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IM . Copyright, 1914, by " Vou'd better pick out a wife and hare n fire of your own. You will he more comfortable than with those young bucks. The maidens' lircs-a sort of feiint of the virgins, you know are not lighted until full summer and the salmon, but 1 can give orders ear lier If you say the word." Smoke laughed and shook his head. "Itomemher," Snuss concluded quiet ly, "Anton Is the only one that ever got away. He was lucky, unusually Jucky." Iter father had a will of Iron, l.a blskwce told Smoke. Everybody fenr ed him. lie was terrible wueu angry. Tlioro were the rorcuplncs. It was through them and through the Lusk was that Snnss traded his skins at the posts and got his supplies of am munition ami tobacco. He was nl ways Mir, but the chief of Iho 1'or-, cuplncs began lo client, ami alter Siiass J had warned lilm twice lie burned IiIh log Tillage, and over a dozen of the ' l'oivuplnes were killed In the light. Hut there was no more cheating. Once when she was u little girl there was one white man killed while try ing to escape. No; her father did not du It, but he gave tho order to tho young men. No Indian ever disobeyed tier father. And the more Smoke learned from her tho more the mystery of Rnass deepened. "And tell mo it It Is true," the girl was saying, "(lint there was a man and a woman whose names were I'nolo and iTrnneoscn and who greatly loved each other'" Hmoko nodded. 'Tour Kyos told mo nil about It," she beamed happily. "And so he didn't uiako It up, after all. Then there Is Tristao and Iseult. two Isculla. It was very sad. Hut 1 should llku to love that way. Do all the young men and women In the world do tliatV They don t hero. They Just get mar ried. They don't seem to hnve time, "1 am English, and will never marry an Indian. Would you? That Is why I have not lighted my maiden's lire.' Home of tho young men are bothering father to make me do It, Llbash Is one of them. Ho Is n great hunter. Ami Muhkook conies around singing songs. lie Is funny. Tonight. If jou coiuu by my lent after dark, yiai will hear hlui Hinging out In thu cold, lint lather nays J can do as 1 plpasc, and so I shall not light my lire, you see when a girl makes up her mind to get married Ilia t Is the way Kile lets young men know, And how no y on know when you nre In love- like Paolo and Krancesen, I mcnuY" Smoke was disconcerted by the clear gnue ot her blue eyes. "Why. they say, tie stammered, "those who are In love say it, that love Is dearer than life. When one mids out that he or she likes somebody better than every body elso In the world -why, then, they know tliey nro In love. You Just know it; that's all." "(nee we lilt out well sure have lonio tall ruuiilu'," Shorty said ills mally. "'iho plao Is a big trail," Smoke (greed. From tho ores! of n liatd knob they gned out over Biiiism nowy domain " hats eatln' mo Is Danny Me. Cau,' Shorty contlded to Smoko. "Ilo's I weak brother on any trail. Hut he wears ho knows the way out to the westward, mid so wo got to pull up with him or you'll suro get yours. It's cumin' to you straight down tho pike.' "What lr "You ain't beard the news! The bachelors) told me. They Just got the word, Tonight It comes off, though It's months ahead of thu calendar." "I'm waiting to hear." "Well, Danny's wife Just told thu bachelors. An' the bachelors told me, or course, that the maidens' (Ires in due to be lighted tonight. That's all. Now bow do you like It?" "I don't get your drift, Shorty," "Don't, eh J Why, it's plain opeusud shut. They' a skirt after you, nil' that skirt Is goln' to light u tin1, sn' that sklrl't mime Is I.ahl-.kuc. Oh, I've been WHtchln' her watch yon wheuynu ain't tonkin'. She ain't never lighted tier tiro. She said sho wouldn't marry B Indian. An' now, when she lights her tiro. It's a clueb It's my Kior old friend Smoke." "It sounds ilk a syllogism," RmoU vn I J with a sinking heart, reviewing l,tthlk wee's actions ot tho past sever al days. "Ouch Is shorter to pronounce," flhorty returned. "An' Hint's always Iho way-Just as we'r workln' up