerve to bumf It out" Kansas City Star. Used to It. "That orator Is a wonderful man!" "In what way?" "It seemed to me that all the women In bis audience were talking all through his speech, but he did not get impatient or rattled for a minute." "He used to keep a parrot store." Construction of Parachute Camera. era aloft for a considerable period. In order to keep the objective lent point ed steadily In the right direction, a small gyroscope Is provided. It la said that the maximum turning move ment Is so nicely checked by the gyro that the swing does not exceed an aro of one degree. Plates seven Inches square can be handled by the camera, and pictures can be taken from a height of nearly 1,700 feet with a Bold or arc of vision of quite 50 desroos. The madua op erandi Is both simple and ingenious. On the march the wholo outfit, weigh ing about 880 pounds, Is borne by a special carriage. Part of the equip ment is a launching frame, which, guides the rocket at the time ot ltt flight from the ground. . The vehicle b equipped with a range finder. Arriv ing at the point of operationi the range finder determines the direction and the angle at which the rocket it to be started on Its Journey. The. gyroscope Is set spinning by mean of a weighted cord, which Is unwound from the Bhaft of that device. With this little wheel spinning the rocket is ready for Its trip aloft. The rocket Is Ignited electrically by means of a light cable from a distance of 300 feet. The Initial discharge, cuts looBe the heavy weight, which sets the gyro spinning. The second elec trical Impulse Ignites the rocket charge and starts the missile skyward. In about eight seconds an altitude ot 1,000 foet is reached. Shortly before the maximum elevation Is attained an electro-pneumatic contact at the top of the hood-shell operates the shutter and simultaneously frees the para chute. As soon as the parachute ex pands the rocket parts the three sec tions of which the apparatus is com posed being connected by a line thirty odd feet long. Immediately under the parachute, at it floats In tbe air, Is suspended tbe hood-shell containing the camera, and at the end of the line are hung the body of the rocket and the vaned guide-rod. As the whole equipment settles earthward the guide-rod strikes the ground first, and by thus light ening the load on the parachute the camera descends slowly so that It can be either caught or brought to rest on tbe earth without jar. The whole affair presents but a very small target; It reaches Its maxi mum altitude In far too brief a span to be Interfered with by gunfire; and even for the time of Its downward drift Is too short for effective prac tice on the part of the enemy's markt men. All that is necessary Is to wait until the breeze or wind blows from the foe's direction so that the rocket- camera will be brought back to ltt friends. Suffering. 'Ten years are supposed to elapse between Acts I and II." "It teemt fully that long." "Why to?" "It't tbe last time I'll ever come to the theater with a pair ot tight thoet on." The Natural Inference. "Speaking ot will power, there's Dubwalte." "Yes?" "Smoked for twenty years, quit one day, and never smoked again." "Ahem! What did be die of?" The Kind. Customer I can't eat this steak. Walter It must be all right We bad it approved by a government in spector only yesterday. Customer Armor plate expert, 1 suppose. Judge. It Sure Wis. Helny What do you think ot the longevity ot the ancient? Omar 1 think being an ancient must have been a healthful occupa tion. A Comforting Reflection. "I'm alwayt thankful for one thltg," yawned the bored banqueter. Wbat't that?" asked bia neigh bor. "That womenfolk aren't afflicted with tbe after-dinner speech making, habit" Good Listener. "I saw you in an argument with Twobble yesterday." "Wrong again. "But you were" "Standing in front of Twobble while he argued. I had no share in the pro ceedings. Triumphal Knowledge, "I'll bet, Jim, you can't tell me what a polyclinic Is." "I'll bet you I can." "What It It. then?" "Why, it't a hospital tor parrots, o$ course, itupld." Thanklese. Mrs. Bniggt Mrs. Van PerMna complaint that her portrait! don't look Uka her. Photographer Complaint, doaa ihtt She ought to he grateful