our getaway along comes a skirt to cone plicate everything, I ley! Llstcnl" T'bre aucleut squnwa bnd hulled midway between the bachelor' ramp and th isuip of ilcl'au, aud the old tut ws declaiming In shrill falsetto) "LabUkwe, the daughter of Hnaas, th HalnuiSker, th rrvat chief, lights tier first maidens' flr tonight Mska, th daughter of Owlts, th Wolf lluu- iX)NDOK. the Vhler Syndicate. Tlio recltii I rnn through tlie names of a dozen maidens, and then the three berulds tottered on their way to make announcement at the next Ores. The bachelors, who bad sworn youthful oaths to speak to no maiden, were uninterested lu the nppruiicliiiic ceremony, and to show (heir disdain they made preparation for Immediate departuro on n mission set them by Siiiirs and upon wlileh tliey had plan ned to Nlnrt tlie following morning. Not satisfied with the old hunters' es tlm a leu of the caribou, Snnss had de cided that the run wag split The task net the bachelors was to scout to tlie north ii ml west In quest of the second division of the great herd. Smoke, troubled by La bisk wee's Are ' lighting, announced that ho would uc ! company the bachelors. i!ut first he talked with Shorty and with McCnn. "Yon be thcro on tho third day, Smoke," Shorty said. "We'll have thu outfit an' the dogs." "Hut remember," Smoke cautioned, "If there Is any slipup In meeting me you keep on going and get out to tho Harsh Tongund. With Bittsr, Vsnomous Eye, 8hs Cursed Him. Yukon. That's tint. If you make It you cau come back for inu In the sum mer. If I get thu cliauce I'll make tt and come Inn K for you " MeCun, .standing liy his tiro. Indicat ed with his eyes a rngued mountain where the high we-teru range outjut ted on the open country. "I'liat's the one," he said, "a small stream on the south side. Wu go up It. Dn tlie third day you meet us. We'll pass by on tho third day. Any where yon tap that stream you'll meet ns or our trail." Hut tho chance did not romo to Smoke on thu third day. Tlie bache lors had changed the dins (Ion of tholr scout, and while Shorty and Mel 'an plodded up thu stream with their dolts Smoko and the bachelors were sttty tulles to the northeast picking op thu trail of the second caribou herd. Several day later they cnnie back to the big camp. A aquatv ceased from walling by a fire and darted up to Smoke. Harsh tongued. with bitter, venomous eyes, she cursed him, wav ing her hands toward a silent, fur wrapped form Hint still lay on tho sled which had hauled It In. What had linppcned Smoko could inly guess, aud as he came to Mct'an's tiro he was prepared for u second curs, lug. Instead, ho saw Mil 'an himself Industriously chewing a strip of cari bou meat. "I'm not a tlghllii' man," bo whining ly eJphilned. "Hut Shorty got uvvay, though they're still uflcr him He siiiidy put up a tluht He plugged two tucks t luil II get mould all right. An tie croaked olio square through the chest." "Yes, I know," Smoke answered. "I Just met tho widow." "Old Suass'll be waulln' lo see you," MoOiu added, "Them's his orders Soon as you romo lu you was to go to his lire. I ain't squealed. You dou't know not bin'. Keep that lu uilnd. Shorty went olT on bis owu hook along with me." At Snnss tin) Smoke found Lubl-k wee. She met him with eye that shnuo with such sorimw aud lender urns a to frighten him. Tin glad you didn't try to run way." she Mid. "You see, 1H- She hesitated, but her eye didn't drou. They susui with a light unmistakable. "I lighted uiy Ore, and of cuura It was for you. It ha happened. like you better thsu everybody if In (tie world. Better than my father f love. It Is very strange. I love as Franceses loved, as Iseult loved. Old Four Eyes spoke true. Indians do not love this way. But my eyes are blue, and I am white. We are white, you and I." Smoke bad never been proposed to In bis life, and he was unable to meet the situation. Worse, It was not even a proposal. His acceptance was taken for granted. So thoroughly was It all arranged In Lnbiskwee's mind, so warm was the light In her eyes that he was amazed that she did not throw her arms around him and rest ber bend on bis shoulder. Then be realized, despite ber candor of love, that she did not know the pretty ways of love. Among the primitive savages such ways did not obtain. She had had no chance to learn. She prattled on, chanting the happy burden of ber love, while ho strove to grip himself In the effort somehow to wound her with the truth. And then Snnss strode In to the lire through the falling snowflakes, and Smoke's oppor tunity was lost "Hood evening." Snass burred gruff ly. "Your partner has made a mess of It 1 am glad you bnd better sense." "You might tell me what's happen ed," Smoke urged. The flash of white teeth through the stained beard was not pleasant. "Cer tainly, I'll tell you. Your partner has killed one of my people. That snivel ing idirimp, McCan, deserted at tho first shot He'll never run away again. Hut my hunters have got your partuer In the mountains, nud they'll get him. He'll never make the Yukon basin. As for you, from now on you sleep ut my lire. And there'll be no more scouting with tho young men. 1 shall have my eye on you." Smoke's new situation at Rnass' fire was embarrassing. He saw more of Labiskwee than ever. In Its sweetness and Innocence the frankness or her love was terrible. Her glances were love glances. Kvery look was n caress. A score of times he nerved himself to tell her of Joy liiiKtell, and a score of times he discovered that ho was a coward. The damnable part of It was that La biskwee was so delightful. She was good to look upou. Despite the hurt to his self esteem of every moment spent Willi her, lie pleasured lu every such moment For tho first time In his life he was really leurnlug woman, and so clear was I.ablskwec's soul, so appall ing in Its Innocence and Ignorance. that ho could not misread u line of It All tho pristine goodness of her sex was In her, uncluttered by tlie con ventionality of knowledge or the do celt of self protection. And Hiuolie learned about himself. Ho remembered back to all he kuew of .loy llastell nud he knew that ho loved her. Yet ho delighted In I.nblslt- wee. And what was this feeling of delight but love' lie could deuieau it by no less a name. I.ove It was. Love it must be. Aud he was shocked to the roots of bis soul by the discovery of tills polygamous strain In his nn tu re. "There must ho many women In the world," she said one day. "And wom en llku men. Many womeu must have liked you. Tell me." He did not reply. "Tell me," she Insisted. "Is It not so'" "I have never married," he evaded. "And there Is no one else? No other Iseult out thcro beyond tho inoun talus?" Then it was that Smoke knew him self a coward. Ho lied. Iteluetiuitly lie did It, but he lied, lie shook his head with a slow, Indulgent smile, anil in Ids I'aeo was more of loudness than lie dreamed as he noted l.ablskweo's swift Joy trauBllguratlon. lie excused himself to himself. Ills reasoning was deceitful beyond dis pute, anil yet he was not Spartan enough tu strike this child woman u quivering heart stroke. Snass, too, was a perturbing factor in the problem. Little escaped his keen black eyes, and he spoke significantly. "No man cares to see his daughter married," he said to Smoke. "At least, no man of Imagination. Just the same lu tho natural order of lire Margaret must marry some time." A pause fell. There was n hurst or chiding mid silvery laughter from l a bisk wee' tent, where she played with a new caught wolr cub. A spasm of pain twitched Snass' face "I can stand It," he muttered grimly. "Margaret must bo married, and It is my fortune, nnd hers, that yon are del. I had little hope of Four Eye. McCan was so hopeless I turned him over to a equaw who had lighted bur fire twenty seasons. f It hadn't been, you It would have been an Indian l.l hush might have become tho rather of uiy grandchildren." And tlieu l.nhlskwee came from her tent to tlie lire, the wolf cub lu her nuns, drawn, ns by a magnet, to guee upon the man In her eyes the love that ai t hud never taui.Ut tier to tilde. CHAPTER XXIII. I shall hl ou to run wy," I ST FN to me" said Mcl'iiu. "The spring thaw Is here, an' tho ciust Is comln' mi tho snow. It' the time to travel. I would run with no less a man than yon." "But you cnn'l run." Smoke contra dicted. "Your tvinkbono Is st llmlier as thawed marrow If I run, 1 run alone, Tho world fade, nud perhaps I shall uever rim." Bald Slums: "Your partner I divul. My hunter did not kill him They round tho body, troieu In the tint of the spring storm In the uiount ilin No uiau can michiw. When shall we celebrate your marrlager And Uiblskwec: "I wan-h yon. There to trxiubl lu your eye, in your fac. Oh, 1 do know all your face. When you are happy the corner of your mouth turn up. When you think sad thought they turn down. Worn you smile there are three and four wrin kles at the corners of your eyas. When you langn there are si- But I can not count them now. "I have never read books. I do not know bow to read. But Four Eyes taught me much. And In his own eyes I bare seen the trouble of the hunger for the world. He was often hungry for the world. Is the world so good that yon, too, are hungry for It? Four Kyea had nothing. Hut you have me." She sighed nnd shook her bead. "Four Eye died still hungry for the world. And If you lived here always would you, too, die hungry for the world? 1 nm afraid I do not know the world. Do you want to run away to the world?" Smoke could not speak, but by his mouth corner lines was she convinced Minutes of silence passed in which she visibly struggled, while Smoko cursed himself for the unguesscd weak ness that enabled him to speak the truth about his hunger for the world while it kept his lips tight on the truth of the existence of the other woman. Again Labiskwee sighed. "Very well. 1 love you more than 1 fear my father's anger, and he Is more terrible In 'anger than n mountain storm. You told mo what love is. This Is the test of love. I shall' help you to run uwny back to the world." Smoke awakened softly and without movement. Warm, small lingers touch ed his cheek; nnd slid gently to pres sure on his lips. The one word "Come" was breathed lu his ear. He snt up carefully and listened. Close at hand be could distinguish the light regular breathing of Snass. I .n 1 1 is k wee tugged gently at Smoke's sleeve nnd he knew she wished him to follow. He took his moccasins and (Jorninn socks In Ills hand and crept out Into the snow In his sleeping moc casins. Beyond the glow from the dying embers of the lire she Indicated to him to put on his outer footgear, and while he obeyed she went back tin dor the fly where Snnss slept Feeling the hands of his watch. Smoko found It was 1 In the morning. Ijiblskwee rejoined liim and led hlni ou through the sleeping camp. "Now we can talk," she said when the Inst fire had been left half a mile behind. In tlie starlight, facing him. Smoke noted for the first time that her arms were burdened, nnd, on feeling, dis covered she carried his snowshoes. a rille, two belts of ammunition and bis sleeping robes. "1 have everything fixed," she said, with a happy little hingli. "1 have lieen two days making the cache. There Is meat, even Hour, mutches and skis, which go host on the hard crust, and, when they break through, the webs will hold up longer. Oh, I do know snow tmrol. nnd we shall go fast, my lover." Smoko checked his speech. That she had been arranging his escape was surprise enough, but that she had plan ned to go with him was more than he wag prepared for. Unable to plan im mediate action, he gently, one by one. took her burdens from her. He put his arms armiad her and pressed her close, nnd still lie could not think what to do. "liod Is good,'' shu whispered. "He sent me a lover" Yet Smoke was brave enough not to suggest his going alone. And ere he sH)ke he saw nil his memory of the bright world reel nud fade. "We will go buck, Lablskweo," he said. "You will be my wile, nnd we shall llvu always wllh the Caribou people." "No. no!" And her body, In tlie eli de of his arm. resented his proposal "I know. I have thought much. The hunger for the world would come upon you. and In the long nights It would devour your heart. Four F.ycs died of hunger for the world; so would you die. And I will not have you die We will go on nereis thu snow mountains I on the south traverse." I I 'ear, listen,- ho urged "We must go bin k." She pressed her mitten iigalust his Hps to prevent lurther speech. "You love me. Say Hut you love me." "I do love y,Mi. l.ablskweo- You nre my wnniloriiil sweetheart." Au'iiln the mliieii was a caressing oh staele lo utterance. "Wo shall go on to the cache." li said with decision. "It would lie a ureat wrong to you to go back. J.-I nm oyly wild girl, and 1 am afraid of the world, but 1 am more afraid for you. You see. It Is as yon told nu. I love you mure than anybody civ lu the world. I love you more than iu.elf. The Indian lan guage Is not a ipiod language. Tlie Fngllsh language Is not u good lan guage. The tl ghts In my heart fur you, as bright and as ninny as the alars-thcre is no language for them. How can I , . ,on them? They are there-seel' As ulie oU,- siie slipped the mitten from Ins ii it .1 tt,, (iirust the hand In side tlie w a i li t Ii of tier pui ka until It roMcd again! u, r breast Tightly and steadily sn. n scd his hand In Its IM'slllou. And in the long silence he felt the beat, beat of her heart nnd knew that every beat of It was lovo And then slowly, almost linpeievptlbly, still holding tils hand, her Isnly began to Incline away tnun Ills and toward the direction of Hi,, cache. Nor would he resist It was a ir he were drawn b.v her heart lt,.f (hat o nearly lay In the hollow of bis hand. So linn a tlie crust that they slid along rapidly on their skla. "Just here. In th tree, I the cache," Uhbkweo mid Sinok. Th next moutvM ill caught his arm with a startle of surprise. Th rlsuie of a small tire were dauclng merrily, aud crouched by the Ore wat McCnn "I was minded you'd run without me," McVuo esp'nlnevl wbeu they caui up, hU iuiisII peering rye glliuuiorlug with cunning. "So I kept an eye ou the girl, an' when I seen ber encnin skis an' grub 1 was on. I've brought my own skis an' webs an' grub. Will we be startln' now?" La bisk wee looked ewlft consterna tion at Smoke, as swiftly achieved a Judgment on the matter and spoke- "JlcCan, you are a dog!" she hissed, and ber eyes were savage with auger. "I know it is In your heart to raise the camp if we don't take you. Very well. We must take you. But you know my father. I am like my father, lou will do your share of the work. You will obey. And If you play one dirty trick It would be better for you If you bad never run." Daylight found them In the belt of foothills that lay between the rolling country and the mountains. McCnn suggested breakfast, but they held od. Labiskwee explained to Smoke her knowledge of the country nnd the way she planned to balile pursuit. There were but two ways out one west, the other south. Snass would Immediately dispatch parties of young men to guard tho two trails. But there was another way south. True, It did no more than penetrate halfway Into the high moun tains; then, twisting to the west and crossing three divides, it Joined the regular trail. When the young men found no traces on tlie regular-trail they would turn back In the belief that the escape had been made by the west traverse, never dreaming that the run aways had ventured tlie harder and longer way around. Glancing back at McCan, In the rear, Uiblskwee spoke In an undertone to Smoke. "He is eatifig," she said. "It Is not good." , Smoke looked. The man was secret ly munching caribou suet from the pocketful he carried. "No eating between meals," he com manded. "There's no game lu the country ahead, and the grub will have to be whacked lu equal rations from tlie start. Tlie only way you can travel with us Is by playing fair." By 1 o'clock the crust had thawed so that the skis broke through, nud before 2 o'clock the web shues were breaking through. Camp was made and the first meal eaten. Smoke took stock of tlie food. McCan's supply was a disappointment. So many silver fox skins had he stuffed Into the bot tom of the meat bag that there was lit tle space left for meat. Enough food for a month, with care ful husbanding and appetites that nev er blunted their edge, was Smoke's and f.ablskwee's Judgment. Smoke ap portioned the weight and bulk of the packs, yielding In the end to r.nbisk wee's Insistence that she. too, should carry a pack. Next day tlie stream shallowed out In a wide mountain valley, and they were already breaking through the crust on the Hats when they gained the harder surface of the slope of (lie divide. "Ten minutes later, and we wouldn't M v. XM 1 ',A'. M' tv, y'j rvL YA-iUA' 'W will no back, Lbiskwo. You will b my wife." hnve got ncross the flats," Smoko said wueu nicy pnuscu tor breath on the bald crest of the summit. "We must ft- a iiiousiinu icet higher here." But Labiskwee ll!,,,n c.,l,i.... pointed down to an open flat amoug III., t .a 1.. J,. .... . ... " .... in-, in lLe miusi ot It, scattered abreast, were live dark specks that scarcely moved. "The young men." said Labiskwee. "Tliey are wallowing to their hips." Smoke said "Th..i- . ut .....,. -. m-iti k"io too bard footing thu day. We have hours .i.iii ui mem, (omi, !,.(; Buck nil. We llOtl'l 1,1 ltl - - ---- v... i, v l t travel. In tho higher valley In which they now round themselves the crust did not break till a i the afternoon, at Which time tllev tiiMii,.ul r,. ii.. shadow of a mountain MK.ro ti,tf trust ns mreiHiy rreeilng again. Black darkness camo on. nNer a long twilight, at U o'clock, wheu they made rami) In a elumn ,in-.ir ... Cau was helpless. The day' march m-u miausung. but In iiddltlou despite hi nine years' ciericuce In the arctic, he had been eating snow and was in agony with his parched and hurnlug uioutU. ll8 crouched by the Hre and groaned while they oiado thu camp. lu the night came wind aud snow and through the day of bliiiard ther fought their way blindly, mining the turn of the way that Id up t ,nia, trearu and crvssed a divide to the west For two more day they wan dered, crossing Mhcr aud wrong di. mi.i in ttiose two days they dropped spring behind and climbed up into the abode of winter. "The young men have lost our trail, an' what's to stop ns restiu a day'f McCan begged. But no rest was accord"-. . Smoke nnd Labiskwee knew their danger. They were lost In the high mountains, nnd they had seen no game nor signs of game. Day after day they strug gled on through nu Iron conligurntiou of landscape that compelled them to labyrinthine canyons and valleys ium led rarely to the west The terrible toil nud the cold ate up energy, yet they cut down the size of the ration they permitted themselves. One night Smoke was awakened by u sound of struggling. Distinctly he beard a gasping and strangling from where McCan slept. Kicking the tire Into llanio. by its light he saw Labisk wee, her hands at the man's throat anu forcing from Ids mouth a chunk ot partly chewed meat. . Even as Smoke saw this her band went to her hip and Hashed with the sheath knife iu It. "Labiskwee!" Smoke cried, aud hl voice was peremptory. The hand hesitated "Don't!" he said, coming to her side. ' She was shaking with anger, but the hand, after hesitating a moment longer, descended reluctantly to the sheath. McCan sat up. whimpering and snarl ing. "Where did yon get it?" Smoke de manded. "Feel arouud his body," I.nblskwee said. CHAPTER XXIV.. Like Weary Ghosts In a Dead World. 'CAN strove lo struggle, but Smoke gripped him cruelly aud searched him, drawing forth from under bis arm pit, where It had been thawed by the heat of his body, a strip of euribou meat A quick exclamation from La biskwee drew Smoke's ntteutiou. She had sprung to SlcCan's puck nnd wus opqning it Instead of meat out pour, ed moss, spruce needles, chips all the light refuse that had taken the place of the meat nnd given the puck its due proportion minus its weight. Again Lablskwee's baud went to her hip, nnd she flew at the culprit only to Sh Flew at the Culprit, Only to Be Caught In Smoke' Armi. he caught in Sinotte's jirms, where she surrendered burse I r, sobbing with the futility of her rage. "Oil, lover, it Is not tlie food!" she panted. "It Is you, your life. The dR! lie Is eating you, he is eating you!" '.., It was a morning stark still clear blue above, with white sun daz.le m t he snow. The way led up n lung wide slope or crust. They moved like wenrv ghosts In n dead world. "Something Is going t happen." La 1'cnr all of It. Tier hand fumbled and l-roped lu the hood of her parka, aud she drew foni, a pom h thai she placed ' I'll hand. "Ami now your lips, my over. Your lips on my lips una vour hand on my heart." And In that long kiss darkness came' "Pen him again, and when again he was conscious ho knew that he was to die. He was wearily gll(l ,,!lt Ue w to die. (Continued next Saturday) Marshfield licoord: Henry Sengsta.-k-en tin- morning was in receipt of a i";;;,:ko ''"" h the u,ad of l -Mare Island wirele,, matters, sav ing Lieutenant lila.ikeiisl.ip , i-;,,. "'cr Has.-on.b were leaxing Sn Yxln "' and would likely l,e here tumor '". The gentlemen are ,.,,.; .v """' t look over the site for ',rcl,s, ,,! whu,h thii) d(v ,f 'o liivf tho government. OurWapf Adsarc vVorthGowijxjutBccaH ouarcbo'andtobrmibe Results you want l?y Otiq loMorrow M Mm j a Galley o Fun! THE AVERAGE. The average man proposes once The average woman takes l,i, If he wont propose (Lor.) 0'nl knows ' Just how 'tis done) she uiakfs him The newest fashion. like any WW jit-.; tlnr.g. will always arouse som" l.odys misgivings. Uncc. no dt ' lucre were those to whom evtn hg-leaf looked extreme. VERY LIKELY. i r Cousin Silas (reading) It says in '.his here paper that a Ilea kin jump :wo thousand times its own length. Uncle Heck That's probably why we never hear of a flea getting run over by an autoniobilel HOW JO KEEP A FRIEND. ' Always ask him how much lie'won at poker, and. express surprise if lu says, lie lost. Tell him he looks well in any old hat if he asks your opinion of his new headpiece. Agree with him that his home town is a good place to come from, and don't emphasize "come." Never try to borrow money. Don't criticize his neckties or his moustache. Don't correct his French. Laugh when lie tells a joke, but don't try to tell him any. Let him alone when lie becomes foolish about some girl. Ask him why lie never pursued the study of music when he tries to show you how the latest song-hit goes, anil don't smile when you do it. Assure him that you couldn't tliinU of presuming to advise him if he asks your opinion on any weighty subject or tlie stock market, for example. Obey these rules, and he will tel! your acquaintances that you arc 1 Good Guy, but absolutely colorless. ROY R. ATKINSON. EXPLAINED. Chinese Guide There is a legem, sir, that at certain times the god raiim money upon this region. American Tourist Huh! Cet tin) idea out of your head right now. That's only the money that's been sunk in American gold mines coin ing through Seeing America First. TH T TT AT f IMF. Just such a day as this, perhaps, flf iiiicf atiH Artntr ruin. A hundred years ago they stood By this old window pane: Two lovers leaning here to gaze logttner at tuc rain. Perhaps it was the lilac 6tonn Xm t, T tnl I 11m ,TAI1 GI- The lilac branches toss and wave Ihcir plumes on every treef Whom are they beckoning? Twu ghosts Unseen by you and me. I think the fire blazed on the hearts -.9 lllW, IIHl llll'll 1 1 J- , . Yon portraits on the wall, then fresh. Looked down bcnignaiitly: And then, I think, she raised her ryef To his quite suddenly. Two lovers leaning here to look Jut of the self-same pane 3own the broad old gravel walk. Splashed wifli the drops of rain 'lhat dripped from off the lilacs, Or dashed against the pane. And when they dropped, as suddenly I'pon the window-pane, His heart began to beat so fast He could not hear the rain. Or see the purple 'lilacs brush Against the window pane. There, drop the curtain, dearl have No right to look again At those old lovers leaning ther Forgetful of the rain. , Yet, ee! Two name and here 1 a date Scratched on the window-pane. EVA L. OGDLN. ' NO CLUE. Stranger Yes, I have the genera location of my friend' building. the name of th street, but 1 "n 1 find the place. Citirert Haven't you nythina nor definite r Stranger Nothing except the f; h teet print of ho " Jii finishci